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Glasgow Short Film Festival · 2021

Glasgow Short Film Festival 2021

Big Dog Energy

Programme

13 films

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Archie

A tenacious dog goes on an incredible journey.

(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Ainslie Henderson)

Dogs At Polling Stations

A short film inspired by the popular Twitter thread and shot on the day on the 2017 general election.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Ian Mantgani)

Dog Of My Dreams

A subversive investigation into the relationships between girls and dogs.

(Country: UK; Year: 2001; Director: Roz Mortimer)

Good Boy - Bad Boy

A composition of dog owner amateur recordings from YouTube. The found-footage video focuses on the unabashed display of human interaction with domestic animals on the internet and the big community behind those videos.

(Country: France, Germany; Year: 2011; Director: Neozoon)

Humans

Surrounded by the absurd world of humans, dogs struggle against their instincts to comply with their owners' wishes.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Laura Tejero)

The Interior

An e experimental observational film exploring the isolated life of a dog musher living in remote, central Alaska with 56 dogs.

(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Jonathan Rattner)

In Dog Years

Ten true stories of love and friendship humans and their beloved ageing dogs.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2019; Director: Sophy Romvari)

Mutts

In a stray-dog refuge in Agadir, Morocco, more than 750 animals find help and protection while awaiting adoption.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2019; Director: Halima Ouardiri)

Pawsea (Or: The Melancholy Ruminations Of A Solitary French Bulldog)

Rocky certainly has a lot on his mind – questioning his purpose and attempting to fortify himself against existential angst as he searches for meaning. Quite a lot for a French bulldog to master.

(Country: UK; Year: 2020; Director: Tom Gentle, Rupert Clague)

Svonni Vs The Swedish Tax Agency

A Sámi woman tries to convince the Swedish Tax Agency that she has the right to make a tax deduction for the purchase of a dog as a herding aide.

(Country: Sweden; Year: 2020; Director: Maria Fredriksson)

Thursday Night

dog, message

(Country: Portugal; Year: 2017; Director: Gonçalo Almeida)

Winners Bitch

Family, friends, peers, actors and a pet psychic provide insight into the truth of the noted all breed American Kennel Club judge, Virginia Hampton.

(Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Sam Gurry)

Zero

A story told through a science-fiction lens of a Shiba Inu dog traveling alone on a sumptuous airplane, flying over a desert Earth.

(Country: Brazil; Year: 2019; Director: Luiz Roque)