Cover image: Portrait of a Young Lady on Fire, dir. Celine Sciamma Welcome to the 17th Inverness Film Festival Another year has passed, and it seems a quicker one than ever. Society appears to be more divided than at any point in the last 60 years so it’s important for the festival to celebrate both our similarities and differences, with films from around the world, as well as the truth, and with several great new documentaries. Tolerance and truth are two very important values for our festival. Over 40% of the films we are showing are directed or co-directed by women. In the early days of cinema women were an important part of the film making process, as we see in Be Natural, the brilliant doc about film pioneer Alice Guy Blache. It’s a sad state of affairs that almost 100 years later women film makers are still greatly outnumbered, and out-financed, by men. I do hope that in the future years we can get closer to parity. It has been another great year for world cinema. Whether it’s South African female-fronted modern western, Georgian traditional dance or an old Turkish man wanting to die on his ancestral lands, we see through the window of cinema which shines a light onto places we might never get a Become an chance to see. I will admit, and this will not at all be embarrassing, that my favourite genre Eden Court Friend of film is... Romantic Comedies. Good ones that is, it’s very hard to make a great rom-com. I’ve always wanted to programme a short season of great and enjoy many exclusive rom-coms, but have never had a reason. Until Now. Elizabeth Sankey has benefits from only £22 a year made a fantastic exploration of the genre with her documentary Romantic Comedy, and to accompany I have included some of my favourites. Come along and watch some ‘meet cute’ classics - including a day of Hugh Grant. Savings on hundreds
On a personal note I am delighted that we are going to be premiering INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM of shows and films Down The Rabbit Hole, by Mike Webster and James Roddie. Both Mike and Priority booking and special offers Join today James have worked at Eden Court, and they are two inspiring people. They Advance information 01463 234 234 have made a touching, powerful film about an important subject which Discount in our Cafe, Bar & Restaurant eden-court.co.uk/friends includes beautiful shots of them caving (which really freaks me out). Please do remember to vote for our Audience Award. You are our jury and Generous savings on 50 weekly classes GIFT MEMBERSHIP AVAILABLE it’s great to hear what you think. I do hope that you enjoy the festival. Exclusive events for members For full terms & conditions please The latest on and off stage news visit eden-court.co.uk Waiting list priority Paul MacDonald-Taylor Festival Director 3 OPENING NIGHT FILM CLOSING NIGHT FILM
Motherless Brooklyn (15) Jojo Rabbit (12A) FRI 08 NOV THU 14 NOV
USA | 2019 | 144mins Germany/USA | 2019 | 108mins Director Edward Norton Director Taika Waititi Starring Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michael K. Starring Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Taika Waititi, Sam Williams, Leslie Mann, Willem Dafoe, Alec Baldwin, Bobby Cannavale Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson, Rebel Wilson
INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM Oscar nominee Edward Norton directs, produces and stars in this Taika Waititi’s explosive satire follows JoJo “Rabbit” Betzler, a lonely INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM detective drama. In his role as Lionel Essrog, he plays a private detective German boy who supports the regime and is a member of the Hitler with Tourette’s Syndrome who is deeply upset by the murder of his Youth group. His vision of the world is overthrown by the discovery that mentor and only friend Frank Minna (Bruce Willis). With only a few clues, his mother Rosie is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided solely Lionel navigates the slums of 1950s New York, and Brooklyn’s underworld by his daft imaginary friend Adolf Hitler (played by Waititi), JoJo will have to unravel the mystery surrounding Frank’s death and save the woman to face his nationalist ideology in the outbreak of World War II. who might be his own salvation. With thanks to Twentieth Century Fox and Walt Disney With thanks to Warner Bros. 4 5 SPECIAL PREVIEW HIGHLIGHTS
La Belle Époque (12A) FRI 08 NOV (PG) The Aeronauts France | 2019 | 115mins | French with subtitles MON 04 NOV Director Nicolas Bedos Starring Daniel Auteuil, Guilaume Canet, Doria Tiller, Fanny Ardant USA/UK | 2019 | 101mins Director Tom Harper Unemployed cartoonist Victor is kicked out by his wife, psychoanalyst Starring Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne, Himesh Patel, Marianne. He accepts the proposal of the Time Traveller, a curious agency Anne Reid, Tim McInnerny that promises to take customers back to a moment in time they would
INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM like to relive, with the aid of incredible settings and talented actors. Victor INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM In 1862, balloon pilot Amelia Wren teams up with scientist James chooses to relive a day in 1974, the day in which he first met Marianne in Glaisher for a dangerous, unprecedented expedition in a hot-air a café in Lyon. Attracted by the actress who interprets Marianne, Victor balloon, which will take them higher in the sky than anyone ever finds the future in his past. attempted before. Up in the air, they get to know each other - their true identities slowly revealed as they face harsh weather conditions With thanks to Twentieth Century Fox and Walt Disney and thin air, in a life threatening experience that will have them fighting for survival. With thanks to Entertainment One 6 7 HIGHLIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS
Screening with Harriet Harriet (15+) SAT 09 NOV Strike for Freedom - USA | 2019 | 125mins Frederick Douglass in Scotland Director Kasi Lemmons SAT 09 NOV Starring Cynthia Erivo, Janelle Monáe, Leslie Odom Jr. Based on the extraordinary life story of abolitionist Harriet Tubman, 15mins starring British rising star Cynthia Erivo (Widows, IFF 2018). Director Parisa Urquhart Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Maryland, where she worked on Frederick Douglass, a world-renowned author, orator and activist had a INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM a plantation. Following her escape to Philadelphia she changed her name, major impact on Scotland. His lifelong mission was to ‘tell the story of the became independent and soon headed back to Maryland to help her slave’ and when he fled to the UK after exposing his slaveholders’ name family escape. She went on to fight slavery by leading hundreds of people and deeds, he fell in love with Scotland and the Scots fell in love with him. to freedom through the Underground Railroad, changing the course of At the time the Scots saw Douglass as the icon of the freedom struggle. history and becoming one of America’s greatest heroes. It’s only now that Scotland is finally acknowledging this. This short film highlights world-exclusive information regarding Douglass, his family and With thanks to Universal Pictures his impact in Scotland.
