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Brand new year, brand new director, brand new brand. This year’s EIFF is poised to be the shiniest Festival of them all. Celebrating the best in fresh film talent from home and abroad, 12 days of unique EIFF energy begins here. Use the following 68 pages and our website to build your own Festival experience. Choose your weapon.

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Honour Board 01 Contents 02 Hannah’s Introduction 03 How to do EIFF 04 Booking Your Tickets 05 Film Index 06 www.edfilmfest.org.uk 09 In Person 10 The Edinburgh Festivals 13 Festival Awards 15 Best of the Fest 16 Opening and Closing Night Galas 17 Films A-Z 19–65 Festival Calendar 33–36 Venue Information 66–67 Festival FAQs 68

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hannah’s introduction

A message from our new Artistic Director.

Welcome to the all new 61st Edinburgh form. There’s a chance to International Film Festival. bask in three stunning Shakespeare adaptations directed by and starring Sir We have a new look for this new decade in Laurence Olivier; and we’re joining forces the Festival’s history, and this year the with Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema programme has a theme. We’re looking in- Foundation to bring you restored classics depth at Cinema and the Written Word: how from the international archives. scripts come to be and how writers operate within the movie business. So scattered From the old to the brand new: we’re throughout the programme we’ve got films honouring our commitment to British film by the world’s finest writer/directors, from talent with Trailblazers, a fresh initiative Quentin Tarantino to Béla Tarr and from Judd brought to you in association with the Skillset Apatow to Gus Van Sant. We’ve got Screen Academies. Skillset and EIFF have adaptations of novels both well-known and chosen rising stars from the Skillset Screen undiscovered; of stirring and controversial Academies and from the EIFF programme; memoirs; of cult comic books; and of stage they’re identified with the Trailblazer symbol plays both classic and contemporary. And throughout this brochure, and you can pick up we’re collaborating with the Edinburgh a separate leaflet to tell you more about them. International Book Festival, Edinburgh Finally, I don’t do this all alone, so not all the International Festival, the National Theatre of copy you’ll read in here is by me. There’s a Scotland, the Collective Gallery and the key below to tell you which written words are Traverse Theatre on events that push the whose. boundaries between literary, theatrical and cinematic storytelling. Enjoy yourself. We’re very excited about this year’s programme, and we hope you will be It’s a bumper year, too, for those who prefer too. their cinema with a bit of history. Our main retrospective is dedicated to one of Hollywood’s most prolific and fascinating screenwriters: the fabulous Anita Loos. We’re also showing the whole of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz – 1 all 15 /2 hours of it, in beautifully remastered Hannah McGill, EIFF Artistic Director

For film information or to book tickets, go to www.edfilmfest.org.uk or call the box office on 0131 623 8030

top tips... ticket prices full conc. 1. Book now Opening & Closing Galas £10.95 £7.60 Our fantastic advance packages are available online, in person and over the phone until August 15. Take advantage of the deals, take Feature films £7.95 £5.50 the stress off the wallet and use your free tickets to spoil yourself. Go on. In Person events £15/10.50 £10.50/7.35 2. Register online With more content than ever before including Retrospective and video and audio highlights, trailer streaming Shorts programmes £6.50 £4.55 and extended photo galleries www.edfilmfest.org.uk is at the heart of EIFF activity. So get online and register for free. Retrospective pass £30

Concessions are available to senior citizens, students, unemployed, equity 3. Stick about and you could learn members, and under 18 year olds in full-time education. Proof of status will be something... required when purchasing or collecting tickets. Part of the unique EIFF culture lies in the cinema screening itself. Many of our films have filmmaker and/or guest appearances for both film introductions and post film Q&As. Rush off and miss out! three ways to book In Person 4. Take a chance Tickets for all EIFF screenings are available from the Box Offices at Filmhouse While you’re here, why not take a gamble on a and Cineworld. Cameo Box Office sells tickets for Cameo screenings only. film or event that would usually pass beneath For opening times, see page 66. your film radar? Often the best experiences On the Phone are unexpected. So dive in, swim about and 0131 623 8030 experiment a little with your film choice… You A £1 booking fee will be charged per transaction, but there are no limits to the could discover a whole new world. number you can buy in a transaction.

Online 5. Celebrating cinema www.edfilmfest.org.uk Start your EIFF day with a lesson from a true It’s quick and easy to book online for any EIFF screening and all advance offers master of the written word, whose work are also available on the website. A £1 booking fee will be charged per influenced a generation of writers. The Anita transaction, but there are no limits to the number you can buy in a transaction. Loos Retrospective is showing every day at Filmhouse. See them all for the bargain price of £30. Printed programme sponsored by Standard Life 5

advance box office opens offers 13 july at midday available 13 july – 15 august

Remember, buying in advance won’t only save you money – many of our films sell out fast, so book early to secure your seats.

This year, we’ve put together some great packages to suit all budgets – the more you buy 6 get 1 free see, the less each film will cost you. Advance offers apply to ALL tickets in the programme purchased between 13 July and 15 August inclusive. Free tickets will be the cheapest ticket(s) in your package. retrospective buy 12 get 3 free films for a retrospective price! get all 13 Films in this year’s Anita Loos Retrospective retrospective screen every afternoon at Filmhouse. Buy a Retrospective pass anytime before or during events for £30 the Festival and you can see all 12 films and available anytime the Anita Loos Rediscovered lecture for just £30. 6 www.edfilmfest.org.uk lighting the way

Don’t know where to begin? Finding your Festival feet is easy… In the programme, films are listed alphabetically. Each film belongs to a section and descriptions of each section can be found below with colour coding for easy identification while browsing. If this is your first EIFF experience, we suggest you hop online to www.edfilmfest.org.uk and use the Suggest-o-tron to match your personality with Festival films.

opening night gala Special People 56 I Want to Tell You Something Sugarhouse 58 (Ich Muss Dir Was Sagen) 32 Hallam Foe 17 The Waiting Room 61 LYNCH 43 W∆Z 62 Manufacturing Dissent: Uncovering Michael Moore 45 A Massacre Foretold 45 closing night gala The Monastery: Mr Vig and the Nun 46 directors’ showcase The Other Side of the Country Two Days in Paris 17 (De l’autre côté du pays) 48 Wide-ranging work from the best established Protagonist 50 international names. Run Granny Run 52 animation Short Scottish Documentary Award Screening 55 Sponsored by Strawberry Fields (Sadot Adumim) 23 Hand-drawn, computer-generated, or claymation – To Die in Jerusalem 59 world class work from every area of the animated Beaufort (Bufor) 20 Traders’ Dreams 60 arts. Beauty in Trouble (Kráska v Nesnázich) 21 What Would Jesus Buy? 63 Breath (Soom) 23 Family Animation 28 Les Chansons d’amour 24 McLaren Animation 1 & 2 46 The Home Song Stories 32 gala Ratatouille 50 I Served the King of England Tekkonkinkreet 59 (Obsluhoval Jsem Anglickeho Krále) 32 The big guns. Red-carpet treatment for the films that World Animation 1 & 2 63 I’m a Cyborg, but That’s OK are at the top of everyone’s wish list. (Saibogujiman Kwenchana) 37 In Search of a Midnight Kiss 37 Breach 23 black box It’s Gonna Get Worse (...A Bude Hur!) 39 The Counterfeiters (Die Fälscher) 26 The Legacy (L’Héritage) 42 Death Proof 27 Daring, edgy experiments in film form, from the The Man from London (A Londoni Férfi) 45 The Hottest State 32 innovators of the art world. The New Man (Den Nya Människan) 47 In the Shadow of the Moon 37 The Old Garden (O Rae Doin Jeong Won) 48 Knocked Up 40 Black Box Shorts 22 Once 48 A Mighty Heart 46 In the Wake of a Deadad 38 Paranoid Park 48 Stardust 56 Lost & Sound: From the Collection of The Serpent (Le Serpent) 55 We Are Together (Thina Simunye) 62 Mark Newgarden 43 Twisted Sister (Schwesterherz) 60 Year of the Dog 65 Madame I 44 The Witnesses (Les Témoins) 63 Phantom Love 49 Yella 65 Reverse Angles – a Collection of Personal in person Projects and Non-Cinema Work by 51 Christopher Doyle document Your chance to get up close and personal: great Strange Culture 57 filmmakers in the flesh, talking through their work We started as a documentary festival, and the size of and taking your questions. this year’s section shows that our commitment remains. british gala Extraordinary true-life stories from all over the world. BAFTA Interview: Bob Hoskins 20 25 The very best in homegrown cinema, from high-end Chris Cooper: In Person 22 39 studio product to raw low-budget work. Billy the Kid Irvine Welsh: In Person Bridge Over the Wadi (Gesher Al Havadi) 23 Julie Delpy: In Person 40 24 46 And When Did You Last See Your Father? 19 Bridging the Gap Mike Leigh: Skillset In Person 24 49 Control 25 Castells Paul Laverty: In Person 25 52 Extraordinary Rendition 28 Comrades in Dreams Samantha Morton: In Person 26 57 My Life as a Bus Stop 47 Crazy Love Stellan Skarsgård: In Person 27 57 Saxon 53 Document Shorts Stephen Frears: Skillset In Person 27 59 Seachd – The Inaccessible Pinnacle 54 Doubletime Tilda Swinton: Skillset Scotland In Person 29 63 Sparkle 56 Flying – Confessions of a Free Woman William Nicholson: In Person Garbage Warrior 29 Writing Comedy: Judd Apatow 64

written word mirrorball trailblazers Events and films that relate to our Beautiful, eclectic music on film from Films featuring our selection of new UK theme for 2007: Cinema and the around the world. talent, chosen from our programme and Written Word. from the Skillset Screen Academies. Printed programme sponsored by Standard Life 7

Once in full festival flow and discovering gems, use Hannah’s ‘Like This? Try These…’ suggestions at the bottom of each entry to navigate yourself to other like-minded films.

mirrorball Saratoga 53 UKFC First Past the Post 61 The Social Secretary 31 World Shorts 1 & 2 64 Presenting jaw-dropping music videos, ads and The Struggle 57 promos from every corner of the globe, this world- Susan and God 58 renowned section is the leader in its field. The Women 63 special events

Sponsored by Special stand-alone movie experiences, sessions rosebud designed to fully explore the content of our Academy Films: Hail to the Chiefs 19 programme, and stuff that’s in there just for fun – Mirrorball | Animation 19 Our tips for the top: first and second works from the these are the one-off experiences that will make your Cornelius Special – directors to watch. festival. From Nakameguro to Edinburgh 26 Mirrorball | Fresh Tracks 29 Aria 20 Berlin Alexanderplatz: Remastered 21 Mirrorball | Global Selection 30 Auftauchen 20 Current TV: Take Your Short and Shove It... 26 IRN-BRU: Phenomenal Advertising 39 Blackbird 22 Hamlet 31 Kurt Cobain About a Son 41 Blame it on Fidel (La Faute à Fidel) 22 Henry V 31 Live Earth: The Directors 43 Blind Mountain (Mang shan) 23 Introduction to Screenwriting 38 Mirrorball | Made in Japan 44 A casa de Alice 24 John Waters: This Filthy World 40 Planet B-Boy 49 Children of Glory (Szabadság, Szerelem) 25 Limite 42 Ex Drummer 28 Make a Film in a Day (Screening and Workshops) 44 Faro – Goddess of the Waters Make Sure They’re Dead! 44 night moves (Faro – la reine des eaux) 29 Mala Noche 45 in the cities (dans les villes) 37 National Theatre of Scotland: The wild and wicked late-night section of the The Interpreter (La Traductrice) 38 Uncommitted Crimes 47 programme, for those who like their cinema The Italian 39 Restoring Classic Films 51 experiences dark, risky, or just plain scary. Komma 41 Richard III 51 Kythera 41 The Rise and Fall of Renaissance Films: Day Watch (Dnevnoy Dozor) 27 The Last Dining Table (Majimak Babsang) 42 Exploring Independent Film Business Models 51 Joshua 40 Lovely by Surprise 43 Scottish Novels on Screen 53 Shrooms 55 Parting Shot (Pas douce) 49 Script Factory: Christopher Hampton 54 Teeth 58 Razzle Dazzle: A Journey into Dance 50 Script Factory: The Waiting Room 54 Weirdsville 62 Riza 52 SEEL In Person: Kate Ogborn 54 Rocket Science 52 State of the World (O Estado do Mundo) 57 Skills Like This 55 The Surprise Movie 58 retrospective: anita loos Solitary Fragments (La Soledad) 56 Time of His Life: The Films of Eddie McConnell 59 Western Trunk Line (Xi gan dao) 62 Trailblazing Shorts 1 & 2 60 In a year devoted to the art of screenwriting, we present XXY 65 Trances 60 Hollywood’s script queen: a writer whose career took her Yo 65 The Writer’s Role 64 from the silents through the Golden Age of the studios. Writing Reality: She wrote for iconic directors, and made great actors into Blake Morrison and David Nicholls 64 stars. Don’t miss the chance to get to know her work. shorts

Sponsored by Discover the feature directors of the future, or simply enjoy bite-sized movies for their own sake – we’ve done Anita Loos Rediscovered 19 the hard work for you by seeking out the finest of the year. Gentlemen Marry Brunettes 30 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 30 Beirut Stories 21 His Picture in the Papers 31 European Shorts 1 & 2 28 Hold Your Man 31 GMAC Cineworks & Digicult 30 Intolerance 38 Namikabashi Shorts 47 Red-Headed Woman 50 UK Shorts 1 & 2 61 San Francisco 53 UKFC Digital Generation 61

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register! It’s free and completed in the blink of an eye… Registered users receive regular email updates, the opportunity to get their hands on free goodies and can enter exclusive competitions to win tickets. suggest-o-tron Choosing films is easy at EIFF – if you’re unsure what films will most suit your taste, the Suggest-o-tron on the homepage will help find your perfect match. ticket offers All of the advance ticket offers are available online this year. So take advantage of our offers and give your bank balance a break. news and photo galleries The place to catch the breaking news on surprise guest appearances, what (or who) is hot, last minute cancellations and additions to the programme. Plus photo galleries packed full of highlights from red carpets, press conferences and award ceremonies. eiff tv Racing around this year’s EIFF, our very own roving reporting team whose daily video highlights can be found streamed in the news don’t forget area and are available as podcasts. If you see them, smile for the camera and you might to register for free! end up being the star of the show.

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It’s not just films that make us a festival – we’re giving you the chance to sit this far from your cinema heroes and heroines. We’re thrilled to welcome some genuine movie legends live and in person, who will join us to talk about their fascinating careers.

john waters p. 40 skillset in person: THU 16 AUG 20:30 CINEWORLD mike leigh p. 46 An unforgettable session in the company TUE 21 AUG 16:00 CINEWORLD of one of the world’s greatest and most A multiple Oscar® nominee, Palme d’Or and In celebration of this year’s Written Word gleefully original entertainers. Golden Lion winner – the widely celebrated theme, the programme features a crop of and debated Mike Leigh joins us in the best in writing talent: skillset in person: conversation. tilda swinton p. 59 irvine welsh p. 39 FRI 17 AUG 14:00 CINEWORLD chris cooper p. 25 THU 16 AUG 17:00 CINEWORLD A personal appearance by EIFF’s new FRI 24 AUG 16:00 CINEWORLD A conversation with Scotland’s star patron. The darling of the mainstream and An Oscar® winner who always adds a touch author turned screenwriter and director the beloved muse of the arthouse sector of class. The actors’ actor speaks about a – plus his hilarious new short film, Nuts. talks about her work. distinctive career. william nicholson p. 63 the bafta interview: skillset in person: SAT 18 AUG 12:00 CINEWORLD ® bob hoskins p. 20 stephen frears p. 57 Oscar nominee, fantasy fiction writer FRI 17 AUG 17:00 CINEWORLD SAT 25 AUG 14:30 CINEWORLD and screenwriter of Gladiator, In association with BAFTA Scotland, we A director of extraordinary range who has Shadowlands, Nell and the upcoming The are proud to present one of Britain’s most had an incredible year. We are delighted to Golden Age joins us to discuss his life in dynamic, distinctive and much-loved welcome this long-standing friend of EIFF. writing. performers in conversation. julie delpy p. 40 christopher hampton p. 54 samantha morton p. 52 SUN 26 AUG 14:30 CINEWORLD SAT 18 AUG 14:00 CINEWORLD SUN 19 AUG 16:30 CINEWORLD A new Renaissance woman with a fascinating One of Britain’s finest dramatists, An actress who has established herself as career – a genuine star talks us through a life screenwriter of Dangerous Liaisons and one of modern cinema’s most bold, versatile in the spotlight. Atonement, talks about his work for the and respected performers. screen. stellan skarsgård p. 57 EVENT TIME TO BE CONFIRMED judd apatow p. 64 A Swedish star most recently seen SUN 19 AUG 13:00 CINEWORLD swashbuckling his way through two Pirates The writer/director of The 40-Year-Old of the Caribbean sequels, now in the brilliant Virgin and Knocked Up discusses a W∆Z (p.62). We are honoured to welcome this career dedicated to splitting sides and unique performer. tickling funny bones.

paul laverty p. 49 and don’t forget... WED 22 AUG 13:30 CINEWORLD Writer of six award winning films filmmakers often make appearances at directed by Ken Loach including Sweet Sixteen and Palme d’Or winner The Wind our film introductions and post-film Q&As. That Shakes the Barley. Printed programme sponsored by Standard Life 13

edinburgh festivals

We know you love Edinburgh as much as we do and the sacrifice of leaving the summer’s day behind to sit in a dark cinema for a few hours is considered but a pleasure. However, while in this Festival Mecca, why not also take a walk on the wild side and explore the array of other cultural events that the beautiful and vibrant city of Edinburgh has to offer?

edinburgh art festival edinburgh interactive 26 July – 2 September 2007 entertainment festival www.edinburghartfestival.com 12 – 14 August 2007 www.eief.co.uk starbucks edinburgh jazz and blues festival edinburgh mela 27 July – 5 August 2007 1 – 2 September 2007 www.edinburghjazzfestival.com www.edinburgh-mela.co.uk

edinburgh military tattoo www.edinburghfestivals.co.uk 3 – 25 August 2007 This official online listing site allows you to www.edintattoo.co.uk search across all the festivals to keep you Email: [email protected] up-to-date with all the latest news and provides you with an essential guide to the edinburgh festival fringe city of Edinburgh. 5 – 27 August 2007 www.edfringe.com Official Daily Guide to the Edinburgh Festivals Produced every day during festival time, the edinburgh international festival guide contains hour by hour listings of every 10 August – 2 September 2007 show, across all of Edinburgh’s festivals. www.eif.co.uk Available from all major venues. In association with The Guardian. edinburgh international book festival 11 – 27 August 2007 www.edbookfest.co.uk Printed programme sponsored by Standard Life 15 awards

THE MICHAEL POWELL AWARD FOR PPG AWARD FOR BEST PERFORMANCE STANDARD LIFE AUDIENCE AWARD BEST NEW BRITISH FEATURE FILM IN A BRITISH FEATURE FILM

In spite of the illustrious guest list over the past 60 Sponsored by Standard Life, the winner is chosen by Named in homage to one of Britain’s most original festivals, EIFF has never had an acting award. Thanks to audience votes from the Gala and British Gala sections. filmmakers and inaugurated in 1993, the Michael Powell the generous support of PPG, 2007 sees the launch of a The award celebrates mainstream cinema delights: Award is sponsored by the UK Film Council. Rewarding new award to honour the best performance in a British narrative skill, characterisation, suspense, spectacle, imagination and creativity in British filmmaking, the Feature Film. The award will be judged by the Michael comedy... award is judged by an international jury and carries a Powell Award jury. substantial cash prize. Previous winners: 2006 Clerks II 2005 Tsotsi 2006 Brothers of the Head (Keith Fulton 2004 Inside I’m Dancing and Louis Pepe) 2003 Afterlife 2005 Tsotsi (Gavin Hood) 2002 Rabbit-Proof Fence 2004 My Summer of Love (Pawel Pawlikowski) 2001 Amélie 2003 Young Adam (David MacKenzie) 2000 Billy Elliot 2002 Out of Control (Dominic Savage) EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY 1999 Buena Vista Social Club 2001 Gas Attack (Kenny Glenaan) SHORT FILM 2007 – PRIX UP 1998 Get Real 2000 Last Resort (Pawel Pawlikowski) 1997 The Full Monty 1999 The War Zone (Tim Roth) 1998 Love is the Devil (John Maybury) 1997 Under the Skin (Carine Adler) 1996 Jude (Michael Winterbottom) The European Film Academy Short Film 2007 – Prix UIP 1995 Small Faces (Gillies Mackinnon) was inaugurated in 1998 within the framework of the 1994 Priest (Antonia Bird) annual European Film Awards. At 13 festivals in Europe, UK FILM COUNCIL KODAK AWARD 1993 Blue (Derek Jarman) FOR BEST BRITISH SHORT FILM EFA and UIP present a Prix UIP to a talented, new European filmmaker. The winners from the 13 festivals go forward as nominations for the European Film Judged by an international jury and including a cash Academy Short Film – Prix UIP, which is presented at prize, the Best British Short Film Award is again the European Film Awards in December and carries a supported by the UK Film Council. This award prize of ¤ 10,000. The selection of the winning film at recognises new talent in UK filmmaking. Edinburgh is made by a jury and the Award includes a THE MCLAREN AWARD FOR NEW BRITISH ANIMATION financial donation of ¤ 2,000. The 2007 winner will receive a cash prize of £1,000 and IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BBC FILM NETWORK Kodak film stock. The partnership with EIFF underpins the international spirit of discovery in filmmaking that Edinburgh pursues. Previous Short Film Award winners: The award is named after Stirling born and Glasgow Previous EIFF winners: School of Art trained Norman McLaren. Well-known for 2006 Dictynna Hood for The Other Man his innovative work with the GPO film unit in London, 2006 Gianluca De Serio and Massimiliano De Serio 2005 John Williams for Hibernation McLaren was a true pioneer. Throughout his career, he for Zakaria 2004 Iain B MacDonald for Billy’s Day Out experimented with ideas and animation techniques, 2005 Ruben Östlund for Autobiographical Scene and Christine Molloy & Joe Lawlor for such as drawing images directly onto film and even Number 6882 Who Killed Brown Owl drawing on the soundtrack. So it is particularly apt that 2004 Richard Jordan for Cleopatra’s Nose 2003 Duane Hopkins for Love Me or Leave Me Alone McLaren should be remembered with this award, which (La Nariz de Cleopatra) 2002 Joachim Trier for Procter provides a focus for new British animation and 2003 Brigitte Stærmose for Small Avalanches 2001 Alicia Duffy for Crow Stone recognises the free spirit of creativity. This award will be (Små Skred) and Brian Percival for About a Girl supported in 2007 for the second year by BBC Film 2002 Joachim Trier for Procter 2000 Martin Radich for A Good Man is Hard to Find Network. Previous winners: 2001 Slawomir Fabicki for A Man Thing and Alnoor Dewshi for Jomeo & Ruliet 2006 1999 Jamie Thraves for I Just Want to Kiss You Run Wrake for Rabbit 2005 and Matt Hulse for Wee Three Elizabeth Hobbs for The True Story of Sawney Beane 2004 Shynola for Blur’s Good Song and John-Paul Harney for Brand Spanking 2003 Stephen McCollum for Pullin' the Devil by the Tail SKY MOVIES BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD 2002 Shynola with Ruth Lingford for An Eye for an Eye SKILLSET NEW DIRECTORS AWARD 2001 Suzie Templeton for Dog 2000 John Williams for Robots, The Animated In 2006 EIFF introduced an award for Best Documentary Docu-Soap Feature. This year the award is sponsored by Sky Movies This award is to acknowledge new interpretation and and the winner will receive a substantial cash prize. innovation in filmmaking and underlines one of the basic tenets of the Film Festival, which is to be a Festival of The award will recognise a singular and compelling discovery. The award, to be judged by jury, is selected achievement in non-fiction filmmaking and is intended from first and second time filmmakers in the Rosebud to honour work which reveals a fascination with a and British Gala sections. particular subject, rendered onscreen with style, SHORT SCOTTISH DOCUMENTARY AWARD truthfulness and integrity to its sources. It celebrates 2006 Paul Andrew Williams for London to Brighton SUPPORTED BY BAILLIE GIFFORD the act of filmmaking for its own sake, divorced from 2005 Mike Mills for Thumbsucker commercial considerations, and driven instead by the 2004 Morgan Spurlock for Super Size Me desire to represent some aspect of life or experience, Supporting Scottish talent, this award will reward first 2003 Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini and, in so doing, to expand the horizons of its audience. and second time short documentary filmmakers either for American Splendor working in, or from, Scotland. 2002 Carlos Reygadas for Japón Feature length documentaries are eligible for this 2001 Joint winners Michael Cuesta for L.I.E. Award. 2006 Edward Brooke Hitching for and Zacharias Kunuk for Atanarjuat The Really Terrible Orchestra the Fast Runner 2006 Jake Clennell for The Great Happiness Space: 2005 Simon Hynd for Arts: The Catalyst 2000 Alejandro González Iñárritu for Amores Perros Tale of An Osaka Love Thief 2004 Jim Hickey for And So Goodbye 1999 Lynne Ramsay for Ratcatcher 2003 Craig Collinson for She Toon: City of Bingo 2002 Anna Jones for Sky High 16 Box Office: 0131 623 8030

best of the fest

So many films, so little time. With hundreds of screenings in the Festival, it’s not always possible to see everything you’d like to – and sometimes the Festival buzz is about a film that’s been and gone.

So, good news...

sunday 26 august is

programme announced best of the fest! monday 20 august festival heartbreak? here’s another chance to see all eiff’s best, sold-out all botf and most talked-about films

tickets £5 Starting at 10 in the morning, and running in Festival venues throughout the day, we’ll be re-screening some of the films you might have missed through no fault of your own. Or maybe you’ll want to see your Festival gem again – who knows when you’ll get another chance?

We’ll announce the Best of the Fest check programme on Monday 20 August at midday – www.edfilmfest.org.uk keep the date in mind if you’re faced with any ‘sold-out’ disappointments along the way. for details Log on to www.edfilmfest.org.uk to be the first to find out what’s screening again, or pick up a flyer at Festival venues.

