Filmhouse Brochure - November 2018

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C E L E B R AT I N G F O R T Y YE A R S O F F I L M S WO R T H TA L K I N G A B O U T

Move over, Braveheart!

Last month saw the culmination of our 40th anniversary celebrations here at Filmhouse, and it has been hugely interesting time (for me at any rate!) comparing the us of now with the us of then.

I’ve thoroughly enjoyed spending time talking to Filmhouse’s first Artistic Director, Jim Hickey, and finding out in more detail than I knew what myriad ways the business of running Filmhouse has stayed the same and the as many ways it has not (one of these days I’ll write it all down and you can find out how interesting it is for yourselves!). UK film distribution itself has changed immeasurably – the dawn of the multiplex in the latter half of the 1980s saw to that.

Back in 1978, Filmhouse itself was part of a sort of movement that saw the birth of a number of similar venues around the UK whose aim was to show a kind of cinema (predominantly foreign language) that simply was not catered for within mainstream film exhibition. Despite 40 years having passed and much having changed, the notion of an audience-driven, ‘curated’ cinema like Filmhouse remains something of a film exhibition anomaly; and something Jim Hickey wrote 30+ years ago rings just as true today as it did then: “But best of all, the new cinemas are being run by those who care about audiences as well as the films that they have paid to watch.”

Now, we’ve got a bit of a first for you in November, for we have metaphorically got into bed with Netflix to give one of their films a hugely deserved, exclusive, short run in a cinema – namely David Mackenzie’s splendidly entertaining Robert the Bruce epic, Outlaw King. Steve McQueen gives Lynda La Plante’s 80s TV series a timely updating/relocating (London to Chicago) in Widows, and Palme d’Or winner, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters, get its eagerly-awaited UK release. With festivals French, German and Greek and a restored Some Like It Hot kicking off a short Billy Wilder retro, don’t let anyone say we’ve sold out – not that anyone ever does! Not in my earshot anyway…

Rod White, Head of Programming

Filmhouse Explorer Buy A TICKET FOR...

Peterloo (p 4) and get a half price ticket for Outlaw King (p 5) Widows (p 4) and get a half price ticket for Shoplifters (p 5) Any film in French Film Festival UK (p 18-23) and get a half price ticket for The Workshop (p 6) Half price ticket purchase must be made within the same transaction - at Box Office, by phone or online. Tickets subject to availability.

The half price offer only applies to full price tickets. 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

Tickets cost £4.50 per person, big or small! (£5.50 for 3D screenings)

CONCESSIONS

Young person aged under 16 (£4.50 for all screenings), people aged 16-25, 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 employment).

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ACCESS/AUDIO DESC./CAPTIONED BABY & CARER SCREENINGS SCREENING DATES AND TIMES

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The 400 Blows 14 Ace in the Hole 32 A Farewell to Arms 7 Africa in Motion 12-13 Alien 3: Assembly Cut 44 Becoming Animal 10 Berlin Excelsior 35 Beuys 35 Billy Wilder 32-33 Biomedical Ethics Film Festival 37 Chevalier 11 Conny Plank: The Potential of Noise 34 Cutting it? Behind the Scenes...

9 Dogman 4 Double Indemnity 33 Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot 6 Edinburgh Greek Film Festival 42-43 Edinburgh Short Film Festival 16 Education and Learning 28-29 Ex Machina 37 The Faculty 44 Fahrenheit 11/9 5 Filmhouse Junior 40-41 Filmosophy 11 Fokus: Films from Germany 34-36 Frankenstein 37 Freedom 35 French Film Festival UK 18-23 The German Sisters 36 The Gospel According to André 7 The Grand Budapest Hotel 14 Growing Pains 7 Herzog of the Month 12 House Guest: Mark Cousins 30-31 In The Aisles 34 Irma La Douce 33 Julieta 14 Kusama: Infinity 6 The Last of the Mohicans 8 London Korean Film Festival 17 The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum 36 The Lost Weekend 33 Margarethe von Trotta 36 NAE PASARAN! 5 Naomi’s Journey 35

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The Nightmare Before Christmas 45 Nocturnal Animals 11 Outlaw King 5 Over the Rainbow 7 Peterloo 4 Rosa Luxemburg 36 Sabrina 32 The Second Awakening of Christa Klages 36 Senior Selections 14 Shoplifters 5 Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain 8 Some Like It Hot 32 Spirited Away 7 Sunset Boulevard 33 Super November 9 Suspiria 6 Thelma and Louise 11 They Live 45 They Shall Not Grow Old 7 Tony Harrison Retrospective 38-39 Uncanny Valley 44-45 Widows 4 Workers! 9 The Workshop 6

Index

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Peterloo

Dogman

Fri 2 to Thu 15 Nov

Fri 2 to Thu 8 Nov

Mike Leigh • UK 2018 • 2h35m • Digital • 12A - Contains moderate violence, language. • Cast: Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Pearce Quigley, Rachel Finnegan, David Moorst, Tom Meredith.

Matteo Garrone • Italy/France 2018 • 1h43m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 15 - Contains drug misuse and references, strong violence, language. • Cast: Marcello Fonte, Edoardo Pesce, Nunzia Schiano, Adamo Dionisi.

Mike Leigh (Mr Turner) directs this much-anticipated drama based on events surrounding the 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where British forces fired on a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester.

The incident saw British government forces charge into a crowd of 60,000 that had demanded political reform. The forces killed an estimated 18 protesters and injured hundreds, sparking outcry but also further government crackdowns. It proved to be a defining moment in radical British history, which also played a significant role in the founding of the UK’s left-wing broadsheet newspaper The Guardian.

Dubbed an ‘urban Western’, Dogman takes place in an Italian suburb somewhere between metropolis and wild nature. Marcello (Marcello Fonte, whose performance won Best Actor at Cannes), a small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in a dangerous relationship of subjugation with Simone (Edoardo Pesce), a former violent boxer who terrorises the entire neighbourhood. In an effort to reaffirm his dignity, Marcello will submit to an unexpected act of vengeance...

NEW RELEASE

Widows Tue 6 Nov to Thu 6 Dec Steve McQueen • UK/USA 2018 • 2h8m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong violence, sex, very strong language. • Cast: Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell, Brian Tyree Henry, Daniel Kaluuya, Robert Duvall, Jon Bernthal.

Four women - with nothing in common except their dead husbands’ debts to the criminal underworld - come together to take their future into their own hands. With turmoil on the streets of Chicago and tension building within their ragtag group, Veronica (Viola Davis), Alice (Elizabeth Debicki), Linda (Michelle Rodriguez) and Belle (Cynthia Erivo) plan to execute their late husbands’ next heist...

Teaming up with author/screenwriter Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl, Sharp Objects), Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen returns with this truly riveting adaptation of Lynda La Plante’s classic TV mini-series, with a stellar supporting cast that includes Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall and Daniel Kaluuya.

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Outlaw King

Fahrenheit 11/9

Fri 9 to Thu 15 Nov

Fri 16 to Thu 22 Nov

David Mackenzie • UK/USA 2018 • 2h2m • Digital • cert tbc Cast: Chris Pine, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Florence Pugh, Matt Stokoe, Stephen Dillane.

Michael Moore • USA 2018 • 2h8m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, disturbing images, racist behaviour. • Documentary.

A rousing period epic, Outlaw King marks a terrific return for David Mackenzie (Hell or High Water, Hallam Foe), following Robert the Bruce’s battle to regain control after being made an outlaw for taking the Scottish Crown. Chris Pine stars as Robert the Bruce, while Florence Pugh is wonderful as Elizabeth de Burgh, the woman who will become Robert’s queen, as compelling as she was in Lady Macbeth.

Filmed on location in Scotland, Outlaw King is a rich, satisfying adventure with much to say about the exercise of power.

NEW RELEASE

NAE PASARAN! Fri 16 to Thu 22 Nov Felipe Bustos Sierra • UK 2017 • 1h34m • English and Spanish 12A - Contains brief images of dead bodies, references to torture.

Documentary.

The incredible true story of the Scots who managed to ground half of Chile’s Air Force, from the other side of the world. In 1974 a group of workers at the Rolls Royce factory in East Kilbride showed their support for the people of Chile by refusing to carry out repairs on engines for Hawker Hunter planes, which had been used during the brutal military coup.

The boycott endured for four years but the Scottish workers never knew what impact they had. With unprecedented access, this documentary also details the horrors of the Pinochet years, meets survivors of the period and hears the Chilean side of the story.

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With his signature hat, glasses and tenacious refusal to accept the status quo, American filmmaker/ author Michael Moore has become synonymous with provocative and irreverent documentary dissent. Here he launches a broadside on gun control laws, the Flint water crisis, the 2016 US presidential election, the regime of Donald Trump, the Democratic party and more. While packing this all in, Fahrenheit 11/9 also sees Moore attempt to broach that most pressing question - “Where does America go from here?”.

NEW RELEASE

Shoplifters

Manbiki kazoku Fri 23 Nov to Thu 6 Dec Hirokazu Koreeda • Japan 2018 • 2h1m • Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • cert tbc • Cast: Kirin Kiki, Lily Franky, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Sakura Andô, Moemi Katayama.

After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu (Lily Franky) and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife (Sakura Andô) agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the family is poor, barely making enough money to survive through petty crime, they seem to live happily together until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the bonds that unite them...

New Releases

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Kusama: Infinity Tue 27 to Wed 28 Nov Heather Lenz • USA 2018 • 1h17m • Digital • 12A - Contains moderate nudity, suicide references. • Documentary featuring Yayoi Kusama.

In recent years, Yayoi Kusama’s mirrored rooms, polka dots and unusual installations have found a massive following - but behind this success lies decades of struggle for the iconoclastic octogenarian artist. Born into a conservative family in rural Japan, Kusama moved to America in the 1940s, where she battled sexism and racism in the pursuit of her one true love: art. 17 years in the making, Heather Lenz’s documentary sheds new light on Kusama as a human being, laying out her tumultuous life and how it’s affected her work.

NEW RELEASE

Suspiria Fri 30 Nov to Mon 3 Dec Luca Guadagnino • Italy/USA 2018 • 2h32m • Digital • 18 - Contains strong violence. • Cast: Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Angela Winkler, Ingrid Caven, Chloë Grace Moretz.

At the heart of a world-renowned dance company, there is a profound darkness swelling. It is a darkness that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer and a grieving psychotherapist as the morbid mystery unravels... Following the success of Call Me By Your Name, Luca Guadagnino faces an astonishing challenge in re-imagining Dario Argento’s cult 1977 horror classic - a challenge he does not shy away from in the slightest. Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton star alongside Mia Goth, Chloë Grace Moretz and unknown (but familiar) actor Lutz Ebersdorf.

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The Workshop

L’Atelier Fri 30 Nov to Thu 6 Dec

Laurent Cantet • France 2016 • 1h53m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language. • Cast: Marina Foïs, Matthieu Lucci, Warda Rammach, Issam Talbi, Florian Beaujean.

Laurent Cantet (The Class) here returns to top form by mixing social relevance and tension as his characters, a multicultural group of high school students off for the summer, attend a workshop for fictional writing headed by well-known French novelist Olivia (Marina Foïs). Among them is Antoine (Matthieu Lucci) - a white-nationalist-minded teenager. Olivia soon finds herself fascinated by him, because, for all of his troubling views, he happens to be an astute literary critic.

NEW RELEASE

Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot Tue 4 to Thu 6 Dec Gus Van Sant • USA/France 2018 • 1h54m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, sex references, sex. • Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara, Jonah Hill, Jack Black, Tony Greenhand, Beth Ditto.

Following a car accident, John Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix) loses function in his legs and arms, and relies on his girlfriend Annu (Rooney Mara) and alcoholic group sponsor Donny (Jonah Hill) for support as he undergoes treatment. Along the way, he discovers a talent for drawing macabre newspaper cartoons, which both court controversy and gain him a national following. Based on Callahan’s memoir of the same name, Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot is a darkly funny and strangely inspiring journey.

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FIRST WORLD WAR IN CINEMA

2 NOV 18 - 6 DEC 18

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They Shall Not Grow Old

A Farewell to Arms

Sat 3 to Sun 4 Nov

Mon 5 Nov at 6.10pm

Peter Jackson • UK/New Zealand 2018 • 1h30m • Digital 15 - Contains bloody injury detail, images of real dead bodies.

Documentary.

Frank Borzage • USA 1932 • 1h20m • Digital • PG - Contains mild battle violence, scenes of emotional distress. • Cast: Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper, Adolpe Menjou, Mary Philips, Jack La Rue, Blanche Frederici.

