What makes a good film festival? Obviously the programme is vital. It should be exciting, edgy, experimental. It should be a dialogue between the artist and the audience, attracting filmmakers and filmgoers from around the world while nurturing both emerging and established talent. An opening night film should excite and surprise, create some much-needed buzz, some word-of-mouth. It should be a film you're still talking about and digesting the next day. Not so much raising the curtain as ripping it down, this year's opening night film, British crime thriller Hyena, was a refreshingly nasty choice, particularly after last year's soporific exercise in privileged angst, Drake Doremus' Breathe In. Written and directed by Gerard Johnson, whose last film was 2009's grubby, kitchen-sink, serial killer thriller Tony, Hyena is a rabid dog of a film, an ultraviolent descent into hell that charts crooked cop antihero Michael Logan's (Peter Ferdinando of Tony and A Field In England] increasingly frantic and convoluted attempts to stay one step ahead of the game as Albanian sex traffickers begin muscling in on the local drugs trade and Internal Affairs is breathing down his neck.
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机译：什么才是一个好的电影节？显然，该程序至关重要。它应该令人兴奋，前卫，实验。这应该是艺术家与观众之间的对话，吸引来自世界各地的电影制片人和影迷，同时也要培养新兴和成熟的人才。开幕之夜电影应该令人兴奋和惊讶，引起一些急需的嗡嗡声和口碑。那应该是第二天你还在谈论和消化的电影。今年的上映之夜电影《英国犯罪惊悚片》《鬣狗》（Hyena）并没有像揭开序幕那样令人眼前一亮，特别是在去年特权特权德雷克·多雷姆斯（Drake Doremus）的《呼吸中》（Breathe In）进行了大规模的演练之后。鬣狗由杰拉德·约翰逊（Gerard Johnson）执导和执导，后者的上一部电影是2009年肮脏的厨房水槽连环杀手惊悚片托尼（Tony），他是电影中的狂犬，狂暴地堕入地狱，图表歪曲了警察反英雄迈克尔·洛根（Peter Ferdinando of Tony and随着阿尔巴尼亚性贩运者开始涉足当地毒品交易，而内政部也喘不过气来，越来越疯狂和令人费解的尝试保持领先一步。
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