Showcase of Masters Film Programmes

Hula is a gently humorous drama about unhappy divorcee Clara. Reluctant to engage within her Highland community, she sets up her empty-nest home as a B&B. Her first guest is an artist who introduces her to change by rearranging the bedroom feng shui style. Next, a pair of elderly tourists painfully remind her of the joys of love. Finally a hillwalker, as lonely as she is but not nearly so stuck, initiates an evening of unexpected hilarity which spurs her onwards to a new, ultimately more promising phase in her life.

Lying by a stream that tunnels towards the sea, away from the world’s din, Archie is interrupted again. Reluctantly he emerges from his head and is set back on his usual pattern. Then, stuck in the middle of a pointless game at the youth centre he makes a choice to deviate from the uninvited tumult. Without leaving his head, Archie puts his headphones on and dares himself to follow a fellow outsider. He finds himself in a strange place where he is forced to adjust quickly, so he absorbs himself in something that both excites and numbs his head and ends with an unexpected confrontation.

Léthé is an invitation to go astray, an invitation to forget oneself, embarking with our vagrant protagonist as he searches to forget his past.

Pablo needs to stop smoking. Why? Because his wife, family and doctor say he should. But Pablo is a stubborn man. He’s worked in the mercury mines of Almadén, Spain, risking his life daily, he’s had five severe heart attacks and smoked 20 Winston’s a day since he was 12. Now in his seventies, Pablo spends most of his day in front of the TV, surrounded by a cloud of smoke, with his back turned firmly towards a village that has lived through better times.