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48 Hour Film Project 5th Birthday Party
Date	Location
Celebrate five years of the 48-Hour Film Project in Scotland a special screening of some of the best films of the past years, including the 2012 winner. In the bar from 8pm, the first 48 ticketholders get a free Knops Beer and a cupcake. The screening starts at 8.50pm. View full details
31 May 8pm	Cameo, Edinburgh

5th Ave Girl
Date	Location
In this Depression-era comedy, a wealthy man recruits an unemployed woman in order to annoy his neglectful family. View full details
9 Jul 6.10pm Featuring an introduction by Chris Fujiwara, Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival.	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

African Cats
Date	Location
Samuel L Jackson narrates the stories of a lion family and a cheetah family as they raise their young in the Kenyan savannah. View full details
16 Jun–17 Jun Sat 1.15pm; Sun 11am	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Age of Consent
Date	Location
A couple of innocent college students fall in love. Director La Cava's fondness for improvisation brings the young cast to life. View full details
7 Jul 6.10pm Featuring an introduction by Chris Fujiwara, Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival.	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Akira
Date	Location
Based on the multi-volume graphic novel by Otomo, Akira is a mythical, futuristic tale of post-holocaust Tokyo, where pill-popping biker kids begin to unearth a government project designed to exploit the psychic and telekinetic powers of a group of laboratory-bound children. Superbly animated, with a fantastic visual and narrative imagination, but you'd be well advised to know something of the plot before you see it. View full details
1 Jun 11pm	Cameo, Edinburgh

Alien
Date	Location
Agatha Christie in outer space as a freighter lands on a mysterious planet and is ingeniously invaded by a ravenous intruder which proceeds to chomp its way through the cast list. Edge-of-the-seat suspense thriller with a strong cast and ghastly special effects. View full details
15 Jul 5.30pm	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Aliens
Date	Location
Revived from a 57-year snooze in deep space, Warrant Officer Weaver is cajoled into joining a marine rescue mission to the planet that is home for the original alien beastie. Unrelentingly paced with a terrifically gutsy performance from Weaver, this nerve-shredding sequel not only matches its predecessor but cannily surpasses it. An Oscar winner for special effects. View full details
15 Jul 8.20pm	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
Date	Location
The singing chipmunk trio and their friends the Chipettes find themselves marooned on a desert island. View full details
2 Jun–5 Jun (Kids) Tue, Sat & Sun 10am	Vue Ocean, Edinburgh
2 Jun–5 Jun (Kids) Mon, Tue, Sat & Sun 10am	Vue Omni, Edinburgh

Amateur
Date	Location
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. View full details and ticket info
23 Jun 9.30pm 29 Jun 9.30pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Looking South	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh

The Ambassador (Ambassadøren)
Date	Location
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… View full details and ticket info
25 Jun 6.10pm 24 Jun 4.45pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Focus on Denmark	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh

American Reunion
Date	Location
The American Pie gang have a 13-year reunion and contemplate some familiar problems about love, sex and intimacy. A fun nostalgia trip that rates the heart as important as the other bodily parts; the original cast are as likable (or not) as ever. Nothing very revelatory but plenty of laughs. View full details
30 May–31 May Wed 10am, 12.40pm, 3.30pm, 6.30pm & 9.30pm; Thu 11.30am, 2.30pm, 5.30pm & 8.30pm	Vue Ocean, Edinburgh
30 May–31 May Wed & Thu 10.50am & 4.05pm	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
30 May–31 May Wed & Thu 1.10pm, 3.50pm, 6.30pm & 9.15pm	Vue Omni, Edinburgh
1 Jun–7 Jun Fri–Thu 6.10pm & 8.50pm	Vue Ocean, Edinburgh

Amok
Date	Location
One sweltering day on the mean streets of Manila, various lives intersect and come into conflict as an act of random violence escalates into a brutal struggle for survival. 'Fajardo's technical exercise is a showcase of his talent for skewering disparate lives momentarily trapped in an urban labyrinth through a random act of violence'. (Khavn de la Cruz, filmmaker). View full details and ticket info
21 Jun 7.45pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Philippine New Wave	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

