Inverness Film Festival 2008

If you’re planning to heard north this month you’d be wise to check out this year’s Inverness Film Festival. Now in its fifth year, it offers a varied programme with a focus on top British talent. The bill includes several Scottish premieres including Tilda Swinton’s new film Julia, Michael Winterbottom’s Genova and the Steve Coogan comedy Hamlet 2, giving you a chance to watch them before they reach the cinema. 

Swinton also appears in Orlando, Sally Potter’s multi award-winning film made in 1992 and based on the novel by Virginia Woolf. The actress herself will be in town to introduce the screening, a great opportunity to see this key British film on the big screen.

Also worth catching is Beautiful Losers, the story of a group of artists in 90s New York who unintentionally create an artistic movement through innovative work that embraces both a DIY ethic and a variety of subcultures.

And there’s a Scottish presence at the festival in the form of Robert Carlyle in the film Summer. A role for which he won ‘Best Actor’ at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival. And failing that you can always catch Bill Forsyth’s 80s hit Local Hero.