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Blame It On Fidel
La Faute à Fidel is a hugely accomplished first feature by Julie Gavras, the daughter of feted left-wing filmmaker Costa-Gavras, which...
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XXY
Many people refer to paedophilia as the last taboo, and to paedophiles as the unmentionable, untouchable outcasts of society;0 comments
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Teddy Leifer Interview
Documentary producer, Teddy Leifer talks to Amy Cook about Africa, AIDS, and African solidarity.
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We Are Together
This documentary follows the lives of the children in the Agape orphanage in South Africa, who, under “Grandma” Zodwa Mqadi’s gui...
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Interview with Stefan Ruzowitzky
Junta Sekimori talks to the director of The Counterfeiters
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The Counterfeiters
Operation Bernhard, a large scale counterfeiting scheme implemented by the Nazis in 1942, saw a team of 142 Jewish prisoners wo...
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Paranoid Park
Gus Van Sant has become a dab hand at wrongfooting his followers. After Good Will Hunting, he made Psycho, a topsy-turvy...
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Stardust
Stardust is the latest offering from director Mathew Vaughn (Layer Cake). It is a star-studded fantasy epic that tells the magica...
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The Home Song Stories
The Home Song Stories tells the story of Rose and her two children Tom and May. As their mother, Rose behaves less lik...
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Year Of The Dog
This is a gentle, charming and touching film about human need; the need not only to feel love, but to express it even when inevitable imperfections...
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Lovely By Surprise
Kirt Gunn's latest offering is a quirky, upbeat indie flick with a satisfyingly paranoid edge. Three stories, which started life on the interne...
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Knocked Up
Rather too often in film journalism, it is claimed that a single movie is an example of an entirely new genre. This ten...
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A Mighty Heart
“How do you find one man amongst all this?” Angelina Jolie asks us as she adopts the guise of Mariane Pearl, the widow of slain Wall St...
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Control
There are scenes in Control that we might never know the truth about; the signing of record deals in blood by lat...
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Documentaries at the EIFF
Can documentaries tell us the truth? Natalia Baal discusses the fine line between fact and fiction, and explores the art of the “t...
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Kurt Cobain: About a Son
“Fuck them, they don’t need to know everything about me,” scoffs Kurt Cobain, having a conversation he probably didn’t conceiv...
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To Die In Jerusalem
When the 17 year old Palestinian girl Ayat al-Akharas tied a belt of explosives around her waist and blew herself up on a suicide mission in Jerusa...
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Strange Culture
Strange Culture brings to the foreground the very real implications of the Bush administration's post 9/11 policies. It tells the stor...
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In The Cities (Dans Les Villes)
Trees; dark, sombre and alone, stand like silent outcasts within the urban landscape. In Catherine Martin’s film, people are likewise outcast...
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Solitary Fragments
Loss, lonliness and the little things in life are deftly handled in Solitary Fragments, the second outing for Spanish director Jaime Rosal...
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John Waters: This Filthy World
The stars of this film are John Waters and his fascinating moustache ("I know I look like a child molester – it look...
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I Want to Tell You Something
Shot in a minimal style with no additional music, I Want to Tell You Something documents a year in the life of a family with one deaf and ...
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The Man From London
The Hungarian Béla Tarr is known as a difficult film-maker by those handful of people who know of him at all. His most famous film, S&aacut...
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Preview: Edinburgh International Film Festival
If a picture paints a thousand words, Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet, consisting of 232,500 frames, would work o...
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