And If We All Lived Together? (Et si on vivait tous ensemble?)
Date	Location
Several screen icons star in a comedy-drama that treats delicate issues with tact, humour and intelligence. Five long-time friends (Jane Fonda, Geraldine Chaplin, Claude Rich, Pierre Richard, Guy Bedos), now past retirement age, decide to move in together. Under the watchful eyes of their younger caretaker (Daniel Bruhl), an anthropology student, the new housemates confront some hidden issues from their shared past while struggling to cope with the problems of ageing. View full details and ticket info
26 Jun 8.30pm 24 Jun 8.30pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh

Angèle and Tony (Angèle et Tony)
Date	Location
Angèle (Hesme) starts a relationship with fisherman Tony (Gadebois) as a result of a personal ad; it seems doomed from the start, but a connection of sorts develops. Hesme and Gadebois are very good in Delaporte's debut feature, a beguiling and slow-moving story set in a remote Normandy fishing village. View full details
31 Jul–2 Aug Tue 3.15pm & 6.10pm; Wed 8.25pm; Thu 3.15pm & 8.25pm	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

The Angels' Share
Date	Location
New drama from top Brit director Loach about a young father with a criminal past who is determined to give his son a better life than he had. View full details
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Animation Panel: Running Out of Film
Date	Location
Nominees for the McLaren Animation Award discuss the impact of digital technology on animation practice with other industry specialists. Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
28 Jun 2.30pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Animation	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Annie Hall
Date	Location
Two decades before Sex And The City had its first orgasm, Annie Hall was laying bare the mores of modern, urban romance to devastating effect while also zoning in on the specific psyche of Allen Konigsberg: anti-Semitic paranoia, metaphysical angst, the search for true love. There's a highly charged on-screen electricity between Allen and Keaton, glorious vistas of the old New York and hilarious set pieces – Alvy fighting with lobsters, the scene of his childhood home below the rollercoaster… View full details
9 Jun To be confirmed	Cameo, Edinburgh
11 Jul–12 Jul Wed 8.30pm; Thu 6pm 13 Jul 1pm	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Anton Corbijn: Inside Out
Date	Location
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). View full details and ticket info
29 Jun 8.40pm 28 Jun 6.30pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Films on Film	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh

The Apartment
Date	Location
Wilder's corrosive 1960 lampoon of corporate America tells the story of spineless insurance statistician CC Baxter (Lemmon). Having fallen into the practice of leasing his apartment to his superiors for illicit liaisons, Baxter is rewarded with high-speed promotion. All of which suits him fine until he realises that one of the ladies being taken back is the girl of his dreams. View full details
28 Jul–30 Jul Mon 6pm; Sat 8.30pm; Sun 1.30pm & 6.20pm 30 Jul (Parent & baby) 11am	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Atletu (The Athlete)
Date	Location
This intriguing and elegant hybrid of documentary and biopic tells the inspiring story of the Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bikila, who in 1960 became the first African athlete to win gold at the Olympics. This screening will be preceded by a short promotional film by the Global Concerns Trust on their projects in Malawi. View full details
2 Jul–5 Jul Mon–Wed 3.30pm; Thu 6.10pm	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Atmosphere: Belief
Date	Location
Video documentary or 'cinematic data visualisation' that is the final part in the Flat Earth Trilogy, created by Matthew Jarvis, John Cobban, Alison Craighead, Jon Thomson and Steve Rushton. The installation comprises a montage of video footage sourced from YouTube, coupled with a projection of a map that shows where in the world each clip is from. Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Atmosphere Programme. View full details (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
21 Jun–1 Jul Mon–Sun 8.30–9pm	Inspace, Edinburgh

Attractive Illusion
Date	Location
In search of a better life, a boatful of Nigerians wash up on the shores of Greece and head for Athens. There they embark on a precarious new life. Turning to illegal activities to make money, the paperless immigrants are easy prey for ruthless crime bosses. A dark and abrasive film, filled with vivid characters, whom director Petros Sevastikoglou views with calm compassion. View full details and ticket info
30 Jun 8pm 26 Jun 6.10pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh

Au Pair
Date	Location
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. View full details and ticket info
23 Jun 2.25pm 26 Jun 6.35pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Focus on Denmark	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh

Avengers Assemble
Date	Location
Big blockbuster superhero action as Iron Man, Thor, The Hulk, Captain America, Black Widow and Hawkeye team up to save the world. View full details
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Awards Ceremony
Date	Location
Rub shoulders with the winners and runners-up as the awards make a welcome return to EIFF. Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
30 Jun 1pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Special Events	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

