Filmhouse Brochure - November 2015

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The Martian Sunset Song Brooklyn The Lady in the Van Under Milk Wood The Lobster Love 3D Under the Skin Taxi Tehran French Film Festival UK Edinburgh Greek Film Festival Listen to Me Marlon Fokus: Films from Germany Over the Rainbow Write Shoot Cut Filmhouse Junior Fidelio, Alice’s Journey The Officers’ Ward The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

2 INDEX SCREENING DATES AND TIMES TICKET PRICES & INFORMATION GENERAL INFORMATION

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40-love 17 All About Them 12 All Cats Are Grey 17 Apocalypse Now 21 Arthur Christmas 11 B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin...

20 Baal 20 Belle and Sebastian 11 Beloved Sisters 19 The Big Blue 17 The Big Knights 10 The Black Panthers: Vanguard of...

8 Black Souls 7 Brand: A Second Coming 6 BrewDog Edinburgh Presents: Craft 6 Bridge of Spies 8 Brooklyn 7 Call Me Marianna 9 Chorus 16 The Clearstream Affair 16 Die Hard 25 Disco Polo 9 Dislecksia: The Movie 11 ECA Postgraduate Degree Show 25 Edinburgh Greek Film Festival 22 Education and Learning 26 Fan 23 FFF Shorts 18 Fidelio, Alice’s Journey 5 Filmhouse Café Bar + Film Quiz 26 Filmhouse Explorer 4 Filmhouse Membership 28 Filmosophy 24 Finsterworld 20 Fokus: Films from Germany 19 The Fountain 24 Fox and His Friends 20 French Film Festival UK 12 Frozen 11 Garbage Warrior 5 Horse Money 5 Human 18

AUDIODESCRIPTIONANDCAPTIONS

In all three screens we have a system which Inbetween Worlds 20 enables us, whenever the necessary digital In the Shadow of Women 13 files are available, to show onscreen captions Kinky Boots 18 for customers who are deaf or hard of hearing, The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun 12 and provide audio description (via infra-red The Lady in the Van 7 headsets) for those who are sight-impaired.

The Last Diamond 17 This issue, all screenings of The Martian, The Little England 22 Lady in the Van, Brooklyn, The Lobster and Listen to Me Marlon 8 Bridge of Spies have audio description, and the The Lobster 23 following screenings will have onscreen captions: Love (3D) 7 Tue 10 Nov at 3.20pm The Martian Macadam Stories 16 The Marriage of Maria Braun 21 Tue 17 Nov at 6.10pm The Lady in The Van The Martian 5 Mon 23 Nov at 8.30pm Brooklyn Measure of a Man 12 Wed 2 Dec at 5.20pm Bridge of Spies Memories 17 The Murderer Lives at 21 13 My Friend Victoria 13 FORCRYINGOUTLOUD The Officers’ Ward 21 Screenings for carers and their babies! Tickets Over the Rainbow 18 £4.50/£3.50 concessions per adult. Screenings Parents 19 are strictly limited to babies under 12 months Play Poland Film Festival 9 accompanied by no more than two adults.

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18 Babychanging, bottle-warming and buggy parking Shorts for Middle Ones 10 facilities are available.

Shorts for Wee Ones 10 The Silence of the Sea 13 Mon 9 Nov at 11am The Martian SK1 13 Mon 16 Nov at 11am The Lady in the Van The Skin I Live in 24 Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain 8 Mon 23 Nov at 11am Brooklyn Standing Tall 16 Mon 30 Nov at 11am Bridge of Spies Sunset Song 6 Taxi Tehran 7 Tokyo Fiancée 16 Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road Two Friends 17 Edinburgh EH3 9BZ Under Milk Wood 6 www.filmhousecinema.com Under Snow 20 Under the Skin 23 Box Office: 0131 228 2688 (10am - 9pm) Uranya 22 Administration: 0131 228 6382 Victoria 19 email: admin@filmhousecinema.com Wajda School - Shorts 9 Twitter: @filmhouse Who Am I - No System is Safe 19 Facebook: facebook.com/FilmhouseCinema Wild Life 16 Filmhouse is a trading name of Centre for the Moving Image, a company limited by guarantee, registered in Write Shoot Cut 25 Scotland No. SC067087.

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Introduction

BRIDGE OF SPIES

THE MARTIAN

THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION

LISTEN TO ME MARLON

Scotland Loves…

As I write this we’ve just had our annual Scotland Loves Anime weekend, and true to expectation had one of our busiest weekends on record. When we held the inaugural SLA back in 2010 and decided to name it Scotland Loves Anime, we really didn’t know whether Scotland really did love anime or not, but having taken that (albeit informed) leap of faith, I reckon we’ve proved beyond any reasonable doubt that it does.

So... the name can be seen as some sort of self-fulfilling prophecy, and I’ve been thinking about perhaps adopting such nomenclature across the board to build up the audiences for other things we do. Scotland Loves French Cinema, or Scotland Loves German Cinema (to name but two national cinemas being showcased this month) or, even, Scotland Loves Hardcore Portuguese Art House Cinema (there is one in this programme) but I’d be stretching credibility there, perhaps.

If there is a downside to hosting a ‘festival’ that sells out every show over the weekend, it’s that it necessitates the use of our biggest screen to the exclusion of all other films, and this time around Suffragette, a film doing numbers that would warrant our biggest screen, had to be relegated to a smaller one.

Apologies to all who were turned away, but it really is essential to us that we can maximise our income by putting each film into the screen best suited to the likely scale of its audience. (Indeed, if you ever come along to see a film expecting a different screen than the one it’s in, this is nearly always the reason why we have moved it.) We obviously have to set the dates of such a thing (SLA) quite far in advance and so are at the mercy of the film release schedules as to what else lands on that weekend. It was looking good for a while with the aforementioned Suffragette set for the 30th of October until Sony set SPECTRE for release on the 26th and Suffragette’s distributor felt the understandable need to not go into direct competition with it and moved it to the 12th very late in the day. So it goes.

Looking to put pressure on our Screen One this month is Dame Maggie in The Lady in the Van, Nicholas Hytner’s film of Alan Bennett’s play, adapted by the author and based on an incident in his own life, when, as the title and star might suggest, an elderly lady in a van took residence in his London street...

Funny, poignant and hugely enjoyable. Brooklyn tells, in classical style, the tender, bittersweet and ultimately very moving tale of a young Irish girl (played

by Saoirse Ronan) who ups sticks to New York in the 50s, based on the bestselling novel by Colm Tóibin. Toward the end of the month comes Steven Spielberg’s deeply satisfying, Coen brothers-scripted biographical Cold War espionage thriller Bridge of Spies, which stars Tom Hanks as a noble New York lawyer hired to defend a supposed Soviet agent, played by our very own top thesp, Wolf Hall’s Mark Rylance.

On top of the national seasons mentioned above we’ve an [almost] week of Greek Cinema, Ridley Scott’s hugely enjoyable The Martian, Iranian state-banned filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s impish and outraged Taxi Teheran, and a couple of ace documentaries: The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution which tells the history of the revolutionary black nationalist movement founded in the 1960s; and Listen to Me Marlon, which chronicles the life of the man (Brando, that is) through the hundreds of hours of the great man’s self-help tapes.

Rod White, Head of Filmhouse

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Filmhouse Explorer

THE LADY IN THE VAN

BROOKLYN

BLACK SOULS

Filmhouse Explorer We’re really keen to encourage your deeper engagement with the great cinema we screen. We know going to the cinema a lot can be quite expensive, so we’ve devised a ticket deal to make it cheaper to see films beyond the big new releases.

Here’s how it works: buy a ticket for a film in the left hand column below, and you will receive a voucher that will entitle you, on handing it in at the Box Office, to 50% off a full price ticket to any film (or any film in any season) listed in the right hand column.

We’ve marked the films and seasons involved with wee logos to make them easier to spot (orange for left hand column films and blue for right), and you can also find them on our website at www.filmhousecinema.com/tickets/filmhouse-explorer Happy Exploring!

BUY A TICKET FOR...

The Martian (page 5) The Lady in the Van (page 7) Brooklyn (page 7) Bridge of Spies (page 8)

GET A HALF PRICE TICKET TO ONE OF THESE Black Souls (page 7) Listen to Me Marlon (page 8) The Black Panthers: Vanguard of... (page 8) French Film Festival UK (page 12-18) Fokus: Films from Germany (page 19-21)

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.

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Main Features/Special Event

THE MARTIAN

FIDELIO, ALICE’S JOURNEY

MAYBEYOUMISSED

HORSE MONEY

GARBAGE WARRIOR

SPECIALEVENT

NEWRELEASE

The Martian

Garbage Warrior

Horse Money

Fri 6 to Thu 12 Nov (2D & 3D)

Sun 8 Nov at 1.00pm

Ridley Scott • USA 2015 • 2h21m • Digital • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language, injury detail Cast: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Peña.

Oliver Hodge • UK 2007 • 1h28m • 35mm • Documentary 15 - Contains strong language

Cavalo Dinheiro Sun 8 Nov at 3.30pm & 8.45pm

During a mission to Mars, astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is left behind after being presumed dead. Stranded on the hostile planet, he draws upon his ingenuity and spirit to find a way to signal Earth, leading his crewmates to concoct a daring, potentially impossible rescue mission. As they do, the whole world unites to root for Watney’s safe return.

Please note there is an additional charge of £2 for 3D screenings at Filmhouse.

NEWRELEASE

Fidelio, Alice’s Journey Fidelio, l’odysée d’Alice Fri 6 & Sat 7 Nov Lucie Borleteau • France 2014 • 1h37m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong sex, sex references, nudity, strong language Cast: Ariane Labed, Melvil Poupaud, Anders Danielsen Lie.

The life-and-loves of a free spirit at sea. The ‘journeys’ that Alice (Ariane Labed) sets off on are physical, sexual and emotional. She has become a sailor - working as a mechanic on freighters - not necessarily to see the world, but rather to find herself. When she boards the rickety Fidelio as a last-minute replacement for a crew member killed in an accident, she finds the captain is her former lover, Gael (Melvil Poupaud).

Founded in Argentina in 1949, World Town Planning Day is held around 8th November every year. It is a day to recognise and promote the role of planning.

To celebrate World Town Planning Day in Edinburgh this year, the RTPI’s South East Scotland Chapter are hosting a film entitled Garbage Warrior. A story about eco-architect Michael Reynolds, who devotes his time to building ‘off the grid’ self-sufficient communities The South East Scotland Chapter covers Scottish Borders, City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Fife, Midlothian and West Lothian council areas. It promotes planning as a profession and builds links with other built environment professions and organisations through South East Scotland. They assist planners in South East Scotland with CPD requirements and provide an opportunity for networking and shared experiences with fellow professionals.

