EDINBURGH SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2016 PROGRAMME          

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WEDNESDAY 26TH OCTOBER: FILMHOUSE
8:35pm – 10:30pm
TOKYO NIGHTS

The Edinburgh Short Film Festival opens at the Filmhouse and we’re very excited to be working with Tokyo’s Short Shorts Film Festival, an Academy Awards® accredited festival,one of the largest film festivals in Asia and whose patrons include George Lucas!

We’re delighted to bring some of the best contemporary Japanese-made shorts screened at SSFF to the Filmhouse. Including the winner of the 2016 Best Japanese Short Film award alongside some outstanding Japanese animation, comedy and drama!

THAT’S NO MEANING                                                     Hiroto Hara

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A WARM SPELL                                                              Toshimichi Saito

BETWEEN THE LINES                                                    Daisuke Yamaoka

ABSENCE                                                                        Dai Yoshida

MOON OF SLEEPLESS NIGHT                                       Takeshi Yashiro

 

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FRIDAY 28TH OCTOBER: SUMMERHALL
7:30pm – 9:30pm
OUT OF CONTROL

Situations where events spiral out of control and where worlds and characters are propelled  by motives, circumstances, emotions or beliefs that force them into places and actions they can no longer command.

Featuring the outstanding drama ‘Domenica’ from our guests the Sardinia Film Festival as well as the Silver Laurel winning ‘Hole’ featuring Joe Cosmo & Daniela Nardini and the edgy, award winning American comedy, ‘The Session’ and Ibrahim Nada’s tense, contemporary thriller, ‘Zaar’.


BLUEY                                                                             Darlene Johnson

WINTER HYMNS                                                             Dusty Mancinelli

TODAY THEY TOOK MY SON                                         Pierre Dawalibi

BOAT                                                                                David Lumsden

A DONE DEAL                                                                  Pierre-Marc Drouin & Simon Lamarre-Ledoux

HOLE                                                                                Mike Callaghan

ZAAR                                                                                Ibrahim Nada

DOMENICA (SUNDAY)                                                     Bonifacio Angius  *Guest film from the Sardinia Film Festival

THE SESSION                                                                  Morgane Becerril

 

 

 

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SATURDAY 29TH OCTOBER: SUMMERHALL

2pm  – 3:30pm Film Maker’s Funding Workshop (Free/unticketed)

Funding workshop provided by Matthew Martino Benevolent Fund
aimed at providing advice and guideance to film-makers on funding sources.

SATURDAY 29TH OCTOBER: SUMMERHALL
7:30pm – 9:30pm
ON THE ROAD

Journeys – what takes us on them and what we take from them.  Tales of characters with the motives and means to make journeys – in which they pursue the exhilaration of being alive, meting out a final vengeance, fulfilling their deepest desires ..or simply to stay alive in a hostile world.
Including the multi-award winning Mexican/US drama Land of the Exodus and the winner of the best international film at Tokyo’s Short Shorts Film Festival, the South Korean action/sci-fi epic ‘Keep Going’.


THE CHILD AND THE DEAD                                                                     Marc Ripper & Karina Ripper

LUNETTE                                                                                                   Phoebe Warries

THE LAST JOURNEY OF THE ENIGMATIC PAUL W.R.                              Romain Quirot

DEMOCRACY IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT                                                       Gail Gilbert

MAIALETTO DELLA NURRA
(NURRA’S LITTLE PIG)                                                                               Marco Antonio Pani
*Guest film from the Sardinia Film Festival

LAND OF THE EXODUS                                                                              Skinner Myers

KEEP GOING                                                                                                Geon Kim

BRUAR                                                                                                         Graeme Cassels

L’ULTIMO VIAGGIO
(THE LAST TRIP)                                                                                         Valeria Luchetti

DUKE’S PURSUIT                                                                                         Charlie Edwards-Moss & Joe Williams

 

 

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SUNDAY 30TH OCTOBER: SUMMERHALL

2pm  – 3:30pm  Script Pitch Finale (Free/unticketed)
4:00pm – 5:00pm Screen Academy Scotland Screenwriting Masterclass (Free/unticketed)

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SUNDAY 30TH OCTOBER: SUMMERHALL
7:30pm – 9:30pm
1 MINUTE TILL MIDNIGHT

From dark desires to dangerous obsessions, get in the mood for Halloween with our selections of latest spine-chilling and blood-curdling shorts from around the world!

From New Zealand, we’re screening the multi-award winning ‘Madam Black’ as well as the never less than gripping, ‘Nasty’ which pays homage to 1980’s video nasty genre as well as the stunning, Hong Kong-set sci-fi horror ‘The Fisherman’ along with Sweden’s deliciously dark comedy-drama ‘Bitchboy’, we present whole nightful of blacker-than-black comedies and enjoyably grubby horrors!

