Glasgow Film Festival · 2012
Innovative new short films from around the world. All the films from this selection will be in competition and if you go to see them you can help to pick the winner.
43 films · 18 reviews
It could be the set-up for a disturbing thriller. Instead, 15 Summers Later plays out as a delicately balanced observational comedy.
(Country: Spain, Norway; Year: 2011; Director: Pedro Collantes; Writer: Pedro Collantes; Stars: Tor Ivar Hagen, Kathrine Strugstad, Bard var Engelsas)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2011; Director: Isamu Hirabayashi)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2010; Director: Yoo Won-Sang)
Scattershot, lurching, and with some moments that verge on racial caricature, this is perhaps best avoided.
(Country: UK, Ireland; Year: 2010; Director: Joern Utkilen; Writer: Joern Utkilen; Stars: Mihai Arsene, Andy Cheung)
In the constructedness of its approach, the split-screens, the mute passage of time before us, it becomes evocative, enlightening, impressive.
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2010; Director: Daya Cahen)
(Country: Iceland; Year: 2011; Director: Börkur Sigþórsson; Writer: Börkur Sigþórsson; Stars: Gisli Bjorn Runarsson, Björn Thors, Þrúður Vilhjálmsdóttir)
Once you have seen it you cannot help but measure every film you have ever seen against it.
(Country: Spain; Year: 2011; Director: Javier Chillon; Writer: Javier Chillon; Stars: José Antonio Fuentes, Benito Sagredo, Jaroslav Bielski)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2011; Director: Aly Muritiba; Writer: Aly Muritiba; Stars: Eloina Duvoisin Ferreira, Andrew Knoll)
A nice little piece, characterful if not compelling.
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2010; Director: Jacob Secher Schulsinger)
There's the germ of a good idea here, but the film feels like a rough cut.
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2010; Director: André Novais Oliveira; Stars: Gabriel Martins, Mauirillo Martins)
Strong, engaging, deeply personal.
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2010; Director: Robert-Jan Lacombe; Writer: Robert-Jan Lacombe)
(Country: Canada; Year: 2010; Director: Kazik Radwanski; Writer: Kazik Radwanski; Stars: Raj Manav, Kaiden Williams, Cynthia Crofoot, Helen Peacock, Kyle Peacock)
(Country: US; Year: 2011; Director: Bill Plympton; Writer: Bill Plympton)
(Country: Iran; Year: 2010; Director: Alireza Rofougaran; Writer: Alireza Rofougaran)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2011; Director: Bjørn Melhus; Writer: Bjørn Melhus)
(Country: Argentina, Colombia; Year: 2011; Director: Vladimir Duran; Writer: Vladimir Duran; Stars: Mariel Fernández, Ignacio Sánchez Mestre, Lautaro Noriega)
Smith's restraint and Jimmy's drive combine to make a powerful portrait of a man and his work.
(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Martin Smith; Stars: Jimmy MacIntosh)
(Country: Sweden; Year: 2011; Director: Jens Assur; Writer: Jens Assur)
Beercan aeroplanes in stark-white skies, wire-wheeled wonders carrying characters and plot.
(Country: Belgium; Year: 2010; Director: William Henne; Writer: Daniel Colin, Alain Essange, William Henne)
(Country: Sweden; Year: 2011; Director: Johannes Nyholm; Writer: Johannes Nyholm)
Long Distance Information depicts that phone call so well, the stilted awkwardness as you ask about things you don't care about.
(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Douglas Hart; Writer: Douglas Hart; Stars: Peter Mullan, Alan Tripney, Caroline Paterson)
(Country: UK, Germany; Year: 2011; Director: Erik Bostedt; Stars: Sophie Hunter, Alex Avery, Katie Bignell)
Good, entertaining, verging at times on the self-indulgent.
(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Will Anderson; Writer: Ainslie Henderson, Will Anderson; Stars: Will Anderson, Tobias Feltus, Vitalij Sicinava)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2010; Director: Erik Schmitt, Stephan Müller; Stars: Antonia Goltz, Stephan Müller, Folke Renken)
(Country: Poland; Year: 2010; Director: Marta Minorowicz; Writer: Marta Minorowicz)
(Country: US, Russia; Year: 2011; Director: David Lowery; Writer: David Lowery; Stars: Myles Brooks, Will Oldham)
Among the dropped frames it seems more forced than it ought, less critical.
(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Fred Worden; Stars: Fred Worden)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2010; Director: Christina Ebelt Mischa Leinkauf; Writer: Piet Fuchs, Mischa Leinkauf; Stars: Kai Ivo Baulitz, Sonja Baum, Till Butterbach)
(Country: US; Year: 2011; Director: Chris King; Writer: Heather King, Chris King; Stars: Ruby Sketchley, Eric Wheeler, Gary Mello)
(Country: US, Suriname; Year: 2011; Director: Ben Russell)
It is not pleasant, but it is powerful, strikingly so.
(Country: Sweden; Year: 2010; Director: Jimmy Olsson; Writer: Jimmy Olsson)
Milan Maric and Milo Timotijevic deliver good performances which require them to go in very different directions.
(Country: Serbia; Year: 2012; Director: Nikola Ljuca; Writer: Nikola Ljuca; Stars: Jasmina Avramovic, Milan Maric, Milos Timotijevic)
(Country: Germany, Romania; Year: 2011; Director: Anca Miruna Lazarescu; Writer: Anca Miruna Lazarescu, Bianca Oana; Stars: Toma Cuzin, Andi Vasluianu, Patricia Moga, Branko Tomovic, Denijen Pauljevic)
It's a mark of its quality how ably it wrong-foots.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Stephen Fingleton; Writer: Stephen Fingleton; Stars: Hussina Raja, Bhasker Patel, George Savvides, Günalp Koçak)
(Country: France; Year: 2011; Director: Christopher Radcliff, Lauren Wolkstein; Writer: Lauren Wolkstein, Christopher Radcliff; Stars: David Call, Tobias Campbell, Merritt Wever)
(Country: Japan, US; Year: 2011; Director: Satsuki Okawa; Writer: Satsuki Okawa; Stars: Misa Shimizu, Kan Takashima, Ryuji Miyanari, Yukihiro Yoshimi)
(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: James Nares)
This is, in fact, a fascinating documentary about the cubicle.
(Country: Canada, US; Year: 2011; Director: Zaheed Mawani)
The central performances are great - the warriors speak in the old tongue, subtitled.
(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Johnny Barrington; Writer: Johnny Barrington; Stars: Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson)
One wonders if Robyn O'Neil's original artwork would have been aided by being static.
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2011; Director: Eoghan Kidney; Writer: Eoghan Kidney, Robyn O'Neil) , Official site
(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Joanna Coates; Writer: Joanna Coates; Stars: Bronagh Gallagher, Joe Van Moyland)
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2011; Director: Rachel Lang)
(Country: Iran; Year: 2010; Director: Saba Riazi; Writer: Saba Riazi)
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