Filmhouse Brochure - March 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

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09/02/17. 20:30. Berlin.

Last year at this time I wrote in this column about my attendance at the opening ceremony of the Berlin Film Festival. This year I’m taking it a little further and writing it whilst it’s happening!

You would think I would have learnt my lesson attending it at all. I do recall being rather scathing about it last year, though jury president Meryl Streep’s patter did brighten proceedings a little. This year it’s Paul Verhoeven, and through no fault of his I’m sensing they are trying to get through it a little quicker than the 75 minutes they took last year. My patchily-remembered ‘O’-level German isn’t helping much, though I can tell much of this year’s ‘humour’ seems to lean rather heavily on three words I can pick out - ‘Brexit’, ‘Donald’ and ‘Trump’. (There was me hoping I’d get away from all that for a few days.) The film I’m about to see is Django, a French film about Django Reinhardt the gypsy jazz guitarist, and his experience during WWII. Mmm... We’ll see...

Some films I certainly can vouch for will be on at Filmhouse next month, and what a marvellous selection they are too. Highlights would have to include James Gray’s marvellous old-fashionedbut-all-the-better-for-it tale of early 20th Century explorer Percival Fawcett’s South American search for The Lost City of Z; Gurinder Chadha’s timely and sprightly drama set around the Brits’ withdrawal from India in 1947, Viceroy’s House (the director will be with us on 6 March for a Q&A); and two of my very favourite films seen last year - Asghar (A Separation) Farhadi’s The Salesman and Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation - both stunning dramas with meaty moral questions at their core. Actually, make that three favourites, for we’ve a special preview (prior to its April release) of Park Chan-wook’s Fingersmith adaptation, The Handmaiden, in an exclusive extended Director’s Cut on 19 March.

That’s the film coming on (just the 60 minutes of introductions this time!) so I must of course, dear reader, switch my phone OFF! Rod White, Head of Filmhouse

Filmhouse Explorer Buy A TICKET FOR...

Viceroy’s House (p 4) The Lost City of Z (p 5) La La Land (p 7) Hidden Figures (p 7)

GET A HALF PRICE TICKET for Moonlight (p 4) The Salesman (p 4) Elle (p 5) Graduation (p 6)

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 BABY & CARER SCREENINGS SCREENING DATES AND TIMES

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7 Minutes 21 The 400 Blows 8 Before Tomorrow 27 BAFTA Shorts 10 Best (George Best: All By Myself) 5 Beyond Horizons 27 Blind 15 Cameraperson 8 Certain Women 6 Chimpanzee 17 Crimes and Misdemeanors 15 Dancer 6 Denial 7 Discovery Shorts for Middle Ones 17 Disabled Access Day 11 Ears 22 Edinburgh Asian Film Festival 32-33 Education & Learning 13 Elle 5 Enchanted 16 Even Dwarfs Started Small 11 Fata Morgana 11 Fences 7 Filmhouse Junior 16-17 Filmosophy: Sight and the Senses 15 Fiore 23 Flora on the Sand 30 Girlhood 9 Graduation 6 The Handmaiden 9 Herzog of the Month 11 Hidden Figures 7 Highlight Arctic 27-28 Indivisible 24 Italian Film Festival 21-24 Italian Race 24 Kabukicho Love Hotel 30 King Kong 26 Labyrinth 16 La La Land 7 The LEGO Batman Movie 17

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Life, Animated 10 Like Crazy 22 Lipstick Under My Burkha 33 The Lost City of Z 5 Mango Dreams 32 Mantostaan 32 Me and My Little Sister 28 The Mohican Comes Home 31 Moonlight 4 Monkey Business 25 The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life 23 Moving Cinema 9 Nanook Taxi 28 Nénette 26 Odd Obsession 31 Odd Obsessions - Desires, Hopes and... 29-31 One Kiss 23 Pale Moon 29 Perfect Sense 15 Pieta in the Toilet 30 Planet of the Apes 25 The Ploy 24 Project Nim 25 Revolution: New Art for a New World 9 RoboCop 12 The Salesman 4 Sergeant York 10 Sing 10 + 17 S is for Stanley 22 Sol 28 Song of the Sea 16 A Special Day 24 Starship Troopers 12 A Stitch of Life 29 Sunday Double Bill 12 The Threshold 33 Tsukiji Wonderland 29 Ugly, Dirty and Bad 22 Unlocking the Cafe 25 Utopia 33 Uvanga 27 Viceroy’s House 4 Worldly Girl 21

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Viceroy’s House Showing from Fri 3 Mar Gurinder Chadha • UK/India 2017 • 1h46m • Digital • 12A - Contains brief distressing images. • Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Michael Gambon, Manish Dayal, Om Puri, Simon Callow.

Viceroy’s House in Delhi was the home of the British rulers of India. In 1947, after 300 years, that rule was coming to an end. Lord Mountbatten (Hugh Bonneville) became the last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people. As negotiations wore on, conflict erupted...

Gurinder Chadha’s film - also starring Gillian Anderson and Michael Gambon - examines these events through the prism of the Mountbattens and a romance between young Hindu Jeet (Manish Dayal) and his Muslim bride-to-be Aalia (Huma Qureshi). The young lovers find themselves caught up in the end of Empire, in conflict with the Mountbattens and with their own communities, but never ever giving up hope.

The 6.00pm screening on 6 Mar will feature a post-film Q&A with director Gurinder Chadha.

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Moonlight

The Salesman

Fri 3 to Thu 9 Mar

Fri 17 to Thu 30 Mar

Barry Jenkins • USA 2016 • 1h51m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, sex, sex references, drugs misuse. • Cast: Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Duan Sanderson, Janelle Monáe, Ashton Sanders.

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.

Nominated for eight Oscars® and based on the play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney, Moonlight is a masterfully directed tale told in three chapters - all set at different times in a young man’s life. From a turbulent childhood in Miami, to the complicated feelings stirred up in adolescence, and their echoes in adulthood - the life of young Chiron (portrayed by three actors, one of whom - Mahershala Ali - is up for Best Supporting Actor) is a deeply personal, bittersweet and beautifully human thing to experience.

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Asghar Farhadi (A Separation) picks up another well-earned Oscar® nomination for this impeccably plotted, deeply suspenseful and brilliantly acted drama. Forced to move out of their apartment due to construction, Ranaa and Emad rent a new place from one of their fellow performers on a production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. Their peaceful life falls into discord and turmoil when a client of the previous tenant arrives one evening, and the aftermath is a storm of vengeance and simmering, unspoken feelings.

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Best George Best: All by Myself Fri 17 to Mon 20 Mar Daniel Gordon • UK 2016 • 1h32m • Digital • 12A • Documentary.

He was football’s first rock and roll star - a handsome, charismatic Belfast boy who could thrill and excite the crowds with every turn of the ball. But George Best was a flawed genius - brought down by drink, temptation and depression. Daniel Gordon (Hillsborough) recounts the tale of this beloved but be-devilled superstar with riveting footage and testimony by those who knew him at his best - and worst. This skilfully wrought documentary draws you into the drama and helps us understand just why an estimated quarter of a million people lined the route of his funeral cortege to mourn his tragic passing.

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The Lost City of Z Fri 24 Mar to Thu 13 Apr James Gray • USA 2016 • 2h21m • Digital • 15 - Contains brief strong violence, gory images. • Cast: Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Angus Macfadyen.

A richly atmospheric, pleasingly old-school adventure based on David Grann’s book The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, the extraordinary account of British explorer Percy Fawcett’s intrepid Amazon expeditions in the early 20th Century. Rising star Charlie Hunnam plays Fawcett, who - despite ridicule from the scientists of the time - pursues evidence of a lost civilisation who once inhabited the region. Supported by his wife (Sienna Miller), children and aide de camp (Robert Pattinson), he returns time and again in an attempt to prove his case...

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Elle Fri 24 to Thu 30 Mar Paul Verhoeven • France/Germany/Belgium 2016 • 2h10m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 18 - Contains sexual violence.

Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Virginie Efira, Christian Berkel.

A powerhouse performance from Isabelle Huppert leads this devastating psychological thriller from Paul Verhoeven, rich with wholly unexpected moments of black humour and twisted menace. Michèle (Huppert) has overcome a turbulent childhood to become head of a successful video game company, and brings the same ruthless attitude to her personal life - juggling numerous romantic entanglements and the endless foibles of her naïve son (Jonas Bloquet). A brutal attack in her home by an unknown assailant will change her life forever - and his. Not for the faint hearted.

