Eye For Film >> Festivals >> EIFF >> 2013 >> Animation
The shorts are split into the programmes are listed below. Those that are in competition for the inaugural shorts award are marked accordingly. Which programme a short falls into is listed in itallics.
- International Animation: Narrative - Short stories from around the world.
- International Animiation: Overture - Musically motivated short animated films.
- McLaren Animation 1 and McLaren Animation 2 - Films in competition for the 24th McLaren Animation award - voted for by you, the audience.
- Richard Williams: 80 Animated Years Celebration of the award-winning animator's work to celebrate his 80th birthday. Williams will be in attendance.
View other Edinburgh International Film Festival Films by strand: American Dreams, Black Box, Directors' Showcase, Fantastic Voyages: The Films of Richard Fleischer, Films on Film, Focus on Korea, Focus on Sweden, Galas, International Feature Film Competition, Michael Powell Award Competition, New Realities, Night Moves, Not Another Teen Movie, Shorts, Special Screenings, Symphonies Of Life: The Films Of Jean Grémillon, World Perspectives
Monsters University and Fear Of Flying
Bydlo
(Country: Canada; Year: 2012; Director: Patrick Bouchard; Writer: Cynthia Tremblay)
International Animation: Overture
Inspired by the forth movement of Mussorgsky's Pictures in an Exhibition.
Christmas Carol
(Country: US; Year: 1971; Director: Richard Williams; Writer: Charles Dickens; Stars: Alastair Sim, Michael Redgrave, Michael Hordern, Diana Quick, Joan Sims, Paul Whitsun-Jones, David Tate, Felix Felton, Annie West, Melvyn Hayes, Mary Ellen Ray, Alexander Williams)
Richard Williams: 80 Animated Years
Animated version of the Dickens classic about a man who is haunted by ghosts on Christmas Eve.
Circus Drawings
(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Richard Williams)
Richard Williams: 80 Animated Years
This short personal film, inspired by Williams’ drawings of a small Spanish circus, began production in 1953 and was completed in 2010.
Elysian Fields
(Country: Singapore; Year: 2013; Director: Ina Conradi Chavez), Official Site, Trailer
International Animation: Narrative
Expanding upon an exploration of the Second World War, Elysian Fields fuses fantastical and historical into a surreal reconfiguration of the present.
Everything I Can See From Here
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Bjorn-Erik Aschim, Sam Taylor)
McLaren Animation 1.
A game of football turns deadly as an uninvited player joins in.
Fear Of Flying
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2012; Director: Conor Finnegan; Writer: Conor Ferguson, Conor Finnegan; Stars: Mark Doherty, Aoife Duffin)
A bird with a fear of flying dreads the forthcoming winter migration.
International Animation: Narrative
First Light
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Wing Yan Lilian Fu; Writer: Akshay Singh), Official Site
McLaren Animation 1.
When Daniela opens her door one evening to find her home gone, she takes a journey that changes her view of her city forever.
Fuga
(Country: Spain; Year: 2012; Director: Juan Antonio Espigares), Trailer
International Animation: Overture
Sara will discover that there are more ways of interpreting each side of the lens through which perceive her reality and talent.
The Gravedigger's Tale
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Min Young Oh; Writer: Maurice Caldera; Stars: Duncan Roberts), Official Site
McLaren Animation 1.
The gravedigger leads a solitary existence, so far from the living, yet so close to the dead. This is her story. A love story.
Happily Ever After
(Country: Israel; Year: 2012; Director: Yonni Aroussi, Ben Genislaw; Writer: Yonni Aroussi, Ben Genislaw, Omri Givon)
International Animation: Narrative
Two young and in love puppets, move in together for the first time prompting a crazy journey of the couple's life together.
Hart's Desire
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Gavin C Robinson)
McLaren Animation 2. In competition
The story of an aspiring hermit, an aspiring socialite, and a shared flask of tea.
Here and the Great Elsewhere (Le grand ailleurs et le petit ici)
(Country: Canada; Year: 2012; Director: Michèle Lemieux; Writer: Michèle Lemieux; Stars: Louis Champagne)
International Animation: Overture
Lost in a reverie, a man reels with sudden, piercing awareness of his own state of being.
The House With No Doors
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Oana Nechifor)
McLaren Animation 1. In competition
Jon's routine life between his dull room and an imaginary shadow world. So fresh from Edinburgh College of Art you can smell the paint.
The Hungry Corpse
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Gergely Wootsch; Writer: James Pout; Stars: Bill Nighy, Stephen Mangan), Official Site, Trailer
McLaren Animation 2. In competition
In London’s bustling, yet desolate Trafalgar Square, an ancient, rather hungry corpse meets a pigeon.
In Sight
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: http://alexandrunechifor.com/)
McLaren Animation 1.
An introverted observer tries to attain spiritual intimacy with the people that pass by him.
In the Air Is Christopher Gray
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Stars: Andy London, Peter Ahern, Justin Cassano, Carolyn London, Ian Miller and Erica Perez.), Official Site, Trailer
McLaren Animation 1. In competition
Christopher Gray has been in love with Stacey for quite some time, and no amount of lemonade can cool his desire. Meanwhile, Barry Flint has just bought his son a five-foot python from the pet store.
I Love You So Hard (Chocolate Covered Almond)
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Ross Butter)
McLaren Animation 1. In competition
A bizarre and terrifying fantasy seduction featuring a mid-air battle with a rhinoceros.
