Dunoon Film Festival 2013
Cutting Loose Cutting Loose
Cutting Loose and The Moo Man
Alasdair Gray - A Life In Progress (Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Kevin Cameron; Stars: Alasdair Gray, Liz Lochhead, Edwin Morgan)
A portrait of the artist and writer at work.
Cutting Loose (Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Finlay Pretsell, Adrian McDowall)
Prisoners move toward rehabilitation and struggle with their hopes and dreams in the run up to the annual Scottish Prison Service hairdressing competition.
Drifters (Country: UK; Year: 1929; Director: John Grierson)
Special screening of the classic documentary about North Sea fisherman, showing as a celebration of the Edinburgh Film Guild, which turns 80 this year.
I Am Tom Moody (Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Ainslie Henderson; Writer: Ainslie Henderson; Stars: Mackenzie Crook, Jude Crook)
A peek inside the mind of a singer with musician's block.
Local Hero (Country: UK; Year: 1983; Director: Bill Forsyth; Writer: Bill Forsyth; Stars: Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton Mackay, Denis Lawson, Norman Chancer, Peter Capaldi, Rikki Fulton, Alex Norton, Jenny Seagrove, Jennifer Black)
An American company attempts to buy up a Scottish village for pennies so it can site an oil refinery there, but the locals have other ideas.
Rob Roy Rob Roy
Rob Roy and The Making Of Longbird
The Lost Boys (Country: US; Year: 1987; Director: Joel Schumacher; Writer: Janice Fischer, James Jeremias; Stars: Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest, Kiefer Sutherland, Edward Herrmann, Jami Gertz, Corey Feldman, Jamison Newlander, Brooke McCarter, Billy Wirth)
Cult brat pack movie about a boy trying to save his big brother from becoming a vampire.
Long Distance Information (Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Douglas Hart; Writer: Douglas Hart; Stars: Peter Mullan, Alan Tripney, Caroline Paterson)
A phone call reveals the difficulties of estrangement within a family.
The Maggie (High And Dry, The Maggie at The Tall Ship) (Country: UK; Year: 1954; Director: Alexander Mackendrick; Writer: Alexander Mackendrick, William Rose; Stars: Paul Douglas, Alex Mackenzie, James Copeland, Abe Barker, Tommy Kearins)
An American businessman in Scotland is conned into shipping valuable cargo to an island using a coal powered boat.
Margaret Tait, Film Poet (Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Marissa Keating, Michael Thomas Jones)
A documentary looking back at the life and work of the acclaimed Orcadian creative artist.
The Making Of Longbird (Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Will Anderson; Writer: Ainslie Henderson, Will Anderson; Stars: Will Anderson, Tobias Feltus, Vitalij Sicinava)
An animator struggles with the character he is creating.
Paris-Manhattan Paris-Manhattan
Paris-Manhattan and Local Hero
The Moo Man (Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Andy Heathcote, Heike Bachelier; Stars: Stephen Hook)
The year in a life of a dairy stockman and his herd.
Night Moves (Country: US; Year: 1975; Director: Arthur Penn; Writer: Alan Sharp; Stars: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark, Ed Binns, Harris Yulin, Kenneth Mars, Janet Ward, James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Anthony Costello, John Crawford)
A PI gets more than he bargained for when he begins the disappearance of an ageing Hollywood actress.
Paris-Manhattan (Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: Sophie Lellouche; Writer: Sophie Lellouche; Stars: Alice Taglioni, Patrick Bruel, Marine Delterme, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Michel Aumont, Marie-Christine Adam, Yannick Soulier, Margaux Châtelier, Arsène Mosca, Gladys Cohen, Julie Martel, Roman Guisset, Juliette Kruh, Paul-Edouard Gondard, Jacques Ciron)
Comedy about a Woody Allen-obsessed pharmacist.
Pouters (Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Paul Fegan)
Two longtime rivals battle for the title of Doo Fleein Champion in the East End of Glasgow.
Ponyo (Ponyo on the Cliff (Gake no ue no Ponyo)) (Country: Japan; Year: 2008; Director: Hayao Miyazaki; Writer: Hayao Miyazaki; Stars: Yuria Nara, Hiroki Doi, Jôji Tokoro, Tomoko Yamaguchi, Yuki Amami, Kazushige Nagashima, Akiko Yano, Shinichi Hatori, Tokie Hidari, Eimi Hiraoka, Rumi Hîragi, Tomoko Naraoka, Nozomi Ohashi, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Akihiko Ishizumi), Official Site, Trailer
A five-year-old boy meets a magical fish who longs to become human.
Pouters Pouters
Pouters and Margaret Tait, Film Poet
Renoir (Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: Gilles Bourdos; Writer: Gilles Bourdos, Michel Spinosa, Jérôme Tonnerre; Stars: Michel Bouquet, Christa Theret, Vincent Rottiers, Thomas Doret, Michèle Gleizer, Romane Bohringer, Carlo Brandt, Hélène Babu, Stuart Seide, Paul Spera)
The old age of the artist, exploring his relationship with a model and his son.
Rob Roy (Country: UK; Year: 1995; Director: Michael Caton Jones; Writer: Alan Sharp; Stars: Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Eric Stoltz, Andrew Keir, Brian Cox, Brian McCardie, Gilbert Martin, Vicki Masson, Gilly Gilchrist)
Adventure yarn about people's hero who robs from the rich to help the poor.
Treasure Island (Country: UK, US; Year: 1950; Director: Byron Haskin; Writer: Lawrence Edward Watkin, based on the book by Robert Louis Stevenson.; Stars: Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney, Walter Fitzgerald)
A young boy is caught up in a duplicitous pirate's search for buried treasure.
Tumult (Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Johnny Barrington; Writer: Johnny Barrington; Stars: Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson)
The chief of a band of battle-weary Norse warriors is about to hand over power to his son when they are confronted by something entirely unexpected.
Ulzana's Raid (Country: US; Year: 1972; Director: Robert Aldrich; Writer: Alan Sharo; Stars: Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison, Jorge Luke, Richard Jaeckel, Joaquín Martínez)
A rookie lieutenant is set on the trail of a murderous war chief and his gang.
Tumult Tumult
Tumult and We Are Northern Lights
Venus Peter (Country: UK; Year: 1989; Director: Ian Sellar; Writer: Ian Sellar, based on the book by Christopher Rush.; Stars: George Anton, Louise Breslin, Juliet Cadzow, Peter Caffrey, Sinéad Cusack, Emma Dingwall, Ken Drury)
The story of a young boy growing up in the Orkney Isles.
Wadjda (Country: Saudi Arabia, Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour; Writer: Haifaa Al-Mansour; Stars: Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed, Abdullrahman Al Gohani, Ahd, Sultan Al Assaf, Dana Abdullilah, Rehab Ahmed, Rafa Al Sanea, Mohammed Albahry, Mariam Alghamdi, Ali Algorbani, Sara Aljaber, Mohammed Alkhozain, Maram Alkohzaim, Mariam Alkohzaim)
A young Saudi girl who will stop at nothing to earn enough money to buy the bicycle she craves.
We Are Northern Lights (Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Nick Higgins, Max Crawford, Lindsay Brown, Justin Owen, David Mackenzie, Calum Maclean, Pauline Johnson, Norman Bissell, Amand Connor, Kev Mclaughlin, Ken Jack, Àdhamh Ó Broin, Anita Norfolk, Paul Fegan, Billy Sangster)
A collage of Scottish experiences recorded by professional and amateur filmmakers all across the country.
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