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Glasgow Short Film Festival

22 March – 28 March 2021

It's one of the most popular events in the international short film calendar, and the Glasgow Short Film Festival is now back with its second online programme, giving filmmakers a chance to showcase their work despite the Covid-19 pandemic.

We're still adding details here, so please bear with us.

The festival runs from 22 to 28 March.

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  • Everyman
    Review preview for Everyman

    Jack teases apart aspects of a code in which most of us are fluent but which is almost all learned, cultural.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A personal, visual essay about gender transition.
  • Green Thoughts
    Review preview for Green Thoughts

    There are compositions audible and painterly, moments of juxtaposition and superposition, frames that perhaps deserve frames.

    Andrew Robertson · 2 out of 5
    Somewhere in the world there is a remote island. The sea. Lush hills. The impenetrable forest.
  • Sudden Death
    Review preview for Sudden Death

    Nature not so much red in tooth and claw as death-masqued of the same shade.

    Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
    Set in a nature management zone, an investigation of the outdated romantic notions of wilderness and nature.
  • Red Aninsri; Or, Tiptoeing On The Still Trembling Berlin Wall
    Review preview for Red Aninsri; Or, Tiptoeing On The Still Trembling Berlin Wall

    Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke plays with the very basics of film-making to great effect.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    On an undercover spy mission, a trans woman disguises herself as a masculine man to lure a student activist, only to fall in love.
  • Genius Loci
    Review preview for Genius Loci

    Adrien Merigeau's film makes use of a variety of contrasts to shed light on place and personality.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    One night, Reine, a young loner, sees within the urban chaos a mystical oneness that seems alive, like some sort of guide.
  • Expensive Shit
    Review preview for Expensive Shit

    In a festival selection that included a number of feminist works and perspectives this was a standout.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    A Nigerian toilet attendant, desperate for survival, forced to manipulate unsuspecting women for men watching from behind a two-way mirror in a Glasgow club.
  • Store Policy
    Review preview for Store Policy

    Simplicity gives it stark strength.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    Lea begins a summer job as a cashier in a large supermarket chain.
  • 3 Logical Exits
    Review preview for 3 Logical Exits

    Both neat and strong.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    A sociological meditation on the different 'exits' that young Palestinians choose, in order to cope with life in the refugee camps.
  • Huntsville Station
    Review preview for Huntsville Station

    Filippone and Meltzer find power in silence, content to watch and keeping themselves out of the frame, so that the emotions of those they capture can be fully channelled through the lens.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Freshly released inmates contemplate their new-found freedom as they wait at the bus station near the jail.
  • 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.

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