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The 2012 Middle East Festival Forum on Spirituality, Religion and Film
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Using selected film clips, Dr Nacim Pak-Shiraz presents a discussion on the representation of spirituality and religion in film. Part of The Edinburgh International Middle Eastern Spirituality and Peace Festival 2012.
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1 Mar 6.30pm The Augustine Church, Edinburgh
3 (Drei)
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Revered as the director of Run Lola Run and the forthcoming Cloud Atlas, Tom Tykwer has created a stylish, sophisticated exploration of modern love in 3. Described as 'straight out of Shakespeare via Lubitsch', 3 captures long- term Berlin lovers Hanna and Simon at a point in their relationship when they are restless for something new. Hanna finds her attention straying to research biologist Adam and eventually gives in to temptation. Simon surprises himself with an attraction to the…
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50 First Dates
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(2 stars) Charmless reunion of Sandler and Barrymore. The duo were so appealing in The Wedding Singer but this take on Pirandello's Enrico IV fails to recapture past glories.
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85A presents: Jan Svankmajer
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Maverick sound/art collective 85A ­ currently in production on their own film Chernozem ­ ecstatically present the work of genius Czech filmmaker Jan Svankmajer, in all its demented glory! Each short film will be housed inside specially constructed theatres, coaxing Svankmajer's surreal imagery off the screen and into life in front of you. Tailor-made installations, costumed performers and a cosy bar all beckon you 'down to the cellar'. And with the main cinema-space ultimately transforming…
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About Her Brother (Otôto)
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Ginko is frustrated with her brother Tetsuro, who dreams of becoming a singer. When he drunkenly sings at Ginko's daughter's wedding she decides she's had enough, but the guilt she feels over her part in his life means she can't quite sever her ties.
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Aboyne and Deeside Festival
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A diverse programme from the wee festival, which has covered theatre, comedy – last year featuring Hardeep Singh Kholi – with exhibitions, workshops, music and film all included. Planned acts include the Bingham Quartet and an appearance from children's author Mairi 'Katie Morag' Hedderwick.
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13 Jul29 Jul Times vary
Deeside Theatre will act as main venue, but some events will take pace around Deeside.
Deeside CEC Theatre, Aboyne
AC Projects & OTO Projects Presents …
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This new festival (as yet untitled) is a collaboration between Glasgow's AC Projects and London's OTOProjects, resulting in a nine-day celebration and exploration of songwriting, split between Glasgow, London and Berlin. There are talks, film screenings and workshops as well as performances from carefully selected artists including Michael Gira (Swans), Grouper, Michael Hurley and Josephine Foster.
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6 Apr8 Apr Times vary Various venues, Glasgow
The Adventures Of Prince Achmed
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The world's first feature-length animated film takes a story from '1001 Arabian Nights'. A rare screening of a film that almost disappeared forever, before a new negative was made from the one remaining print in the 1970s.
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The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn
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(4 stars) After buying a replica model ship at a flea market, Tintin (Bell) is embroiled in a world of subterfuge. Not since Indy's third outing has Spielberg felt so fresh and unshackled; it feels like a hark back to the heyday of 1980s adventure cinema.
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Airplane!
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Ted Striker endeavours to overcome his problems and fly again when the pilots Rodger and Under flake out on him in this hilarious spoof of every old cliché in every old disaster movie ever made. The laugh-a-minute pacing keeps it flowing along and helps keep the groaning to a minimum.
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All Around Us (Gururi no koto)
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When a couple are expecting a baby, they marry. Married life isn't bliss, however, and when he gets a job as a courtroom sketch artist he ends up spending his time drawing some of the most disturbed people in Japan.
