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A selection of bite-sized films from around the globe... a good place to spot the feature film directors of tomorrow.
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Harvester and Akbulak
28.IV.81 Bedouin Spark
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Christopher Harris)
Black Box Shorts 3: Phenomena In Flux
Experimental short.
3 Year Compression
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Kirsty Dootson)
Black Box Shorts 3: Phenomena In Flux
Showing as part of experimental showcase focussing on "creating new sensual experiences".
93 (100 Metros)
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2008; Director: Julián de Tavira; Writer: Julián de Tavira, based on the play Victoria Station by Harold Pinter; Stars: Rodrigo Vazquez, Hector Holden)
A cab driver and his dispatcher converse, but each seems to be keeping secrets.
Mexican Shorts
Albert’s Speech
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Richard Fenwick; Writer: Richard Fenwick; Stars: Nicholas Burns, Stuart Laing, Di Botcher, Steve Oram, Katie Lyons, Tim Healy), Official Site
A look at a best man's plight from the inside out.
McLaren Animation 2
Aanaatt
(Country: UK, Japan, Germany; Year: 2008; Director: Max Hattler)
International Animation 1
Futuristic stop-motion animation.
Junk and Together
Autumnal
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Scott Nyerges), Official Site
Abstract short considers life in flux.
Black Box Shorts 2: Materials and Materiality
Adha Cup
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Sarmad Masud; Writer: Sarmad Masud; Stars: Rez Kempton, Ace Bhatti, Balvinder Sopal, Jeff Mirza, Jas Steven Singh)
Two lazy social workers who reluctantly agree to reunite the cast of a legendary amateur Bollywood musical.
Coming Up Scheme
After Tomorrow
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Emma Sullivan)
UK Shorts 2
A guesthouse owner doesn't want James to leave...
Akbulak
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Tatiana Korol; Writer: Tatiana Korol; Stars: Janina Rudenska, Sergey Vidrashku, Milla Kaminskya)
Eight years after moving from Russia to Germany, 17-year-old Olja spends her summer holidays with her grandmother in a Russian village.
Trailblazing Shorts
All The House (Haditha Massacre)
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Caroline Koebel), Official Site
Screening with Nakba.
Consideration of the November 19, 2005 killing by US Marines of 24 unarmed civilians in Haditha, Iraq.
Full Employment and Pets In Pots
Along With The Phoenix
(Country: Russian Federation, Netherlands; Year: 2008; Director: Masha Godovannaya)
Black Box Shorts 2: Materials and Materiality
Experimental short.
Andheri
(Country: India, US; Year: 2008; Director: Sushrut Jain), Official Site
International Shorts 1: Trapped
The plight of a live-in maid in India.
Ant & Len
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Duncan Raitt, Jon Marsh; Writer: Jon Marsh, Duncan Raitt; Stars: Anthony Sparkes), Trailer
Short about a vanishing alien.
McLaren Animation 2
Apples And Oranges
(Year: 2008; Director: Magali Charrier; Writer: Trevor Williams; Stars: Simone James)
A woman is in love with two different men, but can't decide between them.
Apples & Oranges
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Magali Charrier)
Coming Up Scheme
Short drama.
Horsefingers 3: Starfucker and Foreign John
Aquarium
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Dhivya Kate Chetty, Martin Clark)
Screening with Follow The Master
The story of one family's trip to Durban Aquarium.
Arcadia
(Year: 2008; Director: D G Scott)
Bridging The Gap
Short subject.
Archive Of Dreams
(Country: UK, Italy; Year: 2008; Director: Tomás Sheridan)
GMAC Shorts
Documentary about one man's collection of memories on film. Winner of the Cameo Cinema's Jim Poole award.
At Home With The Jedi
(Year: 2008; Director: Richard Simpson), Official Site
Bridging The Gap
A domestic portrait of faith and family.
Bale
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Alastair Mackay; Writer: Alastair Mackay; Stars: Bradley Badder, Millen Gee, Ashley Vere, Michael Socha, Perry Fitzpatrick, Finn Atkins, Chanel Cresswell, Alan Ouwin)
On a long summer’s day in rural England, two groups of teenagers find a remote hide away where fun and games soon lose their innocence.
UKFC Completion Fund Shorts
Hungerford: Symphony Of A London Bridge and Apples And Oranges
Bits And Pieces
(Country: Jordan; Year: 2009; Director: Ben Mandell, Jackie Sawiris)
A look at the mosaic of modern day Jordan.
Document Shorts
The Black Dog's Progress
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Stephen Irwin; Writer: Stephen Irwin), Official Site
Flip books tell the disturbing story of the black dog.
McLaren Animation 2
Believe
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Paul Wright)
UK Shorts 2
A portrait of one man's grief and desperation following the death of his wife.
Betty Banned Sweets
(Country: New Zealand; Year: 2008; Director: Michelle Savill; Stars: Matt Scheurich, Lee Hutson, Sandra Jensen)
International Shorts 3: Teen Spirit
Sometimes the best party is the one you don't want.
The Big Mill
(Country: UK; Year: 1963; Director: Laurence Henson)
A Kind of Seeing
Documentary considering a steel mill.
Lucky Old Bag and The Chapel
Billy’s Balloon
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Don Hertzfeldt; Writer: Don Hertzfeldt), Official Site
An Evening with Don Hertzfeldt
Animated silent comedy about one boy and his balloon.
