Glasgow Film Festival · 2013
The Glasgow Film Festival has acquired a reputation for excellence in its short film selections and this festival within a festival is well worth checking out. Shown in a dedicated venue with accompanying events, these films also offer a great opportunity to meet filmmakers. This year the strand focuses on women in filmmaking and on the Colombia Film School of New York.
39 films · 28 reviews
There isn't much to this wee film, but that doesn't mean it doesn't shine.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Claire Lamond; Writer: Claire Lamond, based on the short story by Anne Donovan.; Stars: Anna Cowen, Susan McClure, David McKay, Mairi-Clare McKinlay)
(Country: Singapore; Year: 2012; Director: Taj Jenkins Musco; Writer: Su Ching Teh; Stars: Old Boy Lim, Ryan Yongyi, Zeng Cai Zhen, Taj Jenkins Musco, Navin Rajan)
As courtships go Bond is somewhat unconventional.
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Helen Wright)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2012; Director: Marcelo Matos de Oliveira, Wallace Nogueira)
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Jonathan Pope Evans; Writer: Jonathan Pope Evans; Stars: Benjamin Gould, David Artavia)
(Country: Japan, Australia; Year: 2011; Director: James McFay; Writer: James McFay; Stars: Hidetaka Ichiyama, Jessica McColl, Anna Shpak, Rory Stewart)
Visceral stuff this, back-woods and isolated, gory and horrifying.
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Shaun Hughes; Writer: Shaun Hughes, Julian Lee; Stars: Julian Lee, Bhasker Patel, Xavi Coll, Laura Martuscelli)
(Country: UK, Morocco; Year: 2012; Director: Fyzal Boulifa; Writer: Fyzal Boulifa; Stars: UK/Morocco)
Possessed of a compelling, folkloric intensity, Tom Chick's film is a morbid gem.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Tom P Chick; Writer: Tom P Chick; Stars: James Anthony Pearson, Tam Dean Burn, Holly Gilchrist, Holly Howden Gilchrist, Kathryn Howden, Anne Lacey)
There's a good amount of self-awareness within the film, and well-portrayed self-realisation for the characters.
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Louis Paxton; Writer: Louis Paxton, Krysty Wilson-Cairns; Stars: Kim Chapman, Simon Harrison)
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Layke Anderson; Writer: Layke Anderson; Stars: Joanna Scanlan, Ricky Nixon)
With its considered compositions and emphasis upon real-life re-enactment, East Hastings Pharmacy has a vague resemblance to Soderbergh’s Bubble.
(Year: 2012; Director: Antoine Bourges; Stars: Shauna Hansen, Luis Figueroa)
It's the silences that really give Echo its power.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Lewis Arnold; Writer: James Walker; Stars: Lauren Carse, Oliver Woollford, Carolina Giametta)
(Country: France, Canada; Year: 2012; Director: Franck Dion; Writer: Franck Dion)
Perfectly contained, the contrast between human concerns and a cultural expression that's at once alien and untranslateable and immediately recognisable is stunning.
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2012; Director: Isabel Penoni, Leonardo Sette; Writer: Isabel Penoni)
A charming bit of stop-motion and well worth seeking out.
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2012; Director: Conor Finnegan; Writer: Conor Ferguson, Conor Finnegan; Stars: Mark Doherty, Aoife Duffin)
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Jeremy David White; Writer: Austin Reynolds; Stars: Andrew Shea, Lili Reinhart, Justin Hall, Noland Ammon, Davis Desmond, Victoria Moroles)
While it's well-made, well-acted, it's trying to draw from a well too often tapped.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Zachariah Copping; Writer: Zachariah Copping; Stars: Pollyanna McIntosh, Lorne MacFadyen, Mark Oliver)
(Country: Finland; Year: 2012; Director: Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen; Writer: Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen)
DeRoche has created a documentary that's both heart-warming and illuminating.
