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Scotland's leading short film event | 19th edition: 18-22 March 2026 | #GSFF26

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The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Congratulations to @glasgowshort.bsky.social and all of their award-winners – here's @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social's recap of the GSFF competitions... www.theskinny.co.uk/film/news/gl...
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Glasgow Short Film Festival 2026: The Award Winners - The Skinny
Klarissa Webster and Elisabeth Subrin took home the top prizes as Glasgow Short Film Festival came to a close this weekend.
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The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
"The script just became super gay and pushed me out of my comfort zone." Playwright James Ley discusses his debut short film SLEAZY TIGER ahead of it competing at @glasgowshort.bsky.social – read @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social's interview www.theskinny.co.uk/film/intervi... @jley.bsky.social
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Glasgow Short Film Festival: James Ley on Sleazy Tiger – The Skinny
Celebrated playwright James Ley discusses his debut short film, Sleazy Tiger, ahead of it competing in the Scottish Competition at the Glasgow Short Film Festival. We discuss queer crisis, flagrant…
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The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
In March's film round-up, @glasgowshort.bsky.social and HippFest return, @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social celebrate John Schlesinger and Andrzej Wajda, and @dcadundee.bsky.social + @sqiff.bsky.social bring Sleepaway Camp to the big screen www.theskinny.co.uk/film/film-ev... @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social
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Scottish Film Events: March 2026 - The Skinny
This month choose between two great film festivals (HippFest and GSFF), explore the films of John Schlesinger and Andrzej Wajda, and check out GSA's new cinema season.
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The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The much-loved GSFF returns for its 19th edition with a spotlight on Iranian filmmaker Gelare Khoshgozaran, an archive programme celebrating the Clyde, and the festival’s usual expert curation of shorts from across the world www.theskinny.co.uk/film/news/gl... @glasgowshort.bsky.social
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Glasgow Short Film Festival reveals 2026 programme - The Skinny
The much-loved GSFF returns for its 19th edition with a spotlight on Iranian filmmaker Gelare Khoshgozaran, an archive programme celebrating the Clyde, and the festival’s usual expert curation of…
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The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Glasgow Short Film Festival is back; @glasgowshort.bsky.social's Scottish Competition includes new films by Miranda Stern, Duncan Cowles, Will Anderson and Leyla Coll-O'Reilly among others... www.theskinny.co.uk/film/news/gs... [by @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social]
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GSFF reveals Scottish Competition films for 2026 - The Skinny
Glasgow Short Film Festival has announced the films competing in its always-popular Scottish Competition for 2026, with GSFF favourites like Duncan Cowles, Will Anderson and Leyla Coll-O'Reilly among…
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Tickets for the 2026 Scottish Competition and Young Scottish Filmmaker prize are now on sale! 🎬 This year’s programme features new works from GSFF regulars, alongside the premiere of a film from BAFTA Risman scholar Daniel Kelly. gsff.filmchief.com/shop/tickets...
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
60 days to go until GSFF26! 😍 Our 19th edition runs from 18-22 March 📆 📸: Ingrid Mur
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Delegate registration and volunteer applications are now open 🥳 The 19th edition of GSFF runs from 18-22 March 2026 and we would love for you to join us as an industry delegate or volunteer! For more information and to apply, visit our website 📸: Ingrid Mur and Erika Stevenson
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Is Marty Supreme on your watch list? 🏓 Roll in early to catch Fridtjof Stensæth Josefson and Morten Borgestad’s ‘Ball’, playing before all GFT screenings of the film - part of our Shorts in Support scheme! www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/marty-...
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Marty Supreme
In the 1950s, Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet) — a young man no one respects who dreams of becoming a champion table-tennis player — goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness. We are delighted to...
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Huge congratulations to Lisa Clarkson (Paternal Advice) and Laura Carreira (On Falling) on their recent Scottish BAFTA wins! 🏆 🎬The Scottish Short Film Award went to Paternal Advice at GSFF25 🎬The Shift - Laura Carreira’s precursor to On Falling - had its Scottish premiere at GSFF21 #GSFF #BAFTA
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Submission for the Young Scottish Filmmakers Prize close this Friday! 🎬 Submit your short by Nov 14 for the chance to screen it at GSFF, join emerging talent from across the country, and receive £1k in funding for your next steps in film education.glasgowfilm.org/young-scottish-filmmakers-prize/
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Young Scottish Filmmakers Prize
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The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
As this year's @glasgowshort.bsky.social wraps up, @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social reports on this year's award winners... www.theskinny.co.uk/film/news/gl...
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Glasgow Short Film Festival 2025: The Award Winners - The Skinny
Lisa Clarkson’s Paternal Advice won this year’s Scottish Competition while Iranian filmmaker Maryam Tafakory won the Bill Douglas Award for best international short film.
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Miúin @miuinnq.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Delighted to be playing some music at @glasgowshort.bsky.social tonight. It's such a special festival with amazingly diverse and exciting work on show. We're absolutely delighted to be a part of it.
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Really touched by this beautiful write-up for Alex Hetherington’s The Disco: A Portrait of Simon Eilbeck, ahead of its world premiere at GSFF25 tomorrow night glasgowuniversitymagazine.co.uk/articles/features/the-disco-a-portrait-of-simon-eilbeck/
Film still from The Disco: A Portrait of Simon Eilbeck (Director: Alex Hetherington)
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Seán Finnan @seanfinnan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
If you're in Glasgow on Friday night do come @glasgowshort.bsky.social 📺
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Indonesia-born and based, Riar Rizaldi’s body of work harnesses the power of speculative science-fiction. Curated by Ren Scateni, GSFF25 features a two-part career retrospective with an additional live performance 🗓️ March 21 - 23 🔗 glasgowshort.org
Neonatal Unit

