The Bill Douglas Award at Glasgow Short Film Festival showcases new international short films that reflect the qualities found in the work of Scotland’s own Bill Douglas: honesty, formal innovation, and cinematic storytelling that places sound and image centre stage. Six loosely thematic programmes of international work, comprising fiction, documentary, animation and experimental/artists’ moving image, compete for the Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film and the International Audience Award.
The 2026 Bill Douglas Award jury consists of BAFTA-nominated filmmaker and member of the Palestinian Film Institute Naziha Arebi, artist and filmmaker Nicolas Gourault and Ruairí McCann, co-editor of the film journal Ultra Dogme.
The GSFF25 Bill Douglas Award went to Maryam Tafakory for Razeh-del. The jury gave a special mention to Nicolas Gourault’s Their Eyes.
The GSFF25 International Audience Award went to Freak by Claire Barnett.