Edinburgh International Film Festival Programme

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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2010

CONTENTS Honour Board Introduction How to do EIFF edfilmfest.org.uk Festival Awards Opening Night Gala Closing Night Gala Special Gala Feature Films Festival Calendar Short Films Retrospective Special Screenings Festival Events Venue Information Venue Map

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DIRECTORS’ SHOWCASE

GALA

Classics of the future, from the established international auteurs of our time.

The glitziest Festival section: red carpets rolled out for films that come with anticipation attached.

22 Bullets Caterpillar The Days of Desire Family Tree Henry of Navarre Hotel Atlantico The Hunter Kawasaki's Rose Lola Lucky Luke The Man Next Door My Words, My Lies - My Love The Secret in Their Eyes Whisky With Vodka

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The Illusionist

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closing Night Gala Third Star

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special gala The Man Who Would Be King

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BRITISH GALA Homeland glory: the best and the brightest new UK cinema, from which this year's Michael Powell Award-winner will be drawn. brilliantlove Cherry Tree Lane Huge Jackboots On Whitehall The Kid Mr Nice Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World Pelican Blood Skeletons SoulBoy

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Honouring our history as a documentary festival, we still seek out the most intriguing real-life stories from all over the world.

And Everything Is Going Fine Blank City Document Shorts 1: Occupational Therapies Document Shorts 2: Reflections & Memories The Edge of Dreaming Freetime Machos Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould Girl with Black Balloons Lucky The Mouth of the Wolf Nénette The Oath Out of the Ashes The People vs George Lucas Restrepo Road to Las Vegas Scottish Short Documentary Award Screening A Small Act Superhero Me Thunder Soul Two in the Wave

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NIGHT MOVES Stay up past your bedtime with our wild and wicked late-night selection.

DOCUMENT

Opening Night Gala

Barry Munday The Dry Land The Extra Man Get Low The Good Heart Heartbreaker My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?

The Rebound The Runaways Thelma, Louise and Chantal Toy Story 3 World's Greatest Dad

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Evil in the Time of Heroes The Last Rites of Ransom Pride Monsters Outcast Two Eyes Staring

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Act of Dishonour Alamar Au Revoir Taipei Boy C'est Déjà L'été Crab Trap Donkeys Fog Foxes Frontier Blues Gravity HIGH School Honeymooner If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle Kick Off

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*Large print version of the programme is available.

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We’ve organised events into Feature Films, Short Films, Retrospective, Special Screenings and Festival Events throughout the brochure, but also in the colour-coded sections below to help you find films that might interest you. For more ideas, check out our 'Like this? Try these ... ' suggestions at the bottom of each film entry.

Mundane History Northless Nothing Personal Obselidia Peepli Live Police, Adjective Postales Putty Hill R A Real Life Red Hill The Red Machine The Robber The Sentimental Engine Slayer Les Signes Vitaux Silent Voices Snowman's Land Son of Babylon Soul Boy Street Days Undertow Winter's Bone Yo, tambien

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UNDER THE RADAR Leave the beaten track behind: raw, risk-taking work from the cutting edge of new movie-making.

The Black Panther Chase the Slut Cigarette Girl The Crab CrimeFighters A Spanking in Paradise Vacation!

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ANIMATION From the family-friendly to the deeply dark, the lo-fi to the super-sophisticated: all that's new in animation.

International Animation 1 International Animation 2 Mai Mai Miracle McLaren Animation 1 McLaren Animation 2

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BLACK BOX

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

Daring experiments in film form, from the innovators of the visual art world.

Classics from the archives and special one-off previews.

Black Box 1: Great and Small Black Box 2: Open Your Eyes Black Box 3: Time Travel Mark Perestroika

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SHORT FILMS Discover the feature directors of the future, or simply enjoy bite-sized movies for their own sake – we’ve done the hard work for you by seeking out the finest of the year.

Cinema Extreme Digicult Shorts Family Shorts: Growing Pains International Shorts 1: Strings Attached International Shorts 2: Little Earthquakes International Shorts 3: Discomfort Zone UK Shorts 1 UK Shorts 2

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after the wave Lost and Forgotten British Cinema 1967-1979.

The Boy Who Turned Yellow The Final Programme Glitterball Gumshoe The Hard Way The Jokers Long Shot Made Pressure Private Road Privilege Pulp The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer Savage Messiah The Squeeze What Next?

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8 1/2 Foundation Screening 60 Bored to Death: Cinematic TV 60 Drifters: In Celebration of the Edinburgh Film Guild 60 Five Easy Pieces 61 They Made Me a Fugitive 61 Went the Day Well?

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festival EVENTS Special stand-alone movie experiences, workshops and the chance to get up close and personal with some of cinema's greatest names.

50 Letters After the Wave: Discussion Event Bafta Scotland Interview: Sir Patrick Stewart BED Behind the Scenes Brothers Quay Animation Event But We Have The Music The Casting Process: A Panel Discussion Creative Identities Programme Edinburgh Schools Film Competition Film Lounge Free For All? Graham King: Variety Interview HP Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror Introduction to Animation Workshop Irregular London 2012 Film Nation Workshops Making of The Illusionist with Sylvain Chomet The Scottish Screen Archive Event: Persuasion Sideshow Sound:Image:Art?

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Times are tough in the film industry, as they are all over; yet independent production continues to flourish, as determined filmmakers find imaginative ways of cutting budgets and sourcing funding. We certainly saw no shortage of excellent work in the process of programming this year’s EIFF – and we’re particularly excited by the proliferation of first- and second-time filmmakers in this year’s line-up, who rub shoulders as ever with established names.

Previous EIFF participants return en masse, from Under the Radar directors who are back with their newest cult films in-the-making to our Patrons Sir Sean Connery, Tilda Swinton and Seamus McGarvey, who will all join us both onstage and off to share their enthusiasm and knowledge. Similarly, titles that are brand new to the Festival circuit stand beside works that have garnered serious acclaim at other festivals the world over.

The range of British cinema is wide and extraordinary – from horror to erotica to biopics and comedies – while the rest of the programme hails from territories as far afield as Taiwan, Slovakia, Iraq, New Zealand and Columbia. Nor do we limit ourselves to the conventional big flat silver screen format. We have 3D, 0D (yes, this year there’s a ‘film’ consisting of sound only), big-screen TV and radio too – plus a greater-than-ever range of public events offering behind-the-scenes secrets and hands-on experience from every level of the film industry.

Hannah McGill Artistic Director

Whether you want to get up close and personal with a very special orangutan (Nénette, p33), embed with an active battalion in Afghanistan (Restrepo, p42) or just dress up like a superhero and do some do-gooding (Superhero Me, p46), we hope that you’ll enjoy this opportunity to explore strange new worlds and discover new life and new civilizations. (Oh yes – our Michael Powell Jury President is Patrick Stewart. We look forward to welcoming him, and you!)

FILM COPY BY: Madeline Bates | Sarah Begg | Antonia Carver | Niall Greig Fulton | Iain Gardner | Kirsten Geekie | Diane Henderson Robert Hope | Simon Howarth | Nicola Kettlewood | Kim Knowles | Gaia Meucci | Shona Thomson | Rod White | Neil Young

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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2010

1. Choosing your events

2. Booking your tickets

Finding events EIFF films and events are listed alphabetically and belong to a section, e.g. British Gala which is colourcoded for easy identification. More information on sections can be found in the Index on pages 2 and 3 of this brochure.

The EIFF box office opens at 12:00 on Thursday 3 June.

Remember, EIFF is about more than just films.

There’s a vast array of live events ranging from interviews to special events, panel discussions and Q&As. Calendar In the centre pages of this brochure is a day-by-day calendar to help you to choose films by time or day of the week.

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 the A-Z Section. 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 programme entry. However, most EIFF films include an introduction and Q&A which are not included in the running times, so bear this in mind when booking.

If a short film is being shown with a feature, this will be mentioned in the film entry.

Book online: www.edfilmfest.org.uk Book by phone: 0131 623 8030 Book in person: Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road, EH3 9BZ You can buy tickets in person before and during the Festival at the Filmhouse box office, at these times: 12:00-21:00 3 June 4-15 June 10:00-21:00 10:00-22:30 16-27 June This year you can also book your tickets in person at the Festival Theatre, 13/29 Nicolson Street, EH8 9FT. The box office is open from 12:00-18:00 daily from 4 June to 26 June (excluding Sundays).

During the Festival, there is also an EIFF box office situated in the Cineworld foyer that sells tickets for all screenings from 10:00, and a box office at Cameo which sells tickets (for Cameo screenings only) from 10:00. You can buy tickets on the door at non-cinema venues 30 minutes before the event (cash only).

Getting your tickets Tickets are posted for bookings made up to and including Monday 14 June. Tickets bought after this date can be collected from the EIFF box office at Filmhouse until 2 hours before the event or screening begins. After this, they will be held for collection at the venue of the screening/event from 30 minutes before scheduled start time.

Tickets can be purchased in person at our box offices right up to their start time, provided the event isn’t sold out. If an event has sold out, seats are occasionally 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 the event of a cancellation. If an event has sold out we can re-sell your ticket to the returns queue.

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Not sure where to begin?

Check out our simple guide to getting the best from EIFF this year!

3. Ticket prices & EIFF Saver Deal

4. Take your seat

Full and concessionary prices are included in the event information in this brochure.

Where to sit Seats are unreserved unless otherwise stated.

Doors open approximately 15 minutes before the start of an event.

A £1.50 booking fee will be charged per transaction for online and phone bookings.

The cheapest way to do EIFF By far the best way to experience the Festival - and make fantastic savings on ticket prices - is to take advantage of the EIFF Saver Deal.

Buy 4 different event tickets for only £24.00 (£20.00 conc), and all additional tickets you buy - in the same transaction are only £6.00 (£5.00 conc) each!

Available via online, telephone and in-person sales from 12:00 on 3 June until box office closing on 15 June. Subject to availability (excludes Toy Story 3, Mr Nice and all workshops).

After this, all tickets will be charged at regular prices, details of which are given on each brochure entry.

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.

Check the Suggest-O-Tron at edfilmfest.org.uk for instant film suggestions.

All EIFF venues have disabled access facilities.

For further information on accessibility, please see pages 70 and 71.

Venue information Further information on EIFF venues – from directions to whether you can take a beer into the film – can be found in our venue section on pages 70 and 71.

Please contact us at: customerservices@filmhousecinema.com if there’s anything else you need to know.

Late admittance If you’re late and the screening has already started, expect to wait and we’ll do our best to show you to your seat at an appropriate juncture. 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.

Pick up your 2010 EIFF t-shirts from the foyer at Filmhouse.

T-shirts £8.00

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5. Stay in the loop We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: becoming an EIFF web member really is the best and easiest way to keep up-to-date with information on our events, special guests and ticket giveaways.

We keep our website updated hour-by-hour with news on events and screenings – not to mention some excellent competitions, extra features, insider photographs and more.

Signing up takes seconds and is absolutely free. With exclusive competitions, the latest Festival information and access to My Movies, your personalised Festival planner, join up and get in the know!

edfilmfest.org.uk/register

6. 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 – and our EIFF Saver Deal means that early booking is not only the safest bet, it’s by far the cheapest too! To put it simply: book in advance to see more and save more!

Best of the Fest If you do miss out on one of your picks, don’t forget Best of the Fest on Sunday 27 June, where we re-screen the biggest and best films of the Festival, all for just £6.00 a ticket. This year’s line up will be announced on edfilmfest.org.uk on Tuesday 22 June.

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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 bar at Filmhouse where you can relax and maybe even spot a few famous faces during the Festival!

7. Got kids?

Look out for this symbol – these films and events are particularly suitable for younger people.

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The only place for official content and news.

Are you one of our web members?

If not, you’re missing out on our regular newsletters, featuring exclusive competitions, programme updates and the latest from the forums and blogs.

You can also: Leave film reviews; comment on our news stories, blogs, photographs and EIFFtv videos; post messages on the forums ... all for free.

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Check out: Film trailers: Most of our films have featured trailers, so try before you buy.

The Suggest-O-Tron: Not sure where to begin? Instant film suggestions from this year's programme, based on your favourite films.

EIFFtv: The crew will be racing around again to bring you daily video round-ups of what’s hot and happening.

And don’t forget…

Official galleries: Updated daily, featuring red carpet highlights, parties and behind-the-scenes action.

Buy online and benefit from the EIFF Saver Deal: 4 different films for £24.00 (£20.00 conc).

See page 7 for further information.

Find us on Flickr (username EIFF) and upload your shots to our official Flickr page and we’ll host them on our website.

EIFF is also on Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and iTunes.

Make sure you’re following us.

congratulates all the directors nominated for the Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film brilliantlove Cherry Tree Lane Huge Jackboots On Whitehall

Ashley Horner Paul Andrew Williams Ben Miller Edward McHenry, Rory McHenry The Kid Nick Moran Mr Nice Bernard Rose Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World Viv Fongenie Pelican Blood Karl Golden Skeletons Nick Whitfield SoulBoy Shimmy Marcus

And the nominees for the Best British Short Film Award www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk

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THE MICHAEL POWELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW BRITISH FEATURE FILM

STANDARD LIFE AUDIENCE AWARD

NEW DIRECTORS AWARD

Named in homage to one of Britain’s most original filmmakers and inaugurated in 1993, the Michael Powell Award is sponsored by the UK Film Council.

Rewarding imagination and creativity in British filmmaking, the award, for films in the British Gala section, is judged by an international jury and the winner will receive a cash prize of £15,000.

Sponsored by Standard Life since 1997, the winner is chosen by audience votes from the Gala and British Gala sections.

The award celebrates mainstream cinema delights: narrative skill, characterisation, suspense, spectacle, comedy…

This award, inaugurated in 1999, acknowledges new interpretation and innovation in filmmaking and underlines one of the basic tenets of EIFF, which is to be a festival of discovery. The award is selected from first and second time filmmakers in the Rosebud and British Gala sections and the winner will receive a cash prize of £5,000.

Past winners: 2009 2008 2007 2006

2005 2004

2003 2002 2001

Moon (Duncan Jones) Somers Town (Shane Meadows) Control (Anton Corbijn) Brothers of the Head (Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe) Tsotsi (Gavin Hood) My Summer of Love (Pawel Pawlikowski) Young Adam (David Mackenzie) Out of Control (Dominic Savage) Gas Attack (Kenny Glenaan)

PPG AWARD FOR BEST PERFORMANCE IN A BRITISH FEATURE FILM

EIFF has hosted an illustrious guest list over the past 63 festivals. Thanks to the continued generous support of PPG, this is the fourth year of an award to honour the best performance in a British Feature Film. The award will be judged by the Michael Powell Award jury.

Past winners: 2009 Katie Jarvis for Fish Tank 2008 Robert Carlyle for Summer 2007 Sam Riley for Control

Past winners: 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004

2003 2002 2001

The Secret of Kells (Tom Moore) Man on Wire (James Marsh) We Are Together (Paul Taylor) Clerks II (Kevin Smith) Tsotsi (Gavin Hood) Inside I’m Dancing (Damien O'Donnell) Afterlife (Alison Peebles) Rabbit-Proof Fence (Phillip Noyce) Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)

PROJECTOR.TV BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE AWARD

The Best International Feature Award will be open to features originating outside of the UK, in all sections of the programme, which are receiving their world or international premiere at the Festival. The award will carry a cash prize of £5,000.

Past winner:

2009 Easier With Practice (Kyle Patrick

Alvarez)

Past winners: 2009 2008 2007 2006

2005 2004 2003

2002 2001

Cary Joji Fukunaga for Sin Nombre Marianna Palka for Good Dick Lucia Puenzo for XXY Paul Andrew Williams for London to Brighton Mike Mills for Thumbsucker Morgan Spurlock for Super Size Me Shari Springer Bergman & Robert Pulcini for American Splendor Carlos Reygadas for Jápon Joint winners Michael Cuesta for L.I.E. & Zacharias Kunuk for Atanarjuat the Fast Runner

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY AWARD

This award will recognise a singular and compelling achievement in non-fiction filmmaking and is intended to honour work which reveals a fascination with a particular subject, rendered on screen with style, truthfulness and integrity to its sources. The winner will receive a cash prize of £5,000.

Past winners:

2009 2008

2007 2006

Boris Ryzhy (Aliona van der Horst) Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog) Billy The Kid (Jennifer Venditti) The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief (Jake Clennell)

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UK FILM COUNCIL AWARD FOR BEST BRITISH SHORT FILM

MCLAREN AWARD FOR NEW BRITISH ANIMATION In partnership with BBC Film Network

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM AWARD SPONSORED BY STEEDMAN & COMPANY

Judged by an international jury, the Best British Short Film recognises new talent in UK filmmaking. The 2010 winner will receive a cash prize of £1,000.

This award provides a focus for new British short animation and recognises the free spirit of creativity. This award will be supported in 2010 for the fifth year by BBC Film Network and carries a cash prize of £1,000.

All short fiction of under 30 minutes’ duration from a non-UK country of origin will be eligible for this award, which is intended to affirm the Festival’s longestablished support of international short filmmakers and to provide profile and encouragement for the feature filmmakers of the future. The award will carry a cash prize of £1,000.

Past winners: 2009 2008

2006 2005 2004

2003

2002 2001

2000

After Tomorrow (Emma Sullivan) The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island (James Griffiths) The Other Man (Dictynna Hood) Hibernation (John Williams) Billy’s Day Out (Iain B MacDonald) and Who Killed Brown Owl (Christine Molloy & Joe Lawlor) Love Me or Leave Me Alone (Duane Hopkins) Procter (Joachim Trier) Crow Stone (Alicia Duffy) and About a Girl (Brian Percival) A Good Man is Hard to Find (Martin Radich)and Jomeo & Ruliet (Alnoor Dewshi)

SHORT FILM NOMINEE EDINBURGH FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2010

An initiative by the European Film Academy in association with the EIFF and a series of other film festivals throughout Europe. One of the winning short films at EIFF will win a nomination for the European Film Academy Short Film 2010.

Past winners: 2009 2008

2007 2006 2005

2004

2003

2002

2001 2000

Photograph of Jesus (Laurie Hill) Space Travel According to John (Jamie Stone and Anders Jedenfors) Over the Hill (Peter Baynton) Rabbit (Run Wrake) The True Story of Sawney Beane (Elizabeth Hobbs) Blur’s Good Song (Shynola) and Brand Spanking (John-Paul Harney) Pullin’ the Devil by the Tail (Stephen McCollum) An Eye for an Eye (Shynola with Ruth Lingford) Dog (Suzie Templeton) Robots, The Animated Docu-Soap (John Williams)

Past winner: 2009 Princess Margaret BLVD (Kazik

Radwanski)

SCOTTISH SHORT DOCUMENTARY AWARD SUPPORTED BY BAILLIE GIFFORD

Supporting Scottish talent, this award will reward first and second time short documentary filmmakers either from, or working in Scotland. The award is judged by a jury and carries a cash prize of £1,000.

Past winners: 2009

2008

2007 2006

2005 2004 2003

2002

Peter in Radioland (Johanna Wagner) Christmas with Dad (Conor McCormack) Breadmakers (Yasmin Fedda) The Really Terrible Orchestra (Edward Brooke Hitching) Arts: The Catalyst (Simon Hynd) And So Goodbye (Jim Hickey) She Toon: City Of Bingo (Craig Collinson) Sky High (Anna Jones)

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The Illusionist

OPENING NIGHT GALA UK premiere

The Illusionist Sylvain Chomet/UK, France/2010/83 min Voice Cast: Jean-Claude Donda, Eilidh Rankin Wed 16 June 21:45 EDINBURGH Festival Theatre PRICE: £15.00 (£9.50 conc) “Delightful ... thrilling ... a love letter to Scotland and Edinburgh in particular.” – Leslie Felperin, Variety.

As cheeky, boisterous and witty as it is delicately drawn and beauteous to behold, Sylvain Chomet’s second feature film is a winner on every level – and a perfect opening act for EIFF 2010.

Our weary hero is an over-the-hill magician, complete with lessthan-friendly white rabbit; their adventures are based upon an unrealised script by Jacques Tati, the action of which Chomet transposed to Scotland after he moved here in 2004. Always in search of a paying gig, the illusionist treks from Paris to the Western Isles to Edinburgh – acquiring, along the way, a

young travelling companion who sincerely believes in his magical abilities. Rich with visual jokes, seductive 1950s period detail and breathtaking views of city and wilderness alike, this is the work of a master in his field – and one of the most gorgeous evocations of Scotland in cinema history.

