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Glasgow Short Film Festival · 2019

Glasgow Short Film Festival 2019

Short Matters! 1

Programme

5 films

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Aquaparque

A girl and a boy hide from the outside world in an abandoned waterpark. In the ruins of the old swimming pools, they find a shelter to grieve their loss of hopes and dreams.

(Country: Portugal; Year: 2018; Director: Ana Moreira)

Container (Kontener)

Story of two Polish dairy workers, told from the perspective of one on the night the other disappears.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2017; Director: Sebastian Lang; Writer: Sebastian Lang; Stars: Joanna Drozda, Anka Graczyk)

The Escape (L'Échappée)

Alice is at hospital, just out of surgery. She is very ill and totally bald. Yet she sings, wears make-up and cracks herself up. She is love with her surgeon.

(Country: France; Year: 2018; Director: Laëtitia Martinoni)

I Signed The Petition

Immediately after a Palestinian man signs an online petition, he is thrown into a panic-inducing spiral of self-doubt.

(Country: UK, Germany, Switzerland; Year: 2018; Director: Mahdi Fleifel)

Those Who Desire (Los Que Desean)

In Southern Spain, a peculiar race between colourful hand-painted pigeons will reward not the fastest one, but the one who succeeds in seducing a female pigeon and flying the longest possible time at her side. Short

(Country: Spain; Year: 2018; Director: Elena Lopez Riera)