Edinburgh International Film Festival

            UK Shorts was a collection of short films from the United Kingdom.  This group includes First from director Tinge Krishnan, K from director Piers Thompson, One in Four from director Matti Harju, Slapper from director Chiwetel Ejiofor, Son from director Daniel Mulloy, and Wish from director Matt Day.  Each of these film shorts ranged in length from about six minutes to twenty minutes.  They were all various looks at different tragedies in people’s lives.

            I can’t say that I really enjoyed any of the short films that we watched in this series.  They all seemed to be themed by someone’s misery, which isn’t something that I particularly enjoy watching.  Certain ones of them, such as Son and One in Four, were very hard to keep up with and figure out as to what was going on.  None of them were particularly interesting.  I will say that they managed to get their point across when you could follow them.  Wish is a short that is based on true events about the death of two girls.  It was probably my favorite of the group simply because of the fact that I didn’t see the end coming.  I’ll give these films one and a half stars.  I understand that they weren’t developed for entertainment so much as they were for the art of film, but I can’t stand sitting through something that isn’t at least somewhat entertaining.