We're very much looking forward to welcoming cinema audiences back to live screenings, with a programme of outstanding short cinema, award winning short films including award winners at Annecy and Cannes & outstanding shorts from across the globe.
For our 10th Anniversary, we're also screening online some of the best films from the last 10 years of the ESFF, including our 10 Year Best Films, Best Comedies
and Best Animations!
The 2021 ESFF opens Friday 5th November and runs to Sunday 21st November and is your one chance to see one of the strongest short film programmes in the UK!
Tickets available online: https://www.edinburghshortfilmfestival.com/buy-tickets-2/
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READ MOREFrom Ground Zero is a collection of 22 short films made in Gaza during the ongoing genocide and showing as part of the Falastin Film Festival at the Scottish Storytelling Centre.
READ MOREAn oblique, albeit powerful experimental documentary which examines the politics and economics of South Lebanon against the backdrop of the Israeli occupation.
READ MORETwo beautiful and powerful medium-length films on the coloniality of archives, reclamation of Palestinian music and dance, and the ethnographic underpinnings of colonization.
READ MORECurated by the Royal Scots Regimental Museum, the exhibition is designed to raise awareness of the 110th anniversary of the Quintinshill Rail Disaster where 216 members of the 7th Battalion died.
READ MOREThis film documents the living and working conditions of migrants who work harvesting our fruit and vegetables from Europe's fields! Catch it at The Melting Pot on 5th June!
READ MOREMarvel Studios' Infinity Saga Concert Experience is a new Marvel Studios film concert that will take fans on an epic cinematic journey covering twenty-three films in one momentous concert experience!
READ MOREPrep your picnic blankets and get ready to enjoy a FREE outdoor cinema experience from 13th - 15th June 2025, in the heart of Edinburgh City Centre.
READ MOREEdinburgh's own Mr Heebie Man promises you terrible tales quite like no other. Come take his tour round this dark wee Edinburgh, followed by a showing of local short movies at the Banshee Labyrinth!
READ MOREJoin Firefly International for an unforgettable screening of Mike Joseph's empathetic and thought provoking film 'Gaza: A Story of Love and War' at the Out of the Blue Drill Hall on 30th June!
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