Ed Film Fest at Home 2020

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24 June—5 July 2020

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Vikash Bhai and Amir El-Masry in Limbo. © Protagonist Limbo is part of the Cannes Official Selection 2020. Directed by Ben Sharrock and produced by Irune Gurtubai and Angus Lamont.

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WELCOME As I am writing this, the Edinburgh International Film Festival should be gearing up, with all appropriate excitement and anticipation, for the mid-June opening of its 74th edition. Back in March, when the sad and sorry fact of the burgeoning public health crisis finally sank in and left us but one option, we started to feel the need to do something to fill the void left by a postponed festival. Thoughts turned to the devastated new cinema release schedules, as titles we’d all been anticipating, some of which we were hoping to show at EIFF 2020, were removed, one after the other.

So... we’ve joined forces with our friends at Curzon Home Cinema to end (at least temporarily) this new-release hiatus. We’ve scoured the future film release schedules and have handpicked a selection of some of the best upcoming films – all likely to figure in the programmes of the best cinemas in the land come the glorious day they are all able to open once more – whilst hoping to generate no small amount of excitement and anticipation for their eventual cinema releases. Additionally, we’re working to bring you a host of live filmmaker Q&As to go along with the screenings, so watch this space!

We’re hugely grateful to all the film distributors who have supplied films for this series.

Rod White Director of Programming, EIFF

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24 June—5 July CLEMENCY

CLEMENCY Chinonye Chukwu | USA | 2019 | 113 min | English Cast: Alfre Woodard, Richard Schiff, Danielle Brooks, Michael O’Neill, Richard Gunn, Wendell Pierce, Aldis Hodge 24 June—5 July Certificate: Not Rated

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Written and directed by Chinonye Chukwu and starring Alfre Woodard. This award-winning feature focuses on a prison warden Bernadine Williams who confronts the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is now sanctioned to kill. Chinonye first had the idea for Clemency after Troy Davis’ execution in a state prison in 2011 and spent four years researching for the film.

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FANNY LYE DELIVER’D Thomas Clay | UK/Germany | 2019 | 112 min | English Cast: Maxine Peake, Charles Dance, Freddie Fox, Tanya Reynolds 24 June—5 July Certificate: 18

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24 June—5 July FANNY LYE DELIVER’D

Join us Monday 29 June, 8:30pm for a live Q&A with director Thomas Clay and the cast of Fanny Lye Deliver’d – Maxine Peake, Charles Dance, Tanya Reynolds and Freddie Fox.

Directed by Thomas Clay and starring Maxine Peake, Charles Dance, Freddie Fox and Tanya Reynolds. Set in Shropshire in 1657, this folk horror/thriller concerns a young woman living a remote, rural, puritan existence with her older husband and young son, until the arrival of a young couple on the run who introduce Fanny Lye to a world of possibilities...

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Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, Nicolas de Pencier | Canada | 2018 | 87 min | English Narrator: Alicia Vikander 25 June—5 July Certificate: 12A

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Directed by Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky and Nicolas de Pencier, narrated by Alicia Vikander. This stunning documentary, filmed in 20 countries across 6 continents, documents the impact the human race has had on Planet Earth to illuminate the question: have we entered a new geological epoch?

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25 June—5 July ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH

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25—27 June SAINT FRANCES

SAINT FRANCES Alex Thompson | USA | 2020 | 106 min | English Cast: Kelly O’Sullivan, Charin Alvarez, Braden Crothers, Ramona Edith-Williams 25—27 June Certificate: Not Rated

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Directed by Alex Thompson and written by and starring Kelly O’Sullivan. The UK premiere of this US comedy drama which sees Bridget, 34, aimless and accidentally pregnant, decide to have an abortion. Needing a job, she gets one (by luck rather than design) she’s not really very well suited to – that of nanny, to the precocious Frances.

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YOUNG AHMED Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne | France/Belgium | 2019 | 90 min | French/Arabic Cast: Idir Ben Addi, Olivier Bonnaud, Myriem Akheddiou, Victoria Bluck 25 June—2 July Certificate: Not Rated

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25 June—2 July YOUNG AHMED

Join us Saturday 27 June , 4.00pm for a live Masterclass with Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne.

Directed and written by Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne.

Ahmed (Idir Ben Addi) finds himself caught between his imam’s ideals of unity and life’s temptations. Uncertain of his thoughts, he soon forms a dangerous connection with a militant imam, who plants poisonous ideas in the boy’s head, leading Ahmed to begin hatching a plan to kill his teacher.

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26 June—5 July VOLCANO

VOLCANO Roman Bondarchuk | Ukraine | 2018 | 104 min | Ukrainian Cast: Viktor Zhdanov, Serhiy Stepansky, Khrystyna Deylyk 26 June—5 July Certificate: 15

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Lukas, a translator working for the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) gets stranded in the middle of nowhere in southern Ukraine. Life, and the people, are nothing like Lukas has ever imagined before, and getting out of there is his only priority. But warming to his strange new hosts, perhaps there’s more going on here than first meets the eye.

