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Glasgow Short Film Festival

13 March – 17 March 2019

The Glasgow Short Film Festival is back for another year, opening with the Scottish première of Australian art collective Soda_Jerk’s Terror Nullius and including a trawl through the archives of Scottish short film scheme First Reels, which marked the big breaks of Peter Mullan and David Mackenzie. It will feature over 20 new Scottish-made shorts and 33 new international shorts from 26 countries in competition for prestigious festival awards.

The festival runs from 13 to 17 March.

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  • Tungrus
    Review preview for Tungrus

    It attracts and deserves warm laughter, far less awkward in its soaring than the feathered flight of its antagonist.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    In a cramped Mumbai apartment, a family considers eating their hell-raising pet rooster, in order to reclaim their lives.
  • Jujuba
    Review preview for Jujuba

    The tale it tells is told well enough, but this is a film that has paid close attention to process.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    The shiny red skin of the jujube brings back vague memories of the director's stepmother, recreated on expired film.
  • Liminality And Communitas
    Review preview for Liminality And Communitas

    Laura Rantanen's film is sparse, even spare - a sense of space defined by human endeavours at various scales.

    Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
    After sundown, a man walks the motorway verges, gathering roadkill. An investigation of the border between life and death, and the edges of the manmade world.
  • Mum's Cards
    Review preview for Mum's Cards

    An anthropological honesty and something that is a catalogue of intimacies.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    The filmmaker's mother, a sociologist, used index cards throughout her career to make notes on all that she read. Now that she no longer has an office her house is filled with these cards.
  • In The Fall
    Review preview for In The Fall

    A stunning film.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    Faced with the ageing of his faithful workhorse, a man is forced to confront his own mortality and consider a sacrifice to ensure his family's survival.
  • We Are All Here
    Review preview for We Are All Here

    Between interviews and archive footage and Lumo's/Mohsen's/Calum's own words there's a lot to draw from here.

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    Glasgow rapper Lumo committed suicide aged 21, sending shockwaves through the Scottish hip hop community. As family and friends struggle to make sense of his death, they uncover hidden clues in lyrics and videos he left behind.
  • Glassmount
    Review preview for Glassmount

    Gorgeous imagery is at once sense and senseless, transporting and troubling, riddle and rhythm.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    A triptych of documentary images play simultaneously, united by the same geographical space but offering both complementary and contradictory narrative clues as to what is really going on.
  • Enough
    Review preview for Enough

    Enough is a glorious bit of short filmmaking.

    Andrew Robertson · 5 out of 5
    A fuzzy yarn about what happens when patience runs out.
  • Terror Nullius
    Review preview for Terror Nullius

    This is guerilla filmmaking, joyful, angry, triumphant.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    A political revenge fable which offers an un-writing of Australian national mythology.
  • Block
    A sculptor discovers a stone man inside a block of granite.

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