Edinburgh International Film Festival 2012

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The Imposter The Imposter
The Imposter and Flying Blind
Berberian Sound Studio (Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Peter Strickland; Writer: Peter Strickland; Stars: Toby Jones, Cosimo Fusco, Antonio Mancino, Fatma Mohamed, Salvatore LI Causi, Chiara D'Anna, Tonia Sotiropoulou, Eugenia Caruso, Susanna Cappellaro, Guido Adorni, Lara Parmiani, Jozef Cseres, Pal Toth, Katalin Ladik, Jean-Michael van Schouwburg)
In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film where his nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche.
Day Of The Flowers (Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: John Roberts; Writer: Eirene Houston; Stars: Eva Birthistle, Charity Wakefield, Carlos Acosta, Christopher Simpson, Bryan Dick)
Two sisters take their late father's ashes to Cuba, encountering comic complications and romance on the way.
Flying Blind (Zaslepiona) (Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Katarzyna Klimkiewicz; Writer: Caroline Harrington, Bruce McLeod, Naomi Wallace; Stars: Helen McCrory, Kenneth Cranham, Lorcan Cranitch, Tristan Gemmill, Razane Jammal, Tim Wallers, Cameron Stewart, Glyn Grimstead, Sam Ellis, Najib Oudghiri, Sherif Eltayeb, Jonathan Pembroke, Philippa Howard, James Bonser, Scott Stevenson)
A stylish mix of erotic love story and political thriller, a brilliant aerospace engineer who is drawn into a passionate affair with a younger male student - but can she trust him?
Future My Love (Country: UK, Sweden; Year: 2012; Director: Maja Borg)
A poetic ‘experimental documentary’ which explores, in the light of global economic collapse, alternatives to monetary capitalism and, in particular, the work of sprightly 93-year-old futurist and social engineer, Jacque Fresco.
The Imposter (Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Bart Layton; Stars: Anthony Zanlungo, Adam O'Brian)
In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappears from his home in San Antonio, Texas, but three and a half years later he is found alive thousands of miles away in Spain with a shocking story of kidnap and torture... but all is not what it seems in this tale that is truly stranger than fiction.
Day Of The Flowers Day Of The Flowers
Day Of The Flowers and Shadow Dancer
Life Just Is (Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Alex Barrett; Writer: Alex Barrett; Stars: Will de Meo, Jack Gordon, Nathaniel Martello-White, Fiona Ryan, Jayne Wisener, Paul Nicholls)
Love, death and the meaning of life figure among the preoccupations of a group of uni graduates in London.
One Mile Away (Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Penny Woolcock)
Documentary on gang violence, its victims and its perpetrators.
Pusher (Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Luis Prieto; Writer: Matthew Read; Stars: Richard Coyle, Bronson Webb, Agyness Deyn, Mem Ferda, Zlatko Buric, Paul Kaye, Bill Thomas, Neil Maskell, Daisy Lewis, Ray Callaghan, Badria Timimi, Adam Foster, Richard Shanks, Shend, Joanna Hole)
A London drugs dealer finds himself on the wrong side of a ruthless Mr Big. Remake of the 1996 feature.
Small Creatures (Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Martin Wallace)
A taught drama about a group of friends trapped between self-preservation and loyalty to each other.
Shadow Dancer (Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: James Marsh; Writer: Tom Bradby; Stars: Clive Owen, Gillian Anderson, Aidan Gillen, Andrea Riseborough, Domhnall Gleeson, Martin McCann, Stuart Graham, Michael McElhatton, Mark Huberman, Brid Brennan, Alan O'Neill, David Ryan, Morgan Watkins, David Kendellen, Daniel Tatarsky)
A woman caught up in the Troubles is forced to become a informant for MI5.
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