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:

25ExIT ELENAPHILIPPINE NEW WAVEUK PREMIEREFable of the Fish(Isda)Adolfo Borinaga Alix Jr/Philippines/2011/85 minCast: Cherry Pie Picache, Bembol Roco, Anita Linda, Rosanna Roces, Angel AquinoFRI 29 JUNE 22:05 FILMHOUSE 2PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS)A heartfelt portrait of a disintegrating marriage, a sweeping view of shanty-town life in the Philippines, but Adolfo Alix Jr's film will surely be remembered as "that film about a woman who gives birth to a fish". Astonishingly, Alix treats his absurd central conceit with complete seriousness, which doesn't prevent some humour inevitably manifesting, but the prevailing tone is tragic and deeply sympathetic.LOOKING SOUTHUK PREMIEREEl CasamientoAldo Garay/Uruguay, Argentina/2011/72 minCast: Julia Brian, Ignacio González SUN 24 JUNE 19:30 CINEWORLDSAT 30 JUNE 18:45 CINEWORLD PRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS)An intimate documentary portrait of an exceptional couple who live in a suburb of Montevideo: Julia, a 65-year-old transsexual whose new gender identity has finally been recognised (after twelve years) by the Uruguayan state, and Ignacio, her lover, a former construction worker with a troubled past. Inseparable for 20 years, the couple are now preparing for marriage. Aldo Garay's camera follows Julia and Ignacio's joys and worries, patiently revealing the sources of the strength of their relationship.NEW PERSPECTIVESWORLD PREMIEREExit ElenaNathan Silver/USA/2012/72 minCast: Kia Davis, Cindy Silver, Jim Chiros, Gert O'Connell, Daisy, Nathan SilverSUN 24 JUNE 19:20 CINEWORLDMON 25 JUNE 18:20 CINEWORLDPRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS)A miniature gem, this no-budget, docu-style drama creates an indefinable tension around its mysterious heroine, a newly-qualified live-in nurse whose relations with the family she's staying with seem to drift beyond the merely professional. The illusion of reality is perfect, thanks to utterly real performances captured by the film's rough-and-ready camera style. And the mysterious sense of anxiety that permeates the proceedings is impossible to pin down and all the more effective for it. NEW PERSPECTIVESINTERNATIONAL PREMIEREEvelynIsabel de Ocampo/Spain/2012/96 minCast: Cindy Diaz, Adolfo FernándezTHU 21 JUNE 18:00 FILMHOUSE 2SAT 30 JUNE 20:15 CINEWORLDPRICE: £9.00 (£7.50 CONCS)A harrowing tale of human trafficking, this film engages not by a litany of misery but by presenting a naïve, incredibly resourceful and determined heroine, struggling to escape her nightmarish trap. At times, the pervasive atmosphere of corruption around her approaches the dark worlds of David Lynch, but without ever losing its connection to contemporary reality. A tough watch but an unforgettable one.20 June - 1 JulyCreative Scotland is a proud supporter of the Edinburgh International Film FestivalFeATure FilmS, SHorTS & evenTS