After an incredible debut in 2021, The Great Eastern returns on Saturday 21st May 2022! An all-day music festival taking place across multiple Edinburgh venues, The Great Eastern is brought to you by promoters 432 Presents, in association with Summerhall/Nothing Ever Happens Here and The Queen’s Hall.
Emergency is a comedy/thriller about three college friends of colour weighing the risks of calling the authorities: part hijinks-y romp and part social commentary. “A raucous one-last-epic-party romp a la Booksmart and socially aware thriller in the shadow of Get Out” The Guardian ★★★★
Z director Costa-Gavras reunites with star Yves Montand for another gripping thriller. Prague, 1951. The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Gérard (Montand) is suddenly arrested, tortured, and placed in solitary confinement.
Yorkston Thorne Khan are songwriter James Yorkston (guitar, nyckelharpa, voice), jazz musician Jon Thorne (double bass, voice) and 8th generation sarangi player and vocalist Suhail Yusuf Khan. Meeting by chance backstage in 2015 and playing together ever since, Yorkston Thorne Khan’s musical explorations are well-informed by their rich musical heritage but never reverential, preferring to run with an energy and fun that pushes them to new ground, Rolling Stone calling their Neuk Wight Delhi All-Stars album “a game changing masterpiece”.
Considered a tour-de-force of editing, featuring excerpts from over 700 films, Paris 1900 is a fascinating glimpse of a bygone era. Step back in time to the French capital at the beginning of the 20th century, and the final years of La Belle Époque.
Emergency is a comedy/thriller about three college friends of colour weighing the risks of calling the authorities: part hijinks-y romp and part social commentary. “A raucous one-last-epic-party romp a la Booksmart and socially aware thriller in the shadow of Get Out” The Guardian ★★★★
Emergency is a comedy/thriller about three college friends of colour weighing the risks of calling the authorities: part hijinks-y romp and part social commentary. “A raucous one-last-epic-party romp a la Booksmart and socially aware thriller in the shadow of Get Out” The Guardian ★★★★
Emergency is a comedy/thriller about three college friends of colour weighing the risks of calling the authorities: part hijinks-y romp and part social commentary. “A raucous one-last-epic-party romp a la Booksmart and socially aware thriller in the shadow of Get Out” The Guardian ★★★★
A victim of deprivation and social exclusion had joined a religious cult that gave him a sense of community, but has since liberated himself from its oppressions and criminal temptations. Screening part of CinemaAttic’s ADRIFT, a film season bringing essential world cinema to Scotland this spring.
Striking miners, indigenous communities left off the hook, market stalls… Filming the invisibles, Kiro Russo’s second feature is a singular city symphony that lays bare the plight of the working classes. A milestone of representation of indigenous communities in cinema, the film was awarded the Grand Jury Prize in the last Biennale – Venice Film Festival. Screening part of CinemaAttic’s ADRIFT, a film season bringing essential world cinema to Scotland this spring.
An alternative anti-imperialist take on the discovery of America, shot in 16mm with images of painstaking beauty. Drawing an arc between 1492 and our present, between the genocide of the Conquista, the slave trade and the witch hunts, the building of a Spanish empire abroad, and the ghost of the civil war. Screening part of CinemaAttic’s ADRIFT, a film season bringing essential world cinema to Scotland this spring.
Nuria and Fabio arrive with their mother Amparo on an unknown island on the border between Brazil, Colombia and Peru. They are fleeing armed conflicts in Colombia. Fearful of betraying family secrets, Nuria goes silent. In the midst of this, the family tries to receive compensation for the father’s death and to obtain a visa to emigrate to Brazil. By covering this story, they uncover others about the family’s past. Screening part of CinemaAttic’s ADRIFT, a film season bringing essential world cinema to Scotland this spring.
L, a university student in India, writes letters to her estranged lover, while he is away. Through these letters, we get a glimpse into the drastic changes taking place around her in contemporary India. Merging reality with fiction, dreams, memories, fantasies and anxieties, an amorphous narrative unfolds. A film that is a love letter, a poem to cinema, and a reminder of the need for collective action in our societies. Screening part of CinemaAttic’s ADRIFT, a film season bringing essential world cinema to Scotland this spring.
A VHS journey to the heart of one of the most shameful episodes of modern Argentina. Made almost entirely out of archive material, SPLINTERS (Esquirlas) is a firsthand reflection on family, pain and the passage of time, a further example that the personal is always political. A powerful debut feature by Natalia Garayalde winner
Mickaël (Vincent Macaigne) is a night doctor who visits troubled neighbours and cares for those whom no one else seems to – the drug addicts, the homeless, the destitute. His personal life is also falling apart. Torn between his wife and mistress, he is pressurised by his pharmacist cousin to write false drug prescriptions. But
Thirty dancers from hip-hop, break, vogue, and other non-traditional genres descend on Paris’s legendary Opéra Bastille to reinvent Jean-Philippe Rameau’s baroque masterpiece Les Indes galantes. Intense, mesmerising, energetic and a powerful ode to life and art – this is an inspiring documentary, unmissable.
Winner at the Venice film festival, Audrey Diwan’s film captures the panic of an unwanted pregnancy before the legalisation of abortion in provincial France. ★★★★ The Guardian
Jack Lukeman is an Irish singer-songwriter, performer, raconteur and a whole lot more besides. A platinum-selling, critically acclaimed artist in his homeland, in recent years Lukeman has devoted more of his time to winning a growing fanbase in the UK and abroad.
Winner at the Venice film festival, Audrey Diwan’s film captures the panic of an unwanted pregnancy before the legalisation of abortion in provincial France. ★★★★ The Guardian
Is Gregor Samsa a bug wishing he was a man or a man wishing he was a bug?
Combining physical/visual theatre and high-octane spoken word, AFTER METAMORPHOSIS reworks Kafka’s classic tale to peer through insect eyes to both lampoon and celebrate humanity.
Thirty dancers from hip-hop, break, vogue, and other non-traditional genres descend on Paris’s legendary Opéra Bastille to reinvent Jean-Philippe Rameau’s baroque masterpiece Les Indes galantes. Intense, mesmerising, energetic and a powerful ode to life and art – this is an inspiring documentary, unmissable.
Is Gregor Samsa a bug wishing he was a man or a man wishing he was a bug?
Combining physical/visual theatre and high-octane spoken word, AFTER METAMORPHOSIS reworks Kafka’s classic tale to peer through insect eyes to both lampoon and celebrate humanity.
Mickaël (Vincent Macaigne) is a night doctor who visits troubled neighbours and cares for those whom no one else seems to – the drug addicts, the homeless, the destitute. His personal life is also falling apart. Torn between his wife and mistress, he is pressurised by his pharmacist cousin to write false drug prescriptions. But
A dread-inducing, grippingly under-the-skin genre journey; smartly unsentimental as a study of childhood, its shocking study of powers being used for abject evil sets The Innocents apart from the countless other coming-of-age and superhero films it expertly subverts. “The Innocents is a nightmare unfolding in cold, clear daylight” ★★★★★ The Guardian
