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Encounters

2008

Celebrating the most outstanding short films from around the world, this Bristol-based film festival is celebrating its 14th year in 2008 and runs from November 18th to 23rd.

Not only offering a platform to up and coming film-makers, the festival also offers and opportunity to celebrate leaders in the field. Importantly, this is also a festival which opens its doors to budding filmmakers to come along and share their ideas and find new momentum. The runtimes may be brief, but one thing this festival is never short of is inspiration.

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Latest reviews

  • Madame Tutli-Putli
    Review preview for Madame Tutli-Putli

    The art direction is simultaneously gorgeous (beautiful lighting and well-crafted sets), yet lumpen, curved and ugly, as though exorcised from an exaggerated Expressionistic dream.

    Scott Macdonald · 4.5 out of 5
    A woman boards a train with all her worldly goods.
  • The Crumblegiant
    Review preview for The Crumblegiant

    Inquisitive and bright children of all ages will surely love the lusciously produced and imaginative animation.

    Scott Macdonald · 3 out of 5
    Half-remembered charcoal dreams from childhood.
  • Keith Reynolds Can't Make It Tonight
    Review preview for Keith Reynolds Can't Make It Tonight

    The animation is exquisitely timed for terrific comic impact.

    Scott Macdonald · 4 out of 5
    A businessman reaches the end of his tether.
  • Leaving
    Review preview for Leaving

    Penfold and Hearn keep their camera close, hugging tight to the emotional depth provided by Harris and Wareing.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A battered wife tries to find the courage to leave her husband.
  • Space Travel According To John
    Review preview for Space Travel According To John

    It is hard to imagine three minutes that could leave you gripped so hard with so little.

    Chris · 4.5 out of 5
    A ten year old boy explains his space travel plans in this award winning animated film
  • 2 Birds
    Review preview for 2 Birds

    To make a film that is touchingly beautiful at the same time as dealing with very bad things is a remarkable achievement.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    A group of teenagers experiment with ketamine and find themselves out of their depth.
  • Christmas With Dad
    Review preview for Christmas With Dad

    This could have been a hatchet job... but McCormack’s film digs a lot deeper than that.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A family prepare for Christmas.
  • Last Time In Clerkenwell
    Review preview for Last Time In Clerkenwell

    Utterly bonkers but brimming with ingenuity.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Birds go bonkers.
  • The Suburban Train
    Review preview for The Suburban Train

    As a sample of guerrilla film-making it is accomplished, in that the passengers seem completely unaware that their stories are being documented.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Examination of faces on a Russian commuter train.
  • Sleeping Betty
    Review preview for Sleeping Betty

    Full of gleeful anachronisms... brilliant.

    Andrew Robertson · 5 out of 5
    The palace try to wake their princess.

A–Z of Encounters 2008 reviews