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Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2013

Edinburgh International Film Festival 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.

Programme

42 films · 2 reviews

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Bydlo

Inspired by the forth movement of Mussorgsky's Pictures in an Exhibition.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2012; Director: Patrick Bouchard; Writer: Cynthia Tremblay)

International Animation: Overture

Christmas Carol

Animated version of the Dickens classic about a man who is haunted by ghosts on Christmas Eve.

(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

Circus Drawings

This short personal film, inspired by Williams’ drawings of a small Spanish circus, began production in 1953 and was completed in 2010.

(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Richard Williams)

Richard Williams: 80 Animated Years

Elysian Fields

Expanding upon an exploration of the Second World War, Elysian Fields fuses fantastical and historical into a surreal reconfiguration of the present.

(Country: Singapore; Year: 2013; Director: Ina Conradi Chavez) , Official site , Trailer

International Animation: Narrative

Everything I Can See From Here

A game of football turns deadly as an uninvited player joins in.

(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Bjorn-Erik Aschim, Sam Taylor)

McLaren Animation 1.

Fear Of Flying

Review preview for Fear Of Flying

A charming bit of stop-motion and well worth seeking out.

Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
A bird with a fear of flying dreads the forthcoming winter migration.

(Country: Ireland; Year: 2012; Director: Conor Finnegan; Writer: Conor Ferguson, Conor Finnegan; Stars: Mark Doherty, Aoife Duffin)

Full review

International Animation: Narrative

First Light

When Daniela opens her door one evening to find her home gone, she takes a journey that changes her view of her city forever.

(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Wing Yan Lilian Fu; Writer: Akshay Singh) , Official site

McLaren Animation 1.

Fuga

Sara will discover that there are more ways of interpreting each side of the lens through which perceive her reality and talent.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2012; Director: Juan Antonio Espigares) , Trailer

International Animation: Overture

The Gravedigger's Tale

The gravedigger leads a solitary existence, so far from the living, yet so close to the dead. This is her story. A love story.

(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Min Young Oh; Writer: Maurice Caldera; Stars: Duncan Roberts) , Official site

McLaren Animation 1.

Happily Ever After

Two young and in love puppets, move in together for the first time prompting a crazy journey of the couple's life together.

(Country: Israel; Year: 2012; Director: Yonni Aroussi, Ben Genislaw; Writer: Yonni Aroussi, Ben Genislaw, Omri Givon)

International Animation: Narrative

Hart's Desire

The story of an aspiring hermit, an aspiring socialite, and a shared flask of tea.

(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Gavin C Robinson)

McLaren Animation 2. In competition

Here and the Great Elsewhere (Le grand ailleurs et le petit ici)

Lost in a reverie, a man reels with sudden, piercing awareness of his own state of being.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2012; Director: Michèle Lemieux; Writer: Michèle Lemieux; Stars: Louis Champagne)

International Animation: Overture

The House With No Doors

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.

(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Oana Nechifor)

McLaren Animation 1. In competition

The Hungry Corpse

In London’s bustling, yet desolate Trafalgar Square, an ancient, rather hungry corpse meets a pigeon.

(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Gergely Wootsch; Writer: James Pout; Stars: Bill Nighy, Stephen Mangan) , Official site , Trailer

McLaren Animation 2. In competition

In Sight

An introverted observer tries to attain spiritual intimacy with the people that pass by him.

(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: http://alexandrunechifor.com/)

McLaren Animation 1.

In the Air Is Christopher Gray

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.

(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

I Love You So Hard (Chocolate Covered Almond)

A bizarre and terrifying fantasy seduction featuring a mid-air battle with a rhinoceros.

(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Ross Butter)

McLaren Animation 1. In competition

The Kiosk

People come to Olga for newspapers, lottery tickets, advice, hope or just a smile.

(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2013; Director: Anete Melece; Writer: Anete Melece; Stars: Hans Ruchti, Anette Herbst)

International Animation: Narrative

Lagan

The post-apocalyptic tale of a hungry fisherman and son who catch a very unusual fish.

(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Peter Shaw)

McLaren Animation 2.

Last Breath

An account of events when Yeuk Seng slowly grasps the fact that he has become a social outcast as a breathing person.

(Country: UK; Year: 2013) , Trailer

McLaren Animation 2.

Left

'We got older, we drifted apart. Neill changed and so did I.'

