Bradford International Film Festival 2011

Many of the shorts below are shown preceding features, as indicated. In addition, Bradford City of Film commissioned five more short films, each made on a budget of £1,000, that reflect different aspects of Bradford's culture, heritage and community, to be shown in showcase Bradford City of Film Shorts 2011. A second showcase, New European Shorts, celebrates the best of films from European neighbours.

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Wood Of Value and The Pizza Miracle
Ashes (Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Sonia Castang; Stars: Pushpinder Chani, Meryl Fernandes, Shobna Gulati)
A modern day noir love story about two lovers who con rich and lonely housewives out of their money.
Screening with Essential Killing
Bad Night For The Blues (Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Chris Shepherd; Writer: Chris Shepherd; Stars: Kieran Lynn, Jean Boht, Amanda Walker, Ann Beach, Lloyd McGuire, Marlene Sidaway, Kay Noone, Deddie Davies, Tom Hillenbrand, Doreen Kaye), Official Site
If it was your turn to take your Aunty to her local Conservative Club would you do it?
Screening with Congo In Four Acts
The Bedlamites (Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Shyla Lee)
A documentary about fell running (at night) in the Yorkshire Dales.
Bradford City of Film Shorts 2011
Endeavour (Country: Austria; Year: 2010; Director: Johann Lurf)
Avant garde look at a space journey.
New European Shorts
The End Of The World (Kres ?wiata) (Country: Poland; Year: 2010; Director: Mateusz Skalski)
Portrait of a desolate village.
New European Shorts
A History of Mutual Respect (Country: Portugal; Year: 2010; Director: Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt; Writer: Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt; Stars: Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, Alcina Abrantes, Joana Nascimento)
When two boys make a journey they find their worlds separate forever.
New European Shorts
I Spy (Year: 2011; Director: Lucy Ray; Stars: Jodie McEnery, Rachel Melissa Henshaw, Frank Ryan)
A drama about a missing girl and a Bradford reporter which begs the question: who’s watching whom?
Bradford City of Film Shorts 2011
I Was Crying Out For Life. Or For It. (Je criais contre la vie ou pour elle) (Country: France; Year: 2009; Director: Vergine Keaton; Writer: Vergine Keaton)
Based on a 19th century engraving, this animation sees a herd of deer turn on the hunting dogs that have been chasing them.
New European Shorts
Kiyumi's Poetry and Sayuru's Embroidery (Country: Japan; Year: 2006; Director: Satoru Sugita; Stars: Momoko Maruyama, Ryoka Shinada)
A theft threatens to split two inseparable friends.
Screening with Greenwashers
Lastrain (Country: Spain; Year: 2010; Director: Tony Lopez, David Sanz; Writer: Raul Alvarez; Stars: Raul Alvarez, Flora Martínez, Montse Muñoz, Bernat Saumell, Lucas Valetín)
A man who enters a club will do anything to attract the attention of a woman he sees there.
Screening with Honey
Los 4 McNifikos (Country: Spain; Year: 2010; Director: Tucker Davila Wood; Writer: Tucker Davila Wood; Stars: Jokin García, Alvaro Barañano, David Abada Canal), Official Site
Comedy short about a quartet of ageing B boys.
Screening with Fanny, Annie & Danny
Mam (Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Hugo Speer; Writer: Vivienne Harvey; Stars: Josie Lawrence, Paul Barber, Ronan Carter, Tisha Merry, James Varley, Dwayne Scantlebury, Charlie Street, Karen Winchester, Elly May Taylor, Jodie McEnery, Katy Gannon, Patrick Downes, Sylvie Caswell), Official Site
When Mam won't get out of bed, twelve year-old Danny must fend for his brothers and sisters - while trying to protect a secret that threatens to break up the family forever. |
Screening with Rebels Without A Clue
Mike The Midwife (Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Jonas Grimas; Stars: TC Jefferson)
Midwife mockumentary.
Screening with The Red Machine
Misconnect (Year: 2011; Director: John Thirlwell; Stars: Rhona Cameron, Alison Carroll)
Dark drama about a troubled young woman and her cries for help.
Bradford City of Film Shorts 2011
My Lad (Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Sami Khan; Writer: Sami Khan; Stars: Ace Bhatti, Rory Girvan, Tariq Jordan, Stewart Scudamore)
A man hides in a launderette, unable to face the world outside.
