A French teenager accompanies her warring parents on a family holiday to Death Valley in the US in this emotional short animated film. Stuck between her volcanic father, whose temper is on a hair trigger, and her mother’s rictus grin which seems to convey even more tension in its efforts to dispel it, Gabrielle plays…
Jeijay is a short animation depicting the dissolution of a romantic relationship. Their house floats above the street, soaring with the elation of their new love. But as time passes, the bright skies turn gloomy, and eventually rain falls, breaching their sanctum. Being skybound, which at first seemed to symbolise how enraptured they were with…
Da Yie, meaning Good Night, is a short film following kids Matilda and Prince, as they spend a day going from the innocence of childhood to becoming aware of the dangers of the adult world lurking around them. It begins with the kids at play. Smart, capable, confident Matilda is beating the boys at football.…
Keep with tradition, I will be posting a trailer a day between now and the festival. Let’s start with the Opening Gala film
Got all my tickets booked, got my FrightFest pass, all set!
Got my tickets to the Opening and Closing Galas! Doing ma happy dance
The day of the GFF20 Opening Gala, my friend messaged me to say, “Just want to give totally fair warning, I got back from v northern Italy yesterday . . . I am still up for coming tonight but would genuinely totally understand if you’d rather I didn’t”. “Ha!” I replied, “obvs join us”. Back…
And I have been up since 4am and have got all my movies picked!