Dina lives in a remote village high in the Georgian mountains where traditions have remained the same for centuries. Her marriage has been arranged but when handsome Gegi returns from war, she falls in love with him and they elope. Four years later Dina is estranged from her family but lives happily with Geigi and their child. Then Gigi is tragically killed. In traditional Svaneti culture a widow must marry the first man who asks for her hand, so when Girshel proposes, Dina is forced to leave her home and little boy behind forever. However, when Moses falls deathly ill, Girshel fights through the treacherous winter snow to get the life saving medicine. In the end Dina’s, along with Girshel, defies years of tradition and takes her child with her back to Ushguli.
Emmott and Rowland were sweethearts whose romance played out in the village of Eyam during the Plague of 1665/1666. Theirs was a sad and romantic tragedy, which has captured the imagination of those who read about it over the following hundreds of years.
A young woman struggles to recover from an ex-lover's attack. Escaping through books and imagination, she wanders around her favorite park to seek solace.
A husband and wife in a dwindling marriage spend the night together in a Love Hotel as a desperate attempt to regain the intimacy in their relationship. Only for the wife to discover she has lost her wedding ring inside the rectal cavity of her husband.
25-year-old Natia goes back to Georgia, to see her grandma, Natela, after her grandad’s death two months before. Natia sparks a story, which unravels an intense internal conflict that portrays and characterises the situation and traditions in some regions of Georgia.
Thirty-something Malky works as a labourer demolishing the church where he was abused as a twelve-year-old, engaging in an emotionally distant sexual relationship with Emma and indulging in bouts of casual violence. The effects of his childhood abuse remain deeply embedded, and when the priest responsible returns to town Malky is forced to confront his past head-on.
A searingly honest film about psychological damage and the power of forgiveness.
Edinburgh International FIlm Festival 2017 - World premiere
In the final hours before curtain up on opening night, a young male dancer agonises over how far to push his and his females partner's final dangerous move.
An unlikely gang of teenagers goes on the run from dysfunctional parents to an island music festival, where the rules of the real world don't apply.
Edinburgh International FIlm Festival 2017 - World premiere
Edith Moore (Edie) is a bitter, gruff woman in her eighties. In the months following her husband George’s death, Edie’s strained relationship with her daughter Nancy begins to worsen. The question over Edie’s future looms large; while Edie tries hard to convince Nancy she can manage fine by herself, Nancy is making plans for her mother to move to a retirement home.
Edie feels like it is the beginning of the end. It seems she will die with all the regrets of her past intact and one regret haunts her most of all. When Edie was married, her father planned a climbing trip for them in the Scottish Highlands. Edie yearned to go, but her husband George, a difficult and controlling man, made her stay at home, nearly thirty years later, Edie decides to make the trip herself alone.
Edinburgh International FIlm Festival 2017 - World premiere
Hampstead Village, London, is famous for its beautiful and much-loved Heath; a piece of quiet countryside in a vast metropolis. Living on the edge of the Heath is American widow Emily Walters, who can't quite focus on the things that need attention since her husband’s death; like her crumbling old apartment, diminishing finances and even her son, Philip.
One day while looking out across the Heath from her attic window, Emily spies a ramshackle hut, which appears to be inhabited by an unkempt man. After witnessing him being attacked by a group of professional thugs, she calls the police and watches through her binoculars as help arrives. The next day she ventures into the woods in search of him.
The man, Donald has lived quietly and harmoniously on the edge of the Heath for 17 years but his lifestyle is under threat - his home is the target of property developers who’ve started using heavy-handed tactics to remove him. He is naturally suspicious of Emily and politely rebuffs her attention, but despite his gruff exterior, there is something gentle and alluring about him. When Emily discovers that her friend Fiona is leading a community initiative in support of the developers, she bravely steps up to take Donald's side in the escalating battle to save his peaceful Heath dwelling. Though her son Philip tries to persuade her to retire gracefully to the country, she is determined to defend the emotional and physical livelihood of this quiet and unusual man - a man who might just be the person to sweep her off her feet.
Inspired by a true story, a charming and funny life-affirming tale about how love can be found in the most unexpected places, and that age is no barrier to second chances.
'Julius Caesar' depicts the catastrophic consequences of a political leader's extension of his powers beyond the remit of the constitution. As Brutus (played by Harriet Walter) wrestles with his moral conscience over the assassination of Julius Caesar (as played by Jackie Clune), Mark Antony (Jade Anouka) manipulates the crowd through his subtle and incendiary rhetoric to frenzied mob violence.
Described by The Observer as "One of the most important theatrical events of the past twenty years", this event cinema production by the Donmar Warehouse is the first part of Phyllida Lloyd's 'Shakespeare Trilogy'.
Edinburgh International FIlm Festival 2017 - World premiere
