Glasgow Short Film Festival — A–Z of films

Both neat and strong.

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

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

Perfectly contained, the contrast between human concerns and a cultural expression that's at once alien and untranslateable and immediately recognisable is stunning.

A nice little piece, characterful if not compelling.

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

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

Cinema at its most inventively audacious.

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.

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

Almost as much documentation as documentary.

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

On that dock, in that place, the audience are made witness.

It is well observed, constructed, the small moments of and with consequence feel authentic, inescapable.

Simplicity gives it stark strength.

Shalimar Preuss has written, directed, something stunning.

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

This is, in fact, a fascinating documentary about the cubicle.