We’re delighted to announce our revised 2020 programme. This special online-only event – our 12th and a half edition – does not include the full programme we intended to present back in March. Instead we are placing our competition selections – the six programmes of the Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film and one of our…

We’re excited to present DIVE IN Cinema, a two-week online screening series co-programmed by a cohort of (mostly!) Scottish independent exhibitors and film festivals.  As all of us are keen to keep connected with our audiences and look for ways to bring activity online, we decided to bundle our efforts together to present this collaborative project,…

Back in March when COVID-19 brought our festival preparations to a halt less than a week before our opening night, we announced that GSFF 2020 would be postponed until August. Whilst we are dying to share our programme with you, it is very clear to us that a live event in August will not be…

From an interactive walk through an online shooter game environment to a focus on intimate, humorous, playful and radical stories which subvert stereotypes of Northern Ireland’s Troubles, ideas of place run throughout this year’s programme.  Considering the current context of ceaselessly contested socio-political landscapes, both at home and internationally, we have chosen to explore how…

We are delighted to announce the thirty films competing for the 2020 Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film, and the twenty-four films competing for the 2020 Scottish Short Film Award. Nine films will have their World Premiere and fourteen their UK Premiere at GSFF 2020, which will also host ten Scottish Premieres, two International Premieres…

Film festivals are usually very strict about phones being turned off during screenings. Not this time. GSFF today announces its 2020 opening event, the Scottish premiere of live expanded cinema performance My First Film by Zia Anger, which opens with the filmmaker, seated amongst the audience, requesting via onscreen text that phones should be kept on.  Anger…

Film Hub Scotland New Promoters Scheme Do you have a passion for film? Would you like to gain paid experience in film exhibition? Then the Film Hub Scotland New Promoters Scheme could be for you. Film Hub Scotland is offering an exciting training opportunity for people who’d like to better understand how to programme films…

Scotland’s flagship short film event announces an exciting new chapter. After twelve happy years within the Glasgow Film family, GSFF is stepping out as an independent charitable organisation. The first edition of Glasgow Short Film Festival took place over a weekend during the 2008 Glasgow Film Festival. Since then GSFF has successfully run as a…

We are thrilled, humbled and more than a little surprised to find Glasgow Short Film Festival included on US magazine MovieMaker’s list of the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World in 2019. The list, which the magazine publishes each summer, is compiled by a panel of industry insiders focusing primarily on US and Canadian events. This…

The award-winners at the 12th annual Glasgow Short Film Festival have been announced. The winners were revealed at the closing ceremony at Civic House last night, along with the festival audience’s selection of their own favourite shorts. Decided by an international jury made up of Jacopo Chessa, director of Torino Short Film Market, French curator and…