Category Archives: EdFoc

EdFoc, June 2019, Sunday in Hell

Sunday in Hell screening at 7:30pm on Friday 7th June

For the sixth year running Balerno Village Screen is partnering with the Edinburgh Festival of Cycling to bring you a night of cycling related film.

The evening will start with a short Return to Mont Ventoux. The film follows former Tour de France racer Adrian Timmis as he revisits cycling’s most notorious mountain, on his lovingly restored original Peugeot Tour bike, and recalls a day that changed the course of his career.

The feature Sunday in Hell follows the French Paris-Roubaix spring classic, notorious for the hellish paves or cobbled roads of the north “which are no longer used for traffic but only for transporting cattle – and for cycle races”. We are there from the dawn preparations and rituals on the outskirts of Paris and through the rigours of the race with special focus on a number of prominent cyclists to the final outcome on the Roubaix cycle track – followed by the filthy riders taking their showers. There is also an eye for life among the spectators and the media event as such. The film alternates among different kinds of shot with a view to establishing the most suitable view of the narrative: shots from motorcycles, which are able to convey the motion of the race and provide close ups of the riders in the style of television cycle race reporting; fixed cameras stationed at strategically important points along the route, where viewers can watch riders passing in real time and thus gain a clear overview


Balerno Village Screen is a community cinema free to attend and funded by donations. We ask that you reserve a free ticket in advance to help us manage numbers.  We also ask that if you can no longer attend to cancel your ticket to allow someone else to see the film.

Tickets are also available via the Mill Cafe or you can book and print your tickets at Balerno Library (staff are happy to help).

Breaking Away, EdFoc, June 2018

Breaking Away screening at 7:30pm on Friday 15th June

For the 6th year running, Balerno Village Screen is screening in partnership with the Edinburgh Festival of Cycling. This year’s offering comes from the late 70s and is the much loved Breaking Away.

This charming, Academy Award winner (1979, Screenplay) cycles high on comedy as four friends come to terms with life after high school. When top-notch cyclist Dave (Dennis Christopher) learns that the world’s bicycling champions are always Italian, he attempts to turn himself into an Italian, driving his parents (Barbara Barrie, Paul Dooley) crazy. But everything changes after he meets the Italian racing team-an encounter that ultimately leads him and his friends (Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley) to challenge the local college boys in the town’s annual bike race.


Friday 15th June

  • Breaking Away CERT PG – screening 7.30 to 10.30pm


Balerno Village Screen is a community cinema free to attend and funded by donations. We ask that you reserve a free ticket in advance (via the button above) to help us manage numbers.  We also ask that if you can no longer attend to cancel your ticket to allow someone else to see the film.

Tickets are also available via the Mill Cafe or you can book and print your tickets at Balerno Library (staff are happy to help).

 

Bicycle Thieves, EdFoc, June 2017

Bicycle Thieves screening 7.30pm on Friday 16th June

For the fifth year running Balerno Village Screen is partnering with the Edinburgh Festival of Cycling to bring you a night of cycling related films and for the first time – a cycling sprint time trial! The evening will start with two shorts followed by the main feature. And we are also running the Giro d’Italia  #RaceToBiella a bicyle sprint simulator in association with Menabrea.

Running order for the event is as follows:
  • menabrea6.30 to 7.30pm: Opportunity to record your fastest sprint time with the Giro d’Italia #RaceToBiella simulator (those fast enough will win a complimentary Menabrea beer)
  • 7.35 The Man Who Lived on His Bike
  • 7.40 Everesting Swain’s The Ascent
  • 7.50  Bicycle Thieves
  • 9.30 End
The films:

We start with The Man Who Lived on His Bike. It’s difficult to imagine someone living, eating, sleeping and438103014_1280x960 even washing clothes on a bicycle for over a year. But that’s exactly what French artist and copyeditor Guillaume Blanchet from Montreal has done. He even cooked his own food and flirted with women, while perched on the narrow bicycle seat. This 3 minute film depicts Blanchet’s life on the bicycle.

Mat Ilic Everesting Swains Vimeo still_0Our second short is Everesting Swain’s The Ascent, a short film documenting Mat Ilic’s attempt to Everest the notorious Swain’s Lane in North London.

Our main feature is Bicycle Thieves (in Italian with subtitles)- this landmark Italian neorealist drama became one of the best-known and most widely acclaimed European movies, including a special Academy Award as “most outstanding foreign film” seven years before that Oscar category existed. Lamberto Maggiorani plays Antonio, an unemployed man who finds a coveted job that requires a bicycle. When it is stolen on his first day of work, Antonio and his young son Bruno (Enzo Staiola) begin a frantic search, learning valuable lessons along the way.

