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Opening Night Gala No Country For Old Men (15) THURSDAY 15 NOVEMBER 7.30pm
For our opening premiere we are delighted to present this thriller from master directors Joel and Ethan Coen. When Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) stumbles across a truck filled with dead men, two million dollars and bundles of heroin, he takes the money and runs. Unfortunately the murderous owner of the cash (Javier Bardem) is always close behind.
www.nocountryforoldmen.com
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Closing Night Gala The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (15) THURSDAY 18 NOVEMBER 8.30pm
Brad Pitt is in career best form in this superb much anticipated western charting the story of, Jesse James, the infamous outlaw and gang leader who fell prey to one of his own men.
www.jessejamesmovie.warnerbros.com/ |
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Thursday 15th November |
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Mystery Movie (Suggested Certificate 12A) Thursday 15 November 10.30pm
There is something exciting about seeing a movie you know nothing about! This film is going to be a bit different, mysterious and totally unique. If you take a chance on watching it you’ll be rewarded with a new cinema experience. Come on we dare you! |
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Friday 16th November |
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Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle (PG) Friday 16 November 6.00pm
A young man is seeking the truth of his parents’ death and his grandfather’s fear filled stories of the past. His quest leads him to the summit of one of Scotland’s most dangerous mountains, the Inaccessible Pinnacle. Beautifully shot on the Isle of Skye, Seachd is the first feature film to be told entirely in Gaelic.
www.seachd.com |
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XXY (Suggested Certificate 15) Friday 16 November 6.15pm
This outstanding, sensitive and completely absorbing film has won major awards at the Cannes and Edinburgh Film Festivals. Alex (Inés Efron) is a 15-year-old with a secret that takes their family away from Buenos Aires. In their new home they fight against prejudice whilst she falls in love.
www.xxylapelicula.puenzo.com |
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I Really Hate My Job (Suggested Certificate 15) Friday 16 November 8.15pm
I Really Hate My Job is the new comedy/drama from Oliver Parker whose previous film Fade To Black played at last year’s festival.
The movie sizzles its way through one steamy night and the lives of five feisty women, working in a London restaurant with delusions of grandeur.
www.ireallyhatemyjobthemovie.com |
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Four Minutes (Vier Minuten) (Cert tbc) Scottish Premiere Friday 16 November 8.30pm
The multi award winning Four Minutes details the story of a prison piano teacher Traude (Monica Bleibtreu) who enters her star pupil Jenny (Hannah Herzsprung) in a national competition. However revelations about their pasts and Jenny’s occasional bursts of violence, endanger her chance of redemption.
www.vierminuten.de/de/start |
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Viva (Suggested Certificate 18) Scottish Premiere Friday 16 November 10.45pm
Viva is a cult freak-out retro spectacle, about a bored housewife who gets sucked into the sexual revolution. A kitsch, stylish and colourful modern female take on the gloriously vibrant vintage sex comedies of the 60’s and 70’s, it’s the most unadulterated fun you’ll have at the cinema this year.
www.lifeofastar.com |
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Animate Yourself - Animation Techniques Friday 16 November 10.00am-12.00pm
Book early for this free session as places are very limited.
A session for primary school pupils to get to grips with the basics of animation techniques.
Age 9-12 years |
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Techniques for film make up Friday 16 November 10.00am-12.00pm
A short packed session aimed at primary school pupils on how to create bruises, blood injuries and gory wounds.
Age 9-12 yrs |
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Tallest Story Competition Friday 16 November 1.00pm
10 short animation films are competing for two Trophies. Five of the films are made by tribal artists from India and five have been made by Gaelic speaking children from around the Highlands. Audiences in tribal India and Highland Scotland have been watching the films and voting for their favourites. The final vote will be counted on Nov 16th and the trophies awarded. Two tribal artists have come all the way from India especially for the occasion. Who will take the trophy home?
www.talleststory.com |
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Saturday 17th November |
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Shorts Programme 1: Saturday 17 November 12.00pm
The first of of Two programmes of short films set and shot in rural Scotland. An eclectic mix of classic archive footage, experimental and artists’ films, community projects and fiction short cuts. Each of the selected films portrays a unique, often unexpected vision of the Highlands. A rare opportunity to see work from the late Orcadian filmmaker Margaret Tait, alongside contemporary internationally-recognised artists Matt Hulse and Dalziel & Scullion. Hot new talents of fiction filmmaking are featured, including local filmmakers from Ullapool and Invergordon. Two unique and unmissable selections! |
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Strange Culture (Suggested Certificate 12) Saturday 17 November 3.15pm
This timely docudrama tells the story of artist and activist Steve Kurtz who campaigned on political and scientific issues including the growing of GM crops, suffering government persecution as a result.