Like this? Try these... Lucky Luke; Jackboots On Whitehall; Get Low; Obselidia; Mai Mai Miracle

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Third Star

CLOSING NIGHT GALA world premiere

Third Star Hattie Dalton/UK/2010/85 min Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Burke, JJ Feild, Adam Robertson, Hugh Bonneville Sat 26 June 21:30 Cineworld PRICE: £15.00 (£9.50 conc) Four of Britain’s finest young actors team up for an unforgettable, tragi-comic buddy movie.

BAFTA-winning short filmmaker Hattie Dalton makes an auspicious feature debut with this poignant but still screamingly funny paean to making the most of life – while you still can.

James (Benedict Cumberbatch) invites his three closest friends to join him on a road trip to his favourite place in the world.

Like many an impulsive group holiday, however, the undertaking proves fraught with practical difficulties, surreal encounters and emotionally ravaging revelations... With a vibrant, witty and

insightful script by Vaughan Sivell, and a quartet of excellent lead performances from the UK’s finest young actors, this is a moving, pertinent and unpredictable film – and a fantastic showcase of new and promising British film talent.

Like this? Try these... Obselidia; The Edge of Dreaming; Honeymooner; Ollie Kepler’s Expanding Purple World

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bank of scotland gala The Man Who Would be King

The Man Who Would Be King John Huston/UK, USA/1975/129 min Cast: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey, Doghmi Larbi Sun 20 June 18:00 EDINBURGH Festival Theatre PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) In celebration of Sir Sean Connery's 80th year, and his dedicated support of EIFF as Patron since 1992, he joins us for a special screening of one of his best-loved films in our spectacular new venue.

A late-career masterpiece from legendary director/adventurer Huston and adapted from a Rudyard Kipling story, it stars Sir Sean and Michael Caine as a pair of opportunistic Victorian chappies scheming to take over a remote middle-eastern kingdom, with Saeed Jaffrey and Christopher Plummer rounding out a star-studded cast.

EIFF's long-serving patron has often named John Huston's rip-roaring adventure classic among his own personal favourites. We're therefore especially delighted to present this much-beloved film with the generous support of Park Circus.

35 years on, we've become accustomed to watching movies on our televisions, our laptops, even our mobiles. But of all the films selected for this year's programme, The Man Who Would Be King is the one which emphatically demands to be seen on the biggest of screens. It's surely what Huston would have wanted – this is the man who once said "Edinburgh is the only film festival that's worth a damn."

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22 Bullets

directors’ showcase uk premiere

22 Bullets (L’Immortel) Richard Berry/France/2009/115 min Cast: Jean Reno, Kad Merad, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Mariona Fois Sat 19 June 21:10 Cineworld Sun 20 June 18:20 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) Jean Reno gets shot 22 times ... and he’s not happy about it.

A retired gangster (Reno) is the target of a brutal assassination attempt. He survives to exact violent revenge on those who left him for dead ... but who were they? Produced

by Luc Besson, and featuring a charismatic central performance from Reno, this slick, hard-boiled French thriller proves once again that Hollywood is not the only source of stylish, action-packed entertainment.

Like this? Try these... Lucky Luke; The Black Panther; Snowman’s Land; Silent Voices; Henry of Navarre

ROSEBUD WORLD premiere

ROSEBUD UK premiere

DOCUMENT INTERNATIONAL premiere

Act of Dishonour

Alamar (To the Sea)

And Everything Is Going Fine

Nelofar Pazira/Canada/2009/92 min Cast: Marina Golbahari, Abdul Ghafar Qoutbyar, Masood Serwary, Nelofer Pazira

Pedro González-Rubio/Mexico/2009/73 min Cast: Jorge Machado, Natan Machado Palombini, Nestor Marín

Steven Soderbergh/USA/2010/89 min

SUN 20 June 16:00 Filmhouse 2 Mon 21 June 21:00 Filmhouse 3 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

THU 17 June 20:15 Cineworld SUN 20 June 13:15 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

A village in Afghanistan finds its customs questioned with the arrival of a film crew.

Nature and nurture go hand-in-hand, in this tender story of father, son – and fishing.

Mena, a young bride-to-be, is not allowed to leave her home or have contact with her fiancé Rahmat until married. She spends her life spying on the village and sharing chaste moments with Rahmat through a small hole in her garden wall, until she meets Mejgan – a female translator for a visiting film crew.

Encouraged to take part in the film, Mena crosses the boundaries of her village’s belief system, coming face-to-face with a society desperate to protect itself through tradition.

A gently-told blend of documentary and fiction, this highly acclaimed and already multi-award-winning work follows the last summer little Natan will spend with his father in Mexico before a move to Rome. Off the coral reef of Banco Chinchorro, the boy learns about the land and water around him, guided by his father and grandfather. This is poetic filmmaking that foregrounds the peace and beauty of a fragile environment.

Like this? Try these... Frontier Blues; Son of Babylon; Kick Off; Peepli Live; The Hunter

Like this? Try these... Crab Trap; The Edge of Dreaming; The Mouth of the Wolf

Sat 19 June 18:30 Filmhouse 2 Sun 20 June 18:30 Filmhouse 2 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) Steven Soderbergh pays tribute to the legendary writer and performer Spalding Gray.

From the first time he performed Swimming to Cambodia – the one-man account of his experience of making the 1984 film The Killing Fields – Spalding Gray made the art of the monologue his own. Drawing unstintingly on the most intimate aspects of his own life, his shows were vibrant, hilarious and moving. His death came tragically early, in 2004; this compilation of interview and performance footage nails his idiosyncratic and irreplaceable brilliance.

Like this? Try these... Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould; Girl with Black Balloons; Mark

Cineworld is one of the leading cinema groups in the UK and Ireland. We are dedicated to ensuring that all aspects of every visit are memorable – unparalleled quality of service, great shows, comfortable seating and tempting food and drink. Cineworld continues to lead the way in 3D technology and currently has the largest number of digital projectors in the UK. Cineworld is delighted to once again be taking part in the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

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Barry Munday

ROSEBUD uk premiere

Au Revoir Taipei Arvin Chen/Taiwan, USA/2010/85 min Cast: Jack Yao, Amber Kuo, Joseph Chang, Lawrence Ko, Frankie Gao Wed 23 June 18:15 Cameo 1 Sat 26 June 13:00 Cameo 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) A hectic and hilarious crime caper played out on the neon streets of Taipei.

Shy student Kai is desperate to visit his girlfriend in France, whether she likes it or not. When a spot of smalltime gangstering offers itself as a route to an airfare, he bites – little suspecting that his evening, his travel plans and his relationship are all about to be set seriously off kilter… Sharply choreographed and winningly eccentric, this is a total delight and a tremendously confident debut.

Like this? Try these... Yo, tambien; Boy; Postales; Bored to Death: Cinematic TV

GALA INTERNATIONAL premiere

UNDER THE RADAR UK premiere

DOCUMENT UK premiere

Barry Munday

The Black Panther (La Pantera Negra)

Blank City

Chris D’Arienzo/USA/2010/83 min Cast: Patrick Wilson, Judy Greer, Chloe Sevigny, Jean Smart, Malcolm McDowell, Cybill Shepard, Billy Dee Williams

Iyari Wertta/Mexico/2009/105 min Cast: Enrique Arreola, Laura de Ita, Dolores Heredia, Ely Guerra

Celine Danhier/USA/2009/94 min

Mon 21 June 21:35 Cineworld TUE 22 June 21:45 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) Love hurts ... especially for Barry Munday.

Barry is a wannabe ladies man and hapless flirt who loves looking at girls and hates his job. After two life-changing incidents – one involving a trumpet; the other, a girl named Ginger – Barry is forced to choose life, literally, over getting laid. Featuring an impressive ensemble cast and a nuanced performance from Patrick Wilson as Barry, this is a funny, warm and often surreal exploration of a suburban man-child losing his manhood and growing up.

Like this? Try these... The Extra Man; Gravity; World’s Greatest Dad

Fri 25 June 22:35 Cameo 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) A surreal, stunning black-and-white noir from Mexico.

Dishevelled private eye Nico Beamonte’s latest case comes from God himself … possibly. He wants Nico to find the mysterious Black Panther. But who, or what, is the Black Panther? And what has this got to do with a cryogenically frozen Mariachi singer and a 1950s flying saucer? Surrealism, Mexican-style – as if film noir had collided with props left over from a Ray Harryhausen film.

Like this? Try these... Gumshoe; Pulp; Cigarette Girl; 22 Bullets; The Red Machine

THU 17 June 20:15 Filmhouse 1 Fri 18 June 18:00 Filmhouse 2 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) A riveting documentary portrait of the postpunk underground and the birth of 80s cool.

Today, Manhattan is a byword for overpriced property, overexposed landmarks and overdressed fashionistas. In the late 70s, however, it was rat-infested, crime-crippled, cheap and nasty – somewhere for America to dump its immigrants, poor people and artists.

Music, art, fashion and filmmaking burgeoned, fuelled by drugs, dares, fads, feuds, and a fair helping of madness. Debbie Harry, Jim Jarmusch, Steve Buscemi and a host of counter-culture stars recount the tales.

Like this? Try these... Girl with Black Balloons; Cigarette Girl; The Sentimental Engine Slayer

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ROSEBUD uk premiere

Directors' showcase UK premiere

ROSEBUD UK premiere

Boy

Caterpillar

C’est Déjà L’été

Taika Waititi/New Zealand/2010/87 min Cast: James Rolleston, Te Aho EketoneWhitu, Taika Waititi

Koji Wakamatsu/Japan/2010/85 min Cast: Shinabu Terajima, Shima Ohnsishi, Ken Yoshizawa, Keigo Kasuya, Emi Masuda, Sabu Kawahara

Martijn Maria Smits/Netherlands/2010/84 min Cast: Patrick Descamps, Benjamin Willem, Julie Anson

Fri 18 June 18:00 Cameo 1 Sat 19 June 13:15 Cameo 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) A hilarious coming-of-age fable, from the director of Flight of the Conchords.

Featuring probably the best goat performance and certainly the best ensemble dance routine in our 2010 programme, New Zealand’s second biggestever movie is riotous fun; and a stirring portrait of children dealing with extremes.

Bright-eyed 11-year-old Boy loves no-one more than Michael Jackson – until his muchmythologised dad returns home from a long absence. Much male bonding follows; but is his father really such a heroic figure... ?

Like this? Try these... The Extra Man; Au Revoir Taipei; Postales

THU 17 June 21:15 Filmhouse 2 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

THU 24 June 18:00 Filmhouse 2 Fri 25 June 17:40 Filmhouse 2 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

A provocative, disturbing account of the physical and psychic ravages of war, from a legendary cult director.

Steel city blues: Loach meets the Dardenne brothers in an unblinking examination of Belgium’s rust-belt.

1940, and Shigeko’s husband returns from the second Sino-Japanese war a decorated hero. She’s not exactly thrilled, however: partly because his awful injuries make him entirely dependent upon her, and partly because he was a horrible spouse to begin with. As the town around her lionises Shigeko for her loyalty to a ‘war god’, her home becomes the site of a whole new battle...

Shot mainly with excellent non-professional actors in the stony-broke post-industrial town of Seraing, this critically-acclaimed study of shattered lives finds unexpected shafts of lyricism among the gritty gloom. An unemployed dad, his single-parent daughter and tearaway teenage son negotiate a hostile world, their stories combining into perhaps the most pressingly topical feature in this year’s festival.

Like this? Try these... Lola; Mundane History; The Hunter

Like this? Try these... Cherry Tree Lane; Lola; R; If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle

brilliantlove

BRITISH GALA european premiere

brilliantlove Ashley Horner/UK/2010/100 min Cast: Liam Browne, Nancy Trotter Landry, Michael Hodgson, Arabella Arnott, Stephen Bent Mon 21 June 21:45 Cineworld TUE 22 June 18:45 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) Fresh from its world premiere at Tribeca: raw, sexy, poetic moviemaking from the UK underground...

He's a photographer; she's a taxidermist.

He's called Manchester; she's called Noon.

Together, over one sweaty summer, they create an idyll of uninhibited lovemaking and unfettered creative expression. Then Manchester gets discovered – and suddenly the art world wants to get every bit as intimate with him as Noon has been.

Commerce, pretension, publicity – can either their love or his creativity survive?

Like this? Try these... Chase the Slut; Foxes; A Spanking in Paradise The UK Film Council is the Government-backed lead agency for film in the UK and our aim is to ensure that audiences at home and abroad can enjoy great British films. We do this by supporting the UK film industry, celebrating our film culture, and nurturing our film talent. We invest grant-in-aid and Lottery money in developing new filmmakers, in funding exciting new British films and in getting a wider choice of films to audiences throughout the UK including supporting film festivals. We also invest in training, promoting Britain as an international filmmaking location and in raising the profile of British films abroad. www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk

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Cherry Tree Lane

UNDER THE RADAR WORLD premiere

Chase The Slut Ryan Denmark/USA/2010/91 min Cast: Vanessa Claire Smith, Michael Kirby, Danika Sudik, Lance Arthur Smith Sat 19 June 22:45 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) So, can a jaded good-time girl find true love with one of the Disciples of Noah?

The director of last year’s Under the Radar triumph Romeo and Juliet vs The Living Dead returns with another surreal, sincere and sexy take on star-crossed romance.

Running short on both cash and excitement, self-styled adventuress Chase accepts a bet from her best friend to seduce the least likely target in town: Gabe, an upstanding, virginal devotee of the local religious cult, which worships household pets. Fur will fly…

Like this? Try these... Vacation!; The Crab; World’s Greatest Dad; A Spanking in Paradise

BRITISH GALA WORLD premiere

UNDER THE RADAR EUROPEAN premiere

UNDER THE RADAR WORLD premiere

Cherry Tree Lane

Cigarette Girl

The Crab

Paul Andrew Williams/UK/2010/78 min Cast: Rachael Blake,Tom Butcher, Jumayn Hunter, Ashley Chin, Sonny Muslim

John Michael McCarthy/USA/2009/91 min Cast: Cori Dials, D’Army Bailey, Helen Bowman, James Buchanan, Emmy Collins, Lary Love Dolley

Rona Mark/USA/2010/109 min Cast: Guy Whitney, George Stevenson, Frederick Strype, Robin Starbuck, Michael Marion, Aden Hakimi

TUE 22 June 21:15 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

Mon 21 June 22:15 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

Welcome to the Smoking Section.

If he could, he’d give you the finger…

Some years into the future, smokers are confined to the outskirts of cities, and the underworld profits handsomely from the illicit trade in cigarettes. After years of selling on the streets, Cigarette Girl is ready to quit both her own habit and her place in the supply chain. But getting out proves far from easy… With a dark, dashing retro comic-book aesthetic, and an eye-wateringly sexy lead performance from bombshell Cori Dials, this is cult heaven.

The director of Strange Girls (EIFF 2008) delivers a savage, insightful and thoroughly original modern anti-romance, centred on a dazzling lead performance. Levi (Guy Whitney) is a washed-up academic who uses his genetic disorder – ectrodactyly, or lobster claw syndrome – as an excuse for across-the-board bitterness and rage.

Hope surfaces when he meets sophisticated professor Jane; but Levi’s love, like his rage, can err on the side of intensity…

Like this? Try these... Vacation!; The Black Panther; The Final Programme; The Runaways; Blank City; Chase the Slut

Like this? Try these... Vacation!; Mr Nice; Gravity; Chase the Slut

Mon 21 June 19:45 Cameo 1 Fri 25 June 20:35 Cameo 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) A blood-chilling urban thriller from the celebrated director of London to Brighton (EIFF 2006).

Prosperous professional couple Mike and Christine are settling in for a standard evening of wine, TV and low-level marital hostility when a ring on their doorbell changes everything. Turns out their son Sebastian is in a little trouble with some local boys, who are quite prepared to camp out and wait for him to get home... The resulting culture-clash chamber drama is raw, revealing and nerve-splittingly tense.

Like this? Try these... Lola; R; Putty Hill; Street Days; SoulBoy

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ROSEBUD UK premiere

Directors' showcase UK premiere

ROSEBUD WORLD premiere

Crab Trap

The Days of Desire (A Vágyakozás Napjai)

Donkeys

Oscar Ruíz Navia/Colombia, France/ 2009/95 min Cast: Rodrigo Vélez, Arnobio Salazar Rivas, Jaime Andres Castaño, Yisela Álvarez

József Pacskovszki/Hungary/2009/104 min Cast: Catherine Wilkening, Orsolya Schefcsik, Zsoit László, Ákos Orosz

Morag McKinnon/UK/2010/78 min Cast: James Cosmo, Brian Pettifer, Martin Compston, Kate Dickie

THU 17 June 20:30 Filmhouse 3 Fri 18 June 15:45 Filmhouse 3 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

Sun 20 June 18:15 Filmhouse 1 THU 24 June 13:15 Filmhouse 2 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

Actions speak louder, in this beautiful study of intimacy and betrayal.

The best of Scottish acting talent, in a witty, warm and moving family drama.

Anna, a mute teenager, takes a job as housekeeper to a wealthy but unhappy couple, who quickly install her as the heart of their fractured household. All three glimpse the possibility of redemption – but when Anna falls in love, the idyll is threatened, and tensions invade. Ravishingly shot in black-and-white, this is a compelling, mysterious character study, in the rich tradition of Béla Tarr.

The second feature to emerge from the Scottish-Danish Advance Party project – after Andrea Arnold’s worldwide sensation Red Road – is a tangled tale of friendship, forgiveness and deep-seated family secrets, enlivened by a strain of dark and thoroughly eccentric humour. After a somewhat misspent life, Alfred (James Cosmo) wants to make amends – but can his guarded daughter Jackie (Kate Dickie) bring herself to forget the past?

Sat 19 June 20:00 Filmhouse 3 Wed 23 June 15:30 Filmhouse 3 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) World cinema at its delicate finest: an absorbing, award-winning journey into a troubled paradise.

South American cinema’s current resurgence isn’t limited to Argentina and Brazil – young Colombian writer-director Ruíz Navia has made a major splash with this accomplished debut. Set in a remote village wedged precariously between jungle and ocean, it follows an itinerant incomer as he observes and explores his alluring but disturbing environment.

Like this? Try these... Hotel Atlantico; The Days of Desire; Soul Boy; Alamar

Like this? Try these... Police, Adjective; Nothing Personal; Fog; Les Signes Vitaux; The Hunter; A Real Life; Foxes

Like this? Try these... Outcast; A Spanking in Paradise; The Good Heart; Get Low

CrimeFighters

UNDER THE RADAR WORLD premiere

CrimeFighters Miles Watts/UK/2010/80 min Cast: Emma Keaveney, Paul Trimmer, Debbie Hard, Harry Humberstone, Curt Milner, Georgina Hope Fri 25 June 21:45 Filmhouse 3 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) Gangs of ... York?

The people are afraid: there’s a crime wave sweeping the city streets and danger is everywhere. Meanwhile, three bored friends need something to do that doesn’t involve the pub. Can they save the good people of York and make the streets safe to walk in again? Director Miles Watts, already building a cult audience for his ongoing zombie web series Zomblogalypse, takes his crime-fighting comic book capers to the streets with this delightful black-and-white vigilante comedy.

Like this? Try these... Boy; Gravity; Honeymooner; A Spanking in Paradise; Superhero Me

Premier Property Group (PPG) is delighted to continue its support of EIFF for a tenth consecutive year.

PPG is honoured to count EIFF as a partner and to participate in an association that has helped broaden horizons, strengthened relationships, and given much joy, entertainment and enlightenment.

Based in Edinburgh, PPG is part of the Murray International Holdings group.

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GALA INTERNATIONAL premiere

NIGHT MOVES UK premiere

GALA INTERNATIONAL premiere

The Dry Land

Evil in the Time of Heroes

The Extra Man

Ryan Piers Williams/USA/2009/92 min Cast: Ryan O’Nan, America Ferrera, Wilmer Valderrama, Jason Ritter, Melissa Leo

Yorgos Noussias/Greece/2009/88 min Cast: Andreas Kontopoulos, Argyris Thanassoulas, Meletis Georgiadis, Ioanna Pappa, Pepi Moschovakou, Apostlis Totsikas

Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini/ USA/2009/107 min Cast: Kevin Kline, Paul Dano, Katie Holmes, John C Reilly

Fri 18 June 22:45 Cameo 1 THU 24 June 23:00 Cameo 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

THU 24 June 21:30 Cineworld Fri 25 June 18:00 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

Sat 19 June 20:50 Cineworld Mon 21 June 19:00 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) An impressive and courageous study of the after effects of war.

