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FILMHOUSE Edinburgh

Cinema programmers always feel the need to 'arrange' films in some way, so we opted for a two-pronged approach, newer titles and classics. Our playlist has a dozen films we have screened at Filmhouse Edinburgh in the past year, and 12 more from classic world cinema. The unifying theme? They’re all great!

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Man With a Movie Camera Man With a Movie Camera

Documentary 1929 67 mins Silent Director: Dziga Vertov

Dazzling document of Soviet life, by Dziga Vertov, showing a living city and the people and machines that propel it.

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Au hasard Balthazar Au hasard Balthazar

Drama 1966 95 mins Director: Robert Bresson

Robert Bresson’s pared-down style elicits extraordinary pathos from this devastating tale of an abused donkey passing from owner to owner.

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The Battle of Algiers The Battle of Algiers

Drama 1966 121 mins Director: Gillo Pontecorvo

Gillo Pontecorvo’s masterpiece about the last years of French colonial rule in Algeria, seen from the perspective of both the revolutionaries and the French authorities.

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The Passion of Joan of Arc The Passion of Joan of Arc

Biopic 1928 80 mins Silent Director: Carl Th. Dreyer

An incontestable masterpiece of silent cinema, Carl Dreyer's moving biopic features one of the most powerful performances ever captured on film.

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Tokyo Story Tokyo Story

Drama 1953 136 mins Director: Yasujirō Ozu

A fixture in critics' polls, Yasujirō Ozu's most enduring masterpiece is a beautifully nuanced exploration of filial duty, expectation and regret.

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Rams Rams

Drama 2015 92 mins Director: Grímur Hákonarson

Cannes prize-winning Icelandic drama about two estranged sheep-farming brothers who come together following a deadly disease outbreak.

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Blue is the Warmest Colour Blue is the Warmest Colour

Romance 2013 180 mins Director: Abdel Kechiche

The epic, passionate and strikingly naturalistic Palme d'Or-winning romance.

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I Am Love I Am Love

Drama 2009 114 mins Director: Luca Guadagnino

Tilda Swinton and Luca Guadagnino’s sumptuous, operatic vision of an aristocratic family disrupted by unstoppable forces of passion.

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Ida Ida

Drama 2014 82 mins Director: Pawel Pawlikowski

An exquisitely shot, moving drama about a Polish nun exploring her family past, from UK-based director Pawel Pawlikowski.

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Lourdes Lourdes

Drama 2009 95 mins Director: Jessica Hausner

Jessica Hausner’s cool, compassionate exploration of religious faith follows various believers and non-believers hoping for miracle cures in Lourdes

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Aferim! Aferim!

Drama 2015 106 mins Director: Radu Jude

A policeman searches for a runaway gypsy in Radu Jude’s hilarious and magnificently shot Wallachian western.

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Tabu Tabu

Drama 2012 113 mins Director: Miguel Gomes

A Portuguese woman reflects on her earlier life in an unnamed African country during the colonial era, in Miguel Gomes’ artfully composed diptych.

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The Second Mother The Second Mother

Drama 2015 112 mins Director: Anna Muylaert

A maid for a rich São Paulo family is allowed to take her provincial teenage daughter into the household, but tensions quickly surface between her old and new lives.