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African Cats
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Samuel L Jackson narrates the stories of a lion family and a cheetah family as they raise their young in the Kenyan savannah.
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16 Jun17 Jun Sat 1.15pm; Sun 11am Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Amateur
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A dentist by trade, Jorge Mario has numerous hobbies and one real passion: the cinema. For years he made films in Super 8, graduating from home movies to narrative films. Now 70, Mario wants to do a remake of his own magnum opus, the super-8 western Winchester Martin. This documentary is an affectionate homage to a vanishing culture of popular cinephilia.
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23 Jun 9.30pm
29 Jun 9.30pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Looking South
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
The Ambassador (Ambassadøren)
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Danish documentarist/satirist/provocateur Mads Brügger decides to expose the high-stakes game of political and economic corruption in Africa. How to go about this? By carrying a hidden camera as he buys a diplomatic assignment to the Central African Republic and sets up a match factory staffed by Pygmies to serve as a front for a diamond-smuggling operation. A gonzo exposé of neo-colonialism that is bound to stir up controversy. 'Brügger is sort of the VICE magazine version of Sasha Baron…
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25 Jun 6.10pm
24 Jun 4.45pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Focus on Denmark
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
Anton Corbijn: Inside Out
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This deft and insightful film offers an intimate and revealing view of the life and creativity of the celebrated photographer and filmmaker. Thoughts from Bono, Metallica, Lou Reed and others, together with footage taken on the set of The American, starring George Clooney, fill out a portrait of a sensitive and reticent artist. 'A thoughtful film that is as much an homage to the creative process as it is a tribute to a man'. (Jessica Kiang, IndieWire).
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29 Jun 8.40pm
28 Jun 6.30pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Films on Film
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
Au Pair
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The exploitation of au pair women who come from overseas to work in richer countries is the subject of this compassionate and hard-hitting documentary. The film looks at the lives of three Philippine women who work as au pairs in Denmark. Struggling in their new country to earn money for their families back home, the women face social marginalisation and the imminent expiration of their work permits.
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23 Jun 2.25pm
26 Jun 6.35pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Focus on Denmark
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
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(3 stars) Documentary on Sesame Street's almost-too-adorable scarlet fuzzball Elmo, and the likable and driven puppeteer Kevin Clash who turned him from a minor character into a breakout phenomenon. Although not especially deep, it has great charm and some interesting insights into the extraordinary Henson universe.
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15 Jun18 Jun Mon 6.10pm; Fri–Sun 1.30pm, 4.20pm & 6.10pm Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Bestiaire
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Curious, compelling and compassionate, Denis Côté’s contemplative portrait of animals in captivity is, put simply, a series of beautifully framed and composed tableaux of a variety of animals at Quebec’s Parc Safari; but it’s also a complex meditation on the relationship between man, beast and environment. Côté lets his often startling imagery speak for itself, giving the viewer plenty time, and food, for thought.
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23 Jun 4.50pm
24 Jun 9.15pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Directors’ Showcase
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
Blank City
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Documentary depicting the crime and drug-addled mess that was 1970s Manhattan. This hotbed of the disenfranchised masses became the home of one of the most radical, libertine and raw DIY cinema movements ever produced with pioneers including Debbie Harry, Jim Jarmusch and Amos Poe.
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8 Jun To be confirmed
13 Jun To be confirmed
Cameo, Edinburgh
Blue Black Permanent
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(4 stars) Poetic, obscure portrait of three generations of women, drawn together over the decades by love and death. Tait's feature debut, with its beautiful opaque images based around water, sea and rain, more than fulfils the promise of her remarkable short films.
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28 Jun 4.05pm
Glasgow Women's Library offers a very rare opportunity to see Margaret Tait's debut feature, 20 years after…
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Cinema Club
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Join the Welcoming Association for a Refugee Week-themed film and a community discussion about experiences of refugee living in Scotland. Food and drink provided. Part of Refugee Week.
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21 Jun 6.15pm Tollcross Community Centre, Edinburgh
Coal Money + Brutality Factory
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Two astounding short works by a contemporary master who trains his camera on the human costs of a merciless economy of exploitation. Coal Money follows Chinese truck drivers carrying coal from the mines to the market, encountering criminals and corrupt policemen, haggling with buyers in endless negotiations. Set amid the rubble of a disused factory, Brutality Factory recreates one of the show trials of accused reactionaries that were a feature of the Cultural Revolution.
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24 Jun 1.20pm
Filmmaker in attendance. Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Spotlight on Wang Bing
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
The Creator
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A film created by art filmmakers Al and Al to celebrate the centenary of computing and artificial intelligence pioneer Alan Turing, taking the form of a surreal dream in the scientist's mind.
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24 Jun 9pm
Followed by a Q&A with the artists. Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Atmosphere Programme.
Inspace, Edinburgh
Don't Expect Too Much
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As Nicholas Ray’s partner, Susan Ray lived with We Can’t Go Home Again from the inception of that massive project through the director’s lengthy attempts to finish it. In Don’t Expect Too Much, she provides the ideal introduction to the ambitions, accomplishments and contradictions of the film. Capturing the memories of those who participated in the production as Ray’s students, Don’t Expect Too Much also incorporates rare film and audio documentation of Ray teaching at Harpur College in the…
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24 Jun 7.45pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Films on Film
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
1 Jul 6.45pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Films on Film
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
ECA Film & TV
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A collection of work from Edinburgh College of Art's graduating filmmakers.