James returns home to a small Texas town after a tour of duty in Iraq. Despite support from adoring wife Sarah, he finds himself struggling to integrate with normal life. Part family drama, part road movie, the film is distinguished by its compelling performances. Talented newcomer Ryan O’Nan impresses in the lead, as does America Ferrera in a role that is the polar opposite of the part she plays in hit US comedy Ugly Betty.

An ancient evil re-emerges after centuries and bloodthirsty zombies run amok in Athens.

A sparkling, eccentric buddy movie, from the directors of American Splendor (EIFF 2003).

As a disparate group of people fight for survival in a city of the living dead, seemingly impossible odds mount up against them. Featuring a memorable cameo from Billy Zane as a time-travelling, zombiehunting monk, this grisly sequel to the first ever Greek zombie movie – cult hit Evil, by the same team – is polished, manic, off-thewall horror, with tongue lodged firmly in decomposing cheek.

New to New York City, shy writer Louis (Paul Dano) accepts the peculiar tutelage of society hanger-on Henry Harrison (Kevin Kline) – whose profession constitutes the provision of companionship to decaying aristocratic ladies. Adapted from a novel by the brilliant Jonathan Ames, and bearing pleasing echoes of Harold and Maude and Rushmore, this is a stylish, strange and dazzlingly funny comedy of manners.

Like this? Try these... The Oath; Winter’s Bone; Putty Hill; Restrepo

Like this? Try these... Outcast; The Black Panther; Two Eyes Staring

Like this? Try these... Bored To Death; The Man Next Door; Whisky With Vodka

The Edge of Dreaming Amy Hardie/UK/2010/73 min THU 17 June 19:15 Filmhouse 2 Sat 19 June 16:15 Filmhouse 3 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) “A film that sticks with you ... so intriguing that one wants to know more.” – Karin Badt, The Huffington Post Amy Hardie dreamed of a death, and it happened. When another dream then prophesied her own imminent demise, she was understandably concerned: did her subconscious know something she didn’t? A poetic, personal project, some nine years in the gestation, this film explores humanity’s relationship with dreams, death and destiny, via Hardie’s own scientific and emotional quest for answers.

Like this? Try these... Fog; Girl with Black Balloons; Road to Las Vegas; Third Star; Nénette

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The Extra Man

DOCUMENT UK premiere

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Freetime Machos

Directors' showcase UK premiere

Family Tree (L’arbre et la forêt) Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau/ France/2010/95 min Cast: Guy Marchand, Françoise Fabian, Sabrina Seyvecou, Yannick Renier THU 17 June 18:00 Cameo 1 Sat 19 June 15:30 Cameo 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) Secrets are stirred by a family funeral in this classy, absorbing drama.

When wealthy patriarch Frederick refuses to attend the funeral of his firstborn son, other family members can’t stomach his decision.

What could possibly drive a loving father to absent himself from such an occasion? As his gesture sends shockwaves through the extended family, the most buried elements of Frederick’s past stand to be revealed.

Terrific performances and glossy production design flesh out a finely-wrought story.

Like this? Try these... Kawasaki’s Rose; Undertow; The Days of Desire

ROSEBUD UK premiere

ROSEBUD UK premiere

DOCUMENT UK premiere

Fog (Wu)

Foxes (Listicky)

Freetime Machos

Kit Hui/Hong Kong, USA/2009/89 min Cast: Terence Yin, Eugenia Yuan, Camy Ting, Joman Chiang, Phat Chan, Ho Wah Chiu

Mira Fornay/Ireland, Czech Republic, Slovakia/2009/83 min Cast: Réka Derzsi, Rita Banczi, Aaron Monaghan, Jitka Josková, Jonathan Byrne

Mika Ronkainen/Finland, Germany/2009/86 min

Fri 25 June 22:15 Filmhouse 2 Sat 26 June 20:30 Filmhouse 2 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

A rare comic insight into the not-so-macho world of Finnish rugby.

THU 17 June 20:00 Cineworld Sun 20 June 15:15 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) Memory is an unreliable guide, in this subtle, dazzlingly shot debut.

To rebel or not to rebel. And against what?

What happens to identity, when personal history falls away? Kit Hui’s elegant film follows a young man beset by amnesia as he pieces together his past, present and future – while around him, Hong Kong celebrates the tenth anniversary of its reunification with China. Broodingly atmospheric, and acute in its treatment of family, nationhood and late-twenties hedonism, this is a complete work by a filmmaker of immense promise.

Bekta is an economic migrant, working as a nanny in Dublin, but she’d rather get drunk or shoplift than toil for low pay. Her older sister is different, and has settled quietly in Ireland. Should Bekta follow her sister’s example, or forge her own rebellious path?

Fornay’s debut is simply electric, revealing how open borders are shrinking the world, while strangling a sense of freedom.

Like this? Try these... Mundane History; Les Signes Vitaux; Third Star; The Hunter

Like this? Try these... brilliantlove; The Days of Desire; Street Days; A Spanking in Paradise

Screening with: Ciao Mama (Goran Odvorčić/Croatia/2009/11 mins)

Fri 18 June 21:15 Cineworld Mon 21 June 17:00 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

Mika Ronkainen (Screaming Men EIFF 2003) returns to Edinburgh with this affectionately humorous study of male friendship via the world’s most northerly rugby team. Oulu rugby is in big trouble, with continually poor performances leaving the team demoralised.

Parental duties and work problems encroach on their training regime, and even coach Roger is beginning to lose faith. Can they secure one single win to avoid relegation, or will this be the end of their sporting lives?

Like this? Try these... Out of the Ashes; A Small Act; Frontier Blues; Barry Munday; Third Star

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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2010

Girl with Black Balloons

ROSEBUD UK premiere

Frontier Blues Babak Jalali/Iran, UK, Italy/2009/95 min Cast: Abolfazl Karimi, Mahmoud Kalteh, Khajeh Araz Dordi, Behzad Shahrivari Mon 21 June 19:15 Cineworld TUE 22 June 13:55 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) A melancholy, beautifully photographed comedy of lives lived on the borders.

Developed during his Cannes Film Festival Cinefondation residency, Babak Jalali’s droll and empathetic first feature follows a quartet of characters who live in the frontier territories of his own homeland, northern Iran. With its absurdist humour, its resonant images of urban and desert existence and its gentle insight into its characters’ idiosyncrasies, Frontier Blues marks a confident launch for an auspicious feature film career.

Like this? Try these... Act Of Dishonour; Son of Babylon; Northless; The Dry Land

DOCUMENT UK premiere

GALA UK premiere

DOCUMENT WORLD premiere

Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould

Get Low

Girl with Black Balloons

Michèle Hozer, Peter Raymont/ Canada/2009/106 min

Aaron Schneider/USA/2009/101 min Cast: Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek, Lucas Black, Gerald McRaney, Bill Cobbs

Corinne van der Borch/USA/2010/61 min

Fri 25 June 18:30 Cineworld Sat 26 June 17:30 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

The Chelsea Hotel is a New York City icon – ever wondered who lives in it?

Mon 21 June 19:00 Filmhouse 2 TUE 22 June 17:45 Filmhouse 3 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) An exquisitely wrought portrait of a formidable musical talent.

Those familiar with the work of the incomparable pianist Glenn Gould know the factors that contribute to his myth – extraordinary childhood proficiency; obsessive dedication to his uniquely precise playing style; a fraught personal life; rakish, rock ‘n’ roll looks – and will revel in this beautiful, detailed evocation of his life. For those to whom he’s a new name or a marginal figure, this is a thoroughly pleasurable primer, and a work of art in its own right.

A beautiful spin on a 1930s American folktale.

Like this? Try these... Girl with Black Balloons; And Everything Is Going Fine

Like this? Try these... The Extra Man; The Good Heart; Donkeys

The whole town is surprised when backwoods recluse Felix (Robert Duvall) makes a rare trip into town to arrange his own funeral. Not only are they all invited, but the event is to take place before he has actually passed away. His only friend Maddie (Sissy Spacek) is shocked to hear his plans, whilst opportunistic funeral director Frank (Bill Murray, in a hilarious comic turn) is quick to grasp the financial implications.

THU 17 June 17:30 Filmhouse 2 Sat 19 June 18:15 Filmhouse 3 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

Girl with Black Balloons is no ordinary character study, but a multi-faceted portrait of Bettina Bashyi – a reclusive, artist living within the confines of Manhattan’s legendary lodgings. Reflexive and tender, the film develops a dialogue between filmmaker and subject born out of mutual respect, blurring the roles of confidante and muse. The result provides a fascinating insight into a unique life and graceful meditation on the powers of memory, creativity, order and discord.

Like this? Try these... Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould; The Edge of Dreaming; Blank City; Nénette; The Mouth of the Wolf

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GALA UK premiere

GALA UK premiere

Directors' showcase UK premiere

The Good Heart

Heartbreaker (L’arnacoeur)

Henry of Navarre (Henri 4)

Dagur Kari/Iceland, Denmark, France/ 2009/95 min Cast: Brian Cox, Paul Dano, Isild Le Besco

Pascal Chaumeil/France, Monaco/2010/105 min Cast: Romain Duris, Vanessa Paradis, Julie Ferrier, Francois Damiens, Helena Noguerra, Andrew Lincoln

Jo Baier/Germany, France, Spain/2010/153 min Cast: Julien Boisselier, Armelle Deutsch, Hannelore Hoger, Joachim Król

Wed 23 June 18:00 Cineworld THU 24 June 20:30 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) Paul Dano and Brian Cox in the story of an improbable friendship.

First paired in the memorable L.I.E. (EIFF 2001), Dano and Cox return here as a naïve, giving homeless man, and a world-weary and foulmouthed bartender. A friendship develops when they share the same hospital ward, but can their bond survive the intrusion of an alluring third party? From the gifted Icelandic director of Noi Albinoi (EIFF 2003), this is a brilliantly-performed gem of a film.

Like this? Try these... Get Low; The Extra Man; My Words, My Lies - My Love; Whisky With Vodka; Donkeys

Fri 25 June 20:35 Cineworld Sat 26 June 16:45 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) A stylish, playful French comedy.

Paid by disgruntled parents to wreck their daughters’ relationships, Alex (Romain Duris) breaks hearts for a living. His sister and her tech-savvy husband assist him in ensuring that no couple is safe around him. When their work takes them to Monte Carlo, where the beautiful Juliette (Vanessa Paradis) is preparing to marry the handsome Jonathan (Andrew Lincoln), even Alex’s special rendition of Dirty Dancing might not be enough to earn them their salary.

Like this? Try these... Thelma, Louise and Chantal; The Rebound; Family Tree

TUE 22 June 18:00 Filmhouse 1 Wed 23 June 20:30 Filmhouse 2 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) A captivating, delectable romp through 16th Century France.

Based on the novels Young Henry of Navarre and Henry King of France by the German writer Heinrich Mann, this lush, historical epic charts the ascendency to the throne of Henry IV. Religious wars rage throughout the country and the de Medici clan clings desperately to the throne. Will the indomitable Catherine de Medici prove too strong a foe, or can Henry, King of Navarre, bring lasting peace to France?

Like this? Try these... Caterpillar; The Man Who Would Be King; 22 Bullets; Family Tree; The Secret in Their Eyes

Heartbreaker

ROSEBUD UK premiere

Gravity (Schwerkraft) Maximilian Erlenwein/Germany/2009/96 min Cast: Fabian Hinrichs, Jürgen Vogel, Nora von Waldstätten THU 24 June 17:45 Cineworld Fri 25 June 15:45 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) Startlingly bold psychological drama – with an ultraviolent twist.

A nice-guy bank-employee belatedly awakens his inner badass in this genuinely disturbing – and at times blackly comic – journey into the dark side. Audaciously blending moods and tones, the picture nabbed five awards at the latest Max Ophuls Film Festival – the major annual showcase of German talent – where director Maximilian Erlenwein was celebrated as an inheritor of the Coen Brothers. A dark, witty romp, not to be missed.

Like this? Try these... The Man Next Door; Snowman’s Land; The Robber; 22 Bullets

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ROSEBUD INTERNATIONAL premiere

Directors' showcase UK premiere

BRITISH GALA WORLD premiere

HIGH School

Hotel Atlantico

Huge

John Stalberg /USA/2009/93 min Cast: Adrien Brody, Colin Hanks, Sean Marquette, Matt Bush, Michael Chiklis

Suzana Amaral/Brazil/2009/107 min Cast: Julio Andrade, Mariana Ximenes, João Miguel, Gero Camilo, Helena Ignez, Luiz Guilherme, Andre Frateschi, Lorena Lobato

Ben Miller/UK/2010/80 min Cast: Noel Clarke, Johnny Harris, Oliver Chris, Michelle Ryan, Tamsin Egerton, Thandie Newton

Mon 21 June 21:30 Filmhouse 2 TUE 22 June 20:15 Filmhouse 3 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

Fri 18 June 18:00 Cineworld Sun 20 June 15:45 Cameo 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

A daringly unconventional road movie, in which nothing is quite what it seems.

A stand-up double act scrabbles towards the big time, in the winning directorial debut of beloved comedian Ben Miller.

TUE 22 June 21:30 Cineworld Wed 23 June 18:15 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) Henry chose the wrong day to take up smoking weed.

Roll up for an anarchic, hilarious comedy with echoes of John Hughes and Judd Apatow. Just as he’s about to be named valedictorian of his school, high-flier Henry reconnects with his dropout pal Travis, and has his first experience of stonerdom ... which is exactly when the school principal decides to drug test the entire student body.

With Henry’s academic destiny hanging in the balance, there’s only one way to level the playing field. Everybody must get stoned…

Like this? Try these... Mr Nice; Au Revoir Taipei; Chase the Slut; World’s Greatest Dad

Based on a novel by João Gilberto Noll, this compelling and utterly original adventure follows a handsome drifter as he departs his everyday life as a TV soap actor and embarks upon an impulsive journey that takes him through extremes of experience both comic and macabre. As lush and as inexplicable as a David Lynch dreamscape, this marks a striking third outing for its director Suzanne Amaral.

Like this? Try these... My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?; The Black Panther

Starring Noel Clarke (Kidulthood) and Johnny Harris (London to Brighton), this lovable belly laugh of a buddy movie blows the lid off the sleazy stand-up comedy circuit … not to mention the mysterious realm of male friendship. Look out for basically every famous comedian in the country – they all have cameo appearances.

Like this? Try these... And Everything Is Going Fine; Gravity; World’s Greatest Dad; Honeymooner; SoulBoy; The Jokers

Honeymooner Col Spector/UK/2010/75 min Cast: Gerard Kearns, Daisy Haggard, Chris Coghill, Al Weaver, Wunmi Mosaku Fri 25 June 20:15 Cineworld Sat 26 June 16:15 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) Things fall apart – what happens next?

Our eponymous honeymooner is the dumbfounded Fran, piecing together his now very ordinary existence after the unexpected departure of his fiancée. Col Spector deftly pokes fun at the modern metropolitan menagerie of relationships, where the support network of friends and neighbours is seen as an almost unattainable ideal. Aided by the understated performance of lead actor Gerard Kearns (C4’s Shameless), alongside a uniformly smart supporting cast, Honeymooner is a gentle and articulate gem.

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ROSEBUD WORLD premiere

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If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle

Directors' showcase UK premiere

The Hunter (Shekarchi) Rafi Pitts/Iran, Germany/2010/92 min Cast: Rafi Pitts, Mitra Hajjar Sara, Ali Nicksaulat, Hassan Ghalenoi Fri 18 June 20:15 Cameo 1 Sun 20 June 20:00 Cameo 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) A vengeful man stares through the crosshairs at life and death.

Ex-con Ali (Rafi Pitts) works as a nightwatchman to support his wife and young daughter. Returning home to find them both missing, his life is shattered, and the relentless pursuit of retribution becomes his final obsession. As director and actor, Pitts’ work is outstanding. Revolving around his own magnetic central performance, The Hunter is a powerful thriller that lingers in the mind long after the last gunshot rings out.

Like this? Try these... Police, Adjective; Lola; Frontier Blues; Fog; Son of Babylon; Caterpillar

ROSEBUD UK premiere

BRITISH GALA WORLD premiere

Directors' showcase UK premiere

If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle

Jackboots On Whitehall

Kawasaki’s Rose (Kawaskiho Ruze)

Florin Şerban/Romania/2010/94 min Cast: George Pistereanu, Ada Condeescu, Clara Voda, Mihai Constantin

Edward McHenry, Rory McHenry/ UK/2010/97 min Cast: Ewan McGregor, Rosamund Pike, Richard E Grant, Timothy Spall, Tom Wilkinson, Alan Cumming

Jan Hrebejk/Czech Republic/2009/100 min Cast: Lenka Vlasakova, Daniela Kolarova, Martin Huba, Milan Mikulcik

THU 24 June 18:25 Cameo 1 Sat 26 June 20:30 Cameo 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

Sun 20 June 15:30 Cineworld Fri 25 June 17:45 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

Deeply compelling drama enhanced by outstanding performances.

Fri 25 June 20:10 Filmhouse 1 Sat 26 June 18:00 Filmhouse 2 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) “An emotionally meaty family drama … performances are topnotch.” – Derek Elley, Variety

Enigmatic young inmate Silviu is quietly serving the final week of his sentence in a juvenile detention centre in Romania.

His thin veneer of control slowly begins to crack when his mother threatens to take his beloved younger brother away. Angry and dangerously vulnerable, Silviu is willing to risk everything for a single chance to be heard. Winning the Silver Bear at this year’s Berlinale, ...Whistle is proof that Romanian cinema goes from strength to strength.

Winston Churchill hides out in lawless Scotland, as an all-star cast voices an alternative animated history of WWII. It’s hard to imagine either a more respectable cast – please line up, you screen superstars, stage stalwarts, English roses and cherished cult icons! – or a less respectful treatment of Britain’s war effort. Beautifully stop-motion animated, hilariously voiced and quite unburdened by truth or accuracy, this is our very own Team America.

This beautifully crafted film highlights one of the great mysteries of current European cinema: why has its Czech director Jan Hrebejk not yet been enshrined within the top tier of contemporary filmmakers? His skill is showcased to breathtaking effect in this gripping study of family secrets, betrayal and reconciliation in the post-Communist era.

Brilliantly paced and performed, it is one of 2010’s must-sees.

Like this? Try these... Police, Adjective; Lola; R; C’est Déjà L’été; Silent Voices

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The Kid

ROSEBUD UK premiere

Kick Off Shawkat Amin Korki/Iraq, Kurdistan/2009/81 min Cast: Shwan Atuf, Govar Anwar, Rojan Hamajaza, Mohamadd Hamed, Nasir Hassan, Soheila Hasan Sat 19 June 13:15 Cineworld Sun 20 June 13:30 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) Multi-award-winning Iraqi football drama.

Kick Off transports you wholesale into an unfamiliar world – a community of refugees living in a stadium in Kirkuk, Iraq – with the help of a vivid, universal script; the utterly familiar world of small-town football; and the brilliant direction of a cast of unknowns.

Kick Off took the top prize at Dubai’s Gulf Film Festival, with Korki hailed as leading a renaissance in Iraqi cinema.

Like this? Try these... Lola; Frontier Blues; Son of Babylon; Out of the Ashes; Act of Dishonour; Soul Boy

BRITISH GALA WORLD premiere

NIGHT MOVES WORLD premiere

Directors' showcase UK premiere

The Kid

The Last Rites of Ransom Pride

Lola

Nick Moran/UK/2010/100 min Cast: Rupert Friend, Augustus Prew, William Finn Miller, Natasha McElhone, Con O’Neill, Ioan Gruffudd

Tiller Russell/USA/2010/84 min Cast: Dwight Yoakam, Lizzy Caplan, Jon Foster, Cote de Pablo, Jason Priestley, W Earl Brown, Peter Dinklage

Brillante Mendoza/Philippines, France/2009/110 min Cast: Anita Linda, Rustica Carpio, Tanya Gomez, Jhong Hilario, Ketchup Eusebio

Wed 23 June 20:35 Cineworld THU 24 June 18:00 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

THU 17 June 22:35 Filmhouse 1 Fri 18 June 22:30 Filmhouse 2 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

Wed 23 June 17:50 Cineworld Fri 25 June 20:45 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

The gritty, rags-to-riches life story of a successful British writer.

Ransom Pride is dead; the adventure begins.

EIFF proudly presents the latest masterpiece by the director of Kinatay.

After the critical success of his 2008 directorial debut Telstar, Nick Moran continues on a biographical theme with this inspirational biopic. With an all-star cast led by Rupert Friend – and based on the bestselling autobiography by crime writer Kevin Lewis – The Kid is a moving depiction of a young man’s escape from his brutal upbringing, to his emergence as a bestselling author of crime fiction.

