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3-Iron 25 April Animation Workshops 26 Ashes and Diamonds 17 Austeria 20 Belle and Sebastian 10 Blade Runner: The Final Cut 9 Blind 8 Blind Chance 20 Bugsy Malone 10 Camouflage 17 Carnival of Souls 24 Ceiling + A Bagful of Fleas 22 Cinderella 11 Citizenfour 13 Come and See... 24 Coming Soon 8 The Constant Factor 20 CryptoCLASS Cryptography Workshop 12 Daisies 22 The Dark Horse 5 Dead by Dawn 24 Dreamcatcher 8 The Duke of Burgundy 5 Edinburgh International Science Festival 25 Education and Learning 26 EIFF Student Critics Jury 26 Eroica 17 Ex Machina 25 Fantastic Mr. Fox 11 Filmhouse Cafe Bar + Quiz 23 Filmhouse Explorer 4 Filmhouse Junior 10-11 Filmhouse Loyalty Card 4 Filmhouse Membership 27 Filmosophy 25 Force Majeure 8 The Fruit of Paradise 23 Genetic Me 25

Home 11 The Hourglass Sanatorium 19 The Illumination 19 Innocent Sorcerers 17 Jauja 6 Jump 18 Knife in the Water 18 Knights of the Black Cross 18 Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter 8 The Last Day of Summer 17 Laura Poitras: 9/11 Trilogy 12-13 A Little Chaos 7 Man of Iron 20 Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema 16-20 Mommy 5 Mother Joan of the Angels 18 My Country, My Country 12 National Gallery 6 Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb 10 Night Train 17 The Oath 12 Paddington 10 Pharaoh 19 Prefab Story 23 The Promised Land 19 Provincial Actors 20 The Saragossa Manuscript 18 Shaun the Sheep: The Movie 10 A Short Film About Killing 20 Something Different 22 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water 11 Still Life 7 Tell England 13 To Kill This Love 19 Traps 23 Vera Chytilová 22-23 Walkover 18 The Wedding 19 Whisky Galore! 13 White God 6 Wild Tales 7

AUDIODESCRIPTIONANDCAPTIONS In all three screens we have a system which enables us, whenever the necessary digital files are available, to show onscreen captions for customers who are deaf or hard of hearing, and provide audio description (via infra-red headsets) for those who are sight-impaired. This issue, all screenings of A Little Chaos will have audio description, and the 3.30pm screening on Sunday 19 April will have onscreen captions. FORCRYINGOUTLOUD Screenings for carers and their babies! Tickets £4.50/£3.50 concessions per adult. Screenings are limited to babies under 12 months accompanied by no more than two adults. Babychanging, bottlewarming and buggy parking facilities are available. Mon 6 Apr at 11am The Dark Horse Mon 13 Apr at 11am Still Life Mon 20 Apr at 11am Paddington Mon 27 Apr at 11am A Little Chaos FAMILIESATFILMHOUSE Join our new families email list to receive regular information about family screenings and events, as well as details of competitions, offers and loads of other exciting stuff for the whole family! Email families@filmhousecinema.com to sign up.

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Introduction

BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT

MASTERPIECES OF POLISH CINEMA - ASHES AND DIAMONDS

WILD TALES

A LITTLE CHAOS

Portmanteau. There’s a word you don’t hear every day. A couple of years ago I started keeping a note of the number and names of films that I see in the course of a year – both those watched for business and for pleasure, as it were – for fun mostly, but also as a handy aide memoire. I do often look back over the list to jog my memory on a title or two. You’d be surprised, or perhaps you wouldn’t, by the amount of times I have walked into cinemas at festivals only to realise I’ve seen the film already! (OK, I’m exaggerating, but I’ll admit it has happened once.) On a vaguely similar theme, I recall growing up a fairly avid film viewer, with a mother who rarely saw films, and yet nearly every time we sat down together to watch a film, she’d say: “Oh, I’ve seen this…” How on earth someone who never seemed to watch films had seen them all remains a mystery to me to this day. She can’t explain it either! In the last 12 months, I managed to watch some 334 films in their entirety, which is down some 10% from 373 the year before. What was I doing? I like to think the drop in numbers is merely a reflection of the fact that there were a whole host of massively long films that I watched last year, including Béla Tarr’s Satantango (7h12), Norte, the End of History (4h10), Winter Sleep (3h16), Interstellar (2h49) and Boyhood (12 years!). I’m sure if I added it all up I’d see I’ve actually outdone myself from the previous year in terms of man-hours, but quite frankly I think I’ve taken this whole counting films thing about as far as it should ever really go… We’ve been keeping busy putting the finishing touches to our upcoming, mighty, Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema series. 24 films chosen by the world’s best known cineaste from the history of one of the world’s leading filmmaking countries… I’m not sure how much better than that it actually gets. Thanks to the BFI, awarding funds from The National Lottery, we’re making this historic season available to cinemas throughout the UK for the next six months, so if you ever read this column from elsewhere, be sure and get on to your local cinema about a screening or two! On top of all of this, we’ve got awesome, outrageous, funny, revenge-filled Argentinian portmanteau film Wild Tales (undoubtedly the People’s Choice of Cannes 2014); Alan Rickman directs and stars in A Little Chaos, with Kate Winslet starring as a green-fingered widow hired to design part of the gardens at Versailles for Rickman’s Louis XIV; another Cannes hit, Force Majeure, tells the unsettling tale of the devastating effect on a marriage of an incident around an avalanche at a ski resort; and towards the end of the month we have the longawaited rerelease of Ridley Scott’s seminal sci-fi, Blade Runner: The Final Cut. I say long-awaited, but I’m asking you to wait a little longer than you might otherwise have had to… It is actually rereleased on 3 April, but, due to one of those ‘quirks’ of the film industry I’m always banging on about, we couldn’t get it until 27 April. Oh, it’s a sair fecht… You’ll wait though, eh? Rod White, Head of Filmhouse

Filmhouse Explorer

JAUJA

A LITTLE CHAOS

CARNIVAL OF SOULS

Filmhouse Explorer We’re really keen to encourage your deeper engagement with the great cinema we screen. We know going to the cinema a lot can be quite expensive, so we’ve devised a ticket deal to make it cheaper to see films beyond the big new releases. Here’s how it works: buy a ticket for a film in the left hand column below, and you will receive a voucher that will entitle you, on handing it in at the Box Office, to 50% off a full price ticket to any film (or any film in any season) listed in the right hand column. We’ve marked the films and seasons involved with wee logos to make them easier to spot (orange for left hand column films and green for right), and you can also find them on our website at www. filmhousecinema.com/tickets Happy Exploring!

BUY A TICKET FOR... The Dark Horse (page 5) Wild Tales (page 7) Still Life (page 7) A Little Chaos (page 7) Force Majeure (page 8) Blade Runner: The Final Cut (page 9)

GET A HALF PRICE TICKET TO ONE OF THESE White God (page 6) Jauja (page 6) Blind (page 8) Martin Scorsese Presents: Masters of Polish Cinema (pages 16-20) Vera Chytilová (pages 22-23) Carnival of Souls (page 24)

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VERA CHYTILOVA - DAISIES

Main features

THE DARK HORSE

NEWRELEASE

MOMMY

NEWRELEASE

THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY

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The Dark Horse

Mommy

The Duke of Burgundy

Showing from Fri 3 Apr

James Napier Robertson • New Zealand 2014 • 2h4m Digital • cert tbc Cast: Cliff Curtis, James Rolleston, Wayne Hapi, Kirk Torrance, Miriama McDowell.

Xavier Dolan • Canada 2014 • 2h18m Digital • French and English with English subtitles 15 – Contains very strong language, strong sex references Cast: Anne Dorval, Antoine-Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément, Patrick Huard, Alexandre Goyette.

Peter Strickland • UK 2014 • 1h44m Digital • 18 – Contains sexual fetish theme Cast: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Chiara D’Anna, Eugenia Caruso, Monica Swinn, Fatma Mohamed.

An inspiring true story based on the life of a charismatic, little-known New Zealand hero, Genesis Potini, played by Cliff Curtis (Once Were Warriors, Whale Rider). Once a heralded chess champion, Genesis has spent the last few years in and out of mental institutions, battling with severe bipolar disorder. After being released from the psychiatric ward for one more chance at life, he moves in with his older brother Ariki and Ariki’s teenage son, both of whom are immersed in gang culture. Needing a purpose and a reason to get out of the house, Genesis joins a local chess club, with the wild idea of coaching the motley crew of kids to the national chess championship. “Takes an overplayed genre – the inspirational mentor story – and still manages to surprise, sneaking up to deliver a powerful emotional experience within a formula we all know by heart.” - Variety

No movie inspired more extreme reactions at Cannes last year than Xavier Dolan’s latest. And none was cheered more loudly at the awards ceremony, where Canada’s 25-year-old wunderkind shared a special jury award with French New Wave veteran Jean-Luc Godard. Problem child Steve (Antoine-Olivier Pilon) is returned to the care of his mother Diane (Anne Dorval) after being briefly institutionalised. Soon it becomes clear that his ADHD and frightening destructiveness may prove too much for her to handle. By enlisting the help of their introverted neighbour (Suzanne Clément), the trio begins to forge a unique bond and fascinating dynamic, one with unpredictable turns of heartbreaking intensity and humorous respite. Shooting in an intimate 1:1 aspect ratio, Dolan pulls in to capture a trio of performances that reveal his characters’ fierce fragility amid a claustrophobic frame.

