COLIN
Small money, big scare
For those looking for a tantalising midnight movie, forget the standard Rocky Horror attraction: come to our midnight special screening and German premiere of COLIN instead, a zombie movie produced on an astonishing shoestring budget of 45£ but so brilliantly shot that it will prove to be just as much fun, if [...]

BETTER THINGS
This is the Real Life
 
Drug abuse, love sickness, hopelessness - Growing up on the countryside is not always quiet and sheltered. Duane Hopkin’s feature BETTER THINGS vividly illustrates this.
 
Hopkin’s debut is set in a small rural community in the Cotswolds where a teenager has just died of a heroin overdose. The story follows [...]

HUNGER
britspotting Warm-Up
On the eve of the festival (Thursday, November 12th) britspotting and Das Filmcafé will show you a screening of Steve McQueen’s HUNGER.
 
McQueen’s debut centers on the story of IRA activist Bobby Sands who is detained in the notorious Maze prison in Northern Ireland in 1981. Mainly, hate, violence and desperation dominates the prison. [...]

MOON
The jury have decided upon the winners of Edinburgh International Film Festivals. Once again the britspotting team had the right nose when presenting several of this year’s winning features and short films in the twelve competition categories…
MOON directed by David Bowie’s son, Duncan Jones, scooped the Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film. MOON [...]

FISH TANK
British director Andrea Arnold just won the Jury Prize at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. She is sharing her price with South Korean director Park Chan-wook (THIRST).
Arnolds FISH TANK tells the story of 15 year old Mia, whose life gets out of hand when her mother brings home a new boyfriend. Mia is being [...]