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welcome Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the warmest welcome to the 66th edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the world’s longest continually running film festival. And in this Year of Creative Scotland, we’re back with a bang. Our new Artistic Director, Chris Fujiwara, has hit the ground running and programmed a stunning array of films from across the world: films from 53 countries that will inspire, challenge, enlighten, anger and entertain audiences and filmmakers alike. But the best film festivals are about much more than just the films; it’s where audiences and filmmakers can come together and share a passion, develop an understanding and make connections. And whether it’s at the screenings or over a drink in the Filmhouse Café Bar, that’s exactly what happens at Edinburgh. EIFF also has an essential role in developing the UK film industry – through providing a platform for new talent, new voices and new stories, through its extensive programme for industry delegates (now based in its new home at the Traverse), through a range of education activities, and through its yearround talent development programmes. The Festival is hugely grateful to all its partners for making this year’s event possible – so thanks to: our venue partners – Filmhouse, Cineworld, the Festival Theatre Edinburgh and the Cameo; all the distributors, filmmakers and other industry professionals who give their time, expertise and films to Edinburgh and make it so special; our public partners who have backed our ambition

Ken Hay Chief Executive

for this year’s Festival with significant financial support: Creative Scotland, the British Film Institute, the Scottish Government through the Edinburgh Festivals’ Expo Fund, the City of Edinburgh Council, Event Scotland, Visit Scotland and the British Council; and all our commercial sponsors for realising that there are few better ways of engaging successfully with audiences and customers. Last, but by no means least, my sincere thanks to the board of trustees and the amazingly loyal, committed and hard working staff team. The EIFF is what you make of it – so take chances, be challenged, and above all, have fun!

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welcome EIFF 2012 is the result of a months-long quest for the best of world cinema. The diversity of films in our programme reflects a no less wide range of personal visions – since good films are made by artists, not corporations or committees. Across this diversity, we’ve highlighted some common threads in our Pathways, which EIFF is introducing for the first time this year. I hope these Pathways enable you to make some enjoyable discoveries at EIFF 2012. Every strand of our programme says something about the commitments of EIFF. Our festival seeks to bring an entire world of film to Edinburgh. Our International Competition, which includes (as do our other strands this year) documentaries alongside narrative films, is exceptionally strong and adventurous. In our Directors’ Showcase and New Perspectives strands, we present a view of contemporary world cinema that is both deep and broad. This year we also celebrate the energy and passion of new independent filmmaking in the Philippines, exemplary achievements in new Danish documentary, and, in our Looking South strand, the cinematic renaissance under way in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. EIFF seeks to encourage British filmmaking that is personal, creative and formally daring. I’m delighted to present some remarkable new work from the UK in our Michael Powell Award Competition and our British Scenes strand. EIFF is committed to shining a new light on the cinema of the past. This year we’re showing the first complete retrospective outside Japan of Shinji Somai,

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a director who is deeply sympathetic to the longings and problems of young people and whose astonishing visual designs evoke a world in constant flux. Our other retrospective this year showcases the work of Gregory La Cava, a great innovator of American film comedy. EIFF is committed to experimental and avant-garde cinema, as this year’s robust Black Box programme demonstrates. (You’ll find more experimental films via the “Pushing Boundaries” Pathway.) We’re also committed to the art of animation and to the infinite possibilities of the format of the short film. I hope you’ll find in EIFF 2012 the chance to explore the art of film and gain a deeper understanding of what it can bring to our lives.

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index OPENING aNd clOsING Galas 13 13

Killer Joe Brave

aNImatION

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Black BOx Daring experiments in the film form, from our innovators of the visual art world. Black Box Shorts 1: Surfaces and Layers Black Box Shorts 2: A Sense of Unease Black Box Shorts 3: Passing Through Black Box Shorts 4: Particles Low Definition Control - Malfunctions #0 The Suburban Trilogy

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BrItIsh scENEs Feature films from the UK that introduce new filmmakers, try out nontraditional funding models or venture into unusual thematic areas. Borrowed Time NFA Shell Unconditional

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dIrEctOrs’ shOwcasE

FIlms ON FIlm Anton Corbijn: Inside Out Don’t Expect Too Much Sodankylä Forever: The Century of Cinema We Can’t Go Home Again What Is This Film Called Love?

16 22 54 59 59

FOcus ON dENmark Three films from Denmark that highlight the country’s strength in documentary filmmaking. The Ambassador Au Pair Siblings - For Better or Worse

15 16 54

INtErNatIONal cOmPEtItION The EIFF’s competitive selection of outstanding new films from around the world. Girimunho Here, Then It Looks Pretty from a Distance Kid-Thing The King of Pigs The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus The Lifeguard One.Two.One Papirosen The Search for Emak Bakia Sleepless Night Tabu The Unspeakable Act A Woman’s Revenge

30 31 39 40 40 41 42 48 48 51 54 55 58 59

lOOkING sOuth

Classics of the future, from the international auteurs of our time. 7 Days in Havana Bestiaire Demain? Dragon God Bless America Him, Here After Home for the Weekend Isn’t Anyone Alive? Life without Principle

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Films about filmmakers and filmmaking.

From the family-friendly to the deeply dark, the lo-fi to the super-sophisticated: all that’s new in animation. THE 99 Unbound Animation Panel: Running Out of Film International Animation McLaren Animation 1 McLaren Animation 2 McLaren Animation 3: For the Family

Rent-a-Cat The Rest of the World Sexual Chronicles of a French Family ¡Vivan las Antipodas!

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Showcasing the vitality of filmmaking in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Amateur El Casamiento Los Marziano Música Campesina (Country Music) Riding Zorro Rosalinda + Everybody Says Long Live Bobby Holly

14 25 42 45 50 50

mIchaEl POwEll award cOmPEtItION First given at EIFF in 1990, the Michael Powell Award annually honours the best new British feature film. For the first time, documentaries will compete alongside narrative films. Berberian Sound Studio Day of the Flowers Flying Blind Future My Love The Imposter Life Just Is One Mile Away Pusher Shadow Dancer Small Creatures

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NEw PErsPEctIvEs A global array of vital new work by emerging directors. And If We All Lived Together? Attractive Illusion Black’s Game Blood of My Blood Brake California Solo Chapiteau Show differently, Molussia Dress Rehearsal for Utopia Either Way Evelyn Exit Elena First Position Flicker Fred Fukushima: Memories of the Lost Landscape Gate #5 Gattu Hail Here, There Hospitalité The Invader It’s the Earth Not the Moon Leave It on the Track Mirage The Mirror Never Lies Modest Reception Never Too Late No Man’s Zone Nuclear Nation The Orator Postcards from the Zoo Rose

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20 June – 1 July

index Saudade Sauna on Moon Sun Don’t Shine Tahrir: Liberation Square Tokyo Drifter Unfair World Young Dudes

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NIGHT MOVES Stay up past your bedtime with our wild and wicked late-night selection. Eddie - The Sleepwalking Cannibal Grabbers Guinea Pigs Jackpot Lovely Molly Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie V/H/S Wrong

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Highlighting the creativity of young independent filmmakers in the Philippines. 15 20 25 27 28 45 45 46 47 48 56 57

RETROSPECTIVE: GREGORY LA CAVA Explore the creations of a master of screen comedy. Feel My Pulse Gabriel over the White House My Man Godfrey Private Worlds She Married Her Boss Unfinished Business

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Discover the world of a neglected master of Japanese cinema. The Catch The Friends Kazahana Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion Love Hotel Luminous Woman Moving PP Rider Sailor Suit and Machine Gun The Terrible Couple Tokyo Heaven Typhoon Club Wait and See

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SHORTS Discover the world of short films - a universe with no laws, bounded only by the imagination.

PHILIPPINE NEW WAVE

Amok Buenas noches, España Fable of the Fish Florentina Hubaldo, CTE Forever Loved MNL 143 Mondomanila; or, How I Fixed My Hair after a Rather Long Journey Niño Of Skies and Earth Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement Three Decades of Philippine Short Films Tondo, Beloved: To What Are the Poor Born?

RETROSPECTIVE: SHINJI SOMAI

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Family Shorts Fusion Shorts Short Films 1: Identity and Revolution Short Films 2: Dream Machine Short Films 3: Strange Geometry Short Films 4: Salvaging and Scavenging Short Films 5: Capturing Perception Short Scottish Documentaries Youth Shorts

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SPECIAL EVENTS Special stand-alone movie experiences, workshops and chances to get up close and personal with some of cinema’s greatest names. Awards Ceremony BAFTA and Film Nation Shorts present Mastering Your Craft BAFTA in Scotland presents an Introduction to Acting The Brockas in Film-Concert The Edinburgh Film Guild Forsyth Hardy Lecture Edinburgh Schools Film Competition: Primary Edinburgh Schools Film Competition: Secondary Film Festivals in the Digital Age Film Restoration in the Digital Age In Person: BAFTA in Scotland Interview with Robert Carlyle

In Person: Masterclass with Victor Kossakovsky In Person: Masterclass with Wang Bing Introduction to Film Studies: ‘Art Cinema’ and Narrative Introduction to Film Studies: Contemporary Cinematic Soundscapes The Nine: New Features from Scotland Science Fiction Filmmaking Challenge

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SPECIAL SCREENINGS Classics from the archives and special oneoff previews. 1 Day Blue Black Permanent Dr Seuss’ The Lorax The Fourth Dimension Lawrence of Arabia London 2012 Festival Films Midnight Sun Event featuring Insomnia Surprise Movie

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SPOTLIGHT ON SHINYA TSUKAMOTO The latest film of this Japanese cult director, together with two restored classics. Kotoko Tetsuo: The Iron Man Tetsuo II: Body Hammer

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SPOTLIGHT ON WANG BING A major force of Chinese independent documentary filmmaking visits EIFF with four of his extraordinary films. Coal Money + Brutality Factory The Ditch Fengming: A Chinese Memoir

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BEYOND EIFF All screenings

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OUTDOOR SCREENINGS All screenings

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HOW TO DO EIFF 1. CHOOSING YOUR FILMS AND EVENTS

Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road, EH3 9BZ 30 May: 12:00 - 21:00 (for Filmhouse Members only) 31 May – 19 June: 10:00 - 21:00 During the Festival: 10:00 - 22:30

FINDING FILMS AND EVENTS EIFF feature films, short film programmes and events sit within colour coded strands and are listed alphabetically between pages 14 and 60; Galas, Restrospectives, Beyond EIFF and Outdoor Screenings are listed separately in the Brochure. More information on the strands can be found in the Brochure Index on pages 4 and 5. There’s also a vast array of live events ranging from interviews to panel discussions and Q&As. This year EIFF introduces Pathways, helping you to select films from various different strands, but which have a common theme. The different Pathways are explained in more detail on page 8.

Festival Theatre Edinburgh, 13/29 Nicolson Street, EH8 9FT 4 June – 30 June (Monday to Saturday): 10:00 - 18:00

CALENDAR Check out the day-by-day calendar in the centre of the Brochure (pages 35-38) to help plan your film festival. CLASSIFICATION Most EIFF films do not hold a rating certificate (i.e. PG, 15, 18) at the time of screening. The nature of all films is conveyed in their Brochure listing. If in doubt, phone the Box Office on 0131 623 8030 for advice. FILM EVENT LENGTH Running times are included at the top of each film listing. Most EIFF films include an introduction and/or Q&A which are not included in the running times. If a short film is being shown with a feature, this will be mentioned in the film entry.

2. BOOKING YOUR TICKETS The EIFF Box Office opens to the public at 10am on Thursday 31 May. Filmhouse Members receive priority booking from noon on Wednesday 30 May. Book Online: edfilmfest.org.uk Book By Phone: 0131 623 8030 Book In Person: You can buy tickets in person before the Festival begins from the Filmhouse and Festival Theatre Edinburgh box offices at the times below, and during the Festival from either of these and also at Cineworld and Cameo.

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Cineworld, Fountain Park, Fountainbridge, EH11 1AF June: weekend afternoons and evenings During the Festival: 10:00 - late Cameo, 38 Home Street, EH3 9LZ During the Festival: 10:00 - late GETTING YOUR TICKETS Tickets can be collected from the EIFF box office at Filmhouse until two hours before the screening/event begins. After this, they will be held for collection at the venue of the screening/event from half an hour before scheduled start time. Tickets can also be posted, with a 50p booking fee, and are only available on bookings made before Sun 17 June. Tickets can be purchased in person at our box offices at each venue right up to their start time. If an event has sold out, seats are often available on a stand-by basis. There is a returns queue at each box office for this purpose. TICKET REFUNDS We do not refund tickets except in event of cancellation.

3. TICKET PRICES Full and concessionary prices are included in each listing information in this Brochure. A 50p booking fee per transaction is charged for posting tickets. CONCESSIONS Concessions are available to senior citizens, students, the unemployed, people who are registered disabled, Equity Members, and under 18 year olds in full time education. Proof of status will be required when purchasing or collecting tickets. MULTI-BUY TICKET OFFER We provide discounts for multiple ticket purchases; if you buy between 8 and 12 tickets in one transaction you will receive 10% off your basket price, buy over 13 tickets and get 20% off. Please note, ticket offers exclude Gala screenings of Killer Joe and Brave, as well as Best of the Fest.

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4. TAKE yOUR SEAT WHERE TO SIT Seats are unreserved unless otherwise stated. Doors open approximately 15 minutes before the start of an event. All EIFF venues have disabled access facilities, apart from The Burns Monument. For further information on accessibility, please see pages 70 and 71. VENUE INFORMATION Further information on EIFF venues can be found on our venue section on pages 70 and 71. Please do contact us at customerservices@filmhousecinema.com or call us on 0131 623 8030 if there’s anything else you need to know. LATE ADMITTANCE If you’re late for the screening we cannot guarantee admittance. Cinema Management reserve the right of admission and the Usher’s decision on this is final. We cannot offer you a refund if we are unable to seat you due to latecoming.

5. TOP TIPS! BOOK NOW! Unlike regular releases, our films are normally only screened twice and events can sell out very quickly. The only way you can be sure of seeing your top picks is to book as early as possible. BEST OF THE FEST If you do miss out on one of your picks, don’t forget Best of the Fest on Sunday 1 July, where we re-screen the biggest and best films of the Festival, from £6/£5 a ticket. This year’s line up will be announced on edfilmfest.org.uk at noon on Thursday 28 June. AND FOR SOME TIME OUT... If you have a spare hour or two between films, or just want to grab a quick drink or bite to eat before you go in, don’t forget there’s a great Café Bar at Filmhouse, the official home of EIFF. The Café Bar is open daily during the Festival from 8am, serving breakfast and a range of refreshments. Free wi-fi is also available.

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eiFF 2012 PATHwAYS EIFF shows a wide range of films from all around the world, representing many genres, themes, styles and nationalities. To make the most of your experience of EIFF, we invite you to explore the various strands of our programme to their fullest. To help guide you in your exploration, for the first time this year EIFF is introducing Pathways. Each Pathway is a group of films, selected from across the different strands of the EIFF programme, that are linked by common themes or that appeal to particular tastes. We hope you will take advantage of Pathways this year. You may be delightfully surprised by what you find. Remember you can create your own Pathway through My EIFF on edfilmfest.org.uk

TEENAGE KICKS films for 15-year-olds and upwards THE 99 Unbound Borrowed Time First Position One Mile Away Small Creatures The Terrible Couple Typhoon Club Young Dudes Youth Shorts

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PLAYED FOR LAUGHS films for comedy lovers And If We All Lived Together? Either Way Feel My Pulse Flicker God Bless America My Man Godfrey Rent-a-Cat Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie Unfinished Business Wrong

15 24 66 27 30 66 49 57 67 59

EDGE OF THE LAW films about the world of crime 1 Day Black’s Game Hail Jackpot Mondomanila Pusher Sailor Suit and Machine Gun Sun Don’t Shine Unfair World

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RELATIONSHIPS films on love, couples and relationships El Casamiento Flying Blind God Bless America Kazahana McLaren Animation 2 One.Two.One Sleepless Night Unconditional The Unspeakable Act

25 27 30 63 43 48 54 57 58

PUSHING BOUNDARIES films for the more daring and experimental film fan Buenas noches, España differently, Molussia Dress Rehearsal for Utopia Florentina Hubaldo, CTE Fusion Shorts Kotoko Low Definition Control – Malfunctions #0 We Can’t Go Home Again

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COMMUNITY & CONFLICT films on themes of power, responsibility and history The Ambassador The Ditch Gabriel over the White House Him, Here After It Looks Pretty from a Distance Life without Principle Nuclear Nation Shadow Dancer Shorts 1: Identity & Revolution Tahrir: Liberation Square

15 22 66 31 39 42 47 52 52 56

PERFORMANCE films about the performance arts California Solo Chapiteau Show First Position Luminous Woman Niño Rosalinda + Everybody Says Long Live Bobby Holly Tokyo Drifter

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HUMAN JOURNEYS films about people’s movement across national borders Attractive Illusion Au Pair Day of the Flowers Evelyn Forever Loved The Invader Lawrence of Arabia Música Campesina (Country Music) Saudade What Is This Film Called Love?

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BEST F THE FEST DON’T MISS A FINAL CHANCE TO SEE THE MOST POPULAR FILMS OF EIFF 2012 ON SUNDAY 1 JULY SCREENINGS FrOm £6 (£5 ) THE FinAl lINe Up Is ANnOUnCed ON AT noON ON THUrSdAy 28 junE

The Michael Powell award for Best British Feature Film NomiNees: Berberian Sound Studio Day of the Flowers Flying Blind Future My Love The Imposter Life Just Is One Mile Away Pusher Shadow Dancer Small Creatures

Peter Strickland John Roberts Katarzyna Klimkiewicz Maja Borg Bart Layton Alex Barrett Penny Woolcock Luis Prieto James Marsh Martin Wallace

the international Feature CompetitioN, suPported by innis & GunN Girimunho Here, Then It Looks Pretty from a Distance Kid-Thing The King of Pigs The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus The Lifeguard One.Two.One Papirosen The Search for Emak Bakia Sleepless Night Tabu The Unspeakable Act A Woman’s Revenge

Clarissa Campolina, Helvécio Marins Jr Mao Mao Anka Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal David Zellner Yeon Sang-ho Alexandre O Philippe Maite Alberdi Mania Akbari Gastón Solnicki Oskar Alegria Jang Kun-jae Miguel Gomes Dan Sallitt Rita Azevedo Gomes

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gAlA FilmS KILLER JOE

OPENING NIGHT GALA UK PREMIERE

Killer Joe William Friedkin/USA/2011/103 min Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Gina Gershon, Thomas Haden Church WED 20 JUNE 21:30 FESTIvAL THEATRE PRICE: £15.00 (£9.50 CONCS) The exhilarating, intense, and brilliantly crafted new comedy-thriller by William Friedkin. Chris, a none-too-bright young drug dealer (Emile Hirsch), lives with his even dimmer father (Thomas Haden Church) and his stepmother (Gina Gershon) in a trailer park in Dallas. The trio conspire to murder Chris’s mum for the insurance money and hire policeman/hit man Joe (Matthew McConaughey) to carry out the deed. Lacking funds for a retainer, they loan Chris’s sister (Juno Temple) to Joe as sexual collateral. What ensues is not for the faint of heart.

