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Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2019

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2019

Animation

This section comprises animated short films, split into the following strands (indicated after the film in italics)

  • International Animation
  • Modest Heroes - Ponoc Short Films Theatre
  • McLaren Animation 1
  • McLaren Animation 2
  • McLaren Animation 3

Programme

41 films · 2 reviews

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4:3

Twelve animated films develop a rhythmic dialogue exploring the relationship between sound, image and movement using 16mm film, paint and a projector.

(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Ross Hogg)

McLaren Animation 2

Almost There

Strange goings on occur during an everyday train journey quite unlike any other.

(Year: 2019; Director: Nelly Michenaud) , Trailer

McLaren Animation 1

Amaro And Walden Shotting

Short sees a pair of pals lament gentrification.

(Year: 2019; Director: Tim McCourt, Max Taylor)

McLaren Animation 3

Archie

A tenacious dog goes on an incredible journey.

(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Ainslie Henderson)

McLaren Animation 1

Bloomers

Animated documentary about a Manchester based lingerie factory which employs local long term unemployed people.

(Country: UK, Austria; Year: 2019; Director: Samantha Moore)

McLaren Animation 3

The Call

A phone call, a bathroom and a woman are at the intersection of the worlds.

(Country: Romania, France; Year: 2018; Director: Anca Damian)

International Animation

Chemicals: Parker Bossley

Animated pop video

(Country: Ireland; Year: 2018; Director: Joseph Wallace) , Trailer

McLaren Animation 1

Chin Up

Animated documentary about self-acceptance

(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Joanne Salmon) , Trailer

McLaren Animation 1

Cleaning In Progress

Tensions arise between a naive young car park cleaner and his old-timer talking brush, in their differences of approach and attitude. But ultimately one cannot do the job without the other.

(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Grant Holdon)

McLaren Animation 1

Concrete

A backpacker experiences a mysterious encounter in a concrete building in the middle of swampland.

(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2018; Director: Aira Joana, Luca Struchen, Nicholas Roth, Pirmin Bieri)

International Animation

Creepy Pasta Salad

A werewolf with an anxiety disorder, a ghost with low self-confidence and a lonely witch muddle through their everyday lives in this apocalyptic animation.

(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Lauren Orme)

McLaren Animation 2

Dancing Frog

A frog goes on the run from a snake and comes to realise that everyone is connected.

(Country: South Korea; Year: 2018; Director: Kim Jin-man)

International Animation

Dear England

A film about the director's present struggles to reclaim my cultural identity as an Immigrant in the UK.

(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Marta Lemos)

McLaren Animation 2

The Fabric Of You

A tailor struggles to come to terms with the loss of his lover in an oppressive and unforgiving world where everybody wants to look the same.

(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Josephine Lohoar Self; Writer: Josephine Lohoar Self)

McLaren Animation 2

The Flounder

Animated adaptation of the Grimm tale, The Fisherman And His Wife.

(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Elizabeth Hobbs)

McLaren Animation 1

Frank's Joke

Frank told a bad joke at work... now it's 3am and he's obsessing about it.

(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Edward Bulmer; Writer: Edward Bulmer, Andrew Eu; Stars: Spencer Brown, Spencer Brown)

McLaren Animation 1

Gold Fish

Animated short.

(Country: Taiwan; Year: 2018; Director: Fish Wang)

International Animation

Good Intentions

After a young woman is responsible for a hit and run, strange and spooky things starts to happen...

(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Anna Mantzaris) , Trailer

McLaren Animation 3

Grandad Was A Romantic

The filmmaker says: "My grandad was a romantic. He once saw a picture of my granny and realised that she was the love of his life. One day he decided to go meet her."

(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Maryam Mohajer) , Trailer

McLaren Animation 3

Herman Brown Is Feeling Down

Herman's quiet, colourful world is suddenly interrupted by something loud and stressy.

(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Dan Castrol)

McLaren Animation 1

Invisible (Tōmei Ningen)

The lonely struggle of an invisible man.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2018; Director: Akihiko Yamashita; Writer: Akihiko Yamashita)

Ponoc Short Films Theatre

Kanini And Kanino

Review preview for Kanini And Kanino

One of the best pieces of animation you'll see this year.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
Two crab children go searching for their missing father.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2018; Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi; Writer: Hiromasa Yonebayashi; Stars: Fumino Kimura, Rio Suzuki)

Full review

Ponoc Short Films Theatre

Ladder To You

Eric misses his Elsie, but in his darkest moment she shows him that true love never dies.