From Peter Jackson comes this extraordinary new film showing the Great War as you have never seen it. Using state of the art technology to restore original archival footage, Jackson brings to life the people who can best tell this story: the men who were there. The transformation from black and white to colourised footage can be seen throughout.

Reaching into the mists of time, Jackson aims to give these men voices, investigate the hopes and fears of the veterans, the humility and humanity that represented a generation changed forever by war.

GROWING PAINS

Spirited Away Mon 12 Nov at 5.40pm Hayao Miyazaki • Japan 2001 • 2h5m • Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild peril and scary scenes. • With the voices of Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki, Takashi Naitô.

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 introduced by Jessie Moroney, a member of the programming team who attended the Practical Programming course with the Independent Cinema Office.

Ten-year-old Chihiro is leaving her home and everything she knows with her parents to live in a new town. Taking a wrong turn on their journey, the family stumble upon a seemingly abandoned amusement park. Unknowingly, the park takes them into a magical realm, where Chihiro’s parents undergo a mysterious transformation. Chihiro must adapt to her new environment and find a way to free her parents and return to the human world.

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Based on Ernest Hemingway’s semi-autobiographical novel of the same name, A Farewell to Arms tells the story of a love affair between an American ambulance driver and an English nurse in Italy during the First World War. Frank Borzage’s masterpiece, nominated for Best Picture at the 1934 Academy Awards, is a tender love story about the harsh realities of happiness during war.

OVer the rainbow

The Gospel According to André Sat 1 Dec at 3.15pm & Sun 2 Dec at 6.05pm Kate Novack • USA 2017 • 1h34m • Digital • 12A - Contains moderate sex references, language, references to discrimination.

Documentary.

Internationally renowned style guru André Leon Talley allows director Kate Novack rare behindthe-scenes access in this enlightening and deeply uplifting documentary. Featuring interviews with some of fashion’s elite, the film delves deep into André’s humble upbringing in 1950s’ North Carolina.

What is unearthed is a stunning portrait of a warm, engaging, larger-than-life character. Follow his inspirational rise to the highest echelons of the international fashion industry.

First World War in Cinema/Growing Pains/Over the Rainbow

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Invisible Britain/The Last of the Mohicans

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Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain Sat 10 Nov at 3.30pm Paul Sng and Nathan Hannawin • UK 2015 • 1h25m • Digital • 18 • Documentary featuring Jason Williamson, Andrew Fearn.

Invisible Britain: Portraits of Hope and Resilience reveals untold stories from people who have been left out of the media narrative and left behind by government policy. Featuring the work of accomplished documentary photographers, the book shows how an unprecedented world of austerity, de-industrialisation and social upheaval is affecting us all.

Sleaford Mods - Invisible Britain shows the most relevant British band in years sticking two fingers up to the zeitgeist and articulating the rage and desperation of those without a voice in austerity Britain. Part band doc, part look at the state of the nation, the film features individuals and communities attempting to find hope among the ruins, against a blistering soundtrack by Sleaford Mods.

Following the screening there will be a panel Q&A to discuss the book with director/editor Paul Sng and photographers Kat Dlugosz and Margaret Mitchell.

LIVE SCORE

The Last of the Mohicans Sun 11 Nov at 4.00pm Maurice Tourneur, Clarence Brown • USA 1920 • 1h13m • Digital • 12A • Cast: Wallace Beery, Barbara Bedford, Alan Roscoe, Lillian Hall, Henry Woodward.

Directed by Clarence Brown & Maurice Tourneur in 1920, this is the original and most faithful film adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper’s classic novel.

Two British sisters caught up in the war for colonial control of North America find protection under the care of white scout Hawkeye, the last chief of the Mohican tribe, and his majestic son Uncas. A magnificent drama in which good and bad characters are dispersed amongst Native Americans, British and French alike, whilst the narrative takes in spectacular action scenes and intense romance. All that and an appearance from Boris Karloff.

This thrilling adventure is accompanied live by a new score for keyboards, percussion, bass, ukelele and acoustic guitar composed and performed by multi-instrumentalist David Allison. £15/£10 concession.

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2 NOV 18 - 6 DEC 18

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Cutting It? Behind the Scenes at the BBFC

Collective Presents: Workers!

by Petra Bauer and SCOT-PEP

Tue 13 Nov at 5.40pm

Sat 24 Nov at 3.30pm

1h30m • 15

Petra Bauer, SCOT-PEP • UK/Sweden 2018 • 37m • Digital • PG

Have you ever wondered how decisions are reached for the age ratings on films? What makes the difference between a 12A and 15 scene? What material might possibly need to be cut - and why?

Come along to our ‘Behind the scenes at the BBFC’ masterclass and hear about both the history of the British Board of Classification, and how modern Classification Guidelines are interpreted when applying age ratings to films. There will also be a Q&A session. Tickets £3

Workers! is filmed in the Scottish Trade Union Congress, a building rooted in workers’ struggles for rights. SCOT-PEP takes over this institution and conversations unfold that centre the voices of sex workers demanding to be seen as experts on their own lives. By retelling Chantal Akerman’s iconic Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Brussels, the sex worker Jeanne is reimagined through SCOT-PEPs experiences. This screening will be followed by a discussion with Petra Bauer, SCOTPEP and feminist writer and activist Silvia Federici.

DIRECTOR Q&A

Super November Tue 27 Nov at 8.45pm Douglas King • UK 2018 • 1h15m • Digital • 15 • Cast: James Allenby-Kirk, Shabana Akhtar Bakhsh, Josie Long, Sean Biggerstaff.

Set in Glasgow, Super November tells the story of loved-up librarian Josie (Josie Long) who has found her soul mate in the equally besotted Mikey (Sean Biggerstaff ). Fast forward six months and things are very different - Scotland finds itself in a political crisis, where there is civil unrest on the streets and normality is a distant memory.

This ambitious film - part mumblecore romantic comedy, part Orwellian dystopia - shines a light on the fastpaced changing landscape of the modern world.

The screening will be preceded by an introduction by director Douglas King, and some stand up comedy by actor and writer Josie Long. A Q&A session will follow the screening.

Cutting It? Behind the Scenes at the BBFC/Workers!/Super November

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Becoming Animal Sat 1 Dec at 2.30pm Emma Davie, Peter Mettler • Switzerland 2018 • 1h19m • Digital • 15 • Documentary.

Becoming Animal is a different kind of nature film, tracing how we sense the ‘more than human’ world and exploring how it also senses us. Immersive audiovisual quest through the Grand Teton Park in North America with the influential philosopher David Abram (The Spell of the Sensuous) tracing how we sense the morethan-human world and exploring how the world senses us. Directed by the award-winning filmmakers Emma Davie and Peter Mettler, the film prompts us to reflect on the very essence of what it means to inhabit our animal bodies.

This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Emma Davie.

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16 DAYS OF ACTION

Thelma and Louise Sun 2 Dec at 2.00pm Ridley Scott • USA 1991 • 2h9m • Digital • 15 • Cast: Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon, Harvey Keitel, Brad Pitt.

At the time of writing a man accused of sexual violence has just been approved to the Supreme Court, the highest court in America. Exhausted? Me too. Once your eyes are open to sexism, inequality and gender-based violence it’s near impossible to close them again. From Hollywood to Holyrood; stories of power and abuses of said power have dominated the headlines in 2018. If this past year has showed us anything, it’s that in amongst the sea of misogyny it can be hard to stay afloat.

Join us this 16 Days of Action for a feminist afternoon-off with a showing of a classic - Thelma and Louise, which follows a mistreated housewife and harried waitress, who stumble into an out-of-control but totally liberating crime spree. The screening will be followed by a discussion about self-care in the context of smashing the patriarchy.

Filmosophy

Chevalier Wed 7 Nov at 6.10pm Athina Rachel Tsangari • Greece 2015 • 1h45m • Digital • Greek with English subtitles • 18 - Contains strong nudity, sex references. • Cast: Yiorgos Kendros, Panos Koronis, Vangelis Mourikis.

In the middle of the Aegean, on a private yacht, six men on a fishing trip decide to play a game. During this game, things will be compared, things will be measured, and manhood will be tested. At the end of the voyage, when the scores are counted, the best man will be awarded the victor’s ring - the ‘Chevalier’.

Athina Tsangari’s satirical black comedy holds up a mirror to the fragility of the male ego and provides an allegorical insight into the nature of patriarchy. The screening will be followed by a discussion led by James Mooney (University of Edinburgh).

Filmosophy

Nocturnal Animals Wed 5 Dec at 6.00pm Tom Ford • USA 2016 • 1h55m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong threat, violence, sexual violence, nudity, language. • Cast: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher.

In the ‘real’ world, a disaffected gallery owner receives a draft of her ex-husband’s new novel, causing her to ponder the relevance of its contents. In the world of the novel, a family man’s life unravels when his wife and daughter are raped and murdered, setting him on a brutal revenge mission. Tom Ford’s neo-noir is an intricately woven double narrative, which explores the destructive effects of toxic masculinity. The screening will be followed by a discussion led by James Mooney (University of Edinburgh).

Thelma and Louise/Filmosophy

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Herzog of the Month/Africa in Motion

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HERZOG OF THE MONTH

Queen of the Desert

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Bells from the Deep

Sun 25 Nov at 5.45pm

Sun 9 Dec at 6.15pm

Werner Herzog • Morocco/USA 2015 • 2h8m • Digital • PG - Contains mild bad language, sex references. • Cast: Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, Robert Pattinson, Jay Abdo.

Werner Herzog • USA/Germany 1993 • 1h • Digital • English, Russian and Tuvinian with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary.

British explorer, cartographer and archaeologist Gertrude Bell (Nicole Kidman) chafes against the stifling rigidity of life in turn-of-the-century England, leaving it behind for a chance to travel to Tehran. So begins her lifelong adventure across the Arab world, a journey marked by danger, a passionate affair with a British officer (James Franco), and an encounter with the legendary T.E. Lawrence (Robert Pattinson).

Stunningly shot on location in Morocco and Jordan, Queen of the Desert reveals how an ahead-of-hertime woman shaped the course of history.

AFRICA IN MOTION

Five Fingers for Marseilles Fri 2 Nov at 5.45pm Michael Matthews • South Africa 2018 • 2h • Digital • Sesotho with English subtitles • 15

Twenty years ago, the Five Fingers gang fought for the rural town of Marseilles against brutal police oppression. Now, after fleeing in disgrace, freedomfighter-turned-outlaw Tau returns to Marseilles, seeking only a peaceful pastoral life. When he finds the town under new threat, he must reluctantly fight to free it. Five Fingers for Marseilles fuses Western influences into a contemporary crime drama that presents an allegory on current South African politics.

In February 1993, Herzog goes to Siberia to explore the spiritual lives of the Russian people - ‘I wanted to get shots of pilgrims crawling around on the ice trying to catch a glimpse of the lost city, but as there were no pilgrims around I hired two drunks from the next town and put them on the ice. One of them has his face right on the ice and looks like he is in very deep meditation. The accountant’s truth: He was completely drunk and fell asleep, and we had to wake him at the end of the take.’

PLUS SHORT: Pilgrimage Werner Herzog • UK/Germany 2001 • 18m

AFRICA IN MOTION

Comboio de Sal e Acucar

The Train of Salt and Sugar Sat 3 Nov at 5.45pm

Licínio Azevodo • Portugal/France/Brazil/South Africa/Mozambique/ Spain 2016 • 1h33m • Digital • Portuguese with English subtitles • 15

Set during the Mozambican civil war, this awardwinning drama, based on writer/director Licínio de Azevedo’s novel of the same name, is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit. Described by critics as ‘the Great African Western’, stories of love and war unfurl between the passengers travelling on the last remaining railway line connecting northern Mozambique and Malawi, a route which also forms the only hope for survival for people willing to risk their lives to trade salt and sugar.

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AFRICA IN MOTION

2 NOV 18 - 6 DEC 18

Mayfair

Farewell, Ella Bella Sun 4 Nov at 6.15pm

Sara Blecher • South Africa 2018 • 1h34m • Digital • English and Somali with English subtitles • 15

Lwazi Mvusi • South Africa 2018 • 1h20m • Digital • 12A

AFRICA IN MOTION

Supa Modo Sun 4 Nov at 8.15pm Likarion Wainaina • Germany/Kenya 2018 • 1h14m • Digital • English and Swahili with English subtitles • 12A

Inspired by Jackie Chan action films, a young Kenyan girl named Jo, who is battling with a terminal illness, finds escape in a fantasy world. As her health deteriorates she moves out of hospital back home to her family and village. Her sister and community support her in turning her dreams into reality, as she stars in the creation of her own superhero film.