“A film that runs boldly up and down the tonal bandwidth, zig-zagging from pitch-black horror to devilish satire to light domestic comedy and then back again.” - Xan Brooks, The Guardian

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Graduation

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Certain Women

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Fri 31 Mar to Mon 3 Apr

Cristian Mungiu • Romania/France 2016 • 2h8m • Digital • Romanian with English subtitles • cert tbc • Cast: Adrian Titieni, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Rares Andrici, Lia Bugnar, Malina Manovici.

Kelly Reichardt • USA 2016 • 1h47m • Digital • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language. • Cast: Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, Lily Gladstone.

Cristian Mungiu - a Palme d’Or winner in 2007 directs this intelligent, expertly-constructed character drama that examines when the best laid plans of a struggling father go suddenly, painfully awry.

Small-town physician Romeo (Adrian Titieni) has raised his daughter (Maria-Victoria Dragus) to excel academically, with a view to a new life studying and living away from Romania. With final exams looming, she is the victim of an assault - leaving her future in jeopardy. Fearful, distressed and anxious to help, Romeo is now faced with choices that could fly in the face of every principle he has taught his child.

Adapting a short story collection by Maile Meloy, the award-winning Certain Women subtly explores the marginally intersecting stories of three women, and in doing so turns a mirror to the nuances of independent womanhood. Impeccably shot, Kelly Reichardt’s (Meek’s Cutoff, Night Moves) film benefits from an ensemble cast that includes Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart and excellent newcomer Lily Gladstone, who inhabit the central roles in these intimate, unravelling tales set in smalltown Montana. A quiet, deft film that adds to Reichardt’s distinguished filmography.

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Dancer Tue 4 to Thu 6 Apr Steven Cantor • UK/Russia/Ukraine/USA 2016 • 1h25m • Digital English, Russian and Ukrainian with English subtitles • 12A - Contains drug references, nudity. • Documentary.

Sergei Polunin’s notoriety as a prodigious, controversial superstar marked him out as ‘the bad boy of ballet’. Blessed with astonishing power and poise, he moved from a modest Ukrainian upbringing - supported by the fierce determination of his mother - to London’s Royal Ballet School at 13, where he went on to become its youngest ever Principal dancer at 19. And then, at the peak of his powers, he walked away. With incredible home video footage and candid interviews, this is an insight into a truly brilliant performer and the price of this virtuosity.

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Maybe you missed

Fences

Denial

Fri 10 to Thu 16 Mar

Fri 10 to Thu 16 Mar

Denzel Washington • USA 2016 • 2h19m • Digital • 12A - Contains outdated use of racist language. • Cast: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen Henderson, Jovan Adepo, Russell Hornsby.

Mick Jackson • UK/USA 2016 • 1h49m • Digital • 12A - Contains infrequent strong and racist language. • Cast: Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall, Andrew Scott, Jack Lowden.

Adapted for the screen by August Wilson from his Pulitzer Prize winning play of the same name, Fences is directed by and stars Denzel Washington in a role he played to acclaim on the Broadway stage. Set in the 1950s, Washington plays Troy Maxson, a sanitation worker with dashed dreams of baseball stardom.

Along with his wife Rose (Viola Davis), Troy raises his son Cory (Jovan Adepo) in inner-city Pittsburgh, his judgement increasingly clouded as he contends with his past, his future and his mortality.

Based on the acclaimed book History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier and adapted for screen by David Hare (The Reader), Denial recounts Deborah E. Lipstadt’s (Rachel Weisz) legal battle for historical truth against David Irving (Timothy Spall), who accused her of libel when she declared him a Holocaust denier. In the English legal system in Defamation, the burden of proof is on the accused, therefore, incredibly, it was up to Lipstadt and her legal team to prove the essential truth that the Holocaust occurred in the first place.

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La La Land

Hidden Figures

Fri 17 to Thu 23 Mar

Fri 31 Mar to Thu 6 Apr

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

Theodore Melfi • USA 2016 • 2h7m • Digital • PG - Contains discrimination theme, mild bad language. • Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst.

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.

Often mythologised, not least in Hollywood, the race for space is a deeply fascinating period of modern history - a time when seemingly anything was possible. As the USA raced against Russia to put a man into orbit, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians.

Based on the unbelievable true life stories of “human computers” Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) and Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Hidden Figures is an inspiring and entertaining story of crossing gender, race, and professional lines, and dreaming big.

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Cameraperson/Growing Pains

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Growing Pains

Cameraperson

The 400 Blows

Wed 8 Mar at 5.55pm

Tue 14 Mar at 6.20pm

Kirsten Johnson • USA 2016 • 1h42m • Digital • English, Bosnian, Arabic, Dari, Hausa and Fur with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language. • Documentary.

François Truffaut • France 1959 • 1h40m • 35mm • French with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild language, violence, sex references and smoking scenes

A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home: these scenes are woven into the award-winning Cameraperson, a tapestry of footage collected over the twenty-five-year career of cinematographer Kirsten Johnson. Johnson explores the relationships between image makers and their subjects, the tension between the objectivity and intervention of the camera, and the complex interaction of unfiltered reality and crafted narrative.

The screening will be followed by a discussion hosted by Take One Action - guests TBC.

Les Quatre cents coups

Growing Pains shows 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.

12-year-old Antoine Doinel is plagued by trouble both at school and with his parents. His good conduct goes ignored and his misbehaviour leads him to be isolated from family and friends, leaving him feeling lonely and more separated from the world. An unlawful attempt to finance Antoine’s plans to run away from home leads to the ultimate punishment in François Truffaut’s classic salute to childhood.

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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/

In April, the next screening will be Tom Tykwer’s iconic Run Lola Run on Mon 10 Apr at 6.00pm.

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

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

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Girlhood Bande de filles Mon 13 Mar at 5.45pm Céline Sciamma • France 2014 • 1h53m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language, violence, drug use • Cast: Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh, Mariétou Touré.

16-year-old Marieme (newcomer Karidja Touré) lives in the projects of a Paris suburb with her younger siblings. Life isn’t easy for her: she is struggling at school, and suffers at the hands of her abusive brother and largely absent mother. One day on the way home from school she has an encounter with three local girls and ends up joining their gang. This is a powerful and sensitive female coming-of-age portrait set in the world of urban, black youth. £5 This screening will be followed by a discussion with Dr Claire Boyle from the University of Edinburgh

OVer the rainbow - DIRECTOR’S CUT

The Handmaiden Sun 19 Mar at 7.45pm Park Chan-wook • South Korea 2016 • 2h47m • Digital • Korean and Japanese with English subtitles • 18 - Contains strong sex, sex references. Cast: Tae-ri Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Min-hee Kim, Jin-woong.

A Director’s Cut preview screening of Korean master Park Chan-wook’s fiendishly clever, twisted tale of ambition, deception and desire, set during the Japanese occupation. An adaptation of Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith, it sees Sook-Hee (Tae-ri Kim) hired as handmaiden to the Japanese Lady Hideko (Min-hee Kim), who lives in a lavish manor designed as a hybrid of Western and Japanese architecture. All is not how it seems, and Sook-Hee’s accomplice ‘Count Fujiwara’ (Jung-woo Ha) arrives to seduce the heiress and claim her fortune. A perfect plan - what could go wrong?

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Revolution: New Art for a New World Tue 21 Mar at 6.05pm Margy Kinmonth • UK/Russia 2016 • 1h25m • Digital • PG - Contains mild violence, brief images of dead bodies. • Documentary.

A bold and exciting new documentary that encapsulates a momentous period in the history of Russia and the Avant-Garde. Drawing on the collections of major Russian institutions, contributions from contemporary artists, curators and performers and personal testimony from the descendants of those involved, it brings the artists of the Russian Avant-Garde to life. Jointly organised with the Scotland-Russia Forum and introduced by director Margy Kinmouth, who will join us for a Q&A.

Moving Cinema/The Handmaiden/Revolution: New Art for a New World

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Autism Awareness day

BAFTA Shorts

Life, Animated

Thu 23 Mar at 6.10pm

Sun 2 Apr at 3.10pm

1h36m • 15

Roger Ross Williams • USA 2016 • 1h32m • Digital • PG - Contains infrequent mild sex references, language. • Documentary

A feature-length selection of excellent short live action and animated films from the EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA).

The Party

Andrea Harkin • UK 2016 • 15m

A Love Story Anushka Naanayakkara • UK 2016 • 7m Mouth of Hell Samir Mehanovic • UK 2016 • 15m Standby Charlotte Regan • UK 2016 • 6m Tough Jennifer Zheng • UK 2016 • 5m Consumed Richard John Seymour • UK 2016 • 19m The Alan Dimension Jac Clinch • UK 2016 • 9m Home Daniel Mulloy • UK 2016 • 20m

EASTER SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

Special screening of this endearing and fascinating documentary about a young man with autism, whose love of Disney animation provided the breakthrough in his young life after many years of silence.