An introduction to the film will be given by Richard Atkins, a Chartered Architect who specialises in environmentally responsible architecture.

Pedro Costa • Portugal 2014 • 1h43m • Digital • Portuguese with English subtitles • 12A - Contains moderate bad language Cast: Tito Furtado, Antonio Santos, Vitalina Varela.

Visually arresting, dreamlike and poetic, Pedro Costa’s Horse Money delves into the memories - real, imagined and distorted - of elderly Ventura, a Cape Verdean immigrant living in Lisbon.

“A visual and poetical treat that delves into lives, issues and traumas of residents of the grim (but oddly beautiful through Costa’s camera) Lisbon neighbourhood of Fontainhas.” - Mark Adams, Screen International

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 only £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. Offer is subject to availability and only available in person.

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Main Features/Sunset Song/BrewDog Edinburgh...

UNDER MILK WOOD

BRAND: A SECOND COMING

NEWRELEASES

SUNSET SONG

SCOTTISHPREMIERE

Under Milk Wood

Sunset Song

Tue 10 to Thu 12 Nov

Wed 11 Nov at 7.00pm

Kevin Allen • UK 2015 • 1h28m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong sex, sex references Cast: Rhys Ifans, Charlotte Church, Julian Lewis Jones.

Terence Davies • UK/Luxembourg 2015 • 2h15m • Digital • cert tbc Cast: Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan, Kevin Guthrie, Jack Greenlees,.

A lyrical and lovely film version of Under Milk Wood, which despite originating as a ‘play for voices’ lends itself wonderfully to the visual arts. Starring Rhys Ifans and Charlotte Church, the film is directed elegantly by Kevin Allen. A Welsh language version has been shown, but this English language version (the two were shot backto-back) is just as lush and enthralling, with the lyricism of the language matched by rich dream-like imagery.

This is the first screen adaptation since Richard Burton’s 1972 version, and it certainly revels in its visceral and visual interpretation of Thomas’ rich text and striking imagery.

The Scottish Premiere of Terence Davies’ (The Long Day Closes) long-anticipated, exquisitely shot adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel - presented by Metrodome and Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Scratching a livelihood out of the stunning but harsh terrain, the Guthrie family cowers in obedient fear of its brooding patriarch (Peter Mullan), a man prone to sudden and ferocious bursts of anger. As Guthrie’s wife retreats into silence, the film’s attention shifts to his daughter Chris (Agyness Deyn), a beautiful and intelligent young woman divided between her hatred for the coarse people in her village and her love of the landscape. She and her brother Will (Jack Greenlees) dream of freedom and escape, and life changes for Chris with the arrival of handsome young Ewan (Kevin Guthrie).

Agyness Deyn, Kevin Guthrie and director Terence Davies are expected to attend as special guests for this Scottish Premiere.

Filmhouse will have a limited number of tickets for this event available for public sale.

Presented by Edinburgh International Film Festival

Brand: A Second Coming Tue 10 to Thu 12 Nov Ondi Timoner • UK/USA 2015 • 1h42m • Digital • 15 - Contains very strong language, strong sex references, drug use Documentary featuring Russell Brand, Simon Amstell, Noel Gallagher, David Lynch.

Brand: A Second Coming - which opened SXSW 2015 - follows comedian Russell Brand’s spiritual journey from addict and Hollywood star to self-proclaimed revolutionary and explores our relationship to the consumerism and individualism that drives our society and distracts us at times when it’s vital for all of us to wake up and take action.

£15/£10

BREWDOG EDINBURGH PRESENTS: CRAFT

SPECIALEVENT

BrewDog Edinburgh Presents: Craft Thu 12 Nov at 8.30pm Craig Noble • Canada 2014 • 1h10m (film 62m) • 18

BrewDog presents a wonderful evening at Filmhouse dedicated to enjoying craft beer. Please join us for a screening of Craig Noble’s documentary Craft - focused on American craft brewing - followed by a Q&A about craft beer and brewing as a whole, including brewers from BrewDog, Tempest and Pilot.

End the evening with a private event in the Filmhouse Guild Room mingling with brewers and brewhounds. £15 Includes free can of Punk IPA and goodie bag.

Main Features/Love

THE LADY IN THE VAN

TAXI TEHRAN

NEWRELEASES

BROOKLYN

NEWRELEASES

LOVE

SPECIALEVENT

The Lady in the Van

Taxi Tehran

Love (3D)

Showing from Fri 13 Nov

Fri 13 to Tue 17 Nov

Wed 18 Nov at 8.30pm

Nicholas Hytner • UK 2015 • 1h44m • Digital • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language Cast: Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, James Corden, Jim Broadbent.

Jafar Panahi • Iran 2015 • 1h22m • Digital • Persian with English subtitles • cert tbc

Gaspar Noé • France/Belgium 2015 • 2h15m • Digital • English and French with English subtitles • 18 - Contains strong real sex, very strong language.

Cast: Aomi Muyock, Karl Glusman, Klara Kristin, Juan Saavedra.

Adapted for the screen by Alan Bennett from his 1999 hit West End play of the same name, The Lady in the Van is based on the true story of an elderly woman who lived in her van - a van which remained parked in Bennett’s driveway for 15 years.

The 1970s-set story explores this unusual and unlikely bond between a rather eccentric transient woman (Maggie Smith) and the liberal, middle-class writer (Alex Jennings), with Maggie Smith returning to the role she’s played twice before, on stage and in a radio production.

Black Souls

Anime Nere Showing from Fri 13 Nov Francesco Munzi • Italy/France 2014 • 1h43m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language, violence, drug use Cast: Marco Leonardi, Peppino Mazzotta, Fabrizio Ferracane.

In rural Southern Italy, the ‘Ndrangheta organisation operate a vast and lucrative network of drug trafficking, extortion and money laundering. Black Souls leads us into a sinister world in which violence and vendetta are inherited from generation to generation.

Using professional and non-professional actors, Munzi’s film focuses on three brothers - Luigi (Leonardi), Rocco (Mazzotta) and Luciano (Ferracane) Carbone - who become engaged in an escalating blood feud with a rival family, recently reignited through the impetuous actions of Luciano’s son.

Having already flouted the regulations of the state ban on his filmmaking with This Is Not a Film, Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi gets behind the wheel in Taxi Tehran.

Now ‘re-trained’ as a driver, Panahi drives a modest cab around Tehran, picking up and dropping a host of people, with the whole experience captured on fixed internal cameras - for security purposes, of course.

His passengers are actors, non-professionals and friends of Panahi, improvising their roles as customers and bringing a range of characters - some more serious than others - to the rolling narrative of the city and its people.

Brooklyn Showing from Fri 20 Nov John Crowley • Ireland/UK/Canada 2015 • 1h51m • Digital 12A - Contains infrequent strong language, moderate sex Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent.

Young Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan) arrives in New York City in the early 1950s, having left the comfort and security of her mother’s home in Ireland. Initially overwhelmed by the city, she soon finds herself swept up in a new, exciting Brooklyn romance.

Returning home to visit her family, Eilis easily settles back into Irish life, and a reunion with a former acquaintance leaves her with an agonising decision between two men, two countries and two lives.

A provocative sensation at Cannes, Gaspar Noé’s Love is notable in that it collides, head-on, with one of the last taboos of cinema: the authentic sex scene.

The narrative hinges on the relationship between cinema school student Murphy (Karl Glusman); Omi (Klara Kristin), with whom he has fathered a child; and a previous, darker relationship of his. Feeling trapped by his parental responsibilities, he recalls his past with Electra (Aomi Muyock) and the - explicitly demonstrated - intimacy once shared by all three of them.

The narrative timeline shifts around with ease, and Noé’s camera expertly captures the “sentimental sexuality” (as referred to by Murphy) with initially unsettling realism.

Please note there is an additional £2 charge for 3D screenings at Filmhouse.

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Main Features/Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain

THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF...

LISTEN TO ME MARLON

NEWRELEASES

BRIDGE OF SPIES

NEWRELEASE

SLEAFORD MODS: INVISIBLE BRITAIN

SPECIALEVENT

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

Bridge of Spies

Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain

Showing from Fri 27 Nov

Sat 21 Nov at 3.30pm

Fri 20 to Mon 23 Nov

Steven Spielberg • USA 2015 • 2h21m • Digital • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language, moderate threat, violence Cast: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan, Alan Alda.

Paul Sng and Nathan Hannawin • UK 2015 1h25m • Digital • 18 Documentary featuring Jason Williamson, Andrew Fearn.

At the height of the Cold War, American lawyer James Donovan (Tom Hanks) still holds firmly to the principle that all are entitled to a fair trial. This belief is put to the test when he is assigned the defence of hated Soviet agent Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance), who is expected to be given little more than a show trial before his summary execution. Matters then become increasingly complex as an American spy is captured behind the Iron Curtain, and Donovan is sent to Berlin to act as a go-between in the potential exchange between East and West.

A consummately crafted study pitting one man’s idealism against both lynch-mob mentality and realpolitik, Bridge of Spies is Steven Spielberg’s richlylayered follow-up to the Oscar-winning Lincoln, and features a gripping screenplay co-written by rising British dramatist Matt Charman and the Coen Brothers.

Invisible Britain, part band doc, part look at the state of the nation, follows the group on their recent tour of the UK, visiting places which probably don’t even exist in the minds of many - the neglected, broken down and boarded up parts of the UK that most would prefer to ignore.

Taking its cue from the likes of Patrick Keiller’s extraordinary Robinson Trilogy, the wanderings of Iain Sinclair, and J.G. Ballard’s comment “The future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul”, the documentary is a combination of raw footage of the band, interviews with fans, and a look at what individuals and communities are doing to resist socalled austerity measures.

This film aims to tell the story of how the most relevant British band in years stuck two fingers up to the zeitgeist and gave voice to the pent up rage and anger at ineffectual politicians and their neglect of the institutions which underpin civilised society.

This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Paul Sng.

Stanley Nelson • USA 2015 • 1h53m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, image of a real dead body Documentary

The 1960s - the USA is in a state of great unease, with Vietnam, equality and civil rights at the top of the agenda. A new revolutionary culture is emerging .The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense would, for a short time, put itself at the vanguard of that change.

This is the first feature length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its cultural significance and painful lessons wrought when a movement derails.

It skilfully brings together rare archival footage and interviews with the people who were there - police, FBI informants, white supporters/detractors and Black Panther Party members.

