Edinburgh International Film Festival
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- Website: www.edfilmfest.org.uk
The oldest continually running film festival in the world, the EIFF draws on its prestige to consistently present abundant programmes of new features, documentaries, retrospectives, shorts, panel discussions and educational workshops, with a few high profile premieres thrown in for good measure.
Performance times
Edinburgh: various venues
Wed 19 Jun
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Thu 20 Jun
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Fri 21 Jun
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Sat 22 Jun
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Sun 23 Jun
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Mon 24 Jun
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Tue 25 Jun
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Wed 26 Jun
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Thu 27 Jun
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Fri 28 Jun
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Sat 29 Jun
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Sun 30 Jun
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Reviews & features
Disney Pixar’s Monsters University announced for Edinburgh International Film Festival 2013
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16 May 2013
The family film will screen at the festival three weeks before release in the rest of the UK
Edinburgh International Film Festival audiences will be among the first in the UK to see Disney Pixar’s latest offering, Monsters University. The Family Gala 3D screening will take place on Sun 23 Jun in the Festival Theatre, with an exclusive schools…
Watch: trailers for the Richard Fleischer retrospective at EIFF 2013
16 Apr 2013
Edinburgh International Film Festival to screen six of the American director's films
The Edinburgh International Film Festival has started releasing the first few snippets of information about its 2013 programme. As well as featuring Karen Gillian romcom Not Another Happy Ending as its closing film (read what Gillan says about it in our…
World premiere of Not Another Happy Ending announced as 2013 Edinburgh International Film Festival closing gala
16 Apr 2013
Programme features romantic comedy starring Karen Gillan plus Richard Fleischer retrospective
The world premiere of Glasgow-set romantic comedy Not Another Happy Ending is set to close the 2013 Edinburgh International Film Festival, which runs from 19th 30 June 2013. Karen Gillan, best-known for her role as Amy Pond in Doctor Who, stars in…
Jean Grémillon retrospective announced for Edinburgh International Film Festival 2013
11 Feb 2013
The strand will explore the work of the French director, who was a contemporary of Jean Renoir
The Edinburgh International Film Festival has announced one of the festival’s retrospective subjects: French director Jean Grémillon. The festival has also announced the return of the popular Audience Award. Known for some of the most highly…
Five things you didn't know about the Edinburgh International Film Festival
28 Jun 2012
Five fun facts featuring John Huston, Bill Forsyth and Barry Norman
‘The Only Festival Worth A Damn’ EIFF is rightly proud of this tribute by John Huston, made in 1972 when he brought Fat City to the festival. But he had a debt to repay. Houston had attended Edinburgh in 1954, an uncongenial two day visit characterised…
Killer Joe opens Edinburgh International Film Festival 2012
21 Jun 2012
Director William Friedkin and star Gina Gershon attend, as well as Elliot Gould and Jim Broadbent
The Edinburgh International Film Festival opening gala took place last night, with the UK premiere of William Friedkin's Killer Joe. As well as Friedkin and Killer Joe's Gina Gershon, actors Elliot Gould and Jim Broadbent (attending the EIFF as jurors…
Interview: Chris Fujiwara and Hannah McGill on the EIFF
20 Jun 2012
Current artistic director of Edinburgh International Film Festival interviewed by a former one
Hannah McGill used to be artistic director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Chris Fujiwara is the man who’s got the job now. The two sit down to discuss the challenges of the world’s oldest continually running film festival.
Elliot Gould and Jim Broadbent to appear at Edinburgh International Film Festival
13 Jun 2012
The stars will head juries for the festival's competitive categories
We knew the film line-up, and now we know who the jury judges are for the 2012 EIFF. Announced today, the list includes talent such as Elliot Gould, Jim Broadbent and Ewen Bremner. Academy Award winner Broadbent is excited about assuming his new role…
Edinburgh Film Festival 2012 programme launched
30 May 2012
Chris Fujiwara reveals extensive world cinema programme for EIFF 2012
This year the Edinburgh International Film Festival 's new director, Chris Fujiwara, has devised a brave and eclectic programme in an attempt to return the festival to its former glory. With a similar format to previous years - with several strands…
William Friedkin's Killer Joe to open EIFF
18 Apr 2012
The Exorcist director's comic thriller to kick-off 66th Edinburgh International Film Festival
Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) organizers have announced today that comic noir thriller Killer Joe will be the Opening Gala on Wed 20 Jun 2012 in Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre. The film is directed by William Friedkin, best known for his…
Shinji Somai retrospective announced for Edinburgh International Film Festival 2012
11 Apr 2012
PP Rider, The Catch, Typhoon Club and more to screen at EIFF 2012
Japanese director Shinji Somai will be the subject of a major retrospective at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival. The director, who died in 2001, is greatly admired in Japan, and is slowly starting to achieve international…
Disney Pixar's Brave to premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival
13 Mar 2012
The highly-anticipated family film to close EIFF
Disney Pixar's Brave has been announced as the film that will close the 2012 Edinburgh International Film Festival. The screening will also double as the film's premiere, following a similar slot by Pixar's last release, Toy Story 3, in 2011. Brave…
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2011 opens with an Oirish whimper (not a bang)
16 Jun 2011
65th festival gets underway despite disappointing opener The Guard
So the 65th edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival is now open. It opened last night, a balmy, spitty Wednesday evening, with a screening of John Michael McDonagh’s decidedly patchy Irish comedy policier The Guard starring Brendan Gleeson.
