FIlmhouse Brochure - February 2017

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FILMS WORTH TALKING ABOUT

H O M E O F T H E E D I NB U RG H I N T E R N AT I O N A L F I L M F E S T I VA L

Yes, you heard right. A German Comedy…!

Well, as is evidenced by the content of this programme, here we are again in the midst of the film industry’s awards season and the attendant cinema releases of a glut of this year’s hopefuls.

But, you know what, I reckon you get so much commentary and speculation about all of that nonsense from the mainstream media, you hardly need to hear about it here as well – though I do admit that has not stopped me in the past. In any case, La La Land (on here from 3 Feb, as it happens!) will sweep the board – he says, going out on no kind of a limb whatsoever...

German Comedy? Now there’s two words you don’t often see together. We have a very good reason to put them together though, for the most-talked-about film at Cannes 2016, the oxymoron-busting (and probably Foreign Language Oscar®-winning) Toni Erdmann, gets its long-awaited release. T2 Trainspotting continues perhaps all the way though February (after its 27 Jan release) and we’re catching up on a few things we haven’t had the chance to play yet - the marvellous Loving, and Manchester by the Sea starring the likely Best Actor Oscar®-winner Casey Affleck. The Founder (17 Feb) might miss out on awards this year, but when was that ever a measure of a film’s worth! It stars the magnificent Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc, the man who ‘founded’ McDonald’s. And don’t think for a second that patronage of that particular ‘restaurant’ chain is a prerequisite to liking the film – I’m testament to the fact it isn’t! Lastly, our short tribute to Martin Scorsese concludes and includes his latest film, Silence, the tale of two Portuguese Jesuit priests in 17th Century Japan, and a couple of new digital restorations in Taxi Driver and GoodFellas.

Oh well, despite my protestations, I Oscar®-speculated three times. Couldn’t resist…

Rod White, Head of Filmhouse

Filmhouse Explorer Buy A TICKET FOR...

T2 Trainspotting (p 4) The Founder (p 5) La La Land (p 6) Manchester by the Sea (p 6)

GET A HALF PRICE TICKET for Toni Erdmann (p 4) Christine (p 4) Loving (p 6) Martin Scorsese (p 11-12)

All tickets subject to availability. The half price voucher only applies to full price tickets. The Filmhouse Explorer ticket deal cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer. The 50% discount is not valid for Friday matinee screenings.

Ticket Prices matinees (shows starting prior to 5pm) Mon - Thu: £8.00 / £6.00 concessions Fri: £6.00 / £4.50 concessions Sat - Sun: £10.00 / £8.00 concessions

evening screenings (starting 5pm and later) £10.00 / £8.00 concessions 3D SCREENINGS add £2 to ticket price.

filmhouse junior screenings Under 12s are £4.50 for any screening.

CONCESSIONS

Children (under 15s), Students (with matriculation card), Young Scot card, Senior Citizens, Disability (carers go free), Claimants (Jobseekers Allowance, Disability Living Allowance, Housing Benefit), NHS employees (with proof of employees).

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ACCESS/AUDIO DESC./CAPTIONED

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Kubo and the Two Strings

BABY & CARER SCREENINGS

26

Labyrinth 19

SCREENING DATES AND TIMES

14-16

7

La La Land

6

Life and a Day

24

76 Minutes and 15 Seconds with Abbas... 23

The Lobster

12

After Hours

11

Loving 6

The Age of Innocence

11

Malaria 25

Architecture of Space

22

Manchester by the Sea

6

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans 9

Martin Scorsese

10-11

Ballerina 19

Moana

7 + 18

Being Born

Moving Cinema

12

25

Breath 25

Mustang 12

Casablanca 8

Nobody Dies Here

25

Casino 11

Over the Rainbow

8

Christine 4

Pan’s Labyrinth

8

Code Unknown

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Performing Gesture

23

Daughter 24

Pete’s Dragon

18

Dirty Dancing

8

The Poetic Voice

23

Dirty Pretty Things

20

Pressure 20

Edinburgh Iranian Festival

23-25

The Salesman

24

Edinburgh Student Arts Festival

9

Screening Europe

20-21

Education and Learning

13

Shun Li and the Poet

21

Enchanted 19

Silence 11

Fata Morgana

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Song of the Sea

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Film and the Other Arts: Creative...

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T2 Trainspotting

4

Film as Canvas

22

Taxi Driver

10

Filmhouse Junior

18-19

Toni Erdmann

4

Filmhouse Quiz

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Valentine’s Day

8

Filmosophy 12

Wadjda 7

Finding Dory

7

Wild Nutrition - Bright, Young Things in... 9

The Founder

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A Window on My Iran - Photography...

GoodFellas 10 Growing Pains

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Half Term Films

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Harry Benson: Shoot First

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Heartbeats 8 Herzog of the Month

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Hugo

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New Releases

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T2 Trainspotting

Christine

Showing from Fri 27 Jan

Showing from Fri 3 Feb

Danny Boyle • UK 2017 • 1h57m • Digital • cert tbc • Cast: Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner.

Antonio Campos • UK/USA 2016 • 1h59m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, suicide scene • Cast: Rebecca Hall, Michael C. Hall, Tracy Letts.

First there was an opportunity... then a betrayal.

Twenty years have gone by since that day. Much has changed but just as much remains the same. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home - Edinburgh. Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle) await him, as do sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger - what did Renton really choose?

Based on the notorious story of Christine Chubbuck, the Florida reporter who shot and killed herself live on air in 1974, Christine is a gracefully handled retelling of a story which is no less disturbing more than 40 years on. The brilliant Rebecca Hall gives possibly the performance of her career as a desperate woman on the verge, while director Antonio Campos explores the last days of the reporter’s life with real sensitivity, suggesting Chubbuck’s frosty on-air disposition, and spectacular cry for help, stemmed from an inability to connect with people.

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Toni Erdmann Showing from Fri 3 Feb Maren Ade • Germany/Austria/Romania 2016 • 2h42m • Digital • German, English and Romanian with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language, nudity, scene of sexual activity, drug misuse. • Cast: Peter Simonischek, Sandra Hüller, Michael Wittenborn, Thomas Loibl.

A film that takes the generational gap comedy formula, pops on a wig and a pair of fake teeth, and turns it up a few notches - Toni Erdmann manages a unique balance between relentless comedy and bittersweet drama.

Winfried (Peter Simonischek) - a retiree with a penchant for practical jokes - doesn’t see much of his workaholic daughter Ines (Sandra Hüller). After an impulsive visit to see her in Bucharest, causing much embarrassment, he agrees to go home to Germany. Enter Toni Erdmann, Winfried’s eccentric alter-ego, who claims to be the life coach of Ines’ boss...