Boutonniere
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Coley Sohn; Writer: Coley Sohn), Official Site
International Shorts 2: Family Affairs
A dark comedy revolving around a simple teenage girl's attempts to survive her overbearing mother's exuberant plans for a prom she’d rather not attend.
By The Grace Of God
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Ralitza Petrova; Writer: Ralitza Petrova; Stars: Artur Arbrecht), Trailer
A blue-blooded German plots to meet the Queen, leading to a personal crisis.
Trailblazing Shorts
Capturing Space
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Erik Bostedt; Stars: James Dunnett, Sean O'Donnell, Lee Boland, Marcelle Douglas, Chris Paulsen)
A small mood-piece on Kensington's famous landmark - Trellick Tower
Trailblazing Shorts
Cattle Call
(Country: Canada; Year: 2008; Director: Matthew Rankin, Mike Maryniuk; Writer: Matthew Rankin, Mike Maryniuk)
Document Shorts
A high-speed animation film documenting the art of livestock auctioneering.
Kirran And The Hatchmaker and Bale
Color Film (Colour Film)
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Meghan O'Hara; Writer: Meghan O'Hara), Official Site
Exploring the relationship between colours and the words we use to describe them.
Document Shorts
The Chapel
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Ben Winter; Writer: Ben Winter; Stars: Alix Dunmore, James Cartwright), Official Site
Having found what appears to be a safe refuge in an old church, two strangers struggle to maintain an already fractured relationship.
UKFC Completion Fund Shorts
Chicory 'n' Coffee (Cikorja an' Kafe)
(Country: Slovenia; Year: 2008; Director: Dusan Kastelic), Official Site
International Animation 2
A peasant couple's lives... and a wife's deception.
Codswallop
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: The Brothers McLeod), Official Site
McLaren Animation 2
Based on a series of stream of consciousness postcards sent by the filmmaker to their son.
Colchique
(Country: France; Year: 2008; Director: Jean-Luc Greco, Catherine Buffat)
International Animation 1
Story about a little boy who lives with his mother Josette, his aunt Louise and a feisty dog, Colchique.
Autumnal and Pornography
The Conservatory
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Matilda Tristram)
McLaren Animation 1
What to do on a peaceful afternoon when you are upset but you don't know why.
Crescendo
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Rob Evans, Michael O'Sullivan; Writer: Rob Evans, Michael O'Sullivan)
An odd musical troupe for a farmer's wife
Trailblazing Shorts
Curtains
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Julian Barratt, Dan Jemmett)
UK Shorts 2
Story of a worn-out Punch and Judy man.
Down The Rabbit Hole
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Eva Pervolovici; Writer: Eva Pervolovici, Monica Stan; Stars: Ionana Blaj, Lari Giorgescu, Bogdan Dumitrescu, George Calin)
Romanian drug trafficking and young infatuation.
Trailblazing Shorts
Deux Regards
(Country: US, South Korea; Year: 2008; Director: Kangmin Kim)
Black Box Shorts 2: Materials and Materiality
Experimental film created by working directly on film strips.
Jacinta and Sweet Mother
Die Kinder im Mond (Moon Children)
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2008; Director: Ursula Ulmi)
Family Shorts Programme
Two kids sleeping on the moon wake up.
The Door
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2008; Director: Juanita Wilson)
International Shorts 2: Family Affairs
Based on the true story of a father and his young daughter in Eighties Russia.
Dropping Furniture
(Country: Austria; Year: 2008; Director: Harald Hund, Paul Horn)
Black Box Shorts 1: Space and Place
The film is, apparently, meant to symbolise the loss of existence.
Edinburgh On Parade
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Mark Littlewood)
A Kind of Seeing
A look at Scotland's International Festival.
The Elemental
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Robert Sproul-Cran; Writer: Robert Sproul-Cran; Stars: Tony Donaldson, Louise Ludgate, Hope Ross, Hamish Wilson, Tony Donaldson, Louise Ludgate, Hope Ross, Hamish Wilson), Official Site
An elderly couple are starving in a condemned tenement, trapped by their terror of a creature on the stair.
UKFC Completion Fund Shorts
By The Grace Of God and Raising Baby Rio
The Eighteenth Birthday Party
(Country: Taiwan; Year: 2008; Director: Chuang Ching-Shen)
International Shorts 3: Teen Spirit
A girl who lives alone with her father has a surprise for him on her 18th birthday.
Eiko
(Country: Austria; Year: 2008; Director: Christoph Kuschnig), Official Site
International Shorts 3: Teen Spirit
Alex, a laborer and trucker, has his day of reckoning when attractive 14-year-old Lili appears in his pickup truck.
Esterhazy
(Country: Germany, Poland; Year: 2009; Director: Izabela Plucinska; Writer: Irene Dische, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Anna Jadowska, Izabela Plucinska; Stars: Jolanta Fraszynska, Roma Gasiorowska, Krzysztof Kowalewski, Bohdan Lazuka, Maria Peszek, Maciej Stuhr, Borys Szyc, Robert Wieckiewicz, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Wiktor Zborowski)
International Animation 1
Short animation about a bunch of rabbits living in the Berlin Wall.
Everything Will Be Okay
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Don Hertzfeldt; Writer: Don Hertzfeldt; Stars: Don Hertzfeldt), Official Site
An Evening with Don Hertzfeldt
A mundane man suffers from horrifying mental trauma.
Exótica
(Country: Mozambique; Year: 2009; Director: Sergio Cruz)
Black Box Shorts 1: Space and Place
Snapshots of the lives and rituals of African culture, through contacts with the local dance and music community.
