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Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2017

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2017

Shorts

This programme is split into showcases as indicated below:

  • (Be)longing
  • An Image Is A Territory
  • Bridging The Gap - Rebellion
  • Film Is Memory
  • From Scotland
  • The Young And The Wild
  • UK - Spectrum

Programme

26 films · 3 reviews

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1000 Smiles Per Hour

Drifting across the outer edges of a concrete landscape, a twilight meeting engenders a precious moment of connection for a melancholy performer, amid the coldly apathetic city limits.

(Country: UK, Germany; Year: 2017; Director: Fabian Altenried; Writer: Anne-Kathrin Heier; Stars: Julie Trappett, Alexander Wissel, E)

Film Is Memory

Amérika: Bay Of Arrows (Amérika: Bahía de las flechas)

Vaz interrogates the contemporary reflections of colonialism.

(Country: Dominican Republic; Year: 2016; Director: Ana Vaz)

An Image Is A Territory

The Colour Of His Hair

A meditation upon queer identity and defiance, examined through a patchwork of re-appropriated archive materials.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Sam Ashby; Stars: Sean Hart, Josh O'Connor, John Alcock, Matt Cook, Stef Dickers, Polly North)

Film Is Memory

Creeling

Review preview for Creeling

As Tunnock's teacake tomfoolery turns to something more adult, more anxiety inducing, those involved demonstrate their craft and skill.

Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
Teenager Lily lives in a remote highland village and has known Dougie, a young lobster fisherman, most of her life. A change in their relationship becomes apparent when he agrees to take her out fishing for the day.

(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Sam Firth)

Full review

From Scotland

Fishwitch

Tootega is a witch who ekes out an isolated existence on an iceberg adrift in the ocean. It's a miserable lot, and in Tootega's case, misery hates company.

(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Adrienne Dowling; Writer: Jenna Jovi, Jenna Jovi, Adrienne Dowling, Hélène Sifre; Stars: Sam Apley, Natalia Tena) , Official site

(Be)longing

Fish Story

Behind a fishy tale lies this search for the truth.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Charlie Lyne; Writer: Charlie Lyne; Stars: Caspar Salmon)

The Young And The Wild

Hold

How do you love in isolation? And live in absence? A woman and her daughter strive to answer these questions after a loved one is suddenly removed from their lives.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Phoebe Cottam)

Bridging The Gap - Rebellion

Inhale

Through horses, a man feels an irrepressible duty to move in harmony with his pain.

(Country: uk; Year: 2017; Director: Sean Mullan)

Bridging The Gap - Rebellion

A Love Story

Review preview for A Love Story

An inventive and carefully worked short that has strength in being left open for you to draw your own conclusions.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
Stopframe animation.

(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Anushka Naanayakkara)

Full review

(Be)longing

Marrku And Me

The filmmaker returns to Finland to try to rebuild his relationship with his brother, who has schizophrenia.

(Country: Finland; Year: 2016; Director: Lauri Danska)

(Be)longing

Meltemi

A story about love, romance, and quiet rebellion.

(Country: UK, Greece; Year: 2016; Director: Zeta Spyraki)

(Be)longing

Nothing To Declare

An animated horror where the end of the world could start next door.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Will Adams; Writer: Frank Quitely; Stars: Vincent Deighan)

From Scotland

Only My Voice

In an ode to freedom, migrant women share their ambitions and dreams of a new life.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Myriam Rey)

Bridging The Gap - Rebellion

Plastic Man

Breaking from daily reality, a man transforms into Plastic Man - armed with chemicals, ready to set landscape on fire. Is he the destroyer of Nature, or the voice of its resilience?

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Yulia Kovanova)

Bridging The Gap - Rebellion

Real Gods Require Blood

A babysitter looks after children who claim they are feeding a nightly visitor from hell.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Moin Hussain; Writer: Tom Benn; Stars: Gillian Waugh, Lyndsay Fielding, Sharon Spink, Gary Overton, Mark Lavery, Kirsty Doyle, Anna Berentzen, Lee Gresty, Avidavit Williams, Richard Owusu, Alkali Reid, Ivy Mattingly, Kamari May)

UK - Spectrum

Registers

Images as a transcription of a journey, with Japan seen through the lens of a malfunctioning camera.

(Country: Sweden; Year: 2017; Director: Tris Vonna-Michell)

Film Is Memory

The Sailor

A sailor dreams of a homeland he has never had.

(Country: Netherlands, Italy; Year: 2017; Director: Giovanni Giaretta)

An Image Is A Territory

The Sea Is History

A materialist and animist critique of the monumentalisation of European colonial history and its ripples into the present.

(Country: UK, France; Year: 2016; Director: Louis Henderson)

An Image Is A Territory

Spectator

An acutely personal reflection upon the fragility of connection, engaging the camera in a reflexive attempt to capture a transient moment, and the elusive sensibility of an individual.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2017; Director: Mike Hoolboom)

Film Is Memory

Spindrift

Review preview for Spindrift

It's a simple story but well told, with excellent technique.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
A young girl living by the shore faces choices after encountering an eagle and someone new.

(Year: 2016; Director: Selina Wagner; Writer: Selina Wagner) , Trailer

Full review

From Scotland

The Stability Of The System

An audiovisual trip takes us through the volcanic landscape of Lanzarote.

(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Sasha Litvintsevam, Isabel Mallet)

An Image Is A Territory

Study Movement 1, 2, 3 (Etude mouvement 1, 2, 3)

A choreographed conversation between image and movement.

(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2016; Director: Maya Corboud)

Film Is Memory

Teeth

Every crooked lateral incisor or overzealous premolar tells a story.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Thomas Hogben)

Bridging The Gap - Rebellion

Towards The Sun (Hacia El Sol)

Under the looming threat of deportation, a 12-year-old girl confronts her scarring past through her artwork at an immigrant youth shelter in Texas.

(Country: US, UK; Year: 2016; Director: Monica Santis)

(Be)longing

Water Steps (Los Pasos Del Agua)

Two humble fishermen who live in a forgotten hamlet near to the Cauca river, discovered that a dead body had been tangled in their cast net. Failing to give notice to the authorities, they decided that it would be more humane to bury him, so they start dragging the dead body towards the jungle.

(Country: Colombia; Year: 2016; Director: César Augusto Acevedo; Writer: César Augusto Acevedo; Stars: Norberto Isajar, Isaí Carabalí, Dilver)

An Image Is A Territory

We Are Here

Two friends reflect on their twenty-year friendship after an accident leaves one of them with a life-changing brain injury.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Ciaran Pasi)

Bridging The Gap - Rebellion