In October, CinemaAttic presents LANDSCAPES OF RESISTANCE. A programme exploring landscapes and humans, and how our surroundings affect the way we live and inhabit this world. We were promised progress, and we want to investigate how the race for progress has affected communities across the globe. Is it possible to bring together rocket science, ethnographic
Sumptuous costume adaptation from the oft filmed novel by Honoré de Balzac. Félix Grandet reigns supreme in his modest house in Saumur where his wife and daughter Eugénie lead a distraction-free existence. Extremely avaricious, he does not take a favourable view of the handsome suitors who rush to ask for his daughter’s hand. Nothing should
Sous le ciel d’Alice In the fifties, young Alice leaves her native Swiss mountains for the sunny and vibrant shores of Beirut. She falls madly in love with Joseph, a quirky astrophysicist intent on sending the first Lebanese national into space. Alice quickly fits in among his relatives, but after years of bliss, the civil
From every November to the following February, Indigenous migrant fishermen set up camp along Taiwan’s Lanyang River to catch the season’s first eel. Camaraderie and bonds are forged as they face the hardship together.
CHI Chia-wei devoted his life to educating people about AIDS: he gave out condoms in the 80s while dressed as Snow White, Jesus or a mummy. At a press conference, he came out as gay and became the first person in Taiwan to do so publicly. His activism garnered a lot of media attention as
Being Alone Together is a heart-warming and witty programme of shorts from Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. Being Along Together showcases the distance (physical and psychological) between people who will, maybe, just maybe, one day re-connect again. Running as part of Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh 2022
Nine-year-old Tete feels jealous of his baby brother as he gets to drink milk from his mother’s breast. Tete prays to the moon to bring him a breast for his own, and his wish looks set to happen with Estrellita (Mathilda May), a beautiful French dancer from a newly arrived circus. But with the meddling
Golden Balls (18) (Huevos de oro, 1993) Benito González (Javier Bardem) is a macho contractor in Benidorm who dreams of erecting the tallest skyscraper in the region. He marries Marta (Maria de Medeiros), the educated daughter of a banker, while keeping his ex, the model Claudia (Maribel Verdú), on the side. But can his force
Produced by the Safdie Brothers (Uncut Gems, Good Time) and directed by Owen Kline in his directorial debut, Funny Pages follows Robert, a teenager searching for independence and a breakthrough into a career as a cartoonist. Rejecting his cosy suburban upbringing, Robert moves to a questionable lodging on the outskirts of Trenton in the name
(La chica nueva, 2021) Jimena travels to Río Grande, in the Argentinian island of Tierra del Fuego, to join her half-brother Mariano. With almost no money, she manages to arrive there with the hope that she will do better. The wind, the cold and the complex context of economic crisis will make Jimena develop her
The CineSkinny Film Club, from the team behind The Skinny magazine, presents David Robert Mitchell’s gorgeous horror It Follows. The premise is simple but delicious: a group of teens are being terrorised by a sexually transmitted curse that causes a monster to follow its victims to the death, assuming any form, visible only to the
The CineSkinny Film Club, from the team behind The Skinny magazine, presents a retrospective of transgressive short films from prolific Glasgow filmmaker Bryan M Ferguson, one of the most distinctive voices on the Scottish film scene. We’re showing a selection of Ferguson’s most recent shorts and music promos, alongside a few of his older films.
Authentik (Suprêmes) In 1989 a group of friends finds a means of expression thanks to the hip-hop movement newly arrived in France. After dancing and graffiti, JoeyStarr and Kool Shen began to write rap lyrics imbued with the anger that simmered in the suburbs. Thus, iconic hip-hop band Suprême NTM was born. Their feverish rhythms
Sumptuous costume adaptation from the oft filmed novel by Honoré de Balzac. Félix Grandet reigns supreme in his modest house in Saumur where his wife and daughter Eugénie lead a distraction-free existence. Extremely avaricious, he does not take a favourable view of the handsome suitors who rush to ask for his daughter’s hand. Nothing should
Moonage Daydream documents the life, career, and creativity of David Bowie from the 1970s to the year 2000. Defying the documentary genre, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Brett Morgen paints Bowie through a collage of archive footage, live material, film clips, paintings, and music. With access approved by the Bowie estate, the film features never-before-seen archive footage of
Famously labelled as “an agonizingly bad vampire movie” by Roger Ebert upon its initial release in 1983, The Hunger has since claimed its place in the cult underground. David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve star as stylish vampire lovers biting their way through the NYC club scene. When John (Bowie) begins to show signs of rapid
(Canción sin nombre, 2019) Peru, 1988. The country is in the grip of a devastating political crisis. Georgina, a young woman from the Andes, has her newborn daughter stolen, after giving birth at a fake health clinic. The desperate search for her baby leads her to Pedro, a young and tenacious investigative journalist who will
Moonage Daydream documents the life, career, and creativity of David Bowie from the 1970s to the year 2000. Defying the documentary genre, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Brett Morgen paints Bowie through a collage of archive footage, live material, film clips, paintings, and music. With access approved by the Bowie estate, the film features never-before-seen archive footage of
Famously labelled as “an agonizingly bad vampire movie” by Roger Ebert upon its initial release in 1983, The Hunger has since claimed its place in the cult underground. David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve star as stylish vampire lovers biting their way through the NYC club scene. When John (Bowie) begins to show signs of rapid
Moonage Daydream documents the life, career, and creativity of David Bowie from the 1970s to the year 2000. Defying the documentary genre, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Brett Morgen paints Bowie through a collage of archive footage, live material, film clips, paintings, and music. With access approved by the Bowie estate, the film features never-before-seen archive footage of
In this darkly comic horror, Megan Fox stars as a demonically possessed high-school girl who feasts on her male classmates much to the dismay of her best friend Needy played by Amanda Seyfried. Hailed in more recent years for its radically feminist edge and queer sub-plot, Jennifer’s Body is a modern masterpiece in the horror
When a group of 20-somethings gets stuck at a remote mansion during a hurricane, a party game gone very, very wrong ends with a dead body on the ground and fake friends at every turn as they try to find the killer among them. From Dutch filmmaker Halina Reijn in her English-language debut, Bodies Bodies
Bruno Dumont’s eleventh feature stars Léa Seydoux as a celebrity journalist who falls out of love with fame after a freak car accident. Penned by Dumont, the story chronicles the frenetic life of a famous TV star and journalist who becomes caught in the trappings of celebrity and subsequently overcome by a spiral of events
Les Magnétiques (15) The early 1980s: there’s a burst of post-punk creativity in the cultural landscape of 1980s Brittany – a rebellious energy which seeps into everything from rock music to publishing to pirate radio which provides an outlet for brothers Philippe (Thimotée Robart) and Jérôme (Joseph Olivennes, son of actress Kristin Scott Thomas), and