Supa Modo is a deeply moving and heart-warming film that acts as a reminder of the importance of imagination, community, family and hope.

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AFRICA IN MOTION

Sat 3 Nov at 8.00pm

In acclaimed South African filmmaker Sara Blecher’s latest feature, dutiful son Zaid returns to the immigrant neighborhood of Mayfair where he lives in the shadow of his father, Aziz, an import-exporter with a murky side racket as a money launderer and loan shark. When a murderous rival gang threatens the family’s business, Zaid is forced back into the life he’d hoped to leave behind, struggling to figure out right and wrong in a world where the two aren’t as clear cut as they seem.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with lead actor Ronak Patani chaired by South African film producer Firdoze Bulbulia.

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For Ella, the death of her alcoholic father leaves her with nothing but debt and the memory of a complicated past. Abandoned by her mother at a young age, she has sacrificed her life to care for a man she resents but is now left adrift. The reemergence of her nomadic godfather, jazz musician Neo, gives Ella the opportunity to search for a better future for herself in Johannesburg as they decide to road-trip together across the country in a journey of self-discovery and finding peace.

Africa in Motion

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Senior Selections

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We love talking about films and so do our audiences. Senior Selections invites older audiences to enjoy classic and contemporary cinema and share their thoughts about the film over a cuppa after the film. Senior Selections films are chosen by our Senior Volunteers, who will be on hand to welcome you and have a chat after the film.

These fortnightly film screenings are for audiences who are over-60. They screen where possible with on-screen captions/subtitles.

Tickets are £3 each and include tea, coffee and biscuits after the film. Places are limited, booking essential!

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The 400 Blows

Les Quatre cents coups Tue 6 Nov at 1.00pm François Truffaut • France 1959 • 1h40m • Digital • French with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild language, violence, sex references and smoking scenes • Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Guy Decomble, Georges Flamant.

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.

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Julieta

Tue 20 Nov at 1.10pm

Tue 4 Dec at 1.00pm

Wes Anderson • UK/Germany 2014 • 1h40m • Digital • English and French with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language, sex references and brief gory images. • Cast: Ralph Fiennes, F Murray Abraham, Edward Norton, Jude Law, Tilda Swinton.

Pedro Almodóvar • Spain 2016 • 1h39m • Digital • Spanish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong sex. • Cast: Emma Suárez, Adriana Ugarte, Inma Cuesta, Michelle Jenner, Daniel Grao.

The Grand Budapest Hotel recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story, told with Wes Anderson’s usual quirky panache and visual flair, involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune - all set against the backdrop of a suddenly and dramatically changing continent.

Pedro Almadóvar’s twentieth feature, inspired by three short stories by Canadian writer Alice Munro, centres around twin performances by Emma Suárez and Adriana Ugarte as the titular character at different stages of life. From young Julieta’s (Ugarte) chance encounter and whirlwind romance with Xoan (Daniel Grao) to, via guilt-ridden loss, her relationship with teenage daughter Antía (Priscilla Delgado) in later life, Julieta retains the colour and texture of the Spaniard’s previous work despite its deeply emotional dramatic focus.

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The Edinburgh Short Film Festival 2018 is your one chance to see one of the strongest short film programmes in the UK. With 26 UK Premieres, 7 European Premieres and no less than 28 awardwinning short films, their 2018 programme is one of the strongest yet, and packed with some of the best films from Festivals overseas, including Tribeca, Cannes, Sundance, Annecy, and SXSW award-winners.

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Linden Space Fri 2 Nov at 8.40pm 1h58m • Digital • Various • 18

Edinburgh Short Film Festival presents Linden Space a collection of animation films made by the students of Priit Pärn, a world famous Estonian cartoonist and animation director.

The programme curated by Peter Murmaa of the Estonian Short Film Centre presents the outstanding and award-winning work of a new generation of Estonian animators, who carry on their master’s teachings in their own unique way.

The Games We Play

Mexican Nights

Thu 8 Nov at 8.40pm

Fri 9 Nov at 8.40pm

1h40m • Digital • Various • 18

1h38m • Digital • Various • 18

Human culture; endlessly playful and immersed in trickster traditions, where playtime takes on a myriad of structures. From a child’s innocent antics to a white-knuckle round of Russian roulette - romp and revelry take on many forms.

The Edinburgh Short Film Festival presents Mexican shorts courtesy of IMCINE, the Mexican Institute of Cinematography.

From Peruvian Black Comedy to award winning Swiss and Canadian animation as well as the Jury Award Winner at Sundance, we explore Games and Play in all its manifestations in a series of outstanding UK & International short films. This screening will be followed by a Q&A.

A curated programme of award-winning and eclectic shorts ranging from animation to drama and documentary. This mixed sample represents an exploration of Mexican culture, sometimes celebrating it and sometimes condemning the country’s devastating reality. But in each case it showcases the wide range of talent and artistry Mexican contemporary film has to offer.

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Touring through six major cities across the UK - Belfast, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Manchester, Nottingham and Glasgow – the 2018 London Korean Film Festival will be presenting a collection of carefully selected films from our ‘Special Focus: A Slice of Everyday Life’ and ‘Cinema Now’ strands.

The LKFF on tour aims to introduce Korean Cinema to new audiences around the UK.

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Little Forest Fri 16 Nov at 6.00pm Yim Soon-Rye • South Korea 2017 • 1h43m • Digital • Korean with English subtitles • U • Cast: Kim Tae-ri, Ryu Jun-yeol, Moon So-ri.

“I’m hungry,” says dissatisfied student Hye-won (Kim Tae-ri), explaining to her friend Eun-sook (Jin Ki-joo) why she has returned from her studies in Seoul to her rural village. Arriving mid-winter, she has come for only a few days - but will stay on for a year, rediscovering the patience and preparation necessitated by the rhythms of the seasons. Along the way, she reestablishes her relationship to her absent mother (Moon So-ri) and to mother nature, while reaping the rewards of her own replanted joie de vivre. This screening will feature an introduction. £8/£6 concession.

Microhabitat

The Poet and the Boy

Sun 18 Nov at 3.45pm

Wed 21 Nov at 8.35pm

Jeon Go-Woon • South Korea 2017 • 1h44m • Digital • Korean with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Lee Som, Ahn Jae-hong.

Kim Yang-He • South Korea 2017 • 1h49m • Digital • Korean with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Yang Ik-june, Jeon Hye-jin, Jung Ga-ram.

Mi-so (Lee Som), like many thirty-somethings, finds herself unprepared for the harsh economic realities of adulthood. Working as a housekeeper with low wages, she struggles to pay rent on her cramped apartment. Mi-so’s spirited youth playing in a band seems a distant memory. The only modest pleasures she has left are smoking and drinking. When she can’t even afford these, Mi-so chooses to give up her home rather than her whisky. What might at first seem a callow choice becomes symbolic of her courageous stand for human dignity. This screening will be introduced by Dr David Sorfa (University of Edinbugh). £8/£6 concession.

We’re on Jeju Island, though we see nothing of its tourism industry. But in spirit we’re closer to Venice, where a middle-aged writer is suddenly, inexplicably struck by the beauty of a young man and finds his whole life upended because of it. The Jeju writer is Hyeon Taekji (Yang Ik-june), a second-rate poet mired in defeatism with a wife who’s determined to get pregnant before it’s too late. The boy is Seyun, a dropout from high school who’s the main carer for his ailing father and works daytimes selling American donuts. Hyeon worries that he might be gay, but his wife is scornful and resentful... This screening will feature an introduction. £8/£6 concession.

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French Film Festival UK

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Le grand bain

Thu 8 Nov at 8.30pm BIENVENUE and welcome to the 26th edition of the French Film Festival UK which celebrates the crême de la crême of Francophone cinema.

Gilles Lellouche • France 2018 • 2h2m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Guillaume Canet, Benoît Poelvoorde, Virginie Efira, Alban Ivanov, Philippe Katerine.

The Festival, curated by Richard Mowe and Ilona Morison in collaboration with founding partner venue Filmhouse, presents a tantalising array of latest features by such famed directors as Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Becker, and Robert Guédiguian as well as newer talents Albert Dupontel, Pierre Schoeller, Cédric Kahn, Philippe Le Guay, Gilles Lellouche and Thomas Lilti among them. First or second time directors include Guillaume Senez, Marie Monge, Hubert Charuel and actor François Damiens on his directorial debut.

Mathieu Amalric and Guillaume Canet lead Gilles Lellouche’s uplifting comedy about a group of disenchanted men who find fresh self-esteem in a synchronised swimming team. The motley band try to shake off their midlife malaise by celebrating their inner Esther Williams as the Brits did in the recent Swimming with Men. Rechristened ‘The Pool Monty’, the group include divorcee Laurent (Canet), neverwas rock musician Simon (Jean-Hugues Anglade), near-broke pool salesman (Benoît Poelvoorde) and naive custodian Thierry (Philippe Katerine).

Supported by Screen Scotland, Creative Scotland, BFI, Total, TV5, Air France, Eclair, Wallonie Bruxelles and Institut français.

Vive le cinéma!

TICKET Offer (see Page 10) French Film Festival UK has teamed up with the Paris-based Mobile Film Festival to present a selection of French-language contenders from this year’s crop. They all last one-minute, cover myriad subjects and themes – and were shot on mobile phones (or tablets).

One title will screen before most Festival features.

Jealous Jalouse Fri 9 Nov at 6.15pm David Foenkinos, Stéphane Foenkinos • France 2017 • 1h42m Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 • Karin Viard, Dara Tombroff, Anne Dorval, Thibault de Montalembert.

Following international success for their breakout debut, Delicacy, directing and screenwriting brothers David and Stéphane Foenkinos join forces again for an acerbic and dark comedy about a middleclass woman re-assessing her life. Upon turning 50, divorced literature teacher Nathalie (Karin Viard) slowly devolves from an accomplished professional and loving mother into an irritable, narcissistic and jealous monster who detests the happiness and success of others around her. The Foenkinos brothers avoid neatly packaged answers to the many questions that swirl around this conundrum.

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Adama Sat 10 Nov at 1.00pm Simon Rouby • France 2015 • 1h22m • Digital • French with English subtitles • PG • Cast: Azize Diabate Abdoulaye, Pascal N’Zonzi.

This period coming-of-age odyssey loosely was inspired by the true-life stories of West Africans who were conscripted by France to fight in Europe during the First World War. The titular star is a 12-yearold West African boy who leaves the safety of his cloistered cliff-walled village to search for his older brother. The journey ultimately leads him to the front line of the Battle of Verdun. The single-minded mission of Adama to locate his sibling could have made this a straightforward adventure film, but director Simon Rouby conjures a magical realist atmosphere by weaving in mystical elements.

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One Nation, One King

Un peuple et son roi Sat 10 Nov at 5.45pm

Pierre Schoeller • France 2018 • 2h1m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Adèle Haenel, Gaspard Ulliel, Olivier Gourmet.

Pierre Schoeller (The Minister) conveys the scale of events of the 1789 French Revolution from the point of view of ordinary people, who for the first time were able to power events and develop a national consciousness instead of remaining passive victims Those revolutionaries are represented by two of France’s most-awarded young leads: Gaspard Ulliel and Adèle Haenel, with Olivier Gourmet, Louis Garrel and Laurent Lafitte. An inspirational and epic drama, at the heart of which lies the story of the fate of the king and the birth of the French Republic...

The Red Collar Le collier rouge

See You Up There Au revoir là-haut

Sun 11 Nov at 3.00pm

Sun 11 Nov at 5.30pm

Jean Becker • France 2018 • 1h23m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: François Cluzet, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Sophie Verbeeck.

Albert Dupontel • France 2017 • 1h57m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Albert Dupontel, Laurent Lafitte, Niels Arestrup, Émilie Dequenne, Mélanie Thierry.

Adapted from the eponymous novel by Prix Goncourt winner Jean-Christophe Rufin, Jean Becker’s WW1 drama The Red Collar revolves around the interrogation of a decorated war hero.

Held prisoner in an abandoned barracks under the crushing heat of summer, he awaits his interrogation by a corrupt judge to the sound of his mangy dog barking night and day. Not far off in the countryside, a young woman works the land, waiting and hoping.

These three characters find in their midst, a dog that holds the key to their destinies...

Albert Dupontel plays Albert Maillard, a rank-and-file French infantryman battling to survive trench warfare as the First World War comes to its conclusion. In a horrific final sortie, Maillard is almost buried alive by debris and his comrade Édouard Péricourt is horribly disfigured after being hit by mortar fire.

