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EIFF 2021: Pig
You wouldn't want to watch Pig, the debut film by writer-director Michael Sarnoski, in Smell-O-Vision. While it’s set in the world of Portland’s ... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
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EIFF 2021: Europa
Europa follows young migrant Kamal (Adam Ali) as he attempts to enter Europe by foot after fleeing Iraq. The gruelling journey reaches a dangerous apex on th... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
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EIFF 2021: Ninjababy
Yngvild Sve Flikke’s riotous take on the unplanned pregnancy comedy unfolds through the creativity, rage and vulgarity of its protagonist. Comics artis... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
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EIFF 2021: Annette
“So may we start?” asks the French director Leos Carax during Annette’s opening scene, set in a recording studio. Brothers Ron and Russell ... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
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EIFF 2021: Faceless
The summer of 2019: the citizens of Hong Kong pour into the streets dressed in black, their faces hidden behind masks. Two million voices protest against the... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
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EIFF 2021: Mad God
Jeff Goldblum, as Dr Ian Malcolm, once said “life finds a way”. This is true both for the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park and their creator, spec... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
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EIFF 2022: Black Mambas
The most striking shot in Lena Karbe's documentary Black Mambas is one of its last. Qolile, a Black Mamba, an all-female anti-poaching unit from So... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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EIFF 2021: Rebel Dykes
The confident stomp of Dr. Martens down the streets of London. Leather jackets rolled up at the sleeves. Protest signs brandished without fear. From the seco... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
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EIFF 2022: The Score
“There is no special,” says Gloria, leaning against the dimly lit counter. “What you see is what you get.” She’s not wrong. Thi... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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EIFF 2021: Stop-Zemlia
Ukrainian filmmaker Kateryna Gornostai wanted to make a ‘boring film’ about adolescence. Stop-Zemlia was the outcome: a debut coming-of... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
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EIFF 2021: Absolute Denial
AI is considered to be the holy grail of computer programming – a sentient entity capable of computing impossibly complex equations in microseconds. Ye... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
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EIFF 2022: My Small Land
In My Small Land, Japanese writer-director Emma Kawawada, who’s making her feature debut, presents a touching and honest exploration of the Kurdish ref... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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EIFF 2022: Kung Fu Zohra
Coming to grips with the fact that we aren’t fortunate enough to walk down the street without fear or paranoia is part of every girl’s transition... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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EIFF 2021: The Deer King
It’s hard to think of an animation studio held in higher esteem, with a more boundless influence, than Studio Ghibli. At first glance, you might think ... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
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EIFF 2023: Chuck Chuck Baby
Director Janis Pugh has a feel-good hit on her hands with this exuberant, poignant love story set in North Wales. Helen (Louise Brealey) finds camaraderie in... Read more »| Updated 8 months ago -
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EIFF 2022: Amanda Kramer interview
When we sit down with American musician and filmmaker Amanda Kramer, she’s preparing for an LA screening of Please Baby Please – one of two ... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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EIFF 2022: Three Times Nothing
Lotteries, so we are told, have the power to change lives, and this couldn’t be more true than for Twiggy, Captain and Arrow, three homeless men on the... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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EIFF 2021: Prince of Muck
It’s a powerful film that can make a working-class lad from the Lowlands care about Highland gentry, but that’s precisely the case with Cindy Jan... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
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EIFF 2023: Thomas Schubert on Afire
Since his debut in Karl Markovics’ Breathing, Thomas Schubert has been attracted to difficult characters who may not fully understand their own motivat... Read more »| Updated 9 months ago -
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EIFF 2023: Rodger Griffiths on Kill
It feels odd calling a film about brothers murdering their abusive dad on a hunting trip 'accessible', but any film about parents and children benefits from ... Read more »| Updated 9 months ago -
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EIFF 2023: Babak Jalali on Fremont
The city of Fremont in northern California is an innocuous place – quiet, everyday, nondescript. It is not, perhaps, a particularly cinematic place; or... Read more »| Updated 9 months ago -
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EIFF 2023: Orlando, My Political Biography
Orlando is a poet and aristocrat who can change their sex, found in the pages of Virginia Woolf’s fictionalised biography of Orlando's centuries-long l... Read more »| Updated 8 months ago -
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EIFF launch their Young & the Wild programme
Today Edinburgh International Film Festival launched its The Young & the Wild programme, the festival’s strand devoted to films about and for young... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
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EIFF 2021: Ballad of a White Cow
Under traditional sharia law, there is a doctrine named the qisas that is still practised in parts of the Islamic world. Based in retaliatory justice, it pla... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
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Young film critics – EIFF needs you!
Everyone's a critic nowadays, right? But if you're interested in more than just firing off hot takes into the abyss of Twitter, Edinburgh International Film ... Read more »| Updated about 5 years ago -
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Incredibles 2 to screen at EIFF
Disney•Pixar love Edinburgh International Film Festival. During the last decade, no edition of the long-running festival has felt complete without ... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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EIFF 2021: Bridging the Gap – Mobile
COVID has significantly limited our movements and narrowed our lives to an extent, showing us how much we took mobility for granted. This year, as part of th... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
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EIFF announce new strands, retrospectives and award
For the last decade or so, Edinburgh cinephiles have had a quiet August. The Edinburgh International Film Festival was first held in 1947, the same year as t... Read more »| Updated almost 2 years ago -
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EIFF 2022: It Is in Us All
It Is in Us All, the directorial debut from Irish actor Antonia Campbell-Hughes, is a slow-burn. The indie drama follows Hamish (Cosmo Jarvis), a businessman... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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EIFF 2021: The Justice of Bunny King
In The Justice of Bunny King, the titular character is a struggling mother of two trying to re-enter society after serving time in prison for murdering her a... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago