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
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
Based on politician Yanis Varoufakis’ memoir, Adults in the Room takes the audience back to Greece in 2015, a country on the edge of collapse. Two up-and-coming politicians, Yanis and Alexis, rebel against the status quo and subsequently become an inspiration to many. But can their friendship survive in the brutal, unforgiving world of politics?
The legendary Catherine Frot stars in this engaging comedy as Eve Vernet, the greatest rose grower in France. A once booming business, Eve’s farm is now on the verge of bankruptcy and in danger of being bought by a powerful competitor. Her secretary Véra (Olivia Côte) believes she has found a solution and hires three
Laura Veirs grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where she often spent summers camping with her family, which gave her much of her songwriting inspiration. Veirs didn’t seriously listen to music until she was in her 20s; instead, she just heard what was in her environment. She listened to folk, country, classical and pop music around the house and on the radio during her youth. Veirs is fascinated with the intersection of art and science and she explores that in her work.
Fresh out of college and without a clear life path going forward, 22-year-old Andrew is stuck back at home with his family in New Jersey. But if there’s one thing that belongs on his non-existent résumé, it’s how to get a party started. This lands him the perfect job of motivational dancing at the bar and bat mitzvahs for his younger brother’s classmates. IndieWire ★★★★
Fresh out of college and without a clear life path going forward, 22-year-old Andrew is stuck back at home with his family in New Jersey. But if there’s one thing that belongs on his non-existent résumé, it’s how to get a party started. This lands him the perfect job of motivational dancing at the bar and bat mitzvahs for his younger brother’s classmates. IndieWire ★★★★