You can buy Best of the Fest tickets online or through any of the usual EIFF channels from 4 tickets Monday 20 August. All tickets are the bargain price of £5, and if Best of the Fest for £15 you’re keen enough to see 3 films in one day, is sponsored by we’ll give you an extra one for free. That’s 4 Best of the Fest tickets for just £15! Printed programme sponsored by Standard Life 17

opening night gala UK PREMIERE Hallam Foe

David Mackenzie | UK | 2007 | 95 min HALLAM FOE

Cast: Jamie Bell, Sophia Myles, Ciarán Hinds, Jamie Sives, Maurice Roëves, Claire Forlani WED 15 AUG 21:30 CINEWORLD WED 15 AUG 21:45 CINEWORLD PRICE £10.95 (£7.60 concs) He likes to watch. Hallam (Jamie Bell) lives with his father and stepmother in a lavish but lonely country pile. His projects include spying on the neighbours in flagrante, and trying to implicate his stepmother in his mother’s mysterious death. Time to leave home, perhaps… but a new life in Edinburgh brings new confusion, in the comely form of Kate (Sophia Myles). Brilliantly directed by David Mackenzie – the maverick talent behind Young Adam (EIFF 2003) and Asylum (EIFF 2005) – our opening night film is a fiercely original romance, as charming on the surface as it is dark at heart. It’s also a major breakthrough for both of its young stars, whose charisma and chemistry fairly leaps off the screen. Packed with stylish detail, from its David Shrigley titles to its Domino Records soundtrack, this adaptation of Peter Jinks’ novel is an unforgettable gem. HM Like this? Try these… Control, In Search of a Midnight Kiss, Joshua, The Hottest State, Western Trunk Line, Yella

UK PREMIERE closing night gala Two Days in Paris

Julie Delpy | France, Germany | 2006 | 96 min

Cast: Adam Goldberg, Julie Delpy, Daniel Brühl, Marie Pillet, Albert Delpy SAT 25 AUG 19:00 CINEWORLD SAT 25 AUG 21:30 CINEWORLD PRICE £10.95 (£7.60 concs) Written and directed by actress Julie Delpy, this is as fresh, elegant and intelligent as her onscreen presence, and unexpectedly hilarious. High-maintenance French photographer Marion (Delpy) and her American boyfriend Jack (Adam Goldberg) pay a visit to her family in Paris, and find their strained relationship further challenged by the culture clash. He can’t handle her spontaneity, or the lax French approach to sex and personal hygiene. She, meanwhile, is free- spirited to the point of psychosis. Throw in her seriously eccentric parents (played by Delpy’s real-life folks), an overly attentive ex-boyfriend (Adan Jodorovsky, son of TWO DAYS IN PARIS directing legend Alejandro), and an affable terrorist with a fast-food phobia (Daniel Brühl) – and the stage is set for a transatlantic screwball showdown that surprises and delights at every hairpin turn. HM Like this? Try these... Hallam Foe, In Search of a Midnight Kiss, Knocked Up, Weirdsville, Year of the Dog

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MIRRORBALL AND WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER? Academy Films: Hail to the Chiefs 90 min

FRI 24 AUG 19:40 CINEWORLD PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) You may not know them by name, but you will undoubtedly know Academy Films by trade. Based in London, they are one of the world's leading production houses for commericals, music videos and feature films, having masterminded some of the UK’s most recognised and revered television adverts (Jonathan Glazer’s exploding paintball symphony on a council estate for Sony, anyone??) as well as countless iconic, era- defining music videos for the likes of The Verve, Massive Attack, Keane, Groove Armada and hot new Edward Scissorhand types, The Horrors. We’ll be putting their finest on the big screen for all to admire; and Academy insiders including award-winning directors Corin Hardy and Si&Ad will be on hand, allowing us to pick at their creative brains like the little monkeys we are. AL Like this? Try these... McLaren Animation, Mirrorball | Animation, Mirrorball | Fresh Tracks, Mirrorball | Global Selection, World Animation 1 & 2

BRITISH GALA MIRRORBALL UK PREMIERE RETROSPECTIVE: ANITA LOOS Mirrorball | Animation And When Did You Last Anita Loos Rediscovered See Your Father?

75 min Anand Tucker | UK | 2007 | 92 min 90 min

TUE 21 AUG 22:30 FILMHOUSE 2 Cast: Jim Broadbent, Colin Firth, Matthew Beard, Juliet FRI 24 AUG 10:00 FILMHOUSE 3 THU 23 AUG 21:00 FILMHOUSE 3 Stevenson, Gina McKee PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) THURS 23 AUG 20:00 DOMINION 1 An illuminating talk on our retrospective subject,and a They just cannot be stopped. Animated music videos rock SAT 25 AUG 19:20 FILMHOUSE 1 chance to see two of her dazzling early shorts. AGAIN! PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Cari Beauchamp – award-winning author, film historian, Another year, another crop of mouth-watering animated A top-notch cast brings Blake Morrison’s painfully honest and co-editor of the anthology Anita Loos Rediscovered – videos ready for the pot. Animation is just getting bigger memoir to life. profiles the woman Carol Channing called ‘four feet eleven and better, as this programme of prize videos will show inches of lithe, slender, dramatic chic’. One of the most Colin Firth stars as successful writer Blake, who treats his you. Watch The Horrors come to a grisly end in the prolific screenwriters of cinema’s first half-century, and a ageing parents as something of a burden. When his triumphant video for their latest track ‘She is the New world-renowned author of novels, plays and memoirs, overbearing, boorish father (Jim Broadbent) becomes Thing’, directed by Corin Hardy (whose graduation film Anita’s long career brought her into contact with the terminally ill, Blake must reassess a relationship Butterfly premiered at EIFF in 2003). The Chemistry Set brightest and most bizarre Hollywood characters. characterised by obscure resentments and frequent public help Mark Ronson bring Radiohead’s ‘Just’ to a new humiliations. Was Mr Morrison Senior a bully and a audience alongside an animated montage of London graf This talk will include screenings of Loos’ very first filmed shameless philanderer – or just a larger-than-life soul who work, and Wade Shotter’s Dice-tastic video for Fujiya scenario, The New York Hat, starring Mary Pickford; and the always meant well? Directed by Anand Tucker (Hilary and Miyagi takes Michel Gondry’s White Stripes Lego®-fest on startling The Mystery of the Leaping Fish, with Douglas Jackie) from a script by David Nicholls (Starter for Ten), this ‘Fell in Love With a Girl’ to a new level. Real life? Who Fairbanks as an amphetamine-fuelled private detective. HM is an emotional, often hilarious examination of those ever- needs it, when you can sit back and indulge yourself on complicated family ties. Get ready to phone your dad. HM Live piano accompaniment by Forrester Pyke. these excellent treats? DD This film features Skillset/EIFF Trailblazer Matthew Beard. The Mystery of the Leaping Fish Like this, try these... John Emerson & Christy Cabanne | USA | 1916 | 20 min Academy Films: Hail to the Chiefs, Ratatouille, Like this? Try these... Tekkonkinkreet, World Animation 1 & 2 Blame it on Fidel, Hallam Foe, In The Wake of a Deadad, The New York Hat Rocket Science, Two Days in Paris, Writing Reality: Blake DW Griffith | USA | 1912 | 16 min Morrison and David Nicholls Like this? Try these… Anita Loos Retrospective, Lost & Sound: From the Collection of Mark Newgarden, Restoring Classic Films

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ROSEBUD ROSEBUD UK PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE AUFTAUCHEN Aria Auftauchen

Takushi Tsubokawa | Japan | 2007 | 105 min Felicitas Korn | Germany | 2006 | 92 min

Cast: Masayuki Shionoya , Mariko Takahashi, Shojiro Cast: Henriette Heinze, Golo Euler, Sabine Bach, Patrick Kataoka, Masao Komatsu, Shimon Yotsuya Güldenberg, Jürgen Lehmann FRI 17 AUG 18:00 CINEWORLD THU 23 AUG 20:50 FILMHOUSE 2 SAT 18 AUG 22:00 CINEWORLD SAT 25 AUG 21:50 FILMHOUSE 2 PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Eccentric, beautiful road movie from Japan. A very intimate look at the pleasures and perils of young love. Lonely piano tuner Ota (Masayuki Shionoya) befriends Kuzo (Masao Komatsu), an elderly man who performs an Strident young photographer Nadja (Henriette Heinze) is a unsettling stage act with a lifelike girl puppet. When Kuzo creature of uncompromising independence – at least until becomes gravely ill, Ota agrees to undertake a quest on she meets handsome Darius (Golo Euler) during one of his friend’s behalf: to track down the lost but strangely her regular nights of hectic clubbing. What begins as a significant piano that once belonged to the puppeteer’s standard druggy one-nighter becomes an all-consuming late wife. But who is the beautiful young woman who passion – with all the danger that implies. Beautifully insists on coming along for the ride? Is she really Kuzo’s played by Heinze, Nadja’s rapid descent from the dizzy daughter? Or could she be his performing partner come to heights of romance will resonate with anyone who’s ever life…? With gorgeous cinematography, and no particularly made an error of emotional judgement (and who hasn’t?). urgent drive to explain its own mysteries, this is a gently In her frank, stylish debut feature, writer/director Felicitas funny, moving second feature from the director of Clouds Korn displays infectious energy, startling emotional of Yesterday. HM insight and a rare command of that most awkward of filmmaking challenges: the sex scene. HM Like this? Try these... Breath, Komma, The Last Dining Table, The Old Garden, Like this? Try these… Western Trunk Line Beauty in Trouble, The Hottest State, It’s Gonna Get Worse, Twisted Sister, XXY

DIRECTORS’ SHOWCASE IN PERSON UK PREMIERE BAFTA Interview: Beaufort Bob Hoskins (Bufor) 90 min Joseph Cedar | Israel | 2007 | 125 min

FRI 17 AUG 17:00 CINEWORLD Cast: Oshri Cohen, Itay Tiran, Eli Eltonyo, Ohad Knoller, PRICE £15.00 (£10.50 concs) Itay Turgeman A much-loved British star, in person. THU 16 AUG 19:45 FILMHOUSE 2 TUE 21 AUG 15:15 FILMHOUSE 3 In celebration of the release of his delightful new film PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Sparkle – previewed at EIFF – Bob Hoskins discusses a career that has seen him play J Edgar Hoover, Nikita Powerful, award-winning Israeli war drama, based on Ron Kruschev, Benito Mussolini and Manuel Noriega; work Leshem’s novel. with Terry Gilliam, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg Beaufort takes its name from the Israeli Defence Force and Atom Egoyan; and co-star with Helen Mirren, Robert outpost set up in South Lebanon when the army invaded in De Niro, Roger Rabbit and J-Lo. He remains beloved the 1982. A squad of IDF soldiers, under the steely command world over for a cuddly demeanour that can mask both of 22-year-old Liraz, are awaiting their orders to leave, vulnerability (as in Sparkle) and menace (as in his big- part of the general withdrawal of Israeli troops from screen breakthrough, The Long Good Friday). In Lebanon in 2000. Eschewing direct political commentary, association with BAFTA Scotland, we are proud to present Joseph Cedar’s film is an intense, superbly nuanced

(P. 56) (P. one of Britain’s most dynamic and distinctive performers chamber piece that captures the unbearable tension – and in conversation. HM sustaining comradeship – experienced by young men in a Like this? Try these… combat zone. The shelling, when it comes, is brutally SPARKLE Mike Leigh: Skillset In Person, Sparkle, Stephen Frears: authentic; but the main focus here is on the relationships Skillset In Person, Tilda Swinton: Skillset In Person between the beleaguered soldiers, played with a touching mix of beefy physicality and emotional fragility by a fine all-male cast. EL

BOB HOSKINS IN Like this? Try these... Bridge Over the Wadi/Strawberry Fields, Children of Glory, Extraordinary Rendition, A Mighty Heart, To Die in Jerusalem

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Cast: Aña Geislerová, Jana Brejchová, Emília Vásáyová, THU 23 AUG 15:00 FILMHOUSE 2 Cast: Günter Lamprecht, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Karin Josef Abrhám, Roman Luknár FRI 24 AUG 15:00 FILMHOUSE 2 Baal, Franz Buchrieser, Peter Kollek PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) THU 16 AUG 19:30 CINEWORLD PRICE See either Package 1 or Package 2 for £30.00 (no SAT 18 AUG 17:15 CINEWORLD A tumultuous year in Lebanon: a revealing and dynamic conc), or buy individual screenings for £6.50 (£4.55 conc). PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) set of short films shot from the day Israel began its Advance booking recommended. Packages not available assault in July 2006 to spring 2007. online. Beauty in trouble flees to the good angel/On whom she can rely/To pay her cab-fare, run a steaming In any given war, the stories we see on the news only PACKAGE 1 bath/Poultice her bruised eye... provide a partial glimpse of a country’s upheaval and agony. Parts 1 & 2 THU 16 AUG 18:00 FH 3 (140 min) A vibrant video scene has emerged in Lebanon over the Left homeless by a flood, and all out of passion for her past few years, encouraged by grassroots organisations Parts 3 & 4 FRI 17 AUG 18:00 FH 3 (118 min) tightly-wound petty criminal husband, the alluring such as Ashkal Alwan and Beirut DC; when Israeli war Marcela (Aña Geislerová) takes her two kids and moves in Parts 5 & 6 SAT 18 AUG 18:00 FH 3 (117 min) planes began dropping bombs on Beirut and southern with her mother. The mother’s boyfriend is a monster, and Lebanon in July 2006, directors and artists began Parts 7 & 8 SUN 19 AUG 18:00 FH 3 (116 min) the kids are unhappy, but Marcela can’t afford to relocate documenting the war and its aftermath from their – until a prosperous older man becomes besotted by her, homegrown perspective. Most eschewed the easy choice of Parts 9 & 10 MON 20 AUG 18:00 FH 3 (117 min) and offers to help. Can Marcela distinguish love from depicting the violence to reflect instead on personal stories. gratitude? And has she really got her ex out of her Parts 11 & 12 TUE 21 AUG 18:00 FH 3 (118 min) The films – made in extraordinary circumstances – run the system? Superb, sexy, consummately elegant Czech gamut of styles and emotions, from raw to polished, witty to Part 13 & Epilogue WED 22 AUG 18:00 FH 3 (169 min) drama, inspired by the poem by Robert Graves and oblique, and reportage to art. This selection was directed by Jan Hrebejk (Up and Down, EIFF 2005). HM programmed in association with ArteEast. AC PACKAGE 2 Like this? Try these... Like this? Try these... A casa de Alice, Blame it on Fidel, Kythera, The Waiting Parts 1 & 2 SAT 25 AUG 13:00 FH 3 (140 min) Bridge Over the Wadi/Strawberry Fields, State of the World, Room, Yella To Die In Jerusalem, World Shorts 1 & 2 Parts 3 & 4 SAT 25 AUG 16:00 FH 3 (118 min) Parts 5 & 6 SAT 25 AUG 19:10 FH 3 (117 min) Parts 7 & 8 SAT 25 AUG 21:40 FH 3 (116 min) Parts 9 & 10 SUN 26 AUG 14:30 FH 3 (117 min) Parts 11 & 12 SUN 26 AUG 17:00 FH 3 (118 min) Part 13 & Epilogue SUN 26 AUG 20:00 FH 2 (169 min) A mighty, epic work from one of the great visionaries of 20th century cinema. Though frequently rated as one of the greatest films ever made, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s vast adaptation of the novel by Alfred Döblin has rarely been available to view in 1 its entirety – even if you did have 15 /2 hours to spare. We are delighted to present the new, fully remastered 35mm print: an unforgettable big-screen experience. Berlin Alexanderplatz was perhaps the definitive work of Fassbinder's brief but intensely productive career, encapsulating many of the themes of social conflict, violence, rejection and attraction that haunt his other work. Fassbinder first read Döblin's novel in his teens, and would later note, 'It helped me to survive.' The story centres on Franz Biberkopf (Günter Lamprecht), a man possessed of good qualities but vulnerable to his own appetites. Released from prison for killing his girlfriend, Franz enters a new relationship with Lina (Elisabeth Trissenaar), who inspires him to embrace a decent life; but their efforts to establish a stable existence together prove disastrous, and betrayal lurks around every corner. Franz is then drawn into a destructive friendship with petty criminal Reinhold (Gottfried John), which further challenges his frail sense of morality. Prepare for a thoroughly absorbing, extraordinarily ambitious journey through between-the-wars German history – a unique portrait of a man and a country both damaged by conflict and drawn to decadence. HM We acknowledge the generous support of FFF Bayern and Bavaria Film Inernational. BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ: REMASTERED BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ: Like this? Try these… Children of Glory, The Counterfeiters, Intolerance, The Man from London, Restoring Classic Films

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ROSEBUD UK PREMIERE Blackbird

BLAME IT ON FIDEL Adam Rapp | USA | 2007 | 108 min

Cast: Paul Sparks, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Hock, Michael Shannon, Gary Wilmes FRI 17 AUG 21:45 CAMEO 1 SUN 19 AUG 17:20 CAMEO 1 PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Love is the drug, in a heartrending urban drama. ‘You’re in the privileged presence of a genuine hasbeen.’ So says 32-year-old heroin addict Baylis (Paul Sparks), who patrols the wintry New York streets in search of his next fix in writer-director Adam Rapp’s searing drama, based upon his own acclaimed stage play. Played by Sparks with a scraggy charisma and hangdog melancholy (the causes of which are commendably left unexplained), Baylis finds a final shot at redemption when he falls in love with 17-year-old runaway Froggy (Gillian Jacobs, in a performance of raw vulnerability). Exuding an authentic tang of urban realism, the film drifts between run-down squats and low-rent bars in the small hours of the morning, to create an achingly poignant portrait of two damaged people facing down both an indifferent world and their own demons. It is necessarily harrowing, but there are touches of deadpan humour, a sweetly-sad indie- flavoured soundtrack (including contributions from Rapp’s band Less) and a keen sense of lyricism. EL Like this? Try these… Control, Kurt Cobain About a Son, Kythera, Paranoid Park, Weirdsville

DOCUMENT ROSEBUD INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE BLACK BOX UK PREMIERE Billy the Kid Black Box Shorts Blame it on Fidel (La Faute à Fidel) Jennifer Venditti | USA | 2007 | 85 min 75 min Julie Gavras | France | 2006 | 99 min

FRI 17 AUG 21:20 FILMHOUSE 1 THU 16 AUG 17:30 FILMHOUSE 2 Cast: Julie Depardieu, Stefano Accorsi, Nina Kervel SAT 18 AUG 18:15 FILMHOUSE 2 FRI 17 AUG 21:00 FILMHOUSE 3 TUE 21 AUG 19:30 CINEWORLD PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) THU 23 AUG 17:20 CINEWORLD Engaging and painful coming-of-age story of a teenage A programme of the best new experimental work from PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) outsider. filmmakers making art, and artists making film. Intelligent, charming assessment of the effects of 70s Winner of Best Documentary at this year’s SXSW Film Beautiful, layered works from the cutting edge of cinema French radicalism on the under-tens. Festival, Jennifer Venditti’s debut film is the – some with a narrative component, others purest sound When her bourgeois Parisian family suddenly reinvent extraordinarily affecting portrait of 15-year-old Billy Price, and light. Black Box is proud to present a selection of themselves as leftist radicals, abandon the salubrious whose interests include girls, heavy metal and karate. But films that fray the boundaries of conventional cinema. The family pile, and begin associating with bearded Billy also has self-confessed ‘issues’, which can see him programme includes a diverse range of material, from revolutionaries rather than ladies who lunch, little Anna fly into severe rages, and struggle to determine what is found-footage poems, through rapid-fire montage of (Nina Kervel) is far from pleased. Whatever happened to real and what is imaginary. Venditti invites us to see the archival stills, to highly abstracted digital tapestries. Open her nanny, and her new clothes? And why is she no longer world through Billy’s eyes, as he cycles the quiet streets of your imagination to the kind of moving image work that allowed to attend her beloved catechism class? It’s hard to his small Maine town, forms awkward friendships, and doesn't dictate your response for you, but allows your believe that this confident and beautifully-crafted work is falls in love for the first time. As Billy himself points out: senses to guide your reaction. Julie Gavras’s first fiction feature – although as the ‘I’m not black, I’m not white, not foreign ... just different in Warning: this programme includes strobe-lighting effects. daughter of Costa-Gavras, she must know a thing or two the mind – different brains, that’s all.’ By turns amusing about growing up in a politicised environment. She’s also and heartbreaking, this is a quietly inspirational film. CM Like this? Try these… struck gold with her young lead Kervel, whose stormy In the Wake of a Deadad, Lost & Sound: From the Collection Screening with Wine and Cupcakes charisma belies her tiny stature. HM of Mark Newgarden, Phantom Love, Reverse Angles – a Bruce Weber | USA | 2007 | 12 min Collection of Personal Projects and Non-Cinema Work by Like this? Try these… Like this? Try these... Christopher Doyle, Strange Culture And When Did You Last See Your Father?, Children of Comrades in Dreams, Hallam Foe, The Italian, Lovely by Glory, The Italian, The Legacy, Rocket Science Surprise, Special People, XXY

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ROSEBUD UK PREMIERE BLIND MOUNTAIN Blind Mountain (Mang shan) Li Yang | Germany, Hong Kong | 2007 | 97 min

Cast: Huang Lu, Yang Youan, Zhang Yuling, He Yunle, Jia Yinggao WED 22 AUG 19:40 FILMHOUSE 1 SAT 25 AUG 17:00 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Riveting, unpredictable psychological drama from the director of the brilliant Blind Shaft (EIFF 2003). Having travelled to a remote part of Northern China to pursue employment, young female student Bai Xuemei is drugged by human traffickers and wakes up to find that she’s been sold as a wife to one of the locals. Depicting with unflinching horror Bai’s imprisonment – she’s kept in a one-room shack where she is beaten and raped – Blind Mountain is a thrilling, masterfully controlled account of one prisoner’s protracted attempt to escape from a whole community of jailers. Playing like a Chinese update on Deliverance, this is a savage, brilliantly tense commentary on the uneasy relationship between modern China and its rural backwaters. Handled with lean, discreet precision by director Li Yang, Blind Mountain grips with rare intensity. EL Like this? Try these… Extraordinary Rendition, A Mighty Heart, Parting Shot, Western Trunk Line, Yo

GALA DIRECTORS’ SHOWCASE DOCUMENT INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE Breach Breath Bridge Over the Wadi (Gesher (Soom) Al Havadi) / Strawberry Fields Billy Ray | USA | 2006 | 110 min Kim Ki-duk | South Korea | 2007 | 84 min (Sadot Adumim)

Tomer Heymann & Barak Heymann | Israel | 2006 | 55 min Ayelet Heller | Israel | 2006 | 60 min Cast: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Laura Linney, Dennis Cast: Chang Chen, Zia Haysbert, Caroline Dhavernas MON 20 AUG 21:15 CINEWORLD WED 22 AUG 19:15 CINEWORLD THU 23 AUG 19:00 CINEWORLD WED 22 AUG 19:45 CINEWORLD FRI 24 AUG 18:30 FILMHOUSE 3 FRI 24 AUG 19:00 CINEWORLD PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Another hushed, quirky romance from the prolific South Two compelling films that examine the ways in which Taut espionage thriller exposes a true-life American Korean master. ordinary Palestinians and Israelis are working together to security scandal. Bored Seoul wife Yeon (Zia) is gripped by a news story change their futures. Ambitious FBI rookie Eric O’Neill (Ryan Phillippe) is less about Jang Jin (Chang Chen), a Death Row prisoner who Bridge Over the Wadi focuses on an extraordinary primary than thrilled when he's assigned to a new detail: working has attempted suicide by stabbing himself with a school in the Palestinian village of Qafr Kara. Here Arab for and covertly reporting on long-serving agent Robert sharpened toothbrush handle. Oddly drawn to him, Yeon and Jewish children are taught together, in the same Hanssen (Chris Cooper). As he gets closer to his grouchy heads to the prison to become his new best friend – and classes, by two teachers – one Palestinian, one Israeli. new boss, Eric's confusion increases. Hanssen is certainly his unofficial interior decorator… As she brightens his cell Pupils study one another’s language, culture and history, a maverick, but a clever, oddly likable one. Why the cloak- with wallpaper and trinkets and his silent existence with and for the most part get on extremely well. Sometimes, and-dagger tactics? Who is Hanssen really, and why does song, a relationship develops that confounds observers. however, their parents and even their teachers have he scare the top brass so? Working again with the quietly Driven by the same languidly offbeat romanticism that difficulty putting aside their deep-rooted differences. assured Phillippe – who starred in his impressive fuelled The Bow and 3-Iron, this is a beautifully directorial debut Shattered Glass – and drawing yet unconventional love story. HM Strawberry Fields tells of the daily struggles of strawberry another exemplary performance from the magnificent farmers in the north of the Gaza Strip, whose crop has to be Like this? Try these… Cooper, writer/director Billy Ray shows a masterful exported to the rest of the world via Israeli-controlled Aria, Castells, I’m a Cyborg but That’s OK, The Last Dining command of his material. A serious, fact-based thriller checkpoints. Problems arise when increased tension in the Table, Western Trunk Line with tension and intelligence to burn. HM area causes the Israelis to close the checkpoints, and the situation becomes desperate when the area is shelled and Like this? Try these... strawberry fields become battlefields. JL Chris Cooper: In Person, The Counterfeiters, Extraordinary Rendition,A Mighty Heart, Like this? Try these... The Serpent Beirut Stories, Document Shorts, A Massacre Foretold, The Other Side of the Country, To Die in Jerusalem, We Are Together

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DOCUMENT INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Castells

Gereon Wetzel | Germany | 2006 | 88 min LES CHANSONS D’AMOUR

THU 23 AUG 17:00 FILMHOUSE 2 FRI 24 AUG 16:30 FILMHOUSE 3 PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Clamber aboard for a quite unique documentary experience. Castells are human towers, traditionally built as part of large competitive events in various Catalan communities. Gereon Wetzel’s strikingly original, poetic film follows the fortunes of the team Colla Joves, from the small town of Valls near Tarragona. A teetering showdown with rivals Colla Vella is imminent, and tempers are becoming frayed. The drama (and unintentional comedy) intensifies when a fit of stage fright strikes the enxaneta – the little girl who goes up last and forms the pinnacle of the tower… Wetzel’s film eschews intrusive voiceover and analysis, instead allowing the sheer strange visual magic of this practice to speak for itself. HM Screening with Liquidman Martina Amati | Italy | 2006 | 5 min Like this? Try these... Billy the Kid, Black Box Shorts, Comrades in Dreams, Doubletime, The Monastery: Mr Vig and the Nun, Planet B-Boy

ROSEBUD DIRECTORS’ SHOWCASE DOCUMENT UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE Bridging the Gap A casa de Alice Les Chansons d’amour

UK | 70 min Chico Teixeira | Brazil | 2007 | 90 min Christophe Honoré | France | 2007 | 95 min

