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Bradford International Film Festival · 2011

Bradford International Film Festival 2011

Shorts

Many of the shorts below are shown preceding features, as indicated. In addition, Bradford City of Film commissioned five more short films, each made on a budget of £1,000, that reflect different aspects of Bradford's culture, heritage and community, to be shown in showcase Bradford City of Film Shorts 2011. A second showcase, New European Shorts, celebrates the best of films from European neighbours.

Programme

28 films · 2 reviews

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Ashes

A modern day noir love story about two lovers who con rich and lonely housewives out of their money.

(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Sonia Castang; Stars: Pushpinder Chani, Meryl Fernandes, Shobna Gulati)

Screening with Essential Killing

Bad Night For The Blues

If it was your turn to take your Aunty to her local Conservative Club would you do it?

(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Chris Shepherd; Writer: Chris Shepherd; Stars: Kieran Lynn, Jean Boht, Amanda Walker, Ann Beach, Lloyd McGuire, Marlene Sidaway, Kay Noone, Deddie Davies, Tom Hillenbrand, Doreen Kaye) , Official site

Screening with Congo In Four Acts

The Bedlamites

A documentary about fell running (at night) in the Yorkshire Dales.

(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Shyla Lee)

Bradford City of Film Shorts 2011

Endeavour

Avant garde look at a space journey.

(Country: Austria; Year: 2010; Director: Johann Lurf)

New European Shorts

The End Of The World (Kres ?wiata)

Portrait of a desolate village.

(Country: Poland; Year: 2010; Director: Mateusz Skalski)

New European Shorts

A History of Mutual Respect

When two boys make a journey they find their worlds separate forever.

(Country: Portugal; Year: 2010; Director: Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt; Writer: Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt; Stars: Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, Alcina Abrantes, Joana Nascimento)

New European Shorts

I Spy

A drama about a missing girl and a Bradford reporter which begs the question: who’s watching whom?

(Year: 2011; Director: Lucy Ray; Stars: Jodie McEnery, Rachel Melissa Henshaw, Frank Ryan)

Bradford City of Film Shorts 2011

I Was Crying Out For Life. Or For It. (Je criais contre la vie ou pour elle)

Based on a 19th century engraving, this animation sees a herd of deer turn on the hunting dogs that have been chasing them.

(Country: France; Year: 2009; Director: Vergine Keaton; Writer: Vergine Keaton)

New European Shorts

Kiyumi's Poetry and Sayuru's Embroidery

A theft threatens to split two inseparable friends.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2006; Director: Satoru Sugita; Stars: Momoko Maruyama, Ryoka Shinada)

Screening with Greenwashers

Lastrain

A man who enters a club will do anything to attract the attention of a woman he sees there.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2010; Director: Tony Lopez, David Sanz; Writer: Raul Alvarez; Stars: Raul Alvarez, Flora Martínez, Montse Muñoz, Bernat Saumell, Lucas Valetín)

Screening with Honey

Los 4 McNifikos

Comedy short about a quartet of ageing B boys.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2010; Director: Tucker Davila Wood; Writer: Tucker Davila Wood; Stars: Jokin García, Alvaro Barañano, David Abada Canal) , Official site

Screening with Fanny, Annie & Danny

Mam

When Mam won't get out of bed, twelve year-old Danny must fend for his brothers and sisters - while trying to protect a secret that threatens to break up the family forever. |

(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Hugo Speer; Writer: Vivienne Harvey; Stars: Josie Lawrence, Paul Barber, Ronan Carter, Tisha Merry, James Varley, Dwayne Scantlebury, Charlie Street, Karen Winchester, Elly May Taylor, Jodie McEnery, Katy Gannon, Patrick Downes, Sylvie Caswell) , Official site

Screening with Rebels Without A Clue

Mike The Midwife

Midwife mockumentary.

(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Jonas Grimas; Stars: TC Jefferson)

Screening with The Red Machine

Misconnect

Dark drama about a troubled young woman and her cries for help.

(Year: 2011; Director: John Thirlwell; Stars: Rhona Cameron, Alison Carroll)

Bradford City of Film Shorts 2011

My Lad

A man hides in a launderette, unable to face the world outside.

(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Sami Khan; Writer: Sami Khan; Stars: Ace Bhatti, Rory Girvan, Tariq Jordan, Stewart Scudamore)

Screening with The Last Report On Anna

Permille

An ageing drunk faces a crossroads when he meets people he doesn't remember.