1910: a young woman (Lizzy Caplan) tries to take the body of her murdered lover – outlaw Ransom Pride (Scott Speedman) – back home to Texas for burial ... with all guns blazing. Stylishly tipping its Stetson to the likes of Peckinpah, Leone and Tarantino, and featuring memorable cameos from Dwight Yoakam, Kris Kristofferson, Jason Priestly, and a shotgun-toting Peter Dinklage, this dark, violent western is a sure-fire cult classic in the making.

Like this? Try these... The Dry Land; C’est Déjà L’été; If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle

Like this? Try these... R; Red Hill; Cigarette Girl; Lucky Luke

Grandmother Sepa is striving to pay for her son’s funeral when his killer is caught and placed on trial. Matters take a more complex turn when the killer’s elderly mother asks for Sepa’s forgiveness and her son’s release – for which she is willing to pay. Is clemency an option? An astonishing piece of pure cinema, the man responsible for Service demonstrates yet again why he sits comfortably among the greatest of living directors.

Like this? Try these... Street Days; C'est Deja L'ete; If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle

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DOCUMENT INTERNATIONAL premiere

ANIMATION

Directors' showcase EUROPEAN premiere

Lucky

Mai Mai Miracle

The Man Next Door (El Hombre de al Lado)

Jeffrey Blitz/USA/2009/96 min

Sunao Katabuchi/Japan/2009/95 min Voice Cast: Mayuko Fukuda, Nako Mizusawa, Ei Morisako, Manami Honjo

Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat/ Argentina/2009/103 min Cast: Rafael Spregelburd, Daniel Aráoz

Sun 20 June 13:30 Cameo 1 Fri 25 June 15:00 Cameo 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

Sat 19 June 15:30 Cineworld THU 24 June 15:10 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

A beautifully rendered, fantastical animated epic from Japan.

A comical battle of wits set against a stunning architectural backdrop.

The work of a former assistant director to the great Hayao Miyazaki, this lovely tale of friendship and imagination will entrance children and adults alike. Inspired by her grandfather’s stories, young Shinko embarks on wild flights of fancy about the history of the little town she lives in. But dreams can’t fend off the realities of growing up...

When two neighbours clash, their argument becomes less about proposed building alterations and more about the wider battle between class and social status. The hugely impressive building in question is the only example of a Le Corbusier residential home in all of Latin America, adding to the poignancy of their argument, and providing an appropriate trigger for their anger.

Impressive performances and stunning cinematography lift this well beyond the typical comedy of manners.

Sat 19 June 20:45 Cineworld Sun 20 June 20:45 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) The master of the ensemble documentary returns with an examination of that elusive dream: winning the lottery.

Qang is a Vietnamese refugee, whose American dream materialises in the form of $22 million while working the floors of a meatpacking factory; James is a sheltered outcast living with his team of cats in a litterstrewn bungalow, before chance pays him a multi-million dollar hand. In telling their stories, Jeffrey Blitz brings a smart humanism and empathy that similarly characterised his hit Spellbound.

Like this? Try these... The People vs George Lucas; Out of the Ashes; Superhero Me

Lucky Luke James Huth/France/2009/103 min Cast: Jean Dujardin, Michaël Youn, Daniel Prévost, Sylvie Testud, Alexandra Lamy, Melvil Poupaud Fri 25 June 18:00 Cameo 1 Sat 26 June 15:15 Cameo 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) The coolest gun in the west rides again, on his talking horse...

Based on the famous French/Belgian comic strips by Morris and Goscinny, Lucky Luke – the legendary lonesome cowboy who can draw faster than his own shadow – returns.

Perfectly cast in the title role, Jean Dujardin puts on another effortless display of immaculate comic timing, as James Huth’s colourful western extravaganza explodes onto the big screen in lavish, iconic style.

Like this? Try these... Jackboots On Whitehall; The Last Rites of Ransom Pride; Superhero Me

Like this? Try these... The Illusionist; McLaren Animation 1/2; International Animation 1/2

Like this? Try these... Gravity; Putty Hill

Lucky Luke

Directors' showcase UK premiere

Note: this film is suitable for children, but does have some scary scenes. It is certificated 12A.

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BLACK BOX UK premiere

DOCUMENT UK premiere

BRITISH GALA EUROPEAN premiere

Mark

The Mouth of the Wolf (La Bocca del Lupo)

Mr Nice

Mike Hoolboom/Canada/2009/70 min

Pietro Marcello/Italy/2009/76 min

THU 24 June 18:15 Filmhouse 3 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

THU 24 June 17:45 Filmhouse 1 Fri 25 June 19:45 Filmhouse 3 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

Bernard Rose/UK/2010/120 min Cast: Rhys Ifans, Chloë Sevigny, David Thewlis, Luis Tosár, Elsa Pataky, Omid Djalili

Touching portrait of a lost friend through footage gleaned from diverse sources.

This moving film tells the story of Hoolboom’s close friend and collaborator Mark Karbusicky, who unexpectedly committed suicide in 2007. Interviews with Mark’s friends and family, as well as his lover, are interwoven with home movies, offering a glimpse into the life of this generous, loving and enigmatic figure. A powerful testimony to the enduring impact of our actions on the lives of others.

Like this? Try these... Black Box 1/2/3; Perestroika; The Mouth of the Wolf; And Everything Is Going Fine

Magical documentary on Genoa’s waterfront; a masterpiece in miniature.

Doing for his scruffy home-town what Terence Davies did so brilliantly for Liverpool in Of Time and the City, director Marcello blends footage new and old – some of it very old – into a dazzling, award-winning kaleidoscope of Genovese history. At its heart: one of the most unorthodox and moving love stories in recent cinema, involving a macho ex-con and a former drugaddict. Prepare to be dazzled.

Like this? Try these... Girl with Black Balloons; The Edge of Dreaming; Alamar; Mark; Perestroika

TUE 22 June 19:00 Cineworld THU 24 June 20:45 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) Rhys Ifans gives the performance of a lifetime in this wild biopic of the infamous Howard Marks.

An Oxford physics graduate from the Welsh Valleys who became a drug-runner, dope aficionado, celebrated author and sometime spy, Marks here becomes the engaging antihero of a rollicking cinematic ride, based on his own hit autobiography. Bernard Rose (Candyman; Ivansxtc; The Kreutzer Sonata) directs a superb cast, with Ifans backed by Chloë Sevigny, David Thewlis, Omid Djalili and Jack Huston.

Like this? Try these... Huge; HIGH School; SoulBoy; The Robber; Snowman's Land

Mr Nice

NIGHT MOVES uk premiere

Monsters Gareth Edwards/UK/2010/90 min Cast: Whitney Able, Scoot McNairy Fri 18 June 22:15 Filmhouse 1 Sat 19 June 18:00 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) A hip, compelling road movie/romance ... with massive octopi from space.

Multi-talented Gareth Edwards wrote, shot, directed and created the visual effects for this beautifully made amalgam of monster movie and wrong-side-of-the-tracks love story – think District 9 meets It Happened One Night. Contact with alien life has gone horribly wrong, and large parts of South America are dangerously infested. It falls to rough-edged young photojournalist Andrew to track down and save the rich-kid daughter of his boss, and get her out alive...

Like this? Try these... Outcast; A Real Life; Evil in the Time of Heroes; Obselidia

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My Words, My Lies - My Love (LILA LILA)

ROSEBUD UK premiere

Mundane History (Jao Nok Krajok) Anocha Suwichakornpong/ Thailand/2009/82 min Cast: Phakpoom Surapongsanurak, Arkaney Cherkham Fri 18 June 20:45 Filmhouse 3 Sun 20 June 14:00 Filmhouse 3 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) From a nurse’s care to watching stars implode, healing takes on many forms.

Thai cinema continues to come of age with this starling debut. Pun is a home nurse, tending to the recently paralysed and angry Ake, who has a fractious relationship with his father. As tensions boil, a mundane day trip reveals how the fragile the universe is, and a life-affirming change takes place.

Featuring an astounding planetarium scene, this deeply felt cry for change is simply spellbinding.

Like this? Try these... Fog; Caterpillar; Lola; Days of Desire

GALA UK premiere

Directors' showcase UK premiere

DOCUMENT UK premiere

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?

My Words, My Lies - My Love (Lila Lila)

Nénette

Werner Herzog/USA, Germany/2009/90 min Cast: Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny, Udo Kier, Grace Zabriskie

Alain Gsponer/Germany/2009/107 min Cast: Daniel Brühl, Hannah Herzsprung, Henry Hübchen, Kirsten Block, Alexander Khuon, Godehard Giese, Stefan Ruppe

Nicolas Philibert/France/2009/68 min

Wed 23 June 21:50 Filmhouse 1 Fri 25 June 17:55 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) Werner Herzog directs, David Lynch produces. Who better to co-pilot a journey into the unknown?

Brad (Michael Shannon) has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place… Based on a true story, this gripping and unnerving blend of deadpan comedy, melodrama and raw tragedy is fleshed out by an expert cast, including Willem Dafoe and Chloë Sevigny.

Like this? Try these... Hotel Atlantico; Ollie Kepler’s Expanding Purple World

Wed 23 June 20:00 Cineworld THU 24 June 15:15 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) Germany’s answer to Morvern Callar – rewritten as deft romantic comedy.

Eyecatching turns in high-profile hits like Inglourious Basterds and Good Bye Lenin! have confirmed Daniel Bruhl as Germany’s most popular young star. Now he steps centre-stage – alongside much-touted compatriot Hannah Herzsprung – for this irresistible rom-com about a hapless waiter who becomes an overnight literary sensation without writing a single word.

Like this? Try these... Gravity; Whisky With Vodka; Honeymooner

Sat 19 June 18:00 Cameo 1 Sun 20 June 18:00 Cameo 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) A genius documentarian gets close to a particularly enigmatic French celebrity.

Born in the jungles of Borneo forty years ago, Nénette the orangutan is now the most senior inhabitant of the world’s oldest zoo – and the star of this awe-inspiring, tender and funny film, from the director who charmed the world with 2002’s Etre et Avoir.

What we see is Nénette, going about her daily business; what we hear are the voices of the many visitors who pass comment on her every day, and reveal more about themselves than they think.

Like this? Try these... Girl With Black Balloons; Alamar; Obselidia; Black Box 1

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Obselidia

ROSEBUD UK premiere

Northless (Norteado) Rigoberto Perezcano/Mexico, Spain/2009/94 min Cast: Harold Torres, Sonia Couah, Alicia Lagunes Fri 25 June 18:15 Cineworld Sat 26 June 15:45 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) How far would you go to cross the line?

When Andres fails to make it across the Mexico-US border, he finds work in a Tijuana grocery store and awaits another opportunity to cross. Here he finds not only people who understand him, but also a clearer comprehension of his own motivations.

Meanwhile, with his wife and children waiting for him at home, Andres’ attempts to deceive the border guards become increasingly bizarre... This charming, cleverly composed drama boasts strong performances, and a wonderful sense of humour throughout.

Like this? Try these... Soul Boy; Postales

ROSEBUD UK premiere

DOCUMENT UK premiere

ROSEBUD INTERNATIONAL premiere

Nothing Personal

The Oath

Obselidia

Urszula Antoniak/Netherlands, Ireland/2009/85 min Cast: Stephen Rea, Lotte Verbeek

Laura Poitras/USA/2010/96 min

Diane Bell /USA/2009/96 min Cast: Michael Piccirilli, Gaynor Howe, Frank Hoyt Taylor, Chris Byrne, Kim Beuche

TUE 22 June 18:00 Cineworld Wed 23 June 17:35 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) Lost souls connect … reluctantly.

Through the rugged Irish countryside stomps a solitary young woman whose anger blazes as brightly as her Titian hair. When she accepts room, board and some casual labour from sullen, hermit-like local man Martin, little in the way of pleasantries passes between them; indeed, each agrees to reveal and ask "nothing personal"… With extraordinary performances from Lotte Verbeek and Stephen Rea, Urszula Antoniak’s debut feature is a slow-burning stunner.

Like this? Try these... Les Signes Vitaux; Undertow; The Days of Desire; A Real Life; Pelican Blood; Yo, tambien

Wed 23 June 20:50 Cineworld Sat 26 June 18:15 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) The man behind the gun, behind Osama Bin Laden.

After the massive critical success of My Country My Country (EIFF 2006), for which she received an OSCAR® nomination, Laura Poitras turns her veracious gaze towards al Qaeda, through the life of a former bodyguard for Osama Bin Laden. With his sheer honesty and astuteness of vision, Abu Jandal is a fascinating subject, providing Poitras with unprecedented insight into a complex political belief system very different from our own.

Like this? Try these... Restrepo; Son of Babylon

Mon 21 June 17:30 Filmhouse 1 Wed 23 June 21:00 Filmhouse 3 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) “Gorgeously made and utterly eccentric ... every frame has the appearance of having been hand-crafted in an art studio.” – Todd McCarthy, Variety Scottish director Diane Bell became the belle of Sundance 2010 with this idiosyncratic debut feature – one for lovers, beekeepers, and other defiant optimists everywhere. George has made a life’s work out of collecting and cataloguing obsolete objects and practices. Can a beautiful silent cinema projectionist convince him that humanity still has a future to forge?

Like this? Try these... Monsters; Nénette

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BRITISH GALA WORLD premiere

NIGHT MOVES UK premiere

ROSEBUD UK premiere

Ollie Kepler’s Expanding Purple World

Outcast

Peepli Live

Viv Fongenie/UK/2010/90 min Cast: Edward Hogg, Jodie Whittaker, Andrew Knott, Cathy Tyson

Colm McCarthy/UK, Ireland/2009/92 min Cast: Ian Whyte, Nial Bruton, Hanna Stanbridge, Kate Dickie, James Nesbitt

Fri 18 June 18:30 Cineworld Sun 20 June 18:00 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

Sat 19 June 22:30 Cameo 1 Wed 23 June 22:45 Cameo 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

Anusha Rizvi /India/2010/105 min Cast: Omkar Das, Raghubir Yadav, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Shalini Vatsa, Farukh Jaffer, Malaika Shenoy, Vishal Sharma

Donnie Darko meets Billy Liar, in this ambitious and absorbing British drama.

“Honest and true … peculiar and disturbing.

An excellent film. See it at all costs.” – Harry Knowles, aintitcool.com

The brilliant Edward Hogg (White Lightnin’; Bunny and the Bull) provides the unforgettable performance at the heart of this deeply-felt and darkly funny study of one man’s walk on the weird side. Ollie is a sweet-natured science geek, happily in love with the beautiful Noreen (Jodie Whittaker). But when tragedy strikes, Ollie’s not inconsiderable imagination spins out of control, and his sanity begins to slip away.

Like this? Try these... Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould; Third Star; And Everything Is Going Fine; The Crab

The soul and savagery of An American Werewolf in London; blacker magic than The Blair Witch Project; and a higher red cell count than Twilight. Oh, and all set in Edinburgh… Already a hit at the supercool US festival South by Southwest, this dynamic feature debut rips up the rulebook for UK horror with its intelligence, ambition and sheer flair for the uncanny.

Like this? Try these... Evil in the Time of Heroes; Monsters; Two Eyes Staring; Donkeys

Sun 20 June 15:45 Cineworld Wed 23 June 15:00 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) Poverty hits prime-time, in a warm, witty and provocative satire from India.

In the village of Peepli, farmers have grown so desperate that they’re seriously considering taking up a government deal that offers compensation to their families if they commit suicide. When word of this reaches a celebrity news anchor, the plight of Peepli becomes a TV sensation – and one naïve farmer finds himself on very public suicide watch...

Produced by the Bollywood superstar Amir Khan, this is dark, fun and all too believable.

Like this? Try these... Kick Off; Act of Dishonour; Frontier Blues

Outcast

DOCUMENT WORLD premiere

Out of the Ashes Lucy Martens, Leslie Knott, Timothy Albone/ UK/2010/90 min THU 17 June 18:00 Filmhouse 1 Sat 19 June 14:00 Filmhouse 3 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) David and Goliath in the world of international cricket.

In just a few years, the Afghan cricket team has risen from obscurity in the sport’s lowest ranks to phenomenal success in the highly competitive international arena. This is the remarkable and inspirational story of coach Taj Malik Aleem and his team, who became the sport’s unlikeliest heroes during a triumphant campaign culminating in the crucial World Cup qualifier in South Africa.

In a country more often associated with war and rigged elections, their incredible journey is an absolute joy to behold.

Like this? Try these... Thunder Soul; Freetime Machos; Kick Off; Act of Dishonour

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BRITISH GALA WORLD premiere

BLACK BOX

ROSEBUD UK premiere

Pelican Blood

Perestroika

Police, Adjective (Politist, Adjectiv)

Karl Golden/UK/2009/99 min Cast: Harry Treadaway, Emma Booth, Ali Craig, Arthur Darvill, Christopher Fulford

Sarah Turner/UK/2009/118 min

Corneliu Porumboiu/Romania/2009/113 min Cast: Dragos Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Irina Saulescu, Ion Stoica, Marian Ghenea, Cosimi Selesi

THU 17 June 18:30 Cineworld Fri 18 June 21:00 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

Fri 25 June 17:00 Filmhouse 3 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc) A poetic essay film about loss and memory filmed on the Trans-Siberian railway.

An atmospheric, edgy paean to that one mad love affair we all live to regret…

Nikko (Harry Treadaway) is a charismatic youth with good looks, good mates and a feisty dedication to the highly competitive art of high-end birdwatching. He’s also deeply troubled, and carrying a heavy load of guilt from a recent near-tragedy. When Nikko crosses paths with the gorgeous Stevie (Emma Booth) – seductress, environmental activist, troublemaker – dangerous instincts are roused once more, and the straight-andnarrow looks ever less appealing.

Like this? Try these... brilliantlove; The Crab; Ollie Kepler’s Expanding Purple World

Blurring the boundary between reality and fiction, Perestroika retraces a journey made exactly 20 years previously, in an attempt to come to terms with the death of a close friend. Hypnotic and haunting imagery and evocative soundscapes draw the viewer into a mysterious space of reflection, caught between past and present. The journey itself – which interweaves footage from the original trip – becomes a metaphor for the process of remembering and reexperiencing.

Like this? Try these... Black Box 1/2/3; Mark; The Edge of Dreaming; The Mouth of the Wolf

TUE 22 June 17:00 Cineworld Fri 25 June 15:00 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) An astonishingly clever and original drama about morality, legality, and ... grammar.

Tasked with pursuing a schoolboy suspected of supplying marijuana, a young policeman becomes troubled by the clash between duty and instinct. The struggle he undertakes with his superiors provides an intriguing, philosophical allegory; but most delightfully, it’s played with warmth and humour, and an extraordinary investment in the detail of its characters’ lives. Already a multiple prizewinner, this is one of the finest European films of recent years.

Like this? Try these... If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle; The Man Next Door

The People vs George Lucas Alexandre O Philippe/UK, USA/2010/97 min Fri 18 June 19:45 Filmhouse 1 Sat 19 June 15:30 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) They gave him their love, their money and their obsessive online parodies. He gave them ... the prequels.

No franchise has been loved like Star Wars. For a wide-eyed generation, Star Wars was storytelling; was spectacle; was cinema. And as this riotous documentary details, the fans’ devotion was by no means passive: it was expressed through costumed conventions, LEGO® re-enactments, comedy tributes and countless other unlicensed spinoffs. But every faith must be tested. And so they came: the re-edits, the new chapters, and Jar-Jar Binks...

Like this? Try these... Superhero Me; Lucky; Toy Story 3; Jackboots on Whitehall

Lighting the way for the UK’s film festivals Film festivals give everyone the chance to discover new and exciting films, meet filmmakers and enjoy the wonders of the cinematic world. The UK Film Council aims to help UK audiences enjoy the best of British and world cinema. Using National Lottery money we are helping film festivals such as the Edinburgh International Film Festival shine a brighter light on film connecting those who make them with those who watch them.