BAFTA and Film Nation Shorts present Mastering Your Craft
Date	Location
A professional-led masterclass for young film-makers, focussing on the practicalities of making it in this competitive industry. Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
27 Jun 4pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Special Events	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

BAFTA in Scotland presents an Introduction to Acting
Date	Location
Pick up advice from an experienced film actor. Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
25 Jun 4.30pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Special Events	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Bananas
Date	Location
The lad's second feature centres on a neurotic, wimpy, Jewish New Yorker (guess who plays this part?) who gets caught up in a South American revolution. The plot is a somewhat flimsy vehicle for Woody's wonderful one-liners, but there's a degree of cynical commentary on political power struggles. View full details
12 Jun To be confirmed	Cameo, Edinburgh

Beauty and the Beast
Date	Location
The first animated film ever to get an Oscar nomination for Best Picture, the 30th Walt Disney feature-length cartoon is a classic by anyone's standards. The familiar story is supplemented by terrific songs, a host of comic characters and a breathtaking combination of traditional and computer animation techniques. View full details
1 Jun–7 Jun (3D) Fri–Thu 10.30am	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
2 Jun–5 Jun (3D) Tue, Sat & Sun 10.30am	Vue Ocean, Edinburgh

Bed of Roses
Date	Location
Two ex-prostitutes leave prison, determined to hook up with rich men. When one of them falls for a barge owner, she must choose which life to live. View full details
8 Jul 6.25pm Featuring an introduction by Chris Fujiwara, Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival.	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
Date	Location
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. View full details
15 Jun–18 Jun Mon 6.10pm; Fri–Sun 1.30pm, 4.20pm & 6.10pm	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Beloved (Les bien-aimés)
Date	Location
Elegiac musical contrasting the lives of Madeleine (Sagnier and Deneuve as younger and older incarnations) and her daughter Vera (Mastroianni), who were young in the 60s and the early 21st century respectively. A sprawling, poignant, ambitious epic of unrequited love. View full details
8 Jun–14 Jun Mon & Tue 8.15pm; Wed & Thu 6pm; Fri 8pm; Sat 5.50pm; Sun 5.45pm	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Berberian Sound Studio
Date	Location
In the 1970s, a British sound technician (Toby Jones) is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past. Berberian Sound Studio is many things: an anti-horror film, a stylistic tour de force, and a dream of cinema. As such, it offers a kind of pleasure that is rare in films, while recreating in a highly original way the pleasures of Italian horror cinema. View full details and ticket info
28 Jun 8.20pm 29 Jun 6pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Michael Powell Award Competition	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Date	Location
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. View full details
30 May–31 May Wed & Thu 2pm, 5pm & 7.50pm 1 Jun–7 Jun Fri–Thu 2.10pm, 5pm & 7.50pm	Dominion, Edinburgh

Bestiaire
Date	Location
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. View full details and ticket info
23 Jun 4.50pm 24 Jun 9.15pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Directors’ Showcase	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh

The Big Lebowski
Date	Location
The Coen brothers give their unique twist to a Chandler-esque LA noir, as 70s hippy throwback Jeff 'The Dude' Lebowski (Bridges) is drawn into the sordid affairs of his millionaire namesake. Suddenly he has to sleuth his way through disorganised crime. Trademark oddball characters, surreal imagery and excellent performances grace this virtuoso comedy. View full details
25 Jul 8.30pm	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

The Big Snatch (Mélodie en sous-sol)
Date	Location
Alain Delon forms a team with Gabin (who he later credited as a great influence) in this thriller about a casino heist in Cannes. View full details
9 Jun–10 Jun Sat 6pm; Sun 1.20pm	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

The Big Year
Date	Location
Three bird watchers go head-to-head at a prestigious North American tournament. View full details
5 Jun 11am	Odeon Lothian Road, Edinburgh