BRAVE

CLOSING NIGHT GALA EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Brave Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman/ USA/2012/100 min Cast: Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters, Robbie Coltrane, Kevin McKidd, Craig Ferguson SAT 30 JUNE 20:15 FESTIvAL THEATRE PRICE: £15.00 (£9.50 CONCS) A grand adventure full of heart, memorable characters and signature Pixar humour, Brave uncovers a new tale in the mysterious Highlands of Scotland. Headstrong Merida (voice of Kelly Macdonald) a skilled archer and impetuous daughter of King Fergus (Billy Connolly) and Queen Elinor (Emma Thompson), defies an ageold custom and inadvertently unleashes chaos, forcing her to discover the meaning of true bravery before it’s too late. Opens 3 August in Scotland and nationwide 17 August, in Disney Digital 3DTM.

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feature films, shorts & events SPECIAL SCREENINGS

ANIMATION EUROPEAN PREMIERE

LOOKING SOUTH UK PREMIERE

1 Day

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Amateur

Penny Woolcock/UK/2009/102 min Cast: Dylan Duffus, Orhan Whyte, Lady Leshurr, Yohance Watson

Dave Osborne/UK, Kuwait/2011/82 min

Néstor Frenkel/Argentina/2011/76 min Cast: Jorge Mario, Ofelia Graziano de Mario

MON 25 JUNE 17:50 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) With humour, sensitivity and confidence, Penny Woolcock’s hip-hop musical depicts the lives of gang members and their families in Birmingham. The cast of non-professionals is led by Dylan Duffus as Flash, a drug dealer who has 24 hours to come up with the £100,000 missing from the amount his jailed boss gave him for safekeeping. Irrepressibly soulful, 1 Day is grounded in a deep feeling for the survival of community in the midst of criminality. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion about the deadly culture of gang, gun, knife and criminality which is endemic in all our inner cities.

7 Days in Havana (7 días en La Habana)

Introducing to the screen in crisp computer generated animation the super heroes of Naif Al-Mutawa’s comic strip ‘The 99’, this feature debut from British animator Dave Osborne brings together the first five heroes connected by their special relationship with the Noor stones: gemstones imbued with the wisdom and knowledge of the lost civilisation of Baghdad. Each represents one of the 99 attributes of Allah. An action-packed international journey crammed with intrigue, conflict and advocacy of unity amongst diversity.

SAT 23 JUNE 21:30 CINEWORLD FRI 29 JUNE 21:30 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) A dentist by trade, Jorge Mario has numerous hobbies and one real passion: the cinema. For years he made films in Super 8, graduating from home movies to narrative films. Now 70, Mario wants to do a remake of his own magnum opus, the Super 8 western Winchester Martin. This documentary is an affectionate homage to a vanishing culture of popular cinephilia.

AMATEUR

DIRECTORS’ SHOWCASE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

SUN 24 JUNE 13:20 CINEWORLD MON 25 JUNE 19:00 CINEWORLD PRICE: £6.00 (£5.00 CONCS)

Benicio Del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Gaspar Noé, Juan Carlos Tabío, Laurent Cantet/France, Spain/2012/126 min Cast: Josh Hutcherson, Daniel Brühl, Emir Kusturica, Melissa Rivera, Elia Suleiman FRI 22 JUNE 18:20 CINEWORLD WED 27 JUNE 18:20 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) A week in the life of one of the most fascinating cities on earth, chronicled day by day by seven highly individual international directors. The seven stories add up to a complex mosaic of contemporary Havana in all its richness, filled with vivid characters and dramatic contrasts, capturing a moment of time in a city on the verge of a major historical transition.

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feature films, shorts & events AND IF WE ALL LIVED TOGETHER?

FOCUS ON DENMARK UK PREMIERE

The Ambassador (Ambassadøren) Mads Brügger/Denmark/2011/93 min SUN 24 JUNE 16:45 CINEWORLD MON 25 JUNE 18:10 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Danish documentarist/satirist/provocateur Mads Brügger decides to expose the highstakes game of political and economic corruption in Africa. How to go about this? By carrying a hidden camera as he buys a diplomatic assignment to the Central African Republic and sets up a match factory staffed by Pygmies to serve as a front for a diamond-smuggling operation. A gonzo exposé of neo-colonialism that is bound to stir up controversy. “Brügger is sort of the VICE magazine version of Sasha Baron Cohen, as financed by Lars Von Trier” (Karina Longworth, LA Weekly).

PHILIPPINE NEW WAVE UK PREMIERE

NEW PERSPECTIVES UK PREMIERE

ANIMATION

Amok

And If We All Lived Together?

Animation Panel: Running Out of Film

Lawrence Anthony Fajardo/Philippines/ 2011/83 min Cast: Mark Gil, Dido de la Paz, Garry Lim, Nonie Buencamino, John Arceo THU 21 JUNE 19:45 FILMHOUSE 3 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) One sweltering day on the mean streets of Manila, various lives intersect and come into conflict as an act of random violence escalates into a brutal struggle for survival. “Fajardo’s technical exercise is a showcase of his talent for skewering disparate lives momentarily trapped in an urban labyrinth through a random act of violence” (Khavn de la Cruz, filmmaker).

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(Et si on vivait tous ensemble?) Stéphane Robelin/France, Germany/2011/ 96 min Cast: Guy Bedos, Daniel Brühl, Geraldine Chaplin, Jane Fonda, Claude Rich, Pierre Richard SUN 24 JUNE 20:30 CINEWORLD TUE 26 JUNE 20:30 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Several screen icons star in a comedy-drama that treats delicate issues with tact, humour and intelligence. Five long-time friends (Jane Fonda, Geraldine Chaplin, Claude Rich, Pierre Richard, Guy Bedos), now past retirement age, decide to move in together. Under the watchful eyes of their younger caretaker (Daniel Bruhl), an anthropology student, the new housemates confront some hidden issues from their shared past while struggling to cope with the problems of ageing.

75 min THU 28 JUNE 14:30 FILMHOUSE 2 FREE TICKETED EVENT Presented by the Scottish Animation Network. The technology involved in the art of animation has evolved since its heyday. Early pioneering principles of the craft were established when production was created for, and committed to, celluloid film. This panel will discuss the impact of contemporary digital advances on animation practice, comparing traditional production methods to new; film prints to digital projections. Has ‘film’ been rendered obsolete? McLaren Animation Award nominees are joined by other industry specialists to discuss.

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ATTRACTIVE ILLUSION

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Anton Corbijn: Inside Out Klaartje Quirijns/Netherlands, Ireland, Flanders/2012/85 min Cast: Anton Corbijn, Lou Reed, Metallica, U2, Arcade Fire, Aaf Corbijn, Marietje Corbijn van Willenswaard THU 28 JUNE 18:30 CINEWORLD FRI 29 JUNE 20:40 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) This deft and insightful film offers an intimate and revealing view of the life and creativity of the celebrated photographer and filmmaker. Thoughts from Bono, Metallica, Lou Reed and others, together with footage taken on the set of The American, starring George Clooney, fill out a portrait of a sensitive and reticent artist. “A thoughtful film that is as much an homage to the creative process as it is a tribute to a man” (Jessica Kiang, IndieWire).

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Attractive Illusion

Au Pair

Awards Ceremony

Petros Sevastikoglou/Greece, Nigeria/2012/80 min Cast: Tmc, J Linus, M Ohilebo, PIO Austyeno, D Nusakhare, S Ohilebo

Nicole N Horanyi, Heidi Kim Andersen/ Denmark/2011/59 min Cast: Ma Teresa M Malvar, Maria Theresa Rafol, Roselie Busto, Michael Sørensen, Anne Gautie

90 min

TUE 26 JUNE 18:10 CINEWORLD SAT 30 JUNE 20:00 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) In search of a better life, a boatful of Nigerians wash up on the shores of Greece and head for Athens. There they embark on a precarious new life. Turning to illegal activities to make money, the paperless immigrants fall easy prey to ruthless crime bosses. A dark and abrasive film, filled with vivid characters, whom director Petros Sevastikoglou views with calm compassion.

SAT 23 JUNE 14:25 CINEWORLD TUE 26 JUNE 18:35 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) The exploitation of au pair women who come from overseas to work in richer countries becomes the subject of this compassionate and hard-hitting documentary. The film looks at the lives of three Philippine women who work as au pairs in Denmark. Struggling in their new country to earn money for their families back home, the women face social marginalisation and the imminent expiration of their work permits.

SAT 30 JUNE 13:00 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Be part of the excitement as the prize winners of EIFF 2012 are announced live. Awards will be given for the best British feature film (the Michael Powell Award), the best performance in a British feature film, the best international feature film, the best British and international short films, the best new British animation, and the best film in the Student Critics Jury selection.

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DIRECTORS’ SHOWCASE UK PREMIERE

BAFTA and Film Nation Shorts present Mastering Your Craft

Berberian Sound Studio

Bestiaire

Peter Strickland/UK/2012/92 min Cast: Toby Jones, Cosimo Fusco, Antonio Mancino, Fatma Mohamed, Salvatore Li Causi

Denis Côté/Canada, France/2012/72 min

90 min WED 27 JUNE 16:00 FILMHOUSE 2 FREE TICKETED EVENT Designed for filmmakers of the future, BAFTA in Scotland and London 2012’s Film Nation Shorts offer you the chance to gain some valuable insights from an inspirational industry professional. Have you been making short films as a hobby and do you want to develop this into a full-time job? Are you considering a film course? Our expert practitioner will explain how to make it in this intensely competitive industry.

THU 28 JUNE 20:20 FILMHOUSE 1 FRI 29 JUNE 18:00 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) In the 1970s, a British sound technician (Toby Jones) is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past. Berberian Sound Studio is many things: an anti-horror film, a stylistic tour de force, and a dream of cinema. As such, it offers a kind of pleasure that is rare in films, while recreating in a highly original way the pleasures of Italian horror cinema.

SAT 23 JUNE 16:50 CINEWORLD SUN 24 JUNE 21:15 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Curious, compelling and compassionate, Denis Côté’s contemplative portrait of animals in captivity is, put simply, a series of beautifully framed and composed tableaux of a variety of animals at Québec’s Parc Safari; but it’s also a complex meditation on the relationship between man, beast and environment. Côté lets his often startling imagery speak for itself, giving us the viewer plenty time, and food, for thought.

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BAFTA in Scotland presents an Introduction to Acting 90min MON 25 JUNE 16:30 FILMHOUSE 3 FREE TICKETED EVENT Ready for your close up? We can’t promise to make you a star but we can offer the advice of an individual who knows a lot about acting for film. Whether you are a recent school leaver or drama school graduate, the advice of a fellow working actor will ensure that you know some of the highs and lows before you set out on the road to a successful acting career.

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FeATure FilmS, SHorTS & evenTS BLACK BOX

BLACK BOX

Black Box Shorts 1: Surfaces and Layers

Black Box Shorts 3: Passing Through

Black Box Shorts 4: Particles

78 min

75min

72 min

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Perception is a journey through textures. The films in this programme present the range of perceptual possibilities that can be created through techniques of duplication and layering, and explorations of surfaces and textures. They demonstrate different approaches to surface and depth, from direct interventions on the celluloid strip to digital manipulations of figurative or abstract phenomena. The screening features a special double 16mm projection by Daïchi Saïto, and includes films by Jennifer Reeves, Siegfried Fruhauf, Kerry Laitala and others.

Evocative journeys through mountain pathways and city streets. Six films from Canada, Austria, the Netherlands, and the USA that offer very different perspectives on bodily trajectories through new and uncertain territories. Aimlessly wandering, tentatively negotiating, confidently conquering and directly intervening, these intensely personal films are brought together through a curiosity for the outside world. Seen through the eyes of Marc Pelletier, Yang Hey-Yeun, Albert Sackl, Fern Silva, Robert Todd and Anna Abrahams.

Where nature and science collide. Three films that explore, with almost obsessive precision, the minutiae of phenomena in flux, including Paul Clipson’s series of intimate Super 8 studies of plant and animal life, Rose Lowder’s ethereal observations of the crystallization of sea water, and Telcosystems’ take on particle theory through the unstable fluctuation of digital data. Moving from the poetic to the hypnotic, from the figurative to the abstract, and from calm to chaos, this programme promises an intense audiovisual experience!

Contains strobe effects.

BLACK BOX BLACK BOx SHORTS 2: A SENSE OF UNEASE - EUROPA

Black Box Shorts 2: A Sense of Unease 91 min MON 25 JUNE 21:00 FILMHOUSE 3 FRI 29 JUNE 15:05 FILMHOUSE 3 PRICE: £6.00 (£5.00 CONCS) Something just doesn’t feel right … This programme brings together a diverse selection of experimental films that all deal in some way with feelings of unease, be it through formal uncertainties, mysterious environments or uncanny happenings. Revelling in cinema’s ability to reveal the strange in the everyday, these compelling works mix indefinable anxiety with unresolved tension to touch both mind and body. Featuring the international premiere of Telemach Wiesinger’s Europa, as well as films by Robert Todd and Andrew Kötting amongst others. Contains strobe effects.

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Black’s Game (Svartur á leik) Óskar Thór Axelsson/Iceland/2011/104 min Cast: Thorvaldur David Kristjansson, Johannes Haukur Johannesson, Damon Younger, Egill Einarsson, Maria B Bjarnardottir THU 21 JUNE 18:10 CINEWORLD MON 25 JUNE 20:50 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Stefan Mani’s best-seller of the Icelandic underworld becomes the basis for this debut feature by Óskar Thór Axelsson. A young slacker with violent tendencies does a job for a gang of drug dealers. Impressing his superiors, he works his way up to a high position in the gang… just as the crooks are setting up their biggest deal yet. Energetic, made with flair, and brimming with local colour, Black’s Game brings some refreshing Icelandic twists to a classic gang-thriller plot.

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BRITISH SCENES WORLD PREMIERE

Blood of My Blood (Sangue do meu sangue)

Blue Black Permanent

Borrowed Time

João Canijo/Portugal/2011/190 min Cast: Rita Blanco, Anabela Moreira, Cleia Almeida, Rafael Morais, Marcello Urgeghe

Margaret Tait/UK/1992/86 min Cast: Celia Imrie, Jack Shepherd, Gerda Stevenson

THU 28 JUNE 19:00 CINEWORLD SUN 1 JULY 17:45 FILMHOUSE 2 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS)

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Jules Bishop/UK/2012/86 min Cast: Theo Barklem-Biggs, Phil Davis, Warren Brown, Juliet Oldfield, Perry Benson

This hard-hitting drama, set in a rough neighbourhood of Lisbon, recalls Altman and Leigh in equal measures. Marcia, a mother of three, faces stark choices as she struggles to keep her family on an even keel. Her son is embroiled in trouble with a local gang boss; her daughter’s entanglement with a philandering professor threatens, meanwhile, to reveal dark family secrets. Superb performances from the ensemble cast, under Canijo’s virtuosic direction, give this intricate story a rare power.

Glasgow Women’s Library offers a very rare opportunity to see Margaret Tait’s only feature, Blue Black Permanent, twenty years after its original premiere at EIFF. A haunting and magical film about a daughter’s attempts to come to terms with her mother’s mysterious death. A delicate and poetic work of intense emotion. This screening links with a Margaret Tait film and poetry celebration in Glasgow in August: more information at www.womenslibrary.org.uk.

THU 21 JUNE 18:20 CINEWORLD SAT 23 JUNE 13:45 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Kevin, an inept young would-be criminal, needs money fast to pay back the local crime lord, a sword-wielding sociopath. Breaking into the home of an eccentric recluse seems to Kevin a likely plan, until the enraged old man unexpectedly shows up with a gun. The strange bond that forms between these two misfits becomes the premise of this unusual comedy-drama produced through Microwave, Film London’s micro-budget feature-film fund in partnership with BBC Films.

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BRAKE

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Brake

The Brockas in Film-Concert

Buenas noches, España

Gabe Torres/USA/2012/91 min Cast: Stephen Dorff, Tom Berenger, JR Bourne, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Chyler Leigh

120 min

Raya Martin/Spain, Philippines/2011/ 70 min Cast: Pilar López de Ayala, Andrés Gertrúdix

FRI 29 JUNE 18:30 CINEWORLD SAT 30 JUNE 13:20 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) A claustrophobic thriller with the clock ticking. Stephen Dorff is a man who awakes to his incarceration in the trunk of a moving car and a deadly demand: either he gives his captors the information they want or he and his loved ones will be executed. It’s a whiteknuckle ninety-minute ride as Dorff, encased in the trunk, is put through every manner of mental and physical torture in an attempt to extract the all-important secret. But will he crack?

SUN 24 JUNE 22:15 TRAVERSE 2 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Named in tribute to one of the Philippines’ greatest directors, Lino Brocka, avant-rock improvisers The Brockas draw their shifting personnel from the Philippines’ independent artistic and filmmaking scene. For their first Edinburgh performance, The Brockas will perform along with the projection of Manuel Conde and Lou Salvador’s Genghis Khan, a 1950 Philippine film that screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1952 (“For the most part it consists of a battle scene of unparalleled, original ferocity and violence” – New Statesman & Nation).

WED 27 JUNE 20:30 FILMHOUSE 2 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) An experimental psychedelic road movie by one of the new Philippine cinema’s youngest and most acclaimed directors. The film addresses the shared history of Spain and the Philippines through the idea of time travel. “The future of political cinema” (Phil Coldiron, Moving Image Source).

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SPOTLIGHT ON WANG BING

MICHAEL POWELL AWARD COMPETITION WORLD PREMIERE

California Solo

Coal Money + Brutality Factory

Day of the Flowers

Marshall Lewy/USA/2012/93 min Cast: Robert Carlyle, Alexia Rasmussen, Kathleen Wilhoite, A Martinez, Michael Des Barres, Danny Masterson

70 min

John Roberts/UK/2012/100 min Cast: Eva Birthistle, Charity Wakefield, Carlos Acosta, Bryan Dick, Christopher Simpson

THU 28 JUNE 18:10 CINEWORLD SAT 30 JUNE 13:00 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) A former legend of the Britpop scene struggles to forget his past and maintain his life in the USA. Robert Carlyle portrays the once successful musician who has settled into a life of farm work and anonymity in an effort to control his demons. What weighs greatest on his mind is the untimely death of his brother and bandmate. Eventually a drunken conviction and the threat of deportation shatter his emotional isolation and force him to face his past.

Chapiteau Show Sergey Loban/Russia/2011/207 min Cast: Vera Strokova, Aleksey Podolskiy, Aleksey Znamenskiy, Sergey Kuzmento, Petr Mamonou SUN 24 JUNE 13:15 CINEWORLD SUN 1 JULY 17:20 FILMHOUSE 3 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) A prize winner at last year’s Moscow International Film Festival that went on to become a surprise hit in cinemas across Russia. At a Crimean resort, various characters cross paths with one another across an intricate multi-story narrative. Among them are a mismatched couple who meet on the internet, a group of deaf people, an estranged father and son, and a young promoter trying to make a star of a lookalike of the late Russian rock legend viktor Tsoi. An amazing film for its inventiveness and style.

Two astounding short works by a contemporary master who trains his camera on the human costs of a merciless economy of exploitation. Coal Money follows Chinese truck drivers carrying coal from the mines to the market, encountering criminals and corrupt policemen, haggling with buyers in endless negotiations. Set amid the rubble of a disused factory, Brutality Factory recreates one of the show trials of accused reactionaries that were a feature of the Cultural Revolution. The filmmaker will be in attendance and will also discuss his work in depth in a masterclass (page 33).