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All Divided Selves
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Luke Fowler is a Glasgow-based artist and filmmaker. His work has been exhibited internationally, with solo shows at the Serpentine Gallery, London and in February 2012 at Inverleith House, Edinburgh. In 2008 he won the inaugural Derek Jarman Award for experimentation in film. In All Divided Selves Fowler returns to a subject he has tackled before (in What You See is Where You're At, 2001), that of the life and work of Glasgow counter-culture psychiatrist RD Laing. Drawing on an impressive…
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All in Good Time
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East is East writer Ayub Khan-Din returns with another funny, tender-hearted portrait of family strife. Based on his popular play Rafta, Rafta (itself inspired by Bill Naughton's 1960s classic All in Good Time), the film is set in Bolton where Atul and Vina are celebrating their marriage. However, a honeymoon spent with his parents was not part of their plans. Thoughtless patriarch Eeshwar seems determined to emasculate and embarrass his son. As the weeks pass, consummating their union…
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Almanya – Welcome to Germany
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Comedy about a Turkish family who came to Germany in the late 60s, and their trip back home when the patriarch of the family buys a holiday house in Turkey.
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
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The singing chipmunk trio and their friends the Chipettes find themselves marooned on a desert island.
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Amélie
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(4 stars) Within Jeunet's fantastical world – a reimagining of Paris' oldest quarter, Montmartre – the eccentric adventures of his eponymous heroine unfold in a manner as complex as a Swiss timepiece when Amélie decides to bring happiness to deserving people by playing elaborately benevolent practical jokes on them. A film that celebrates all the little, great things in life.
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An American In Paris
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Splendid – if sometimes garish – romantic musical, with Kelly on top form as a would-be artist kicking up a storm in 'la belle cité'.
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Anchors Aweigh
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Forget the slender plot and savour the joyous energy and dazzling dance numbers in one of Gene Kelly's best-loved musicals. The first of three films Kelly made with Frank Sinatra, Anchors Aweigh set a new benchmark for MGM musicals as it follows the romantic trials and tribulations of two sailors on shore leave in Hollywood. Kelly earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his exuberant performance as Joe 'Sea Wolf' Brady, loyal pal and romantic rival to Sinatra's bashful Clarence 'Brooklyn…
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And Under That: Margaret Tait Award
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Anne-Marie Copestake is the winner of the 2011 Margaret Tait Award, supported by Creative Scotland and in partnership with LUX. Tonight is the world premiere and only screening of her unique film commission And Under That. And Under That combines the footage and sounds surrounding two women, creating a portrait through the acts of looking and listening. Emerging themes are legacies and patterns of so-called emancipation. The women vocalise fragmented language built from ideas, questions…
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Anonymous
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(3 stars) Director Emmerich dives enthusiastically into a treacly 17th century conspiracy thriller intent on unmasking the true author of Shakespeare's plays. The facts may be suspect but Emmerich combines craftsmanship and a strong cast to create a ripping historical romp.
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Another Earth
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(4 stars) Sombre indie romance involving a planet beyond the sun which is an exact mirror of our own, even down to the lives of its inhabitants. Despite the loopy premise, the startling script by actress Marling and director Cahill is more interested in human interaction than space travel, leading to an effective double-whammy ending.
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ARIKA12 Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness
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The second installment of Arika's experimental art-film offering this year takes a look at how ideas of nihilism and darkness permeate music, queer theory, performance art and even neuroscience via a range of performances, talks and films.
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24 Feb26 Feb Times vary Tramway, Glasgow
ARIKA12 Episode 3: Copying Without Copying
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The last in Arika's series of short festivals is focused on copying and repetition in experimental performances. An informal atmosphere means that discussion of each performance between artist, writer and audience is welcomed.
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23 Mar24 Mar Times vary Tramway, Glasgow
The Artist
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(4 stars) This joyous, impeccably crafted crowdpleaser about the advent of the talkies melds the tried and tested plot of A Star Is Born to the comic exuberance of Singin' In The Rain, with the result that it is almost impossible not to fall for its charms.
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At Night I Fly
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New Folsom is one of California's maximum security prisons and a place where many inmates are serving life sentences. Swedish director Michel Wenzer opens the door to a different side of prison life than one we usually see on the big screen. He takes a look at Folsom's Arts in Correction programme, a scheme that has been running across prisons in the US since the 1970s. At Night I Fly captures gospel choirs, poetry readings and blues guitar sessions while following a group of characters who…
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L'Atalante
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Vigo's mesmeric, influential masterpiece of love, barges and delicate surrealism. Forget Young Adam, this is the best canal-based movie ever.
