The Inverness Film Festival

The Inverness Film Festival is back on the 5th of November till the 9th.  The opening night film is The Silent Storm with The Imitation Game as the closing night film.  With films ranging from the old (black and white) to the recent films (ranging from last year till this year) there is plenty to watch. 


Kon-Tiki film about the 1947 voyage of Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl and five crew members across the Pacific Ocean on a raft hade out of balsa wood to prove that settlers of South America could have travelled from Asia with only a simple radio as the only modern equipment on board the raft.  The film was nominated for Best Foreign Language film Oscar.  The 2012 film is 118 minutes long and screened on Saturday the 8th of November. 


Viktoria film is about a young girl who lives in Bulgaria during the last decade of the Cold War and after.  The screening of the film will be on Sunday the 9th of November, the day before 25 years to the day that the infamous Berlin Wall came down and Todor Zhivkov, the Bulgarian communist head of state resigned, all of which caused the fall of the USSR and free elections across Eastern Europe the following year and beginning the 90s. 


There are plenty see and you can find more information on-line or in a booklet available at Eden Court.  I hope that you will enjoy watching them. 

The Initiation Game film

Starring the infamous Benedict Cumberbatch (infamous for playing Sherlock Holmes in the TV Series Sherlock and voicing Smaug the Dragon in the Hobbit film series) as Alan Turing a bright Cambridge mathematician and early computer scientist who is set to crack the German Enigma Code along with Keira Knightley (famous for Elizabeth Swann of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series).  The film will highlight the highs and lows of Alan Turing in his film directed by Morten Tyldum (who has directed Headhunters).  The film will be screened between Friday 14th of November and Thursday the 4th of December. 

Fury (film)

Starring Brad Pitt (who has starred in Ocean's Eleven), the film Fury is a story about a group of tank drivers who push on a deadly mission behind the enemy lines in April 1945, but the crew are felling overwhelming odds with a new crew member among them.  The film is directed by David Ayer.  The film will be screened between Friday the 28th of November till Thursday the 4th of December and runs for 135 mins. 

The "A Most Wanted Man" film

Based on a novel by John le Carré, the film starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman (who has starred in a Mission Impossible film and the Hunger Games sequels) is about an illegal immigrant who gets involved in the War of Terror.  If you wish to see the film, there is a subtitled version tonight at 6pm with the final screening tomorrow at 11.30am and 8.45pm.  Tickets are £8 for adults (above 18) and the film runs for 122 minutes.  Enjoy the film in which "Philip Seymour Hoffman is flawless". 

Scottish play of Cinderella

Cinderella is a classic story that everyone recognises at the sound of the name.  (With a little help from Walt Disney).  The play is performed by the Scottish Opera, the play is going to be performed on the 4th, 6th and the 8th of next month from 7:15 in the evening running for 2 hours and 50 minutes.  Starting as Cinderella will be Victoria Yarovaya from Russia with Nico Darmanin playing Prince Ramiro.  Music will be conducted Oliver Rundell on the first night with William Lacey conducting on the remaining two nights.  The paly is directed by Sandrine Anglade.  Tickets are about £10 for any seat, if you are in a group more than ten people, you can buy ten tickets and get the eleventh free.  Hope that everyone who goes to see will enjoy the classic story of Cinderella.