One of the great, perfect crystalisations of a specific point in time into a particular film, this is one of the greatest cinematic experiences ever.  David Parkinson, Empire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjZI2YN0ueY

Friday 16th June

  • Bicycle Thieves CERT U, The Man Who Lived on His Bike and The Ascent all screening 7.30pm – 9.30pm St Joseph’s Hall, Balerno (screening as part of Edinburgh Festival of Cycling)  Eventbrite - Bicyle Thieves

Balerno Village Screen is a community cinema free to attend and funded by donations. We ask that you reserve a free ticket in advance (via the button above) to help us manage numbers.  We also ask that if you can no longer attend to cancel your ticket to allow someone else to see the film.

Tickets are also available via the Mill Cafe or you can book and print your tickets at Balerno Library (staff are happy to help).

EdFoc, Pantani

Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist screening 7.30pm on Friday 17th June

Our Friday night films form part of of the Edinburgh Festival of Cycling which runs from the 9th to the 19st of June so there is a distinct cycling flavour.

Our main feature is Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist plus before the main feature we have two short films.

The big screen premier of The World’s First Bicycle – a quintessentially Scottish tale brings the story of Dumfries-shires Kirkpatrick Macmillan to life.

pinarelloThen continuing the Rising from Ashes story from last year we are also screening Fastest Woman in Africa – Rwanda’s First Female Cyclist a short documentary (15 minutes) about Jeanne d’Arc Girubuntu who is the only woman on Rwanda’s national cycling team, based at the Africa Rising Cycling Centre (ARCC).

And the normal BVS experience will be enhanced by the Heverlee Witte bike caddy team who will be on hand with a complimentary cold beer.  Heverlee Witte (pronounced Vi-tte) is a seasonal  wheat beer brewed with orange peel, reminiscent of beers traditionally enjoyed in summertime in Belgium. It  is medium bodied and slightly fruity in flavour, with top notes of citrus orange and hints of cloves and other aromatic spices.heverlee witte beer

The main feature is Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist: In 1998 Marco Pantani, the most flamboyant and popular cyclist of his era, won both the Tour de France and Giro d’Italia, a titanic feat of physical and mental endurance that no rider has repeated since. He was a hero to millions, the saviour of cycling following the doping scandals which threatened to destroy the sport. However, less than six years later, aged just 34, he died alone, in a cheap hotel room, from acute cocaine poisoning. He had been an addict for five years. This is the story of the tragic battles fought by the most important Italian cyclist of his generation; man verses mountain, athlete verses addiction, Marco Pantani verses himself.

Friday 17th June

  • Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist – CERT 15, The World’s First Bicycle & Fastest Woman in Africa – Rwanda’s First Female Cyclist, 7.30pm to 9.50 pm,  St Joseph’s Hall, Balerno Eventbrite - Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist (screening in partnership with the Edinburgh Festival of Cycling running from 9 – 19th June)

Balerno Village Screen is a community cinema free to attend and funded by donations. We ask that you reserve a free ticket in advance (via the button above) to help us manage numbers.  We also ask that if you can no longer attend to cancel your ticket to allow someone else to see the film.

Tickets are also available via the Mill Cafe or you can book and print your tickets at Balerno Library (staff are happy to help).

Balerno, Cinema, EdFoc, Janapar

Janapar – Love on a Bike

janapar-ogp-imageBefore we break for the summer, our final screening of our first season will be the brilliant Janapar – Love on a Bike screening at 7.30pm on Sunday 23rd June.

This amazing true story follows Tom Allen on his 13,000 mile trip in which he meets and falls in love with a beautiful Armenian-Iranian girl.  He persuades her to join him on his cycle marathon and Janapar – the Armenian word for “journey” – is a reminder of how a bicycle can be a means of escape.

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It’s a combination of amazing adventure and inspiring love story.  The film was premiered at the Raindance Festival in London and is now showing at venues around the UK.  And in this Balerno Village Screen special screening you will get the chance to meet the bicycle man himself Tom Allen in a question and answer session that follows the film.

A fantastic Sunday evening viewing right on your doorstep.

Balerno Village Screen is a free community cinema funded by donations. We are incurring additional costs on this screening so please provide a donation at the screening to help us cover our costs. The film is being screened in association with the Edinburgh Festival of Cycling.

All tickets are fully subscribed so far but we are reallocating any cancelled tickets to those on the waiting list. If you do have a ticket and can no longer attend please return it and we will do our best to reallocate it. For more information about tickets please visit our tickets page.