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Autumn Gold (Herbstgold)
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Training for a sporting World Championship is a formidable task. For Alfred, Jií, Ilse, Gabre and Herbert however there's an added challenge: these athletes are all aged between eighty and 100. Autumn Gold follows the grey-haired group as they prepare to compete in the World Championships in track and field. How will 100-year-old Alfred, a discus thrower from Vienna, fare after being fitted with an artificial knee six months before the competition? Will Jirí, an eighty-two-year-old high…
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Babycall
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Fast emerging as one of Europe's most versatile stars, Dragon Tattoo 's Noomi Rapace won the Best Actress prize at the Rome International Film Festival for her intense performance in this gripping psychological thriller. Rapace stars as Anna, a single mother who moves to a secret address in Oslo with her eight-year-old son Anders to escape the boy's violent father. She buys a baby call to check on her sleeping son but finds that it picks up strange noises hinting at the murder of a child.
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Backyard
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The Reykjavík music scene is bursting with great bands, from múm and FM Belfast to Hjaltalín and Sin Fang Bous. In the summer of 2009, Árni Rúnar thought it was worth celebrating this abundance of talent and started to plan a gathering of bands in his own backyard. He bought recording equipment, invited all the neighbours round and prepared pizza, cupcakes and pancakes. Imagine Árni's surprise when the idea took on a life of its own and some of the most thrilling Icelandic musicians of his…
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Bad Company (Mabudachi)
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When a schoolboy is caught stealing, his furious father makes him write an essay to explain himself. When his essay wins a competition, the boy becomes increasingly angry with his father's pride.
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BAFTA in Scotland Event
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Glasgow Film Festival is proud to welcome the participation of BAFTA in Scotland in this year's programme. In this special event, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts bring a major film personality to Scotland to discuss their distinguished career and take questions from the audience. The identity of the guest will be announced after the official launch of GFF12's programme but we think it might be worth purchasing your tickets now as we can promise you a great evening. Part of…
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21 Feb 6pm
Part of Glasgow Film Festival 2012.
Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow
Barbie in A Mermaid Tale 2
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Barbie returns as surfing champion Merliah, but trouble brews when evil mermaid Eris tries to usurp the Oceana throne.
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Beats Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
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In the late 1980s, fresh-faced and straight out of high school, New York-bred A Tribe Called Quest formed and set about transforming the face of hip hop. Their innovative style would lead them to no fewer than five gold and platinum-selling albums and leave them regarded as one of the most influential acts in the history of hip hop. Beats, Rhymes and Life explores the history and methods of the group throughout their existence. Beginning on their 2008 reunion tour, we see what 20 years can do…
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Beauty (Skoonheid)
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Oliver Hermanus's award-winning second feature is a mesmerising tale of desire and destructive self-loathing. Deon Lotz is unforgettable as Francois, a successful middle-aged Afrikaner businessman whose carefully ordered world is ripped apart at his daughter's wedding when he is introduced to the son of an old friend. He is completely smitten by the handsome, athletic Christian (Charlie Keegan). Fascination turns to obsession as he starts to stalk the young man, unable to act on his fatal…
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Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
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Our second helping of Muppet goodness (following The Muppets on Sun 5 Feb) comes courtesy of this hugely winning documentary about the man behind that helium-voiced megastar Elmo. As an average teenager growing up in 1970s Baltimore, Kevin Clash had very different aspirations from his classmates ­ he wanted to be a puppeteer. With a supportive family behind him, Kevin made those dreams come true, landing a spot on Sesame Street where he performed several characters until, one fateful day in…
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Bel Ami
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Robert Pattinson gives his best screen performance to date as notorious scoundrel Georges Duroy in this handsome adaptation of the classic Guy de Maupassant novel. In the Paris of the 1890s, Georges is a penniless, dissolute ex-soldier. Unexpectedly thrust into high society, he quickly discovers that the real power in Paris lies not with the men but with their wives and mistresses. Madeleine (Uma Thurman), Virginie (Kristin Scott Thomas) and Clotilde (Christina Ricci) are all ripe for the…
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Ben Rivers: The Scope Trilogy
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Three short films from rising star Ben Rivers, whose debut feature Two Years at Sea is also showing at this year's Festival. Ah Liberty! (2008) is a snapshot of a family living in a remote landscape ­ children, animals, junk and nature collide in this fragmented look at freedom. In I Know Where I'm Going (2009) the director takes a road trip to the Isle of Mull, embracing serendipity and meeting eccentrics and hermits on the way. And lastly in Slow Action (2011) Rivers explores landscape…
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The Bengali Detective
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No writer of fiction could devise a character as beguiling as Rajesh Ji, a paunchy private detective who patrols the mean streets of Kolkata solving murders, prying into the messy lives of divorcing couples and thwarting endless dodgy scams. Rajesh is also a dedicated family man with a passion for dance and the abiding conviction that his smooth moves may yet bring him stardom. Philip Cox's documentary has a great central subject but also provides a fresh, offbeat perspective on modern India…
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Berlin: Symphony Of A Great City
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A beautifully haunting documentary celebrating the rhythm of life over a one-day period in 1927 Berlin. Studying a cross section of the populace that inhabit this lively city, the film conveys an appreciation of the joys and atmosphere of city life.