Riar Rizaldi
Germany/Indonesia, 2021Kasiterit

Riar Rizaldi
Indonesia, 2019Fossilis

Riar Rizaldi
Indonesia, 2023
Mirage - Eigenstate

Riar Rizaldi
United Kingdom/Indonesia, 2024
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The films in this programme explore themes of substance abuse, mental health, trans experience, and diasporic existence. Queer and trans voices take center stage to reclaim their narratives in the face of marginalisation 🔗 gsff.filmchief.com/shop/tickets...
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Grieving Tomorrows: Discourses on Ontology, or Resisting Erasure 🗓️ Thurs March 20, Civic House at 6pm I Don’t Want To Be Just A Memory (Sarnt Utamachote, 2024) The Source Is a Hole (Angelo Madsen, 2017) Aliens in Beirut (Raghed Charabaty, 2024) Le Récit d’A (Esther Valiquette, 1990)
I Don't Want To Be Just A Memory

Sarnt Utamachote
Germany, 2024Aliens in Beirut

Raghed Charabaty
Canada, 2024Le récit d'A
Le Récit d'A

Esther Valiquette
Canada, 1990The Source Is a Hole

Angelo Madsen
United States, 2017
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
GSFF25 kicks off in two weeks! We open our international award competition with shorts centring on how media affects how we see, dream and take action
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
We open our international competition with Bill Douglas Award 1: Our Being in Transmission 🗓️ Thurs March 20, GFT Cinema 3 / Sat March 22, Grosvenor Picture Theatre 🎬: Can You Hear Me? Happy New Year UNDR Razeh-del 400 Cassettes 🎟️ gsff.filmchief.com/shop/tickets...
Razeh-del
راز دل

