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Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2015

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015

Shorts

The shorts are split into the programmes are listed below. Which programme a short falls into is listed in italics.

  • Borders And Margins - A selection that ushers from the shadows an array of individuals and experiences that tear at the edges and margins of society.
  • Bridging The Gap - Four new short films from the Scottish Documentary Institute’s talent programme.
  • Edgelands - A visual roller coaster through the narratives of a cast of characters whose experiences are anything but humdrum.
  • Growing Up, Getting By - Students from the University of Edinburgh’s MSc Film, Exhibition and Curation course present a programme of short films.
  • Ritual And Transfiguration - Combination of the visceral and the intangible, the spiritual and the earthly.
  • Secret Corners - Examination of the spider-web of interpersonal connections, networks and intimate exchanges that characterise individual experience.
  • Shadowed Landscapes - Investigation of the insidious influence of technology, commodity and celebrity culture within society.
  • The Anatomy Of Memory - Collection exploring the engagement of the camera as a reflexive mirror for memory.

Programme

43 films · 3 reviews

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Artificio Conceal

A victim of a simulated reality is left without identity.

(Country: UK, US; Year: 2014; Director: Ayoub Qanir; Writer: Ayoub Qanir; Stars: David Bailie, Simon Armstrong, Nick Cornwall, Andrew Whipp, Duran Fulton Brown, Paul Marlon, Stephen McDade, Danny Thornton)

Shadowed Landscapes

The Banana Republic

(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Scott Calonico; Writer: Scott Calonico)

Bridging The Gap

Bubo's Limbo

Documentary.

(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Alberto Iordanov; Writer: Alberto Iordanov)

Bridging The Gap

Camrex

Documentary about a homeless hostel.

(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Mark Chapman; Writer: Mark Chapman)

Borders And Margins

Coward

A young girl is pressured by her mother to become a famous actress.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Karen Gillan; Writer: Karen Gillan; Stars: Rose McIver, Catherine Telford)

Shadowed Landscapes

The Crossing

A girl under pressure at home seeks solace in swimming.

(Country: UK, Italy; Year: 2014; Director: Nathalie Biancheri; Writer: Nathalie Biancheri; Stars: Cherie Lunghi, Jo Hartley, Sabrina Bartlett, Christopher Hatherall)

Edgelands

Ecce Homo

A young girl struggles to cope at home with her ill mum.

(Country: Romania, UK; Year: 2014; Director: Dimitar Kutmanov; Writer: Dimitar Kutmanov; Stars: Tabita Chirita, Viorel Lascu, Ada Lupu)

Borders And Margins

Field Notes

Portrait of Trinidadian folklore.

(Country: US, Trinidad and Tobago; Year: 2014; Director: Vashti Harrison; Writer: Vashti Harrison)

Ritual And Transfiguration

The Figures Carved Into Knife By The Sap of Banana Tree (As Figuras Gravadas Na Faca Com A Seiva Das Bananeiras)

Documentary. The rapid turning of a light draws a circle.

(Country: US, Portugal; Year: 2014; Director: Joana Pimenta; Writer: Joana Pimenta)

Ritual And Transfiguration

The Gift

To celebrate his 11th birthday, a young boy selects his gift - little knowing that his choice will change the world.

(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Gabriel Robertson; Writer: Gabriel Robertson; Stars: Xander Berkeley, Brady Permenter, Amye Gousset)

Edgelands

The Golden Triangle

At the edge of Paris, where the rivers of the Seine and Marne meet.

(Country: France, Portugal; Year: 2014; Director: Miguel Clara Vasconcelos; Writer: Miguel Clara Vasconcelos; Stars: Sheylla Barros)

The Anatomy of Memory

The Guests

Alone in a strange new city, awaiting her husband's return, a new mother has some unexpected visitors.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2015; Director: Shane Danielsen; Writer: Shane Danielsen; Stars: Cate Wolfe, Matilda Ridgway, Gertraud Ingeborg, Michael Wrenn, Diedre Stein, Dirk Nagel, Marcela Ordonez, Jonathan Roberts, Natan Kowalski, Sandra Bridekirk, Levi Gardner, Adam Cross, Sharon Scouller, Eila Martiskin, Eric Danielsen)

Shadowed Landscapes

How I Didn't Become A Piano Player

A nine-year-old clumsy boy searches for something he is good at.

