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GSFF25 Full Programme Announcement
Festival Favourites includes a selection of big hitters and darlings from 2024’s international festival circuit, and we welcome back essentials such as comedy programme For Shorts & Giggles, Family Shorts, Visible Cinema and, after a year off, our acclaimed-by-the-true-horror-freaks strand, Scared Shortless. Last year, GSFF were proud to be able to present six of Bill Douglas’s unearthed Super 8 amateur shorts…
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GSFF25 Opening Night Announcement
Join us for the world premiere of Alex Hetherington’s The Disco – A Portrait of Simon Eilbeck, an experimental documentary about the founder of Scottish queer club night Hot Mess
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The Brutalist Buildings of Glasgow
As The Brutalist hits cinemas, we talk to Brutal Glasgow curator Rachel Loughran about her exhibition with Natalie Tweedie, which shines a light on the our city’s relationship to the architectural style
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Delegate Registration & Volunteer Applications Open!
Join us in March as an industry delegate, or assist in the running of the festival as a GSFF25 volunteer.
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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. There was certainly no shortage of favourites all-round, but running through the eventual results (presented in no particular order) were themes that speak to the past 12 months: themes of perseverance, in…
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GSFF Presents: Shorts in Support
This autumn and winter, enhance your programme with a selection of our gorgeous shorts. A supporting short film is a great way introduce exciting upcoming Scottish and international filmmakers to a wider audience, broaden your programme and generate a dialogue between short and feature. We’re offering Scottish cinemas and film societies a slate of seven shorts from their…
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Introducing our submissions partner The Ark
GSFF is thrilled to be partnering with London-based post-production house The Ark on our 2025 call for entries. Anyone who submits their short to GSFF is entitled to claim a 20% discount on DCP creation for their film at The Ark’s facilities. DCP is the industry standard digital exhibition format, ensuring your film will screen…
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The teetering fate of young Highlanders: a reflection on Hannah Hunter’s Their Accounts
Eerily sparse but far from still. Hauntingly silent, save the rustle of the sea. The far-flung Ardnamurchan landscape whistles through archived footage and nifty animations in Hannah Hunter’s Their Accounts. You might half anticipate the unease of the seemingly vacant scenes to be punctured by the frustrated Thatcher-era words of The Specials – “This town,…
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Stories of Resilience, Community and Creative Expression: Attending the 17th Glasgow Short Film Festival
The Glasgow Short Film Festival once again highlighted the Scottish cinematic landscape with its diverse and thought-provoking programme, showcasing a wide range of short films from both local and international filmmakers. Throughout the weekend, I was impressed by the meticulous curation, engaging thematic explorations, and vibrant community atmosphere that defined the Festival. A film that…
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What ties us to our humanity? A review of Guy Woods’ Mouth
Mouth, screening in (and eventually winning) the Young Scottish Filmmaker Prize competition was my personal highlight of Glasgow Short Film Festival. While I enjoyed all the entries in the competition, Guy Woods’ film really stood out to me. The plot follows a recently deceased man named Robert (Rob Turner) who is met by a casual…