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19 Jun 8.30pm Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Edinburgh Short Film Festival
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A selection of the best shorts by filmmakers from around the world.
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9 Jun17 Jun Sat & Sun 7.30pm
Part of Leith Festival.
The Granary, Edinburgh
12 Jun 7pm
A Ragged University at Edinburgh Short Film Festival special! In association with the Royal Society of Arts…
The Granary, Edinburgh
EDINDOCS
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A tribute to the art of independent documentaries which, along with screenings, offers prizes for best short and best feature. The festival is sponsored by the National Library of Scotland, which will preserve the winning docs as part of its Scottish Screen Archive.
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19 Oct21 Oct Times vary Cameo, Edinburgh
El Casamiento
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An intimate documentary portrait of an exceptional couple who live in a suburb of Montevideo: Julia, a 65-year-old transsexual whose new gender identity has finally been recognised (after 12 years) by the Uruguayan state, and Ignacio, her lover, a former construction worker with a troubled past. Inseparable for 20 years, the couple are now preparing for marriage. Aldo Garay's camera follows Julia and Ignacio's joys and worries, patiently revealing the sources of the strength of their…
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24 Jun 7.30pm
30 Jun 6.45pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Looking South
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
Fengming: A Chinese Memoir (He Fengming)
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An elderly woman walks along a snowy street to her apartment. She makes herself comfortable in her armchair and speaks to the camera. Her name is He Fengming. As night slowly falls, she tells her life story, which spans the history of the Cultural Revolution. Once idealistic young journalists, Fengming and her husband were denounced as counterrevolutionaries, separated, and thrust into labour camps. A moving testament to human endurance, an extraordinary piece of oral history and a landmark in…
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23 Jun 1.45pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Spotlight on Wang Bing
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
First Position
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Every year 5000 dancers aged 9–19 compete in the Youth America Grand Prix, an international ballet competition, in the hope of winning scholarships and contracts with dance companies. We follow six inspiring young people as they strive to make their dreams of becoming professional dancers come true.
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26 Jun 7pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
30 Jun 3.10pm
Screening followed by a Q&A on dance as a career, with Kerry Livingstone, Head of the Associates…
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
Forever Loved (Lawas Kan Pinabli)
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There are an estimated six million documented and one million undocumented migrant Philippine workers scattered throughout 200 countries all over the world. Every day, some 4000 more join their ranks. Weaving recollections and letters from various migrant workers around the story of a Philippine man searching for his missing wife in a Middle Eastern city, Christopher Gozum creates an intimate, evocative and hypnotic mixture of documentary, poetry and fiction.
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26 Jun 5.50pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Philippine New Wave
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Fukushima: Memories of the Lost Landscape (Soma kanka: dai ichi bu - ubawareta tochi no kioku)
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Tokyo-based documentary filmmaker Yojyu Matsubayashi, anxious to document the tragedy of the tsunami in north-eastern Japan and the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, won the trust of the Tanakas, a middle-aged couple working to help people forced to evacuate their homes in the town of Minami-soma. Matsubayashi’s portrait of the Tanakas’ dedication and of the varying experiences and emotions of the evacuees creates a compelling image of loss and resilience.
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21 Jun 8.05pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
23 Jun 6.50pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
Future My Love
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We have the resources to feed everyone, the technology to create clean energy, and the ability to supply everyone with creative, free and comfortable lives: yet we choose not to.' Maja Borg’s poetic ‘experimental documentary’ expands on the themes of her 2007 short film, Ottica Zero, and explores, in the light of global economic collapse, alternatives to monetary capitalism and, in particular, the work of sprightly 93-year-old futurist and social engineer, Jacque Fresco.
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29 Jun 8.30pm
21 Jun 6.05pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Michael Powell Award Competition
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
Gagarinland
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This film examines the idolisation of Yuri Gagarin, from the people living in the town named after him to the curator who manages the museum dedicated to him and the governor planning a lavish theme park in his honour.
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14 Jun 6.15pm Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Gate #5 (al-Hawd al-Khamis)
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Simon El Habre's follow up to 2008's One Man Village is a thoughtful study of day labourers, one of them his own father, in the once bustling port of Beirut. Through their tales of former glory as truck drivers in some of the most hostile roads in war-torn Lebanon, and their eloquent descriptions of the port at its economic height, El Habre presents a bigger picture: of Lebanon itself and how the country has changed from the 1960s to the present day.
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23 Jun 4.15pm
29 Jun 6pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
The Imposter
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Nicholas Barclay was 13 years old when he disappeared from his San Antonio home in 1994. Three years later he was found in southern Spain and returned to his overjoyed parents. Yet how could they not notice their son's change of hair and eye colour, or the fact he now spoke with a pronounced French accent? Truth is definitely stranger than fiction in this highly original and compelling documentary about con-artist Frédéric Bourdin and the Texan family who inexplicably welcomed him into their…
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22 Jun 9.10pm
30 Jun 8.45pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Michael Powell Award Competition
Cameo, Edinburgh

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