Whatever Works - Filmhouse Cinema Edinburgh

32 Refugee Week ScotlandMOVING TO MARSRefugee WeekScotlandFrom film festivals to football tournaments,comedy nights to carnivals, exhibitions,workshops, parties and much, much more,Refugee Week Scotland (14 - 20 June) is anexciting programme of events happeningacross the country to celebrate diversity andraise awareness of refugee issues. For moreinformation, visit www.refugeeweekscotland.comRefugee Week Scotland is coordinated bythe Scottish Refugee Councilwww.scottishrefugeecouncil.org.ukFor further information about other ReelFestivals events visit www.reelfestivals.orgTICKETDEALSSee all three films in this season and get 15% offThis package is available online, in person and on thephone, on both full price and concession price tickets.Tickets must all be bought at the same time.UNVEILEDMoving to MarsSun 13 Jun at 1.00pmMat Whitecross • UK 2009 • 1h23m • DigiBetaEnglish and Burmese with English subtitles • PG • DocumentaryMoving to Mars follows two refugee families from Burmaover the course of a year that will change their livescompletely. Forced from their homeland by the repressivemilitary junta, they have lived in a Thai refugee campfor many years. A resettlement scheme offers them thechance of a new life, but their new home, in Sheffield, willbe different to everything they have ever known. Withintimate access, this documentary from Mat Whitecross(The Road to Guantanamo) depicts the families’ moving andsometimes humorous struggles with 21st century Britain. .FOLLOWED BY SHORTLong Way from Home Anna Jones, UK 2008, 15minProduced in collaboration with the IkaZe Theatre Project andthe Welcoming (Adult Learning Project), this powerful andmoving indictment of the Asylum System in the UK is awelcome return to Edinburgh for filmmaker Anna Jones, whoworked with a group of asylum seekers in the city over a9 month period and produced a wonderful tribute to theintegrity and determination of three people from Rwanda,Colombia and the Sudan, who tell their tale of fightingintolerance with dignity and purpose to become acceptedcitizens.This screening will be followed by a Q&A with guestspeakers.UNVEILEDUnveiled Fremde HautMon 14 Jun at 6.00pmAngelina Maccarone • Germany/Austria 2005 • 1h37m • 35mmGerman, English and Persian with English subtitles • 15Cast: Jasmin Tabatabai, Navíd Akhavan, Bernd Tauber, MajidFarahat, Georg Friedrich.Unveiled begins as the plane carrying Fariba (JasmineTabatabai) to Germany leaves Iranian air space. Sheremoves her headscarf and begins a radical process ofreinvention. A lesbian fleeing persecution because ofher sexuality, Fariba is leaving Tehran to seek asylum.When her neighbour in the internment centre commitssuicide, she assumes his identity to escape repatriation.Living in a hostel for men, her refuge in Germany and herphysical safety amongst the other migrant workers reston her ability to pass as a man. This is an uneasy freedom,made worse when she attracts the attention of a popularlocal woman. Jasmin Tabatabai invests Fariba with a quietintensity reminiscent of Hilary Swank in Boys Don’t Cry.Her transformation from confident middle-class womanto invisible male immigrant is believable and says as muchabout the cultural place of strangers as it does aboutsexuality.