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Programme 2008

 

 

 
Sunday June the 8th

 

~~~~~~~~~~~ Matinee ~~~~~~~~~~~
2:00pm - 2:30pm

The Small Hours

Gripping drama, revelations and psychology come to the fore in a Leith flat in the small hours of the night.

Breakwater

A poignant and thought-provoking poem of childhood tragedy.

Saving Planet Earth

Amusing and charming polemical animation, depicting the dark and hidden menace of the European Union!

2:30pm - 3:00pm

Poor Yorick

Yorick has literally lost his head and his search to recover it causes chaos in skeleton-town. Bizarre Russian animation.

Strange Situations

A portmanteau drama focussing on four very different, yet somehow interlinked relationships!

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Tinto Verde

Character comedy with a real bite! A man has a vegan girlfriend,but what can he do when his best friend is a butcher?!! If she steaks him out he could be for the chop!

Home Movie

A haunting drama focussing on the splintered & emotional destruction that occurs when a child is taken from their parents.

My Dad Made A Seagull

The art of filmamking from a childs point of view.

3:30pm - 4:00pm

Going Home

A touching tale of one man's attempt to find his way back to what he knows.

Standing Start

Documentary about the life of a track cyclist.

4:00pm - 4:30pm

Tomorrows Forecast

Who knows what tomorrow will bring? A weatherman might.

Winners & Losers

Unrequited love can cause many problems, some predictable, some not...

How To Pick Up Girls

Pigs might not fly, but they can move pretty fast.

4:30pm - 5:00pm

The Curse Of Skull Rock

Fantastically animated tale of pirates, treasure, sunken ships and swords.

Releve

Reliving the glories of a former life.

Coming Home

Drama dealing with death, dependence and coming to terms with loss.

5:00pm - 5:30pm

A Pretty Penny

Australian drama based on the difficulties of dealing with the death of a loved one.

Living for the Weekend

The life of Portobello teenagers, their friends, their lifestyles, their obsessions.

Little Dinosaurs

Charming and elegantly shot animation about survival in the age of dinosaurs.

 
5:30pm till 7:30pm
Attention
~~~~~~~~~~~ Evening ~~~~~~~~~~~
7:30pm - 8:00pm

Stolen Christmas

Gritty drama from Pilton video.

Record And Erase

Internet dating. You've been warned...

8:00pm - 8:30pm

Random

Horror along the same lines as the Saw films. Not for the faint hearted.

Crosswords

The self-contained world of crossword puzzlers has never seemed so dangerous! Striking drama with a surreal twist.

8:30pm - 9:00pm

White Collar Crime

A Vicar is cuckolded and seeks revenge at a paintball comepition..Ninja Style!! Action packed dark comedy!

Nobhead

Ingenious and very funny mockumentary,detailing the disadvantaged lives of those born with an unusual addition to their foreheads.

The Sheepening

Great use of CGI in this comedy drama, a man must find his dead relatives encountering Meteors and rather vampish ladies en route!

9:00pm - 9:30pm

The Road Tae Auchter-Naewhere

Off-beat Road Movie featuring a hunt for a rare snake and encounters with a gallery of grotesque characters.

9:30pm - 10:00pm

Silly Billy

A man meets some crazy psycho Geordies whilst in a local shop, are they really crazed killers? But who's the real psycho? Laugh-out-loud contemporary comedy.

Charcoal Traffic

A dramatic story of two brothers trapped in a murderous cycle of environmental and cultural devastation in Somalia.

Hung Up

A shattered man contemplates his course of action following the violent death of his girlfriend.

10:00pm - 10:30pm

Safe Self Tester

Dark animation based on two inventors set to a trip hop soundtrack.

Ball

The world premiere of the surreal and genuinely unsettling world of a man, a table and a ball. But who is playing whom?

The Karaoke Killers

The world premiere of the darkly Noir-esque black comedy set amid the jealous & self-obsessed world of Karaoke singers, death is for soloists and hatred tops the charts!

10:30pm-11:00pm

Morsure

Gripping French horror short, where a small rural family face a desperate struggle to survive in a battle against a blood-crazed zombie!

Gasoline Blood

A genuine Grindhouse-style period-look to this zombie horror, some unpleasant people meet a rather grisly fate!

Film Eight

A man is hunted through a dark and desolate industrial landscape untill he encounters a gateway to another world..populated by zombies! Surreal horror.

11:00pm-11:30pm

Frankie & Bessie

An elderly couple make some deliciously subversive revelations about their sexual habits! Will their marriage survive?

The Heist

The world premiere of this witty and engaging crime drama, a robbery, some dumb crooks and ape costumes galore!

An Jowl Yn Agas Kegin

The Devil In Your Kitchen

Great cornish comedy with a huge suprise at the end!

The End