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NEHH & Mediterraneo present

Mediterraneo: Carnevale 2022! With The Badwills, TuFlamenco and Los Cumbiatones

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Mediterraneo and Nothing Ever Happens Here Present Carnevale 2022, a wild masquerade featuring Italian Pizzica, Spanish Flamenco and Colombian Cumbia, with some of Edinburgh’s best foot-stomping live bands – The Badwills, TuFlamenco, and Los Cumbiatones. It’s the time to go crazy, to wear your best costume, your good dancing shoes, and your best mask – of the fun kind!

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Event Series Belle (12A)
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Summerhall Presents

Belle (12A)

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

High-school student Suzu finds everyday social conventions difficult to deal with and is increasingly drawn into an alternative, virtual world via the U app – an Internet-based environment with five billion members. Here, she excels as singing megastar Belle; her alter-ego even providing her with a confidence boost in reality.

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Screen Horizons

Love Affair(s) / Les Choses qu’on dit, les chose qu’on fait (15)

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

Holidays in the French countryside provide the perfect setting for Emmanuel Mouret to continue his exploration of all things tender and loving, throwing heart, soul and passion into the subject. François has to rush back to Paris to cover for a sick colleague, leaving his partner Daphne, three months pregnant, to welcome his cousin Maxime.

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Summerhall Presents

High Life (18) – Katie Goh Presents

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

Claire Denis’ first English-language feature sees a group of convicts assigned to a difficult space mission with the belief they will be freed if they are successful. The film follows Monte (Robert Pattinson), one of the convicts aboard the mission a few years after its launch as he raises his daughter in complete isolation on the empty spacecraft as it heads towards its final destination… Part of Katie Goh’s season of speculative disaster movies.

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Summerhall Presents

Dr. Strangelove (PG) – Kate Goh Presents

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

BAFTA Award-winning (Best Film 1965) and Oscar nominated dark comedy about a group of war-eager military men who plan a nuclear apocalypse. Through a series of military and political accidents, two psychotic generals trigger an ingenious, irrevocable scheme to attack Russia’s strategic targets with nuclear bombs. Part of Katie Goh’s season of speculative disaster movies.

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Event Series Flee (15) – subtitled
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Summerhall Presents

Flee (15) – subtitled

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

This tender interview between film director Jonas and his school friend Amin, years after they first met, blossoms into an extraordinary story of love, survival and resilience. Vibrant animation paints the story of Amin’s departure from what had been a happy childhood home in Afghanistan, subsequently fractured by war, to his current life as a successful academic in Denmark. As he prepares to take the next step in his commitment to long-term partner Kasper, Amin recalls his former fears of persecution and how there wasn’t a word for homosexuality in Afghanistan.

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Event Series Flee (15) – dubbed
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Summerhall Presents

Flee (15) – dubbed

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

The dubbed version of Flee (15) features the voices of Riz Ahmed and Nikolaj William Coster-Waldau. This tender interview between film director Jonas and his school friend Amin, years after they first met, blossoms into an extraordinary story of love, survival and resilience. Vibrant animation paints the story of Amin’s departure from what had been a happy childhood home in Afghanistan, subsequently fractured by war, to his current life as a successful academic in Denmark. As he prepares to take the next step in his commitment to long-term partner Kasper, Amin recalls his former fears of persecution and how there wasn’t a word for homosexuality in Afghanistan.

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Event Series Flee (15) – dubbed
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Summerhall Presents

Flee (15) – dubbed

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

The dubbed version of Flee (15) features the voices of Riz Ahmed and Nikolaj William Coster-Waldau. This tender interview between film director Jonas and his school friend Amin, years after they first met, blossoms into an extraordinary story of love, survival and resilience. Vibrant animation paints the story of Amin’s departure from what had been a happy childhood home in Afghanistan, subsequently fractured by war, to his current life as a successful academic in Denmark. As he prepares to take the next step in his commitment to long-term partner Kasper, Amin recalls his former fears of persecution and how there wasn’t a word for homosexuality in Afghanistan.

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Revolt!

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Sonic experimentation and artistic freedom – Revolt is now at Summerhall for its second edition of queer experimentalism. Expect a blend of techno and experimental electronic music from qik.uh and resident DJ Petfood, alongside a curated exhibit of multimedia art by Holly Hollis and additional work by resident artist Harley Beentjes.

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Event Series Flee (15) – subtitled
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Summerhall Presents

Flee (15) – subtitled

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

This tender interview between film director Jonas and his school friend Amin, years after they first met, blossoms into an extraordinary story of love, survival and resilience. Vibrant animation paints the story of Amin’s departure from what had been a happy childhood home in Afghanistan, subsequently fractured by war, to his current life as a successful academic in Denmark. As he prepares to take the next step in his commitment to long-term partner Kasper, Amin recalls his former fears of persecution and how there wasn’t a word for homosexuality in Afghanistan.

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Screen Horizons

Oh Mercy! / Roubaix, une lumière (15+)

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

A fictionalised adaptation of the 2008 French TV documentary Roubaix commissariat central, which followed a determined police officer and his colleagues in Roubaix, near Lille, as they deal with a range of crimes, in particular the shocking homicide of an old woman.

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Event Series De Gaulle (12+)
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Screen Horizons

De Gaulle (12+)

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

May 1940. France is facing a disastrous military situation against the German army. Charles de Gaulle, newly appointed General, joins the Government in Paris while Yvonne, his wife, and their three children remain in the east. Faced with the defeatist attitude of Pétain who wants to negotiate with Hitler, de Gaulle has one intention only: to continue fighting.