Black Box Shorts 1: Surfaces and Layers
Date	Location
Perception is a journey through textures. The films in this programme present the range of perceptual possibilities that can be created through techniques of duplication and layering, and explorations of surfaces and textures. They demonstrate different approaches to surface and depth, from direct interventions on the celluloid strip to digital manipulations of figurative or abstract phenomena. The screening features a special double 16mm projection by Daïchi Saïto, and includes films by… View full details and ticket info
24 Jun 9.45pm 29 Jun 1.15pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Black Box	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Black Box Shorts 2: A Sense of Unease
Date	Location
Something just doesn't feel right … This programme brings together a diverse selection of experimental films that all deal in some way with feelings of unease, be it through formal uncertainties, mysterious environments or uncanny happenings. Reveling in cinema's ability to reveal the strange in the everyday, these compelling works mix indefinable anxiety with unresolved tension to touch both mind and body. Featuring the international premiere of Telemach Wiesinger's EUROPA, as well as films… View full details and ticket info
25 Jun 9pm 29 Jun 3.05pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Black Box	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Black Box Shorts 3: Passing Through
Date	Location
Evocative journeys through mountain pathways and city streets. Six films from Canada, Austria, the Netherlands, and the USA that offer very different perspectives on bodily trajectories through new and uncertain territories. Aimlessly wandering, tentatively negotiating, confidently conquering and directly intervening, these intensely personal films are brought together through a curiosity for the outside world. Seen through the eyes of Marc Pelletier, Yang Hey Yeun, Albert Sackl, Fern Silva… View full details and ticket info
27 Jun 9.45pm 30 Jun 1.40pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Black Box	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Black Box Shorts 4: Particles
Date	Location
Where nature and science collide. Three films that explore, with almost obsessive precision, the minutiae of phenomena in flux, including Paul Clipson’s series of intimate Super-8 studies of plant and animal life, Rose Lowder’s ethereal observations of the crystallization of sea water, and Telcosystems’ take on particle theory through the unstable fluctuation of digital data. Moving from the poetic to the hypnotic, from the figurative to the abstract, and from calm to chaos, this programme… View full details and ticket info
28 Jun 6.30pm 30 Jun 3.20pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Black Box	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Black's Game (Svartur á leik)
Date	Location
Stefan Mani’s best-seller of the Icelandic underworld becomes the basis for this debut feature by Óskar Thór Axelsson. A young slacker with violent tendencies does a job for a gang of drug dealers. Impressing his superiors, he works his way up to a high position in the gang … just as the crooks are setting up their biggest deal yet. Energetic, made with flair, and brimming with local colour, Black’s Game brings some refreshing Icelandic twists to a classic gang-thriller plot. View full details and ticket info
21 Jun 6.10pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
25 Jun 8.50pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Blank City
Date	Location
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. View full details
8 Jun To be confirmed 13 Jun To be confirmed	Cameo, Edinburgh

Blood of My Blood (Sangue do meu sangue)
Date	Location
This hard-hitting drama, set in a rough neighbourhood of Lisbon, recalls Altman and Leigh in equal measures. Marcia, a mother of three, faces stark choices as she struggles to keep her family on an even keel. Her son is embroiled in trouble with a local gang boss; her daughter’s entanglement with a philandering professor threatens, meanwhile, to reveal dark family secrets. Superb performances from the ensemble cast, under Canijo’s virtuosic direction, give this intricate story a rare power. View full details and ticket info
28 Jun 7pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
1 Jul 5.45pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Blue Black Permanent
Date	Location
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. View full details and ticket info
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

Borrowed Time
Date	Location
Kevin, an inept young would-be criminal, needs money fast to pay back the local crime lord, a sword-wielding sociopath. Breaking into the home of an eccentric recluse seems to Kevin a likely plan, until the enraged old man unexpectedly shows up with a gun. The strange bond that forms between these two misfits becomes the premise of this unusual comedy-drama produced through Microwave, Film London’s micro-budget feature-film fund, in partnership with BBC Films. View full details and ticket info
21 Jun 6.20pm 23 Jun 1.45pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: British Scenes	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh

Brake
Date	Location
A claustrophobic thriller with the clock ticking. Stephen Dorff is a man who awakes to his incarceration in the trunk of a moving car and a deadly demand. Either he gives his captors the information they want or he and his loved ones will be executed. It’s a white-knuckle 90-minute ride as Dorff, encased in the trunk, is put through every manner of mental and physical torture in an attempt to extract the all-important secret. But will he crack? View full details and ticket info
30 Jun 1.20pm 29 Jun 6.30pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh

Brave
Date	Location
Pixar animation about a flame-haired Scottish princess who unleashes a curse on her fairytale kingdom, and must complete a number of challenges in order to lift it. View full details and ticket info
30 Jun 8.15pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Closing Night Gala	Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh

Broadway Danny Rose
Date	Location
Allen is on splendid form as manager of a stable of bottom-of-the-bill nightclub acts, who finally looks about to make it big when a fading crooner takes a sudden upsurge in popularity. Matters are complicated however by Mafia connections and a misplaced romantic involvement. Beautifully controlled narrative, sparkling screenplay and excellent performances make this one of the contemporary master's best. View full details
26 Jul 8.30pm 27 Jul–2 Aug Fri 6.15pm; Sat 3.15pm; Sun–Thu 6.15pm	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Buenas noches, España
Date	Location
An experimental psychedelic road movie by one of the new Philippine cinema’s youngest and most acclaimed directors. The film addresses the shared history of Spain and the Philippines through the idea of time travel. 'The future of political cinema'. (Phil Coldiron, Moving Image Source). View full details and ticket info
27 Jun 8.30pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Philippine New Wave	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

California Solo
Date	Location
A former legend of the Britpop scene struggles to forget his past and maintain his life in the USA. Robert Carlyle portrays the once successful musician who has settled into a life of farm work and anonymity in an effort to control his demons. What weighs greatest on his mind is the untimely death of his brother and bandmate. Eventually a drunken conviction and the threat of deportation shatter his emotional isolation and force him to face his past. View full details and ticket info
30 Jun 1pm 28 Jun 6.10pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh

Casablanca
Date	Location
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. View full details
1 Jun–7 Jun Mon 3.50pm; Tue 4.10pm; Wed 3.50pm; Thu 3.45pm; Fri–Sun 3.50pm	Cameo, Edinburgh

The Catch (Gyoei no mure)
Date	Location
A rugged drama of initiation set in an isolated part of northeastern Japan. A young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend’s father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the older man to teach him the secrets of his dangerous trade. View full details and ticket info
22 Jun 3.50pm Print courtesy of The National Film Center of The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Part of Edinburgh…	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Chapiteau Show
Date	Location
A prize winner at last year’s Moscow International Film Festival that went on to become a surprise hit in cinemas across Russia. At a Crimean resort, various characters cross paths with one another across an intricate multi-story narrative. Among them are a mismatched couple who meet on the internet, a group of deaf people, an estranged father and son, and a young promoter trying to make a star of a lookalike of the late Russian rock legend Viktor Tsoi. An amazing film for its inventiveness… View full details and ticket info
24 Jun 1.15pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
1 Jul 5.20pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Chariots Of Fire
Date	Location
Worryingly jingoistic vision of the 1924 Paris Olympics and the exploits of runners Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell that, in its numerous slow-motion races, is to blame for Vangelis soundtracks becoming synonymous with athletics. Nevertheless, it won a fair few Oscars, although writer Colin Welland's legendary 'The British are coming' warning to Hollywood proved about as prophetic as Manchester's bid for the 2000 Olympics. View full details
13 Jul–19 Jul Fri 1.20pm, 3.15pm & 8.30pm; Sat 3.15pm & 8.30pm; Sun 1.30pm & 6pm; Mon 2.30pm & 5.45pm; Tue 2.30pm & 8.30pm; Wed 2.30pm & 6pm; Thu 2.30pm & 8.15pm 16 Jul (Parent & baby) 11am	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Cinema Club
Date	Location
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. View full details
21 Jun 6.15pm	Tollcross Community Centre, Edinburgh

Coal Money + Brutality Factory
Date	Location
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. View full details and ticket info
24 Jun 1.20pm Filmmaker in attendance. Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Spotlight on Wang Bing	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

The Collector
Date	Location
Auteur Wyler adapts John Fowles' novel about a lonely lepidopterist who stalks and kidnaps a young art student. View full details
27 Jul–30 Jul Mon 8.30pm; Fri & Sat 1.20pm & 6.20pm; Sun 1.20pm	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Colour of the Ocean (Die Farbe des Ozeans)
Date	Location
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. View full details
19 Jun 8.15pm Featuring a Q&A and discussion with director Maggie Peren.	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

The Creator
Date	Location
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. View full details
24 Jun 9pm Followed by a Q&A with the artists. Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Atmosphere Programme.	Inspace, Edinburgh