Taking its title from a rare species of butterfly, The Duke of Burgundy chronicles the increasingly intimate relationship between wealthy amateur lepidopterist Cynthia (Borgen’s Sidse Babett Knudsen) and her housekeeper, Evelyn (Chiara D’Anna). As Cynthia’s demands begin to betray a sadomasochistic streak, Evelyn becomes less a domestic servant than an outright sex slave, submitting to her progressively extreme humiliations with a surprising relish. In another director’s hands, this material might easily have tipped into the schlocky or the severe. Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Studio, Katalin Varga), however, once again demonstrates a marvellous gift for modulating tone, pitching the tenor of his film in a strange, beguiling register somewhere between Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour and Joseph Losey’s The Servant. “Visually ravishing, emotionally wise, and kinky as a coiled rope, writer-director Peter Strickland’s third feature is a delight.” - Hollywood Reporter

Main features

WHITE GOD

NATIONAL GALLERY

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JAUJA

NEWRELEASE

White God Fehér Isten

National Gallery

Jauja

Showing from Fri 3 Apr

Sat 4 & Sun 5 Apr at 2.00pm

Showing from Fri 10 Apr

Kornél Mundruczó • Hungary/Germany/Sweden 2014 2h1m • Digital • Hungarian and English with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong language, bloody injury detail Cast: Zsófia Psotta, Sándor Zsótér, Lili Horváth, Szabolcs Thuróczy, Lili Monori.

Frederick Wiseman • France/USA/UK 2014 • 3h1m • Digital 12A – Contains infrequent strong language • Documentary

Lisandro Alonso • Argentina/Denmark/France/ Mexico/USA/Germany/Brazil/Netherlands 2014 • 1h50m Digital • Spanish and Danish with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong sex, bloody images Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Diego Roman, Ghita Nørby, Mariano Arce, Viilbjørk Malling Agger.

Not for the faint-hearted, this extraordinary morality tale features the most stunning performances by dogs you will ever see. Teenage Lili is sent to stay with her estranged father who is none too pleased about also inheriting Hagen, her dog, and eventually abandons him on the street. We follow Hagen as he tries to find his way home, making friends with fellow strays and evading the relentless dog-patrol and pound, only to be captured by worse – a proprietor of dog fights. Hagen is put through the torture of being trained as a fighting dog, which drives him to lead his fellow dogs in a revolt against their oppressors. “Superbly acted allegorical drama with a climax that is not only breathtakingly exciting but flawlessly handled.” - Empire

Back by popular demand, master documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s latest takes us inside one of the world’s greatest art collections, the National Gallery in London, for a privileged look that deepens our appreciation for art and its upkeep. Filming over twelve weeks in 2012, Wiseman takes in visitor tours, staff meetings, restorations, classes, and protests. As usual, he practices a strict observational approach, eschewing voice-over and interviews. His method calls upon viewers to draw their own meaning from the material, just as we do with paintings, and, for art lovers, there are endless riches to enjoy over the film’s three hours – Wiseman concentrates mostly on Old Masters, and his visit coincides with major exhibitions of Titian, Leonardo Da Vinci and Turner. “A great, great film.” - The Telegraph

Since his 2001 debut, La Libertad, Argentine filmmaker Lisandro Alonso has established himself as one of the most original international auteurs. Rigorously probing and destabilising the boundaries between fiction and documentary, he has created an enigmatic cinema that questions the essence of reality, the limits of fiction, and the definition of ‘cinema’ itself. Viggo Mortensen (also one of the film’s producers) plays Danish general Gunnar Dinesen, who is assigned to a scouting mission in the wilds of Patagonia during the Spaniards’ 1882 campaign to rid the land of its indigenous people. When his beloved fifteen-year-old daughter Ingeborg runs off with a young soldier, Dinesen mounts his horse and sets off in pursuit, desperately hoping to find her before she is caught by the notorious brigand Zuluaga, a former soldier who, like Kurtz in Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’, has gone native.

Main features

WILD TALES

MAYBEYOUMISSED

STILL LIFE

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A LITTLE CHAOS

NEWRELEASE

Wild Tales Relatos salvajes

Still Life

A Little Chaos

Showing from Fri 10 Apr

Fri 10 to Mon 13 Apr

Showing from Fri 17 Apr

Damián Szifrón • Argentina/Spain 2014 • 2h2m Digital • Spanish with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong bloody violence, sex, strong language Cast: Ricardo Darín, Oscar Martínez, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Erica Rivas, Rita Cortese.

Uberto Pasolini • UK/Italy 2013 • 1h32m Digital • 12A – Contains strong language Cast: Eddie Marsan, Joanne Froggatt, Karen Drury, Andrew Buchan, Neil D’Souza.

Alan Rickman • UK 2014 • 1h56m • Digital • cert tbc Cast: Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Alan Rickman, Stanley Tucci, Helen McCrory.

Wild Tales lives up to its name and then some, packing six absurdly taut, funny and emotionally charged short films into its running time. The common theme is revenge, and it’s delivered with a wicked sense of humour. A waitress in a late-night diner realises the boorish customer she’s serving is the man who ruined her life; a bride discovers her new husband has been unfaithful and improvises payback in the midst of an unforgettable wedding party; on an empty stretch of desert highway a yuppie and a trucker engage in increasingly furious and extreme road games… Argentine director Damián Szifrón draws blistering performances from a great cast – including the great Ricardo Darín as an executive pushed too far by the municipal parking authorities – and brings it all together with a fresh and inventive visual style.

EIFF hit Still Life is a poignant drama about a lonely, sweetly idealistic man who finds fulfilment in helping everyone but himself. For over 20 years, life for the unassuming John May (an unforgettable performance from the ever-watchable Eddie Marsan) has been his work for a South London local council, finding the next of kin of those in the borough who have passed away alone. But in an age of government cuts, John’s patient dignifying of the deceased is deemed redundant. Abruptly advised of his retirement, John pursues his final assignment: a search for the relatives of an elderly neighbour. Piecing together the dead man’s past, John uncovers a life of misadventure, love and regret – and an abandoned daughter, Kelly (Joanne Froggatt). As a friendship blossoms, John’s outlook opens imperceptibly to fresh possibilities.

Renowned landscape architect André Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts, Rust and Bone, Suite Française) is hired by King Louis XIV (Alan Rickman, who also directs) to design gardens of unparalleled splendour for the Palace of Versailles. When Le Notre interviews Sabine de Barra (Kate Winslet) for a job assisting him, it’s an immediate clash of opposites. She prizes spontaneity, surprise, and the freedom of nature in her design. She is also a woman, which raises more than a few eyebrows when Le Notre decides to hire her, and she begins to challenge gender and class barriers.

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Main features

BLIND

KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER

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DREAMCATCHER

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NEWRELEASE

Blind

Dreamcatcher

Force Majeure Turist

Fri 17 to Sun 19 Apr

Wed 22 & Thu 23 Apr

Showing from Fri 24 Apr

Eskil Vogt • Norway 2014 • 1h31m • Digital Norwegian with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Henrik Rafaelsen, Vera Vitali, Marius Kolbenstvedt, Stella Kvam Young.

Kim Longinotto • UK/USA 2015 • 1h44m • Digital 15 – Contains strong sex references, drug references, prostitution theme • Documentary

Ruben Östlund • Sweden/France/Norway 2014 FORCE MAJEURE 1h59m • Digital • Swedish, English, French and Norwegian with English subtitles • 15 – Contains strong language Cast: Johannes Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Vincent Wettergren.

This complex, humorous and hugely original drama is the directorial debut of Eskil Vogt, the co-writer of Joachim Trier’s acclaimed Oslo, August 31st. Having recently lost her sight, Ingrid retreats to the safety of her home, a place she can feel in control, alone with her husband and her thoughts. But Ingrid’s real problems lie within, not beyond, the walls of her apartment, and her deepest fears and repressed fantasies soon take over.

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter Mon 20 & Tue 21 Apr David Zellner • USA 2014 • 1h45m • Digital English and Japanese with English subtitles 12A – Contains occasional bloody images Cast: Rinko Kikuchi, Nobuyuki Katsube, Shirley Venard, David Zellner, Nathan Zellner.

A beguiling adventure story inspired by an urban legend that was itself inspired by the Coen brothers’ jest that their black comedy classic Fargo was based on a true story. Kumiko is a shy Tokyo office worker who is demeaned by her bullying boss and perky co-workers while being constantly nagged by her busybody mother. Seeking an escape, she becomes fixated on a worn videotape of Fargo, and is convinced that the suitcase full of ransom money buried in the snow by Steve Buscemi’s hapless kidnapper is real and waiting to be rediscovered.