(Country: Iceland; Year: 2010; Director: Marteinn Thorsson; Writer: Marteinn Thorsson; Stars: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Elma Lísa Gunnarsdóttir, Melkorka Óskarsdóttir, Hilmir Jensson, Agustin Navarro Cortés, Ólafur Jónasson) , Official site

New European Shorts

Petrified

Animation about a gargoyle on the roof of Saltaire United Reformed Church.

(Year: 2011; Director: Nicky Whitfield)

Bradford City of Film Shorts 2011

Pipe Dreams

A relationship forms between a man with a high functioning mental condition and an undocumented worker from Ecuador.

(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Ben Green; Writer: Ben Green; Stars: Tom Patrick Stephens, Meredith Napolitano, Deborah Harry, Christopher V. Edwards, Steve Elmore, William F. Feuerbach Jr., Grace Statwick, Renato Cristiano, Paul Bonacquisti, George Lansbury, Bill Feuerbach, Lois Kessler, Melissa Kessler, George Squires, Emilia Mendieta) , Official site

Screening with Viva Riva!

The Pizza Miracle

Review preview for The Pizza Miracle

Features a nice, if melancholy score and excellent photography.

Scott Macdonald · 3 out of 5
A son returns to say farewell to his dead father.

(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Tony Grisoni; Writer: Tony Grisoni; Stars: Matt Berry, Stanley Townsent, Josef Altin, Olive Supple-Still, Anamaria Marinca, Ray Cooper)

Full review

Screening with Vespa

Quarters

When Evan realises that he may lose his best friend Chris to a girl, he devises a plot in order to save Chris from his doomed future and regain their life-long friendship.

(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Drew Mylrea; Writer: Drew Mylrea; Stars: Danielle Druz, Sean Jones, Grant Harrison, Ross Turner, Jim Cathcart) , Official site

Screening with When We Leave

The Secret Friend

A bond forms between a widow and silent caller who phones daily.

(Country: Brazil, US; Year: 2010; Director: Flavio Alves; Writer: Flavio Alves, João Silvério Trevisan; Stars: Siobhan Fallon, Viola Harris, Beau Hauser, Jerry Jaffe, Richard Scott, Melvin Shrebnick) , Official site

Screening with La Quattro Volte

Self Help

A lonely man attends a seminar by a motivational speaker in a bid to change his life.

(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: James Page; Writer: Kurt Brookes, James Page; Stars: Peter Glover, Chloe Mander, Amelia Tyler, Andrea Cobham, Daniel James Lucas)

Screening with Sailor

Silent Things

An autistic man and woman undergo a test of character and friendship when an impulsive teenage girl appears and comes between them.

(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Rob Brown; Writer: Rob Brown, Edward Jackson; Stars: Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Georgia Groome, Andrew Scott) , Official site

Screening with Point Blank

Stay

Live action and animated music video, featuring music by local band La La and the Boo Ya using archive footage of Bradford.

(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Lewis Hackett, Luke Hardist)

Bradford City of Film Shorts 2011

Swing

While enjoying a swing on the roof of the hospital, an elderly patient is reminded of the value of his life.

(Country: Taiwan; Year: 2010; Director: Yen-Ting Kuo; Writer: Yen-Ting Kuo; Stars: Alina Lessing, Justin Miller)

Screening with Seesaw

We Are What We Drink

Comedy looks at the challenge faced by a man as he tries to buy a cup of coffee.

(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Marc Hardman; Writer: Marc Hardman; Stars: Irena Aggrey, Kenneth Collard, Alexander Devrient, Sarah Hoare, Lydia Hourihan, Kirsty Neilson, Kirsty Osmon, Marcus Smith, Carole Symonds, Jerry Turner, Luca Zizzari)

Screening with Curling

When Life Gives You Lemons

Washed-up actor, Calvin Adams, enters into a lemonade stand street battle with the neighbourhood kids.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2010; Director: Lee Chambers; Writer: Lee Chambers, Christina Sharpe; Stars: Quayson Akaadom, Tony Gallo, Kierra Gionet, Basil Hoffman, Tia Lunn, Dave Steen) , Official site

Screening with Matching Jack

Wood Of Value

Review preview for Wood Of Value

Unfortunately, documentaries about interesting subjects are not intrinsically interesting.

Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
A documentary following a special Christmas tree on its journey across the North Sea from Norway to London.

(Country: Norway, UK; Year: 2010; Director: Bjorn Bratberg)

Full review

Screening with Dance To The Spirits