Inspire...discover...enjoy. www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk

The People vs George Lucas

DOCUMENT INTERNATIONAL premiere

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Friday 18

UK Shorts 1 p54 The Jokers p56

13:00 13:20

FH 2 FH 1

Privilege p58

13:00 FH 1

McLaren Animation 1 p53

15:00

FH 3

UK Shorts 2 p54 Behind the Scenes p66 Son of Babylon p45 Cinema Extreme p50 The Days of Desire p23

14:00 14:15 14:30 15:30 15:45

FH 2 CW CW FH 1 FH 3

Girl with Black Balloons p26 Road to Las Vegas p43

17:30 17:45

FH 2 CW

Family Tree p25 Out of the Ashes p35 The Red Machine p42 Making of The Illusionist with Sylvain Chomet p68 Pelican Blood p36 The Edge of Dreaming p24

18:00 18:00 18:00

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18:15 18:30 19:15

CW CW FH 2

Blank City p20 Boy p21 Huge p28 Soul Boy p45 McLaren Animation 2 p54 Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World p35 A Real Life p41 The People vs George Lucas p36

18:00 18:00 18:00 18:00 18:30

FH 2 CAM 1 CW CW FH 3

Fog p25 Alamar p19 Blank City p20 World’s Greatest Dad p49 The Days of Desire p23 50 Letters p65 Son of Babylon p45 Caterpillar p21

20:00 20:15 20:15 20:25 20:30 21:00 21:00 21:15

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

The Hunter p29 Two in the Wave p48 Thunder Soul p47 Mundane History p33 50 Letters p65 Pelican Blood p36 Freetime Machos p25

20:15 20:15 20:20 20:45 21:00 21:00 21:15

The Last Rites of Ransom Pride p30 Two Eyes Staring p48

22:35 22:45

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Monsters p32 The Last Rites of Ransom Pride p30 Evil in the Time of Heroes p24

22:15 FH 1 22:30 FH 2 22:45 CAM 1

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16:00-18:00 CAM 1 FH 2 CW FH 3 IS CW CW

20:00-22:00

21:45 EFT

18:30 CW 18:45 CW 19:45 FH 1

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The Illusionist p14

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10:00-14:00

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Saturday 19

Sunday 20

CI: Camera Skills workshop p63 09:30 ESFC: Primary Schools Films p63 10:00 The Boy Who Turned Yellow p55 11:30 CI: Make Up for Filming workshop p63 11:45 McLaren Animation 1 p53 11:45 ESFC: Secondary Schools Films p63 12:00 Free For All? p67 13:00 The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer p59 13:00 13:10 A Real Life p41 Boy p21 13:15 Kick Off p30 13:15 Scottish Short Documentary 13:15 Award Screening p54 CI: Editing on Laptops workshop p63 Out of the Ashes p35 Graham King: Variety Interview p67 The Red Machine p42 The Casting Process p67 Family Tree p25 The Man Next Door p31 The People vs George Lucas p36 Thunder Soul p47 The Edge of Dreaming p24 Creative Identities Shorts p51

SGW CW FH 2 SGW FH 3 CW IS

Glitterball p55 McLaren Animation 2 p54 Alamar p19 Gumshoe p56 Kick Off p30 Mai Mai Miracle p31

11:30 FH 2 11:45 FH 3 13:15 CW 13:30 FH 1 13:30 CW 13:30 CAM 1

Pulp p58 Digicult Shorts p51

13:00 FH 1 13:30 FH 2

Mundane History p33 Fog p25 Jackboots On Whitehall p29 Huge p28 Peepli Live p35 Winter’s Bone p49

14:00 15:15 15:30 15:45 15:45 15:45

Long Shot p57

15:15 FH 1

Act of Dishonour p19 After the Wave: Discussion Event p65 Les Signes Vitaux p44

16:00 FH 2

International Animation 1 p52 Document Shorts 1 p51 Freetime Machos p25 Silent Voices p44 Bafta Scotland Interview: Sir Patrick Stewart p65 Obselidia p34

16:15 16:35 17:00 17:00

Thelma, Louise and Chantal p47 The Dry Land p24 Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould p26 The Runaways p43 Frontier Blues p26 Cherry Tree Lane p22

18:15 CW 19:00 CW 19:00 19:00 19:15 19:45

FH 2 CW CW CAM 1

Putty Hill p41 Act of Dishonour p19 Hotel Atlantico p28 Barry Munday p20 brilliantlove p21

20:00 21:00 21:30 21:35 21:45

FH 1 FH 3 FH 2 CW CW

Superhero Me p46 The Crab p22

22:00 CAM 1 22:15 FH 1

FH 1 CW CAM 1 CW FH 2

14:00 SGW 14:00 FH 3 15:00 15:15 15:30 15:30 15:30 15:30 15:45

Monday 21

CW CW CW CAM 1 CW FH 1 CW

16:15 FH 3 17:30 CW

FH 3 CW CW CAM 1 CW FH 1

16:00 CW 16:15 FH 3

Monsters p32 18:00 FH 1 Nénette p33 18:00 CAM 1 Toy Story 3 p47 18:00 CW Girl with Black Balloons p26 18:15 FH 3 18:15 CW Toy Story 3 p47 And Everything Is Going Fine p19 18:30 FH 2 Toy Story 3 p47 18:30 CW SoulBoy p46 19:45 CW

The Man Who Would Be King p16 Nénette p33 Ollie Kepler’s Expanding Purple World p35 Whisky With Vodka p49 Donkeys p23 22 Bullets p19 And Everything Is Going Fine p19

18:00 EFT 18:00 CAM 1

Crab Trap p23 Red Hill p42 Winter’s Bone p49 Lucky p31 R p41 The Dry Land p24 BED p65 22 Bullets p19

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

The Hunter p29 The Runaways p43 Drifters: In Celebration of the Edinburgh Film Guild p60 Snowman’s Land p45 Lucky p31 Road to Las Vegas p43 R p41 Sound:Image:Art p69

20:00 CAM 1 20:00 CW 7 20:15 20:30 20:45 20:45 21:00 21:00

Outcast p35 Chase the Slut p22

22:30 CAM 1 22:45 FH 1

Vacation! p48 Superhero Me p46

22:00 FH 1 22:15 CAM 1

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

18:00 18:10 18:15 18:20 18:30

CW CW FH 1 CW FH 2

FH 1 CW CW FH 2 FH 3 IS

FH 3 FH 2 CW CAM 1

17:30 CW 17:30 FH 1

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13:20 FH 1 13:40 FH 2 13:55 CW

Savage Messiah p59

13:30 FH 1

Silent Voices p44 International Animation 2 p52 Private Road p58

15:00 CAM 1 15:30 FH 3 15:45 FH 1

International Shorts 1: Strings Attached p52 Peepli Live p35 Crab Trap p22

15:00 FH 2 15:00 CW 15:30 FH 3

Snowman’s Land p45 Police, Adjective p36 Brothers Quay Animation Event p66 Genius Within:The Inner Life of Glenn Gould p26 Skeletons p44

16:15 CW 17:00 CW

A Small Act p45 16:00 Went the Day Well? p61 16:00 Bored to Death: Cinematic TV p60 17:00 Nothing Personal p34 17:35 Scottish Screen Archive Event: The Persuasion p69 17:45 Lola p30 17:50

Henry of Navarre p27 Nothing Personal p34 Yo, tambien p49 brilliantlove p21 Mr Nice p32 Putty Hill p41

18:00 18:00 18:15 18:45 19:00 19:30

Donkeys p23 The Final Programme p55

13:15 FH 2 13:35 FH 1

The Good Heart p27 Au Revoir Taipei p20 HIGH School p28 HP Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror p68

18:00 C’est Déjà L’été p21 The Kid p30 18:00 Mark p32 18:15 If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle p29 18:25 18:45 The Rebound p42

FH 2 CW FH 3 CAM 1 CW

FH 2 CW CAM 1 CW CW FH 1

FH 2 CW

18:00 CW 18:15 CAM 1 18:15 CW 19:45 FH 1

The Robber p43 20:10 CAM 1 Hotel Atlantico p28 20:15 FH 3 Thelma, Louise and Chantal p47 20:15 CW The Sentimental Engine Slayer p44 20:45 FH 2 Cigarette Girl p22 21:15 FH 1 HIGH School p28 21:30 CW Barry Munday p20 21:45 CW

My Words, My Lies - My Love p33 20:00 CW Red Hill p42 20:25 CAM 1 Henry of Navarre p27 20:30 FH 2 The Kid p30 20:35 CW 20:45 CW The Rebound p42 The Oath p34 20:50 CW Obselidia p34 21:00 FH 3 My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? p33 21:50 FH 1

Les Signes Vitaux p44 Sideshow p69 The Good Heart p27 The Sentimental Engine Slayer p44 Mr Nice p32 Skeletons p44 The Secret in Their Eyes p43 The Extra Man p24 A Spanking in Paradise p46

20:15 FH 3 20:30 FH 1 20:30 CW

Two Eyes Staring p48

BED p65 Outcast p35

Evil in the Time of Heroes p24

23:00 CAM 1

22:30 CAM 1

22:00 FS 22:45 CAM 1

20:30 20:45 20:45 21:15 21:30 21:45

CAM: Cameo | CW: Cineworld | EFT: Edinburgh Festival Theatre | FH: Filmhouse | FS: Festival Square BBC Big Screen IS: Inspace JCH: St John’s Church Hall | RAH: Roxy Art House | SGW: St George’s West

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FH 1 CW FH 2 CW CW CW

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Black Box 1: Great and Small p50 They Made me a Fugitive p61 Gravity p27 The Mouth of the Wolf p32

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17:15 CW

CW CAM 1 FH 1 CW

The Man Next Door p31 15:10 CW My Words, My Lies - My Love p33 15:15 CW International Shorts 2: 15:30 FH 2 Little Earthquakes p53

14:00-16:00

10:00-14:00

Made p57 Document Shorts 2 p51 Frontier Blues p26

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Pressure p57 International Shorts 3: Discomfort Zone p53 Postales p41

Saturday 26

An Intro to Directing for New Filmmakers p64 14:00 Black Box 2: Open Your Eyes p50 15:00 Mai Mai Miracle p31 15:00 Police, Adjective p36 15:00 15:15 The Squeeze p59 Family Shorts: Growing Pains p52 15:30 15:45 Gravity p29

SGW FH 3 CAM 1 CW FH 1 FH 2 CW

Sunday 27

Make a Film in a Day (11-15yrs) p64 09:00 Make a Film in a Day (16-19yrs) p64 09:00 The Hard Way p56 11:00 Postales p41 12:00 Au Revoir Taipei p20 13:00 Street Days p46 13:00 8 1/2 Foundation Screening p60 13:15 Whisky With Vodka p49 13:15 The Secret in Their Eyes p43 13:45

SGW SGW FH 1 CW CAM 1 FH 2 FH 1 CW CW

11:00 FH 1 11:30 FH 2

Best of the Fest

A Small Act p45 Introduction to Animation Workshop p68 Lucky Luke p31 Two in the Wave p48 Northless p34

14:00 CW

Best of the Fest

Black Box 3: Time Travel p50 Honeymooner p28 SoulBoy p46 Heartbreaker p27 Get Low p26

16:00 16:15 16:15 16:45 17:30

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FH 2 CAM 1 CW CW FH 3 FH 1

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14:00 JCH 15:15 CAM 1 15:30 FH 2 15:45 CW

Soul Boy p45 Perestroika p36 C’est Déjà L’été p21 Jackboots On Whitehall p29 Restrepo My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? p33

16:00 17:00 17:40 17:45 17:50

The Extra Man p24 Lucky Luke p31 Northless p34 Get Low p26 The Mouth of the Wolf p32

18:00 18:00 18:15 18:30 19:45

CW CAM 1 CW CW FH 3

Kawasaki’s Rose p29 The Robber p43 The Oath p34 World’s Greatest Dad p49 Yo, tambien p49 Undertow p48

Street Days p46 Kawasaki’s Rose p29 Honeymooner p28 Cherry Tree Lane p22 Heartbreaker p27 Lola p30 CrimeFighters p23

20:00 20:10 20:15 20:35 20:35 20:45 21:45

FH 2 FH 1 CW CAM 1 CW CW FH 3

Foxes p25 20:30 FH 2 If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle p29 20:30 CAM 1 Third Star p15 21:30 CW

Foxes p25 The Black Panther p20

22:15 FH 2 22:35 CAM 1

CW FH 3 FH 2 CW CW

Five Easy Pieces p61 What Next? p59

17:55 FH 1

Sunday 27 June is

Best of the Fest We'll be screening some of the most popular Festival films again for a last-chance-to-see. The programme will be announced Monday 21 June at midday www.edfilmfest.org.uk

CAM: Cameo | CW: Cineworld | EFT: Edinburgh Festival Theatre | FH: Filmhouse | FS: Festival Square BBC Big Screen IS: Inspace JCH: St John's Church Hall | RAH: Roxy Art House | SGW: St George's West

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Putty Hill

ROSEBUD WORLD premiere

Postales Josh Hyde/Peru, USA/2010/77 min Cast: Alan Cuba, Guimel Soria Martine, Megan Tusing, Nadia Alexander, Ed Trucco Fri 25 June 13:45 Cineworld Sat 26 June 12:00 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) Two penniless street boys meet two sheltered American girls. What could possibly go wrong... ?

Made with an empathetic eye on the experience of young people whose life circumstances are decided for them, this ambitious, warm-hearted film sets its crosscultural love story against the beautiful backdrop of Cuzco, Peru. Teenage Elizabeth and ten-year-old Mary are bored participants in their dad’s business trip – until they forge some unexpected connections.

Note: Though this film is suitable for children and young people, there is mild sexual content.

Like this? Try these... Soul Boy

ROSEBUD UK premiere

ROSEBUD UK premiere

ROSEBUD UK premiere

Putty Hill

R

A Real Life (Au Voleur)

Matt Porterfield/USA/2010/87 min Cast: Sky Ferreira, Zoe Vance, James Siebor Jr, Dustin Ray, Cody Ray

Michael Noer, Tobias Lindholm/ Denmark/2010/90 min Cast: Pilou Asbæk, Dulfikar Al-Jabouri, Roland Møller, Jacob Gredsted

Sarah Leonor/France/2009/96 min Cast: Guillaume Depardieu, Florence Loiret Caille, Jaques Nolot

Mon 21 June 20:00 Filmhouse 1 TUE 22 June 19:30 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

Sat 19 June 20:45 Filmhouse 2 Sun 20 June 21:00 Filmhouse 3 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

A beautifully shot, poetic urban drama.

By weaving poised portrait shots of lethargic suburban life with cinéma verité style interviews, Porterfield’s second feature blends genres to create a haunting piece of cinema.

Putty Hill avoids both the savagery of Larry Clark or the self-conscious bizarreness of Harmony Korine, as it examines the aftermath of a young heroin user’s premature death.

Instead, the director allows the restless teenagers and fatigued adults – and their slice of dilapidated Baltimore – to speak clearly and serenely for themselves.

Like this? Try these... Nothing Personal; R; Frontier Blues; C’est Déjà L’été; The Crab

The Danish prison-thriller that makes A Prophet look like Porridge.

The jailhouse-picture has a very long, honourable history – but few examples of the genre have ever hit as hard as this – gripping from low-key opening to convention-smashing climax. Filmed in a notorious real-life slammer near Copenhagen and featuring fearsome squadrons of ex-con extras, The Village Voice described R as “claustrophobic and rank with testosterone and gym-sweat, a smothering lesson in prison-yard pecking order.”

Like this? Try these... Silent Stories

Fri 18 June 18:45 Cineworld Sat 19 June 13:10 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) One of Guillaume Dépardieu’s final screen appearances: a playful, New Wave-inflected road movie with a killer soundtrack.

Reacting impulsively to an inappropriate crush, a respectable young teacher lays her safety on the line for a grubby petty thief. Before she knows it, she’s on the run – Bonnie to his Clyde, appropriately accompanied by Depression-era American folk tunes. Wayward, warm and genuinely unpredictable, this is a beautifully directed film, and a worthy vehicle for its late lead’s idiosyncratic talents.

Like this? Try these... Nothing Personal; Obselidia; Two in the Wave

Projector.tv is the official online partner of EIFF 2010 and sponsor of the Best International Feature Award.

Go to www.projector.tv to check out our online retrospective and some exclusive titles which are in selection this year.

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The Rebound

GALA UK premiere

The Rebound Bart Freundlich/USA/2009/95 min Cast: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Justin Bartha, Kelly Gould Wed 23 June 20:45 Cineworld THU 24 June 18:45 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) He’s great with her kids. Trouble is, he’s also young enough to be one of them...

Catherine Zeta-Jones shines in this cheerfully risqué May-December rom-com, which sees her newly separated, fortyish character Sandy celebrate singledom with a hot younger-man fling. At least, that’s what it’s meant to be – until Aram (Justin Bartha) shows himself to have a little more substance than she expected. Can they overlook the generation gap and forge a lasting bond – or do they both have some growing up to do?

Like this? Try these... Thelma, Louise and Chantal; Chase the Slut; Barry Munday

ROSEBUD UK premiere

ROSEBUD INTERNATIONAL premiere

DOCUMENT european premiere

Red Hill

The Red Machine

Restrepo

Patrick Hughes/Australia/2010/95 min Cast: Ryan Kwanten, Steve Bisley, Tom E Lewis, Claire van der Boom, Christopher Davis

Stephanie Argy, Alec Boehm/USA/2009/84 min Cast: Lee Perkins, Donal Thoms-Cappello, Meg Brogan, Maureen Byrnes, Eddie Lee

Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger/ USA/2009/93 min

Sat 19 June 20:00 Cameo 1 Wed 23 June 20:25 Cameo 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

THU 17 June 18:00 Cineworld Sat 19 June 15:15 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

Welcome to Red Hill ... where there’s hell to pay.

Japanese spies. Safe-cracking felons. Dapper 1930s slacks. It’s like Roger Corman never went away.

After relocating to a remote Australian town, a young police officer – Ryan Kwanten of HBO’s True Blood – finds himself involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse with Tommy Lewis' terrifying escaped murderer. Boasting fantastic performances alongside stunning visuals and a cleverly unfolding plot, this violent, Western-style outback thriller is action cinema at its very best.

Like this? Try these... Lucky Luke; The Last Rites of Ransom Pride

Eddie Doyle is a depression-era cat burglar, ‘employed’ by an unsmiling Lieutenant Coburn in a covert war between Japanese spies and the US Government. But has Eddie cracked his last safe? Minimalism is the key to this delicious throwback to American propaganda films, filled with Cormanesque invention.

Like this? Try these... The Black Panther; Gumshoe; Bored to Death: Cinematic TV; They Made Me a Fugitive; Jackboots on Whitehall

Fri 25 June 17:50 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) The Afghanistan war film that renders all others unnecessary.

It is fairly extraordinary that this film exists. The level of access attained by Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger over their 15-month period embedded with the Second Platoon, Battle Company, 173rd Airborne Brigade allows for an incredibly unvarnished account – including footage of deaths both civilian and military. It’s perhaps the most intimate and unflinching examination yet of the processes of modern warfare – and an exhilarating, heartrending, profoundly moving film in its own right.

Like this? Try these… The Dry land; Frontier Blues; Son of Babylon; Out of the Ashes

Not sure where to begin?

Check The Suggest-O-Tron on edfilmfest.org.uk for instant film suggestions.

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DOCUMENT WORLD premiere

GALA EUROPEAN premiere

Directors' showcase UK premiere

Road to Las Vegas

The Runaways

The Secret in Their Eyes

Jason Massot/UK/2010/90 min

Floria Sigismondi/USA/2010/107 min Cast: Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Michael Shannon, Stella Maeve, Scout Taylor-Compton, Alia Shawkat, Riley Keough

Juan José Campanella/Argentina, Spain/2009/129 min Cast: Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Javier Godino, Guillermo Francella

Sun 20 June 20:00 Cineworld Mon 21 June 19:00 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

THU 24 June 21:15 Cineworld Sat 26 June 13:45 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

From schoolroom to stadium ... the scandalous story of the original rock chicks.

A glossy, thoroughly satisfying whodunnit – winner of the 2010 Foreign Language Oscar®.

As fast, sweet and sweaty as a teenage tryst, this rocking biopic also shows off the acting chops of Twilight’s goth princess Kristen Stewart and blossoming child star Dakota Fanning. They play Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, who were schoolgirls when they got together with maverick svengali Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon) to create a girl group like no other. Lock up your daughters, because if they see this, they’ll form a band...

Careworn ex-detective Benjamin is trying to write his novel. Instead, he keeps being drawn back to an unsolved case from his earlier career: the horrible rape and murder of a young woman. Something in the original investigation just didn’t add up… Beautifully performed and directed, with twists and turns that grip the nerves and the imagination, this is a wonderfully engaging work from the director of The Son of the Bride (EIFF 2002).

Like this? Try these... Soulboy; Vacation!; Blank City; Cigarette Girl

Like this? Try these... Henry of Navarre; Silent Voices; Kawasaki's Rose; Family Tree

THU 17 June 17:45 Cineworld Sun 20 June 20:45 Filmhouse 2 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) A gripping family saga enacted under the shadow of Vegas’ bright lights.

Spurred on by a dream from God, Vanessa and Maurice take their five youngest children to start a new life in Las Vegas.

