Following the Scottish Govt announcement on Covid restrictions, our planned screenings from Sat 7th – Sat 14th will have to now be postponed.
Our plan B has always been to run the 2020 edition once the cinemas are open and currently we will be awaiting the Scottish Govt. weekly reviews each Tuesday. Once Edinburgh moves to tier 2 we will arrange new dates shortly thereafter. The venues require a further week to clean and prepare the […]
Following the news today That Edinburgh is to move into tier 3 restrictions, its possible we may have to postpone the ESFF, as far as I know, the Govt will review the tiers weekly and they are saying Edinburgh and Lothians could move quite quickly to tier 2 so it’s still possible the screenings will go ahead as planned or shortly thereafter, at least, we hope so!
Basically our plan is to run the ESFF as […]
We’re delighted to unveil the trailer for our 2020 edition which starts Saturday Nov 7th at Summerhall!
Thanks to the talented and diligent editing by our very own Amanda Rogers!
Tickets only available online but hurry, they are going fast!
We are thrilled to have been invited to curate a programme of Scottish short film for the 27th Krakow International Film Festival Etiuda & Anima 2020!
The screening takes place in Krakow during November and we’re pleased to present a programme featuring some of the talented filmmakers whose work has featured at recent ESFF editions, including some of our Best Scottish Film award-winners!
FREE PERIOD Alison Piper
SALT & SAUCE Alia Ghafar
PLASTIC MAN Yulia Kovanova
MY LONELINESS IS KILLING […]
We’re delighted and excited to finally be able to announce our programme and screening dates for the 2020 edition of the Edinburgh Short Film Festival!
The 2020 event will run from Saturday Nov 7th to Saturday November 14th 2020 at Summerhall!
We’ve worked hard to prepare for 6 safe and socially distanced programmes and while ticket availability will be very much reduced, we’re also able to keep ticket prices the same as last year! There will be […]
We’re excited to be hosting a programme of some of the best in Scottish stop-motion at Festival Stop Motion Montreal this month!
The Festival has gone online for their 2020 edition and are screening a full programme of stop-motion curated by the ESFF and the ECA for their 12th edition. FSMM are North America’s oldest dedicated stop-motion film festival and we’re delighted to be working with them for 2020.
The programme includes gems screened at last year’s […]
We spoke to our patron, award-winning actor Jamie Robson about how the pandemic is affecting film production and acting. In these difficult times, how will filmmaking and acting develop and what does the future of film production look like?
Can you tell us a little about what projects you’ve been working on during lockdown?
I had two projects in post-production during the lockdown. Peter Marsden’s The Truth About Dreaming and Ross Wilson’s debut feature Spin State. […]
We’ve programmed a night of some of our award-winners and best Scottish shorts of recent years for BUSHO Budapest Short Film Festival’s 16th edition!
Including Muedra by Cesar Diaz Melendez
Fauve by Jeremy Comte
Salt N Sauce by Alia Ghafar
Short Changed by Zoe Hutber
My Loneliness is Killing Me by Tim Courtney
On by Jelena Sinick
In The Fall by Tom Gentle
Three August Days by Madli Laane
Programme starts 7:15pm Fellini Hall Budapest
We continue our series of filmmaker interviews with the courageous documentary maker, Zeynep Kececiler. Zeynep is a Turkey-based award winning documentary-maker whose Somalia shot documentary, Miro’s Journey was screened at the 2019 Edinburgh Short Film Festival.
We were honoured that Zeynep visited to share her thoughts last year and to discuss her engrossing and provoking documentaries with us.
Interview shot and edited by Amanda Rogers
One of our guest curators for our 2019 edition was Paul Stekler, award-winning documentary filmmaker and head of the Doc school at the University of Texas film school.
Prof. Stekler’s films have won two Peabody Awards, three du Pont-Columbia University Journalism Awards, three Emmy Awards and a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival. He curated a night of Texan short films and talked to us about politics and filmmaking in a wide ranging interview.
Shot […]
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