Category Archives: Film

In advance of the main programme launch on the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) announces an impressive array of films and shorts, some of which are world premières that, as part of the celebrations around Scotland’s Year of Stories 2022, have either Scottish talent or settings. The Opening Gala  film, Aftersun, is the critically acclaimedContinue reading “This Year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival Reveals Scottish Talent for 2022 “

Film Fest in the City in St Andrew Square Gardens returns as part of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) programme on the festival’s opening weekend from Friday 12th to Sunday 14th August. The free and non-ticketed outdoor screening programme of new and classic cinematic favourites reflect the wider EIFF 2022 themes, including a celebrationContinue reading “EIFF Film Fest in the City Announces 2022 Programme”

Edinburgh’s Summerhall is set to host a programme of French and Francophone cinema, including nine contemporary and classic titles some of which are Cannes and César award-winners. The programme exemplifies the diversity of the genre as it spans not just award-winners but new talents, classics and documentaries. With two films screening every Sunday, audiences will have theContinue reading “French Film Festival UK Announces Screen Horizons Programme at Summerhall”

The best and most relevant Spanish, Portuguese and Latin-America documentaries come to the fore this April with in-person events taking place in Edinburgh and Glasgow between 6th and 10th April after which the festival  moves online from 11th – 17th April. The Festival opens on Wednesday 6th April at Edinburgh Filmhouse with the Scottish PremiereContinue reading “IberoDocs 9th Edition Announced For Both Cinema and Online ”

Italian artist and illustrator Lorenzo Mattotti makes his film debut with this 2019 animation, The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily (la Fameuse Invasion des Ours en Sicile) that is based on the 1940 children’s book,The Tartar Steppe, by novelist Dino Buzzati. The film starts with the image of two strolling players, Almerina and Geodene, trudging tiredContinue reading “The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily (PG)            French Film Festival”

Latest addition to STUDIOCANAL’s Vintage Classics collection on Digital, Blu-Ray and DVD is this underrated and seldom seen WWII naval thriller. Directed by Compton Bennett and Starring Trevor Howard and Richard Attenborough and with a cast that includes Bernard Lee, Sid James, Sonny Tufts and Dora Bryan, this first class new restoration will be available on Digital, Blu-RayContinue reading “Gift Horse      Newly Restored Version”

This is a project written, directed and starring Nana Mensah, who does an excellent job of carrying off all of these roles. Her character, Sarah Obeng, is a Ghanaian/American who is just about to pack in her doctorate programme to follow her married lover to Ohio. If you’re the kind of person who becomes investedContinue reading “Queen of Glory (15)              Sands Film Festival”

Scottish filmmaker Jono McLeod has written and directed a fascinating and revelatory film based on a strange but true story that took place while he was a school pupil in East Dunbartonshire. In 1993, class 5C of Bearsden Academy was joined by a guy going under the name of Brandon Lee. In fact, he wasContinue reading “My Old School (15)   Sands Film Festival”

French comic book artist Joann Sfar, who is already well respected in the world of bandes dessinéesin France, has brought his talents to the world of film with his magnificent animation le Petit Vampire. Based on his children’s graphic novel of the same name, it tells of a friendship between the eponymous wee vampire, who’sContinue reading “Little Vampire (le Petit Vampire)    French Film Festival”

The opening shots of this 2019 film directed by Gabriel Le Bomin show a tender and intimate moment in the bedroom of Charles de Gaulle (Lambert Wilson) and his wife Yvonne (Isabelle Carré). It sets the tone in this biopic that holds the dual strands of the personal and the political in what seems toContinue reading “De Gaulle (12)            French Film Festival”