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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(2 stars) Despite an irresistible army of pension-age talent including Dench, Smith and Wilkinson, all on excellent form, this story about a group of unconnected British retirees who come to the titular hotel in Jaipur and find resolution for their various issues and challenges, feels too calculated to offer anything more than disposable entertainment at best, and cheaply manipulative emotional kicks at worst.
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Better this World
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In 2008, friends Brad Crowder and David McKay were so shocked by the American invasion of Iraq that they vowed to express their opposition at the Republican National Convention in Minnesota. Isn't the right to protest what distinguishes a democratic state? Posing as a protest leader, an FBI informant encouraged them to create pipe bombs and caused their arrest and subsequent prosecution as terrorists. The two men rejected the chance to plea bargain and withstood unbearable pressure to testify…
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Big Banana Feet
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Inspired by DA Pennebaker's classic Bob Dylan documentary Don't Look Now, director Murray Grigor and cinematographer David Peat followed Billy Connolly on his 1975 Irish tour from the opening concert in Dublin to the final night in Belfast. Unlike Dylan, Billy Connolly welcomes the presence of the filmmakers and invites the viewer into his world. The result is a fascinating time capsule of the young Connolly at the height of his powers braving a tense political situation with a breezy: 'naw…
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Big Miracle
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Romantic drama 'inspired by the incredible true story' of a new reporter (John Krasinski) and his efforts to save a family of whales in Alaska.
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Bill Cunningham New York
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Bill Cunningham is one of the great unsung heroes of the fashion world. Every week this reclusive photographer contributes two spreads to the Sunday Styles section of The New York Times. 'On the Street' captures cutting-edge trends as they develop among the everyday New Yorkers he snaps. 'Evening Hours' showcases the latest haute couture statements from the rich and famous around town. His work over the past 30 years contains all the changing faces of fashion and the many sides of New York.
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Black Gold
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(2 stars) This action-adventure is set at the turn of the 20th century as oil is being discovered in the desert. Annaud falls short in directing the action and, ironically, can’t avoid stereotypes of the Arab World, especially in its depiction of female characters.
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Blackthorn
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Imagine that Butch Cassidy did not die in a hail of bullets in 1908. Mateo Gil's stunningly handsome western is set 20 years later with Cassidy living in South America under the name of James Blackthorn. Yearning to reconnect with America and the man who could be his son, Blackthorn hits the trail and soon encounters slippery stranger Eduardo who seems determined to fill the role vacated by the Sundance Kid and nudge him back into a life of crime. Can history repeat itself amid the social and…
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The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel)
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(4 stars) Berlin's decadent cabaret era is vibrantly brought to life as Dietrich's voluptuous singer Lola-Lola sets out to seduce and destroy a bourgeois schoolteacher. In her first major role, the actress taps into a potent current of female sexuality.
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Blue Velvet
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In small-town Middle America, would-be boy detective MacLachlan finds a severed ear on some waste ground. When the police shoo him away he decides to do some investigating of his own. A singular fusion of the cosy and the terrifying which blends kitsch and nightmare, B-movie detection and brutal sex to deconstruct our complacent vision of normal society. This is filmmaking of remarkable imagination and skill.
