Glasgow Short Film Festival
@glasgowshort.bsky.social
Scotland's leading short film event | 19th edition: 18-22 March 2026 | #GSFF26
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
🎬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
November 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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/
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/
Young Scottish Filmmakers Prize
Check showtimes and buy tickets at your local cinema
education.glasgowfilm.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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/
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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As this year's @glasgowshort.bsky.social wraps up, @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social reports on this year's award winners...
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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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March 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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...
www.theskinny.co.uk/film/news/gl...
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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.
March 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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.
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/
glasgowuniversitymagazine.co.uk/articles/features/the-disco-a-portrait-of-simon-eilbeck/
March 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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/
glasgowuniversitymagazine.co.uk/articles/features/the-disco-a-portrait-of-simon-eilbeck/
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If you're in Glasgow on Friday night do come @glasgowshort.bsky.social 📺
March 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
If you're in Glasgow on Friday night do come @glasgowshort.bsky.social 📺
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
March 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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
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...
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, 2024)
The Source Is a Hole (Angelo Madsen, 2017)
Aliens in Beirut (Raghed Charabaty, 2024)
Le Récit d’A (Esther Valiquette, 1990)
March 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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...
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, 2024)
The Source Is a Hole (Angelo Madsen, 2017)
Aliens in Beirut (Raghed Charabaty, 2024)
Le Récit d’A (Esther Valiquette, 1990)
March 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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, 2024)
The Source Is a Hole (Angelo Madsen, 2017)
Aliens in Beirut (Raghed Charabaty, 2024)
Le Récit d’A (Esther Valiquette, 1990)
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
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...
🎬:
Can You Hear Me?
Happy New Year
UNDR
Razeh-del
400 Cassettes
🎟️ gsff.filmchief.com/shop/tickets...
March 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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
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...
🎬:
Can You Hear Me?
Happy New Year
UNDR
Razeh-del
400 Cassettes
🎟️ gsff.filmchief.com/shop/tickets...
March 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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...
🎬:
Can You Hear Me?
Happy New Year
UNDR
Razeh-del
400 Cassettes
🎟️ gsff.filmchief.com/shop/tickets...
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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...
find your nearest copy here: www.theskinny.co.uk/things-to-do...
March 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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...
find your nearest copy here: www.theskinny.co.uk/things-to-do...
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
'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
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.
www.theskinny.co.uk
March 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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
'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
Wishing a happy festival launch on our GFF pals! Lots we’re looking forward to catching at the glorious GFT @glasgowfilm.bsky.social 🎬
Lights, camera, action! It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for, Glasgow Film Festival 2025 commences today!
Starting with our sold out Opening Gala screening of Tornado tonight, we’re ready for 12 days of unforgettable stories on the silver screen!
We'll see you all there!
Starting with our sold out Opening Gala screening of Tornado tonight, we’re ready for 12 days of unforgettable stories on the silver screen!
We'll see you all there!
February 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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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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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February 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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
www.theskinny.co.uk/film/news/gl... by @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social
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🎥 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...
Find out what else GSFF has planned ➡️ list.co.uk/news/46216/g...
February 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
🎥 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...
Find out what else GSFF has planned ➡️ list.co.uk/news/46216/g...
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🎥 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
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
February 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
🎥 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
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
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
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
February 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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
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
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-...
www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/bring-...
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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February 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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-...
www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/bring-...
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.
GSFF @glasgowshort.bsky.social have a cracker of an opening film for 2025...
The festival kicks off with the world premiere of THE DISCO, Alex Hetherington's doc on Simon Eilbeck, founder of legendary queer club night Hot Mess
www.theskinny.co.uk/festivals/uk... by @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social
The festival kicks off with the world premiere of THE DISCO, Alex Hetherington's doc on Simon Eilbeck, founder of legendary queer club night Hot Mess
www.theskinny.co.uk/festivals/uk... by @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social
Glasgow Short Film Festival opens with Hot Mess doc - The Skinny
GSFF25 will open with the world premiere of Alex Hetherington’s experimental documentary about the founder of Scottish queer club night Hot Mess.
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February 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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.
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...
www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/presen...
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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January 29, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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...
www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/presen...
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
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
January 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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
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
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
WANDER TO WONDER won our audience award for international short film at last year’s festival - Many congrats to the whole production team
January 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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
WANDER TO WONDER won our audience award for international short film at last year’s festival - Many congrats to the whole production team
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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
@glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social
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
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www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/a-real...
Part of our ‘Shorts in Support’ offering
@glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social
www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/a-real...
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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January 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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
@glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social
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.
January 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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.