With only their car for shelter, they set up camp next to the airport runway. Spread over the following four years of their lives, we track the family’s mixed fortunes as they attempt to sustain a living in the face of unemployment, an impending recession and Maurice’s recurring drug abuse.

Like this? Try these... The Edge of Dreaming; The Kid; The Mouth of the Wolf; Putty Hill; Silent Voices

The Robber

ROSEBUD uk premiere

The Robber (Der Räuber) Benjamin Heisenberg/Austria, Germany/2010/97 min Cast: Andreas Lust, Franziska Weisz, Markus Schleinzer, Roman Kettner TUE 22 June 20:10 Cameo 1 Sat 26 June 18:00 Cameo 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) Johann Rettenberg is a champion marathon runner … oh, and he also robs banks.

Recently released from prison, there’s really only one thing on this recidivist’s mind, and it’s certainly not his girlfriend, Erika...

Based on the novel by Martin Prinz, and in turn on real-life 80s Austrian criminal sensation ‘Pump-gun Ronnie’, Benjamin Heisenberg’s tense, terse, kinetic thriller is much like the character it portrays: precise, lean and obsessive – and for pure man-onthe-run thrills, it’s hard to beat.

Like this? Try these... Snowman's Land; Gravity; A Spanking in Paradise; Mr Nice

Founded in 1995 and now with 77 cinemas Cineworld is one of the leading cinema groups in the UK and Ireland. With screens from 15 to 600 seats and state of the art digital projection enabling the display of almost any type of media from amazing 3D film to live performances of any type from anywhere in the world, Cineworld is the UK leader in this exciting new area.

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ROSEBUD UK PREMIERE

BRITISH GALA UK premiere

The Sentimental Engine Slayer

Silent Voices

Skeletons

Omar Rodriguez Lopez/Mexico, USA/2009/97 min Cast: Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Tatiana Velazquez, Nomar Rizo

Léa Fehner/France/2009/120 min Cast: Reda Kateb, Farida Rahouadj, Pauline Etienne, Marc Barbé, Vincent Rottiers, Julien Lucas, Dinara Droukarova

Nick Whitfield/UK/2009/93 min Cast: Ed Gaughan, Andrew Buckley, Jason Isaacs, Paprika Steen, Tuppence Middleton

TUE 22 June 20:45 Filmhouse 2 THU 24 June 20:30 Filmhouse 2 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

Mon 21 June 17:00 Cameo 1 TUE 22 June 15:00 Cameo 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

Omar Rodriguez Lopez, leader of progressive rockers The Mars Volta, turns filmmaker.

Several lives come together in the most unlikely meeting place.

In a hazy, fractured world of model cars, prostitutes and junkies, an insecure young man grapples with his identity. As a director, Lopez employs the same creative daring he displays as a musician. Completely abandoning the linear, he boldly delivers a jigsaw of characters, scenes and emotions that gradually reveal enigmatic depths.

A mother desperate to face her son’s murderer; a young girl determined to visit her new boyfriend; and a man enticed into making a better life for himself by swapping places with a criminal – all three unknowingly cross paths in the visitors room of a Marseille prison. Bound by the consequences of things left unsaid, this is a gritty, webbed tale from one of Europe’s most promising young directors.

If there’s something lurking in your closet – a guilty secret, a past mistake – on-call emotional exorcists Davis and Bennett can help you out. That is, until their own deeper feelings start to creep forth and interrupt their work. Is Davis ‘glow-chasing’ – cannibalising his own past for kicks? Could Bennett be getting in too deep with an alluring new client? And what exactly are the risks of attempting to exterminate the past... ?

Like this? Try these... R; Frontier Blues; Kawasaki’s Rose; Family Tree

Like this? Try these... Hotel Atlantico; Huge; Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World

Screening with: Horsefingers 2: But I Am the Tiger (Kirsten Kearse/USA/2009/9 mins) Like this? Try these... Hotel Atlantico; Vacation!; brilliantlove

TUE 22 June 17:50 Cameo 1 THU 24 June 20:45 Cameo 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) A darkly fanciful British comedy with shades of Terry Gilliam and Charlie Kaufman.

Les Signes Vitaux (Vital Signs) Sophie Deraspe/Canada/2009/88 min Cast: Marie-Hélène Bellavance, Francis Ducharme, Marie Brassard, Danielle Ouimet Sun 20 June 16:15 Filmhouse 3 THU 24 June 20:15 Filmhouse 3 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) Life and death hinge on commitment in this beautifully poignant drama.

In the wake of her grandmother’s death, Simone has returned home from studying in Boston. Blurred by grief and disconnected from life, she enlists as a volunteer at her grandmother’s palliative care home and falls back into a casual relationship with her ex-boyfriend. Reluctant to commit to him or take hold of her future, her relationships with the terminally ill patients of the home force Simone to re-assess her life.

Like this? Try these... Mundane History; A Real Life; Days of Desire; The Edge of Dreaming

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Skeletons

ROSEBUD UK premiere

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Snowman’s Land

DOCUMENT EUROPEAN premiere

A Small Act Jennifer Arnold/USA/2010/88 min Wed 23 June 16:00 Cineworld Sat 26 June 14:00 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) An inspiring story of the power of charity.

Chris’ life in a Kenyan village was transformed when he won the sponsorship of a Swedish woman – Hilde Back – who he knew only by name. Now a graduate from Harvard and a Human Rights lawyer working for the UN, he has set up his own education programme for Kenyan children in her name.

Weaving between the lives of Chris, Hilde and three children competing for Chris’ fund, this is a moving testament to the selfless act of giving.

Like this? Try these... Thunder Soul; Nénette; Postales; Soul Boy

ROSEBUD INTERNATIONAL premiere

ROSEBUD UK premiere

ROSEBUD UK premiere

Snowman’s Land

Son of Babylon

Soul Boy

Tomasz Thomson/Germany/2010/93 min Cast: Jürgen Rißmann, Thomas Wodianka, Reiner Schöne

Mohamed Al-Daradji/Iraq, UK, France, Netherlands, Palestine, UAE, Egypt/ 2010/90 min Cast: Shehzad Hussein, Yassir Taleeb, Bashir Al-Majed

Hawa Essuman/Kenya, Germany/2010/60 min Cast: Samson Odhiambo, Leila Dayan Opou, Krysteen Savane, Frank Kimani

Sun 20 June 20:30 Cineworld TUE 22 June 16:15 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) If you go down to the woods today, you’d better be sure you have a Kalashnikov…

What do you get when you cross a hapless assassin who has trouble shooting the right person, another hitman with a metal plate in his head (an automatic bulletproof vest for the brain) and a paranoid mafioso-style boss in deep seclusion in the snowbound Carpathian mountains? The answer is Snowman’s Land: an astute, aesthetically pleasing and Fargo-esque black comedy of errors; it isn’t just the Coen brothers who can have fun with the farcical antics of professional killers not quite at the top of their game.

Like this? Try these... Mr Nice; 22 Bullets

THU 17 June 21:00 Cineworld Fri 18 June 14:30 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) A powerful story from the ashes of Iraq.

12-year-old Ahmed and his grandmother are searching for his father, but it’s a few months after the end of Saddam Hussein’s rule and the road is long – merely staying together is hard enough. The stunning photography contrasts with glimpses of chaos, but helps to demonstrate what drives the two forward. Somehow they retain hope, sanity, calmness – even laughter.

Like this? Try these... Frontier Blues; The Oath; Kick Off

Fri 18 June 18:00 Cineworld Fri 25 June 16:00 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) One hour in Nairobi – a fresh, African take on the coming-of-age movie.

Originating from a workshop led by Tom Tykwer (Perfume, The International, Run Lola Run), this disarmingly gentle debut from Ghanaian-Kenyan director Essuman combines supernatural myth and the hardscrabble realities of big-city Nairobi, as a teenage lad performs seven tasks to save his (apparently) curse-stricken dad. The real magic, however, is in the script which intelligently explores a dizzyingly wide range of pressing issues, all within the most accessibly economic of packages.

Like this? Try these... A Small Act; Northless

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A Spanking in Paradise

BRITISH GALA WORLD premiere

SoulBoy Shimmy Marcus/UK/2010/82 min Cast: Martin Compston, Felicity Jones, Alfie Allen, Hannah Crighton, Nichola Burley, Craig Parkinson, Brian McCardie Sat 19 June 19:45 Cineworld Sat 26 June 16:15 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) 1974, and young lives are changing – on the dancefloor of the Wigan casino.

The intriguing genesis, impassioned adherents and unique fashions and dance moves of the Northern Soul scene make it one of the most fascinating of British youth culture movements – not to mention the music it celebrates, which is quite simply some of the greatest ever made. Shimmy Marcus’ dynamic and satisfying coming-ofage film is set right at the pulsing heart of the craze, and features a great UK cast.

Like this? Try these... The Kid; The Runaways; Thunder Soul

UNDER THE RADAR WORLD premiere

ROSEBUD uk premiere

DOCUMENT WORLD premiere

A Spanking in Paradise

Street Days (Quchis Dgeebi)

Superhero Me

Wayne Thallon/UK/2010/94 min Cast: Andrew Hawley, Simon Weir, Leo Horsefield, Danielle Stewart, Robert Harrison, John Gaffney

Levan Koguashvili/Georgia/2010/86 min Cast: Guga Kotetishvili, Irakli Ramishvili, George Kipshidze, Zura Begalishvili, Zaza Salia

Steve Sale/UK/2010/81 min

Fri 25 June 20:00 Filmhouse 2 Sat 26 June 13:00 Filmhouse 2 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

THU 24 June 21:45 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) A young man gets a holiday job in Edinburgh ... running his uncle’s brothel.

The best jokes are the ones you shouldn’t tell, and this film dares to tell them.

Brandishing a raw authenticity and lending a razor sharp edge to both its hard drama and bursts of jet black humour, this raucous insight into the capital city’s underworld is a dirty, dangerous, and often downright hilarious walk on the wild side.

Like this? Try these... brilliantlove; Snowman’s Land; Chase the Slut; CrimeFighters

“Georgian cinema has a new star in director Levan Koguashvili ... this superb neorealist drama is just the calling card the beleaguered country needs.” – Jay Weissberg, Variety From the back-alleys of Tblisi comes a tough but tender tale of friendship and betrayal, redemption and forgiveness, love and bullets.

Guga Kotetishvili is a heartbreaking revelation as fortysomething junky Checkie, caught between nefarious crooks, corrupt officials and immoral cops. A haunting, darkly comic dispatch from the post-Soviet frontlines – if you like Shane Meadows, you’ll love this.

Like this? Try these... Lola; R; C’est Déjà L’été; Foxes

Sun 20 June 22:15 Cameo 1 Mon 21 June 22:00 Cameo 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) Faster than a speeding bullet ... well, nearly.

Mild-mannered documentary filmmaker Steve Sale sets out to become a bona-fide superhero, with absolutely hilarious results.

Whether trying to apprehend local juvenile shoplifters, or patrolling crack houses with LA’s own registered superhero Master Legend, Sale embraces his challenge with rare gusto and a highly infectious dose of good humour. You won’t believe a man can fly, but you will believe a man can make a film that’s impossible to watch without a smile on your face.

Like this? Try these... CrimeFighters; The People vs George Lucas

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GALA INTERNATIONAL premiere

DOCUMENT EUROPEAN premiere

GALA SPECIAL 3D GALA PREVIEW

Thelma, Louise and Chantal

Thunder Soul

Toy Story 3

Benoît Pétré/France/2009/90 min Cast: Catherine Jacob, Jane Birkin, Caroline Cellier, Thierry Lhermitte

Mark Landsman/USA/2010/84 min

Lee Unkrich/USA/2010/90 min Voice Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, Timothy Dalton, Whoopi Goldberg, Michael Keaton

Fri 18 June 20:20 Cineworld Sat 19 June 15:45 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

Mon 21 June 18:15 Cineworld TUE 22 June 20:15 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) A thoroughly delightful buddy movie, for anyone who’s ever loved, lost or drunkenly lectured an ex.

Drawn – for different reasons – to the wedding of a mutual old acquaintance, three friends embark on an eventful road trip. Nelly (Jane Birkin) is a sweet eccentric, Chantal (Catherine Jacob) a frustrated wife and mother, and Gabrielle (Caroline Cellier) a full-on vamp; while their worldviews and wardrobes differ, mid-life sexual frustration, troubled romance and the effects of champagne prove to be universal...

Like this? Try these... Nothing Personal; The Runaways; Heartbreaker; The Rebound

One of the funkiest bands of the Seventies explodes out of the schoolyard.

Sat 19 June 18:00,18:15 & 18:30 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

Straight out of a high school in Texas, the electrifying Kashmere Stage Band was the brainchild of gifted music teacher Conrad Johnson. Johnson’s dynamic arrangements transformed the idea of the high school band, and brought his students worldwide recognition. That success changed not just their lives, but the fortune of their whole community. As one spectator remarked, “They were on fire.” He was right – they still are.

The greatest animation studio reignites its best-loved franchise ... in 3D.

Like this? Try these... The Runaways; SoulBoy; A Small Act

In 1995, the original Toy Story revolutionised animated filmmaking. 1999 brought Toy Story 2, which confirmed the place of this most inventive franchise within movie history. Now it’s back, and it’s at EIFF! With brand new characters alongside old favourites – who have been abandoned at a daycare centre, and must secure their escape – this is surely the most anticipated blockbuster title of the year.

Like this? Try these... The Illusionist; McLaren Animation 1/2; Jackboots On Whitehall; International Animation 1/2

Toy Story 3

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NIGHT MOVES INTERNATIONALpremiere

ROSEBUD UK premiere

UNDER THE RADAR WORLD premiere

Two Eyes Staring (Zwart Water)

Undertow (Contracorriente)

Vacation!

Elbert van Strien/Netherlands/2010/112 min Cast: Barry Atsma, Hadewych Minis, Isabelle Stokkel, Charlotte Arnoldy

Javier Fuentes-León/Peru, Colombia, France, Germany/2009/100 min Cast: Cristian Mercado, Tatiana Astengo, Manolo Cardona, Atilia Boschetti

Zach Clark/USA/2010/95 min Cast: Trieste Kelly Dunn, Lydia Hyslop, Maggie Ross, Melodie Sisk

THU 17 June 22:45 Cameo 1 TUE 22 June 22:30 Cameo 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) Holland’s scariest movie since The Vanishing.

Sat 26 June 18:30 Filmhouse 1 Sun 27 June 15:00 Filmhouse 2 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

The dark wave of ‘J-horror’ that started with The Ring and The Grudge quickly changed the face of Stateside chillers, and now European directors are discovering the power of clammy, damp nastiness. A grippingly confident psychological thriller about a young family who move to an old mansion in the Belgian countryside – where 9-year-old Lisa befriends a little girl who ‘lives’ in the basement – this outstanding Dutch example has already attracted remake queries from Hollywood. Real leave-a-light-on stuff.

When love transcends death ... life becomes complicated.

Like this? Try these... Outcast; The Days of Desire; Evil in the Time of Heroes

Like this? Try these... Nothing Personal; Crab Trap; Third Star; Pelican Blood

Married with a new baby on the way, fisherman Miguel falls in love with Santiago, an artist who has come to the seaside village to observe local life. Their situation seems impossible, then fate deals a tragic blow and Miguel finds himself bound by the strict traditions of his community, as he faces a choice between his family and the truth.

Whatever the outcome, his life will never be the same again.

Sun 20 June 22:00 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) Four best friends are going to the seaside.

One isn’t coming home...

The beyond brilliant twenty-something director of last year’s EIFF hit Modern Love is Automatic returns with a second instant classic. A quartet of edgy city girls head seaward for a candy-coloured, hormone-charged beach blanket freakout; but once the sun, the competition and the recreational stimulants kick in, relaxation drops off the agenda. With its cult chic, cool music, weird vibes and deadpan wit, this is the holiday of a lifetime.

Like this? Try these... Chase the Slut; The Runaways; The Crab; The Sentimental Engine Slayer; Blank City

Two in the Wave (Deux de la Vague) Emmanuel Laurent/France/2009/90 min Fri 18 June 20:15 Filmhouse 2 Sat 26 June 15:30 Filmhouse 2 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

Truffaut and Godard: the inside story.

Emmanuel Laurent’s richly detailed account of the friendship and shared history – and acrimonious falling out – of the leading lights of the French New Wave seems somehow timely. This is a story surprisingly so far untold, not least for the wealth of wonderful early newsreel and interview footage that has been waiting to illuminate it. A fascinating insight into this most seminal period in French cinema history.

Like this? Try these... Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould; A Real Life; Family Tree

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Two Eyes Staring

DOCUMENT UK premiere

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Yo, tambien

Directors' showcase UK premiere

Whisky With Vodka Andreas Dresen/Germany/2009/108 min Cast: Henry Hübchen, Corinna Harfouch, Markus Hering, Valerie Tscheplanowa Sun 20 June 18:10 Cineworld Sat 26 June 13:15 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) Intoxicating Woody Allen-flavoured comedy.

Fresh from domestic box-office smash Cloud 9, director Dresen delivers a spirited, delightfully old-school celebration of thespian eccentricity and the volatile chemistry of moviemaking. Built four-square around the effortless comic talents of Henry Hubchen – seizing the role of a lifetime as a washed-up, drink-soused star struggling to stay in the limelight – this is commercial, intelligent Euro-cinema at its very best, from one of the continent’s few filmmakers equally popular with critics and audiences.

Like this? Try these... My Words, My Lies My Love; The Good Heart; Donkeys

ROSEBUD uk premiere

GALA EUROPEAN premiere

ROSEBUD UK premiere

Winter’s Bone

World’s Greatest Dad

Yo, tambien (Me, too)

Debra Granik/USA/2009/100 min Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Kevin Breznahan, Dale Dickey, Garret Dillahunt, Sheryl Lee

Bobcat Goldthwait/USA/2009/99 min Cast: Robin Williams, Alexie Gilmore, Daryl Sabara, Geoff Pierson, Henry Simmons

Álvaro Pastor, Antonio Naharro/ Spain/2009/103 min Cast: Lola Dueñas, Pablo Pineda, Antonio Naharro, Isabel García Lorca

Sat 19 June 20:15 Filmhouse 1 Sun 20 June 15:45 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc)

THU 17 June 20:25 Cameo 1 Sat 26 June 18:15 Cineworld PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) An outrageous, taboo-scorning comedy, from the maverick mind of Bobcat Goldthwait.

Fascinating, deeply atmospheric thriller based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell.

TUE 22 June 18:15 Filmhouse 2 Sat 26 June 18:15 Filmhouse 3 PRICE: £8.50 (£7.50 conc) A charmingly offbeat, gentle comedy.

Set in the desolate Ozark Mountain region of the central United States, this enigmatic thriller follows 17-year-old Ree Jolly (Jennifer Lawrence) on a desperate quest to save the family home from the bailiffs, after her drug dealing father skips bail. Pulled perilously close to a brutal family of crack cocaine dealers, Ree is forced to undergo a series of terrifying ordeals, where death is always a distinct possibility.

Robin Williams is hilarious here, playing the utter antithesis of his famed Dead Poets’ Society character. Lance Clayton is a sad-sack schoolteacher who has trouble communicating with the youth – particularly his sullen teenage son, Kyle, who basically hates everything except internet pornography. But when Kyle meets with a nasty accident, Lance sees a chance to redeem both of them... Raucous and rude, yet appealingly honest, this is black comedy at its best.

Daniel – a recent university graduate with Down’s Syndrome – falls in love on his first day at work in the Department of Social Services. Laura is an outsider who spends her nights in the city’s crowded clubs and singles’ bars, escaping her problems in the arms of total strangers. Yet despite their apparent incompatibility, the two strike up a moving, bittersweet friendship that touches them both and eventually sets them on the road to happiness.

Like this? Try these... The Dry Land; Putty Hill; The Kid; Road to Las Vegas

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BLACK BOX

BLACK BOX

SHORTS

Black Box 1: Great and Small

Black Box 3: Time Travel

Cinema Extreme

75 min

87 min

68 min

THU 24 June 16:00 Filmhouse 3 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

Sat 26 June 16:00 Filmhouse 3 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

Fri 18 June 15:30 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

Nature in all its many guises, from the minute to the infinite.

A conceptual journey from past to present and from here to there…

The UK’s coolest short film scheme.

Experimental filmmakers have long turned their cameras to the natural world, using film to examine and transform flora and fauna both strange and familiar. This programme presents some of the most innovative contemporary works in this area, including a Darwin and Da Vinci-inspired film featuring magnificent wildlife from the Galapagos, a portrait of the Golden Orb Weaver spider, and some awe-inspiring landscapes from all over the world.

