Film Festivals
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FilmEIFF 2016: The Childhood of a Leader
Bérénice Bejo, Liam Cunningham and Robert Pattinson star in Brady Corbet's operatic period drama centred on an unruly child Read more »| 18 Jun 2016 -
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EIFF 2016: Maggie's Plan
Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke and Julianne Moore star in Rebecca Miller's offbeat romantic comedy Read more »| 18 Jun 2016 -
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EIFF 2016: The Fits
Anna Rose Holmer's beguiling debut, about a young female dance troupe who one-by-one experience mysterious seizures, is more audio-visual poem than traditional sports movie Read more »| 17 Jun 2016 -
FilmEIFF 2016: Seoul Station & The ReZort
Zombie fever is catching at this year’s EIFF with two distinct strains of horror emerging from Sang-yo Heon’s Korean animation Seoul Station and ... Read more »| 17 Jun 2016 -
FilmEIFF 2016: Hunt for the Wilderpeople & Slash
Two great coming-of-age films from the 70th Edinburgh International Film Festival that embrace their outsiders as sympathetic and complicated human beings: T... Read more »| 16 Jun 2016 -
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Tommy's Honour
Edinburgh International Film Festival opens with an earnest golfing drama that's as exciting as you'd expect, but the fine cast save it from being mired in the rough Read more »| 15 Jun 2016
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A Snapshot of American Independent Cinema in 2016
A report back from Sundance London, where the best of American indie film was on the menu Read more »| 15 Jun 2016 -
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Cinema is dead. Long live Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality was all over this year's Sheffield Doc/Fest, but is it the future of visual storytelling? Read more »| 15 Jun 2016 -
FilmMichael Moore on Trump, Blair and Brexit
Sheffield Doc/Fest, the UK's number one documentary festival, kicked off yesterday with opening film Where to Invade Next and a stirring Q&A with its dir... Read more »| 11 Jun 2016 -
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Meg Ryan & Kevin Smith among stars attending EIFF
Edinburgh Film Festival (15-26 June) reveal some of the big stars and upcoming talent heading to the festival this year, including Meg Ryan, Jonathan Pryce, Brian Cox, Harley Quinn Smith and Robert Sheehan Read more »| 10 Jun 2016 -
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Sound + Vision lineup unveiled for EIFF 2016
Badly Drawn Boy and FOUND top a bill of live music at Summerhall, while Glasgow's Chemikal Underground Records gets the documentary treatment Read more »| 09 Jun 2016 -
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Michael Caton-Jones: “Pain is temporary, film is forever”
Michael Caton-Jones is back later this year with Urban Hymn, which the Rob Roy director describes as "a sort of Ken Loach musical." Ahead of his "In Conversa... Read more »| 07 Jun 2016 -
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Finnish films breaking out internationally
As EIFF's wide-ranging Focus on Finland strand gives audiences a chance to get a flavour of the nation's cinema, which is little known on these shores beyond the work of Aki Kaurismäki, we speak to some of the filmmakers breaking out beyond its borders Read more »| 07 Jun 2016 -
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Sheffield Doc/Fest: Top Picks
We get set for Sheffield Doc/Fest, the UK's greatest celebration of documentary filmmaking, by picking out our highlights from the programme Read more »| 03 Jun 2016 -
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XpoNorth: Filmmaking in the North of Scotland
Two filmmakers with successful careers outside the UK's traditional filmmaking hubs explain their approach and tell us how festivals like XpoNorth keep them connected Read more »| 02 Jun 2016