Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival 2025
Festival at a glance
Glasgow: 30 September–4 October, The Pyramid at Anderston and Glasgow Film Theatre
Aberdeen: 10 & 11 October, Belmont Cinema pop-up
Ayr: 23 October, Ayr Film Society
Edinburgh: 9 & 10 November, Filmhouse
Key Information
tickets
Tickets for Samizdat 2025 events at the Pyramid at Anderston can be purchased on our Eventbrite. For screenings at Glasgow Film Theatre, see their website directly.
Samizdat strives to ensure that our line-up can be seen by as many people as possible. Most of our events are priced on a pay-what-you-can scale:
£2: “I find it difficult to meet everyday costs.”
£4: “I can meet everyday costs but sometimes find it hard to do so.”
£6: “I can meet everyday costs.”
£8: “I can comfortably meet everyday costs.”
£10: “I can comfortably meet everyday costs and may have access to savings.”
£12: “I would like to pay extra so that Samizdat can continue offering sliding scale tickets for their events!”
If the ticket or other costs, such as childcare or transport, make attending screenings unaffordable, please see details of our Audience Access Fund.
accessibility
All of our 2025 events will take place in wheelchair accessible venues. Our screenings usually have English language subtitles, and many also have descriptive subtitles: for details, please consult individual event listings. These also include access and content notes.
For more details on our accessibility measures, please see our accessibility page.
Volunteering
Volunteers are crucial to events like ours, to help make sure the festival runs smoothly and everyone has a positive experience. We were really happy to be met with an enthusiastic response when we put out our volunteer call out for this year’s event. Volunteering applications are now closed, and we will be in touch with applicants shortly.
Slackers, Rebels, Misfits: Teens on Film
For the return of Samizdat’s special genre strand, 2025 is the year of the teen. Curators Hattie Idle and Joe McFarlane bring together a collection of four films that traverse the landscape of cinematic adolescence. Read more…