PLUS SHORTS Facts About Autism Beacon HIll Arts • UK 2016 • 1m Congrats Your Life Isn’t Ending Beacon Hill Arts CIC • UK 2016 • 2m

Autism and School

Beacon Hill Arts CIC • UK 2016 • 4m

THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN CINEMA

Sing

Sergeant York

Mon 3 to Thu 6 Apr

Thu 6 Apr at 6.00pm

Christophe Lourdelet, Garth Jennings • USA/UK/Japan 2016 • 1h48m Digital • English, Japanese and Ukrainian with English subtitles • U Contains very mild bad language, threat, rude humour.

Howard Hawks • USA 1941 • 2h14m • 35mm • U • Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Stanley Ridges.

A sweet, quirky animated caper, set in a world like ours but entirely inhabited by animals. Buster Moon is a dapper koala who presides over a once-grand theatre that has fallen on hard times. He is an eternal some might even say delusional - optimist who loves his theatre above all, and will do anything to preserve it. Now faced with the crumbling of his life’s ambition, he has one final chance to restore his fading jewel to its former glory by inviting the animals of the world to the greatest singing competition ever staged!

Based on the true story of a deeply religious pacifist who became a much-decorated WWI hero. This is Howard Hawks’ most ‘respectable’ and most artistically conventional major film, with the Oscar®-winning Gary Cooper in engagingly relaxed form as the country boy who goes to war after feeling cheated out of some farmland. Hawks deftly charts his transformation from pacifist to soldier.

Part of The First World War in Cinema, programmed in association with the University of Edinburgh.

This screening marks the date the USA joined WWI.

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

Even Dwarfs Started Small

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.

Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen Sun 16 Apr at 6.00pm

Werner Herzog • Germany 1970 • 1h36m • Digital • German with English subtitles • PG • Cast: Helmut Döring, Gerd Gickel, Paul Glauer.

A joyfully anarchic and incredibly weird movie-going experience, as twenty-seven dwarfs take over a bleak, post-industrial penal colony and embark on a chaotic wave of utter destruction. Herzog’s second film is a satirical attack on all facets of human nature, positing dwarfism as the condition of humanity as a whole and capturing a moment of pure chaos. It has been cited as both one of the most disturbing and also one of the funniest films ever made. Hilarious, troubling, bracing and outrageous - you will never forget it.

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

Filmhouse is delighted to be taking part in Disabled Access Day 2017, sponsored by Euan’s Guide. www.euansguide.com

Due to popular demand, this year it will take place over three days, between 10-12 March. On Sat 11 and Sun 12 March we’ll have additional staff on duty to greet and support visitors if required and we’ll have extra accessible screenings on.

We will also be screening a short film called Buggy Off which explores the difficulty people using wheelchairs can experience when traveling by bus.

More information at www.disabledaccessday.com

The following screenings taking place during Disabled Access Day will feature on-screen captions: Saturday 11 March at 11.00am Saturday 11 March at 3.30pm Sunday 12 March at 1.15pm Sunday 12 March at 6.10pm

Fences Viceroy’s House Viceroy’s House Denial

All screenings of Fences, Viceroy’s House and Denial (captioned and uncaptioned) will include Audio Description for audiences who are visually impaired.

A full list of captioned and AD screenings in our March 2017 programme is is on page 34.

Herzog of the Month

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Double Bill: RoboCop + Starship Troopers Sun 2 Apr at 1.00pm Paul Verhoeven • USA • 4h7m • 18

Produced ten years apart, Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop and Starship Troopers are shiny but schlocky, violent but clever and as dark as they are fun. Peppered with sly jabs at corporate culture, RoboCop places us in a dystopian Detroit run by a giant corporation.

Police officer Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) is brutally executed by a gang, and entered into the RoboCop programme - in which much of his body is replaced by cybernetics. He has three prime directives: Serve the public trust. Protect the innocent. Uphold the law.

Troopers is an outer space romp set in a fascistic society where the human race fights a seemingly impossible battle against an alien race of giant bugs.

It’s brutal, satirical and packed with action.

RoboCop

Paul Verhoeven • USA 1987 • 1h43m • Digital • 18

Starship Troopers

35mm • 15

Paul Verhoeven • USA 1997 • 2h9m

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Education and Learning Schools Screenings We are delighted to present a series of free schools screenings in March in collaboration with Into Film. Tickets must be booked via the below Eventbrite links.

Sophie’s Misfortune (Les Malheurs de Sophie) Tue 7 Mar at 10.00am • 1h26m • French with English subtitles cert PG • Modern Languages (French) Sophie has spent an idyllic childhood with her parents and the family’s servants in a castle in France. But when a move to America goes disastrously wrong, Sophie returns to France and must learn to get along under the rules of her strict new stepmother. Luckily, with the help of her old friends she still manages to get up to some of her old tricks! An enchanting and lively adaptation of the classic French children’s story.

Book tickets here: http://bit.ly/2kJNyX1

Tomboy Tue 14 Mar at 10.00am • 1h22m • French with English subtitles • cert U (ages 7+) • Modern languages (French) 10 year-old Laure moves with her family to a new neighborhood on the outskirts of Paris during the summer holidays. With her short hair and tomboy ways, the local kids mistake her for a boy. Instead of correcting them, she introduces herself as Michael and starts living a double life. This beautifully understated drama about childhood gender identity is both touching and gently humorous.

Book tickets here: http://bit.ly/2jTeSD1 Kubo and the Two Strings Tue 28 Mar at 10.00am • 1h42m • English • cert PG - suitable for P4 and up Kubo is a young boy living in a small, seaside village in ancient Japan who enjoys telling stories to the local residents. However, this peaceful existence is shattered when a vengeful spirit of the past resurfaces. Kubo embarks upon a quest to uncover the secret of his legacy in order to fulfil his destiny. The fourth film from animation studio LAIKA, this is a gorgeously-designed, fantastical adventure.

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Teachers CPD Event Sustainable Development Goals Seminar – Goal 5: Gender Equality Wed 8 Mar, 17:00-18:30, Filmhouse Guild Rooms Celebrate International Women’s Day with this free CPD event for teachers. Scotdec and Take One Action use film and an expert panel to stimulate discussion and debate. Explore how film can enrich learning in the classroom around women and girls’ rights, and their full and effective participation.

Places are limited – please book by emailing education@cmi-scotland.co.uk

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Filmosophy: Sight and the Senses Filmosophy returns for an eighth season of original and thought-provoking films and philosophical discussions. The films featured in this season offer an opportunity to reflect on our perceptual experience of the world and related epistemological, metaphysical and moral issues. We will explore the nature and value of sensory perception and consider to what extent (if at all) it can provide us with access to reality. In addition, our role as the object of others’ perceptions will also be addressed. Each film will be preceded by a short introduction and followed by an accessible and informal post-screening discussion.

Screenings will be introduced and discussion sessions hosted by James Mooney, Short Courses lecturer at The University of Edinburgh. 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

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Perfect Sense Wed 22 Mar at 6.10pm David Mackenzie • UK/Germany/Sweden/Denmark 2011 • 1h32m Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, twice very strong, and strong sex • Cast: Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Connie Nielsen, Stephen Dillane, Ewen Bremner.

In present-day Glasgow, a chef (Ewan McGregor) and a scientist (Eva Green) fall in love as an epidemic begins to rob people of their sensory perceptions.

David Mackenzie’s apocalyptic love-story, a hit at Sundance and Edinburgh International Film Festival, examines the human ability to adapt and maintain meaningful relationships in a changing world.

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Crimes and Misdemeanors

Wed 26 Apr at 6.00pm

Wed 24 May at 5.50pm

Eskil Vogt • Norway 2014 • 1h36m • Digital • Norwegian with English subtitles • 18 - Contains images of strong real sex • Cast: Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Henrik Rafaelsen, Vera Vitali, Marius Kolbenstvedt, Stella Kvam Young.

Woody Allen • USA 1989 • 1h44m • 35mm • 15 • Cast: Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Alan Alda, Anjelica Huston, Sam Waterston.

After losing her sight, Ingrid (Ellen Dorrit Petersen) retreats to the safety and security of her Oslo apartment where, in order to retain her ability to visualise, she constructs elaborate narratives that reflect her repressed fears and fantasies. Eskil Vogt’s beautifully composed drama breaks down the boundaries between illusion and reality and allows the audience a remarkable insight into Ingrid’s world.

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Judah (Martin Landau) is a respected ophthalmologist and family man, who fears that the revelation of his affair with flight attendant Dolores (Anjelica Huston) may threaten his comfortable life.