(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Tommaso Pitta; Writer: Tommaso Pitta, Tommaso Pitta; Stars: Tom Felton, Fergus O'Donnell, Nigel Genis, Gabrielle Hamilton, Lucy Timmons, Logan Shearer, Charlotte Edwards, Hollie Thoupos, George Phillips)

Growing Up, Getting By

Immortality, Home And Elsewhere

Speculative theories on immortality and the end of the Universe combine with personal brushes with global nuclear disasters...

(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Sasha Litvintseva; Writer: Sasha Litvintseva; Stars: Carolyn Defrin)

Secret Corners

I Am A Spy

(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Sarah Wood)

The Anatomy of Memory

Journey To The Sea

Documentary short.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Josh Gibson; Writer: Josh Gibson)

The Anatomy of Memory

The Last Resort

A pair of teenage girls are forced to work together to defeat the horrifying threat of their four-year-old sister.

(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Stephanie Blakey; Writer: Gillian Park; Stars: Stephanie Blakey, Katherine Ryan, Violet Ryan, John Standing)

Growing Up, Getting By

The Listener

In a society where everyone is monitored, Jeremy is an ambitious Listener on the brink of a promotion who suddenly finds his loyalty challenged with the arrival of a new colleague.

(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Michael Gilhooly; Writer: Oliver Lyttelton; Stars: Richard Clews, Guy Henry, Joanna Horton, Cameron Johnson, Rebecca Johnson, Charlotte Mills, Guy Rhys, Katie Scarfe, Amit Shah, Harriet Walter, Anna Wheatley)

Shadowed Landscapes

Loud Like Love

(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Gabriel Serrano Denis)

Growing Up, Getting By

Mamihlapinatapai

Mariel exchanges a quick glance, a moment, with her dance instructor and now believes she is in love with a woman.

(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Joanne Park; Writer: Joanne Park)

Secret Corners

Milky (Lactée)

When one of three women who live together begins to lactate it upsets the balance of their relationship.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2014; Director: Andrée-Anne Roussel; Writer: Andrée-Anne Roussel; Stars: Luciana Marcos, Emma Gómez, Jennyfer Desbiens)

Secret Corners

Mining Poems Or Odes

Documentary short.

(Year: 2015; Director: Callum Rice)

Bridging The Gap

Miracle Maker

A 12-year-old vacuum cleaner salesman's assistant tries to turn his luck around.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Kate Marks; Writer: Kate Marks; Stars: Bader Alawadhi, Adelina Anthony, Keiko Arigato, Jovan Armand, Michael Aurelio, Hanul Bahm, Belinda Bates, Leigha Benford, Taylor Benford, Charlie Benson, Joanie Benson, Ryan Betschart, Anne Kathrine Bindesboll, Jaymes Camery, Anthony Rodrigo Castillo)

Edgelands

A Mother's Love (Die Liebe der Mutter)

Narrative short.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2014; Director: Julia Stiebert)

Secret Corners

A Mysterious Volume of Holiday Field Recordings

Experimental documentary on the working process of French filmmaker Aurelie Bonamy.

(Country: France, Ireland; Year: 2014; Director: Michael Ryan; Writer: Michael Ryan)

Ritual And Transfiguration

Nan Lakou Kanaval

Documentary short.

(Country: Canada, Haiti; Year: 2014; Director: Kaveh Nabatian; Writer: Gabriel Jerry Wood)

Ritual And Transfiguration

The Night Stalker

A down-at-heel news reporter tracks a vampire.