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NEW RELEASE

Harry Benson: Shoot First

The Founder

Mon 6 Feb & Tue 7 Feb

Showing from Fri 17 Feb

Justin Bare, Matthew Miele • USA 2016 • 1h32m • Digital • 12A Documentary.

John Lee Hancock • USA 2016 • 1h55m • Digital • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language. • Cast: Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Laura Dern, B.J. Novak.

This new documentary offers a captivating survey of the life and work of Harry Benson CBE, the Scotsborn photographer who captured some of the most iconic moments in the 20th Century. Much of what we know today about many famous musicians, politicians and actors is due to the work of the man whose vibrant and intimate photos of The Beatles and many others have become instantly recognisable touch points in our popular culture. With running commentary by Benson himself, the film includes appearances by a range of his subjects - including Sharon Stone, Donald Trump and Henry Kissinger.

A sharp and entertaining yarn from John Lee Hancock (Saving Mr. Banks) based on the true story of Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a down-at-heel salesman who in the 1950s happens upon a pair of brothers running a small Southern California burger chain. Their names Dick and Mac McDonald. Seizing upon the immense franchise potential of these fast food joints, Kroc’s rise to full ownership of the vast McDonald’s empire is thick with legal wrangling, brinkmanship and, above all else, sheer persistence - typifying the many conflicting sides of ‘the American dream’.

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La La Land

Manchester by the Sea

Showing from Fri 3 Feb

Showing from Fri 24 Feb

Damien Chazelle • USA 2016 • 2h8m • Digital • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language. • Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, J.K. Simmons, Rosemarie DeWitt.

Kenneth Lonergan • USA 2016 • 2h17m • Digital • 15 - Contains very strong language. • Cast: Casey Affleck, Lucas Hedges, Kyle Chandler, Michelle Williams.

A drummer himself, Damien Chazelle (director of last year’s brilliantly intense Whiplash) wrote La La Land in tribute to the musicals he loves, while infusing elements of ‘city symphony’ films and the hard realities of life, love and being an artist. Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone - a jobbing musician and aspiring actress respectively - meet and fall for each other, and we are led through the stages of their whirlwind romance as they chase their dreams, find success and meet its challenges. All of the above is expressed through song, dance and big, bold homages to classic movie musicals.

From Oscar®-nominated screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan (Gangs of New York) comes this finelycrafted drama set in coastal Massachusetts. After his elder brother Joe’s death, Lee (Casey Affleck) discovers that he is now sole guardian of his teenage nephew Patrick (Lucas Hedges). In order to make arrangements, he moves back to his hometown of Manchester-by-the-Sea - which threatens to stir up some of his darkest and most troubling memories.

Bonded by the man who held their family together, Lee and young Patrick struggle to adjust to life without him.

Maybe you missed

Loving Showing from Fri 24 Feb Jeff Nichols • UK/USA 2016 • 2h3m • Digital • 12A - Contains infrequent racist language. • Cast: Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga, Will Dalton.

A strong contender for the 2016 Palme d’Or at Cannes, Loving is an intimate, moving account of one couple’s fight against institutionalised racism in the all-too-recent past. Directed by Jeff Nichols (Mud,Take Shelter), it celebrates the real-life courage of Richard and Mildred Loving (Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga), an interracial couple who in 1958 must marry in Washington D.C. because of anti-miscegenation laws in their home state of Virginia that see them persecuted upon their return. So begins a nine-year fight that goes all the way to the Supreme Court...

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Moana

Finding Dory

Mon 13 Feb , Tue 14 Feb & Thu 16 Feb

Tue 14 Feb at 11.00am & Wed 15 Feb at 1.00pm

John Musker, Ron Clements • USA 2016 • 1h43m • Digital PG - Contains mild threat. • Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Jemaine Clement, Auli’i Cravalho, Alan Tudyk, Nicole Scherzinger.

Andrew Stanton, Angus MacLane • USA 2016 • 1h43m • Digital • U With the voices of Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Ed O’Neill, Diane Keaton, Ty Burrell.

Three thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast South Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, for a millennium, their voyages stopped - and no one today knows why. Moana is a spirited teenager who sails out on a daring mission to prove herself a master wayfinder and fulfill her ancestors’ unfinished quest.

During her journey, she meets the once-mighty demi-god Maui (Dwayne Johnson), and together, they traverse the open ocean on an action-packed voyage, encountering enormous fiery creatures and impossible odds.

The much-anticipated follow-up to Pixar’s delightful Finding Nemo picks up six months afterwards, with warm-hearted amnesiac Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), suddenly recalling childhood memories about the ‘jewel of Morro Bay’ in California. Accompanied by Nemo (Hayden Rolence) and Nemo’s father Marlin (Albert Brooks), she heads off to try and find her family, and they make their way to the Monterey Marine Life Institute. There they meet Hank (Ed O’Neill) a grumpy octopus who becomes their guide, beluga whale Bailey (Ty Burrell) and whale shark Destiny (Kaitlin Olson), who join them on the quest.

HALF TERM

Kubo and the Two Strings

GROWING PAINS

Wadjda

Mon 13 Feb, Wed 15 Feb & Thu 16 Feb

Sat 18 Feb at 1.30pm

Travis Knight • USA 2016 • 1h42m • Digital • PG - Contains mild fantasy violence, scary scenes. • With the voices of Art Parkinson, Charlize Theron, Ralph Fiennes, Matthew McConaughey.

Haifaa Al-Mansour • Saudi Arabia/Germany 2012 • 1h38m • Digital Arabic with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild sex references Cast: Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed, Abdullrahman Al Gohani.

Stunning award-winning animated film from the lead animator of The Boxtrolls and Coraline. Kubo lives a quiet, normal life in a small shoreside village until a spirit from the past turns his life upside down by re-igniting an age-old vendetta. This causes all sorts of havoc as gods and monsters chase Kubo who, in order to survive, must locate a magical suit of armor once worn by his late father, a legendary Samurai warrior. This spellbinding animated tale tells its story masterfully.

Classic and contemporary films dealing with some of the more complex aspects of childhood. All films followed by an informal chat and will be introduced

by Jessie Moroney, a member of the programming team who attended the Practical Programming course with the Independent Cinema Office, which assists participants to develop a fresh programme for their venues.

Shot in the suburbs of Riyadh, Wadjda tells the story of an 10-year-old girl who wants nothing more than to buy a green bicycle to race against her friend Abdullah. In a society that sees riding bicycles a threat to a girl’s virginity, and talking to boys forbidden to young women on the brink of puberty, Wadjda must find a way within the boundaries set in her conservative world to follow her dreams.

Half Term/Growing Pains

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Valentine’s Day/Over the Rainbow/Pan’s Labyrinth

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Casablanca

Dirty Dancing

Tue 14 Feb at 6.10pm

Tue 14 Feb at 8.40pm

Michael Curtiz • USA 1942 • 1h42m • Digital • U • Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet.

Emile Ardolino • USA 1987 • 1h40m • Digital • 12A - Contains moderate sex references • Cast: Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze, Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes, Jack Weston.

The world’s favourite Hollywood love story.

Humphrey Bogart is at his best as Rick, an American opportunist in 1940 French Morocco with a gruffly cynical exterior that belies his wary idealism and wounded heart. Ingrid Bergman is luminous as Ilsa, who arrives in Casablanca with resistance leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), but clearly has a history with Rick. Cynicism and self-interest contend with idealism and self-sacrifice as Rick and Ilsa’s past weighs against the world’s future.

“Nobody puts Baby in the corner”... yeah, that’s right.

Millions of women swooned when Patrick Swayze uttered those immortal words on the cinema screen back in 1987, and millions more since then on VCRs and DVD players throughout the world. Dirty Dancing tells the tale of sweet and innocent Francis ‘Baby’ Houseman, who falls in love with her maverick mambo teacher at a holiday summer camp. Smooth mambo moves coupled with an Oscar® winning soundtrack, it’s even better on the big screen!

OVer the rainbow

Heartbeats Les amours imaginaires Sat 18 Feb at 2.50pm & Sun 19 Feb at 6.10pm

Wed 22 Feb at 5.30pm

Pan’s Labyrinth

Xavier Dolan • Canada 2010 • 1h41m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language and moderate sex • Cast: Monia Chokri, Niels Schneider, Xavier Dolan, Anne Dorval.

Guillermo del Toro • Mexico/Spain/USA 2006 • 2h • Digital • Spanish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language and bloody violence • Cast: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López.

The second film by the prolific and precocious actor/ writer/director Xavier Dolan, Heartbeats is a fasttalking love triangle set in French-speaking Quebec.

Dolan plays Francis, whose close friendship with Maria (Monia Chokri) is severely tested when they both fall for the same man - gorgeous new kid on the block Nicolas (Niels Schneider). A treatise on the strange magic of attraction, Heartbeats references the stylish nouvelle vague of Godard and Truffaut in both atmosphere and expressive cinematography, bringing to mind a millennial update of Jules et Jim.

Guillermo del Toro’s magical film presents a fantasy version of post-Civil War Spain in 1944 as envisioned through the eyes of its young female protagonist Ofelia. This special screening, funded by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities, concludes the first day of the ‘War, Through Other Stuff’ conference, a three-day event exploring alternative interpretations of conflict, including how war and the impact of warhave been captured through cinema. www.warthroughotherstuff.wordpress.com A Q&A with Dr David Archibald (University of Glasgow) will follow the screening.

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Wild Nutrition - Bright, Young Things in Film Fri 24 Feb at 6.00pm 1h29m • Digital • 15

Collaborating with Undependence Film Festival by PopUp Scotland, Edinburgh Student Arts Festival present a film programme about women, and made by women. This programme showcases the work of three young female directors. The main characters in these films, amidst the disorientation and confusion of youth, must confront their emotions and find the path in their own way.

Enigma of Being Awake Emmeline Kim • USA 2016 • 53m • Digital • 15 Colours Stephanie Ward • UK 2016 • 5m • Digital • 15 Gentle Maren Victoria Thingnæs • Norway 2016 • 26m • Digital • Norwegian with English subtitles • U

Filmhouse will screen a film by Werner Herzog every month. This will continue for as long as possible. See these films.

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Thu 23 Feb at 5.50pm Werner Herzog • USA 2009 • 2h2m • Digital • English and Spanish with English subtitles • 18 - Contains frequent hard drug use, sex and very strong language • Cast: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, Alvin ‘Xzibit’ Joiner, Fairuza Balk.

Nicolas Cage is on electrifying form as Terence McDonagh, one of the few cops left in New Orleans after a post-Katrina exodus. Crippled by a back injury, prescription drugs do little to ease his pain, so he turns to the hard stuff. When McDonagh is put in charge of the investigation into the brutal murder of a family, his moral compass gets lost and his behaviour becomes ever more erratic. Is he out of his depth or out of his mind?

Fata Morgana Thu 30 Mar at 6.15pm Werner Herzog • West Germany 1971 • 1h18m • German with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Eugen Des Montagnes, Lotte Eisner, James William Gledhill, Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg.

Herzog’s completely non-narrative movie is cast in the mock-heroic form of an epic poem. Shot in and around the Sahara, its images evoke the idea of the desert as a terminal beach, littered with colonial debris, spanning extremes of poverty and misery, haunted by mirages. It’s the nearest thing yet to a genuinely political science-fiction movie. Brilliantly original, utterly haunting, and featuring the music of the dearly missed Leonard Cohen.

The screening will be introduced by Dr David Sorfa, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Edinburgh.

Edinburgh Student Arts Festival/Herzog of the Month

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Martin Scorsese

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The second half of our retrospective begins with two big-hitters - in every respect. Both Taxi Driver and GoodFellas have received crisp digital restorations and return to our screens with aplomb. To follow, we’ve mined Marty’s back catalogue and unearthed the likes of The Age of Innocence - starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder - and After Hours, a lesser-spotted film that should never be considered ‘minor’ Scorsese. His latest, Silence, is a passion project in the truest sense that’s been gestating for over twenty years, and reaches our screens from Friday 17 February. At the turn of the month we cap off the season with the Vegas-set mob tale Casino, which is a very safe bet for an enthralling night at the pictures.

Taxi Driver Fri 10 to Wed 15 Feb Martin Scorsese • USA 1976 • 1h54m • Digital • 18 - Contains very strong sex references and child prostitution theme Cast: Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle.

41 years old and endlessly imitated, Taxi Driver still packs a fearsome punch. From the instant a yellow cab prowls through a cloud of steam, accompanied by the lush menace of Bernard Herrmann’s score, Scorsese has you in his grasp. And of all the psychos, sociopaths, and screw-ups that Robert De Niro has played for the director, none is more iconic than Vietnam vet Travis Bickle, the cabbie on a self-appointed, obsessive mission to wash the scum off the streets of New York City.

GoodFellas Wed 15 Feb at 8.20pm & Thu 16 Feb at 2.45pm & 8.25pm Martin Scorsese • USA 1990 • 2h19m • Digital • English and Italian with English subtitles • 18 - Contains strong violence.

Cast: Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Paul Sorvino, Lorraine Bracco, Frank Sivero.

