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14 Kilometres
The journey between North Africa and Spain, made by three and desperate young Africans.
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Alone In Four Walls
Inside a juvenile Russian reform school.
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Angels In The Dust
Documentary about a wealthy, privileged family who build a community for children whose lives have been devastated by HIV/AIDS.
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The Appeared
Siblings are terrified by tortured ghosts and a brain dead father's legacy in Argentina.
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The Art Star And The Sudanese Twins
An artist's obssessive attempt to adopt twins in Darfur.
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Bananaz
Backstage look at the brains behind Gorillaz.
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The Bay Of Angels
Gambling addiction and romance mix in Demy's second feature.
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Before The Rains
A sweeping period romance set in Colonial India.
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Better Things
Award-winning short filmmaker makes his feature debut with a story of fractured relationships.
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Bigga Than Ben: A Russians’ Guide To Ripping Off London
Two sneaky young Russians dodge the military draft and head for London, all the while figuring out the best means for screwing their respective systems.
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The Black Balloon
An insightful family drama, about a young man who must deal with more than his fair share of troubles, like his autistic brother. Also, young love and being a new boy in school.
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Black Box Shorts
Experimental short film showcase.
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Blood Car
Troma-esque weirdness as a vegan invents a vehicle more reminiscent of Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors. Minus the crap Broadway songs, of course.
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The Bride Wore Black
New Wave brat scholar Tarantino swears blind this was not the inspiration for Kill Bill? You decide.
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Cafe De Los Maestros
A celebratory film about the maestros of tango.
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Captain Abu Raed
Uplifting tale about an airport janitor who spins stories for street kids after being mistaken by them for a pilot.
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A Complete History Of My Sexual Failures
Does what it says on the tin - a personal documentary about a subject for which most blokes will have sympathy. Plus read our exclusive interview with director Chris Waitt
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The Cool World
Stark portrait of 1960s Harlem.
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Crack Willow
Social reality meets dangerous psychosis - fun for all the family.
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Dance In The Sun
A dancer explores the forces of nature.
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Dangerous Liaisons
Love and adultery... Who could resist!?
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Death Defying Acts
Harry Houdini falls for a gypsy 'psychic' in an Edinburgh-set period romance.
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Diary Of A Chambermaid
Dark comedy exposing the 1930s in thrall to fascism.
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Donkey Punch
Seven go mad on a yacht. Plus read our interview with the director and stars of the film. The film is out to own on November 10.
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Dummy
A coming of age drama about two young brothers whose mother dies suddenly, leaving them to fend for themselves.
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Eat, For This Is My Body
Avant garde 'documentary' loosely exploring the colonialist history of Haiti.
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Eden
The disintegration of a marriage.
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The Edge Of Love
Wartime drama about two women who form an unlikely friendship, united by their feelings for poet Dylan Thomas.
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Elite Squad
A special squad officer in the violent Brazilian slums tries to find a replacement. Read our exclusive interview with José Padilha.
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Encounters At The End Of The World
The infamous director Werner Herzog visits the Antarctic, determined not to make a movie about penguins.
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Enlightened Blood
A rupture in time and space unites six characters in huge life-altering ways.
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Faintheart
A battle re-enactor struggles to recover the affections of his wife.
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Fairytale Of Kathmandu
Following an admired writer to his spiritual home in Nepal leads to a difficult discovery.
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The Fall
Tarsem Singh's visually opulent fantasy epic borrowing the narrative device of The Princess Bride to widen and scorch the eyes.
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Fear(s) Of The Dark
Ten animations from the dark side.
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Le Feu Follet
A suicidal man struggling to avoid sliding back into alcoholism visits former friends and lovers to say goodbye.
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A Film With Me In It
Unemployed actors come face to face with sudden death.
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Fujian Blue
Dual stories analyse societal breakdown in modern China.
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God Man Dog
Multi-strand emotional drama.
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Good Dick
Offbeat romance between a damaged young woman and exclusive interview with Marianna Palka and Jason Ritter.
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Hamdi And Maria
The story of two ordinary people whose lives were irrevocably transformed by the Israeli bombardment of Gaza.
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Helen
A missing girl's police reconstruction prompts her proxy to fill in the psychological gaps in herself.
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International Shorts: Childproof
A look at life from youngsters' perspectives.
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In The City Of Sylvia
A boy dreams of finding a lost love.
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Jesus Christ Saviour
Klaus Kinski (so immortally captured in Werner Herzog's My Best Fiend) gives a showstopping performance with a defiant monologue.
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The Juche Idea
Deconstruction of the North Korean official state ideology.
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Jules Et Jim
A French love triangle, spanning the years. Out on reissue in May.
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The King Of Ping Pong
Coming-of-age drama sees trouble brew between two siblings.
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The Kreutzer Sonata
A husband's jealousy threatens to drive him mad.
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Left Bank
Atmospheric horror film in the vein of Rosemary's Baby, with a descent into obsession and madness with the previous occupants of her boyfriend's flat.
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Lemon Tree
Allegorical story about a lemon tree under threat when an Israeli government minister moves in next door.
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Let The Right One In
A touching story of first romance... with a side-serving of horror.
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Life Track
A disabled man allows a mute girl into his private space.
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Lift To The Scaffold
Moreau's first lead role about an unfaithful wife who finds nothing but trouble after a fling with her lover.
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Love And Other Crimes
"What happens if you fall in love on the very day you intend to leave forever?"
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The Lovers
Controversial drama about a married mum who walks out on her husband.
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Mademoiselle
A repressed schoolteacher vents her frustration on the local community.
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Man On Wire
Documentary about tightrope walker Phillippe Petit's attempt to cross between the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
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Married Life
How do you avoid humiliating you wife with a divorce? Kill her.
