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September 2019
EDINBURGH SHORT FILM FESTIVAL GARDEN CINEMA
A taster for the 2019 Edinburgh Short Film Festival which starts in October, with a FREE programme of some of our favourites from 2018, from French drama to Columbian Fantasy to Turkish Animation, all in the atmospheric setting of our occasional Garden Cinema at the top of Middle Meadow Walk! EDINBURGH SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
Find out more »Cinetopia:DOC presents Inland Sea
This September Cinetopia:DOC is proud to present the Edinburgh premiere of Kazuhiro Soda’s INLAND SEA (Minatomachi, 2018), screened as part of Edinburgh Scalarama! Deemed as one of the masters of contemporary documentary filmmaking, Soda’s method and style follow a strict set of self-established commandments, resulting in a unified style of documentaries that provide an unprecedented access to the subjects and take the viewers on an emotional exploration to the Japanese psyche, culture and landscape. Soda’s style is strictly observational, keeping…
Find out more »Mary and Max with British Sign Language and captions
On the 5th September, Magic Egg Productions are proud to present a special event at the famous Cameo Cinema in Tollcross, Edinburgh. We will be showing an accessible version of the film ‘Mary and Max’ on the main screen. The film will feature subtitles and British Sign Language alongside the movie so that Deaf, hearing and Hard of hearing people can enjoy a movie together. Mary and Max is a stop-animation film made by Adam Elliot. It is funny, moving…
Find out more »Simon Brand at Radical Home Cinema
Simond Brand is founder of Strangest Things Film Club, usually a film club which operates out of a living room screening near-forgotten masterpieces. Simon brings Radical Home Cinema to Edinburgh for second year. This year he will show O-bi, O-ba: The End of Civilization: in a post-apocalyptic future where humans live in an isolated vault which is falling apart. English Subtitles. Radical Home Cinema is an experimental programming and exhibition event where film lovers invite you to watch films in…
Find out more »Nairn Arts & Book Festival – Cinemor77 Yurt Cinema
CineMor77’s Cinema Yurt The Links, near the Bandstand Saturday 14 th September 10am – 12 pm Sunday 15 th September 10am – 6pm We are very excited to have CineMor77 presenting a programme of films for all ages and stages, children’s animation, classic Scottish drama and more in their wonderful cinema yurt. Full programme will be revealed on our website and on festival social media soon! The cinema yurt offers a really special film experience; cosy up on a cushion…
Find out more »Cucumber Lodge: Young Soul Rebels
The Cucumber Lodge is a lovingly chaotic series of irregular social gatherings that gravitate towards the edges of our cultural zeitgeists in their current and former states. The Lodge will be hosting and presenting a rare screening of Isaac Julien’s 1991 film ‘Young Soul Rebels’ at the iconic Sneaky Pete's club. A Soul boy DJ falls in love with a punk amid racial tensions, a whodunnit murder mystery and the Queen’s Silver jubilee in 1977 London. With one of the…
Find out more »GAZE – Vengeance of the Phoenix Sisters
Dir. Chen Hongmin / Black and White / Taiwanese dialogue / English Subtitles / 1968 / 88mins Synopsis: In the prelude to this martial arts film, bandits kill a former sheriff and his wife. A servant carries their three little daughters to safety, but they grow up apart. Fifteen years later, each girl sets out to seek revenge. Will the three “feng” girls (phoenixes) find the bandits and avenge their parents?
Find out more »Push
Landlords without faces, apartments without renters… Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities across the world, but incomes are not – pushing long-term residents out. This is not gentrification, it is a relatively new economic reality: housing as a financial product, a place to park money. This incisive documentary follows Leilani Farha, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, as she meets with the residents, mayors, campaigners and economists fighting to reclaim the streets. "Lively, approachable documentary should leave…
Find out more »Cucumber Lodge: Elektro Moskva
The Cucumber Lodge is a lovingly chaotic series of irregular social gatherings that gravitate towards the edges of our cultural zeitgeists in their current and former states. The cultural mythology of the USSR is often hidden or misplaced yet Elena Tikhonova and Dominik Spritzendorfer's ELEKTRO MOSKVA sets out to unravel the long coils of Soviet electronic music history. Recounted by a cast of synth-wizards and salvagers they uncover the rich musical heritage that Russia has left behind to electronic music. Presented…
Find out more »Madrid, Capital City (Edinburgh)
Part of Scalarama 2019, Cinemaattic hits back with the best independent cinema from Spain and Latin America, bringing a programme of short-films focused on a very particular town, Madrid. Protagonist, voyeur city, Madrid has seen the changes in contemporary Spain from a privileged point of view. This programme of films aims to help viewers to get a better feel for life there. In order to do so, alongside the films Cinemaattic celebrates the most iconic of all Madrileno dishes: “el…
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