Listen to Me Marlon Mon 23 to Thu 26 Nov Stevan Riley • UK 2015 • 1h35m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, violence • Documentary

An extraordinary film constructed in its entirety from new, exclusive access to Marlon Brando’s personal archive, Listen to Me Marlon charts the actor’s exceptional life and career with no talking heads or interviewees - just Brando. Using previously unheard excerpts from hundreds of hours of audio recorded throughout his life, Stevan Riley uses Brando’s own perspective to explore the complexities of the man.

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Play Poland Film Festival

WAJDA SCHOOL - SHORTS

CALL ME MARIANNA

DISCO POLO

Play Poland Film Festival

Shorts: Wajda School

Call Me Marianna

Wed 11 Nov at 8.40pm

Thu 12 Nov at 6.15pm

Play Poland Film Festival is the largest mobile film event in the United Kingdom, aiming at presenting and promoting contemporary Polish cinema.

Various • Poland 2014/2015 • 1h47m • Digital • Polish with English subtitles • 15

Karolina Bielawska • Poland 2015 • 1h15m • Digital • Polish with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary

Wajda School has been active for over 10 years. It was founded in Warsaw by Andrzej Wajda and Wojciech Marczewski. It offers a unique combination of production and education for film professionals.

Before she officially became Marianna, she lived as a man. She had a family, children, and a job at the Warsaw Metro. But she had a constant sense of unease - a female mind trapped in Wojtek’s male body. When she was 43 years old, Marianna realised that she could no longer live as a man. Her mother still calls her ‘Wojtek’, her ex-wife avoids encounters, and her children have grown distant. Marianna understands their reactions, fears and grudges, but there is no one who understands her.

Call Me Marianna is not a story about a transsexual. It is a story about loneliness, hope, and the price one has to pay for it.

This year’s festival will visit ten global locations, including Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Belfast, London, Ottawa and, for the first time, Kuala Lumpur.

Play Poland is organised by Polish Art Europe Ltd. For more information on the festival go to www.playpoland.org.uk

Hitler in the Opera Hitler W Operze Michał Grybowski • Poland 2014 • 27m

Milky Brother Mleczny Brat Vahram Mkhitaryan • Poland, Armenia 2014 • 30m

Shepherd’s Song Pieśń Pasterza Vahram Mkhitaryan • Poland, Armenia 2014 • 30m

Super-Unit Superjednostka

Mów mi Marianna

Teresa Czepiec • Poland 2014 • 20m

This screening will be preceded by an introduction by Dr Malgorzata Bugaj from the University of Stirling and the University of Edinburgh. £6/£4.20

Disco Polo Thu 19 Nov at 8.40pm Maciej Bochniak • Poland 2015 • 1h47m • Digital • Polish with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Dawid Ogrodnik, Piotr Glowacki, Tomasz Kot, Joanna Kulig.

In the mid-1990s, Tomek and Rudy form a band that plays in suburban discos and clubs, quickly gaining success nationwide despite the difficulties of everyday life and tough music industry. Tomek falls in love with Gensonina, an unpredictable star of Disco Polo who is seeing Polak, a notorious boss of the scene...

With a suitably eclectic soundtrack , this journey into the subcultures of post-communist Poland is brimming with irony and nostalgia.

This screening will be preceded by an introduction by Dr Malgorzata Bugaj from the University of Stirling and the University of Edinburgh.

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Filmhouse Junior

THE BIG KNIGHTS

ZARAFA

Filmhouse junior Films for a younger audience, weekly on Sundays at 11am. Tickets cost £4.00 (£5.00 for 3D screenings) per person, big or small!

For these shows we choose to screen dubbed versions where these are available, but some films will be in their original language with subtitles – these are marked on individual film descriptions.

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

SHORTS FOR WEE ONES

SHORTS FOR MIDDLE ONES

The Big Knights

Shorts for Wee Ones

Sun 8 Nov at 11.00am

Sun 22 Nov at 11.00am

Neville Astley & Mark Baker UK 2015 • 1h10m • Digital • U With the voices of Brian Blessed, David Rintoul; narrated by Alexander Armstrong.

45m • U

In the far off land of Borovia, where dragons are fierce, witches are wicked, scientists are insane, the economy is bad and television is in black & white, stands Castle Big: home of The Big Knights.

From the award-winning animators behind Peppa Pig, The Big Knights revolves around the exploits of brothers Sir Boris (the finest swordsman in the world), Sir Morris (the most enthusiastic) and their noble pets, Sir Horace the Dog and Sir Doris the Hamster.

Zarafa Sun 15 Nov at 11.00am Rémi Bezançon & Jean-Christophe Lie • France/Belgium 2012 • 1h15m • Digital • PG - Contains mild violence, threat With the voices of Raeusi Uraeus, Zariah Singletary, Sjaak Caderyn, Scottie Ray, Nya-Jolie Walters.

Zarafa tells the story of the undying friendship between 10-year-old Maki and an orphaned giraffe, Zarafa, intended as a gift for the King of France. Hassan, Prince of the Desert, is instructed to deliver the giraffe himself, but Maki makes up his mind to bring Zarafa back to its native land - even if it means risking his life.

Discovery Film Festival have looked high and low and found these wee treasures from Belgium, Brazil, Germany, the United States, France and the UK....

You’ll meet a baby lamb who definitely thinks outside the field, an elephant who dreams of riding a shiny new bicycle and a cartoon stick-man who refuses to stay on the page. All these short films are in English or are dialogue free, so will be accessible for everyone.

These magical tales will delight children age 3+ and are a colourful introduction to the cinema experience as well as moving image literacy.

Shorts for Middle Ones Sun 29 Nov at 11.00am 55m • PG

With their distinctive glances at the world (and solar system) in which we live, this diverse collection of short films will excite and inspire those aged eight and older.

All the films are dialogue free, and demonstrate the wonderful art of telling stories purely through visuals.

Who needs words when the pictures are so beautifully expressive? Funny, sad, exhilarating, cautionary, touching.

Filmhouse Junior/Dislecksia: The Movie

BELLE AND SEBASTIAN

Belle and Sebastian

FROZEN

Belle et Sébastien

ARTHUR CHRISTMAS

Arthur Christmas

Sun 6 Dec at 11.00am

Sun 20 Dec at 11.00am

Nicolas Vanier • France 2013 • 1h39m • Digital • French and German with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild bad language, injury detail Cast: Félix Bossuet, Tchéky Karyo, Margaux Châtelier, Dimitri Storoge, Andreas Pietschmann.

Sarah Smith • UK/USA 2011 • 1h37m • Digital • U - Contains very mild language and mild comic threat With the voices of James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Ashley Jensen.

World War II is underway and life is on hold in a small village in the Alps: the German army has taken over the region and the villagers are understandably dejected.

Then Belle, a beautiful sheepdog, arrives and chooses Sebastian, a plucky little boy, as her master. Together, they defy the Nazis and offer help to those who are deserving. Nicolas Vanier has successfully adapted the famous 1965 TV series by Cécile Aubry for the big screen.

A wonderful family film from the team at Aardman.

Santa Claus is nearing retirement, with his superefficient but joyless son Steven ready to take over. But the future of the position of Head of Christmas looks less certain when a child is left without a present and the only person prepared to put things right is Steven’s hapless brother, Arthur.

Dislecksia: The Movie Sat 7 Nov at 3.45pm Harvey Hubbell V • USA 2012 • 1h23m • Digital • 12A Documentary

Dyslexic filmmaker Harvey Hubbell V presents his belief that dyslexia is a learning difference rather than a disability, in this exuberantly entertaining and informative documentary. Actors Billy Bob Thornton and Joe Pantoliano are among those who share their stories.

A special screening as part of Dyslexia Awareness Week (2-8 November).

www.dyslexiascotland.org.uk

Sun 13 Dec at 11.00am

When the icy powers of Elsa turn the kingdom of Arendelle into a frozen wasteland, it is up to her sister Anna to find her and reverse her spell. She sets off with mountain man Kristoff, his trusty reindeer and a talking snowman named Olaf in a race to save the kingdom.

SPECIALEVENT

Join Dyslexia Scotland for this thought-provoking film followed by a Q&A session with a panel of dyslexia specialists and individuals with dyslexia.

Frozen Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee • USA 2013 • 1h48m • Digital PG - Contains mild threat With the voices of Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, Santino Fontana.

DISLECKSIA: THE MOVIE

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French Film Festival UK

ALL ABOUT THEM

YOUNG TIGER

French Film Festival UK Bienvenue / Welcome to the 23rd edition of the French Film Festival UK which every year showcases the best of Francophone and French-speaking cinema in leading independent cinemas around the country, including of course, Filmhouse.

Among the highlights is a 120th anniversary tribute to the legendary film studios Gaumont as well as premiere showings of this year’s most hotly anticipated titles, some accompanied by guests.

Merci to all our funders and partners.

We wish everyone BON FESTIVAL! RICHARD MOWE & ILONA MORISON French Film Festival UK

THE LADY IN THE CAR WITH GLASSES AND A GUN

All About Them

A trois on y va

Fri 6 Nov at 8.30pm Jérôme Bonnell • France/Belgium 2014 • 1h26m • Digital • French with English subtitles• 18 Cast: Anaïs Demoustier, Felix Moati, Sophie Verbeeck.

Charlotte (Sophie Verbeeck) and Micha (Félix Moat) are young and in love. They’ve recently bought a house near Lille in which they intend to live happily ever after. So far so conventional but, for the past few months, Charlotte, has been cheating on Micha with Mélodie (a lawyer played by Anaïs Demoustier), but then Micha is in turn cheating on Charlotte... also with Mélodie !

Director Jérôme Bonnell will be in attendance to introduce the film and take part in a Q&A.

Young Tiger

Bébé Tigre Sat 7 Nov at 1.00pm

Cyprien Vial • France 2015 • 1h27m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Harmandeep Palminder, Vikram Sharma, Elisabeth Lando.

Punjabi teenager Many (Harmandeep Palminder) is in France to pursue his education, torn between his desire to establish a life in his new country and the pressure to send money back home. Skipping school and forced to take illegal and dangerous jobs that pay him under the table, he finds himself on a slippery slope into criminal activity, while deceiving his girlfriend, Elisabeth (Elisabeth Lando), and his foster family.

Basing his film on first- and secondhand experiences, Vial tells a story both particular to the Indian diaspora and universal to the plight of immigrants being pulled in all directions.