“As far back as I could remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.” So begins Scorsese’s modern classic, the story of Henry Hill (Ray Liotta in a career-defining role) who in the mid-1950s was taken under the wing of local New York Italian-American mobster Paul “Paulie” Cicero (Paul Sorvino) and his associates. Riding high on the back of their daring heists, they enjoy the spoils of the criminal underworld, but this can only last so long...

Packed with one-liners, brilliant performances and a great soundtrack, GoodFellas screens from a brand new digitally restored edition.

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After Hours

Silence

Fri 17 Feb to Sun 19 Feb

Fri 17 to Thu 23 Feb

Martin Scorsese • USA 1985 • 1h37m • 35mm • 15 • Cast: Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Teri Garr, John Heard.

Martin Scorsese • Italy/Mexico/USA 2016 • 2h39m • Digital • English and Japanese with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong violence, scenes of torture. • Cast: Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, Adam Driver.

One of the least storied films from Scorsese’s catalogue, the rarely screened After Hours is a modest masterpiece which deserves far more recognition.

In a canon rich with freewheeling epics, it’s certainly a departure - a tightly plotted blacker-than-black comedy whose action takes place over the course of a single evening. Scorsese perfectly captures the illicit thrill of being pushed out of one’s comfort zone, as computer programmer Paul (Dunne) meets Marcy (Arquette) and begins the most insane night of his life - a surreal and twisted trip to the darkest corners of the city.

A passion project of Martin Scorsese - over two decades in development - Silence is an adaptation of Shūsaku Endō’s 1966 novel about two seventeenth century Jesuit priests (Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver) who travel to Japan in search of their mentor (Liam Neeson) and seeking to spread their faith to the country. They are met with violent resistance from the ruling military government - the Tokugawa shogunate, who ruthlessly persecute Japanese Christians - leading the young travellers to ponder why God remains silent while His children suffer.

The Age of Innocence

Casino

Fri 24 Feb, Sat 25 Feb & Mon 27 Feb

Wed 1 Mar at 8.00pm & Thu 2 Mar at 2.00pm

Martin Scorsese • USA 1993 • 2h18m • Digital • U • Cast: Daniel DayLewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Richard E Grant, Geraldine Chaplin.

Martin Scorsese • USA/France 1995 • 2h58m • 35mm • 18 - Contains strong violence • Cast: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods, Don Rickles, Dick Smothers.

Adapting an Edith Wharton best-seller might have seemed a strange choice for Martin Scorsese, but he loved the book and transferred it to the screen virtually unchanged. Set in 19th-century New York, The Age of Innocence centres on lawyer Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis), who becomes engaged to the beautiful but dull May Welland (Winona Ryder).

His life is soon thrown into turmoil by his fiancee’s seductive older cousin, Ellen Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer), seemingly a woman of ill repute.

Casino has it all - wealth, corruption and violence; De Niro and Pesci; and a decades-spanning epic on the rise and fall of a criminal empire. It follows Sam Rothstein (De Niro), hand-picked by the mob to oversee their latest foray into legitimacy: the Tangiers hotel and casino in Vegas. While Rothstein struggles to maintain control, he’s also battling his wife Ginger, a former hustler played by Sharon Stone in what is surely the greatest role of her career.

Wed 1 March screening will be introduced by Dr Pasquale Iannone (University of Edinburgh).

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Filmosophy Valentine’s Special What is love? Why do we love some people rather than others? Is love biological and universal or is it a cultural product relative to our own society?

Join us for this alternative (or even antidote) to the usual films offered around Valentine’s Day, followed by a discussion on the philosophy of love - from Plato to the present day. The film will be introduced and discussion hosted by James Mooney, lecturer in film and Philosophy for the University of Edinburgh’s Short Courses programme.

For more information on this event: www.facebook.com/thinkingfilm www.twitter.com/film_philosophy www.instagram.com/filmphilosophy For details of Short Courses at the University of Edinburgh: www.ed.ac.uk/short-courses

Moving Cinema is a new initiative to encourage younger audiences to enjoy European Cinema. Our Young Programmers group, working alongside other groups in Vilnius, Lisbon and Barcelona, selected four films to share with Filmhouse audiences over the next few months - this is the second screening.

More details of Moving Cinema can be found at movingcinema.eu/strands-of-work/young-programmers/

All screenings are introduced by members of the Young Programmers group.

Young Programmers will also be presenting new films at Edinburgh International Film Festival in June.

For more information contact education@cmi-scotland.co.uk

The Lobster Sun 19 Feb at 12.45pm Yorgos Lanthimos • Ireland/UK/Greece/France/Netherlands 2015 1h58m • Digital • English and French with English subtitles 15 - Contains strong language, sex, sex references, bloody images.

Cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman, Ashley Jensen.

In a dystopian near future, single people are rounded up and taken to a hotel, where they are obliged to find a mate within 45 days, or are transformed into animals and released into the woods. David (Colin Farrell) is one such singleton, who quickly finds that finding love is far from easy. Yorgos Lanthimos’ surreal satire holds a mirror up to our own practices concerning love and relationships in the 21st century.

Mustang Mon 20 Feb at 6.05pm Deniz Gamze Ergüven • France/Germany/Turkey/Qatar 2015 • 1h37m Digital • Turkish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains infrequent strong sex references • Cast: Günes Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu.

Early summer in Turkey. Five sisters live joyful lives. But one day, after an incident, their family decides it’s time for them to grow up. They come to realise that being female is not as simple as it once seemed. Their freedom is exchanged for a life locked indoors preparing to become ‘perfect wives’.

Their sisterly love for each other is truly displayed as they bond together in the hope of avoiding their inevitable future. This film is a compelling and emotional journey and a fantastic example of female empowerment. £5

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Education and Learning Animation Workshops Our popular workshops with Animation Jam return for two days during the February half term. All are suitable for ages 7-12 years. To book please contact the Box Office on 0131 228 2688.

Toys Alive Animation Thurs 16 February, 10.30am to 12.40 (130 mins) - £15 Whether it’s a toy robot firing lasers, cars racing with Lego or a furry cat drinking some milk, we’ll help you bring your own toys to life with animation. Bring along a small-ish toy (5-15cm) you want to animate or choose from random ones we’ll provide.

Plasticine Creature Animation Thurs 16 February, 1.40pm to 3.50pm (130 mins) - £15 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.

3D Animation in 2D Fri 17 February, 10.30am to 12.40 (130 mins) - £15 Animate in plasticine - but with a twist! Join others and make flat plasticine critters that can easily defy gravity and find great ways to make special effects with plasticine.

Plasticine Creature Animation Fri 17 February, 1.40pm to 3.50pm (130 mins) - £15 Animation Jam present a fun-packed introduction to the world of 3D animation. Weird animals, comical super heroes, talking fruit… the only limit is your imagination!