Péricourt becomes addicted to morphine during his convalescence and, living behind elaborate masks to hide his disfigurement, concocts a plan with Maillard to sell phoney monuments to French towns honouring their dead; an undertaking that will prove as dangerous as it is stunning.

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Treat Me Like Fire

Joueurs

Mon 12 Nov at 8.45pm

Tue 13 Nov at 6.00pm

Guillaume Senez • Belgium/France 2018 • 1h38m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Romain Duris, Laetitia Dosch, Laure Calamy.

Marie Monge • France 2018 • 1h45m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Stacy Martin, Tahar Rahim, Bruno Wolkowitch, Karim Leklou.

Belgian-born Francophone director Guillaume Senez who impressed with his first feature, Keeper, again looks at fatherhood, though the dad in question (played by Romain Duris) is now an adult with two children. Suddenly he is abandoned by his wife and has to try and keep the household going by himself.

Olivier’s sister Betty (Laetitia Dosch), an actress, has time to come and help out and occasionally their mother, Joelle (Dominique Valadie), pitches in as well.

The drama is intense and true to life with the same impressive punch as Keeper.

Stacy Martin (Nymphomaniac) and Tahar Rahim (A Prophet) pair up as lovers-in-crime in Marie Monge’s debut feature, which is set in Paris’ gambling underworld. With shades of Bonnie and Clyde they bet in clandestine Parisian casinos and illegal demolition derbies, living for the moment but landing in debt to some extremely scary people.

There’s no doubt things will end badly for them. It plays like a loose and gritty urban take on such films as Badlands, True Romance or even Natural Born Killers.

The House by the Sea

La Villa Wed 14 Nov at 8.45pm

Robert Guédiguian • France 2017 • 1h47m • French with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan.

By a little bay near Marseille lies a picturesque villa owned by an old man. His three children have gathered by his side for his last days: Angela, an actress living in Paris, Joseph, who has just fallen in love with a girl half his age and Armand, the only one who stayed behind in Marseille to run the family’s small restaurant. It’s time for them to weigh up what they have inherited of their father’s ideals and the community spirit he created in this magical place. The arrival, at a nearby cove, of a group of boat people will throw these moments of reflection into turmoil.

The Prayer

La prière

Thu 15 Nov at 6.00pm Cédric Kahn • France 2018 • 1h47m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 18 • Cast: Anthony Bajon, Damien Chapelle, Alex Brendemühl, Louise Grinberg.

Thomas (Anthony Bajon) arrives in a religious rehab community of young men living in a mountain in the idyllic French Alps, somewhere near Grenoble.

He’s facing an uphill struggle against his past, and has no family to support him. His seizures and anger management problems are paired alongside his psychological scars, but he eventually finds solace amongst the other inmates who are there in order to fight their own chemical demons. They support each other through companionship, friendship, work and a little entertainment, such as singing and playing the guitar. And a lot of prayer.

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Promise at Dawn

La Promesse de l’aube Fri 16 Nov at 8.25pm

Éric Barbier • France/Belgium 2017• 2h11m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Pierre Niney, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Didier Bourdon.

Writer Roman Gary’s Promise at Dawn, published in 1960, is a work of fiction inspired by his own life, recounted with a lot of verve and probably more than a little invention. After a 1971 Jules Dassin adaptation, it is the subject of Eric Barbier’s new film.

Gary grew up with his Russian-Jewish mother in Poland in the 1920s before moving to Nice; enlisted in the Free French Forces during the Second World War as a bombardier; married Jean Seberg; became the French Consul General in Los Angeles; and pursued a career as an award-winning novelist.

Belle and Sebastian, Friends for Life

Belle et Sébastien 3, le dernier chapitre Sat 17 Nov at 1.00pm Clovis Cornillac • France 2017 • 1h37m • Digital • French with English subtitles • PG • Cast: Félix Bossuet, Tchéky Karyo, Clovis Cornillac, Thierry Neuvic, Margaux Chatelier, André Penvern.

In the final chapter of the beloved family adventure from the novel by Cécile Aubry about a boy and his dog. Sebastien is starting adolescence and Belle is now a devoted mother of three adorable pups, but a new challenge awaits after a stranger named Joseph appears in their Swiss village and claims that he is Belle’s rightful owner. More than ever, Sebastien will have to do all that is in his power to protect his friend Belle and her little ones...

Little Tickles

Les Chatouilles Sat 17 Nov at 8.15pm

Andréa Bescond, Éric Métayer • France 2018 • 1h43m • Digital French with English subtitles • 18 • Cast: Andréa Bescond, Karin Viard, Clovis Cornillac.

Dancer Andréa Bescond co-directs and stars in a hopeful film based on her autobiographical play about childhood sexual abuse. The dance-mad young girl Odette (Cyrille Mairesse) was groomed from an early age by her parents’ close friend Gilbert (Pierre Deladonchamps) and repeatedly molested, often in her own home under the pretext of him giving her the ‘little tickles’ of the title. Once she has grown up, she opens up and dedicates herself fully to her career as a dancer, simultaneously embracing life and letting go of her anger.

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The Lady in the Portrait

Le Portrait interdit Sat 17 Nov at 8.35pm

Charles de Meaux • France/China 2017 • 1h40m • Digital • French and Mandarin with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Fan Bingbing, Melvil Poupaud, Jin Shi Jye, Huang Jue , Thibault De Montalembert, Féodor Atkine.

An empress (Fan Bingbing) commissions a painting of herself from a French outsider and Jesuit priest (Melvil Poupaud) in hopes of stirring her husband’s interest in this lavish period piece. This juicy tale of art, power, concubines and Catholicism, set in the 18th century imperial court in China, The Lady in the Portrait boasts exquisite sets and costumes, and East-meetsWest historical exoticism.

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The Truth La Vérité Sun 18 Nov at 1.00pm Henri-Georges Clouzot • France/Italy 1960 • 2h7m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Charles Vanel, Sami Frey, Marie-José Nat, Charles Vanel, Paul Meurisse .

Brigitte Bardot stars as Dominique, a hedonistic free spirit on trial for the murder of her lover, musician Sami Frey. Clouzot reveals what supposedly constitutes a ‘sordid’ lifestyle, and why it is so threatening to bourgeois society. Winner of the 1961 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film, the film was a box office triumph, perhaps partly as a result of such headline incidents as Bardot’s suicide attempt just a few weeks before the film’s release. This screening will be introduced by Martine Pierquin (University of Edinburgh).

Sauvage

Bloody Milk

Sun 18 Nov at 6.10pm

Sun 18 Nov at 8.25pm

Camille Vidal-Naquet • France 2018 • 1h39m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 18 • Cast: Felix Maritaud, Eric Bernard, Nicolas Dibla.

Hubert Charuel • France 2017 • 1h30m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Swann Arlaud, Sara Giraudeau, Bouli Lanners, Isabelle Candelier, Clément Bresson, India Hair, Marc Barbé.

French writer-director Camille Vidal-Naquet’s first feature is a moody character study of a young gay hustler whose tenderness survives even his most bruising experiences. Leo (played by the remarkable Felix Maritaud) is 22 and sells his body on the street for a bit of cash. The men come and go, but he stays right there, longing for love. He doesn’t know what the future will bring so he hits the road. Recalls the pulsating energy of Agnès Varda’s seminal 1985 character study Vagabond, which was an inspiration.

Director Hubert Charuel grew up as a farmer’s son, and incorporates this first-hand knowledge to give the context of his debut film a notable authenticity.

Swann Arlaud plays a lonesome 30-something dairy farmer, Pierre, whose life revolves around his veterinarian sister, his parents and his property.

A deadly virus affecting cows hits France and Pierre finds one of his much-loved herds infected.

Distraught at the prospect of losing even one cow, he attempts to hide the outbreak from the authorities and vows to fight to the bitter end to save them, even if it means resorting to drastic measures.

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Cyrano de Bergerac

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Mon 19 Nov at 8.25pm

Dany Mon Ket Tue 20 Nov at 8.40pm

Jean-Paul Rappeneau • France 1990 • 2h18m • Digital • French with English subtitles • U • Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez, Jacques Weber, Roland Bertin.

François Damiens • France/Belgium 2018 • 1h29m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: François Damiens, Matteo Salamone, Tatiana Tojo.

Veteran director Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play is a perfect example of what a cinematic adaptation can and should be. Part of its strength lies in its endorsement of the story’s unabashed romanticism. Instead of downplaying it, Rappeneau celebrates it. As a result, the film is as vivid and bold as its title character, revelling in exuberant intelligence and tragic poignancy. Cyrano is wellserved by Gérard Depardieu’s performance, for which he earned an Oscar nomination and a César award. Screening from a new digital restoration.

In his debut feature Belgian actor François Damiens returns to his first love - creating a feature film using hidden cameras. Damiens plays Dany who is serving a long-term prison sentence when he learns that his teenage son Sullivan has decided to seek legal emancipation. Dany escapes, dragging along with him Sullivan and his “godfather” on an escapade as beautiful as it is absurd. Dany hopes to correct past mistakes with his son, and over the course of just a few days tries to make up for an upbringing that has been patchy at best.

The Freshmen

The Image Book

Première année Wed 21 Nov at 6.00pm

Le Livre d’image Thu 22 Nov at 8.40pm

Thomas Lilti • France 2018 • 1h32m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Vincent Lacoste, William Leghbil, Alexandre Blazy.

Jean-Luc Godard • Switzerland/France 2018 • 1h25m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15.

Antoine is about to start his first year of medical school... for the third time. Benjamin, just out of high school, is making his first foray. He soon realises it’s not exactly a walk in the park. In a fiercely competitive environment, with nights dedicated to hard studying rather than hard partying, the two freshmen will have to adapt and find a middle ground between despair for the present and hope for the future. After Hippocrate (2014) and Médecin de campagne (2016) director Thomas Lilti tackles another tale with a medical background.

Godard reprises many of his familiar ideas, but with an unexpected urgency and visceral strangeness.

It’s an essay film with the body-language of a horror movie, avowedly taking Godard’s traditional concerns with the ethical status of cinema and history and looking to the Arab world and indirectly examining our Orientalism - Godard cites the Conradian phrase for a culture held ‘under Western eyes’. The veteran auteur has assembled a mosaic of clips and fragments that will engage, perplex and bemuse.

Recipient of a Special Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival 2018.

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All screenings in 2D unless marked (3D) (3D) - £2 charge for 3D 70mm - Screening from 70mm DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

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Peterloo (AD) (C) Peterloo (AD) Alien 3 (UV) Dogman Some Like It Hot (BW) Linden Space (ES) Some Like It Hot (BW) Dogman Five Fingers for Marseilles (AIM)

1.10 (captioned) 4.20/7.30 10.40pm 1.00 3.20/6.00 8.40 12.45 3.25/8.30 5.45

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They Shall Not Grow Old (WW) Peterloo (AD) Some Like It Hot (BW) Peterloo (AD) Dogman Peterloo (AD) Dogman Comboio de Sal e Acucar (AIM) Mayfair (AIM)

2.30 4.55/8.05 12.10/6.00 2.50 8.40 12.00 3.15 5.45 8.00 + Q&A

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Princess Mononoke (FJ) They Shall Not Grow Old Peterloo (AD) Some Like It Hot (BW) Peterloo (AD) (C) Dogman Dogman Some Like It Hot (BW) Farewell, Ella Bella (AIM) Supa Modo (AIM)

11.00am 2.30 4.40/7.50 12.10/8.30 2.50 (captioned) 6.10 1.00 3.30 6.15 8.15

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Peterloo (AD) Widows (AD) Peterloo (AD) Dogman The Ascent (HG) Some Like It Hot (BW) The 400 Blows (SR) Some Like It Hot (BW) Dogman Peterloo (AD)

2.30 5.45/8.30 12.15 3.40 6.05 + Intro 8.35 1.00 (£3 - over-60s) 3.15 5.50 8.10

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Mon 1 Peterloo (AD) 2.30/8.05 5 1 A Farewell to Arms (WW) 6.10 Nov 2 Dogman 1.00/3.20/5.40 2 Asthenic Syndrome (HG) 8.00 3 Peterloo (AD) 11.15am 3 Some Like It Hot (BW) 3.20/6.00 3 Dogman 8.45 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 46

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Peterloo (AD) Widows (AD) Peterloo (AD) Widows (AD) Chevalier (F) Some Like It Hot (BW) Some Like It Hot (BW) Dogman Peterloo (AD)

2.30 5.45/8.30 12.15 3.25 6.10 + Discussion 8.35 12.50 3.30/5.50 8.10

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Peterloo (AD) Widows (AD) Sink or Swim (FF) Widows (AD) Peterloo (AD) The Games We Play (ES) Some Like It Hot (BW) Dogman Peterloo (AD)