TUE 21 AUG 12:30 FILMHOUSE 3 Cast: Carla Ribas, Berta Zemel, Zecarlos Machado, Cast: Louis Garrel, Ludivine Sagnier, Chiara Mastroianni, PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) Vinicius Zinn, Ricardo Vilaca, Zécarlos Vilaça Clotilde Hesme, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet Run by the Scottish Documentary Institute, Bridging the FRI 17 AUG 17:45 FILMHOUSE 2 SAT 18 AUG 21:30 FILMHOUSE 1 Gap is the only documentary talent initiative for cinema in MON 20 AUG 15:00 FILMHOUSE 3 SUN 19 AUG 17:20 FILMHOUSE 1 the UK offering training linked to production. PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Whether personal, political, religious, historical or From Brazil, a smart, touching tale of love, family and An Umbrellas of Cherbourg for the 21st century. contemporary, SDI looks for inspiring, challenging stories sexual temptation. reflecting UK diversity and told in an imaginative way for Ismael (Louis Garrel) and Julie (Ludivine Sagnier) are Experienced documentarian Chico Teixeira asserts a deft the big screen. beautiful twenty-somethings who have been together for hand for fiction in this insightful and involving drama. The eight years and find that their relationship is becoming a This selection of short documentaries on the theme of eponymous Alice, beautifully played by Carla Ribas, is a little flat. Bringing Alice (Clotilde Hesme), Ismael’s co- ‘white’ marks the fourth edition of Bridging the Gap. All six mother of three with a bustling household, a job in a worker, into the relationship has created a comfortable titles in this programme have been selected to compete for beauty parlour, and a demanding, less-than-sympathetic menage-à-trois, but also made other issues more the Short Scottish Documentary Award (p.55). husband. You’re never too busy for a bit of illicit carnal apparent. Then tragedy strikes, and Ismael struggles to adventure, however – and as Alice tentatively begins to How to Save a Fish from Drowning, dir: Kelly Neal make sense of his life and move on. Oh yes – did we explore her own sexual potential, the secrets of her Breadmakers, dir: Yasmin Fedda mention that this is a musical? As in Jacques Demy’s nearest and dearest also begin to surface. Distinguished The Unbearable Whiteness of Being, dir: Faisell Aziz classic Umbrellas, the songs are effortlessly, joyfully by its affectionate investment in its characters, and its Ottica Zero, dir: Maja Borg woven into each scene, so that when the characters break cheerfully frank approach to their sex lives, this is a Butterfly, dir: Yulia Marr into song, it seems entirely natural. NK pleasure to watch. HM My Mother's Daughter, dir: Saleyha Ahsan Like this? Try these... Like this? Try these... Like this? Try these... A casa de Alice, Auftauchen, The Hottest State, Once, Two Beauty in Trouble, Flying – Confessions of a Free Woman, Document Shorts, Flying – Confessions of a Free Woman, Days in Paris, The Witnesses Kythera, Limite, Yo State of the World, Trailblazer Shorts 1 & 2

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ROSEBUD UK PREMIERE CONTROL Children of Glory (Szabadság, Szerelem) Krisztina Goda | Hungary | 2006 | 123 min

Cast: Kata Dobó, Iván Fenyo, Sándor Csányi, Károly Gesztesi WED 22 AUG 21:45 CAMEO 1 FRI 24 AUG 17:00 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Rousing, glossy historical drama, a runaway hit in its native Hungary. Budapest, 1956. Like a great many young men, Karcsi (Iván Fenyo) is primarily concerned with sport and sex. But as the student revolt against Soviet repression begins to gather steam, his gilded life starts to look less secure. He’s pulled in for questioning by the secret police after striking a Russian referee during a water polo match – and his manly charms prove ineffective with pretty Viki (Kata Dobó), who’s only interested in men with revolution in their blood. A second feature from director Krisztina Goda, with a screenplay originated by the Hungarian-born Hollywood firebrand Joe Ezsterhas, this is a glorious, old- fashioned spectacular. HM Like this? Try these… Beaufort, Blame it on Fidel, The Counterfeiters, I Served the King of England, The Italian, The New Man

DOCUMENT BRITISH GALA IN PERSON UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE Chris Cooper: Comrades in Dreams Control In Person

90 min Uli Gaulke | Germany | 2006 | 100 min Anton Corbijn | UK | 2006 | 122 min

FRI 24 AUG 16:00 CINEWORLD TUE 21 AUG 20:00 CAMEO 1 Cast: Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Alexandra Maria PRICE £10.50 (£7.35 concs) THU 23 AUG 19:15 CAMEO 1 Lara, Toby Kebbell, Joe Anderson ® PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) An Oscar -winning actor who always adds a touch of class. FRI 17 AUG 19:00 CINEWORLD He was the raging Army dad in American Beauty; Jason One for those of you who love the magic of sitting in a dark SUN 19 AUG 21:40 CINEWORLD Bourne's handler in the Bourne series; a hilarious George cinema auditorium – which should, we hope, be all of you! PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) W Bush clone in Silver City; an oil tycoon in Syriana; and Director Uli Gaulke, a former projectionist whose passion The year’s most arresting biopic. critically, in the role that made him a true star and won for his subject shines from every frame, takes us on an ® It’s easy to forget that Ian Curtis, lead singer with Joy him an Academy Award , an eccentric orchid expert in epic journey – to smalltown America, India, Burkina Faso Division, was only 23 when his rise to fame was tragically Charlie Kaufman's Adaptation. Often cast as a military and, most remarkably, North Korea – to visit four very curtailed. His short spell in the spotlight was man or other figure of governmental authority (ironically, different cinemas. We get to know the dedicated staff and characterised by an inimitable stage presence and a for a man who describes his real-life politics as 'left of their long-suffering families, the customers and the singular lyrical gift, but also by agonising private conflicts. left'), Cooper has a maverick intelligence and a quiet communities in which these cinemas play a huge part, This feature debut by photographer Anton Corbijn – who command of the screen. It's hard to imagine any other and along the way discover that they have far more in took many of the definitive pictures of Joy Division – pays star of Cooper's generation capturing the odd common than one might imagine. A subtle, hugely eloquent tribute to its hero, played in a breakout turn by contradictions of his character in Breach, who is at once engaging and quietly moving piece of work that starts off Sam Riley. Samantha Morton co-stars as Curtis's wife likable and profoundly creepy, penetratingly intelligent as a film about cinemas, and becomes a film about life, Debbie, on whose book the film is based. Distinguished by and morally frail.The actor's actor speaks about a love, loneliness and the pursuit of happiness. JL distinctive career. HM its intimate connection to its subjects and its unexpected Like this? Try these... flashes of irreverent humour, this is a work as elegant and Like this? Try these... Castells, The Monastery: Mr Vig and the Nun, The Other emotionally charged as the music that it celebrates. HM BAFTA interview: Bob Hoskins, Breach, Julie Delpy: In Side of the Country Person, Stellan Skarsgård: In Person, Tilda Swinton: This film features Skillset/EIFF Trailblazers Sam Riley and Skillset In Person Toby Kebbell. Like this? Try these... Ex Drummer, Hallam Foe, Kurt Cobain About a Son, It’s Gonna Get Worse, Paranoid Park, Samantha Morton: In Person

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MIRRORBALL CRAZY LOVE Cornelius Special – From Nakameguro to Edinburgh

90 min

SAT 25 AUG 14:00 CINEWORLD PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) Japan’s most innovative and respected musician Cornelius, a.k.a. Keigo Oyamada, joins us to talk through his visual parade of music promos. Cornelius – the name is taken from Planet of the Apes, of course – is often rightly hailed as one of Japan’s hottest musical exports, but he does not let his interests stop there. He is keen to get involved in all aspects of his work including design of merchandise and artwork and is also heavily involved in the production of his music promos. We are honored that he will visit EIFF to give insight into his extraordinary catalogue of work. Also attending will be his longtime collaborator Koichiro Tsujikawa, who directed eight videos from Cornelius’ critically acclaimed new album Sensuous. DD Like this? Try these... Black Box Shorts, Mirrorball | Global Selection, Mirrorball | Made in Japan, Namikibashi Shorts

GALA DOCUMENT UK PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE SPECIAL EVENTS The Counterfeiters Crazy Love Current TV: (Die Fälscher) Take your short and shove it... Stefan Ruzowitzky | Germany, Austria | 2006 | 98 min Dan Klores | USA | 2006 | 92 min 90 min

Cast: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, FRI 17 AUG 22:30 CINEWORLD FRI 24 AUG 11:00 CAMEO 1 Martin Brambach, Dolores Chaplin SUN 19 AUG 18:00 CINEWORLD FREE TICKETED EVENT PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) WED 22 AUG 19:45 CAMEO 1 Democratisation and new distribution platforms for short SAT 25 AUG 20:00 CAMEO 1 What could possibly make a woman stay with the man who film. PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) blinded her? Current TV, the radically innovative television network A devastatingly effective wartime thriller, based upon real Jealousy is one thing. Domestic abuse is another. But created by, for and with young adults, presents this events. hiring a gang of thugs to throw lye in the face of your 21- exciting and interactive panel discussion and screening year-old girlfriend, causing the permanent loss of her event, offering everything you need to know about the In 1936, the Nazis established the largest counterfeiting vision and her hair, because she found out about your future of self-distributing short film. With the distribution operation in history, with the intention of flooding the secret wife and daughter, and quite reasonably left you...? landscape changing daily, it’s no longer sufficient for British and American economies with fake currency. That requires a whole new classification. The story of Burt filmmakers simply to complete their projects and submit Enlisted to assist were any concentration camp inmates Pugach and Linda Riss doesn’t quite end there, however. to the ‘old’ channels. The hunger for content from user- with skills in the right department – among them master Throughout his arrest, trial and incarceration, Burt never generated websites and new broadband channels has forger, gambler and playboy Salomon Sorowitsch. stopped begging Linda to take him back – and when he opened up a world of opportunities to have your voice Wonderfully played here by Karl Markovics, ‘Sally’ is a finally got out sixteen years later, she relented. And they heard. This panel sheds some light on this new media charismatic rogue who is at first energised by his new wed. And stayed wed, even when he was arrested for landscape, and offers dozens of practical tricks and tips. task (and by the superior quarters and treatment that his attacking another woman. How does this relationship Panellists include Current TV, Shooting People, FourDocs, status affords him). But as the war grinds on, the moral work? Let the intriguing Pugaches explain, in their own BBC Film Network and the London Short Film Festival. frailty of Sally’s position becomes more and more words... HM apparent, and he must choose which side he’s on. The panel will be followed by an afternoon of networking, Absolutely gripping, and crackling with class and Like this? Try these... pitching and commissioning with Current TV at the Point intelligence, this is an instant classic – and a must for Billy the Kid, Flying – Confessions of a Free Woman, I Want Hotel Penthouse – drop in between 1pm and 6pm. anyone who loved The Lives of Others. HM to Tell You Something, Protagonist Like this? Try these... Like this? Try these... Black Box Shorts, Mirrorball | Global Selection, Breach, Children of Glory, The Interpreter, The Italian, A Trailblazing Shorts 1 & 2, UK Shorts 1& 2 Mighty Heart

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NIGHT MOVES GALA UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE DEATH PROOF Day Watch Death Proof (Dnevnoy Dozor) Timur Bekmambetov | Russia | 2005 | 132 min Quentin Tarantino | USA | 2007 | 114 min

Cast: Konstantin Khabensky, Maria Poroshina, Vladimir Cast: Kurt Russell, Rose McGowan, Rosario Dawson, Menshov, Galina Tyunina Vanessa Ferlito, Zoë Bell SAT 18 AUG 23:45 CAMEO 1 SAT 18 AUG 21:30 CINEWORLD SAT 25 AUG 21:30 FILMHOUSE 1 MON 20 AUG 21:30 CINEWORLD PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Russia’s cinema phenomenon – a pitch-dark fantasy Hitch a thrill-ride, as Tarantino’s latest tears up the tarmac. franchise on an astonishing scale. Framed as a 70s drive-in indulgence – complete with The groundbreaking franchise that commenced with Night grainy stock, jump cuts and flamboyant violence – but as Watch is back, and it means… well, we’re not quite sure contemporary as only the creator of instant hipster cults what it means. It’s frankly rather confusing, what with could make it, Death Proof is a trip. Two carloads of Light battling Dark, and time-travelling vampires, and an sharp-talking vixens find themselves targeted in turn by imminent apocalypse. But we know it’s wild, witty, gory, insatiable psycho-killer Stuntman Mike – but still find and full of flights of visual imagination that leave the time to discuss old movies, slate bad boyfriends, and Matrix sequels panting in the dust. Anton (Konstantin perform the odd diverting lapdance. Rose McGowan, Khabensky) fights on the side of Light, and is trying to Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Tracie Thoms and Zoë save his young son from the shadier clutches of the other Bell are among the starlets keeping the hotpants brief and side. But when he finds himself framed for a succession of the tempo snappy, while Kurt Russell has the time of his grisly murders, he’s forced to look out for himself – and life in the bad guy role. The most indulgent, shameless, for the rookie fighter Svetlana (Maria Poroshina), who has lovable chick-centric B-romp since Russ Meyer was in his no idea of her own powers. HM prime. HM Like this? Try these… Screening with Occupations Children of Glory, The Italian, Joshua, Shrooms, Stardust, Lars von Trier | Denmark | 2007 | 3 min W∆Z Like this? Try these... Ex Drummer, I’m a Cyborg but That’s OK, John Waters: This Filthy World, Teeth, Weirdsville

DOCUMENT DOCUMENT INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Document Shorts Doubletime

90 min Stephanie Johnes | USA | 2007 | 82 min

WED 22 AUG 21:20 FILMHOUSE 3 SAT 18 AUG 16:00 FILMHOUSE 2 THU 23 AUG 12:30 FILMHOUSE 3 MON 20 AUG 20:00 FILMHOUSE 2 PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Snappy short subjects tackled by filmmakers with Get hip, get fit... get skipping! something to say. Gone are the days of sedate playground skipping songs Documentary has undergone a revolution in the last few listing the current stock of the local sweetshop. Skipping – years – just look at the size of our Document section for or rope jumping as it is now known – is still just as evidence. These bite-sized factual films cover an array of popular with children around the world, but it has had to subjects and territories, and reflect the breadth of styles move with the times and has grown into a competitive and modes of expression available to the modern sport that requires a high level of physical fitness, documentarian. Spot the feature-makers of the future, or balance, rhythm and dedication. Doubletime is a just take a whistlestop tour of the issues of the day. HM spectacular display following some of the most talented boys and girls in the US all the way to the prestigious Like this? Try these... Double Dutch ‘Fusion’ Freestyle Internationals in New In the Shadow of the Moon, Live Earth: The Directors, York. The athleticism and energy involved in techniques Scottish Documentary Shorts, State of the World, Strange such as Double Dutch is astounding, leaving the viewer in Culture, We Are Together no doubt that this is the coolest (and possibly the most demanding) after-school activity. Stephanie Johnes’ observational style is reminiscent of 2003’s Spellbound, celebrating the remarkable confidence, discipline and passion of young people today. ST Like this? Try these... DAY WATCH DAY Castells, Planet B-Boy, Razzle Dazzle: A Journey into Dance, Run Granny Run, We Are Together

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ROSEBUD BRITISH GALA SHORTS UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE European Shorts 1 & 2 Ex Drummer Extraordinary Rendition

Koen Mortier | Belgium | 2007 | 104 min Jim Threapleton | UK | 2007 | 77 min

European Shorts 1 (85 min) Cast: Dries Vanhegen, Sam Lovwyck, Norman Baert, Cast: Omar Berdouni, Andy Serkis, Ania Sowinski THU 16 AUG 15:00 FILMHOUSE 2 Gunter Lamoot TUE 21 AUG 19:45 FILMHOUSE 1 WED 22 AUG 12:15 FILMHOUSE 3 THU 23 AUG 22:00 CINEWORLD THU 23 AUG 17:45 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) FRI 24 AUG 21:50 CINEWORLD PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Thrills, laughs, melodrama, tragedy – four fantastic new PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) A punishing, pertinent UK thriller. European films. From expectant parents struck by tragedy, Who said Belgium was boring? This will blow your mind... to a late re-entry into the school system and an ill-timed This striking debut unflinchingly addresses a great reunion of old friends, lost childhood is the common theme Based upon the cult novel by Herman Brusselmans, Ex humanitarian scandal of our age, namely the titular of this collection of new European films. ML Drummer tells of famous author Dries, who is inexplicably practice whereby a state delivers criminal suspects to approached to play the drums for a group of oddball hard foreign soil to evade the processes and prohibitions of its European Shorts 2 (85 min) rock musicians who call themselves The Feminists. Their own domestic judiciary. Omar Berdouni (United 93) plays SAT 18 AUG 12:15 FILMHOUSE 3 gimmick is that they each have a physical handicap – and Zaafir, a London-based academic who likes to push his FRI 24 AUG 14:30 FILMHOUSE 3 emotionally they’re not quite the full shilling either. Ivan is students into edgy discussion. The nature of his research PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) a violent junkie; Koen lives much of his life suspended and personal contacts rings alarm bells somewhere – and Six drops of pure distilled Essence du Cinéma! from the roof of his house; Jan keeps his deranged father Zaafir is plunged into a nightmare that will leave him tied to a bed. Spoiled, wealthy Dries is drawn to their permanently changed. Atmospheric, powerfully insightful Can you love the one you’re with forever? This collection squalid life; but once in, can he get out again? about the lasting effects of torture on both victim and from the finest new European talent examines that age- Trainspotting meets Man Bites Dog and beats up Spinal perpetrator, and boldly ambiguous about the political old question, taking in jealousy, parenthood and mundane Tap – in short, the year’s most distinctive and shocking background to its key events, this film announces Jim married life, as well as a Parisian shaggy dog story feature debut. HM Threapleton as a singularly important writer/director. HM complete with dog and a genre-defying romance in a Norwegian cake factory. ML Like this? Try these... This film features Skillset/EIFF Trailblazer Omar Berdouni It’s Gonna Get Worse, Paranoid Park, Phantom Love, and is written and directed by Skillset/EIFF Trailblazer Like this? Try these... Saxon, Teeth, Weirdsville Jim Threapleton. Beirut Stories, Mirrorball | Made in Japan, State of the World, Trailblazing Shorts, UK Shorts 1 &2, World Shorts 1 & 2 Like this? Try these… A Mighty Heart, Beaufort, Beirut Stories, Blind Mountain, Children of Glory, Strange Culture

ANIMATION Family Animation

75 min

SAT 25 AUG 12:45 FILMHOUSE 2 PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) Short subjects for all ages. It's a great year for animation at EIFF – what could be more exciting than a new Pixar movie? And if that genius studio has proved one thing in its lifetime, it's that great animation knows no age boundaries. Children no longer have to force their parents to see films about little creatures having wild adventures. So whether you're a nostalgic adult or thrill-seeking infant, harassed parent or aspiring pixel-manipulator, let these little stories in every current style entertain you and lift your day. HM Like this? Try these… McLaren Animation 1&2, Mirrorball | Animation, Ratatouille, Tekkonkinkreet, World Animation 1&2 EX DRUMMER

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ROSEBUD DOCUMENT UK PREMIERE MIRRORBALL UK PREMIERE Faro – Goddess of the Waters Mirrorball | Fresh Tracks Garbage Warrior (Faro – la reine des eaux) Salif Traoré | France, Canada, Mali, Burkina Faso 75 min Oliver Hodge | UK | 2007 | 86 min & Germany | 2007 | 96 min

Cast: Sotigui Kouyate, Fili Traoré, Michel Mpambara, THU 16 AUG 22:30 FILMHOUSE 2 SUN 19 AUG 19:10 CINEWORLD Habib Dembele, Helene M Diarra SUN 19 AUG 21:00 FILMHOUSE 3 MON 20 AUG 19:30 CINEWORLD PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) MON 20 AUG 20:20 CAMEO 1 THU 23 AUG 17:00 CAMEO 1 Ground-breaking, shape-changing, ass-shaking videos, Grand Designs meets An Inconvenient Truth... PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) virals and promos from the UK and USA. Building a house out of beer cans and plastic bottles From Mali, a spellbinding example of new African cinema. Giving and making delicious are Encyclopedia Pictura – a sounds like a nice, carbon-neutral idea, but how stable is it San Francisco based duo who got their hands on some going to be? Living in the middle of the New Mexico desert After a long absence, in the course of which he has built a ferro-fluid (magnetically charged liquidy plastic developed without electricity, gas or water supplies does save on the sophisticated city life for himself, engineer Zan (Fili by NASA) and went all kinds of crazy with it, resulting in bills, but how can you rely on the elements to provide for Traoré) returns to the village of his birth. His arrival is the highly bizarre ‘Grow’ and ‘Seventeen Evergreen’ clips you? These are the kind of questions that keep architect greeted with fascination and suspicion: because his seen here. We don’t necessarily understand it, but we Michael Reynolds up at night. With a passion for mother has never revealed the identity of his father, the know we love it. For all of you down with the kids, we’ve experimenting with architecture to increase quality of life, villagers regard him as cursed. As Zan tries to persuade got the best of the UK-bred music craze dubbed ‘New Reynolds boldly sets forth (in colourful language) his vision his mother to name the man responsible, the dynamic of Rave’ in video form (think fluorescents + Minnie Mouse + for housing that utilises the planet’s natural resources the village becomes increasingly disturbed – and the acid + bass). At the helm is London-based director Saam, without adding to the environmental catastrophe that is locals agree that Faro, the spirit who rules the waters, is with his drug-fuelled makeout circle video for Simian global warming. British director Oliver Hodge is on hand to angry. Thoroughly modern Zan intellectually rejects this Mobile Disco’s ‘Hustler’. Not satisifed? Add to that an capture Reynolds’ crusade – including clashes with the notion, but the power of a shared belief is redoubtable... A array of uncategorisable visual delights from the last year New Mexico authorities, and successful experimentation in masterful debut from Salif Traoré, a former assistant to by directors Dougal Wilson, Patrick Daughters, Kinga the aftermath of the Indonesian tsunami. His sustainable Souleymane Cissé and Abderrahmane Sissako. HM Burza and more. AL houses may be called ‘earthships’, but Reynolds has his Like this? Try these... feet firmly on the ground. ST Like this? Try these... Blind Mountain, The Legacy, Seachd – the Inaccessible Academy Films: Hail to the Chiefs, Black Box Shorts, Like this? Try these... Pinnacle, State of the World Mirrorball | Animation, Mirrorball | Global Selection, Live Earth: The Directors, Manufacturing Dissent: Mirrorball | Made in Japan Uncovering Michael Moore, Run Granny Run, What Would Jesus Buy?

DOCUMENT UK PREMIERE Flying – Confessions of a Free Woman Jennifer Fox | Denmark, USA | 2006

PACKAGE 1 Parts 1–3 SUN 19 AUG 13:00 FH 2 (176 min) Parts 4–6 SUN 19 AUG 16:30 FH 2 (176 min)

PACKAGE 2 Parts 1–3 SAT 25 AUG 15:15 FH 2 (176 min) Parts 4–6 SUN 26 AUG 16:15 FH 2 (176 min) PRICE See Package 1 or Package 2 for £10.95 (£7.35 conc). An astounding opportunity to share in another’s life.

With blinding frankness and charm, noted US documentarian FLYING – CONFESSIONS OF A FREE WOMAN Jennifer Fox lays bare her own personal life, and explores how it relates to those of women in contrasting cultures around the world. Fox’s own travails – choosing between two lovers; trying for a baby in her forties – are addictive viewing, but it’s her chats with new friends across the world that truly stun. The scene in which she timidly introduces a group of dumbfounded Indian women to the concept of masturbation is extraordinary, while the Somalian victims of genital mutilation put Fox’s own problems firmly into perspective. A compulsive real-life soap opera that will heighten your awareness of all that you take for granted. HM Like this? Try these... Billy the Kid, Protagonist, Strange Culture, Twisted Sister, The Witnesses

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RETROSPECTIVE: ANITA LOOS GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES Gentlemen Marry Brunettes Richard Sale | USA | 1955 | 99 min

Cast: Jane Russell, Jeanne Crain, Alan Young, Scott Brady, Rudy Vallee SUN 26 AUG 12:00 FILMHOUSE 3 SUN 26 AUG 19:45 FILMHOUSE 3 PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) Let your roots grow out, with this unashamedly goofy musical extravaganza. A distant sort of adaptation of Anita Loos’s novel But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, with Lorelei and Dorothy nowhere in sight. Instead we get Jane Russell and Jeanne Crain as Bonnie and Connie (or Mimi and Mitzi, as their stage names have it) as a showgirl sister act who quit Broadway for the fleshpots of Paris, collecting amorous interests along the way. For goodness sake, don’t try to take this seriously (Anita certainly didn’t). Just enjoy the spectacular costumes by Travilla and Dior, the lovely location shots of Paris and Monte Carlo, and the downright outrageous musical numbers. Songs include ‘My Funny Valentine’, ‘Ain’t Misbehaving’and ‘Have You Met Miss Jones?’. HM Like this? Try these… Anita Loos Rediscovered, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, I’m a Cyborg but That’s OK, Susan and God, The Women

RETROSPECTIVE: ANITA LOOS MIRRORBALL SHORTS Gentlemen Prefer Mirrorball | Global GMAC Cineworks & Digicult Blondes Selection Howard Hawks | USA | 1953 | 91 min 75 min 70 min

Cast: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, SAT 18 AUG 22:30 FILMHOUSE 2 WED 22 AUG 15:30 CAMEO 1 Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan MON 20 AUG 21:00 FILMHOUSE 3 PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) SAT 25 AUG 12:00 FILMHOUSE 1 A showcase of new Scottish filmmaking talent. PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) Provocative, eclectic sound and fury from around the Glasgow Media Access Centre (GMAC) nurtures, trains world. Star-spangled musical treatment of one of the funniest and develops emerging film talent in Scotland. GMAC novels in the language. Throughout this planet there are people, people who make Shorts is three individual filmmaking schemes funded by videos of the music variety. People such as German video Scottish Screen, UK Film Council and BBC Scotland. Here Anita Loos was inspired to write her hilarious tale of a harlot artist Oliver Pietsch, who compounds the cosmic sounds we showcase work from two of this year’s GMAC on the make by the preference she identified in intelligent of San Francisco's street legend, The Space Lady (armed schemes. men (such as her friend HL Mencken) for soft-witted with a Casio keyboard and a winged helmet) with his found blondes, over whipsmart brunettes like herself. The book Cineworks is for emerging scriptwriters, documentary footage montage of cinematic characters blowing their was a sensation among ordinary punters and intellectuals filmmakers and animators. brains out – resulting in a relentless, impenetrable piece alike – Edith Wharton and James Joyce were both fans. of work. Australia’s Daniel Askill creates a slow-motion Arthur Balfour & Me, dir: Charlotte Cornic Anita's stage version and 1928 film adaptation (now sadly promo masterpiece for Placebo's 'Follow the Cops Back Kick About, dir: David Newbigging lost) brought further fame to the original gold-digger, Home' – illustrating the band’s piercing, emotional music Then A Summer Starts, dir: Satsuki Okawa Lorelei Lee, and her sidekick Dorothy. This spectacular 1953 style to perfection. German directing duo Landjugend version, directed by Howard Hawks, had little direct input DigiCult is for drama writer/directors stepping beyond (who like country roads and pyramids) have created a from Anita – though she did acknowledge Marilyn Monroe as their first short film commission. brilliant mash-up video for record label, Cock Rock Disco, 'the most luscious' of all stage or screen Loreleis. No less set to their fervent animations. Experience these and our Missing, dir: Graham Eatough delightful is Jane Russell as Dorothy, whose interest in the other worldly finds here in Global Selection and learn that The Ice Plant, dir: Kate Burton male physique is as keen as Lorelei's affection for throughout this planet there are people, people with very Bulb, dir: Arlene Cullum diamonds, and unforgettably expressed in the jaw-dropping strange brains… AL Flung, dir: Fiona Walton musical number 'Ain't There Anyone Here for Love?'. HM Like this? Try these... Like this? Try these... Like this? Try these... Academy Films: Hail to the Chiefs, Black Box Shorts, Anita Loos Rediscovered, Beauty in Trouble, Les Chansons Black Box Shorts, Current TV: Take your short and shove McLaren Animation 1 & 2, Mirrorball | Animation, d'amour, Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, Red-Headed it..., European Shorts 1 & 2, Trailblazing Shorts 1 & 2, UK Mirrorball | Made in Japan, Planet B-Boy, World Woman, Saratoga, The Women Shorts 1& 2 Animation 1 & 2