The latest film from award-winning director Kim Longinotto takes us into a hidden world through the eyes of one of its survivors. A former teenage prostitute who worked the streets of Chicago, Brenda Myers-Powell defied the odds to become a powerful advocate for change in her community. With warmth and humour, Brenda gives hope to those who have none. “Like its subject, this documentary is powerful, honest, and empowering.” - Observer

This wickedly funny psychodrama tells the story of a model family – handsome businessman Tomas, his willowy wife Ebba and their two beautiful children – on a skiing holiday in the French Alps. During a lunch at a mountainside restaurant, an avalanche suddenly bears down on the happy diners. With people fleeing in all directions, Tomas makes a decision that will shake his marriage to its core and leave him struggling to reclaim his role as family patriarch. “This brilliant, viciously amusing takedown of bourgeois complacency, gender stereotypes and assumptions and the illusion of security rubs your face in human frailty as relentlessly as any Michael Haneke movie.” - New York Times

COMING SOON Far from the Madding Crowd This new adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s classic casts Carey Mulligan as the doggedly independent farmer Bathsheba Everdene, forced to choose between three very different suitors.

8 1/2 A gorgeous new restoration of Fellini’s classic – and endlessly imitated – tale of Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) and his inability to overcome the world’s worst case of director’s block.

Phoenix The story of a disfigured Holocaust survivor in 1945 Berlin takes on noirish overtones of guilt and betrayal in this film reuniting the director and star of the acclaimed Barbara.

Timbuktu This passionately humanist film by leading African director Abderrahmane Sissako earned an Oscar nomination for its depiction of the occupation of a multicultural city by militant Islamic rebels.

RESTOREDCLASSIC

Blade Runner: The Final Cut Showing from Mon 27 Apr Ridley Scott • USA 1982/2007 • 1h57m Digital • 15 – Contains strong violence Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Daryl Hannah, Edward James Olmos, M Emmet Walsh.

Adapted from Philip K Dick’s novel ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’, Ridley Scott’s iconic dystopian classic is unquestionably one of the greatest sci-fi films ever made. Given complete artistic freedom to make The Final Cut in 2007, the 25th anniversary of the film’s release, director Ridley Scott created this definitive version, fully restored from the original negative. For those unfamiliar with the story, the year is 2019, and LA is playing unwitting host to a group of escaped synthetic humans called replicants. Bred for slavery on off-world colonies and outlawed on earth, these illegal immigrants are hunted by Blade Runners, and Rick Deckard, played with frazzled conviction by Harrison Ford, has the task of ‘retiring’ them. What follows is a visually stunning and thematically dense future noir that delves deep into what it means to be human. The Final Cut’s refinements range from the subtle to the more obvious, but the biggest bonus is the digital restoration, which reveals the film’s staggering beauty. Everything – from neon-daubed streets to the scorched sky itself – looks gorgeous, and no amount of TV re-runs could ever compete with seeing this on the big screen.

Filmhouse Junior

SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE MOVIE

BELLE AND SEBASTIAN

Filmhouse junior Films for a younger audience, weekly on Sundays at 11am. Tickets cost £4.00 (£5.00 for 3D screenings) per person, big or small! For these shows we choose to screen dubbed versions where these are available, but some films will be in their original language with subtitles – these are marked on individual film descriptions. Please note: although we normally disapprove of people talking during screenings, these shows are primarily for kids, so grown-ups should expect some noise!

PADDINGTON

Belle and Sebastian Belle et Sébastien Sun 12 Apr at 11.00am Nicolas Vanier • France 2013 • 1h39m • Digital French and German with English subtitles PG – Contains mild bad language, injury detail Cast: Félix Bossuet, Tchéky Karyo, Margaux Châtelier, Dimitri Storoge, Andreas Pietschmann.

World War II is underway and life is on hold in a small village in the Alps: the German army has taken over the region and the villagers are understandably dejected. Then Belle, a beautiful sheepdog, arrives and chooses Sebastian, a plucky little boy, as her master. Together, they defy the Nazis and offer help to those who are deserving. Nicolas Vanier has successfully adapted the famous 1965 TV series by Cécile Aubry for the big screen.

Paddington Shaun the Sheep: The Movie Sun 5 Apr at 11.00am Mark Burton & Richard Starzack • UK/France 2015 • 1h25m Digital • U – Contains mild slapstick, threat, rude humour

When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix-up with the farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead them all to the big city, and it’s up to Shaun and the flock to return everyone safely to the green grass of home.

Sun 19 Apr at 11.00am + 1.00pm (plus Mon 20 April at 11.00am, for babies & carers) Paul King • UK/France 2014 • 1h35m • Digital PG – Contains dangerous behaviour, mild threat, innuendo, infrequent mild bad language Cast: Ben Whishaw (voice), Sally Hawkins, Hugh Bonneville, Nicole Kidman, Peter Capaldi.

A young Peruvian bear travels to the city in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone, he begins to realise that city life is not at all as he had imagined, but then he meets the kindly Brown family. It looks as though his luck has changed, until this rarest of bears catches the eye of a museum taxidermist...

BUGSY MALONE

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb Sun 26 Apr at 11.00am Shawn Levy • USA/UK 2014 • 1h38m • Digital PG – Contains mild comic violence, mild threat Cast: Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Steve Coogan, Ricky Gervais.

When the ancient tablet that brings the Museum of Natural History’s exhibits to life at night begins to decay, nightwatchman Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) must travel to London and the British Museum to heal it. This familyfriendly fantasy-comedy sees Stiller joined by an all-star cast, including the legendary Robin Williams in one of his final roles.

Bugsy Malone Sun 3 May at 11.00am Alan Parker • UK 1976 • 1h34m • Digital U – Contains mild parody of gangland scenes Cast: Scott Baio, Jodie Foster, Florrie Dugger, John Cassisi, Paul Murphy.

In 1929 New York, Bugsy Malone’s life gets complicated when he becomes involved in a turf war between rival gangsters Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Alan Parker’s spoof gangster movie – acted by kids and featuring singing and dancing and guns that shoot custard pies – is a delight.

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Sun 10 May at 11.00am

Sun 24 May at 11.00am

Tim Johnson • USA 2015 • 1h34m • Digital U – Contains mild threat, slapstick With the voices of Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Steve Martin, Jennifer Lopez, Matt Jones.

Wes Anderson • USA/UK 2009 • 1h27m • Digital PG – Contains mild violence and scary scenes With the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wallace Wolodarsky.

Eleven-year-old Tip must learn to fend for herself after her mother is abducted during the invasion of Earth by aliens calling themselves the Boov. But when she meets a Boov called Oh, they form an unlikely friendship, and join together in Tip’s quest to find her missing mother, all the while evading formidable Boov leader Captain Smek.

Based on the children’s book by Roald Dahl, this quirky animation tells the story of Mr. Fox, who promised his wife that he would give up a life of henhouse robbery when their son was born. However, after years of going straight, Mr. Fox longs for the thrill of the perfect crime, and begins planning one last job...

Cinderella

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

Sun 17 May at 11.00am Kenneth Branagh • USA 2015 • 1h53m • Digital U – Contains very mild scenes of emotional upset Cast: Lily James, Richard Madden, Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter, Hayley Atwell.

Kenneth Branagh directs this beautiful live-action retelling of the classic tale. When Ella’s mother dies and her father remarries, she tries her best to fit in with her new family, but finds herself at the mercy of a cruel and jealous stepmother and stepsisters. When she meets a handsome stranger in the woods, she feels her fortunes have changed, but how can she get to meet him again?

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Sun 31 May at 11.00am Paul Tibbitt • USA 2015 • 1h33m • Digital U – Contains mild slapstick violence, toilet humour Cast: Tom Kenny (voice), Bill Fagerbakke (voice), Antonio Banderas, Rodger Bumpass (voice), Clancy Brown (voice).

When the secret formula for delicious Krabby Patty burgers goes missing, loveable chef SpongeBob SquarePants falls into disgrace, and the citizens of Bikini Bottom go mad from hunger. But, with help from a magic book and a cosmic dolphin, SpongeBob and his pals band together to save the formula from the clutches of underhanded rival Plankton and nefarious pirate Burger-Beard.

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Laura Poitras: 9/11 Trilogy

LAURA POITRAS

MY COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY

Laura Poitras: 9/11 Trilogy Acclaimed documentarist Laura Poitras has spent more than a decade crafting a set of three films taking separate – but equally unflinching – looks at the realities of the post-9/11 world. In partnership with the Scottish Documentary Institute, Filmhouse is proud to present the complete trilogy, which stands as a testament to Poitras’ style of politicallycommitted documentary filmmaking. Apart from demonstrating her consistent courage and integrity in relating each of their stories, the films have also won Poitras growing acclaim. My Country, My Country was nominated for an Oscar; The Oath won the Best Feature Documentary Award at EIFF 2010; and Citizenfour has proven her greatest success to date, picking up both the BAFTA and Oscar for Best Documentary in February 2015.

TICKETDEAL Buy any three (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 15% off This offer is available online, in person and on the phone, on both full price and concession price tickets. Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

THE OATH

My Country, My Country

The Oath

Wed 8 Apr at 6.00pm

Thu 9 Apr at 6.00pm

Laura Poitras • USA 2006 • 1h30m • Digital English, Arabic and Kurdish with English subtitles • 15 Documentary

Laura Poitras • USA 2010 • 1h36m • Digital English and Arabic with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary

Ostensibly about the bid of Dr Riyadh, an outspoken opponent of the US occupation, to win election to the Iraqi cabinet, My Country, My Country also brilliantly depicts the chaos and insanity of post-Saddam Iraq. Operating alone, Poitras takes us overland with a group of mercenaries to a weapons deal and flies low over the roofs of the city in a US Army helicopter – all with astonishingly little apparent concern for her own safety. An essential contribution to our understanding of the Iraq War, and one in which the political points are nuanced, sophisticated and convincing.

