Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2012
Miscellaneous short films from around the world.
24 films · 24 reviews
The film has a magnetic quality - it is allegedly based on a true story, but its whimsy and execution put it in the realms of 'man in the pub' and 'shaggy dog'.
(Country: Slovakia; Year: 2011; Director: Jana Minarikova; Writer: Jana Minarikova)
This is genuinely funny, full of subtle characterisation and humorous moments.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: MJ Delaney; Writer: Tom Wells; Stars: Lewis Reeves, Thomas Turgoose, Georgie Glen)
It's compelling, haunting, meaningless - it's all projection, these juxtapositions, it's a kaleidoscope of noise and image, and yet, within it, pattern.
(Country: US; Year: 2004; Director: Abigail Child)
Lydia Adetunji's script is neatly structured, not only managing to imply that answers we're given aren't entirely the truth in both directions, but also creating an air of creeping fear.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Robert McKillop; Writer: Lydia Adetunji ; Stars: Lara Pulver, Ashley Walters)
Colour is fast, eye-catching, brilliant.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Lynsey Miller; Writer: Vivienne Franzmann; Stars: Leah Nathan, Michael Ajao, and MyAnna Buring )
This is an entertaining if occasionally anachronistic slice of silliness.
(Country: Greece; Year: 2011; Director: Rinio Dragasaki; Writer: Rinio Dragasaki; Stars: Avra Vordonaraki, Foteini Kontoudaki, Thanasis Dovris, Andreas Marianos, Kleio Papatzanaki-Hrysovergi, Yannis Tsortekis)
This is polyglot internationalism, verging on magical realism.
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2011; Director: Rafael Urban; Writer: Rafael Urban; Stars: Raghild Borgomanero)
Possessed of a compelling, folkloric intensity, Tom Chick's film is a morbid gem.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Tom P Chick; Writer: Tom P Chick; Stars: James Anthony Pearson, Tam Dean Burn, Holly Gilchrist, Holly Howden Gilchrist, Kathryn Howden, Anne Lacey)
Not without drama, not without charm, this is a touching little piece of rebellion and acceptance.
(Country: Croatia; Year: 2010; Director: Slobodan Karajlovic; Writer: Slobodan Karajlovic, Jelena Svilar; Stars: Nikola Crcek, Jelena Kordic, Ana Ljubicic, Frano Maskovic)
While technically accomplished, it's well-trodden territory, and there's a certain familiarity to it all.
(Country: Germany, US; Year: 2004; Director: Abigail Child)
This is a thing that is beautifully composed.
(Country: Italy, Lithuania; Year: 2012; Director: Gianluca Sodaro; Writer: Gianluca Sodaro; Stars: Franco Pistoni, Silvia Sodaro)
In this small and human drama there are the shadows of the idealism and tyranny of the assembly-line.
(Country: France; Year: 2011; Director: Thibault Le Texier; Stars: Todd Sells, Kate Moran)
This is a strong film, an indicator of the talent of both writer and director.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Luke McManus; Writer: James Phillips; Stars: Branko Djuric, Ingaborga Dapkunaite, Phoebe Fox, Stanley Townsend)
This is an autobiographical film about someone's love, and love is the right word, a love of film.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Mehrnaz Saeedvafa; Stars: Mehrnaz Saeedvafa, Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin)
A lovely piece of animated documentary, a touching portrait of a small moment in a family's formation.
(Country: Australia; Year: 2011; Director: Rowena Crowe)
The footage itself is of some interest but Py's narrative grates over the top.
(Year: 2011; Director: Olivier Py)
The Metamorphosis is brilliant, stunning, breath-taking.
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2012; Director: Yun Ki-nam)
It starts odd, and it gets weirder.
(Country: Netherlands, Hungary; Year: 2012; Director: Astrid Bussink)
Not just a little tragic, not just a little life-affirming, but touching, moving.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: David Stoddart; Writer: Laura Neal; Stars: Alex Lanipekun, Alice Sanders, Georgia Brown, Jordan Long, Russell Tovey)
There are some tremendous bits of effects work, but the olláparo is mostly contrived of suggestion.
(Country: Spain, US; Year: 2011; Director: Sonia Albert Sobrino, Miriam Albert Sobrino; Writer: Sonia Albert Sobrino, Miriam Albert Sobrino; Stars: Antonio Mourelos, Francisco Sobrino Ares, Julio Sobrino Barja)
This isn't a conventional life-affirming cancer narrative, this is angrier, more personal.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Tom Marshall; Writer: Laurence Wilson; Stars: Con O'Neill, Jo Hartley, Debra Stephenson, Jody Comer)
A simple tale, beautifully told.
(Country: Iran; Year: 2011; Director: Farahnaz Sharifi)
Stacey Gregg has crafted a script that neatly gives us characters and then exposes their flaws.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Prasanna Puwanarajah; Writer: Stacey Gregg; Stars: Ryan McParland, Yasmin Paige, Michael Smiley, Monica Dolan)
It's uncomfortable viewing, sometimes literally so, as pictures flash by with stroboscopic intensity, but more often than not the discomfiture is emotional.
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Abigail Child)
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