2.30 5.45 8.30 11.00am/2.00 5.30 8.40 + Q&A 12.50 3.30/5.50 8.10

Fri 9 Nov

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Widows (AD) Peterloo (AD) Outlaw King (AD) (C) Jealous (FF) Mexican Nights (ES) Widows (AD) Peterloo (AD) Outlaw King (AD)

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Adama (FF) Widows (AD) Peterloo (AD) Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain One Nation, One King (FF) Outlaw King (AD) Widows (AD) Outlaw King (AD) Peterloo (AD)

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Sgt. Stubby: An Unlikely... (FJ) 11.00am The Last of... Mohicans (£15/£10) 4.00 + Live Score Peterloo (AD) 6.30 Peterloo (AD) 11.30am Widows (AD) 2.45 See You Up There (FF) 5.30 Outlaw King (AD) 8.25 Outlaw King (AD) 12.00 The Red Collar (FF) 3.00 Widows (AD) 5.00/7.45

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French Film Festival UK (p 18-23) Filmhouse Junior (p 40-41) Edinburgh Greek Film Fest (p 42-43)

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Mon 1 Outlaw King (AD) 2.30 12 1 Widows (AD) 5.45/8.30 Nov 2 Widows (AD) 11.45am/2.45 2 Peterloo (AD) 5.35 2 Our Struggles (FF) 8.45 3 Peterloo (AD) 2.15 3 Spirited Away (GP) 5.40 + Discussion 3 Outlaw King (AD) 8.25 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 46 Tue 13 Nov

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Outlaw King (AD) Widows (AD) Widows (AD) Treat Me Like Fire (FF) Outlaw King (AD) (C) Peterloo (AD) Cutting It? ...at the BBFC

2.30 5.45/8.30 2.45 6.00 8.25 (captioned) 11.00am/2.15/8.05 5.40 (£3)

Outlaw King (AD) Widows (AD) Peterloo (AD) Outlaw King (AD) The House by the Sea (FF) Peterloo (AD) Widows (AD) Peterloo

2.30 5.45/8.30 2.30 5.50 8.45 11.00am/5.00 2.15 8.10

Thu 15 Nov

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Outlaw King (AD) Widows (AD) Widows (AD) The Prayer (FF) Outlaw King (AD) Peterloo (AD)

2.30 5.45/8.30 11.45am/2.45 6.00 8.25 1.30/5.00/8.10

Fri 16 Nov

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Widows (AD) (C) Widows (AD) The Faculty (UV) Widows (AD) Little Forest (LK) Promise at Dawn (FF) NAE PASARAN! Fahrenheit 11/9

2.00 (captioned) 5.40/8.25 11.10pm 11.10am/3.15 6.00 + Intro 8.25 11.00am/3.55/6.05 1.10/8.15

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(GP) Growing Pains (p 7) (HG) House Guest: Mark Cousins (p 30-31) (HZ) Herzog of the Month (p 12)

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Sat 1 Widows (AD) 12.10/2.55 17 1 Widows (AD) 5.40/8.30 Nov 2 Belle and Sebastian, Friends... (FF) 1.00 2 NAE PASARAN! 3.20 2 Little Tickles (FF) 6.15 2 The Lady in the Portrait (FF) 8.35 3 Ex Machina (BE) 1.30 + Discussion 3 Fahrenheit 11/9 5.30 3 NAE PASARAN! 8.25 Sun 18 Nov

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Flying the Nest (FJ) Widows (AD) The Truth (FF) Microhabitat (LK) Sauvage (FF) Bloody Milk (FF) Fahrenheit 11/9 Frankenstein (BE) NAE PASARAN!

11.00am 2.30/5.40/8.30 1.00 + Intro 3.45 + Intro 6.10 8.25 12.00/8.30 3.45 + Discussion 6.15

Mon 1 Widows (AD) 2.30/8.30 19 1 An Evening... Tony Harrison (TH) 6.30 + Q&A Nov 2 Widows (AD) 11.00am 2 Widows (AD) (C) 5.40 (captioned) 2 Fahrenheit 11/9 2.15 2 Cyrano de Bergerac (FF) 8.25 3 NAE PASARAN! 1.15/3.30/8.45 3 Fahrenheit 11/9 6.00 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 46 Tue 20 Nov

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Wed 1 21 2 Nov 2 2 2 3 3 3

Widows (AD) 2.30/5.45/8.30 Fahrenheit 11/9 2.15 Tony Harrison... Greek Tales (TH) 6.05 + Intro Dany (FF) 8.40 NAE PASARAN! 11.00am/3.30 The Grand Budapest Hotel (SR)(C) 1.10 (£3 - over-60s) Fahrenheit 11/9 6.00 Ace in the Hole (BW) 8.45 Widows (AD) Widows (AD) Fahrenheit 11/9 The Freshmen (FF) The Poet and the Boy (LK) Ace in the Hole (BW) NAE PASARAN! Fahrenheit 11/9

2.30/5.45/8.30 11.00am 2.15 6.00 8.35 + Intro 1.00 3.30 5.50/8.40

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(LK) London Korean Film Fest (p 17) (OR) Over the Rainbow (p 7) (SR) Senior Selections (p 14)(over-60s)

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Widows (AD) 2.30/5.45/8.30 Widows (AD) 11.00am Fahrenheit 11/9 2.15 Conny Plank: The Potential... (DE) 6.00 + Discussion The Image Book (FF) 8.40 Sabrina (BW) 1.00/5.40 NAE PASARAN! 3.30 Fahrenheit 11/9 8.15

Fri 23 Nov

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Widows (AD) Widows (AD) Shoplifters Concrete Night (HG) Shoplifters Sunset Boulevard (BW) In the Aisles (DE)

2.30/5.45/8.30 11.00am 2.15/8.15 6.00 11.05am/5.50 3.00 8.35

Sat 24 Nov

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Widows (AD) Collective Presents: Workers!

Widows (AD) Shoplifters Shoplifters Sunset Boulevard (BW) The Second Awakening... (DE) Freedom (DE)

12.45/5.45/8.30 3.30 + Discussion 11.00am 2.15/5.30/8.15 11.05am 1.45/8.40 4.10 6.20

Sun 25 Nov

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Jumanji (FJ) Widows (AD) (C) Widows (AD) Shoplifters Queen of the Desert (HZ) Shoplifters The German Sisters (DE) Rosa Luxemburg (DE)

11.00am 2.00 (captioned) 5.00/7.45 2.15/8.30 5.45 11.05am/5.30 3.00 8.15

Mon 1 Widows (AD) 1.15/5.45/8.30 26 2 Shoplifters 12.30/5.55 Nov 2 Widows (AD) 3.10 2 Tony... State of the Nation (TH) 8.35 3 Shoplifters 11.05am 3 Irma La Douce (BW) 2.30/6.00 3 Berlin Excelsior (DE) 9.00 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 46

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Widows (AD) Super November Kusama: Infinity Widows (AD) Shoplifters Naomi’s Journey (DE)

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Widows (AD) Widows (AD) Kusama: Infinity Shoplifters Shoplifters Kusama: Infinity The Lost... Katharina Blum (DE)

5.45/8.30 1.15 4.00 6.00/8.40 11.05am/3.00 6.15 8.25

Thu 29 Nov

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Widows (AD) Widows (AD) Double Indemnity (BW) Shoplifters Shoplifters Beuys (BE) Tony... Lives and Memories (TH)

2.30/5.45/8.30 11.00am 3.00/6.00 8.25 11.05am/3.00 5.50 + Q&A 8.45

Fri 30 Nov

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The Workshop Widows (AD) They Live (UV) Suspiria Shoplifters The Connection (HG) 1968 (G) Shoplifters Suspiria

12.45/6.00 3.15/8.30 11.15pm 11.00am 2.45 5.50 8.35 + Q&A 11.10am/8.20 1.50/5.10

Sat 1 Dec

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The Flea (G) Widows (AD) The Workshop The Workshop Becoming Animal Shoplifters Happy Birthday (G) Shoplifters The Gospel... to André (OR) Widows (AD) Suspiria

11.00am 2.15/8.30 6.00 12.00 2.30 + Q&A 5.25 8.35 + Skype Q&A 12.35 3.15 5.30 8.15

Sun 2 Dec

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The Lion King (FJ) Widows (AD) The Workshop Shoplifters Thelma and Louise Too Much Info Clouding... (G) The Workshop Shoplifters The Gospel... to André (OR) Suspiria

11.00am 2.15/8.30 6.00 11.15am/5.25 2.00 + Discussion 8.35 + Q&A 12.45 3.25 6.05 8.15

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Mon 1 Widows (AD) 2.30/8.30 3 1 Prometheus (TH) 5.40 Dec 2 Shoplifters 2.45/6.00 2 The Last Note (G) 8.40 3 The Workshop 11.15am/5.45 3 Suspiria 2.20/8.05 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 46 Tue 4 Dec

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Widows (AD) The Workshop Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get...

Shoplifters Jamaica (G) Julieta (SR) Widows (AD) Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get...

5.45 8.30 11.00am 2.45/5.50 8.40 1.00 (£3 - over-60s) 3.20 6.05/8.35

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Widows (AD) The Workshop Shoplifters The Workshop Nocturnal Animals (F) (AD) Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get...

Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get...

Shoplifters The Lost Weekend

2.30/5.50 8.35 11.00am 2.45 6.00 8.45 11.10am 2.15/8.25 6.05

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Widows (AD) The Workshop Shoplifters Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get...

The Workshop Shoplifters Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get...

2.30/8.30 6.00 11.00am/8.20 2.45/5.50 11.10am 2.15/5.45 8.25

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Education and Learning

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Education and Learning Schools Screenings Leaning into the Wind (Andy Goldsworthy documentary)

Tuesday 27 November, 10am • 1h33min, £3/free for teachers, PG, suitable for S1-S6, Art & Design + guest speaker Gemma Lawrence, Creative Carbon Scotland Join us for this unique and inspiring documentary on acclaimed environmental artist, Andy Goldsworthy.

Director Thomas Riedelsheimer has made an intimate portrait of Goldsworthy, revealing the method and inspiration behind his unique and tactile body of work. Not to be missed for students of Art & Design.

French Film Festival – November

The French Film Festival returns in November. All screenings are in French, with English subtitles, and are supported by free, engaging learning resources produced by the Institut Français d’Ecosse.

Belle and Sebastian, Friends for Life

Thursday 1 November, 10am • 1h37min, £3/free for teachers, French with English subtitles, suitable for P4-7, Modern Languages: French

An all-time French classic, Belle and Sebastian, Friends for Life is the final chapter of the charming family adventure adapted from Cécile Aubry’s novel. Continue the adventure off-screen with our terrific education pack designed by the Discovery Film Festival at Dundee Contemporary Arts. Please note, you do not need to have seen the previous films in the series to enjoy this one!

Adama

Wednesday 7 November, 10am • 1h22min, £3/free for teachers, French with English subtitles, suitable for P7-S4, Modern Languages: French Commemorate the centennial of the Armistice with this exquisitely animated film, which offers a unique perspective on the First World War through the eyes of Adama, a young boy from French speaking WestAfrica. It’s 1914 and Adama sets off across Europe in search of his older brother. The journey ultimately leads him to the front line at the Battle of Verdun.

For more information or to book places at any of these events please contact Chloé Berger at education@cmi-scotland.co.uk or call 0131 228 6382, or visit www.filmhousecinema.com/learning

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CLPL for Teachers Into Archive Film CLPL with Into Film

Wednesday 7 November, 4.30pm- 6.30pm, Filmhouse Guild Rooms; £15, suitable for all teachers, Social Studies: History, Literacy & English, Technologies In this session you will be introduced to working with archive film and primary sources as a stimulus for learning. Use film to inspire writing and also find out how to support children and young people to create their own archive film. For more information and to book your place please visit: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/into-archive-film-edinburgh-tickets-49040633856.

If you have any questions, please email edinburgh@intofilm.org.

Countdown to Christmas

Bring your class along this December for a festive treat, wear your best Christmas jumpers and Santa hats.

There will be music, a joyful atmosphere and a prize for best class effort! Santa himself might even come greet the pupils...

Arthur Christmas Tuesday 11 December, 10am • 1h37min, £3/free for teachers, U, suitable for P1-P4 How can Santa deliver millions of presents around the world in just one night? With an army of elves and an ultra-high-tech facility in the North Pole. However this well-oiled machine is threatened when one child is missed in the operation. Santa’s son, Arthur, comes to the rescue with an unconventional team, an old sleigh and some untrained reindeer. Will he deliver the last present on time? Come along to find out!