Crimes and Misdemeanours
Date	Location
Accomplished Allen offering which effortlessly blends the Big Questions side of his art with the one-line wit we've taken for granted from him. Optician Martin Landau has a hit man bump off his unsettled mistress, while worthy documentary filmmaker Allen clashes with smug media tycoon Alda. View full details
1 Aug–2 Aug Wed 3.45pm & 8.40pm; Thu 6.15pm	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

The Darjeeling Limited
Date	Location
Three eccentric brothers (Wilson, Brody and Schwartzman) cross India by train in an attempt to deal with the recent death of their father. On this evidence writer/director Anderson is fast becoming the John Cheever of US cinema. This film is preceded by a short by Anderson called 'Hotel Chevalier'; it is imperative you see this film in order to understand what follows. A delight. View full details
7 Jun 9pm	Cameo, Edinburgh

Dark Shadows
Date	Location
18th century vampire Barnabas Collins (Depp) escapes from his coffin to find himself in Maine in 1972. It's fun, thanks to a smart script and plenty of surreal humour; Burton regulars Depp and Bonham-Carter are a hoot, but Moretz and Green could have used more restraint. View full details
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Day of the Flowers
Date	Location
Two young, strong-willed Scottish sisters, one a left-wing activitist, the other a most-popular-girl-in-school type, take their late father's ashes to Cuba, the site of many family legends of his services to the Revolution. Arriving in Havana, the two women promptly lose the ashes and go through a series of misadventures – both romantic and dangerous – to try to retrieve them. A colourful and wryly humourous tale of cross-cultural misunderstandings and lost illusions. View full details and ticket info
25 Jun 8.50pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Michael Powell Award Competition	Cameo, Edinburgh
27 Jun 9.10pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Michael Powell Award Competition	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh

Death Watch (La mort en direct)
Date	Location
Katherine (Schneider) is a novelist living in Glasgow who's been diagnosed with a terminal disease; Roddy (Keitel) befriends her, but unknown to her he works for a TV company with its own agenda. The basic idea is amazingly prescient but the plot is rather preposterous; Schneider's moving performance anchors it in emotional reality. View full details
1 Jun–7 Jun Fri 1.15pm & 8.15pm; Sat 1.20pm & 8.15pm; Sun 3.25pm & 8.15pm; Mon–Wed 3.15pm & 8.15pm; Thu 6pm	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Deep Rising
Date	Location
Cheesy but undeniably entertaining mix of action, adventures, comedy and horror as huge many tentacled leviathan attacks a luxury cruise liner. View full details
30 May 7.30pm Part of Edinburgh Zombie Club's Maritime Horror Double Bill.	The Banshee Labyrinth, Edinburgh

Demain?
Date	Location
The short, passionate life of Uruguyan poet Delmira Agustini is stylishly evoked in this film by Christine Laurent, longtime script collaborator of Jacques Rivette. Elegant, erotic and playful, the film contrasts its heroine’s turbulent, tormented psyche with free and graceful filmmaking to create something mysterious and wonderful as a poem. The beautiful Laure de Clermont-Tonnere (The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec) is affecting and compelling as Delmira, tortured by her own… View full details and ticket info
23 Jun 6pm 30 Jun 12.50pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Directors’ Showcase	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh

The Descendants
Date	Location
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. View full details
4 Jun 7.30pm	Brunton Theatre, Edinburgh

Despair
Date	Location
Fassbinder directs Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Nabokov's novel featuring Dirk Bogarde as a Russian chocolate magnate who loses his mind between the two World Wars. View full details
31 Jul–2 Aug Tue 6pm; Wed 3.30pm & 6pm; Thu 6pm	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Desperately Seeking Susan
Date	Location
Fun and fizzy, role-swapping feminist fantasy comedy set in the Big Apple. View full details
20 Jul 8pm	Scotsman Screening Room, Edinburgh

Detachment
Date	Location
Kaye (American History X) directs Oscar-winner Brody in this drama about a supply teacher who avoids emotional attachment. His resolve is tested when he arrives at a school run by an apathetic administration where he becomes a role model. View full details
13 Jul–19 Jul Fri 1.30pm, 6.30pm & 8.40pm; Sat 1.30pm & 6.15pm; Sun 1.20pm & 6.15pm; Mon 6.15pm; Tue 3.15pm, 6pm & 8.40pm; Wed 3.15pm & 6.25pm; Thu 6.25pm 20 Jul–26 Jul Fri & Sat 2pm & 8.15pm; Sun 1.45pm & 6.15pm; Mon & Tue 6.15pm; Wed 3.15pm & 8.50pm; Thu 8.50pm	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

