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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2004

The EIFF programme says: "The brave, the bold, the new - the very best debuts and second films from the newest talents to surface all over the globe."

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The Last Train The Last Train
The Last Train and The Ordeal
Bitter Dream (Khab-e Talkh) (Country: Iran; Year: 2004; Director: Mohsen Amiryoussefi; Writer: Mohsen Amiryoussefi; Stars: Yadollah Anvari, Abbas Esfandiari, Delbar Ghasri, Mohsen Rahimi, Safar-Ali Safari, , , , , , )
A man who prepares bodies for burial is forced to consider his own mortality.
UK Premiere
Buena Vida Delivery (Country: Argentina; Year: 2003; Director: Leonardo Di Cesare; Writer: Leonardo Di Cesare, Hans Garrino, Asteban Perincioli; Stars: Ignacio Toselli, Moro Anghileri, Oscar Nunez, Alicia Palmes, Sofia da Silva, Ariel Staltari, Oscar Alegre)
A guy moves in with a girl, only to find she comes with a family - and business - attached.
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UK Premiere
Control (Kontroll) (Country: Hungary; Year: 2003; Director: Nimród Antal; Writer: Jim Adler, Nimród Antal; Stars: Sándor Csányi, Csaba Pindroch, Zsolt Nagy, Gyözö Szabó, Eszter Balla, Lajos Kovács)
A bizarre fictional insight into the idiosyncratic lives of Budapest’s underground train inspectors.
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UK Premiere
Dear Pillow (Country: US; Year: 2004; Director: Bryan Poyser; Writer: Bryan Poyser; Stars: Rusty Kelley, Gary Chason, Viviane Vives, Cory Criswell, John Erler, Isabel Martin, Brian McGuire, Karen Skloss, Alex Holdridge, Elle Klein)
The adventures of a sex starved 17-year-old porn mag abuser.
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International Premiere
Demi-Tarif (1/2 Price) (Country: France; Year: 2003; Director: Isild Le Besco; Writer: Isild Le Besco; Stars: Kolia Litscher, Cindy David, Lila Salet)
Abandoned kids scam a life of shoplifting, scamming restaurants and eating junk.
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UK Premiere
Somersault Somersault
Somersault and Dear Pillow
Duck Season (Temporada De Patos) (Country: Mexico; Year: 2004; Director: Fernando Eimbcke; Writer: Fernando Eimbcke, Paula Markovitch; Stars: Carolina Politi, Daniel Miranda, Diego Cataño, Danny Perea, Enrique Arreola, Antonio Zúñiga, Alfredo Escobar, Sara Castro, , , )
Life is not as peachy as it first appears for two teenage rich-kids.
UK Premiere
The Gift (Il Dono) (Country: Italy; Year: 2003; Director: Michelangelo Frammartino; Writer: Michelangelo Frammartino; Stars: Michelangelo Frammartino, Gabriella Maiolo, Valentino Audino, Pasquale Umbaca, Romilda Macri, Cesare Calipari, Maria Vozzo, Vincenzo Sangregorio, Francesco Fammartino, Angelina Alvino)
The old man, the prostitute and the dog that dies.
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UK Premiere
The Green Hat (Lu Mao Tze, Lu Mao Zi) (Country: Hong Kong; Year: 2003; Director: Liu Fendou; Writer: Liu Fendou; Stars: Fan Liao, Haibin Li, Lifan Dong, Congxi Li, Mei Li)
A hard-edged drama about dysfunctional relationships and man’s need for acceptance and love.
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European Premiere
Incident At Loch Ness (Country: UK; Year: 2004; Director: Zak Penn; Writer: Werner Herzog, Zak Penn; Stars: Werner Herzog, Kitana Baker, Gabriel Beristain, Russell Williams II, David A Davidson, Michael Karnow, Robert O'Meara, Zak Penn, Steven Gardner, John Bailey, Matthew Nicolay)
Mockumentary about a search for Nessie.
UK Premiere
The Last Train (Posledniy Poezd) (Country: Russia; Year: 2003; Director: Alexey A German; Writer: Alexey A German; Stars: Pavel Romanov, Peter Merkuriev, Alexey Devotchenko, Irina Rakshina, Alexander Tyurin, Marina Radzhiyeva, Natalya Lvova)
All quiet on the Eastern Front.
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UK Premiere
Zelary Zelary
Zelary and The Gift
Little Men (Malenkie lyudi) (Country: Kazakhstan, France; Year: 2003; Director: Nariman Turebayev; Writer: Nariman Turebayev; Stars: Erjan Bekmuratov, Oleg Kerimov, Mira Abdulina, Lyazat Dautova, Anna Kolesnikova, Anna Krasnova, Sevik Nurebokov, Ilias Turmanov, , , )
Comedy about two male flatmates who have an unspoken rivalry about everything life has to offer.