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Bob and the Monster
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Bob and the Monster follows the story of notorious American rocker Bob Forrest, from his struggles with addiction in the drug-saturated 1980s LA music scene to his reinvention as an inspired drugs counsellor. Through a turbulent period of spiralling drug abuse we hear from friends about Forrest's journey from precocious young musical talent to lost soul risking HIV-infected needles. With first-hand recollections from his friends and musical peers Anthony Kiedis, Flea and Courtney Love, the…
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Bonsái
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Chilean director Cristián Jiménez caught the world's attention with his quirky debut feature Optical Illusions (2009). Bonsái is even better as it juggles love and longing in a hip, funny, slacker romance inspired by Marcel Proust. Julio is obsessed by literature. He is also desperate to impress fellow student Emilia. We are told that they are not destined to be together which does nothing to spoil the pleasure of a film that tiptoes back and forward in time. Eight years later, Julio is…
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
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(4 stars) 'How do I look?' asks original waif Hepburn in the role of borderline schizophrenic Holly Golightly. 'Very good, I must say I'm amazed,' replies Peppard in the role of frustrated writer and part-time gigolo Paul Varjak in this adaptation from the novel by Truman Capote. The iconic Hepburn has never made neurosis look so good, and while the film may have numerous redeeming features (not least the exquisite cinematography by Franz F Plane and the swinging soundtrack by Henry Mancini), it is she…
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Breathing (Atmen)
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Actor Karl Markovics (The Counterfeiters) makes a hugely impressive directorial debut with this beautifully judged, completely captivating human drama. Non-professional actor Thomas Schubert is perfect as Roman, a sullen, muted 18-year-old in juvenile detention. Constantly turned down for parole, he tries a succession of day release jobs that always end in failure. Things begin to change when he starts a job hauling bodies to the city morgue. One of the deceased shares his surname and this…
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Brief Encounter
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(4 stars) Stiff upper lips and emotionally charged brushes of the hands are all that Johnson and Howard will allow themselves as their extra-marital 'affair' doesn't develop much beyond unspoken longings at a railway station.
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Brigadoon
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(2 stars) Two yanks on vacation in Scotland discover a sleepy village that comes alive once every hundred years. Rather flat and uninvolving Minnelli musical, especially in comparison with his other 50s work, with the unconvincing (and unintentionally hilarious) Scots background the main problem.
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Bryan Hitch in Conversation
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British comic book artist Bryan Hitch is widely recognised as one of the industry's leading artists and storytellers, with his books regularly selling over 100,000 copies an issue in America alone. Also highly credited for his design work, his designs have appeared in the successful relaunch of Doctor Who in 2005 and numerous feature films, including Captain America, Thor and Star Trek (2009), as well as the upcoming The Avengers film, based on The Ultimates comic book by himself and Mark…
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22 Feb 3pm
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CCA, Glasgow
Buck
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Buck Brannaman was the real-life inspiration for Robert Redford's character in the massively popular movie The Horse Whisperer. He has an amazing affinity with horses and a great sensitivity to what they are feeling and thinking. He wins their trust with kindness and understanding. His inspirational story is the subject of a warmly appealing documentary that tells of his early years as a child rodeo star, his harsh treatment at the hands of a fearsome father and the shining influence of a…
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Burrell Family Films
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A chance for families to gather round the big screen. This season's theme is knights and castles.
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12 Feb11 Mar Sun 2pm Burrell Collection, Glasgow
Burrell for Families Special: Beasts of the Imagination
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Watch an animated family film based on a classic Kipling tale and get inspiration to make animal badges in a following workshop. Suitable for ages 5–12. Booking is essential.
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24 Mar Sat noon–2pm & 2–4pm Burrell Collection, Glasgow
Café de flore
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Jean-Marc Vallée (C.R.A.Z.Y., The Young Victoria) continues to prove himself one of the most versatile filmmakers in world cinema with Café de flore, an elegantly woven duo of tales on intense love and unbearable loss. In contemporary Montreal, divorced dad Antoine is devoted to his daughters and his new girlfriend although his ex-wife Carole believes that they are destined to be together. In the Paris of 1969, single mother Jacqueline is devoted to Laurent, a young boy with Down's syndrome…
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Café Flicker
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An informal networking event for filmmakers to screen their work, discuss it with others and network with other film makers on the first Wednesday of every month. Film submissions (usually under ten mins, one per person per night) are accepted up until 6.30pm and will get you free entry.