CPD Events for Teachers An Introduction to Into Film Friday 24 February, 1.30pm to 3.00pm This session will introduce participants to Into Film and demonstrate the support that is available to educators working with 5-19 year olds. We will provide practical taster activities that explore both film literacy and filmmaking, providing you with the skills to take back to class and begin using straight away.

Raising Literacy Attainment Through Film – iPad Friday 24 March, 1.30pm to 3.00pm This session is for teachers/educators who use iPads regularly in their practice. Work with a selection of apps to decode, encode, contextualise and analyse film text using the 3Cs and 3Ss framework. Each activity is designed to enable learners to make links between film and written text to develop their reading and writing skills.

To book places at these sessions please visit www.intofilm.org/training#singlebooking

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Edinburgh Student Arts Fest. (p 9) Filmosophy (p 12) Filmhouse Junior (p 18-19)

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Fri 1 T2 Trainspotting (AD) 3 2 T2 Trainspotting (AD) Feb 2 Toni Erdmann (AD) 3 Christine 3 La La Land (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 12)

1.00/3.35/6.10/8.45

Sat 1 T2 Trainspotting (AD) 4 2 T2 Trainspotting (AD) Feb 2 Toni Erdmann (AD) 3 La La Land (AD) 3 Christine *Plus films and times TBC (see page 12)

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Sun 1 Moana (FJ) (AD) 5 1 T2 Trainspotting (AD) Feb 2 Toni Erdmann (AD) 3 Christine 3 La La Land (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 12)

11.00am 1.35/4.55/8.15 12.25/8.35 3.00/5.50

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Thu 1 T2 Trainspotting (AD) 9 1 76 Minutes.. + Short (IF) Feb 2 T2 Trainspotting (AD) 2 Toni Erdmann (AD) 2 Christine 3 Christine 3 La La Land (AD) 3 T2 Trainspotting (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 12)

12.45/3.20/5.55 8.30 +Q&A 11.10am 2.00/8.00 5.25 12.40 3.15/6.00 8.45

Fri 2 Taxi Driver (MS) 10 2 La La Land (AD) Feb 3 La La Land (AD) 3 Toni Erdmann (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 12)

12.50/6.05 3.20/8.35 11.00am 1.45/5.00/8.20

Sat 2 Taxi Driver (MS) 11 2 The Salesman (IF) Feb 2 La La Land (AD) 3 La La Land (AD) 3 Toni Erdmann (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 12)

12.50/6.15 3.30 8.45 11.00am 1.45/5.00/8.20

Sun 1 Pete’s Dragon (FJ) (AD) 12 2 Taxi Driver (MS) Feb 2 La La Land (AD) 2 Daughter + Short (IF) 3 La La Land (AD) 3 Toni Erdmann (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 12)

11.00am 12.30 3.00/8.45 5.45 +Q&A 11.00am 1.45/5.00/8.20

1.10/3.45/6.20/8.55

1.35/4.55/8.15 12.25/8.35 3.00/5.50

Mon 1 T2 Trainspotting (AD) 1.10/3.35/6.10/8.45 6 2 Toni Erdmann (AD) 11.00am/2.20 Feb 2 Christine 5.50 2 La La Land (AD) 8.30 3 La La Land (AD) 12.40 3.25 3 Christine 3 Harry Benson: Shoot First 6.00 3 Toni Erdmann (AD) 8.10 *Plus films and times TBC (see page 12) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 5 Tue 1 T2 Trainspotting (AD) 7 1 T2 Trainspotting (AD) (C) Feb 2 La La Land (AD) 2 Toni Erdmann (AD) 2 Harry Benson: Shoot First 3 Harry Benson: Shoot First 3 Christine 3 Pressure (SE) 3 La La Land (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 12)

1.00/3.35/8.45 6.10 (captioned) 11.00am 2.00/8.10 6.00 11.05am/3.50 1.15 5.50 8.40

Wed 1 T2 Trainspotting (AD) 8 2 T2 Trainspotting (AD) Feb 2 Toni Erdmann (AD) 2 La La Land (AD) 3 La La Land (AD) 3 Christine *Plus films and times TBC (see page 12)

1.00/3.35/6.10/8.45

11.10am 1.55/8.00 5.15 12.30/8.30 3.15/5.55

Mon 1 Moana (AD) 11.05am 13 1 Kubo and the Two Strings (AD) 1.30 Feb 1 La La Land (AD) (C) 6.10 (captioned) 2 La La Land (AD) 2.30/8.35 2 Life and a Day (IF) 5.55 3 Taxi Driver (MS) 11.10am/5.45 3 Toni Erdmann (AD) 2.00/8.15 *Plus films and times TBC (see page 12) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 5 Tue 1 Moana (AD) 14 1 Casablanca (V) Feb 1 Dirty Dancing (V) 2 Finding Dory 2 La La Land (AD) 2 Code Unknown (SE) 2 Nobody Dies Here (IF) 3 Taxi Driver (MS) 3 Toni Erdmann (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 12)

1.00 6.10 8.40 11.00am 2.00 5.50 8.30 11.10am 1.55/5.20

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(OR) Over the Rainbow (p 8) (SE) Screening Europe (p 20-21)

All screenings in 2D unless marked (3D)

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Wed 1 Finding Dory 15 1 Taxi Driver (MS) Feb 2 Kubo and the Two Strings (AD) 2 Taxi Driver (MS) 2 Malaria (IF) 2 Goodfellas (MS) 3 La La Land (AD) 3 Toni Erdmann (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 12)

1.00 6.00 11.00am 2.15 6.10 8.20 11.10am/5.30 2.00/8.15

Tue 1 The Founder (AD) 21 1 Silence (AD)(MS) (C) Feb 2 Silence (AD)(MS) 2 Dirty Pretty Things (SE) 2 The Founder (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 12)

2.30/5.45 8.15 (captioned) 11.00am/2.15 6.05 +Intro 8.40

Thu 1 Kubo and the Two Strings (AD) 16 1 Goodfellas (MS) Feb 2 Moana (AD) 2 Goodfellas (MS) 2 Breath (IF) 2 La La Land (AD) 3 La La Land (AD) 3 Toni Erdmann (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 12)

12.55 8.25 11.00am 2.45 6.00 8.35 11.10am/5.30 2.00/8.15

Wed 1 The Founder (AD) 22 1 Silence (AD)(MS) Feb 2 Silence (AD)(MS) 2 Pan’s Labyrinth 2 The Founder (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 12)

