Edinburgh Short Film Festival (ESFF) is open for entries for 2025. The call is open for any form of short film, genre, budgets and techniques, from any part of the world.
The maximum duration for submitted films is 25 minutes including credits.
ESFF 2025 will present awards and trophies for the best films for 2025 selected by the jury for Best Film, Best Animation & Best Scottish Short.
The ESFF is also holding International Short Film Showcases across the globe. So, if you want to win one of the prestigious ESFF trophies and have your work featured at film festivals internationally, submit your film to the ESFF today.
Devoted to screening short film from Edinburgh, Scotland and around the world, The ESFF evolved from the Leith Short Film Festival in 2011 and has shown everything – from the first film made in Somalia in 20 years, to Oscar nominated shorts from Australia, the USA and Ireland, as well as short films smuggled out of China and Iran – and hosted visiting film-makers from China, Russia, Italy, Spain, Germany, Holland and all over the UK.
ESFF has one of the UK’s strongest short film programmes and is now a BIFA Qualifying festival.
ESFF 2025 will take place on 24 October — 9 November 2025.
Edinburgh Short Film Festival (ESFF) 2025 – Entry Fees
- £13 – until 21 February 2025 — Early Bird Deadline
- £15 – until 16 May 2025 — Regular Deadline
- £20 – until 20 June 2025 — Late Deadline