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2 Feb3 May Thu 6.30–9pm GMAC (Glasgow Media Access Centre), Glasgow
Cairo Exit
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A young Egyptian woman toys with the idea of eloping to Italy with her boyfriend, pondering the lives of the women around her and how her own life might turn out if she was to stay.
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The Call of the Sea
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A record of the relationship between Aberdeen and the sea.
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25 Feb9 Mar Times vary Aberdeen Maritime Museum, Aberdeen
Carnage
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(4 stars) A playground spat between two boys causes their parents to try to settle their differences. There's little attempt to disguise the film's theatrical origins, but it plays out at such a blistering pace and boasts such exuberant performances that it's hard not to give in to it. Fast, funny and filthy.
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Carol Channing: Larger than Life
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Carol Channing is a show business legend. The original Dolly Levi in the Broadway production of Hello, Dolly!, she also originated the role of Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, was Oscar-nominated for Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), has performed with the Muppets, rubbed shoulders with Presidents and is still going strong in her nineties. Dori Berinstein's documentary is a glorious tribute to an irrepressible trouper and a touching human interest story: Channing was reunited with her…
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Cars 2
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(2 stars) Pixar's charmless sequel replaces the homespun values of the original with impressive racetrack backdrops, violent guns-and-missile action, and juvenile comedy from the belching, flatulent Mater. A mechanical slew of pop-culture gags indicate a considerable drop in the level of invention from Finding Nemo or Up.
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Casablanca
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(5 stars) You must remember this … Bogart being impossibly noble, Bergman torn between two lovers, Claude Rains playing both ends against the middle, devious Nazis, a fogbound airport, a piano-player tinkling that tune. A wonderful hill of beans.
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Cassadaga
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From Anthony DiBlasi, the writer/producer/director of the 2009 Film4 FrightFest attraction Clive Barker's Dread, comes a uniquely twisted disturbing nightmare. Devastated by the death of her younger sister, deaf art teacher Lily Morel seeks solace at the Florida-based spiritualist community of Cassadaga. But instead of finding closure, she contacts something else after an ill-advised drunken séance - the vengeful ghost of a murdered young woman. Part Southern Gothic horror, part giallo, this…
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Chinese Take-Away (Un cuento chino)
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Winner of Best Film and the Audience Prize at the Rome International Film Festival and nominated for fourteen Argentinean Oscars, Chinese Take-Away is a little gem of a charmer with a great central performance from Ricardo Darín, star of The Secret in their Eyes (2009). Darín plays Roberto, a grumpy shopkeeper in Buenos Aires who lives by a strict routine and likes to keep the world at arm's length. All of that changes when he turns good samaritan to Jun, a young Chinese man in search of his…
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Chronicle
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Three high school friends develop superhuman powers after a discovery in a mysterious craters. However, their lives spiral out of control when one of them decides to test his dark side.
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Close Up Kurdistan
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This documentary follows the route of refugees returning to Kurdistan from the safety of Europe.
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Cloudburst
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Imagine Thelma and Louise had lived happily ever after and matured into a loving lesbian couple who take no nonsense from anyone. Then you would have feisty Stella (Olympia Dukakis) and her beloved Dot (Brenda Fricker). In Thom Fitzgerald's award-winning delight Cloudburst, they have been together for over 30 years when Dot falls ill and her granddaughter dispatches her to a care facility. Stella is not about to let that happen and so steals her away in the middle of the night for a road trip…
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Colour of the Ocean (Die Farbe des Ozeans)
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No good deed goes unpunished in Maggie Peren's impressive feature woven around attitudes to the waves of African refugees desperately seeking a better life in Europe. Zola and his son Mamadou are among the ten survivors of a refugee boat washed ashore in the Canaries. German tourist Nathalie is the first person to reach them and her instinct is to do everything she can to help. Border guard José's instinct is to start the process that will see them deported. Is he callous or just realistic?
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Contagion
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(3 stars) Soderbergh revives the type of all-star disaster movie last seen in the 1970s with this sober account of a deadly virus which threatens the world's population. It lacks any central heart or focus, focusing on the bigger picture rather than clichéd dramatics.