2.30/5.45 8.15 11.00am/2.15 5.30 +Q&A 8.40

Thu 1 The Founder (AD) 23 1 Silence (AD)(MS) Feb 2 Silence (AD)(MS) 2 Bad Lieutenant: Port of... (HZ) 2 The Founder (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 12)

2.30/5.45 8.15 11.00am/2.15 5.50 8.40

Fri 1 The Founder (AD) 17 2 Silence (AD)(MS) Feb 2 After Hours (MS) 2 Being Born (IF) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 12)

1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30

Sat 1 The Founder (AD) 18 2 Silence (AD)(MS) Feb 2 Heartbeats (OR) 2 After Hours (MS) 3 Wadjda (GP) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 12)

3.30/6.00/8.30 11.30am/5.10 2.50 8.35 1.30 +Discussion

Fri 1 Loving (AD) 24 1 Manchester by the Sea Feb 1 Manchester by the Sea (AD) 2 The Age of Innocence (MS) 2 The Founder (AD) 2 Wild Nutrition - Bright... (ES) 3 The Founder (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 12)

12.10/5.45 2.50 8.25 11.45am 3.10/8.40 6.00 +Intro 5.55

Sun 1 Hugo (FJ) 19 1 After Hours (MS) Feb 1 The Founder (AD) 2 The Founder (AD) 2 Silence (AD)(MS) 3 The Lobster (F) 3 Heartbeats (OR) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 12)

11.00am 1.30 3.45/6.15/8.45 11.30am 2.15/8.15 12.45 +Discussion 6.10

Sat 1 Manchester by the Sea 25 1 Loving (AD) Feb 1 Manchester by the Sea (AD) 2 The Founder (AD) 2 The Age of Innocence (MS) 3 Architecture of Space (FO) 3 Film as Canvas (FO) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 12)

12.10 3.05/5.45 8.25 12.30/6.00/8.40 3.00 3.15 5.50

Sun 1 Ballerina (FJ) (AD) 26 1 The Founder (AD) Feb 1 The Founder 1 Loving (AD) 1 Manchester by the Sea (AD) 2 Manchester by the Sea 2 Loving (AD) (C) 2 The Founder (AD) 3 Performing Gesture (FO) 3 The Poetic Voice (FO) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 12)

11.00am 12.55 3.25 5.55 8.35 12.20 3.20 (captioned) 6.00/8.40 3.30 5.50

11.30am/8.25 3.30 6.10

Mon 1 The Founder (AD) 2.30/5.45 20 1 Silence (AD)(MS) 8.15 Feb 2 Silence (AD)(MS) 11.00am/2.20 2 Mustang (M) 6.05 +Intro 2 The Founder (AD) 8.40 *Plus films and times TBC (see page 12) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 5

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Mon 1 Loving (AD) 3.00/8.40 27 1 The Age of Innocence (MS) 5.45 Feb 2 Manchester by the Sea (AD) 11.05am/5.50 2 The Founder (AD) 2.05/8.45 3 The Founder (AD) 6.00 *Plus films and times TBC (see page 12) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 5 Tue 1 Loving (AD) 12.35/3.15/5.55 28 1 Manchester by the Sea (AD) (C) 8.35 (captioned) Feb 2 Manchester by the Sea (AD) 11.05am 2 The Founder (AD) 2.05/8.40 2 Shun Li and the Poet (SE) 6.05 +Intro 3 The Founder (AD) 6.00 *Plus films and times TBC (see page 12) Wed 1 Loving (AD) 1 1 Casino (MS) Mar 2 The Founder (AD) 2 Manchester by the Sea (AD) 3 The Founder (AD) (C) 3 Manchester by the Sea (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 12)

2.40/5.20 8.00 +Intro 11.15am/8.40 2.00 6.00 (captioned) 8.30

Thu 1 Manchester by the Sea 2 1 Loving (AD) Mar 2 The Founder (AD) 2 Casino (MS) 3 The Founder (AD) 3 Manchester by the Sea (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 12)

12.20 3.15/5.55/8.35 11.15am/8.40 2.00 6.00 8.30

Matinee Special If you’re a Senior Citizen you can go to a matinee screening and get either Soup of the Day OR a cup of tea or filter coffee and a traycake for the special discounted price of £8 Offer runs from Mondays to Thursdays inclusive and only applies to screenings starting before 5.00pm. Ask for the Matinee Special deal at the box office and you’ll receive a voucher which can be exchanged in the Café Bar between 1.30pm and 5.30pm that day only.

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* The majority of our screenings are scheduled well in advance, and times published in the brochure and online. Most weeks we leave spaces in the schedule in order to allow us to keep on films that are proving popular for a little longer; these screenings will be added to our website on the Tuesday preceding the start of the new cinema week on Friday.

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JUN I OR Films for a younger audience, weekly on Sundays at 11am. Tickets cost £4.50 (£5.50 for 3D screenings) per person, big or small!

Moana Sun 5 Feb at 11.00am

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.

Three thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast South Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, their voyages stopped - and no one today knows why. Moana sails out on a daring mission to fulfill her ancestors’ unfinished quest. She meets the once-mighty demi-god Maui (Dwayne Johnson), and together, they traverse the open ocean on an action-packed voyage, encountering enormous fiery creatures and impossible odds.

Please note: although we normally disapprove of people talking during screenings, these shows are primarily for kids, so grownups should expect some noise!

John Musker, Ron Clements • USA 2016 • 1h43m • Digital PG - Contains mild threat.

Pete’s Dragon Sun 12 Feb at 11.00am

Hugo Sun 19 Feb at 11.00am

David Lowery • USA 2016 • 1h42m • Digital • PG - Contains mild threat.

Martin Scorsese • USA 2011 • 2h6m • Digital • U - Contains mild scenes of danger

A reimagining of Disney’s cherished 1977 film, Pete’s Dragon is the story of an orphaned boy - Pete (Oakes Fegley) - and his best friend Elliot, who just so happens to be a dragon... When Pete and Elliot are discovered by locals, the young boy enlists the help of park ranger Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard) and her father (Robert Redford) to keep Elliot safe from the authorities...

Delightful family adventure that tells the tale of an orphan boy living in the walls of a Paris train station. Hugo - searching for the key to operate the broken machine left to him by his late father - encounters an eccentric girl and a mysterious man who runs a toy shop. From there, he is caught up in a magical, mysterious adventure that could put all of his secrets in jeopardy.

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Ballerina Sun 26 Feb at 11.00am

Song of the Sea Sun 5 Mar at 11.00am

Eric Summer, Éric Warin • France/Canada 2016 • 1h29m • Digital U - Contains mild threat.

Tomm Moore • Ireland/Denmark/Belgium/Luxembourg/France 2014 • 1h34m • Digital • PG - Contains mild threat

Enchanting animated tale, set in 1879, which tells the story of poor orphan Félicie who dreams of leaving rural Brittany to become a ballerina.