The Dictator
Date	Location
Admiral General Aladeen (Cohen) is the titular dictator: a sexist, racist, fascist pig with a penchant for execution, who during a trip to the UN is betrayed by his right-hand man (Kingsley). The jokes come thick, fast and obvious but despite moments of solid satire it feels a bit stale. View full details
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differently, Molussia (anders, Molussien)
Date	Location
Nine short, individually titled reels of colour 16mm film, which are presented in a random order determined before each screening. Drawing on a text by German philosopher Günther Anders, the film is an imaginary documentary about Molussia, a fictional totalitarian country that Anders invented to represent the dystopia of fascism. View full details and ticket info
21 Jun 5.55pm 24 Jun 7.15pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Date	Location
A group of friends find their dinner gathering interrupted by a series of bizarre, mostly dreamt-up events. Not as savage a satire as Buñuel's earlier work, but he is certainly more assured as he fires at his constant targets - the church, the state and the army. View full details
27 Jul–2 Aug Fri 1.25pm & 8.30pm; Sat 1.25pm & 6pm; Sun 3.15pm & 9pm; Mon 8.45pm; Tue 3.45pm & 6.15pm; Wed 6.15pm; Thu 3.45pm & 8.40pm	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

The Ditch
Date	Location
A great documentarist makes his first foray into narrative feature filmmaking with this stark and ferocious look at survival under appalling conditions. China, October 1960. At the Jiabiangou labour camp in the Gobi desert, condemned rightists are sent for rehabilitation. Their task: digging a seemingly endless ditch between nowhere and nowhere. Their food supply dwindles to nothing, as a woman comes searching for her husband, one of the labourers. Cinematography by Lu Sheng, whose directorial… View full details and ticket info
23 Jun 5.15pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Spotlight on Wang Bing	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Dolphin Tale
Date	Location
Freeman and Judd lend their talents to this family story about a boy's relationship with the ocean's friendliest mammal. View full details
21 Jul–22 Jul Sat 1pm; Sun 11am	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Don't Expect Too Much
Date	Location
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… View full details and ticket info
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

Dr Seuss' The Lorax
Date	Location
Dr Seuss is back with the story of a boy named Ted trying to win the heart of Audrey, the girl of his dreams. In this family animation Ted must discover the story of the grumpy but charming Lorax who is trying to protect his world from a greedy mayor and a ruined old hermit. View full details and ticket info
23 Jun 2pm 24 Jun 2pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Special Screenings	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh

Dress Rehearsal for Utopia (Ensayo final para utopía)
Date	Location
As his father lies dying in a hospital room in Venezuela, the filmmaker’s thoughts travel to Mozambique. Images of dance and revolution, some retrieved from archival footage, some newly shot, conjure up a spectral alternate reality where human figures take part in a cascade of excited movements. View full details and ticket info
28 Jun 8pm 29 Jun 7pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

ECA Animation
Date	Location
A collection of work from Edinburgh College of Art's graduating students. View full details
18 Jun 8.30am	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

ECA Film & TV
Date	Location
A collection of work from Edinburgh College of Art's graduating filmmakers. View full details
19 Jun 8.30pm	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Eddie – The Sleepwalking Cannibal (Eddie)
Date	Location
A once-successful Danish painter accepts a teaching post at a remote Art School in Canada. There he befriends the mute nephew of one of the school’s crucial benefactors, and rediscovers artistic inspiration in his strange new friend’s bloodthirsty nocturnal activities … Armed with the brilliant Thule Lindhardt’s cleverly endearing central performance, director Boris Rodriguez deftly achieves a perfect balance of outrageously black humour and genuinely grisly horror, ensuring that Eddie earns… View full details and ticket info
29 Jun 10.45pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Night Moves	Filmhouse, Edinburgh
30 Jun 8.30pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Night Moves	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh

