2017 PROGRAMME

EDINBURGH SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2017 PROGRAMME

FRIDAY 27TH OCTOBER: FILMHOUSE

Doors Open 6:15pm – Programme starts 6:30pm

IBERIAN ANIMATION: MECAL – ANIMATION NIGHT



The opening night of the 2017 Edinburgh Short Film Festival and we are delighted to present a programme of animated short films curated by

MECAL – Barcelona Int. Shorts & Animation Film Festival!

From some outstanding Claymation to stunning 2D Animation and mixed-media, Mecal curates a programme of some of the best Spanish and Catalan animated shorts of recent years. We’re also delighted to play host to Roberto Barrueco, Mecal’s festival director.

CANIS Marc Riba & Anna Solanas

DEEP Marta Lafuente

AMAR Isabel Herguera

BENDITO MACHINE V – PULL THE TRIGGER Jossie Malis

AMOR DE MONO Trimono

DECORADO Alberto Vazquez

POR QUE DESAPARECIERON LOS DINOSAURIOS? Esau Dharma & Mar Delgado

MADE IN SPAIN Coke Rioboo

LOS REYES MAGOS Alberto Gonzalez Vazquez

LA COSA EN LA ESQUINA Zoe Berriatua

SATURDAY 28TH OCTOBER: SUMMERHALL

Doors Open 7pm – Programme starts 7:30pm

SECRET SELVES – Whether it’s hidden obsessions, secret loves, strange beliefs or odd quirks, human interaction is noted for hidden meanings and those secret sub-texts which lie behind our every exchange.

PEOPLE IN CARS Daniel Lundh

RUNAWAY Noëmi Schneider

PRINCESS Karsten Dahlem

TOMORROW Gabriel Bagnaschi

MY BAKERY BLOSSOM Michel Vrinten

INTERVAL

VICTOR Paul Menville

EWWW Alexei Slater

DER TUNNEL Marc Schmidheiny & Christoph Daniel

PACO Catalina Jordan Alvarez

SIREN Nobuyuki Miyake

FRIDAY 3RD NOVEMBER: SUMMERHALL

Doors Open 7pm – Programme starts 7:30pm



LIMINAL SPACES – Films which focus on characters, situation and concepts which fall among those nebulous, in-between places that we sometimes struggle to define.

FOG PEOPLE Antoine Janot

PLASTIC MAN Yulia Kovanova

THE MAN WHO NEVER WENT HOME Lyle Bushe

A LITTLE GREY Simon Hewitt

THE EXPEDITION Damon Mohl

INTERVAL

REVERIE Stella Scott

HILDE Felix Knoche

WHACK Syni Pappa

SAKROSANCTO Amy Hands

SCHIRKOA Ishan Shukla

SATURDAY 4TH NOVEMBER: SUMMERHALL

Doors Open 7pm – Programme starts 7:30pm

PLAYGROUND – Modern culture is obsessively playful, always rule-breaking and immerses us in a world where we exist in an eternal Playground, adopting and playing new personas and taking on new roles and becoming the ‘other’ we cannot be in our everyday lives.

TIS Chloe Lesueur

THE EMISSARIES Emir Ziyalar

OOR WALLY Martin Lennon

KRAMPUS Christof Pilsl

FRAMED Marco Jemolo

INTERVAL

BEFORE CHRISTMAS He Chuyao

DENTURES OF DEATH Elias Sommer

INK, COCKS & ROCK & ROLL Matthew Harlock

GOOD GIRLS Niamh McKeown

RINGO ROCKET STAR AND HIS SONG FOR YURI GAGARIN Rene Nuijens

MONDAY 6TH NOVEMBER: FILMHOUSE

Programme starts 8:40pm

SDI – SHORT DOCS NIGHT

The Edinburgh Short Film Festival has partnered the Scottish Documentary Institute to present a night of short documentary. Lively, engaging and insightful, the SDI explores some of the back alleys and farther-flung landscapes of the contemporary Scottish experience.