MEASURE OF A MAN

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun La Dame dans l’auto avec des lunettes et un fusil Sat 7 Nov at 3.15pm Joanne Sfar • France/Belgium 2015 • 1h33m • Digital• French with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Freya Mavor, Benjamin Biolay, Elio Germano, Stacy Martin.

Based on Sebastien Japrisot’s 1966 crime novel, the plot revolves around a lonely Parisian secretary, Dany (Mavor), whose weirdo rich boss (singer-actor Benjamin Biolay) and wife (Nymphomaniac’s Stacy Martin) asks her to stay over for a night of work, and then drive them to the airport in their Ford Thunderbird. On the way back, Dany takes the car on a joyride down south, claiming she’s never seen the sea.

Freya Mavor and director Joann Sfar will be in attendance to introduce the film and take part in a Q&A.

Measure of a Man

La loi du marché

Sat 7 Nov at 6.15pm Stéphane Brizé • France 2015 • 1h33m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Vincent Lindon, Karine de Mirbeck, Matthieu Schaller.

Vincent Lindon gives one of his finest performances as unemployed security guard Thierry, who must submit to a series of quietly humiliating ordeals in his search for work.

Nothing if not determinist, Stéphane Brizé’s film dispassionately monitors the progress of its stoic protagonist until at last he lands a job on the front line in the surveillance and control of his fellow man, and finally faces one too many moral dilemmas.

French Film Festival UK

THE SILENCE OF THE SEA

The Silence of the Sea

SK1

Le silence de la mer

Sun 8 Nov at 6.30pm Jean-Pierre Melville • France 1949 • 1h28m • Digital • French, German and English with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Howard Vernon, Nicole Stéphane, Ami Aaröe, Jean-Marie Robin, Georges Patrix.

Le Silence de la mer centres on a cultivated Francophile German officer (Howard Vernon) billeted with an elderly Frenchman and his daughter in a village outside Paris, who defiantly remain mute in his presence. Meanwhile, the officer delivers idealistic monologues about a marriage between Germany and France that will bring about a new Europe, though he gradually realises how absurd such a belief is.

This screening will be introduced by Martine Pierquin from Short Courses at the University of Edinburgh.

SK1 L’affaire SK1 Sun 8 Nov at 8.40pm Frédéric Tellier • France 2013 • 2h • Digital • French with English subtitles • 18 Cast: Raphaël Personnaz, Olivier Gourmet, Nathalie Baye.

The inability of the French police to bring to justice a notorious serial killer became a cause célèbre in France in the 1990s and was groundbreaking in its use of DNA evidence...

Loosely based on the investigation into real-life murderer Guy Georges (aka the Beast of the Bastille), the story extracts suspense from the procedural aspects of the manhunt, the false leads, dead ends, and the stifling bureaucracy of a police force hindered by dwindling budgets and a knee-jerk insistence on outdated, traditional methods.

MY FRIEND VICTORIA

THE MURDERER LIVES AT 21

The Murderer Lives at 21

My Friend Victoria

L’assassin habite au 21 Mon 9 Nov at 8.20pm

Mon 9 Nov at 6.00pm

Henri-Georges Clouzot • France 1942 • 1h24m • Digital • French with English subtitles • PG Cast: Pierre Fresnay, Suzy Delair, Pierre Larquey, Noël Roquevert.

Mon amie Victoria

Jean-Paul Civeyrac • France 2014 • 1h35m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Guslagie Malanda, Nadia Moussa, Catherine Mouchet, Pascal Greggory.

A serial killer is on the loose in Paris, identified only by a sinister calling card left on the victims. It is up to the Inspector (Pierre Fresnay), with the unwanted help of his fame-hungry wife Mila (Suzy Delair) to infiltrate a hostel and discover which of the eccentric array of guests could be the most notorious criminal in the land.

At the behest of Joseph Goebbels, films in France at this time were strictly light entertainment. As a result, this is more of a comedy than a drama and yet what suspense and intrigue there is in the film is so cleverly placed it only enhances the experience.

Based on Victoria and the Staveneys by Doris Lessing, an eight-year-old orphan, Victoria (Keylia Achie Beguie), is taken into the home of a white bourgeois family for a single night, fuelling her dreams of comfort and privilege for the rest of her life.

As an adult (now played by Guslagie Malanda), she reconnects with the youngest son of her host family, bearing his child after a brief affair. All the while she drifts from job to job, independent yet lacking focus except for that one night from her childhood.

This screening will be introduced by Martine Pierquin from Short Courses at the University of Edinburgh.

In the Shadow of Women

TICKETDEALS Buy any three (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 15% off Buy any six (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 25% off Buy any nine (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 35% off These offers are available online, in person and on the phone, on both full price and concession price tickets.

Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

L’ombre des femmes Tue 10 Nov at 8.55pm Philippe Garrel • France/Switzerland 2015 • 1h13m • Digital French with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Stanislas Merhar, Clotilde Courau, Lena Paugam.

Stanislas Merhar and Clotilde Courau play Pierre and Manon, a married couple working in fragile harmony on Pierre’s documentary film projects, the latest of which is a portrait of a resistance fighter (Jean Pommier). When Pierre takes a lover (Lena Paugam), he feels entitled to do so, and he treats both wife and mistress with disengagement bordering on disdain.

When Manon catches Pierre in the act, her immediate response is to find common ground with her husband.

This screening will be introduced by Martine Pierquin from Short Courses at the University of Edinburgh.

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FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME

6 November - 3 December 2015

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DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

Fri 1 The Martian (3D) (AD) 6 1 All About Them (FFF) Nov 2 Fidelio, Alice’s Journey 2 Kinky Boots (OR) *Plus films and times TBC (see below)

2.00/5.30 8.30 +Q&A 1.00/3.15/8.45 6.15

Sat 1 Young Tiger (FFF) 7 1 The Lady in the Car... (FFF) Nov 1 Measure of a Man (FFF) 1 The Martian (3D) (AD) 2 Fidelio, Alice’s Journey 2 Dislecksia: The Movie 2 The Martian (AD) 3 Kinky Boots (OR) *Plus films and times TBC (see below)

1.00 3.15 +Q&A 6.15 8.25 1.00/9.00 3.45 6.00 3.35

Wed 1 Brand: A Second Coming 11 1 Sunset Song Nov 2 Under Milk Wood 2 The Martian (AD) 2 Tokyo Fiancée (FFF) 3 Wajda School - Shorts (PP) *Plus films and times TBC (see left)

2.30 7.00 (£15/£10) 1.00 3.00 6.00 +Q&A 8.40

Tue 1 The Lady in the Van (AD) 17 1 The Lady in the Van (AD) (C) Nov 2 The Lady in the Van (AD) 2 Taxi Tehran 2 Memories (FFF) 3 Black Souls *Plus films and times TBC (see left)

2.45/8.30 6.10 (captioned) 1.00 3.30/8.25 6.00 6.05

2.30 6.00 1.00 3.20 6.15 +Q&A 8.35 +Q&A (TBC) 8.30 (£15)

11.00am 3.00 6.30 +intro 8.40 1.00 +discussion 3.30/8.45 5.50

Wed 1 The Lady in the Van (AD) 18 1 Love (3D) Nov 2 The Lady in the Van (AD) 2 Black Souls 2 All Cats Are Grey (FFF) 2 The Last Diamond (FFF) 3 The Lady in the Van (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see left)

2.45/6.10 8.30 1.00 3.30 6.00 +Q&A 8.30 8.35

Sun 1 The Big Knights (FJ) 8 1 The Martian (3D) (AD) Nov 1 The Silence of the Sea (FFF) 1 SK1 (FFF) 2 Garbage Warrior 2 Horse Money 2 The Martian (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see below)

Thu 1 Under Milk Wood 12 1 Brand: A Second Coming Nov 2 Brand: A Second Coming 2 The Martian (AD) 2 Call Me Marianna (PP) 2 Standing Tall (FFF) 3 BrewDog Presents: Craft *Plus films and times TBC (see left) Fri 1 The Lady in the Van (AD) 13 2 Taxi Tehran Nov 2 Black Souls 2 The Clearstream Affair (FFF) 3 Black Souls *Plus films and times TBC (see left)

1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30 1.10/6.15 3.15 8.40 1.15/6.05

2.45/6.10/8.30 1.00 3.30 6.00 8.40 8.25

Sat 1 The Lady in the Van (AD) 14 2 Taxi Tehran Nov 2 Chorus (FFF) 2 Wild Life (FFF) 3 Black Souls *Plus films and times TBC (see left)

1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30 1.30/8.35 3.50 6.00 1.15/6.05

Thu 1 The Lady in the Van (AD) 19 2 The Lady in the Van (AD) Nov 2 Black Souls 2 40-love (FFF) 2 Disco Polo (PP) 3 The Officers’ Ward (WW) *Plus films and times TBC (see left)

Sun 1 Zarafa (FJ) 15 1 The Lady in the Van (AD) Nov 2 Taxi Tehran 2 Macadam Stories (FFF) 2 Two Friends (FFF) 3 Black Souls *Plus films and times TBC (see left)

11.00am 1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30 1.30/6.15 3.45 8.40 1.15/8.45

Mon 1 The Martian (3D) (AD) 2.30/5.30 9 1 The Martian (AD) 8.30 Nov 2 The Murderer Lives at 21 (FFF) 1.00/8.20 +intro 2 The Martian (AD) 3.00 2 My Friend Victoria (FFF) 6.00 *Plus films and times TBC (see below) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer Screening - see page 2 Tue 1 The Martian (3D) (AD) 2.30/8.30 10 1 Under Milk Wood 6.10 Nov 2 Brand: A Second Coming 1.00 2 The Martian (AD) (C) 3.20 (captioned) 2 The Fountain (F) 6.15 +discussion 2 In the Shadow of Women (FFF) 8.55 +intro *Plus films and times TBC (see below)

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

Mon 1 The Lady in the Van (AD) 2.45/8.30 16 2 The Lady in the Van (AD) 1.00 3.30 Nov 2 Black Souls 2 Taxi Tehran 6.15 2 The Big Blue (FFF) 8.20 3 The Lady in the Van (AD) 6.00 *Plus films and times TBC (see left) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer Screening - see page 2

Fri 20 Nov

1 2 2 3 3

Brooklyn (AD) The Lady in the Van (AD) Victoria (DE) The Black Panthers...

The Lady in the Van (AD)

1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30 1.15/3.35/5.55 8.15 +Q&A 1.10/3.40/6.10 8.35

KEY (AD) – Audio Description (see page 2) (C) – Captioned for customers who are deaf or hard of hearing (see page 2) All screenings in 2D unless marked [3D] Information about For Crying Out Loud screenings for babies and carers can now be found on page 2.

