Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2017
20 films · 16 reviews
The director makes judicious use of old family photos and voice-over along with some strong nature photography that anchors the documentary in terms of place.
(Country: Colombia; Year: 2017; Director: Clare Weiskopf, Nicolas van Hemelryck; Writer: Nicolas van Hemelryck, Gustavo Vasco, Clare Weiskopf)
UK premiere
(Country: Spain; Year: 2017; Director: Americano; Writer: Fon Cortizo) , Trailer
International premiere
An accomplished portrait that presents something much more human than we're used to in this context.
(Country: US, UK, France; Year: 2016; Director: Mark Kidel; Writer: Mark Kidel, Nick Ware; Stars: Jonathan Pryce, Judy Balaban, David Thomson, Barbara Jaynes, Mark Glancy)
UK premiere
His wife proves much more interesting than him.
(Country: Germany; Year: 2016; Director: Eli Roland Sachs; Writer: Eli Roland Sachs)
UK premiere
That aerial sequence is as thrilling as anything in Top Gun.
(Country: Italy, France; Year: 2016; Director: Yuri Ancarani)
UK premiere
(Country: Portuguese, Spanish, French, English/Italian/Greek/Russian; Year: 2016; Director: Rita Azevedo Gomes)
UK premiere
The director talks about a "sense of play" in the press notes but are the audience really playing if they don't know the rules ahead of time?
(Country: UK, Germany, Spain; Year: 2017; Director: Chico Pereira; Writer: Gabriel Molera, Chico Pereira, Manuel Pereira; Stars: Paca Molera Pereira, Mamen Gómez Heredia, Manuel Molera Aparicio)
UK premiere
López knows how to look and how to encourage us to see the parallels between these situations.
(Country: Spain; Year: 2016; Director: Guillermo García López; Writer: Guillermo García López)
UK premiere
The documentary's greatest strength lies in the way Reynolds allows the scientific to mix with the philosophical and the deeply emotional.
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2017; Director: Emer Reynolds; Writer: Emer Reynolds)
UK premiere
The film stays true to its title by never letting the music play second fiddle.
(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Tommie Dell Smith; Stars: Alasdair Fraser)
International premiere
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2016; Director: Frankie Fenton)
UK premiere
Quietly builds a testimony to the stoicism all of the 250,000 civilians who, at that time, remained trapped in the city.
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2017; Director: Feras Fayyad, Steen Johannessen (co-director))
UK premiere
Riedelsheimer also has an artist's eye and approach, so this is less a recording of Goldsworthy than a dialogue between his work and that of the filmmaker.
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer; Stars: Andy Goldsworthy)
European premiere
Falls into the unfortunate category of documentaries that say more about the person making it than the intended subject.
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Michael Rubenstone; Writer: Michael Rubenstone; Stars: Rusty Allen, Frank Arellano, Hamp 'Bubba' Banks, Dick Cavett, Clive Davis, Gordon DeWitty, Greg Errico, David Froelich, George Johnson, Jeff Kaliss, David Kapralik, Michael Lang, Jerry Martini, Alec Palao, Stephen Paley)
International premiere
Though it finds humour, and may even be poking fun on occasion, it never feels disrespectful.
(Country: New Zealand; Year: 2017; Director: Slavko Martinov; Stars: Doug Bain, Sarah Bunton, Bob Dawber, Brian Glassey, Brett Hawker, Mark Lilley, Rhys Lilley, Clint O'Brien, Ian Selby, Marina Steinke)
European premiere
Densely packed with information, this is a film that continually finds new things to say and new ways to say them.
(Year: 2017; Director: Catherine Bainbridge)
UK premiere
A charming documentary about a still ongoing chapter in not-quite-popular music.
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Grant McPhee; Writer: Grant McPhee, Angela Slaven; Stars: Thurston Moore, Kim Deal, Edwyn Collins, Jim Reid, Bobby Gillespie, Alan McGee, Duglas T. Stewart, Stephen McRobbie, Rose McDowall, Gerard Love, Sean Dickson, Eugene Kelly, Martin Hayward, Jowe Head, David Keegan)
World premiere
Miyake takes a thorough approach to her subject, showing both the fan-side and the opinion of those who make money from the industry, all the while probing at the psychological drivers fuelling the craze.
(Country: UK, Japan, Canada; Year: 2017; Director: Kyoko Miyake; Writer: Kyoko Miyake)
UK premiere
There's an immediacy to the narration and a sorrow stitched into the filmmaking.
(Country: Portugal, Russia; Year: 2016; Director: Sérgio Tréfaut; Writer: Sérgio Tréfaut; Stars: Isabel Ruth, Kiril Kashlikov)
UK premiere
(Country: Spain; Year: 2017; Director: Carmen Bellas; Writer: Rafa Alberola, María Antón Cabot, Carmen Bellas)
International premiere. Screening with Americano Fon Cortizo
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