MON 25 JUNE 20:50 CAMEO 1 WED 27 JUNE 21:10 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Two young, strong-willed Scottish sisters, one a left-wing activist, the other a mostpopular-girl-in-school type, take their late father’s ashes to Cuba, the site of many family legends of his services to the Revolution. Arriving in Havana, the two women promptly lose the ashes and go through a series of misadventures – both romantic and dangerous – to try to retrieve them. A colourful and wryly humourous tale of cross-cultural misunderstandings and lost illusions.

CALIFORNIA SOLO

NEW PERSPECTIVES UK PREMIERE

SUN 24 JUNE 13:20 FILMHOUSE 2 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS)

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2012

FeATure FilmS, SHorTS & evenTS DIRECTORS’ SHOWCASE UK PREMIERE

SPOTLIGHT ON WANG BING

FILMS ON FILM UK PREMIERE

Demain?

The Ditch

Don’t Expect Too Much

Christine Laurent/France, Portugal/2011/ 95 min Cast: Laure de Clermont, Marc Ruchmann, Teresa Madruga, Adriano Luz, Beatriz Batarda

Wang Bing/Hong Kong, Belgium, France/ 2010/112 min Cast: Zhengwu Cheng, Niansong Jing, Xiangnian Li

Susan Ray/USA/2011/70 min Cast: Gerry Bamman, Richard Bock, Peer Bode

SAT 23 JUNE 18:00 CINEWORLD SAT 30 JUNE 12:50 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) The short, passionate life of Uruguyan poet Delmira Agustini is stylishly evoked in this film by Christine Laurent, longtime script collaborator of Jacques Rivette. Elegant, erotic and playful, the film contrasts its heroine’s turbulent, tormented psyche with free and graceful filmmaking to create something as mysterious and wonderful as a poem. The beautiful Laure de ClermontTonnere (The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec) is affecting and compelling as Delmira, tortured by her own genius.

differently, Molussia (anders, Molussien) Nicolas Rey/France/2012/81 min Cast: Peter Hoffmann THU 21 JUNE 17:55 FILMHOUSE 3 SUN 24 JUNE 19:15 FILMHOUSE 3 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Nine short, individually titled reels of colour 16mm film, which are presented in a random order determined before each screening. Drawing on a text by German philosopher Günther Anders, the film is an imaginary documentary about Molussia, a fictional totalitarian country that Anders invented to represent the dystopia of fascism.

A great documentarist makes his first foray into narrative feature filmmaking with this stark and ferocious look at survival under appalling conditions. China, October 1960. At the Jiabiangou labour camp in the Gobi desert, condemned rightists are sent for rehabilitation. Their task: digging a seemingly endless ditch between nowhere and nowhere. Their food supply dwindles to nothing, as a woman comes searching for her husband, one of the labourers. Cinematography by Lu Sheng, whose directorial debut, Here, There, is also screening at EIFF. The filmmaker will be in attendance and will also discuss his work in depth in a masterclass (page 33).

SUN 24 JUNE 19:45 CINEWORLD SUN 1 JULY 18:45 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) As Nicholas Ray’s partner, Susan Ray lived with We Can’t Go Home Again (page 59) from the inception of that massive project through the director’s lengthy attempts to finish it. In Don’t Expect Too Much, she provides the ideal introduction to the ambitions, accomplishments and contradictions of the film. Capturing the memories of those who participated in the production as Ray’s students, Don’t Expect Too Much also incorporates rare film and audio documentation of Ray teaching at Harpur College in the 1970s.

DEMAIN?

NEW PERSPECTIVES UK PREMIERE

SAT 23 JUNE 17:15 FILMHOUSE 2 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS)

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feature films, shorts & events dr seuss’ The lorAX

SpECIAL SCrEENINGS UK prEMIErE

Dr Seuss’ The Lorax Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda/uSA/2012/86 min Voice Cast: Danny DeVito, ed Helms, Zac efron, Taylor Swift, Betty White SAT 23 June 14:00 Cineworld Sun 24 June 14:00 Cineworld PRICe: £11.50 (£9.00 ConCs) A 3d, animated version of dr seuss’s fable about the environmental threats posed by corporate greed. in a world where nature has been virtually abolished, a twelve-year-old boy goes on a quest for a real tree to give as a present to the girl he loves. his quest leads him first to the misanthropic Once-ler and then to the lorax, guardian of the colourful Truffula trees. For all ages!

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Dragon (Wu xia)

Dress rehearsal for Utopia

Eddie - The Sleepwalking Cannibal

Andrés Duque/Spain/2012/75 min Cast: Silvio Duque, Andrés Duque

Boris Rodriguez/Canada, Denmark/2011/83 min Cast: Thure Lindhardt, Georgina Reilly, Dylan Smith, Alain Goulem, Stephen McHattie

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FRI 29 June 22:45 Filmhouse 1 SAT 30 June 20:30 Cineworld PRICe: £9.00 (£7.50 ConCs)

As his father lies dying in a hospital room in Venezuela, the filmmaker’s thoughts travel to mozambique. images of dance and revolution, some retrieved from archival footage, some newly shot, conjure up a spectral alternate reality where human figures take part in a cascade of excited movements.

A once successful danish painter accepts a teaching post at a remote art school in Canada. There he befriends the mute nephew of one of the school’s crucial benefactors, and rediscovers artistic inspiration in his strange new friend’s bloodthirsty nocturnal activities... Armed with the brilliant Thure lindhardt’s cleverly endearing central performance, director Boris rodriguez deftly achieves a perfect balance of outrageously black humour and genuinely grisly horror, ensuring that Eddie earns its place as a hilariously disturbed cult classic.

Peter Chan/China/2011/114 min Cast: Kara Hui, Wu Jiang, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Yu Kang, Xiao Ran Li, Donnie Yen SAT 23 June 17:40 Cineworld Sun 24 June 15:25 Cineworld PRICe: £9.00 (£7.50 ConCs) A supremely imaginative blending of A History of Violence, TV’s Sherlock and Chang Cheh’s 1967 classic One-Armed Swordsman, Wu Xia is a visually ravishing, compelling and (rare in the genre) thoughtful kung fu actioner, with hong Kong superstar donnie Yen taking on both acting and choreographic responsibilities. in 1917 southwestern China, an investigation into the killing of two robbers by a seemingly mild-mannered paper-maker, leads forensic detective Xu (Takeshi Kaneshiro) inexorably towards the infamous 72 demons gang…

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EDINBURGH SCHOOLS FILM COMPETITION

The Edinburgh Film Guild Forsyth Hardy Lecture 100 min SAT 30 JUNE 12:10 FILMHOUSE 2 FREE TICKETED EVENT In celebration of EIFF’s 65th anniversary, the Edinburgh Film Guild inaugurates this annual series of lectures on the history of cinema in Scotland with a fully illustrated account of the beginning of EIFF in Edinburgh’s First International Festival of Documentary Films— the first international film festival in Britain and first anywhere devoted entirely to documentary. The lecture will be followed by a complete screening of Humphrey Jennings’ rarely seen The Cumberland Story, the first film shown at that 1947 festival. Presenter: Marc David Jacobs. The Cumberland Story print courtesy of The BFI National Archive.

SPECIAL EVENTS

NEW PERSPECTIVES UK PREMIERE

Edinburgh Schools Film Competition

Edinburgh Schools Film Competition: Primary

Either Way (Á annan veg)

All pupils in Edinburgh were invited to enter our Schools Film Competition and here are the very best from the hundreds of entries, chosen by the youth Jury. The films, from primary, secondary, nursery and special schools across the city all demonstrate enormous passion for cinema and imagination in abundance. The competition is a partnership between EIFF, Screen Education Edinburgh and City of Edinburgh Council. Check out the future filmmaking stars in these two dazzling programmes of the best short films made by Edinburgh school pupils.

90 min

Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson/ Iceland/2011/84 min Cast: Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson, Hilmar Guðjónsson, Þorsteinn Bachmann,Valgerður Rúnarsdóttir, Runólfur Ingólfsson

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SAT 23 JUNE 11:30 FILMHOUSE 2 FREE TICKETED EVENT The youngest filmmakers in our 2012 programme: budding artists from Edinburgh’s primary schools show their perspective on life, in a colourful and inspiring showcase.

Edinburgh Schools Film Competition: Secondary 90 min SUN 24 JUNE 11:30 FILMHOUSE 2 FREE TICKETED EVENT Don’t some of your most intense memories date from your time at ‘big school’? Here, we see things through the eyes of Edinburgh’s secondary school pupils – spot the new filmmakers of the future here.

FRI 22 JUNE 18:30 CINEWORLD SAT 23 JUNE 13:00 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Alfred and Finnbogi work together painting the dividing lines on Icelandic public roads, in a sparse and uninhabited landscape. Having only each other for company – being visited sporadically by a jovial trucker plying them with drink - the two men’s personal differences are the source of equal parts laughter and frustration. Writer/director Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson has created a carefully paced comedy of opposites – between stillness and slapstick, activity and inertia and silence broken by thumping electro.

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LOOKING SOUTH UK PREMIERE

NEW PERSPECTIVES WORLD PREMIERE

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El Casamiento

Exit Elena

Fable of the Fish (Isda)

Aldo Garay/Uruguay, Argentina/2011/72 min Cast: Julia Brian, Ignacio González

Nathan Silver/USA/2012/72 min Cast: Kia Davis, Cindy Silver, Jim Chiros, Gert O’Connell, Daisy, Nathan Silver

Adolfo Borinaga Alix Jr/Philippines/2011/ 85 min Cast: Cherry Pie Picache, Bembol Roco, Anita Linda, Rosanna Roces, Angel Aquino

SUN 24 JUNE 19:30 CINEWORLD SAT 30 JUNE 18:45 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) An intimate documentary portrait of an exceptional couple who live in a suburb of Montevideo: Julia, a 65-year-old transsexual whose new gender identity has finally been recognised (after twelve years) by the Uruguayan state, and Ignacio, her lover, a former construction worker with a troubled past. Inseparable for 20 years, the couple are now preparing for marriage. Aldo Garay’s camera follows Julia and Ignacio’s joys and worries, patiently revealing the sources of the strength of their relationship.

SUN 24 JUNE 19:20 CINEWORLD MON 25 JUNE 18:20 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) A miniature gem, this no-budget, docu-style drama creates an indefinable tension around its mysterious heroine, a newly-qualified live-in nurse whose relations with the family she’s staying with seem to drift beyond the merely professional. The illusion of reality is perfect, thanks to utterly real performances captured by the film’s rough-and-ready camera style. And the mysterious sense of anxiety that permeates the proceedings is impossible to pin down and all the more effective for it.

Evelyn Isabel de Ocampo/Spain/2012/96 min Cast: Cindy Diaz, Adolfo Fernández THU 21 JUNE 18:00 FILMHOUSE 2 SAT 30 JUNE 20:15 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) A harrowing tale of human trafficking, this film engages not by a litany of misery but by presenting a naïve, incredibly resourceful and determined heroine, struggling to escape her nightmarish trap. At times, the pervasive atmosphere of corruption around her approaches the dark worlds of David Lynch, but without ever losing its connection to contemporary reality. A tough watch but an unforgettable one.

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A heartfelt portrait of a disintegrating marriage, a sweeping view of shanty-town life in the Philippines, but Adolfo Alix Jr’s film will surely be remembered as “that film about a woman who gives birth to a fish”. Astonishingly, Alix treats his absurd central conceit with complete seriousness, which doesn’t prevent some humour inevitably manifesting, but the prevailing tone is tragic and deeply sympathetic.

ExIT ELENA

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FRI 29 JUNE 22:05 FILMHOUSE 2 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS)

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2012

feature films, shorts & events SHORTS

SPECIAL EVENTS

Family Shorts

Film Festivals in the Digital Age

Film Restoration in the Digital Age

74 min

90 min

SAT 30 JUNE 12:00 FILMHOUSE 3 SUN 1 JULY 15:15 FILMHOUSE 3 PRICE: £6.00 (£5.00 CONCS)

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Small films to delight small people… and grown ups too! Short films are a wonderful introduction for all ages to world cinema. There are beautifully animated adventures to make us laugh and learn about friendship, whether it’s with a favourite dog, a beloved older brother or the moon. There are also magical stories to transport us from the city to the sea and even to the beginning of time. Suitable for age 8+

FREE TICKETED EVENT We live in a time when new digital technologies are transforming how film festivals are organised and experienced. Meanwhile, a new type of cosmopolitan cinephilia is evolving in response to changing models of film circulation. Join Dina Iordanova, editor of the new book Digital Disruptions: Cinema Moves On-line, and other distinguished experts as they explore the future of film festivals.

This panel event will explain the process undertaken to restore classic films including Lawrence of Arabia, which we unveil this year in a brand new digital print (page 41). Panellists include Grover Crisp, Senior Vice President of Film Restoration and Digital Mastering for Sony Pictures Entertainment, and multi-Oscar®-winning editor (and widow of the late Michael Powell) Thelma Schoonmaker. The panel will be chaired by Nick Varley, Managing Director of Park Circus, the leading international distributor of classic and repertory cinema.

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Fengming: A Chinese Memoir (He Fengming) Wang Bing/China, Hong Kong/2007/186 min Cast: He Fengming SAT 23 JUNE 13:45 FILMHOUSE 2 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) An elderly woman walks along a snowy street to her apartment. She makes herself comfortable in her armchair and speaks to the camera. Her name is He Fengming. As night slowly falls, she tells her life story, which spans the history of the Cultural Revolution. Once idealistic young journalists, Fengming and her husband were denounced as counterrevolutionaries, separated, and thrust into labour camps. A moving testament to human endurance, an extraordinary piece of oral history and a landmark in recent documentary cinema. The filmmaker will be in attendance and will also discuss his work in depth in a masterclass (page 33). C

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First Position Bess Kargman/USA/2011/90 min Cast: Jules Jarvis Fogarty, Aran Bell, Gaya Bommer, Miko Fogarty, Michaela Deprince, Joan Sebastian Zamora, Rebecca Houseknecht TUE 26 JUNE 19:00 CINEWORLD SAT 30 JUNE 15:10 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Every year 5,000 dancers aged 9-19 compete in the Youth America Grand Prix, an international ballet competition, in the hope of winning scholarships and contracts with dance companies. We follow six inspiring young people as they strive to make their dreams of becoming professional dancers come true. The screening on 30 June will be followed by a Q&A on dance as a career, with Kerry Livingstone, Head of the Associates Programme at Scottish Ballet and Lecturer in Modern Ballet at the Royal Conservatoire.

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Flicker (Flimmer)

Florentina Hubaldo, CTE

Flying Blind

Patrik Eklund/Sweden/2012/96 min Cast: Kjell Bergqvist, Allan Svensson, Jacob Nordenson, Anki Larsson, Olle Sarri

Lav Diaz/Philippines/2012/360 min Cast: Hazel Orencio, Kristine Kintana, Noel Sto. Domingo, Willy Fernandez, Joel Ferrer

Katarzyna Klimkiewicz/UK/2012/93 min Cast: Helen McCrory, Najib Oudghiri, Kenneth Cranham, Tristan Gemmill

SAT 23 JUNE 17:40 FILMHOUSE 1 SUN 24 JUNE 13:00 FILMHOUSE 3 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS)

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When a power cut strikes a small town in Northern Sweden, a chain reaction begins that sees sparks fly and lives change forever. Electricity allergies, lonely hearts, frustrating IT problems, and the ultimate solution for severe arachnophobia - the feature debut of Oscar®-nominated short director Patrik Eklund is a beautifully absurd, occasionally touching web of comical stories, endearingly brought to life by a charming ensemble cast.

In a rural area of the Philippines, a father forces his daughter into prostitution. Somewhere else, two men embark upon a quest for a buried treasure. “As no other filmmaker, Lav Diaz is involved with the suffering of the people of the Philippines, with its history of colonialism, corruption and poverty. A philosophical drama about the psychological effects of injustice and arbitrariness” (Gertjan Zuilhof, programmer, International Film Festival Rotterdam).

A stylish mix of erotic love story and political thriller. Helen McCrory stars as a brilliant aerospace engineer who is drawn into a passionate affair with a younger male student while working on a government contract for an aircraft destined for military use. As the contract deadline nears, her doubts about her new lover mount, and she comes to understand the shadowy side of her professional career and her personal life.

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FUKUSHIMA: MEMORIES OF THE LOST LANDSCAPE

PHILIPPINE NEW WAVE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Forever Loved (Lawas Kan Pinabli) Christopher Gozum/Philippines/2012/195 min Cast: Louie Rojas, Jo Paredes, Dindo Salinas, Sharon Manibpel, Joselito Alejo TUE 26 JUNE 17:50 FILMHOUSE 3 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) There are an estimated six million documented and one million undocumented migrant Philippine workers scattered throughout 200 countries all over the world. Every day, some 4,000 more join their ranks. Weaving recollections and letters from various migrant workers around the story of a Philippine man searching for his missing wife in a Middle Eastern city, Christopher Gozum creates an intimate, evocative and hypnotic mixture of documentary, poetry and fiction.

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The Fourth Dimension

Fred

Fukushima: Memories of the Lost Landscape

Harmony Korine, Aleksei Fedorchenko, Jan Kwiecinski/UK, USA, Russia, Poland/2011/106 min Cast: Val Kilmer, Igor Sergeev, Darya Ekamasova, Tomasz Tyndyk

Richard Ledes/USA/2012/74 min Cast: Elliott Gould, Fred Melamed, Stephanie Roth Haberle, Judith Roberts, Mfoniso Udofia

WED 27 JUNE 18:50 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Grolsch Film Works and VICE Films present The Fourth Dimension, a film that gives us a glimpse of enlightenment through the eyes of three one-of-a-kind characters. The three filmmakers - Fedorchenko, Korine and Kwiecinski - have created three unique stories that offer up their vision of this higher plane of existence, the Fourth Dimension. Each filmmaker takes his character on a journey that changes the way they see the world and themselves.

(Soma kanka: dai ichi bu ubawareta tochi no kioku) Yojyu Matsubayashi/Japan/2011/109 min

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Following his previous feature, The Caller (2008), director Richard Ledes again calls on the deadpan comedic skills of Elliott Gould to play the eponymous Fred - a man stubbornly refusing to accompany his Alzheimer’s suffering wife to her new care home. A comedy of errors akin to Woody Allen - if only for the casting of Fred Melamed and Stephanie Roth Haberle as Fred’s exasperated son and daughter. This is also a delightfully imaginative look at the nature of transitions - geographical, psychological, and spiritual.

Tokyo-based documentary filmmaker yojyu Matsubayashi, anxious to document the tragedy of the tsunami in northeast Japan and the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, won the trust of the Tanakas, a middle-aged couple working to help people forced to evacuate their homes in the town of Minamisoma. Matsubayashi’s portrait of the Tanakas’ dedication and of the varying experiences and emotions of the evacuees creates a compelling image of loss and resilience.

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Gattu

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Simon El Habre/Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Canada, Germany/2011/84 min

Rajan Khosa/India/2011/79 min Cast: Mohammad Samad, Naresh Kumar, Bhura

SAT 23 JUNE 15:10 CAMEO 1 PRICE: £6.00 (£5.00 CONCS) Some short films just don’t fit! This year our short fiction, documentary, experimental and animation programmers have put their heads together to create a truly eclectic programme of international short films that defy categorization. Fusing different cinematic techniques and moving through a variety of themes from marginal characters, imagined worlds and contemplative journeys to existential angst, fraught relationships and the poetry of the everyday, these hybrid films celebrate the diversity of short filmmaking.