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire Portrait de la Jeune Fille en Feu (15+) SAT 09 NOV Ordinary Love (12A) France | 2019 | 119mins | French and Italian with subtitles Director Céline Sciamma SUN 10 NOV Starring Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami UK | 2019 | 92mins France, 1760. Marianne has been commissioned to paint the portrait of Director Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn Lady Héloïse for a distant admirer; however, as the young woman has Starring Liam Neeson, Lesley Manville no intention of being married off, her mother introduces the painter to After many years together, Joan and Tom’s relationship is based on Héloïse as her walking companion. INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM old habits and everyday routine, yet strong as ever. But when Joan is INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM As they spend time together during the day, Marianne gazes upon Lady diagnosed with breast cancer, their long-standing love is tested to the Héloïse to memorise her traits and secretly paints her portrait at night. limits as she starts a medical treatment which shakes their lives. Lesley A strong attraction soon grows between them as they spend more and Manville and Liam Neeson give masterful performances in this touching more time in each other’s company. drama about love and illness. The latest outstanding work by Céline Sciamma (Girlhood, Tomboy) With thanks to Universal Pictures confirms the French director as a prominent storyteller in contemporary cinema.
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Lucy in the Sky (15+) The Report (15) SUN 10 NOV MON 11 NOV
USA | 2019 | 124mins USA | 2019 | 120mins Director Noah Hawley Director Scott Z. Burns Starring Natalie Portman, Jon Hamm, Zazie Beetz, Dan Stevens Starring Adam Driver, Annette Bening, Jon Hamm, Maura Tierney Inspired by the real story of astronaut Lisa Nowak, Lucy in the Sky is the Daniel Jones, member of the US Senate, is tasked with an investigation
INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM story of Lucy Cola, a woman whose determination leads to fulfilling her on the detention programme carried out by the CIA. During his research INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM dreams as an astronaut of flying in outer space. Jones learns of the brutal, immoral and ineffective techniques adopted Lucy is deeply affected by the experience of seeing Earth from space and by the CIA agents since the attacks of 9/11. But when the truth is about to once back from the trip, starts to lose her grip on reality and distances be revealed, both the CIA and the President of the United States will do herself from her family, in a world that now feels too small. anything in their power to prevent that from happening. With thanks to Twentieth Century Fox and Walt Disney With thanks to Curzon
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A Hidden Life (15+) TUE 12 NOV The Lighthouse (15) Germany/USA | 2019 | 173mins Director Terrence Malick MON 11 NOV Starring August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Michael Nyqvist, Matthias USA/Canada | 2019 | 109mins Schoenaerts, Bruno Ganz Director Robert Eggers The latest feature by Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life) is a compelling Starring Willem Dafoe, Robert Pattinson historical drama based on real events. Set against the majestic backdrop Robert Eggers, director of The VVitch (IFF 2015), comes back with a new of the Austrian Alps, the film is centred around the life of Franz unsettling tale in black-and-white. Ephraim Winslow (Pattinson) arrives Jägerstätter, a peasant farmer and pious Catholic who lived with his
INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM on a remote island along the coast of New England to man a lighthouse beloved wife and children in the alpine village of St. Radegund. As the INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM alongside his disgruntled senior Thomas Wake (Dafoe). As a master/ war broke out across Europe and the Nazi ideology begun to spread, servant dynamic establishes between them, Ephraim grows bitter towards Jägerstätter refused to swear loyalty and fight for the Third Reich. the old man. But upon learning about the fate of Tom’s former assistant, Condemned to death for treason, he was imprisoned in Linz and then he descends into paranoia. Isolated from the rest of the world on a land in Berlin, where the only thing to keep him alive were his faith and the where time seems to have arrested, the pair slowly spirals into madness. thought of his wife and children. With thanks to Universal Pictures With thanks to Twentieth Century Fox and Walt Disney
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System Crasher The Nightingale (18+) (15+) Systemsprenger SUN 10 NOV THU 14 NOV Australia/USA/Canada | 2018 | 136mins Germany | 2019 | 118mins | German with subtitles Director Jennifer Kent Director Nora Fingscheidt Starring Aisling Franciosi, Sam Claflin Starring Helena Zengel, Albrecht Schuch, 1825. A young Irish convict woman chases a British officer through Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Lisa Hagmeister
INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM the wilderness, seeking revenge for a harrowing crime he committed INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM Nine-year-old ‘enfant terrible’ Benni has already become what child against her family. On the way she is helped by Billy, an Aboriginal man protection services call a ‘system crasher’ and it doesn’t look like she’s who shares with the woman a traumatic, violence-filled past. going to change any time soon. Mrs. Bafané from child protection With thanks to Vertigo Films services is trying to find a permanent placement for Benni and hires Micha, an anger management trainer who escorts Benni to school. As his “One of the most powerful films yet seen about presence seems to benefit Benni, there’s suddenly a seed of hope. Will the country’s colonial foundation and the cruelties Micha be able to succeed where all others despaired? that were an indelible part of it.” With thanks to 606 Distribution MORNING HERALD 16 17 NEW AUSTRALIAN CINEMA SPECIAL EVENT
Neil Brand Presents Laurel And Hardy (6+) SUN 10 NOV
Judy + Punch (15) 2 hours approx WED 13 NOV After the national success of his long-running show Neil Brand Australia | 2019 | 105mins Presents Buster Keaton, the composer/writer/broadcaster/musician Director Mirrah Foulkes returns with an all-new show about the immortal comedy duo. Starring Mia Wasikowska, Damon Herriman, Tom Budge, Lucy Velik From their earliest days up to their silent masterpieces before the The traditional puppet story is brought to life in this dark comedy by arrival of sound, Neil will tell the touching story of the world’s greatest comedy team, who could not have been two more different men! INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM Australian director Mirrah Foulkes. In the town of Seaside (nowhere near INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM the sea), Judy and Punch are a married couple of puppeteers whose Fully illustrated with stills, clips, featuring Neil’s superlative piano show is very popular due to Judy’s talent – although Punch, who has accompaniment and culminating in two of the Boys’ best silent short a weakness for drinking, proclaims himself as the greatest. Following a films, this is a show that promises gales of laughter throughout, as well tragic accident involving their child, Punch brutally beats Judy up, leaving as getting under the skin of two warm, funny men who continue to her half-dead in the woods. Taken in by a group of outcasts who look make the world laugh when it needs it most. after her, Judy plots her revenge. With thanks to Picturehouse Entertainment 18 19 SPECIAL EVENT NEW WORLD CINEMA
Rob Roy (12+) TUE 12 NOV
UK | 1922 | 80mins Director William Kellino Starring David Hawthorne, Gladys Jennings, Wallace Bosco, Simeon Stuart Take Me Somewhere Nice (15+) Scotland’s fear and Scotland’s pride, Rob Roy MacGregor… FRI 08 NOV
This impressive and rarely screened biopic of Scotland’s best-known Netherlands/Bosnia | 2018 | 91mins | Bosnian and Dutch with subtitles outlaw stars David Hawthorne in full tartan kilt and tammy and tells Director Ena Sendijarević the story of the MacGregors in the early 18th century. Shot entirely on Starring Sara Luna Zorić, Lazar Dragojević, Ernad Prnjavorac location in the Trossachs and nearby Stirling Castle, this gleeful adventure Raised by her mother in the Netherlands, Alma decides to travel to her features Scots inter-titles, epic fight scenes, and over 800 men of the INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM native Bosnia to meet her father - but nothing goes to plan. After a cold INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders enlisted as extras in a dramatic battle. welcome from her cousin Emir, she’s soon attracted to his best friend To accompany this rare silent source from the British Film Institute Denis. Determined to find her father, Alma is joined by both boys for a National Archive, the Hippodrome Silent Film Festival (HippFest) has road trip adventure through the Bosnian country. commissioned multi-instrumentalist and composer David Allison to create a new score. “Take a hefty amount of Jim Jarmusch, mix in a few heaping tablespoons of David Lynch, leaven it all with Bosnian absurdism” The Rob Roy (1922) tour is supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network. It is produced by the Hippodrome Silent Film Festival which is VARIETY supported by Falkirk Community Trust and Screen Scotland. 20 21 NEW WORLD CINEMA NEW WORLD CINEMA
Winter Flies Všechno Bude (15+) Noah Land SUN 10 + WED 13 NOV Czech Republic | 2018 | 85mins (15+) Czech with subtitles SAT 09 + MON 11 NOV Director Olmo Omerzu Starring Tomáš Mrvík, Jan Turkey | 2019 | 109mins František Uher, Eliška Křenková, Turkish with subtitles Lenka Vlasáková, Martin Pechlát Director Cenk Ertürk And Then We Danced (15+) Starring Ali Atay, Haluk Bilginer, 14-year-old Mára and his SUN 10 NOV Arin Kusaksizoglu, Mehmet Ozgur, somewhat eccentric friend Heduš Hande Dogandemir run away from home and embark Sweden/Georgia/France | 2019 | 105mins | Georgian with subtitles on a road trip, driving through Director Levan Akin Omar’s father has a terminal frozen lands to seek adventure. Starring Levan Gelbakhiani, Bachi Valishvili, Ana Javakishvili illness and his last wish is to be On the way they are joined by buried under the Noah Tree he Acclaimed at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, the third feature film by
INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM young hitchhiker Bára, who they INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM swears he has planted in the Swedish-Georgian director Levan Atkin is set around the national dance both fall for. The trio enjoys a village where he was raised. company in Tblisi. Merab is a talented dancer of the company, engaged lively trip, until they are stopped The villagers’ belief, however, is to his dance partner Mary. But when their classes are joined by newcomer by the police and taken in for an that the tree was planted by the Irakli, Merab soon finds himself strongly attracted by the young man, interrogation… prophet himself. Omar will have conscious that he will have to conceal his homosexuality in the rigorously to face the villagers in order to With thanks to Cercamon heterosexual Georgian society. fulfil his father’s wish. With thanks to Peccadillo Pictures and Miracle Communications With thanks to Cercamon 22 23 NEW WORLD CINEMA NEW WORLD CINEMA
UK PREMIERE Mariam (15+) Flatland (15+) MON 11 NOV MON 11 + THU 14 NOV
Kazakhstan/Germany | 2019 | 75mins South Africa/Luxembourg/Germany | 2019 | 117mins | Afrikaans and Director Sharipa Urazbayeva English with English subtitles Starring Meruert Sabbusinova, Hamza Koksebek, Almas Bektibayev, Director Jenna Bass Edige Ahmet Starring Faith Baloyi, Nicole Fortuin, Izel Bezuidenhout
INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM Following the mysterious disappearance of her husband from their Following an accidental murder on her wedding night, Natalie is forced to INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM remote village in Kazakhstan, Mariam must look after their four children escape from her husband and leave behind her small town in rural South and manage to survive through the harsh winter. To save herself and her Africa. Her heavily pregnant best friend Poppie joins her on the run. On family, she resorts to taking some fatal decisions. Once things improve, their way they meet Beauty Cuba, a policewoman whose boyfriend has her husband suddenly shows up…can things go back to what they were? been framed after Natalie’s crime. The lives of the three women will be Mariam is the outstanding debut feature by Sharipa Urazbayeva. changed on this journey of self-discovery, in the face of the ever-present threat of violence. With thanks to Match Factory 24 25 NEW WORLD CINEMA NEW WORLD CINEMA
SCOTTISH PREMIERE
Sons of Denmark Family Romance, So Long, My Son Koko-Di Koko-Da Danmarks Sønner (15+) LLC (12+) Di Jiu Tian Chang (12A) (18) TUE 12 NOV TUE 12 NOV WED 13 NOV THU 14 NOV
Denmark | 2019 | 120mins USA | 2019 | 89mins China | 2019 | 185mins Sweden/Denmark | 2019 | 86mins Danish and Arabic with subtitles Japanese with subtitles Mandarin with subtitles Swedish and Danish with subtitles Director Ulaa Salim Director Werner Herzog Director Wang Xiaoshuai Director Johannes Nyholm Starring Zaki Youssef, Starring Mahiro Tanimotot, Starring Liya Ai, Jiang Du, Starring Ylva Gallon, Leif Edlund Mohammed Ismail Mohammed Ishii Yuichi Zhao-Yan Guo-Zhang Johansson, Peter Belli In a not-too-distant future, Family Romance LLC is a Tokyo- Winner of Best Actor and Best During a camping holiday, Elin after a major bomb attack in based business that specialises in Actress at the Berlin Film Festival. and Tobias are hit by a tragedy Copenhagen, tensions have risen, renting out actors to impersonate Tracing the lives of two families that ruins their lives forever. Three radicalisation has intensified and a role according to their over thirty years, this film follows years later the couple attempts an ultra-nationalist party is leading customers’ requests, be it acting once close friends and co-workers another holiday in the hope it will in the polls. In this climate, young as someone’s family member or in the same factory, as they grow make things right, but the horrors
INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM Zakaria gets involved in a radical a pretend paparazzi following apart after the tragic loss of one of their past repeat again in what INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM organisation, with dangerous you around the city. Interpreted family’s child. So Long, My Son seems to be an unnerving and consequences. Sons of Denmark by a non-professional cast, chronicles people and a society endless nightmare. is the feature debut by Ulaa Salim, Herzog’s hybrid documentary- in full transformation - in which With thanks to Picturehouse Danish director of Iraqi origins. drama blurs the lines between human relationships and the Entertainment With thanks to Eureka real and fictional love in an age of tumultuous evolution of a nation Entertainment overwhelming forgery. are inevitably and inextricably With thanks to Modern Films intertwined.