Crescendo and The Song Of The Dead Children
Eyes On The Street
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: David Newbigging; Writer: Gordon Mclean), Official Site
GMAC Shorts
Mockumentary about civil servants roles as wardens become the police.
The Face Of Scotland
(Country: UK; Year: 1938; Director: Basil Wright; Writer: Basil Wright; Stars: John Grierson)
A Kind of Seeing
A short history of Scotland and the character of its people.
Foreign John
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Victor Buhler; Writer: Sean Buckley; Stars: Johnny Harris, Claudie Blakley, Robert Luckay, Hannah Sharp, Glen Davies, Johnny Harris, Claudie Blakley, Robert Luckay, Hannah Sharp, Glen Davies), Official Site
A hardworking builder bonds with his foreman's daughter.
Coming Up Scheme
Full Employment (Arbeit für Alle)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2008; Director: Matthias Vogel, Thomas Oberlies; Writer: Thomas Oberlies, Matthias Vogel; Stars: Wilfried Elste, Mark Auerbach, Wolfgang Stegemann, Antje Rau, Martin Baden, Rainer Knepperges, Rainer Gerlach, Fred Yorgk, Andreas Merker, Stefan Bergel)
Short film about the future of employment.
Screening with Tony
Furnace Four
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Haydn Butler; Writer: Ali Muriel; Stars: Napoleon Ryan, Lee Ingleby)
Two furnace stokers are supposed to be burning all the music in the world. But some things just won't burn.
UKFC Completion Fund Shorts
The Black Dog's Progress and Bits And Pieces
Film- Landscape- People: An Exquisite Corpse
(Country: Canada; Year: 2008; Director: Angela Joosse, Marcia Connolly)
Black Box Shorts 2: Materials and Materiality
Experimental film.
Film Quartet / Polyframe
(Country: Spain; Year: 2008; Director: Antoni Pinent)
Black Box Shorts 2: Materials and Materiality
Experimental film using footage from early Hollywood films.
The Finger Trap
(Country: UK; Director: Julia McLean), Official Site
GMAC Shorts
Sometimes Charlie Wilson finds temptation is too hard to resist...
Five Miles Out
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Andrew Haigh; Writer: Andrew Haigh; Stars: Dakota Blue Richards, Thomas Malone)
Cinema Extreme
A few carefree days away from depressing thoughts at home are what
Mum has in mind. But at the beach Cass doesn’t feel in a very holiday-like
mood. She just wants to fall off the face of the earth.
Flux Terschelling
(Country: France; Year: 2008; Director: Camille & Manolo; Stars: Bez Manolo)
Black Box Shorts 1: Space and Place
Black and white study of horses on a beach.
Heaven (Fully Flared Intro Video Remix) and The Stressful Adventures Of Boxhead And Roundhead - Brothers In Arms
Friendly Fire
(Country: Germany; Year: 2008; Director: Andy Kaiser), Official Site
International Animation 2
A German soldier and French aviator find themselves in the same bomb crater in the First World War.
Fuera De Control
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2008; Director: Sofìa Carrillo; Writer: Sofìa Carrillo)
Screening with The Fish Child
Various personalities share feelings of solitude inside a labyrinthine house.
George
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Luke Fowler)
Black Box Shorts 2: Materials and Materiality
Artist's response to the digital revolution.
Ghost Story
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2008; Director: Willie Doherty)
Spooky goings on in a country lane as a narrator recalls ghosts from the past.
Goodbye Mr Pink
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Helen Piercy), Official Site
McLaren Animation 1
Stop motion animation considering what happens when a rabbit dies...
Roma and Paraphernalia
The Greatest Moment in the History of the Universe...Ever!
(Country: Australia; Year: 2008; Director: Jonathan Dower)
Family Shorts Programme
A young girl describes the moments leading up to her birth.
The Great Flood
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Marcelo DeOliveira)
Documentary.
The Happiness Salesman
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Krishnendu Majumdar; Stars: Christopher Eccleston), Official Site
UK Shorts 1
A door-to-door salesman offers a mum an opportunity to change her life.
The Happy Duckling
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Gili Dolev), Official Site
McLaren Animation 2
Award-winning animation about a boy and a duck, pop-up-book style.
The Heart Of Amos Klein
(Country: Israel, France, Holland; Year: 2008; Director: Michal Kranot, Uri Kranot)
International Animation 2
During open heart surgery, senior army officer Amos Klein returns to significant events in his life that correspond to key moments in Israeli history.
Down The Rabbit Hole and Color Film
here and there
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Roger Deutsch), Official Site
Black Box Shorts 1: Space and Place
Experimental film created by film shot by the filmmaker and his father.
The Hardest Part
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Oliver Refson; Stars: Nickolas Grace, Stephen Wight)
An ageing actor finally secures the audition of a lifetime. But just how badly does he want the role?
Harvest
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Alex Winckler; Writer: Richard Bean; Stars: Andrew Tiernan, Michael Socha, Sam Kelley, June Watson, Ryan Kygill)
Two thieves break into a farm, but they're not alone.
Coming Up Scheme
Harvester
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Nicholas Hampshire)
A fruit collector sparks the wrath of a forest.
McLaren Animation 2
Heaven (Fully Flared Intro Video Remix)
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Spike Jonze, Ty Evans)
Skateboarding inflected pop video.
Adha Cup and Songs For My Mother
Hungerford: Symphony Of A London Bridge
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Alex Barrett)
An abstract journey over the bridge.