BORIS IN THE FOREST                                              Robert Hackett

RITMOA                                                                      Alexandre Garacotche

NASTY                                                                         Prano Bailey-Bond

THREE TALES FROM ALEXANDRIA                           Natasza Cetner

IMITATIONS                                                                 Fabian Velasco & Milos Mitrovic

JEWELS                                                                        Matty Grove

THE BEAR                                                                    Peter Findlay

BITCHBOY                                                                    Måns Berthas

EL PESCADOR
(THE FISHERMAN)                                                       Alejandro Suárez Lozano

WRITER’S BLOCK                                                         Vito Milazzo

MADAM BLACK                                                            Ivan Barge

 

 

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WEDNESDAY 2ND NOVEMBER: CAMEO CINEMA
8:00pm – 10:00pm
DREAMSCAPES

The places that lie between reality and dreams and short films that question what reality is and what it can be.
From extraordinary claymotion Mexican surrealism ‘Hour of the Dreams’to the Cannes winning fantasy short The Clockmaker’s Dream by way of the unique American experimental drama Silentium Dei and Maze, the Govanhill baths-set Scottish ballet, we present a series of films that challenge the dominion of the everyday over the rebellious undercurrents of the unreal.

MAZE                                                                             Eve McConnachie

THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS                          Matthew Lawes

SILENTIUM DEI                                                             Attila Rostas

AURELIA                                                                        Christos Bourantas & Kreon Krionas

YOU ARE AWAKE                                                           Pedro Martin-Calero

THE LICK                                                                        Stephen C. Horne

HINTERLAND                                                                 NVA & Julian Schwanitz

LA HORA DE LOS SUENOS
(THE HOUR OF DREAMS)                                              Rodrigo Orozco

HIDDEN                                                                           Khorshid Najm

THE CLOCKMAKER’S DREAM                                         Cashell Horgan

 

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SHORT DOCS NIGHT
FRIDAY 4TH NOVEMBER: SUMMERHALL
7:30pm – 9:30pm

Documentary lovers are in for a treat this year, as we have partnered the Scottish Documentary Institute to screen a collection of well-loved and highly acclaimed films from the SDI, plus specially programmed documentaries from this year’s submissions!

CAILLEACH                                                      Rosie Reed Hillman

ICHIRO AND THE WAVE                                  Isaac Kerlow

THE THIRD DAD                                              Theresa Moerman

SHEEPO                                                            Ian Robertson

DIRECTED BY TWEEDIE                                   Duncan Cowles

MINING POEMS OR ODES                                Callum Rice

THE MIRACLE                                                    Eric Piccoli

IMPERATIVE SHIFT                                            Yoko Kubota

FERGUSON, MISSOURI                                       James Arthur Armstrong

OTTICA ZERO                                                      Maja Borg

POUTERS                                                             Paul Fegan

 

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SATURDAY 5TH NOVEMBER: SUMMERHALL

7:30pm – 9:30pm
BECOMING

The films gathered here document the defining moment in a protaginist’s life. What are the acts that define us and what are the acts that we allow to define us? What do we become when we carry out deeds that change us forever?  Films that remind s that states of being are never permanent..

Including the Academy Award nominated ‘Boogaloo and Graham’, the multi-award winning comedy, ‘A Six and Two Threes’ and the intense, ‘Winter Hymns’ (Grand Jury winner at the Slamdance film Festival) as well as the very funny Australian ping-pong themed comedy, ‘Under The Table’.

PANIC                                                                        James Cookson

HUM CHITRA BANATEY HAIN
(WE MAKE IMAGES)                                                 Nina Sabnani

SOME WILL FORGET                                                Ruth Grimberg

UNDER THE TABLE                                                   Max Walter

IN THE WAVES                                                           Ying-Fang Shen

BOOGALOO & GRAHAM                                            Michael Lennox

CECI N’EST PAS UNE ANIMATION
(THIS IS NOT AN ANIMATION)                                  Federico Kempke

MAINLAND                                                                  Ischa Clissen

A SIX AND TWO THREES                                            Andy Berriman

THE MOTHER                                                               Paolo Monico

 

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SUNDAY 6TH NOVEMBER: SUMMERHALL

7:30pm – 9:30pm
ROSES ARE RED

Our films tonight revolve around those actions taken out of love, desire..or just plain, old obsession. From fragile romance to bitter envy and from lust-fuelled desires to simple affection we highlight those characters who act in the name of a higher desire or simply ‘cos they want to.

From the witty, poignant and heart-rending Afghan drama, ‘Mary Mother’ to the powerful Liverpool-set ‘Break’ (featuring John Hurt) by way of the charming and imaginative Spanish romance ‘Apolo81’ we take a wry look at the ways we are affected by those who claim to love us..


VEGAS                                                                           Saj Pothiawala

THE FRYING GAME                                                       Martin Lennon

NACHSPIEL
(AFTERMATH)                                                                Ralf Beyerle

THROUGH MY STREETS -RIO WOLTA                           Piet Baumgartner

BREAK                                                                             Nicholas Moss

APOLO81                                                                         Óscar Bernàce

V DAY                                                                               Chih-Peng Lucas Kao

THE BATHTUB                                                                 Tim Ellrich

LOCKBOX                                                                          Pete Cotter & Glen Johnston

SAM & BARB’S SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL                         Adam Grannick & Erin E. McGuff

MARY MOTHER                                                                 Sadam Wahidi

 

 

SUNDAY 6TH NOVEMBER: SUMMERHALL CAFE/BAR
RISING STAR AWARD CEREMONY & CLOSING NIGHT PARTY
10:00pm – 1:00am

Presentation of the 2016 Rising Star Award and prizes donated by the Matthew Martino Benevolent Fund –  followed by a late night party, where we’ll swill down some fine libations along with  some live music from the best Bluegrass this side of the M8 from our very own, Brimstone Blake!

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