(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Victoria Watson, Chris Watson; Writer: Chris Watson; Stars: Clive Russell)

McLaren Animation 1

Life Ain't Gonna Lose (Samurai Eggu)

Review preview for Life Ain't Gonna Lose

The animation is beautifully composed and, though it succeeds in making Shun's experience scary, doesn't resort to anything age-inappropriate.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A child learns to cope with being allergic to eggs.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2018; Director: Yoshiyuki Momose; Writer: Yoshiyuki Momose; Stars: Sôta Shinohara, Machiko Ono, Kentarô Sakaguchi)

Full review

Ponoc Short Films Theatre

Mad Dogs

Stop-motion animated film inspired by the kitsch paintings of dogs playing pool that once hung in pubs across the country.

(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Steve Boot) , Trailer

McLaren Animation 2

Le Mans 1955

Animation considers motorsport's most worst disaster.

(Country: France; Year: 2018; Director: Quentin Baillieux; Writer: Julien Lilti; Stars: Nathan Willcocks, Nathan Willcocks)

International Animation

Meteorlight

In a world where light powers everything, a curious child is finally allowed to visit the factory that their parent owns. But the dark secret they uncover inside this factory threatens to tear their whole world apart.

(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Jonny Eveson)

McLaren Animation 3

Music & Clowns

Despite being close to nonverbal my brother is funny, charming and perceptive. I discuss with my parents what it was like raising a child with Down syndrome.

(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Alex Widdowson) , Trailer

McLaren Animation 2

My Best Friend (Ends)

Third part of a trilogy about a couple of shape pals.

(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson)

McLaren Animation 2

My Best Friend (Explodes)

The clock is ticking on the relationship between two buddies.

(Year: 2018; Director: Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson)

McLaren Animation 2

My Best Friend (Rewinds)

A friendship goes backwards.

(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson)

McLaren Animation 2

One Liner

A has-been comedian attempts to make his comeback on board a cruise liner.

(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Matthew Lee; Writer: Melanie Barnes, Megan Cowley, Matthew Lee; Stars: Martin Trenaman, Neil Fitzmaurice, Emma Tate, Wayne Forester, Martin Trenaman, Neil Fitzmaurice, Emma Tate, Wayne Forester) , Trailer

McLaren Animation 2

Quarantine

A post-Brexit pagan dance fantasy about a troupe of Morris-dancing badgers forced to confront the animals quarantined in a facility built above their burrow.

(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Astrid Goldsmith)

McLaren Animation 1

Short Changed

A couple struggle against the system in a world where everyone is literally made of money.

(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Zoe Hutber)

McLaren Animation 3

Soy Una Tumba

Every night a boy watches his father unloading a cargo of contraband tobacco. But that night it’s not tobacco…

(Country: Spain; Year: 2018; Director: Khris Cembe; Writer: Khris Cembe)

International Animation

Stitch

Stitch is an animated short film which highlights the need for change in the way we treat the sick and disabled in the UK.

(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Siobhán Smith; Writer: Siobhán Smith)

McLaren Animation 2

That Boy Emil (Emil & Ida i Lönneberga )

Little Emil just wants to help, but then everything always goes wrong. Banned to the shed, he’s supposed to think about his misdeeds – that is, until he gets into mischief again.

(Country: Sweden; Year: 2013; Director: Alicja Björk, Lasse Persson, Per Åhlin; Writer: Hans Åke Gabrielsson; Stars: Elisabeth Carlsson, Siw Carlsson, Rebecka Englund, Gustav Föghner, Gustav Föghner, Hans Åke Gabrielsson, Hans Åke Gabrielsson, Lindy Larsson, Astrid Lindgren, Tilda Ramde, Tilda Ramde, EwaMaria Roos, Allan Svensson)

McLaren Animation 3

The Thing I Left Behind

Two points of view clashing, a nostalgic, terminally ill patient, against a cold and pragmatic robot caretaker.

(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Chiarra Sgatti) , Trailer

McLaren Animation 3

Under Covers

The spooky secrets of a small town are revealed on the night of a lunar eclipse.

(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Michaela Olsen; Writer: Michaela Olsen; Stars: Dylan Stephen Levers, Robert Kovacs, Jade Shames, Emily Collins, Dylan Stephen Levers, Robert Kovacs, Jade Shames, Emily Collins)

International Animation

We Lie To Ourselves

A mouse, forced to work for a prey-killing corporate machine run by cats, takes drastic action against his oppressors.

(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Owen Rixon)

McLaren Animation 3

What's Next

Animated Piroshka pop video.

(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Bunny Schendler) , Trailer

McLaren Animation 2