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TaiwanFFE x HKFFUK

Towards Freedom: Revolution of Our Times (N/C 15+)

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

Over the past fifty years, Hongkongers have fought for freedom and democracy but have yet to succeed. In 2019, the “Extradition Bill” which would have allowed the extradition of Hongkongers to China, opened Pandora’s box, turning Hong Kong into a battlefield against Chinese authoritarian rule. The award-winning director of “Ten Years: Self Immolator,” Kiwi Chow, made this documentary to tell the story of the movement, both with a macro view of its historical context and up close and personal perspective on the front lines. Part of Hong Kong Film Festival 2022.

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Screen Horizons

The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily / La Fameuse Invasion des ours en Sicile (8+)

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

Eclectic Italian artist and illustrator Lorenzo Mattotti has designed everything from comic books to New Yorker covers in his long and acclaimed career, but The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily (La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia) is his first venture into feature filmmaking. Based on novelist Dino Buzzati’s (The Tartar Steppe) only children’s book, and taking its cue from local traditions like the wandering minstrel and storyteller, it is a colourful fairy tale.

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Screen Horizons

Small Country: An African Childhood / Petit Pays (12+)

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

Éric Barbier successfully and faithfully adapts Gaël Faye’s excellent novel about the Rwandan genocide seen through the eyes of a mixed-race child from neighbouring Burundi. Gabriel, aged 10, lives in a comfortable expatriate neighbourhood in Burundi (his Small Country) with his French entrepreneur father and Rwandan mother.

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PCL Presents

Caroline

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Eight piece post-rock outfit and Rough Trades’ latest signee, caroline, play Summerhall in support of their debut self-titled LP. For fans of Explosions in the Sky, Godspeed You! Balck Emperor & Talk Talk.

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DF Concerts

Rachel Sermanni

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Rachel Sermanni is a Scottish based singer/songwriter that makes the mundane moments mystical: shock-positive pregnancy tests in train-station toilets, coffee machine breakages, cold river swims, the regret of not saying ‘I love You’, the moon & how it pulls, bare feet on wood floors, the soft glow of a house plant, ‘what even is consciousness?’, strange dreams lingering in quiet mornings…

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Push The Boat Out: Edinburgh's International Poetry Festival

Rock the Boat: Push the Boat Out’s Monthly Open Mic

The Gallery Bar 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

We know you’ve been longing for the Return of the Open Mic Night. We’ve missed that wholesome, electric je-ne-sais-quois in the air at open mics, and we’re ready to bring them back to you, free and monthly. Be prepared to mask up, sign up, and come on up to the mic in the Gallery Bar at Summerhall. If you’re not (yet) one to read your poems for any and all ears to hear, come out to listen to some of the best fresh poetry Edinburgh has to offer.

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Pictish Trail

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Johnny Lynch, AKA Isle-of-Eigg dwelling electro-acoustic psych-pop wonder Pictish Trail is back with a fourth album Thumb World, which was released on February 21, 2020. Four years in the making, Thumb World is the much-anticipated follow-up to his critically acclaimed Scottish Album of the Year Award public vote winner Future Echoes.

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Emily Fong.

Artist Talk: G-Lands: An Out of Body Experience

Anatomy Lecture Theatre Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

How did Emily Fong find herself inside the Centre for Regenerative Medicine, hospital clinics and surgery – observing the journey of the salivary gland from patient to laboratory? What might the salivary gland say of it’s experiences outside of the body and future aspirations? Join Emily for insight into the process of this unique residency

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Louise Mackenzie and invited guest.

Artist Talk – BLACK BOX

Anatomy Lecture Theatre Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Co-founder and curator of pop-up cinema experience, BLACK BOX, artist Louise Mackenzie and invited guest will give a talk on the inspiration behind the BLACK BOX programme. Opening the door on the inner workings of scientific research, Black Box is a curatorial cinema project, founded by artist, Louise Mackenzie and scientist, Kasia Pirog in 2019. 

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Autism Awareness Month Special: Among Us

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

Art teacher HAN Shu-Hua has been teaching painting to children with autism spectrum disorder for over 2 decades. This documentary portrays four of Han’s students, closely following their daily interactions with others, especially their family members whose devotion and sacrifice are both heart-wrenching and life-affirming. Hidden beneath their seemingly detached appearance are their fierce devotion

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Screen Horizons

Small Country: An African Childhood / Petit Pays (12+)

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

Éric Barbier successfully and faithfully adapts Gaël Faye’s excellent novel about the Rwandan genocide seen through the eyes of a mixed-race child from neighbouring Burundi. Gabriel, aged 10, lives in a comfortable expatriate neighbourhood in Burundi (his Small Country) with his French entrepreneur father and Rwandan mother.