SAT 23 JUNE 16:15 CINEWORLD FRI 29 JUNE 18:00 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Simon El Habre’s follow up to 2008’s One Man Village is a thoughtful study of day labourers, one of them his own father, in the once bustling port of Beirut. Through their tales of former glory as truck drivers in some of the most hostile roads in war-torn Lebanon, and their eloquent descriptions of the port at its economic height, El Habre presents a bigger picture: of Lebanon itself and how the country has changed from the 1960s to the present day.

THU 21 JUNE 17:45 FILMHOUSE 1 FRI 22 JUNE 18:00 FILMHOUSE 2 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) A charming and intriguing film from India. Gattu is an orphan, being raised as an apprentice, but he can’t concentrate on his work because he’s obsessed with kiteflying, and in particular with defeating the mysterious Kali, whose black kite rules the skies. To keep his supply of kites, Gattu is prepared to steal, lie – and even go to school, if absolutely necessary… Suitable for age 10+

Future My Love Maja Borg/UK, Sweden/2012/93 min Cast: Nadya Cazan, Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows THU 21 JUNE 18:05 CINEWORLD FRI 29 JUNE 20:30 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) “We have the resources to feed everyone; the technology to create clean energy; and the ability to supply everyone with creative, free and comfortable lives: yet we choose not to.” Maja Borg’s poetic ‘experimental documentary’ expands on the themes of her 2007 short film, Ottica Zero, and explores, in the light of global economic collapse, alternatives to monetary capitalism and, in particular, the work of sprightly 93-year-old futurist and social engineer, Jacque Fresco.

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Girimunho

Grabbers

Guinea Pigs

Clarissa Campolina, Helvécio Marins Jr/ Brazil, Germany, Spain/2011/90 min Cast: Bastú, Maria do Boi, Preta, Branca, Batatinha, Miltinho, Izadora Fernandes

Jon Wright/UK, Ireland/2012/94 min Cast: Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley, Russell Tovey, Lalor Roddy, David Pearse, Bronagh Gallagher

Ian Clark/UK/2012/85 min Cast: Aneurin Barnard, Oliver Coleman, Steve Evets, Skye Lourie, Alex Reid

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A film about embracing life with no fear of death. After the passing of her husband, an octogenarian widow is far from done with living and proves to be a source of inspiration for her blood relatives and extended family as she relishes the day-to-day. Almost documentary in feel as non-professional actors portray versions of themselves in improvised scenes, this slice of existence in rural Brazil can’t help but be charming and life-affirming.

When a trawler is attacked, and the shore is found littered with dead marine life, something is clearly wrong on Erin Island. There must be a reasonable explanation... or could it be an invasion of bloodsucking aliens from outer space? Featuring an endearing lead performance from Richard Coyle, (also to be seen in Pusher, page 49), Grabbers is an exciting, light-hearted “monster movie” that affectionately tips its hat to everything that ever fell from the sky, or crawled from the sea onto a cinema screen.

SAT 23 JUNE 23:25 CAMEO 1 SUN 24 JUNE 17:20 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) At a remote medical compound, a group of strangers begin clinical trials of an experimental drug called Pro-9. As the drug’s sinister, unexpected side-effects begin to take hold, the terrified volunteers find themselves trapped, isolated, and in mortal danger. This atmospheric, claustrophobic horror-thriller is the debut feature from EIFF 2008 Trailblazer Ian Clark. Strong performances and a fastpaced edit add to the menacing tone, and an intelligent script lifts proceedings to spinechilling proportions.

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God Bless America Bobcat Goldthwait/USA/2011/105 min Cast: Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr, Melinda Page Hamilton, Mackenzie Brooke Smith, Rich McDonald FRI 29 JUNE 20:20 CINEWORLD SAT 30 JUNE 15:30 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) The perfect black comedy for those who long for a swift and violent antidote to the idiocy of contemporary media culture. Divorced, diagnosed with terminal cancer, and fired from his job, middle-aged Frank (Joel Murray) figures he has nothing to lose by killing an obnoxious reality-TV celebrity with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement. High-school student Roxy (Tara Lynne Barr), who witnesses and applauds Frank’s deed, is thrilled to join him on a road trip of cultural serial-killing.

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Hail Amiel Courtin-Wilson/Australia/2011/ 104 min Cast: Daniel P Jones, Leanne Letch, Dario Ettia THU 21 JUNE 20:30 CINEWORLD SAT 23 JUNE 20:30 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) A hard-hitting Australian drama with powerful similarities to Snowtown. Daniel P Lewis plays a version of himself, alongside a cast largely consisting of non-actors, in an occasionally near-hallucinogenic telling of his battle to escape the lure of crime and the consequences of betrayal and grief. Unable to accept society and always on the brink of excess and violence, Daniel struggles daily with his existence until one terrible act brings things to a head.

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Here, Then

Here, There (Zheli, nai)

Him, Here After (Ini Avan)

Mao Mao/China/2012/86 min Cast: Huang Tang Yijia, Li Ziqian, Wang Yizheng, Li Wensi, Cai Jiqiu

Lu Sheng/China/2011/93 min Cast: Lu Yulai, Huang Lu, Yao Anlian, Wang Deshun, Bai Yanbo

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Asoka Handagama/Sri Lanka/2012/104 min Cast: Dharshan Dharmaraj, Subashini Balasubramanium, Niranjai Shanmugaraja, Raja Ganeshan, Malcolm Machado

An alluringly low-key and enigmatic portrayal of the alienation, disillusionment and loss of direction that have become widespread among young people in contemporary China. Filmed in elegant and absorbing long takes, the film interweaves the lives of several rootless people who become linked with one another by chance, by their sexual obsessions, and by the loss of a mobile phone…

Three interwoven stories of contemporary China. In the snowy forests of northern China, a lonely man herds reindeer and busies himself with his daily tasks, looking forward to visits from his wife and son. In Shanghai, a young restaurant worker becomes drawn to a troubled young woman and tries to care for her. In Paris, a young Chinese student is robbed of his passport. He receives unexpected help from an elderly compatriot who knows the ins and outs of their new city.

TUE 26 JUNE 21:00 FILMHOUSE 2 FRI 29 JUNE 17:45 FILMHOUSE 2 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) The first film since the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war to deal seriously with the social problems left in the wake of that 26-yearlong conflict, this is also one of the very few films to date made by a Sinhalese director in the Tamil language. A Tamil rebel soldier is rehabilitated and sent back to his village. Feared and resented by his neighbours, he becomes a security guard for a smuggler, while forming a strange bond with the wife of the previous holder of the job.

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Home for the Weekend (Was bleibt)

Hospitalité (Kantai)

The Imposter

Hans Christian Schmid/Germany/2012/ 88 min Cast: Lars Eidinger, Corinna Harfouch, Sebastian Zimmler, Ernst Stötzner, Picco von Groote

Koji Fukada/Japan/2010/95 min Cast: Kenji Yamauchi, Kiki Sugino, Kanji Furutachi, Bryerly Long, Eriko Ono

Bart Layton/UK/2012/95 min Cast: Frédéric Bourdin, Carey Gibson, Beverly Dollarhide, Charlie Parker, Nancy Fisher

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A stylish mixture of deadpan social satire, Buñuelian surrealism and unnerving suspense. A mild-mannered Tokyo man helps out an old acquaintance he barely remembers by making him an apprentice in his small printing business. The new worker soon becomes a permanent resident in his benefactor’s household, bringing along a blond woman he introduces as his Brazilian wife. Step by step, the visiting couple subvert the relationships among their host, his younger wife and his unmarried sister.

Nicholas Barclay was 13 years old when he disappeared from his San Antonio home in 1994. Three years later he was found in southern Spain and returned to his overjoyed parents. Yet how could they not notice their son’s change of hair and eye colour, or the fact he now spoke with a pronounced French accent? Truth is definitely stranger than fiction in this highly original and compelling documentary about con-artist Frédéric Bourdin and the Texan family who inexplicably welcomed him into their home.

WED 27 JUNE 18:35 FILMHOUSE 1 SUN 1 JULY 13:15 FILMHOUSE 2 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) During a weekend visit by the two adult sons, the outward calm of a middle-class family is thrown into turmoil when the mother, who suffers from clinical depression, announces her decision to go off her medication. “An elegant, economical and superbly acted mapping of psychological undercurrents and (not always explicit) family relations” (Jonathan Romney, Screen Daily).

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SPECIAL EVENTS

In Person: BAFTA in Scotland Interview with Robert Carlyle

In Person: Masterclass with Victor Kossakovsky

In Person: Masterclass with Wang Bing

90 min

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EIFF in partnership with Bafta in Scotland presents a rare opportunity to hear EIFF patron Robert Carlyle in conversation. With a multitude of impressive roles, including his seminal performance as the hot-headed Begbie in Trainspotting, his award-winning turn as Gaz in The Full Monty, and his memorable portrayal of Renard, the psychotic terrorist in The World Is Not Enough, Robert Carlyle has proved himself to be one of the most gifted actors of his generation. His seemingly endless range and ability to inhabit his characters have enabled him to excel on our TV and cinema screens since the early 90s.

Maverick director Victor Kossakovsky, in conversation. We’ll be taken on a rollercoaster ride through Victor’s work: we will listen to him talk, see clips from his wonderful films past and present, and, most importantly, hear him discuss his favourite pastime of dancing. Victor is sure to wow an audience with his vivacious approach to filmmaking. Since 1978 Victor has been making films in Russia, constantly surprising, constantly playing. Come along and discover a truly unique filmmaker. Also make sure to see ¡Vivan las Antipodas! (page 58).

From his first film, West of the Tracks (2003), to his latest work, Wang Bing has brought rigour and compassion to the archaeology of the physical and social changes China has undergone since the Cultural Revolution. Not only a pivotal figure in Chinese documentary filmmaking, Wang is an artist whose work with time and space marks him as one of the most significant filmmakers of our time. At this masterclass, co-sponsored with the Scottish Documentary Institute, Wang will share his insights. Be sure also to see Wang’s Fengming: A Chinese Memoir (page 26), The Ditch (page 22), Coal Money and Brutality Factory (page 21), all screening at EIFF.

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International Animation

Introduction to Film Studies: ‘Art Cinema’ and Narrative

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Introduction to Film Studies: Contemporary Cinematic Soundscapes

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THu 21 June 16:15 Filmhouse 3 FRee TICKeTeD eVenT

This screening allows you to catch up with a selection of the best animation from around the globe, and sees a welcome return to Edinburgh of the work of Don Hertzfeldt, who was our guest in 2009. Animation derives its name from the Latin ‘anima’ – which describes the soul. The creation of that life essence through the illusion of animation is even more fascinating when the loss of that animating principle is explored, as happens in many of the films presented here.

What does ‘art cinema’ mean to modern international audiences? Does it stand for films shown in art house cinemas and festivals or is it a distinctive genre of cinema? This clip-based lecture by Martine Pierquin (Open Studies, University of Edinburgh) offers an overview of David Bordwell’s analysis of art cinema narration as well as more recent developments on the subject. Come and discuss whether ‘art cinema’ is still a useful concept today. Presented as part of University of Edinburgh Open Studies Summer Course: An Insight into the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

70 min FRI 22 June 16:15 Filmhouse 3 FRee TICKeTeD eVenT How is sound used to shape a filmic world? Which contemporary filmmakers are most alive to the expressive potential of sound? This fully-illustrated lecture by Dr. Pasquale Iannone (University of Edinburgh) will consider the vivid soundscapes of some of the key filmmakers working today such as Terrence Malick, Paolo Sorrentino, Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Claire Denis. The lecture will engage with recent writing on the subject and take in such elements as music, sound effects and voice-over. Presented as part of University of Edinburgh Open Studies Summer Course: An Insight into the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

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Tahrir: Liberation Square 7 Days in Havana Rent-a-Cat Kid-Thing Either Way A Woman’s Revenge Of Skies and Earth

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The Mirror Never Lies Fred Hospitalité The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus NFA Sleepless Night The Imposter Pusher Rosalinda + Everybody Says Long Live Bobby Holly

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Introduction to Film Studies: ‘Art Cinema’ and Narrative Gattu differently, Molussia Evelyn Mirage

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Introduction to Film Studies: Contemporary Cinematic Soundscapes Short Films 1: Identity and Revolution Gattu Nuclear Nation

Future My Love Black’s Game Borrowed Time Sun Don’t Shine Lawrence of Arabia Amok

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Fukushima: Memories of the Lost Landscape It’s the Earth Not the Moon Pusher Hail The Invader Lovely Molly Sleepless Night Rosalinda + Everybody Says Long Live Bobby Holly

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No Man’s Zone Au Pair The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus Fusion Shorts Typhoon Club Life Just Is Siblings - For Better or Worse

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Gate #5 Young Dudes Bestiaire Short Films 2: Dream Machine The Ditch Flicker Dragon A Woman’s Revenge Demain?

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Science Fiction Filmmaking Challenge: Masterclass Edinburgh Schools Film Competition: Primary Florentina Hubaldo, CTE Moving Either Way Sun Don’t Shine Fengming: A Chinese Memoir Borrowed Time Dr Seuss’ The Lorax

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Edinburgh Schools Film Competition: Secondary The Friends Tahrir: Liberation Square Flicker Siblings - For Better or Worse Chapiteau Show THE 99 Unbound Coal Money + Brutality Factory Dr Seuss’ The Lorax

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Rent-a-Cat Saudade In Person: Masterclass with Wang Bing McLaren Animation 1 Never Too Late Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion Dragon

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The Ambassador In Person: BAFTA Scotland Interview with Robert Carlyle Short Films 3: Strange Geometry MNL 143 Guinea Pigs We Can’t Go Home Again The King of Pigs

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Here, There NFA Fukushima: Memories of the Lost Landscape Kid-Thing Mondomanila, or: How I Fixed My Hair After A Rather Long Journey Los Marziano Tabu

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Sexual Chronicles of a French Family Tabu The Lifeguard London 2012 Festival Films Flying Blind differently, Molussia Exit Elena El Casamiento Don’t Expect Too Much

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Hail The Rest of the World Fred Life without Principle Jackpot Sodankylä Forever: The Century of Cinema Amateur Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement

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And If We All Lived Together? Leave It on the Track Tondo, Beloved: To What Are the Poor Born? Papirosen Bestiaire One Mile Away Jackpot Black Box Shorts 1: Surfaces and Layers

21:45

FH 3

The King of Pigs Guinea Pigs

22:45 23:25

FH 1 CAM 1

The Brockas in Film-Concert

22:15

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Kazahana BAFTA in Scotland presents an Introduction to Acting McLaren Animation 2 1 Day The Lifeguard

16:10

FH 2

16:30 17:00 17:50 18:00

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The Ambassador Exit Elena Sauna on Moon Unconditional Kotoko Niño One.Two.One THE 99 Unbound ¡Vivan las Antipodas!

18:10 CW 18:20 CW 18:30 FH 2 18:30 CW 18:40 CW 18:40 FH 3 18:45 CAM 1 19:00 CW 20:00 CW

Young Dudes Isn’t Anyone Alive? Los Marziano Black’s Game Day of the Flowers Flying Blind Grabbers Black Box Shorts 2: A Sense of Unease

20:20 20:30 20:40 20:50 20:50 20:50 21:00

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21:00

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Thursday 28

17:00 17:50 18:00 18:00

CAM 1 FH 3 FH 1 CW

Attractive Illusion Isn’t Anyone Alive? Unfinished Business Au Pair First Position Here, Then The Mirror Never Lies One Mile Away

18:10 18:25 18:30 18:35 19:00 19:00 20:00 20:00

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Mirage The Nine: New Features from Scotland And If We All Lived Together? The Rest of the World ¡Vivan las Antipodas! Him, Here After Girimunho The Suburban Trilogy Kotoko

20:15

20:15 20:30 20:45 21:00 21:00 21:15 21:40 22:00

TRAv CW CW CW FH 2 CAM 1 FH 3 FH 1

BAFTA and Film Nation Shorts Present Mastering Your Craft Feel My Pulse Short Scottish Documentaries No Man’s Zone Unfair World

16:00 16:10 17:00 17:45 18:00

FH 2 FH 3 CAM 1 FH 3 CW

Tokyo Drifter 7 Days in Havana Three Decades of Philippine Short Films Unconditional Home for the Weekend Small Creatures The Fourth Dimension Riding Zorro

18:10 18:20

CW CW

18:25 18:30 18:35 18:45 18:50 19:55

FH 2 CW FH 1 CAM 1 CW FH 3

MNL 143 One.Two.One Buenas noches, España Tetsuo, The Iron Man The Search for Emak Bakia Girimunho Life Just Is Day of the Flowers Modest Reception Black Box Shorts 3: Passing Through

20:10 CW 20:20 CW 20:30 FH 2 20:40 CW 20:45 FH 1 20:50 CW 21:00 CAM 1 21:10 CW 21:20 CW 21:45

FH 3

Tetsuo II: Body Hammer

22:30

Blue Black Permanent Gabriel over the White House McLaren Animation 3: For the Family Small Creatures

16:05 16:15

FH 2 FH 1

17:00 18:00

CAM 1 CW

Shell California Solo Here, Then Anton Corbijn: Inside Out Black Box Shorts 4: Particles Life without Principle Modest Reception Blood of My Blood Dress Rehearsal for Utopia

18:05 FH 1 18:10 CW 18:15 FH 2 18:30 CW 18:30 FH 3 18:45 CAM 1 18:45 CW 19:00 CW 20:00 FH 3

Nuclear Nation Berberian Sound Studio The Orator Low Definition Control Malfunctions #0 Here, There The Invader Rose Tokyo Drifter Riding Zorro

20:15 20:20 20:40

CW FH 1 CW

20:45 20:50 21:00 21:10 21:15 21:45

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Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie 22:45 FH 1 V/H/S 23:20 CAM 1

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16:00-18:00

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18:00-20:00

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FH 2 FH 3

20:00-22:00

In Person: Masterclass with Victor Kossakovsky Luminous Woman Short Films 4: Salvaging and Scavenging Forever Loved What Is This Film Called Love? Papirosen

14:30 16:00

22:00-00:00

Animation Panel: Running Out of Film The Terrible Couple

14:00-16:00

10:00-14:00

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FH 3

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16:00-18:00

14:00-16:00

10:00-14:00

Black Box Shorts 1: Surfaces and Layers

Saturday 30

Black Box Shorts 2: A Sense of Unease Tokyo Heaven She Married Her Boss

15:05 15:30 16:00

FH 3 FH 2 FH 1

Short Films 5: Capturing Perception The Suburban Trilogy Him, Here After Berberian Sound Studio Gate #5

17:00 17:05 17:45 18:00 18:00

CAM 1 FH 3 FH 2 FH 1 CW

Sexual Chronicles of a French Family The Search for Emak Bakia Brake The Unspeakable Act Música Campesina (Country Music) Dress Rehearsal for Utopia Postcards from the Zoo

18:10 18:20 18:30 19:00 19:00 19:00 20:00

CW CW CW CAM 1 CW FH 3 FH 2

It’s the Earth not the Moon Shadow Dancer God Bless America Future My Love Anton Corbijn: Inside Out Surprise Movie Saudade It Looks Pretty from a Distance Amateur

20:10 CW 20:15 FH 1 20:20 CW 20:30 CW 20:40 CW 20:50 CW 21:00 FH 3 21:15 CAM 1 21:30 CW

Fable of the Fish 22:05 Eddie - The Sleepwalking Cannibal 22:45 23:15 Wrong

FH 2 FH 1 CAM 1

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Family Shorts The Edinburgh Film Guild Forsyth Hardy Lecture Demain? Awards Ceremony California Solo The Unspeakable Act Brake The Orator Black Box Shorts 3: Passing Through