(Country: US; Year: 1972; Director: John Llewellyn Moxey; Writer: Richard Matheson, Jeffrey Grant Rice, Max Hodge; Stars: Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland, Ralph Meeker, Claude Akins, Charles McGraw, Kent Smith, Elisha Cook Jr., Stanley Adams, Larry Linville, Jordan Rhodes, Barry Atwater, Edward Faulkner, Virginia Gregg, Buddy Joe Hooker)

Shadowed Landscapes

Ottery

Review preview for Ottery

Less traditional but perhaps stronger for it.

Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
A mysterious glimpse of an England steeped in folkloric tradition.

(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Tom Chick)

Full review

Ritual And Transfiguration

Over The Neva

An aristocratic wolf falls in love with a ferret princess on the eve of the Russian Revolution.

(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Katerina Lavrionova; Writer: Katerina Lavrionova, Clare Macdonald; Stars: Cristian Solimeno)

Growing Up, Getting By

The Pig Child

A female scientist makes a reckless decision to carry on with an illegal surrogacy experiment, using her own body.

(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Lucy Campbell; Writer: Lucy Campbell, Lucy Campbell, Scout Stuart, Scout Stuart; Stars: Frederick Schmidt, Catherine Steadman)

Shadowed Landscapes

Rosa

Narrative short.

(Country: UK, Portugal; Year: 2014; Director: Francisco Neffe)

Growing Up, Getting By

Scrapbook

Review preview for Scrapbook

This is a film that might be best served not by a cinema but by a loop.

Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
Memories of life in a children's home.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2015; Director: Mike Hoolboom)

Full review

The Anatomy of Memory

Shadowboxer

Drama about a kickboxer.

(Country: Austria; Year: 2015; Director: Jannis Lenz; Writer: Jannis Lenz; Stars: Susanna Hohlrieder, Branimir Radosavljevic, Ahmet Simsek)

Borders And Margins

Shadowland

Documentary short.

(Country: Sweden; Year: 2014; Director: John Skoog)

The Anatomy of Memory

Story Of An Object (Història d'un Objecte)

The story of an object, a story about subjectivity and introspection of people...

(Country: UK, Spain; Year: 2014; Director: Carlota Castells Puig; Writer: Carlota Castells Puig; Stars: Anna Piqué Busqué, Maria del Cid)

Growing Up, Getting By; Secret Corners

Sweet Oranges

Documentary about Orange pickers from Mexico who are workingin California.

(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Nora Sweeney; Writer: Nora Sweeney)

Borders And Margins

The Third Dad

Review preview for The Third Dad

Theresa Moerman's film is a deeply personal, deeply moving portrait of grief.

Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
A filmmaker sets out to find the grave of her estranged father.

(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Theresa Moerman Ib)

Full review

Bridging The Gap

Transition (Ďakujem ti, melónik)

Documentary short.

(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2014; Director: Barbora Chalupová)

Ritual And Transfiguration

United We Will Swim... Again

Short documentary

(Year: 2015; Director: Fran Higson)

Edgelands

Vicious Circle (Dialelo)

Narrative short.

(Country: Spain, US; Year: 2015; Director: Sonia Albert-Sobrino, Miriam Albert-Sobrino)

Secret Corners

A Wee Night In

Documentary about a 95-year-old woman in East Kilbride.

(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Stuart Edwards)

Growing Up, Getting By

What We Did Before We Drank Cocoa Together (Čo Sme Robili Predtým, Ako Sme Šli Spolu Na Kakao)

Narrative short.

(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2015; Director: Aramisova; Writer: Aramisova; Stars: la Bielka, Michal Bregant, Anna Drdova, Monika Midriaková)

Secret Corners

You Are Whole

A spiritualist missionary gets mistaken for a serial killer in a sleepy British seaside town.

(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Laura Spini; Writer: Laura Spini; Stars: Fred Melamed, Juliette Kaplan, Matthew Leonhart, Lela Bergeron, Dave Lanigan, Paulette McMasters, Toni Green, James Melley, William Hazell)

Edgelands