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Trouble In Paradise (U) MON 11 NOV
USA | 1932 | 82mins Director Ernst Lubitsch Starring Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall Notorious thief Gaston Monescu falls for colleague Lily Vautier. In order to rip off the rich Mariette Colet, the two return her bag and get hired as her assistants with the plan to steal all her belongings – but things don’t SCOTTISH go quite as planned… PREMIERE Romantic Imagine Pillow Talk (PG) Comedy (15+) Me & You (12A) TUE 12 NOV SUN 10 NOV SAT 09 NOV USA | 1959 | 102mins Director Michael Gordon UK | 2019 | 78mins UK/Germany | 2005 | 94mins | Starring Doris Day, Rock Hudson Director Elizabeth Sankey 35mm New York City. Interior designer Jan Morrow and playboy Brad Allen As much as rom-com is a genre Director Ol Parker share the same phone line. After she files a complaint against him, he is beloved by many, it has never Starring Piper Perabo, Lena Heady, determined to conquer her heart in the guise of a Texan rancher. been considered worthy of in- Matthew Goode, Celia Imrie, depth investigation because of Anthony Head its alleged shallowness. Assisted Having been together for a (15) INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM by a number of film critics and lifetime, Rachel and Heck are Working Girl INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM filmmakers, British actor/director finally getting married. On the day WED 13 NOV and rom-com lover Elizabeth though Rachel befriends Luce, USA | 1988 | 113mins Sankey dives into the world of who provided the flowers for Director Mike Nichols the genre, scrutinising the best the wedding. Rachel soon falls Starring Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, examples in a documentary that for Luce, and must now choose Alec Baldwin, Joan Cusack seeks to better understand the way between her long-time boyfriend romantic comedy has influenced and the woman of her dreams. Tess, disillusioned woman working as a secretary, sees her brilliant idea our view of love, relationships and stolen by her manager. But when the opportunity presents itself, she 30 31 romance. pretends to be her boss, rising to the top of New York’s financial circles. ROM-COMS: HUGH GRANT DAY! DOCUMENTARY £5/£4 CONCESSION
Four Weddings and a Funeral (15) THU 14 NOV
UK | 1994 | 117mins Director Mike Newell Starring Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott Thomas, Simon Callow SCOTTISH Shy Londoner Charles has a one night stand with American Carrie at a PREMIERE wedding but the next time they meet, at another wedding, Carrie brings her fiancé. Can Charles win her over in time for the next wedding?... The Cave (15+) Aquarela (8+) SAT 09 NOV SAT 09 NOV
Music and Lyrics (PG) Syria/Denmark/Germany | 2019 | UK/Germany/Denmark/USA | 2018 THU 14 NOV 95mins | Arabic with subtitles | 89mins Director Feras Fayyad Director Viktor Kossakovsky USA | 2007 | 104mins Oscar nominee Feras Fayyad Captured at 96 frames-per- Director Marc Lawrence (Last Men in Aleppo) uncovers second, this visually compelling Starring Hugh Grant, Drew Barrymore an unflinching story of the Syrian and highly cinematic documentary When a has-been pop star struggles to write a song that could launch war with his powerful new takes the audiences on a stunning his comeback, it takes a quirky woman with a gift for lyrics to get him documentary, The Cave. Named journey around the world to on track. Together they discover that to write the perfect love song, after the secret, subterranean discover the energy of Earth’s it helps to fall in love! Syrian hospital where a group most precious element – water. of medical professionals, both From the huge frozen surface men and women (something of Lake Baikal in Russia, to the
INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM Notting Hill (15) unthinkable in the city above), crushing power of Hurricane Irma INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM THU 14 NOV work every day to provide medical in Miami, the film captures the care to hundreds of civilians, the spectacular, sheer force of water UK/USA | 1999 | 123mins film follows Dr. Amani Ballor as in all its shapes. Director Roger Michell she leads the team saving lives With thanks to Park Circus Starring Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant under the constant threat of The life of a simple, earnest bookshop owner changes forever when bombardments and chemical he (accidentally) meets and falls in love with the most famous film star attacks. in the world. With thanks to Dogwoof 32 33 DOCUMENTARY DOCUMENTARY
WORLD PREMIERE Down the Rabbit Hole (15+) SUN 10 NOV
UK | 2019 | 41mins Director Mike Webster Starring James Roddie, Mike Webster Scheme Birds (15+) James Roddie is a caver, climber and a professional photographer. He’s also a 30-year-old man with an eating disorder. After the death of his father, MON 11 NOV James deals with it the best way he knows how - heading underground Sweden/UK | 2019 | 88mins with his camera. Delving into his story, James candidly explores why Director Ellen Fiske, Ellinor Hallin caving, adventure, and mental health are so intricately tied together. Teenager Gemma grew up in a housing estate in Motherwell. In her own The screening will be introduced by the filmmakers. words, it is a place where you “either get knocked up or locked up”. This
INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM Alongside the screening, an exhibition of James’ photography will run fly-on-the-wall documentary follows the lives of Gemma and the people INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM throughout November in the 1st Circle Gallery. close to her as she discovers she is expecting a child from her boyfriend Pat. Scheme Birds offers a look to an often neglected part of society. With thanks to Syndicado Film Sales Exhibition | 01 – 30 NOV | 1st Circle Gallery Photographer James Roddie offers a glimpse into Scotland’s subterranean “This extraordinary documentary weighs the bleak details world in this series of ambitious photographs. Shot whilst making the film - and they are, at times, almost unbearably grim - against Down the Rabbit Hole with Mike Webster, these images show some of moments of lyrical beauty and even humour.” Scotland’s most beautiful and most recently discovered caves. SCREEN INTERNATIONAL 34 35 DOCUMENTARY DOCUMENTARY
SCOTTISH SCOTTISH PREMIERE PREMIERE Be Natural: The Untold True Shooting the Mafia (15+) Story of Alice Guy-Blanché (8+) THU 14 NOV WED 13 NOV Ireland | 2019 | 94mins Director Kim Longinotto USA | 2018 | 103mins Starring Letizia Battaglia Director Pamela B. Green When she started off her career as a photographer for a Palermo-based Narrator Jodie Foster newspaper in 1969, Letizia Battaglia was the only woman in an all-male
INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM Have you ever heard of Alice Guy-Blaché? Presumably the first ever team. Expecting to be capturing scenes of ordinary lives, she soon found INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM female filmmaker, Alice was a pioneer in the early days of cinema. She herself having to document the numerous murders and the regime of understood the potential of the newly-invented cinematograph as fear that the Sicilian Mafia brought daily to the city. Documentarist Kim a powerful narrative tool and was one of the first ever filmmakers to Longinotto traces a portrait of Battaglia, now in her 80s, by combining make films with a plot. Despite her prolific career (over 1000 films) and the photographer’s account of her life and profession in those years invaluable contribution to the history of cinema, Alice Guy-Blaché was alongside striking shots from her portfolio. erased from history…until now. Narrated by Jodie Foster, this fascinating With thanks to Modern Films documentary tells her story from the beginnings as Gaumont secretary, to her eclectic 20-year career in the film industry. 36 37 SCHOOLS
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A Colony Yellowbird Shorts for Wee Ones (3+) Une Colonie (12+) Gus Petit Oiseau, SUN 10 NOV WED 13 NOV Grand Voyage (8+) Various Countries | 2017-19 | 45mins English or dialogue free Canada | 2019 | 102mins TUE 12 NOV Director Various French with English subtitles France | 2015 | 90mins A wonderful mix of stories and characters from around the Director Geneviève Dulude-De Celles French with English subtitles world which offers a wide variety of styles and techniques Starring Emilie Bierre, Irlande Director Christian de Vita to entertain the wee ones (and everyone else in their party!). Côté, Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie Voices Arthur Dupont, These magical tales will delight children age 3+ and are a Introverted Mylia is about to start Sara Forestier, Bruno Salomone colourful introduction to the cinema experience. high school. She will have less Darius is a young bird who one time to devote to her younger day finds himself having to lead sister and the endless quarrels of a flock of birds to Africa. His (8+) their parents. When she befriends Shorts for Middle Ones inexperience leads to several one of the popular girls and a boy SAT 09 NOV detours that take them to Paris, from the nearby Abenaki reserve, the Netherlands and the North Various countries | 2017-19 | 60mins INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM they encourage her to break free. INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM Sea. This beautiful, engaging English, dialogue free or (in one film) French with subtitles. This film follows these young animation delivers an important Director Various teenagers in their search for a environmental message through place where they can just Always fresh and hugely imaginative, each of the short films a delightful adventure! Join the be themselves. in this collection offers its own unique take on storytelling and birds on a tour around the world. dramatic style. With films from all over the globe, audiences Suitable for lower secondary (S1- Suitable for primary (P5-P7) / from the age of 8 upwards will find lots to enjoy within the S4) / Modern languages: French Modern languages: French huge variety of the films on offer. £3/free for teachers £3/free for teachers 38 39 YOUNG FILMS FOUNDATION
