Eye For Film >> Festivals >> EIFF >> 2017 >> Animation
This programme is split into showcases as indicated below:
- International Animation
- The McLaren Award: New British Animation 1
- The McLaren Award: New British Animation 2
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Étude and Ciclope
The Absence of Eddy Table
(Country: Norway; Year: 2016; Director: Rune Spaans; Writer: Dave Cooper; Stars: Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Mike Patton, Yngvill Kolset Haga, John Erik Kaada)
International Animation
Eddy gets lost in a dark forest. There he meets an alluring girl infected by a mysterious parasite.
Big Bag
(Year: 2016; Director: Daniel Greaves; Writer: Daniel Greaves)
An backpacker has a spot of bother as he prepares for a trip.
The McLaren Award: New British Animation 2
Chickens
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: George Wu; Writer: George Wu)
Wondering if that glance from your crush meant something and if you will ever muster the courage to do something about it?
The McLaren Award: New British Animation 2
Ciclope
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Bjorn-Erik Aschim, Max Taylor)
A drone is on a delivery mission.
The McLaren Award: New British Animation 1
Dead Horses (Cavalls morts)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2016; Director: Marc Riba, Anna Solanas; Writer: Marc Riba, Anna Solanas)
International Animation
A child if forced to flee war through a landscape awash with the corpses of horses.
Poles Apart and Escape From Syria: Faiza's Story
Don't Think Of A Pink Elephant
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Suraya Raja; Writer: Suraya Raja)
The McLaren Award: New British Animation 1
Layla fights daily against urges and compulsions, until challenged to face her darkest fears.
Escape From Syria: Faiza's Story
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Jack Whilding Newman; Stars: Faiza)
Animation depicting the story of a refugee who fled Syria with her children and taking inspiration from the children's drawings.
The McLaren Award: New British Animation 1
A Festive Wind (Vent de fête)
(Country: Switzerland, France; Year: 2016; Director: Marjolaine Perreten)
International Animation
A village prepares for a festival.
The Full Story
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Daisy Jacobs, Christopher Wilder; Writer: Daisy Jacobs)
The McLaren Award: New British Animation 2
Animation considering divorce.
G-aaah
(Year: 2016; Director: Elizabeth Hobbs)
Amy Johnson worked as a typist for a firm of solicitors before her record- breaking solo flight from Croydon to Australia in 1930. This film has been created with an Underwood 315 typewriter as a celebration of her journey.
The McLaren Award: New British Animation 1
Spindrift and Big Bag
Have Heart
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Will Anderson)
A looping GIF has an existential crisis.
The McLaren Award: New British Animation 1
Homegrown
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Quentin Haberham; Writer: Tim Fraser, Quentin Haberham)
The McLaren Award: New British Animation 2
Francis raises his son like he cultivates his plants, shielded from harm, comfortable inside. However when the boy outgrows his father's protective confines, Francis is faced with an uncomfortable truth.
How Are You Today?
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Sophie Markatatos)
The McLaren Award: New British Animation 2
In a messed up world, two opposite characters meet.
I Am Here
(Country: Canada; Year: 2016; Director: Eoin Duffy; Writer: Eoin Duffy; Stars: Nicholas Campbell)
International Animation
A mysterious traveller goes on a journey.
Johnno's Dead
(Country: UK, France; Year: 2016; Director: Chris Shepherd; Stars: Ian Hart, Chris Freeney)
The McLaren Award: New British Animation 2
Serving twelve years behind bars for a crime you didn't commit focuses the mind. Everything becomes crystal clear. Sequel to Dad's Dead.
Have Heart and G-aaah
Life Cycles
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Ross Hogg)
The McLaren Award: New British Animation 1
An observational exploration of routine, monotony, attention and distraction. Will we continue to let events pass us by uncontested, or will we decide to break the cycle?
A Little Grey
(Country: UK, Mexico; Year: 2016; Director: Simon Hewitt, Raul Fregoso, Steve Smith; Writer: Simon Hewitt, Simon Hewitt, Stuart Royall; Stars: Richard Attlee, Tony Gardner), Official Site
The McLaren Award: New British Animation 2
A colourful story about losing your spark and finding redemption.
Mall 84
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Gervais Merryweather)
The McLaren Award: New British Animation 2
A love letter to the Eighties.
Misshape Happenings
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Dominica Harrison)
The McLaren Award: New British Animation 2
A peek into the carefully balanced mind of a cosmic shaman who struggles to keep his world unchanged.
Negative Space
(Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Max Porter, Ru Kuwahata)
International Animation
The bittersweet story of a relationship between a father and his son, Sam. Always leaving on business trips, the father connects with Sam by teaching him how to pack a suitcase efficiently.
Perfect World
(Year: 2017; Director: Karni & Saul)
The McLaren Award: New British Animation 2
Animated pop video for the Katie Melua song.
Poles Apart
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Paloma Baeza; Writer: Paloma Baeza; Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Joseph May)
Stop-motion animation about an unlikely friendship in the Arctic.
The McLaren Award: New British Animation 1
Queer Heroes
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Kate Jessop)
The McLaren Award: New British Animation 2
Collaborative animation.
Six God Alphabet Peter
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Peter Millard)
The McLaren Award: New British Animation 2
Learning the alphabet taken to extremes.
Sore Eyes For Infinity
(Country: Finland; Year: 2016; Director: Elli Vuorinen; Writer: Elli Vuorinen)
International Animation
A trip to the optician.
Spindrift
(Year: 2016; Director: Selina Wagner; Writer: Selina Wagner), Trailer
A young girl living by the shore faces choices after encountering an eagle and someone new.
The McLaren Award: New British Animation 2
Tough
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Jennifer Zheng)
The McLaren Award: New British Animation 1
New light is shed on childhood cultural misunderstandings when a Chinese mother and her British born daughter speak as adults for the first time.
Étude
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Robert Duncan)
A conversation between an animator and a composer.
The McLaren Award: New British Animation 1
Tunnel Vision
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Lila Babington; Writer: Lila Babington; Stars: Meredith Strong, Harry Hamps)
The McLaren Award: New British Animation 1
Esther is losing out on what is in the now, the current moment, in order to gain what’s in the future to come.
Ugly
(Country: Germany; Year: 2017; Director: Nikita Diakur)
International Animation
Animated short about kindness, respect and coexistence.
Wednesday With Goddard
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Nicolas Menard; Writer: Nicolas Menard; Stars: Denis Foley, Aneta Piotrowska)
The McLaren Award: New British Animation 1
A personal quest for spiritual enlightenment leads to romance and despair.
Wires (A Cyber Fairy Tale)
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Sam Healy)
The McLaren Award: New British Animation 1
Animation pop promo.
Ylion And Callysia (Irion to Karishia)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2017; Director: Takashi Nakamura)
International Animation
After a girl is kidnapped because her father tried to catch a unicorn, her brother goes in search of her.
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