(Country: Australia; Year: 2012; Director: Summer DeRoche; Stars: Andrew Pullen)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Volker Schreiner)
(Country: Romania; Year: 2012; Director: Adrian Dorin Sitaru; Writer: Claudia Silisteanu; Stars: Elena Ivanca, Emilian Marnea, Natasa Raab, Clara Voda)
Hertzfeldt is inordinately talented. This is a beautiful film.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Don Hertzfeldt; Writer: Don Hertzfeldt; Stars: Don Hertzfeldt)
A confident and assured portrayal of a distinct lack of confidence and assurance.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Ainslie Henderson; Writer: Ainslie Henderson; Stars: Mackenzie Crook, Jude Crook)
This is an autobiographical film about someone's love, and love is the right word, a love of film.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Mehrnaz Saeedvafa; Stars: Mehrnaz Saeedvafa, Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin)
Sara Ishaq's film is unflinching.
(Country: United Arab Emirates, UK, Yemen; Year: 2012; Director: Sara Ishaq; Stars: Saleem Al-Harazi, Anwar Al-Muati)
Martin McCormick's turn is a good one, Jackson's various interactions as he does his rounds a series of vignettes - life at the sharp end.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Russell Davidson; Writer: Russell Davidson; Stars: Martin McCormick, Amiera Darwish, Ailsa Courtney, David Walshe, Ryan Fletcher, Scott Fletcher, Stuart Littleford, Gary McCormack)
Sort of hints at a subsequent romance.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Karoliina Pulkkinen; Stars: Ross Finnie, Neli Zhecheva)
With all the slap and grease-paint it's between pan-cake and pandaemonium.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Uisdean Murray, Louise Quinn; Writer: Bal Cooke, Louise Quinn; Stars: Louise Quinn, Kid Loco)
Written and directed by Dalibor Matanic, with a strong central performance from Leona Paraminski, it's technically adept, haunting.
(Country: Croatia; Year: 2009; Director: Dalibor Matanic)
There are some stunning shots, neat personal moments.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Paul Fegan)
There's got to be humour that doesn't feel like pointing and laughing at a PVC-clad strawman.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Stuart Elliott; Writer: Stuart Elliott; Stars: Stewart Porter, Vincent Hunter, Euan Cuthbertson, Billy Elliott, Paul Cassidy, James Thomson)
Very little happens but it does so in a way that feels inevitable, astonishing.
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2011; Director: Karla Gómez; Writer: Karla Gómez; Stars: Joaquin Foong, Leandro Juarez, Carolina Lo Bianco, Maria Cecilia Mc Dermott, Marta Rodriguez)
Fine model work, excellent production design, an overwhelming sense of menace.
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2012; Director: Johan Oettinger; Writer: Richard Raskin; Stars: Vibe Lilmoës, Ene Øster Bendtsen, Sanne Løwe, Jonas Bregnhøj Nielsen, Jonas Bjarnøe Jensen) , Official site , Trailer
This is interesting work, and you should look forward to further output from those involved.
(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Duncan Cowles, Anita Norfolk; Stars: Olivia Errey, Lewis Wardrop)
In Strayed there's a definite sense of finding - a startling, stunning finding.
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Ian Waugh; Writer: Ian Waugh; Stars: Michele Gallagher, Steven Rae)
Manages the bleat of despair and a bubbly breeziness.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Vitali Sichinava; Writer: Vitalij Sicinava; Stars: Will Anderson, Tobias Feltus, Ainslie Henderson, Alan Mason)
There are some stunning sequences.
(Country: India; Year: 2012; Director: Abhijit Mazumdar; Writer: Abhijit Mazumdar; Stars: Aseem Hattangadi, Anand Tiwari, Vijay Waghule)
Mura is competently made and good to watch.
(Country: Italy, UK; Year: 2013; Director: Benedetto Pace; Writer: Benedetto Pace; Stars: Franz Cantalupo, Vittorio Vaccaro)
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