Maryam Tafakory
Iran, 2024UNDR

Kamal Aljafari
Germany/Palestine, 2024
Happy New Year

Weipeng Huang
China, 2024400 Cassettes

Thelyia Petraki
Greece, 2024
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The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
March issue out now – @glasgowshort.bsky.social opening film THE DISCO on the cover, @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social, Hippfest, @404ink.bsky.social, RSA New Contemporaries and more inside... find your nearest copy here: www.theskinny.co.uk/things-to-do...
The cover for the March 2025 issue of The Skinny. A collage of still images from the film 'The Disco', altered with various duotone effects in pink, green, purple, red and orange.
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Great interview with @xuanlintham.bsky.social in @theskinnymag.bsky.social, about their new @404ink.bsky.social book Revolutionary Desires 'Your Body, Dissolving into Me', a programme which Xuanlin has curated for GSFF25, is at Civic House on Thursday, March 20 - available now from glasgowshort.org
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Xuanlin Tham on the power of the sex scene – The Skinny
We chat with author and film curator Xuanlin Tham about Revolutionary Desires, an incisive and intricate exploration of the politics of the sex scene.
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Wishing a happy festival launch on our GFF pals! Lots we’re looking forward to catching at the glorious GFT @glasgowfilm.bsky.social 🎬
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The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social returns next month with a Gaza Film Unit programme, spotlight on Riar Rizaldi, Frank Sweeney's reimagining of Irish TV history + more... www.theskinny.co.uk/film/news/gl... by @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social
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Glasgow Short Film Festival reveals 2025 programme - The Skinny
GSFF is back with a programme including films from the Gaza Film Unit, a spotlight on Indonesian filmmaker Riar Rizaldi, and shorts exploring sex, grief and the multiverse.
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The List @thelistuk.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
🎥 The Glasgow Short Film Festival has launched its full programme, featuring a line-up of diverse, inclusive and engaging films from first-time and established directors. Find out what else GSFF has planned ➡️ list.co.uk/news/46216/g...
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Universal Hall Promotions @uhallpromo.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
🎥 Up next 🎥 Sat 22 Feb 7.30pm - THE TASTE OF THINGS Rated 12A | Screened in French with English subtitles | Running Time 135 min +GSFF SHORT - The Role 🎟 £5 for all. Book online via www.universalhall.co.uk or pay on the door on the night 🎟 @filmhubscotland.bsky.social @glasgowshort.bsky.social
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Full GSFF25 programme on-sale now 🎬 Highlights from the packed five day programme include dispatches from Indonesia, Gaza and Ireland, as well as brand-new curated strands and the return of our international and local competitions. For more details, visit glasgowshort.org
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Bring Them Down is now playing at the GFT, with all screenings preceded by Holly Summerson’s ‘Living With It’ (7 min) - part of our Shorts in Support programme for cinemas 🍿 www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/bring-...
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Bring Them Down
Director/Writer Christopher Andrews will join us for a Q&A at the 6.30pm screening on Sunday 9 February. Michael (Christopher Abbott), the last son of a shepherding family, lives with his ailing fat...
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
We are thrilled to be opening this year's festival with the World Premiere of Alex Hetherington's portrait of Queer d/Deaf DJ Simon Eilbeck. Formed from 16mm film, The Disco encounters members of the Queer communities who gather at Simon's monthly disco Hot Mess.
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Catch it while you can! Presence screens at the GFT until the 6th of February, with all screenings preceded by Will Hewitt and Austen McCowan’s ‘Have You Seen the Beast?’ (7 min) - part of our Shorts in Support programme. www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/presen...
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Presence
A family moves into a suburban house and becomes convinced they’re not alone. From Steven Soderbergh, director of Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Erin Brockovich, and Ocean’s Eleven, comes Presence, featuri...
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
There are just 50 days to go until #GSFF25! 🎉 We can’t wait to welcome you back from the 19th - 23rd March. In the meantime, keep an eye out for our programme announcement, which will be released in February! 📸: Ingrid Mur
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Oscar-nominee Nina Gantz 🍾 has a great ring to it, doesn’t it? WANDER TO WONDER won our audience award for international short film at last year’s festival - Many congrats to the whole production team
An infographic from the Academy Awards announcing the nominees for Animated short film 

White text on a gold background. The text reads:

Nominated for animated short film

beautiful Men (Nicholas Keppens and Brecht Van Elslande)

In the Shadow of the Cypress (Shirin Sohani and Hossein Molayemi)

Magic Candies (Daisuke Nishio and Takashi Washio) 

Wander to Wonder (Nina Gantz and Stienette Bosklopper)