Screening with The Last Report On Anna
Permille (Country: Iceland; Year: 2010; Director: Marteinn Thorsson; Writer: Marteinn Thorsson; Stars: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Elma Lísa Gunnarsdóttir, Melkorka Óskarsdóttir, Hilmir Jensson, Agustin Navarro Cortés, Ólafur Jónasson), Official Site
An ageing drunk faces a crossroads when he meets people he doesn't remember.
New European Shorts
Petrified (Year: 2011; Director: Nicky Whitfield)
Animation about a gargoyle on the roof of Saltaire United Reformed Church.
Bradford City of Film Shorts 2011
Pipe Dreams (Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Ben Green; Writer: Ben Green; Stars: Tom Patrick Stephens, Meredith Napolitano, Deborah Harry, Christopher V. Edwards, Steve Elmore, William F. Feuerbach Jr., Grace Statwick, Renato Cristiano, Paul Bonacquisti, George Lansbury, Bill Feuerbach, Lois Kessler, Melissa Kessler, George Squires, Emilia Mendieta), Official Site
A relationship forms between a man with a high functioning mental condition and an undocumented worker from Ecuador.
Screening with Viva Riva!
The Pizza Miracle (Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Tony Grisoni; Writer: Tony Grisoni; Stars: Matt Berry, Stanley Townsent, Josef Altin, Olive Supple-Still, Anamaria Marinca, Ray Cooper)
A son returns to say farewell to his dead father.
Screening with Vespa
Quarters (Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Drew Mylrea; Writer: Drew Mylrea; Stars: Danielle Druz, Sean Jones, Grant Harrison, Ross Turner, Jim Cathcart), Official Site
When Evan realises that he may lose his best friend Chris to a girl, he devises a plot in order to save Chris from his doomed future and regain their life-long friendship.
Screening with When We Leave
The Secret Friend (Country: Brazil, US; Year: 2010; Director: Flavio Alves; Writer: Flavio Alves, João Silvério Trevisan; Stars: Siobhan Fallon, Viola Harris, Beau Hauser, Jerry Jaffe, Richard Scott, Melvin Shrebnick), Official Site
A bond forms between a widow and silent caller who phones daily.
Screening with La Quattro Volte
Self Help (Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: James Page; Writer: Kurt Brookes, James Page; Stars: Peter Glover, Chloe Mander, Amelia Tyler, Andrea Cobham, Daniel James Lucas)
A lonely man attends a seminar by a motivational speaker in a bid to change his life.
Screening with Sailor
Silent Things (Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Rob Brown; Writer: Rob Brown, Edward Jackson; Stars: Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Georgia Groome, Andrew Scott), Official Site
An autistic man and woman undergo a test of character and friendship when an impulsive teenage girl appears and comes between them.
Screening with Point Blank
Stay (Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Lewis Hackett, Luke Hardist)
Live action and animated music video, featuring music by local band La La and the Boo Ya using archive footage of Bradford.
Bradford City of Film Shorts 2011
Swing (Country: Taiwan; Year: 2010; Director: Yen-Ting Kuo; Writer: Yen-Ting Kuo; Stars: Alina Lessing, Justin Miller)
While enjoying a swing on the roof of the hospital, an elderly patient is reminded of the value of his life.
Screening with Seesaw
We Are What We Drink (Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Marc Hardman; Writer: Marc Hardman; Stars: Irena Aggrey, Kenneth Collard, Alexander Devrient, Sarah Hoare, Lydia Hourihan, Kirsty Neilson, Kirsty Osmon, Marcus Smith, Carole Symonds, Jerry Turner, Luca Zizzari)
Comedy looks at the challenge faced by a man as he tries to buy a cup of coffee.
Screening with Curling
When Life Gives You Lemons (Country: Canada; Year: 2010; Director: Lee Chambers; Writer: Lee Chambers, Christina Sharpe; Stars: Quayson Akaadom, Tony Gallo, Kierra Gionet, Basil Hoffman, Tia Lunn, Dave Steen), Official Site
Washed-up actor, Calvin Adams, enters into a lemonade stand street battle with the neighbourhood kids.
Screening with Matching Jack
Wood Of Value (Country: Norway, UK; Year: 2010; Director: Bjorn Bratberg)
A documentary following a special Christmas tree on its journey across the North Sea from Norway to London.
Screening with Dance To The Spirits
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