This documentary follows the career of singer Sinéad O’Connor through her rise to fame and how her iconoclastic personality led to her exile from the pop mainstream. The film charts O’Connor’s journey from 1987 to 1993, using archive footage to paint a richly cinematic portrait of the artist through a contemporary feminist lens. Directed by
The Oil Machine explores our economic, historical and emotional entanglement with oil by looking at the conflicting imperatives around North Sea oil. This invisible machine at the core of our economy and society now faces an uncertain future as activists and investors demand change. Is this the end of oil? The Oil Machine brings together
Céline Sciamma captures a spectacular glimmer of working-class Parisian youth in this vibrant coming-of-age drama. Oppressed by dead-end and limited options at school as well a turbulent family life, Marieme joins a gang of three free-spirited girls. Seeking freedom from her own reality, Marieme quits school and changes her name to be accepted by the
The Oil Machine explores our economic, historical and emotional entanglement with oil by looking at the conflicting imperatives around North Sea oil. This invisible machine at the core of our economy and society now faces an uncertain future as activists and investors demand change. Is this the end of oil? The Oil Machine brings together
Ten year old Laure isn’t like most girls. She prefers football to dolls and sweaters to dresses. When Laure, her parents and little sister Jeanne move to a new neighbourhood, family life remains much the same. That is, until local girl Lisa mistakes Laure to be a boy. Indulging in this exciting new identity, Laure
As a young woman growing up in the working-class Paris suburb of Creteil, Neïla Salah (Camélia Jordana) dreams of becoming a lawyer. Enrolled at the renowned Assas Law School in Paris, on her first day she runs up against Pierre Mazard (Daniel Auteuil), a professor known for his provocative behaviour and misconduct. To redeem himself,
La Promesse de l’aube This riveting biopic follows acclaimed novelist Romain Gary, the only writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature twice. Beginning with his childhood in Poland, via growing up in Nice and Paris and his time training as a pilot during the Second World War, the film will appeal to
This documentary follows the career of singer Sinéad O’Connor through her rise to fame and how her iconoclastic personality led to her exile from the pop mainstream. The film charts O’Connor’s journey from 1987 to 1993, using archive footage to paint a richly cinematic portrait of the artist through a contemporary feminist lens. Directed by
Alli Haapasalo’s Girls Girls Girls focuses on the lives of three Finnish teens as they navigate love, pleasure, and friendship in this touching and funny coming-of-age drama. Best friends Mimmi and Rönkkö work together at a smoothie kiosk in a mall, filling their shifts with gossip and jokes. After a haphazard first encounter, Mimmi strikes
Jonas Mekas 100! features two landmark works by Mekas: Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1976), which depicts Jonas and his brother Adolfas’s return journey to their homeland after several decades in the United States, and was inducted into the United States National Film Registry in 2006; and a new digital restoration of As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, an epic, 4.5 hour-film that premiered at the 2000 London Film Festival and is currently the fourth highest-rated documentary film on Letterboxd.
Jonas Mekas 100! features two landmark works by Mekas: Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1976), which depicts Jonas and his brother Adolfas’s return journey to their homeland after several decades in the United States, and was inducted into the United States National Film Registry in 2006; and a new digital restoration of As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, an epic, 4.5 hour-film that premiered at the 2000 London Film Festival and is currently the fourth highest-rated documentary film on Letterboxd.
La Promesse de l’aube This riveting biopic follows acclaimed novelist Romain Gary, the only writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature twice. Beginning with his childhood in Poland, via growing up in Nice and Paris and his time training as a pilot during the Second World War, the film will appeal to
As a young woman growing up in the working-class Paris suburb of Creteil, Neïla Salah (Camélia Jordana) dreams of becoming a lawyer. Enrolled at the renowned Assas Law School in Paris, on her first day she runs up against Pierre Mazard (Daniel Auteuil), a professor known for his provocative behaviour and misconduct. To redeem himself,
Curated by Tom Krasny. Part of CinemaAttic’s LADS: TOXIC MASCULINITY, a programme that denounces toxic masculinity attitudes in communities around the world. This programme explores queer and kinky elements in three artists’ moving image works. The main curiosity will be directed at the body as a meeting point between subjectivity and social expectations and restrictions.
Les Enfants du Paradis (PG) Screening as part of the 30th edition of the French Film Festival UK. Cited at Cannes as the greatest French film of all time. Set in the 1840s Parisian theatrical world, Jacques Prévert’s screenplay depicts four men in love with the mysterious Garance. Each loves her in his own way,
Compartiment Tueurs (15) This first feature by Franco-Greek director Costa-Gavras was adapted from a novel by Sébastien Japrisot and is a humorous, visually punchy take on the murder mystery. Red herrings abound and the twists and thrills are masterfully executed with a dream cast including the late, great Michel Piccoli. Director Costa-Gavras Cast Michel Piccoli,
In the Magway region of Myanmar, a country home to one of the oldest petroleum industries in the world, live husband and wife Thein Shwe and Htwe Tin. Running an unregulated oil field, they produce a barrel every few days. They wish above all else to see their youngest son succeed, to break the cycle
Fragile (15) A handsome oyster farmer in Sète vows to win back his actress girlfriend after a botched proposal. Fragile hijacks the traditional codes of comedy with a joyfully feminist take on contemporary masculinity.
Les Enfants du Paradis (PG) Screening as part of the 30th edition of the French Film Festival UK. Cited at Cannes as the greatest French film of all time. Set in the 1840s Parisian theatrical world, Jacques Prévert’s screenplay depicts four men in love with the mysterious Garance. Each loves her in his own way,
Language: French, Spanish with English subtitles. Part of the 8th Scotland Catalan Film Festival, organised by CinemaAttic and Institut Ramon Llull. Prestigious Catalan director Isaki Lacuesta investigates memory and trauma in this film about the Bataclan terrorist attack in Paris. Isaki Lacuesta investigates the deep marks that witnessing a terrorist attack leaves in the memory
Language: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Polynesian with English subtitles. Part of the 8th Scotland Catalan Film Festival, organised by CinemaAttic and Institut Ramon Llull. The Best Film of 2022 for Cahiers du Cinéma, Pacifiction is a dreamy, tropical, visually-stunning cinematic journey which deserves to be experienced in the cinema. On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti,
Language: Catalan, Spanish with English subtitles. Part of the 8th Scotland Catalan Film Festival, organised by CinemaAttic and Institut Ramon Llull. A programme of short films and a conversation with directors Alba Bresolí and Meritxell Colell on the new wave of Catalan cinema and literature reflecting on the rural world and Catalan countryside. In 2022,
Language: Spanish with English subtitles. Part of the 8th Scotland Catalan Film Festival, organised by CinemaAttic and Institut Ramon Llull. The film will be introduced by Director Meritxell Colell and followed by a Q&A. A fierce filmmaker defendant of cinema as experience, Meritxell Collell’s second film is a poetic journey in which she once again
This event is Free-Ticketed War | Oppression | Dystopia conference/film-screening by Adrien Sina Conceived in 2020 by Adrien Sina, dance historian and curator of the exhibitions Feminine Futures, the series War | Oppression | Dystopia is prolonged at the Centre Pompidou with this event especially conceived in tribute to the Ukrainian artists. War | Oppression
