Edinburgh Shorts screens in Bendigo, Australia at SDO

We’re screening a curated short film programme at Scot’s Day Out in Bendigo, Australia on March 2nd, 7:30pm at the Colonial Theatre!

Some of our favourite short films from our 2018 edition including Kevin Pickering’s multi-award winning horror, CLOSE TO THE BONE.

Stuart Hubbard’s witty and elegantly drawn animation CURSE OF THE WEREDUCK, and the enchanting drama THE WIDER SUN by Sophia Carr-Gomm.

We’re also screening Andre Franco’s intense crime drama LOST AND FOUND as well as the […]

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Cinetopia #6 – Film Podcast

Edition 6 of Cinetopia is out now, featuring reviews of a whole bunch of Queen-oriented films,  Oscar ruminations and
an interview with up and coming Scottish actor, Jamie Robson!
CINETOPIA 6

 

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ESFF Screens Animation at Manipulate 2019

ESFF screens a night of some of our best animations from last year’s festival at Manipulate 2019!

There’s winner of our Best Animation award, the stunning Wicked Girl by Ayce Kartal and the atmospheric world of An Island by Rory Byrne
as well as Aspen ShortFest award winner, Coyote by Lorenz Wunderle and a fair old mix of stunning 2D, Stop-Motion, Puppetry and CGI!

Screening starts noon at the Traverse Theatre on Saturday November 9th!

ESFF AT MANIPULATE

 

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Edinburgh Short FF wins Best Festival award from Take One Magazine!

Excited to announce that the Edinburgh Short Film Festival has won Take One Magazine’s Best Festival award for 2018!
We’re obviously delighted and very honoured to have won and very grateful to Take One Magazine staff for
voting for the ESFF for the award and it’s wonderful to have the hard work of all of our staff and volunteers recognised in this way,
so thanks to all the many people who participated in making our 2018 edition such […]

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ESFF 2018 – IMAGE GALLERY

We thought you might enjoy a collection of images taken from the 2018 Edinburgh Short Film Festival
Photographers: Luka Vukosavljevic, Alexandra Person, Jackie Xiang and Bowen Guan

  

     

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So long and thanks for all the Films!

Well, that’s a wrap for the 2018 Edinburgh Short Film Festival, we had a ball but don’t worry, we’ll be back next year!

Thanks to Carys B. Evans​ Amanda Rogers​, Cinetopia Edinburgh​ Jim Ross​ Luka Vukosavljevic​ Mike Forbes, Yulia Kovanova​
The Filmhouse​. Summerhall​, The Adriatic Film Festival​,  Florence Florence FilmCorti, Aidan Stanley​ and the Fastnet Film Festival,
Thanks also to our curated programmers, mcine – The Mexican Institute of Cinematography & Peter Murdmaa​
and the Estonian Short Film Centre […]

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2018 ESFF Award Winners

We’re delighted to announce the winners of our 2018 Awards for Best Film, Best Animation and Best Scottish Short Film for 2018!

The juries had a difficult task in choosing winners from a very strong field of nominees, but we’re pleased to announce the following were selected as winners for the following categories:

BEST SCOTTISH FILM 2018

BLUE CHRISTMAS by Charlotte Wells

BEST ANIMATION 2018

WICKED GIRL by Ayce Kartal

 

BEST FILM 2018

FAUVE by Jeremy Comte

 

Congratulations to all the winners and […]

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TAKE ONE Magazine reviews our Sat 3 Nov & Sun 4 Nov programmes

We’re excited about our new partnership with TAKE ONE Magazine , the film magazine from Cambridge and they’ve reviewed another 2 nights of the 2018 Edinburgh Short Film Festival, our programmes on Sat 3rd November and Sunday 4th November!

Reviews are by Jim Ross and Annie Whealing

SAT 3 NOV – IN THE DARK REVIEW

SUN 4 NOV – FRIEND OR FOE REVIEW

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1st Weekend at the 2018 ESFF

We’re all delighted with the opening weekend of the 2018 Edinburgh Short Film Festival, 2 full houses, some terrific shorts, lovely guests including a whole team from the Adriatic Film Festival and some warm words from the audience!

Here’s a few stills from the nights, pictures by Luka Vukosavljevic and Jackie Xiang,

Looking forward to the second weekend, starting at the Filmhouse on Friday 2nd with a fascinating programme of Estonian animation and then

we’re on to Summerhall […]

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Edinburgh Short Film Festival 2018 Trailer

We’re delighted to unveil the 2018 ESFF trailer!
Edited by the indefatigable Amanda Rogers, music by the enlightened Callum Rankine of BoxMusic

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