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Screen Horizons

Léon Morin, Priest / Leon Morin, prêtre (PG) + live Q&A with François Giraud

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

In 1961 Jean-Paul Belmondo and Emmanuelle Riva made Léon Morin, Priest. They were both in the heat of their early careers. The director Jean-Pierre Melville (renowned for his gangster tales), opted for a story at the intersection of desire, religion and politics. Belmondo plays a devoted man of the cloth who is desired by all the women of a small village in Nazi-occupied France.

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Honey I Shrunk The Kids (U) Baby Friendly Screenings

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

When kids sneak into inventor Wayne Szalinski’s (Rick Moranis) upstairs lab to retrieve an errant baseball, his experimental shrink ray miniaturizes them. When Szalinski returns home, he destroys the device — which he thinks is a failure — and dumps it in the trash, throwing out the kids along with it. The four children, now

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Event Series CODA (12a)
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CODA (12a)

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

As a CODA – Child of Deaf Adults – Ruby (Emilia Jones) is the only hearing person in her deaf family. She’s stretched thin by the role she has to play, both helping the family’s fishing business stay afloat and acting as their interpreter to the hearing world. She finds sanctuary in music: after joining

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Nothing Ever Happens Here

Stanley Odd

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Stanley Odd are a force to be reckoned with (so says Clash Magazine). A live hip-hop band based in Scotland. A collective of musicians, producers and pals. Champions of outsiderdom and life on the periphery. Pioneers and innovators, pushing at boundaries, dancing along fault lines. 2021 was a whirlwind of activity for Stanley Odd, including the release of their critically acclaimed album STAY ODD – a collection of musical stories about outsiders, outcasts and the universally Odd; the ordinarily unusual; the typically extraordinary.

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Honey I Shrunk The Kids (U) Baby Friendly Screenings

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

When kids sneak into inventor Wayne Szalinski’s (Rick Moranis) upstairs lab to retrieve an errant baseball, his experimental shrink ray miniaturizes them. When Szalinski returns home, he destroys the device — which he thinks is a failure — and dumps it in the trash, throwing out the kids along with it. The four children, now

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Event Series The Novice (15)
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The Novice (15)

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

Alex Dall, a queer college freshman who joins her university’s rowing team and undertakes an obsessive physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost. Intent on outperforming her teammates, Alex pushes herself to her limits—and beyond, alienating everyone around her in the name of success.

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Event Series The Worst Person in the World (15)
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The Worst Person in the World (15)

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

A wistful and subversive romantic drama about the quest for love and meaning in contemporary Oslo. It revolves around Julie, a vibrant and impulsive young woman who, on the verge of turning thirty, is faced with a series of choices that force her to continually reinvent and pursue new perspectives on her life. Over the

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Honey I Shrunk The Kids (U) Baby Friendly Screenings

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

When kids sneak into inventor Wayne Szalinski’s (Rick Moranis) upstairs lab to retrieve an errant baseball, his experimental shrink ray miniaturizes them. When Szalinski returns home, he destroys the device — which he thinks is a failure — and dumps it in the trash, throwing out the kids along with it. The four children, now

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Sonia Mehra Chowla.

Artist Talk: The Rooted Sea

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‘The Rooted Sea: Halophytic Futures’ is an interdisciplinary inquiry into the fragile and endangered coastal ecosystems and wetland habitats of India and Scotland, and their vital role in building resilience to climate change. The project is led by multidisciplinary artist & researcher Sonia Mehra Chawla and creative producer Miriam Walsh (Managing Director, ASCUS Art &

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Event Series The Novice (15)
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The Novice (15)

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

Alex Dall, a queer college freshman who joins her university’s rowing team and undertakes an obsessive physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost. Intent on outperforming her teammates, Alex pushes herself to her limits—and beyond, alienating everyone around her in the name of success.

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Event Series The Worst Person in the World (15)
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The Worst Person in the World (15)

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

A wistful and subversive romantic drama about the quest for love and meaning in contemporary Oslo. It revolves around Julie, a vibrant and impulsive young woman who, on the verge of turning thirty, is faced with a series of choices that force her to continually reinvent and pursue new perspectives on her life. Over the

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Screen Horizons

Léon Morin, Priest / Leon Morin, prêtre (PG)

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

In 1961 Jean-Paul Belmondo and Emmanuelle Riva made Léon Morin, Priest. They were both in the heat of their early careers. The director Jean-Pierre Melville (renowned for his gangster tales), opted for a story at the intersection of desire, religion and politics. Belmondo plays a devoted man of the cloth who is desired by all the women of a small village in Nazi-occupied France.

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Screen Horizons

Adolescents / Adolescentes (12+)

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

Emma and Anaïs are best friends and yet everything in their life seems to set them apart – from their social backgrounds to their personalities. From the age of thirteen to eighteen, Adolescents follows the two teenagers in the years where radical transformations and first times punctuate daily life. Through their personal stories, the film offers a rare portrait of France and its recent history.