SEASONS: (CS) – Come and See... (page 21) (DE) – Fokus: Films from Germany (pages 19-21) (F) – Filmosophy (page 24) (FFF) – French Film Festival UK (pages 12-18) (FJ) – Filmhouse Junior (pages 10-11) (GFF) – Greek Film Festival (pages 22-23) (OR) – Over the Rainbow (page 18) (PP) – Play Poland Film Festival (page 9)

WWW.FILMHOUSECINEMA.COM DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

Sat 21 Nov

1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3

Human (FFF) 2.00 Brooklyn (AD) 6.00/8.30 Brooklyn (AD) 1.00 Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain 3.30 +Q&A The Lady in the Van (AD) 6.10/8.35 The Black Panthers...

1.10 The Lady in the Van (AD) 3.40 Parents (DE) 6.15 Who Am I - No System... (DE) 8.45

Sun 22 Nov

1 1 2 3 3 3

Shorts for Wee Ones (FJ) Brooklyn (AD) The Lady in the Van (AD) Beloved Sisters (DE) Under Snow (DE) The Black Panthers...

11.00am 1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30 1.15/3.35/6.10/8.35 2.00 6.15 +discussion 8.40

Mon 1 Brooklyn (AD) 2.30/6.00 23 1 Brooklyn (AD) (C) 8.30 (captioned) Nov 2 The Lady in the Van (AD) 1.15/3.35/6.10/8.35 3 The Black Panthers...

1.10 3 Listen to Me Marlon 3.45/8.40 3 Finsterworld (DE) 6.15 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer Screening - see page 2 Tue 24 Nov

1 1 2 3 3 3

Wed 1 25 1 Nov 2 3 3 3 3 Thu 26 Nov

1 1 2 3 3 3 3

ECA Postgrad Degree Show Brooklyn (AD) The Lady in the Van (AD) Listen to Me Marlon Brooklyn (AD) Baal (DE)

2.00 +intros 6.15/8.45 1.15/3.35/6.10/8.35 1.10/6.20 3.20 8.30

Brooklyn (AD) Listen to Me Marlon The Lady in the Van (AD) Listen to Me Marlon Brooklyn (AD) Inbetween Worlds (DE) Fox and His Friends (DE)

2.30/6.00 8.30 1.15/3.35/6.10/8.35 1.10 3.20 6.15 8.40 +intro

Brooklyn (AD) Listen to Me Marlon The Lady in the Van (AD) Listen to Me Marlon Brooklyn (AD) B-Movie: Lust & Sound... (DE) The Marriage of Maria... (DE)

2.30/6.00 8.30 1.15/3.35/6.10/8.35 1.10 3.20 6.15 +discussion 8.40

Fri 1 Bridge of Spies (AD) 2.15/5.20/8.20 27 2 Brooklyn (AD) 1.10/3.40/6.15/8.40 Nov 3 Uranya (GFF) 8.30 *Plus films and times TBC (see page 14)

6 November - 3 December 2015 DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

Sat 1 Bridge of Spies (AD) 2.15/5.20/8.20 28 2 Brooklyn (AD) 1.10/3.40/6.15/8.40 Nov 3 Little England (GFF) 8.30 *Plus films and times TBC (see page 14) Sun 1 Shorts for Middle Ones (FJ) 29 1 Brooklyn (AD) Nov 1 Under the Skin 1 Bridge of Spies (AD) 2 Bridge of Spies (AD) 2 Brooklyn (AD) 3 Bridge of Spies (AD) 3 Xenia (GFF) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 14)

11.00am 12.50/8.55 3.15 +Q&A 6.00 2.40/8.15 5.45 12.55 8.30

Mon 1 Bridge of Spies (AD) 2.15/5.20/8.20 30 2 Brooklyn (AD) 1.00/3.35/8.40 Nov 2 Write Shoot Cut 6.10 +Q&As 3 The Lobster (GFF) (AD) 8.30 *Plus films and times TBC (see page 14) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer Screening - see page 2 Tue 1 Bridge of Spies (AD) 1 1 Apocalypse Now (CS) Dec 2 Brooklyn (AD) 2 Bridge of Spies (AD) 3 Fan (GFF) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 14)

2.15/5.20 8.20 1.00/3.35/6.00 8.30 8.30

Wed 1 Bridge of Spies (AD) 2 1 Bridge of Spies (AD) (C) Dec 2 Brooklyn (AD) 3 FFF Shorts Programme (FFF) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 14)

2.15/8.20 5.20 (captioned) 1.00/3.35/6.10/8.35 6.00 +Q&A

Thu 1 Bridge of Spies (AD) 2.15/5.20/8.20 3 2 Brooklyn (AD) 1.00/3.35/6.10/8.35 Dec *Plus films and times TBC (see page 14)

FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME

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French Film Festival UK (continued)

STANDING TALL

THE CLEARSTREAM AFFAIR

WILD LIFE

MACADAM STORIES

Tokyo Fiancée

The Clearstream Affair

Wed 11 Nov at 6.00pm

Fri 13 Nov at 8.40pm

Vie sauvage Sat 14 Nov at 6.00pm

Stefan Liberski • Belgium/France/Canada 2015 • 1h40m • Digital French, Japanese and English with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Pauline Étienne, Taichi Inoue.

Vincent Garenq • France/Luxembourg/Belgium 2014 • 1h46m Digital • French, English and Mandarin with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Gilles Lelouche, Charles Berling, Laurent Capelluto.

Cédric Kahn • Belgium/France 2014 • 1h42m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Mathieu Kassovitz, Celine Sallette.

Amélie (Pauline Étienne) is in love with all things Japanese, which prompts her to buy a one-way ticket to Tokyo and completely immerse herself in the culture.

She decides to become a French tutor, and soon finds herself enjoying a passionate relationship with her only student, the charming Rinri (Taichi Inoue). As the couple explores the joys (and awkwardness) of their first real romance and the colourful city around them, many cultural barriers fall but some still remain.

Director Stefan Liberski will be in attendance to introduce the film and take part in a Q&A.

Based on the real exploits of Denis Robert - an investigative journalist who spent years tracking the illicit activities of the Luxembourg-based Clearstream bank, uncovering ties with leading French companies and government officials, this is a cracking high finance thriller.

His quest to try to reveal the “affaire des affaires” connects with the investigation carried out by Judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke (Charles Berling), deeply committed to fighting against corruption.

Carole and Philippe (Céline Sallette and Mathieu Kassovitz), tired of propriety and consumerism, opt to renounce civilisation and live off the land. Calling themselves Nora and Paco, they lead a nomadic life in their caravan, gradually adding children to the mix.

But when Nora tires of their itinerant lifestyle and gains custody of their sons, Philippe refuses to allow his progeny to be raised according to the societal codes he abhors.

L’Enquête

Chorus Standing Tall

La tête haute Thu 12 Nov at 8.35pm

Emmanuelle Bercot • France 2015 • 1h58m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Rod Paradot, Benoit Magimel, Sara Forestier, Diane Rouxel.

Chronicling the turbulent teenage years of a French youngster with police record as long as your arm, Standing Tall is a gritty and compassionate look at an adolescence riddled by violence, punishment and the idea that rehabilitation is a long way off, but not entirely out of the question. Carried by an electric lead performance from newcomer Rod Paradot, this fourth feature from actress turned director Emmanuelle Bercot can be as volatile as its main character.

We hope to be joined by Rod Paradot for an introduction and Q&A.

Sat 14 Nov at 3.50pm François Delisle • Canada 2015 • 1h36m • Digital • French, Spanish and Arabic with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Sébastien Ricard, Fanny Mallette, Geneviève Bujold.

A separated couple meet again after ten years when the body of their missing son is found. During their forced reunion, they both handle the death of their child in their own way. Amid the guilt of losing a loved one, they haltingly move toward affirmation of life, acceptance of death and even the possibility of a reconciliation.

Chorus is a love story that emerges from mourning and leads to two survivors clinging to each other as if to heal the deepest cut of all.

Wild Life

Macadam Stories

Asphalte

Sun 15 Nov at 3.45pm Samuel Benchetrit • France 2015 • 1h40m • Digital • French and English with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Michael Pitt, Gustave Kervern.

Set within a run-down block of flats, this quirky and endearing comedy-drama marks a strong fifth feature from writer-director-actor Samuel Benchetrit (I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster). It unfolds in a series of cleverly conceived vignettes. Both amusing and tender the film focuses on several downtrodden characters scraping by in a forgotten industrial wasteland.

Among the building’s diverse tenants are the terminally depressed Sternkowitz (Gustave Kervern). Upstairs from him lives Charly (Jules Benchetrit), a teenage boy with permanently absent parents who befriends his new next door neighbour, the actress Jeanne Meyer (Huppert).

The casting also includes American actor Michael Pitt as an astronaut who lands on the roof of one of the blocks.

French Film Festival UK

TWO FRIENDS

THE BIG BLUE

Two Friends

MEMORIES

40-LOVE

Les Deux Amis Sun 15 Nov at 8.40pm

Memories Les Souvenirs Tue 17 Nov at 6.00pm

Wed 18 Nov at 8.30pm

Louis Garrel • France 2015 • 1h42m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Golshifteh Farahani, Vincent Macaigne, Louis Garrel.

Jean-Paul Rouve • France 2014 • 1h36m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Michel Blanc, Annie Cordy, Mathieu Spinosi, Chantal Lauby.

Eric Barbier • France/Luxembourg/Belgium 2014 • 1h48m Digital French with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Berenice Bejo, Yvan Attal.

Actor Louis Garrel (Saint Laurent) made his directorial feature debut at Cannes Critics’ Week by adding a twist to the two-guys-and-a-girl scenario. Set over the course of three tumultuous days and nights, the freewheeling narrative works best during a handful of energetic set-pieces. Vincent has known Mona barely a week but he’s already completely in love with her. But Mona has a secret - she goes home to prison every night. When Vincent doesn’t understand her intentions, he asks his only friend, Abel, for help.

A moving and invigorating family comedy-drama based on a bestselling novel by David Foenkinos and directed by actor-turned-filmmaker Jean-Paul Rouve.

Romain (Mathieu Spinosi) is a sort-of aspiring writer who takes a job as a night watchman in a Paris hotel.

When his grandfather dies and his father (Michel Blanc) retires, Romain’s family is thrown seriously off course, with his parents experiencing a mid-life crisis and his grandmother (Annie Cordy) ditching the retirement home in search of her haunted past.