Featuring an all-star cast (including Allen himself ), Woody Allen’s existential comedy forces us to consider how far we would go to protect what is ours, and whether our moral choices reflect anything more than our fear of being punished.

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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!

Song of the Sea Sun 5 Mar 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.

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.

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

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

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 fairytale collides with modern-day New York City in this delightful film about an animated princess from the land of Andalasia who is thrust into the heart of NYC 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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Monkey business Discovery Shorts for Middle Ones Sun 26 Mar at 11.00am

Chimpanzee Sun 2 Apr at 11.00am

56m • Digital • English, Dialogue-Free and Japanese • U

Alastair Fothergill & Mark Linfield • Tanzania/USA 2012 • 1h18m Digital • U - Contains mild wildlife threat • Documentary.

Variety is once again the key word in this collection of short films for those aged eight or older, which present some very different aspects of the world in which we live - challenging, mystical, celebratory, inquiring, and fun! Most films are dialogue free, proving words aren’t always necessary. However, in one film subtitles are used to assist those of us whose Japanese language skills are minimal - or non-existent!

This True Life Adventure from Disneynature takes us deep into the African forests to meet Oscar, an adorable chimp. The fascinating and complex terrain is an endless playground for Oscar and the other young chimps, who would rather explore and make mayhem than join their parents for an afternoon nap! But when they are confronted by a rival band of chimps, he is forced to fend for himself - until a surprising ally steps in...

Sing Sun 9 Apr at 11.00am

The LEGO Batman Movie Sun 16 Apr at 11.00am

Christophe Lourdelet, Garth Jennings • USA/UK/Japan 2016 1h48m • Digital • English, Japanese and Ukrainian with English subtitles • U - Contains very mild bad language, threat, rude humour.

Chris McKay • USA/Denmark 2017 • 1h44m • Digital U - Contains mild comic violence, rude humour, very mild bad language.

A quirky animated caper, set in a world like ours but entirely inhabited by animals. Buster Moon is a dapper koala who presides over a once-grand theatre. He has one final chance to restore it to its former glory by hosting the greatest animal singing competition ever staged!

Also screening over Easter break, see page 10.

This irreverent new adventure in LEGOland has the Caped Crusader take centre stage! Batman (Will Arnett) has a lot on his plate - crime sprees, raising a young orphan boy and trying to get his music career off the ground - and if he wants to save the city from The Joker’s hostile takeover, he may have to drop the lone vigilante thing, try to work with others and maybe learn to lighten up...?

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(AD) Audio Description (see p 34) (AA) Autism Awareness Day (p 10) (C) Captioned for deaf or hard of hearing (AFF) Edinburgh Asian FF (p 32-33) (see p 34) (DAD) Disabled Access Day (p 11) DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

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Fri 1 Moonlight (AD) 3 1 Viceroy’s House (AD) Mar 2 Viceroy’s House (AD) 2 Moonlight (AD) 2 7 Minutes (IFF) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)

1.00 3.30/6.00/8.45 11.00am/1.25 3.50/8.50 6.15 +Q&A

Sat 1 Moonlight (AD) 4 1 Viceroy’s House (AD) Mar 2 Viceroy’s House (AD) 2 Moonlight (AD) 2 Worldly Girl (IFF) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)

1.00 3.30/6.00/8.30 1.15 3.40/8.50 6.10

Sun 1 Song of the Sea (FJ) 5 1 Viceroy’s House (AD) Mar 2 Moonlight (AD) 2 Ugly, Dirty And Bad (IFF) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)

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1.15/3.40/6.05/8.30

1.00/3.30/6.00 8.30 +Intro

Mon 1 Viceroy’s House (AD) 2.30/8.50 6.00 +Q&A 6 1 Viceroy’s House (AD) 1.00/3.40/6.10 Mar 2 Moonlight (AD) 8.45 2 S Is For Stanley (IFF) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 34 Tue 1 Viceroy’s House (AD) 7 2 Moonlight (AD) Mar 2 Moonlight (AD) (C) 2 Ears (IFF) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)

1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30

Wed 1 Viceroy’s House (AD) 8 1 Viceroy’s House (AD) (C) Mar 2 Viceroy’s House (AD) 2 Moonlight (AD) 2 Like Crazy (IFF) 3 Cameraperson *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)

2.30/6.00 8.30 (captioned) 11.00am 1.20/3.45/8.45 6.15 5.55 +Discussion

1.10/3.40 8.45 (captioned) 6.10

Thu 1 Viceroy’s House (AD) 2.30/6.00/8.30 11.30am/2.15/6.10 9 2 Moonlight (AD) 8.40 +Intro Mar 2 The Most Wonderful... (IFF) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20) Fri 1 Viceroy’s House (AD) 10 2 Denial (AD) Mar 2 Fences (AD) 2 One Kiss (IFF) 3 Fences (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)

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Sat 1 Viceroy’s House (AD) 11 1 Viceroy’s House (AD) (C) Mar 2 Fences (AD) (C) 2 Denial (AD) 2 Fiore (IFF) 3 Fences (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)

1.00/6.00/8.30 3.30 (captioned) 11am (captioned) 2.00/6.10 8.40 8.20

Sun 1 Labyrinth (FJ) 12 1 Viceroy’s House (AD) (C) Mar 1 Viceroy’s House (AD) 2 Denial (AD) 2 Denial (AD) (C) 2 Fences (AD) 2 Indivisible (IFF) 3 Fences (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)

11.00am 1.15 (captioned) 3.40/6.05/8.30 12.45 6.10 (captioned) 3.15 8.40 8.20

Mon 1 Viceroy’s House (AD) 2.30/6.00/8.30 1.00 13 2 Viceroy’s House (AD) 3.20/8.40 Mar 2 Denial (AD) 5.45 +Discussion 2 Girlhood (M) 5.40 3 Fences (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 34 Tue 1 Viceroy’s House (AD) 14 2 Denial (AD) Mar 2 Fences (AD) 2 The 400 Blows (GP) 2 A Special Day (IFF) 3 Fences (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)

2.30/6.00/8.30 1.00 3.25 6.20 8.45 +Intro 8.20

Wed 1 Viceroy’s House (AD) 15 2 Denial (AD) (C) Mar 2 Fences (AD) 2 The Ploy (IFF) 2 Denial (AD) 3 Project Nim (MB) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)

2.30/6.00/8.30 11.30am (captioned) 2.00 6.10 8.25 6.05

Thu 1 Viceroy’s House (AD) 16 2 Fences (AD) Mar 2 Denial (AD) 2 Italian Race (IFF) 2 Before Tomorrow (HA) 3 Fences (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)

2.30/6.00/8.30 11.30am 3.00 6.10 8.45 5.45

Fri 1 The Salesman 17 2 Best Mar 2 La La Land (AD) 2 Uvanga (HA) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)

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11.00am/4.00/6.10 1.15 8.30

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(HA) Highlight Arctic (p 27-28) (HZ) Herzog of the Month (p 11) (IFF) Italian Film Festival (p 21-24)

(J) Odd Obsessions... (p 29-31) (M) Moving Cinema (p 9) (MB) Monkey Business (p 25-26)

(OR) Over the Rainbow (p 9) (SDB) Sunday Double Bill (p 12) All screenings in 2D unless marked (3D)

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Sat 1 The Salesman 18 2 La La Land (AD) Mar 2 Best 2 Beyond Horizons (HA) 2 Sol (HA) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)

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Sun 1 Enchanted (FJ) 19 1 The Salesman Mar 1 The Handmaiden (OR) 2 La La Land (AD) 2 Me and My Little Sister (HA) 2 Best 2 Nanook Taxi (HA) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)

11.00am 2.00/5.00 7.45 (Director’s Cut) 1.15 4.00 + Short 6.10 8.30

Sat 1 The Lost City of Z (AD) 25 2 The Salesman Mar 2 Unlocking the Cage (MB) 2 Elle 3 Elle 3 Mantostaan (AFF) 3 Utopia (AFF) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)

11.00am 1.45/6.10 4.00 +Q&A 8.30 + Short

Mon 1 The Salesman 2.30/8.15 6.00 20 1 Best 1.00 Mar 2 La La Land (AD) 3.45 2 Best 5.45 3 Tsukiji Wonderland (J) 8.45 3 A Stitch of Life (J) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 34

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2.20/5.20/8.20 1.00 3.40 8.30 3.20 6.10 +Q&A 8.45 +Q&A

Sun 1 Shorts for Middle Ones (FJ) 11.00am 2.20/5.20/8.20 26 1 The Lost City of Z (AD) 11.30am/5.50 Mar 2 The Salesman 3.00/8.30 2 Elle 3.10 +Q&A 3 The Threshold (AFF) 3 Lipstick Under My Burkha (AFF) 5.30 +Q&A *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20) Mon 1 The Lost City of Z (AD) 2.20/5.20/8.20 11.30am/5.50 27 2 Elle 2.30 Mar 2 The Salesman 5.50 3 Pieta in the Toilet (J) 8.30 3 Kabukicho Love Hotel (J) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 34

Tue 1 The Salesman 21 2 La La Land (AD) (C) Mar 2 La La Land (AD) 2 Revolution: New Art for a...