Black Box Shorts 1: Space and Place
Holy Woods
(Country: France; Year: 2008; Director: Cecile Fontaine), Official Site
Black Box Shorts 2: Materials and Materiality
Experimental film, examines a woman, insects and loggers in a wood.
Homecoming
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Zak Hanif)
GMAC Shorts
Exploring the nature of power and conflict within the traditional Asian family.
Horn Dog
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Bill Plympton), Official Site
A lonely pooch falls victim to a bad case of puppy love.
Horsefingers 3: Starfucker
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Kirsten Kearse), Official Site
A young woman dresses up to please her lover - in unusual ways.
Slaves and Toy
Horse Camp
(Country: Austria; Year: 2008; Director: Ella Gallieni), Official Site
Black and white examination of a film studio.
Interview With The Earth (Entrevista con la Tierra)
(Country: Mexico, Canada; Year: 2008; Director: Nicolás Pereda; Writer: Nicolás Pereda)
Documenting how people in a Mexican Indian village cope with death.
Mexican Shorts
In Girum (Round And Round)
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Nick Cope)
Fourth in a series of short film collaborations between electroacoustic composer Dr Tim Howle and the filmmaker.
Black Box Shorts 3: Phenomena In Flux
Infamy
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Hassan Said)
Experimental short about the events of 9/11.
Intermission In The Third Dimension
(Country: US; Year: 2003; Director: Don Hertzfeldt; Writer: Don Hertzfeldt; Stars: Don Hertzfeldt), Official Site
An Evening with Don Hertzfeldt
Part of a trilogy of hand-drawn films.
The Reason I Collect and The Hardest Part
Inukshuk
(Country: France; Year: 2008; Director: Camillelvis Théry)
International Animation 1
On the last polar day, up on the howling ice a little Inuk man and a mischievous bear see their white world metamorphosed into a huge whale ocean of darkness.
In Suspension
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Samantha Rebello)
Black Box Shorts 3: Phenomena In Flux
Experimental, abstract film.
In Transit
(Country: Austria, Afghanistan; Year: 2008; Director: Lida Abdul), Official Site
Children play amid the relics of war on the outskirts of Kabul.
Iris Out
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Simon Payne), Official Site
Black Box Shorts 3: Phenomena In Flux
Experimental film composed of single frames from sequences of expanding and contracting irises, reformatted for different aspect ratios.
Iveta
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Dominika Švecová)
Scottish Short Documentary Award Screening
Documentary.
This Way Up and Albert’s Speech
I Am So Proud of You
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Don Hertzfeldt; Writer: Don Hertzfeldt; Stars: Don Hertzfeldt), Official Site
An Evening with Don Hertzfeldt
Dark family secrets cast a shadow over Bill's recovery; in this second chapter to Don Hertzfeldt's Everything Will be OK. (Winner of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Grand Jury Prize, US).
I Know Where I’m Going
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Ben Rivers)
Black Box Shorts 1: Space and Place
Visiting Yorkshire bee keepers, Britain’s self-declared king of the eccentrics and a hermit-like forest clearer might not
be the most obvious people to seek out on a road trip across the UK... but the director and artist focuses on them.
Jade
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Daniel Elliott; Writer: Daniel Elliott; Stars: Aisling Loftus, Jonathan Phillips, Michael Socha)
UK Shorts 1
Jade is pregnant. She has to make a decision. Which path will she take?
Jacinta
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2008; Director: Karla Castañeda; Writer: Karla Castañeda)
Animation sees an old lady embroidering her destiny.
Mexican Shorts
Junk
(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Kirk Hendry; Writer: Kirk Hendry), Official Site
What happens when an obssession with junk food goes too far...
Round and Light Of Darkness
K (Exil)
(Country: France; Year: 2008; Director: Frederique Devaux)
Black Box Shorts 2: Materials and Materiality
Experimental film, sees women and children stay at home while the men go into exile.
Keel
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Ian Cottage; Writer: Ian Cottage), Official Site
UK Shorts 2
A holidaying father and daughter encounter a girl intent on becoming friends - no matter what the consequences. Features work by Sundance award-winning cinematographer Lol Crawley.
A Kind of Seeing
(Country: UK; Year: 1967; Director: Edward McConnell)
A Kind of Seeing
Archive short detailing the Scottish landscape.
Kirran And The Hatchmaker
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Amy Rose)
Documentary about a boy trying to create a new breed of chicken.
Scottish Short Documentary Award Screening
Laitue
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Nicholas Brooks)
McLaren Animation 1
A hand-drawn animation film that describes a short journey of loss and
reunification.
Parliamo Glasgow and Ant & Len
Laws Of Physics
(Country: Austria; Year: 2008; Director: Michael Palm)
Black Box Shorts 3: Phenomena In Flux
Experimental film involving funnels and a very long zoom.
The Legend Of The Bat
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Lucia Morgan), Official Site
Family Shorts Programme
Animated adaptation of a Mexican legend, sees pride come before a fall for one little bat
Lessons From The Night
(Country: Australia; Year: 2009; Director: Adrian Francis; Writer: Adrian Francis)
A cleaner reflects on life.
Document Shorts
Lies (Lögner)
(Country: Sweden; Year: 200; Director: Jonas Odell), Official Site
International Animation 2
The animator uses different techniques to explore the nature of mendacity.
Lions
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Steve Warne, Julian Krubasik)
McLaren Animation 2
Animation... which we presume involves the big cats (but we can't find any info on this films, so we may be wrong).