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SPECIAL EVENTS SPECIAL EVENTS HENRY V Hamlet Henry V

Laurence Olivier | UK | 1948 | 142 min Laurence Olivier | UK | 1944 | 137 min

Cast: Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Eileen Herlie, Cast: Laurence Olivier, Leslie Banks, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney, Felix Aylmer George Cole, Renée Ashershon SUN 19 AUG 14:15 FILMHOUSE 1 TUE 21 AUG 17:00 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) The definitive Shakespearean actor takes on the definitive Or – to be precise – The Chronicle History of King Henry angry young man. the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France. In celebration of Laurence Olivier’s centenary and our Released in 1943, Olivier’s very first feature film as Written Word theme, we present handsomely restored director combines a scholarly interest in the language and prints of his three Bard-based classics. Of course, no performance of Shakespeare with timely attention to the Shakespeare play on film escapes without controversy. propaganda requirements of the war effort. We begin by When it comes to this multiple Oscar®-winning 1948 observing a performance of the play at the Globe theatre; Hamlet, critics through the ages have bemoaned Olivier’s as the story develops, stylised performance gradually decision to emphasise the protagonist’s indecision, to amp dissolves into more conventional cinematic realism, up his mother fixation, and to cut nearly two hours’ worth making way for a spectacular Battle of Agincourt. This of material (including poor old Rosencrantz and newly-restored print displays the lush colour photography Guildenstern). But the black and white cinematography and elaborate, painterly tableaux to their best advantage. and the lavish production design are justly celebrated, as HM is Olivier’s own brooding performance. Supporting cast Like this? Try these… includes Jean Simmons as Ophelia, Stanley Holloway as Hamlet, Restoring Classic Films, Richard III the Gravedigger, Anthony Quayle as Marcellus, and Peter Cushing as Osric. Christopher Lee shows up uncredited as – yes – a spear carrier. HM Like this? Try these… Restoring Classic Films, Henry V, Richard III

RETROSPECTIVE: ANITA LOOS RETROSPECTIVE: ANITA LOOS His Picture in the Papers/ Hold Your Man The Social Secretary John Emerson | USA | 1916 | 55 min Sam Wood | USA | 1933 | 87 min John Emerson | USA | 1916 | 52 min

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Sr, Clarence Handyside, Rene Cast: Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Dorothy Burgess, Muriel Boucicault, Jean Temple, Charles Butler Kirkland, Stuart Erwin Cast: Erich von Stroheim, Helen Weer, Norma Talmadge, MON 20 AUG 12:00 FILMHOUSE 1 Gladden James PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) FRI 17 AUG 12:00 FILMHOUSE 3 A hard-boiled urban romance with a heart of gold. FRI 17 AUG 14:45 FILMHOUSE 3 An intriguing blend of pre-Code sexual frankness and PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) redemptive, sentimental post-Code zeal, this gripping ride Celebrity culture is nothing new. Nor is sexual stars Clark Gable as a sharp-witted underworld con artist harassment in the workplace… and Jean Harlow as the wayward woman who gets under his skin. If the first half of the film is striking for its sheer bitchy A rare chance to catch two early feature films by Anita Loos, irreverence – all loose women, sharp tongues and socks in directed by her husband and starring some of the biggest the jaw – the second half shifts into poetic melodrama as names of the silent era. His Picture in the Papers, which Harlow's petulant moll re-examines her values during a tells of a young man striving to become famous in order to spell in a strict reformatory. In the second of their five films impress his sweetheart, marked the beginning of a lengthy together, Gable and Harlow are a pitch-perfect pairing, collaboration between Anita and actor Douglas Fairbanks Sr. while Anita's dialogue is at its nimble, naughty best. Even (With characteristic modesty, she claimed that writing for him the most briefly-glimpsed characters have a vivid primarily consisted of coming up with things for him to jump immediacy; and the cinematography (by Harlow's second off or leap over.) The Social Secretary stars glamorous Norma husband, Harold Rosson) is elegant throughout. Though Talmadge, another regular Anita collaborator, as a young some regard its second half as a cowardly capitulation to woman who must play down her charms in order to evade imposed moral values, more romantic types will appreciate unwanted attention at work. Erich von Stroheim co-stars. HM the tonal shift – and the emotional range that it permits the HAMLET Live piano accompaniment by Forrester Pyke. film's stars to express. HM Like this? Try these… Like this? Try these... Anita Loos Rediscovered, Intolerance, Lost & Sound: From Anita Loos Rediscovered, The New Man, Parting Shot, the Collection of Mark Newgarden Red-Headed Woman, Saratoga

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DIRECTORS’ SHOWCASE UK PREMIERE I SERVED THE KING OF ENGLAND The Home Song Stories

Tony Ayres | Australia | 2007 | 103 min

Cast: Joan Chen, Qi Yuwu, Joel Lok, Irene Chen, Steve Vidler THU 23 AUG 19:30 CINEWORLD FRI 24 AUG 17:00 CINEWORLD PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) In the Mood for Love meets Mommie Dearest. Joan Chen delivers an astonishing performance in this epic melodrama based on the director’s own childhood. In the mid-sixties, glamorous Chinese nightclub singer Rose marries an Australian seaman and swiftly moves with her two children to a new life in Victoria. From the perspective of her young son, we see the family quickly moved on to Sydney, where Rose is welcomed into the small Chinese community. Chen is captivating as the beautiful but deeply flawed Rose, who follows her heart more than her head, but never truly knows what she wants. Cultures clash as the new Chinese community and rigid white working class of Australia are forced together in an era of change. Not just a personal story, this is a snapshot of Australia at the time. NK Like this? Try these... A casa de Alice, And When Did You Last See Your Father?, Flying – Confessions of a Free Woman, The Italian, Western Trunk Line

GALA DIRECTORS’ SHOWCASE DOCUMENT UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE The Hottest State I Served the King of England I Want to Tell You Something (Obsluhoval Jsem Anglickeho (Ich Muss Dir Was Sagen) Ethan Hawke | USA | 2006 | 117 min Krále) Martin Nguyen | Austria | 2006 | 65 min

Jirí Menzel | Czech Republic, Slovakia | 2006 | 118 min Cast: Mark Webber, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Laura THU 16 AUG 21:00 FILMHOUSE 3 Linney, Ethan Hawke, Cherami Leigh SAT 18 AUG 15:00 FILMHOUSE 3 Cast: Ivan Barnev, Oldrich Kaiser, Julia Jentsch, Milan PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) THU 16 AUG 21:30 CAMEO 1 Lasica, Zuzana Fialová FRI 17 AUG 17:10 CAMEO 1 An honest portrayal of the challenges facing a deaf four- PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) FRI 17 AUG 19:45 CINEWORLD year-old and his hearing family. SAT 18 AUG 14:45 CINEWORLD For anyone who has ever fallen in love and had their heart PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Oskar and Leo are four-year-old twins. Oskar has been deaf broken. since birth and Leo has no hearing impairment. Sandra and A lavishly indulgent paean to food, flesh and fierce ambition. Stefan are the twins’ parents; they too have no hearing Adapted by actor/director Ethan Hawke from his own impairments. Oskar must learn to communicate without novel of the same name. William, a struggling actor, Following a long prison sentence, Jan Díte looks back over relying on his loving family and, in turn, they have to try and meets Sara in a New York bar and they rapidly fall for each an eventful life, which has seen him elevate himself from comprehend the silent world in which Oskar lives. Martin other. New to the city and an ambitious aspiring singer, humble waiter to Nazi bridegroom to millionaire criminal. Nguyen’s sensitive portrait was filmed in Austria over a year Sara is wary from previous relationships – but maybe this One of the most ambitious and expensive Czech films of all in the life of the Badegruber family. The film articulates the is the one. Or perhaps William is too hung up on his time, this historical epic is the long-awaited result of a importance of visual communication by transforming a father, who left when he was eight; his many past protracted struggle for the screen rights to Bohumil gesture or facial expression into something far louder than relationships; or his own ambitions... Mark Webber and Hrabal’s famed novel. Jirí Menzel’s adaptation is his fourth any shout. Shot with a beautiful simplicity in and around Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full of Grace) deliver raw to be drawn from Hrabal’s work (including the superb their modern home, each member of the family is at ease performances; these are real characters with history, bad Closely Observed Trains). Combining sheer visual excess with Nguyen and his camera, allowing a glimpse of natural habits, fickle hearts. Passionate and bittersweet, The with sardonic commentary upon European mores in the human activity rarely captured on film. ST Hottest State is a joy. NK first half of the 20th century, I Served the King of England proves worth the wait. It’s a beautifully performed and Screening with 0,08% Like this? Try these... designed film, shaded with irony and festooned with Johan Kramer | The Netherlands | 2006 | 12 min Auftauchen, Beauty in Trouble, Hallam Foe, In Search of a moments of delightful physical comedy. HM Midnight Kiss, Twisted Sister, The Waiting Room, The Like this? Try these... Witnesses Like this? Try these... Billy the Kid, Bridge Over the Wadi/Strawberry Fields, And When Did You Last See Your Father?, Beaufort, Rocket Science, We Are Together Beauty in Trouble, Children of Glory, The Counterfeiters, The Italian

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DIRECTORS’ SHOWCASE DIRECTORS’ SHOWCASE ROSEBUD UK PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE UK PREMIERE I’m a Cyborg, but That’s OK In Search of a Midnight Kiss in the cities (Saibogujiman Kwenchana) (dans les villes) Park Chan-wook | South Korea | 2006 | 105 min Alex Holdridge | USA | 2007 | 90 min Catherine Martin | Canada | 2006 | 88 min

Cast: Lim Soo-jung, Jung Ji-hoon, Choi Hee-jin, Lee Cast: Scoot McNairy, Sara Simmonds, Brian McGuire, Cast: Hélène Florent, Robert Lepage, Markita Boies, Young-nyeo, Sohn Young-soon Katy Luong, Bret Roberts Béatrice Picard, Éve Duranceau, Hélène Loiselle SUN 19 AUG 22:00 CAMEO 1 THU 16 AUG 21:45 FILMHOUSE 1 FRI 17 AUG 20:15 CINEWORLD WED 22 AUG 17:30 CAMEO 1 FRI 17 AUG 16:30 FILMHOUSE 1 MON 20 AUG 17:30 CINEWORLD PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) A madcap fantasy from the inimitable director of Lady The American indie discovery of the year. All the lonely people... Vengeance and Old Boy. Languishing without a New Year’s date, and getting his She can fix damaged trees, but gardener Fanny (Hélène Young-goon (Lim Soo-jung) is a cyborg, and needs an kicks fantasizing about his roommate’s girlfriend, sweet Florent) has less success penetrating human sadness. electrical current to survive. It makes perfect sense to slacker Wilson (Scoot McNairy) is persuaded to place a Through beautifully designed tableau shots and poetic her, therefore, to cut open her wrist and plug herself into personal ad. It’s answered by beautiful, bossy, egotistical dialogue, Québécois director Catherine Martin sketches the mains; to eschew food in favour of licking batteries; Vivian (Sara Simmonds), who promptly lets Wilson know the wary connections formed between isolated individuals and to only befriend other machines. The world at large that he doesn’t come up to scratch. Yet something binds the – including broken-hearted Carole (Éve Duranceau), lonely seems to find her behaviour odd, however, and duly two, and the date extends into an impulsive ramble around spinster Josephine (Hélène Loiselle), and blind Jean-Luc confines her to a mental hospital... There, she strikes up a LA, characterised by bickering, flirtation, competition, and (Robert Lepage). Fanny’s efforts to keep the city green are touching bond with Il-sun (Jung Ji-hoon), who has an just a dash of violent crime... Like a spikier Before Sunrise, mirrored by the other characters’ ceaseless search for uncontrollable tendency to steal other people’s souls. A this entirely delightful comedy allows a wholly persuasive hope, love and inspiration, in a densely-textured visual musical romance unlike any other, with extraordinary relationship to develop before the audience’s eyes: flaws, poem on loss, loneliness and human connections. HM visual ideas (hold on for the airborne Alpine yodeling ambiguities, warts and all. HM Like this? Try these... sequence) and lovely performances from two of South Screening with How She Slept at Night Aria, Black Box Shorts, Breath, Komma, Paranoid Park, Korea’s most revered pop culture icons. HM Lilli Carré | USA | 2006 | 3 min Phantom Love Like this? Try these... Like this? Try these... Aria, Breath, Les Chansons d’amour, Stardust, Teeth The Hottest State, Rocket Science, Skills Like This, Two Days in Paris, Year of the Dog

GALA UK PREMIERE In the Shadow of the Moon

David Sington | UK | 2006 | 100 min

FRI 17 AUG 19:00 FILMHOUSE 1 MON 20 AUG 15:15 FILMHOUSE 2 PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) The glory days (and tragedies) of the American space programme, by those who were there – with never-before- seen footage. Dismissing conspiracy theories, David Sington’s elegant and exciting documentary lets the surviving crew members from the Apollo space missions tell their own stories – and challenges us to imagine the sights that they have seen. A striking range of extreme personalities is showcased: these people needed to do something extraordinary with their lives, and the experience they share has set them further apart from the rest of humanity. Yet the film feels intimate rather than distant, and adds an unexpected and intriguing emotional dimension to the stories that it tells. It seems you never quite recover from seeing your own planet from afar. Poignant viewing, at a time when the assertion of American power takes a much more grounded and destructive form. HM Like this? Try these... I’M A CYBORG, BUT THAT’S OK BUT THAT’S I’M A CYBORG, Comrades in Dreams, Garbage Warrior, Protagonist, Traders’ Dreams

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BLACK BOX ROSEBUD UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE RETROSPECTIVE: ANITA LOOS In the Wake of a Deadad The Interpreter Intolerance (La Traductrice) Andrew Kötting | UK | 2006 | 62 min Elena Hazanov | Switzerland, Russia | 2006 | 90 min DW Griffith | USA | 1916 | 124 min

Cast: Andrew Kötting, R Kötting, Eden Kötting, W Kötting Cast: Julia Batinova, Bruno Todeschini, Alexander Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Fred Turner, Robert Baluev, Sergei Garmash, Elena Safonova Harron, Sam De Grasse SAT 18 AUG 19:30 CINEWORLD SUN 19 AUG 14:30 CINEWORLD MON 20 AUG 19:10 CINEWORLD THU 16 AUG 13:00 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) TUE 21 AUG 17:15 CINEWORLD PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) When he dies, it dies, man/that generation of stamp- PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) ‘Love’s struggle throughout the ages.’ collecting, car-washing, handkerchief-ironing, pipe- This Swiss/Russian thriller is absorbingly lost in After the massively dubious racial messages of Birth of a smoking, Onedin Line-watching, middle class, translation. Nation, DW Griffith offered up this no less epic apologia: a fondue-eating, God Save The Queening man, man... Elena Hazanova’s superior thriller revolves around Ira, a four-part silent lament on man’s various inhumanities to An ongoing multi-media project from the brilliant Andrew student in her early twenties, born in Russia but raised man. Corrupt Babylon falls; Christ is crucified; Huguenots are Kötting (This Filthy Earth; Gallivant), this tribute to a in Geneva since her mother brought her there as a child. persecuted in 16th century France; and, in the modern day, departed father sees the artist transport an effigy of his When a family friend employs Ira to act as an interpreter the fragile existence of a poverty-stricken couple is ruined by ‘deadad’ to locations of emotional importance to them both. between a shady Russian businessman accused of drug intrusive social reformers. Cut to ribbons and painstakingly What emerges is a psychogeographic portrait of one man, dealing and his Swiss attorney, Ira is unwittingly dragged reassembled at various points over the years, Intolerance the generation he represents, and the emotional legacy he into the murky, perilous manoeuvrings that accompany the is a mammoth, sprawling work, and an undisputed landmark has bequeathed. Along the way, Kötting discovers some lead-up to his trial. Taut, elegant, quietly intelligent, of cinema history. Though a variety of tones and styles are new truths about his deadad – and his deadad’s deadad... Haznova’s movie combines courtroom drama with romantic represented, the scale of Griffith’s intellectual and visual Shockingly irreverent in places, but breathtaking in its intrigue and moments of family revelation. At the centre is ambition is daunting throughout. Anita Loos’ contribution emotional insight and sheer creative bravado, this is a Julia Batinova’s commanding turn as Ira, struggling to was significant too: though Griffith had previously used unique meditation on loss from one of the UK’s most simple title cards indicating only time and place, here he reconcile her Swiss identity with her loyalty to her Russian singular filmmakers. HM allowed his writer to add her own witty flourishes. HM roots and realising there’s a lot more about her dual life Screening with Chronicles of Impeccable Sportsmanship that’s open to interpretation than mere words. EL With live piano accompaniment by Forrester Pyke. Erika Tasini | USA | 2006 | 7 min Like this? Try these... Like this? Try these… Like this? Try these... in the cities, Kythera, The Legacy, The Man from London, His Picture in the Papers/The Social Secretary, Lost & And When Did You Last See Your Father?, Black Box Solitary Fragments, The Struggle Sound: From the Collection of Mark Newgarden, Restoring Shorts, Protagonist, Strange Culture Classic Films, The Struggle, State of the World

SPECIAL EVENTS Introduction to Screenwriting 150 min

THU 16 AUG 14:00 SHERATON GRAND HOTEL & SPA PRICE £15.00 (£10.50 conc) A hands-on guide to creating stories for the screen. Learn in a day what aspiring screenwriters struggle with for years, as the experts from the Young Film Academy introduce the basic pillars of visual storytelling structure – from the Odyssey to Lord of the Rings via Finding Nemo and Spiderman. Participants will then put what they’ve learned into practice with an intensive writing workshop, during which they’ll separate into teams to devise a short film structure, with attention to goals, obstacles, well- rounded characters and character change. Each team will then pitch to potential investors for £10,000 of (virtual) investment. Members of the winning team take home a prize – and, more importantly, the tools required to take their writing to the next professional level. Tickets must be purchased in advance. Like this? Try these… Paul Laverty: In Person, Script Factory: Christopher Hampton, William Nicholson: In Person, The Writer’s Role IN THE WAKE OF A DEADAD IN THE WAKE

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MIRRORBALL THE ITALIAN IRN-BRU: Phenomenal Advertising 90 min

TUE 21 AUG 17:30 CINEWORLD FREE TICKETED EVENT Scotland’s favourite soft drink has built a reputation for producing iconic advertising that is memorable, funny… and more than a touch surprising. With ‘Made in Scotland from Girders’ in the 80s, shop-robbing grannies in the 90s, and more recently the Christmas phenomenon ‘Snowman’, this is a rare opportunity to view the very best IRN-BRU campaigns from the last 25 years. As well as screening its infamous commercials, IRN-BRU will also offer an exclusive chance to view never before seen outtakes and behind-the-scenes material. The brand’s creative team will answer questions at this special event, covering everything from the reaction to IRN-BRU’s cheeky humour to the untold stories behind the making of the ads. Like this? Try these... Academy Films: Hail to the Chiefs, My Life is a Bus Stop, Namikabashi Shorts

DIRECTORS’ SHOWCASE ROSEBUD IN PERSON UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE Irvine Welsh: It’s Gonna Get Worse The Italian In Person (...A Bude Hur!)

90 min Petr Nikolaev | Czech Republic | 2007 | 86 min Andrei Kravchuk | Russia | 2005 | 99 min

THU 16 AUG 17:00 CINEWORLD Cast: Karel Zídek, Filip Kankosky, Tereza Hofová, Mirek Cast: Kolya Spiridonov, Denis Moiseenko, Sasha PRICE £10.50 (£7.35 concs) Skultéty, Perla Kotmelová Syrotkin, Andrei Elizarov, Vladimir Shipov A conversation with Scotland’s star author turned FRI 17 AUG 21:50 FILMHOUSE 2 FRI 17 AUG 17:50 CINEWORLD screenwriter and director – plus his hilarious new short SUN 19 AUG 20:00 FILMHOUSE 2 SUN 19 AUG 17:15 CINEWORLD film. PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Though he’s still placing his prose characters in surreal Bold, raw, uproarious portrait of youth adrift in 1970s An absolutely stunning, oddball epic, featuring our child and repulsive predicaments – as in his latest collection of Czechoslovakia. actor of the year. stories, If You Liked School, You’ll Love Work – Scotland’s Fittingly for a film based upon a legendary cult novel 5-year-old Vanya (Kolya Spiridonov) is the envy of the rural most genially controversial literary figure also has a (which was widely distributed in photocopied form by Russian orphanage where he lives, when he’s adopted by number of film projects in the pipeline. He discusses the enterprising Czech teens upon its initial printing in 1983), a rich Italian family. He’s quickly nicknamed ‘the Italian’ – films that matter to him, and his own shift into cinema – It’s Gonna Get Worse has had an unconventional but taking up the offer of a new family doesn’t quite suit and whets our appetite with his characteristically dark- cinematic life in its homeland, primarily screening at Vanya’s plans, since he remains determined to track down witted short film Nuts. In this, an Irishman confronts his clubs, pubs and gig venues. Certainly its characters would his real mother, whatever it takes. Despite its glossy own fears and prejudices when an unforeseen and want nothing else: their lives centre upon music, drinking, cinematography and fiercely direct emotional appeal, this embarrassing health issue makes itself known. HM and coming up with increasingly extreme methods of is no sentimental indulgence: its freewheeling narrative, This event includes a screening of Nuts dodging the military draft. Beautifully shot by a largely quirky energy and limitlessly committed performances Irvine Welsh | Ireland | 2007 | 18 min student crew on 16mm newsreel stock, and peopled with create a wholly persuasive and compelling universe. As hugely engaging characters, this true rebel movie is an for Spiridonov, his presence and comic timing put the Like this? Try these… expansive, provocative, and oddly touching account of life majority of grown-up actors to shame. HM Ex Drummer, It’s Gonna Get Worse, My Life as a Bus Stop, on the edge. HM Paul Laverty: In Person, Scottish Novels on Screen, The Like this? Try these... Writer’s Role Like this? Try these... Blame it on Fidel, Children of Glory, The Counterfeiters, Blackbird, Control, Ex Drummer, Paranoid Park, Saxon, The Home Song Stories Weirdsville

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SPECIAL EVENTS NIGHT MOVES UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE KNOCKED UP John Waters: Joshua This Filthy World Jeff Garlin | USA | 2006 | 86 min George Ratliff | USA | 2006 | 106 min

THU 16 AUG 20:30 CINEWORLD Cast: Sam Rockwell, Vera Farmiga, Jacob Kogan, Celia PRICE £10.50 (£7.35 concs) (John Waters in attendance) Weston, Dallas Roberts, Michael McKean FRI 24 AUG 21:40 CINEWORLD FRI 17 AUG MIDNIGHT CAMEO 1 PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) SAT 18 AUG 14:45 CAMEO 1 PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) I was the only kid in the audience who didn’t understand why Dorothy would ever want to go home to that awful We need to talk about Joshua... black and white farm, when she could live with winged Brad (Sam Rockwell) and Abby (Vera Farmiga) live a sleek, monkeys and magic shoes and gay lions... high-end Manhattan life – and if their super-intelligent, In his regular and ever-evolving solo show, the man William musically gifted ten-year-old son Joshua (Jacob Kogan) is S Burroughs called ‘the Pope of Trash’ addresses the something of a puzzle to his less cerebral father, he crucial issues of the day – from the theory and practice of certainly seems contented. That is, until the arrival of a ‘teabagging’ and the home life of Michael Jackson, to why new baby sibling... As Abby succumbs to violent post- Charlize Theron didn’t thank Aileen Wuornos in her Oscar® partum depression, and peculiar household accidents acceptance speech, and what it’s like to attend children’s increase, Brad begins to suspect the worst about his elder movies alone when you look like a child molester. Filmed in child – and an elegant psychological drama morphs into a New York by Jeff Garlin (of Curb Your Enthusiasm fame), wickedly enjoyable horror thriller with shades of this is an unforgettable and bizarrely endearing session in Rosemary’s Baby and The Omen. A brilliant cast skillfully the company of one of the world’s greatest and most negotiates unsettling shifts in tone, and Benoît Debie’s gleefully original entertainers. You’ll laugh, you’ll cheer, ravishing cinematography adds a dreamlike gloss. HM and once or twice you’ll feel extremely sick. HM Like this? Try these... There will be an extended Q&A with John Waters on 16 Billy the Kid, Parting Shot, Rocket Science, Twisted Sister, August. Please allow 40 minutes. W∆Z, Yella Like this? Try these… Crazy Love, Death Proof, Lovely by Surprise, LYNCH, Razzle Dazzle: A Journey into Dance, Teeth

IN PERSON GALA Julie Delpy: Knocked Up In Person 90 min Judd Apatow | USA | 2007 | 129 min

SUN 26 AUG 14:30 CINEWORLD Cast: Katherine Heigl, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, Leslie PRICE £10.50 (£7.35 concs) Mann, Jason Segel Actress. Writer. Singer/songwriter. Director. A new SUN 19 AUG 18:30 CINEWORLD Renaissance woman with a fascinating career. MON 20 AUG 21:40 CINEWORLD PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Discovered at the age of 14 by Jean-Luc Godard, Julie Delpy has always been more than an exquisite face. Yes, Warm, winning, wild-eyed comedy classic from the man she looks – as Ethan Hawke's character put it in Before who brought you The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Sunrise – like 'a Botticelli angel'. But not every ethereal A smash in the US – where Variety called it ‘more French screen goddess opts to play a Nazi, as Delpy did in explosively funny, more frequently, than nearly any other Europa Europa; or a girl in the throes of an incestuous major studio release in recent memory’ – Judd Apatow’s relationship with her father, as in Voyager; or a second outing as writer/director confirms him as a rotoscoped animation of herself, as in Waking Life. Even in comedy goldmine who tickles film buffs and frat boys Kryzstof Kieslowski's legendary Three Colours trilogy, alike. Hell, he even lets his female characters be funny... Delpy was the White witch, a deliciously nasty foil for Caught out by a drunken one-night stand, ambitious Juliette Binoche and Irene Jacob's limpid heroines. She's beauty Alison (Grey’s Anatomy’s Katherine Heigl) and always had an edge. Little wonder, then, that her lovable lowlife Ben (Seth Rogen) size up the shocking directorial debut, Two Days in Paris, is such a smart, prospect of parenthood. Can he relinquish his bong? Can mischievous caper – the work of a sharp intellect and a she lighten up on her career? Can their relationship wicked sense of humour. A genuine star talks us through survive the slight mismatch in their attractiveness? Witty, a life in the spotlight. HM boisterous and just wicked enough, this is a guaranteed Like this? Try these... good time. HM Chris Cooper: In Person, Tilda Swinton: Skillset In Person,

