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The shorts are split into the programmes are listed below, with descriptions courtesy of the festival. The programme a short falls into is listed in italics.
- Bridging the Gap: Women - From the Scottish Documentary Institute's talent programme.
- Out of Bounds: Student Shorts - Emerging talent.
- Scottish Shorts - A collection of seven shorts, commissioned through the Scottish Film Talent Network’s new talent programme.
- Shorts 1: Sign Language - Seven films exploring the core of human experience.
- Shorts 2: Fragments of the City - Five shorts mapping memory, place and the individual.
- Shorts 3: Flaming Creatures - The personal is political in these six shorts.
- Shorts 4: Other Planes - Tearing at the boundaries of the visual language of cinema.
- Shorts 5: Radical Transmissions - Unearthing obscured narratives through film.
- Shorts 6: Voices From The Wilderness - Exploring the intersection of landscape and the individual.
- The Young and Wild Shorts - Showcase aimed at young adult audiences.
View other Edinburgh International Film Festival Films by strand: 70/70 Vision, Adapting Miss Highsmith, Amercian Dreams, Animation, Best Of British, Black Box, Directors' Showcase, Documentaries, European Perspectives, Film Fest In The City, FilmFest Junior, Focus On Finland, Galas, Look Again: A Celebration Of The Films Of Cinema Du Look, Night Moves, POW!!! Live Action Comic Strip Adaptations: The First Generation, Special Events, World Perspectives
An Ecstatic Experience and Where Are We Now
An Ecstatic Experience
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Ja'Tovia Gary; Writer: Ja'Tovia Gary), Official Site
A meditative invocation on transcendence as a means of restoration.
Shorts 5: Radical Transmissions
Batrachian’s Ballad
(Country: Portugal; Year: 2016; Director: Leonor Teles)
Shorts 2: Fragments of the City
Blending the lives of Romani in Portugal today with the recollections of yesterday.
Bernie and Rebecca
(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Melissa Kent; Writer: John Harris; Stars: Kyle Davis, Brianna Barnes, Carol Mack, Rory O'Connor, Jessica Hickam), Official Site
Shorts 1: Sign Language
A blind date turns into the experience of a lifetime.
Bright Waters (Y Berá)
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2016; Director: Jessica Sarah Rinland)
Shorts 6: Voices From The Wilderness
A response to the educational nature films of Mary Field (1896 - 1968), filmed in the second biggest wetland in the world.
Carousel
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Kal Weber; Writer: Kal Weber; Stars: Ewen Bremner, Harmony Rose Bremner), Official Site
Shorts 1: Sign Language
A man doles out a torrent of wisdom to a teen with unexpected results.
A Man Returned and Meet Me By The Water
Chums From Across The Void
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Jim Finn), Official Site
Shorts 2: Fragments of the City
Little Radek, the step-dancing Bolshevik; Machera, the Andean Robin Hood, and Maria Spiridonova, the Russian socialist assassin are your guides for Past Leftist Life Regression therapy.
Code Red
(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Sabrina Doyle; Writer: Sabrina Doyle; Stars: Elle Winter, Kylee Russell, Sam Evans, Emily Johnson, Carson Boatman, River Kanoff, Jimmy Hudson, Charles Murphy)
The Young and Wild Shorts
What's a girl to do when she gets an unwelcome visit from Aunt Flo?
Crowman
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Duncan Nicoll)
Scottish Shorts
A man and his son struggle to survive in a rural society that is on the verge of collapse.
Dave
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Garry Marshall; Writer: Chris Watson; Stars: Leo Henderson)
Scottish Shorts
Dave is a little boy zombie who, after a terrible disaster, is forced into an unfriendly world where he has to fight to survive.
Faithful
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Rory Alexander Stewart), Official Site
Shorts 1: Sign Language
Drama about a policeman with terrible instincts and a Honda Civic.