Interview With The Earth and Orange Bombs
Little Canyon
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Olivia Silver)
International Shorts 2: Family Affairs
Greta's dad is moving the family cross-country. Promising a California paradise he packs half the household into a dented station wagon. All that’s missing is Mom.
Little Face
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Matthew Walker, Ben Lole), Official Site
McLaren Animation 2
Having missed his train Nathan decides to pass the next two hours with some coffee and a crossword. If only had decided not to sit by the window.
Little Red Hoodie
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Jørn Utkilen; Writer: Jørn Utkilen; Stars: Kazmin Borrer, Noel Boyd, Giselle Hammond, Kezia Doran, Nicola Jo Cully), Official Site
UK Shorts 2
Grim twist on Red Riding Hood.
Light Of Darkness (La Luz De La Oscuridad)
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2008; Director: Gabriela Retes; Writer: Juan José Goldaracena, Gabriela Retes; Stars: Andrés Almeida, Alexandra De La Mora, Ángel Flores Torres, Veronica Toussaint, Andrés Almeida, Alexandra De La Mora, Ángel Flores Torres, Veronica Toussaint)
A get-together takes an unexpected turn after a power cut.
Mexican Shorts
Looking Back
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Emile Bokaer; Writer: Emile Bokaer; Stars: Albert Lewis), Official Site
Documentary about a man struggling to come to terms with memories of war and his addictions in a community of homeless veterans
Document Shorts
Furnace Four and Looking Back
Lucky Old Bag
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Thomas Stark Holland; Writer: Thomas Stark Holland; Stars: Paddy Glynn, Nigel Richards, Victoria Gillmon, Ben Nealon), Official Site
A penny proves a lucky charm for a woman down on her luck.
Family Shorts Programme
Lorraine
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Julius Amedume; Stars: Lisa Diveney, Katie Borland, Amy McAllister, Gregg Lowe, Michelle Whitney, Hannah Wood, Phoebe Mcintosh, Howard Corlett)
Screening with Salvage
A new girl at school faces peer pressure to join a gang.
Love Hate
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Blake and Dylan Ritson; Stars: Ben Wishaw, Hayley Atwell, Hattie Morahan)
UK Shorts 1
A charity worker faces trouble when he falls for a mysterious woman.
Lowland Fell
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2008; Director: Michael Kinirons, Elaine Harrington; Stars: Jane McGrath, Robbie Sheehan, Michael Winder, Conor Horgan)
International Shorts 3: Teen Spirit
A bored teen's journey off the beaten track leads to an unforgettable encounter with two brothers.
Magellan
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Sebastian Davis), Official Site, Trailer
Family Shorts Programme
Story of a seventh-grade outcast and his relationship with a latch-key classmate... which comes under threat when he tries to pluck up courage to ask her to the Spring Dance.
Lessons From The Night and Harvest
Making It
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Lou McLoughlan)
Scottish Short Documentary Award Screening
A record of the National Galleries Education Outreach Project accompanying the exhibition 'Tracey Emin: 20 Years' at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, August 2 to November 9 2008.
The Man And The Woman
(Country: Russian Federation; Year: 2008; Director: Maria Mouat; Writer: Maria Mouat, based on the story Old World Landowners by Nikolay Gogol)
International Animation 2
Animation about the touching relationship between a man and a woman.
The Man Inside
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2008; Director: Rory Bresnihan)
International Shorts 1: Trapped
A man becomes trapped in an apartment.
The Meaning Of Life
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Don Hertzfeldt; Writer: Don Hertzfeldt; Stars: Don Hertzfeldt, Jennifer Nyholm, Sara Cushman, Karin Anger, June Shields, Kenneth Cook, Noah Harpster, Robert May, Kinsey Packard, Nicole Gabriella Scipione), Official Site
An Evening with Don Hertzfeldt
Evolution on Earth over the course of a billion years.
Mexico
(Country: Israel; Year: 2008; Director: Olga Sitovotsky)
International Shorts 2: Family Affairs
A middle-aged woman's fears fuel her daughter's anxieties, but will a cry for help end their estrangement?
Standby and Capturing Space
Miracle Fish
(Country: Australia; Year: 2008; Director: Luke Doolan)
International Shorts 1: Trapped
A young outcast finds solitude in a fantasy world only to be brought back to reality when faced with a psychotic man.
Mondrian Sprockets
(Country: Mexico, Australia; Year: 2007; Director: Steven Andrew McIntyre)
Black Box Shorts 2: Materials and Materiality
Unusual filmmaking, directly printing the image using stencil art.
Monsters and Rabbits
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Nicky Lianos; Writer: David Lemon; Stars: James Bachman, Sophie Hattersly, Tyler Kennington, Alice Lowe)
Family Shorts Programme
A short children's film about monsters and imaginary friends.
Motion/Static
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Peter Gerard), Official Site
Bridging The Gap
Documenting the lives and culture of Glasgow’s traveller community as they move away from a dependence on travelling with funfairs.
Mustek Metra
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Tim Sidell)
Black Box Shorts 2: Materials and Materiality
Our google-fu isn't up to much - more on this one later.
Reach and Without You
Mutt
(Country: Australia; Year: 2008; Director: Glen Hunwick; Writer: Glen Hunwick; Stars: Mac, Matilda, Mutt)
International Animation 1
A farmer, a dog and a cow on a tiny farm.
