The Black Ball (La Bola Negra) + Q&A (esff)
Filmhouse88 Lothian Road
Sun 11 Oct · 19:30
About this event
This film contains flashing lights which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy. Book tickets for two or more of our Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival 2026 films in the same transaction to receive a discount! This Scottish premiere screening in collaboration with the French Film Festival UK will have a short 5-minute introduction and will be followed by a Q&A with writer Alberto Conejero & Marian A. Aréchaga. The Black Ball tells the story of three men whose lives are intimately connected through desire, pain and inheritance, across three different eras – 1932, 1937 and 2017. Rich with Lorca's poetry and suffused with desire, grief and hope, it is an intimate love story and a sweeping exploration of memory, inheritance and queer history, honouring those whose lives and loves were too often forced into silence.
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