Combining an SDI-curated programme of some of the best Scottish short documentaries and some of the SDI’s favourite docs of recent years with international documentaries from the Edinburgh Short Film Festival.

MA BAR Adrian McDowall & Finlay Pretsell

LAST IN THE LINE Blair Scott & Dylan Drummond

COMMODITY CITY Jessica Kingdon

SWAN Lindsay Brown

THE BIG LIE Peter Everett

THE DEVIL AND THE HOLY WATER Diego Maria Malara

NIGHT SHIFT Ruth Reid

THURDAY 9TH NOVEMBER: FILMHOUSE

Programme starts 8:40pm

OVERCOMING – How we overcome (or fail to overcome) overwhelming obstacles & opposition as well as the struggles we face overcoming our own internal fears, is a potent theme among this year’s films.

A DROWNING MAN Mahdi Fleifel

FREE PERIOD Alison Piper

THE ESCAPE Jaroslaw Konopka

HAUD CLOSE TAE ME Eve McConnachie

THE REALM OF DEEPEST KNOWING Seung Hee Kim

JIMBO Rodrigo Zanforlin

MARKY’S BAD WEEK Daniel Holmwood

NICOLE’S CAGE Josef Brandl

SATELLITE EVENT

FRIDAY 10TH NOVEMBER: AN TALLA, CROSSAPOL, ISLE OF TIREE

Programme starts: 5:30PM

2017 sees the ESFF open it’s very first satellite event! We’re delighted to be working with Screen Tiree which will see the Isle of Tiree host one of our short film programmes during this year’s Edinburgh Short Film Festival!

We’re programming a range of International and Scottish short films including the multi-award winning ‘The Song of Wandering Aengus’ by Matthew Lawes, Erin E. McGuff & Adam Grannick’s brilliantly staged and choreographed, ‘Sam & Barb’s School for Scandal’ and Ivan Barge’s multi-award winning and very widely travelled short comedy ‘Madame Black’.

FRIDAY 10TH NOVEMBER: SUMMERHALL

Doors Open 7pm – Programme starts 7:30pm

ESCAPE – Flight or fight is an instinctive, in-built human response to adversity. Tonight’s programme celebrates those among us who have chosen to meet their challenges and difficulties, whether by simply fleeing in terror or by escaping the world they are trapped in and starting afresh.

FOX AND THE WHALE Robin Joseph

FISOLOFIA Nicola Palmeri

FILMS TO BREAK PROJECTORS Iloobia

TURQUOISE Roozbeh Misaghi

SALT & SAUCE Alia Ghafar

INTERVAL

DRONE Robert Duncan

TIME TO GO Grzegorz Mołda

BROWN TERROR Tim Bathurst

MY LIFE FOR IRELAND Kieron J. Walsh

SERVAL AND CHAUMIER: MASTERS OF SHADOWS Arthur Goisset

SATURDAY 11THNOVEMBER: SUMMERHALL

Doors Open 7pm – Programme starts 7:30pm

CLOSING NIGHT PARTY START 10:00PM

PARTS MISSING – Adapting, struggling to let go or coming to terms with an unbearable truth, revelation can be horrifying or lead us to new paths.

BEETLE TROUBLE Gabriel Böhmer

TIMBRE Gareth Peevers

WATU WOTE – ALL OF US Katja Benrath

STEMS Ainslie Henderson

NERO Natasza Cetner

THE BAD FIRE Pamela Gray

JAKOB Eymeric Jorat

INTERVAL

THE DIJON STORY Mikko Myllylahti

TRAINSPOTTING TIREE Jack Lockhart

VIENNA TABLE TRIP Virgil Widrich

EDITH Christian Cooke

FOREVER NOW Kristian Håskjold

AWARDS CEREMONY AND WINNING FILMS

CLOSING NIGHT PARTY, LIVE MUSIC AND DRINKS FROM 10:00PM

Present ticket for final night screening for access



WORKSHOPS

FUNDING WORKSHOP 3:30PM – 4:30PM (Free, Unticketed)