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Cool Hand Luke
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(4 stars) Lucas 'Luke' Jackson (Newman) rewrites the rule book in coolness when he is locked up for a petty crime. Even the officers fall for his laconic charms, but the pressure of remaining on a pedestal soon takes its toll. Remember, nobody can eat fifty eggs. Superb adaptation of Donn Pearce's Christ allegory novel. Highly recommended.
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Coriolanus
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(4 stars) Coriolanus (Fiennes) is a valiant Roman soldier whose contempt for the masses causes him to fall victim to the city's scheming politicians. Fiennes, debuting as director, creates a modern day, war-torn Rome using Serbian locations, restless cinematography and an excellent cast, making this a powerful and resonant reimagining of Shakespeare's tragedy.
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Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel
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A fascinating documentary that tracks the rise of Roger Corman, the legendary writer, director and producer known for his low budget exploitation movies of the 1950s and 60s. A true maverick, Corman dealt with hot button social topics like race (The Intruder), Tarantino, Pam Grier, Traci drugs (The Trip) and feminism (The Student Nurses) long before it was fashionable to do so and in fact made them important themes for future cinema. Corman's World celebrates all the brilliance of the…
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Crawl
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A thrilling cinematic work crafted with nuance and skill, Crawl is an accomplished homage to film noir filled with white-knuckle suspense. In an unknown rural town, seedy bar owner Slim Walding (Paul Holmes) hires a mysterious Croatian hitman to murder a local garage owner after a shady business deal goes wrong, but the plan backfires and innocent waitress Marilyn Burns (Georgina Haig) is taken hostage. Director Paul China makes this slow-burning study in terror particularly effective through…
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Crimes of Passion
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Ken Russell's exploitation epic is a black comedy satire of American sexual values.
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Cromarty Film Festival
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A film festival grounded in a genuine passion for all things cinematic. Otherwise known as 'My Favourite Film' Festival, industry personalities are invited to select their film picks and then discuss their choice after the screening. The festival also prides itself on unusual locations, with past screenings taking place in a lighthouse, a garden and onto the end of a house. Children's films and activities also available.
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7 Dec9 Dec Times vary Cromarty, Black Isle
Crossing the Line at GoMA
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For the first time GFF sets up camp at GoMA, screening a cycle of three award-winning contemporary art films from Glasgow-born art collector Hugo Brown's Cobra to Contemporary Collection. Nicolas Provost's Plot Point (2007), which was awarded an Honourable Mention at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, uses hidden-camera footage of everyday life around Times Square in New York, edited and scored to lead the viewer into a subconscious process of discovering a story. Pruitt-Igoe Falls *(2009) by…
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16 Feb26 Feb Mon–Thu 10am–5pm; Fri 11am–5pm; Sat 10am–5pm; Sun 11am–5pm Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
The Crow
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Infamous as the film on which martial arts star Bruce Lee's son Brandon was killed by a defective stunt gun, this is the most consistent attempt yet to create on film the distinctive feel of the graphic novel. The characterisation and plot development may be slight – a rock star comes back from the dead to wreak revenge on the gang who killed him and his girlfriend – but stylistically, it's a gem.
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Cry Parrot presents: Umberto
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A true master of the horror film soundtrack aesthetic, Umberto's music is a hypnotic, all-consuming journey, reeling you into a foggy, neon-lit world of graveyards, stalkers, haunted houses, witches and blood-stained corpses. Evoking the unsettling progressive rock of Goblin and the sinister, dystopian synth-work of John Carpenter, his acclaimed releases are as playful and experimental as they are expertly crafted. Flying over from Kansas City, Missouri for this special performance, Umberto…
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25 Feb 8pm
Part of Glasgow Film Festival 2012.
SWG3, Glasgow
A Dangerous Method
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(4 stars) Cronenberg’s investigation of psychoanalysis, seen through the relationship between the two main proponents, Freud (Mortensen) and Jung (Fassbender) makes for a fascinating insight into a moment in history when the world of thought, and the way that we think about ourselves, was being fundamentally reshaped.