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432 Presents

(POSTPONED) Martina Topely Bird

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

London born, Martina Topley Bird made her sentient, sensual debut as Martina on trip hop pioneer Tricky’s white label release of Aftermath in 1993. The collaboration continued through the Tricky debut album, Maxinquaye (1995) and on subsequent albums Pre-Millennium Tension (1996) and Angels with Dirty Faces (1998).

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Event Series Flee (15) – subtitled
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Summerhall Presents

Flee (15) – subtitled

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

This tender interview between film director Jonas and his school friend Amin, years after they first met, blossoms into an extraordinary story of love, survival and resilience. Vibrant animation paints the story of Amin’s departure from what had been a happy childhood home in Afghanistan, subsequently fractured by war, to his current life as a successful academic in Denmark. As he prepares to take the next step in his commitment to long-term partner Kasper, Amin recalls his former fears of persecution and how there wasn’t a word for homosexuality in Afghanistan.

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Event Series Flee (15) – subtitled
Event Series
Summerhall Presents

Flee (15) – subtitled

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

This tender interview between film director Jonas and his school friend Amin, years after they first met, blossoms into an extraordinary story of love, survival and resilience. Vibrant animation paints the story of Amin’s departure from what had been a happy childhood home in Afghanistan, subsequently fractured by war, to his current life as a successful academic in Denmark. As he prepares to take the next step in his commitment to long-term partner Kasper, Amin recalls his former fears of persecution and how there wasn’t a word for homosexuality in Afghanistan.

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Event Series Flee (15) – subtitled
Event Series
Summerhall Presents

Flee (15) – subtitled

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

This tender interview between film director Jonas and his school friend Amin, years after they first met, blossoms into an extraordinary story of love, survival and resilience. Vibrant animation paints the story of Amin’s departure from what had been a happy childhood home in Afghanistan, subsequently fractured by war, to his current life as a successful academic in Denmark. As he prepares to take the next step in his commitment to long-term partner Kasper, Amin recalls his former fears of persecution and how there wasn’t a word for homosexuality in Afghanistan.

Event Category:
Event Series Flee (15) – subtitled
Event Series
Summerhall Presents

Flee (15) – subtitled

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

This tender interview between film director Jonas and his school friend Amin, years after they first met, blossoms into an extraordinary story of love, survival and resilience. Vibrant animation paints the story of Amin’s departure from what had been a happy childhood home in Afghanistan, subsequently fractured by war, to his current life as a successful academic in Denmark. As he prepares to take the next step in his commitment to long-term partner Kasper, Amin recalls his former fears of persecution and how there wasn’t a word for homosexuality in Afghanistan.

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Event Series Flee (15) – dubbed
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Summerhall Presents

Flee (15) – dubbed

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

The dubbed version of Flee (15) features the voices of Riz Ahmed and Nikolaj William Coster-Waldau. This tender interview between film director Jonas and his school friend Amin, years after they first met, blossoms into an extraordinary story of love, survival and resilience. Vibrant animation paints the story of Amin’s departure from what had been a happy childhood home in Afghanistan, subsequently fractured by war, to his current life as a successful academic in Denmark. As he prepares to take the next step in his commitment to long-term partner Kasper, Amin recalls his former fears of persecution and how there wasn’t a word for homosexuality in Afghanistan.

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Cinetopia:DOC

Framing Japan – Mental (18+)

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

Mental is Soda Kazuhiro’s sophomore film, also known as “Observational Film #2”. Filmed at an outpatient mental health clinic in Japan, Mental follows Dr Yamamoto Masatomo, an advocate of open psychiatry, and his patients. Soda’s measured and kind gaze allows the audience to discard their prejudices and connect deeply with the daily activities and experiences of Yamamoto’s patients.

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Event Series Flee (15) – dubbed
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Summerhall Presents

Flee (15) – dubbed

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

The dubbed version of Flee (15) features the voices of Riz Ahmed and Nikolaj William Coster-Waldau. This tender interview between film director Jonas and his school friend Amin, years after they first met, blossoms into an extraordinary story of love, survival and resilience. Vibrant animation paints the story of Amin’s departure from what had been a happy childhood home in Afghanistan, subsequently fractured by war, to his current life as a successful academic in Denmark. As he prepares to take the next step in his commitment to long-term partner Kasper, Amin recalls his former fears of persecution and how there wasn’t a word for homosexuality in Afghanistan.

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Cinetopia:DOC

Framing Japan – Zero (18+)

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

Winner of the Ecumenical Jury Prize at Berlinale 2020, Zero is thematically tied to Soda’s second film Mental though the filmmaker’s gaze is now directed at Dr Yamamoto, who is captured on the verge of his retirement, and his wife Yoshiko. The film not only pays homage to Yamamoto’s lifework but also celebrates his unrelenting commitment to helping others ten years after first capturing him on film.

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National Theatre of Scotland & Selkie Productions, Summerhall Presents

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde – Leith Theatre Recorded Performance

Cinema 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

Within the century-old walls of historic Leith Theatre, something sinister is stirring. A gothic tale of double lives and inner demons, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde takes on its own hybrid identity in this unique retelling. Concerned by his good friend Dr Henry Jekyll’s recent behaviour, Gabriel Utterson is driven to uncover the identity of the mysterious and dangerous Mr. Hyde, to whom Jekyll is enthralled. Whilst on this search for the truth, Utterson finds himself seduced by the society of Edinburgh’s rich and powerful, but beneath the glossy façade lies a grim and brutal reality.