Taking its title from the solemn vow sworn by al-Qaeda members (and, in this case, broken by the film’s main protagonist), the subjects of The Oath are two former close associates of Osama bin Laden. With his sheer honesty and astuteness of vision, Abu Jandal – who collaborated with the FBI following 9/11 – is a fascinating subject, providing Poitras with unprecedented insight into a complex political belief system very different from our own. Salim Hamdam, meanwhile, is represented in the film entirely by the narration of letters written to his family during his years of imprisonment in Guantanamo Bay.

CryptoCLASS Cryptography Workshop Saturday 11 April 2015 • 11.30am - 1.30pm Evolution House Boardroom (5th floor), 78 West Port, Edinburgh EH1 2LE Presented by CryptoCLASS in partnership with Scottish Documentary Institute and Filmhouse CryptoCLASS introduce easy-to-use programs to your everyday life that you can use to privately communicate online, store documents on a computer or external hard disk and browse anonymously. Removing the jargon and using clean, simple explanations – they want you to come away with an understanding both of the concepts of encryption and the necessary steps to use the tools they teach. Emerging and established filmmakers, journalists and students are welcome for this two hour hands-on session. Don’t forget to bring a laptop! This CryptoCLASS workshop is free but places are limited. To register, email info@scottishdocinstitute.com with your name and a brief note about yourself and your reasons for attending the workshop. cryptoclass.net / www.scottishdocinstitute.com

Laura Poitras: 9/11 Trillogy/Whisky Galore!/Tell England

CITIZENFOUR

Citizenfour Sat 11 Apr at 3.15pm Laura Poitras • Germany/USA 2014 • 1h53m • Digital English, Portuguese and German with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong language • Documentary

In January 2013, Poitras started receiving encrypted e-mails from someone (identifying himself only as ‘citizen four’) who said he wanted to blow the whistle on the massive covert surveillance programs run by the NSA and other intelligence agencies. In June 2013, she and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with the man who turned out to be Edward Snowden. The film that resulted from this series of tense encounters is absolutely unique in the history of cinema: a 100% real-life thriller unfolding minute by minute before our eyes.

WHISKY GALORE!

SPECIALSCREENING

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A special screening in association with the National Theatre of Scotland, to introduce their new Gaelic adaption of Whisky Galore/ Uisge-Beatha Gu Leòr.

Tell England

Whisky Galore!

A rare screening, from a BFI National Archive 35mm print, of the 1931 adaptation of Ernest Raymond’s 1922 novel. Making excellent use of documentary footage from the time, the film was co-directed by Anthony Asquith, whose father was Prime Minister at the time of the Gallipoli Landings, and Geoffrey Barkas, who had fought at Suvia Bay in the Gallipoli campaign. Edgar Doe and Rupert Ray, boyhood friends, enlist in the British army at the outbreak of war in 1914. Both receive commissions and are eventually sent, as part of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, to Gallipoli, where the horrors of war reveal themselves.

Sun 19 Apr at 3.10pm Alexander Mackendrick • UK 1949 • 1h24m • Digital • U Cast: Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Jean Cadell, Gordon Jackson, James Robertson.

Followed by a cryptography discussion with CryptoCLASS: www.cryptoclass.net

Adapted from Compton Mackenzie’s famous comic novel based on a real incident involving the SS Politician, Whisky Galore! tells, with wonderfully dry humour, the tale of the attempts of the fictional islanders of Todday to salvage and hold onto 50,000 cases of whisky from a shipwreck.

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The film will be followed by a discussion chaired by the National Theatre of Scotland’s Artistic Director, Laurie Sansom in conversation with Hannah McGill, journalist and former Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, and a member of the play’s cast.

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The new Gaelic stage version will be performed at St Columba’s Hall, Edinburgh, Monday 20 April 2015, 7.30pm. Tickets available from www.hubtickets.co.uk

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TELL ENGLAND

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Sat 25 Apr at 4.00pm Anthony Asquith & Geoffrey Barkas • UK 1931 • 1h20m • 35mm • 15 Cast: Carl Harbord, Tony Bruce, Fay Compton, Dennis Hoey, C M Hallard.

Screening as part of The First World War in Cinema, a four-year series of films, programmed in association with the University of Edinburgh, that relate to the First World War, some timed to coincide with the real events of 100 years ago and others which are not tied to specific dates. Screening later in the year, two more films on the Gallipoli Campaign: on 27 May, Gelibolu, a Turkish documentary from 2005 directed by Tolga Örnek; and on 7 August, Peter Weir’s 1981 drama Gallipoli.

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3 - 30 April 2015

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Fri 1 The Dark Horse 3 1 The Duke of Burgundy Apr 2 Mommy 3 Mommy 3 White God * Plus films and times TBC (see below)

1.00/8.30 3.45/6.10 5.30/8.25 12.45 3.35

Tue 1 Mommy 7 1 The Duke of Burgundy Apr 2 The Dark Horse 3 White God 3 The Dark Horse * Plus films and times TBC (see left)

2.30/5.45 8.45 5.50/8.30 1.00 3.35

Mon 1 Still Life (B) 13 1 Wild Tales Apr 2 Still Life 2 Ashes and Diamonds (PC) 3 Jauja 3 Still Life * Plus films and times TBC (see left)

11am (babies & carers) 2.30/8.40 1.00 6.15 + intro 3.40/6.10 8.35

Sat 1 National Gallery 4 1 White God Apr 1 The Dark Horse 2 The Dark Horse 2 Mommy 3 Mommy 3 The Duke of Burgundy * Plus films and times TBC (see below)

2.00 5.45 8.30 2.50 5.30/8.25 12.45 3.35

Wed 1 Mommy 8 1 White God Apr 2 My Country, My Country (LP) 2 Mommy 3 The Duke of Burgundy 3 The Dark Horse * Plus films and times TBC (see left)

2.30 8.40 6.00 8.15 1.00 3.20/6.10

Tue 1 Wild Tales 14 3 Jauja Apr * Plus films and times TBC (see left)

2.30/6.00/8.40 2.30/8.35

Thu 1 Mommy 9 1 The Duke of Burgundy Apr 2 The Oath (LP) 2 Mommy 3 White God 3 The Dark Horse * Plus films and times TBC (see left)

2.30 8.40 6.00 8.15 1.00 3.35/6.10

Fri 1 Still Life 10 1 Wild Tales Apr 2 Wild Tales 2 Camouflage (PC) 3 Jauja 3 Still Life * Plus films and times TBC (see left)

1.00 3.10/8.25 1.05 6.15 + Q&A 3.45/8.20 6.10

Sat 1 Wild Tales 11 2 Still Life Apr 2 Citizenfour (LP) 2 The Last Day of Summer (PC) 3 Jauja 3 Still Life * Plus films and times TBC (see left) Sun 1 Belle and Sebastian (FJ) 12 1 Still Life Apr 1 Wild Tales 2 Eroica (PC) 3 Jauja 3 Still Life * Plus films and times TBC (see left)

Sun 1 Shaun the Sheep: The Movie (FJ) 11.00am 5 1 National Gallery 2.00 Apr 1 The Dark Horse 5.45 1 The Duke of Burgundy 8.30 2 The Dark Horse 2.50 2 Mommy 5.30/8.25 3 Mommy 12.45 3 White God 3.35 * Plus films and times TBC (see below) Mon 1 The Dark Horse (B) 6 1 Mommy Apr 1 White God 2 Genetic Me (SF) 2 The Dark Horse 3 The Duke of Burgundy 3 The Dark Horse * Plus films and times TBC (see below)

11am (babies & carers) 2.30/5.45 8.40 6.15 + discussion 8.30 1.00 3.20

* The majority of our screenings are scheduled well in advance, and times published in this monthly brochure and on our website. Most weeks we leave some spaces in the schedule in order to allow us to keep on films that are proving popular for a little longer; these late-scheduled screenings will be added to our website from midday at the latest on the Tuesday preceding the start of the new cinema week on Friday, and listed in our weekly screenings email â&#x20AC;&#x201C; sign up at www.filmhousecinema.com/news

Wed 1 Wild Tales 2.30/6.00/8.40 15 3 Jauja 1.00/8.35 Apr 3 Ceiling + A Bagful of Fleas (VC) 6.30 * Plus films and times TBC (see left) Thu 1 Wild Tales 16 1 Carnival of Souls (CS) Apr 2 Ex Machina (SF) 3 Jauja * Plus films and times TBC (see left)

2.30/6.10 8.45 6.00 + discussion 1.00/8.35

Fri 1 A Little Chaos (AD) 17 2 Blind Apr 2 Night Train (PC) 3 Blind 3 A Little Chaos (AD) * Plus films and times TBC (see left)

