In a post-apocalyptic industrial town, a father and his daughter embark on an adventure in search of a better world. Searching for Sunnyvale is a mixed-media animated short film developed and funded through Creative England's scheme iShorts, an extraordinary tale of paternal love, hope, imagination and... tinned pineapple.
It's after her Skin...
As Leela's eighteenth birthday approaches the very power that grows wild and strong inside of her is exactly what attracts the most malevolent of creatures...the Cicada. With only her grandparents to guide her, can Leela survive an evil that has already killed both her parents?
The life and times of the Two Puddings, a legendary pub in London's East End, during its heyday in the 1960s. The pub was famed for its live music, its exciting atmosphere, and for its dancefloor upstairs - which may have been the UK's first real disco.
The Two Puddings attracted famous musicians, sportsmen and artists, and was an inspiration for the writer of the classic British gangster movie 'The Long Good Friday'.
One Saturday morning, a middle aged couple decides to make love in their car in the driveway to put a spark back in their marriage - only to find it has rather the opposite effect..
An experimental documentary, chronicalling the director's maternal grandmother's life in Communist Hungary. The film serves as a memento of times past and as a reminder of how socialism colonized the souls of a generation.
Women in Pictish garb! Tri-partite geometry! Psychedelic sitars! Heavy Magick!
The Return from Annwn is a mytho-ecological short film and digital project by Annwn Collective, depicting a trans-dimensional quest to restore cosmic equilibrium through female alignment. Borrowing from Celtic mythology, Pictish symbolism, Japanese butoh dancing and the Western hermetic magic tradition, The Return from Annwn chronicles an atmospheric journey by six summoned spectres through the landscapes of England. Paying equal homage to the filmic rituals of Kenneth Anger and Maya Deren and the aesthetics of 80s fantasy epics, the film performs a form of spiritual archaeology on a world where objects have the power of change and lasers emanate from pineal eyes.
The sword must be drawn and the stars realigned! Come forth Guardians of Annwn, come forth!
Havana Moon captures the historic, once in a lifetime concert by The
Rolling Stones in Havana, Cuba. Directed by Paul Dugdale (Adele,
Coldplay) this epic, record breaking concert features the hits ‘Jumpin’ Jack
Flash’, ‘It's Only Rock ’n Roll’, ‘Gimme Shelter’, ‘Brown Sugar’,
‘Satisfaction’ and many more. Filmed at the end of the América Latina Olé
Tour 2016 Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, and Ronnie Wood
perform a truly spectacular set to over 1.2 million adoring fans.
200 years after the 'Great Fail'. The world is divided. The Northern Zone led by Fergus and tightly ruled. Everywhere else is The Wilderness. Fergus is accused of a murder he didn't commit and sentenced to exile from The Northern Zone. Bound by familial duty, Cathal and his brothers Cet and Cormac, accompany their exiled father into a bleak and strange wilderness in search of redemption and a new beginning. But They quickly become lost. Cathal becomes increasingly more angry by the choices Fergus makes. Fergus's time is over and Cathal is ready to make his mark on the world.
Sophie is on the brink of womanhood, in love for the first time, and fighting for her life. She’s anorexic, the result of a battle for control with her overbearing father Ilyas. He’s a chef; when she doesn’t eat, she hits him where it hurts.
Stuck in a West Midlands village far from her old friends, in a family that refuses to let her grow up and find her own way, refusing food is her only weapon, and her secret boyfriend Liam her only relief. When Sophie starts having nocturnal visits from a horrifying ghost, everyone she loves dismisses it, believing she’s having anorexic hallucinations. Her credibility lost, Sophie leans on Liam and they become ever more intimate. Suspicious Ilyas cracks down harder, while Sophie’s possessive mother is disturbed, sensing she may lose her virginity. Pressure builds, the anorexia and the attacks increase. Sophie’s life is on the line and a dark family secret surfaces as the battle of wills becomes a battle for survival.
Sebastian, 18, needs a new heart but the search for a donor remains futile. At his lowest ebb, he spurns the attentions of Emily, 16, a terminal leukaemia patient. Sebastian is elated when a donor becomes available, but when Emily disappears, Sebastian discovers her very special gift to him.
Set in a former Cold War era civil defence bunker turned data centre buried 30 metres underground in Stockholm. Part Bond villain lair, part retro-futuristic spaceship, the film explores the temporal nature of data space and geology. Once housing servers for WikiLeaks, issues of privacy, surveillance and digital sovereignty emanate.
The inhabitants of a Scottish island try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a nearby stranded ship.
A remake of the beloved black and white original film directed by Alexander Mackendrick for Ealing Studios, which was based on the novel by Compton Mackenzie, which itself was based on the real events of 1941 when the S.S. Politician was shipwrecked in the Outer Hebrides leading to an hilarious battle as the wily islanders on nearby Eriskay tried to salvage the huge cargo of whisky on board, enraging the British authorities.
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 - World premiere
