A phrase that started as a bit of a joke has come to mean much more: not just a return, but a reaffirmation. After another challenging year, we’re proud to be here once more, thanks to the dedication of our team, the support we’ve received, and the continuing appetite for the kind of cinema we love to share.
This month’s programme explores the many meanings of being “back”, from cultural revival to political resistance and artistic persistence. With films from Spain, Colombia, Portugal, Scotland, and the Philippines, we invite you to journey with us across continents and stories that echo with rhythm, resilience, and reinvention.
Our friends from Sabor al Toque will be serving up delicious Colombian street food before the screening. The venue is wheelchair accessible. Content warnings (e.g. strobe effects) will be listed in the programme.
📅 20th September – Doors open at 7:30pm, screening begins at 8:00pm.
📍 St Peter’s Church Hall, Lutton Place, Edinburgh EH8 9PE
Accessibility: This event is wheelchair accessible. The short films will be shown with descriptive subtitles.
Event runtime: approx. 2 hours, including an interval.
Programme to include (more films to follow!):
Lanawaru
dir. Angello Faccini Rueda
Colombia, Mexico, US | 15′ | 2024 |
When a local community member disappears, a boy faces an early memory, seeking comfort in the indigenous traditions, healing rituals, and guidance from his grandfather.
Vox Humana
dir. Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan
Philippines, USA, Singapore | 22′ | 2024 | fiction
Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival 2024, Sundance 2025
In the aftermath of an earthquake, the police find a man in the woods. A zoologist, a sound recorder, and a news team grapple with the truth that he may be the cause of all the natural disasters that devastated this small mountain town.
Ones
dir. Juanjo Giménez
Spain | 16′ | 2025 | fiction
Sam is nine years old. He has just been expelled from school for attacking a female classmate. Martín is 42 years old. He is a luthier. He thinks that he has a problem with his son. Sam knows what Martín thinks.
Lethe
dir. Caros Rosales
UK/Spain | 10′ | 2025 | fiction
A journey through the Plain of Oblivion
They Send Word
dir. Mariano Schoendorff
Spain | 9′ | 2024 | documentary
José Manuel Ordovas is a man who at a first glance appears ordinary, but carries a profound personal journey wrapped in violence, crime, and drugs. That was until he found a congregation of aliens that saved him.
Noite Turva
dir. Diogo Salgado
Portugal | 9′ | 2020 | fiction
As the afternoon light fades, two kids play in the woods by a lake. When one of them disappears, the lake and its inhabitants take hold of the narrative and, when the darkness sets in, build up the walls of a maze that encircles the two kids. While one wanders through the forest searching for his friend, the silhouettes, textures and sounds of the forest slowly exert their mysterious grip.
