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23NIGHT MOVESUK prEMIErEEddie - The Sleepwalking CannibalBoris Rodriguez/Canada, Denmark/2011/83 minCast: Thure Lindhardt, Georgina Reilly, Dylan Smith, Alain Goulem, Stephen McHattieFRI 29 June 22:45 Filmhouse 1SAT 30 June 20:30 CineworldPRICe: £9.00 (£7.50 ConCs)A once successful danish painter accepts a teaching post at a remote art school in Canada. There he befriends the mute nephew of one of the school's crucial benefactors, and rediscovers artistic inspiration in his strange new friend's bloodthirsty nocturnal activities... Armed with the brilliant Thure lindhardt's cleverly endearing central performance, director Boris rodriguez deftly achieves a perfect balance of outrageously black humour and genuinely grisly horror, ensuring that Eddie earns its place as a hilariously disturbed cult classic.SpECIAL SCrEENINGSUK prEMIErEDr Seuss' The LoraxChris Renaud, Kyle Balda/uSA/2012/86 minVoice Cast: Danny DeVito, ed Helms, Zac efron, Taylor Swift, Betty WhiteSAT 23 June 14:00 CineworldSun 24 June 14:00 CineworldPRICe: £11.50 (£9.00 ConCs)A 3d, animated version of dr seuss's fable about the environmental threats posed by corporate greed. in a world where nature has been virtually abolished, a twelve-year-old boy goes on a quest for a real tree to give as a present to the girl he loves. his quest leads him first to the misanthropic Once-ler and then to the lorax, guardian of the colourful Truffula trees. For all ages!NEW pErSpECTIVESUK prEMIErEDress rehearsal for Utopia (Ensayo final para utopía)Andrés Duque/Spain/2012/75 minCast: Silvio Duque, Andrés DuqueTHu 28 June 20:00 Filmhouse 3FRI 29 June 19:00 Filmhouse 3PRICe: £9.00 (£7.50 ConCs)As his father lies dying in a hospital room in Venezuela, the filmmaker's thoughts travel to mozambique. images of dance and revolution, some retrieved from archival footage, some newly shot, conjure up a spectral alternate reality where human figures take part in a cascade of excited movements.DIrECTOrS' SHOWCASEUK prEMIErEDragon(Wu xia)Peter Chan/China/2011/114 minCast: Kara Hui, Wu Jiang, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Yu Kang, Xiao Ran Li, Donnie YenSAT 23 June 17:40 CineworldSun 24 June 15:25 CineworldPRICe: £9.00 (£7.50 ConCs)A supremely imaginative blending of AHistory of Violence, TV's Sherlock and Chang Cheh's 1967 classic One-Armed Swordsman, Wu Xia is a visually ravishing, compelling and (rare in the genre) thoughtful kung fu actioner, with hong Kong superstar donnie Yen taking on both acting and choreographic responsibilities. in 1917 southwestern China, an investigation into the killing of two robbers by a seemingly mild-mannered paper-maker, leads forensic detective Xu (Takeshi Kaneshiro) inexorably towards the infamous 72 demons gang.20 June - 1 Julydr seuss' The lorAXdesignprint &imaginationbagelfishdesign.co.ukfeature films, shorts & events 24EDINBURGH SCHOOLS FILM COMPETITIONNEW PERSPECTIVESUK PREMIEREEither Way(Á annan veg)Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson/Iceland/2011/84 minCast: Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson, Hilmar Guðjónsson, Þorsteinn Bachmann,Valgerður Rúnarsdóttir, Runólfur IngólfssonFRI 22 JUNE 18:30 CINEWORLDSAT 23 JUNE 13:00 CINEWORLDPRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS)Alfred and Finnbogi work together painting the dividing lines on Icelandic public roads, in a sparse and uninhabited landscape.Having only each other for company - being visited sporadically by a jovial trucker plying them with drink - the two men's personal differences are the source of equal parts laughter and frustration. Writer/director Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson has created a carefully paced comedy of opposites - between stillness and slapstick, activity and inertia and silence broken by thumping electro.SPECIAL EVENTSEdinburgh Schools Film Competition: Primary90 minSAT 23 JUNE 11:30 FILMHOUSE 2FREE TICKETED EVENTThe youngest filmmakers in our 2012 programme: budding artists from Edinburgh's primary schools show their perspective on life, in a colourful and inspiring showcase. Edinburgh Schools Film Competition: Secondary90 minSUN 24 JUNE 11:30 FILMHOUSE 2FREE TICKETED EVENTDon't some of your most intense memories date from your time at 'big school'? Here, we see things through the eyes of Edinburgh's secondary school pupils - spot the new filmmakers of the future here.SPECIAL EVENTSThe Edinburgh Film Guild Forsyth Hardy Lecture100 minSAT 30 JUNE 12:10 FILMHOUSE 2FREE TICKETED EVENTIn celebration of EIFF's 65th anniversary, the Edinburgh Film Guild inaugurates this annual series of lectures on the history of cinema in Scotland with a fully illustrated account of the beginning of EIFF in Edinburgh's First International Festival of Documentary Films-the first international film festival in Britain and first anywhere devoted entirely to documentary. The lecture will be followed by a complete screening of Humphrey Jennings' rarely seen The Cumberland Story, the first film shown at that 1947 festival.Presenter: Marc David Jacobs. The Cumberland Story print courtesy of The BFI National Archive.SPECIAL EVENTSEdinburgh Schools Film Competition All pupils in Edinburgh were invited to enter our Schools Film Competition and here are the very best from the hundreds of entries, chosen by the youth Jury. The films, from primary, secondary, nursery and special schools across the city all demonstrate enormous passion for cinema and imagination in abundance. The competition is a partnership between EIFF, Screen Education Edinburgh and City of Edinburgh Council. Check out the future filmmaking stars in these two dazzling programmes of the best short films made by Edinburgh school pupils. Edinburgh International Film Festival 2012FeATure FilmS, SHorTS & evenTSsupported by:in partnership with: |