Netherland Dwarf
(Country: Australia; Year: 2008; Director: David Michôd; Writer: David Michôd; Stars: Jack Egan, Ewen Leslie, Mirrah Foulkes, Justin Rosniak)
International Shorts 2: Family Affairs
Harry really wants a rabbit. Harry's dad really wants his wife back. And somehow in the middle of all this wanting, they both seem to have forgotten that they already have each other.
Nicolas & Guillemette
(Country: France; Year: 2009; Director: Virginie Taravel), Official Site
International Animation 2
In a toy shop, a string musician, decides make a friend... but things don't turn out as expected.
Night Mail
(Country: UK; Year: 1936; Director: Harry Watt, Basil Wright; Writer: W.H. Auden; Stars: John Grierson, Stuart Legg)
A short examination of the postal service as it existed in 1936.
Night School
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Ben Soper; Writer: Ben Soper; Stars: Will Anatsui, Tess Mitchell)
GMAC Shorts
Sex comedy about a young couple who break into an abandoned school for some illicit fun.
Photograph Of Jesus and You’re The Stranger Here
night side
(Country: USA; Year: 2008; Director: Rebecca Meyers)
Black Box Shorts 1: Space and Place
A side of the universe turned away from the sun.
La Nostalgia del Sr. Alambre (Mr. Wire's Nostalgia)
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2009; Director: Jonathan Ostos Yaber; Writer: Jonathan Ostos Yaber; Stars: Moisés Palacios)
International Animation 2
A puppeteer looks back on his life and the joys he has given.
No Point Climbing Down
(Country: UK, Germany; Director: Julian Schwanitz)
Scottish Short Documentary Award Screening
Last year's director of Niddrie Bricks returns with a new documentary.
On Time Off
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Bill Porter; Writer: Bill Porter)
McLaren Animation 2
Minimalist animation about a trip to the beach.
Orange Bombs
(Country: Iran; Year: 2008; Director: Majed Neisi; Writer: Majed Neisi)
Husband and wife orange farmers deal with cluster bombs in the aftermath of the 33-day War Israel waged against Hezbollah.
Document Shorts
Salem Al Fakir - Astronaut and 93
The Owl House
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Jessica Cope)
McLaren Animation 1
An old lady comes to terms with her final moments.
Papal Broken-Dance
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Marie Losier; Writer: Marie Losier)
Black Box Shorts 1: Space and Place
Slapstick musical in a boxing ring.
Parallax
(Country: Canada, France, Yemen, Bangladesh; Director: Christopher Becks), Official Site
Black Box Shorts 1: Space and Place
Experimental 16mm silent short
Parliamo Glasgow
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Hope Dickson Leach; Writer: Stewart Thomson; Stars: Edyta Budnik, Anne Downie, James Grant, Lisa Greenwood, Natalia Kaczmarczyk, Kimberly Neill, Jamie Quinn, Kevin Quinn, Anna Wendzikowska)
Coming to grips with the Glaswegian dialect...?
Coming Up Scheme
Peter In Radioland
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Johanna Wagner)
Bridging The Gap
Observational documentary about the filmmaker's father and his love of analogue technology.
In Girum and The Elemental
Pets In Pots (Vogel op Sterk Water)
(Country: The Netherlands; Year: 2008; Director: Simonka de Jong)
A girl whose parents have divorced finds solace with her pets... even the ones in formaldehyde.
Document Shorts
Phantogram
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Kerry Laitala)
Black Box Shorts 2: Materials and Materiality
Experimental shimmering on celluloid.
Postalolio
(Country: Canada; Director: Marv Newland)
International Animation 1
Pen and paper animation - all on postcards - each one was sent through the post before being animated.
Paraphernalia
(Year: 2009; Director: John Williams; Writer: John Williams; Stars: Elijah Muhammad, Nieema Muhammad, Alisha Muhammad, Kaylan Jeffrey)
Atari struggles with his useless robot, but his real struggle is more complex.
Photograph Of Jesus
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Laurie Hill; Stars: Matthew Butson, David Hayles)
Documentary focusing on the bizarre requests by the Getty Images picture archive.
McLaren Animation 1
Rejected and Dropping Furniture
Pornography
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Jo McInnes; Writer: Simon Stephens; Stars: Jason Hughes, Kirsty Bushell)
A brother and sister experience crises together.
Coming Up Scheme
Princess Margaret Blvd.
(Country: Canada; Year: 2008; Director: Kazik Radwanski; Writer: Kazik Radwanski; Stars: Tim Braddock, William Forrest, Declan McCarthy, Julie McCarthy, Gina Sylvester), Official Site
International Shorts 1: Trapped
Isabelle Rodarte is out in the snow, looking for her house. The beginning is
the middle is the beginning.
Rabbit Punch
(Country: UK ; Year: 2008; Director: Kristian Andrews)
McLaren Animation 1
The growing pains of a 14-year-old Norfolk boy.
Rejected
(Country: USA; Year: 2000; Director: Don Hertzfeldt; Writer: Don Hertzfeldt; Stars: Robert May, Don Hertzfeldt, Jennifer Nyholm)
An Evening with Don Hertzfeldt
Rejected surreal vignettes & the animator suffers a nervous breakdown.
Replayground
(Country: USA; Director: Anna Gaskell)
Family Shorts Programme
Child friendly photo and video gallery.
Netherland Dwarf and The Shutdown
Rose Street
(Country: UK; Year: 1956; Director: Margaret Tait), Official Site
A Kind of Seeing
Archive portrait of the Edinburgh street.