Incredibles 2 Wednesday 12 December, 10am • 2h5min, £3/free for teachers, PG, suitable for P4+

The Parrs are back, and this time around Helen (aka Elastigirl) is in the spotlight, leaving Bob (Mr. Incredible) at home with Violet and Dash, navigating the day-to-day heroics of “normal” life. When a new villain hatches a brilliant and dangerous plot, the family and Frozone must find a way to work together again – which is easier said than done...

Elf Thursday 13 December, 10am • 1h33min, £3/free for teachers, PG, suitable for P4+ Will Ferrell is at his wide-eyed best in this disarmingly funny and good-natured festive family frolic. Buddy (Ferrell) is an adult human who has been raised by elves at the North Pole after stowing away in Santa’s sack as an infant during his Christmas visit to an orphanage. Having finally realised that he is not like the other elves, he sets off to New York City to find his birth father - and finds things to be rather different there.

For more information or to book places at any of these events please contact Chloé Berger at education@cmi-scotland.co.uk, or you can also call 0131 228 6382, or visit www.filmhousecinema.com/learning When making a booking please include: · Film Title/ Event name · Date of screening/ event · Name of school · Lead teacher email and mobile number · Number of students · Number of adults.

This will help us process your request quickly and efficiently. Thanks!

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House Guest: Mark Cousins

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Mark Cousins For three decades, Filmhouse screens have been my solace, my magic carpet rides. What have I chosen to put on them? Films that have humbled or thrilled me. An epic war movie set in Belarus, a dazzling Finnish dreamscape, a haunting, a jazzy American drug den, a never-before-seen-in-Scotland Bulgarian satire.

There are few movie stars here, but there are visionary filmmakers - people doing bold things with stories, emotions and images. These visionaries - Larisa Shepitko, Binka Zhelyazkova, Shirley Clarke, Pirjo Honkasalo, Kira Muratova, etc - should be as well known as Ingmar Bergman or Martin Scorsese, but they aren’t. Let’s change that.

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Asthenic Syndrome

Astenicheskiy sindrom Mon 5 Nov at 8.00pm

Kira Muratova • Soviet Union 1990 • 2h33m • Digital • Russian with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Olga Antonova, Sergei Popov, Galina Zakhurdaeva, Natalya Buzko.

Mark Cousins - “Kira Muratova was a visionary director - like a mix of Fellini and Tarkovsky. This is one of her best films, and it shocked me. A grieving woman drifts through a society that seems to be sick or deranged. Asthenic Syndrome is so angry and daring that it was the only Soviet film to be banned under Gorbachev’s openness. Like many of her films, it has a surprising twist. A very rare chance to see a great work of cinema.”

Let’s celebrate these great directors, who are all women. Thank you, Filmhouse. You’re one of the world’s great cinemas.

Mark Cousins

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Voskhozhdenie Tue 6 Nov at 6.05pm

Larisa Shepitko • Soviet Union 1977 • 1h51m • 35mm • Russian and German with English subtitles • 12A • Cast: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergey Yakovlev, Lyudmila Polyakova, Viktoriya Goldentul.

Mark Cousins - “If you think Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in The West is operatic, feast your eyes on this. The music by Alfred Schnittke makes me cry every time. The setting is Belarus in 1942. Two men, their friendship, their via doloroso. Larisa Shepitko’s last film is her masterpiece, her cri de coeur. Even if you’ve seen this on DVD, see it on the big screen. It’s as great and as serious as The Passion of Joan of Arc.” This film will be introduced by Mark Cousins.

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Concrete Night

Betoniyö Fri 23 Nov at 6.00pm

Pirjo Honkasalo • Finland/Sweden/Denmark 2013 • 1h36m • Digital Finnish with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Johannes Brotherus, Jari Virman, Anneli Karppinen.

Mark Cousins - “I was blown away when I saw this.

I knew Pirjo Honkasalo’s docs, such as 3 Rooms of Melancholia, but this dreamlike, widescreen blackand-white gem reminded me of Francis Coppola’s Rumblefish. It’s about two brothers and their mum, who live in a moody, intense triangle. The images are gorgeous, the atmosphere noir. Love and death are in the air. Did Tennessee Williams write this swoony film?”

The Tied Up Balloon

Privârzaniyat balon Mon 10 Dec at 6.10pm

Binka Zhelyazkova • Bulgaria 1967 • 1h38m • Digital • Bulgarian with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Georgi Kaloyanchev, Grigor Vachkov, Ivan Bratanov, Georgi Georgiev-Getz.

Mark Cousins - “Why is Binka Zhelyazkova’s name not known to all movie lovers? It makes me angry.

In this film she shows her style, her daring, her sense of fun. We’re in Bulgaria in the communist times. A mysterious, massive balloon drifts over a village. As a result, surreal things take place. Is the balloon a symbol, or an envoy, or a piece of absurdism? What a beautifully shot film. What a beautifully thought out film.” Supported by the Bulgarian National Film Archive.

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The Connection Fri 30 Nov at 5.50pm Shirley Clarke• USA 1962• 1h50m• Digital• 18• Cast: Warren Finnerty, Jerome Raphael, William Redfield, Garry Goodrow , Jim Anderson.

Mark Cousins - “1961. A flophouse in New York. Some jazz musicians are waiting for their supplier to bring them heroin. Director Shirley Clarke’s famous film brilliantly makes us feel as if we’re there, waiting for the delivery. She adds a documentary film crew into the story, so the camera work is alive and alert. If you haven’t seen this sassy, innovative, raw film, treat yourself.”

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Billy Wilder

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BillyWilder In honour of the digital restoration of his classic Some Like It Hot, we celebrate the genius of Billy Wilder, one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of the Hollywood Golden Age. Wilder only directed 25 films in a 40 year long career, but the emphasis was on quality – he authored a steady stream of genre-hopping classics, from sophisticated romantic comedies Sabrina and The Apartment to savage media indictment Ace in the Hole and Double Indemnity, the quintessential film noir.

Perhaps best of all, the biting Sunset Boulevard remains arguably the greatest movie ever made about Hollywood, full of endlessly quotable Oscarwinning dialogue and daring narrative leaps, and will surely endure as long as cinema itself.

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Some Like It Hot Fri 2 to Thu 8 Nov Billy Wilder • USA 1959 • 2h1m • Digital • U - Contains mild violence and moderate sex references. • Cast: Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe, Joe E Brown, George Raft.

Some Like it Hot follows the antics of two musicians (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) who, after witnessing the St Valentine’s Day Massacre, escape from the mob by dressing up in drag and joining an all-girl band. Comic complications ensue when Tony Curtis - now a pouting girl - strives to express his affection for Marilyn Monroe, while Jack Lemmon - similarly attired - is being pursued by an amorous Joe E Brown, who has one of the most famous closing punchlines in film history. Join us for a new restoration of this wonderfully silly cinema classic.

Ace in the Hole

Sabrina

Tue 20 Nov at 8.45pm & Wed 21 Nov at 1.00pm

Thu 22 Nov at 1.00pm & 5.40pm

Billy Wilder • USA 1951• 1h51m • Digital • English, Spanish and Latin with English subtitles • PG • Cast: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall, Frank Cody.

Billy WIlder • USA 1954 • 1h53m • Digital • English and French with English subtitles • U • Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, William Holden.

Billy Wilder’s superb Ace in the Hole, so ahead of its time in the 1950s with its unflinching examination of journalistic values and human ethics, should rightly take its place alongside his greatest works.

Kirk Douglas stars as Chuck Tatum, a reporter who stumbles upon a potentially career-making story when a man becomes trapped in a cave in New Mexico. Desperate to prolong the drama in the name of his coverage, Tatum involves himself with local law enforcement, the rescue party and the victim’s family - a dangerous game to play, with the gravest of consequences...

Billy Wilder’s classic Cinderella reimagining starring Audrey Hepburn, William Holden and Humphrey Bogart.

The chauffeur for a wealthy family sends his impish daughter to Paris to broaden her horizons and help overcome her longtime crush on the family’s playboy son. She returns an attractive young woman and wins the attention of the playboy son and his more serious older brother. The winner of an Academy Award for Best Costume.

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Sunset Boulevard

Irma La Douce

Fri 23 & Sat 24 Nov

Mon 26 Nov at 2.30pm & 6.00pm

Billy Wilder • USA 1950 • 1h51m • Digital • U • Cast: Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olsen, Fred Clark.

Billy Wilder • USA 1963 • 2h24m • Digital • 15 • Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon, Lou Jacobi.

Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, an aging silent film queen, and William Holden as the struggling writer who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen’s most memorable characters in Sunset Boulevard. Winner of three Academy Awards., director Billy Wilder’s orchestration of the bizarre tale is a true cinematic classic. From the unforgettable opening sequence through the inevitable unfolding of tragic destiny, the film is the definitive statement on the dark and desperate side of Hollywood.

Based on Marguerite Monnot and Alexandre Breffort’s 1956 stage musical (though with the songs removed), Wilder’s farcical, and often perverse, romantic comedy follows a former policeman (Jack Lemmon) who falls in love with a charming prostitute (Shirley MacLaine).

MacLaine and Lemmon, reunited with Wilder after The Apartment, sparkle throughout in a rollicking, bawdy tale of smut and deceit, soundtracked by André Previn’s Academy Award-winning score.

Double Indemnity

The Lost Weekend

Thu 29 Nov at 3.00pm & 6.00pm

Wed 5 Dec at 6.05pm

Billy Wilder • USA 1944 • 1h47m • Digital • PG - Contains mild violence. • Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather.

Billy Wilder • USA 1945 • 1h41m • Digital • PG - Contains alcoholism and mild horror. • Cast: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Philip Terry.

In this gold standard of ‘40s noir, Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), a salesman for Pacific All-Risk Insurance, gets roped into a murderous scheme when he falls for the sensual Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck), who is intent on killing her husband (Tom Powers) and living off the fraudulent accidental death claim.

Prompted by the late Mr. Dietrichson’s daughter, Lola (Jean Heather), insurance investigator Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson) looks into the case, and gradually begins to uncover the sinister truth.

Don Birnam (Ray Milland) is a New York author struggling with years of alcoholism and writer’s block. Defying his straight-laced brother Wick (Philip Terry) and devoted girlfriend Helen (Jane Wyman), Don embarks on a four-day binge, spiralling towards rock bottom. Crackling with rapier dialogue, vivid performances and Wilder’s superlative direction, this brutal noir provided one of cinema’s first in-depth studies of addiction - horrifying the studio, test audiences and temperance groups, but finding huge success and becoming the awards sensation of its year.

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Fokus: Films from Germany

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Fokus - Films from Germany, now in its fourth year, is a partnership between Goethe-Institut (Glasgow) and Filmhouse, which aims to present a diverse and engaging selection of recent German cinema, covering a range of themes and genres.

This year’s line-up at Filmhouse presents three very different documentaries and three truly engrossing dramas - with tickets to two of these titles available for just £4 thanks to Goethe-Institut.

Also featuring are four films directed by Margarethe von Trotta, one of the most gifted – but often overlooked – directors to come from the New German Cinema movement. The films selected represent von Trotta’s exceptional talent in portraying how the personal is political.

These are supported by the BFI, awarding funds from The National Lottery.

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Conny Plank: The Potential of Noise Thu 22 Nov at 6.00pm Reto Caduff, Stephan Plank • Germany 2017 • 1h32m • Digital German and English with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary.

Konrad “Conny” Plank is undoubtedly one of the most innovative sound designers of his time. The recordings realised in his sound studio near Cologne revolutionized the music world. He was the pioneer of “Kraut-rock”, “neue deutsche welle” and paved the way for the revolutions of electronic and pop music respectively. This is a story that begins 25 years on, with Stephan embarking on a journey to rediscover his father’s importance in music history.

This screening will be followed by a discussion.

We do hope you’ll join us as we celebrate emerging filmmakers and performers from Germany with this touring mini-festival.

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In den Gängen

Fri 23 Nov at 8.35pm Thomas Stuber • Germany 2017 • 2h5m • Digital • German with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Franz Rogowski, Sandra Hüller, Peter Kurth, Henning Peker, Matthias Brenner.

When shy and reclusive Christian loses his job, he starts to work for a wholesale market. Bruno from the Beverage aisle takes him under his wing and quickly becomes a fatherly friend. In the aisles he meets “Sweets” - Marion. The coffee machine becomes their regular meeting point and the two start to get to know each other. Marion is married and Christian’s feelings for her seem to remain unrequited, especially when Marion does not return to work one day...

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Freedom Freiheit Sat 24 Nov at 6.20pm Jan Speckenbach • Germany/Slovakia 2017 • 1h42m • Digital • German and Slovak with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Johanna Wokalek, Hans-Jochen Wagner.

