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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. View full details
1 Mar 6.30pm	The Augustine Church, Edinburgh

50 First Dates
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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. View full details
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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. View full details
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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. View full details
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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… View full details and ticket info
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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. View full details
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Amélie
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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. View full details
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The Artist
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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. View full details
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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. View full details
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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. View full details
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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. View full details
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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. View full details
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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. View full details
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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. View full details
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Carnage
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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. View full details
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Casablanca
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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
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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. View full details
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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. View full details
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Contagion
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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. View full details
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Cool Hand Luke
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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. View full details
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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. View full details
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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. View full details
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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. View full details
29 Mar–1 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. View full details
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The Descendants
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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
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Dickens on Screen
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Adrian Wootton presents this overview of how Dickens' work has been adapted for film and television, featuring plenty of clips from 1898 to the present day. View full details
27 Feb 6.30pm	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Dirty Dancing
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The plot – in the summer of 1963 bad boy Johnny (Swayze) meets good girl Baby (Grey) and teaches her hip grinding, eventually winning the respect of her parents. Sure it's full of stereotyping, bad dialogue and a pre-teen sugar coated prurience, but decades on Dirty Dancing still has the ability to send a generation of women all gooey. View full details and ticket info
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Dune
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Lynch's complex, convoluted adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1960s million-selling novel is strikingly shot and not without merit. View full details
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Edinburgh International Film Festival
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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
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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

Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu
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An unlikely couple get married on a drunken whim in Las Vegas in this Bollywood romcom. View full details
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Fear Eats the Soul
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A middle-aged charwoman who used to be a Nazi Party member, takes up with a young Arab immigrant worker, much to the consternation of her friends and neighbours. Typically melodramatic Fassbinder study of a disintegrating relationship, which also examines the problems of racism in West German society. View full details
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The Forgotten Space
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The sea is forgotten until disaster strikes, but perhaps the biggest seagoing disaster is the global supply chain which leads the world economy into the abyss. Allan Sekula and Noël Burch's award-winning film essay offers a lucid and lyrical document of worker's conditions, the inhuman scale of containerised sea trade and the secret lives of port cities. Presented as part of The Glasgow School of Art's Friday Event lecture programme, The Forgotten * *Space is screened in collaboration with… View full details
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Future Shorts
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An international initiative offering a monthly showcase of the finest short films from around the world. View full details
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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David Fincher's adaptation of the bestselling Swedish book trilogy follows a journalist and a hacker on the trail of a woman who's been missing for 40 years. View full details
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Goodbye (Bé omid é didar)
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Smuggled out of Iran, this Cannes Film Festival winner follows a young Iranian lawyer fighting the government whilst trying to escape the country. View full details
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The Grey
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An oil drilling team is stranded in Alaska following a plane crash. Then a pack of hungry wolves decide to attack. View full details
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Happy Feet
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A clumsily plotted but totally charming animated musical from the makers of Babe about tap dancing and singing penguins deep in Antarctica. With solid songs and some genuinely excellent voiceover performances, Happy Feet is probably the best of the Christmas family films. View full details
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Hisham Zaman: 3 Films
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Three films by the Kurdish-Norwegian director. Bawke follows a father trying to protect his son. Winterland is a love story about two Kurds. And in Other Ones a man flees in panic when his car hits someone. View full details
18 Feb 1.45pm Preceded by an introduction.	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Hugo
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Scorsese films Brian Selznick’s book for youngsters, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, with Butterfield as the young orphan thief who becomes embroiled in a mystery involving a stolen key, a cryptic drawing and a mechanical man, courtesy of accomplices Isabelle (Moretz) and shopkeeper Georges (Kingsley). View full details
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I Just Didn't Do It (Soredemo boku wa yattenai)
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When a man is accused of groping a woman on the train he is forced to sign a statement written by someone else. He must chose whether to settle the matter out of court or fight the charges. View full details
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Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy
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The authentic voice of Irvine Welsh shines through this long-awaited adaptation of 'The Undefeated' story from his Ecstasy collection. A charismatic Adam Sinclair stars as Lloyd, a drug-dealing, Edinburgh party animal having the time of his life at the heart of a vibrant rave scene. His mounting debt to the dodgy Solo is something that can wait for another day. Concern for his ailing father is the only cloud in his life. Then he meets the beguiling Heather (Kristin Kruek), a woman desperate… View full details and ticket info
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Jack and Jill
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Advertising executive Jack (Sandler) gets Pacino (as himself) for a new cappuccino commercial, but all goes wrong when Jack's homely sister Jill (also Sandler) catches the great actor's eye and he inexplicably falls in love with her. Even dedicated Sandler fans will choke on their popcorn at this witless atrocity. View full details
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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
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Action, adventure and angry lizards in this sort-of sequel to 2008's Journey to the Center of the Earth. View full details
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Kick Off
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A familiar scenario – a small-town football team and its ardent supporters – in an unfamiliar setting – refugee community living in a stadium in Kirkuk, Iraq. View full details
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Lady Windermere's Fan
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Oscar Wilde's complex tale is cleverly adapted into a silent comedy about deception and scandal. View full details
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