This film screens with MARCHING PLAGUE, a short film by Steve Kurtz and Critical Art Ensemble, shot in the Western Isles, which recreates secret bioweapons sea trials performed by the UK government in the 1950s.
www.strangeculture.net |
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Build A Ship, Sail To Sadness (Suggested Certificate. 12) Saturday 17 November 5.45pm
An unashamedly off-beat musical travelogue about young loner Vincent who crosses the Highlands on a moped and devises a plan to cure loneliness in isolated communities through the introduction of a mobile disco. Screens with
Shell
Shell cares for her alcoholic father whilst running a remote petrol station. She dreams of escaping to find a more fulfilling existence. |
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Thicker Than Water (Suggested Certificate 12) UK Premiere Saturday 17 November 6.00pm
Secrets and lies are at the centre of this beautifully observed midlife crisis drama. Successful family man Pétur uncovers a secret his wife of ten years has never revealed ]. Unable to face up to this apparent terrible betrayal, he allows his firm grip on life to slacken, with bittersweet tragi-comic results.
www.pegasus.is/blodbond |
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3 Days To Forever (3 Hari Untuk Selamanya) (Suggested Certificate (15) Saturday 17 November 7.45pm
Best described as an Asian cross between the 60’s/70’s American road movies and Yu Tu Mama Tambien, this is a funny and sexy coming of age tale which has managed to upset authorities in Indonesia with its views on youth culture, sex and drugs.
http://milesfilms.com/3hari/id/ |
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Lonesome Jim (tbc) Saturday 17 November 8.30pm Scottish Premiere
In this wonderful Steve Buscemi directed comedy, Jim (Casey Affleck) returns home to work in the family business after failing to make it as a writer. Just as he believes things cannot get any worse salvation appears in the form of a local nurse Anika (Liv Tyler) and her young son.
www.lonesomejim-film.com |
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You Kill Me (Suggested Certificate 15) Saturday 17 November 10.30pm UK Premiere
A witty, fast paced thriller. When hitman Frank Falenczyk (Ben Kingsley), screws up because of his drinking problem he is shipped off to clean himself up. He starts going to AA and finds work in a morgue. During a service he meets Laurel (Téa Leoni). They fall for each other but they have more in common then meets the eye.
www.youkillmethefilm.com |
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Video Image Creation and Projection Sat 17 November 10.00am-6.00pm
A whole day session to get to grips with a range of techniques for creating video or film images.
Age 15+ yrs |
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Animation Masterclass with Ko Lik Films Saturday 17 November 2.00pm
Neil Jack and Cameron Fraser have been making stop-motion puppet animation films together under the banner of Ko Lik Films since 2003’s The Tree Officer, which won several international awards including two Scottish BAFTAs. Originally from Inverness, Cameron produces and co-writes with director Neil, a graduate of Edinburgh College of Art’s animation department. Since The Tree Officer, they have completed several more shorts and are currently in production on their second half hour television drama, and developing a feature-length script for their regular characters Jeff and Thurston. At this masterclass they will present their most recent work, the BBC Scotland special Haunted Hogmanay, and discuss their unique comic style.
www.kolik.co.uk
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A Future For Gaelic Cinema Saturday 17 November 4.00pm
Please click here for the Gaelic Description of these films
Gaelic language cinema has been much in the news this year with the theatrical release of Simon Miller’s film Seachd. In addition to screening the film, IFF has taken the opportunity to revisit Mike Alexander’s 1993 film As An Eilean, and we are delighted to be screening the UK premiere of the Nova Scotian Gaelic short Faire Chalum Mhic Leoid. This panel discussion will bring filmmakers and Gaelic speakers together to discuss issues surrounding minority language cinema. What role can cinema have in preserving and promoting Gaelic? Can a culture of the spoken word be truly represented through the visual medium of cinema? How is Gaelic film to be marketed to mainstream audiences? All are welcome to join this important debate. Come and hear our international panel of experts, and have your say!
The discussion will be chaired by Ishbel Maclennan of BBC Alba, and panellists will include Simon Miller and Aonghas Padraig Caimbeul, director
and lead actor of Seachd, Nona MacDermid and Angus MacLeod, producer and lead actor of Faire Chalum Mhic Leoid.