Piper and No Place Like Home
Fire, Water, Air (Feu, Eau, Air)
(Country: France; Year: 2016; Director: David Bart, Anne Murat; Stars: Ysabel de Maisonneuve)
Shorts 4: Other Planes
This art film portrays Ysabel de Maisonneuve, a sensitive creator and poet, for whom handicraft is primarily a spiritual art.
Fly, Fly Sadness (Vole, vole tristesse)
(Country: Haiti; Year: 2015; Director: Miryam Charles; Writer: Miryam Charles; Stars: Edigh Charles)
Shorts 6: Voices From The Wilderness
Following a nuclear explosion that transforms the voice of all the inhabitants of an island, a journalist goes there in order to find a hermit with mysterious powers.
The Frame
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Lars Koens, Demelza Kooij), Official Site
Shorts 4: Other Planes
Ghost Copy
(Country: Austria; Year: 2016; Director: Christiana Perschon), Official Site
Shorts 4: Other Planes
Found footage film.
Grimm Street
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Siri Rødnes; Writer: Emma Lennox), Official Site
Scottish Shorts
As a teenager's health deteriorates, reality merges with her fairy tales.
Hux
(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Mageina Tovah, Charlie Lieberman; Writer: Mageina Tovah; Stars: Mageina Tovah, Harry Dean Stanton, Dylan Kenin, Mike Rock, Ben Messmer, Elan O'Connor, Aurora Elise, Logan Morris)
The Young and Wild Shorts
Hux, longing to connect, rebels against the lonely isolation of her autism.
The Lamps
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Shelly Silver; Writer: Shelly Silver), Trailer
Shorts 3: Flaming Creatures
Story of the Dada movement's Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven charting her trip to the Naples Archeological Museum in the early 1900’ where she breaks into a secret room filled with erotic objects from Pompeii.
Lick Us, Meow, Meow! (Léchez-nous, Miaou, Miaou!)
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2015; Director: Marie de Maricourt; Writer: Marie de Maricourt; Stars: Nadia Sadji, Yoram Gué, Marie Colin, Stiva Paterno, Thomas Caspar, Clément Langlais, Coralie Moreau, Frédéric Payen, Stéphane Guérin, Stéphane Brunier, Aïda Grifoll, Fulvio Balmer, Xavier Bonastre, Regine Lacour, Geoffroy De La Taille)
Shorts 3: Flaming Creatures
The sexual encounter of an institutionalised woman sparks revolt.
L’Oiseau de la Nuit (O Pássaro da Noite)
(Country: Portugal, France; Year: 2015; Director: Marie Losier)
Shorts 3: Flaming Creatures
Portrait of underground performer Fernando, aka Deborah Krystal.
Man
(Country: Sweden, UK; Year: 2016; Director: Maja Borg), Official Site
Shorts 3: Flaming Creatures
An exploratory dramatisation of the biological – and cultural body in transformation.
A Man Returned
(Country: UK, Netherlands, Denmark, Lebanon; Year: 2016; Director: Mahdi Fleifel; Writer: Mahdi Fleifel; Stars: Reda Al-Saleh)
Story of a man preparing for marriage after being sent back to a refugee camp after being deported from Greece.
Shorts 5: Radical Transmissions
Masha Natasha
(Country: Germany; Year: 2015; Director: Fred Burle, Janin Halisch, Marie Losier, Cécile Tollu-Polonowski; Stars: Maria Petschanikov, Natalia Petschanikov)
Shorts 2: Fragments of the City
Intimate portrait of two Russian artists, who are identical twins.
Mast Qalandar
(Country: UK, India; Year: 2015; Director: Divij Roopchand; Writer: Divij Roopchand; Stars: Rajesh Tailang, Ekavali Khanna, Mohd Samad, Manoj Kumar, Satish Gotham), Trailer
Out of Bounds: Student Shorts
A young boy takes matters into his own hands in order to get what he wants.
May A Hundred Bolts Of Lightning Open You
(Country: Portugal; Year: 2015; Director: Cem Raios T'Abram Collective)
Shorts 6: Voices From The Wilderness
Experimental.