1.00/3.30/6.00 4.00/8.35 6.15 1.10 8.40

3.25/8.40 1.05 3.15 + discussion 6.30 1.10/8.20 6.10

Sat 1 A Little Chaos (AD) 18 2 Blind Apr 2 Innocent Sorcerers (PC) 3 Blind 3 A Little Chaos (AD) * Plus films and times TBC (see left)

1.00/3.30/6.00 4.00/8.35 6.15 1.10 8.40

11.00am 1.15 3.25/8.40 6.15 + intro 1.10/5.45 3.30/8.15

Sun 1 Paddington (FJ) 19 1 A Little Chaos (AD) + (C) Apr 1 A Little Chaos (AD) 2 Blind 2 Whisky Galore! 2 Knights of the Black Cross (PC) 3 A Little Chaos (AD) * Plus films and times TBC (see left)

11.00am/1.00 3.30 (captioned) 6.00 1.05/5.40 3.10 + discussion 7.45 + intro 8.40

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Mon 1 Paddington (B) 20 1 A Little Chaos (AD) Apr 2 Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter 2 Camouflage (PC) 3 A Little Chaos (AD) * Plus films and times TBC (see opposite)

11am (babies & carers) 2.30/6.00 3.40/8.30 6.15 8.40

Mon 1 A Little Chaos (AD) (B) 27 1 Blade Runner: The Final Cut Apr 2 Force Majeure 2 Innocent Sorcerers (PC) 3 A Little Chaos (AD) * Plus films and times TBC (see opposite)

11am (babies & carers) 2.30/6.00/8.30 2.15/6.10 8.45 1.00/6.15

MATINEES (Shows starting prior to 5pm) Mon - Thu: £7.20 full price, £5.70 concessions Friday Matinees: £5.50/£4.00 concessions Sat - Sun: £9.00 full price, £7.20 concessions

Tue 1 A Little Chaos (AD) 21 2 Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter Apr 2 3-Iron 3 A Little Chaos (AD) * Plus films and times TBC (see opposite)

2.30/6.00 3.40/8.30 6.00 8.40

Tue 1 Blade Runner: The Final Cut 28 2 Force Majeure Apr 2 Eroica (PC) 3 A Little Chaos (AD) * Plus films and times TBC (see opposite)

2.30/6.00/8.30 2.15/8.35 6.15 1.00/8.40

For screenings in 3D add £2 to ticket price.

Wed 1 A Little Chaos (AD) 22 2 Dreamcatcher Apr 2 The Last Day of Summer (PC) 3 Something Different (VC) 3 A Little Chaos (AD) * Plus films and times TBC (see opposite)

2.30 3.40/6.10 8.45 6.15 8.40

2.30/8.30 6.00 2.15 8.45 3.40/8.40 6.15 + intro

Thu 1 A Little Chaos (AD) 23 1 Dead by Dawn Horror Festival Apr 2 Dreamcatcher 2 Mother Joan of the Angels (PC) 3 A Little Chaos (AD) * Plus films and times TBC (see opposite)

2.30/5.45 Films & times TBC 3.40/8.30 6.00 + intro 8.40

Wed 1 Blade Runner: The Final Cut 29 1 Force Majeure Apr 2 Force Majeure 2 Ashes and Diamonds (PC) 3 A Little Chaos (AD) 3 Daisies (VC) * Plus films and times TBC (see opposite)

2.30/6.00/8.30 2.15/8.35 6.15 3.40/6.10

Fri 1 Dead by Dawn Horror Festival 24 2 A Little Chaos (AD) Apr 2 Force Majeure 2 Knife in the Water (PC) 3 A Little Chaos (AD) * Plus films and times TBC (see opposite)

Films & times TBC 1.00 3.30/8.35 6.15 + intro 8.40

Thu 1 Blade Runner: The Final Cut 30 2 Force Majeure Apr 2 Walkover (PC) 3 A Little Chaos (AD) * Plus films and times TBC (see opposite)

Sat 1 Dead by Dawn Horror Festival 25 2 A Little Chaos (AD) Apr 2 Tell England 2 Jump (PC) 2 Force Majeure 3 A Little Chaos (AD) * Plus films and times TBC (see opposite)

Films & times TBC 1.00 4.00 6.15 8.35 8.40

Sun 1 Dead by Dawn Horror Festival Films & times TBC 26 2 Night at the Museum: Secret... (FJ) 11.00am Apr 2 Force Majeure 2.15 2 A Little Chaos (AD) 5.00 2 The Saragossa Manuscript (PC) 7.30 + intro 3 A Little Chaos (AD) 3.30 3 Force Majeure 6.00 * Plus films and times TBC (see opposite)

KEY (AD) – Audio Description (see page 2) (B) – Carer & baby screening (see page 2) (C) – Captioned for customers who are deaf or hard of hearing (see page 2) All screenings in 2D unless marked [3D] SEASONS: (CS) – Come and See... (page 24) (FJ) – Filmhouse Junior (pages 10-11) (LP) – Laura Poitras: 9/11 Trilogy (pages 12-13) (PC) – Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema (pages 16-20) (SF) – Edinburgh International Science Festival (page 25) (VC) – Vera Chytilová (pages 22-23) Full index of films on page 2

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Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema

CAMOUFLAGE

THE LAST DAY OF SUMMER

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ASHES AND DIAMONDS

Polish cinema seemed to come out of nowhere. After a painful period of reconstruction post-WWII and the abolition of a creatively stifling policy of Socialist Realism, the country’s filmmakers were more than ready to spread their wings. They did so to spectacular effect from the late 50s onwards, exploring Poland’s war-torn landscapes, the fantastical worlds of the imagination and, as the cracks began to show towards the end of the 70s, the ‘moral anxiety’ of existing within a corrupt Communist society. Every film in this season, curated by Martin Scorsese and screening in pristine digital restorations, is regarded as a classic in Poland. Some already enjoy that status here, but others are undeservedly little-known; we’re hoping to change that. (Introduction and film synopses by Michael Brooke) More information can be found here: www.mspresents.com/uk Filmhouse are proud to be working with our Polish, US and UK partners to bring this season to the UK. TICKETDEALS Buy any three (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 15% off Buy any six (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 25% off Buy any nine (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 35% off These offers are available online, in person and on the phone, on both full price and concession price tickets. Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema

NIGHT TRAIN

INNOCENT SORCERERS

KNIGHTS OF THE BLACK CROSS

MOTHER JOAN OF THE ANGELS

Camouflage Barwy ochronne

Eroica

Night Train Pociag

Fri 10 Apr at 6.15pm & Mon 20 Apr at 6.15pm

Sun 12 Apr at 6.15pm & Tue 28 Apr at 6.15pm

Fri 17 Apr at 6.15pm & Fri 8 May at 6.15pm

Krzysztof Zanussi • Poland 1977 • 1h41m Digital • Polish with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Piotr Garlicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Christine Paul.

Andrzej Munk • Poland 1958 • 1h25m Digital • Polish and German with English subtitles 12A – Contains moderate language Cast: Edward Dziewonski, Barbara Polomska, Ignacy Machowski.

Jerzy Kawalerowicz • Poland 1959 • 1h39m Digital • Polish with English subtitles 12A – Contains moderate language and suicide references Cast: Lucyna Winnicka, Leon Niemczyk, Teresa Szmigielówna, Zbigniew Cybulski, Helena Dabrowska.

A linguistics competition at a university’s summer camp is the backdrop for a wittily satirical drama about the elusiveness of language. An idealistic teacher, Jaroslaw (Piotr Garlicki), and his more manipulative older colleague, Jakub (Zbigniew Zapasiewicz), assess not only each entry’s intrinsic merit, but also whether it ticks sufficient official boxes to be prizeworthy – an experience with which Polish filmmakers were all too ruefully familiar. We are delighted to welcome director Krzysztof Zanussi, who will take part in a Q&A after the screening on 10 April.

The Last Day of Summer Ostatni dzien lata Sat 11 Apr at 6.30pm & Wed 22 Apr at 8.45pm Tadeusz Konwicki • Poland 1958 • 1h2m Digital • Polish with English subtitles • PG Cast: Irena Laskowska, Jan Machulski.

Already an important novelist, Konwicki used his position as the Kadr Film Unit’s literary advisor to make his directing debut for a tiny budget, with no script and a cast of two – a revolutionary gesture at a time of rigorously pre-vetted projects. A man and a woman meet on a deserted beach, their obvious attraction undermined by traumatic wartime memories.

Black comedies about the Second World War were understandably thin on the ground in post-war Poland, but this brilliantly incisive two-part dissection of ‘courage’ and ‘valour’ offers a decidedly subversive take on the traditional image of Polish heroism. In the first half, a hapless incompetent becomes a Resistance hero; in the second, Polish POWs are anything but keen to escape. The screening on 12 April will be introduced by Dr Malgorzata Bugaj (University of Edinburgh and University of Stirling).

Ashes and Diamonds Popiól i diament Mon 13 Apr at 6.15pm & Wed 29 Apr at 8.45pm Andrzej Wajda • Poland 1958 • 1h44m Digital • Polish with English subtitles 12A – Contains moderate violence and language Cast: Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezynski.

