Eden Court's film festival programme announced
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EDEN Court will "press play" on its 18th Inverness Film Festival next month.
The festival will open on Friday, November 6, for a five-day run.
Although this year’s event has been pared back, organisers say it still delivers a diverse and exciting programme of Scottish premieres and exclusive previews.
Some 15 new features will be shown, spanning over 10 countries, as well as new Scottish shorts from the Glasgow Short Film Festival.
This year’s festival will open with Our Ladies, a wild trip to 1990s Edinburgh in the company of a raucous choir of Catholic schoolgirls from the Highlands. The film is based on Alan Warner’s novel, The Sopranos.
This year the festival has a mini-focus on Canada, tracking three very different corners of the country’s landscape and culture.
Zacharias Kunuk’s One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk hinges on a 1961 encounter on spring sea ice between the title character (Apayata Kotierk) and a government emissary (Kim Bodnia). The remote forests of Quebec play host to a powerful tale of intertwined lives in Louise Archambault’s And The Birds Rained Down. And The Kid Detective is a bold, funny and deceptively dark take on the crime caper – but definitely not one for the kids.
Kids and grown-ups alike, however, will be thrilled by Wolfwalkers, an Irish fantasy animation, set in the 1600s.
Oscar-winning talent abounds, with Tilda Swinton in Pedro Almodovar’s The Human Voice, Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci in Supernova, and Frances McDormand travelling through the Great American West, embracing the Nomadic lifestyle, in Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland.
Paul MacDonald-Taylor, Inverness Film Festival director, said: "Whilst many of the things we all enjoy doing have been put on pause this year, we are delighted to press play on the 18th Inverness Film Festival.
"It’s more compact than in previous years, but what we’ve lost in quantity we have more than made up for with the quality of these films."
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