Meet Me By The Water
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Raisah Ahmed), Official Site
In a small fishing town on the West Coast of Scotland a young Asian woman must decide whether to leave home and family for a new life in South America.
Scottish Shorts
Murderous Injustice
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Gavin Scott Whitfield; Writer: Gavin Scott Whitfield; Stars: Thom Heath, Kate Hodgson, Samira Saeed, Connah Turner, Samira-Saaed, Tom Hughes, Arthur Roberts)
Shorts 1: Sign Language
Crime drama based on the true story of a refugee who was murdered by his neighbour.
A Night in Tokoriki (O noapte în Tokoriki)
(Country: Romania; Year: 2016; Director: Roxana Stroe; Writer: Ana Maria Gheorghe, Roxana Stroe; Stars: Costi Apostol, Cristian Bota, Iulia Ciochina, Andrei Ciopec, Sorin Cocis, Adrian Loghin, Tudor Morar, Daniela Preda, Cristian Priboi, Cristian Toma), Trailer
The Young and Wild Shorts
In an improvised night club called "Tokoriki" the whole village celebrates Gianina's 18th birthday. Her boyfriend and Alin will give her a most surprising gift, one that nobody will ever forget.
The Northleach Horror
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: David Cairns), Official Site
Shorts 1: Sign Language
A short First World War/sci-fi/horror/comedy film following the exploits of deranged scientist Whitsuntide.
No Place Like Home
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Cat Bruce; Writer: Cat Bruce; Stars: Janette Foggo, Erin Bruce )
Under threat of imminent eviction from her countryside home, a self-reliant woman struggles to preserve her way of life.
Scottish Shorts
Oh Gallow Lay
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Julian Wayser; Writer: Julian Wayser; Stars: Andoni Anastasse, Lucas Elliot Eberl, Ben Graupner, Giovanni Martinez, Joberde Metellus, Edgar Morais, Rafael Morais, Marianna Palka, Jason Ritter, John Robinson, Kelsey Sanders, Katy Townsend, Kellie Trumper, Janeva Zentz)
Shorts 5: Radical Transmissions
Imagining what would happen if hippies stumbled across Muammar Gaddafi living in the Hollywood Hills.
Piper
(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Alan Barillaro)
A baby bird learns how to catch food on the shoreline.
Screening with Finding Dory
The Rat King
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Pavel Shepan; Writer: John Gibb; Stars: Nick Cheales, Steven Cree, Julie Hale, Susanne Wuest), Official Site
Scottish Shorts
A Christmas horror story.
Remembering The Pentagons
(Country: US, Iran; Year: 2015; Director: Azadeh Navai), Trailer
Shorts 4: Other Planes
Depiction of the director's earliest memories.
The Review
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Wilma Smith), Official Site
Bridging the Gap: Women
Documentary about the relationship between a mum and her teenage son, who plays pro youth football.
Sea Child
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Minha Kim; Writer: Islay Bell-Webb, Minha Kim), Trailer
Out of Bounds: Student Shorts
On the verge of becoming a woman, Sora is woken by a nightmare and decides to follow a group of men into the city in the hope of finding her mum.
Silent Laughs
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Natalia Kouneli)
Bridging the Gap: Women
Documentary about deaf stand-up comedian Leah Kalaitzi.
Solitary Acts #5
(Country: US, Turkey; Year: 2016; Director: Nazli Dinçel)
Shorts 3: Flaming Creatures
A young girl explores her sexuality.
So We Do Sometimes Think Because It Has Been Found To Pay. Wittgenstein’s House. (Manchmal also denkt man, weil es sich bewährt hat. Wittgensteins Haus.)
(Country: Austria; Year: 2016; Director: Lotte Schreiber)
Shorts 2: Fragments of the City
Experimental short.
Spermwhore
(Country: Sweden; Year: 2016; Director: Anna Linder), Official Site
Shorts 3: Flaming Creatures
Spermwhore is a queer experimental film about unwanted childlessness in a world where normative heterosexual relationships dictate who can become parents and in what way.