Wajda’s superb film vividly captures the turbulence and confusion immediately following the Second World War, as a former resistance hero turns anti-Communist assassin. Audiences were supposed to empathise with his intended victim, but Zbigniew Cybulski gave such a charismatic performance as the conflicted killer it seemed to crystallise the fears and uncertainties of a generation. The screening on 13 April will be introduced by Dr Pasquale Iannone (University of Edinburgh).

A sleeper train rockets through the night; among its passengers might be a murderer. Night Train isn’t quite as overtly Hitchcockian as it sounds, as Kawalerowicz was primarily interested in the quirks that people show in artificial social environments. Leon Niemczyk (Knife in the Water) and the director’s wife, Lucyna Winnicka, are strangers sharing a compartment while studiously hiding personal secrets.

Innocent Sorcerers Niewinni czarodzieje Sat 18 Apr at 6.15pm & Mon 27 Apr at 8.45pm Andrzej Wajda • Poland 1960 • 1h28m Digital • Polish with English subtitles 12A – Contains moderate violence and sex references Cast: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Krystyna Stypulkowska, Wanda Koczeska, Kalina Jedrusik, Teresa Szmigielówna.

After three successive films about Polish history, Wajda turned his attention to the (then) present, enlisting younger colleagues Roman Polanski and Jerzy Skolimowski to add verisimilitude to this study of disaffected twentysomethings. Newly qualified doctor and jazz fanatic Bazyli (Tadeusz Lomnicki) has so little time for emotional engagement that when he actually falls in love he doesn’t know how to handle it. SEASON CONTINUES OVERLEAF

Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema (contd.)

KNIFE IN THE WATER

JUMP

THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT

WALKOVER

Knights of the Black Cross Krzyzacy

Knife in the Water Nóz w wodzie

Sun 19 Apr at 7.45pm & Sat 9 May at 2.00pm

Fri 24 Apr at 6.15pm & Mon 11 May at 6.15pm

Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie

Aleksander Ford • Poland 1960 • 2h53m • Digital • Polish with English subtitles • PG – Contains mild violence and language Cast: Urszula Modrzynska, Grazyna Staniszewska, Andrzej Szalawski.

Roman Polanski • Poland 1962 • 1h36m Digital • Polish with English subtitles PG – Contains mild language, violence, nudity and sex references Cast: Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz.

Sun 26 Apr at 7.30pm & Sun 17 May at 2.00pm

One of Poland’s biggest hits, this lavish widescreen epic was based on Henryk Sienkiewicz’s much-loved novel, The Teutonic Knights. Set at the turn of the 15th century, it depicts the tension between the Poles and Lithuanians and their Teutonic neighbours, culminating in a thrilling reconstruction of the 1410 Battle of Grunwald (a pivotal event in Polish history) which featured thousands of extras. The screening on 19 April will be introduced by Dr Malgorzata Bugaj (University of Edinburgh and University of Stirling).

Roman Polanski’s first feature mixed ostensibly simple ingredients: two men; a woman; a yacht; a vast expanse of water, and a haunting jazz score by the great Krzysztof Komeda. It resulted in not just one of the most psychologically gripping films of its era, but also Poland’s first Oscar nominee. The screening on 24 April will be introduced by Dr Pasquale Iannone (University of Edinburgh).

Jump Salto Sat 25 Apr at 6.15pm & Tue 12 May at 8.45pm

Mother Joan of the Angels

Tadeusz Konwicki • Poland 1965 • 1h45m Digital • Polish with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Zbigniew Cybulski.

Thu 23 Apr at 6.00pm & Sat 9 May at 6.00pm

In this rich and subtle dream-play, a man arrives in a small country town and demands sanctuary from an unspecified threat. But who is he, why do people remember him differently, and can he really perform miracles? Many Poles consider this Cybulski’s greatest performance and he’s certainly on riveting form, especially when performing a ‘salto’ folk dance towards the end.

Matka Joanna od aniolów

Jerzy Kawalerowicz • Poland 1961 • 1h51m • Digital • Polish and Latin with English subtitles • PG – Contains mild nudity Cast: Lucyna Winnicka, Mieczyslaw Voit, Anna Ciepielewska.

Notionally, this is based on the same historical events that inspired Ken Russell’s The Devils, but Kawalerowicz’s treatment is subtler and more psychologically acute. Lucyna Winnicka plays an allegedly possessed abbess who’s investigated by a priest, hopelessly out of his depth when confronted with forces he doesn’t understand. The screening on 23 April will be introduced by Dr David Sorfa, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

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The Saragossa Manuscript

Wojciech Jerzy Has • Poland 1965 • 3h4m Digital • Polish with English subtitles 15 – Contains frequent nudity and moderate violence Cast: Zbigniew Cybulski, Iga Cembrzynska, Joanna Jedryka.

You wouldn’t expect a rip-roaring widescreen Napoleonic adventure crammed with duels, damsels and cryptic manuscripts to be the favourite film of the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia. But this is actually one of the great 1960s ‘head-trips’ – an adaptation of Count Jan Potocki’s legendarily labyrinthine novel into a bewildering but exhilarating lattice of stories within stories within stories. The screening on 26 April will be introduced by Dr Malgorzata Bugaj (University of Edinburgh and University of Stirling).

Walkover Walkower Thu 30 Apr at 6.15pm & Wed 13 May at 8.45pm Jerzy Skolimowski • Poland 1965 • 1h15m Digital • Polish with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Aleksandra Zawieruszanka, Jerzy Skolimowski.

Jerzy Skolimowski’s second feature cemented his status as a one-man Polish New Wave, with the rhythms of his films influenced as much by jazz and (his own) poetry as by more conventional storytelling. Skolimowski himself plays a dropout-turned-amateur boxer who’s distracted from his bouts when Teresa (Aleksandra Zawieruszanka), an old university friend, re-enters his life. The screening on 13 May will be introduced by Dr Pasquale Iannone (University of Edinburgh).

Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema

PHARAOH

THE WEDDING

THE ILLUMINATION

THE PROMISED LAND

Pharaoh Faraon

The Wedding Wesele

Sun 10 May at 8.00pm & Sat 23 May at 2.00pm

Thu 21 May at 8.45pm & Sat 6 Jun at 8.45pm

Sanatorium pod klepsydra

Jerzy Kawalerowicz • Poland 1966 • 2h33m Digital • Polish with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Jerzy Zelnik, Wieslawa Mazurkiewicz, Barbara Brylska.

Andrzej Wajda • Poland 1973 • 1h48m Digital • Polish with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Marek Walczewski, Izabela Olszewska, Ewa Zietek, Daniel Olbrychski, Emilia Krakowska.

Tue 26 May at 8.30pm & Mon 8 Jun at 8.30pm

Kawalerowicz spent three years making what was once Poland’s most expensive film, a huge widescreen epic about the struggle between Ramesses XIII and his high priests. Previously released internationally only in a severely truncated version, Pharaoh has now been restored to its spectacular original form. The screening on 10 May will be introduced by Dr Malgorzata Bugaj (University of Edinburgh and University of Stirling).

To Kill This Love Trzeba zabic te milosc Tue 19 May at 8.45pm & Fri 5 Jun at 6.15pm Janusz Morgenstern • Poland 1972 • 1h37m Digital • Polish with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Andrzej Malec, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Barbara Wrzesinska, Alicja Jachiewicz.

Magda and Andrzej (Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak and Andrzej Malec) are young lovers in early 1970s Poland, notionally a socialist paradise, in reality anything but as they find themselves constantly buffeted by official obstacles and supposedly non-existent class barriers as they try to find a place to live together. The film was formally criticised for its pessimism, but the feeling was very much shared by its audience. The screening on 19 May will be introduced by Dr Malgorzata Bugaj (University of Edinburgh and University of Stirling).

First performed in 1901, Stanislaw Wyspianski’s play turns the marriage of a poet and a peasant into a state-ofthe-nation allegory about the attractions and pitfalls of national self-determination at a time when independent Poland didn’t exist. Wajda’s splendidly grotesque adaptation pulls out every cinematic stop in emphasising the piece’s phantasmagorical elements as his camera hurtles from reality to fantasy.

The Illumination Iluminacja Mon 25 May at 6.15pm & Sun 7 Jun at 6.15pm Krzysztof Zanussi • Poland 1973 • 1h33m Digital • Polish with English subtitles 15 – Contains gory surgery and autopsy images, and soft drug use Cast: Stanislaw Latallo, Monika Dzienisiewicz-Olbrychska, Malgorzata Pritulak, Jan Skotnicki, Edward Zebrowski, Wlodzimierz Zonn.

This dazzlingly original film-essay combines an intensely intimate portrait of a young would-be scientist with a quizzical analysis of his sincere (if fumbling and naive) attempts at grasping the very meaning of life, to which end he switches from studying physics to biology. Its frequent scholarly digressions into both art and science anticipated Peter Greenaway by many years.

The Hourglass Sanatorium Wojciech Jerzy Has • Poland 1973 • 2h5m • Digital Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew and Latin with English subtitles 15 – Contains moderate violence and sexualised nudity Cast: Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat, Irena Orska, Halina Kowalska.

