Still from Candy Can of a close up of a boy's face with one eye closed digitally painted in pastel colours

Edinburgh Film Festival 2021 screenings

The programme is now live for Edinburgh International Film Festival 2021, which takes place from 18-25 August. Check out the brochure here for all of the exceptional films that will be screening live and online including the Black Box experimental shorts curated by Kim Knowles ay Lydia Beilby, the fiction shorts curated by Jenny Clark, and the documentaries curated by Rohan Berry Crickmar.

For my two programmes, I’ve invited some fantastic filmmakers/artists/animators to be part of my selection this year. You can watch the animation shorts programmes on the festival’s Filmhouse at Home platform, where they’ll be streaming from 19-22 August with pre-recorded Q&As with the makers.

Imaginings

Soft Animals, Renee Zhan, UK, 2021, 3 min

Have a Nice Dog!, Jalal Maghout, Germany, 2020, 13 min

C, Marion Taeschler, Switzerland, 2020, 5 min

Candy Can, Anton Octavian, Romania, 2020,9 min

Are You Still Watching?, Alex Cardy, Kitty Chrystal, Tali Polichtuk, Australia, 2021, 6 min

Silvering, Eilidh Nicholl, UK, 2021, 6 min

Souvenir Souvenir, Bastien Dubois, France, 2020, 15 min

Ghosts, Jee-youn Park, South Korea, 2020, 10 min

Push This Button if You Begin to Panic, Gabriël Böhmer, UK/Switzerland, 2020, 13 min

Family Values

KKUM, Kang-min Kim, South Korea, 2020, 9 min

The Hangman at Home, Michelle and Uri Kranot, Denmark/France/Canada, 2021, 14 min

Step Into the River, Weijia Ma, France/China, 2020, 14 min

The Fourfold, Alisi Telengut, Canada, 2020, 7 min

Dog With Wings (7), Sanjana Chandrasekhar, UK, 2020, 3 min

BA, Svetlana Filippova, Russia, 2020, 15 min

Affairs of the Art, Joanna Quinn, UK, 2021, 16 min

Image: Candy Can by Anton Octavian.