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45 Years (Andrew Haigh) 45 Years is a ghost story, but the spectre haunting Geoff and Kate (expertly played by Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling),... Read more »

On 21 June, the 71st Edinburgh International Film Festival will kick off with its best opening film in years, Francis Lee’s God’s Own Country, a ... Read more »

Beto dreams of being a singer. Tato dreams of being a goalie. One day a man in a loud shirt wearing too wide a smile enters their lives and offers them a cha... Read more »

With the 2011 Sheffield Doc/Fest shifted from November to June, Edinburgh found itself in potential competition for titles this year, prompting a partnership... Read more »

Amy Seimetz's delightfully oblique road-movie neatly sidesteps any potential fears of yet another generic lo-fi couple-with-issues indie. Crystal (Kate Lyn S... Read more »

With composure and compassion, I Am Breathing documents the final months of husband and father Neil Platt, diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease at the age of ... Read more »

The opening scene of Iranian drama The Paternal House plays like a home invasion thriller, as a weeping young woman flees from room to room, barricading door... Read more »

Kids in Love has all the power and poignancy of a 90-minute Tommy Hilfiger ad, although the latter might be preferable considering it wouldn’t have spe... Read more »

When you meet Alistair Siddons, director of this B-boy documentary, you can’t help but think he’s an unlikely candidate for the job; English, qui... Read more »

With the hyped-up, swaggering gait of a gunslinger on speed, Korean action supremo Ryoo Seung-wan delivers East meets West double agent intrigue in The Berli... Read more »

When anal-retentive Dean (McConville) brings his girlfriend Lana (Marshall) to the desert motel where they once enjoyed a perfect anniversary, his desire to ... Read more »

Japanese writer-director Kôji Fukada's excellent previous feature, screened internationally under the name Hospitalité, had a hint of Luis Bu&nt... Read more »

This visually stylish low budget horror looks like it’ll be a real treat from the doom-leaden and aggressive opening, as a flock of crows and chilling ... Read more »

Van Diemen's Land is a formidable debut from Australian director Jonathan Auf Der Heide. This is the glacial true story of Alexander Pearce (played by thespi... Read more »

The calibre of up-and-coming animators is quite staggering in Britain today. Scotland has a great deal to offer the international scene, and it's well worth ... Read more »

In 2007 John Maloof, while researching for a book on Chicago, happened upon a collection of 30,000 prints and negatives by one Vivian Maier. Googling her nam... Read more »

Life May Be is a five part cinematic correspondence between Irish filmmaker Mark Cousins and Iranian filmmaker Mania Akbari, made over the last year, du... Read more »

In the age of Charlie Brooker’s excoriating, insightful Black Mirror series and Dennis Kelly’s sinisterly gleaming Utopia, writer-director Simon ... Read more »

After 90 minutes spent contemplating flamingos two things struck me. The first was that this garish creature with its too big, upside-down beak and impossibl... Read more »

Kathryn Bigelow takes on the war genre, in this excellent film about a bomb disposal unit in Iraq. Like many films dealing with similar subject matter (for e... Read more »

Hard drinking and overweight, Martin Strel is an unlikely athlete. Yet the 53 year old Slovenian is a legend in the world of endurance swimming and a hero to... Read more »

Some satires exaggerate for effect, but God Bless America doesn't really have to. The visions of trash culture in Bobcat Goldthwait's film are recognisable f... Read more »

The exploitation revival of the last ten or so years has produced more duds than doozies, but Jim Mickle here delivers a real highlight of the sub-genre with... Read more »

Based on premise alone, Welcome to Me could have gone horribly wrong all too easily, but director Shira Piven’s barbed satire successfully walks a fine... Read more »

Rising superstar Noni (Belle’s Gugu Mbatha-Raw) is feeling the pressures of fame and finds herself on the literal edge, almost perishing in a suicide j... Read more »

The White King stars up-and-coming young actor Lorenzo Allchurch, who plays 12-year-old Djata, a happy boy unaware of the dangers of the isolationist dictato... Read more »

Are you a filmmaker waiting to be discovered? What better place to do so than the Edinburgh International Film Festival, which today opened submissions to it... Read more »

John Walters’ Polyester (1981) is much like his other films – disgusting, shocking and incredibly enjoyable. On Friday 24 June the film will be s... Read more »

In 1897, Danish photographer Peter Elfelt etched snow and fur onto celluloid as he captured Travelling with Greenlandic Dogs. A husky-drawn sled rushes its d... Read more »

Having charmed audiences with last year's double hitter of Benny & Jolene and A Wonderful Christmas Time, Jamie Adams is quietly making a name for himsel... Read more »