Scottish Premiere
Los Muertos (The Dead) (Country: Argentina; Year: 2004; Director: Lisandro Alonso; Writer: Lisandro Alonso; Stars: Argentino Vargas)
An ex-convict's journey up river in deepest Argentina.
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UK Premiere
Mamay (Country: Ukraine; Year: 2003; Director: Oles Sanin; Writer: Oles Sanin; Stars: Viktoriya Spesivtseva, Andrij Bilous, Sergei Romanyuk, Nazl Seytablayeva, Oles Sanin)
A mysterious pastiche of Ukrainian mythology and folklore mixed with a Romeo and Juliet style love story.
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UK Premiere
The Ordeal (Calvaire) (Country: France/Belgium/Luxembourg; Year: 2004; Director: Fabrice Du Welz; Writer: Fabrice Du Welz, Romain Protat; Stars: Laurent Lucas, Jackie Berroyer, Philippe Nahon, Jean-Luc Couchard, Brigitte Lahaie, Gigi Coursigni, Philippe Grand'henry, Jo Prestia, Marc Lefebvre, Alfred David)
A passing crooner is kidnapped by a loony in the woods.
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International Premiere
Passages (Lu Cheng) (Country: China; Year: 2004; Director: Yang Chao; Writer: Yang Chao; Stars: Geng Le, Chang Jieping)
A young couple, disillusioned with student life, take off on a search for special mushrooms that could land them a fortune.
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UK Premiere
Mamay Mamay
Mamay and United
Pearls And Pigs (Helmiä ja sikoja) (Country: Finland; Year: 2003; Director: Perttu Leppä; Writer: Perttu Leppä; Stars: Mikko Leppilampi, Laura Birn, Amanda Pilke, Timo Lavikainen, Konsta Hiekkanen, Unto Helo)
Comedy featuring four heavy-drinking misfit brothers who find a new meaning in their lives when their half sister moves in with them and discovers a lucrative, hidden talent.
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UK Premiere
Primer (Country: US; Year: 2004; Director: Shane Carruth; Writer: Shane Carruth; Stars: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden, Anand Upadhyaya, Carrie Crawford, Jay Butler, John Carruth)
Two garage engineers, working with super conductors, stumble across a side-effect that opens infinite opportunities for time travel.
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International Premiere
Rewind (Videoreul boneun namja, Man Watching Video) (Country: South Korea; Year: 2003; Director: Kim Hak-soon; Writer: Kim Hak-soon, Lim Young-tae; Stars: Chang Hyun-sung, Pang Eun-jin, Oh Youn-hong, Sa Hyun-jin, Chung Eun-mi, Kim Young-im, Hong Seung-ki, Kim So-hyung, Chung Young-mi, Chung Da-som)
Nameless Korean video store manager leads an uneventful life, pursued by women.
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European Premiere
Somersault (Country: Australia; Year: 2004; Director: Cate Shortland; Writer: Cate Shortland; Stars: Abbie Cornish, Sam Worthington, Lynette Curran, Nathaniel Dean, Olivia Pigeot, Damien De Montemas)
Sexually awakened 15-year-old escapes to an Australian ski resort and lives off her wits.
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UK Premiere
Taipei 21 (Taipei Er Yi) (Country: Taiwan; Year: 2004; Director: Alex Yang; Writer: Alex Yang; Stars: Lin Meng-chin, Tsai Hsin-hung, Wang Shui-chuan, Toshimoto Fujii, David Mao, Lang Tsu-yun, Feng Yi-kang, Yao Chi-tong, Hsieh Menh-chu, Hsu Hui-ni)
A twenty- something couple struggle with their relationship in modern Taiwan.
Full Review
European Premiere
Passages Passages
Passages and Buena Vida Delivery
United (Country: Norway; Year: 2003; Director: Magnus Martens; Writer: Magnus Martens; Stars: Håvard Lilleheie, Berte Rommetveit, Vegar Hoel, Monika Bjerke, Severin Eskeland, Henrik Mestad, Arne Scheie, Sondre Sørheim)
Light-hearted comedy, where one man’s obsession with playing for Manchester United threatens to tear up his relationship.
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Scottish Premiere
Zelary (Country: Czech Republic/Austria/Slovak Republic; Year: 2003; Director: Ondrej Tojan; Writer: Petr Jarchovsky; Stars: Ana Geislerova, Gyorgy Cserhalmi, Jaroslava Adamova, Miroslav Donutil, Jaroslav Disek, Iva Bittova, Ivan Trojan, Jan Hrusinky, Ondrej Koval, Juraj Hrcka)
A nurse, working for the Resistance in Prague, 1943, escapes to the Moravian mountains.
Full Review
UK Premiere
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