Celebrating its fifteenth year, Bristol’s Encounters Short Film Festival runs from 17-21 November, screening the best in short films from around the world. This year’s field is as usual a bewilderingly eclectic mixture of local and international talent, featuring more than 150 films in competition from 58 different countries, as well as guest appearances from such luminaries as Andrea Arnold, Andrei Khrzhanovsky, Jem Cohen and triple Oscar winner Richard Williams. Details can be found here, and follow me and my fellow festival bloggers at the official blog here as well as up-to-the-minute updates on Twitter here.