Saturday's screening of La Danza de Los Mirlos will be accompanied by When Cumbia Is On, a short film by Edinburgh-based director Paz Gonzáles. It follows the journey of Peruvian Cumbia as it transcends its Latin American origins to find a new home in Scotland. 🎸
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Tickets are still available for The Trail Left by Time, a meditative and beautiful filmic exploration of childhood and memory. Set in a small village in Cordoba, a man named Antonio remembers a week from his childhood that shaped the man he would become.
A visually striking documentary portraying life in the volcanic Aeolian Islands of southern Italy, Islands of Fire makes up part of Volcano Cinema: of Eruptions and Other Stories, a night of short films dedicated to the portrayal of volcanoes onscreen.
Two mountaineers undertake a clandestine expedition to Popocatépetl, one of the most active and dangerous volcanoes on the planet. Faced with the inability to predict explosions, which occur very frequently, surviving or not is a matter of chance.
The eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in 1985 resulted in one of Colombia's greatest tragedies. Jenifer de la Rosa was one of the children who survived and was later adopted. At 30, motivated by the possibility that her biological mother was still alive, she decided to investigate her roots.
📣 EDINBURGH! This is your chance to see one of the most beautiful Spanish films in recent years, The Trail Left By Time. 📣 Antonio, in his last days of life, remembers a Holy Week from his childhood in a remote village. 7 days that made him the man he is, and the child he cries to become again.
¡QUÉ CALOR! - A Night of Peruvian Cumbia, Food, Films & Celebration Our closing event celebrates one of the region’s most vibrant genres. We will be screening La Danza de los Mirlos, which tells the story of Los Mirlos, pioneers of psychedelic cumbia whose sound still resonates across borders.
¡Qué Calor! - CLOSING NIGHT - Edinburgh
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In Uberlândia, Brazil, Chico earns his living repairing ovens, which he can easily get into thanks to his small size. Faced with the contempt of a system that relegants him to the ranks of the marginalised, he gradually begins to resist.
Tonight begins Volcano Cinema: Of Eruptions and Other Stories, a strand of the Latin Connections Film Festival showcasing the diverse ways volcanoes have been documented and reimagined through film. 🌋
After practicing various professions, Jacinto (Asdrúbal Melendez) decides to become a movie projectionist. He converts his truck into a whale-shaped travelling cinema and travels across Venezuela, sharing films with people in rural villages. 📽️
We are pleased to announce that our Viva Palestina fundraiser events raised a total of £1601.45 for Plant a Tree in Palestine and Amplify Gaza Community Resilience Projects Fund! 🇵🇸
The Latin Connections Film Festival kicks off next week with THE TRAIL LEFT BY TIME. It follows a man who, in what feels like his final breath, recalls an Easter Week from his childhood in the village where he grew up; seven days that shaped the adult he would become.
📣 Announcing LATIN CONNECTIONS FILM FESTIVAL This edition of LCFF will celebrate and bring together the cinema and culture of countries connected to Latinidad, presenting a vibrant programme that explores themes such as memory, music, volcanoes, the body, solidarity, and, of course, cinema.
Swing by Craigmillar Library this afternoon and join us for films and conversation over some tea and biscuits. ☕ This month's film club is all about Brazil with a selection of excellent Brazilian short films. 🇧🇷 🎥 📅 7th May, 2pm 📍 Craigmillar Library, 101 Niddrie Mains Rd, Edinburgh EH16 4DS
Just 2 hours left to donate to our Crowdfunder! ⏱️ Even if we don't meet our goal, every donation helps! Your money will go towards licensing films, hiring venues, and paying staff. Let's make this year's Latin Connections Film Festival the best it can be! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/latin-conn...
🍞🌹 Celebrate International Workers' Day this year with Arábia, a film exploring the lives of working class young people in Brazil. 🇧🇷 📅 2nd May, 7.30pm 📍 Kelvin Hall, 1445 Argyle St, Glasgow G3 8AW 🎟️ Tickets are FREE but registration is recommended: cinemaattic.com/event/arabia/
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Maha, 12, is part of the last generation of Palestinian refugees from the Balata camp. Following a faintness from her blind grandfather, she imagines a crazy project: to make him believe that the wall of separation has fallen and that a return to his native land is possible.
Join us tomorrow for a screening of the newly restored ANTUCA, about a young Andean domestic worker who has decided to fulfill a dream, return to her community and re-find her adolescent love after passing through Lima. 📅 14th April, 7:30pm 📍 ECVS, 23a Fettes Row, Edinburgh, EH3 6RH
🇵🇸 VIVA PALESTINA FUNDRAISER 🇵🇸 CinemaAttic is proud to collaborate with the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign to present a short film night in aid of the Amplify Gaza Community Resilience Projects Fund and Plant a Tree in Palestine, to whom all our proceeds will go.
Dive into the world of Peruvian feminist cinema with Antuca 🎥♀️ 📅 14th April, 7:30pm 📍 ECVS, 23a Fettes Row, Edinburgh, EH3 6RH
CinemaAttic is pleased to welcome Latin American feminist filmmaker María Barea for the showing of a newly restored edition of her influential film Antuca (1992). 📅 14th April, 7:30pm 📍 Edinburgh Cine and Video Society, 23a Fettes Row, Edinburgh, EH3 6RH
🎉 BIG NEWS! 🎉 We’re thrilled to announce that the Audience Award at the 10th Catalan Film Festival goes to… "Imade" by Ignacio Acconcia González! 🏆👏
Our monthly film clubs are fast approaching! Join us for a FREE programme exploring music in film. From Colombia to Malawi, you're sure to be up and moving! MORNINGSIDE 📅 1st April, 2pm 📍 Morningside Library CRAIGMILLAR 📅 2nd April, 2pm 📍 Craigmillar Library
Ahead of its UK premiere at the Catalan Film Festival tomorrow, director Mar Coll talks to us about her latest film, Salve Maria, a gripping psychological thriller about the darker side of motherhood. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHNn...
Interview with director Mar Coll
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This Sunday we are bringing you an award-winning classic of Catalan cinema. Directed by José Luis Guerín and produced by the legendary Pere Portabella, Train of Shadows is a silent homage to the origins of cinema, recreating the apparent disappearance of a French photographer in the 1920s #CFF10
The Catalan Film Festival opening night event will be accompanied by delicious Catalan food from local family business Sabor Al Toque. All included in the price of the ticket! 🌮🎟️ Check out our website for more details: catalanfilmfestival.co.uk
The Catalan Film Festival is less than a week away! 🥳 Check out our trailer to see all the fantastic cinema we have lined up this March: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Jp... See our website for the full programme: catalanfilmfestival.co.uk #CFF10 #Edinburgh #Glasgow #Dundee #Inverness
Catalan Film Festival 10 TRAILER
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📣 CATALAN FILM FESTIVAL 2025 IS HERE 📣 The highly-anticipated Catalan Film Festival returns for its tenth edition coming to cinemas across Scotland from March 8th – March 30th 2025. 🥳 See our website for the full programme: catalanfilmfestival.co.uk
And that's it for our Eduardo Williams retrospective! We had a wonderful time hosting Teddy and hearing him speak about his filmmaking. Thank you so much to everyone who came along to our events, and we hope you enjoyed them as much as we did.
Film fans are in agreement that The Human Surge 3 is unlike anything else with its dreamlike tone and 360 degree filming technique. Judge for yourself this Saturday the 15th! We'll be screening The Human Surge 3 followed by a Q&A with director Eduardo Williams himself, who will be in attendance.