The Kiosk
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2013; Director: Anete Melece; Writer: Anete Melece; Stars: Hans Ruchti, Anette Herbst)
International Animation: Narrative
People come to Olga for newspapers, lottery tickets, advice, hope or just a smile.
Lagan
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Peter Shaw)
McLaren Animation 2.
The post-apocalyptic tale of a hungry fisherman and son who catch a very unusual fish.
Last Breath
(Country: UK; Year: 2013), Trailer
McLaren Animation 2.
An account of events when Yeuk Seng slowly grasps the fact that he has become a social outcast as a breathing person.
Left
(Country: Ireland, UK; Year: 2012; Director: Eamonn O'Neill; Writer: Eamonn O'Neill), Official Site, Trailer
McLaren Animation 1.
'We got older, we drifted apart. Neill changed and so did I.'
Linear
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2012; Director: Amir Admoni; Writer: Amir Admoni)
International Animation: Narrative
A line is a dot that went for a walk.
The Lion
(Country: UK ; Year: 2013; Director: Peter Baynton)
McLaren Animation 2.
The troubled and redemptive family history of a singer/songwriter is told using a pride of cardboard lions. Pop video for Escapist Papers.
The Little Island
(Country: UK; Year: 1959; Director: Richard Williams; Writer: Richard Williams)
Richard Williams: 80 Animated Years
The struggles of three characters obsessed with their visions of Goodness, Truth and Beauty leads to all out conflict.
Love Me, Love Me, Love Me
(Country: UK; Year: 1962; Director: Richard Williams; Writer: Stan Hayward; Stars: Kenneth Williams)
Richard Williams: 80 Animated Years
Described by Williams as a ‘private joke’ on commercials he was producing at the time, featuring the mercurial voice of the late Kenneth Williams.
The Magnificent Lion Boy
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Ana Caro ; Writer: Jonathan Carr; Stars: Hugh Bonneville, Andy Serkis, Yahsaint Benjamin Kowouvi)
McLaren Animation 2.
A strange feral child raised by lions is discovered by a Victorian anthropologist who takes the boy back to London to civilise the creature.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
(Country: UK; Year: 2013), Trailer
McLaren Animation 2. In competition
Using only charcoal and three sheets of A1 paper, this film visualises one of Oliver Sacks’ seminal works, describing a unique neurological oddity.
Marcel, King of Tervuren
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Tom Schroeder; Stars: Ann Berckmoes)
International Animation: Narrative. In competition
In this Greek tragedy – as acted out by Belgian roosters – Marcel survives the bird flu, alcohol, sleeping pills and his son, Max.
Marilyn Myller
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Mikey Please), Official Site
McLaren Animation 2. In competition
The torment of the artistic soul.
Monsters University
(Country: USA; Year: 2013; Director: Dan Scanlon; Writer: Robert L Baird, Daniel Gerson, Dan Scanlon; Stars: Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Helen Mirren, Alfred Molina, Steve Buscemi, Nathan Fillion, Peter Sohn, Joel Murray)
Mike and Sulley get some scary life lessons.
Family gala
The Nether Regions
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Maria Lee; Writer: Lesley Farrow; Stars: Brian Blessed), Official Site
McLaren Animation 1.
There's no escape from bureaucracy, even in Hell.
Sandy
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Joseph Mann; Writer: Joseph Mann), Official Site
McLaren Animation 1.
Stop frame animation with cheeky seaside postcard charm.
Seams And Embers
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Claire Lamond), Official Site, Trailer
McLaren Animation 2.
Young Jim follows his coalmining forefathers into a rough working life underground, while die hard miners talk of how a rugged industry died hard.
The Search For Inspiration Gone
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Ashley Michael Briggs), Official Site
McLaren Animation 2.
Combining animation, special effects, and live action, this silent film asks: will a writer who searches for inspiration find it in help or hindrance?
Shri Hanuman Chalisa
(Country: India; Year: 2013; Director: Charuvi Agrawal)
International Animation: Overture
The film provides a metaphorical visual meaning to the verses of an ancient spiritual composition that has been sung and chanted across the globe.
Sleeping With The Fishes
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Yousif Al-Khalifa)
McLaren Animation 2.
Sonja lives a lonely life as a fishmonger until one day a delivery man turns up who looks like a rainbow trout.
Sweetie & Sunshine
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Will Anderson), Trailer
McLaren Animation 1.
Two Chinese Pandas gifted to Edinburgh Zoo take up residence.
Villa Antropoff
(Country: Estonia, Latvia; Year: 2012; Director: Kaspar Jancis, Vladimir Leschiov), Trailer
International Animation: Narrative
Once there lived a man who had nothing besides himself and an immense and dangerous sheet of water spread out between him and his dream.
Wind
(Country: Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Robert Loebel; Writer: Robert Loebel)
International Animation: Narrative. In competition
A windy country and its residents.
Woody
(Country: Australia; Year: 2013; Director: Stuart Bowen), Trailer
International Animation: Overture. In competition
Stuck in a job he doesn't want Woody daydreams of being a concert pianist. His dreams are big…but they're about to get out of hand.
X
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Max Hattler)
McLaren Animation 2.
This work is a version of a water screen projection commissioned by KXFS and Vauxhall, presented on Regent’s Canal in London in September 2012.
Yellow Sticky Notes
(Country: Canada; Year: 2007; Director: Jeff Chiba Stearns; Writer: Jeff Chiba Stearns), Official Site
International Animation: Narrative
Animated self-reflection on to-do lists.
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