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This page is a collection of information from previous iterations of GYFF.

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GYFF 2025

GYFF 2025 had a range of different films and events.

The Young Programmers settled on their theme for this festival: Underdogs, Dreamers and Rebel Spirits

They selected the following films for their festival:
Opening Gala: Plainclothes
Cult: Train To Busan
Take 2: Fantastic Mr. Fox
Groundbreaker: Lingua Franca
Documentary: Runa Simi
Modern Classic: Submarine
Documentary: Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
Classic + Queer Cinema Sunday: But I'm a Cheerleader
Closing Gala: Sing Street + A Live Performance from The Fynches (The Lead Actors Band!)

GYFF 2024

GYFF 2024

The young programmers selected the following films for their festival:

Opening Gala: Bookworm
Cult: Clue
Take 2: Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules
Documentary: We Can Be Heroes
UK Premiere: Skatergirls - Get Up
Saturday Night New Release: Uproar
Documentary: Long Distance Swimmer: Sara Mardini
Classic: Truman Show
Closing Gala: Grease

GYFF 2023

The GYFF 2023 Young Programmers programme:

Opening Gala: Brother and a digital Q+A with the director
Cult: They Live
Take 2/Family Fun: Bugsy Malone
Documentary: A Cat Called Dom & a Q+A with the directors
Documentary: We Will Not Fade Away
Saturday Night New Release: Alam and a digital Q+A with the director
Classic: Billy Elliot
Closing Gala: The Matrix

GYFF 2022

The GYFF 2022 Young Programmers programme:

Opening Gala: See How They Run
Cult: Napoleon Dynamite
Take 2/ Family: Corpse Bride
Documentary: A Bunch of Amateurs
Saturday Night Gala: Angry Young Men with Q+A with director
Contemporary Classic: Moonlight
Closing Gala: Moulin Rouge!

GYFF 2022

GYFF 2021

The GYFF 2021 Young Programmers programme:

Opening Gala: Sweetheart

Other Films: Everyone’s Talking about Jamie + Q+A with director and Jamie Campbell (Real Life Inspiration for the Film)

Documentary: Youth v Gov,

New Release: Granada Nights

Classic: Do the Right Thing

Classic: Death Becomes Her

Take 2: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Closing Gala: Heart Beats Loud and Live Performance

BTS

From Dreams to Reality: Bringing your Short Film ideas to Life

Breaking into the Industry with BECTU

Day in the Directors Life with Abid Khan

Documentary in an Hour with Duncan Cowels

Fashioning Wicked Woman - Costumes on Screen with Casci Ritchie

Make Archive History

Short Circuit – How to Build Your Network

GYFF 2019

The GYFF 2019 Young Programmers programme:

Opening Gala: The Farewell

Cult: Heathers

GYFF x Scotland Loves Anime: Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;Surrection

Take 2: Coraline

UK premiere: Phoenix

Documentary: Drag Kids

Sunday:

Stars By The Pound

Family Gala: Fantastic Mr Fox

Documentary: The Biggest Little Farm

Closing Gala: Scott Pilgrim Vs The World with Arcade Games

GYFF 2018

The GYFF 2018 Young Programmers programme:

Movie Memories: Jailhouse Rock

Opening Gala: Anna and the Apocalypse

Young Solitude

Skate Kitchen

Worlds of Ursula K Le Guin

Closing Gala: School of Rock at Blythswood Hall with a Battle of the Bands

GYFF 2017

The GYFF 2017 Young Programmers programme:

Opening Gala: Just Charlie
Cult: Léon
Scotland Loves Anime Crossover: The Ancient Magus' Bride
Documentary: Step
Saturday Night Gala: Daphne with Q+A with director
Family: At Eye Level
Classic: Jasper Jones
Closing Gala: Moonrise Kingdom