(Country: Ireland, UK; Year: 2012; Director: Eamonn O'Neill; Writer: Eamonn O'Neill) , Official site , Trailer

McLaren Animation 1.

Linear

A line is a dot that went for a walk.

(Country: Brazil; Year: 2012; Director: Amir Admoni; Writer: Amir Admoni)

International Animation: Narrative

The Lion

The troubled and redemptive family history of a singer/songwriter is told using a pride of cardboard lions. Pop video for Escapist Papers.

(Country: UK ; Year: 2013; Director: Peter Baynton)

McLaren Animation 2.

The Little Island

The struggles of three characters obsessed with their visions of Goodness, Truth and Beauty leads to all out conflict.

(Country: UK; Year: 1959; Director: Richard Williams; Writer: Richard Williams)

Richard Williams: 80 Animated Years

Love Me, Love Me, Love Me

Described by Williams as a ‘private joke’ on commercials he was producing at the time, featuring the mercurial voice of the late Kenneth Williams.

(Country: UK; Year: 1962; Director: Richard Williams; Writer: Stan Hayward; Stars: Kenneth Williams)

Richard Williams: 80 Animated Years

The Magnificent Lion Boy

A strange feral child raised by lions is discovered by a Victorian anthropologist who takes the boy back to London to civilise the creature.

(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Ana Caro ; Writer: Jonathan Carr; Stars: Hugh Bonneville, Andy Serkis, Yahsaint Benjamin Kowouvi)

McLaren Animation 2.

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat

Using only charcoal and three sheets of A1 paper, this film visualises one of Oliver Sacks’ seminal works, describing a unique neurological oddity.

(Country: UK; Year: 2013) , Trailer

McLaren Animation 2. In competition

Marcel, King of Tervuren

In this Greek tragedy – as acted out by Belgian roosters – Marcel survives the bird flu, alcohol, sleeping pills and his son, Max.

(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Tom Schroeder; Stars: Ann Berckmoes)

International Animation: Narrative. In competition

Marilyn Myller

The torment of the artistic soul.

(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Mikey Please) , Official site

McLaren Animation 2. In competition

Monsters University

Review preview for Monsters University

It's not that the new crowd aren't fun, but they're a distraction from those of us who would prefer to spend more time with the best buddy double-act in the Pixar universe.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
Mike and Sulley get some scary life lessons.

(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)

Full review

Family gala

The Nether Regions

There's no escape from bureaucracy, even in Hell.

(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Maria Lee; Writer: Lesley Farrow; Stars: Brian Blessed) , Official site

McLaren Animation 1.

Sandy

Stop frame animation with cheeky seaside postcard charm.

(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Joseph Mann; Writer: Joseph Mann) , Official site

McLaren Animation 1.

Seams And Embers

Young Jim follows his coalmining forefathers into a rough working life underground, while die hard miners talk of how a rugged industry died hard.

(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Claire Lamond) , Official site , Trailer

McLaren Animation 2.

The Search For Inspiration Gone

Combining animation, special effects, and live action, this silent film asks: will a writer who searches for inspiration find it in help or hindrance?

(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Ashley Michael Briggs) , Official site

McLaren Animation 2.

Shri Hanuman Chalisa

The film provides a metaphorical visual meaning to the verses of an ancient spiritual composition that has been sung and chanted across the globe.

(Country: India; Year: 2013; Director: Charuvi Agrawal)

International Animation: Overture

Sleeping With The Fishes

Sonja lives a lonely life as a fishmonger until one day a delivery man turns up who looks like a rainbow trout.

(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Yousif Al-Khalifa)

McLaren Animation 2.

Sweetie & Sunshine

Two Chinese Pandas gifted to Edinburgh Zoo take up residence.

(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Will Anderson) , Trailer

McLaren Animation 1.

Villa Antropoff

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.

(Country: Estonia, Latvia; Year: 2012; Director: Kaspar Jancis, Vladimir Leschiov) , Trailer

International Animation: Narrative

Wind

A windy country and its residents.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Robert Loebel; Writer: Robert Loebel)

International Animation: Narrative. In competition

Woody

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.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2013; Director: Stuart Bowen) , Trailer

International Animation: Overture. In competition

X

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.

(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Max Hattler)

McLaren Animation 2.

Yellow Sticky Notes

Animated self-reflection on to-do lists.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2007; Director: Jeff Chiba Stearns; Writer: Jeff Chiba Stearns) , Official site

International Animation: Narrative