Scottish Film Event Highlights – August 2015

She’s the star of the New York film scene, she was the toast of Berlin Film Festival last year, and now Josephine Decker comes to Glasgow Film Theatre to introduce her first two features, Butter on the Latch (8 Aug) and Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (9 Aug; Decker will be in attendance for a Q&A after the film). Described as “the unholy marriage of Ingmar Bergman and David Lynch” by Indiewire, this is a great opportunity to pick the brains of one of the most original voices in indie filmmaking right now.

You might all have noticed that a little arts festival kicks off in Edinburgh this month. The Cameo have cannily taken the opportunity to invite some of the festival's regulars to leave the madness of the Fringe for an evening and introduce some movies as part of its regular Curated By... season. The line-up includes Dan 'Withered Hand' Willson giving his thoughts on Harmony Korine’s audacious debut, Gummo (screening from VHS, 4 Aug), funnyman Phill Jupitus bringing Hitchcock’s man-on-the-run thriller The 39 Steps (5 Aug), comic actor Gavin Mitchell offering up The Fisher King (7 Aug) and author Alan Bissett presenting Jaws (24 Aug). For the full line-up, head to picturehouses.com/cinema/Cameo_Picturehouse.

Future Shorts is back at CCA with its summer season (14 Aug). This programme will include films from Croatia, Iran, Finland and Lithuania, and, as always, there'll be music from Future Shorts' resident DJ throughout the evening. Also included is Directed by Tweedie, the latest film from Future Shorts regular Duncan Cowles, who’ll be around on the night for a Q&A following the screenings.

Also at CCA, hipsters get the chance to mock an old movie in a controlled environment with Comedians Present: Batman & Robin (31 Aug). Joe Heenan and Billy Kirkwood will be leading the charge with a withering live commentary over Joel Schumacher's breathtakingly awful film, which was responsible for killing off the series Tim Burton began in the late 80s. (A gentle reminder to Marvel execs: Schumacher is available to helm the next Avengers movie). The last two shows sold out, so get your tickets sharpish.

From the ridiculous to the sublime: GFT have a season celebrating Studio Ghibli. It may be a while before we see another film from the Japanese animation house (it went into hiatus last year following the retirement of its figurehead Hayao Miyazaki), so savour the chance to catch some of its most imaginative efforts on the big screen, including Kiki’s Delivery Service (9-10 Aug), My Neighbour Totoro (16-17 Aug) and the film that kicked it all off, Laputa: Castle in the Sky (23-24 Aug).