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Mechanical Love
Artificial Intelligence and the Uncanny Valley, androids that we can love bookend the story.
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Milky Way Liberation Front
Black comedy adventure about a screenwriter whose personal and professional world is falling apart.
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Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day
An actress dresses up a former governess so she can experience a glamorous life as they help one another with romantic problems.
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Máncora
Grief and desire on a road trip.
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Mum And Dad
Brit horror, sees an airport worker face the perils of a close-knit family. In cinemas and on DVD this Boxing Day. Plus read our exclusive interview with Perry Benson.
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Obscene
Documentary about Barney Rosset, who challenged obscenity laws most famously in the case of Lady Chatterley's Lover.
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Of Time And The City
A portrait of 20th Century Liverpool.
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The Order Of Myths
Using dual Mardi Gras parades, The Order of Myths delves into cultural exploration and integration in a community still stuck in tradition.
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Pageant
An in-depth look at drag queens in preparation for the Miss Gay America.
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Paradise
The story of wallpaper and marriage in a house on a lake in Sweden.
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Paris
A medical diagnosis leaves a young dancer and his sister in care(e)r gridlock.
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Patti Smith: Dream Of Life
Intimate portrait of the icon.
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Portrait Of Jason
Documentary about a gay black prostitute.
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Querelle
A young man explores his sexuality in a decadent French brothel.
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Red
A man sets out to find justice after his dog falls victim to a random act of violence.
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Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel With The World
Documentary about the life of the poet.
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The Rocker
The original drummer of an Eighties hair metal band gets a second chance at stardom when his nephew’s group makes it big.
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Rome Burns - A Portrait of Shirley Clarke
Up close documentary about the director Shirley Clarke.
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Scottish Short Documentary Award Screening
Collection of Scottish short documentaries.
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Scottish Short Film Showcase
Four Scottish shorts, shown at the EIFF.
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Shirley Clarke: Early Works 1
Collection of early short films by the acclaimed director.
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Shiver
A teenager suffering from a debilitating illness moves to a small town only to encounter more bullies - plus something worse waiting in the woods.
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Sleep Dealer
Node Runner - if they catch you you're through!
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Rural Wales faces change from all sides as the population ages.
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Slingshot
Close-up and personal view of the slums using hidden cameras and brilliant editing.
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Somers Town
A boy heads to London to seek his fortune and finds friendship.
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Song Of Sparrows
This Iranian morality tale deals with an ostrich farmer who loses his job and is forced to travel to and from the city.
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Son Of A Lion
Father and son's ideologies clash in their Pashun tribe.
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Spike
Low budget monster horror with romantic undertones.
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Standard Operating Procedure
Errol Morris' documentary on the infamous photographs at Abu Ghraib prison.
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Stone Of Destiny
If Ealing were still alive... they'd probably grab this script and run with it!
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Summer
Now a carer for his dying friend, a former prisoner laments the way that he has frittered away his life.
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Summer Hours
Drama about a priceless art collection and a family's decision about how best to use it, for both memory and intrinsic worth.
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A Thousand Years Of Good Prayers
Cultural and generational gaps explored by aging Chinese man visiting his daughter.
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Three Miles North Of Molkom
Spiritual fulfilment meets simple-minded satisfaction in a clash of ideologies.
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Timecrimes
When a man accidentally travels back in time, he finds restoring the status quo is easier said than done. Plus read our exclusive interview with director Nacho Vigalondo.
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Time To Leave
The last great taboo - a dissection of a young man coming to terms with death with the help of his grandmother.
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Tiramisu
Famous Dutch actress faces bankruptcy by hiring an accountant and giving another party.
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To See if I’m Smiling
Candid revelations about things seen and done in the Israeli military.
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Trail Of The Screaming Forehead
50s B-movies take a turn for a spoofing, as alien soul-sucking foreheads flood the world.
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Transsiberian
Mystery on the Tran Siberian Express.
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The Trial
A man wakes up to discover the police want to talk to him, but he has no idea what he's supposed to have done.
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The Upsetter: The Life Of Lee Scratch Perry
Documentary focussing on the Jamaican music producer.
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Very Young Girls
An examination of young girls as they are duped, tricked and coerced into selling themselves for sex in a surprising, and people-focussed film.
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The Visitor
An ageing, lonely man rediscovers his love of life when he visits New York and shares his home with two strangers.
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Viva Maria!
Malle's comic western starring Bardot and Moreau as strip-tease pioneers.
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Vogelfrei
An experimental directorial quartet taking on the four ages of a single character's life.
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The Wackness
A teen drug dealer swaps spliffs for psychiatry in the long, hot New York summer of 1994.
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WALL·E
A robot - Wall·E, left alone on Earth begins to explore the cosmos with a companion, the sleek and sultry EVE.
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War Child
A rising hip-hop star uses his music to raise awareness about his homeland’s ongoing humanitarian crisis.
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Warsaw Dark
A night club dancer becomes embroiled in a political assassination.
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The Wave
A high school teacher demonstrates with his class the true meaning of autocracy.
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Web Site Story
Screening with Blood Car at EIFF 2008, this is a musical about deceptive internet seduction.
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With A Girl Of Black Soil
South Korean family drama about an economically impoverished family and their difficulties with one another.
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Movies out this week include :
A Dangerous Method
Bombay Beach
Carnage
Casablanca
Chronicle
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Man On A Ledge
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Rampart
Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace
The Muppets
Young Adult
Other Films Out Now
Latest reviews:
If Not Us, Who?
Shadow Dancer
How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire
Sergeant
Three Walls
Fini
Repressed
Possessed
Shirin
Decapoda Shock
Birth Of A Nation
Kin
We, the Masses
Twiggy
Midnight In Paris
The Cat 'O Nine Tails
Girl Model
Beauty
Position Among The Stars
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