This diverse programme of films concentrates on spatial and temporal ambiguities, fusing real and imaginary landscapes and questioning our perception of the seemingly familiar. Evocative film poems that attempt to grasp an elusive moment are combined with rigorous explorations of time and place. How is personal experience shaped by fragmented perceptions of reality and an overriding impression of timelessness?

Some of the most exciting filmmakers working in the UK – such as Andrea Arnold and Simon Ellis – have made films through the Cinema Extreme initiative for the UK Film Council and Film4, which have gone on to win BAFTAs, Oscars® and awards here at EIFF. Films from the last strand of this programme will be shown at EIFF 2010, brought to you by Lifesize Pictures in conjunction with The Bureau. www.ukfilmcouncil.co.uk

BLACK BOX

75 min Fri 25 June 15:00 Filmhouse 3 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc) Expanding the limits of perception through the materiality of both film and video.

Escape from traditional representation takes many forms, from everyday phenomena seen in new and unusual perspectives to abstract plays of sound, shape and colour. Unsettling, hypnotic, overwhelming or revelatory, the films presented here explore the boundary between abstraction and figuration, film and video, seeing and hearing, with explosive bursts of imagery to excite the senses and engage the brain.

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Black Box 2: Open Your Eyes

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SHORTS Document Shorts 1: THE Lucky ONES

Creative Identities Shorts 90 min Sat 19 June 17:30 Cineworld PRICE: FREE TICKETED EVENT A bold and innovative programme of films made by young people from across Scotland.

What stories would Scotland's young people choose to tell if they were given training and a camera? Some of the best results can be seen in this lively mix of short films, demonstrating the wealth of filmmaking talent which the Creative Identities project has been able to nurture. The films cover a range of topics and touch on some of the many social issues these young people have encountered. Part of the Creative Identities programme – see p63.

SHORTS

DOCUMENT

DOCUMENT

Digicult Shorts

Document Shorts 1: Occupational Therapies

Document Shorts 2: Reflections & Memories

91 min

92 min

87 min

Mon 21 June 13:30 Filmhouse 2 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

Mon 21 June 16:35 Filmhouse 2 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

TUE 22 June 13:40 Filmhouse 2 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

DigiCult, Scotland’s award-winning digital film project, returns with a compelling and eclectic mix of live action drama and animated film.

Work is never a simple 9 to 5 business.

Contemplation and recollection combine in this thought-provoking assortment of short documentaries from around the world.

Offering dark thrills and intense passion, alternative realities and outrageous humour, the showcase features six films produced through Scottish Digital Shorts 2009, an initiative targeting new and emerging writers and writer/directors. Confirming their quality, five of DigiCult’s shorts also feature in EIFF’s competition selection. SDS 2009 was core funded by Scottish Screen, UK Film Council and BBC Scotland.

From the subversive, aggressive and occasionally cheeky act of hanging trainers on streetside telephone lines, to the anonymous yet strangely intimate local launderette: occupations play an inherent role in who we are, what we become and how we form our sense of community.

Whether examining the genuine vocation of a nun or the reluctant circumstances of a migrant farmworker, these compelling shorts reflect the sometimes stable and sometimes fluctuating contemporary workplaces.

A haunting recount of how one man’s innocent lie became a murderer’s alibi; a frank telling of the realities of group marriage; a revealing portrait of one family ruled by a care order; an emotional return to the site of the D-Day landings; and an enigmatic account of a failed documentary. Each story relies on the power of reminiscence to reveal a diverse array of extraordinary circumstances.

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SHORTS

ANIMATION

SHORTS

Family Shorts: Growing Pains

International Animation 2

International Shorts 1: Strings Attached

85 min

92 min

89 min

fri 25 June 15:30 Filmhouse 2 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

TUE 22 June 15:30 Filmhouse 3 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

Wed 23 June 15:00 Filmhouse 2 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

EIFF is pleased to present a selection of delightful short stories from around the world for our younger audiences.

The second international programme of films created one frame at a time.

An affecting journey through the tapestry of relations connecting people.

We continue our panoramic view of world animation with a predominance of handmade approaches, in what appears to be an era of post-CGI aesthetics. Where CGI is explored, it is utilised with real distinction – a quality shared by all of these films within the method of their creation. Many of these shorts resonate with recent events on the social and political spheres, demonstrating how effective animation can be as a medium for distilling ideas and emotions.

A man on a quest to fulfil his dying mother’s last wish; a young girl’s chance encounter with a stranger; two long-lost cousins’ trip to the Scottish Highlands; and a glimpse into the domestic life of a Romanian family stirred by the arrival of an injured bird.

This selection of international short films explores the many ways in which the often unspoken connections we develop with other human beings can shape, shake up or simply quietly accompany our lives.

The challenges we encounter as we grow up are many and often unexpected: falling in love for the first time, having to say goodbye to a beloved pet, making new friends over a football match and even having to protect your ice-cream from a very cheeky monster!

With the lightest of touches, this programme of charming and inspiring shorts will take you through some of the defining moments of our journey through life.

ANIMATION

87 min Mon 21 June 16:15 Filmhouse 3 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc) The first of two programmes showcasing world animation.

The global animators represented in this programme excel in utilising drawn and modelling techniques, in a plethora of dreamscapes powered with real emotion.

Each film is garnished with a cultural aesthetic from its location, and takes us through a range of experiences and reactions.

The first of two programmes features the welcome return of the Quay Brothers’ esoteric narratives (see Brothers Quay Animation Event p63) as well as another comic escapade offered by American toon legend Bill Plympton.

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International animation 1: silence beneath the bark

International Animation 1

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McLaren ANIMATION 1: Astronomer's Sun

SHORTS

SHORTS

ANIMATION

International Shorts 2: Little Earthquakes

International Shorts 3: Discomfort Zone

McLaren Animation 1

94 min

82 min

91 min

THU 24 June 15:30 Filmhouse 2 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

Fri 25 June 13:00 Filmhouse 2 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

Sometimes you can nearly hear the cracks in your foundations…

Ever felt stranded, unprepared, painfully out of context?

THU 17 June 15:00 Filmhouse 3 Sat 19 June 11:45 Filmhouse 3 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

The young protagonists of this eclectic programme are shaken by fractures, revelations and other incidents which make their lives tremble. An empowering new haircut; a turning point on a Halloween night; a brutal act engendering tragic consequences; a teenage girl’s coming-of-age, an unexpected arrival in a painfully shy boy’s life: all these shorts – each adopting its own fiercely personal style – take a look at the many, subtle ways our lives can be turned upside down.

From France, Hungary, Sweden, Canada and Singapore, this programme of shorts observes characters who find themselves flung out of their comfort zone: sometimes parachuted miles away from home, on other occasions witnessing a disruptive event in their familiar surroundings, or even feeling painfully alienated in their own household. By turns funny and unsettling, these are brief, engaging visions of the various ways in which we can feel out of key.

Encounter some of the best new British animation.

The first of two programmes showcasing the best of British animation offers an anthology of fairytale narratives, with a stunning variety of techniques exposing the breadth of talent within the UK. From the finest cinematographic stop motion, the most beautiful designs, through to an exemplary application of pixilation – all of these gems would have made the programmes’ namesake proud. With such quality on offer, which film will you choose for the prestigious McLaren Award?

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ANIMATION Scottish Short Documentary Award Screening: Skip

McLaren Animation 2 89 min Fri 18 June 18:30 Filmhouse 3 Sun 20 June 11:45 Filmhouse 3 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc) Witness the breathtaking variety of British animation.

The second of two screenings celebrating the richness of Britain’s animation talent features further ingenious explorations of the diverse methods used to create moving images one frame at a time. Poetic imaginations explore rhythms of narrative, light cascading into a room, or how the world is seen from a fly’s point of view.

All of the films presented in programmes one and two compete for your vote in the coveted McLaren Award.

DOCUMENT

SHORTS

SHORTS

Scottish Short Documentary Award Screening

UK Shorts 1

UK Shorts 2

94 min

89 min

87 min

Sat 19 June 13:15 Filmhouse 2 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

THU 17 June 13:00 Filmhouse 2 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

Fri 18 June 14:00 Filmhouse 2 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

A special screening of award nominees showcasing the very best of local short documentary talent.

Don’t miss the chance to catch a glimpse of the future of British film, with this selection of shorts by talented up-and-coming UK filmmakers.

Continue your journey of discovery with this selection of short films by the new voices in British filmmaking.

This is yet another strong year for Scottish Short Documentary, with subjects ranging from a Spanish pilgrimage route to Bobby Kennedy’s funeral parade. The award is open to filmmakers who are either from or working in Scotland, and is generously funded by a donation from Baillie Gifford, with an annual prize of £1000. The jury will announce the winner at the end of the screening, so don’t miss out on the excitement!

An unexpected marital arrangement; a shipwreck on an unfamiliar planet; a reclusive screenwriter’s unhealthy obsession with Steven Spielberg; and a child’s magical birthday party – just some of the stories which make up this programme of brand new British short films brimming with creativity, originality and visual flair.

The shorts in the second of our UK programmes beautifully combine engaging storytelling with assured and inventive visual approaches. The unexpected outcome of a space mission; a girl’s fateful encounter with a fascinating couple; two lovers caught in surreal game of crime and punishment; and a young boy’s hard life on the family farm provide just a few of the narrative threads woven through this eclectic showcase of talented new British filmmakers.

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The Final Programme

Glitterball

Much is known about the British New Wave; the same cannot be said for films produced after it had peaked. Overlooked by memory and technology alike, this subsequent era is virtually forgotten; it is, however, one which should be cherished as the most radical in British cinema’s history, laying the foundations for truly modern British cinema.

This is what happened After the Wave.

Robert Fuest/UK/1973/89 min Cast: Jon Finch, Jenny Runacre, Sterling Hayden, Harry Andrews, Hugh Griffith

Harley Cokliss/UK/1977/52 mins Cast: Ben Buckton, Keith Jayne, Ron Pember, Marjorie Yates, Barry Jackson, Andrew Jackson

We are also screening films by The Children’s Film Foundation as part of this retrospective.

Founded in 1951, with an output ranging from documentaries to science fiction to schoolyard dramas, the CFF produced films starring young adults as the protagonists, revealing how youth negotiated an often treacherous adult world. Here we present three of its finest works.

Finally, it’s time to rediscover Michael Moorcock’s eponymous character. See a Cuban-heeled Jon Finch pimp-strutting through a pop-dystopian Britain; a land splattered with day-glo plastic pinball machine night clubs, vampiric seductresses, and an anarchic arms-dealing Sterling Hayden at his most bush-bearded and barmy.

As subversive and angular as the rapturous pop Art Deco sets, The Final Programme dares you to bend that gender.

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Thu 24 June 13:35 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc) Science fiction’s new wave hits the big screen, and the future becomes tasty – if a little hairy.

The Boy Who Turned Yellow MIchael Powell, Emeric Pressburger/ UK/1972/55 mins Cast: Mark Dightam, Robert Eddison, Helen Weir, Brian Worth, Esmond Knight, Laurence Carter, Patrick McAlinney, Lem Kitaj Sat 19 June 11:30 Filmhouse 2 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc) In Powell and Pressburger’s swansong, London becomes electric. And very yellow.

When young John dozes off in class, he find himself chummed by Nick, the human electrode! Never mind that, his pet mouse has found its way into the Tower of London, a crime which carries a slight punishment: John’s beheading! Made for the Children’s Film Foundation, The Archers once again make London their canvas, and England blooms into a riot of colour. Bold, glorious, and just a little bit bonkers.

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Imagine ET … in the form of a silver ping pong ball!

Quite possibly the most endearing Children’s Film Foundation entry, this low-budget charmer sees an alien left behind on a very 1970s Planet Earth, with only two young boys for company. While this alien comes in the very pocketable form of a little silver ball, it will eat through anything … which is why local thief Filthy wants to get his grubby hands on it! Wonder if Spielberg ever saw this?

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Gumshoe

The Hard Way

The Jokers

Stephen Frears/UK/1971/86 min Cast: Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay, Janice Rule, Carolyn Seymour

Michael Dryhurst/UK/1979/89 min Cast: Patrick McGoohan, Lee Van Cleef, Edna O’Brien, Donal McCann

Michael Winner/UK/1966/94 min Cast: Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Harry Andrews, James Donald, Michael Horden

Sun 20 June 13:30 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

Sat 26 June 11:00 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

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Of all the gin joints, she had to walk into his.

If Jean-Pierre Melville had filmed in Ireland, this could have been the result.

What’s the best way to celebrate the Swinging 60s? By stealing the Crown Jewels!

A rural hitman (Patrick McGoohan) wants to give up his line of business, only his American ‘financer’ (Lee Van Cleef) has other ideas. British cinema’s most minimalist thriller features not only a career best by McGoohan, but the mossgreen cinematography of legendary Henri Decaë (Le Samouraï). Add to this Brian Eno’s troubling score, and you have a stark and lean mood piece prowling around the screen.

Brothers Michael and David (Michael Crawford and Oliver Reed) are typical 60s gadabouts; it’s all wine, women, song ... and breaking into the Tower of London. Using comic dexterity to hint at the era’s underlying distemper, Michael Winner (yes, that Michael Winner) divines magic from Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement’s restless script. A swinging caper so effervescent and breathless, you’ll forgive even Ollie Reed’s attempts at dancing.

Private eye Eddie Ginley (Albert Finney) thinks he’s Bogart – if Bogie was a compere at a Merseyside bingo – but his latest case may have bamboozled even Raymond Chandler himself. Accompanied by a mesmerising Andrew Lloyd Webber score, Frears’ post-modern dismantling of the American detective genre revels in British locations and wonderfully earthy wordplay.

You’ll never look at a raincoat in the same way again. Here’s looking at you … Eddie?

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Long Shot

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Maurice Hatton/UK/1978/85 min Cast: Charles Gormley, Neville Smith, Anne Zelda, Mary Maddox, Jill Beck

John Mackenzie/UK/1972/101 min Cast: Carol White, Roy Harper, John Castle, Margery Mason, Doremy Vernon, Sam Dastor

Horace Ové/UK/1975/120 min Cast: Herbert Norville, Oscar James, Frank Singuineau, Lucita Lijertwood, Sheila Scott-Wilkinson

TUE 22 June 13:20 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

Fri 25 June 12:30 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

When housewife intimacy meets rock star extroversion, beliefs come a-tumblin’ down.

You think the likes of Nick Griffin emerged from nowhere?

Do not miss this chance to catch John (Just Another Saturday) MacKenzie’s rarely seen masterpiece. Valerie feels caught in a domestic rut, until she meets existentialist rock singer Mike. Her life then becomes passionate, but at an emotional price. While noted for its rare appearance by singersongwriter Roy Harper, it is Carol White’s fearless performance that electrifies. Vivid, brave, touching – and unlikely to screen again any time soon.

As London school-leaver Tony attempts to secure employment, he becomes entangled in boiling cultural tensions between the white establishment and his Jamaican background. Still the seminal portrait of the pressures faced by immigrants in Britain, this remains a caustic denouncement of institutional racism. Raw performances and confrontational politics power the first British film made by a black director ... do not miss out.

Mon 21 June 15:15 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc) A producer and a writer try to get their feature film green lit ... at EIFF 1977!

Amidst the who’s who of the 1977 Edinburgh International Film Festival, our heroes Neville Smith and Charles Gormley accept a lift from Stephen Frears; discuss “kissing and cuddling” with Jim Haynes; consult Alan Bennett; and pitch their script to Wim Wenders, John Boorman and other luminaries. This is a unique opportunity to take a retrospective look at both this fascinating film and EIFF in the 1970s.

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Private Road

Privilege

Pulp

Barney Platts-Mills/UK/1971/90 min Cast: Bruce Robinson, Susan Penhaligon, Michael Feast, George Fenton, Robert Brown

Peter Watkins/UK/1967/103 min Cast: Paul Jones, Jean Shrimpton, Mark London, William Job, Max Bacon

Mike Hodges/UK/1972/95 min Cast: Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Lionel Stander, Lizabeth Scott, Nadia Cassini

Fri 18 June 13:00 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

Mon 21 June 13:00 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

Want to know what will happen when Simon Cowell finds religion and moves into politics?

Think Get Carter filmed as a dark comedy. In fascist Italy. With really cool sunglasses.

Stephen Shorter (Manfred Mann’s Paul Jones) seems like the perfect pop star; he is, however, little more than the puppet and prisoner of a manipulating church and state.

What seemed like outlandish speculation in 1967 – the control of the masses through popular culture and celebrity endorsement – now seems too close for comfort. Still criminally misunderstood, it is time for Watkins’ visually stunning film to be fully appreciated.

Writer Mickey King’s (Michael Caine) pulp fiction has nothing on the memoirs he is ghostwriting for the abusive Hollywood gangster actor Preston Gilbert (a caffeineand-Sterodent-powered Mickey Rooney). A page later, on-screen and off-screen worlds are blending, and the big sleep beckons for some. Accompanied by an unforgettable George Martin score, this hilarious film blows the bloody doors off!

TUE 22 June 15:45 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc) Eric Rohmer wasn’t the only one crafting honest and intimate dramas.

The second feature by Barney Platt-Mills blooms with beauty and charm alike, while carrying the troubled seeds of Withnail & I. Receptionist Anne’s new relationship with nascent writer Peter is opening her eyes to a new lifestyle, one far removed from her comfortable middle-class background. A beguiling film, setting Bruce Robinson and Susan Penhaligon’s gentle performances within a summery London and the verdant Scottish Highlands. Simply sublime.

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The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer Kevin Billington/UK/1970/100 min Cast: Peter Cook, Denholm Elliott, Ronald Fraser, Arthur Lowe, Vanessa Howard Sat 19 June 13:00 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc) What gets you further: the personality of your politics, or the politics of your personality?

Peter Cook’s mischievous performance fuels this uproarious satire, scripted by members of Monty Python, no less. Armed with little more than a clipboard and a whole lot of chutzpah, the mysterious Michael Rimmer sets on his ascent to prominence, ultimately bluffing his way into 10 Downing Street. A riotous reminder of the power of satire, and one that looks less far-fetched with every passing election.

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The Squeeze

What Next?

Ken Russell/UK/1972/103 min Cast: Dorothy Tutin, Scott Antony, Helen Mirren, Lindsay Kemp, Michael Gough

Michael Apted/UK/1976/106 min Cast: Stacy Keach, David Hemmings, Edward Fox, Stephen Boyd, Carol White

Wed 23 June 13:30 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

Fri 25 June 15:15 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

Peter Smith/UK/1974/54 min Cast: Perry Benson, Peter Benson, Laurence Carter, Alan Collins, Charles Cork, James Cossin

Art is sex. Everything else is propaganda.

A failed career. A violent past. A kidnapped wife. No wonder our hero is on the sauce...

In his vibrant biopic of French sculptor Henri Gaudier, Ken Russell finds his perfect mouthpiece. As Gaudier romances the author Sophie Brzeska, the enfant terrible of British cinema echoes the artist’s rallying cry against the musty treatment of art. Cue a sensual Helen Mirren, and art and sex become indistinguishable. This seldom seen masterpiece simply proves Russell’s earthy and rebellious genius. Embrace your inner primitivist and come join the revolution!

Alcoholic ex-cop Jim Naiboth (Stacey Keach) is one drink away from oblivion, when local gangster Vic abducts his ex-wife and her daughter. In a world as dark and unstable as his favourite port, the question is whether Naiboth can survive his addiction, never mind rescue the family. An American New Wave film in all but location, this is British crime cinema at its most pungent.

Sun 27 June 11:30 Filmhouse 2 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc) All aboard the ghost train! The Children’s Film Foundation goes psychic…

After receiving a bump on the head, a young supersleuth develops peekaboo powers of foresight. This comes in very handy, as a ne’er-do-well property developer is planning The Great Plane Robbery! Imagine the creators of The Beano shooting a film, while bounding around a fairground on a Fizz Bomb sugar-rush. Regardless of your age, this is more fun than setting light to your dad’s carpet slippers.

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8 1/2 Foundation Screening

Bored to Death: Cinematic TV

Drifters: In Celebration of the Edinburgh Film Guild

120 min Sat 26 June 13:15 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

Alan Taylor, Michael Lehman/USA/120 min Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Ted Danson, Zach Galifianakis

John Grierson/UK/1929/49 min

Wed 23 June 17:00 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

A special screening in honour of EIFF’s founder organisation, which turns 80 this year.

EIFF Patron Tilda Swinton and filmmaker Mark Cousins announce their new venture.

