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  • Douwe Dijkstra & Tara Judah – GSFF21 Podcast: Episode 6

    Bristol-based film critic, writer and programmer Tara Judah talks to 2017 Bill Douglas Award winner Douwe Dijkstra about his filmGreen Screen Gringo.

  • Anwar Boulifa and Ohna Falby – GSFF21 Podcast: Episode 5

    GSFF21 Episode 5: UK producer Ohna Falby talks to 2016 Bill Douglas Award winner Anwar Boulifa about his film A Short Guide to Re-Entry.

  • Morgan Knibbe and Sanne Jehoul – GSFF21 Podcast: Episode 4

    GSFF21 Episode 4: Glasgow Short Film Festival Co-Director Sanne Jehoul talks to 2015 Bill Douglas Award Winner, Dutch filmmaker Morgan Knibbe about his film Shipwreck.

  • Zhu Rikun and Sarah Adam – GSFF21 Podcast: Episode 3

    German curator and programmer Sarah Adam talks to 2014 Bill Douglas Award winner, Chinese filmmaker Zhu Rikun about his film The Questioning.

  • Leonardo Sette and Caroline Sascha Cogez – GSFF21 Podcast: Episode 2

    Danish-French filmmaker Caroline Sascha Cogez talks to 2013 Bill Douglas Award winner Leonardo Sette about Enraged Pigs, co-directed with Isabel Penoni.

  • Announcing the GSFF 2021 Programme

    We’re delighted to announce the full programme for Glasgow Short Film Festival’s 14th edition. GSFF21 will take place online 22-28 March. Alongside the previously announced GSFF21 Scottish Short Film Award and the Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film, the 14th edition of the festival will reflect on our last year spent in lockdown, with new programmes No New…

  • Jacob Schulsinger and Ian Sellar – GSFF21 Podcast: Episode 1

    GSFF21 Episode 1: Ian Sellar (Co-Head of Fiction, National Film & Television School) talks to the first-ever Bill Douglas Award winner Jacob Secher Schulsinger (Fini, 2012)

  • Announcing the GSFF 2021 Competition Titles

    We’re delighted to launch our first wave of programmes for Glasgow Short Film Festival’s 14th edition as well as our festival trailer. GSFF21 will take place 22-28 March and entirely online – a return to our festival hub after the success of GSFF 2020 Online in August.  Our GSFF21 festival trailer is directed by James Price,…

  • 2020: That Was the Year That Was

    It’s very hard at this point to think of anything new to say about 2020. Part of what has made the year extraordinary is that our experience of it, in general terms, has seemed so universal. We’ve all undergone loss and confinement. We’ve all had to learn new skills, new ways of communicating, new ways…

  • Announcing: Glasgow Short Film Festival’s 2020 award winners

    The award winners of the 12th and a half edition of Glasgow Short Film Festival were announced this evening during our online Closing Ceremony.  The Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film was decided by an international jury made up of Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur programmer and curator, Delphine Jeanneret, Thai filmmaker, sound technician and foley artist, Sorayos Prapapan, and…