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Leonor Will Never DieDir. Martika Ramirez EscobarFiction and reality blur in this surreal comedy from the Philippines. The Leonor of the title is an age... Read more »

Daisy-May Hudson’s often wrenching but ultimately uplifting drama Lollipop revolves around two women, Mollie (Posy Sterling) and Amina (Idil Ahmed). Fr... Read more »

Tom (Sam Riley) lives a life just outside of luxury. A tennis coach at an upscale Fuerteventura hotel, his days of glory on the court far behind him, he fill... Read more »

Scotland’s biggest film star Sean Connery was a long-time supporter of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, and a regular attendee. The Oscar-win... Read more »

Timestalker begins with Agnes (Alice Lowe), a 17th-century Scotswoman, experiencing a moment of love at first sight. Alex (Aneurin Barnard) might be a comple... Read more »

Good news, Toy Story fans. Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz (Tim Allen), Rex (Wallace Shawn), Jessie (Joan Cusack), Hamm (John Ratzenberger) and the gang will be back... Read more »

My Favourite Cake is a measured, textured window into the life of 70-year-old widow Mahin, (Lily Farhadpour) as she gently pursues the affections of Faramarz... Read more »

Kelly Reichardt has made a career from mapping out entire worlds from the slight bursts of tension in everyday relationships. Showing Up, with its contempora... Read more »

The 2019 Edinburgh International Film Festival is in full swing, with the festival's annual Best of The Fest selection bringing down the curtain on Sunday 30... Read more »

There’s a distinctly bittersweet flavour to Silent Roar, the soulful and gently comic debut feature from Johnny Barrington, which is due to have its wo... Read more »

“Right now, I’m revolting against the conventions of movies,” said New York filmmaker Shirley Clarke when making her first feature, The Con... Read more »

There’s a lot riding on Edinburgh International Film Festival’s Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence, and I’m not just talk... Read more »

We already know that the 72nd edition of Edinburgh International Film Festival will begin with Marc Turtletaub’s indie drama Puzzle, which reportedly f... Read more »

“I tried to be a joyful feminist, but I was very angry,” says Agnès Varda, the mother of the French New Wave, in her film The Beaches of A... Read more »

Last year Edinburgh International Film Festival opened with the wonderful Yorkshire set gay romance God’s Own Country. For this year’s gambit, EI... Read more »

Women’s voices in film continue to be silenced – with pay gaps and fewer opportunities to get films off the ground – which is why it is mor... Read more »

Over the years, movies haven't exactly been the best advert for visiting Scotland's great outdoors. An island in the Hebrides proves less than hospitable for... Read more »

The death of cinema treasure Agnès Varda back in March has left an absence in the film world that will be felt for a long while. The legendary French ... Read more »

With the advent of her centenary, What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael is a perfect opportunity to get reacquainted with the contentious film critic’... Read more »

Watched from afar, this year’s Cannes Film Festival didn’t exactly set the heather on fire. But one film did appear to get critics hot and bother... Read more »

Hot on the heels of announcing its opening film, Sorry, Baby, the Edinburgh International Film Festival has revealed the film that will open its Midnight Mad... Read more »

Edinburgh International Film Festival returns this August and today it has announced that comedy-drama Sorry, Baby, the debut feature from writer-director Ev... Read more »

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 »

Edinburgh International Film Festival may be one of the oldest film festivals in the world but recent events have proved it’s far from monolithic, and ... Read more »

It’s been a dire six months on the Edinburgh film scene. The Filmhouse remains boarded up and its future is still seemingly nonexistent following the f... Read more »

As Edinburgh International Film Festival celebrates its 75th year, the UK’s oldest film event receives a major dose of spit and polish, with a new Crea... Read more »

As ever, they’ll be plenty of Scottish talent gracing this screen at this year’s film festival, not least in opening film Boyz in the Wood, a rio... Read more »

The curtain-raiser for the upcoming edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival will be a home-grown action comedy set deep in the Scottish Highland... Read more »

Navigating the Edinburgh Festivals in August is a bit like solving a complex maths equation where you have to try and balance out the hours in the day and th... Read more »

This year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival has found the perfect film to open its relaunched event: The Outrun, the much-anticipated new film ba... Read more »