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.