Spoetnik
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2015; Director: Noël Loozen; Writer: Noël Loozen; Stars: Marcel Zwoferink), Official Site
The Young and Wild Shorts
A young man starts working at a food stand, just across the street from a brothel
Spores
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Frances Poet, Richard Poet; Writer: Frances Poet; Stars: Maureen Beattie, Lewis Howden, John Kazek, Lorraine McIntosh), Official Site
Scottish Shorts
A 50th birthday gathering goes horribly wrong when the hostess serves her sister and their husbands deadly wild mushrooms.
Strawberry Or Vanilla
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Tracey Fearnhough, Holger Mohaupt)
Shorts 1: Sign Language
Drama.
Summer (Estate)
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2016; Director: Ronny Trocker; Writer: Ronny Trocker; Stars: Umaru Jibirin), Trailer
The Young and Wild Shorts
On a sunny Mediterranean beach, time seems to be frozen. A black man, utterly exhausted, painfully crawls to leave the beach.
Swan
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Lindsay Brown)
Bridging the Gap: Women
An autistic teenager approaches adulthood.
Territory
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Eleanor Mortimer), Official Site, Trailer
Out of Bounds: Student Shorts
Documentary about the tensions between the people and monkeys of Gibraltar.
There Is Land! (Há terra!)
(Country: France, Brazil; Year: 2016; Director: Ana Vaz)
Shorts 6: Voices From The Wilderness
An encounter, a hunt, a tale of looking and becoming.
A Thing Among Things
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2015; Director: Giovanni Giaretta), Official Site
Shorts 4: Other Planes
The video combines a recollection of visual memories of a blind person with close-ups of transparent minerals.
Transit Zone
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Frederik Subei; Writer: Frederik Subei)
Out of Bounds: Student Shorts
A film.
Transmission From The Liberated Zones
(Country: France, Germany; Year: 2016; Director: Filipa César)
Shorts 6: Voices From The Wilderness
Transmission from the Liberated Zones, is an experiment bringing together statements and documents accessed and presented by a young boy through a low-fidelity feedback channel.
Vanished (Vanescer)
(Country: UK, Brazil; Year: 2015; Director: Colette McWilliams Carrilho, Glemerson Carrilho; Writer: Glemerson Carrilho, Colette McWilliams Carrilho; Stars: Maracy Mello, Guta Magnani, Henrique Taubaté Lisboa, Ariana Lang, Marcelo Coutello), Official Site
Out of Bounds: Student Shorts
A man is driving his elderly and stubborn mother to Sao Paulo City to view the newly released state documents that will finally reveal the truth behind the disappearance of his father in 1978, under Brazil’s Military dictatorship.
War
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Nilesh Bell Gorsia), Official Site
The Young and Wild Shorts
Two rival gangs clash on a council estate, but no one could have predicted the outcome.
A Well Spent Afternoon
(Country: Slovenia, Croatia; Year: 2016; Director: Martin Turk), Official Site
The Young and Wild Shorts
After failing yet another job interview, the father is spending an afternoon with his seven-year-old son. They happen to find a wallet full of money, and father teaches his son the right thing to do.
What We Know
(Country: Australia; Year: 2015; Director: Marion Pilowsky; Writer: Marion Pilowsky, L.A. Sellars; Stars: Luke McKenzie, Joel Jackson, Simon Maiden, Brittany Smith, Maria Humphreys, Louise Heesom Smith, Tim Lucas), Trailer
Shorts 1: Sign Language
One year after the death of his wife, Vincent invites her friends to meet his new girlfriend. Not a good idea.
Where Are We Now
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Lucie Rachel; Stars: Alex Kingsley, Lucie Rachel), Official Site
Documentary about the relationship between a daughter and trans-parent as they embark on the road to transition.
Bridging the Gap: Women
Yellow Fieber
(Country: Greece; Year: 2015; Director: Konstantina Kotzamani; Stars: Mamadou Diallo, Eutychia Stefanidou), Official Site
Shorts 2: Fragments of the City
The story of the loss of a city.
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