A hallucinatory head-swiveller of a film, which combines several of Bruno Schulz’s short fantasy works into a floridly baroque journey of a man visiting a mysterious sanatorium. He enters a world based as much on his anxieties and long-buried memories as it is on objective reality, a world crammed with exotic birds, mechanical automata resembling historical figures and haunting images of Poland’s now-vanished Jewish past. The screening on 26 May will be introduced by Dr Malgorzata Bugaj (University of Edinburgh and University of Stirling).

The Promised Land Ziemia obiecana Thu 28 May at 8.00pm & Tue 9 Jun at 8.00pm Andrzej Wajda • Poland 1975 • 2h50m • Digital Polish, German, Yiddish and Russian with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong gory images and sex Cast: Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn.

Andrzej Wajda’s viscerally vivid adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner Wladyslaw Reymont’s late-19th-century novel is a ruthlessly clear-eyed anatomising of the industrial revolution from the perspective of three young entrepreneurs vying to be the most ruthless. One of the most outstanding and astonishing works by arguably the greatest of all Polish directors. SEASON CONTINUES OVERLEAF

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MAN OF IRON

THE CONSTANT FACTOR

Provincial Actors

AUSTERIA

A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING

The Constant Factor Constans

Blind Chance Przypadek

Sun 31 May at 6.15pm & Fri 12 Jun at 6.15pm

Wed 3 Jun at 6.00pm & Tue 16 Jun at 6.00pm

Krzysztof Zanussi • Poland 1980 • 1h31m Digital • Polish and English with English subtitles • PG Cast: Tadeusz Bradecki, Zofia Mrozowska, Malgorzata Zajaczkowska, Cezary Morawski, Witold Pyrkosz.

Krzysztof Kieslowski • Poland 1987 • 2h3m Digital • Polish with English subtitles 15 – Contains moderate sex and nudity Cast: Boguslaw Linda, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz.

After an apprenticeship as Andrzej Wajda’s assistant, Agnieszka Holland made her solo debut with this ambitious ensemble piece. The story of a trendy young theatre director attempting a politically controversial reinterpretation of a well-known Polish play provides both an allegorical study of cultural interference and a lacerating portrait of a withering marriage.

A man obsessed by the impending death of his mother and a dream of climbing mountains retreats into mathematics, trying to discover a ‘constant factor’ that will make sense of the world’s apparently random capriciousness. It’s one of Zanussi’s most mordantly cleareyed films about the moral challenges posed by trying to maintain a normal life in a corrupt bureaucracy.

Banned for years for getting too close to the political knuckle, Kieslowski’s three-part narrative hinges on whether medical student Witek (Boguslaw Linda) catches a train, and on what happens afterwards. Will he be recruited by the government, become a political protester, or continue studying in neutral isolation? And can he control these outcomes, or is his life dictated by fate? This newlyrestored version of Blind Chance contains scenes which have never previously been screened in public.

Man of Iron Czlowiek z zelaza

Austeria

Aktorzy prowincjonalni Fri 29 May at 6.15pm & Thu 11 Jun at 6.00pm Agnieszka Holland • Poland 1979 • 1h50m Digital • Polish with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Halina Labonarska, Tadeusz Huk.

Sat 30 May at 8.00pm & Sat 13 Jun at 8.10pm Andrzej Wajda • Poland 1981 • 2h34m Digital • Polish with English subtitles 12A – Contains strong language Cast: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania, Irena Byrska, Wieslawa Kosmalska.

As the Solidarity protests swelled in 1980, Wajda grabbed camera and crew, pulled ready-made characters off the shelf (from his earlier Man of Marble) and filmed this story of government-backed espionage against the real backdrop of world-changing history unfolding: even activist and future President Lech Walesa (himself later the subject of Wajda’s Walesa: Man of Hope) has a cameo. It won both the Palme d’Or and a domestic ban when martial law was declared.

Mon 1 Jun at 6.00pm & Sun 14 Jun at 6.00pm Jerzy Kawalerowicz • Poland 1982 • 1h48m • Digital Polish, Hebrew and German with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Franciszek Pieczka, Wojciech Pszoniak, Jan Szurmiej, Ewa Domanska, Wojciech Standello.

Jerzy Kawalerowicz spent decades trying to realise his most personal project, a tale of anti-Semitic persecution during the First World War that allowed him to suggest, without tackling the Holocaust directly, that the culturallyengendered pacifism and passivity of Poland’s Jews sowed the seeds of their later destruction. This was – to put it mildly – a controversial notion, but Kawalerowicz’s sympathy and sincerity is evident throughout.

A Short Film About Killing Krótki film o zabijaniu

Thu 4 Jun at 6.15pm & Wed 17 Jun at 8.45pm Krzysztof Kieslowski • Poland 1988 • 1h26m • Digital Polish with English subtitles • 18 – Contains very strong violence Cast: Miroslaw Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Tesarz.

A grimly confrontational study of the protracted process of ending someone’s life, whether through casual murder or meticulously calibrated execution. Kieslowski’s masterpiece contributed to a national debate that ultimately ended capital punishment in Poland – for who could still justify it after seeing it? Cinematographer Slawomir Idziak’s inspired use of bilious coloured filters turns 1980s Warsaw into a living hell. The screening on 4 June will be introduced by Dr Pasquale Iannone (University of Edinburgh).

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Vera Chytilová

CEILING

SOMETHING DIFFERENT

Vera Chytilová A rebel, a feminist and a critic of contemporary society – some of many labels attached to the leading lady of 1960s Czech New Wave, Vera Chytilová, who died last year at the age of 85. An innovative filmmaker, best known for her experimental farce Daisies, Chytilová focused on women rebelling against a male dominated order while consistently applying her moral vision, earning herself a ban from filming by the Czechoslovak government. Several screenings will be introduced by Dr David Sorfa, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh and editor-in-chief of the journal Film-Philosophy. He has written on Michael Haneke, Jan Svankmajer and Czech cinema, and has interests in psychoanalysis and phenomenology.

DAISIES

Ceiling + A Bagful of Fleas

Something Different O necem jiném

Wed 15 Apr at 6.30pm

Wed 22 Apr at 6.15pm

1h25m • Digital • Czech with English subtitles • 15

Vera Chytilová • Czechoslovakia 1963 • 1h22m Digital • Czech with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Eva Bosáková, Vera Uzelacová, Josef Langmiler, Jirí Kodet.

With these medium length student films, Chytilová attracted international attention at the very beginning of her career. The mixture of formalism and cinéma vérité in Ceiling exposes the inner life of a fashion model in a manner that sometimes recalls Antonioni, while A Bagful of Fleas uses non-actors to portray girls’ lives in the cotton mills of Náchod in realist fashion, with an unflattering portrait of factory officials. Ceiling Strop

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In her first feature, Chytilová tells the parallel stories of a woman gymnast, Eva Bosáková (filmed as documentary), and an ordinary housewife (filmed as fiction). The two strands never meet, but provide a progressive comment on each other and the differing roles of the women. An absorbing and important work of women’s cinema, the film also features striking camerawork from Jan Curík.

Vera Chytilová • Czechoslovakia 1961 • 43m Cast: Marta Kanovská, Julián Chytil, Josef Abrhám.

A Bagful of Fleas Pytel blech Vera Chytilová • Czechoslovakia 1962 • 42m Cast: Helga Cocková.

Daisies Sedmikrásky Wed 29 Apr at 6.15pm Vera Chytilová • Czechoslovakia 1966 • 1h35m Digital • Czech with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Jitka Cerhová, Ivana Karbanová, Jan Klusák.

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Chytilová’s neo-dadaist farce is full of extravagant visual effects, sensuous décor and fascinating experiments with colour. Two teenage girls stumble through a series of happenings, exploit middle aged men, and engage in orgies of eating, interspersed with sun bathing. Full of enthusiasm and joie de vivre, it mixes social observation, feminist comment and formal experiment in an exhilarating journey. This screening will be introduced by Dr David Sorfa.

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PREFAB STORY

The Fruit of Paradise

Ovoce stromu rajskych jíme Wed 6 May at 6.15pm Vera Chytilová • Czechoslovakia/Belgium 1969 • 1h35m Digital • Czech with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Jitka Nováková, Karel Novák, Jan Schmid.

In Chytilová’s most experimental work, Zdenek Liska’s music, Jaroslav Kucera’s cinematography and Ester Krumbachová’s design combine in a unique celebration of form. Nominally based on the story of a murderer, the characters symbolise Eve, Adam and the devil, against a background of the Garden of Eden. This screening will be introduced by Dr David Sorfa.

Prefab Story

Panelstory aneb Jak se rodí sídliste Wed 13 May at 6.15pm Vera Chytilová • Czechoslovakia 1979 • 1h36m Digital • Czech with English subtitles • 18 Cast: Lukás Bech, Antonín Vanha, Eva Kacírková.

Chytilová’s multilevel portrayal of contemporary life is a blunt and aggressive confrontation with the ‘normalised’ society in which she lived. Set against the background of a high rise estate, it examines the nature of contemporary morality and the materialist preoccupations of its inhabitants. One of the few genuinely critical works of its time, it received limited release and was denied international exposure.