3 Pale Moon (J) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)

2.30/6.00/8.40 11.30am (captioned) 2.30 6.05 +Q&A 8.30

Tue 1 The Lost City of Z (AD) 28 1 The Lost City of Z (AD) (C) Mar 2 Elle 2 The Salesman 3 The Mohican Comes Home (J) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)

2.20/8.20 5.20 (captioned) 11.30am/5.50 2.30/8.35 5.50

Wed 1 The Salesman 22 2 La La Land (AD) Mar 2 Perfect Sense (F) 3 Flora on the Sand (J) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)

2.30/6.00/8.40 11.30am/2.30 6.10 +Discussion 8.45

Wed 1 The Lost City of Z (AD) 29 2 Elle Mar 2 The Salesman 3 Odd Obsession (J) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)

2.20/5.20/8.20 11.30am/8.30 2.30 8.45

Thu 1 The Salesman 23 2 La La Land (AD) Mar 2 Planet of the Apes (MB) 2 BAFTA Shorts 3 Planet of the Apes (MB) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)

2.30/6.00/8.40 11.30am 2.30 6.10 8.45 +Intro

Thu 1 The Lost City of Z (AD) 30 2 The Salesman Mar 2 Elle 2 Fata Morgana (HZ) 3 The Salesman *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)

2.20/5.20/8.20 11.30am 2.30/8.30 6.15 +Intro 5.50

Fri 1 The Lost City of Z (AD) 24 2 The Salesman Mar 2 Elle 3 Mango Dreams (AFF) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)

2.20/5.20/8.20 11.30am/5.50 2.15/8.30 8.45 +Q&A

Fri 1 Hidden Figures (AD) 31 1 Graduation Mar 2 Certain Women 2 The Lost City of Z (AD) 3 Certain Women *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)

12.15 3.00/5.45/8.30 11.30am 2.15/5.20/8.20 6.00

Sat 1 Hidden Figures (AD) 1 1 Graduation Apr 2 Certain Women 2 The Lost City of Z (AD) 3 Certain Women *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)

12.15 3.00/5.45/8.30 11.45am 2.15/5.20/8.20 6.00

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Sun 1 Chimpanzee (FJ) (MB) 2 1 Double Bill: RoboCop Apr + Starship Troopers (SDB) 1 Hidden Figures (AD) 1 Graduation 2 The Lost City of Z (AD) 2 Life, Animated (AA) 3 Certain Women *Plus films and times TBC (see below)

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11.00am 1.00 5.45 8.30 12.15/5.20/8.20 3.10 + Shorts 8.45

Mon 1 The Lost City of Z (AD) 2.30 5.45 3 1 Graduation 8.30 Apr 1 Hidden Figures (AD) 11.30am 2 Sing (AD) 2.00 2 Graduation 5.20/8.20 2 The Lost City of Z (AD) 11.10am/8.45 3 Certain Women *Plus films and times TBC (see below) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 34 Tue 1 Sing (AD) 4 1 The Lost City of Z (AD) Apr 1 Hidden Figures (AD) 1 Graduation 2 Hidden Figures (AD) (C) 2 Graduation 2 The Lost City of Z (AD) 3 Dancer (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see below)

12.00 2.45 5.45 8.30 11.30am (captioned) 2.30 5.20/8.20 11.00am/8.45

Wed 1 Sing (AD) 5 1 The Lost City of Z (AD) Apr 1 Hidden Figures (AD) (C) 1 Graduation 2 Hidden Figures (AD) 2 Graduation 2 The Lost City of Z (AD) 2 The Lost City of Z (AD) (C) 3 Dancer (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see below)

12.00 2.45 5.45 (captioned) 8.30 11.30am 2.30 5.20 8.20 (captioned) 4.00/6.00

Thu 1 Sing (AD) 6 1 The Lost City of Z (AD) Apr 1 Graduation 2 Hidden Figures (AD) 2 Graduation 2 Dancer (AD) 2 The Lost City of Z (AD) 3 Dancer (AD) 3 Sergeant York *Plus films and times TBC (see below)

12.00 2.45/5.45 8.40 11.30am 2.30 6.15 8.20 4.00 6.00

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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The annual celebration of Italian cinema returns with a wide-ranging programme that stretches from promising new talents to established greats.

Highlights this year include Paolo Virzi’s hugely successful Like Crazy and the Kafkaesque comedy Ears which was one of the discoveries of the Venice Film Festival. The 24th edition of the Festival also pays tribute to the late Ettore Scola with beautiful restorations of three of his finest films including the Oscar-nominated A Special Day teaming Sophia Loren with Marcello Mastroianni.

The Italian Film Festival is co-directed by Allan Hunter and Richard Mowe, and is staged in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute, the Italian Consulate General, Filmhouse and Zucca restaurant.

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Worldly Girl

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Fri 3 Mar at 6.15pm Michele Placido • Italy/France 2016 • 1h31m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 12A • Cast: Ottavia Piccolo, Ambra Angiolini.

Michele Placido’s brilliant, timely drama buzzes with energy and righteous indignation as it dramatises true events. A new owner arrives at a textile plant for discussions about its future. Their representative is Bianca (Ottavia Piccolo). Patronised and ostracised, she returns with what seems like good news - the plant will not close if the workers agree to give up seven minutes of their lunch break. Is this too good to be true? Is it the right thing to do? The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Michele Placido.

La ragazza del mondo

Sat 4 Mar at 6.10pm Marco Danieli • Italy/France 2016 • 1h41m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 12A • Cast: Sara Serraiocco, Michele Riondino, Stefania Montorsi.

A prize-winner at the 2016 Venice Film Festival, Worldly Girl is set in the world of Jehovah’s Witnesses, a religious movement that is especially strong in Italy. Giulia (Sara Serraiocco) is a bright teenager, dedicated to a religion that requires her to preach from door to door and spread the word. Continuing her studies is not an option. Then she meets Libero (Michele Riondino), a young, working-class man who has just been released from prison. Her instinct is to offer kindness, support and a job. The feelings that develop between them bring Giulia into conflict with everything she has been taught never to challenge.

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Ugly, Dirty And Bad

Brutti, sporchi e cattivi Sun 5 Mar at 8.30pm

Ettore Scola • Italy 1976 • 1h55m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Nino Manfredi, Maria Luisa Santella.

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S Is For Stanley Mon 6 Mar at 8.45pm Alex Infascelli • Italy 2016 • 1h20m • Digital • Italian and English with English subtitles • 12A • Documentary.

Introduction by Dr Pasquale Iannone (Teaching Fellow in Film Studies, University of Edinburgh).

Winner of the David di Donatello Award for the year’s Best Documentary, S For Stanley tells the story of Emilio D’Alessandro who spent thirty years working for Stanley Kubrick. Italian immigrant D’Alessandro was a London cabbie and aspiring F1 racer in 1970 when he was hired to deliver a package to the set of A Clockwork Orange. Kubrick hired him as a driver and handyman and welcomed him into a life where everything was done by the rules and nothing was left to chance. This is a fascinating insight into the private world of a cinema genius.

Ears Orecchie Tue 7 Mar at 6.10pm

Wed 8 Mar at 6.15pm

Alessandro Aronadio • Italy 2016 • 1h30m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 12A • Cast: Daniele Parisi, Milena Vukotic.

Paolo Virzi • Italy/France 2016 • 1h55m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 12A • Cast: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Micaela Ramazzotti.

Alessandro Aronadio’s uproarious black comedy begins when a nameless man wakes up with a ringing in his ears and a note on the fridge that declares: ‚ ‘Your friend Luigi is dead! I’m sorry. P.S. I took the car.’ Who is Luigi? Who left the note and what has happened to his hearing? Trying to figure out the answers to these questions is the beginning of an award-winning Kafkaesque romp that unfolds on the streets of Rome and is shot in shimmeringly beautiful black and white.

Paolo Virzi’s bittersweet comedy has been one of the great success stories of Italian cinema over the past year and is a terrific showcase for Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Micaela Ramazzotti. Tedeschi plays Beatrice; rich, spoilt and filled with delusions of grandeur as she rules the roost in a mental institution.