12:00

FH 3

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Wait and See First Position Hospitalité Black Box Shorts 4: Particles God Bless America Unfair World

14:15 15:10 15:20 15:20 15:30 16:00

FH 2 CW CW FH 3 CW CW

International Animation Low Definition Control Malfunctions #0 Leave It on the Track My Man Godfrey

17:00

CAM 1

17:05 17:30 17:35

FH 3 CW FH 1

Wrong Shell It Looks Pretty from a Distance El Casamiento Never Too Late Shadow Dancer What Is This Film Called Love? Attractive Illusion

18:10 18:30 18:45 18:45 19:15 19:30 19:45 20:00

Brave Evelyn Eddie - The Sleepwalking Cannibal The Imposter Love Hotel Música Campesina (Country Music) Rose V/H/S

Science Fiction Filmmaking Challenge: Screening Sodankylä Forever: The Century of Cinema Home for the Weekend Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

12:00

FH 1

13:00 13:15 14:00

FH 3 FH 2 FH 1

Family Shorts Postcards from the Zoo

15:15 15:30

FH 3 FH 2

We Can’t Go Home Again Youth Shorts Chapiteau Show Blood of My Blood

16:30 17:00 17:20 17:45

FH 1 CAM 1 FH 3 FH 2

CW FH 2 CAM 1 CW FH 3 FH 1 CW CW

Don’t Expect Too Much

18:45

FH 1

20:15 20:15

EFT CW

Private Worlds Sauna on Moon

21:15 21:30

FH 3 FH 2

20:30 20:45 20:45 20:45 21:15 22:00

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Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie 23:15

CAM 1

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20 June – 1 July

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NEW PERSPECTIVES UK PREMIERE

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION UK PREMIERE

NEW PERSPECTIVES UK PREMIERE

The Invader (L’envahisseur)

It Looks Pretty from a Distance

It’s the Earth Not the Moon

Anka Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal/Poland, USA/2011/77 min Cast: Marcin Czarnik, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Piotr Nowak, Elżbieta Okupska, Jerzy Łapiński

Gonçalo Tocha/Portugal/2011/193 min

Nicolas Provost/Belgium, Sweden/2011/95 min Cast: Issaka Sawadogo, Stefania Rocca, Serge Riaboukine, Dieudonne Kabongo, Tibo Vandenborre, Hannelore Knut THU 21 JUNE 20:40 CINEWORLD THU 28 JUNE 21:00 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) An illegal immigrant is driven by obsessional desire and murderous revenge. From the surreal opening, it’s clear that this is no run-of-the-mill look at immigration and exploitation. Amadou is an earnest, hardworking African who finds himself lost and alone in Brussels, where he becomes fixated with an attractive businesswoman. There are echoes of Taxi Driver as he is drawn down a path of self-destructive passion in which no one he comes into contact with will remain unscathed.

Isn’t Anyone Alive? (Ikiteru mono inai no ka) Gakuryu Ishii/Japan/2011/113 min Cast: Shota Sometani, Rin Takanashi, Konatsu Tanaka, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Jun Murakami

FRI 29 JUNE 21:15 CAMEO 1 SAT 30 JUNE 18:45 CAMEO 1 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Beneath the mundane lurks a vicious heart. Life is perfunctory in a small rural Polish village, with the inhabitants co-existing in a social if not so friendly manner. When one of the residents disappears overnight, a sinister shadow is cast on a picturesque scene as the entire community engages in a gradual slide toward total disregard of their neighbour and a willingness to commit the worst of crimes against property and people.

(É na terra não é na lua)

THU 21 JUNE 20:10 CINEWORLD FRI 29 JUNE 20:10 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Filmmaker Gonçalo Tocha documents life on the island of Corvo, the smallest of the Azores, with a population of only 440. Gaining the trust of the people of Corvo, Tocha persuades them to unfold for his camera the hidden traditions and histories of the island. “A beautiful meditation on community, isolation and time’s passing” (Jay Weissberg, Variety).

ISN’T ANYONE ALIVE?

DIRECTORS’ SHOWCASE UK PREMIERE

(Z daleka widok jest piękny)

MON 25 JUNE 20:30 CINEWORLD TUE 26 JUNE 18:25 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Cult Japanese director Gakuryu Ishii (formerly known as Sogo Ishii, a longstanding influence on Quentin Tarantino) presents a world coming to an end. On a university campus the students separately rehearse a performance, discuss an urban myth and debate the future of an unborn child, but all are inconvenienced by their sudden unexplained deaths. Adapting the screenplay from his own play, writer Shiro Maeda’s dialogue is shot through with absurdist observations and deftly mixes dread with farcical comedy.

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FeATure FilmS, SHorTS & evenTS NIGHT MOVES UK PREMIERE

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION UK PREMIERE

SPOTLIGHT ON SHINYA TSUKAMOTO UK PREMIERE

Jackpot (Arme Riddere)

The King of Pigs (Dae-gi-eui Wang)

Kotoko

Magnus Martens/Norway/2011/90 min Cast: Kyrre Hellum, Henrik Mestad, Marie Blokhus, Mads Ousdal, Andreas Cappelen

Yeon Sang-ho/South Korea/2011/97 min Cast: Yang Ik-june, Oh Jeong-se, Kim Hyena, Park Hee-von, Kim Kkobbi

Shinya Tsukamoto/Japan/2011/91 min Cast: Cocco, Shinya Tsukamoto

SAT 23 JUNE 21:00 CINEWORLD SUN 24 JUNE 21:30 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS)

SAT 23 JUNE 22:45 FILMHOUSE 1 SUN 24 JUNE 18:00 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONC)

At a plastic Christmas tree factory in Norway, three dangerous ex-cons and their supervisor win 1.7 million kroner on the pools. As trust and friendship quickly dissolve, guns are loaded, knives are sharpened, and the division of the money begins...With echoes of Tarantino and the Coen brothers, Magnus Martens’s Jackpot (based on a story by popular Norwegian author Jo Nesbø) is slick, ultra-violent black comedy, with a mischievous plot that twists and turns right up until the final gunshot rings out.

This dark and gritty animation portrays the brutal world of school bullying as the starting point for a lifelong perpetuation of the instinct for violent revenge. Haunted by their troubled childhoods, Jung Jong-suk (yang Ik-june) and Hwang Kyung-min (Oh Jeong-se) reunite one evening and recall their school days spent attempting to avoid abuse by their classmates who relented only when made the subject of vicious attacks themselves. Director Yeon Sangho has created a startling adult animation examining inequalities of class and gender and gang hierarchies.

MON 25 JUNE 18:40 CINEWORLD TUE 26 JUNE 22:00 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) A single mother clings to life amid nightmarish mental problems and selfmutilation. Japanese folk rock artist Cocco delivers an astonishing performance as Kotoko, a woman for whom the thin line between good and evil is something she traverses every day in the most shocking ways. Darkly humourous, horrific, compelling and disturbing, this is one film you won’t forget in a hurry. For more Tsukamoto, see Tetsuo, The Iron Man and Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (page 56).

KID-THING

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION UK PREMIERE

Kid-Thing David Zellner/USA/2012/83 min Cast: Sydney Aguirre, Susan Tyrrell FRI 22 JUNE 18:30 FILMHOUSE 1 SAT 23 JUNE 18:55 CAMEO 1 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) The Zellner brothers bring their trademark deadpan humour to a poignant and disturbing tale of growing up wild. Somewhere in rural America, 10-year-old Annie lives with her divorced father, who is even more incompetent at parenting than he is at goat farming. Left to her own devices, Annie wanders the nearby town and woods, committing random acts of anarchic destructiveness, until she forms a relationship with a woman trapped in a well. “Bracingly original… a female trailer-trash 400 Blows” (Jonathan Romney, Screen Daily).

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SPECIAL SCREENINGS LAWRENCE OF ARABIA

Lawrence of Arabia David Lean/UK/1962/228 min Cast: Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, Arthur Kennedy, Claude Rains, José Ferrer, Anthony Quayle THU 21 JUNE 19:40 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) To mark the 50th anniversary of this masterpiece, Sony Pictures Entertainment presents this new digital restoration. During the First World War, a British officer succeeds in uniting the Arab tribes and goes to war against the occupying Turkish army. Grand in every sense, this example of an established director at his height aims for greatness and achieves it. Restored by Sony Pictures Colourworks and distributed by Park Circus. The restoration will be discussed as part of Film Restoration in the Digital Age (page 26).

NEW PERSPECTIVES WORLD PREMIERE

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION WORLD PREMIERE

Leave It on the Track

The Life and Times of Life Just Is Paul the Psychic Octopus

Benjamin Pascoe/USA/2011/80 min Cast: Cherry “The Law” Chainsaw - Olivia Vernon, Dirty Blonde - Mandy Reynolds, Rocky Casbah - Kerri St. Aubin, Dixie Sanchez - Elizabeth Patrick, Curly Suicide - Anne Sharp

Alexandre O Philippe/USA/2012/72 min

SUN 24 JUNE 20:45 CINEWORLD SAT 30 JUNE 17:30 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Roller derby is the fastest growing (and, arguably, most entertaining) women’s sport in the world. In Houston, Texas, it’s the end of season championship bout and the undefeated Cherry Bombs are taking on the Hellcats. Meet the brilliantly named players (Curly Suicide, Miss Amerikill, Rocky Casbah...), get a lesson in the rules (despite appearances, there are rules), and witness the thrills and (eye-wateringly painful) spills of derby at its best.

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FRI 22 JUNE 20:45 FILMHOUSE 1 SAT 23 JUNE 15:05 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) From the director who brought The People Versus George Lucas to EIFF 2010, this is the official, exclusive story of the world’s best loved, and unlikeliest, football pundit, Paul the Psychic Octopus. A cephalopod with a rare gift for predicting the outcome of important football matches, his 100% success rate at the 2010 World Cup captured the imagination of millions. Hilarious, moving and deeply compelling, Paul’s story is the epitome of celebrity culture at its most bizarre.

MICHAEL POWELL AWARD COMPETITION WORLD PREMIERE

Alex Barrett/UK/2012/102 min Cast: Paul Nicholls, Jayne Wisener, Will De Meo, Jack Gordon, Nathaniel MartelloWhite, Fiona Ryan SAT 23 JUNE 15:15 CINEWORLD WED 27 JUNE 21:00 CAMEO 1 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Love, death and the meaning of life figure among the preoccupations of a group of uni graduates in London. In his debut feature, Alex Barrett observes his characters with humour, sympathy and insight, creating a fresh and funny portrait of people who are desperate to leave adolescence behind but hesitant about fully committing to adulthood. “It is tempting to describe Life Just Is as one of the most promising debuts in contemporary cinema, but this temptation should be resisted. We are not dealing with promise here: we are dealing with achievement” (Brad Stevens, film critic).

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FeATure FilmS, SHorTS & evenTS

LOS MARZIANO

DIRECTORS’ SHOWCASE UK PREMIERE

Life without Principle (Dyut meng gam) Johnnie To/Hong Kong/2011/107 min Cast: Denise Ho, Lau Ching Wan, Richie Jen, Myolie Wu, Lo Hoi Pang SAT 23 JUNE 21:00 CAMEO 1 THU 28 JUNE 18:45 CAMEO 1 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Johnnie To ingeniously portrays today’s economic crisis in the terms of a rollicking and complex suspense thriller. Set in Hong Kong during a few days of global financial upheaval, Life without Principle interweaves three characters in trouble: a police detective investigating a loan shark’s murder, an investment manager under pressure from her boss to sell high-risk instruments to elderly pensioners, and a low-level gangster who’s recruited to help sort out a failed financial scheme.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION UK PREMIERE

SPECIAL SCREENINGS WORLD PREMIERE

LOOKING SOUTH UK PREMIERE

The Lifeguard (El Salvavidas)

London 2012 Festival Films

Los Marziano

Maite Alberdi/Chile/2011/64 min Cast: Mauricio Rodríguez, Jean Pierre Palacios, Teresa Guerrechea, Alan Muñoz, Lucas Acuña

105 min

Ana Katz/Argentina/2011/89 min Cast: Guillermo Francella, Arturo Puig, Rita Cortese, Mercedes Morán, Abián Vainstein

SUN 24 JUNE 19:00 CAMEO 1 MON 25 JUNE 18:00 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Mauricio, a lifeguard on a Chilean beach, considers himself to be a model of efficiency and professionalism. His colleagues, however, think otherwise, and speculate on why he never goes into the water. Maite Alberdi’s visually gorgeous feature documentary debut has the intensity of a short story; beginning as a quirky character study of lifeguards and beachgoers, it becomes something altogether darker and more shocking when events take a dramatic turn.

SUN 24 JUNE 19:00 FILMHOUSE 1 FREE TICKETED EVENT London 2012 Festival, Film 4 and BBC Films co-commissioned five of the UK’s finest directors, Mike Leigh, Lynne Ramsey, Asif Kapadia, and Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini, to come up with short films to celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The films will be shown as part of the London 2012 Festival on cinema screens during the Olympic Summer, and subsequently broadcast on Channel Four and the BBC. Lynne Ramsey’s The Swimmer was cocommissioned by Creative Scotland.

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SAT 23 JUNE 19:40 FILMHOUSE 2 MON 25 JUNE 20:40 FILMHOUSE 2 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Luis, a prosperous retiree, falls down a big hole dug in his community golf course by unknown malefactors. Meanwhile, his ne’erdo-well brother loses the ability to read due to an unidentified neurological condition. The family strains and buckles under the stresses of these two mysteries, which may not have solutions, in this quirky comedydrama. But can the bigger mystery, how families get along, be resolved?

20 June – 1 July

FeATure FilmS, SHorTS & evenTS

NIGHT MOVES UK PREMIERE

ANIMATION

Lovely Molly

McLaren Animation 1

McLaren Animation 2

Eduardo Sánchez/USA/2011/99 min Cast: Alexandra Holden, Johnny Lewis, Ken Arnold, Gretchen Lodge, Tony Ellis

78 min

80 min

SUN 24 JUNE 15:10 CAMEO 1 PRICE: £6.00 (£5.00 CONCS)

MON 25 JUNE 17:00 CAMEO 1 PRICE: £6.00 (£5.00 CONCS)

Join us in celebrating the best British animation this year. All the films are in competition for the coveted McLaren Award for New British Animation, named in honour of Stirling’s Norman McLaren, a genius of film who dazzled the world with his innovative experiments in animation and synthetic sound for over half a century. In this selection, our films explore identity, neuroses and existential problems, many of them inherent in the trick of animated characters. Forget Family Guy, this is adult animation.

More of Britain’s animated gems are presented for your viewing pleasure. All are competing for the prestigious McLaren Award for New British Animation, recognising the internationally treasured Norman McLaren whose passion for movement drove his fiftyyear career as an innovator of animated film. Whilst our first programme of films could be said to focus on the loner, this collection has relationships at its heart; whether with a loved one or our relationship with the universe. Not suitable for younger children.

THU 21 JUNE 20:50 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Eduardo Sánchez, co-director of The Blair Witch Project, returns with a persuasive bid to reconquer his place in the forefront of filmic terror. Two newlyweds move into the wife’s long-uninhabited family home in the countryside. With her truck-driver husband away for days on the road, the wife is left alone to face escalating assaults from a mysterious force. Her predicament is not helped by the fact she’s an ex-junkie with father issues…

Low Definition Control - Malfunctions #0 Michael Palm/Austria/2011/95 min THU 28 JUNE 20:45 FILMHOUSE 2 SAT 30 JUNE 17:05 FILMHOUSE 3 PRICE: £6.00 (£5.00 CONCS) Surveillance is a form of control – you never know when you’re being watched. Described by its director as science fiction in a literal sense, Michael Palm’s eye-opening experimental documentary is a powerful comment on how social behavior is shaped and controlled by various manifestations of state surveillance. Grainy images of everyday scenes in social spaces are accompanied by the voices of scientists and intellectuals as they reflect on the wide-ranging implications of mechanised perception in all areas of contemporary society.

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MCLAREN ANIMATION 1 - ALL CONSUMING LOvE (MAN IN A CAT)

BLACK BOX UK PREMIERE

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2012

FeATure FilmS, SHorTS & evenTS ANIMATION

NEW PERSPECTIVES EUROPEAN PREMIERE

McLaren Animation 3: For the Family

Mirage The Mirror Never Lies (Mi-wol-do Ga-neun Gil) (Laut bercermin)

81 min

Yang Jung-ho/South Korea/2011/84 min Cast: Shin Jae-seung, Kim Chang-hwan, Moon Jung-woong

Kamila Andini/Indonesia/2011/100 min Cast: Atiqah Hasiholan, Reza Rahadian, Gita Novalista, Eko

THU 21 JUNE 18:00 CINEWORLD TUE 26 JUNE 20:15 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS)

FRI 22 JUNE 20:05 FILMHOUSE 2 TUE 26 JUNE 20:00 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS)

Travelling from Seoul to his hometown of Incheon, a prize-winning novelist loses his wallet on the train. Seeking help from the people he once knew in Incheon, the writer gradually finds himself forced to confront the painful high-school incident that scarred his psyche and furnished the unacknowledged inspiration for his work. A hard-hitting debut feature from director Yang Jung-ho.

This lyrical debut feature by Kamila Andini combines a strong environmentalist message with a timeless coming-of-age story. The story is set on a small island inhabited by members of the Bajo tribe, a nomadic fishing community of the Wakatobi Islands. After her father is lost at sea, twelve-year-old Pakis keeps treasuring the mirror he gave her, hoping that (according to Bajo belief) he will return and appear reflected in it. Then a young man comes into her life, threatening conflict between Pakis and her mother.

THU 28 JUNE 17:00 CAMEO 1 PRICE: £6.00 (£5.00 CONCS) The final presentation showcasing the extraordinary talent the UK has to offer the world of animation. Norman McLaren, the great Scots pioneer who experimented with a range of innovative animation techniques and whom our award for the New British Animation is named after, endeavoured to communicate to all through his work regardless of borders, class or age; and it is in this spirit that we present a programme of films which can be enjoyed by all the family.

NEW PERSPECTIVES UK PREMIERE

SPECIAL SCREENINGS MIRAGE

Midnight Sun Event featuring Insomnia Erik Skjoldbjærg/Norway/1997/96 min Cast: Stellan Skaarsgård, Sverre Anker Ausdal, Bjørn Floberg, Maria Bonnevie, Gisken Armand THU 21 JUNE 20:00 THE SKy BAR @ THE POINT THU 21 JUNE 22:25 FILMHOUSE 2 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Developed by students from the University of Edinburgh and celebrating all things Nordic, the night begins with Scottish crime writer Lin Anderson, who will introduce a sun-drenched evening drinks reception at The Point’s Sky Bar, taking full advantage of the summer solstice. At 22:25 the audience can take their seats for Erik Skjoldbjærg’s moody crime noir Insomnia. This event offers a taste of the Scandinavian landscape amidst panoramic views of Edinburgh’s own monumental skyline. Print courtesy of the Norwegian Film Institute.