Yuck! (Loïc Espuche and Juliette Marquet)
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Aileen Walker @aileenwalker.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Saw these yesterday at the GFT. “A Real Pain” was excellent - powerful, witty, painful. “Ball” short film was laugh-out-loud funny. @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Born into poverty in a Midlothian mining community in 1934, Bill Douglas, the namesake of our annual award for international short film, became one of Scotland’s most celebrated film directors. His films are celebrated for their honest and innovative approach to storytelling.
A close-up of a man with short dark hair standing behind a red chain link fence. His eyes are tightly shut and his teeth clenched as he scratches his neck.
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Why skip the foreplay? Babygirl screens at GFT from today with a preceding short – Alia Ghafar's 'Hen Do' – before every screening Part of Shorts in Support, our short film programme for cinemas
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Babygirl
Nicole Kidman shines as a high-powered CEO who puts her life's work on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern in this erotic thriller from Halina Reijn (Bodies Bodies Bo...
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
A true visionary. Love or hate his films, Lynch navigated Hollywood with uncompromising conviction, humour and style
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Huge congratulations to WANDER TO WONDER, our international audience award winner last year from Nina Gantz which is up for a British Short Animation BAFTA 🏆 Also great to see Scotland-based talent on the list for British Short Film, namely MILK and THE FLOWERS STAND SILENTLY, WHISPERING
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Film - Bafta
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Delegate registration and volunteer applications for 2025 are now open! Join us in March as an industry delegate, or assist in the running of the festival as a #GSFF25 volunteer. For more information, and application forms, visit: glasgowshort.org/delegate-reg... 📸: Erika Stevenson
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Delegate Registration & Volunteer Applications Open! - Glasgow Short Film Festival
Join us in March as an industry delegate, or assist in the running of the festival as a GSFF25 volunteer.
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
A Real Pain screens at Glasgow Film Theatre from today, with a preceding short - Fridtjof Stensaeth Josefson’s ‘Ball’ (3 min) - ahead of all screenings 🎬 Part of our ‘Shorts in Support’ offering @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/a-real...
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A Real Pain
Jesse Eisenberg cements his reputation as a gifted filmmaker with this witty and heartfelt portrait of two estranged cousins honouring their roots. Benji and David travel to Poland to pay respects to...
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
As the year comes to a close, we asked our team to each pick a short film that stayed with them this year
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Shorts of the Year 2024
As the year comes to a close, we asked our team to each pick a short film that stayed with them this year.
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The 18th edition of our festival is just 90 days away! ⏰ #GSFF25 March 19-23 📸: @imurchan.bsky.social
A medium shot of two women and a man clap at the end of a GSFF screening in screen 2 of Glasgow Film Theatre
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Thanks to Agile City for the festive celebration at Civic House today. Complete with Parveen’s Canteen, which never disappoints, and some gingerbread-decorating 🎄
Programme manager Oisin decorating a gingerbread man Parveen’s festive menu that reads ‘Agile City festive celebration Menu: Thanks to Parveen’s Canteen. Main: Squash coconut curry, served with rice + oat & pumpkin crisp. Dessert: Decorate-your-own-gingerbread.People eating at Parveen’s canteenCivic House exterior
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
"I enjoyed desecrating Ingmar Bergman’s childhood cinema with a rare dual 16mm projection of Nick Zedd’s Whoregasm" - GSFF Director, Matt Lloyd
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Glaswegian excellence. We love to see it. Huge congrats to Jasleen Kaur and what a speech 🇵🇸
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Calling all venues! Enhance your programme with Shorts in Support ✨ We’re offering Scottish cinemas and film societies a slate of 7 shorts to screen before features - including fiction, animation and family films Supported by @filmhubscotland.bsky.social, Screenscots & National Lottery via BFI 🎬
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
50 hours to go!
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Curated by our director Matt Lloyd, Goethe-institute Glasgow presents a selection of French and German shorts in collaboration with Institut Français d’Ecosse Tomorrow, Nov 26 | 6.30pm - 8.30pm | Matt will be doing a Q&A afterwards
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New Currents in French and German Short Film Cinema
Curated by Matt Lloyd
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Our good friends over at @takeoneaction.bsky.social have launched a crowdfunder for their 2025 festival with the theme Real Utopias Head on over to their page to learn more about where your money will go and how to donate!
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Glasgow Short Film Festival @glasgowshort.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Submission deadline extended! 🎬 Now in its fourth year, the Young Scottish Filmmaker Prize is an opportunity open to filmmakers from across Scotland ages 18-25 🗓️ New deadline Wednesday Nov 27 at 5pm 🔗 Find out more via glasgowshort.org
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