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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2013

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Sofia's Last Ambulance Sofia's Last Ambulance
Sofia's Last Ambulance and People's Park
The Battle of the Sexes (Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: James Erskine, Zara Hayes; Stars: Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs)
Documentary about Billie Jean King's match against Bobby Riggs.
Before You Know It (Country: USA; Year: 2013; Director: PJ Raval)
Portraits of three American gay men who are over 65.
Consequence (Gegenwart) (Country: Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Thomas Heise)
A detailed study of what happens during cremation.
Dark Matter (Materia Oscura) (Country: Italy; Year: 2013; Director: Massimo D'Anolfi, Martina Parenti)
A visit to the ruined environment of a military testing site.
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Desert Runners (Country: USA; Year: 2013; Director: Jennifer Steinman)
Fancy racing 250km on foot? Across a desert? Four times?
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Desert Runners and The Great Hip Hop Hoax
The Great Hip Hop Hoax (Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: Jeanie Finlay; Stars: Gavin Bain, Billy Boyd)
The true story of a lie.
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Infiltrators (Mutasalilun) (Country: Palestine, UAE, Lebanon; Year: 2013; Director: Khaled Jarrar; Stars: Khaled Jarrar)
This documentary follows the efforts by various Palestinians to cross the 7m high wall that separates the Palestinian Territories from Israel.
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Kiss The Water (Country: US, UK; Year: 2013; Director: Eric Steel)
Portrait of salmon fly-maker Megan Boyd.
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Lunarcy! (Country: Canada; Year: 2012; Director: Simon Ennis; Stars: Christopher Carson, Alan Bean, Dennis Hope, Peter Kokh)
Affectionate look at a group of individuals who are obsessed with the moon.
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People's Park (Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Libbie Dina Cohn, JP Sniadecki)
A single tracking shot captures life in the People's Park in Chengdu, China.
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Infiltrators and Dark Matter
A Play for Freedom (Freispielen) (Country: Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Niko Apel)
Is censored art better than no art at all?
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Sofia's Last Ambulance (Country: Croatia, Bulgaria, Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Ilian Metev; Stars: Krassimir Yordanov, Mila Mikhailova, Plamen Slavkov)
Sofia, the capital city of Bulgaria, has more than two million inhabitants and only 13 ambulances... this documentary follows one of them.
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The Turtle's Rage (Schildkrötenwut) (Country: Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Pary El-Qalqili; Stars: Musa El-Qalqili, Sibylle El-Qalqili, Pary El-Qalqili, Maliha Abu Jaber, Um Massad El-Qalqili)
"We will not return. We cannot. Where would we return to?" - a personal consideration of Palestine.
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Yumen (Country: China, USA; Year: 2013; Director: J P Sniadecki, Huang Xiang, Xu Ruotao; Stars: Xue Hua, Chen Qi, Zhou Qian, Huang Xiang, Xu Ruotao)
A visit to a Chinese ghost town.
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