New arrival Donatella (Ramazzotti) couldn’t be more different or more fragile and just wants a clean bill of health. An unexpected and beneficial friendship develops that soars when they manage to escape.

A “pitch-perfect blend of hilarity and brutality”, Ugly, Dirty And Bad won Ettore Scola the Best Director prize at Cannes 1976. Set in Rome, it focuses on an extended family living in a shack close to a busy highway. Nino Manfredi stars the grizzled patriarch who receives a one million lire insurance payout. He is not planning to share the money but his many relatives are aiming to get their hands on it...

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The Most Wonderful Evening Of My Life

La più bella serata della mia vita Thu 9 Mar at 8.40pm Ettore Scola • Italy/France 1972 • 1h46m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 12A • Cast: Alberto Sordi, Michel Simon, Charles Vanel.

A dream cast star in this pitch perfect adaptation of the Friedrich Durrenmatt novel A Dangerous Game.

Alfredo (Alberto Sordi) breaks down in the Swiss mountains and seeks help from a nearby castle.

He meets four retired judges who beg him to play the accused in a mock trail that is being staged. He stands accused of murdering his former boss but the fun and games turn deadly serious... Introduction by Dr Pasquale Iannone (University of Edinburgh).

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One Kiss Un Bacio Fri 10 Mar at 8.40pm Ivan Cotroneo • Italy 2016 • 1h42m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Rimau Ritzberger Grillo, Valentina Romani.

Ivan Cotroneo’s award-winning drama brings warmth, humour and real insight to the story of three teenagers struggling to be true to themselves. Gay Lorenzo (Rimau Ritzberger Grillo) has been adopted from a home in Turin and is more than a match for the prejudices of his new small-minded, small town schoolmates. Oddball basketball star Antonio (Leonardo Pazzagli) is coming to terms with the death of his older brother. Blu (Valentina Romani) has a reputation for promiscuity. Branded as outsiders, the trio forge a fragile friendship that is full of love and longing and fraught with danger.

Fiore Sat 11 Mar at 8.40pm Claudio Giovannesi • Italy 2016 • 1h50m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 12A • Cast: Daphne Scoccia, Josciua Algeri, Valerio Mastandrea.

One of the discoveries of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, Fiore is a tenderhearted Romeo and Juliet-style romance set in a young offenders prison. Teenager Daphne (Daphne Scoccia) is arrested for theft. She adjusts to a new life, making friends with her cellmate and attending classes that could give her a future profession.

Then she catches sight of Josh (Josciua Algeri) who lives on the men’s side of the prison. Lingering glances and stolen conversations build into the hint of a romance but can love thrive in the most impossible of circumstances. An award-winning drama from Claudio Giovannesi, the director of Ali Blue Eyes.

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Tue 14 Mar at 8.45pm

Edoardo de Angelis • Italy 2016 • 1h44m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Angela Fontana, Marianna Fontana.

Ettore Scola • Italy 1977 • 1h46m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 12A • Cast: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni.

Winner of multiple awards at Venice, Indivisible has the feel of a gothic, dreamlike fairytale as it unfolds in Caserta, north of Naples. Angela and Marianna Fontana star as conjoined twin sisters. The 18 yearolds have the voices of angels and are managed by their money-grabbing father. A chance meeting with a doctor reveals that because they share no vital organs they could be safely separated. The twins have very different views on this radical step and the scary possibilities that might arise...

Hailed by the NY Times as “without doubt the best film that Sophia Loren ever made”. It unfolds on 6 May 1938 as Rome awaits Hitler’s first visit. Mother of six Antonietta (Loren) is one of the few to have stayed home. When a pet bird escapes she calls on her neighbour Gabriele (Mastroianni), a gay radio announcer. Over the course of a special day they forge a friendship all the more intense because of what may lie ahead. Introduction by Dr Pasquale Iannone (University of Edinburgh).

The Ploy La Macchinazione Wed 15 Mar at 6.10pm

Thu 16 Mar at 6.10pm

David Grieco • Italy/France 2016 • 1h40m • Digital • Italian and French with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Massimo Ranieri, Libero De Rienzo.

Matteo Rovere • Italy 2016 • 1h58m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 12A • Cast: Stefano Accorsi, Matilda De Angelis.

David Grieco’s acclaimed, award-winning drama pulls the viewer back to the late summer of 1975 and the final months of Pier Paolo Pasolini (Massimo Ranieri).

A restless Pasolini is editing his most controversial film Salo and is writing a book in which he pours scorn on the notion that the Communist Party are about to gain lasting power in Italy. His relationship with a young man from a working-class suburb of Rome edges him towards danger. When the negative of Salo is stolen, its sets in motion a conspiracy between criminal gangs and political masters that will eventually lead to Pasolini’s murder.

Based on an inspirational true story, Italian Race plunges the viewer into the adrenaline-fuelled world of GT (Gran Turismo) racing. Newcomer Matilda De Angelis stars as Giulia, a teenage racer with all the promise of someone who can win championships.

The need for speed grows ever more intense as she becomes the only hope of saving the family home.

Building a team means relying on her brother Loris (a terrific Stefano Accorsi), a former driver turned destitute drug addict. A tale of family ties, broken lives and the possibility of redemption, with thrilling race track scenes that were all filmed live.

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Monkey Business A special season of films programmed in partnership with the National Museum of Scotland, where the brilliant Monkey Business exhibition invites you to stand shoulder to shoulder with our closest living relatives! Our selection includes fascinating documentaries on humanity’s efforts to understand our primate cousins like Project Nim and Unlocking the Cage; joyous, observational films like Chimpanzee (page 17) and Nénette; and unforgettable cult classics Planet of the Apes and (the original) King Kong.

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Project Nim Wed 15 Mar at 6.05pm James Marsh • UK 2011 • 1h39m • Digital • 12A - Contains animal testing, strong language and drug use • Documentary.

The extraordinary story of Nim, the chimpanzee who became the focus of a landmark experiment in the 1970s. A Columbia University team aimed to prove that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim’s extraordinary journey through human society and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make into a human.

Planet of the Apes

Unlocking the Cage

Thu 23 Mar at 2.30pm & 8.45pm

Sat 25 Mar at 3.40pm

Franklin J Schaffner • USA 1968 • 1h52m • Digital • PG • Cast: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans.

Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker • USA 2016 • 1h31m • Digital • 12A Documentary.

Based on the novel by Pierre Boulle, a spaceship crew commanded by Col. George Taylor (Charlton Heston) emerge from hibernation to find they have crashlanded on an unknown planet. Soon, they discover that their new home is inhabited. There are other humans, but they are mute and treated like cattle by the dominant species. On this planet, evolution has favoured the apes, who have developed into the walking, talking, thinking rulers of a society where tolerance is minimal, and superstition is valued over science... The 8.45pm screening will be introduced

by Dr Andrew Kitchener, Principal Curator of Vertebrates at National Museums Scotland.

From legendary wife-husband documentary team Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker (The War Room) comes this illuminating, suspenseful and deeply moving look at the unprecedented work of animal rights lawyer Steven Wise. After thirty years of struggling with ineffective animal welfare laws, Steve and his legal team make history by filing the first lawsuits that seek to transform an animal from a “thing” with no rights to a “person” with legal protections. At the centre of the tale are a variety of captive chimpanzees, whose cognitive complexity holds the key to his impassioned case.

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Nénette

King Kong

Wed 12 Apr at 6.10pm

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Nicolas Philibert • France 2010 • 1h10m • 35mm • French with English subtitles • PG • Documentary.

Merian C Cooper & Ernest B Schoedsack • USA 1933 • 1h40m • 35mm PG • Cast: Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot, Robert Armstrong.

Centred on the titular 40-year-old female orangutan living in the zoo at Paris’ exquisite Jardin des Plantes, Nicolas Philibert’s charming study of Nénette is an observational treat. In her advancing years, she enjoys life’s simple pleasures like daily tea and yoghurt in the afternoon, and Philibert’s camera captures all the beautiful little details of her day-to-day routine.

All the while, we hear comments, ponderings and tributes from from some of the 600,000 visitors who file past her enclosure every year. A poignant, funny portrait of a beloved Parisian.

The original - and, we think, the best - cinematic story of the great gorilla of Skull Island has been often rehashed but never bettered. If this glorious pile of horror-fantasy hokum has lost none of its power to move, excite and sadden it is in no small measure due to the remarkable technical achievements of Willis O’Brien’s animation work, and the superbly matched score of Max Steiner. Wray is not required to act, merely to scream; but what a perfect victim she makes.