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ROSEBUD UK PREMIERE KYTHERA Komma

Martine Doyen | France, Belgium | 2006 | 97 min

Cast: Arno Hintjens, Valérie Le Maitre, Edith Scob, François Negret, Fabrice Rodriguez THU 23 AUG 20:00 CINEWORLD SAT 25 AUG 17:15 CINEWORLD PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) She’s got no memory. He’s just come back from the dead. Perfect match. From its incredible opening sequence – in which a man awakens zipped into a body bag, in a morgue – Martine Doyen’s film pushes visual and imaginative boundaries. Our Lazarus is Peter De Wit (Arno Hintjens), who has unexpectedly recovered from an ostensibly fatal heart attack. His apparent demise – and the theft of a wallet from a nearby corpse – provides the opportunity for a new life. And when he meets troubled amnesiac artist Lucie (Valérie Le Maitre, also co-screenwriter), the opportunities for head games prove limitless… With narrative shades of Last Year in Marienbad, and an impressionistic but involving style that recalls Claire Denis, Doyen’s feature debut is a thrilling experiment. HM Like this? Try these… Aria, in the cities, The Old Garden, Phantom Love, Yo

MIRRORBALL ROSEBUD UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE Kurt Cobain About a Son Kythera

AJ Schnack | USA | 2006 | 97 min Péter Mészáros | Hungary | 2006 | 78 min

FRI 17 AUG 22:15 CINEWORLD Cast: Kata Kovács, András Tóth, Nikolett Krajcsi, SAT 18 AUG 17:00 CINEWORLD Petronella Tóth PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) THU 23 AUG 22:15 CINEWORLD An intimate and moving meditation on the late musician FRI 24 AUG 19:20 CINEWORLD and artist, Kurt Cobain. PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) While researching his book Come As You Are: The Story of A touching drama of circumscribed lives and sustaining Nirvana, the journalist Michael Azerrad collected over 25 fantasies. hours of audio-taped interview material with Kurt Cobain. Csilla (Kata Kovács) deserves better. Her boyfriend Bandi Filmmaker AJ Schnack draws on Azerrad’s remarkable (András Tóth) loves her, but reverts in his frequent bouts stockpile to build a compelling portrait of Cobain’s of drunkenness to boorish and thoughtless behaviour misunderstood life. Instead of regurgitating tired, over- (imagine a touchingly hapless Hungarian version of Marge used footage of Nirvana gigs, this film presents glorious and Homer Simpson). The brief flashes of glamour in her imagery of Cobain’s home state, and glosses it all with life – modeling at an arty fashion show, pouring over Azerrad’s previously unreleased recordings. From his brochures for exotic holiday locations – serve only to childhood home, to his early youth in grunge-laden highlight the limitations of her day-to-day grind. Inspired Seattle, we listen while Cobain tells his life story in his by Antoine Watteau’s dreamy 18th century painting own words. A mesmerising and intimate look at the ‘L’Embarquement pour Cythere’, this intelligent and legendary rocker. DD sensitively-drawn character study will grip the heart and Like this? Try these... rivet the attention. HM Billy the Kid, Blackbird, Black Box Shorts, Control, In the Like this? Try these... Wake of a Deadad, Paranoid Park A casa de Alice, Auftauchen, Blackbird, The Waiting Room,

KURT COBAIN ABOUT A SON The Witnesses

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ROSEBUD UK PREMIERE THE LEGACY The Last Dining Table (Majimak Babsang) Roh Gyeong-tae | South Korea | 2006 | 94 min

Cast: Baek Hyun-joo, Kim Do-yeon, Oh Heoung-ki, Hong Suk-yeon, Hwang Bok-soon MON 20 AUG 21:50 CINEWORLD TUE 21 AUG 19:45 CINEWORLD PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Strange, troubling life stories from the hidden depths of South Korean society. Taking as its themes the collapse of family values and the effects of global chaos, The Last Dining Table is a lyrical, meditative creation that fuses surreal imagery with a memorable soundtrack and a minimalist yet multi-layered narrative. The result is an enigmatic portrait of a seemingly unconnected group of characters in the outskirts and slums of Seoul – a grandmother who wants to divorce her dead husband, a mother who works in a mortuary, a father addicted to gambling and a teenage son who works as a cabaret singer. Employing sparse dialogue and stunning cinematography, director Roh Gyeong-tae allows his characters enough time to slowly divulge their stories, before finally uniting them in the film’s shocking conclusion. DH Like this? Try these… Aria, Breath, The Old Garden, Solitary Fragments, Western Trunk Line

DIRECTORS’ SHOWCASE UK PREMIERE SPECIAL EVENTS The Legacy Limite (L’Héritage) Géla Babluani & Témur Babluani | France, Georgia | Mario Peixoto | Brazil | 1931 | 120 min 2006 | 77 min

Cast: Sylvie Testud, Stanislas Merhar, Olga Legrand, Cast: Iolanda Bernardes, Edgar Brasil, Olga Breno, Pascal Bongard, Georges Babluani Brutus Pedreira, Mario Peixoto SUN 19 AUG 19:30 FILMHOUSE 1 MON 20 AUG 14:15 FILMHOUSE 1 MON 20 AUG 16:45 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) An intriguing Brazilian curio, currently being restored by The holiday from hell – Georgian style. Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Foundation. When three French tourists to Georgia take a long bus to a Launched in Cannes this year, Martin Scorsese’s new remote mountainous region, there’s nothing in the guide Foundation seeks to restore lost classics of world cinema books to prepare them for what happens next. and return them to the public eye. Scorsese has selected Encountering an old man and his grandson boarding a bus EIFF – which celebrated his work with a retrospective with an empty coffin, the trio and their interpreter get back in 1975! – as the UK launchpad for this project, embroiled in a murderous blood feud between the old advisors to which include Souleymane Cissé, Stephen man’s family and an enemy faction in a neighbouring Frears, Walter Salles and Wong Kar-wai. Salles, the village. Directed by Géla Babluani (director of the 2005 director of The Motorcycle Diaries (EIFF 2004), is breakthrough hit 13 Tzameti, which he is now remaking in spearheading the restoration of Limite, the only English) with his father Témur, The Legacy builds its completed directorial project by Brazilian cult writer tension through a slow accretion of low-key but beautifully Mario Peixoto. A poetic study of memory and time set on observed detail, resulting in a movie with the dark lustre board a drifting boat, Limite is one of the great classics of of an ancient folk horror. Along the way are sharp insights early Brazilian cinema. HM into the arrogance of western Europeans in former Soviet Like this? Try these… republics – and some deliciously lugubrious black Anita Loos Retrospective, Berlin Alexanderplatz, humour. EL

THE LAST DINING TABLE THE LAST DINING TABLE Restoring Classic Films, Trances Like this? Try these... Blind Mountain, The Counterfeiters, The Interpreter, Parting Shot, Riza, Solitary Fragments

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MIRRORBALL BLACK BOX LYNCH Live Earth: The Directors Lost & Sound: From the Collection of Mark Newgarden

90 min 120 min approx

FRI 24 AUG 14:15 CINEWORLD THU 23 AUG 21:15 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Leading directors talk about their films made for Al Gore’s Collective Gallery presents The Comic Book Project. Live Earth concerts held across the globe. Hosted by Simon Munnery. Live Earth was a monumental opportunity for the world’s A unique screening event, with selections from cult NY population to sit up and take account of what damage we cartoonist Mark Newgarden’s eclectic collection of lost are doing to our planet. Dilly Gent, maverick footage, found footage, silent animation and toy films. The commissioner and producer for Radiohead, was given the programme includes Fresh Lobster, Spanuth’s Trained task of finding sixty filmmakers to make a series of films Baby Elephant and Chip the Wooden Man in The Magic to highlight the climate change crisis. The talent she has Wand, along with live accompaniments devised and garnered is awesome to say the least, and includes music performed by Suzanne Andrade, Discoteca Flaming Star, artists, feature directors and music video directors. The Jenny Hogarth, Jason Nelson and Kevin Reid. films were screened throughout the day to an audience of 2 billion people. We will be discussing them with a This is the second in a unique programme of events selection of the directors in attendance. DD produced by the Collective Gallery in association with the Edinburgh International Book Festival Like this? Try these... (www.edbookfest.co.uk), the Traverse Theatre Bridge Over the Wadi/Strawberry Fields, Garbage Warrior, (www.traverse.co.uk) and EIFF; a project that aims to In the Shadow of the Moon, The Other Side of the Country, explore the relationship between visual and performative State of the World art practices. Like this? Try these... Academy Films: Hail to the Chiefs, Anita Loos Rediscovered, His Picture in the Papers/The Social Secretary, Tekkonkinkreet, World Animation 1 & 2

ROSEBUD DOCUMENT INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE UK PREMIERE Lovely by Surprise LYNCH

Kirt Gunn | USA | 2007 | 98 min blackANDwhite | USA, Denmark | 2007 | 84 min

Cast: Kate Burton, Carrie Preston, Michael Chernus, MON 20 AUG 22:30 CAMEO 1 Dallas Roberts, Reg Rogers FRI 24 AUG 17:15 CAMEO 1 PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) SAT 18 AUG 20:15 CINEWORLD TUE 21 AUG 22:00 CINEWORLD The most enigmatic and original of modern filmmakers, at PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) work and at play. Quirky, thought-provoking US indie. A must for David Lynch fans everywhere, this glimpse behind the scenes of his 2006 feature Inland Empire is an With a touch of Charlie Kaufman’s structural innovation, irresistibly charming vignette on the life of an undisputed this bittersweet comedy happens on (at least) three levels cinema great. The prevailing image is one of a gifted and at once. There’s the fraught existence of irresponsible driven eccentric, always willing to go the extra mile for his used-car salesman and single dad Bob (Reg Rogers). sculpture, his painting and his filmmaking, and not without There’s the angst-ridden daily life of author Marian (Carrie warmth and an infectious sense of humour. As he works Preston). And then there’s the surreal but strangely with collaborators old and new, we see – and share in – the resonant parallel world of the novel she’s trying to respect and affection that he commands. Shot in black and complete, in which two oddball brothers survive on milk white, using extreme close-ups and a naturalistic approach aboard a grounded ship… Fascinatingly incisive about the that shows Lynch at his most relaxed and mischievous, suppression of personal trauma and its diversion into the LYNCH is a fitting portrait of a genuinely likeable and creative process, this deceptively sweet little number is deeply fascinating artist at work. DH considerably smarter than it first appears. HM Screening with Canvas Like this? Try these… Allan Holt | USA | 2007 | 4 min In Search of a Midnight Kiss, Paranoid Park, Protagonist, Rocket Science, Yella Like this? Try these…

LOVELY BY SURPRISE LOVELY Comrades in Dreams, Ex Drummer, John Waters: This Filthy World, Manufacturing Dissent: Uncovering Michael Moore, Paranoid Park

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BLACK BOX WORLD PREMIERE MALA NOCHE Madame I

Beverley Hood | UK | 2007 | 2 min

A creation by artist Beverley Hood, to live inside your mobile phone. Madame I was the subject of a neurological study in the early 20th century: a patient who had lost her ‘body awareness’, or proprioception. Her predicament, and her lucid, poignant description of it, resonates with the disembodied nature of our contemporary networked lives, of everyday mobile and digital technologies. This work transposes this condition onto a 3D animated character existing in a mobile phone – the Madame I of the title – who contemplates the nature of her disembodied predicament. Madame I is an Artist’s Film & Video production supported by The National Lottery® through Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen. Additional support has been provided by CereProc, The Tacticus Project and Sharewire. To download, text SW MADAME to 80160 or go to www.madamei.com Texts to 80160 may incur a charge. Please see our website for further details. Like this? Try these… Black Box Shorts, In the Wake of a Deadad, Phantom Love, Reverse Angles – a Collection of Personal Projects and Non-Cinema Work by Christopher Doyle

MIRRORBALL SPECIAL EVENTS SPECIAL EVENTS Mirrorball | Made in Japan Make a Film in a Day Make Sure They’re Dead!

75 min 70 min

WED 22 AUG 22:30 FILMHOUSE 2 Screening (70 min) FRI 24 AUG 12:30 FILMHOUSE 2 FRI 24 AUG 21:00 FILMHOUSE 3 THU 16 AUG 17:15 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) FREE TICKETED EVENT Or: how film biographers dodge the agents, publicists, A veritable bento box of ocular goodness, Nippon style. Workshop 1: 12–14 year olds egos and lawsuits… SAT 11 AUG 10am-5pm EICC We can never quite get over how ridiculously popular our Film critic Andy Dougan, who has written books on Robert PRICE £40.00 Made in Japan programme is. It’s probably due to the fact De Niro, Robin Williams, Michael Douglas, Martin that whether for glittery J-Pop songstresses, noisy, er, Workshop 2: 15–18 year olds Scorsese, George Clooney and Richard Attenborough, Noiserock bands, or the simple touting of dishwash MON 13 AUG 10am-5pm EICC presents an entertaining discussion of the challenges detergent, the music videos and commericals coming out PRICE £40.00 inherent in getting up close and personal with the world’s of this country are always at the forefront and, at their most protected people. Is it really possible to assess Workshop 3: 15–18 year olds core, fundamentally surreal. Stylistic choices are not celebrities or their work, when publicists control the flow WED 15 AUG 10am-5pm EICC dictated by those displayed in the West, nor do they follow of information and the print media colludes? Or is the PRICE £40.00 any traditional rules of narrative or structure. However truth irredeemably off-limits in the age of spin? Followed make no mistake, the Japanese aesthetic is one that is Want to plan, script, shoot and edit a short film, all in a day? by a panel discussion. HM carefully constructed and technically precise. This year we Our Make a Film in a Day workshops for young people are Like this? Try these… bring you the most notorious creative forces in the back by popular demand. Learn how to create a narrative, Anita Loos Rediscovered, His Picture in the Papers/The Japanese promo industry, including works by Hideyuki film and edit the picture, then create and edit sound effects. Social Secretary, The Writer's Role Tanaka, Teevee Graphics, Caviar and more. AL Work in a group, against the clock, to plan, shoot and Like this? Try these… completely post-produce a two-minute film. No previous Academy Films: Hail to the Chiefs, Aria, Cornelius Special experience is necessary and all participants will receive a – From Nakameguro to Edinburgh, Mirrorball | Fresh DVD of their film. The workshops are led by filmmakers Tracks, Namikibashi Shorts, Tekkonkinkreet James Walker and Ed Boase of the Young Film Academy. Free tickets are available for the films’ premiere and award ceremony on 16 August. Tickets must be purchased in advance.

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SPECIAL EVENTS THE MAN FROM LONDON Mala Noche

Gus Van Sant | USA | 1985 | 78 min

Cast: Doug Cooeyate, Ray Monge, Tim Streeter WED 22 AUG 21:30 CINEWORLD PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) Gus Van Sant’s little-seen first feature, screening to complement his latest masterpiece Paranoid Park. Based upon the autobiographical novel by Walt Curtis, Gus Van Sant’s 1985 debut depicts in rawly beautiful black and white the experience of intense infatuation and urban ennui. Walt (Tim Streeter) is a pensive, privileged drifter in search of the titular bad night. He finds his outlet in a near-masochistic crush on inarticulate Mexican immigrant Johnny (Doug Cooeyate). Fans will be fascinated to discern the origins of Van Sant’s singular style: the off-centre, sharp-edged romanticism, the narcoleptic pacing, and the aching sympathy for lost and vulnerable characters. Film history in the making, and American low-budget at its best. HM Like this? Try these… Auftauchen, Control, It’s Gonna Get Worse, Paranoid Park, The Witnesses, XXY

Cast: Tilda Swinton, Miroslav Krobot, Erika Bók, János THU 23 AUG 19:50 CINEWORLD SUN 19 AUG 13:30 FILMHOUSE 3 Derzsi, Ági Szirtes FRI 24 AUG 22:10 CINEWORLD THU 23 AUG 19:00 FILMHOUSE 2 PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) THU 16 AUG 19:00 FILMHOUSE 1 SAT 18 AUG 17:00 CAMEO 1 Champion of the underdog, or politically inconsistent self- The shocking story of a hidden tragedy. PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) publicist? Will the real Michael Moore please stand up...? On 22 December 1997, forty-five indigenous residents of The Hungarian master unfolds a glacial, hypnotic noir, With the world primed to debate his latest riveting call-to- the small Southern Mexican village of Acteal were based on Georges Simenon’s novel. arms – Sicko, which examines the US healthcare system – attending a prayer meeting in their village church when Michael Moore easily ranks as one of the world’s most they were slaughtered by unknown paramilitary forces. At his solitary post one night, signal controller Maloin controversial political commentators. No filmmaker since They were members of the pacifist group Las Abejas (The (Miroslav Krobot) witnesses the shady disposal of a the McCarthy era has stirred such loathing in the breasts Bees), who were supporters of the revolutionary suitcase full of stolen money, which he impulsively of US conservatives; anti-Moore films and websites are a Zapatistas but renounced their violent methods. The retrieves. As the local police inspector pursues the mini-industry. Canadians Rick Caine and Debbie Melnyk, investigation into their deaths quickly went suspiciously eponymous visiting Englishman suspected of the initial by contrast, were fans and sympathisers – until they cold… Scottish documentary maker Nick Higgins, an robbery, Maloin keeps his own involvement quiet – but his began researching their own film study of Moore, and expert on Mexican culture and politics and the author of weighty secret has repercussions for his home life with came to suspect his morality and methods. So, is any ‘Understanding the Chiapas Rebellion’, attains his hectoring wife (EIFF patron Tilda Swinton) and documentary objectively ‘true’? Is a flawed, grandiose unprecedented access to the place, the people, and the vulnerable daughter. Gorgeously shot in black and white agent provocateur better than no agent provocateur at all? story behind a barely-reported atrocity. HM by German veteran Fred Keleman, this slow, mysterious This incisive, witty analysis gets to the heart of a anti-thriller demands considerable commitment from its Screening with Mentiras contemporary colossus. HM audience, but rewards it with an extraordinarily nuanced Nick Higgins | UK | 2006 | 13 min and involving study of the conflicts between light and Like this? Try these... Like this? Try these... shade, good and evil, human connections and existential Crazy Love, John Waters: This Filthy World, LYNCH, Beirut Stories, The Other Side of the Country, State of the isolation. HM Protagonist, Strange Culture World, To Die in Jerusalem, We Are Together Like this? Try these... Aria, in the cities, Komma, The Legacy, Phantom Love

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ANIMATION A MIGHTY HEART McLaren Animation 1 & 2

McLaren Animation 1 (75 min) FRI 17 AUG 14:00 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) McLaren Animation 2 (75 min) SAT 18 AUG 16:15 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) See the best in new British animation, and vote for the annual McLaren Award. Showcase for new British animation and your opportunity to vote for the annual McLaren Award for Best British Animation. The McLaren Award supports British animation and pits students against hardened professionals for the prestigious McLaren Award. The award is judged by audience vote and the prize of £1,000 aims to aid the winner to produce new, and promote existing, work in a field in which Britain still leads the world. This award will be supported in 2007 in partnership with BBC Film Network. Like this? Try these… Family Animation, Mirrorball | Animation, Ratatouille, Tekkonkinkreet, World Animation 1 & 2

GALA UK PREMIERE IN PERSON DOCUMENT A Mighty Heart Mike Leigh: The Monastery: Skillset In Person Mr Vig and the Nun Michael Winterbottom | USA | 2007 | 100 min 90 min Pernille Rose Grønkjaer | Denmark | 2006 | 84 min

Cast: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Archie Panjabi, TUE 21 AUG 16:00 CINEWORLD THU 16 AUG 18:00 CINEWORLD Irrfan Khan , Will Patton PRICE £10.50 (£7.35 concs) SAT 18 AUG 14:30 CINEWORLD PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) SAT 18 AUG 19:15 CINEWORLD Brought to you by The London Film School, a Skillset SUN 19 AUG 21:50 CINEWORLD Screen Academy. A wonderful portrait of a quite unique friendship – think PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Grey Gardens with a religious twist. In our screenwriting year, a provocation: the world-class Riveting, beautifully performed adaptation of a headline- director who lets the actors assemble the script. For decades, eccentric aristocrat Jørgen Laursen Vig has grabbing memoir. wanted to establish a monastery on the grounds of his A Palme d'Or winner for Secrets and Lies, a Golden Lion rambling Danish castle. Now, finally, the Moscow Political journalists Mariane and Daniel Pearl were winner for Vera Drake, and a multiple Oscar® nominee, Patriarchate is sending over a group of nuns to check out working in Pakistan and awaiting the birth of their first Mike Leigh is so widely celebrated and debated that he the premises. But Mr Vig, who has never known the child when he went missing – kidnapped, as it transpired, almost constitutes his very own genre. And yet the company of a woman, is far from prepared for the by the Islamic fundamentalists whose networks he was stereotypical view of his work often propounded by those formidable Sister Amvrosya, who has her own opinions attempting to penetrate. Shot in close-up documentary unfamiliar with it – as dour, obsessively naturalistic, and about – well, everything, from the upkeep of the castle to style, Michael Winterbottom’s stunning film recounts the preoccupied by class – tends to ignore the strangeness email etiquette... Pernille Rose Grønkjær turns a warm frenzied efforts by US and Pakistani authorities to and magic into which his stories often dip: think of the and insightful gaze upon this most unique of working establish the facts of Pearl’s disappearance and negotiate heightened tragi-comedy of Life is Sweet, the stylish relationships, while the broken English deployed by Vig for his release. At the eye of the storm is Mariane, played nihilism of Naked, or the baroque elegance of Topsy and Amvrosya creates unexpected flashes of poetry. (As with career-defining force by Angelina Jolie, as a woman Turvy. The constants are his fascination with the fine Vig loses hope in the structural integrity of his home, striving against unimaginable odds to keep her dignity, detail of human interaction; his willingness to permit Amvrosya scolds, ‘The walls are not worthless. They are hope and health intact. Winterbottom here extends the character to drive plot; and the intense performances that just being haunted by the weight of the roof.’) HM parameters of an already extraordinary directing career, his rehearsal-heavy style enables. HM while Jolie proves that she need never again be judged Like this? Try these... Like this? Try these... solely on her remarkable looks. HM Billy the Kid, Blind Mountain, Castells, Lovely by Surprise, Paul Laverty: In Person, Script Factory: Christopher Protagonist Like this? Try these... Hampton, Stephen Frears: Skillset In Person, Tilda Extraordinary Rendition, State of the World, To Die in Swinton: Skillset In Person Jerusalem

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SPECIAL EVENTS National Theatre of Scotland: Uncommitted Crimes

150 min

FRI 24 AUG 14:00 CINEWORLD PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) We thought we’d read you a story. A script, in fact, brought to life before your eyes by top- class actors under the direction of the incomparable National Theatre of Scotland. This is a unique chance to contemplate and debate the differences between theatrical, cinematic, literary and televisual storytelling – all via an amazing new work by leading Scottish writer David Greig. This tense, intelligent thriller is based upon the classic novel Crime and Punishment, written for cinema, bought for television, and will soon be presented on stage by the National Theatre of Scotland. We’re delighted to be able to bring you this unique and exclusive preview, which will be followed by a discussion with David Greig and NTS director Vicky Featherstone about the development of the project. HM Brought to you in association with the Edinburgh International Festival. Like this? Try these… THE MONASTERY: MR VIG AND NUN Blackbird, Script Factory: Christopher Hampton, The Serpent, Sugarhouse, The Writer’s Role

BRITISH GALA DIRECTORS’ SHOWCASE WORLD PREMIERE SHORTS UK PREMIERE My Life as a Bus Stop Namikabashi Shorts The New Man (Den Nya Människan) Wilma Finnigan & Duncan Finnigan | UK | 2007 | 98 min Japan | 90 min Klaus Härö | Sweden, Finland | 2007 | 105 min

Cast: John Stewart, Angela Coates, Duncan Finnigan, WED 22 AUG 14:45 FILMHOUSE 1 Cast: Julia Högberg, Lo Kauppi, Ellen Mattsson, Nadja Eleanor Capaldi PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) Mirmiran, Ann-Sofie Nurmi SUN 19 AUG 20:00 CINEWORLD The mysteries and minutiae of Japanese social etiquette SUN 19 AUG 19:40 CINEWORLD MON 20 AUG 19:45 CINEWORLD and traditional culture, entertainingly explained in short WED 22 AUG 17:00 CINEWORLD PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) film form. PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Scotland’s most inventive low-budget filmmakers turn Award-winning music video and commercials director What would you give up for your country? their satirical gaze upon... Scottish low-budget Junji Kojima here joins forces with the mutli-talented Enforced sterilisation is one of Sweden’s best-kept secrets filmmakers. comedy duo Kentaro Kobayashi and Jin Katagiri of – yet it continued to take place until 1976. By that time, Rahmens to collaborate with the ‘Japan Culture Lab’, Wilma and Duncan Finnigan, makers of Four Eyes (EIFF almost 30,000 people had been prevented by the state sharing their knowledge of multiple Japanese traditions. 2003), return with a high-spirited comedy about the from having children, on the grounds of mental or physical If you’ve ever pondered about how to understand and pretensions of this business we call show. Luna (John illness, promiscuity, or even simple poverty. Kjell experience the formal ways of eating sushi, create your Stewart) wants to be a star, but keeps being unjustly Sundstedt’s script focuses upon young Gertrude (Julia own original origami, savour the harmonious effects of hampered by his lack of talent. His screenwriter flatmate Högberg), the eldest child in a large and very poor family, green tea, or plan a romantic liaison with a Japanese date, Trudy (Angela Coates), meanwhile, blames her own who is forcibly taken from her home and locked up in a then this screening is for both your cultural enlightenment repeated failures upon prejudice against the larger lady... state institution to await the operation – only to become and viewing pleasure. AT Both prove to be sitting ducks for freelance rip-off artist unexpectedly aware of the scale of her sacrifice. Despite Vic Young (a brilliant comic turn by Duncan Finnigan). No- Like this? Try these... the sombre theme, there is real hope and beauty in the one escapes here – not even EIFF... HM Aria, Comrades in Dreams, Mirrorball | Made in Japan, assured direction of Klaus Härö, and the expert Traders’ Dreams, World Shorts 1 & 2 cinematography of Michael Galasso. The film is perfectly Like this? Try these... cast, and the resonant performances grace the solemn Lovely by Surprise, Razzle Dazzle: A Journey into Dance, subject with genuine depth. DH Saxon, Skills Like This, Special People Like this? Try these… Blame it on Fidel, Blind Mountain, The Counterfeiters, Flying – Confessions of a Free Woman, The Italian

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DIRECTORS’ SHOWCASE DIRECTORS’ SHOWCASE UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE PARANOID PARK The Old Garden Once (O Rae Doin Jeong Won) Im Sang-soo | South Korea | 2006 | 112 min John Carney | Ireland | 2006 | 88 min

