Edinburgh Film Festival: Shorts Lineup
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- DirectorFabian AltenriedStarsEJulie TrappettAlex WisselDrifting 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.
- DirectorGordon NapierStarsMoyo AkandéMorayo AkandéClive RussellTwo sisters torn from their home in Nigeria and sold into slavery try to retake their freedom in a foreign and hostile land, attempting to elude their master in the perilous Scottish Highlands.
- DirectorRune SpaansStarsIngrid Bolsø BerdalYngvill Kolset HagaJohn Erik KaadaEddy Table, known from the comics of Dave Cooper, makes his screen debut in this animated short. One day, Eddy gets lost in a dark forest. There he meets an alluring girl infected by a mysterious parasite. Love and violence ensues.
- DirectorWill GossStarsAllison MurphyJason MurphyA couple deals with a deceptively mundane chore.
- DirectorRicardo ArnaizMike KunkelRaul GarciaStarsEdward James OlmosRico RodriguezCheech MarinA Mexican parrot named Cuco sets off on an adventure to defend his family.
- DirectorJoana PimentaAn aviation field in an unknown suburb. The lake underneath the city burns the streets.
- DirectorMonica Saviron'The fading that devastates color films occurs in the dark. It is accelerated by high temperatures and, to a lesser extent, relative humidity. Dye fading is irreversible. Once the dye images have faded, the information lost cannot be recovered'-Image Permanence Institute
- DirectorAgnieszka SmoczynskaStarsKatarzyna FiguraGabriela MuskalaSlawomir GrzymkowskiBasia has already settled down in her life. She is a housewife and has a loving family. It seems as though she does not miss anything to be happy. Until a moment when an opera diva moves into an apartment upstairs. Basia is enchanted and seduced with her voice. A peculiar relationship is born between them. It develops into a feeling which is not particularly comfortable for either of the two women.
- DirectorNick RowntreeStarsKacey AinsworthRay EvesLouis HealyPsychological drama about a woman trapped in her home by a teenage boy intent on driving her to suicide.
- DirectorCarolina Charry QuinteroStarsJosé Adam ArriolaMargarita Luisa QuinteroRafa RojasWhat do we see when we really look at an animal? Certainly, not just what meets the eye.
- DirectorJoanna QuinnStarsChristine PritchardBen HeneghanThe history of empire. A British bulldog answers his mistress's call. He tacks down the Union Jack to cover the British Isles, then begins playing with a small ball that's the world. At first it's innocent play. The dog discovers tea in India; then, the dog shakes gold out of Africa. Gradually, innocence gives way to more and more ferocious play with the ball. We see terrorized women and children as the dog becomes an enslaving potentate. Harmless English archetypes benefit from colonial riches. Then the world begins to grow, and the dog changes too, from bulldog to effete lap dog.
- DirectorGautam ValluriSomewhere in the forests of the sub-conscious, a sleepwalker journeys through the remains of a lost city.
- DirectorDaishi KatoStarsMinori IchiyanagiYosuke InoueBecause of his stutter, Satoru is the constant victim of bullying. His classmate Eri is sympathetic, but turns a blind eye in order to fit in with her friends. As the teasing gets worse, Eri decides to make a housecall, but her visit to Satoru's doesn't turn out as planned...
- DirectorDino RoscignoStarsDino RoscignoJohn-Gordon Rocco FalkSebastian KortowskyFour college friends reunite one summer day to reminisce about the good ol' days back at St. John Univ. Beer is drunk, stories told & a very big bet is lost. Life is full of surprises & more than just a few Cautionary Tales.
- DirectorJames D'ArcyStarsNikolaj Coster-WaldauMax FowlerHayley AtwellMark is going to help his uncle out. Maybe.
- DirectorAndrew JeffreyStarsHannah Endicott-DouglasJack KnightOliver BeckerIn a small farming community, two brothers brutally attack a local boy who sexually assaulted their sister. The three siblings quickly face the threatening consequences of this vengeful act when the beaten boy's father mysteriously arrives on their farm in the middle of the night. CHICKENS is an intense story about loss of innocence and the deep bond between siblings struggling to connect in the aftermath of unspeakable violence.
- DirectorZofia KowalewskaStarsBarbara TorhanZdzislaw TorhanAn elderly couple grumble constantly to each other. But why? At a special dinner the story is revealed.
- DirectorSam AshbyStarsSean HartJosh O'ConnorJohn AlcockAn examination of the Lesbian and Gay News Media Archive in London interspersed with recollections of the Homosexual Law Reform Society and a meditation on life under discriminatory law.
- DirectorSam FirthStarsHannah Lily MorrisonJames O'HaraPaul TintoA teenage girl from a small Highland community has a crush on a local lobster fisherman and persuades him to take her out for the day.
- DirectorRosie WesthoffStarsZara Mirabelle CooperMaddie HollidayCrush is a coming of age film about a girl's first crush. One day while waiting for the train to school Ella see's Jamie. For the days to follow she can't get her out of her head.
- DirectorRobert G. PutkaStarsEilis CahillClare McNultyDad died, and now Rae has to break the news to her sister.
- DirectorMarc RibaAnna SolanasIn an isolated and unknown place during a war a child is forced to flee. On his way, horse corpses everywhere. Only dead horses. Why? Why horses have decided to kill themselves?
- DirectorAnette SidorStarsHannes FohlinKarl-Henrik FranzénOldoz JavidiDEBUT is about Philip who dreams of becoming a model. At a casting he gets the chance to be photographed with the well-known model Sebastiaan, they fall in love. During the photo shoot, Philip pushes his limits more and more in order to keep the photographer's interest. Philip and Sebastiaan lose control of the situation when Philip is doing everything he can just to be able to stay in front of the camera.
- DirectorKyahl AndersonDale MastinStarsWesley ForkeCostas KiliasDarren MortThe story of Troy as he navigates his life under the ever-present cloud of domestic violence. An unlikely ally is found in Virianna, an immigrant postal worker, but unbeknownst to Troy, Virianna has her own demons to face.