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NewsWhat were the buzzy films and major talking points at this year’s Edinburgh film festival?
This year marked the second edition under the leadership of director Paul Ridd and producer Emma Boa.
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Reviews‘Reality Is Not Enough’ review: Entertaining portrait of Scottish writer Irvine Welsh covers familiar ground
Paul Sng’s creative, confessional documentary closes Edinburgh
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Features20 films to watch from the 2025 summer festivals
Includes titles from Locarno, Edinburgh, Annecy, Karlovy Vary, Transilvania, Munich and Fantasia.
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NewsAbdolreza Kahani’s ‘Mortician’ wins £50,000 Edinburgh 2025 top prize
Kahani’s film has won the second Sean Connery prize for feature filmmaking excellence.
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NewsIn pictures: NFTS, BBC Film, Sean Connery Foundation reception at EIFF
The event was hosted by the Sean Connery Foundation, BBC Film and NFTS.
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FeaturesJulie Pacino on confronting childhood trauma through her feature debut ‘I Live Here Now’
‘I Live Here Now’ is playing at Edinburgh, following its a festival run including Fantasia and Locarno.
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FeaturesThe UK team behind Edinburgh title ‘Misper’ talk true crime, scary basements and blending Haneke horror with Brit humour
Director Harry Sherriff and writer Laurence Tratalos are partners with Simon Orange in Fresh Orange Productions.
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News“I’d love to make a musical”: Kevin and Andrew Macdonald on career ambitions and the projects that got away
The brothers were talking at an in-conversation event at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
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Reviews‘In Transit’ review: Jennifer Ehle shines in Jaclyn Bethany’s melancholy chamber piece
Alex Sarrigeorgiou writes and stars in this study of the relationship between a painter and her subject
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Reviews‘Low Rider’ review: LGBTQ+ drama follows a young British woman on a South African roadtrip
Director Campbell X follows-up ’Stud Life’ with this overstuffed feature
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Reviews‘Once You Shall Be One Of Those Who Lived Long Ago’ review: Bittersweet portrait of a declining Swedish mining town
Documentary follows the few remaining residents of Malmberget in northern Sweden
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Reviews‘Novak’ review: Zlatko Buric’s convincing mad scientist elevates this offbeat Greek debut
Harry Lagoussis’s ambitious feature premieres in Edinburgh competition
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Reviews‘Blue Film’ review: UK rising star Kieron Moore impresses in provocative, uneven US debut
Elliot Tuttle’s Los Angeles-based camboy drama bows in Edinburgh competition
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Reviews‘On The Sea’ review: Helen Walsh follows ‘The Violators’ with sensitive Welsh LGBTQ+ drama
The novelist/filmmaker’s second feature stars Barry Ward and Lorne MacFadyen
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Reviews‘Mortician’ review: Sensitive, slow-burn drama follows two Iranian exiles in Canada
Abdolreza Kahani’s latest stars Nima Sadr and singer Golazin Ardestani
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Reviews‘Best Boy’ review: A bizarre family contest unveils dark secrets in Canadian woodland thriller
Jesse Noah Klein’s genre-bending feature premieres in Edinburgh competition
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Reviews‘Concessions’ review: Michael Madsen stars in thinly sketched elegy for the moviegoing experience
Mas Bouzidi sets his feature debut in an independent US movie theatre on the verge of closure
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NewsPaul Andrew Williams’ Tribeca winner ‘Dragonfly’ acquired for UK-Ireland
EXCLUSIVE: Film will play at Edinburgh this weekend.
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FeaturesWhy Sepideh Farsi’s childhood in Iran compelled her to make Gaza doc ‘Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk’
The Cannes ACID premiere is now screening at the Edinburgh film festival.