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The Skinny's guide to Edinburgh International Film Festival. Film reviews, interviews, opinion and comment from this year's festival, taking place this August. EIFF is the longest continually-running film festival in the world, and The Skinny are proud to be official media partners.
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FilmEdinburgh Film Festival: Read 2021's Young Critics
Read reviews from this year's group of Edinburgh International Film Festival Young Critics Read more »| 02 Sep 2021 -
FilmEIFF 2021: Faceless
Documentary Faceless, from award-winning journalist Jennifer Ngo, explores Hong Kong’s 2019 pro-democracy movement from the point of view of four young activists on the ground Read more »| 02 Sep 2021 -
FilmEIFF 2021: Bridging the Gap – Mobile
Five new Bridging the Gap documentary shorts on the theme of 'mobile' premiered at Edinburgh International Film Festival. We found a programme delving into change and longing – emotions we can all relate to this year Read more »| 02 Sep 2021 -
FilmEIFF 2021: Rebel Dykes
Mixing interviews, archive footage and animated sequences, Rebel Dykes is a poignant account of lesbian activism and a kickarse celebration of lesbian sex and culture Read more »| 02 Sep 2021 -
FilmEIFF 2021: Stop-Zemlia
Kateryna Gornostai's coming-of-age film follows the social anxieties, unresolved crushes and the terrifying vastness of the future for three teen friends Read more »| 02 Sep 2021 -
FilmEIFF 2021: Absolute Denial
This breakneck, Frankenstein-esque animation about an unemployed programmer's battle of wits with the AI program he's created has some narrative flaws, but it's a hugely promising first feature Read more »| 02 Sep 2021
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FilmEIFF 2021: The Deer King
This directorial debut from Studio Ghibli alumni Masayuki Miyaji and Masashi Ando is a dark, breathtaking epic with an emotional core Read more »| 02 Sep 2021 -
FilmEIFF 2021: Mad God
Special effects wizard Phil Tippett brings his stop-motion magnum opus to screens after three decades of production, and the results are entrancingly grotesque Read more »| 02 Sep 2021 -
FilmEIFF 2021: The Man Who Sold His Skin
Rarely has the West's wilful exploitation of the Middle East been so audaciously represented, or so deliciously mocked, as in Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s new film Read more »| 27 Aug 2021 -
FilmEIFF 2021: Ballad of a White Cow
Maryam Moghaddam stars in and co-directs this existentially rich drama concerned with Iran’s capital penal system and centred on a woman whose husband is wrongly executed Read more »| 24 Aug 2021 -
FilmEIFF 2021: Europa
An Iraqi refugee finds himself the target of armed migrant hunters in this powerful survival thriller Read more »| 24 Aug 2021 -
FilmEIFF 2021: The Justice of Bunny King
This Kiwi drama about an ex-convict mother trying to reconnect with her children is best when focused on the actors and not its platitude-filled script Read more »| 24 Aug 2021 -
FilmEIFF 2021: Annette
Leos Carax's bizarre, bombastic rock opera musical Annette is a frustrating film but its chaotic playfulness is contagious Read more »| 24 Aug 2021 -
FilmEIFF 2021: Prince of Muck
Cindy Jansen's Prince of Muck is a compassionate portrait of Lawrence MacEwen, the laird of the small Scottish island of the title, whose advanced age has pushed him out of his role as the island's chief custodian Read more »| 23 Aug 2021 -
FilmEIFF 2021: Ninjababy
A surprise pregnancy is a catalyst for laughs and self-acknowledgement in Yngvild Sve Flikke's sharp take on the unplanned pregnancy comedy Read more »| 23 Aug 2021