Raising Baby Rio
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: O Nathapon Wongtreenatrkoon; Writer: Dewi Bruce-Konuah; Stars: Nathaniel Martello-White, Ashley Madekwe, Kacey Parker Gordon)
A boy tries to take back his child from its crack-addicted mother in this part of Channel 4's Coming Up Scheme.
Coming Up Scheme
Reach
(Country: Australia; Year: 2009; Director: Luke Randall; Writer: Luke Randall), Official Site
A robot given the gift of life has just one limitation... the length of his cable.
International Animation 1
The Reason I Collect
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Emma Curtis; Stars: Paul Escott)
Animation about a compulsive collector.
McLaren Animation 1
Roma
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2008; Director: Elisa Miller; Writer: Elisa Miller; Stars: Marcela Cuevas, Jaime Estrada)
A woman heads north, trying to avoid the authorities by hiding out at a soap factory.
Mexican Shorts
Sunroof (Benazir Bhutto Assassination) and here and there
Round
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Kirk Hendry; Stars: Mago Serpico), Official Site
Man’s place in the history of the Earth, told through hand shadow performance.
McLaren Animation 2
Sad Lexicon
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: James Cole)
Black Box Shorts 2: Materials and Materiality
Experimental film examining the nature of film.
Saltmark
(Country: UK; Director: Robin Haig), Official Site
GMAC Shorts
A teenager is forced to visit her granddad and an outing forces her to make a choice...
Screen Test
(Country: Germany; Year: 2004; Director: Steffen Schaeffler)
International Animation 2
Animation sees a passionate amateur audition for a costume drama.
Serenade
(Country: China, US; Year: 2009; Director: Ruowen Yan)
International Shorts 1: Trapped
Fate and music form a connection between two very different people.
Keel and Little Canyon
Shadows & Dust (Shadows And Dust)
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Jon Dunleavy), Official Site
McLaren Animation 1
Trouble brews when a little girl follows a tooth fairy into the forest.
Short Term 12
(Country: USA; Year: 2008; Director: Destin Daniel Cretton; Writer: Destin Daniel Cretton; Stars: Brad William Henke, Tania Verafield, Phoenix Henke, LaKeith Stanfield, James Hansen, Adam Shapiro, Katelin Chesna Henke, Whitney Ball, Andy Bonilla, Jared Callahan)
International Shorts 3: Teen Spirit
A film about kids and the grown-ups who hit them.
The Shutdown
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Adam Stafford), Official Site
Scottish Short Documentary Award Screening
Alan Bissett recalls the intense experience of growing up next to one of Europe's largest petrochemical plants and the harrowing experience of an explosion that deformed his father.
Simultaneous Contrast
(Country: US, Canada; Year: 2007; Director: Chris Kennedy)
Black Box Shorts 1: Space and Place
Experimental film, which may well be silent, showing in showcase of films concerned with the nature of space.
Sine Die
(Country: UK; Year: 1994; Director: Matt Hulse), Official Site
Screening with Follow The Master
Time-lapse dance by the seashore.
Why I Don’t Speak Serbian (in Serbian) and Esterhazy
Slaves (Slavar)
(Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark; Year: 2008; Director: David Aronowitsch, Hanna Heilborn)
Animated documentary sees two Sudanese children recall time they spent as slaves.
Document Shorts
Small House (Väike Maja)
(Country: Estonia; Year: 6; Director: Kristjan Holm)
International Animation 2
Animation about what comes to mind when you're almost asleep.
The Sound Of Crickets
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Justin Chouinard)
Black Box Shorts 2: Materials and Materiality
We've failed in our hunt for info on this, but the showcase it screens in is concerned with "exploring the physical properties of the filmstrip".
The Space You Leave
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Theresa von Eltz; Writer: Theresa von Eltz; Stars: Kit Jackson, Robbie Jarvis, Carla Juri, Daniel Unwin)
Bridging The Gap
A teenager visiting Sicily befriends a stranger but experiences painful memories when visiting local ruins.
Sphinx On The Seine
(Country: US, Russian Federation; Year: 2008; Director: Paul Clipson)
Black Box Shorts 3: Phenomena In Flux
A Super 8 film poem.
Horn Dog and Miracle Fish
Sporran Makers
(Country: UK; Director: Jane McAllister)
Bridging The Gap
Documentary about the Scottish national dress.
Salem Al Fakir - Astronaut
(Country: UK, Sweden; Year: 2008; Director: Anders Jedenfors, Jamie Stone)
Kubrick-inspired animated pop video.
McLaren Animation 1
Songs For My Mother
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Jane Wilson, Louise Wilson; Writer: Jane Wilson, Louise Wilson; Stars: Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Teresza Srbova, Johanna ter Steege, Kate Cook, Corinne Furmann)
A filmic response to the still photograph archive of Stanley Kubrick.
Cinema Extreme
The Song Of The Dead Children (La Cancion De Los Ninos Muertos)
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2008; Director: David Pablos; Writer: David Pablos; Stars: Sebastián Aguirre, Rodrigo Azuela, Daniel Corkidi, Ana Elena Kelly, José Martínez, Rubén Pablos)
A group of siblings respond to a family tragedy by rejecting adult authority and exercising their own brutal form of justice.
Screening with Surrogate
The Stressful Adventures Of Boxhead And Roundhead - Brothers In Arms
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Elliot Cowan; Writer: Elliot Cowan), Official Site
The peace and quiet of B and R is shattered by the advent of war.
