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20Edinburgh International Film Festival 2011easyJet are proud to sponsor the 2011 Edinburgh International Film Festival10812650.9235-EJ-Edinburgh FF Strips v3.indd 106/05/2011 17:35BETWEEN 2 FIRESfeature filmsCONFLICT | REPORTAGEUK PREMIERESteven Silver/Canada/South Africa/ 2010/113 minCast: Ryan Phillippe, Taylor Kitsch, Malin Akerman, Francois Rautenbac, Neels Van JaarsveldTUE 21 JUNE 22:10 FILMHOUSE 1SAT 25 JUNE 19:50 FILMHOUSE 1PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONC)Based on the memoir of two members of the eponymous club of photojournalists Joao Silva and Greg Marinovich, 'The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War', and starring Ryan Phillippe, the exhilarating story explores the motivations of war correspondents and questions when the camera should stop rolling. World Press Photo Award winning Silva hit the headlines last year, when he trod on a landmine in Afghanistan, losing both legs, and his and other photographers work will be displayed during the Festival.The Bang Bang ClubSTRANDPREMIERE TYPEMarie Losier/USA/2011/72 minSUN 19 JUNE 16:00 FILMHOUSE 2TUE 21 JUNE 21:45 FILMHOUSE 2PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONC)A tender tale of how love can transform - literally!Experimental filmmaker Marie Losier's debut feature documentary is both a love story and a deeply personal profile of the artist and musician Genesis P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV) and his partner/artistic collaborator Lady Jaye. Weaving together archival footage, interviews, performances and personal confession, Losier's characteristically quirky portrait draws out the fine line between life and art in the couple's 'pandrogyny' project - physically transforming their bodies to resemble each other. Screening with: The Garden (Ann Steuernagel/USA/2010/10 min)The Ballad of Genesis and Lady JayeDOCUMENTARY - INTERNATIONALJOINT UK PREMIEREFEATURES - INTERNATIONALUK PREMIEREChris Weitz/USA/2011/97 minCast: Damián Bichir, Jose Julian, Chelsea Rendon FRI 24 JUNE 19:45 CAMEO 1 SAT 25 JUNE 17:45 CAMEO 1PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONC)The road forks for both Mexican illegal immigrant father, and his troubled son, in this affecting tale of fortitude and temptation.Doing it tough in East LA, Carlos (Mexican star Demian Bichir) tends the gardens of wealthy cross town Los Angelinos. He worries for the future of his wayward son Luis, who is flirting with gang culture, often missing school. And there's the ever present threat of being discovered by immigration officials. Weitz himself has Mexican ancestry, and this film is based on what he describes as the best script he's read since he started making films two decades ago.A Better LifeFEATURES - INTERNATIONALUK PREMIEREAgnieszka Lukasiak/Sweden/Poland/ 2010/130 minCast: Magda Poplawska, Kamila Nowysc, Simon KassianidesMON 20 JUNE 20:00 FILMHOUSE 3THU 23 JUNE 21:30 FILMHOUSE 3PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONC)How far would you go to protect your daughter? Would you become a refugee?Fleeing to a Swedish refugee camp to escape prostitution, young Polish mother Marta and her daughter Ania find their refuge to be just as dangerous. How will they escape, now they are trapped by law? Acted with a searing conviction by lead Magdelana Poplawsa, this raw yet humane drama illuminates just how perilous refugee status and, motherhood, can be.Between 2 Fires All That Heaven Allows21BOB MARLEY: THE MAKING OF A LEGENDfeature filmsSTRANDPREMIERE TYPEDerek Jarman/UK/Japan/1993/79 minNarrated by: Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry, John QuentinTHU 23 JUNE 17:45 FILMHOUSE 3PRICE: £6.00 (£5.00 CONC)Evocative and emotionally resonant, the last great work from a true master of his art.Removing the use of images completely, a luminous blue glow is the backdrop for a collage of sound, music and speech, during which Jarman contemplates his encroaching blindness and threatened mortality. As images disappear from his own vision, he considers how his life and work will disappear from public consciousness after his death. The films of Derek Jarman at EIFF 2011 have been programmed by our guest curator, Gus Van Sant.BluePERSPECTIVESSTRANDPREMIERE TYPESung-hyun Yoon/South Korea/2010/116 minCast: Lee Je-hoon, Seo Jun-young, Park Jung-minSAT 18 JUNE 19:35 FILMHOUSE 2SUN 19 JUNE 19:30 FILMHOUSE 2PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONC)Winner of the New Current Award at the 2010 Pusan International Film Festival.Part whodunnit, part coming-of-age tale, this haunting drama centres on a group of three schoolboys and their complicated, sometimes explosive relationship. When one of the boys is killed in a tragic accident his friends find themselves gently interrogated by his broken-hearted father. Finding more questions than answers the father soon realises that perhaps even he should share in the guilt. A stunningly photographed, sensitive portrait of damaged youth.Bleak NightFEATURES - INTERNATIONALUK PREMIEREDOCUMENTARY - UKEUROPEAN PREMIEREEsther Anderson, Gian Godoy/UK/2011/90 minWED 22 JUNE 17:50 FILMHOUSE 1THU 23 JUNE 22:20 FILMHOUSE 2PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONC)A kaleidoscopic portrait of the making of a legend.Through intimate scenes shot on a sony video camera in 1970s Jamaica filmmaker Esther Anderson artfully constructed the union between Reggae and Rasta that launched the international career and renowned image of Bob Marley and The Wailers. Revisiting that formative time she reveals to what degree her original vision set in motion the radical change of perception and consciousness both musically and socially around the world.Bob Marley: The Making of a LegendDOCUMENTARY - UKEUROPEAN PREMIERELiz Garbus/USA/UK/Iceland/2010/92 minFRI 17 JUNE 17:40 FILMHOUSE 1MON 20 JUNE 19:55 FILMHOUSE 2PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONC)"All I want to do, ever, is just play chess." - Bobby Fischer. Liz Garbus' fascinating documentary charts the turbulent life - from a childhood of isolation and neglect to young chess prodigy, world champion and subsequent madness and disgrace - of one of chess's undisputed masters. The World Championship of 1972, Fischer vs Spassky, took on literally Cold War significance as a nation pinned its hopes on Fischer as the man to end Soviet dominance. Garbus has mined, to brilliant effect, the wealth of astounding archive footage from this the Golden Age of the game.Bobby Fischer Against the WorldThe List: you've got 29 days to live.The List is your essential Scottish entertainment guide, offering a four-weekly round-up of views, previews and reviews for anything that's worth doing in Edinburgh, Glasgow or beyond. From up-to-the-minute film interviews with Darren Aronofsky and James Franco, to our profiles of up-and-coming local bands and artists, we've got Scottish culture covered. 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