Having travelled their happily ramshackle film festivals from pillar to post in the last couple of years, Mark and Tilda are now spreading love for world cinema amid the younger generation. All will be revealed at this event, which will also include a special screening of a film close to both their hearts. And maybe there’ll be a surprise…

Suitable for citizens of the world aged 8 or 80, and even journalists!

A deadpan comedy with a great cast – and the odd interesting guest star...

Last year, EIFF brought you exclusive previews of In Treatment and True Blood.

Our big-screen TV strand continues with this glimpse of HBO’s hilarious Bored to Death.

Devastated by the departure of his girlfriend, writer Jonathan Ames (Jason Schwartzmann) distracts himself by taking on some casual work – as a private detective. Co-stars include Ted Danson, Zach Galifianakis and (in an episode entitled The Case of the Missing Screenplay) one Jim Jarmusch.

Sun 20 June 20:15 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

This festival is very proud to be the offspring of the oldest still-running film society in the world – and to offer this screening of John Grierson’s classic 1929 documentary as a token of our appreciation. One of the Guild’s early supporters and champions, Grierson also backed the instigation of a festival as part of its activity. This portrait of North Sea herring fishermen remains one of the key works of the documentary movement.

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Five Easy Pieces

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Went the Day Well?

Bob Rafelson/USA/1970/98 min Cast: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Bush, Fannie Flagg, Sally Ann Struthers

Alberto Cavalcanti/UK/1947/103 min Cast: Trevor Howard, Sally Gray, Griffith Jones, René Ray

Alberto Cavalcanti/UK/1941/93 min Cast: Leslie Banks, Marie Lohr, Hilda Bayley, Elizabeth Allan, Frank Lawton

Sun 27 June 11:00 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

THU 24 June 16:00 Cameo 1 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

Wed 23 June 16:00 Cameo 1 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

Simply the finest American New Wave film.

Clem Morgan’s been set up for killing a copper ... now he’s gunning for revenge.

Miss Marple meets The Eagle Has Landed in one of the greatest British war movies.

When ex-RAF officer turned petty crook Clem (Trevor Howard) is fitted up for murder by villainous spiv Narcy, only the love and loyalty of Sally (Sally Gray) stands between him and certain death … but whose certain death? At last, it is time to relish one of the finest, least known British noirs. Part poetic realism, part expressionist nightmare, Cavalcanti’s dark-lane poetry still bristles with sadism, tenderness and unbridled style.

When Churchill said we’d fight the Nazis on beaches, landing grounds, fields, streets and hills, he left out the church-yard, manorhouse, pub and village-green. But in this stirring, startlingly violent (for its time) masterwork of WW2 propaganda, that’s exactly where the plucky locals of Bramley End engage the enemy. Inspired by a Graham Greene short story, this is a true hidden gem of our national cinema.

Seize this chance to see why Bob Rafelson’s sublime film remains a peerless masterpiece. Backed by László Kovács’ painterly cinematography, Jack Nicolson positively crackles as the brilliant musician masquerading as an oil rig worker. Nominated for four Oscars®, Rafelson’s film set such a high standard for American cinema that its achievements remain unsurpassed. We are proud to present a glorious digitally remastered print.

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Creative Identities Programme

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Creative Identities provides young people aged 10-19 across Scotland with the opportunity to try a range of high quality arts and media activities. The programme is funded by the Scottish Governments CashBack for Communities fund, which aims to increase the opportunities young people in Scotland have to develop their interests and skills in an enjoyable, fulfilling and supported way, using funds recovered from criminals. The initiatives provided are open to all children and young people, although resources are focused on areas of high crime. The core goals are to address both participation and diversion, as well as aiming to increase the likelihood of positive longterm outcomes for those who take part.

Sat 19 June 17:30 Cineworld PRICE: FREE TICKETED EVENT

What stories would Scotland’s young people choose to tell if they were given training and a camera? Some of the best results can be seen in this lively mix of short films, demonstrating the wealth of filmmaking talent which the Creative Identities project has been able to nurture. The films cover a range of topics and touch on some of the many social issues these young people have encountered.

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. A partnership between EIFF, Pilton Video and City of Edinburgh Council, this project was sponsored by Bright Grey and funded by Awards for All.

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Creative Identities Shorts 90 min

A bold and innovative programme of films made by young people from across Scotland.

Edinburgh Schools Film Competition Check out the future filmmaking stars in these two dazzling programmes of the best short films made by Edinburgh school pupils.

Creative Identities Workshops

Make Up for Filming

Primary Schools Films

Sat 19 June Age 14-19 years St Georges West, 58 Shandwick Place £10.00 per person per workshop

90 min

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Sat 19 June 11:45 St George’s West PRICE: £10.00

SaT 19 June 10:00 Cineworld PRICE: FREE TICKETED EVENT

Fancy yourself as the next top Hollywood director, editor or make-up artist? Sign up for one of these great workshops arranged in association with Creative Identites.

The essentials of make-up and design skills for drama and music video production.

The youngest filmmakers in our 2010 programme: budding artists from Scotland's primary schools show their perspective on life, in a colourful and inspiring showcase.

Camera Skills

Editing on Laptops

Secondary Schools Films

90 min

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Sat 19 June 09:30 St George’s West PRICE: £10.00

Sat 19 June 14:00 St George’s West PRICE: £10.00

Sat 19 June 12:00 Cineworld PRICE: FREE TICKETED EVENT

Working with Canon HV20 Cameras and Tripods, learn framing, focusing, colour balance and following the action on screen.

Using Mac Pro Laptops and hard drives, explore the basics of creative audio-visual editing with professional software.

Don't some of your most intense memories date from your time at 'big school'? Here we see things through the eyes of Scotland's secondary school pupils – spot the new filmmakers of the future here.

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London 2012 Film Nation Workshops Film Nation is a national project and partnership between London 2012 and Panasonic, presenting these free workshops for budding young filmmakers of various ages. One of the major Cultural Olympiad initiatives, Film Nation will introduce young people and adults to filmmaking and support them in developing skills to create their own work. The resulting Film Nation: Shorts competition will provide a chance for participants to have their films shown in the stadiums at the Olympic and Paralympic games in 2012.

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Make a Film in a Day

An Intro to Directing for New Filmmakers

Sat 26 June 09:00-17:00 | AGE 11-15 yrs Sun 27 June 09:00-17:00 | AGE 16-19 YRS

Fri 25 June 14:00-17:00 | AGE 19+ YRS

The Shandwick Room, St Georges West PRICE: FREE TICKETED EVENT Working with industry professionals through First Light, learn how to make a short film in a day, themed around the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Participants will learn about story, camera, sound, directing, editing and producing a short film.

St George’s West PRICE: FREE TICKETED EVENT Inspired to make your name in film? Sign up for a masterclass that will give you all the tools you need.

As part of the Cultural Olympiad’s Film Nation project, 104 Films will be running an introduction to film directing for new filmmakers aged 19 and over. Learn how to direct actors on screen and about the opportunities to make films for Film Nation.

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Don't miss all the latest news, reviews and features at edfilmfest.org.uk There will be photos, videos and blogs from this year's Festival.

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50 Letters

BAFTA Scotland Interview: Sir Patrick Stewart

BED

50 min

90 min

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THU 17 June 21:00 Inspace Fri 18 June 21:00 Inspace PRICE: FREE TICKETED EVENT

MON 21 JUNE 17:30 CINEWORLD PRICE: £15.00 (£12.00 conc)

Sat 19 June 21:00 Wed 23 June 22:00 BBC Big Screen @ Festival Square PRICE: FREE

50 Letters is a performance event devised

by Grahame Weinbren, consisting of 50 short films, each connected with a letter of the alphabet. It is interactive in the most primitive way: a live event, with the audience selecting the next letter – film by live collaboration. As the piece unfolds, different themes and stories emerge.

These can be dark or humorous, political or personal, luscious, ludicrous or repulsive – all depending upon the sequence in which the films are shown.

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The captain of this year’s Michael Powell Jury talks about his craft.

A heavyweight talent whose face and voice are known worldwide, Sir Patrick is a powerful presence – the sheer class conferred by his performance arguably saved Star Trek: The Next Generation from vanishing into some black hole of bad sequels – and yet his willingness to pursue fun projects and to spoof himself has ensured a wide and unpredictable range of work, from the RSC to X-Men to Family Guy.

Two special outdoor screenings to coincide with Johan Grimonprez's major solo exhibition at The Fruitmarket Gallery.

BED offers a gentle counterpoint to the visually and politically complex films for which Grimonprez is internationally renowned. Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997) took the art world by storm, and Doubletake (2009) has just been released in cinemas to great acclaim. Both films mix television, documentary and film footage, blurring fact and fiction in Grimonprez’s characteristic blend of meanings and counter-meanings, and both will be on show at The Fruitmarket Gallery.

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90 min Sun 20 June 16:00 Cineworld PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc) Be part of the debate, as key directors and industry figures discuss the nation’s past and present filmmaking health, in association with BBC Radio 4’s The Film Programme.

This live addition to our retrospective programme will be chaired by Francine Stock and recorded for broadcast on June 25th and repeated on June 27th. Panel participants comparing the period of our retrospective with today’s scene will include Stephen Frears; Mike Hodges; writer, producer and ex-EIFF director Lynda Myles; and EIFF retrospective programmer Niall Fulton.

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Behind the Scenes

Brothers Quay Animation Event

But We Have The Music

180 min

120 min

Fri 18 June 14:15 Cineworld PRICE: £12.00 (£10.00 conc)

TUE 22 June 17:15 Cineworld PRICE: £15.00 (£12.00 conc)

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A full introduction to the hidden secrets of filmmaking, with expert practitioners from the EIFF guest list.

A conversation with the enigmatic twin duo behind some of the finest animated films ever made.

Not satisfied with simply watching the films? Looking for a bit more backstage access? Sign up for this intensive insiders' course, and experience three high-level masterclasses from filmmakers and experts from the EIFF talent pool. Aimed at film fans, students, filmmakers and teachers alike, this up-close workshop will reveal the hard graft behind the onscreen glamour, and provide an invaluable primer to those looking to learn more. Participants will be revealed nearer the time.

From their music video and advertising work, to their world-celebrated short films and their two extraordinary features, identical twin brothers Stephen and Timothy Quay have established themselves as two of the most influential and mythologised figures in the history of animated filmmaking. We are immensely proud to welcome them – and their newly-finished film Maska, which will be shown at this event as well as in our International Animation programme (p52).

French director Shanti Masud’s experimental film presents a series of portraits of people listening and responding to music. Filmed in black-and-white Super 8, the film features a varied soundtrack including music by Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake and The Beach Boys.

Organised in conjunction with the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art as part of What you see is where you’re at. For further details visit www.nationalgalleries.org.

Not sure where to begin?

Check The Suggest-O-Tron on edfilmfest.org.uk for instant film suggestions.

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The Casting Process: A Panel Discussion 90 min Sat 19 June 15:30 Cineworld PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc) Casting the right actor is one of the most important aspects of filmmaking; being cast is the most important thing in an actor’s career.

Emmy-nominated casting director Nancy Bishop CSA (The Bourne Identity, Wanted, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian) will be joined by a panel of leading casting directors and high calibre film professionals. Topics included will be the director/casting director relationship and the actor/casting director relationship. The seminar will be followed by an invaluable Q&A session and an opportunity for networking.

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Film Lounge

Free For All?

Graham King: Variety Interview

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90 min

90 min

The Film Lounge is Stills’ permanent alternative viewing environment, presenting curated programmes of moving image works.

Sat 19 June 13:00 Inspace PRICE: free ticketed event

Sat 19 June 15:00 Cineworld PRICE: £15.00 (£12.00 conc)

Film lovers won’t want to miss this debate about one of the hottest issues currently affecting cinema.

We are proud to present a formidable producer, interviewed by Tim Grey, editor of Variety.

Illegal downloads are forecast to cost the European creative industries over $159 billion by 2015. However, there is increasing evidence that those who fileshare are also more likely to buy music, DVDs and games, so some argue that the threat has been overstated. Come and debate the issues with those defending the film industry and those questioning the boundaries of the law.

This event will be streamed live and can be followed on Twitter.

A cabbie’s son from Cockfosters, Graham King started temping for Hollywood studios at 18. He has since transformed himself into one of LA’s most dynamic, ambitious and respected power players – and Martin Scorsese’s favourite producer. Blockbusters King has coaxed into being or saved from collapse include Traffic, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, Blood Diamond and The Departed, for which he won an Oscar®.

Graham King is the recipient of the 2010 Variety UK Achievement in Film Award.

It will run in parallel with Stills’ exhibitions and include two film programmes: the first related to themes in Stills’ main exhibitions and the other considering the broader context of historical filmmaking practice, inviting guest curators, artists, archivists and commissioning agencies to select films. The films will represent both formal and conceptual approaches to filmmaking. Running from 18 June to 18 July, the first programme – The City and The Stars – focuses upon science-fiction, the celestial field, psychic activity and global communication networks.

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FESTIVAL EVENTS Introduction to Animation Workshop

HP Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror Colin Edwards/UK/2010/80 min Cast: Greg Hemphill, Innes Smith, Gavin Mitchell, Charlie Ross, Sandy Nelson, Vivien Grahame, David McGowan, Vivien Taylor, Dave Barr Wed 23 June 19:45 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc) Hear the Fear, in the world’s first audio horror movie.

Bang Ltd, in conjunction with leading sound company Savalas, present a truly unique cinematic experience. Faithfully adapted from HP Lovecraft’s classic horror masterpiece, this full-length feature without the pictures takes full advantage of the cinema’s Dolby Digital surround sound system and invites the audience to close their eyes and immerse themselves in a world of beauty, intrigue, drama and devastating horror, limited only by their imagination. Open your ears and lose your mind.

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Introduction to Animation Workshop

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Making of The Illusionist with Sylvain Chomet

180 min

THU 24 June 20:00 Roxy Art House PRICE: £6.50

90 min

Sat 26 June 14:00 | AGE 8-12 yRs St. John’s Church PRICE: £10.00 Inspired by opening night film The Illusionist or delighted by Toy Story 3D? Why not have a go at creating your own animated film?!

Animators from Red Kite Animation in Edinburgh will help you start your own epic films with model making and animation tips.

This beginner’s guide to claymation will give you ultimate control over plastic eyeballs, killer tentacles and evil slugs! Just bring your imagination!

EIFF hooks up with Canongate, the UK's coolest independent publishing house, for a night of literary, musical and filmic stimulation.

For the culturally curious and lovers of after-hours good times... Join us for a midsummer, film-spiked instalment of this unique literary club night. Featuring live performances from stars of page and screen, short films, live music and djs, you can expect treats for eyes and ears, all savoured underneath the fabulous (deconsecrated) arches of one of Edinburgh’s most breathtaking gothic spaces.

THU 17 June 18:15 Cineworld PRICE: £15.00 (£12.00 conc) A close-up look at a new Scottish-set classic, with its Oscar®-nominated creator.

A multiple award-winning writer, comic book artist, director and animator, Sylvain Chomet relocated to Edinburgh in 2004 after visiting the city to present his first feature – Belleville Rendezvous – at EIFF. His new film The Illusionist (p14) pays eloquent tribute to his adopted homeland: its light, its landscapes, its deep-fried dinners... Don’t miss this chance to hear a master discuss his techniques and processes.

For more information and tickets please go to www.roxyarthouse.org

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FESTIVAL EVENTS

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The Scottish Screen Archive Event: Persuasion

Sideshow

Sound: Image: Art

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Wed 23 June 17:45 Filmhouse 2 PRICE: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

THU 24 June 20:30 Filmhouse 1 PRICE: £5.00

Sun 20 June 21:00 Inspace PRICE: FREE TICKETED EVENT

The return of this archive film event explores how Scottish filmmakers have been tempting and influencing audiences since the early days of cinema.

Collective and EIFF come together to develop a cross-artform residency with the artist Torsten Lauschmann.

A unique audio-visual collaboration produced by Central Station, Scotland’s groundbreaking online creative network.

Through intervention and technological trickery, Sideshow questions the formalised cinema experience. Grinding through abstract oddities past and present, Sideshow turns the imitation of life into a special effect. This is cinema reunited with its embarassing family of distasteful grannies and boring cousins. Please leave your mobile switched on and do not touch or feed the animals.

Together with award-winning studio Savalas, Central Station offered one composer the chance to develop the soundtrack for a new film from acclaimed visual artist Roderick Buchanan. The resulting collaboration will produce two short experimental films exploring themes of collective identity and historical perspective. In this special event, the screening of the films will be accompanied by a panel presentation charting the project’s evolution. This event will be followed by networking drinks.

Join this guided tour celebrating the finest examples of persuasive film, handpicked from the Scottish Screen Archive by independent curator Shona Thomson. From the abstemious Temperance movement to the first filmed sightings of the Loch Ness Monster, this is an extraordinary opportunity to see Scotland’s rich cultural and political heritage on the big screen, with an open discussion afterwards.

Torsten's exhibition at Collective runs from 5 June-18 July, with a programme of films and excerpts. Visit www.collectivegallery.net to download the schedule.

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Making of The Illusionist with Sylvain Chomet

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CINEMAS Filmhouse

Central Box Office & Information Point 88 Lothian Road, EH3 9BZ Open: 10:00 until late during the Festival.

Fully licensed bar with hot and cold food available.

Drinks can be taken into the screens. 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.

Bus routes: 1, 2, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 22, 24, 28, 30, 34, 35 www.filmhousecinema.com

Cameo

38 Home Street, Tollcross, EH3 9LZ Open: 09:00 until late during the Festival.

Fully licensed bar serving snack food. Drinks can be taken into the screenings. Free wi-fi.

Access: Cameo 1 and 2 fully accessible, there are three steps to Cameo 3 (help is always available).

Cameo 1 and 2 have one wheelchair space in each.

Adapted toilets at ground floor level. Cameo 1 fitted with an infrared induction loop.

Cineworld

Fountain Park, Fountainbridge, EH11 1AF Open: 10:00-21:00 (or until last screening) during the Festival.

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.

Bus routes: 1, 22, 34, 35 www.cineworld.co.uk/cinemas/21

Edinburgh Festival Theatre 13/29 Nicolson Street, EH8 9FT

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

Access: 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 venue. Infrared hearing facilities are available.

Bus routes: 2, 3, 3A, 5, 7, 8, 14, 21, 29, 31, 33, 37, 37A, 42 and 49. www.festivaltheatre.org.uk

Bus routes: 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 23, 27 and 37 www.picturehouses.co.uk/cameo

Tickets are also available on the door of non-cinema venues, 30 minutes before the start, cash only.

Advance booking is recommended for wheelchair spaces.

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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 6 or go to edfilmfest.org.uk

OTHER VENUES and gallerieS Collective Gallery

Inspace Gallery

St. John’s Church Hall

Open: Tuesday-Sunday 11:00-17:00.

Open: See website

Access: Fully accessible to wheelchair users and people with impaired mobility.

22-28 Cockburn Street, EH1 1NY

Access: Fully accessible from street. Disabled toilets.

Bus routes: No direct buses as on pedestrian area. Take buses to Waverley bridge, North Bridge. www.collectivegallery.net

1 Crichton Street, EH8 9AB Access: fully accessible with lifts and disabled toilets.

Bus routes: 42, 41, 67. http://inspace.mediascot.org

National Gallery of Modern Art 75 Belford Road, EH4 3DR

Princes Street, EH2 4BJ

Bus routes: 1, 2, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 22, 24, 28, 30, 34 and 35. www.stjohns-edinburgh.org.uk

Stills Gallery

23 Cockburn Street, EH1 1BP

Fruitmarket Gallery

Open: Daily 10:00-17:00, Thursdays until 19:00.

Open: Monday-Thursday 11:00-21:00, Friday-Sunday 11:00-18:00

Open 7 days: Monday-Saturday 11:00-18:00, Sunday 12:00-17:00.

Access: The Gallery of Modern Art has wheelchair access to all parts of the Gallery. There is also a specially adapted toilet and lift (toilet not suitable for larger motorised wheelchairs).

Access: Fully accessible by wheelchair. Staff are always available to help visitors. If you prefer, please phone in advance for us to arrange a guided tour.

45 Market Street, EH1 1DF

Access: Full disabled access from street, plus lifts inside the gallery.

Bus routes: 36 direct, plus Princes Street and Waverley buses. www.fruitmarket.co.uk

Bus routes: 13 www.nationalgalleries.org

St. George’s West Church

58 Shandwick Place, EH2 4RT Access: All rooms fully accessible through lifts.

Bus routes: 1, 2, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 22, 24, 28, 30, 34 and 35. www.stgeorgeswest.com

Bus routes: No direct buses as on pedestrian area. Take buses to Waverley bridge, North Bridge. www.stills.org

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