Cast: Yum Jung-ah, Ji Jin-hee Cast: Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova, Hugh Walsh, Gerry Hendrick, Alastair Foley SAT 18 AUG 17:30 CINEWORLD SUN 19 AUG 22:00 CINEWORLD FRI 24 AUG 19:30 CAMEO 1 PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) SAT 25 AUG 13:30 CAMEO 1 PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) From the director of The President’s Last Bang, a graceful blend of the personal and the political. The low-budget Irish charmer that stole away the Audience Award at Sundance 2007. Based upon a best-selling South Korean novel by Hwang Sok-yong, this absorbing drama follows the efforts of a On the streets of Dublin – Grafton Street, to be precise – a former radical to reconcile his old beliefs with his new life. careworn busker (Glen Hansard) strikes up a friendship Imprisoned for seventeen years for his involvement in the with a sparky young Czech immigrant (Marketa Irglova). anti-government riots of 1980, Oh Hyun-woo (Ji Jin-hee) He’s nursing a broken heart and stalled ambitions; she’s emerges into a very different society. He retreats to the getting by on cleaning jobs and chutzpah. As their hiding place he once shared with his lover and fellow relationship evolves, writer/director John Carney weaves activist, Yoon-hee – but she’s long gone, and only Hansard’s gorgeous self-penned songs into the narrative, memories (in the form of vivid, beautifully-told flashbacks) where they fit so naturally that you hardly notice you’re remain. As vibrant and intense as it is thoughtful, this is a watching a musical. No show-stopping routines here: just film in which to lose yourself. HM a seamless fusion of music and storytelling. Anchored by marvellous performances from acclaimed musician Like this? Try these... Hansard (last seen onscreen in The Commitments, to Breath, The Counterfeiters, The Interpreter, I Served the which this could be an unofficial follow-up) and gifted King of England, The Italian, Protagonist pianist Irglova, this has a gutsy grace that’s all its own. HM Like this? Try these... Les Chansons d’amour, In Search of a Midnight Kiss, Two Days in Paris, The Waiting Room

DOCUMENT DIRECTORS’ SHOWCASE UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE The Other Side of the Country Paranoid Park (De l’autre côté du pays) Catherine Hébert | Canada | 2007 | 83 min Gus Van Sant | USA | 2007 | 85 min

WED 22 AUG 15:15 FILMHOUSE 3 Cast: Gabe Nevins, Dan Liu, Jake Miller FRI 24 AUG 17:30 FILMHOUSE 2 TUE 21 AUG 20:45 CINEWORLD PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) THU 23 AUG 22:30 CINEWORLD A beautifully shot and quietly devastating look at how PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) more than twenty years of civil war in Uganda have shaped Heartstoppingly beautiful, close-up confession, from the the lives of its people, in particular its children. most creatively ambitious of US directors. Every evening a young girl walks six miles from her village Winner of the 60th Anniversary Prize at this year’s Cannes to sleep in a shelter in a nearby town. Called Noah’s Ark, Film Festival, Gus Van Sant’s latest work continues the the makeshift hostel is one of many that attempts to oblique, lyrical trajectory established by Gerry, Elephant prevent children from being abducted by rebels and forced and Last Days. Yet despite its layered narrative and hypnotic to fight. One child who was abducted is remembered by visual and sound design, Paranoid Park is also an her mother, who became an activist after her daughter immediate, frequently funny exploration of the coping was snatched from school along with more than one mechanisms that kick in when disaster strikes. The titular hundred of her classmates. There is sorrow here, and location is a skate park where young boarder Alex (Gabe despair, not least at the apparent complicity of the Nevins) forms a casual acquaintanceship that will change government, who seem to be doing little to end the him forever. Based on Blake Nelson’s novel, shot by conflict. But there is also the determination to survive, to Christopher Doyle, and peopled by a non-professional cast keep on living whatever the circumstances. A meditative, sourced largely from MySpace, this is a devastating fusion almost poetic approach to a heartbreaking subject. JL of sensitive storytelling and boldly original construction. HM Screening with I Want to be a Pilot (Quiero ser Piloto) Like this? Try these... Diego Quemada-Diez | Spain & Mexico | 2006 | 12 mins Blackbird, Ex Drummer, Kurt Cobain About a Boy, Lovely

THE OLD GARDEN THE OLD GARDEN Like this? Try these... by Surprise, Mala Noche, Reverse Angles – a Collection of Bridge Over the Wadi/Strawberry Fields, State of the Personal Projects and Non-Cinema Work by Christopher Doyle World, A Massacre Foretold, Document Shorts

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ROSEBUD UK PREMIERE PHANTOM LOVE Parting Shot (Pas douce) Jeanne Waltz | France, Switzerland | 2007 | 84 min

Cast: Isild Le Besco, Steven de Almeida, Lio, Yves Verhoeven, Christophe Sermet TUE 21 AUG 21:15 CINEWORLD WED 22 AUG 17:15 CINEWORLD PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) A sultry, spiky, enthralling portrait of damaged souls. Smalltown nurse Fred (Isild Le Besco) is angry. She’s angry with her parents. She’s angry with her boyfriend. She’s angry at work. She’s even angry with her casual sexual conquests – whom she picks up two at a time, and warns, ‘Have you heard? I’m not tender.’ All that rage has to go somewhere, and sure enough, an impulsive act of aggression against a stranger soon lands Fred in a very frightening position. Will her victim – who’s being treated at the hospital where she works – identify her? Or will her own conscience finally assert itself, and force her to confess? As victim and perpetrator establish a peculiar bond, Swiss writer/director Jeanne Waltz keeps us guessing all the way. HM Like this? Try these… Beauty in Trouble, The Interpreter, Paranoid Park, Twisted Sister, Yella

BLACK BOX MIRRORBALL IN PERSON UK PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Paul Laverty: Phantom Love Planet B-Boy In Person 90 min Nina Menkes | USA | 2007 | 87 min Benson Lee | USA | 2007 | 101 min

WED 22 AUG 13:30 CINEWORLD Cast: Marina Shoif, Juliette Marquis, Bobby Naderi, SAT 18 AUG 13:50 CINEWORLD PRICE £10.50 (£7.35 concs) Yelena Apartseva SUN 19 AUG 22:10 CINEWORLD PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Definitely not a masterclass. (He told us to say that.) SUN 19 AUG 21:15 CINEWORLD FRI 24 AUG 20:00 CINEWORLD Delve inside the underground with this absorbing look at Lawyer. Human rights activist. Fullbright scholar. Cannes PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) the international phenomena of hip-hop breakdancing. best screenplay winner for Sweet Sixteen, and writer of five other films directed by the great Ken Loach, including Fears and fantasies merge in a gorgeous, troubling This pulsating and emotional documentary follows the the Palme d’Or winning The Wind That Shakes the psychosexual tour-de-force. mental and physical journey taken by B-Boy crews from Barley... Paul Laverty gives political filmmaking a good Japan, France, USA and South Korea, as they prepare to Shot in stunning black and white, with scenes that could name and a friendly face. He’s not afraid of controversy, compete in the ‘Battle of the Year’ – aka the ‘World Cup of be outtakes from some surreal haute-couture photo however, and indeed has expressed his hope that this B-Boying’. Despite significant cultural divides, these crews shoot, Phantom Love might just be the most beautiful film onstage conversation should feature questioning ‘as are unified in a shared sense of hope and determination, of the year. Looks aren’t everything, however, and this is hostile as possible.’ So, let’s raise some issues with the not only to win, but to gain the recognition of their peers, no hollow aesthetic exercise. As we follow alienated king of ‘issue movies’. Is a fiction film the right place for society and – most importantly – their families. They also protagonist Lulu (Marina Shoif) on an impromptu trip into politics? Do Loach’s films preach to the converted, or can share the will to give up whatever is necessary in order to the darkest reaches of her own psyche – seemingly they ever reach the kind of people they depict? And as a realise their life’s dreams before having to conform to the undertaken as a distraction while an unsatisfactory lover writer, how do you make a political point without losing responsibilities imposed by everyday life. In a world where labours away on top of her – writer/director Nina Menkes your engagement with character? HM competition documentaries abound, Planet B-Boy is a creates a dreamscape of epic imaginative reach. There are standout, with knockout choreographed performances, Like this? Try these… shades of Alain Resnais and David Lynch here, but this graphics and music, and a comprehensive insight into the Introduction to Screenwriting, Manufacturing Dissent: film’s lush mysteries are all its own – and the road that world of breaking. This film captures what it is to be a B- Uncovering Michael Moore, Mike Leigh: Skillset In Person, Lulu travels makes Mulholland Drive look like a layby. HM Boy in its most genuine form. AL State of the World, Script Factory: Christopher Hampton, Like this? Try these... William Nicholson: In Person, The Writer’s Role Screening with Pound Aria, Black Box Shorts, Ex Drummer, Flying – Confessions Evan Bernard | USA | 2006 | 2 min of a Free Woman, Komma Like this? Try these… Castells, Doubletime, Mirrorball | Fresh Tracks, We Are Together, What Would Jesus Buy?

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DOCUMENT ROSEBUD INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE UK PREMIERE RETROSPECTIVE: ANITA LOOS Protagonist Razzle Dazzle: Red-Headed Woman A Journey into Dance Jessica Yu | USA | 2006 | 90 min Darren Ashton | Australia | 2006 | 95 min Jack Conway | USA | 1932 | 79 min

SAT 18 AUG 21:15 FILMHOUSE 3 Cast: Kerry Armstrong, Ben Miller, Nadine Garner, Cast: Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Leila TUE 21 AUG 20:30 FILMHOUSE 3 Denise Roberts, Tara Morice, Jane Hall Hyams, Henry Stephenson PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) FRI 17 AUG 19:40 CAMEO 1 SUN 19 AUG 12:00 FILMHOUSE 1 The most emotionally expansive, formally ambitious SUN 19 AUG 14:45 CINEWORLD PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) documentary of the year. PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) ‘When I kiss ‘em, they stay kissed for a long time!’ What elements make up the narrative of a human life? There are 4000 dance schools in Australia. This film is a Jean Harlow stars in a hotly controversial sex comedy that This wonderful, utterly absorbing film measures the cruel mockery of all of them. directly contributed to the tightening of Hollywood’s stories of four individuals – a Mexican bank robber, a Mr Jonathan (Ben Miller) understands the political censorship laws. Adapted from a racy hit novel by German terrorist, a gay evangelical Christian, and an potential of choreographed dance routines by the under- Katherine Brush (known in her day as ‘the wicked lady American student of martial arts – against the principles tens. That’s why he created the Kyoto Protocol Shuffle. But novelist’), this is the story of gaily amoral Lil, who selects of Euripidean dramatic structure. Where were the seeds his Jazzketeers troupe is now being squeezed out of the her garments for their transparency and her men for their of conflict sown, and when did the breaking points occur? limelight by the highly traditional ballet academy ruled by wealth. The 21-year-old Harlow won the part over every Does life – or the way that we remember our lives – the steely Miss Elizabeth (Jane Hall). With the Sanosafe hungry starlet in the MGM stable, and her bracing imitate art, or has storytelling evolved in reflection of the Troupe Spectacular coming up fast, will a new routine performance helped secure her stardom. Anita Loos way that we experience events? It’s hard to convey just about the oppression of women in Afghanistan score big salvaged the script with her trademark cynical wit, after F how intriguing this film is, so original is its set-up and so for Mr Jonathan? Or will the raging stage mothers (one of Scott Fitzgerald’s effort was rejected by MGM boss Irving intense its emotional impact. Just see it. HM whom fosters children only to hand them back if they Thalberg for being too gloomy. HM Like this? Try these... prove to be untalented) destroy him first...? A relentlessly Like this? Try these… In the Shadow of the Moon, In the Wake of a Deadad, hilarious comedy, with a show-stealing lead turn from the Anita Loos Rediscovered, Hold Your Man, Saratoga, Susan Lovely by Surprise, The Monastery: Mr Vig and the Nun, fantastic British comic Ben Miller. HM and God, The Women Paranoid Park, Strange Culture Like this? Try these... Crazy Love, John Waters: This Filthy World, Rocket Science, Special People

ANIMATION FAMILY GALA Ratatouille

Brad Bird | USA | 2007 | 110 min

Voicecast: Patton Oswalt, Brian Dennehy, Brad Garrett, Janeane Garofalo, Ian Holm SAT 18 AUG 14:10 CINEWORLD SAT 25 AUG 14:45 CINEWORLD PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) The world’s greatest animation studio turns its genius to gastronomy. The brilliance of Pixar barely needs to be restated, but Ratatouille certainly proves that their competitors still have a long, long way to go to match them. With typical Pixar enthusiasm, the animators even learned French cooking to ensure that the food scenes were convincing. Enthusiastic gourmand Remy (voiced by Patton Oswalt) lives in the foodie heaven of Paris – but as he’s a rat, he rarely gets a chance to eat or cook as he’d like. Until a hapless kitchen porter opens a soup pot, and with it a window of culinary opportunity… Beautifully visualised, energetic and involving, this is animation at its absolute best, with a voice cast that includes Ian Holm, Peter RATATOUILLE O’Toole and Janeane Garofalo. HM Like this? Try these… Family Animation, Mirrorball | Animation, Tekkonkinkreet, World Animation 1 & 2

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SPECIAL EVENTS Richard III

Laurence Olivier | UK | 1955 | 161 min

Cast: Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson, Alec Clunes, Pamela Brown THU 23 AUG 14:30 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) Much imitated; never bettered. Every modern actor who plays Shakespeare’s villainous king competes with Laurence Olivier’s interpretation. Even Antony Sher – who ironically went on to win the Laurence Olivier Award for his performance in the 1985 RSC season – wrote of being haunted throughout rehearsal by a sleekly creepy, black-clad Larry. Flamboyant, tense, entirely gripping, and lent a cheeky modern edge by Olivier’s direct addresses to the camera, this is a peerless screen Shakespeare, illuminated by its savage wit and its low glimmer of violence and sexuality. Co-stars include Ralph Richardson as Buckingham, John Gielgud as Clarence, and a devastatingly frail and beautiful Claire Bloom as Lady Anne. HM Like this? Try these… Hamlet, Henry V, Restoring Classic Films RAZZLE DAZZLE: A JOURNEY INTO DANCE A JOURNEY INTO RAZZLE DAZZLE:

SPECIAL EVENTS BLACK BOX SPECIAL EVENTS Restoring Classic Films Reverse Angles – a Collection The Rise and Fall of of Personal Projects and Renaissance Films: 90 min Non–Cinema Work by Exploring Independent Film Christopher Doyle Business Models

WED 22 AUG 15:00 FILMHOUSE 2 120 min 90 min PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) A glimpse inside a fascinating labour of love. With unlimited film information available via the internet, MON 20 AUG 19:00 FILMHOUSE 1 TUE 21 AUG 14:00 CINEWORLD there is more demand than ever to see neglected classic PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) FREE TICKETED EVENT films on the big screen. Digital technology, meanwhile, Another side to the fêted cinematographer who shot In Brought to you by the Film Business Academy at Cass adds new possibilities to the restoration process. This The Mood For Love (EIFF 2000), Hero (EIFF 2004), Infernal Business School, a Skillset Screen Academy. year, EIFF is celebrating the endless drive to salvage Affairs (EIFF 2003) and this year’s programme highlight Why is it, when the market for independent movies is cinema’s history, via our collaboration with Martin Paranoid Park. Scorsese’s World Cinema Foundation; our screening of growing strongly, that so many independent production the remastered Berlin Alexanderplatz; and our screenings This collection is curated from Christopher Doyle’s work companies struggle to make ends meet? Angus Finney of three restored Laurence Olivier Shakespeare films. as an artist and filmmaker. These pieces are ‘Reverse analyses the salutory experience of Renaissance Films, Fiona Maxwell, who oversees film restoration at Granada Angles’ in the sense that the camera has been used to which burned through £25 million of City money before Media, one of the world’s largest and most prestigious regard the process of image-making and the role of the crashing into insolvency. His lecture will be followed by a film libraries, and Nick Varley, who rereleases classics image-maker himself. Works that distress the film panel discussion, for which he will be joined by Terry Ilott through the distribution company Park Circus, lead a support and work on the work at hand, and collaborations (director of the Film Business Academy, former CEO of panel investigating the pleasures and pitfalls of bringing with other visual artists are included, to essay the role Hammer Films and chronicler of the rise and fall of movies back from the dead. HM that the eye, intuition and interaction play in the evolution Goldcrest Films), Michael Kuhn (CEO of Qwerty Films and of ideas to images, and the celebration that light can be of former CEO of PolyGram Filmed Entertainment) and prolific Like this? Try these… thought. Scottish producer Christopher Young (of Young Films). Berlin Alexanderplatz: Remastered, Hamlet, Henry V, Limite, Richard III, Trances Like this? Try these… Like this? Try these… Black Box Shorts, Paranoid Park, Phantom Love, Western LYNCH, Manufacturing Dissent: Uncovering Michael Moore, Trunk Line Mike Leigh: Skillset In Person, Paul Laverty: In Person, Stephen Frears: Skillset In Person

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ROSEBUD DOCUMENT UK PREMIERE EUROPEAN PREMIERE IN PERSON Riza Run Granny Run Samantha Morton: In Person Tayfun Pirselimoglu | Turkey | 2007 | 109 min Marlo Poras | USA | 2007 | 77 min 90 min

Cast: Riza Akin, Nurcan Eren, Hayati Pirselimoglu, SUN 19 AUG 17:00 CINEWORLD SUN 19 AUG 16:30 CINEWORLD Muhammed Cangören, Melissa Ahmedi THU 23 AUG 16:30 FILMHOUSE 3 PRICE £10.50 (£7.35 concs) PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) WED 22 AUG 21:45 CINEWORLD Integrity. Style. Talent to burn. THU 23 AUG 17:10 CINEWORLD Ever thought you could do a better job than the Since her incendiary debut in Carine Adler’s Under The PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) politicians? Skin – which took the Michael Powell Award for Best The loneliness of the long-distance lorry driver. In the state of New Hampshire, Granny D is a lady famous British Feature at EIFF exactly a decade ago – Samantha for chutzpah, integrity and giving Republicans a run for Morton has amassed a fascinating series of screen A middle-aged truck driver whose vehicle has broken their money – of which they have a lot. But Doris ‘Granny credits, and established herself as one of modern down in Istanbul, Riza (Riza Akin) needs 10,000 Lira to pay D’ Haddock is concerned about where this money comes cinema’s most bold, versatile and respected performers. for the repairs. Holed up in a dingy, working-men’s hostel, from. In 1999 she walked 15,000 miles across the US from She was Oscar®-nominated for her wordless turn in he’s driven to increasingly extreme measures to raise the California to New Hampshire to raise awareness about the Woody Allen’s Sweet and Lowdown; made the title role cash to get on the road again. Tayfun Pirselimoglu’s film implications of corporations and special interest groups unforgettably her own in Morvern Callar; and sampled follows Riza with a nuanced, documentary-style sense of donating to political campaigns. Not bad for an 89-year- blockbuster stardom in Steven Spielberg’s Minority detachment, creating a convincingly detailed picture of old. Now, at 94, she is standing as the Democrat’s New Report. Co-stars along the way have included Sean Penn, economic privation in contemporary Turkey. A road movie Hampshire candidate for the Senate against Republican Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, Tim Robbins and Daniel Craig. that’s ground to a halt, the film is a haunting exploration of Judd Gregg: current incumbent and George W Bush’s We are thrilled this year to hold the premiere of a life in stasis, with Riza encountering only cruel intellectual sparring partner. With a fraction of Gregg’s Samantha’s stunning new film Control (p.25) – and very indifference to his plight. A film of slow-burning emotional war chest, it’s a formidable task. Granny D herself proud to present the lady herself in conversation. HM force, Riza is anchored by a title performance of forlorn narrates this fascinating microcosm of US politics, which and laconic intensity. EL Like this? Try these... leaves you in no doubt as to why there is currently a lack Chris Cooper: In Person, Control, A Mighty Heart, Parting Like this? Try these… of confidence in the politicians of this world. ST Shot, Tilda Swinton: Skillset In Person in the cities, Kythera, The Legacy, The Man from London, Like this? Try these... Solitary Fragments, The Struggle Garbage Warrior, Manufacturing Dissent: Uncovering Michael Moore, Traders' Dreams, What Would Jesus Buy?, Year of the Dog

ROSEBUD INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Rocket Science

Jeffrey Blitz | USA | 2006 | 100 min

Cast: Reece Daniel Thompson, Anna Kendrick, Nicholas D’Agosto, Vincent Piazzo, Margo Martindale SUN 19 AUG 19:20 CINEWORLD TUE 21 AUG 17:00 CINEWORLD PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Inspired, insightful portrait of a particularly troubled adolescence, from the director of the smash hit Spellbound. Having helped to turn documentary into a commercially viable form, Jeffrey Blitz now shows himself to be no less assured in the arena of fiction. Newcomer Reece Daniel Thompson gives a touching and intelligent turn as Hal, a high school lad afflicted by a dreadful stutter and an unrequited crush. When the object of his desires, super- confident Ginny (Anna Kendrick), invites him to confront his impediment by joining the terrifyingly eloquent ranks of the debate team, he takes up the gauntlet... but a quick- fix solution to his communication problem proves singularly elusive. Acerbic but warm-hearted stuff from a fast-rising writer/director. If you loved Election, Rushmore

or The Squid and the Whale, prepare to be disarmed. HM RIZA Like this? Try these... Billy the Kid, Lovely by Surprise, Skills Like This, Special People, Year of the Dog

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RETROSPECTIVE: ANITA LOOS RUN GRANNY San Francisco

WS Van Dyke II | USA | 1936 | 115 min

Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Jack Holt, Jessie Ralph FRI 24 AUG 12:00 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) Prototype disaster spectacular, with (literally) groundbreaking effects. Lovely singer Mary Blake (Jeanette MacDonald) finds a job singing in a café owned by the amoral profiteer Blackie Norton (Clark Gable). She also befriends Blackie’s childhood friend Father Tim Mullin (Spencer Tracy, who gained his first Oscar® nomination here) – and, as if things aren’t complicated enough, catches the eye of wealthy aristocrat Jack Burley (Jack Holt), who might just be able to help with her dream of becoming a real opera singer. Just as you’re getting emotionally involved with this complicated quartet, a whole new character introduces itself – in the form of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Decadence battles decency and man takes on the elements, in a gripping disaster thriller that scored MGM boss Irving Thalberg one of the last huge hits of his lifetime. HM Like this? Try these… Anita Loos Rediscovered, Children of Glory, Hold Your Man, The Italian, Saratoga, The Women

BRITISH GALA RETROSPECTIVE: ANITA LOOS WORLD PREMIERE SPECIAL EVENTS Saratoga Saxon Scottish Novels on Screen

Jack Conway | USA | 1937 | 92 min Greg Loftin | UK | 2007 | 100 min 90 min

Cast: Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Una Merkel, Walter Cast: Sean Harris, Tom Hopper, James Robinson, James THU 16 AUG 14:00 CINEWORLD Pidgeon, Frank Morgan Stokes, Tony O’Leary, Sarah Matravers PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) TUE 21 AUG 12:00 FILMHOUSE 1 WED 22 AUG 21:45 FILMHOUSE 1 Join the writer of Hallam Foe for a discussion of the place PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) FRI 24 AUG 21:45 FILMHOUSE 2 of Scottish literature in cinema. PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Jean Harlow’s swansong – a bustling tale of high-rollers There are the ones that hit big. There are the ones that and lowlifes. Startling UK thriller brings the grit of 70s Hollywood to a falter. Then there are the long-awaited projects that have messed-up London estate. never quite come to be (just where is that epic screen Jack Conway’s lightweight racetrack romp is notable for version of Alasdair Gray’s Lanark?). The fortunes of pairing Hattie McDaniel with Clark Gable just ahead of Wildly acclaimed when it surfaced in script form on Kevin Scottish novels in the arena of film is discussed by a panel their iconic turns in Gone with the Wind, but chiefly Spacey’s TriggerStreet.com, Greg Loftin’s piercing debut including Peter Jinks, author of the novel Hallam Foe, and remembered as the world’s last glimpse of Harlow before gives a weird new lease of life to the classic Western. Just Alan Spence, author, poet and Artistic Director of her untimely death from uremic poisoning at the age of out of jail, Eddie (Sean Harris) has already lost an eye to Aberdeen’s Word Festival. This event is presented in twenty-six. She fell ill on set, and the film had to be an angry loan shark. Hoping to score enough funds to association with Scottish Screen and the Edinburgh completed without her – certain scenes feature an obvious keep the other one, he contacts his wealthy ex Linda International Book Festival, and chaired by Andrea Gibb, stand-in. Affection for Harlow pulled in the crowds and (Sarah Matravers) – who still lives on the grim estate screenwriter of the much-loved Scottish films Afterlife made Saratoga one of the box office hits of 1937. She where they both grew up, despite a million pound windfall. and Dear Frankie. HM plays a gambler’s daughter, trying to win back her father’s Turns out she needs help too: her husband Kevin has horse-breeding business, but impeded by the wiles and disappeared, feared murdered. Offering his sleuthing Like this? Try these… charm of Gable’s rakish bookie. HM services, Eddie soon comes eye-to-eye with the spectres Hallam Foe, Tilda Swinton: Skillset In Person, William of his own past... Sizzling with tension and vivid, near- Nicholson: In Person, The Writer’s Role Like this? Try these… surreal imagery, this is a forceful and confident debut. HM Anita Loos Rediscovered, Hold Your Man, Red-Headed Woman, Susan and God, The Women This film is produced by Skillset/EIFF Trailblazer Elise Valmorbida. Like this? Try these... The Legacy, The Serpent, Shrooms, Sugarhouse, Weirdsville, W∆Z

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SPECIAL EVENTS SEACHD – THE INACCESSIBLE PINNACLE Script Factory: Christopher Hampton 90 min

SAT 18 AUG 14:00 CINEWORLD PRICE £10.50 (£7.35 concs) One of Britain’s finest dramatists talks about his work for the screen. Christopher Hampton received an Oscar® in 1989 for his unforgettable film adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos’ novel Dangerous Liaisons, based upon his own stage play and directed by Stephen Frears. He is also the writer of Total Eclipse – filmed in 1995 with Leonardo Di Caprio and David Thewlis – and The Quiet American (2002), adapted from Graham Greene’s novel; and the writer/director of Carrington, The Secret Agent and Imagining Argentina. Upcoming work includes the Ian McEwan adaptation Atonement, which stars Keira Knightley and James McAvoy and is set to open the Venice Film Festival in September; and Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, based on the hit novel by Susanna Clarke. HM SCENE insiders is supported by the MEDIA Plus Programme of the European Union, United International Pictures and the British Council

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BRITISH GALA SPECIAL EVENTS WORLD PREMIERE SPECIAL EVENTS Script Factory: Seachd – the Inaccessible SEEL In Person: The Waiting Room Pinnacle Kate Ogborn 90 min Simon Miller | UK | 2007 | 90 min 90 min