She travels to Paris and assumes the identity of a spoiled girl to become a student at the Paris Opera. Despite the tough training and ruthless classmates, she finds friendship and support from the mysterious school caretaker Odette and young inventor Victor.

Based on ancient Celtic myths, this stunningly beautiful animated feature is the magical tale of a brother and sister on an adventure to save the spirit world. Following their mother’s disappearance, Saoirse and Ben live with their distraught father by the sea. With Saoirse still yet to utter her first word, Ben’s frustrations give way to wonder as he discovers that his sister is a selkie - a mythical changeling who can turn into a seal.

Labyrinth Sun 12 Mar at 11.00am

Enchanted Sun 19 Mar at 11.00am

Jim Henson • UK/USA 1986 • 1h41m • Digital • U

Kevin Lima • USA 2007 • 1h47m • Digital • PG - Contains mild scary scenes and innuendo

Jennifer Connelly plays Sarah, a young girl who must travel through the Labyrinth to save her baby brother from the Goblin King (David Bowie).

Full of Jim Henson’s Creature Shop’s typically imaginative creature design, the film’s eyepopping sets, including the MC Escher inspired castle, create a wholly believable world existing just beyond reality - a brilliant, innovative family classic.

A classic Disney fairytale collides with modernday New York City in this delightful film about an animated princess from the land of Andalasia who is thrust into the heart of New York City by an evil queen. Soon after her arrival, Princess Giselle (Amy Adams) begins to change her views on life and love after meeting a handsome lawyer. Can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world?

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Screening Europe Curated in collaboration with Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Screening Europe is an annual season celebrating and interrogating the history and aesthetics of cinema in Europe.

For 2017, the focus is on the immigrant experience and we will be featuring works by celebrated auteurs such as Jean Renoir and Michael Haneke as well as titles from underappreciated figures such as Horace Ové.

All films will be introduced by 2017 season curator Dr Pasquale Iannone (Teaching Fellow in Film Studies, University of Edinburgh).

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Pressure Tue 7 Feb at 5.50pm Horace Ové • UK 1975 • 2h8m • 16mm • 15 - Contains strong language and drug use. • Cast: Herbert Norville, Oscar James.

A milestone 1970s British film that - with its themes of racism, unemployment and inter-generational tension - remains resonant and relevant now, Horace Ové’s Pressure places us among the West Indian community in London. Tony (Herbert Norville) is the first in his household to be born and raised in Britain.

Unlike the rest of his family, he believes in a British society where he can progress, integrate and thrive, but is this the reality of life in a white-dominated nation?

Dirty Pretty Things

Tue 14 Feb at 5.50pm

Tue 21 Feb at 6.05pm

Michael Haneke • France/Germany/Romania 2000 • 1h57m • 35mm French, Romanian, English, German, Arabic, Malinke and French Sign Language with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language Cast: Juliet Binoche, Thierry Neuvic, Sepp Bierbichler, Ona Lu Yenke.

Stephen Frears • UK 2002 • 1h37m • 35mm • English, Somali, Spanish and French with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language, moderate sex and grisly images. • Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sergi López, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Wong.

Whereas much of Haneke’s previous work placed an extremely violent act at the centre, in Code Unknown the violence is more subtle and psychological in nature. In a kaleidoscope of tales - some interrelated, some not - Haneke delivers a sobering reflection on the nature of action and obligation. The events of the film are propelled by a fascinating opening scene where a triad of characters and stories intersect - an illegal immigrant from Romania, a man who lives in Paris with his African family, and an actress married to a war photographer constantly away on assignment.

Stephen Frears’ stunning film focuses on the usually unseen world of the London’s illegal immigrants the invisible people who keep its economy running smoothly. Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Okwe is one such person: by day he drives a minicab; at night he’s a porter in a hotel that’s home to some shady goings-on. When Okwe stumbles upon the hotel’s dirty secret, he is placed in an impossible dilemma. A decent man, how can he do the right thing - given his precarious status - and still protect the people he cares about?

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Tue 28 Feb at 6.05pm Andrea Segre • Italy/France 2011 • 1h38m • Digital • Italian and Mandarin with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language and sex references • Cast: Tao Zhao, Rade Serbedzija, Marco Paolini, Roberto Citran, Giuseppe Battiston.

Many recent European films have chronicled the social and personal consequences of the recent wave of immigration to Europe, but few with the delicacy and insight of this touching drama.

Brought to Italy from China by a ‘broker’ who she’s slowly paying off while saving money to bring over her son, Shun Li (Tao Zhao) is sent from her factory job to a bar in a small town in the Veneto lagoon. She develops a warm, platonic friendship with Bepi (Rade Serbedzija), a retired fisherman, but both her employers and his circle of friends regard their relationship with sordid suspicion...

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Every month, our infamously tricky (but fun) Film Quiz, hosted by Sam Kitchener. Free to enter, teams of up to eight people to be seated in the Café Bar by 9pm. Next quiz is on Sunday 12 February 2017 We now offer an extensive and affordable Breakfast Menu including Full Scottish and Vegetarian cooked breakfast options, Eggs Benedict and hot fillings for Morning Rolls.

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Film and the Other Arts: Creative Dialogues in the Avant-Garde A season of avant-garde films exploring the diverse ways in which cinema dialogues with other of art forms.

Painting, drawing, architecture, dance, performance, sound and poetry coalesce and intersect throughout the four screenings, opening out to wider themes of perception, identity, time and space.

The works invite us to reflect on the language of film and its ability to transform and be transformed by other creative mediums. The season is part of the two-year Research Network ‘Film and the Other Arts: Intermediality, Medium Specificity, Creativity’ based at the University of Edinburgh and Aberystwyth University and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

Using the collection held by the LUX Centre for Moving Image, the programme emerges as an exercise in archival mapping, combining the historical and the contemporary, the rare and the classic, to reveal new connections across the history of avant-garde filmmaking.

Full film listings are available on the Filmhouse website. Curated by Tanya Syed and Kim Knowles.

Architecture of Space

Film as Canvas

Sat 25 Feb at 3.15pm

Sat 25 Feb at 5.50pm

1h30m • PG

1h18m • 15

In this collection of films we travel from Vancouver to London via North Russia, traversing a misty seascape, classroom corridors, an industrial wasteland, the River Thames, and London’s corporate skyline. The programme examines how architectural structures are mirrored through the language of film, and how, like architecture, the film frame contains, expands and collapses space.

