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 consisted 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 GSFF26 Bill Douglas Award went to Elisabeth Subrin for Manal Issa, 2024. The jury gave special mentions to CUL-DE-SAC! by Clyde Gates and Gabriel Sanson and Daria’s Night Flowers by Maryam Tafakory.
The GSFF26 International Audience Award went to CUL-DE-SAC! by Clyde Gates and Gabriel Sanson.