SUN 19 AUG 15:30 CINEWORLD Cast: Aonghas Pàdraig Caimbeul, Dolina MacLennan, THU 23 AUG 15:30 CINEWORLD PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) Crisdean Dòmhnallach, Winnie Brook Young, Calum PRICE £10.50 (£7.35 concs) MacFhionghain, Còlla Dòmhnallach How a brilliant new British film made it to the screen. An close-up look at the executive producer's role. THU 16 AUG 19:30 CAMEO 1 Roger Goldby’s debut as writer/director, The Waiting It’s all very well being a wayward creative type, but what SUN 19 AUG 15:15 CAMEO 1 Room, is a witty, winning debut, with an impressive cast of about those figures within the film industry whose PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) star names old and new: Anne-Marie Duff, Ralf Little, responsibility it is to hold purse strings, negotiate deals, Rupert Graves, Frank Finlay and Phyllida Law. Of Làn fhìrinn na sgeòil – The truth is in the story. and protect a project when the pressure’s on? However particular interest is its sharp script: devoid of mockney strong a script is, it needs savvy thinking and fancy The first Scottish Gaelic film to score mainstream gangsters, gratuitous artsy waffle, or uneven star turns by financial footwork to make its way into production (and out distribution, Seachd delightfully combines rich layers of irrelevant Hollywood superstars, it’s the sort of honest, the other end). This onstage interview, brought to you in romantic folklore with the more immediate and familiar intelligent lifestyle drama that seems oddly difficult to find association with Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh and travails of a family trying to adjust to one another. Past and in the UK market. Roger talks us through The Waiting Lothian, will get down to the nitty-gritty with the dynamic present collide for Angus (Còlla Dòmhnallach) when his Room’s eventful journey from idea to execution – to world exec producer on Under the Skin (EIFF Michael Powell grandfather – a towering but troublesome figure in his life premiere at EIFF. HM Award-winner 1997), This is Not a Love Song (EIFF 2002), – falls seriously ill. Travelling to Skye to say a final farewell A Cock and Bull Story, One for the Road (EIFF 2003), and SCENE insiders is supported by the MEDIA Plus Programme of the European – and with the legendary Inaccessible Pinnacle standing as Union, United International Pictures and the British Council Brothers of the Head (EIFF Michael Powell Award-winner, a dramatic metaphor for the challenges ahead – Angus 2006). HM must untangle the old man’s ceaseless stories to discover the truth about his own family history. Despite its seductive Like this? Try these… Like this? Try these… landscape photography and gentle, measured pacing, Current TV: Take your short and shove it..., The Rise and Seachd has a bracing boldness that precludes whimsy. HM Fall of Renaissance Films: exploring independent film business models, The Writer’s Role Mike Leigh: Skillset In Person, Script Factory: Christopher Like this? Try these… Hampton, Stephen Frears: Skillset In Person, The Waiting And When Did You Last See Your Father?, Faro – Goddess Room of the Waters, The Home Song Stories, The Monastery: Mr Vig and the Nun, Once

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DIRECTORS’ SHOWCASE UK PREMIERE SHROOMS The Serpent (Le Serpent) Eric Barbier | France | 2006 | 119 min

Cast: Yvan Attal, Clovis Cornillac, Pierre Richard, Simon Abkarian, Jean-Claude Bouillon THU 23 AUG 21:35 CAMEO 1 SAT 25 AUG 19:00 FILMHOUSE 2 PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Classy, edge-of-your seat French thriller. Opportunistic thug Plender (Clovis Cornillac) has a near- failsafe money-making system. Identify a weak, wealthy, married target. Send in a gorgeous girl. Get photos. Demand payment. But when Plender catches up with an old schoolmate made good, fashion photographer Vincent (Yvan Attal), the scale of his operation suddenly expands – as does the extent of the damage done. Because the two men have a history, and – at least the way Plender sees it – there’s a considerable debt to be paid… Based on the British novel Plender, by Ted Lewis, this dark-hued tale of blackmail, guilt and vengeance is as sinuous and twisty as its title suggests. HM Like this? Try these… Breach, Extraordinary Rendition, Komma, Parting Shot, Sugarhouse, W∆Z

NIGHT MOVES ROSEBUD DOCUMENT WORLD PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Short Scottish Documentary Shrooms Skills Like This Award Screening 100 min Paddy Breathnach | Ireland | 2006 | 90 min Monty Miranda | USA | 2007 | 86 min

SAT 18 AUG 12:45 CAMEO 1 Cast: Jack Huston, Lindsay Haun, Robert Hoffman, Maya Cast: Gabriel Tigerman, Brian Phelan, Spencer Berger, PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) Hazen, Max Kasch, Alice Greczyn, Don Wycherley, Sean Kerry Knuppe, Ned Bellam McGinley Supporting Scottish talent. TUE 21 AUG 21:40 FILMHOUSE 1 THU 23 AUG MIDNIGHT CAMEO 1 FRI 24 AUG 19:40 FILMHOUSE 2 Documentary is more vibrant than ever before – we know, SAT 25 AUG 22:15 CAMEO 1 PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) because our Document section expands year by year. PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) There’s no limit to the subjects that can be tackled, nor Perfectly-crafted indie comedy, with a warm heart and a the styles that can be deployed – and short documentary Six go mad in the country. wicked, wicked wit. is a great medium in which to experiment with form and Bad idea 1: Travel all the way to an unfamiliar country with Playwright Max (Spencer Berger, also the screenwriter content. Don’t miss your chance to spot new homegrown the sole intention of ingesting hallucinogens. Bad idea 2: here) has realised that his oeuvre thus far is rubbish. He talent, with this selection of short work by the finalists in Take along a gang of people you don’t like or trust very despairs of ever finding a profitable talent... until an off- the Short Scottish Documentary Award. The award is much. Bad idea 3: Locate this experiment in a dank, dense the-cuff conversation with his buddies about crime generously funded by a donation from Baillie Gifford, and woodland which also houses a gloomy abandoned church inspires him. Calmly, Max walks across the road, robs a the films are all made by filmmakers from or working in orphanage where horrible things have been done to a bank – pausing only to flirt with gorgeous teller Lucy Scotland. great many children over the years... You could try to take (Kerry Knuppe) – and returns to his seat. His friends don’t Please note that the films in the Bridging the Gap this delirious Irish horror seriously, by reading in a even notice he’s been gone. He’s a natural. Having selection (p.24) have all been shortlisted here. HM subtext about the mistreatment of vulnerable children identified larceny as his calling, Max contemplates a within the ranks of the Catholic church. Or you could just whole new existence – but how far is he willing to go? And Like this? Try these... enjoy the off-colour humour, the wildly creepy how will this newfound life skill affect his chances with Document Shorts, A Massacre Foretold, My Life as a Bus atmosphere and the the out-there violence. Think The Lucy? HM Stop, Trailblazing Shorts 1 & 2 Blair Witch Project with added psychedelics. HM Screening with I Think I Thought Like this? Try these... Matthew Modine | USA | 2007 | 6 min Ex Drummer, LYNCH, Teeth, Weirdsville, W∆Z Like this? Try these... In Search of a Midnight Kiss, Knocked Up, Rocket Science, Weirdsville, Year of the Dog

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ROSEBUD UK PREMIERE STARDUST Solitary Fragments (La Soledad) Jaime Rosales | Spain | 2007 | 130 min

Cast: Sonia Almarcha, Petra Martínez, Miriam Correa, Nuria Mencia, María Bazán THU 16 AUG 19:15 CINEWORLD SAT 18 AUG 20:00 CINEWORLD PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Thoughtful, consummately stylish family drama, from the director of The Hours of the Day (EIFF 2003). Beautifully nuanced performances and a daring visual style distinguish this very special film, Jaime Rosales’ second feature. The story of single mother Adela (sad- eyed Sonia Almarcha) is interwoven with the fraught interactions of a female-dominated clan, in which sisters Helena (María Bazán) and Ines (Miriam Correa) struggle for supremacy as their long-suffering mother (the brilliant Petra Martínez) tries to keep the peace. Rosales brilliantly misdirects our attention, to create a sort of anti- melodrama – imagine an Almodóvar extravaganza with the volume turned down and the detail played up. Events that should be operatically significant slip by quietly, while minor disputes become crises. By the heartstopping finish, you’ll know these flawed, real characters like your own family. HM Like this? Try these… A casa de Alice, The Man from London, Protagonist, Riza, The Women, Yo

BRITISH GALA BRITISH GALA WORLD PREMIERE GALA Sparkle Special People Stardust

Tom Hunsinger & Neil Hunter | UK | 2006 | 104 min Justin Edgar | UK | 2007 | 78 min Matthew Vaughn | UK | 130 min

Cast: Stockard Channing, Shaun Evans, Anthony Head, Cast: Dominic Coleman, Robyn Frampton, Sasha Cast: Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Robert De Niro, Sienna Bob Hoskins, Lesley Manville Hardway, Jason Maza, David Proud Miller, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ricky Gervais, Henry Cavill, Sir Ian McKellen, Peter O’Toole, Jason Flemyng THU 16 AUG 20:00 CINEWORLD TUE 21 AUG 19:15 CINEWORLD FRI 17 AUG 20:00 CINEWORLD FRI 24 AUG 18:00 CINEWORLD TUE 21 AUG 18:45 CINEWORLD PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) THU 23 AUG 19:40 CINEWORLD PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Screening to complement our Bob Hoskins BAFTA interview, Wry, risky comedy, as a hapless filmmaker strives to a special preview of an aptly-titled British rom-com. inspire disabled students... Sheer movie magic with an all-star cast. This winning combination of sly charm, beautiful Enlisted to teach a class of wheelchair-users about Adapted by novelist Jane Goldman from the hugely performances and witty dialogue is a worthy follow-up to filmmaking, the neurotic Jasper gets a little more than he popular graphic novel by Neil Gaiman, this is a glitter- Tom Hunsinger and Neil Hunter’s 2001 gem The Lawless bargained for. His charges seem to know more than he dusted fantasy epic – and a bit of a tonal departure for Heart (EIFF 2001). Their latest romantic comedy follows does about his subject; they’re not impressed by his own Matthew Vaughn, who previously directed Layer Cake and ambitious young Sam (Shaun Evans) as he moves down to heartfelt social realist oeuvre; and they meet his every produced Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Thank London from the North. A liaison with older executive Sheila suggestion with the blank indifference peculiar to the Vaughn’s wife, the model Claudia Schiffer, who read (a superb Stockard Channing) pleasurably advances his streetwise adolescent. Extended from his own 2005 short Gaiman’s book whilst pregnant with the couple’s first career – but when he hits it off with the alluring Kate, things film (shown at EIFF 2005), Justin Edgar’s engaging, child, and persuaded her husband to take it on. Charlie get really complicated. Throw in the sweetly reticent smartly-written feature questions condescending outreach Cox plays the village lad who goes looking for a falling star relationship between Sam’s mum (Lesley Manville) and her projects, self-defeating attitudes within the disabled to impress the village beauty (Sienna Miller), and finds kindly landlord Vince (a tremendous Hoskins), and you have community, and the vacuity of the film business – all with a danger and adventure instead. Claire Danes, Michelle a film of seductive appeal and – well – sparkle. EL sly wink and a healthy helping of self-parody. HM Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro, Peter O’Toole and Ricky Gervais are among those battling for supremacy in the magical Like this? Try these: Screening with Carmichael & shane kingdom of Stormhold. HM BAFTA interview: Bob Hoskins, A casa de Alice, Hallam Alex Weinress & Rob Carlton | Australia | 2006 | 5 min Foe, In Search of a Midnight Kiss, Red-Headed Woman, Like this? Try these… Like this? Try these... Rocket Science, The Waiting Room Day Watch, Faro – Goddess of the Waters, I’m a Cyborg but Billy the Kid, My Life as a Bus Stop, Razzle Dazzle: A That’s OK, The Italian, Seachd – the Inaccessible Pinnacle, Journey into Dance Tekkonkinkreet

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SPECIAL EVENTS UK PREMIERE IN PERSON RETROSPECTIVE: ANITA LOOS State of the World Stephen Frears: The Struggle (O Estado do Mundo) Skillset In Person Pedro Costa, Chantal Akerman, Wang Bing, 90 min DW Griffith | USA | 1931 | 77 min Ayisha Abraham, Vicente Ferraz & Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Portugal | 2007 | 101 min SAT 25 AUG 14:30 CINEWORLD Cast: Hal Skelly, Zita Johann, Evelyn Baldwin, Jackson FRI 24 AUG 21:30 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE £10.50 (£7.35 concs) Halliday, Edna Hagan PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) Brought to you by The National Film and TV School, a SAT 18 AUG 12:00 FILMHOUSE 1 Intriguing comment on the way things are, from some of Skillset Screen Academy. PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) the world’s finest filmmakers. A director of extraordinary range. DW Griffith’s little-seen final film. An extraordinary line-up of international directors – My Beautiful Laundrette (EIFF 1985) was a landmark in Having begun her career mailing short scenarios to DW including Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Chantal Akerman British cinema, but showed only a sliver of what he was Griffith’s Biograph Company from her childhood home in and Pedro Costa – contribute to this ambitious and layered capable of. To name just a few highlights, he's done sexy San Diego, Anita Loos returned to write her first mentor’s omnibus project, funded by Portugal’s Gulbenkian costume intrigue (Dangerous Liaisons), gangster grit (The final film. Ill-received by critics upon its release, but later Foundation in celebration of its 50th anniversary, and co- Grifters), epic Western (The Hi-Lo Country), snappy recognised for its raw, unvarnished take on poverty- produced by Noémie Mendelle of the Scottish contemporary comedy (High Fidelity), fierce issue drama stricken urban life and its outstanding performances, The Documentary Insititute. Six visually and tonally diverse (Dirty Pretty Things) and of course – most recently – the Struggle dealt with a sensitive man’s descent into portraits of changing communities, displaced people and global hit and multiple award-winner The Queen. In May alcoholism – a subject all too close to Griffith’s heart. shifting cityscapes emphasise not only the range of he served as Jury President at Cannes. Such is the Depression-era audiences preferred escapism, however, lifestyles and environments across the planet, but also the spectrum of his abilities, in terms of genre, tone and and the film’s failure was a great sorrow for Griffith. He sheer spectrum of expressive tools that cinema can offer. content, that Frears has always been hard to pigeonhole – would only return to Hollywood to oversee Hal Roach’s From Weerasethakul’s mesmerizing, dreamy opener, to frustrating for subscribers to the auteur theory, perhaps, 1940 remake of the Biograph picture One Million BC – but Wang Bing’s punishing account of torture in China and but constantly stimulating for his audience. We are he was soon dismissed, and bid a final farewell to Costa’s wonderful web of ancestral myth, this is a lush, delighted to welcome this long-standing friend of EIFF. HM filmmaking. HM thought-provoking package. HM Like this? Try these... Like this? Try these… Like this? Try these… Script Factory: Christopher Hampton, Tilda Swinton: Anita Loos Rediscovered, Berlin Alexanderplatz: Bridge Over the Wadi/Strawberry Fields, Document Skillset In Person Remastered, Intolerance, Kythera, Restoring Classic Shorts, Extraordinary Rendition, Faro – Goddess of the Films, Riza Waters, A Massacre Foretold

BLACK BOX IN PERSON UK PREMIERE Stellan Skarsgård: Strange Culture In Person 90 min Lynn Hershman Leeson | USA | 2007 | 76 min

EVENT TIME TO BE CONFIRMED. Cast: Tilda Swinton, Thomas Jay Ryan, Peter Coyote, CHECK FOR UPDATES AT WWW.EDFILMFEST.ORG.UK Steve Kurtz, Josh Kornbluth PRICE £10.50 (£7.35 concs) FRI 17 AUG 20:00 FILMHOUSE 2 A Swedish star whose work has taken him to the heights SAT 18 AUG 20:30 FILMHOUSE 2 of Hollywood. PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Since his English language breakthrough in Lars Von When does art become a threat to national security? Trier’s Breaking the Waves, Stellan Skarsgård has One morning in 2004, artist Steve Kurtz awoke to find his maintained an intriguing balance of blockbuster projects wife Hope lifeless in the bed next to him. At the age of 45, and smaller-scale fare. He worked with Gus Van Sant on and with no previous health complaints, Hope had died of Good Will Hunting, Steven Spielberg on Amistad, and John heart failure. But this tragedy was only the beginning of Frankenheimer on Ronin; returned to Von Trier’s camp for her widower’s ordeal. When paramedics noticed the Dancer in the Dark (EIFF 2000) and Dogville; and took on materials that Kurtz deployed in his projects with the the Max Von Sydow role in Paul Schrader’s Dominion: Critical Art Ensemble – petri dishes, biocultures and Prequel to The Exorcist (EIFF 2005). Most recently, research materials about bio-terrorism – federal agents Skarsgård swashbuckled his way through two Pirates of descended to arrest Kurtz, seize his wife’s body and seal the Caribbean sequels. He now brings his customary his home. They even took his cat. Lynn Hershman brooding intensity to the brilliant W∆Z, premiering at EIFF Leeson’s extraordinary, formally experimental this year (p.62). We are honoured to welcome this unique SPECIAL PEOPLE documentary explores Kurtz’s ongoing struggle for performer. HM justice, via interviews and dramatic reconstructions, with Like this? Try these... Thomas Jay Ryan as Steve Kurtz and EIFF patron Tilda Chris Cooper: In Person, Samantha Morton: In Person, Swinton as Hope. HM Tilda Swinton: Skillset In Person, W∆Z Like this? Try these... Extraordinary Rendition, Garbage Warrior, Manufacturing Dissent: Uncovering Michael Moore, Protagonist

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BRITISH GALA WORLD PREMIERE SPECIAL EVENTS RETROSPECTIVE: ANITA LOOS Sugarhouse The Surprise Movie Susan and God

Gary Love | UK | 2007 | 90 min George Cukor | USA | 1940 | 117 min

Cast: Steven Mackintosh, Ashley Walters, Andy Serkis WED 22 AUG 20:00 CINEWORLD Cast: Fredric March, Joan Crawford, Ruth Hussey, John PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Carroll, Rita Hayworth, Rita Quigley SUN 19 AUG 19:45 CAMEO 1 MON 20 AUG 22:00 CINEWORLD You do trust us, don’t you? THU 23 AUG 12:00 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) So, here it is: the one film in the programme that we have Three men and a gun. to resist shouting about. It could be anything. Literally Joan Crawford sees the light, in a dizzy, daring social anything. In any format, any language, any style. Flick satire. Adapted by Dominic Leyton from his own stage play Collision, through this brochure for an idea of our tastes. Yes, Adapted from the play by Rachel Crothers, this glitzy, Sugarhouse is an intense and gripping modern-day film noir exactly. They’re wide in range. Unpredictable. So don’t bitchy farce showcases Joan Crawford at her arch and set around an East London council estate. Middle-class listen to anyone who tells you that they know what the elegant best. She plays notorious socialite Susan, who has businessman Tom wants to buy a gun from D. Problem is D’s Surprise Movie is. They’re lying. This is EIFF’s most discovered a faddy religious cult that interests her a great crack-fuelled paranoia has seriously impaired his sales closely-guarded secret. Since we can’t tell you what it is, deal more than her husband and child. Susan’s newfound technique. Bigger problem: D has stolen the gun from Ulster we’ll list some examples from previous years: hard man Hoodwink, who wants it back, by any means spirituality drives her to insist upon honesty among her necessary. Directed by Gary Love with arresting visual flair Pulp Fiction social set – which inevitably results in all manner of and no-nonsense pace, this is a muscular, assuredly staged The Usual Suspects marital discord. Meanwhile, Susan’s homely, bespectacled three-hander, featuring outstanding central performances. LA Confidential daughter Blossom (Rita Quigley) – a ‘But, Miss Jones!’ Steven Mackintosh confirms his status as one of Britain’s My Name is Joe moment waiting to happen – pines for a moment of most compelling leading men as Tom, Ashley Walters makes Spirited Away Mommy’s time… A histrionic, irreverent comedy that good on the promise he showed in Bullet Boy as D, and Andy The Bourne Identity treats marriage and religion with comparable levity, Susan and God is a genuinely peculiar product of the studio Serkis plays terrifyingly against type as the brutish, bullying One assurance: it will be worth waiting for. HM Hoodwink. Best British crime movie in ages. EL system. Look out for a ravishing young Rita Hayworth as one of Susan’s friends. HM This film is written by Skillset/EIFF Trailblazer Dominic Leyton and produced by Skillset/EIFF Trailblazer Rachel Like this? Try these… Connors. Anita Loos Rediscovered, Hold Your Man, Red-Headed Woman, What Would Jesus Buy?, The Women Like this? Try these... Beaufort, Extraordinary Rendition, Saxon, The Serpent, W∆Z

NIGHT MOVES INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Teeth

Mitchell Lichtenstein | USA | 2007 | 88 min

Cast: Jess Weixler, John Hensley, Hale Appleman, Josh Pais THU 16 AUG MIDNIGHT CAMEO 1 SUN 19 AUG 21:45 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) They’re sharp. They bite. And they’re not in her mouth... Angelic Dawn (Jess Weixler) is the leading light of her local church, and a fervent champion of the True Love Waits movement. She even defends the censorship of the female genitalia in her school textbooks (genuine practice in some Bible Belt schools) on the grounds of women’s ‘natural modesty’. But when she’s finally driven to stifle that modesty and explore the most mysterious part of her body, Dawn discovers that her good friend God has landed her with an alarming physical idiosyncrasy. One that proves to be very, very bad news for over-eager boyfriends, unprofessional gynaecologists and prowling perverts... An absolutely uproarious horror/comedy, which scooped the lovely Weixler a Special Jury Prize at Sundance (‘for a juicy and jaw-dropping performance’). HM Like this? Try these...

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ANIMATION UK PREMIERE SUSAN AND GOD Tekkonkinkreet

Michael Arias | Japan | 2006 | 111 min

Voicecast: Kazunari Ninomiya, Yu Aoi, Masahiro Motoki, Kankuro Kudo, Min Tanaka, Yusuke Iseya FRI 24 AUG 21:30 CAMEO 1 SAT 25 AUG 15:30 CAMEO 1 PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Animation for grown-ups – a mindblowing adaptation of Taiyo Matsumoto’s beloved manga. A historic cross-cultural artefact, this is the first Japanese manga to be written and directed for the screen by Americans. With a visual style that mingles the idiosyncrasies of Matsumoto’s original work with the hard-wired conventions of manga, as well as American influences both underground and mainstream, Tekkonkinkreet is spectacular to look at – all spidery lines, shimmering cityscapes and stunning action set- pieces. It also boasts bizarre and beautifully-written characters, and a story that grips the heart and the attention. Two orphans, edgy Black and soft-hearted White, must defend their city from destructive entrepreneurs seeking to turn it into a theme park; but the battle changes Black beyond recognition, and it falls to White to save his brother from himself. HM Like this? Try these... I’m a Cyborg but That’s OK, The Italian, Namikibashi Shorts, Ratatouille, World Animation 1 & 2

DOCUMENT IN PERSON SPECIAL EVENTS INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Tilda Swinton: Time of His Life: To Die in Jerusalem Skillset In Person The Films of Eddie McConnell 90 min 90 min Hilla Medalia | Israel | 2007 | 76 min

FRI 17 AUG 14:00 CINEWORLD FRI 24 AUG 14:40 FILMHOUSE 1 TUE 21 AUG 20:00 FILMHOUSE 2 PRICE £10.50 (£7.35 concs) PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) WED 22 AUG 20:00 FILMHOUSE 2 PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Brought to you by Screen Academy Scotland, a Skillset The screening of Faces (1957) at the Edinburgh Screen Academy. International Film Festival kick started the film career of Powerful, original look at the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Eddie McConnell, then studying at Glasgow School of Art. seen through the eyes of two grieving mothers. EIFF’s new patron Tilda Swinton adds icy glamour to In 1992 there came Shell Shock (take an egg and make it arthouse films and gallery projects, and edgy credibility to A story which captured the attention of the world media: your star!). Between these two short films – one with no mainstream movies. She has worked with directors Derek two 17-year-old girls die in an explosion in a Jerusalem budget and the other for Channel 4 – Eddie crafted a slate Jarman, Cameron Crowe, Danny Boyle, Spike Jonze and market. One is an Israeli victim, the other a Palestinian of sponsored films and shorts for cinema and television. Jim Jarmusch; she has played punk brides and suicide bomber. The girls lived only miles apart and looked noblewomen, mothers and temptresses, the Ice Queen of Described by his peers as ‘one of the finest documentary remarkably similar, but their lives were dramatically Narnia and the Angel Gabriel. Journalists run out of cameramen in the world’, McConnell brings a supremely different due to their nationalities. This film explores the superlatives when describing Swinton, and everyone visual style to the moving image. From his early films as aftermath and grief for both girls’ families as they wants to work with her: upcoming co-stars include George an amateur, mentored by John Grierson, then into the struggle to come to terms with their loss. Rachel Levy’s Clooney, Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Philip Seymour production industry, McConnell has created a body of Israeli mother can find no peace since the death of her Hoffman. The darling of the mainstream and the beloved work representing the best of documentary film in daughter four years earlier, while suicide bomber Ayat al- muse of the arthouse sector talks about her work. HM Scotland. Akhras is celebrated as a martyr in her old school, an honour her parents are desperate to embrace for fear that Like this? Try these… Curated by Scottish Screen Archive, this programme of their daughter’s death will have been a senseless loss. Chris Cooper: In Person, Julie Delpy: In Person, The Man shorts and extracts – in celebration of a lifetime in film – The film builds to an emotionally charged climax as the from London, Strange Culture includes Faces (1957), Time of His Life (1978) and Shell two mothers finally meet via video link-up for longed-for Shock (1992). The screening will be introduced by Eddie answers to questions, hoping against hope for some small McConnell, with a Q&A afterwards. reconciliation within the history of the conflict. CM Like this? Try these… Like this? Try these... Document Shorts, Restoring Classic Films, Short Scottish Beirut Stories, Bridge Over the Wadi/Strawberry Fields, A Documentary Award Screening Massacre Foretold, The Other Side of the Country, State of the World, We Are Together

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DOCUMENT INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE TWISTED SISTER Traders’ Dreams

Stefan Tolz & Marcus Vetter | Germany | 2007 | 83 min

FRI 17 AUG 20:30 CINEWORLD SAT 25 AUG 15:00 CINEWORLD PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Entertaining exploration of the global appeal of get-rich- quick phenomenon eBay. More than 200 million people use eBay, the largest internet auction house in the world. Filmmakers Marcus Vetter and Stefan Tolz spent more than a year observing people in their attempts to fulfil their eBay dreams: we visit the Thrum family in Saxony, who attempt to set up an internet sales business in the face of unemployment; Spike, a wheeler-dealer on the Isle of Skye, who needn’t leave his front room to clinch the deal; and Mexican potters who are being swindled by a salesman doubling his profits on eBay. Can a Chinese entrepreneur, the creator of rival internet sales company Alibaba, overtake eBay and win global dominance? The deeper the film delves into eBay mania, the more surreal it becomes. The annual world conference, eBay Live, reveals hundreds of drones chanting ‘The power of all of us’. An enjoyable and surprising look at those hoping to change their lives and find happiness through the world of virtual commerce. CM Like this? Try these... Bridging the Gap, Document Shorts, Mirrorball | Made in Japan, Run Granny Run, What Would Jesus Buy?