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FeATure FilmS, SHorTS & evenTS MODEST RECEPTION

PHILIPPINE NEW WAVE WORLD PREMIERE

MNL 143 Emerson Reyes/Philippines/2012/90 min Cast: Allan Paule, Joy Viado SUN 24 JUNE 17:10 FILMHOUSE 3 WED 27 JUNE 20:10 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) On a commuter’s trip from Manila’s business district to the suburbs, the director finds a myriad of possibilities, ranging from miniature ironic situations to a love story that is finally finding its unexpected closing. An emotional rollercoaster ride of despair, dreams and desire, MNL 143 is also a black comedy about limited private spaces in conflict with sprawling public realms.

NEW PERSPECTIVES UK PREMIERE

PHILIPPINE NEW WAVE UK PREMIERE

LOOKING SOUTH UK PREMIERE

Modest Reception (Paziraie Sadeh)

Mondomanila: or, How I Fixed My Hair after a Rather Long Journey

Música Campesina (Country Music)

Mani Haghighi/Iran/2012/100 min Cast: Taraneh Alidoosti, Mani Haghighi, Saeed Changizian, Esmail Khalaj, Saber Abar

Khavn de la Cruz/Philippines, Germany/ 2012/75 min Cast: Tim Mabalot, Marife Necesito, Palito, Alex Tiglao, Stefan Punongbayan

Alberto Fuguet/Chile, USA/2011/105 min Cast: Pablo Cerda, James Cathcart, Ezra Fitz, Lori Harrington, Todd Hughes, Cole Kinnear

WED 27 JUNE 21:20 CINEWORLD THU 28 JUNE 18:45 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS)

FRI 22 JUNE 22:10 FILMHOUSE 2 SAT 23 JUNE 19:00 FILMHOUSE 3 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS)

FRI 29 JUNE 19:00 CINEWORLD SAT 30 JUNE 20:45 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS)

A metaphysical black comedy that’s as abrasive as it is funny. A man and a woman drive an SUV through a mountainous area of Iran. Their trunk is filled with plastic bags stuffed with money, which they offer to the poor people they encounter. But they’re not good Samaritans, but Satanic tempters. Before giving the money, the couple put their would-be beneficiaries through odd tests or require them to perform a degrading or immoral act. As they continue on their route, their demands get progressively more outrageous.

All-stops-out splatter-punk cinema from one of the most prolific and versatile talents of the Philippines. Based on an acclaimed novel by Norman Wilwayco, Mondomanila is a messy, grotesque, high-energy tour of a criminal demi-monde. “Khavn… exaggerates poverty, turning it into a carnival, a spectacle, an extravaganza. By doing that, he gives to his viewers a little bit of what makes Filipinos Filipino, which is fun in the midst of depression” (Oggs Cruz, film critic).

Funny and touching, this portrait of cultures in collision is filled with sharp insights into the frustrations of outsiders and the condescension of insiders. A Chilean Johnny Cash fan, dumped by his American girlfriend while on a road trip, finds himself down and out in Nashville. Working menial jobs and living in cheap hotels, he struggles to make contact with people in his imperfect English. His only release is in the music he loves.

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Never Too Late (Af paam lo meuchar miday) Ido Fluk/Israel/2011/93 min Cast: Nony Geffen, Keren Berger, Ami Weinberg, Pira Kantor, Eyal Rozales, Shifra Milstein SUN 24 JUNE 15:15 CINEWORLD SAT 30 JUNE 19:15 FILMHOUSE 3 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) A delicate and moving tale about a young man returning to Israel after years spent living in South America. Hertzel (Nony Geffen) struggles to adjust to life at home, and having taken a job hanging posters he sets out on the road, encountering a mix of settled people and other lost souls on the way. Ido Fluk’s sensitive feature debut presents a protagonist searching for a lost identity in the landscape, photographed beautifully by cinematographer Itai Marom.

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The Nine: New Niño Features from Scotland

Steve Rainbow/UK/2012/80 min Cast: Patrick Baladi, David Sterne, Saskia Butler, David Proud

90 min

FRI 22 JUNE 20:50 CINEWORLD SAT 23 JUNE 18:40 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) What happens when you wake up to discover the life you had is gone? Successful businessman Adam bids his pregnant wife and child goodnight – and then wakes up in a hostel for the homeless with no idea as to how he got there. A microbudget feature addressing a blight on current society, everything in NFA (No Fixed Abode) is drawn from true stories, with many of the cast and crew coming from the homeless community themselves.

TUE 26 JUNE 20:15 TRAvERSE 2 PRICE: £3.00 Nine new writers. Nine new films. Ninety minutes. Join a stellar ensemble of actors and film directors including James Antony Pearson (Control, New Town Killers) for live scenes, recorded extracts and visual presentations of nine new feature films. Writers vivien Adam, Raisah Ahmed, Hope Dickson Leach, Mandy Lee, Barry Gornell, Catriona MacInnes, Tara McKevitt, Amy Neill and Martin Smith have worked intensively with international storyeditors Molly Stensgaard, Olivia Stewart and Marten Rabarts, honing their talents to reveal this exclusive first glimpse.

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Loy Arcenas/Philippines/2011/100 min Cast: Fides Cuyugan Asensio, Arthur Acuña, Shamaine Centenera Buencamino, Jhiz Deocareza, Raquel Villavicencio MON 25 JUNE 18:40 FILMHOUSE 3 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) A witty and incisive portrait of an aristocratic Philippine family in decline. The elderly family patriarch is ill, and his daughter wants to sell the house, to the alarm of his sister, Celia, a former opera star, who had been looking forward to spending her last years peacefully among her memories of the past. Celia pins her hopes for a miracle on her young grandson, whom she dresses up as the Santo Niño (holy child).

20 June – 1 July

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No Man’s Zone (Mujin chitai)

Of Skies and Earth (Sa Kanto ng Ulap at Lupa)

One Mile Away

Toshi Fujiwara/Japan, France/2011/ 105 min

Mes De Guzman/Philippines/2011/105 min Cast: John Paul J Escobedo, Jeremie M Cercenia, Zanderson V Vicente, Alfredo D Ubera, Ronald L Caranza

Penny Woolcock/UK/2012/90 min

SAT 23 JUNE 14:15 CINEWORLD WED 27 JUNE 17:45 FILMHOUSE 3 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Filmmaker Toshi Fujiwara journeys into the 20-kilometre zone around the afflicted Fukushima nuclear power station. Speaking with residents who are preparing to comply with the government’s order to evacuate the zone, Fujiwara elicits testimony of dedication to the past and uncertainty about the future. No Man’s Zone is at once a documentary record of a time of crisis and a reflection on the meanings of home and homelessness, on Japanese culture and on strength in adversity.

Nuclear Nation Atsushi Funahashi/Japan/2012/118 min FRI 22 JUNE 18:00 CINEWORLD THU 28 JUNE 20:15 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) After the 11 March 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster, residents of Futaba, a town in Fukushima Prefecture, are relocated to an abandoned high school in a suburb of Tokyo, 150 miles south. With a clear and compassionate eye, filmmaker Atsushi Funahashi follows the displaced people as they struggle to adapt to their new environment. Among the vivid personalities who emerge are the town mayor, a Moses without a Promised Land; and a farmer who would rather defy the government than abandon his cows to certain starvation.

A representative work by a director who has devoted his career to depicting the plight of children. Four young kids try to make a household together in a vacant hut in Nueva Vizcaya. “The predictability of their daily routine has turned their simple lives into some sort of paradise. Their concerns are minuscule. Their main goal is survival, to eat at least a few times a day and to maintain a semblance of order in their motley crew” (Oggs Cruz, film critic).

A compelling tale of courage and determination with a smooth hip-hop soundtrack. Dylan and Shabba, members of rival Birmingham gangs, attempt to broker a peace agreement after being introduced by filmmaker Penny Woolcock, who had directed Dylan in the drama 1 Day (page 14). After the screening on 24 June, there will be a Q&A with Penny Woolcock, producer James Purnell and the young men in the documentary, followed by a special live performance at the Traverse Theatre, with Zimbo, YT, JB and surprise guests.

ONE MILE AWAy

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FRI 22 JUNE 19:10 FILMHOUSE 3 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS)

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One.Two.One (Yek.Do.Yek)

Papirosen

Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement

Mania Akbari/Iran/2011/79 min Cast: Neda Amiri, Payam Dehkordi, Hassan Majooni, Ashkan Mehri, Bahareh Rahnama

Gastón Solnicki/Argentina, USA/2011/74 min Cast: Pola Winicki, Victor Solnicki, Mirta Najdorf, Yanina Solnicki, Alan Solnicki

Khavn De La Cruz/Philippines/2012/75 min Cast: Brillante Mendoza, Lav Diaz, Raya Martin, Kidlat Tahimik, Adolfo Alix Jr

MON 25 JUNE 18:45 CAMEO 1 WED 27 JUNE 20:20 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS)

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Tautly directed and deftly rhythmical, this enthralling film is a showcase for an outstanding ensemble cast. Through a series of episodes, set in locations ranging from a skin-treatment clinic to a fortune-teller’s salon to a prison visiting room, a narrative of love, loss and renewal unfolds, centering on a beautiful woman who has been disfigured in an accident. The third feature film directed by Mania Akbari, the star of Abbas Kiarostami’s magnificent Ten.

young filmmaker Gastón Solnicki spent more than a decade recording the lives of various members of his Argentine Jewish family on video. The result is an engrossing and dramatic documentary that gathers together the vivid personalities and the sometimes painful memories of four generations of Solnickis. Accustomed to the presence of Gastón’s camera, his relatives speak and behave with engaging and occasionally startling candour, revealing the disagreements that divide them and hinting at the weight of the past.

“Not so much a documentary, nor a compendium of interviews, but an almost rarefied glimpse into a wholesale revolt from a rigid paradigm long upheld by the west as the only way to make a film. If you want to see how technology has democratized cinema, here is the tip of a massive iceberg” (Khavn de la Cruz).

ONE.TWO.ONE

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The Orator (O Le Tulafala) Tusi Tamasese/New Zealand, Samoa/2011/ 110 min Cast: Fa’afiaula Sagote, Tausili Pushparaj, Salamasina Mataia, Ioata Tanielu THU 28 JUNE 20:40 CINEWORLD SAT 30 JUNE 13:30 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) In the first feature film in Samoan, the dwarf Saili - son of the late village chief - wants to honour his family and become chief in his own right. He struggles to gain respect, though, because of his small stature. As slight piles upon slight, he must steel himself to make a courageous stand during a contest of ceremonial oratory. The Orator’s stately pacing and lush sense of atmosphere, coupled with gorgeous cinematography from Kiwi DoP Leon Narbey (Whale Rider), make for entrancing cinema.

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Postcards from the Zoo (Kebun binatang) Edwin/Indonesia, Germany, Hong Kong, China/2012/96 min Cast: Ladya Cheryl, Nicholas Saputra, Adje Nur Ahmad, Klarysa Aurelia Raditya FRI 29 JUNE 20:00 FILMHOUSE 2 SUN 1 JULY 15:30 FILMHOUSE 2 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) A charming and unclassifiable work. Instead of a linear narrative, one-named director Edwin uses a gently drifting series of images and episodes to follow the life of a young girl who is abandoned by her father to be brought up in a sprawling zoo in Jakarta. The second half of the film takes a different course as our heroine is lured outside her animal paradise into the more perilous world of humans.

MICHAEL POWELL AWARD COMPETITION WORLD PREMIERE

DIRECTORS’ SHOWCASE UK PREMIERE

Pusher

Rent-a-Cat (Rentaneko)

The Rest of the World (Le reste du monde)

Luis Prieto/UK/2012/86 min Cast: Richard Coyle, Agyness Deyn, Bronson Webb, Mem Ferda

Naoko Ogigami/Japan/2012/110 min Cast: Mikako Ichikawa, Reiko Kusamura, Ken Mitsuishi, Maho Yamada, Kei Tanaka, Katsuya Kobayashi

Damien Odoul/France/2012/81 min Cast: Marie-Eve Nadeau, Judith Morisseau, Aurélie Mestres, Jean-Louis Coulloc’h, Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Béart

FRI 22 JUNE 18:25 CINEWORLD SUN 24 JUNE 14:15 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS)

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This engaging comedy probes the loneliness beneath the decorous surface of contemporary Japan. Every day Sayoko pushes a cart along a river, renting out cats to lonely people in order to fill the empty spaces in their hearts. Somehow Sayoko herself, though she has no trouble attracting felines, has a hard time finding human love. “A film made for cat lovers that will no doubt win over the hearts of anyone who’s ever felt a yearning for unconditional companionship” (Patrick Gamble, Cine-Vue).

EIFF regular Damien Odoul (Errance, En attendant le deluge) returns with a crisply rendered exploration of a family’s dark secrets. When a young woman suspects that her biological father is a man she’s never met, her stubborn effort to uncover the truth draws her sister into uncharted waters... Odoul’s characteristically elegant direction sets the stage for sterling work from the ensemble cast, which includes Emmanuelle Béart in a star turn as the sozzled, vindictive stepmother. An absorbing drama from one of France’s most distinctive filmmakers.

THU 21 JUNE 20:20 CINEWORLD FRI 22 JUNE 21:15 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) A London drugs dealer finds himself on the wrong side of a ruthless Mr Big when a massive deal goes disastrously wrong in Luis Prieto’s striking, energetic remake of the 1996 feature that propelled Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson, Drive) into the international spotlight. Revolving around an outstanding lead performance from Richard Coyle (also seen in this year’s Grabbers, page 30), the break-neck action underpinned by an atmospheric and rousing original score by Orbital, this is sharp, fast-paced, gripping crime cinema at its very best.

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ROSE

LOOKING SOUTH INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Riding Zorro (Montando al zorro) Juan Ignacio Domínguez/Argentina/2011/ 78 min WED 27 JUNE 19:55 FILMHOUSE 3 THU 28 JUNE 21:45 FILMHOUSE 3 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) This documentary recounts the life of ‘El Zorro’, a legendary untamable horse of the pampas. The filmmaker uses testimonies from those who tried to ride the horse and those who witnessed the attempts, together with archival footage in various formats. Through the creative treatment of these materials, the filmmaker generates both a strong narrative momentum and a deep empathy with the proud horse.

LOOKING SOUTH

NEW PERSPECTIVES UK PREMIERE

Rosalinda + Everybody Says Long Live Bobby Holly

Rose (Róża)

Saudade (Saudaji)

71 min

Wojciech Smarzowski/Poland/2011/94 min Cast: Marcin Dorocinski, Agata Kulesza, Kinga Preis, Jacek Braciak, Malwina Buss

Katsuya Tomita/Japan/2011/167 min Cast: Tsuyoshi Takano, Hitoshi Ito, Dengaryu, Deejai Paweena, Ai Ozaki

THU 28 JUNE 21:10 CAMEO 1 SAT 30 JUNE 21:15 FILMHOUSE 3 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS)

SUN 24 JUNE 14:50 FILMHOUSE 2 FRI 29 JUNE 21:00 FILMHOUSE 3 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS)

Hiding alone in her farmhouse, Rose (Agata Kulesza) is a widowed Polish Masurian, attempting to survive in the aftermath of brutal attacks by Soviet soldiers and subject to systematic abuse by desperate Polish locals. Having returned her husband’s photograph and wedding ring, former soldier Tadeusz (Marcin Dorocinski) decides to stay and assist Rose in replanting her mineinfested potato field. Gradually a tender and fiercely loyal relationship develops between the two in this magnificently acted, captivating drama.

The third feature film by rising young director Katsuya Tomita offers a bold look at racial tensions and economic woes in a multi-ethnic Japan rarely seen in films. Set in a small city in Yamanashi prefecture, Saudade (a Portuguese word meaning nostalgic longing) focusses on a group of disparate people struggling against marginalisation. Among them are a Japanese hip-hop singer and part-time construction worker, his Thai girlfriend, and a JapaneseBrazilian hip-hop group.

THU 21 JUNE 21:45 FILMHOUSE 3 FRI 22 JUNE 21:30 FILMHOUSE 3 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) These two short films highlight the richness of recent South American cinema. From one of Argentina’s most important new directors, Rosalinda is not only an original meditation on Shakespeare’s As You Like It, but a rich and enjoyable work that sustains a brisk comic tempo within a mellow, sunlit atmosphere. Everybody Says Long Live Bobby Holly is an ingenious and farcical fake rockumentary chronicling the achievements of an unknown giant of Uruguayan music.

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Sauna on Moon (Chang’E)

The Search for Emak Sexual Chronicles of a Bakia (Emak Bakia baita) French Family

Zou Peng/China/2011/93 min Cast: Wu Yuchi, Yang Xiaomin, Lei Ting, Zhan Yi, Meng Yan

Oskar Alegria/Spain/2012/84 min

MON 25 JUNE 18:30 FILMHOUSE 2 SUN 1 JULY 21:30 FILMHOUSE 2 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Guangdong, China. The economy is racing forward, carrying the sex industry along with it. Taking as their watchword “the customer is king”, the idealistic boss of Chang Eh Sauna and his hard-working employees seek to transform their enterprise into a modern “entertainment kingdom”. Director Zou Peng, aided by master cinematographer Yu Lik-wai, offers a stylised and dreamlike take on the artificial universe of the brothel, together with sharp ironies about the mindset of the entrepreneurs of the new China.

WED 27 JUNE 20:45 FILMHOUSE 1 FRI 29 JUNE 18:20 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) In 1926, Man Ray filmed a cinepoem in the southeast of France, and called it Emak Bakia, which is a Basque expression meaning ‘Leave me alone’. Filmmaker Oskar Alegria embarks upon an exploration of the film and its title - was it named after a house? Or an inscription on a gravestone? The discoveries and detours along the way make for a charming, fanciful road movie about chance, serendipity and the journey being more important than the destination.

DIRECTORS’ SHOWCASE UK PREMIERE

(Chroniques sexuelles d’une famille d’aujourd’hui) Pascal Arnold, Jean-Marc Barr/France/ 2012/82 min Cast: Grégory Annoni, Yan Brian, Leïla Denio, Philippe Duquesne, Nathan Duval SUN 24 JUNE 18:10 CINEWORLD FRI 29 JUNE 18:10 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Sexual frankness of a very Gallic kind abounds in Jean-Marc Barr and Pascal Arnold’s wholly aptly-titled film, their fifth joint directorial outing. Mum, Dad, brother, adopted sister and Grandad are all at it – all but 15-year-old Romain, in fact, who fears there’s no end in sight for his virginity. But when he is caught in the act of filming himself in a bout of classroom onanism, a sudden new awareness and openness is triggered across the whole family…

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Science Fiction Filmmaking Challenge (16-25 year olds) 90 min SAT 23 JUNE 10:30 FILMHOUSE 1 (MASTERCLASS) SUN 1 JULY 12:00 FILMHOUSE 1 (SCREENING) FREE TICKETED EVENT Inspired by Prometheus or Young Dudes? Think you could create your own Sci-Fi Short in two days? We are launching a 52-hour film challenge (in partnership with First Light) open to all aged 16-25 years old, and our guests at this event will inspire and inform you on how to make your own Sci-Fi film in just two days. Work with friends, family, classmates or new friends, stick to the rules, submit it by 4pm, Monday 25th and come along to see the very best films on 1st July. Register to participate at edfilmfest.org. uk/learning and find a team to work with at education@cmi-scotland.co.uk

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SHORTS

Shadow Dancer

Short Films 1: Identity and Revolution

Short Films 2: Dream Machine

James Marsh/UK, Ireland/2012/102 min Cast: Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Aidan Gillen, Domhnall Gleeson, Bríd Brennan, David Wilmot

85 min

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A compelling testament to documentary film’s ability to explore the complex, interrelated dialogue that exists between the present and past. The core focus of this programme investigates how the individual orients and defines itself in reaction to collective, shared history and the fragments of the past half remembered, invented or fabricated by themselves and others. How does this refracted burden define how we conceive ourselves in the present? Fragments of family Super 8 films, found photographs and unusual parallels serve as tools to interrogate, question and explore stories of self and history.