Drawing together a range of visual and sonic approaches, from direct mark-making - scratching, painting, drawing, printing - to techniques of alternation and repetition, this programme explores how artists have used the film frame or surface as a canvas. The works oscillate between abstraction and figuration, the painterly and the photographic, demonstrating the infinite possibilities of film as a fine art.

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Performing Gesture

The Poetic Voice

Sun 26 Feb at 3.30pm

Sun 26 Feb at 5.50pm

1h9m • PG

1h18m • 15

A popular strand of cross-disciplinary investigation, dance film takes many different forms. Here we present a diverse selection of works focusing on the emotional charge of bodily movement and gesture.

Ritualistic actions unravel through repetition and duplication, the mobile camera weaving a dynamic relationship between the self and the other, the filmmaker and the performer.

This eclectic programme brings together works that explore the poetic and performative qualities of language through the medium of film. From a cinematic rendering of Sylvia Plath’s poem ‘Lady Lazarus’ to a portrait of the lesbian performance artist Peggy Shaw, and from film noir to documentary, the five films find common ground in themes of marginality, self-examination and transgression.

TICKET OFFER The Edinburgh Iranian Festival 2017 Film Season is a season of two halves: on the one hand, it pays tribute to one of the legends of Iranian cinema, Abbas Kiarostami, who passed away recently in 2016 - providing a retrospective on his life and work.

On the other hand, it looks to the future of Iranian cinema by providing a platform for several young female directors, and a number of films with the stories of young women at their heart. www.ediranfest.co.uk

76 Minutes and 15 Seconds With Abbas Kiarostami Thu 9 Feb at 8.30pm Seifollah Samadian • Iran 2016 • 1h16m • Digital • Persian with English subtitles

Compiled by friend and longtime collaborator Seifollah Samadian, an intimate portrait of Abbas Kiarostami. Devoid of interviews, it uses exclusive video footage spanning many phases in Kiarostami’s life and career to describe a multitalented artist and an exceptional man who embraced life. Joyfully moving and as modern in approach as the man himself. Followed by Q&A with Seifollah Samadian.

PLUS SHORT Take Me Home

Abbas Kiarostami • Iran 2016 • 16m • Digital

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Forushande

Sat 11 Feb at 3.30pm Asghar Farhadi • Iran/France 2016 • 2h5m • Digital • Farsi with English subtitles • 12A - Contains sexual violence references, moderate sex references, violence. • Cast: Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Babak Karimi.

Forushande is the story of a couple whose relationship begins to turn sour during their performance of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.

Forced out of their apartment due to dangerous works on a neighbour’s building, Emad (Shahab Hosseini) and Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti) move into a new flat in the centre of Tehran. An incident linked to the previous tenant will dramatically change the young couple’s life.

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Daughter Dokhtar Sun 12 Feb at 5.45pm Reza Mirkarimi • 2016 • 1h43m • Digital • Persian with English subtitles • 15

The strict and traditional Mr Azizi leads an uneventful family life in southern Iran. Then one day, exasperated by her father, Setareh announces she is off to say farewell to one of her best friends. Despite her father’s objections Setareh takes the plane for Tehran. This disobedience sets in motion a series of perturbations that upset the calm tranquillity of the paterfamilias...

PLUS SHORT Beach Flags

Sarah Saidan • France/Iran • 14m • Digital Farsi with English subtitles

Vida is a young Iranian lifeguard swimmer. Popular in her team, she is determined to fight in order to be the one to participate in an international competition in Australia. However, when Sareh, as fast and talented as her joins the team, she will have to face an unexpected situation.

Followed by a Q&A with Beach Flags director Sarah Saidan.

Life and a Day

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Mon 13 Feb at 5.55pm Saeed Roostaee • Iran 2016 • 1h55m • Digital • Farsi with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Parinaz Izadyar, Peyman Moaadi.

Somayeh is at a loss. Her only desire is to leave her family and take her destiny in hand, yet the love of her sick mother and exceptionally bright brother holds her back. One day her elder brother, Morteza, introduces her to an Afghan who wants to marry her and take her to Afghanistan. Despite herself, but moved by her brother’s concern, she accepts the offer, seeing it as primarily a means of escaping her family. And then, at the very last minute, she discovers the hidden face of the marriage proposal.

A Window on My iran

FREE PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION Monday 30 Jan to Sun 19 Feb

This photo exhibition in the Filmhouse Cafe Bar hopes to tackle misconceptions about life in Iran by shedding light on everyday Iran and Iranians - giving us a window into their world.

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Nobody Dies Here

Inja kassi nemimirad Tue 14 Feb at 8.30pm

Hossein Kondori • Iran 2016 • 1h18m • Digital • Farsi with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Houman Seyedi, Reza Behboudi, Bahar Katouzi.

Ashkân, a young conscript, is sent to a far distant frontier where he lives alone to complete his military service. Fearing solitude he wanders to and fro and meets a young woman, Rojin, who apparently lives alone in the same area and is also seeking human contact. Little by little as their relationship develops, Rojin’s often contradictory behaviour leads Ashkân to question whether she really exists or is just a figment of the hallucinations from which he previously suffered...

Breath Nafas Thu 16 Feb at 6.00pm Narges Abyar • Iran 2016 • 1h50m • Digital • Farsi with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Gelare Abasi, Mehran Ahmadi, Jamshid Hashempur.

This film tells the story of the daily life of a daydreaming little girl, Bahar, and how her hopes and dreams are impacted by the Iran-Iraq war that began in 1980. Bahar loves reading books, and she makes the harsh realities of the world around her easier for herself to tolerate by mixing folk stories with the events of real life. It is a film that tells of a young girl’s dreams - and how she copes when they are suddenly buried with her under rubble when their home is hit by rockets in the midst of war.

Malaria Wed 15 Feb at 6.10pm Parviz Shahbazi • Iran 2016 • 1h30m • Digital • Farsi with English subtitles • 15

A young girl informs her father she’s been kidnapped and asks him to bring the ransom money. Panicked, her father and brothers go to Tehran to look for her.

They are unaware, however, that the girl has in fact eloped with her boyfriend and now spends her time in the company of a band of street musicians.

Following the arrest of the band leader and full of love for her boyfriend, the young girl descends an uncertain path.

Being Born

Be Donya Amadan

Fri 17 Feb at 6.10pm Mohsen Abdolvahab • Iran 20156 • 1h32m • Digital • Farsi with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Soheil Abdi, Elham Abdolahi.

Pari and Farhad are a middle-class family who are both involved in theatre and cinema. They love each other and are happy with their son, though Pari unexpectelly becomes pregnant. Farhad insists on an abortion but Pari believes the abortion is inhuman and cannot accept her husband’s idea. A baby,which has the possibility to make a family’s life happier, causes some serious changes in their situation.

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