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The Dark Harbour (Futoko)
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Deadpan comedy about a lonely fisherman who only notices a woman and her son hiding in his wardrobe when watching back a video he's made for a dating service.
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The Darkest Hour
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Five young people lead the fightback against aliens in a war-torn Moscow.
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The Day
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The apocalypse has arrived and the world is a brutal and dangerous place to live. It's been ten years since an unnamed disaster occurred and a group of five survivors are heading to greener pastures to try and find a place to plant some rare vegetable seeds. They're low on ammunition and food and one of the group is sick and so they decide to break from their usual protocol and hole up in an abandoned two-storey farmhouse. It isn't long before cannibals come looking for prey. Visually stark…
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The Day I was Not Born (Das Lied in mir)
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An impressive, prize-winning feature debut from Florian Cossen, The Day I was Not Born is an absorbing, flawlessly acted tale of a woman's search for her true identity. Jessica Schwarz is immensely touching as Maria, a competitive swimmer on a brief stopover in Buenos Aires who recognises a nursery rhyme she hears. She seems to know all the words even though with subtitles she barely speaks any Spanish. The city itself feels strangely familiar. When she mentions these feelings to her father…
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Dead by Dawn
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A series of all-night showcases, screening the finest in independent genre cinema, short films and animations, alongside some higher profile new international releases and some classics from the vaults of horror cinema. Many filmmakers attend to introduce their films, and there's also a 'Shit Film Amnesty' where attendees can offload the dreck clogging up their DVD collections.
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29 Mar1 Apr Times vary Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Dear Doctor
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A doctor moves to a remote village with an elderly population. When a woman asks him to conceal her cancer from her distant daughter, he agrees. For he has a secret of his own.
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Death of a Superhero
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After several cycles of chemotherapy, 14-year-old Donald feels he has little left to hope for. When Donald's parents urge him to confront his feelings, he retreats further into his own head, channelling his thoughts into sinister and eerily beautiful comic book drawings. In the universe of his sketches he becomes a brawny superhero dedicated to fighting his arch-enemy: a mad scientist called The Glove, who wields syringes for fingers. Director Ian Fitzgibbon's film is a poignant coming-of-age…
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Death Watch (La mort en direct)
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Before Big Brother gripped the nation or David Cronenberg entered the Videodrome, Bertrand Tavernier came to Glasgow to film this strikingly prescient futuristic drama. Ace reporter Roddy (Harvey Keitel) has a camera implanted in his eye to record everything he sees. His job is to capture the last days of the terminally ill Katherine (Romy Schneider) for the viewing pleasure of voyeuristic millions. Refusal to comply is not an option in a cult classic that earned five César nominations and…
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26 Feb 3pm
Part of Glasgow Film Festival 2012.
Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow
The Decoy Bride
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Bridget Jones meets Local Hero in this fizzy romantic confection that features a sparkling screwball comedy performance from Kelly Macdonald. Hollywood star Lara (Alice Eve) and her writer fiancé James (David Tennant) are desperate for a quiet romantic wedding far from the prying eyes of the paparazzi. The tiny Scottish island of Hegg seems ideal but the media are soon descending in their hordes. A cunning plan is devised to stage a fake wedding and throw them off the trail. Local lass Katie…
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Deep Fried Film Festival
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Now in its sixth year, the festival is going international for the first time, with simultaneous events taking place in Australia, Canada, Japan, Norway and the USA. By promoting stronger and better relationships between filmmakers and production organisations the festival aims to make filmmaking more accessible to local communities. There are also dedicated children's events to give young people an insight into the industry.
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11 Aug18 Aug Times vary The Conforti Institute, Coatbridge
The Descendants
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(4 stars) When his wife is seriously injured during a boating trip with her lover, a Hawaiian land baron takes his daughters on a trip to confront her beau.
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The Devil Inside
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In 1989, emergency responders receive a 911 call from Maria Rossi (Suzan Crowley) confessing to the brutal murder of three people. Twenty years later, her daughter Isabella (Fernanda Andrade) is still trying to understand the truth about that fateful night and confront her own personal demons. She decides to travel to Italy to the Centrino Hospital for the Criminally Insane where her mother has been locked away, in the hope to determine if she is mentally ill or demonically possessed. When…
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