An alchemical selection boasting superstitious, absurd and folkloric elements. These films are united in a shared engagement with a process of creative salvage and the incantation of magical elements. Drawing upon vintage film formats, found film and a keen aesthetic imagination, they boast dark tales of sacrificial offerings, alchemists, mystical Scottish folklore and a stunning twist upon the classic vampire archetype.

FRI 29 JUNE 20:15 FILMHOUSE 1 SAT 30 JUNE 19:30 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) When a young IRA member is forced to turn informant for MI5, nobody expects the disastrous chain of events that is about to unfold. Adapted by Tom Bradby from his own 2001 novel, this outstanding thriller from Oscar®-winning director James Marsh (Man on Wire, Project Nim) boasts brilliant central performances from Clive Owen and Andrea Riseborough as the main protagonists caught in a complex web of political intrigue, set against a deeply insightful depiction of prepeace-process Belfast.

SHADOW DANCER

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Shell Scott Graham/UK/2012/90 min Cast: Joseph Mawle, Chloe Pirrie THU 28 JUNE 18:05 FILMHOUSE 1 SAT 30 JUNE 18:30 FILMHOUSE 2 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) In a remote part of the Scottish Highlands, a father and daughter live and work at a small petrol station. They spend their days tending to domestic chores and to the needs of rare passing motorists. At night they are forced together by the cold and by their loneliness. An intense story of two people who struggle to keep their longings for freedom under control, set against a beautiful and remote landscape that reflects their isolation back at them.

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SHORTS SHORT FILMS 4: SALvAGING AND SCAvENGING - FUNTIMES

Short Films 3: Strange Geometry 89 min SUN 24 JUNE 17:00 CAMEO 1 PRICE: £6.00 (£5.00 CONCS) Acutely intimate perspectives upon human, emotional experience that serve to interrogate the essence of the interpersonal relationships by which we come to define ourselves. This selection salutes both eccentric characters as well as the incredible reach of the human imagination, zig-zagging though tales that chart the vivid manifestations of childhood fear, the memorabilia arising from a life spent collecting artefacts, a love letter recorded on a reel-to-reel tape recorder and the dehumanising effects of industrial capitalism.

SHORTS

Short Films 4: Salvaging Short Films 5: and Scavenging Capturing Perception

Short Scottish Documentaries

95 min

92 min

70 min

TUE 26 JUNE 17:00 CAMEO 1 PRICE: £6.00 (£5.00 CONCS)

FRI 29 JUNE 17:00 CAMEO 1 PRICE: £6.00 (£5.00 CONCS)

WED 27 JUNE 17:00 CAMEO 1 PRICE: £6.00 (£5.00 CONCS)

An explosive exploration of the hidden reverse of the human psyche. These films share a common thread, each charting a life in some state of wreckage, either as a result of circumstance or wayward, destructive behaviour. A creeping sense of malice permeates this showcase which explores the insidious doubts that play at the edges of one’s mind, and through the stories of individuals lost and adrift we contemplate how difficult it is to reassemble or restructure a fractured life.

A heady mix of self-made myth, memory and imagination. Winding its way through the stories of five very distinct characters, this programme attempts to examine the spectacle that is the protagonist’s subjective understanding of their environment, experience and existence. A voyage into emotional landscapes cerebral and vibrant by turn, and a veritable powderkeg of action populated by an iconoclastic cast of drag queens, junior taxidermists and codeinesipping creatures.

Brand new short Scottish documentaries from the Scottish Documentary Institute’s flagship new talent training programme: Bridging the Gap. These films will take you on cinematic journeys through the streets of Edinburgh through the eyes of a Chinese delivery driver, to the islands of the west coast in search of a non-native beast and onto some of the roughest seas on a small fishing boat to the quiet underground world of Glasgow’s ‘doofleeing’ elite.

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FOCUS ON DENMARK UK PREMIERE

Siblings - For Better or Worse (Sadan er søskende)

Max Kestner, Mikala Krough, Laila Hodell, Aage Rais-Nordentoft/Denmark/2011/77 min Cast: Jenni Lee Kestner, Lulu Joe Kestner, Talullah Wille Bang, Elmo Ray Kestner, Cecilie Bendix Bruun, Katrine Bendix Bruun, No Rais-Nordentoft, Metha RaisNordentoft SAT 23 JUNE 16:00 CINEWORLD SUN 24 JUNE 13:10 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) A delightful series of four short documentaries about the relationships between sibling children. Focussing on children from the ages of 8 to 12, these films portray the inner lives of close family relationships. A very special look into the joys, difficulties, and fears of children who try to form their own identities while growing up as others’ siblings.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

MICHAEL POWELL AWARD COMPETITION UK PREMIERE

Sleepless Night Small Creatures (Jam mot deuneun bam) Jang Kun-jae/South Korea/2012/65 min Cast: Kim Soo-hyun, Kim Joo-ryoung THU 21 JUNE 21:15 CAMEO 1 FRI 22 JUNE 21:00 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) A moving study of love surviving through everyday adversity. Facing financial uncertainty and entering middle age, a married couple in their early thirties contemplate whether it’s the right time to have their first baby. Simple in its storytelling, sensitively portrayed and finely directed, this is the eagerly anticipated second feature by Jang Kun-jae, whose first film, Eighteen, won the Dragons & Tigers Award for Young Cinema at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2009.

Martin Wallace/UK/2011/87 min Cast: Michael Coventry, Paul Bamford, Tom Pauline, Terri Reddin, Jack Rigby WED 27 JUNE 18:45 CAMEO 1 THU 28 JUNE 18:00 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Coggie (Michael Coventry) and Macca (Paul Bamford) are friends with Ste (Tom Pauline), an aggressive gang leader in the making. Ste is set on being the alpha male, and is undaunted by who he hurts in the process. Martin Wallace’s low-budget feature debut demonstrates him as a director highly capable of coaxing remarkable performances from his young cast, who utterly convince as conflicted teens - stuck between self preservation and loyalty to each other.

FILMS ON FILM UK PREMIERE

Sodankylä Forever: The Century of Cinema

(Sodankylä ikuisesti: Elokuvan vuosisata) Peter von Bagh/Finland/2010/89 min Cast: Samuel Fuller, Michael Powell, Jacques Demy, Claude Sautet, Robert Parrish SAT 23 JUNE 21:00 FILMHOUSE 3 SUN 1 JULY 13:00 FILMHOUSE 3 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) The Midnight Sun Film Festival in Sodankylä, Finland, is a mecca for film lovers, famous for festival director Peter von Bagh’s in-depth and free-flowing interviews with visiting master directors. From the hundreds of hours of video recordings, von Bagh has made four feature-length documentaries that add up to a passionate and personal history of cinema. The first part, The Century of Cinema, focusses on World War II in relation to filmmaking. Screening with A Day at Karl Marx’s Grave (Peter von Bagh/ Finland/1983/16 min). Parts 2 through 4 will be shown at Filmhouse in July. See www.filmhousecinema.com for details.

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BLACK BOX INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION UK PREMIERE

The Suburban Trilogy

Surprise Movie

Tabu

Abigail Child/USA/2011/71 min

120 min

TUE 26 JUNE 21:40 FILMHOUSE 3 FRI 29 JUNE 17:05 FILMHOUSE 3 PRICE: £6.00 (£5.00 CONCS)

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Miguel Gomes/Portugal, Germany, Brazil, France/2012/118 min Cast: Teresa Madruga, Laura Soveral, Ana Moreira, Henrique Espírito Santo, Carloto Cotta

Three films about girlhood and the immigrant dream. veteran found footage filmmaker Abigail Child is well known for her radical reworking of established cinematic and cultural codes through an idiosyncratic use of montage and disjunctions of sound and image. This feature-length project renews these concerns with three distinctive films that move between home movie, found footage and documentary material – a fascinating anthropological collage that examines myths of gender and national identity, as well as themes of family, memory, class and history.

Sun Don’t Shine Amy Seimetz/USA/2012/79 min Cast: Kate Lyn Sheil, Kentucker Audley, AJ Bowen, Kit Gwin, Mark Reeb THU 21 JUNE 18:30 CINEWORLD SAT 23 JUNE 13:05 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) A girl, a guy, a gun in the glove compartment… With this gripping and hypnotic road movie, Amy Seimetz makes one of the strongest feature directorial debuts in the recent American-indie scene. Two young lovers are on the run in rural Florida, oppressed by the humid summer heat, fearful of strangers and the police, and harassed by their own inner demons. They wish they could go their separate ways, but lust and a guilty secret holds them together.

SAT 23 JUNE 20:00 FILMHOUSE 1 SUN 24 JUNE 18:10 FILMHOUSE 2 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) The critical hit of the 2012 Berlinale, Miguel Gomes’ rich, funny and poignant film is a one-of-a-kind wonder. Three women, neighbours in a Lisbon apartment complex, respond in different ways to the loneliness of their enigmatic existence. One of them has a dark secret in her past, which gradually unfolds in a long flashback that casts an ironic light on the lost paradise that the characters, the filmmaker and the audience are all in search of.

SUN DON’T SHINE

NEW PERSPECTIVES INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

After a three-year hiatus, the Surprise Movie is back! It could be literally anything, in any format, any language, any genre. As you may have seen from this year’s programme, our taste is varied and unpredictable. The most tightly guarded secret at EIFF – even if you think you know what the Surprise Movie is, you’re wrong. What we guarantee is that it’s something that we’re excited about and we think you will be too. Do not miss it.

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FeATure FilmS, SHorTS & evenTS NEW PERSPECTIVES UK PREMIERE

SPOTLIGHT ON SHINYA TSUKAMOTO

PHILIPPINE NEW WAVE

Tahrir: Liberation Square

Tetsuo II: Body Hammer

Three Decades of Philippine Short Films

Stefano Savona/France, Italy/2011/91 min

Shinya Tsukamoto/Japan/1992/83 min Cast: Tomorowo Taguchi, Nobu Kanaoka, Shinya Tsukamoto, Sujin Kim

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FRI 22 JUNE 18:10 CINEWORLD SUN 24 JUNE 13:00 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) An exhilarating, immersive, impressionistic account of the revolution that led to the resignation of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in February last year. Director Stefano Savona’s camera weaves through crowds chanting slogans, captures the horror when it is realised that live ammunition is being used on protestors, eavesdrops on heated discussions about what kind of government should replace Mubarak, and, finally, witnesses the joy of victory. Visually beautiful, hypnotically intense, this is superb on-the-ground documentary filmmaking.

WED 27 JUNE 22:30 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) The first sequel to Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo: The Iron Man, this film is considered by many fans to be superior to the original. Reinterpreting the premise of the first film within a more straightforward actionthriller context, Tsukamoto here depicts a conspiracy of a gang of cyborgs. Their target is a seemingly ordinary salaryman who, in reality, is himself a fusion of man and metal. Newly restored from the original negative by the director himself, who will be in attendance at EIFF.

WED 27 JUNE 18:25 FILMHOUSE 2 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) From 1982 to 2012, this programme of shorts from one of the most volatile and exciting filmmaking nations in the world runs the gamut of sensibilities and styles, while charting cinematic transformations that are still under way.

SPOTLIGHT ON SHINYA TSUKAMOTO TETSUO II: BODy HAMMER

Tetsuo: The Iron Man Shinya Tsukamoto/Japan/1989/67 min Cast: Tomorowo Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka, Shinya Tsukamoto WED 27 JUNE 20:40 CINEWORLD 8 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) This is it, the seminal work of extreme Japanese cyberpunk, newly restored from the original negative by cult director Shinya Tsukamoto himself, who will be in attendance at EIFF. “Revolving around the transformation of people into grotesque hybrids of flesh and metal, Tetsuo is above all an overwhelming audiovisual experience, set to a brain-pounding score by Chu Ishikawa and complemented by suitably exaggerated sound effects” (Tom Mes, Midnight Eye).

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NIGHT MOVES UK PREMIERE

Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie Eric Wareheim, Tim Heidecker/USA/2012/ 93 min Cast: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Jeff Goldblum, Robert Loggia THU 28 JUNE 22:45 FILMHOUSE 1 SAT 30 JUNE 23:15 CAMEO 1 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Having gained a dedicated following with Tim and Eric’s Awesome Show Great Job!, US comedians Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim break out from the confines of online sketches and small DVD releases to bring their unique style of humour to the glorious big screen. Long-established collaborators Zach Galifianakis, Will Ferrell, John C Reilly and Jeff Goldblum star alongside the titular heroes in this brilliantly absurd and delightfully dark tale of greed, friendship and shrim.

NEW PERSPECTIVES EUROPEAN PREMIERE

PHILIPPINE NEW WAVE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Tokyo Drifter (Tokyo dorifuta)

Tondo, Beloved: To What Unconditional Are the Poor Born?

Tetsuaki Matsue/Japan/2011/72 min Cast: Kenta Maeno WED 27 JUNE 18:10 CINEWORLD THU 28 JUNE 21:15 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Singer-songwriter-guitarist Kenta Maeno wanders alone at night around Tokyo, singing his songs before indifferent passers-by. Deliberately lo-tech, Tokyo Drifter is at once a conceptual concert film, an allegory of the solitude of the artist, and a document of the visual experience of Tokyo shortly after the 11 March 2011 disaster, when efforts to reduce power consumption resulted in a drastic toning-down of the usual brightly lit spectacle of Tokyo at night.

(Tundong Magiliw: Pasaan isinisilang siyang mahirap?)

Jewel Maranan/Philippines/2012/74 min Cast: Virgie Simpron SUN 24 JUNE 20:50 FILMHOUSE 2 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Documentarist Jewel Maranan turns her camera on one of the oldest and most densely populated districts of Manila. “The beauty of it is that it does not try to impress. On the contrary, the aesthetic force of Tondo, Beloved is effortlessly persuasive. Maranan is able to express the collapse of what separates life from fiction, both of them sharing parallel realities, the emotions of the characters carrying the narrative and not the other way around” (Khavn de la Cruz, filmmaker).

BRITISH SCENES UK PREMIERE

Bryn Higgins/UK/2012/92 min Cast: Christian Cooke, Melanie Hill, Harry McEntire, Madeleine Clark MON 25 JUNE 18:30 CINEWORLD WED 27 JUNE 18:30 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Bored of caring for their invalid mother, teenage twins Kristen and Owen easily fall for the charms of Liam, a handsome, young loan-shark whose cool exterior masks very complex desires. When Owen finds himself the subject of Liam’s affection he soon realises their love is far from unconditional. A coming-of-age tale, with a surprise at its core, this darkly comic psycho-romance from BAFTA-winning writer Joe Fisher boasts excellent feature debut performances from its two young leads, Harry McEntire and Madeleine Clark.

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Unfair World (Adikos kosmos) Filippos Tsitos/Greece/2011/107 min Cast: Andonis Kafetzopoulos, Theodora Tzimou, Christos Stergioglou, Sofia Seirli, Achilleas Kiriakides WED 27 JUNE 18:00 CINEWORLD SAT 30 JUNE 16:00 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) The New Greek Cinema continues to deliver offbeat works that reflect on the moral and social failures of contemporary Greece. This seriocomic film, reminiscent of Aki Kaurismäki (Le Havre), is a notable example. A middle-aged policeman, tired of his daily grind and disgusted by the corruption of the criminal-justice system, decides it’s not only less trouble, but also less unfair, to release his suspects than to try to force confessions out of them. An accidental killing puts him in contact with a sympathetic cleaning woman.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

NIGHT MOVES

DIRECTORS’ SHOWCASE UK PREMIERE

The Unspeakable Act

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¡Vivan las Antipodas!

Dan Sallitt/USA/2012/91 min Cast: Tallie Medel, Sky Hirschkron, Aundrea Fares, Kati Schwartz, Caroline Luft

David Bruckner, Ti West, Adam Wingard, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Radio Silence/USA/2012/116 min Cast: Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes, Adam Wingard, Hannah Fierman, Mike Donlan

Victor Kossakovsky/Germany, Netherlands, Argentina, Chile/2011/104 min

FRI 29 JUNE 19:00 CAMEO 1 SAT 30 JUNE 13:10 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Adolescent anxiety inspires a “love that dare not speak its name” in Dan Sallitt’s frank and patient family drama. Jackie, a New York suburban teen, lives at home with her withdrawn, but loving, widowed mother, sister and older brother, Matthew, with whom she just so happens to be properly, deeply in love. But Matthew’s about to bring round his first girlfriend, and will shortly be leaving for college… Outstanding performances drive a witty, touching and unusual drama of impossible love.

THU 28 JUNE 23:20 CAMEO 1 SAT 30 JUNE 22:00 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) A gang is hired to break into a desolate house and steal a rare VHS cassette. Inside they encounter a problem when they discover a corpse in front of a television, surrounded by... hundreds of videotapes. As they start to search through the recordings, some truly disturbing stories begin to unfold... Providing the indelible last word in ‘found footage’ horror, this cleverly devised anthology, written and directed by a selection of new and rising genre talent, is contemporary cinema at its most frightening.

MON 25 JUNE 20:00 CINEWORLD TUE 26 JUNE 21:00 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Antipodes are places diametrically opposite one another on the earth’s surface, though cases where both are on land are fairly rare, given that so much of the planet is under water. Award-winning Russian director Victor Kossakovsky’s playful, evocative and stunningly cinematic documentary contemplates life in four antipodal pairs - Russia and Chile, China and Argentina, Botswana and Hawaii, and Spain and New Zealand - and changes the way we see our world. Kossakovsky will appear in person at EIFF for an in-depth discussion of his work (page 33).

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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION UK PREMIERE

NIGHT MOVES UK PREMIERE

We Can’t Go Home Again

A Woman’s Revenge

Wrong

Nicholas Ray/USA/1976, 2011/93 min Cast: Richie Bock, Tom Farrell, Danny Fisher, Jill Gannon, Jane Heymann

Rita Azevedo Gomes/Portugal/2011/100 min Cast: Rita Durão, Fernando Rodrigues, Hugo Tourita, Duarte Martins, João Pedro Bénard

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Quentin Dupieux/France, USA/2012/94 min Cast: Jack Plotnick, Eric Judor, Alexis Dziena, Steve Little, William Fitchner, Regan Burns

For a long time the hardest to see of the films of Nicholas Ray (Johnny Guitar, Rebel without a Cause), We Can’t Go Home Again was a collaboration with Ray’s filmmaking students at Harpur College. In a flurry of multiple images, Ray charts the transition from the confrontational radicalism of the late Sixties to the entrenchment and search for self-image of the early Seventies. “The film captures the fleeting breath of a utopian experience: when life as a community undertaking and cinema as a collective creation are one” (victor Erice, filmmaker).

