FESTIVAL FILM

Wanted——

Best Of The Fest

Scots to take part in Cameo and Filmhouse, Sun 24 Aug. , The 51st Edinburgh International Film Festival draws to a close, but not before a live debate on the highlights of the past two weeks have a final shot on screen. Critics’ raves, devolution.

audience favourites and other films championed by the Festival’s programmers

all in a single-day sitting. If you’ll be voting in the

referendum but will be in London on September 7 - or can travel - ring David Sayer on

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Filmhouse 3

Gala Shorts Mix (86 rriins, * i 1: iii) A selection of short films with a more mainstream approach 6pm.

Filmhouse 1

The Ice Storm (1 12 mins, 4: i s *) Sigourney Weaver and KeVin Kline star in Ang Lee’s detailed depiction of

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death by embarking on an odyssey of to shared human sympathy. 8pm. ..

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gets beyond controversy and spectacle --

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Junk Mail i83 iriins, t i * iv M A It'IaflOtlS, ultra-sleaXy tale of an Oslo

Topless Women Talk About Their Lives ' o (89 mms’ It * * *I Pregmm LIZ I‘EilaBmMeofithlflw mins i: it s *) Ga With ".vc eptcrt.“.lnm.c.n.t ' surVives a series of disasters in this ' . , , _ W from 1 he 1 "Rich BEES

spunky New Zealand slacker comedy , Oidmd“ S duecmflal debm '3 an o .

9 30 , astonishingly personal take on 29th August . ' pm” alcoholism and domestic Violence in A BBA N IGHT vegetarian _ 1 south London 2pm. oth live entertainment

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: Ulmer's fate-haunted, minimalist ilIlll frustration and apathy in a beautifully

NOW is authentic pulp fiction 3 30pm. Every Lime Thing HOS pliir-toiiraphed rural French town. 3pm.

mins, * vr * s «i The inmates of a French psychiatric hospital put on their

annual stage show iii a heart-breaking STAR RATINGS and hair-raising documentary. 5 30pm '

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Didn’t feel a thing: Bob Flanagan in Sick at Filmhouse 3