Our closing weekend went off very well and we’re so grateful to everyone who come along!
Here’s a few stills of the evening, the awards ceremony and the after party!
Thanks to Ryan Vallo and Louise Balaguer for the photography!
The 12th Edinburgh Short Film Festival in full swing, thanks to the visiting filmmakers from Italy, Turkey, Ireland, Iceland and around the UK who made it along!
Great to see so many people back in the cinema again and see you at the weekend for our final 3 nights!
Thanks to Louise Balaguer for the photography.
We’ve had a lovely first weekend at the 2022 Edinburgh Short Film Festival and thanks to our colleagues at GMAC for helping with the Low Budget Filmmaking Workshop and for
co-curating our Scottish Shorts programme. Thanks also to visiting filmmakers from far and near including Damon Mohl from Indiana, Tom Lynch from Ireland, Ivar Wigan from LA, a whole heap of Scottish filmmakers, the 7 Second IFF for their micro-highlights, Duncan Cowles for presenting the workshop, […]
We’re delighted to have finally screened the Edinburgh Short Film Festival: 10 Years Best Film programmes
at the Filmhouse to mark our first decade!
Thanks to all the filmmakers who attended and contributed to the programme and to the audiences. We were delighted to have sold out all four screenings and very pleased with the feedback so here’s to another decade!
Thanks also to Melanie Toutakova for the excellent photography!
The ESFF screens 16 nights of short film from Oct 22nd to Nov 8th 2020 at cinemas across Edinburgh,
featuring the best International, UK & Scottish short films.
Should circumstances change, our intention is to hold the screenings over the first available dates
around that period.
We’re awarding prizes for Best Film, Best Animation and Best Scottish Short Film.
AND
we’re working with partner festivals to showcase our favourite shorts to audiences internationally,
Budapest Short Film Festival
Brussels Short Film Festival
Valdarno Cinema Film […]
We’re once again delighted to curate a programme of Scottish short film for the annual Scot’s Day Out Festival in Bendigo, Australia on Friday Feb 28th!
Long established as one of the world’s biggest Scottish diaspora festivals, we’ve been curating programmes of contemporary Scottish short films for them for 4 years and we’re looking forward to our 2020 screening on Friday 28th February at the Engine Rooms in Bendigo!
Including our 2019 Best Scottish Film, the intensely dramatic […]
Our 2019 edition wrapped last night at the ECA with our Scottish Animation programme and we’ve been delighted and
thrilled by the response to our programme!
Our most ambitious yet events started on Thursday 24th October at Cinetopia’s Networking event at Brewdog and ended at the ECA on the 10th November and after 10 months of hard work, it remains to give thanks to everyone who contributed to making 2019 such a successful year for the ESFF!
So, […]
Our good friends at Firenze FilmCorti in Florence are launching this year’s edition of Florence’s premiere short film event on Thursday May 30th 2019 and we’re preparing a programme of short film for the Festival!
The short film screening will take place at the atmospheric Le Murate venue, the old 19th Century prison, on Saturday June 2nd and we’re excited to be part of a vibrant and busy short film event!
FIRENZE FILM CORTI
Here’s some stills from last year’s […]
First in a series of film-maker interviews from the 2018 Edinburgh Short Film Festival.
Carys Evans interviews Sophia Carr-Gomm whose drama THE WIDER SUN was screened at the ESFF 2018 edition!
We’re excited to open our call for entries for our 2019 edition and looking forward to screening another 8 nights of fabulous short film in Edinburgh later this year!
Presenting awards and trophies for the best films selected by our jury for Best Film, & Best Animation & Best Scottish Short
AND
This year, we’re also excited to be programming films and film partnerships for our 2019 partners:
The Adriatic Film Festival
The Sardinia Film Festival
Fastnet Film Festival
Firenze FilmCorti (Florence)
Puppet […]
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