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Glasgow Short Film Festival

23 March – 27 March 2022

Glasgow Short Film Festival, the largest competitive short film festival in Scotland, champions new film talent by providing an annual showcase and meeting point for new and established Scottish and international filmmakers, industry delegates and the local audience.

GSFF is a friendly and inclusive festival in which the work of emerging Scottish filmmakers is presented in the context of an international programme.

The festival runs from 23 to 27 march

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  • Infectious Nihilism And Small Metallic Pieces Of Hope
    Review preview for Infectious Nihilism And Small Metallic Pieces Of Hope

    There's a whole set of semiotics, tracksuits and jackets, Berghaus and Buckfast.

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    An impressionable youngster is thrust into a dangerous and adult world when he is initiated into a gang made up of older locals.
  • Red Room
    Review preview for Red Room

    Another showcase for Ferguson's technique, his very distinctive eye.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    A relationship between three friends is fractured after a reality-destroying moment of possession.
  • Too Rough
    Review preview for Too Rough

    Ruaridh Mollica and Joshua Griffin produce astonishing performances.

    Andrew Robertson · 5 out of 5
    What can happen when the families we’re born into and the families we make for ourselves collide.
  • The Bayview
    Review preview for The Bayview

    It's one where the camera less becomes a fly on the wall than a sleeping dog in front of the fireplace, one where the comfort of the subjects gives us a better insight into them.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    A glimpse into the world of a family who have turned the previously derelict hotel into a place of respite for international fishermen when they come to land.
  • Idrish
    Review preview for Idrish

    An act of scholarship, contrast.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    Found footage and archival sound come together as an urgent and potent piece of anti-deportation activism.
  • Go Home
    Review preview for Go Home

    Razan Madhoon's film is a gut-punch, a wrenching.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    When a young Palestinian woman tries to claim asylum in the UK, she faces the indifference of British bureaucracy.
  • Born In Damascus
    Review preview for Born In Damascus

    This is meditative, melancholy, moving.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    After ten years apart, a Scottish filmmaker tries to reconnect with her closest cousin after their paths were separated by war.
  • Life Of Riley
    Review preview for Life Of Riley

    It is a film made hard to read, hard to endure.

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    A headstrong homeless man must take responsibility for his own actions after his dog is hurt.
  • Kin
    Review preview for Kin

    A bewitching thing.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    The fractured relationship between a mother and daughter in crisis.
  • The Tyranny Of Petty Things
    Review preview for The Tyranny Of Petty Things

    This is a story that is at once deeply personal and indicative of changing attitudes.

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    James Bushe's journey has been a turbulent one. Here we accompany James on a flight through personal and cultural memory.

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