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WHITE RIOT Rubika Shah | UK | 2019 | 80 min | English Cast: Red Saunders, Dennis Bovell, Mykaell Riley 26 June—5 July Certificate: Not Rated

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29 June—5 July WHITE RIOT

Join us Friday 26 June, 8pm for a live Q&A in association with Glastonbury, hosted by Jamz Supernova (Radio 1Xtra) with guests director Rubika Shah, Julien Temple and Billy Bragg.

Prize-winning documentary following the 70s London protest movement Rock Against Racism, which confronted British fascists head on, prompted by ‘music’s biggest colonialist’ Eric Clapton and his support of racist MP Enoch Powell. Blending archive footage with contemporary interviews, this picture of a Britain in turmoil is a timely – and, still relevant – look at how multicultural punk and reggae gigs provided a necessary point of resistance against racism.

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A WHITE, WHITE DAY Hlynur Pálmason | Iceland | 2019 | 109 min | Icelandic Cast: Ingvar Sigurdsson, Ida Mekkin Hlynsdottir, Hilmir Snær Guðnason 27—29 June Certificate: Not Rated

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27—29 June A WHITE, WHITE DAY

Join us Sunday 28 June, 8:30pm for a live Q&A with director Hlynur Pálmason.

In a remote Icelandic town, a recently retired policeman begins to suspect a local man of having had an affair with his late wife, who died in a tragic accident two years earlier. Gradually, his growing obsession begins to threaten the well-being of the rest of his family.

This taut psychological thriller from Hlynur Pálmason pushes the stylistic possibilities of the genre.

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28 June—5 July THE TRAITOR

THE TRAITOR Marco Bellocchio | Italy | 2019 | 153 min | Italian Cast: Fausto Russo Alesi, Pierfrancesco Favino, Luigi Lo Cascio, Maria Cristina de Almeida Guimarães 28 June—5 July Certificate: Not Rated

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Master veteran Marco Bellocchio delivers with this riveting courtroom drama that retells the events surrounding the Sicilian Mafia ‘Maxi Trial’ of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. Tommaso Buscetta escapes to Brazil as a war rages between Sicilian mafia bosses over the heroin trade. Arrested and extradited to Italy by the Brazilian police, Buscetta decides to meet with Judge Giovanni Falcone and betray the vow he made to the Cosa Nostra.

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29 June—5 July REBUILDING PARADISE

REBUILDING PARADISE Ron Howard | USA | 2020 | 95 min | English 29 June—5 July Certificate: Not Rated

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The UK premiere of the moving documentary, by Academy Awardwinning director Ron Howard, that chronicles the post-fire lives of the residents of Paradise, California, which was 95% razed to the ground by the so-called ‘Camp Fire’ of November 2018. By the time it was extinguished, it had killed 85 people and displaced 50,000 residents. It was the deadliest U.S. fire in 100 years — and the worst ever in California’s history.

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1—2 July PERFUMES (LES PARFUMS)

PERFUMES (LES PARFUMS) Grégory Magne | France | 2020 | 100 min | French Cast: Emmanuelle Devos, Gustave Kervern, Sergi Lopez, Grégory Montel 1—2 July Certificate: Not Rated

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The UK premiere of this French comedy drama set in the ‘nose’ (nez) business. A once-famous ‘nez’ (in the perfume world) sells her extraordinary olfactory facility to any company that’s prepared to pay for it. She’s a selfish diva, but one that might just have a shot at redemption through her relationship with her new chauffeur, a man with many troubles of his own.

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2—4 July LITTLE GIRL

LITTLE GIRL Sébastien Lifshitz | France | 2020 | 85 min | French 2—4 July Certificate: Not Rated

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Directed by Sebastian Lifshitz, UK premiere. Sasha, 7, a little girl living in the Northeast of France, was assigned male at birth.

The film details, with extraordinary sensitivity, Sasha and her very supportive family’s seemingly endless quest for her to be recognised as a girl by the school she loves.

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3—5 July CAPITAL IN THE 21ST CENTURY

CAPITAL IN THE 21ST CENTURY Justin Pemberton | USA | 2019 | 103 min | English/French 3—5 July Certificate: 12

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Directed by Justin Pemberton and based on the best-selling and one of the most powerful books of our time, written by French economist Thomas Piketty. This UK premiere is an eye-opening journey through wealth and power that breaks the popular assumption that the accumulation of capital runs hand in hand with social progress, shining a new light on the world around us and its growing inequalities.

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3—5 July LAST AND FIRST MEN

LAST AND FIRST MEN Jóhann Jóhannsson | Iceland | 2017 | 70 min | English Narrator: Tilda Swinton 3—5 July Certificate: Not Rated

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The UK premiere of the late, great composer’s directorial debut, a stunning audio-visual, science-fiction essay on human mortality and the end of all things. Loosely based on the 1930 Olaf Stapledon novel of the same name, Tilda Swinton voices a human from its 18th distinct evolution from some two billion years in the future (the Last Men), reaching back to the First Men (us) for help, as the end of time approaches.

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As a long-term funder of the world’s oldest running film festival, we know that you will enjoy the best new cinema that this event will bring to your home.

When the time is right, we look forward to welcoming you back to Edinburgh and Scotland.

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