A mother goes away, leaving her husband and their two children in limbo. In Vienna, Nora wanders through a museum, succumbs to a flirtation and then thumbs a lift to Bratislava. She conceals her origin behind small lies, changes her appearance, finds work and makes friends with the young Slovak woman Etela, a stripper, and her husband. Meanwhile in Berlin, Philip tries to keep his family and job as well as his affair with Monika going. Struggling with the role of single parent, he finds an - albeit unconscious - ear for his worries in the figure of a coma patient...

Naomi’s Journey

Naomis Reise Tue 27 Nov at 5.50pm

Frieder Schlaich • Germany/Peru 2017 • 1h32m • Digital • German and Spanish with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Scarlett Jaimes, Liliana Trujillo, Romanus Fuhrmann.

After the murder of her older sister by her German husband, twenty-year old Naomi (Scarlett Jaimes) reluctantly accompanies her mother from Peru to Berlin to follow the trial. As she learns more about the crime and her sister’s life far from home, she is emboldened to start taking more control of her own... This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Frieder Schlaich.

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Berlin Excelsior Mon 26 Nov at 9.00pm Eric Lemke • Germany 2017 • 1h27m • Digital • German and English with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary.

The anonymous concrete construction “Excelsior” is just a stopover for many of its inhabitants. Soon, life will get better and everyone tries to get ahead in his own way. With “Invisible Make-up”, the 49-yearold Michael wants to re-connect with his previous success as a call boy. Claudia’s days as a dancer are over, but a series of new photos are supposed to help her get back on stage. Norman wants to help others find happiness with his start-up... and also help himself to a new sports car. Hardly anyone can escape the temptations of success.

Beuys Thu 29 Nov at 5.50pm Andres Veiel • Germany 2017 • 1h47m • Digital • German and English with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary.

Beuys. The man with the hat, the felt and the fat corner.

30 years after his death, he appears to us as a visionary who was ahead of his time. Patiently he tried to explain even then that “money must not be a commodity”.

He knew that the money market would undermine democracy. But more than that. Beuys parodies, lectures and explains the art to the dead hare. Do you want to make a revolution without laughing? he asks - and laughs. His expanded concept of art took him right to the heart of today’s relevant social debates.

This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Andres Veiel. Tickets £4

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Margarethe von Trotta

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The Second Awakening of Christa Klages

Das zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages Sat 24 Nov at 6.10pm Margarethe von Trotta • Germany 1978 • 1h33m • Digital • German with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Tina Engel, Silvia Reize, Katharina Thalbach, Marius Müller-Westernhagen.

Margarethe von Trotta’s solo directorial debut, The Second Awakening of Christa Klages is an acutely observed reflection of her favourite theme: the powerful and often mysterious psychic bond among women. It follows a young woman who robs a bank to pay for her daughter’s day-care with the help of her lover. On the run, she is pursued by the police and more ambiguously, also by the young woman who was her hostage in the raid.

The German Sisters

Die bleierne Zeit Sun 25 Nov at 3.00pm

Margarethe von Trotta • Germany 1981• 1h46m • Digital • German with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Jutta Lampe, Barbara Sukowa, Rüdiger Vogler, Doris Schade.

Two sisters take diverging paths to emancipation in West Germany. Juliane (Jutta Lampe) is a feminist journalist, arguing for abortion rights; Marianne (Barbara Sukowa) is a terrorist revolutionary in a Baader-Meinhof type group. As Marianne’s political activism begins to take a personal cost, Juliane is stricken between her politics and her need to protect her sister and her family. But when Marianne is imprisoned, Juliane is forced to confront the realities of the harsh power of the state.

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Die Geduld der Rosa Luxemburg Sun 25 Nov at 8.15pm Margarethe von Trotta • Germany/Czechoslovakia 1986 • 2h3m Digital • German, Polish and French with English subtitles • PG • Cast: Barbara Sukowa, Daniel Olbrychski, Otto Sander, Adelheid Arndt.

Having fought for women’s rights and to revolutionise the state in early 20th century Poland and Germany, the Marxist revolutionary Luxemburg (1871-1919) formed the famous Spartacist League, later the Communist Party of Germany before, after a failed uprising, she was murdered in Berlin aged 47. The film traces Luxemburg’s political and moral development from journalist and author to dissenter from the party line and imprisoned pacifist.

The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum

Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum Wed 28 Nov at 8.25pm Volker Schlöndorff & Margarethe von Trotta • West Germany 1975 1h46m • Digital • German with English subtitles • 15 - Contains infrequent strong language and sex references • Cast: Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow, Heinz Bennent.

After a lively carnival party, the young, single and attractive housekeeper Katharina Blum spends the night with a chance acquaintance. Next morning her apartment is stormed by the special branch in search of the man - a suspected terrorist - but he has already left. After being grilled by the investigating police inspector and losing her job, Katharina decides to salvage whatever remains of her honour.

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Biomedical Ethics Film Festival on the Creation of Transhumans This year celebrates the 200th anniversary of the publication, in 1818, of the Frankenstein novel written by Mary Shelley. In this context, the Biomedical Ethics Film Festival will examine whether Frankenstein’s monster can be considered as a transhuman? But are other possible transhumans already being created? Will they eventually replace ‘natural’ humans? Moreover, how will transhumans feel about being brought into existence? This Film Festival, which is one of the first in the world, will seek to answer some of these questions.

At the end of each screening, a discussion will take place between the audience and a panel of invited experts in bioethics, science, law, medicine and politics.

The Film Festival is organised in partnership with the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, Filmhouse, the Mason Institute, at the School of Law, The University of Edinburgh, St Mary’s University, Twickenham - London and the Center for Healthcare Ethics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, USA.

Ex Machina Sat 17 Nov at 1.30pm Alex Garland • USA/UK 2015 • 1h48m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, bloody violence, sex references. • Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander, Chelsea Li, Corey Johnson.

Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company’s brilliant and reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac). Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that he has been chosen to evaluate the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan’s latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That experiment is Ava, a breathtaking A.I. whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated - and more deceptive - than the two men could have imagined.

Frankenstein Sun 18 Nov at 3.45pm James Whale • USA 1931 • 1h10m • Digital • PG - Contains mild horror and violence. • Cast: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Dwight Frye.

Boris Karloff gives one of the great performances of all time in this stark, solid, impressively stylish film.

The film’s great imaginative coup is to show the monster ‘growing up’ in all too human terms. First he is the innocent baby, reaching up to grasp the sunlight, then the joyous child, playing at throwing flowers into the lake with a little girl and finally, as he is progressively misjudged by the society that created him, the savage killer as whom he has been typecast.

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Tony Harrison Retrospective Tony Harrison is one of the most distinguished and important poets of his generation. He’s also a filmmaker, although that’s less celebrated simply because his films, made for the BBC and C4, have rarely if at all been seen since original broadcast.

Whatever the format, his work has always embraced the past, through his working-class roots or the myths and dramas of ancient Greece, to tackle, confront and challenge the present. Often controversial, dividing opinion, initiating debate and embracing the challenge to the powers that govern, Harrison’s poetry always conveys a message, whether political or personal, for the public at large.

Dealing with themes and issues such as censorship, the fall of the working class, the collapse of socialism, life and death in the community, the destructive violence of governments and lost memories, the power and intensity of the film poems continue to resonate and respond to the times.

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An Evening with Tony Harrison Mon 19 Nov at 6.30pm 1h20m • 15

A rare opportunity to hear one of Britain’s leading poets, Tony Harrison, in conversation, discussing his film poems.

In conversation with long-time collaborator, the director Peter Symes, the evening will provide an insight into the working practices, creative processes, themes and methods of the film poems.

The conversation will be illustrated with clips from the film poems and there will be an audience Q&A afterwards.

A unique opportunity to see these rarely screened works and experience the power of the film poem as created by one of the greatest poets of the people.

Curated by David McLachlan in partnership with the Scottish Poetry Library and Filmhouse.

Tony Harrison Shorts: Greek Tales Tue 20 Nov at 6.05pm

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2h2m • Various directors • 15

The woman of Thrace killed the poet Orpheus and threw his head and lyre into the river Hebrus - Harrison’s Metamorpheus follows the journey of the head. A Maybe Day in Kazakhstan reflects the aspirations of a recently democratised Kazakhstan focusing on the displaced and exiled Kazakhstanis in modern day Greece. The Gaze of the Gorgon explores the way in which the powerful abuse mythology to justify horrors, turning witnesses to atrocity to stone. This programme will be introduced by Peter Symes.

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Tony Harrison Shorts: State of the Nation

Tony Harrison Shorts: Lives and Memories

Mon 26 Nov at 8.35pm

Thu 29 Nov at 8.45pm

1h32m • Various directors • 15

1h50m • Various directors • 15

Featuring a special edition of The South Bank Show from March 1999, including the GPO film Night Mail, a documentary on Tony Harrison and his film poem elegy, and Harrison’s own state-of-the-nation protest, Crossings. Also screening is V (1987), a profound, compassionate work about the obscenities of British life and the waste of human potential which explores the social divisions of the day, industrial decline and working-class aspirations.

‘One of the most powerful, profound and haunting poems of modern times’ - Bernard Levin

Prometheus Mon 3 Dec at 5.40pm Tony Harrison • UK/Canada 1998 • 2h10m • 35mm • English, Greek, German and Bulgarian with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Michael Feast, Walter Sparrow, Fern Smith.

A political parable set against the closure of the last Yorkshire pit. Using the myth of Prometheus for the struggles of the working class across Europe and the devastation brought on by political conflict and unfettered industrialisation to ask what humanity has made of Prometheus gift of fire. A call to change things for the better by cooperation rather than competition.

‘A bold, adventurous film packed with striking visual images, a gripping experience, fuelled with controlled anger’ - Observer

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The outline shadow of a victim of Hiroshima becomes our guide to the city, of memory and of today, in The Shadow of Hiroshima; his story and longing for an ordinary life is interwoven into the build-up to the ceremony of the releasing of the doves. Also screening is Black Daisies for the Bride, a tribute to sufferers from Alzeheimers disease. Drama, song, documentary, verse and music combine to gently unravel lives and memories.

‘So spellbindingly innovative that it defies description’ - Irish Times

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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!

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!

Princess Mononoke Mononoke Hime Sun 4 Nov at 11.00am Hayao Miyazaki • Japan 1997 • 2h8m • Digital • English Dubbed Version • PG - Contains moderate violence, threat, scary scenes, mild language.

In this thematic sequel to Nausicaä, a young warrior is cursed by a demon. His search for a cure takes him far from home, to a forest where he sees humans ravaging the earth, bringing down the wrath of wolf god Moro and his human companion Princess Mononoke. His attempts to broker peace between her and the humans brings only conflict.

Sgt. Stubby: An Unlikely Hero Sun 11 Nov at 11.00am

Flying the Nest Sun 18 Nov at 11.00am

Richard Lanni • Ireland/UK/France/Canada/USA 2018 • 1h24m Digital • PG - Contains mild violence, threat.

Árni Ásgeirsson • Iceland/Belgium 2018 • 1h24m • Digital U - Contains mild threat, rude humour.

With World War I looming, Robert Conroy, a young Army private, adopts a stray, stump-tailed terrier, and names his new friend Stubby. The two quickly find themselves in the trenches of France and on the path to history. Based on a true story, Stubby is still recognised today as the most decorated canine in American history and the first promoted to the rank of Sergeant in the U.S. Army.

Winter can be a harsh and unrelenting season; especially for a newborn Plover. But Ploey is no ordinary chick. A twist of fate leaves Ploey alone and unable to fly, as his flock departs across the ocean for winter. He is forced to embark on a journey where he must use his cunning, and rely on the help of newly-found friends to make it through the winter and see his flock once more...

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Jumanji Sun 25 Nov at 11.00am

The Lion King Sun 2 Dec at 11.00am

Joe Johnston • USA 1995 • 1h44m • Digital • English and French with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild fantasy horror.

Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff • USA 1994 • 1h25m • Digital U - Contains no material likely to offend or harm.

A magical board game unleashes a world of adventure on siblings Peter and Judy Shepherd.

While exploring an old mansion, the youngsters find a curious, jungle-themed game called Jumanji in the attic. When they start playing, they free Alan Parrish (Robin Williams), who’s been stuck in the game’s inner world for decades... The original and best Jumanji is a must-see!

The Lion King presents the story of a lion cub’s journey to adulthood and acceptance of his royal destiny. Simba begins life as an honoured prince, the son of the powerful King Mufasa. The cub’s happy childhood turns tragic when his uncle Scar betrays them and casts Simba out. In exile, the young lion befriends Pumbaa the warthog and Timon the meerkat, but is soon visited by the spirit of his father...