The Phantom Band and Lucky Me pick 2011 music festival highlights
30 May 2011
Modeselektor, Bronto Skylift, Ango and Machinedrum among picks
Found We toured with them recently and they blew me away every night I saw them. Great music by a great bunch of lads, I’ll be around singing my heart out to this. T in the Park Echo and the Bunnymen I stole my brother Joe’s tape of Songs to…
Domino Records host Edinburgh International Film Festival event
27 May 2011
Event aims to showcase effective combination of music and film
A good advert can, sometimes, sell more than jeans, or alcohol, or cars. Think of the 1999 number one song, 'Flat Beat', which gained enormous popularity after a puppet called Flat Eric danced to it in a Levi’s advert. Levi’s shifted their jeans, the…
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2011: The rough guide
27 May 2011
What you need to know about this year's festival
1 The festival has a new artistic director, James Mullighan, who is from Adelaide. Previously he ran the independent filmmakers’ network Shooting People and was a journalist. He says: ‘Throughout its history [the Festival] has been provocative…
EIFF 2011 - Five to try: Conflict and Reportage
27 May 2011
Our picks for the Edinburgh International Film Festival's outsider strands
Conflict and Reportage Frontline Club: Martin Bell presents Salvador Broadcasting and politics’ ‘man in the white suit’ says of this event: ‘I tend to walk out of films about wars that I reported on. I walked out of Oliver Stone’s Salvador when I…
EIFF 2011 - Five to try: Nokia Shorts Weekender
27 May 2011
Our picks for the Edinburgh International Film Festival's outsider strands
Vice TV Greatest Hits! The great global magazine’s four-year-old spin-off youth internet TV channel celebrates the story so far. Having enjoyed early endorsement from Spike Jonze it now has a global network of correspondents who report on all that is…
EIFF 2011 - Five to try: Outside The Box
27 May 2011
Our picks for the Edinburgh International Film Festival's outsider strands
Duncan Speakman: Our Broken Voice Speakman’s project is a ‘subtlemob’ – ‘A film that’s happening in a public space where you’re both a performer and an audience member,’ he says. Still baffled? Imagine arriving at a designated public location, with an…
EIFF 2011 - Five to try: Reel Science
27 May 2011
Our picks for the Edinburgh International Film Festival's outsider strands
Oi! Get Your Grubby Hands out of My Brain A film-initiated debate about the growing commercial application of neuro-imaging, epigenetics and other futuristically-named brain technologies. Do you really want to know if you are going to pass on madness…
Kim Cattrall, star of Sex and the City, discusses her new film Meet Monica Velour
27 May 2011
Indie comedy about an aging porn star is set to screen at the EIFF
‘To have a role like this in your fifties is quite extraordinary,’ says Kim Cattrall, who is 53 and has made a virtue of playing sexy older women in a business that refuses to equate the one with the other. ‘When Meet Monica Velour showed at the Tribeca…
Profile: Philip Seymour Hoffman, director and star of Jack Goes Boating
27 May 2011
The much-respected actor screens his directorial debut at the EIFF
Born Fairport, New York, 23 July 1967. Background Known as the ‘character actor’s character actor’, Hoffman has been a jobbing actor since the early 1990s. After playing bit parts in television shows, shorts and features, Hoffman got his breakthrough…
Timeline - Summer music festivals 2011 from Scotland and beyond
27 May 2011
A chronological list of the best festivals in Scotland and beyond
A chronological list of the most significant festivals happening in Scotland this summer, along with the biggest and best from the rest of the UK and beyond.
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2011 programme announced
17 May 2011
Includes The Guard, Meet Monica Velour and Jack Goes Boating
The programme for the 65th Edinburgh International Film Festival was announced today, featuring a wide range of exciting new work from around the world. The film chosen for the Festival's Opening Gala was John Michael McDonagh's The Guard, starring…
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2011 - James Mullighan interview
26 Apr 2011
With just under a month to go, the new EIFF director tell us his plans
With just over a month and a half to go until the big event, James Mullighan the new Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival tells Paul Dale about his plans So how’s it going James? Great – it’s been a busy time for us and we are…
Edinburgh International Film Festival curators revealed
2 Mar 2011
Sara Driver, Jim Jarmusch, Clint Mansell and more are confirmed - but what will they do at EIFF?
The EIFF hopes to screen You Are Not I, the film Sara Driver made the year after she began working on partner Jim Jarmusch’s films in 1980. Given the cool aesthetic of their collaborations, less is more might inform their curatorial choices. A new one…
Why Edinburgh remains unrivalled as a festival city
16 Feb 2011
A huge number and variety of festivals take place each year
In 1961, a theatre director made a proposal. It was his opinion that the Edinburgh Festival Fringe was getting too big. It would be much better, he said, ‘if only ten halls were licensed’. Nobody listened. Had the director been able to travel…
Whatever happened to the Edinburgh International Film Festival?
8 Feb 2011
The champagne party may be over, but the EIFF may yet rise again
Back in 2008, the EIFF seemed to be in good shape. A new June slot, a fresh artistic director in the form of Hannah McGill, and a whopping £1.88 million lottery cash investment from the Film Council, in addition to financial support from Scottish Screen…
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