Simon (Yvan Attal), a thief released on parole, agrees to carry out the biggest job of his life: to steal the “Florentin,” a mythical diamond being auctioned by its owners. To succeed, he must get close to Julia (Berenice Bejo), a diamond expert, for whom the sale is of considerable personal importance.

Simon uses his thieving skills to seduce Julia, who’s been put in charge of the jewel’s auction following her mother’s mysterious death. Like his stylised 2006 thriller The Serpent (also starring Attal), Barbier provides an extremely polished sheen to the proceedings.

The Big Blue

Le Grand bleu Mon 16 Nov at 8.20pm

All Cats Are Grey

Luc Besson • France/USA/Italy 1988 • 2h48m • Digital • English, French and Italian with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language and moderate sex Cast: Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Rosanna Arquette, Paul Shenar, Sergio Castellitto.

Savina Dellicour • Belgium 2014 • 1h24m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Manon Capelle, Bouli Lanners, Anne Coesens.

Director Luc Besson is famous for his imaginative visual technique and breathtaking action sequences. One of the most stunningly beautiful films ever made, The Big Blue features amazing underwater photography and spectacular location shooting in the French Antibes, the Greek islands, Peru, and Taormina in Sicily. And it provided a career milestone for Jean-Marc Barr and Jean Reno as the boyhood friends who share a passion for free diving and brave danger and possible death.

Showing as part of a celebration of the 120th anniversary of the Gaumont Studios.

Tous les chats sont gris

Wed 18 Nov at 6.00pm

Paul is a chubby, kind-hearted amateur detective in Savina Dellicour’s debut feature. Dorothy is an intense upper class teenager. Paul is into quoting Sherlock Holmes and watching the TV series Derrick. Dorothy is into punk clothing and hating her mother. Paul is in his Forties while Dorothy is 16, and the only thing that links them is Paul’s knowledge that he is Dorothy’s biological father. Over time this has grown into a one way relationship with Paul spying on Dorothy as she grew up, always from a safe distance... They would never have met if Dorothy hadn’t heard of Paul’s amateur detective skills. She wants to use him to find her father...

Director Savina Dellicour and Bouli Lanners will be in attendance to introduce the film and take part in a Q&A.

The Last Diamond

La dernier diamant

40-love Terre Battue Thu 19 Nov at 6.00pm Stéphane Demoustier • France/Belgium 2013 • 1h35m • Digital French with English subtitles •12A Cast: Olivier Gourmet, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Charles Mérienne.

When Jérôme (Olivier Gourmet), a middle-aged department-store sales manager, loses his job, and his wife Laura (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) leaves him for another man, all he has left are his pipe dreams and his son Ugo (first-time actor Charles Mérienne). Though only 11 years old, Ugo already shows great promise as a tennis pro, with a trainer eager to recruit him. Jerome cares for Ugo’s auspicious career only grudgingly until a startling development forces him to rethink his priorities.

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French Film Festival UK/Over The Rainbow

HUMAN

FFF SHORTS PROGRAMME

Human Sat 21 Nov at 2.00pm Yann Arthus-Bertrand • France 2015 • 3h8m • Digital English and French with English subtitles • 12A • Documentary

French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand filmed interviews with more than 2000 people in 60 countries to answer the conundrum of what makes us human.

A riveting portrait of life, love, anger, and desire, as told by real-life characters ranging from a labourer in Bangladesh to a death-row inmate in the United States to the former president of Uruguay.

French Film Festival Shorts Wed 2 Dec at 6.00pm 1h30m • Digital • French with English Subtitles • 15

Right person for the job / La tête de l’emploi Wilfried Méance • France 2014 • 7m Balkan Blood Esus Glaser • France 2014 • 15m July 14th/14 Juillet Michaël Barocas • France 2015 • 7m

SANTA CLAUS!

Santa Claus! Le père Noël Sat 5 Dec at 1.00pm Alexander Coffre • France/Belgium 2014 • 1h21m • Digital French with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Tahar Rahim, Victor Cabal, Annelise Hesme, Michaël Abiteboul, Philippe Rebbot.

Here’s a perfect seasonal choice for all ages. On Christmas Eve, Antoine (Victor Cabal) not only looks forward to the usual toys, but dreams of hitching a ride on Santa’s sleigh, so he can visit the star where he believes his deceased father resides.

With a clear wink at The Little Prince, just one of director Alexandre Coffre’s sources, Antoine seems to get his wish when he sees someone in the traditional red-andwhite costume climbing up and down the building. This someone even has a flowing white beard. In fact, it’s not Santa but a cat burglar (Tahar Rahim) set on stealing anything he can lays his hands on.

Only the most hard-hearted could fail to be won over by this sentimental, comic fairy tale.

Just like us / Planter les Choux Karine Blanc • France 2013 • 17m Super Venus Frédéric Doazan • France 2013 • 3m Service Included / Service Compris Stephan Castang • France 2014 • 15m Ghost Cell Antoine Delacharlery • France 2015 • 6m Grounded/Au Sol Alexis Michalik • France 2014 • 19m Aïssa Clément Tréhin-Lalanne • France 2014 • 8m Directors Wilfried Méance, Michaël Barocas and Esus Glaser, and actors Philippe Jannerand and Adrien Boulon will be in attendance to introduce their work.

Filmhouse Explorer Get a half-price ticket to any of the films in this season with Filmhouse Explorer – see page 4 for details!

KINKY BOOTS

OVERTHERAINBOW Our monthly helping of LGBTQIA cinema returns on the first weekend of the month with Julian Jarrold’s Britcom smash - Kinky Boots.

Kinky Boots Fri 6 & Sat 7 Nov Julian Jarrold • USA/UK 2005 • 1h47m • 35mm • 12A - Contains moderate sex references and one use of strong language.

Cast: Joel Edgerton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sarah-Jane Potts, Nick Frost.

Mild-mannered Charlie (Joel Edgerton) suddenly and unexpectedly inherits his father’s failing Northern shoe factory. Struggling to save Price & Sons from complete closure, a chance encounter with flamboyant, sassy cabaret singer Lola (a quite brilliant Chiwetel Ejiofor) inspires him to change their product line from traditional shoes to mens’ fetish footwear - an idea that proves rather controversial with the locals, his staff and his fiancée...

Now also an award-winning Broadway musical, this breezy and warm British charmer had its World Premiere at EIFF and was an early indicator of Ejiofor’s calibre as a performer.

“With its witty, barbed screenplay. reminiscent of Hollywood screwball classics, its showstopping musical numbers, and a tour de force performance by Chiwetel Ejiofor...” - Shane Danielson, Edinburgh International Film Festival

Fokus: Films from Germany

VICTORIA

WHO AM I - NO SYSTEM IS SAFE

PARENTS

Victoria

Who Am I - No System Is Safe

Fri 20 Nov at 8.15pm

Who Am I - Kein System ist sicher Sat 21 Nov at 8.45pm

Sebastian Schipper • Germany 2015 • 2h18m • Digital • German, English and Spanish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language, drug use Cast: Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, Burak Yigit.

We are delighted to bring you Fokus: Films from Germany, a Scotland-wide event featuring innovative, inspiring and challenging films by Germany-based directors across genres and themes. Its inaugural edition takes place at venues and cinemas from Inverness to Hawick and across the Central Belt this coming November and early December.

Fokus will give audiences in Scotland an exciting insight into the current themes and outstanding examples of auteur filmmaking from Germany, and is accompanied by school screenings and events.

The festival is jointly organised by Filmhouse Edinburgh and Goethe-Institut Glasgow, in collaboration with partner venues and institutions from across Scotland.

BELOVED SISTERS

A young woman, Victoria, dances through the Berlin scene with abandon until she meets a group of four men. After slipping away with one of them, their tender flirting is rudely interrupted by the others: they’ve not come out to party, but to settle an old debt by pulling off a dodgy deal. And, with one of them now unable to drive, they hastily decide that Victoria should take his place...

We hope to welcome cameraman Sturla Brandth Grøvlen for a Q&A following this screening.

Parents

Eltern Sat 21 Nov at 6.15pm

Robert Thalheim • Germany 2013 • 1h39m • Digital • German with English subtitles • PG Cast: Charly Hübner, Christiane Paul, Paraschiva Dragus.

After a long break, Konrad finds himself with the chance to return to his career as a theatre director. But, with his wife Christine - a successful and busy doctor - unable to spare the time to take over as childminder, his transition back to working life proves more difficult than expected.

With touching performances and especially good turns from the child actors, Parents is a moving and compelling family drama. £6/£5

Filmhouse Explorer Get a half-price ticket to any of the films in this season with Filmhouse Explorer – see page 4 for details!

Baran bo Odar • Germany 2014 • 1h47m • Digital • German, English and Russian with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language, drug use Cast: Tom Schilling, Elyas M’Barek, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Antoine Monot Jr, Hannah Herzsprung.

A group of four computer hackers - the charismatic Max, impulsive Stephan, paranoid Paul and insecure, boyish Benjamin - come together through a single shared interest: cybercrime. Forming the subversive group CLAY, they quickly make a name for themselves through their audacious cyber attacks on right-wing groups and big companies. But, as they dive into the dark, high-octane world of online espionage, they quickly find themselves hunted on three sides.

Beloved Sisters

Die geliebten Schwestern

Sun 22 Nov at 2.00pm Dominik Graf • Germany 2014 • 2h50m • Digital • German with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Hannah Herzsprung, Florian Stetter, Henriette Confurius.

Set in the late 18th century, two beautiful, aristocratic sisters meet a young man who is infatuated by both of them. He is the writer, playwright and philosopher Friedrich Schiller. Neither noble nor wealthy, and only at the start of his career, Schiller is deemed no match for Charlotte, while Caroline is already trapped in an unhappy marriage. Yet, in the wake of the social and political upheavals on the eve of the Revolution, Caroline suggests they form a ménage à trois - but, even as Schiller delicately tends to the needs and wishes of his two mistresses, the sisters’ own pact seems increasingly like an elusive dream.... £6/£5

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FINSTERWORLD

BAAL

Under Snow

FOX AND HIS FRIENDS

B-MOVIE: LUST & SOUND IN WEST-BERLIN 1979-1989

Unter Schnee Sun 22 Nov at 6.15pm

Baal

Fox and His Friends

Tue 24 Nov at 8.30pm

Wed 25 Nov at 8.40pm

Ulrike Ottinger • Germany 2011 • 1h48m • Digital • German and Japanese with English subtitles • PG • Documentary

Volker Schlöndorff • West Germany 1970 • 1h25m • German with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sigi Graue, Margarethe von Trotta, Hanna Schygulla, Marian Seidowsky.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder • West Germany 1975 • 2h3m • 35mm German, English and French with English subtitles • 15 - Contains nudity, sex references and strong language Cast: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karlheinz Böhm.