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The Young Films Foundation is a residency scheme based on the Isle of Skye offering advanced training opportunities to Scotland’s up-and-coming film and TV talent. Surrounded by some of Scotland’s most awe-inspiring scenery and under the guidance and mentorship of leading names in the UK film and TV industry, participants on the scheme are given a unique Cashback for Creativity (12+) personally tailored step-up on their chosen career paths in the industry. WED 13 NOV The YFF will be showing short film Archie and highlights from the 2019 residency. UK | 2019 | 90mins YFF ambassador and Inbetweeners star Joe Thomas will co- Come and see films created through Eden Court Engagement's host a short Q&A with founder Christopher Young and 2019 Cashback for Creativity projects over the past year, made by and YFF participant Ali Taylor, international screenplay writer Olivia starring young people from the Highlands and Moray. Music Hetreed (A Girl With The Pearl Earring, Wuthering Heights) and videos, thrillers, comedies and the absurd can all be seen in this acclaimed TV director Jonny Campbell (Informer, West World, amazing showcase of local film talent! The Casual Vacancy). Cashback for Creativity is part of the Scottish Government's
INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM Cashback for Communities initiative, which has seen over £45 INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM million recovered through the Proceeds of Crime Act, reinvested Archie back into communities to benefit Scotland's young people. Archie receives a letter which sends him on a terrifying Free but ticketed and magical journey to the Outer Hebrides. A new animation film from Domenica More-Gordon which heralds an exciting new departure for Young Films - Archie is now being developed as a major TV series with BBC TV and is set to enter production in 2020. 40 41 BRIDING My Name Is Anik UK I 2019 I 16mins THE GAP: RED Director Bircan Birol FRI 08 NOV · 15+ Bircan has decided to learn Kurdish, her once-forbidden SEAT PRICE £3 mothertongue, with all the words her grandmother has forgotten and all the stories that have Altsasu remained unspoken. UK I 2019 I 14mins Director Eoin Wilson That Joke Isn’t In the Basque town of Altsasu, the beds of seven young men lie Funny Anymore empty. As the town celebrates UK I 2019 I 12mins its annual festival, Altsasu follows Director Hannah Currie Igone as she copes with the Can Lindsay’s love for her husband imprisonment of her son Jokin and Paul sustain her through the six others, convicted in a case trauma of his brain injury, which which has been widely condemned leaves him in a perpetual loop of SAT 09 NOV as a miscarriage of justice. memory loss and joke telling? Nominated for Best Short Film: UK | 1959-2019 | 65mins Hydebank 2019 BAFTA Scotland Awards ‘there and then and never again’: new film commissions celebrating the life and work of Margaret Tait UK I 2019 I 15mins Director Ross McClean Vivir Bailando New short films from international talents, Scotland-based artists and filmmakers that celebrate the life, legacy, attitude or approach Governing the Northern Irish UK I 2019 I 14mins
INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM of Scotland’s filmmaking pioneer, Margaret Tait (1918–1999). INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM countryside, HMP Hydebank Wood Director Inma de Reyes currently houses 104 young male The programme will include new film commissions by director and When Cari (79) became a widow offenders. Four years into his critic Mark Cousins; artist, musician and filmmaker Luke Fowler; artist she lost both the love of her life sentence, Ryan is still coming to Alexander Storey Gordon; artist and filmmaker Matt Hulse; artist Wendy and her dancing companion. But terms with the actions that lead Kirkup and composer Richy Carey; director Morag Mckinnon; author Ali she is a phenomenal woman who to his imprisonment. The unlikely Smith and filmmaker Sarah Wood; artist Catherine Street; and curator and bounces back with wit, make-up catharsis to his inner demons? artist Peter Todd. The new commissions are part of Margaret Tait 100, and music. On meeting Vincente A flock of sheep living inside a year-long centenary celebration that includes screenings, exhibitions, (80) Cari gets a second chance the prisons walls. workshops, readings and new publishing. 42 at teenage love, even if it means 43 living in isolation. SHORT CUTS 1 SHORT CUTS 2 SAT 09 + MON 11 NOV · 15+ · SEAT PRICE £3 SAT 09 + TUE 12 NOV · 15+ · SEAT PRICE £3