DIRECTORS’ SHOWCASE SPECIAL EVENTS SPECIAL EVENTS UK PREMIERE Trailblazing Shorts 1 & 2 Trances Twisted Sister (Schwesterherz) Ahmed El Maanouni | Morocco | 1981 | 86 min Ed Herzog | Germany | 2006 | 94 min

Trailblazers is an initiative created by EIFF and Skillset to Cast: Larbi Batma, Nass-El Ghiwane, Abderrahman Cast: Heike Makatsch, Anna Maria Mühe, Sebastian celebrate the very best in new UK movie talent. We have Paco, Omar Sayed, Allal Yaala Urzendowsky, Ludwig Trepte, Marc Hosemann sifted through stacks of new films from the UK’s Skillset WED 22 AUG 17:00 FILMHOUSE 1 THU 16 AUG 22:00 CINEWORLD Screen Academies, to select the finest student work. PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) FRI 17 AUG 17:40 CINEWORLD Congratulations one and all! Look out for other PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Trailblazers scattered through this brochure. The first restoration by Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Foundation. There were never such devoted sisters... Trailblazing Shorts 1 (85 min) MON 20 AUG 12:00 CAMEO 1 Launched in Cannes this year, Martin Scorsese’s new From the outside, Anna (Heike Makatsch) has a fabulous PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) Foundation seeks to restore lost classics of world cinema life: shiny job in the music industry, handsome boyfriend, and and return them to the public eye. Scorsese has selected chic wardrobe. When she goes on holiday with her Friends Forever Director: Marcal Fores, Sound: Chu-Li Shewring EIFF – which celebrated his work with a retrospective back in younger and more timid sister Marie (Anna Maria Mühe), T.O.M Animators: Dan Gray, Tom Brown 1975! – as the UK launchpad for this project, advisors to the power balance between the two seems clear enough. Scarlet Sunrise Director/Cinematographer: Eduardo Grau which include Souleymane Cissé, Stephen Frears, Walter But Anna’s hold is not as firm as it seems. Her job has Waiting for Exit Music Writer/Director: David Stoddart Salles and Wong Kar-wai. The first completed restoration is been reduced to production of ringtones, and her Dog Director/Producer: Hermann Karlsson this 1981 portrait of the Moroccan music scene which boyfriend clearly has other interests – and with another Dach Directors: Timo Langer, Robert Glassford Scorsese saw on late-night television during the making of secret worry threatening to overwhelm her, her sister’s Mummy’s Boy Producer: Ed Casey The King of Comedy, and which went on to inspire the style of burgeoning self-assurance proves to be too much of a Trailblazing Shorts 2 (85 min) The Last Temptation of Christ. ‘It’s been an obsession of threat. Co-written by German superstar Makatsch, this is TUE 21 AUG 12:00 CAMEO 1 mine since 1981,’ states Scorsese, ‘and that’s why we are an intense, stylish and compelling study of sexual PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) inaugurating the Foundation with Trances.’ HM competition and fast-lane burnout. HM No Star Writer/Director: Christian Neuman Like this? Try these… Like this? Try these... Immeasurable Digital Post-Production: Dan Pearce Anita Loos Retrospective, Limite, Mirrorball | Global Auftauchen, A casa de Alice, The Home Song Stories, The Temporal DoP: Sergio Alejandro Leon Encinas, Director: Paz Fabrega Selection, Restoring Classic Films Interpreter, The Witnesses Captain Cumulus Directors Melissa Choong, James Hing Walz Director: Esther Niemeier Ravi Goes to School Writer/Director: Anu Menon, DoP: Harald Beeker

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BRITISH GALA SHORTS SHORTS WORLD PREMIERE UK Shorts 1 & 2 UKFC First Past the Post The Waiting Room

90 min Roger Goldby | UK | 2007 | 96 min

UK Shorts 1 (85 min) MON 20 AUG 14:00 CAMEO 1 Cast: Anne-Marie Duff, Ralf Little, Rupert Graves, Frank SUN 19 AUG 13:15 CAMEO 1 PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) Finlay, Zoe Telford TUE 21 AUG 17:15 FILMHOUSE 2 For the fourth year running, Edinburgh will host the SAT 18 AUG 19:45 CAMEO 1 PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) premiere of First Past the Post. MON 20 AUG 18:10 CAMEO 1 Five of the brightest new talents in British filmmaking. PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) The UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund in partnership Short filmmaking is often dismissed as the training with Maya Vision presents short films made through this Fresh, frank portrait of entangled London love lives. ground for tomorrow’s feature directors; just as often, year's Completion Fund. A programme of eclectic shorts Lone parent Anna (Anne-Marie Duff) is involved with next- short film dogmatists argue that the short is the purest made by entrepreneurial filmmaking talent. The door neighbour George (Rupert Graves), whose marriage form of cinema. Whether or not these directors have Completion Fund was developed to help filmmakers has settled into a rut. Meanwhile care worker Stephen aspirations to shoot features (one already has), their short secure vital funds for the completion of short film projects (Ralf Little) is having doubts about his own long-term cinematic visions are perfectly formed. ML that have already been shot but lack the funds to finish. relationship. When Anna and Stephen meet by chance, Completion Fund film The Other Man directed by Dictynna UK Shorts 2 (90 min) each glimpses the happiness that has hitherto been so Hood won the Best Short Film prize at the 2006 Edinburgh SAT 18 AUG 14:00 FILMHOUSE 1 elusive.... Quietly assured in its lived-in sense of International Film Festival. WED 22 AUG 17:30 FILMHOUSE 2 naturalism, yet effortlessly sophisticated, this is a hugely PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) Like this? Try these... entertaining debut from writer/director Roger Goldby. GMAC Cineworks & Digicult, Trailblazing Shorts 1 & 2, Poignant, frequently funny performances from a fine Sex. Booze. Drugs. Puke. Fists. Knives. Mashed potato. UKFC Digital Generation, UK Shorts 1 & 2 British cast help enormously. Intelligent, adult Excess and bad behaviour is the order of the day in this entertainment, The Waiting Room is a bracingly clear- barrage of new voices of British cinema. Sexual thrills are headed account of relationships hitting a sticky patch – snatched in the face of danger; unwelcome intruders but also a deeply romantic movie that will renew your faith shatter private fantasies... and the cream of young comedy in love at first sight. EL talent comes together for the Sunday lunch from Hell. ML Like this? Try these: Like this? Try these... And When Did You Last See Your Father?, Rocket Science, European Shorts, GMAC Shorts, Sparkle, Two Days in Paris, Script Factory: The Waiting Live Earth: The Directors, State of the Room World, Trailblazing Shorts, World Shorts

SHORTS UKFC Digital Generation

90 min

TUE 21 AUG 14:30 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) A snapshot of outstanding short films from emerging UK filmmakers. Through the UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund shorts programme: Digital Shorts (involving the UK’s national and regional screen agencies) and Digital Shorts Plus (for second-time directors), filmmakers are given the opportunity to make innovative films using digital technology in less than 10 minutes and under £10,000. The Digital Generation programme showcases a diverse range of work produced in the last 12 months. Like this? Try these... GMAC Cineworks & Digicult, Trailblazing Shorts 1 & 2, UKFC First Past the Post, UK Shorts 1 & 2 THE WAITING ROOM

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BRITISH GALA GALA NIGHT MOVES WORLD PREMIERE UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE W∆Z We Are Together Weirdsville (Thina Simunye) Tom Shankland | UK, USA | 2006 | 103 min Paul Taylor | UK | 2006 | 86 min Allan Moyle | Canada | 2007 | 90 min

Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, Selma Blair, Melissa George, FRI 24 AUG 19:30 FILMHOUSE 1 Cast: Wes Bentley, Scott Speedman, Taryn Manning, Ashley Walters, Paul Kaye SAT 25 AUG 14:30 FILMHOUSE 1 Greg Bryk, Matt Frewer PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) MON 20 AUG 19:20 CINEWORLD FRI 24 AUG 23:50 CAMEO 1 TUE 21 AUG 21:45 CINEWORLD The story of a group of South African AIDS orphans who SAT 25 AUG 18:00 CAMEO 1 PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) form a choir, this utterly captivating film is already the PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) worthy winner of several audience awards from festivals A stunningly confident urban thriller, from first-time Drug-crazed losers run wild, in a relentlessly hilarious, around the world. feature director Tom Shankland. seriously offbeat caper – opening night at this year’s First-time director Paul Taylor was working as a volunteer Slamdance Film Festival. Investigating a string of grisly murders and associated at the Agape Orphanage in South Africa when he decided attacks, idealistic rookie detective Helen Westcott Dexter (Scott Speedman) and Royce (Wes Bentley) owe a that the place and its residents were so remarkable that identifies a connection with a horrific gang rape case from great deal of money to a very unpleasant drug dealer. someone should make a film about them. Here’s the some years before. But why are Helen’s superiors so loth Their only chance of salvation is to help him out by quickly result. Focusing on one family in particular, the film to listen to her reasoning? And what is the meaning of the offloading a massive amount of his product. But then doesn’t flinch from letting us see the devastation that algebraic formula found at each new crime scene? With Royce’s girlfriend Matilda (Taryn Manning) gets into the AIDS has brought to millions of lives, but also lets us excellent performances from Melissa George, Stellan stash – with tragic consequences. Which leaves Royce and share the strength that these amazing children draw from Skarsgård and Selma Blair, this atmospheric and Dexter with nothing to sell, and a body to hide. And that’s their singing. The film follows their highs and lows, disturbing debut injects the intelligence back into high- before the Satanist gang shows up. And the vengeful culminating in their journey to the US to raise funds and concept horror – think Se7en rather than Saw. HM armour-clad dwarves. If this sounds distasteful, make no awareness. Filled with sorrow and joy in equal measure, mistake: it is. It’s also possessed of breakneck energy, This film is directed by Skillset/EIFF Trailblazer Tom not to mention some of the most sublime music you’ll exquisite comic timing, endless visual invention – and Shankland. ever hear, you’ll need a hanky for this one. JL huge helpings of its own messed-up brand of charm. A Like this? Try these... This film is directed by Skillset/EIFF Trailblazer Paul Taylor. sequel, please! HM Blackbird, Extraordinary Rendition, The Serpent, Stellan Like this? Try these... Like this? Try these… Skarsgård: In Person, Sugarhouse, Teeth Bridge Over the Wadi/Strawberry Fields, Doubletime, The Death Proof, In Search of a Midnight Kiss, Knocked Up, Italian, The Other Side of the Country, State of the World Shrooms, Skills Like This, Year of the Dog

ROSEBUD UK PREMIERE Western Trunk Line (Xi gan dao) Li Jixian | China, Japan | 2007 | 101 min

Cast: Zhang Deng Feng, Li Jie, Shen Jia Ni, Yang Xin MON 20 AUG 17:15 CINEWORLD THU 23 AUG 21:45 CINEWORLD PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) A striking, melancholic study of family displacement and coming-of-age. Xigandao, Northern China, just after the Cultural Revolution. Bored teenager Li Siping passes his time cheating, stealing, spying on female factory workers, and striving to fix the old radio that will give him a link to the outside world. His aimless yearnings finally find a focus when Yu Xueyan, a sophisticated and beautiful young musician from Beijing, comes to live and work in the town. Can love save this loner – or does fate have other ideas? Truly stunning cinematography and a gentle yet gripping narrative raise Li Jixian’s second feature beyond the ordinary. His depiction of lives gone awry in a tiny industrial community has an otherworldly quality that will stay with you long after you leave the cinema. DH Like this? Try these… Billy the Kid, Blind Mountain, Hallam Foe, The Hottest

WEIRDSVILLE State, Kythera, The Old Garden

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DOCUMENT DIRECTORS’ SHOWCASE EUROPEAN PREMIERE UK PREMIERE WE ARE TOGETHER What Would Jesus Buy? The Witnesses (Les Témoins) Rob VanAlkemade | USA | 2007 | 90 min André Téchiné | France | 2006 | 115 min

SUN 19 AUG 22:15 FILMHOUSE 2 Cast: Michel Blanc, Emmanuelle Béart, Sami Bouajila, MON 20 AUG 17:45 FILMHOUSE 2 Julie Depardieu, Johan Libérau PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) SAT 18 AUG 19:00 FILMHOUSE 1 Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel WED 22 AUG 18:45 CINEWORLD Choir are here to save our souls from overspending. PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) Christmas is coming and Reverend Billy and his Choir Love hurts. board a bus on a long journey to tell the people to ‘Stop Sarah (Emmanuelle Béart at her most luminous) is a Shopping’. From the advertising stench of Times Square writer and new mother, who is not having much luck with through the heartland’s shopping malls (evading security either role. Her best friend Adrien (Michel Blanc) has guards at every turn) to the commercial chaos of fallen head over heels for a very young man, Manu (Johan Disneyland they are telling us to fight the urge to spend. Libérau) – but Manu in turn is more interested in Sarah’s We visit local shopkeepers who cannot compete with the husband Mehdi (Sami Bouajila), whose devotion to his wife large retailers and guilty parents queuing for the latest doesn’t necessarily exclude the odd dalliance. As if things games console for their kids. Rev Billy and his choir do aren’t complicated enough, it’s the early 1980s, and seem like a comedy act, but they are bringing a very there’s a mysterious new virus in town... Directed by the serious message to the fore about our changing lust for prolific French master André Téchiné (Changing Times; consumerism. Stop the Shopocalypse. DD Strayed), this is a heartfelt and intelligent adult drama of Like this? Try these... shifting loyalties and fickle affections, beautifully shot and Garbage Warrior, Live Earth: The Directors, performed. HM Manufacturing Dissent: Uncovering Michael Moore, Planet Like this? Try these... B-Boy, Razzle Dazzle: A Journey into Dance Les Chansons d’amour, The Hottest State, in the cities, Sparkle, The Waiting Room, XXY

IN PERSON RETROSPECTIVE: ANITA LOOS ANIMATION William Nicholson: The Women World Animation 1 & 2 In Person 60 min George Cukor | USA | 1939 | 133 min

SAT 18 AUG 12:00 CINEWORLD Cast: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, World Animation 1 (85 min) PRICE £10.50 (£7.35 concs) Mary Boland, Paulette Goddard THU 16 AUG 17:30 CAMEO 1 PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) Screenwriter Maximus. WED 22 AUG 12:00 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) World Animation 2 (80 min) A former documentarian for the BBC, British-born THU 23 AUG 14:20 FILMHOUSE 3 William Nicholson has written extensively for stage and ‘There is a name for you ladies, but it isn’t used in polite FRI 24 AUG 12:15 FILMHOUSE 3 cinema. His celebrated attention to emotional detail – society… outside of a kennel.’ PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) apparent in Shadowlands and Nell – does not preclude a In fact, even the canine members of this dauntingly flair for the spectacular. He is a noted author of fantasy The finest morsels from animation genuises the world over, glamorous cast are female – as are the horses. There’s fiction, and his highest-profile screen credit (and second to inspire, challenge and entertain. Whether it deploys not a male creature in sight, though they do come up in Oscar® nomination) was for Ridley Scott's epic Gladiator. pixels or Plasticene®, animation has a unique freedom in conversation... Adapted by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin His next film, The Golden Age, is a sequel to Elizabeth, creating atmospheres, characters and narrratives. The from the Broadway play by Clare Booth (which ran to a directed by Shekhur Khan and starring Cate Blanchett, diversity and range of this most intriguing of film forms devilish 666 performances), The Women is a piercing Samantha Morton, Clive Owen and Geoffrey Rush. Just continues to grow. In order to bring you the very best that paean to the weakness of males and the waspishness of ahead of an imminent stage revival of Shadowlands and the international scene has to offer, we spend the year females – and a deeply moral warning against following the release of The Golden Age, he joins us to discuss his hunting down the most exciting, amusing, weird and the nasty agendas of the former all the way to the divorce life in writing and especially his work for the screen. HM wonderful work. Look out for the next Nick Park or Brad courts. Norma Shearer is lovely as the trusting wife who’s Bird – or just a new way of looking at the world. HM Like this? Try these... shocked to hear – via a prattling manicurist – of her Paul Laverty: In Person, Script Factory: Christopher husband’s dalliance with hard-bitten shopgirl Joan Like this? Try these... Hampton, The Writer's Role Crawford. Among the interfering, spectacularly-clad Family Animation, McLaren Animation 1 & 2, Mirrorball | onlookers are Rosalind Russell, Joan Fontaine and Animation, Ratatouille, Tekkonkinkreet Paulette Goddard. HM Like this? Try these… Anita Loos Rediscovered, A casa de Alice, Death Proof, Red-Headed Woman, Saratoga, Susan and God

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SHORTS YEAR OF THE DOG World Shorts 1 & 2

World Shorts 1 (90min) FRI 17 AUG 15:00 FILMHOUSE 2 THU 23 AUG 18:45 FILMHOUSE 3 PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) Classic storytelling, low-budget ingenuity and some of the goriest deaths on celluloid! A selection of new international shorts, linked by fathers – whether loving, overbearing, errant, or absent in body or in mind. ML World Shorts 2 (85min) SUN 19 AUG 16:00 FILMHOUSE 3 MON 20 AUG 22:00 FILMHOUSE 2 PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) Visit six different worlds in 90 minutes. Cockroaches; refugees; a snowbound tollbooth operator all alone in the world... All of the films in this expansive international programme explore the interdependency between people and their environment. ML Like this? Try these... Beirut Stories, European Shorts 1 & 2, Live Earth: The Directors, Mirrorball | Made in Japan, State of the World, Trailblazing Shorts 1 & 2, UK Shorts 1 & 2

SPECIAL EVENTS IN PERSON SPECIAL EVENTS The Writer’s Role Writing Comedy: Writing Reality: Judd Apatow Blake Morrison and 90 min 90 min David Nicholls 90 min SAT 25 AUG 11:30 CINEWORLD SUN 19 AUG 13:00 CINEWORLD PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) PRICE £10.50 (£7.35 concs) FRI 24 AUG 13:15 CINEWORLD Aspiring writers… just what are you getting yourselves The writer/director of The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked PRICE £6.50 (£4.55 concs) into? Up dicusses a career dedicated to splitting sides and tickling funnybones. The history of And When Did You Last See Your Father?, The status of screenwriters within the film industry has and the risks and advantages of making movies out of long been a source of strife. Jay Presson Allan – the late Having established himself as a writer on some of real-life stories. writer of Marnie, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and America’s funniest television shows – including The Larry Cabaret – once placed those of her profession ‘somewhere Sanders Show and Freaks and Geeks – Judd Apatow then Several films in this year’s EIFF programme are drawn just below the publicists but above the hairdresser.’ A joke, moved into film production, gently ushering the likes of from highly personal stories: among them Michael perhaps, but one that resonates: just where do writers The Cable Guy and Anchorman into being. His first film as Winterbottom’s A Mighty Heart, based on Mariane Pearl’s figure in the pecking order, when directors claim so much writer/director was the super-hit The 40-Year-Old Virgin, book; Anton Corbijn’s Control, from Debbie Curtis’s of the glory attached to successful films? And why is so which made a star of Steve Carell and left a whole memoir of her husband Ian Curtis; The Counterfeiters, much more respect afforded to scribes in the realms of generation of men very, very frightened of beauty from Adolf Burger’s autobiographical account; The Home television and theatre? In association with the Traverse treatments involving hot wax. His new film Knocked Up – Song Stories, partly founded in writer/director Tony Theatre, where countless writing careers have taken screening at EIFF – has decisively established him as Ayres’s childhood memories; and And When Did You Last flight, we examine the treatment of writers within various American comedy’s hottest property. Here is your chance See Your Father?, adapted by David Nicholls from Blake media. to question him about the pressures associated with Morrison’s famed memoir. Nicholls (whose previous film always being the funniest person in the room. HM Starter for Ten had its roots in his own university Speakers will be confirmed nearer the date. HM experiences) and Morrison join us to discuss the process Like this? Try these… Like this? Try these… of transforming highly personal material into big-screen In Search of a Midnight Kiss, Knocked Up, Skills Like This, Paul Laverty: In Person, Script Factory: Christopher entertainment. HM Two Days in Paris, Weirdsville, Year of the Dog Hampton, Script Factory: The Waiting Room, Writing: Like this? Try these… Reality: Blake Morrison and David Nicholls And When Did You Last See Your Father?, Control, The Counterfeiters, The Home Song Stories, A Mighty Heart, Protagonist

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ROSEBUD UK PREMIERE XXY XXY

Lucía Puenzo | Argentina, Spain, France | 2007 | 90 min

Cast: Inés Efron, Ricardo Darín, Germán Palacios, Carolina Peleritti, Martín Piroyansky SAT 18 AUG 21:50 CAMEO 1 MON 20 AUG 21:30 FILMHOUSE 1 PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) A teen drama with a huge twist – for Alex is a 15-year-old hermaphrodite. Winner of the Cannes International Critics Week Grand Prize, this is an assured, beautiful debut from Argentinian writer/director Lucía Puenzo. Alex lives with her parents, whose reaction to her indeterminate gender has been to exile the family to a small island community. As she comes of age, her parents feel it is time for them to decide if she is to be a woman or a man. Her mother invites some old friends from Argentina to visit for the weekend – one of whom just happens to be a surgeon. They also bring their teenage son, who knows nothing of Alex’s story but is intrigued by this tomboy. Ricardo Darin (Nine Queens, Kamchatka) delivers another brilliant performance as the father who – one way or another – is losing his wonderful little girl forever. NK Like this? Try these... Auftauchen, Billy the Kid, Hallam Foe, Rocket Science, Special People, Teeth, Yella

GALA DIRECTORS’ SHOWCASE ROSEBUD INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE UK PREMIERE UK PREMIERE Year of the Dog Yella Yo

Mike White | USA | 2007 | 97 min Christian Petzold | Germany | 2007 | 89 min Rafa Cortés | Spain | 2006 | 100 min

Cast: Molly Shannon, Laura Dern, Regina King, Tom Cast: Nina Hoss, Devid Striesow, Hinnerk Schönemann, Cast: Alex Brendemühl, Margalida Grimalt, Rafel Ramis, McCarthy, Josh Pais, John C Reilly, Peter Sarsgaard Burghart Klaußner, Barbara Auer Heinz Hoenig, Maria Lanau MON 20 AUG 19:00 CINEWORLD SAT 18 AUG 21:45 CINEWORLD TUE 21 AUG 22:15 CAMEO 1 TUE 21 AUG 18:15 CINEWORLD MON 20 AUG 17:00 CINEWORLD THU 23 AUG 17:30 CINEWORLD PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) PRICE £7.95 (£5.50 concs) A fluffy comedy with a sharp, subversive bite, from the Ice-cool, witty and mysterious drama – the best yet from Identity is everything in this stylish Spanish thriller. brilliant writer of Chuck&Buck (EIFF 2000) and The School EIFF regular Christian Petzold. Hans (Alex Brendemühl, also co-screenwriter) arrives in of Rock. Yella (wonderfully played by Nina Hoss, who won the Best Majorca to work as a labourer for a rich German Sweet spinster Peggy (beautifully played by familiar TV Actress prize at Berlin for her work) is estranged from her businessman. He soon discovers that he is taking over face Molly Shannon) loves nothing more than her little possessive and violent husband; but he can’t quite bring from another Hans, who has recently vanished. The beagle, Pencil. When Pencil meets a tragic fate, Molly himself to give her up. When their fraught interaction previous Hans left all his belongings and considerable bad seeks solace from various human sources: her finally comes to dramatic conclusion, Yella’s life takes an feeling behind – and the community now seems oddly dramatically unsympathetic sister-in-law (Laura Dern); odd shift. Beginning a new job in a slightly dubious area of unwilling to welcome his replacement and namesake. Or her creepy single neighbour (John C Reilly); and an finance, she finds herself confronted by increasingly could it be that one name, and one identity, is quite oddball animal refuge attendant (Peter Sarsgaard) whose surreal situations and individuals – and remains menaced interchangeable with another? Set in a cold, barren town affection for his furry charges has an unsavoury tang. But by the memory of her volatile spouse, even as new love that looks nothing like the typical picture-postcard the more time she spends with humans, the more Peggy beckons. Spellbindingly elegant in its execution, enlivened Majorcan resort, this tense, highly original whodunnit prefers dogs. And wants to live with them. And care for by episodes of nimble comedy, and unpredictable to the centres upon a mesmerizing performance by them. A lot of them... Can the world make room for end, Yella is a dream of a film from the director of Ghosts Brendemuhl, who was last in Edinburgh with Jaime Peggy’s evolving values? HM (EIFF 2005), Wolfsburg (EIFF 2003) and The State I’m In Rosales's The Hours of the Day in 2003. NK (EIFF 2001). HM Like this? Try these... Like this? Try these… Knocked Up, Lovely by Surprise, Razzle Dazzle: A Journey Like this? Try these... Aria, Blind Mountain, Breath, Komma, The Last Dining into Dance, Rocket Science, Special People Beauty in Trouble, Breath, Komma, Parting Shot, Twisted Table, Yella, XXY Sister

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Where can I sit? Is this film suitable? To whom should I address my queries and Seats are unreserved unless stated Most EIFF films do not hold a rating comments? otherwise. For information on access please certificate (i.e. PG, 15, 18) at the time of the Speak to any EIFF staff member, who are see page 66. screening. The nature of all films is conveyed easily identifiable by their STAFF t-shirts and clearly in the A–Z section. If in doubt, phone name badges. If you have any general My phone’s on silent, so why can’t I the Box Office on 0131 623 8030 for advice. feedback (positive or otherwise) you can take it in? email [email protected]. EIFF upholds a culture of cinema-going How long do your screenings last? experience that respects the filmmaker and The running times of the films are stated at I’ve booked my tickets in advance online or the audience, so films are presented to the the top of the individual entries. However, by phone. Where do I get my tickets from? highest standards possible. This means no most films include an introduction and Q&A, Tickets are posted out for bookings made up phone screens lighting up and no videoing often with the filmmaker, and some longer to and including Friday 3 August. After this the film for alternative distribution. films may have an intermission (indicated). If time they can be collected from the EIFF a short film is being shown with a feature, Central Box Office (Filmhouse) until two EIFF has a zero tolerance policy on piracy. this will be mentioned in the film entry. Bear hours before the screening begins. After that Please be aware that you may be requested this in mind when scheduling your EIFF day. time, they’ll be held for collection at the to check-in mobile phones/cameras for cinema showing your film from half an hour certain screenings. This is standard practice What is Best of the Fest and how do I get before the scheduled start time. with new films. tickets? It does exactly what it says on the tin… A day Can I take alcohol into screenings? What if I’m late? of the biggest and best films all for a fiver The Filmhouse and Cameo cinemas are fully If you’re late and the programme has started, each. Announced on Monday 20 August at licensed so drinks bought from their bars expect to wait and we’ll do our best to show midday. See page 16 for details. can be taken into the screen. Ask for a plastic you to a seat at an appropriate juncture. glass at the bar. Cinema management reserve the right of admission and the usher’s decision is final. We cannot offer you a refund if we’re unable to admit you without disturbing everyone else. and don't forget... eiff films might not be appearing at a cinema near you soon. miss one at your peril.