Edinburgh International Film Festival
Date	Location
Now 66 years old, the EIFF is facing a period of change, with a new director at the helm and a reputation to regain as one of the most important film festivals in the UK. We don't yet know what format this year's festival will take, but expect UK and international premieres, retrospectives, short film programmes, panel discussions, live talks, educational and training sessions. View full details
20 Jun–1 Jul Times vary	Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival
Date	Location
Now in its tenth year, the EMFF continues to celebrate the best aspects of mountain culture, and the high quality filmmaking that goes along with it. The principle focus throughout the programme is adventure, whether it be skiing, snowboarding, base jumping, mountain biking, kayaking or exploration. View full details
25 Oct–28 Oct Times vary	Various venues, Edinburgh

Edinburgh Schools Film Competition: Primary
Date	Location
The youngest filmmakers in our 2012 programme: budding artists from Edinburgh's primary schools show their perspective on life, in a colourful and inspiring showcase. View full details and ticket info
23 Jun 11.30am Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Special Events	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Edinburgh Schools Film Competition: Secondary
Date	Location
Don't some of your most intense memories date from your time at 'big school'? Here, we see things through the eyes of Edinburgh's secondary school pupils – spot the new filmmakers of the future here. View full details and ticket info
24 Jun 11.30am Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Special Events	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Edinburgh Short Film Festival
Date	Location
A selection of the best shorts by filmmakers from around the world. View full details
9 Jun–17 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

Edinburgh's Telford College
Date	Location
Shorts from this year's cream of the crop of TV students in the Telford College Degree Show. View full details
6 Jun 6pm	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

EDINDOCS
Date	Location
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. View full details
19 Oct–21 Oct Times vary	Cameo, Edinburgh

Either Way (Á annan veg)
Date	Location
Alfred (Hilmar Guðjónsson) and Finnbogi (Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson) work together painting the dividing lines on Icelandic public roads, in a sparse and uninhabited landscape. Having only each other for company – excepting sporadic visits by a jovial trucker plying them with drink – the two men’s personal differences are the source of laughter and frustration in equal measure. Writer/director Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson has created a carefully paced comedy of opposites – between stillness and… View full details and ticket info
22 Jun 6.30pm 23 Jun 1pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh

El Casamiento
Date	Location
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… View full details and ticket info
24 Jun 7.30pm 30 Jun 6.45pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Looking South	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh

Evelyn
Date	Location
A harrowing tale of human trafficking, this film engages not by a litany of misery but by presenting a naïve but incredibly resourceful and determined heroine, struggling to escape her nightmarish trap. At times, the pervasive atmosphere of corruption around her approaches the dark worlds of David Lynch, but without ever losing its connection to contemporary reality. A tough watch but an unforgettable one. View full details and ticket info
21 Jun 6pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives	Filmhouse, Edinburgh
30 Jun 8.15pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh

Exit Elena
Date	Location
A miniature gem, this no-budget, docu-style drama creates an indefinable tension around its mysterious heroine, a newly-qualified live-in nurse whose relations with the family she’s staying with seem to drift beyond the merely professional. The illusion of reality is perfect, thanks to utterly real performances captured by the film’s rough-and-ready camera style. And the mysterious sense of anxiety that permeates the proceedings is impossible to pin down and all the more effective for it. View full details and ticket info
24 Jun 7.20pm 25 Jun 6.20pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh

Fable of the Fish (Isda)
Date	Location
A heartfelt portrait of a disintegrating marriage, a sweeping view of shanty-town life in the Philippines, but Adolfo Alix Jnr’s film will surely be remembered as 'that film about a woman who gives birth to a fish.' Astonishingly, Alix treats his absurd central conceit with complete seriousness, which doesn’t prevent some humour inevitably manifesting, but the prevailing tone is tragic and deeply sympathetic. View full details and ticket info
29 Jun 10.05pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Philippine New Wave	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

The Fairy (La fée)
Date	Location
A receptionist in a seaside hotel checks in a fairy who grants him three wishes in this blend of slapstick, circus, dance and illusion. View full details
27 Jul–30 Jul Mon 3.30pm & 6.15pm; Fri 3.45pm & 6pm; Sat 6.15pm; Sun 4.10pm & 6.30pm	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Family Shorts
Date	Location
Small films to delight small people … and grown ups too! Short films are a wonderful introduction for all ages to world cinema. There are beautifully animated adventures to make us laugh and learn about friendship, whether it’s with a favourite dog, a beloved older brother or the moon. There are also magical stories to transport us from the city to the sea and even to the beginning of time. Suitable for ages 8+. View full details and ticket info
1 Jul 3.15pm 30 Jun Noon Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Shorts	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

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