Anam Starting Over Tomorrow Might Distant Sky UK I 2019 I 19mins UK I 2018 I 15mins Be The Day UK I 2019 I 16mins Director Gordon J. Napier Director Russell Davidson I Starring Director Gareth Peevers UK I 2018 I 20mins Starring Jamie Miche, Shauna Brian Vernel, Grant Stott, Cal MacAninch Starring Tim Barrow, Joe McTernan Director Joséfa Celestin Macdonald, Lewis Baxter, Andrew Byatt Inmate Ronnie Barlow is about to Starring Tim Barrow, Jocelyn Brassington A bereaved man kidnaps and A single father suffering PTSD get released from jail.v On what threatens an innocent victim A fanatical believer sets into after serving in WWI struggles to should be a happy day of freedom, from a parallel world. motion a chain of events that he reconnect to his family, his home the fear of what lies outside drives believes will spare his niece from and to the man he once was. him over the edge. the impending apocalyptic doom. Anam (Soul in Gaelic) is set and Educated shot in the Scottish Highlands. UK I 2019 I 16mins Stalker Those Who Are Director Tom Nicoll UK I 2019 I 19mins Starring Stephen McMillan, Jamie In the Fall Director Chris Andrews Most Happy Michie, Silvie Furneaux UK I 2018 I 16mins Starring Sean McGinley, Martin McCann UK I 2019 I 19mins I French and English After a strange encounter with with subtitles I Director Rory Gibson I Director Tom Gentle I Starring Stuart After a stalker is injured in a his seemingly benign teacher, an Bowman, Susan Coyle, Lewis McGowan Starring Lujza Richter, Laure Stockley confrontation with a poacher, isolated school boy must decide Scotland. In a remote coastal he sets out to track and capture Two friends reach out to each how to negotiate this contentious peninsula, A boy watches his his attacker. But as the effects of other across a web of resentments and intriguing relationship. parents as they decide whether to his injury set in, the stalker soon old and new. send their loyal working horse to becomes the stalked. the knacker’s yard; he now costs Dark Road more than he earns for a family UK I 2019 I 16mins who tread the tightrope between Red Hill INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM Director Rory Gibson I Starring Andrew INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM survival and ruin. UK I 2018 I 13mins Still, Francesco Piacentini-Smith Director Laura Carreira Starring Billy Mack, Lorraine McCann Two young men are compelled An isolated ex-miner who works as toward one another through a a security guard spends his last night shared grief. at work patrolling the slag heap of a former coal mine - a remnant of Scotland’s industrial past. 44 Nominated for Best Short Film: 2019 45 BAFTA Scotland Awards SHORT CUTS 3 SHORT CUTS 4 SUN 10 + WED 13 NOV · 15+ · SEAT PRICE £3 SUN 10 + THU 14 NOV · 15+ · SEAT PRICE £3
How the Earth Just Agree Then Boys Night Lucky Star Must See Itself UK I 2018 I 9mins UK I 2019 I 16mins UK I 2019 I 18mins I Director Russell Director Duncan Cowles, Ross Hogg Director James Price I Starring Cameron Davidson I Starring Amy Manson, UK I 2019 I 12mins Jack, Kyle Gordon, Kirsty Strain Gerard Miller, Adam Mitchell Director Lucy Cash and Simone Kenyon Seven months before the UK was Starring Jo Hellier, Claricia Parinussa, due to leave the EU, two stubborn Late one night, long after bedtime, 1980s Glasgow: As his family Caroline Reagh, Keren Smail and Petra Scottish filmmakers struggle to 11-year-old Reece must brave the disintegrates around him, the only Söör I Voice over Shirley Henderson make a short film together in mean and marvellous streets of thing on eight-year-old Jonjo’s This film brings together the Austrian Alps. Can they find north Glasgow to get his drunken mind is getting his prized He Man choreography for camera, common ground, or will they father safely home. figure for Christmas. fragments of Nan Shepherd’s have to go their separate ways? text read by Scots actress Shirley Duck Daze Attrition Henderson and a polyvocal score UK I 2019 I 15mins UK/France I 2018 I 23mins I sung by a choir of local women. Slingshot UK I 2019 I 16mins Director Alison Piper Director Kelly Holmes I Starring Lewis Director Robin Haig Starring Sharon Starring Daniela Nardini Mackinnon, Jack Roth, Edward Hogg Be Still My Small, Grant O’Rourke, Dolina MacLennan Community outcast Johnina 1915. In the British trenches of Beating Heart The spirited tale of Highland returns to her homeland on the Isle WWI, Edwin Child is a young woman Kath who wants to join her of Lewis to attend her father’s funeral. soldier with a supernatural gift – UK I 2019 I 25mins I Director Ruth Paxton Her homecoming will reignite a Starring Maxine Peak, Elysia Welch local village’s battle re-enactment he can heal wounds. But for each but is thwarted by her annoying dark trauma from her past. life saved, he must sacrifice a part A nightmarish contemporary younger boss Gordon. of himself… vision. Two adult sisters exist dysfunctionally, each limited by illnesses affecting both body and Jealous Alan Slap INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM INVERNESS FESTIVAL FILM mind – one physically and the UK I 2019 I 15mins UK I 2018 I 14mins other psychologically. Director Martin Clark Director Simone Smith Starring Ryan Hunter, Jack Stewart, Starring Charlotte McDougall, Elysia Welch, Kate Dickie Lauren Hunter, Olivia Easton Farmland Alan and Stuart are best friends Chewing gum and teddy bears collide UK I 2019 I 13mins I Director Niamh for life, but is it as straightforward in a kaleidoscopic and disturbing McKeown I Starring Isobella Hubbard, as that when a girl gets between school yard drama of a girl trying to Sarah Miele, Eilidh Fisher them? fit in. Devoid of acceptance, Melissa’s Sibling rivalry takes a deadly turn mind unravels... 46 Nominated for Best Short Film: 47 after the reading of a father’s will. 2019 BAFTA Scotland Awards Don’t miss a thing. Audience Award
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