Rita Azevedo Gomes’ sumptuous, painterly and unabashedly theatrical adaptation of a short story from Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly’s 1874 anthology Les Diaboliques, tells the tale of Roberto, a bored, decadent dandy in the nightly pursuit of ever-harder-to-find distraction. One evening, his eye is caught by a beautiful prostitute whose offer he accepts, and whom he soon comes to realise is none other than a missing noblewoman, the Countess of Sierra Leone, who has a fascinating, devastating story of her own to tell…

(A Vingança de uma Mulher)

FRI 29 JUNE 23:15 CAMEO 1 SAT 30 JUNE 18:10 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Dolph Springer wakes up to find his dog Paul is missing, and a bizarre chain of hilarious, mind-altering events begins. It’s raining in his office and the palm tree in his garden has turned into a pine tree, but all Dolph cares about is finding his beloved Paul. Endearing, off-the-wall comedy from Quentin Dupieux, who garnered a strong cult following with his 2010 debut feature Rubber, about a love-struck, psychopathic tyre on a killing spree. Wonderfully surreal and delightfully absurd, this hotly anticipated follow-up does not disappoint.

WHAT IS THIS FILM CALLED LOvE?

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What Is This Film Called Love? Mark Cousins/Mexico, USA, UK, Canada, Germany/2012/77 min TUE 26 JUNE 18:00 FILMHOUSE 1 SAT 30 JUNE 19:45 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) Together with Sergei Eisenstein, his imaginary companion on a walking tour of Mexico City, Mark Cousins contemplates historical change, shot composition, and his own identity. After the mammoth effort of The Story of Film: An Odyssey, Cousins felt the need to make a very different kind of film. “It’s an ad lib. It was made on three days off, as a response to the six years of making The Story of Film, for fun, to do something emotional and a bit sad. Its main subject is walking and being alone!” (Mark Cousins)

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DJ Chen/Taiwan/2012/76 min Cast: Wang Po-chieh, Abe Tsuyoshi, Larisa Barukova, Hu Ting-ting, Tai chi-yuan, Kao Yin-hsuan

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SAT 23 JUNE 16:40 CINEWORLD MON 25 JUNE 20:20 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS) An atmospheric mix of lo-fi science-fiction, glam-inspired rock music and Zeitgeistimmersed comedy-drama, set in Taipei. With newscasts announcing that the end of the world is imminent, two slackers – a rock musician and a carpentry teacher – decide it’s time to take action. They’re joined by a young Russian woman, with whom they launch a virtual Noah’s Ark on the web. The site becomes so successful that the trio’s activities come to the attention of space aliens.

SUN 1 JULY 17:00 CAMEO 1 PRICE: £6.00 (£5.00 CONCS) Crime and punishment and the allure of the sea are the themes of this packed programme of brilliant short films. Mixing animation, live action and documentary these are vibrant, thought-provoking and fun films. From altar boys, rappers and wrestling fans trying to do the right thing, to the impact of different forms of prison – whether political, social or animated. All this and New Yorkers celebrate surf culture and their latest surfing poster boy. Enjoy!

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reTroSPecTive : SHinji SomAi

Shinji Somai (1948-2001) is, together with Nicholas Ray (We Can’t Go Home Again in EIFF’s ‘Films on Film’ strand, page 59), one of the great poets of adolescence in cinema. Throughout Somai’s visually striking and emotionally powerful works, young people test their capacities while discovering the unreliable nature of adult society. Constructed in elaborate long takes across which the camera is in constant motion, Somai’s films take off in unpredictable directions toward stimulating destinations. Much admired in Japan, where he is recognised as a major influence on the next generation of filmmakers, Somai is only starting to receive his due overseas. EIFF is proud to host the first full retrospective outside Japan of his work. All 13 of the director’s films will be shown.

RETROSPECTIVE SHINJI SOMAI

The Catch (Gyoei no mure)

The Friends (Natsu no niwa)

Kazahana (Kaza-hana)

Shinji Somai/Japan/1983/140 min Cast: Ken Ogata, Masako Natsume, Koichi Sato

Shinji Somai/Japan/1994/113 min Cast: Rentaro Mikuni, Chikage Awashima, Akira Emoto

Shinji Somai/Japan/2001/116 min Cast: Kyoko Koizumi, Tadanobu Asano, Kumiko Aso

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A rugged drama of initiation set in an isolated part of northeastern Japan. A young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend’s father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the older man to teach him the secrets of his dangerous trade.

A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a house surrounded by an overgrown garden. The boys form a bond with the recluse and set about weeding and replanting the garden.

In Somai’s final film, an alcoholic civil servant wakes up under a cherry tree in Tokyo next to a bar hostess with whom he’s impulsively made a suicide pact. Though he’s now changed his mind, he agrees to travel with her to Hokkaido, her preferred site for ending it all. An elegiac road movie of restrained emotion.

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Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion

Luminous Woman (Hikaru onna)

Moving (Ohikkoshi)

Shinji Somai/Japan/1987/118 min Cast: Keiji Muto, Michiru Akiyoshi, Narumi Yasuda

Shinji Somai/Japan/1993/124 min Cast: Shinobu Chihara, Kiichi Nakai, Junko Sakurada

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In this delirious candy-coloured concoction, a hulking man from the country pursues his beloved to the underworld of Tokyo nightclubs, where he finds work as a sideshow wrestler and becomes involved with a faded opera singer.

In one of Somai’s most acclaimed films, a young girl must adjust to her new life after the divorce of her parents. Physically separated from her father and at odds with her distraught mother, the girl must negotiate her own passage to maturity.

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(Yuki no dansho - jonetsu)

Shinji Somai/Japan/1985/100 min Cast: Yuki Saito, Takaaki Enoki, Kiminori Sera SUN 24 JUNE 15:15 FILMHOUSE 3 PRICE: £7.00 (£6.00 CONC) This dazzling portrait of an orphaned girl at several stages of her life, from childhood to adulthood, opens with one of the most famous long takes in Japanese cinema, a single shot spanning months of time and disparate locations. Print courtesy of The Japan Foundation.

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Love Hotel (Rabu hoteru) Shinji Somai/Japan/1985/88 min Cast: Noriko Hayami, Minori Terada, Kiriko Shimizu SAT 30 JUNE 20:45 FILMHOUSE 2 PRICE: £7.00 (£6.00 CONC) After witnessing the rape of his wife, a man’s mind snaps and he attacks a prostitute. Two years later, the man and the prostitute meet by chance. Somai’s entry in Nikkatsu studios’ roman porno series is a subversive mood piece with an unforgettable melancholy atmosphere. Print courtesy of Nikkatsu Corporation.

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PP Rider (Shonben raida)

The Terrible Couple (Tonda kappuru)

Typhoon Club (Taifu kurabu)

Shinji Somai/Japan/1983/118 min Cast: Tatsuya Fuji, Michiko Kawai, Masatoshi Nagase

Shinji Somai/Japan/1980/122 min Cast: Shingo Tsurumi, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Mieko Harada

Shinji Somai/Japan/1985/115 min Cast: Yuichi Mikami, Youki Kudoh, Tomokazu Miura

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Three high-school students tangle with indulgent yakuza and lackadaisical police as they set out in search of the class bully, who has been kidnapped. Their bizarre, distinctively Somai-esque journey involves some of the director’s most astonishing long takes.

Through a clerical error, a studious tenthgrade boy is forced to share a house with the prettiest girl in school – an arrangement that could mean expulsion if it’s found out. In his first film, Shinji Somai turns a popular boys’ manga into a vigorous and bittersweet study of the fears and longings of adolescence.

One of Somai’s masterpieces. As a typhoon approaches their small Tokyo suburb, a group of high-school students confront issues of sexuality, mortality and their place in the world. A riveting work with a rich and beguiling atmosphere, showing the director’s full dynamic range.

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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

Tokyo Heaven (Tokyo joku irasshaimase)

Wait and See (Ah, haru)

Shinji Somai/Japan/1990/109 min Cast: Kiichi Nakai, Riho Makise, Tsurube Shofukutei

Shinji Somai/Japan/1998/100 min Cast: Koichi Saito, Yuki Saito, Tsutomu Yamazaki

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A pampered young model is killed in a traffic accident. Given the chance to return to earth, she becomes involved with the advertising executive who is trying to cover up her death. A blend of fantasy and trenchant realism in which Somai uses the ethereal glow of advertising images to comment on the transience of life.

A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his long-estranged father shows up at his house requesting shelter. One of the best of Somai’s seriocomic studies of the messiness of family life.

(Sera-fuku to kikanju)

Shinji Somai/Japan/1981/112 min Cast: Hiroko Yakushimaru, Tsunehiko Watase, Rentaro Mikuni SUN 1 JULY 14:00 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE: £7.00 (£6.00 CONC) A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organisation, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership. This mixture of deadpan comedy and outlandish action was a smash hit in Japan. A generation of young Japanese women grew up reciting lines of dialogue from this movie. Print courtesy of Kadokawa Shoten Co. Ltd.

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Gregory La Cava was one of the great innovators of American film comedy. His career took him from the print cartoon to animation, from animation to live action and from silent to sound cinema. With the success of My Man Godfrey in 1936, La Cava won a degree of autonomy rarely achieved by any Hollywood director, receiving full creative control over his films, including the freedom to improvise extensively on the set. The shifting tonalities of his films, the freedom of his approach to narrative and his taste for strong female characters mark La Cava as a strikingly modern director. This retrospective includes both La Cava’s most celebrated films and some of his neglected triumphs.

RETROSPECTIVE GREGORY LA CAVA

Feel My Pulse

Gabriel over the White House

My Man Godfrey

Gregory La Cava/USA/1928/63 min Cast: Bebe Daniels, Richard Arlen, William Powell

Gregory La Cava/USA/1933/86 min Cast: Walter Huston, Karen Morley, Franchot Tone

Gregory La Cava/USA/1936/93 min Cast: William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady, Eugene Pallette, Mischa Auer

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A hypochondriac heiress inherits a sanitarium to find that it is a front for bootleggers. This manic comedy is often regarded as La Cava’s best silent film.

In this outrageous political fantasy made at the bottom of the Depression, a political hack is elected President of the United States. After suffering a near-fatal car accident, he is inspired by the angel Gabriel to seize dictatorial powers in order to lead the nation out of its woes.

An evergreen classic of Depression-era screwball comedy. On a “scavenger hunt” for “forgotten men,” spoiled socialite Carole Lombard picks up homeless William Powell and gives him a job as her family’s butler.

With live piano accompaniment by Forrester Pyke.

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RETROSPECTIVE GREGORY LA CAVA

Private Worlds

She Married Her Boss

Unfinished Business

Gregory La Cava/USA/1935/84 min Cast: Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer, Joan Bennett, Joel McCrea

Gregory La Cava/USA/1935/85 min Cast: Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, Michael Bartlett

Gregory La Cava/USA/1941/96 min Cast: Irene Dunne, Robert Montgomery, Preston Foster

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FRI 29 JUNE 16:00 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE: £7.00 (£6.00 CONC)

THU 26 JUNE 18:30 FILMHOUSE 2 PRICE: £7.00 (£6.00 CONC)

The flow of life at a progressive psychiatric hospital is disturbed by the arrival of the conservative new superintendent and his sister. This unusual melodrama, one of the first Hollywood films to deal with mental illness, is one of La Cava’s most visually arresting works.

An efficient secretary tries to bring some working-class common sense to running her boss’s household but meets resistance from his family. Played for naturalistic satire rather than belly laughs, this is an interesting set of variations on some of La Cava’s favourite themes.

A brilliant, rarely seen La Cava masterwork in which a small-town woman goes to New York to seek her fortune as a singer. After marrying an alcoholic playboy almost by accident, she tries to make the best of the situation. Print courtesy of The BFI National Archive.

Print courtesy of La Filmoteca Española.

My MAN GODFREy

The Gregory La Cava retrospective continues at Filmhouse in July. Please see www.filmhousecinema.com for more details.

The Age of Consent

Gregory La Cava/USA/1932 SAT 7 JULY 18:10 FILMHOUSE 3

Bed of Roses

Gregory La Cava/USA/1933 SUN 8 JULY 18:25 FILMHOUSE 3

Fifth Avenue Girl

Gregory La Cava/USA/1939 MON 9 JULY 18:10 FILMHOUSE 3

The Half Naked Truth

Gregory La Cava/USA/1932 TUE 10 JULY 18:10 FILMHOUSE 3

Primrose Path

Gregory La Cava/USA/1940 WED 11 JULY 20:50 FILMHOUSE 3

Stage Door

Gregory La Cava/USA/1937 THU 12 JULY 20:50 FILMHOUSE 3

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These are free exhibitions and events across Edinburgh.

Atmosphere

Simon Martin at Collective

Stills’ Film Lounge: La Nostra Terra

THU 21 JUNE TO SUN 1 JULY

22-28 Cockburn Street, EH1 1NY

Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB T: 0131 650 2750

Louis Ghost Chair by Simon Martin takes the iconic Louis xv armchair as its starting point. In the transition from wood to plastic, artisan workshop to high-tech assembly line, to its afterlife as Philippe Starck’s version, the film considers the cultural capital of ideas and objects.

Stills Scotland’s Centre for Photography 23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh EH1 1BP T: 0131 622 6200 www.stills.org

New Media Scotland presents a season of twelve Atmosphere expanded screenings and events for EIFF with the thematics of faith and magic. These include the world premiere of Belief by Thomson & Craighead, the Scottish premiere of The Creator by AL and AL, and a special film-focussed PechaKucha. Also, Matt Adams of Blast Theory will talk about digital storytelling. Features will include Wings of Desire, a Frankenstein double bill, Portrait of Jennie, The Illusionist, Finding Neverland, Harry Potter and Hellboy.

Commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and Holburne Museum, Bath; with Collective, Edinburgh, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, and Elena Hill. Supported by Arts Council England with support from The Henry Moore Foundation.

Fifteen short videos by Italian artists from 1980s to today MON 7 MAY - SUN 24 JUNE From their archive of 5,000 works, Care of DOCvA, Milan has selected eight artists who explore the environmental legacy of Italy’s economic miracle upon the transformed Italian landscape of the 1980s and 1990s. MON 25 JUNE - SUN 22 JULY This annual TORINOver programme explores the hybridity of Turin’s artistic networks as part of a culturally borderless Europe.

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The Burns Monument, Regent Road, (next to New Calton Burial Ground, EH7 5BL) www.inglebygallery.com A peep into darkness. Medusa awakes from her slumber. Ingleby Gallery and EIFF present a silent film by artist David Austen, installed in the magical interior of The Burns Monument on Regent road. The Gorgon’s Dream is Austen’s haunting interpretation of Benvenuto Cellini’s small bronze sculpture of the head of Medusa. A rare opportunity to step inside one of Edinburgh’s architectural gems to experience a fragment of myth, to discover a time and space where tender darkness reigns.

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ouTdoor ScreeningS Essential Edinburgh & EIFF - Under the Stars 2012 THU 14 JUNE - SUN 17 JUNE ST ANDREW SQUARE GARDEN, EDINBURGH CITY CENTRE As a prelude to EIFF, Essential Edinburgh has teamed up with EIFF and Edinburgh Trams ‘Open for Business’ campaign to host Under the Stars, a series of special outdoor screenings that will take place throughout the four days from the 14th to the 17th of June. Drawn from both time-tested classics and recent hits, Under the Stars is a programme of films that the whole family can enjoy together. The films will be shown on a huge outdoor screen in the middle of St Andrew Square Garden, at the East End of George Street. The setting offers a timely opportunity for the people of Edinburgh to gather in a beautiful open air space in celebration of cinema. Under the Stars includes films that connect to the EIFF programme in a number of surprising ways - which we’ll leave to your imagination to discover! So come along, bring a picnic rug and enjoy some fabulous outdoor cinema! For more details on the event visit www. essentialedinburgh.co.uk, www.facebook.com/eeunderthestars or edfilmfest.org.uk Please note that no alcohol or glass can be brought into the event arena. Any persons under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Please be sure to check the certificate ratings for evening screenings.

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venue inFormATion And AcceSS If you require a wheelchair space or need any extra assistance, please call 0131 623 8030, email customerservices@filmhousecinema.com or go to the main information point, Filmhouse on Lothian Road. Our staff will be happy to help. For box office info and how to book, see page 8 or go to edfilmfest.org.uk. CINEMAS AND OTHER VENUES Filmhouse

Central Box Office & Information Point 88 Lothian Road, EH3 9BZ Open: 8:00 until late from 18 June to 1 July (Box Office open from 10:00) Fully licensed bar with hot and cold food. Drinks can be taken into the screenings. Free wi-fi available. Access: Foyer, Box Office and CafĂŠ Bar with adapted toilets accessible to wheelchair users and people with impaired mobility. All screens fitted with infrared hearing facilities. www.filmhousecinema.com

Traverse Theatre Delegate Centre

Cameo

38 Home Street, EH3 9LZ Open: 9:00 until late during the Festival Fully licensed bar serving snack food. Alcoholic drinks can be taken into the screenings. Free wi-fi available. Access: Cameo 1 is fully accessible. Cameo 1 has one wheelchair space. Adapted toilets at ground floor level. Cameo 1 fitted with an infrared induction loop. www.picturehouses.co.uk/cameo

Cineworld

Fountain Park, Fountainbridge, EH11 1AF

10 Cambridge Street, EH1 2ED

Open: 10:00-21:00 (or until last screening) during the Festival.

Fully licensed bar with hot and cold food, coffee shop with warm drinks and snack food. Free wi-fi available.

Fully licensed bar, wide choice of drinks and snacks.

Open: 8:30 until late from 20 June to 1 July (Registration Desk 8:30-18:00); on 18 June from 10:00 until late (Registration Desk 11:00-16:00); on 19 June from 8:30 until late (Registration Desk 8:30-16:00) Access: Level access, adapted toilets on ground and lower ground, and lift to all levels (please make yourself known to Front of House staff on arrival) available. www.traverse.co.uk

Access: Box Office, concession areas and all screens are on one level. Ramped access and wheelchair spaces in all screens. Lift access to cafĂŠ/bar. Adapted toilets. Infrared hearing facilities in all screens. www.cineworld.co.uk/cinemas/21

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CINEMAS AND OTHER VENUES Festival Theatre Edinburgh

Stills Gallery

Open: For EIFF screenings

Open: Mon-Thurs 11:00-21:00, Fri-Sun 11:00-18:00

Fully licensed bar service. Free wi-fi available.

Access: Fully accessible by wheelchair. Staff is always available to help visitors. www.stills.org

13/29 Nicolson Street, EH8 9FT

Access: There is a pavement ramp and level access available. All staff have disability awareness training. There is wheelchair assistance, disabled toilets and step free access to other toilets. Disabled seating is available in the stalls: eight spaces for wheelchair users, with adjacent seats for companions. Infrared hearing facilities are available. www.festivaltheatre.org.uk

Sky Bar at The Point Hotel 34 Bread Street, EH3 9AF

Sky Bar with fully licensed bar and snack food. Restaurant in the hotel available. Open: 20:00-22:15 on 21 June Access: Ground level access to hotel. Wheelchair access to hotel and bar. www.pointhoteledinburgh.co.uk

Galleries Collective Gallery

23 Cockburn Street, EH1 1BP

Inspace Gallery

1 Crichton Street, EH8 9AB Open: Depending on events - see website. Access: Fully accessible with lift and disabled toilets. http://inspace.mediascot.org

Ingleby Gallery

15 Calton Road, EH8 8DL Open: Mon-Sat 10:00-18:00 Access: Gallery with wheelchair access, assistance available. www.inglebygallery.com

The Burns Monument Regent Road, Calton Hill

22-28 Cockburn Street, EH1 1NY

Open: 21-24 June 12:00-18:00

Open: Tue- Sun 11:00-17:00

Access: No wheelchair access. www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/Venues/ Monuments/Museum---Monument-Locations/ Calton-Hill/Burns-Monument

Access: Fully accessible from street. Disabled toilets. www.collectivegallery.net

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