The first full-length work of Bertolt Brecht, this television production of Baal transposes the action from the Weimar Republic to contemporary West Germany.

Here, the eponymous anarchic poet (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) lives in abject squalor and finds himself alternately feted and rejected by bourgeois society. Baal roams through forests and along motorways, greedy for schnapps, cigarettes, women and men.

After the film’s initial broadcast, Brecht’s widow prohibited any further screenings, and it was only in 2011 that Brecht’s granddaughter reversed the decision, leading to the 2014 restoration shown here.

In one of Fassbinder’s most highly-regarded and accessible films, he takes the lead role as Franz, an unemployed showman and prostitute whose fortunes change after he wins the lottery. Swapping his workingclass roots for a new milieu, he falls in with an antiques dealer who introduces him to his elegant circle of gay friends - including the manipulative Eugen, the scion of a once-prominent family fallen on financial hard times.

As the two move in together, Eugen’s exploitation of Franz (both emotionally and financially) becomes ever more apparent.

Co-hosted with Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF) - www.sqiff.org

Inbetween Worlds

B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989

In Echigo, the snow often lies several feet deep, covering landscape and villages well into May. Over the centuries, the Japanese town’s inhabitants have learned to organise their lives accordingly. Veteran director Ulrike Ottinger journeys to this mythical snow country - accompanied by two kabuki performers - to record their very distinctive forms of everyday life, along with festivals and religious rituals. Her resulting documentary combines the influences of kabuki, the remarkable Snow Country Tales of the 19th-century writer Bokushi Suzuki, the music of Yumiko Tanaka and the realities of life in Echigo to create a visually striking and moving work. £6/£5

Finsterworld Mon 23 Nov at 6.15pm Frauke Finsterwalder • Germany 2013 • 1h31m • Digital • German with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Corinna Harfouch, Bernhard Schütz, Sandra Hüller, Ronald Zehrfeld, Michael Maertens, Margit Carstensen.

The five interwoven strands of Finsterworld explore uncharted territory amidst innocence and perversion, and the fine line between kindness and barbarity.

Depicting a school trip to a former concentration camp, the relationship between a policeman and a documentary filmmaker, the strange rituals of a retirement home pedicurist, the tale of a forest hermit raising a baby raven, and a rather snobby couple on a road-trip, the film opens up a series of little abysses which lead to a cumulative dramatic impact. £6/£5

Zwischen Welten

Wed 25 Nov at 6.15pm Feo Aladag • Germany 2014 • 1h43m • Digital • German, English, Pashtu and Dari with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Ronald Zehrfeld, Mohsin Ahmady, Saida Barmaki.

Jesper is a German soldier who, despite the death of his brother whilst serving in Afghanistan, signs up for another tour of duty. His unit is tasked with protecting an isolated village from the Taliban, with the aid of young Afghan interpreter Tarik. Both sides find it hard to bridge the differences in their way of life, and the conflicts of Jesper’s conscience soon leave him feeling at his wit’s end. But when the lives of Tarik’s family are threatened because of Tarik’s proximity to the Germans, Jesper finds himself forced to take unexpected action. £6/£5

Faustrecht der Freiheit

Thu 26 Nov at 6.15pm Jörg A Hoppe, Klaus Maeck & Heiko Lange • Germany 2015 • 1h32m • Digital • English and German with English subtitles • 15 Documentary featuring Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld, Gudrun Gut, Die Tödliche Doris; narrated by Mark Reeder.

Before the Iron Curtain fell, everything seemed possible in West Berlin, which became a creative melting pot for subculture and pop culture alike. In the midst of it all was Mancunian musician Mark Reeder. Drawn by his love of urban electronic music, this label-maker and military fetishist came to Berlin in the late seventies.

Now, through a collection of visual and audio material - with a soundtrack featuring Westbam, Malaria!, Einstürzende Neubauten and more - he returns to that frenzied but creative decade. £6/£5

Fokus.../The Officers’ Ward/Apocalypse Now

THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN

The Marriage of Maria Braun Die Ehe der Maria Braun Thu 26 Nov at 8.40pm Rainer Werner Fassbinder • West Germany 1979 • 2h • 35mm • German and English with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language and moderate sex Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny, Hark Bohm, Gisela Uhlen.

Along with Veronika Voss and Lola, The Marriage of Maria Braun forms the first part of Fassbinder’s ‘BRD Trilogy’, about three emblematic women and the means they employ to survive in post-war West Germany.

During the last days of the Second World War, Maria (Hanna Schygulla) marries Hermann Braun - but their marriage lasts only one night before he is called back to the front and reported missing. In his absence, Maria’s belief that her husband is alive and will return to her leads to inevitable tragedy. But her life also becomes inextricably linked with the fortunes of her country as she takes on the world of business during the great German economic boom of the 1950s.

TICKETDEALS Buy any three (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 15% off Buy any six (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 25% off Buy any nine (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 35% off These offers are available online, in person and on the phone, on both full price and concession price tickets.

Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

THE OFFICERS’ WARD

THEFIRSTWORLDWARINCINEMA

The Officers’ Ward Thu 19 Nov at 8.25pm François Dupeyron • France 2001 • 2h15m • 35mm • French with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Eric Caravaca, Denis Podalydes, Grégori Derangere, Sabine Azema, André Dussollier.

August 1914. In the sultry heat of an uncommonly hot summer, Europe marches to war. The wide-eyed Adrien (Eric Caravaca) is part of this mass mobilisation of men that sent France’s youth into combat with Germany for the glory of la patrie. Caught up in the adrenaline of the moment, he spends a wild night with a beautiful, nameless woman who has just seen her husband depart for the front. But there is no time for reflection: Adrien is called up the next day. Riding to a hilltop to observe advancing German troops, he hears a whistle and an explosion. Adrien’s war is over, but the battle for his life is about to begin.

What follows is a deeply moving story about a group of war-torn men struggling to confront the fact that they are alive but with wounds that are shocking to everyone.

François Dupeyron turns this story of disfigurement into one with much wider implications. Eschewing sensationalism and finding humour and resilience in his subject, he has crafted a profoundly emotional and powerful celebration of our ability to survive and to overcome life’s greatest tragedies.

APOCALYPSE NOW

Come and See...

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

Apocalypse Now Tue 1 Dec at 8.20pm Francis Ford Coppola • USA 1979 • 2h27m • Digital • English, French, Vietnamese and Khmer with English subtitles 15 - Contains strong violence, gore and strong language Cast: Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Harrison Ford.

Heralded by many as the film that crystallises most perfectly the experience of the Vietnam War, Francis Ford Coppola’s hallucinatory masterpiece has been painstakingly restored by his own Zoetrope studios under his close supervision.

Troubled US Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), is given a special mission, to go far upriver into Cambodia. Once there, he is to track down renegade Colonel Kurtz (Brando) - a man who is waging his own personal and violent war - and assassinate him.

Arriving on location massively overweight and with a shaven head, Brando was not exactly what Coppola had in mind as the power-crazed Kurtz. But, amid the psychedelia and barbarism, the brooding presence of the actor glimpsed in half-shadow brought a mythical quality to the role.

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Edinburgh Greek Film Festival

URANYA

Edinburgh Greek Film Festival Years ago the Greek Festival was like a message in a bottle reaching us from a country about which we had ideas but few details. Now Greece is the crucible in which notions of the future of Europe, and of us all, are being tested to destruction.

Greeks now feel like very near neighbours – noisy now and again, a bit daft, very entertaining and with stories to tell.

This festival has the Greece we all know and the Greece behind it. We have a small town dealing with the Colonel’s dictatorship as an incidental inconvenience, an island whose history would break your heart and open your understanding, a Quixotic, reluctant, panoramic Odyssey and a cameo of Greek family life as it would be if a child took charge.

Despite recent events, Greece has neither calmed down nor exploded. Greece continues. And makes films we are delighted to be able to show to Scotland.

www.edinburghgreekfestival.com

LITTLE ENGLAND

Uranya

XENIA

Fri 27 Nov at 8.30pm

Little England Mikra Anglia Sat 28 Nov at 8.30pm

Costas Kapakas • Greece/Italy 2006 • 1h40m• Digital • Greek with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Aris Tsapis, Taxiarhis Hanos, Yorgos Souxes.

Pantelis Voulgaris • Greece 2013 • 2h12m • Digital • Greek with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Penelopi Tsilika, Sofia Kokkali, Aneza Papadopoulou.

It’s 1969. Greece has The Colonels but the village has matters of real importance on its mind. The lads are saving up to lose their virginities with professional help - the only way, so they think. But the moon landing will be televised and the village has no TV set. Should they buy a TV instead? But TV is run by the Colonels.

Nobody’s father wants the Colonels; everybody’s mother wants a TV. Can little boys have it all? Can grown men behave? Yes and No maybe, but not necessarily in that order.

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

At last - a big sweeping romantic historical drama from Greece, where history has never lacked drama. Little England is the island of Andros, whose shipping once rivalled England’s. The islandmen rule the waves, the women run almost everything else. This is a story of star-crossed lovers, star-crossed sisters and, of course, Mothers - Patriarchy with added matriarchs on one small island. Ioanna Karystiani’s novel has been crying out for filming since its publication in 1997 and here it is, directed by her husband Pandelis Voulgaris in his most assessible and involving film.

Xenia Sun 29 Nov at 8.30pm Panos H. Koutras • Greece/France/Belgium 2014 • 2h14m • Digital Greek with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Kostas Nikouli, Nikos Gelia.

Two half-Greek brothers. The impulsive one wants to search for their father. The stubborn Odysseus refuses.

So off they go on an Odyssey from one end of Greece to the other. It’s the journey of their lives. They take along a very convincing rabbit and its doppelganger, a repertoire of cabaret songs (with actions) which life is unlikely to have fully prepared you for, and much baggage. They find Greece and a possible father. They prefer Greece. They accept their baggage. Not all Odysseys have to take you home, or to end.

Hellenic Academy Awards 2015: Best Film, Best Director, Screenplay and Supporting Actor.

Edinburgh Greek Film Festival/Under the Skin

THE LOBSTER

The Lobster Mon 30 Nov at 8.30pm 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, John C. Reilly, Ashley Jensen.

From the director of Dogtooth, a near-future dystopian romance with strange humour and a typically idiosyncratic twist - which earned the Jury Prize at Cannes 2015.

In this imagined future, single people - according to the laws of The City - are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days.