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Sun 9 Dec at 11.00am Andrew Adamson • USA 2005 • 2h20m • Digital • PG - Contains mild threat, battle and fantasy violence.

CS Lewis’ timeless adventure follows the exploits of the four Pevensie siblings - Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter - in World War II England, who enter the world of Narnia through a magical wardrobe while playing a game of hide-and-seek in the rural country home of an elderly professor.

Once there, the children discover a charming, peaceful land inhabited by talking beasts, dwarfs, fauns, centaurs and giants that has become a world cursed to eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Under the guidance of a noble and mystical ruler, the lion Aslan, the children fight to overcome Jadis’ powerful hold over Narnia. Andrew Adamson’s film is a triumph - gorgeous to look at, superbly cast, wittily directed and funny and exciting by turns.

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Edinburgh Greek Film Festival People ask about Greece. How bad are things? Is there hope? Greek films have been so full of The Crisis, we often felt we were inviting you to come and share the sorrows of Greece. Not this year. This year we have Greeks who suffer The Crisis but who are too busy living to think about it all the time.

1968 Fri 30 Nov at 8.35pm Tassos Boulmetis • Greece 2018 • 1h55m • Digital • Greek with English subtitles • 15 • Docufiction.

We have the celebratory 1968 by Boulmetis, (of A Touch of Spice), Pantelis Voulgaris’s latest historical epic and lots of Greeks behaving as Greeks do.

Greek drivers still drive like charioteers, gentle Greek conversation still sounds like a breach of the peace: Greeks are still Greeks. Come and meet a few.

AEK Athens are in the final of the European Basketball Champions Cup but so unlikely to win that a man avoiding marriage promises to marry if they do. The buses are empty, the old Olympic Stadium is full and Greece, now under the Colonels, hopes against hope. Boulmetis tells the whole story - AEK’s founding by refugees from K(C)onstantinople and lots of the All blurbs written by Edinburgh Greek Film Festival. stories from then on. The old players remember, we

relive an extraordinary night and Boulmetis manages FESTIVAL EXHIBITION the almost impossible – documentary footage with An exhibition organised by SYN FESTIVAL engrossing, human, fictionalised truth. Followed by a Q&A with director Tassos Boulmetis.

EDINBURGH. Curated by Davide Boschi and Maro Psyrra.

A decade ago the global financial crisis left a prominent mark in Greece by inheriting a debt crisis that torments the country to this day. Many lost their jobs and thousands have left the country in search for a better future. The exhibition reflects on a basic right: the right to work, to be financially independent. It focuses on all those who left their home countries to build a new life in the United Kingdom and explores the numerous challenges faced in the new environment in pursuit of a more stable life.

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Happy Birthday Sat 1 Dec at 8.35pm Christos Georgiou • Greece 2018 • 1h27m • Digital • Greek with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Mirto Alikaki, Dimitris Imellos, Nefeli Kouri, Vasilis Magouliotis.

Margarita has problems. She’s a teenager, antigovernment, has a policeman father and a radical boyfriend and she’s trying to grow up. It’s difficult. Her father seems like a nice guy, even when she sees him through tear gas on demonstrations. Her boyfriend is also trying to grow up but is a work in progress. She has, of course, a Greek mother who sends father and daughter off to where all Greek problems are solved their village. They manage. Roller skates are involved, horribly jocular singing policemen, several sulks and, in the end, some wisdom. Followed by a Skype Q&A with director Christos Georgiou.

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Too Much Info Clouding Over My Head Sun 2 Dec at 8.35pm

Dimitris Spyrou • Greece 1990 • 1h48m • Digital • Greek with English subtitles • PG • Cast: Pantelis Trivizas, Vassilis Kolovos, Dimitra Hatoupi, Amalia Giza, Kostoula Tsellou.

Vasilis Christofilakis • Greece 2017 • 1h46m • Digital • Greek with English subtitles • 15 • Vasilis Christofilakis, Kitty Paitazoglou.

Ilias is an accidental schoolboy rebel. There is no newspaper in his village, so he writes one - every copy by hand. The village is puzzled, the policeman laughs, his parents don’t see the point, his teacher sees the point but doesn’t like it. Through his eyes we see the village and almost live in it. We eavesdrop on the cafenion, the school, the weaving, dyeing women, the carpenter, the mayor. We get gossip, we almost become insiders.

Vasilis is a director in search of a film. His mother wants him to make a masterpiece, his wife wants him to make his own film and his producer wants him to make something - anything at all. He does his best to accept advice. He can’t. He tries to take orders. He can’t. He’s annoying and gifted - he’s a film-director.

He decides to make a film nobody else may want to see. Luckily, we don’t have to see that film. We have this film. Followed by a Q&A with director Vasilis Christofilakis and Producer Eleni Petristi.

The Last Note

Jamaica

Mon 3 Dec at 8.40pm

Tue 4 Dec at 8.40pm

Pantelis Voulgaris • Greece 2017 • 1h57m • Digital • Greek with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Andreas Konstantinou, André Hennicke, Melia Kreiling, Tasos Dimas, Aineias Tsamatis, Vassilis Koukalani.

Andreas Morfonios • Greece 2017 • 1h38m • Digital • Greek with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Fanis Mouratidis, Spiros Papadopoulos, Anna-Maria Papaharalambous, Nikoleta Kotsailisou.

Pantelis Voulgaris is Greece’s Recording Angel and what he records are the ways individuals suffer when History erupts, as in this true story. It’s 1944. The war is ending, but not for the German garrison of Athens, where hundreds of partisans are imprisoned with the usual Nazi mixture of sadism and missionary madness. A German general is assasinated and reprisals ordered – 200 to be shot, to be selected by sometimes Phillhellenic Germans. Deals are offered, choices made and 200 men decide how to live their last days. They round up their musical instruments and they dance – to the last note.

The old story, apparently. Two brothers, very different.

They have to be, otherwise no plot. They are. They have complementary virtues and vices, they don’t get on, women are interested in them unequally.

But things happen, real things. You hear humane (translated) Greek banter, you meet the kind of Greeks you hope really exist, there are gentle, credible love stories going on. It has a real ending. We admit it: this is a feelgood film. But this one makes you feel good about feeling good.

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Alien 3: Assembly Cut Fri 2 Nov at 10.40pm Uncanny Valley is a place for dreams as well as nightmares. The hope here is to shine a lantern on the nocturnal neo-classics lurking in the shadows.

The unsung heroes of grungy science-fiction, Lovecraftian terrors by modern horror masters, social commentary in the form of farce comedies and, most importantly, strange and uncanny tales that evade definition. Be it a journey into the darkest depths of the world we live in or whimsical flights of hysteria and cringe-worthy dilemmas, we hope to showcase the flicks of decades now adrift and ones best shown at night.

David Fincher • USA 1992 • 2h18m • Digital • 15 • Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann, Brian Glover.

David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club) battled his ninecircles-of-hell to forge what was the third instalment in the Alien franchise and his feature debut. The suits took the edit in a direction he couldn’t sign off on; the film did poorly and was considered a failure... A new revised cut surfaced in 2003 from stock room limbo: The Assembly Cut. Not a director’s cut, but close to it. Fincher’s complete vision will still remain lost; but restored is a haunting tale of damnation steeped in mythology, taking the franchise into industrial-gothic terrain in what is undoubtedly the bleakest Alien to date.

As we head into the future with borrowed ideas and twisted dreams, we have our own fiction to craft, and it’s about movies.

Uncanny Valley screenings are fortnightly on Friday nights and cost £8/£6 concessions (£5 students).

Uncanny Valley is proudly supported by Bellfield Brewery

The Faculty Fri 16 Nov at 11.10pm Robert Rodriguez • USA 1998 • 1h44m • 35mm • 15 - Contains strong language and horror. • Cast: Elijah Wood, Jordana Brewster, Shawn Hatosy, Clea DuVall, Josh Hartnett, Robert Patrick.

‘Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone!’

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Alien parasites have infiltrated the staff room at Harrington High. A few students begin to notice their teachers are acting a little bizarre (at least more than usual) and decide to weaponise against the growing threat... Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, From Dusk till Dawn), allied with the writer of Scream, and armed with over-the-top filmmaking, wove together this Gen-X remodelling of Invasion of the Bodysnatchers.

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The Nightmare Before Christmas

Fri 30 Nov at 11.15pm John Carpenter • USA 1988 • 1h30m • Digital • 18 - Contains very strong violence. • Cast: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, Peter Jason, Jason Robards III.

Nada is a drifter who moves to L.A. looking for work, where he accidentally discovers a TV subliminal messaging conspiracy, and a pair of sunglasses that show him everything black-and-white. Is this a case of the powerful manipulating the masses, an Orwellian social order, or something even more sinister? He’s come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And he’s all out of bubblegum.

Don’t STAY ASLEEP and join us for this cult classic in its 30th anniversary year.

Fri 14 Dec at 11.00pm Henry Selick • USA 1993 • 1h16m • Digital • PG - Contains mild comic horror • With the voices of Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O’Hara.

Boys and girls of every age, wouldn’t you like to see something strange? Jack Skellington, mascot of Halloween Town, grows bored of the same tricks’n’treats they pull every year. Wandering into Christmas Town, Jack hears of a Sandy Claws who sneaks into houses at night to surprise children, and gets the idea that this is the perfect new holiday to celebrate in Halloween Town. But the creepy crawly residents fail to grasp the spirit of Christmas and adapt it to their old habits, terror ensuing.

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All our dishes are prepared using fresh ingredients with our chefs serving up imaginative, fresh, affordable and exciting food from all round the world. We cater for most dietary needs and have a variety of daily specials which often can be adapted.

The bar has an impressive range of wines as well as fair trade coffees, real ales, beers & spirits all served by our friendly, talented bar staff.

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Every month, our infamously tricky (but fun) Film Quiz, hosted by Raymah Tariq. Free to enter, teams of up to eight people to be seated in the Café Bar by 9pm. Next quiz on Sunday 11 November 2018.

We now offer an extensive and affordable Breakfast Menu including Full Scottish and Vegetarian cooked breakfast options, Eggs Benedict and hot fillings for Morning Rolls. Breakfast served every day until 12pm and Sunday till 3pm.

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Access Filmhouse foyer and Box Office are accessed from Lothian Road via a ramped surface and two sets of automatic doors. Our Cafe Bar and accessible toilet are also at this level. 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.

Advance booking for wheelchair spaces is recommended. If you need to bring along a helper to assist you in any way, then they will receive a complimentary ticket. There are induction loops and infra-red in all three screens for those with hearing impairments. See below for details of captioned screenings and films with Audio Description.

Email admin@filmhousecinema.com or call the Box Office on 0131 228 2688 if you require further information or assistance.

There is a large print version of the programme available which can be posted to you free of charge.

Audio Description and Captions

For Crying Out Loud

In all screens 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.

All screenings of Peterloo, Widows, Outlaw King and Nocturnal Animals have audio description.

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.

The following screenings have captions:

Mon 5 Nov at 11.00am

Some Like It Hot

Mon 12 Nov at 11.00am

Peterloo

Fri 2 Nov at 1.10pm

Peterloo

Sun 4 Nov at 2.50pm

Peterloo

Mon 19 Nov at 11.00am

NAE PASARAN!

Fri 9 Nov at 2.15pm

Outlaw King

Mon 26 Nov at 11.00am

Kusama: Infinity

Tue 13 Nov at 8.25pm

Outlaw King

Fri 16 Nov at 2.00pm

Widows

Mon 3 Dec at 11.00am

Shoplifters

Mon 19 Nov at 5.40pm Widows Tue 20 Nov at 1.10pm The Grand Budapest... (over-60s) Sun 25 Nov at 2.00pm

Widows

Audio Description/Captioned information is correct at time of print, and is subject to change. Check www.filmhousecinema.com or with Filmhouse Box Office for up-to-date AD/captioning information.

All brochure information is correct at the time of print and subject to change.

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Donations are vital in enabling us to continue in our mission to provide a diverse and ambitious programme of films and events for our audiences, as well as helping us to run educational projects, community activities, school screenings and other work to engage people with the moving image throughout the year. Your support is greatly received and, big or small, your donation will be helping us in our ambitions to do more.

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If you wish to make a donation, please fill in and sign the form available at Box Office and send it back to us or give it directly to our Front of House staff.

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By remembering Filmhouse in your will, you will be helping us to continue investing in showing incredible films each year, celebrating world cinema in all its brilliance and diversity as well as in continuing to develop our ambitious film education programme.

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