Screen Academy Scotland Shorts

15+
109 mins

Content Warning

Death and dying, Dementia, Mental illness, Suicide, No content warnings required

Run Time

109 minutes

Enhanced Access

Overview

EIFF is delighted to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Screen Academy Scotland with a selection of new films emerging from the academy. – Paul Ridd

12A

Abuela

World Premiere

Abuela

An intimate, investigative documentary retracing the life of Maria Jesús Echevarría. A brilliant, overlooked Spanish writer whose story was shaped by the wrong time, the wrong systems, and the right words....
World Premiere
Monica Echevarria
2026
16 mins
12A

Bergamot

World Premiere

Bergamot

Bergamot is an abstract, poetic, surreal look at the internal war one carries as a reflection of what it feels like to search for justice when your world is overshadowed by conflict....
World Premiere
Laleh Ajampour
2026
4 mins
12A

Horizons

World Premiere

Horizons

When Fiona visits her childhood home for her mum’s birthday, absent family members and her mum’s unsettling indifference to it forces Fiona to consider whether clinging to tradition is the best way forward....
World Premiere
Rachel Maclean
2025
13 mins
12A

Ñuuyii (Earth)

European Premiere

Ñuuyii (Earth)

A space wanderer lands on an unkNown planet and recognises glimpses of forgotten memories....
European Premiere
Itandehui Jansen
2025
11 mins
15+

Skerry & May

World Premiere

Skerry & May

On a remote island, a woman reunites with the man she once loved and lost, leading to a final conversation that challenges them both to confront the nature of memory and identity, and of loving and letting go....
World Premiere
Edinburgh Napier University’s Screen Academy Scotland
2025
15 mins
PG

Passing Place

World Premiere

Passing Place

Riley, a 23-year-old Asian woman, wakes on a surreal island after being mistakenly declared dead. Trapped in a bizarre afterlife bureaucracy that mirrors modern immigration systems, she must complete absurd tasks to prove her identity—or risk being erased and forgotten...
World Premiere
Hamza Bin Bin Tahir
2026
16 mins
15+

User

World Premiere

User

In the not too distant future, a man without hope attempts to save the life he was hired to end with HELPER, a world changing technology that allows anyone to possess another's body at the host's request....
World Premiere
Isaac Sparks
2026
14 mins

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Rachel Maclean
2025
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Isaac Sparks
2026
14 mins

Passing Place

Riley, a 23-year-old Asian woman, wakes on a surreal island after being mistakenly declared dead. Trapped in a bizarre afterlife bureaucracy that mirrors modern...
Hamza Bin Bin Tahir
2026
16 mins

Ñuuyii (Earth)

A space wanderer lands on an unkNown planet and recognises glimpses of forgotten memories....
Itandehui Jansen
2025
11 mins

Skerry & May

On a remote island, a woman reunites with the man she once loved and lost, leading to a final conversation that challenges them both...
Edinburgh Napier University’s Screen Academy Scotland
2025
15 mins

Bergamot

Bergamot is an abstract, poetic, surreal look at the internal war one carries as a reflection of what it feels like to search for...
Laleh Ajampour
2026
4 mins

Abuela

An intimate, investigative documentary retracing the life of Maria Jesús Echevarría. A brilliant, overlooked Spanish writer whose story was shaped by the wrong time,...
Monica Echevarria
2026
16 mins

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