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Glasgow Short Film Festival

20 March – 24 March 2024

The most important short film event in Scotland, this year's festival features a focus on Moroccan filmmaker Randa Maroufi; a portmanteau film portrait of Govanhill; and a thematic strand in defiance of oppression. We're adding details just now, so please bear with us.

The festival runs from 20 to 24 March.

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  • Beautiful Men
    Review preview for Beautiful Men

    Selfishness, shame and a fear of connection are underscored by affection. The result is uncomfortable and sometimes very funny.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Three balding brothers travel to Istanbul to get a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.
  • A Bear Named Wojtek
    Review preview for A Bear Named Wojtek

    Gardner... shows respect for Wojtek’s intelligence without anthropomorphising him or rendering him just a cartoon.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Displaced by the Second World War, a troop of Polish soldiers form an inseparable bond with an orphaned bear they name Wojtek.
  • Wander To Wonder
    Review preview for Wander To Wonder

    The model work is magnificent, from the appropriately terrifying design of the TV characters to the careful distinctions in style between that world and the apparent reality of the one in crisis.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Mary, Billybud and Fumbleton are three miniature actors who perform in a 1980s kids' TV series. When the creator of the series dies, they are left alone in the studio to make increasingly strange episodes for their fans.
  • A Bird Called Memory
    Review preview for A Bird Called Memory

    Every shot feels carefully considered, making the film feel "larger" than its short running time would seem to indicate.

    Gika Mikabadze · 4.5 out of 5
    A bird called Memory has lost its way back home. Lua, a trans woman, searches for Memory in the streets of Rio de Janeiro, but the city can be a hostile place.
  • Woman In The Park
    Review preview for Woman In The Park

    Uncertainty is drawn to different poles like a malfunctioning compass.

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    A Hitchcockian psychodrama about an introverted man who pursues a woman with whom he becomes obsessed.
  • Still Life
    Review preview for Still Life

    Never did a doily indicate such doom, nor the vain hope of a banner on a Coronation mug convey such gloom.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    An elderly woman is admitted to an asylum and all her possessions are removed by the council.
  • Gracemary
    Review preview for Gracemary

    Even these fantasies are grounded in locale.

    Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
    A young woman runs to catch the last post with her weekly pools coupon, whilst imagining a more glamorous life for herself.
  • Steakhouse
    Review preview for Steakhouse

    Čadež employs the gouts of smoke to disturbing effect, fogging up the action and making passive aggression feel like a punch.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Trouble brews when a woman is late home for her birthday dinner.
  • 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.
  • The Witches
    Review preview for The Witches

    Morag McKinnon's script is loosely off its head, part hilarity, part nonsensical innovation.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    New laws against witchcraft trouble three fishwives from North Berwick in 1590.

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