Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2015
Doc of the Day screenings will be held in conjunction with events.
25 films · 18 reviews
If this weren’t a documentary, these five people would surely find themselves nestled in the pages of some postmodern epic.
(Country: Switzerland, Germany, US; Year: 2015; Director: Nicolas Steiner; Writer: Nicolas Steiner)
UK premiere.
An intensely sad and affecting look at a hugely talented young woman, ill equipped for the all-consuming fame which her soulful voice would bring her.
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Asif Kapadia)
UK premiere.
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Vicky Matthews; Stars: Brian Cox, Corey Johnson)
World premiere.
As compelling as it is humourous.
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: David Street; Stars: Graeme Obree)
World premiere.
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Grant McPhee; Writer: Grant McPhee, Innes Reekie, Erik Sandberg; Stars: Norman Blake, Bobby Bluebell, Jo Callis, Allan Campbell, Edwyn Collins, Joe Foster, Roddy Frame, Douglas Hart, Davy Henderson, Robert King, Bob Last, Gerard Love, Ken McCluskey, Alan McGee, Malcolm Ross)
World Premiere. Doc of the Day.
The essence of documentary, well demonstrated, find an interesting subject and tell the story well. This is it, this is the stuff.
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Ilinca Calugareanu; Writer: Ilinca Calugareanu) , Official site
European premiere. Doc of the Day.
Emotional weight grounds the film and gives it a resonance beyond the confines of this single family home.
(Country: UK, Ethiopia; Year: 2015; Director: Karen Guthrie; Writer: Karen Guthrie, Karen Guthrie; Stars: Karen Guthrie, Ian Guthrie, Ann Guthrie) , Official site
European premiere.
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Douglas Tirola; Writer: Mark Monroe, Mark Monroe, Douglas Tirola, Douglas Tirola; Stars: Judd Apatow, Kevin Bacon, John Belushi, Richard Belzer, Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, John Goodman, Al Jean, John Landis, Tim Matheson, Bill Murray, P.J. O'Rourke, Gilda Radner, Ivan Reitman, Matty Simmons)
UK premiere.
A clear passion project that could nonetheless do with some judicious editing to tighten its focus.
(Country: UK, US, France; Year: 2015; Director: David Wilkinson; Writer: Irfan Shah, Irfan Shah, David Wilkinson, David Wilkinson; Stars: Sarah Lancashire, Tom Courtenay, Joe Eszterhas, Ronald Harwood, Stephane Cornicard, David Wilkinson, Tony Pierce-Roberts, Andreea Paduraru, Gavin Poolman, Bernard Atha, Mark Rance, Tony Earnshaw, Katharine Round, Adrian Wootton, Ben Eagle)
World premiere.
This is not the most revealing documentary ever, and it deals with a subject that is ultimately pure pop-culture, but it is impossible to feel anything other than inspired by the pluckiness of the this British underdog.
(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Paul Goodwin; Stars: Dan Abnett, Geoff Barrow, Emma Beeby, Karen Berger, Lauren Beukes, David Bishop, Brian Bolland, Will Brooker, D'Israeli, Will Dennis, Andy Diggle, Ian Edginton, Gary Erskine, Carlos Ezquerra, Henry Flint)
Scottish premiere. Doc of the Day.
(Country: UK, Germany, Switzerland; Year: 2015; Director: Stefan Schwietert; Writer: Stefan Schwietert)
UK premiere.
The Iron Ministry moves beyond the observational to the experiential, which is to say that sound and image come together to put us among the passengers rather than simply watching them from a distance.
(Country: China, US; Year: 2014; Director: J P Sniadecki)
UK premiere.
A tighter focus on the misery that drives people may have made this a more indispensable glance at the industry, but for anyone with a love of comedy, it’s sure to harbour a few gems.
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Kevin Pollak; Writer: Kevin Pollak, Kevin Pollak, John Vorhaus, John Vorhaus; Stars: Sam Rockwell, Amy Schumer, Matthew Perry, Freddie Prinze Jr., Jon Favreau, Stephen Merchant, Kevin Smith, Jimmy Fallon, Bobby Cannavale, Janeane Garofalo, Joe Lo Truglio, Bob Saget, Judd Apatow, Christopher Guest, Whoopi Goldberg)
European premiere.
(Country: United Arab Emirates; Year: 2014; Director: Nujoom Alghanem; Writer: Fatima Al Hamili)
UK premiere.
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2014; Director: Mikala Krogh; Writer: Mikala Krogh; Stars: Poul Madsen)
UK premiere.
The film is a bit of a hotchpotch... but it paints a warm portrait.
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Artur Guza)
World premiere.
There is a great story here and Russell tells it in detail from multiple perspectives and with numerous forms of documentation.
(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Tiller Russell; Stars: Michael Dowd, Ken Eurell, Walter Yurkiw, Chuckie, Dori Eurell)
European premiere.
A fascinating but deeply disturbing film.
(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Amy Berg; Writer: Amy Berg)
European premiere. Doc of the Day.
The discussions of the material realities of film-making in Turkey even into the 1970s are fascinating.
(Country: Germany, Turkey; Year: 2014; Director: Cem Kaya; Writer: Cem Kaya)
UK premiere.
The sunshine of southern Spain, the often deep colours of sherry and the dusty environs of cool cellars with light shafting through them all lend atmosphere to José Luis López-Linares' documentary
(Country: Spain; Year: 2015; Director: José Luis López-Linares)
UK premiere. Doc of the Day.
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Ross Sutherland; Writer: Ross Sutherland)
European premiere. Doc of the Day.
What is most astonishing about Sunshine Superman is how genuinely happy everybody looks.
(Country: US, Norway; Year: 2014; Director: Marah Strauch; Writer: Eric Bruggemann, Marah Strauch; Stars: Marah Strauch, Cecilie Bull, John Long, Eric Bruggemann, Ellen Houlihan, Jake Suffian, Jared Simmons, Eric Mofford, Carl Boenish, Jean Boenish, Lars Løge, Allison McCulloch, Kevin McGuinness, Christian Bruno, Selia Hansen)
International premiere.
The inventiveness sweetens up his message so that it is likely to hold the interest of teenagers as well as adults, giving it the potential to be a great educational tool.
(Country: Australia; Year: 2014; Director: Damon Gameau; Writer: Damon Gameau; Stars: Damon Gameau, Richard Davies, Skylar Delphinus, Christina Evans, Stephen Fry, Lisa Gloufchis, Benjamin Hancock, Zelia Kitoko, Isabel Lucas, Jessica Marais, Brenton Thwaites, Zoe Tuckwell-Smith)
UK premiere. Doc of the Day.
Almost everywhere in this documentary less would be more.
(Country: US, Bermuda, Congo, Rwanda, Canada; Year: 2015; Director: Michael Ramsdell; Writer: Michael Ramsdell; Stars: Robin Wright)
World premiere. Doc of the Day.
There is a sense of the freshness of freedom but this a film that mainly deals in big emotions as though worried about getting down to specifics.
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Crystal Moselle; Stars: Bhagavan Angulo, Govinda Angulo, Jagadisa Angulo, Narayana Angulo, Krsna Angulo, Mukunda Angulo)
European premiere. Doc of the Day.
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