EDINBURGH SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2018 PROGRAMME
FRIDAY 26th OCTOBER: SUMMERHALL
Doors Open 7:00pm – Programme starts 7:30pm
TRIBES AND TRIBULATIONS
In tribes we trust. Is there logic to our social selections? Our communities protect us, but sometimes we find ourselves cast out in the cold. How do we react when we become outsiders?
From Best British Short at the London Short Film Festival to darkly humane Afghan documentary and from the Audience Award winner at Clermont-Ferrand to a European Premiere drama from the Reunion Isle, as well as the Grand Prix winner at the Brussels Short Film Festival; we present an
award-winning selection of short film with an outsider view of human life.
LITTLE SHIT Richard Gorodecky Winner Best British Short/London Short Film Festival
ONE Javier Marco UK Premiere Winner Le Grand Prix International/Brussels Short Film Festival
AFGHAN COAL Zeynep Kececiler UK Premiere Winner Best Foreign Language Doc/Nice International Film Festival
POISSON DE MARS Pierre-Marc Drouin UK Premiere Winner Best Script & Actor/Palm Springs International Film Festival
LA FAIM VA TOUT DROIT Giulia Canella ADRIATIC FILM FESTIVAL GUEST FILM
ARTHUR RAMBO Guillaume Levil European Premiere
HYBRIDS Florian Brauch UK Premiere Winner Best Student Film/Annecy Int. Animated Film Festival
BONOBO Zoel Aeschbacher UK Premiere Winner Audience Award/Clermont-Ferrand Int. Short Film Festival
MAY DAY Olivier Magis & Fedrik De Beul UK Premiere
FRIDAY 26th OCTOBER: AN TALLA, ISLE OF TIREE
*Satellite Event 1 – Hosted by Screen Argyll*
Programme starts 6:30pm
We’re delighted to be sharing our opening day across Scotland to our friends at Screen Argyle
with our first satellite event for 2018, on the beautiful Isle of Tiree, at the An Talla centre. on our opening night!
We’ll be screening a mix of some of our favourite short films ranging from our Rising Star award winner Alia Ghafar’s bittersweet
Scottish drama, Salt & Sauce and Robin Joseph’s Oscar-nominated animation Fox & The Whale.
We screened there last year and looking forward to entertaining the isle again this year!
SATURDAY 27th OCTOBER: SUMMERHALL
Doors Open 7:00pm – Programme starts 7:30pm
OUT OF THE ASHES
A flick of a cigarette – moments of disaster can bring about a breath of calm and usher in positive change. Humankind’s capacity for rising Phoenix-like from the flames is seemingly boundless. What doesn’t kill us…
With films ranging from Belgian comedy and Clermont-Ferrand winning New Zealand Drama, Turkish animation and Jury Prize winner at Annecy, alongside Scottish, Italian, US and Chinese shorts in a packed programme of films from the ashes!
NIGHT OF BRASS Anna van Keimpema UK Premiere Winner Best Actress/Planos Short Film Festival
I-OCCUPY Lorenzo Lodovichi UK Premiere
BLUE CHRISTMAS Charlotte Wells
CORKY Ty Primosch Winner Best Animation/Boston Film Festival
TAKE ME SWIMMING Claire Dix
PEGGIE Rosario Capozzolo ADRIATIC FILM FESTIVAL GUEST FILM
THE WORLD IN YOUR WINDOW Hamish Mortland UK Premiere Best Student Film Award/Clemont-Ferrand Int. Short Film Festival
BROKEN ANGEL Hu Yichuan European Premiere
WICKED GIRL Ayce Kartal Jury Prize Winner/Annecy International Animation Festival
AINHOA Iván Sáinz-Pardo UK Premiere
FRIDAY 2nd NOVEMBER: FILMHOUSE
Programme starts 8:40pm
ESTONIAN ANIMATION: LINDEN SPACE
Edinburgh Short Film Festival presents Linden Space. A collection of animated films made by the students of Priit Pärn, a world famous Estonian cartoonist and animation director.
The programme is curated by Peter Murmaa of the Estonian Short Film Centre and presents the outstanding and award-winning work of a new generation of Estonian animators; who carry on their master’s teachings in their own unique way.
