Scarborough Film Festival

  • Home
  • Scarborough Film Festival

Scarborough Film Festival Bringing alternative and exciting film content to Scarborough, UK. The next festival is now live 20-23rd March 2025. Grab your tickets now!!!

Our closing party for SFF 2025 was an open decks, hosted by people were encouraged to jump on and flip some tunes, and...
12/04/2025

Our closing party for SFF 2025 was an open decks, hosted by people were encouraged to jump on and flip some tunes, and we had a solid selection, from dub to house to abba 👌💿🎶 thanks to everyone who played!
Decks provided by and head on down to the shop today for rsd, an excellent selection of tunes, djs and beer! Not to be missed!
📷 Photos from everyone's favourite Simon Heaton

On the closing day of SFF2025 we were thrilled to launch the new film by artists 'The Milk Report.' Adapted from an ori...
11/04/2025

On the closing day of SFF2025 we were thrilled to launch the new film by artists 'The Milk Report.'
Adapted from an original publication of the same name, it explores the politics and economics of care through the lens of feeding a baby, and the 720 hours Young spent doing so over a 6-month period. The film focuses on the improvised, chaotic, gendered, interdependent and messy nature of reproductive labour. The film was commissioned by Feed, a project about infant feeding and public space.

After the film the artists joined the audience for an in conversation with Elaine Speight. This was followed by a tour of the new 'Nuture' exhibition with curator Joel Hague. (Nurture is on at Woodend art gallery, free of charge March 21st – May 24th 2025)

On the opening Thursday of the festival we lit up the with a Magic Lantern Show from Dr Nicholas Hiley, using original ...
08/04/2025

On the opening Thursday of the festival we lit up the with a Magic Lantern Show from Dr Nicholas Hiley, using original slides and lantern. We got to experience the history of early image-based entertainment, with stories, histories and illusions! 💫

📸Photos from Liz Boag

We have some great pictures of our Saturday screening of the classic 1993 TV film 'Dancing Queen' at preceded by a perf...
08/04/2025

We have some great pictures of our Saturday screening of the classic 1993 TV film 'Dancing Queen' at preceded by a performance for the wonderful Funky Tuesday Choir. Thanks to all those involved! 💃🎤🎥

📸 Photos from Simon Heaton

We had some amazing short film events as part of the festival, with stories from all over the world and from down the ro...
06/04/2025

We had some amazing short film events as part of the festival, with stories from all over the world and from down the road.
First few shots are from our 'Along the Edge, Below the Surface' Screening and Q & A with .ellie, we learnt about the process of putting together her powerful film 'Plunge' and the importance of telling stories through animation and sea-swimming communities.
The next shots are from our 'Regional Shorts Competition.' We had nearly 100 entries with only 10 showcased on the evening, the filmmakers in attendance joined us on stage for a Q & A, whilst the jury deliberated on the winner, we then had some casual and open networking in the bar. We got to meet so many great filmmakers and see so much talent in the short films that were on show across the day.
Photos from Simon Heaton 📸

Our first review of SFF 2025 comes from the ever erudite Laurence Boag-Matthews . If you missed the Oska Bright Shorts a...
03/04/2025

Our first review of SFF 2025 comes from the ever erudite Laurence Boag-Matthews . If you missed the Oska Bright Shorts and want to know more. give it a read.

We are reminiscing about the amazing screenings as part of SFF2025. 🎥🎞Thanks to the wonderful Simon Heaton for the snaps...
02/04/2025

We are reminiscing about the amazing screenings as part of SFF2025. 🎥🎞
Thanks to the wonderful Simon Heaton for the snaps, first set of pictures are from our sold out Friday night spectacular with a screening of doc 'Dead Mint' followed by a gig from 'Grandad's don't indicate' and at The Railway Club. There was so much joy and community in the room we will not forget it, a real tribute to the band, film, DIY and Scarborough ✨️ 👏
It was hard to pick 20 photos from the event so keep an eye out for further round-ups

💫🙌🎥 Audience Feedback🎥 💫🙌Thanks again for supporting Scarborough Film Festival 2025, we are taking time to reflect on wh...
26/03/2025

💫🙌🎥 Audience Feedback🎥 💫🙌
Thanks again for supporting Scarborough Film Festival 2025, we are taking time to reflect on what was an amazing few days of film, conversation and creativity!
In order to put on future events, please take a few minutes to fill out the audience feedback form to let us and our funders know your thoughts and make more great film events happen in Scarborough!
Link to Form: https://forms.gle/hUPU7vJ61K9YbcYB6

📸Liz Boag, taken from 'Magic Lantern Show led by Dr. Nick Hiley', 'Dead Mint Screening', 'Launch of Milk Report'

24/03/2025

After a fantastic four days filled with fabulous films, music, art and entertainment we have a lot of people to thank! (Our brains have been pretty full over the past four days so please forgive us if we forget to mention you 😬)
Here goes…
THANK YOU to Ruben at Record Revivals for his time, talents and all his hard work organising our music events
- to the SJT for their beautiful cinema, their brilliant projectionist, technical, front of house and box office staff and their wonderful marketing team.
- to the BFI and Film Hub North, JW Smith and all our other partners and sponsors for making the festival possible.
- to our generous volunteers for their time and efforts.
- to our amazing Jury for making a decision we wouldn’t have wanted to make ourselves
- to all the incredibly talented performers, artists and filmmakers for sharing their amazing work
and finally, thank YOU for coming!

AND THAT’S A WRAP!5pm onwards - OpenDecks: Flip the Record, led by DJ babybel: Festival closing party – a chance to have...
23/03/2025

AND THAT’S A WRAP!

5pm onwards - OpenDecks: Flip the Record, led by DJ babybel: Festival closing party – a chance to have a go at spinning some records, digital or vinyl! Open to women and queer-identifying individuals. Held at Craft Bar, 7 Northway, Scarborough YO11 1JH.

FREE ENTRY

We are thrilled to announce the WINNER of the Jury Prize for Scarborough Film Festival’s Competition Shorts is 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁P...
23/03/2025

We are thrilled to announce the WINNER of the Jury Prize for Scarborough Film Festival’s Competition Shorts is 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁

Paula Says Hi by James C Thompson.

The jury said: “Paula, their character and life is beautifully depicted in this film, highlighting the complex nature of identity through an extremely likeable and human character that everyone can relate to.”

The Jury remarked on the excellent quality of all 10 short films featured in the selection. They thoroughly enjoyed the competition screening and extended their congratulations to all the features filmmakers. We hope to see much more of your work in festivals to come.

With thanks to our Jury Prize sponsor Stay Yorkshire Coast.

The audience struggled with this one with more than one audience member voting for every film in the selection and more ...
23/03/2025

The audience struggled with this one with more than one audience member voting for every film in the selection and more than one audience member abstaining from the vote because they enjoyed and admired all ten films for varied reasons.

We loved all 10 films so we’re thrilled that they all proved so popular. However, there was a clear winner when we tallied up the audience votes.

The winner of this year’s audience award is 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
Paula Says Hi by James C Thompson.

Congratulations James, Paul/a and your team.

With thanks to our Audience Award sponsor: Stay Yorkshire Coast.

Address


Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Scarborough Film Festival posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Business

Send a message to Scarborough Film Festival:

Shortcuts

  • Address
  • Alerts
  • Contact The Business
  • Claim ownership or report listing

  • Want your business to be the top-listed Event Planning Service?

Share