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Highlight Arctic Highlight Arts (formerly Reel Festivals) is proud to return to Filmhouse, presenting its multi-arts Highlight Arctic project. Screenings include the three feature films produced by the pioneering Arnait Video Productions, which was the first women’s collective independent production company in the Arctic. Complementing Arnait’s firstever UK retrospective is a trio of new Sámi films by women, plus a rare screening of Ed Folger’s Nanook Taxi and Atelier Nord’s powerful collection, Beyond Horizons.

These screenings take place as part of Highlight Arctic’s ongoing programme, taking place around Scotland between 24 February and 19 March. highlightarts.org/projects/highlight-arctic/

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Before Tomorrow

Le jour avant le lendemain Thu 16 Mar at 8.45pm

Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Madeline Piujuq Ivalu • Canada 2008 1h33m • Digital • Inuktitut with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Madeline Piujuq Ivalu, Paul-Dylan Ivalu, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq.

In the Canadian Arctic of the 1840s, 10-year-old Maniq and his beloved grandmother Ningiuq travel to the remote island where, every year, their family prepares food for winter. But, as the seasons progress, their hard but idyllic existence unexpectedly begins to unravel. This debut feature from Arnait Video Productions also features original songs by legendary Québécoise folk musicians Kate and Anna McGarrigle.

Uvanga

Beyond Horizons

Fri 17 Mar at 8.30pm

Sat 18 Mar at 4.00pm

Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Madeline Piujuq Ivalu • Canada 2013 1h26m • Digital • Inuktitut and English with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Lukasi Forrest, Marrianne Farley, Travis Kunnuk, Madeline Piujuq Ivalu, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq, Pakak Innukshuk, Carol Kunnuk.

1h24m • Digital • Various • Documentaries • 12A

Single mother Anna returns to the close-knit community of Igloolik during the summer months of midnight sun. Born and raised in Montreal, her 14-year-old son, Tomas, has never before seen the town where his father’s Inuk family hails from. But the joy of his homecoming is mixed with the unavoidable memories of a brief and painful chapter in their shared history as, over the course of a single fortnight, Anna and Thomas strive to rebuild their family.

A programme of short films, curated by independent art foundation Atelier Nord, with a focus on works by artists who question the governance of natural resources in Northern Norway and the High North.

These eight artists attempt to approach a range of issues from different and unfamiliar viewpoints, with the subject matter they tackle including conflict over rights to the land and the sea, as well as climate change and the impact local interventions can have on a global scale.

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Sol Sat 18 Mar at 8.30pm Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Susan Avingaq • Canada 2014 • 1h16m • Digital • English and Inuktitut with English subtitles • 12A • Documentary

Sol explores the life of a young Inuk artist, Solomon Tapatiaq Uyarasuk, whose death in police custody is officially ruled as suicide (albeit under suspicious circumstances). This moving documentary pays tribute to Sol’s promising and tragically short career whilst also shedding light on the social issues which have led to Canada’s North claiming one of the highest youth suicide rates in the world.

PLUS SHORT Sámi bojá (Sámi Boy)

Elle Sofe Henriksen • Norway 2015 • 9m • Digital • Sámi with English subtitles • 12A

Me and My Little Sister

Nanook Taxi

Sun 19 Mar at 4.00pm

Sun 19 Mar at 8.30pm

Suvi West • Finland/Norway 2016 • 1h8m • Digital • Sámi, Finnish, English and Norwegian with English subtitles • 12A • Documentary

Ed Folger • Canada/USA 1977 • 1h18m • Digital • English and Inuktitut with English subtitles • 12A • Cast: Joanasie Salamonie, Mickey Turqtuq, Kanayuk Salamonie, Elisapee Davidee.

Kaisa, the sister of actor/filmmaker Suvi West, is a Sámi, a Christian deacon and an out lesbian. But, despite the homophobia she experiences from her community in northern Finland, she is keen to remain there to stand up to - and hopefully even affect - its prevailing conservatism. An intimate and moving exploration of sisterhood, queerness and the search for acceptance from competing personal identities.

PLUS SHORT Northern Great Mountain Amanda Kernell

Sweden 2015 • 15m • Digital • Swedish and Sámi with English subtitles • 12A

The first dramatic feature produced in the Canadian North, this offbeat comedy follows Ningiuksiak (played by Inuk activist Joanasie Salomonie), who is obliged to travel to the big city of Frobisher Bay to work as a taxi driver. The rarely-seen directorial debut of filmmaking outsider Ed Folger (who had by then served as assistant to George Lucas, Elaine May and Hal Ashby, amongst others), Nanook Taxi is also a searing social indictment about the social difficulties and prejudices faced by Inuits in the 1970s.

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Odd Obsessions - Desires, Hopes and Impulses in Japanese Cinema Taking inspiration from Charlie Chaplin’s famous quote “Life is a desire, not a meaning”, the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2017 features an all-encompassing introduction to Japanese cinema through the prism of “desires, hopes and impulses”. Presenting films by established and up-and-coming directors, documentary and classics, this year’s programme promises to not only entertain but also provide a vivid insight into what drives human action.

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A Stitch of Life

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Tsukiji Wonderland Mon 20 Mar at 5.45pm Naotaro Endo • Japan 2016 • 1h50m • Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • PG • Documentary.

The world’s largest fish market, Tsukiji is a place like no other. The “the kitchen of Japan” has been at the heart of Japanese cuisine since opening almost 80 years ago. Boasting over 700 wholesalers, the incredible scale of trade is testament to their pride and determination. Shot over the course of a year, he captures the extraordinary operations of this iconic fish market. Although the future of Tsukiji still hangs in the balance, its legacy will never be forgotten.

The screening will be followed by a director Q&A.

Pale Moon

Kami no Tsuki

Mon 20 Mar at 8.45pm

Tue 21 Mar at 8.30pm

Yukiko Mishima • Japan 2015 • 1h44m • Japanese with English subtitles • PG • Cast: Miki Nakatani, Takahiro Miura, Hairi Katagiri.

Daihachi Yoshida • Japan 2014 • 2h6m • Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Rie Miyazawa, Sosuke Ikematsu.

For Ichie (Miki Nakatani) creating an item of clothing is a hugely personal process. Having inherited her grandmother’s shop, she specialises in tailor-making clothes for each client using an old sewing machine.

When a department store offers to turn her clothing into a brand, Ichie must choose between honouring her grandmother’s will or fashioning her own path.

Yukiko Mishima (Bread and Happiness), adapts this manga into a heartfelt portrayal of a persevering and proud dressmaker. Featuring original clothing created by designer Sachiko Ito, it artfully depicts the beauty of clothing and a long-forgotten way of life.

Set in the mid-1990s, shortly after the burst of Japan’s economic bubble, housewife and bank employee Rika (Rie Miyazawa) turns to a life of crime by embezzling money from clients’ accounts in order to please her younger lover (Sosuke Ikematsu). What begins as a few yen soon spirals into large sums of money and one eagle-eyed bank supervisor has her suspicions... Adapted from the best-selling novel

by Mitsuyo Kakuta, this mischievous dark drama is directed by one of Japan’s most exciting filmmakers, Daihachi Yoshida, and captures the depths one will go to get what they truly desire.

Odd Obsessions - Desires, Hopes and Impulses...

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Wed 22 Mar at 8.45pm Kō Nakahira • Japan 1964 • 1h35m • 35mm • Japanese with English subtitles • 18 • Cast: Noboru Nakaya, Kazuko Inano, Mieko Nishio.

One evening at the Marine Tower observatory, cosmetics salesman Ichiro Iki is drawn into conversation with unfamiliar young lady, Akiko. She invites Ichiro back to a hotel where they make love but part without even exchanging names. A week later, they have a second chance encounter, and Akiko begs Ichiro to give her sister - bar hostess Kyoko - absolute hell. Ichiro takes an interest in Kyoko and sets out towards her bar... This innovative and erotically charged drama, based on a novel by Junnosuke Yoshiyuki, foreshadows Nikkatsu’s lucrative ‘Roman Porno’ genre, which helped the studio avoid bankruptcy in the ‘70s.

Pieta in the Toilet

Toire no Pieta

Mon 27 Mar at 5.50pm Daishi Matsunaga • Japan 2015 • 2h • Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Yôjirô Noda, Hana Sugisaki, Lily Franky.

Young failed painter Hiroshi (Yojiro Noda) falls into the depths of despair when he discovers he is incurably ill. Having given up on his dreams, everything changes when he encounters bold and outspoken Mai (Hana Sugisaki). Her strong will is infectious and pushes Hiroshi to reassess his outlook on life. Acclaimed documentary director Daishi Matsunaga returns with his fiction film debut, inspired by the ‘God of Manga’ Osamu Tezuka’s last diary entry. Newcomer Yojiro Noda (lead singer of rock band Radwimps) won the Japanese Academy Newcomer of the Year for his performance in this life-affirming work.

