September marks the beginning of our season. We stop during July and August to rest, to catch up with the programme and because our young kids deserve to have a memory of their parents playing with them.

Sat 21 September, 7.30pm

St. Peter’s Church Hall (Lutton Pl, Newington, Edinburgh, EH8 9PE)

No one knows, or put too much effort in finding out, which edition is this. We guess we will hit our 16th anniversary along the season but who cares. Cinemaattic is back! With 4 short film sessions a month and then a lot more all the way till next summer.

We start with a programme edging on irreverence to our holy holy traditions where religious belief is just one ingredient of a much busier cocktail. Where kids play to be martyrs (MARTYR GIRL) or the congregation, tired of the old icons look for new ones (LIONEL). All of it with a big dose of humor and even looking at much older beliefs like in AQUERONTE and EVEN THOUGH IT’S NIGHT TIME (Goya winner 2024). But then we got much further, into territory that has not been chartered yet, we need your help to classify ALEGRIAS RIOJANAS by Velasco Broca. We open with this film full of irreverence, surrealism and impossible characters. Helps us!!!

Also Colombian family business, SABOR AL TOQUE, will be serving up delicious Colombian food! 🍺🥙

Programme:

Even Though it’s Night
Original title: Aunque es de noche
Directed by Guillermo García López (Spain)
Duration: 16 mins
In La Cañada, Europe’s biggest unregulated settlement, there has been no electricity for over a year. In the firelight, Toni, a 13-year-old boy, discovers that his best friend Nasser is leaving forever.

The Girl Martyr
Original title: La niña mártir
Directed by María Pérez Sanz (Spain)
Duration: 11 mins.
Ávila, 28 March 1526. Teresa de Jesús turns eleven surrounded by her cousins. With their help, she writes a letter to her mother asking her to change her name to Cristina.

Lionel
Directed by Juan Manuel Renau (Argentina)
Duration: 14 mins.
A look at the furry sights and barking sounds of dog photographer Lionel Falcón.

Aqueronte
Directed by Manuel Muñoz Rivas (Spain)
Duration: 26′
A group of passengers cross a river on a small ferry. Fog, laughter, whispers and faces inhabit a floating, suspended space. Time passes, the shore is now closer and people prepare for another part of their journey.

Riojan Joys
Original title: Alegrías Riojanas
Directed by Velasco Broca (Spain)
Duration: 28 mins

Content Warning: violence, nudity, brief swastika imagery

An ophthalmologist’s confession is interrupted when the priest who was attending him leaves in an emergency. After his absolution was postponed, he is fatally hit by a car. His immortal soul is cast into a medieval-looking purgatory.

Accessibility

• -SDH captioning
• -English subtitling
• Wheelchair accessible