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This programme is split into showcases as indicated below:
- (Be)longing
- An Image Is A Territory
- Bridging The Gap - Rebellion
- Film Is Memory
- From Scotland
- The Young And The Wild
- UK - Spectrum
View other Edinburgh International Film Festival Films by strand: American Dreams, Animation, Best Of British, Black Box, Documentaries, European Perspectives, Fantastic Planets: The Futuristic Art of René Laloux, Fest in the City, Focus On Poland, Galas, Night Moves, The Future Is History - Brave New World: New Directions in science-fiction cinema 1980-85, The Future Is History - Great Britain, Unlocking The Archives, World Perspectives
A Love Story and Spindrift
1000 Smiles Per Hour
(Country: UK, Germany; Year: 2017; Director: Fabian Altenried; Writer: Anne-Kathrin Heier; Stars: Julie Trappett, Alexander Wissel, E)
Film Is Memory
Drifting across the outer edges of a concrete landscape, a twilight meeting engenders a precious moment of connection for a melancholy performer, amid the coldly apathetic city limits.
Amérika: Bay Of Arrows (Amérika: Bahía de las flechas)
(Country: Dominican Republic; Year: 2016; Director: Ana Vaz)
An Image Is A Territory
Vaz interrogates the contemporary reflections of colonialism.
The Colour Of His Hair
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Sam Ashby; Stars: Sean Hart, Josh O'Connor, John Alcock, Matt Cook, Stef Dickers, Polly North)
Film Is Memory
A meditation upon queer identity and defiance, examined through a patchwork of re-appropriated archive materials.
Creeling
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Sam Firth)
Teenager Lily lives in a remote highland village and has known Dougie, a young lobster fisherman, most of her life. A change in their relationship becomes apparent when he agrees to take her out fishing for the day.
From Scotland
Fishwitch
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Adrienne Dowling; Writer: Jenna Jovi, Jenna Jovi, Adrienne Dowling, Hélène Sifre; Stars: Sam Apley, Natalia Tena), Official Site
(Be)longing
Tootega is a witch who ekes out an isolated existence on an iceberg adrift in the ocean. It's a miserable lot, and in Tootega's case, misery hates company.
Fish Story
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Charlie Lyne; Writer: Charlie Lyne; Stars: Caspar Salmon)
The Young And The Wild
Behind a fishy tale lies this search for the truth.
Hold
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Phoebe Cottam)
Bridging The Gap - Rebellion
How do you love in isolation? And live in absence? A woman and her daughter strive to answer these questions after a loved one is suddenly removed from their lives.
Inhale
(Country: uk; Year: 2017; Director: Sean Mullan)
Bridging The Gap - Rebellion
Through horses, a man feels an irrepressible duty to move in harmony with his pain.
A Love Story
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Anushka Naanayakkara)
Stopframe animation.
(Be)longing
Marrku And Me
(Country: Finland; Year: 2016; Director: Lauri Danska)
(Be)longing
The filmmaker returns to Finland to try to rebuild his relationship with his brother, who has schizophrenia.
Meltemi
(Country: UK, Greece; Year: 2016; Director: Zeta Spyraki)
(Be)longing
A story about love, romance, and quiet rebellion.
Nothing To Declare
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Will Adams; Writer: Frank Quitely; Stars: Vincent Deighan)
From Scotland
An animated horror where the end of the world could start next door.
Only My Voice
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Myriam Rey)
Bridging The Gap - Rebellion
In an ode to freedom, migrant women share their ambitions and dreams of a new life.
Plastic Man
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Yulia Kovanova)
Bridging The Gap - Rebellion
Breaking from daily reality, a man transforms into Plastic Man - armed with chemicals, ready to set landscape on fire. Is he the destroyer of Nature, or the voice of its resilience?
Real Gods Require Blood
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Moin Hussain; Writer: Tom Benn; Stars: Gillian Waugh, Lyndsay Fielding, Sharon Spink, Gary Overton, Mark Lavery, Kirsty Doyle, Anna Berentzen, Lee Gresty, Avidavit Williams, Richard Owusu, Alkali Reid, Ivy Mattingly, Kamari May)
UK - Spectrum
A babysitter looks after children who claim they are feeding a nightly visitor from hell.
Registers
(Country: Sweden; Year: 2017; Director: Tris Vonna-Michell)
Film Is Memory
Images as a transcription of a journey, with Japan seen through the lens of a malfunctioning camera.
The Sailor
(Country: Netherlands, Italy; Year: 2017; Director: Giovanni Giaretta)
An Image Is A Territory
A sailor dreams of a homeland he has never had.
The Sea Is History
(Country: UK, France; Year: 2016; Director: Louis Henderson)
An Image Is A Territory
A materialist and animist critique of the monumentalisation of European colonial history and its ripples into the present.
Spectator
(Country: Canada; Year: 2017; Director: Mike Hoolboom)
Film Is Memory
An acutely personal reflection upon the fragility of connection, engaging the camera in a reflexive attempt to capture a transient moment, and the elusive sensibility of an individual.
Spindrift
(Year: 2016; Director: Selina Wagner; Writer: Selina Wagner), Trailer
A young girl living by the shore faces choices after encountering an eagle and someone new.
From Scotland
The Stability Of The System
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Sasha Litvintsevam, Isabel Mallet)
An Image Is A Territory
An audiovisual trip takes us through the volcanic landscape of Lanzarote.
Study Movement 1, 2, 3 (Etude mouvement 1, 2, 3)
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2016; Director: Maya Corboud)
Film Is Memory
A choreographed conversation between image and movement.
Teeth
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Thomas Hogben)
Bridging The Gap - Rebellion
Every crooked lateral incisor or overzealous premolar tells a story.
Towards The Sun (Hacia El Sol)
(Country: US, UK; Year: 2016; Director: Monica Santis)
(Be)longing
Under the looming threat of deportation, a 12-year-old girl confronts her scarring past through her artwork at an immigrant youth shelter in Texas.
Water Steps (Los Pasos Del Agua)
(Country: Colombia; Year: 2016; Director: César Augusto Acevedo; Writer: César Augusto Acevedo; Stars: Norberto Isajar, Isaí Carabalí, Dilver)
An Image Is A Territory
Two humble fishermen who live in a forgotten hamlet near to the Cauca river, discovered that a dead body had been tangled in their cast net. Failing to give notice to the authorities, they decided that it would be more humane to bury him, so they start dragging the dead body towards the jungle.
We Are Here
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Ciaran Pasi)
Bridging The Gap - Rebellion
Two friends reflect on their twenty-year friendship after an accident leaves one of them with a life-changing brain injury.
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