Failing to do so will see them transformed into animals and sent off into The Woods.

This odd, funny and tragic science fiction premise plays out with an impressive cast, including Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman, John C. Reilly, Léa Seydoux and Ashley Jensen.

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

Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

FAN

UNDER THE SKIN

Fan Anemistiras Tue 1 Dec at 8.30pm

Under the Skin

Dimitris Bitos • Greece 2015 • 1h30m• Digital • Greek with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Irini Drakou, Yorgos Valais, Danae Androulaki.

Jonathan Glazer • UK 2013 • 1h48m • Digital • 15 - Contains infrequent strong sex and frequent nudity Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Paul Brannigan, Jessica Mance, Krystof Hádek.

In a kind of intense fairy tale, a little girl who has had enough takes over. She doesn’t see why her parents cannot ignore their apparently trivial discontents, pull themselves together and behave. Little girls are expected to behave, why not grown-ups? The girl has a plot device up her sleeve, her parents are too surprised to resist and it turns out that they quite like behaving but had almost forgotten how to do it in a humane and surprising film that could shake us all up a little.

SYN, the Edinburgh-based arts group, present their second Filmhouse exhibition, a consideration of borders, boundaries, migration, refugees and refuge.

SYN are inventing the Greco-Scot, looking with a somewhat Greek perspective at this place and at all of us. Scotland is growing gradually Greeker, Greeks become slightly more Northern.

Sun 29 Nov at 3.15pm

A beautiful woman (Scarlett Johansson) drives a white van along Scotland’s lonely back roads. Her identity and her motives unclear, her eyes deadened but alert, she prowls the night streets seeking male victims.

“An intoxicating marvel, strange and sublime.” - Time Out A special screening as part of Book Week Scotland, a week-long celebration of books and reading that takes place every November.

See Jonathan Glazer’s dazzling adaptation of Michel Faber’s brilliant novel, followed by a Q&A with the author, who will discuss the experience of having his work adapted for the big screen.

The Q&A will be hosted by Dr Jonny Murray, Senior Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture at Edinburgh College of Art. www.bookweekscotland.com

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Filmosophy

Filmosophy: Regeneration

The Fountain

This season is offered in association with Short Courses at the University of Edinburgh and the MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine (CRM). The films screened will allow an opportunity to discuss the ground-breaking research currently being undertaken at the CRM and associated ethical issues surrounding the use of stem cells.

Darren Aronofsky • USA/Canada 2006 • 1h35m • 35mm 15 - Contains one use of strong language and some moderate violence Cast: Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn.

The screenings will be introduced and discussion sessions hosted by James Mooney, film and philosophy lecturer at The University of Edinburgh.

For more information see: www.facebook.com/thinkingfilm www.twitter.com/film_philosophy

Tue 10 Nov at 6.15pm

Three intertwining stories about men - from past, present and future - pursuing eternity with their love is the central premise of Darren Aronofsky’s third feature film. In a deeply personal and ambitious project, Aronofsky explores love, death and grief through the stories of Tomás, Tom and Tommy (Hugh Jackman), with layered subtleties that complement the often vivid and ornate visuals. Garnering a reputation as rather divisive among critics, this is a grandiose, sincere and unquestionably original piece of cinema.

The Skin I Live In La piel que habito Tue 8 Dec at 6.00pm Pedro Almodóvar • Spain 2011 • 2h • Digital • Spanish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong sex, sexual violence, brief gore & very strong language Cast: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Blanca Suárez

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

Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

Brilliant Toledo plastic surgeon Robert Ledgard is obsessed with his latest revolutionary human skin treatment. Not exactly shy of breaking a few ethical rules here and there, he’s also got a laboratory in his basement.... and a beautiful woman in a flesh-coloured unitard he keeps imprisoned in a room upstairs...

Suffice to say, Thierry Jonquet’s source novel, ‘Mygale’, gives the world’s favourite Spanish auteur ample opportunity to explore his customary themes and stylings, albeit in a genre he’s perhaps not readily associated with.

ECA Postgrad/Write Shoot Cut/Die Hard

ECA POSTGRADUATE FILMS

SPECIALEVENT

WRITE SHOOT CUT

SPECIALEVENT

DIE HARD

SPECIALEVENT

ECA Postgraduate Degree Show

Write Shoot Cut

Die Hard

Tue 24 Nov at 2.00pm

Mon 30 Nov at 6.10pm

Sun 13 Dec at 8.20pm

4h • 15

1h45m • 15

Join us for this Degree Show of postgraduate work from the award-winning film department at Edinburgh College of Art. Screen Academy Scotland, a Creative Skillset Film Academy also offers a range of professional short training courses where film, TV and creative media professionals can develop their careers through training

Presented by Screen Education Edinburgh in partnership with Filmhouse, Write Shoot Cut is a platform dedicated to celebrating and showcasing independent short films from Scotland.

This time around we have four short films from Scottish based talent; three dramas and a documentary. All are new filmmakers to the WSC stage and this month we introduce our new presenter and programmer Bronwyn O’Neill.

Each film will be followed with a Q&A with the filmmakers involved, giving the audience the chance to enjoy what they see and gain an insight into the creative process.

If you are a filmmaker, or someone with an interest in Scottish film and a desire to see something out of the ordinary, then this is an excellent opportunity to connect with the local scene, watch some great films, network afterwards in the bar and meet potential collaborators.

Writer’s Block Vito Milazzo • UK • 17m • Drama Still Life Kieran Hennigan • UK • 6m • Documentary Two Brothers Simon Price • UK • 12m • Drama Tide Gordon Napier • UK • 23m • Drama

John McTiernan • USA 1988 • 2h12m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong violence, language, nudity and hard drug use Cast: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Alan Rickman, Alexander Gudonov, Paul Gleason.

Filmish presents a very Die Hard Christmas! Start the festive season the right way with a screening of this yuletide classic. The story of foul-mouthed cop John McClane is an action classic that deserves to be seen on the big screen.

It’s Christmas time in Los Angeles, and there’s an employee party in progress on the 30th floor of the Nakatomi Corporation building. The revelry comes to a violent end when the partygoers are taken hostage by a group of terrorists headed by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), who plan to steal the 600 million dollars locked in Nakatomi’s high-tech safe. Meanwhile, New York cop McClane (Bruce Willis) has come to LA to visit his estranged wife, Holly (Bonnie Bedelia), who happens to be one of the hostages...

Edward Ross, the author of Filmish: A Graphic Journey Through Film, will be here to introduce the film, and there will be a book signing after the movie.

Filmish: A Graphic Journey Through Film will be on general sale from 12 November. As an added bonus, the first 200 copies pre-ordered at the Filmhouse box office or on our website will be signed by the artist and will include a limited edition bookplate with artwork that features a rather familiar looking cinema foyer...

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Education and Learning

WHO AM I - NO SYSTEM IS SAFE | FOKUS: FILMS FROM GERMANY

SUNSET SONG

Education and Learning Filmhouse offers schools the opportunity to engage with a variety of film which support moving image literacy and subjects including modern languages and social studies. For more information email education@cmi-scotland.co.uk or call Nicola Kettlewood or Jenny Leask on 0131 228 6382. Details at www.filmhousecinema.com/learning Are you 15-19yrs and passionate about cinema? Would you like to learn about curating, writing about and presenting films at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in June 2016? Our Young Programmers group meet at Filmhouse every Monday from mid-January to April and for the twelve days of the Festival. Young Programmers curate a programme of short films and watch and recommend new films for the Festival. Previous Young Programmers have written copy for Festival publications, hosted Q&As with visiting filmmakers and worked as part of a team to present exciting new cinema for other young people. For more information and details of how to apply, please contact education@cmi-scotland.co.uk

Screenings for Schools Fokus: My Friend Raffi Wednesday 25 November, 10am • 1h33m • German with English subtitles • Est cert PG • P4S3, Modern Languages (German) | Raffi the hamster is 8-year-old Sammy’s pet and best friend. The little rodent is something very special – he can sniff smuggled goods better than a tracker dog. When Raffi is kidnapped by a ruthless criminal, Sammy goes on an adventure through the city to rescue his friend.

Fokus: Who Am I Thursday 26 November, 10am • 1h46m • German with English subtitles • Cert 15 • S4-S6, Modern Languages (German) | When computer whizz-kid Benjamin catches the eye of CLAY, a group of subversive computer hackers hell-bent on “hacking the world”, he dives headfirst into the dark, high-octane world of online espionage. This exhilarating, fast-paced trip is loaded with inventive twists and stylish flourishes.

Sunset Song Tuesday 8 December, 9.45am • 2h15m, cert TBC | Terence Davies’ eagerly-awaited adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s timeless novel. In the north east of Scotland, teenage Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn) dreams of escape from the tyranny of her violent father and the harshness of crofting life. The arrival of handsome young Ewan Tavendale (Kevin Guthrie) into her life brings happiness, but the Great War soon casts a shadow over their lives.

Arthur Christmas Tuesday 8 December, 10am • 1h37m, cert U | Santa Claus is nearing retirement, with his superefficient but joyless son Steven ready to take over. But the future of the position of Head of Christmas looks less certain when a child is left without a present and the only person prepared to put things right is Steven’s hapless brother, Arthur.

Frozen Wednesday 9 December, 10am 1h48m, cert PG | When the icy powers of Elsa turn the kingdom of Arendelle into a frozen wasteland, it is up to her sister Anna to find her and reverse her spell. She sets off with mountain man Kristoff, his trusty reindeer and a talking snowman named Olaf in a race to save the kingdom.

Inside Out Thursday 10 December, 10am • 1h42m, cert U | Meet the emotions inside the mind of teenager Riley: Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger and Disgust. Struggling to adjust after a long-distance move, an emotional rollercoaster ensues when Joy and Sadness get lost in Riley’s head. Can they find their way back?

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Our full menu runs from noon to 10pm seven days a week!

All our dishes are prepared on the premises using fresh ingredients.

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Film Quiz Sunday 8 November Filmhouse’s phenomenally successful (and rather tricky) monthly quiz. Free to enter, teams of up to eight, to be seated in the cafe bar by 9pm.

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Advance booking for wheelchair spaces is Nicola Kettlewood recommended. If you need to bring along Knowledge & Learning a helper to assist you in any way, then Filmhouse is a trading name of Centre for they will receive a complimentary ticket.

There are induction loops and infra-red in all three screens for those with hearing impairments. This programme and our website carry information on which films have subtitles.

We regularly have screenings with audio description for customers with visual impairments and subtitles for those with hearing difficulties – see page 2 for details of these.

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