International Animation 2
Lowland Fell and Shadows & Dust
Sweet Mother
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Momodou Musa Touray; Writer: Duane Wharton; Stars: Ewan Alman, Judd Batchelor, Bashir Bazanye, Jamaal Chipmunk Fyffe)
A story about a black family in a violent city
Trailblazing Shorts
Standby
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2008; Director: Mischa Hedinger), Official Site
Customers tell the filmmaker personal stories in a very public place.
Document Shorts
Stan And Ollie
(Country: UK; Year: 1932; Director: Alan J Harper)
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy sightseeing in Edinburgh in 1932.
The Stars Don't Twinkle In Outer Space
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Peter Thwaites), Official Site
UK Shorts 2
Space adventure sees two children, 'Starman' and 'The Princess', struggle to escape their doom.
Still In Cosmos
(Country: Japan; Year: 2008; Director: Makino Takashi), Official Site
Black Box Shorts 3: Phenomena In Flux
Experimental film about chaos and the cosmos.
On Time Off and night side
Stroboscopic Noise
(Country: Austria; Director: Manuel Knapp)
Black Box Shorts 3: Phenomena In Flux
Animation and abstract painting go to form this experimental short.
Sunroof (Benazir Bhutto Assassination)
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Caroline Koebel), Official Site
Screening with Nakba
Examination of the assassination of the former Pakistani Prime Minister.
The Surprise Demise Of Francis Cooper’s Mother
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Felix Massie; Stars: Narrated by Alexei Sayle), Official Site
McLaren Animation 1
The story of Francis Cooper and his mother; Emily Maddison and that man's face; and Craig MacKay and his cat.
Terrafarmer
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Will Adams; Writer: Will Adams)
McLaren Animation 2
An astronaut tries to terraform a hostile planet with the help of a malfunctioning robot.
Tilt
(Country: Austria; Year: 2008; Director: Billy Roisz)
Black Box Shorts 3: Phenomena In Flux
Abstract animated short film about the synchronicity of artificial processes.
The Yellow Bird and Short Term 12
Today Only
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Toby Jackman; Writer: Mahalia Rimmer)
McLaren Animation 1
A cat may have nine lives - but how many different lives can a cat live today?
A Traditional Christmas at Small Birds Singing
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Linda McCarthy)
McLaren Animation 2
Join the Unbelievable family – Spandisman, Consommé and Delphinium – for this darkly festive look at Christmas.
Trampoline
(Country: Australia; Year: 2008; Director: Miranda Nation; Writer: Miranda Nation; Stars: Virginia Cashmere, Kira Coghlan, Ming-Zhu Hii, Kat Stewart)
Family Shorts Programme
Story of a little girl who wants to fly.
Transgress
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Leanne Welham; Writer: Leanne Welham; Stars: Silas Carson, Kathryn Sumner)
UK Shorts 1
Driving home one night in London, a woman accidentally hits a man who shouldn't be there.
This Way Up
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Adam Foulkes, Alan Smith), Official Site
Laying the dead to rest has never been so much trouble.
McLaren Animation 2
Boutonniere and Transgress
Together
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Eicke Bettinga; Writer: Eicke Bettinga, Zorana Piggott; Stars: Matt Smith, Guy Flanagan, Amanda Boxer), Official Site
A man whose brother died the previous year tries to help his father to cope.
UKFC Completion Fund Shorts
Toy
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: David Bell; Writer: David Bell)
A toy reveals unexpected powers.
Trailblazing Shorts
Unravel
(Country: Australia; Year: 2008; Director: Caroline Huf)
International Animation 1
Experimental stop-motion animation.
Variations Sur Marilou
(Country: Canada, France; Year: 2008; Director: Félix Dufour-Laperrière), Official Site
International Animation 1
Chirascuro sketches of a naked woman accompany the observations of a man consumed by desire.
Vita
(Country: Germany; Year: 2008; Director: Gabriele Schwark), Official Site
Screening with Nakba
Experimental film considering the life of a woman and world events.
Papal Broken-Dance and The Stars Don't Twinkle In Outer Space
Western Spaghetti
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: PES)
International Animation 1
Everyday objects become delicious ingredients as we learn how to cook spaghetti through stop-motion.
Why I Don’t Speak Serbian (in Serbian) (zasto ne govorim srpski (na srpskom))
(Country: UK, Kosovo; Year: 2008; Director: Phil Collins)
Screening with Goodbye, How Are You?
Set in the political turmoil in Kosovo Collins records testimonies from politicians, public figures and ordinary people - recounting in Serbo-Croat the reasons why they no longer speak the language.
Without You
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Tal Rosner), Official Site
Exploration of London's industrial suburbia.
McLaren Animation 2
Yellow Belly End
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Philip Bacon)
McLaren Animation 1
An enormous cliff top, blue sky, multiple deaths and a man keeping a meticulous note of it all.
The Yellow Bird
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Tom Schroeder; Writer: Jay Orff)
International Animation 1
The animated journey of a young man fleeing the draft during the First World War. After taking a job on a cattle ranch in eastern Montana an accident occurs causing him to reflect back on his life as he seeks medical attention in a nearby town.
Western Spaghetti and All The House (Haditha Massacre)
The Yowie and the Magpie
(Country: UK ; Year: 2008; Director: Dylan White)
McLaren Animation 2
A darkly comic animation set in the Australian outback of a bloodthirsty hunter and his mythical quarry.
You’re The Stranger Here
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Tom Geens; Writer: Tom Geens; Stars: Kate Cook, Anthony Smee, Ella Peel), Official Site
Margot has a crazy leg. She lives in a fascist regime where they shoot people with crazy legs.
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59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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