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In Conversation: Thelma Schoonmaker

Special Event

In Conversation: Thelma Schoonmaker

We are thrilled to welcome iconic Film Editor Thelma Schoonmaker who will be In Conversation with us for this special late addition to the programme. In a career-encompassing interview Thelma will discuss her incredible work, which includes a five decade-spanning...

Special Event
90 mins
18

28 Days Later

Retrospective Screening

28 Days Later

Get ready for an after hours, after dark screening of Danny Boyle’s seminal 2002 horror masterpiece. Presented with a special introduction from the film’s Producer Andrew Macdonald. Recent Oscar Winner Cillian Murphy stars as a man who awakens from a...

Retrospective Screening
Danny Boyle
2002
108 mins
15

The Sean Connery Foundation presents: The Untouchables 

Retrospective Screening

The Sean Connery Foundation presents: The Untouchables 

We are honoured to welcome The Sean Connery Foundation and members of the Connery family to present a special screening of Brian De Palma’s iconic gangland thriller.   ‘For Sean, making this film was the beginning of a whole new era....

Retrospective Screening
Brian De Palma
1987
119 mins
15

Phantom of the Paradise

Retrospective Screening

Phantom of the Paradise

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Brian De Palma’s rock opera masterpiece. A Faustian tale of betrayal and obsession playing out in the gaudy halls of a concert hall, this deliriously entertaining musical features the legendary Paul Williams as cynical music producer...

Retrospective Screening
Brian De Palma
1974
91 mins
18

Gaspar Noé presents: Suspiria

Retrospective Screening

Gaspar Noé presents: Suspiria

Introduced by Director and Dario Argento, fan Gaspar Noé. An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realise that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.  Find out more about...

Retrospective Screening
Dario Argento
1977
98 mins
15

Bridging the Gap Documentary Shorts

World Premiere

Bridging the Gap Documentary Shorts

A collection of short documentaries that explore the power and politics of return. They question what it means to make a film in a state of emergency, and to return to a place or a moment in the past to...

World Premiere
Various
2024
77 mins
15

Competition Shorts

World Premiere

Competition Shorts

The Thelma Schoonmaker Prize for Short Filmmaking Excellence A bold short film programme highlighting pioneering work from Scotland and beyond. Ranging from themes of family trauma and gender identity to existentialist molluscs and werewolves, this year’s competition traverses documentary, stop-motion...

World Premiere
Various
2024
111 mins
15

Timestalker

UK Premiere

Timestalker

Alice Lowe’s vibrant second feature offers a playful take on the romantic comedy with a reincarnation twist. Agnes chases her true love across the centuries, but can’t quite seem to get the happy ending she’s looking for. Her various unlucky...

UK Premiere
Alice Lowe
2024
105 mins
15

The Radleys

World Premiere

The Radleys

Bloodthirsty, dark comedy about a suppressed family of vampires, adapted from Matt Haig’s (The Midnight Library) titular novel by Talitha Stevenson, and developed by Jo Brand. When their teenage daughter is assaulted by a classmate and an unexpected thirst for...

World Premiere
Euros Lyn
2024
111 mins
18

Steppenwolf

UK Premiere

Steppenwolf

Dystopian, genre-straddling road trip set during civil war in a stark, bleakly violent landscape. A woman searching for her young son encounters a corrupt, coldly sociopathic investigator who will stop at nothing to carve the way forward. This is a...

UK Premiere
Adilkhan Yerzhanov
2024
102 mins

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