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TAKE ONE ACTION Film festival puts female empowerment centre stage
HITLIST THE BEST FILM RELEASES & EVENTS
✽ Sunshine on Leith Dexter Fletcher directs this heartwarming
adaptation of the hit musical about two friends who return from fighting in Afghanistan, with songs from the Proclaimers. See review, page 61. General release from Fri 4 Oct.
✽ Take One Action The annual festival returns with a packed programme of docos, dramas and workshops all about political and social activism. See preview, left. Various venues, Glasgow and Edinburgh, Fri 27 Sep—Sat 12 Oct.
✽ Musuem Hours Jem Cohen blends
documentary and fiction in this meditation on art and the city set in the Kunsthistorisches Art Museum, Vienna. See review, page 61. GFT, Glasgow, and Filmhouse, Edinburgh, from Fri 20 Sep.
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F rom international the Take One Action film festival is an ever-inspiring selection of stirring stories that explore contemporary issues. But the most interesting strand this year is probably the Sisters weekend, a programme of events putting global female empowerment in front of the lens. You can certainly bank on some high energy and self-confidence with a night from Neu! Reekie!’s noisy avant-garde boundary destroyers. They curate a bill that includes music, visuals, poetry from slam queen Hollie McNish and the Jamaican poet and novelist Kei Miller (Fri 4 Oct).
The Sisters Seminar (Sat 5 Oct), featuring presentations, debates, short ilms and a panel session exploring the voices of women on ilm, is a more thoughtful complement to the choice of screenings for the weekend. The films begin with the Scottish premiere of Salma, a documentary feature following
an imprisoned Tamil woman who, after being forced into marriage, secretly began writing poetry. Smuggling her work out to a publisher, she caused a huge stir in the ongoing smouldering debate about women’s rights in India.
✽ Mark Kermode presents Hatchet Job: Love Movies, Hate Critics
Everybody’s favourite film buff and recently appointed Observer critic Mark Kermode chats about his new book. Cameo, Edinburgh, Mon 14 Oct.
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There’s a chance look at Malala to Yousafzai’s remarkable life, in a screening of Girl Rising. The film (with voiceover from Selena Gomez, Meryl Streep and Liam Neeson) looks at the lives of nine girls all over the world who fought for an education against the odds. This UK premiere is screened on World Teachers’ Day, and is followed by a discussion with David Mundell MP and Mukami McCrum from Africa Council Scotland and the Scottish Government. (Charlotte Runcie)
Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Fri 27 Sep–Sat 12 Oct.
✽ Blue Jasmine Woody Allen’s latest
drama stars Cate Blanchett as a wealthy housewife in crisis. See review, page 62. General release from Fri 27 Sep.
✽ The Perverts Guide to Ideology Documentary maker Sophie Fiennes teams
up with cultural theorist Slavoj Zizek for this critique of contemporary political structures. Followed by a satellite Q&A with Zizek himself. Cameo, Edinburgh, Fri 4 Oct.
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