SATURDAY 3rd NOVEMBER: SUMMERHALL
VFX FOR INDEPENDENT FILM-MAKERS MASTERCLASS WITH DAN CULLEN
Programme starts 2:00pm
Visual Effects Workshop, led by experienced VFX expert, Dan Cullen. The aim of the workshop is to show how practical skills in VFX packages – many of them compatible with ordinary laptops – can create realistic environments which may be too expensive, impractical or time consuming to capture on film and can help to cut costs for film-makers.
Dan graduated in Digital Post-Production from NFTS and is currently working at Smoke & Mirrors as a commerical artist and compositor.
Dan’s previous credits include the Foster’s Beer ads and the feature film ‘Black 47’.
SATURDAY 3rd NOVEMBER: SUMMERHALL
Doors Open 7:00pm – Programme starts 7:30pm
IN THE DARK
In this dark, dark house, can you blindly stumble free when there is no path for you to follow?
In these dark, dark woods, can you forge a home in the pitch-black night? A series of films exploring how we try to find our way amid darkness.
From the audience award winner at Cannes 2018 to Colombian animation by Emmy-winning animators, and from South Korean neo-noir to Scottish neo-realist poetry, we’ll try to find out if there is a way home!
AQUARIUM Lorenzo Puntoni UK Premiere
THE WIDER SUN Sophia Carr-Gomm
CURSE OF THE WEREDUCK Stuart Hubbard
SILENT CAMPINE Steffen Geypens UK Premiere Winner Best Short Film/Vaughan International Film Festival
CRY BABY BLUE Marlek al-Habib
RITUAL Dan Schwartz European Premiere
A TAXI OF COLDNESS Joonha Kim European Premiere
BEASTS Sandra Schiessl UK Premiere Winner Flotter Dreier Award/KurzFilmFest Hamburg
ON THE BORDER Wei Shujun Nominated for Palme D’Or/Cannes Film Festival
JOHNNY THINKS Malcolm Rumbles
DENISE Rossella Inglese ADRIATIC FILM FESTIVAL GUEST FILM
MORPHOSIS Santiago Castaño European Premiere
SUNDAY 4th NOVEMBER: SUMMERHALL
Doors Open 7:00pm – Programme starts 7:30pm
FRIEND OR FOE
First impressions can be flawed. It takes time to get to know someone, and occasionally help comes to us from an unexpected place.
The hidden facets of the people around us are revealed, sometimes in our favour and sometimes with unforeseen results!
A look at allies and enemies, helpers and adversaries through short films including winner of Best film at SXSW and Grand Jury winner at Sundance. There’s Argentinian Sci-Fi and Rhode Island Film Festival Grand Jury award winner, as well as outstanding Finnish and Afghan drama,
award-winning Scottish horror and even Lebanese comedy!
AL HMAR Tariq Keblaoui UK Premiere
RADIOACTIVE Pamela Gray
CLOSE TO THE BONE Kevin Pickering Winner Best Director/Scottish Short Film Festival
OVUM Luciano Blotta UK Premiere Winner Best in Fest & Best Fantasy/Los Angeles Short Film Festival
GYPSY’S KISS Paul Murphy Winner Directors UK & ARRI Challenge
PARRU PI TIA Giuseppe Carleo ADRIATIC FILM FESTIVAL GUEST FILM
THE CAMEL BOY Chabname Zariâb UK Premiere
LOST AND FOUND Andre Franco
BORN WRONG Kaisa El Ramly Winner Nordic Talents 2016
EMERGENCY Carey Williams UK Premiere Grand Jury Award/Sundance Film Festival
TUESDAY 6th NOVEMBER: EDEN COURT THEATRE, INVERNESS
*Satellite Event 2*
Programme starts: TBC
We’re very pleased to be working with Eden Court Theatre this year to present a programme of outstanding short films
to audiences in Inverness for the first time!
As the city’s leading arts venue, it’s wonderful to have a programme of international, Scottish and UK Award-winning
short films screening in the Highlands, at Eden Court.
THURSDAY 8th NOVEMBER: FILMHOUSE
Programme starts 8:40pm
THE GAMES WE PLAY
Human culture is endlessly playful and immersed in trickster traditions, and playtime takes on a myriad of forms.