TRAPS

Traps Pasti, pasti, pasticky Wed 20 May at 6.00pm Vera Chytilová • Czech Republic 1998 • 2h4m 35mm • Czech with English subtitles • 18 Cast: Zuzana Stivínová, Miroslav Donutil, Tomás Hanák.

Described as a ‘feminist black comedy’, Chytilová’s postcommunist film continues the confrontational approach of Prefab Story with the subject of a woman who is raped by two men. Unfortunately for them, she is a veterinary surgeon practised in techniques of castration. Also a political commentary attacking male power, it shows Chytilová treating capitalist morality with the same enthusiasm previously reserved for ‘socialist’ compromise. This screening will be introduced by Dr David Sorfa.

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Dead by Dawn/Come and See... Carnival of Souls

THE POOL

RE-ANIMATOR

CARNIVAL OF SOULS

Dead by Dawn

Come and See...

Dead by Dawn returns to Filmhouse in April for its 22nd edition, with a line-up of dark delights guaranteed to give you goose-bumps on your goose-bumps!

A monthly one-off screening of a great film we simply thought you might like to see, again or for the first time, on the big screen.

We have a full programme of superb feature premieres alongside a handful of classics, and lots of short film programmes stuffed full of delicious, twisted, bizarre, dark and unsettling bite-size nightmares – all befitting our recent win as This Is Horror’s UK Event of the Year! Included in this year’s festival are Chris Mitchell’s The Pool, about a family camping trip that doesn’t quite go to plan... well, do they ever? We have the exceptional Spanish thriller Musaranas (aka Shrew’s Nest) starring festival favourite, Goya-nominated actress Macarena Gomez. We join one young woman as she completes some unusual therapy after a run-in with a demonic force in Ava’s Possessions, and in When Animals Dream we’re off to a small Danish island where teenager Marie is developing an unwelcome condition, though she may be the last person in her community to figure out what it is. Our classics line-up includes three films to remind you never to talk to strangers: George Sluizer’s The Vanishing (Spoorloos), Michael Mann’s Manhunter and John McNaughton’s Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. To celebrate a new film with Macarena Gomez we’re screening Stuart Gordon’s Dagon, and thoughts of Stuart Gordon made it irresistible to re-screen the one and only Re-Animator. We’re adding new films all the time and they’ll be on the Filmhouse and Dead by Dawn sites and social media as we do – you can also sign up at the DBD site for festival updates. All-inclusive Passes priced £75 are on sale now. If you prefer to cherry-pick your viewing, you can buy tickets for individual screenings, with some available now and the whole programme confirmed and on sale in early April – full information at both Filmhouse and Dead by Dawn sites. Or, if you just want to dip a toe in, there’s also our second event, Spawn of Dawn, an evil mini-me of the main festival, running as an all-night movie marathon in Cinema Two at Filmhouse. It kicks off at midnight on Saturday 25 April and screens five features and up to ten shorts selected from the main festival programme. Tickets for this are priced £25, and are on sale now. www.deadbydawn.co.uk

Carnival of Souls Thu 16 Apr at 8.45pm Herk Harvey • USA 1962 • 1h18m • 35mm • 15 Cast: Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger, Art Ellison, Stan Levitt.

Herk Harvey’s low-budget chiller has rightly gained a devoted cult following over the years. Haunting and unforgettable, it’s an absolute treat on the big screen. A young woman, Mary Henry, and two of her friends accidentally drive off a bridge into the river below. It appears all three have drowned, but, inexplicably, some time later, Mary emerges from the depths. She moves to a new town, rents a room in a boarding house and becomes the organist in a local church. But she suffers from visions of a ghoulish-looking man, and finds herself drawn to a decaying amusement park... “Retains an atmosphere of melancholic, surreal dread.” Empire

Filmosophy/Edinburgh International Science Festival

3-IRON

Filmosophy The final screening in this season, focusing on the distinction between appearance and reality. The screening will be preceded by a short introduction and followed by an opportunity to discuss the philosophical issues raised in an informal and accessible manner. The screenings will be introduced and discussion sessions hosted by James Mooney (Lecturer in Film and Philosophy and Open Studies Course Organiser at The University of Edinburgh).

GENETIC ME

Edinburgh International Science Festival We’re delighted to host these two special screenings as part of this year’s Edinburgh International Science Festival.

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Genetic Me

Tue 21 Apr at 6.00pm Kim Ki-duk • South Korea/Japan 2004 • 1h28m 35mm • Korean with English subtitles 15 – Contains moderate sex and violence Cast: Jae Hee, Lee Seung-yeon, Kwon Hyuk-ho, Choi Jeong-ho.

Korean writer-director Kim Ki-duk captures raw realities about modern life while telling a genuinely touching romance using virtually no dialogue. Tae-suk (Jae Hee) is a young man who takes up residence in homes that sit empty while the occupants are on holiday. He cleans, does the laundry, indulges in subtle practical jokes, then moves on. This pattern changes drastically when he takes up residence in the upscale home of Min-kyu and Sun-hwa, a hothead, golf-obsessed businessman and his battered trophy-wife.

Mon 6 Apr at 6.15pm • Tickets £10/£8 Pernille Rose Grønkjær • Denmark 2014 • 52m • Digital Danish and English with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary

With the rise of internet-based genetic testing, journalist and neurobiologist Dr Lone Frank has been able to ask questions about issues she and her family have struggled with: depression, difficulty getting on with people and more. Genetic Me is a humorous, ‘sexy’ and deeply personal tale that connects us with frontier genetic research and provides new perspectives on the eternal question of ‘how did I become me?’ The screening will be followed by a conversation between Dr Frank and developmental biologist Prof Jonathan Slack.

EX MACHINA

Ex Machina Thu 16 Apr at 6.00pm • Tickets £10/£8 Alex Garland • USA/UK 2015 • 1h48m • Digital 15 – Contains strong language, bloody violence, sex references Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander, Chelsea Li, Corey Johnson.

Computer programmer Caleb Smith wins a competition to visit the private estate of his company’s reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman, only to find that he has been chosen to evaluate the capabilities and consciousness of Nathan’s latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That experiment is Ava, a female A.I. who proves more sophisticated – and more deceptive – than Nathan or Caleb could have imagined. Science writer, geneticist and presenter of Radio 4’s Inside Science Dr Adam Rutherford hosts a special screening of Alex Garland’s science fiction thriller. He will be joined by Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience and co-founder of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science Anil Seth for an in-depth Q&A on artificial intelligence, neuroscience and some futurecasting on the possibilites and dangers of man-made consciousness.

Education and Learning

EASTER BEASTIES ANIMATION WORKSHOP

TOYS ALIVE ANIMATION WORKSHOP

Education and Learning April Animation Workshops

How to Animate (16+)

Student Critics Jury

Animation workshops delivered by Animation Jam – all animation work produced will be uploaded to www.animationjam.co.uk

Sat 18 Apr • 10.00am-4.30pm • Age 16-100 £35 (£30 concession) A fun packed introduction to the world of animation which will allow you to explore different 2D and 3D techniques to create your own short films. The workshop covers 2D drawn animation, 2D cut-out puppet, 3D stop motion animation and other techniques. You will learn about practical and affordable filming equipment and software, and simple green screen techniques too. Get tips from a professional animator and jump-start development of your own ideas.

Can you write brilliantly about film? Would you like to spend a week at Edinburgh International Film Festival developing your skills as a writer under the mentorship of leading critics, watching new films and selecting the winner of the Student Critics Jury Award? Open to all full time students at Scottish colleges and universities, the EIFF Student Critics Jury expands participants knowledge of contemporary world cinema and develops their ability to evaluate and write about films. EIFF supports the development of film criticism by giving the next generation of film critics this opportunity to gain practical experience at the UK’s leading film festival. For a chance to join our Student Critics Jury you need to write a 500 word essay on a recent or classic film. Find further details and an application form at www.edfilmfest.org.uk/learning. The closing date is 11 May.

Easter Beasties Animation Workshop Wed 8 Apr • 10.30am-12.45pm • Age 7-12 • £14.50 Animation Jam present a fun packed introduction to the world of 3D animation. Make your own plasticine characters and bring them to life in your own animated film. Team up with other creatures to see what crazy stories develop, and watch your films online. With your own squashy, bendable 3D creatures, it might turn into a happy Easter rabbit tale or a complete chocapocalypse!!!

Animate a Cartoon Easter Card Wed 8 Apr • 1.45pm-4.00pm • Age 7-12 • £14.50 It’s Easter time, and chocolate, rabbits and crazy animated dinosaurs are destroying the planet! Come to Animation Jam’s cartoon animation workshop to build your own paper creatures and bring them to life in a cartoon! You could make a two headed bunny, chocolate egg monsters or Easter chicken spies or pies; your imagination is the only limit! All your films are put online too.

Toys Alive Animation Workshop Sun 19 Apr • 10.30am-12.45pm OR 1.45pm-4.00pm Age 7-12 • £14.50 Toys, vegetables, anything can be brought to life with animation! Think of Toy Story or CBBC’s Ooglies. This animation workshop gives you lifeless random objects and all you have to do is make them move. Animation Jam will show you how to make faces and extra bits and all you have to do is get some good ideas going with the other new animators. If you have a smallish (e.g. 10-15cm) toy you wish to animate, you can bring it along.

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