Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh present a double bill of silent cinema gems offering an extraordinary glimpse into the everyday lives of Taiwanese people in the early and mid-20th century: Director Pai Jing-jui’s 1964 short documentary A Morning in Taipei & Deng Nan-Guang’s 57-minute-long collection of 8mm short films shot between 1935 and 1941.
The Halloween night when Michael Myers returned isn’t over yet. Minutes after Laurie Strode (Curtis), her daughter Karen (Judy Greer) and granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) left masked monster Michael Myers caged and burning in Laurie’s basement, Laurie is rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, believing she finally killed her lifelong tormentor.
From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind modern horror masterpiece The Witch, comes this hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Renowned 1991 psychological horror The Silence of the Lambs turns 30 this year – experience this horror classic on the big screen once more this Halloween! A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
An earthquake hits Paris and almost immediately unleashes a thick toxic gas that kills everyone who breathes it in. An estranged couple manage to get above the gas (it tops off at about three stories high), but in doing so leave behind their daughter who has an illness that keeps her locked in a filtered containment unit.
Take a documentary musical journey in search of the soul of Afro-Cuban music. From the communist friendships of the Cold War to today, from Havana to Bamako, we follow in the footsteps of ten young Malian musicians in musical training in Cuba, who became a founding group of world music: the legendary Maravillas of Mali. Fifty years later, this forgotten group is resurrected thanks to Maestro Boncana Maïga, its historical conductor.
The short comedy film festival that selects the funniest short films from across the globe, from emerging and established filmmaking talent, comes to Summerhall for 2 nights – the first celebrating our Scandanavian ‘Friends From The North’, with the second looking closer to home at ‘Local Heroes’.
The short comedy film festival that selects the funniest short films from across the globe, from emerging and established filmmaking talent, comes to Summerhall for 2 nights – the first celebrating our Scandanavian ‘Friends From The North’, with the second looking closer to home at ‘Local Heroes’.
The Edinburgh Short Film Festival once again brings some of the world’s best short films to Edinburgh and is your only chance to see one of the UK’s strongest short film programmes. From Academy Award nominees to Annecy Animation Festival Winners and Cannes winning shorts. Guest films from International Film Festivals including Brussels, Krakow, Pescara & Buenos Aires alongside the best 2021 Scottish and UK short films.
Edinburgh Cinema Club and The Sommelier Collective celebrate the start of International Sherry week with a special screening of José Luis López-Linares’ 2015 documentary “Sherry & the Mystery of Palo Cortado”. Before the film begins, attendees are invited to participate in a masterclass led by a Sherry expert where they will sample three different sherries of Fino, 12yr old Cream Sherry and Palo Cortado. Salud!
One of the most influential fashion icons of the 20th Century, Mary Quant was at the vanguard of the style revolution of the 60s and 70s, leading the charge away
Fujimoto, a once-human wizard/scientist, lives underwater along with his daughter, Brunhilde, and her numerous smaller sisters. While she and her siblings are on an outing with their father in his four-flippered submarine, Brunhilde sneaks off and floats away on the back of a jellyfish.
In director Bong Joon-ho’s breakthrough movie (Parasite, Snowpeircer) an American military base of Yongson releases toxic chemicals in the drain to the Han River under the direct order of an arrogant coroner. Six years later, a monster emerges from Seoul’s Han River and begins attacking people – but one victim’s loving family does what it can to rescue their daughter from its clutches.
Featuring a host of engaging characters as well as thousands of toads, Cane Toads: The Conquest is a humorous yet thought-provoking journey into the issue of invasive species. Without doubt one of the most unusual, surprising, enjoyable and amusing films you’ll ever see.
A documentary following three young female activists on the protests in Hong Kong against the Beijing-influenced administration under Carrie Lam, the protests in Chile against social inequality in the country and in Uganda at the local Fridays for Future protests and actions for climate justice.
With Calamity, writer/director Rémi Chayé explores the origins of the legendary American frontierswoman, digging into her childhood and the ways in which she defied the gender conventions of her time. This feminist retelling shows how young Martha Jane Cannary fought against a sexist and male-dominated society to become an iconic frontierswoman – an empowering tale about a strong female hero that all audiences can cheer for. Audience award winner at Annecy Animation Film Festival 2020.
The Sleeping Car Murders 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. To be screened with short film Belle Étoile – At 35 years old, Thu Yen comes to France from Vietnam to be married but there is no sign of her future husband when she arrives. Her chance encounter with hotel cleaner Marianne completely changes the course of her life.
Forces across the universe face off over a rare export that can only be found on the desert planet Dune. Duke Leto Atreides has been sent to secure it, bringing his son, Paul, who has an even bigger destiny that transcends beyond their people. Denis Villeneuve directs this sci-fi epic, based on Frank Herbert’s bestselling novel of the same name. This reimagining stars Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson and Oscar Isaac.
Keyboard Fantasies sees Glenn Copeland commit his life and music to screen for the first time – an intimate coming of age story spinning pain and the suffering of prejudice into rhythm, hope and joy.
From Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim), an aspiring fashion designer is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s, where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer (Anya Taylor-Joy). However, the glamour is not all it appears to be, and the dreams of the past start to crack and splinter into something far darker.
Piano to Zanskar is an award-winning British documentary film which tells the story of Desmond O’Keeffe, also known as Mr Gentle, a 65-year old piano tuner who embarks on an impossible mission. Facing his future in retirement, “sitting in deck chairs and eating lemon drizzle cake”, Desmond decides instead to take on the most challenging and perilous delivery of his four decade career: transporting a 100 year-old, 80 kilo, Broadwood and Sons upright piano, from bustling London to the remote heart of the Indian Himalayas.
When a mysterious stranger (Alec Utgoff) arrives in a gated community on the outskirts of a large city, he is welcomed by the wealthy residents who embrace his talents as a masseur. Though his hands provide healing, his eyes seem to penetrate their very souls, lifting a disquiet in each of their lives. Bold, beautiful and mesmeric, NEVER GONNA SNOW AGAIN is the acclaimed new film from Małgorzata Szumowska and her longtime collaborator Michał Englert.
A Swedish family travels to the French Alps to enjoy a few days of skiing. The sun is shining and the slopes are spectacular but, during a lunch at a mountainside restaurant, an avalanche turns everything upside down.
Marc-André Leclerc climbs alone, far from the limelight. On remote alpine faces, the free-spirited 23-year-old Canadian makes some of the boldest solo ascents in history. Yet, he draws scant attention. With no cameras, no rope, and no margin for error, Leclerc’s approach is the essence of solo adventure.