From Peruvian Black Comedy to award winning Swiss and Canadian animation as well as the Jury Award Winner at Sundance, we explore Games and Play in all its manifestations.
RETUKIRI TUKIRI Germán Tejada/Daniel Martin Rodriguez UK Premiere
THE LEGEND OF BOB LEONARD Will Kenning
PATER FAMILIAS Giacomo Boeri UK Premiere
BAGHEAD Alberto Corredor Winner Best Film/Cryptshow Festival
SCHEIDEWEG – TEENAGE THREESOME Arkadij Khaet UK Premiere Best Film/Chicago Pride Film Festival
DEATH VAN Michael Enzbrunner Audience Award/Simply Shorts, Brisbane
FAUVE Jeremy Comte Special Jury Award/Sundance Film Festival
COYOTE Lorenz Wunderle UK Premiere Best Animated Film/Aspen ShortFest
CHUCHOTAGE Barnabás Tóth UK Premiere
FRIDAY 9th NOVEMBER: FILMHOUSE
Programme starts 8:40pm
MEXICAN SHORTS: MEXICAN INSTITUTE OF CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Edinburgh Short Film Festival presents Mexican shorts courtesy of IMCINE, the Mexican Institute of Cinematography.
A curated programme of award-winning and eclectic shorts ranging from animation to drama and documentary. This mixed sample represents an exploration of Mexican culture, sometimes celebrating it and sometimes condemning the country’s devastating reality. But in each case, IMCINE showcases the wide range of talent and artistry Mexican contemporary film has to offer.
SATURDAY 10th NOVEMBER: SUMMERHALL
TIMELAPSE FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY MASTERCLASS WITH WALID SALHAB
Programme starts 2:00pm
What happens when we observe time? What do we learn and how does our observations change when we speed it up or slow it down? And how exactly do we do that?
In this event, hosted by Edinburgh International Science Festival, timelapse photography pioneer Walid Salhab will be in conversation with documentary filmmaker Amanda Rogers, sharing his innovative techniques in creating groundbreaking timelapse videos and screening his films that offer a spectacular view on Scotland and our world.
Whether you’re an enthusiastic photographer/filmmaker or just curious about the timelapse function on your smartphone, come along for a glimpse of the craft behind the creation. Pick up some tips on making your own timelapse videos, we’ll share your creations on our website and social media!
SATURDAY 10th NOVEMBER: SUMMERHALL
Doors Open 7:00pm – Programme starts 7:30pm
WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS
Our minds are haunted by thoughts on that which is yet to come. How do we find comfort in the present and look towards the future with curiosity?
Presenting short films that explore this theme from Tribeca Best Animation-winning Irish animation and award winning drama from Germany and Guadaloupe, as well as the winner of Mecal Barcelona audience award and astonishingly realised war drama from the USA.
AWARD CEREMONY & CLOSING NIGHT PARTY
Following the screening we’ll be presenting our Best Film, Best Animation and Best Scottish Film awards, while our infamous closing night party begins straight afterwards until 1am. Programme Tickets also valid for ceremony and party.
AN ISLAND Rory Byrne UK Premiere Grand Prix Winner/NAFF Neum Animated Film Festival, Bosnia
THE FLOOD IS COMING Gabriel Bohmer
THE INVISIBLE HAND OF ADAM SMITH Slobodan Maksimovic FIRENZE FILMCORTI GUEST FILM
THE FOREST FULL OF RABBITS Nikolai Knackmuss UK Premiere
ENOUGH Anna Mantzaris Winner Best Student Film/Anifest 2018, Czech Republic
LATE AFTERNOON Louise Bagnall Best Animated Short/Tribeca Film Festival 2018
THE THIRD KING Christoph Oliver Strunck UK Premiere Best Cinematography/Bermuda International Film Festival
THE FALL Angela Tiatia European Premiere
VIRE Hugo Rousselin UK Premiere Best Short Film Award/FEMI 2017
SONDER Neth Nom UK Premiere
AWARDS CEREMONY & CLOSING NIGHT PARTY FOLLOWS THE SCREENING