Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015

New work from established filmmakers.

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Paradise In Service Paradise In Service
Paradise In Service and 100 Yen Love
100 Yen Love (Hyakuen no koi) (Country: Japan; Year: 2014; Director: Masaharu Take; Writer: Shin Adachi; Stars: Sakura Andô, Hirofumi Arai, Miyoko Inagawa, Yôzaburô Itô, Osamu Matsushige, Shinichirô Matsuura, Toshie Negishi, Yûki Okita, Tadashi Sakata, Saori, Shôhei Uno, Kaito Yoshimura)
A young woman morphs from slacker to boxer.
UK premiere
13 Minutes (Elser) (Country: Germany; Year: 2015; Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel; Writer: Léonie-Claire Breinersdorfer, Fred Breinersdorfer; Stars: Christian Friedel, Katharina Schüttler, Burghart Klaußner, Johann von Bülow, Felix Eitner, David Zimmerschied, Rüdiger Klink, Simon Licht, Cornelia Köndgen, Martin Maria Abram, Michael Kranz, Gerti Drassl, Lissy Pernthaler, Valentina Repetto, Anna Unterberger)
The story of the man who almost killed Hitler.
UK premiere
Cut Snake (Country: Australia; Year: 2014; Director: Tony Ayres; Writer: Blake Ayshford; Stars: Sullivan Stapleton, Jessica De Gouw, Alex Russell, Megan Holloway, Robert Morgan, Paul Moder, Jim Russell, Richard Anastasios, Syd Brisbane, Luke Elliot, Brett Swain, Kerry Walker, Christopher Bunworth, Jack Daye, Graham Jahne)
A pair of ex-cons are set on a collision course.
UK premiere
Every Secret Thing (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Amy Berg; Writer: Nicole Holofcener, based on the book by Laura Lippman; Stars: Elizabeth Banks, Dakota Fanning, Diane Lane, Nate Parker, Colin Donnell, Bill Sage, Renee Goldsberry, Clare Foley, Julito McCullum, Tonye Patano, Lily Pilblad, Sarah Sokolovic, Jack Gore, Danielle Macdonald, Jason Pendergraft)
Two young women with a dark past come under suspicion when a child goes missing.
UK premiere
Last Days In The Desert (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Rodrigo García; Writer: Rodrigo García; Stars: Ewan McGregor, Ciarán Hinds, Tye Sheridan, Ayelet Zurer, Susan Gray)
An imagined chapter at the end of Jesus's fasting in the desert.
UK premiere
Every Secret Thing Every Secret Thing
Every Secret Thing and Cut Snake
La La La At Rock Bottom (Misono Universe, Misono Yunibasu) (Country: Japan; Year: 2015; Director: Nobuhiro Yamashita; Writer: Tomoe Kanno; Stars: Subaru Shibutani, Sarina Suzuki, Katsumi Kawahara, Akainu, Shinji Imaoka, Motako Ishii, Suon Kan, Izumi Matsuoka, Masaki Matsuura, Takumi Matsuzawa, Shinsuke Michishita, Kirara Nakabayashi, Haruki Nakagawa, Fuminori Nakamura, Miho Nikaido)
A young girl with a band tries to help an amnesiac petty criminal.
UK premiere
Learning To Drive (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Isabel Coixet; Writer: Sarah Kernochan; Stars: Ben Kingsley, Grace Gummer, Patricia Clarkson, Jake Weber, John Hodgman, Sarita Choudhury, Samantha Bee, Matt Salinger, Daniela Lavender, Michael Mantell, Avi Nash, Jessie Nagpal, Jonathan C. Kaplan, Bryan Burton, Randy Graff)
Jolted by her husband leaving her, a writer decides to learn to drive.
UK premiere
Manglehorn (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: David Gordon Green; Writer: Paul Logan; Stars: Al Pacino, Holly Hunter, Chris Messina, Harmony Korine, Natalie Wilemon, June Griffin Garcia, Lara Shah, Ted Ferguson, Edrick Browne, Rebecca Franchione, Kristin Miller White, Aj Wilson McPhaul, Sierra Scott, Jenee' Amore', Louis Moncivias)
Tale of a locksmith who can't come to terms with losing the love of his life.
UK premiere
Paradise In Service (Jun zhong le yuan) (Country: China, Taiwan; Year: 2014; Director: Doze Niu; Writer: Doze Niu, Li-ting Tseng; Stars: Ethan Juan, Jianbin Chen, Regina Wan, Ivy Yi-Han Chen, Bo-Chieh Wang, Davy Chan, Daniel Chen, Yu-Hsing Fan, Honduras, Chien-Wei Huang, Mei-Hsiu Lin, Kai Chi Liu, Ke-Li Miao, Ming-Shuai Shih)
War drama set against the backdrop of a military brothel.
UK premiere
Rio, I Love You (Rio, Eu Te Amo) (Country: Brazil, US; Year: 2014; Director: Vicente Amorim, Guillermo Arriaga, Stephan Elliott, Sang-soo Im, Nadine Labaki, Fernando Meirelles, José Padilha, Carlos Saldanha, Paolo Sorrentino, John Turturro, Andrucha Waddington, César Charlone; Writer: Andrucha Waddington, Mauricio Zacharias, Paolo Sorrentino, Antonio Prata, Chico Mattoso, Stephan Elliott, John Turturro, Guillermo Arriaga, Sang-soo Im, Elena Soarez, Otavio Leonidio, Nadine Labaki, Rodney El Haddad, Khaled Mouzannar, Fellipe Barbosa; Stars: Basil Hoffman, Emily Mortimer, Rodrigo Santoro, Bruna Linzmeyer, Nadine Labaki, Harvey Keitel, Cláudia Abreu, Fernanda Montenegro, Eduardo Sterblitch, Hugo Carvana, Michel Melamed, Vincent Cassel, Marcio Garcia, Marcelo Serrado, Ryan Kwanten)
A series of short films set in the Brazilian metropolis.
UK premiere
Manglehorn Manglehorn
Manglehorn and Last Days In The Desert
She's Funny That Way (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Peter Bogdanovich; Writer: Peter Bogdanovich, Louise Stratten; Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Imogen Poots, Quentin Tarantino, Kathryn Hahn, Tatum O'Neal, Lucy Punch, Owen Wilson, Debi Mazar, Jennifer Esposito, Will Forte, Rhys Ifans, Cybill Shepherd, Colleen Camp, Joanna Lumley, Illeana Douglas)
A married director falls for a prostitute-turned-actress.
UK premiere
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