Glasgow Short Film Festival
19—23.03.2025
Surely the main reason to have the motto “Let Glasgow Flourish” embroidered in the city’s crest must be the existence of its own homonymous short film festival. As the King in the North of the short film festivals of Scotland, Glasgow Short Film Festival presents a varied international programme alongside the most surprising short films made by folks from both the Lowlands and the Highlands.
Born in 2008 as part of the Glasgow Film Festival, GSFF moved from February to March in 2015 in order to get its own slot in the festival calendar before becoming a fully independent event in 2020. Festival co-directors Matt Lloyd and Sanne Jehoul form the wittiest and funniest work couple in the entire European short film festival circuit. Although managing quite a small team compared to other renowned events, the duo has successfully managed to establish an inclusive festival featuring compelling film focuses, and directors’ retrospectives alongside the aforementioned competitions. While celebrating the most varied forms of cinema, as well as establishing international collaborations for the benefit of both local filmmakers and guests from abroad, the Glasgow Short Film Festival serves as a hub for creative minds—a place where something cinematographically new and unpredictable can be envisioned.
In conclusion, here you can find a personal tip— based on real events—for your visit to the festival: watch lots of films, attend some panels, chit-chat with people during networking events, find yourself at least one companion, and then immerse yourself in the city’s nightlife. If possible, avoid being beaten on the streets and have lots of laughs until late, all in the freezing cold. You definitely won’t regret it, and you might even become buddies for life with those you meet at GSFF.
Text by Daniel Hadenius-Ebner
Reading List
A Conversation with Gaza Film Unit’s Eslam Saqqa and Ayman Alazraq
Janaina Wagner On Curupira and the Machine of the Destiny
Elahe Esmaili on A Move
The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography by William E. Jones
Reading List
Jyoti Mistry on We Come in Peace, They Said
Palestinian Short Films Towards Liberation
Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays by Christian Avilés
The Veiled City by Natalie Cubides-Brady
Ardent Other by Alice Brygo
Shrooms by Jorge Jácome
Joachim Hérissé on Skinned
Digital Textures As An Existential Compass
Sam Manacsa on Cross My Heart And Hope To Die
Chasing the Sun: El Shatt by Ana Bilankov
Basil Da Cunha on 2720
All Gucci My Broski by Harry Plowden
A Kind of Testament by Stephen Vuillemin
Skinned by Joachim Hérissé
O, Glory! by Charlie Edward-Moss, Joe Williams
Menarca by Lillah Halla
Reading List
Reading List
All of Your Stars Are but Dust on My Shoes by Haig Aivazian
Flores del otro Patio by Jorge Cadena
Will My Parents Come to See Me by Mo Harawe
Sierra by Sander Joon
Love, Dad by Diana Cam Van Nguyen
Handbook by Pavel Mozhar
Reading List
Dad's Sneakers by Olha Zhurba
The End of Suffering (A Proposal) by Jacqueline Lentzou
One Thousand And One Attempts To Be An Ocean by Wang Yuyan
Maalbeek by Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
Menarca by Lillah Halla
Heaven Reaches Down To Earth by Tebogo Malebogo