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Faire Chaluim Mhic Leoid (The Wake of Calum MacLeod)
North America’s first Gaelic-language short film, about the death of a Nova Scotian storyteller and the power of his stories. |
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IFF Film Quiz Saturday 17 November 10.15pm
The Inverness Film Quiz will make a welcome return this year. With questions both hard and easy (well not that easy!) this is for all those out there with a love and some knowledge of film. The categories will encompass many aspects of film, so there will be questions in there to suit all. Prizes will be given out to the winners. First place will receive five tickets for films per member, to be used on November 19th, and perhaps some goodies.
Sponsored by Optimum Releasing |
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Sunday 18th November |
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Shorts Programme 2: Sunday 18 November 12.00pm
The second of of Two programmes of short films set and shot in rural Scotland. An eclectic mix of classic archive footage, experimental and artists’ films, community projects and fiction short cuts. Each of the selected films portrays a unique, often unexpected vision of the Highlands. A rare opportunity to see work from the late Orcadian filmmaker Margaret Tait, alongside contemporary internationally-recognised artists Matt Hulse and Dalziel & Scullion. Hot new talents of fiction filmmaking are featured, including local filmmakers from Ullapool and Invergordon. Two unique and unmissable selections! |
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Classic Double Bill - Please click here for the Gaelic Description of these films
The Kidnappers (U) Sunday 18 November 1.45pm
An oft-forgotten classic of Highland cinema. Harry and Davie live with their fierce grandfather in a Scottish settlement in Nova Scotia. When he refuses to buy them a puppy, they ‘kidnap’ a baby belonging to their neighbours. Screens with ...
Faire Chaluim Mhic Leoid (The Wake of Calum MacLeod)
North America’s first Gaelic-language short film, about the death of a Nova Scotian storyteller and the power of his stories.
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As An Eilean (From the Island) (PG) Sunday 18 November 4.15pm
Based on the stories by Iain Crichton Smith, and filmed in Altbea, Wester Ross, this was the first Gaelic language feature to receive a theatrical release. It’s a gentle film painting a subtle and moving story of love and loss in a close-knit community. |
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Castells (Suggested Certificate PG) Sunday 18 November 2.00pm
Across Catalonia, small communities compete to build the highest, most intricately designed human tower. In the town of Valls the team despair of a five year old child whose reluctance to form their tower’s pinnacle, threatens to bring community crashing down. |
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Caramel (Suggested Certificate 15) Sunday 18 November 4.00pm Scottish Premiere
Caramel is one of the first Lebanese films to be directed by a woman.
Set in a beauty shop in Beirut it tells the story of the women that work there.
This fun comedy keeps away from the current political climate and stays with human, personal stories of the typical Lebanese female - a wonderful film.
www.bacfilms.com/site/caramel |
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As An Eilean (From the Island) (PG) Sunday 18 November 4.15pm
Based on the stories by Iain Crichton Smith, and filmed in Altbea, Wester Ross, this was the first Gaelic language feature to receive a theatrical release. It’s a gentle film painting a subtle and moving story of love and loss in a close-knit community.
ÀS AN EILEAN (PG) Latha na Sàbaid 18 An t-Samhain 4.15f
Stèidhichte air na sgeulachdan aig Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn, agus air fhilmeadh san Allt Bheith, Taobh Siar Rois, b’ e am film aig Mike Alexander a’ chiad fhilm Gàidhlig a chaidh a shealltainn anns na taighean-dhealbh. ‘S e film socair a th’ ann le sgeulachd thoinnte agus drùidhteach mu ghaol agus call ann an coimhearsnachd dhlùth. |
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We Are Together (Suggested Cert. PG) Sunday 18 November 6.15pm
This extraordinary, award winning film follows the children of the Agape Orphanage in South Africa who have all lost their parents to AIDS. These inspirational kids find strength and happiness in singing together in a choir and make plans to travel to London to perform. This is a special charity screening: all proceeds from ticket sales will go to The Rise Foundation, which supports the Agape Orphanage. www.wearetogether.org |
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Saviour’s Square (Suggested Certificate 15) Sunday 18 November 6.30pm Scottish Premiere
This powerful Polish film is a story of guilt and redemption. A seemingly ordinary family live in a flat overlooking Savior’s Square. Yet their lives have been marked by the maliciousness of fate, fruitless intentions and the fragile nature of a human being. It’s also a heartbreaking story about love in all its manifestations.
www.plac-zbawiciela.bestfilm.pl |
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Creating and Manipulating Images Sunday 18 November 1.00am-6.00pm
A half day session to try out how to manipulate your images for film or video.
Age 15+ yrs
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