If a week is a long time in politics then a week at a film festival is an eternity where you not only travel across time and space but into the minds of a female victim of war, a confused second generation British-Egyptian teenager and a reluctant revolutionary. Taking in...

There is definitely something of a renaissance going on in the world of filmmaking. I don't say that because I read it in the media! I say it because I put together the International and British programmes of Bristol Encounters short film festival and this involves watching over 400 short...