Kabukicho Love Hotel

Sayonara Kabukicho Mon 27 Mar at 8.30pm

Hiroki Ryuichi • Japan 2014 • 2h15m • Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • 18 • Cast: Shota Sometani, Atsuko Maeda.

A love hotel in Kabukicho, Tokyo’s well-known entertainment district conveniently, conceals people with problems - a cleaner who lives with a criminal at large, a pimp and a girl who has run away from home.

An ordinary day begins at this extraordinary hotel...

Directed by former ‘pink film’ director Ryuichi Hiroki (Vibrator) and starring Japan’s leading actors Shota Sometani and Atsuko Maeda, this bittersweet drama follows 24 hours in one of Tokyo’s love hotels, in which the dreams and desires of the hotel’s inhabitants intersect and collide...

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The Mohican Comes Home

Mohikan Kokyo ni Kaeru Tue 28 Mar at 5.50pm

Shûichi Okita • Japan 2016 • 2h5m • Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • PG • Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda, Atsuko Maeda, Akira Emoto.

After seven years away, deadbeat rocker Eikichi (Ryuhei Matsuda) reluctantly returns to his home on a remote island near Shikoku with news that his clumsy girlfriend Yuka (Atsuko Maeda) is pregnant and that they will be getting married. After a wild welcome party, Eikichi’s father collapses and a subsequent doctor’s visit reveals the worst - terminal lung cancer.

With a nod to Keisuke Kinoshita’s Carmen Comes Home, it follows helpless Eikichi’s attempts to make his bedridden father happy, in a funny, touching story of a disjointed family with different desires who come together at a critical time.

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Kagi

Wed 29 Mar at 8.45pm Kon Ichikawa • Japan 1957 • 1h47m • 35mm • Japanese with English subtitles • 18 • Cast: Ganjirô Nakamura, Machiko Kyô, Junko Kanô.

The winner of the Cannes Special Jury Prize in 1960, Odd Obsession is a darkly comic drama following Kenmochi, an elderly man who attempts to sexually satisfy his captivating, younger wife. Struggling with his decreased libido, Kenmochi orchestrates an affair between his wife and future son-in-law in order to inflame his jealousy and restore his sexual virility. Kenmochi’s cunning plan however, has tragic consequences. Legendary filmmaker Kon Ichikawa’s take on Junichiro Tanizaki’s controversial 1956 novel The Key is an absorbing tale of greed and infidelity surrounding a very dysfunctional family...

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Along with Dr. Pushpinder Chowdhry, Director of Tongues on Fire, I am delighted to invite you to the 2nd Edinburgh Asian Film Festival, which returns to Filmhouse with a treasure trove of contemporary South Asian Cinema. EAFF continues to push boundaries and blur borders. On the 70th anniversary of the India-Pakistan Partition, this year’s films reflect on the theme of separation, through cinematic evocations of the rupturing event and its reverberations in contemporary India, Pakistan and beyond. Following its warm reception by Edinburgh cinephiles last year, EAFF 2017 promises a vibrant, variegated, immersive and uplifting experience. www.tonguesonfire.com Dr. Ashvin Devasundaram, Creative Director

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Mango Dreams Fri 24 Mar at 8.45pm John Upchurch • USA 2016 • 1h33m • Digital • PG • Cast: Ram Gopal Bajaj, Pankaj Tripathy, Sameer Kochhar.

Having escaped the British partition of India, Dr. Amit Singh must return to his childhood home, to face memories that have haunted his life one last time before dementia catches up with him. And before he is committed to a nursing home by his son. Salim, a Muslim rickshaw driver agrees to drive the Hindu doctor to his destination not aware of the complicated journey that lies ahead. Sharing their haunting past with each other, the pair forge a warmhearted friendship that gives new meaning to solace.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A.

Mantostaan Sat 25 Mar at 6.10pm Rahat Kazmi • India 2016 • 1h32m • Digital • Urdu with English subtitles • PG Cast: Sonal Sehgal, Raghuvir Yadav, Veerendra Saxena, Rahat Kazmi.

The birth of Mantostaan lends its foundations to a deep historical mosaic of four of the most controversial and burning short stories dictated by legendary and critically acclaimed Urdu writer, Saadat Hassan Manto (Khol Do, Thanda Ghosht, Assignment and Aakhri Salute). Haunting yet humorous, this dark satire unveils the gritty side of human beings that exhaled from the 1947 India-Pakistan partition. Encountering extreme and irrevocable incidents of terror and bloodshed, we endure the sufferings of the common man and learn of how human beings are their own enemy. Friend or foe.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Rahat Kazmi.

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Utopia

The Threshold

Sat 25 Mar at 8.45pm

Sun 26 Mar at 3.10pm

Hassan Nazer • Afghanistan 2015 • 1h25m • Digital • Dari, Hindi and English with English subtitles • PG • Cast: Martine Malalai Zikria, Homayoun Ershadi, Hannah Spearritt, Andrew Shaver.

Pushan Kripalani • India 2016 • 1h27m • Digital • Hindi and English with English subtitles • PG • Cast: Rajit Kapoor, Neena Gupta.

Loneliness and isolation create three intersecting stories of William, Professor Rahul and Janan, a woman who travels to the UK for IVF treatment.

Janan returns to Afghanistan pregnant, where she learns that William, the medical sciences student who performed her insemination, switched the donor’s semen to his own. Distraught Janan now faces an inevitable conflict, as she learns of William’s family history and inescapable connection to the wars in her homeland. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Hassan Nazer and producer Chris Robb.

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After their newly married son and wedding guests have left, a wife decides to leave her husband. Tucked away in a house on the hills, in the picturesque Himalayas, the couple prepare for a harsh winter of home truths that have been left untouched during their two decades of marriage. Through emotional confrontation and sweet reminiscing, the couple struggle to define their relationship. This is one day in the life of two people who strive to seek themselves.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Dr. Churnjeet Mahn (University of Strathclyde).

Lipstick Under My Burkha Sun 26 Mar at 5.30pm Alankrita Shrivastava • India 2016 • 1h58m • Digital • Hindi with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Shashank Arora, Plabita Borthakur, Sonal Jha.

Tangled within a traditional, conservative society four females seek freedom from their monotonous lives as we follow them through their rebellious journey to self-fulfilment. A burkha-clad college girl aspiring to be a popsinger with all the trimmings, a care-free and two-timing beautician seeking escape from her claustrophobic town, an oppressed housewife who is not just a baby-making machine but a well-earning saleswoman, and widower Auntie Usha, living through fictional character Rosy, rediscovers lust through a phone romance with a handsome hunk. The film courageously gives voice to every woman who is hiding secret dreams and inner desires. The red lipstick of four feisty women is the pivot of this story.

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The majority of seats in the Cafe Bar are not fixed and can be moved.

There is wheelchair access to all three screens. Cinema One has space for two wheelchair users and these places are reached via the passenger lift. Cinemas Two and Three have one space each. Staff are always on hand to help operate lifts – please ask at the box office when you purchase your tickets. A second accessible toilet is situated at the lower level close to Cinemas Two and Three.

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In all we have a system which enables us, whenever available, to show onscreen captions, and provide audio description (via infra-red headsets) for those who are sight-impaired.

Screenings for carers and their babies! Tickets £4.50/£3.50 concessions per adult. Screenings are strictly limited to babies under 12 months accompanied by no more than two adults.

Babychanging, bottle-warming and buggy parking facilities are available.

This issue, all screenings of Viceroy’s House, La La Land, Moonlight, Denial, Fences, The Lost City of Z, Hidden Figures and Sing have audio description, and the following screenings will have captions: Tue 7 Mar at 8.45pm

Moonlight

Wed 8 Mar at 8.30pm

Viceroy’s House

Sat 11 Mar at 11.00am

Fences

Sat 11 Mar at 3.30pm

Viceroy’s House

Sun 12 Mar at 1.15pm

Viceroy’s House

Sun 12 Mar at 6.10pm

Denial

Wed 15 Mar at 11.30am

Denial

Tue 21 Mar at 11.30am

La La Land

Tue 28 Mar at 5.20pm

The Lost City of Z

Tue 4 Apr at 11.30am

Hidden Figures

Wed 5 Apr at 5.45pm

Hidden Figures

Wed 5 Apr at 8.20pm

The Lost City of Z

Mon 6 Mar at 11.00am

Viceroy’s House

Mon 13 Mar at 11.00am

Fences

Mon 20 Mar at 11.00am

La La Land

Mon 27 Mar at 11.00am

The Salesman

Mon 3 Apr at 11.00am

Hidden Figures

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