Category: EIFF 2025

That’s a wrap on EIFF25!

With 194 screenings, 34 Industry and panel events, EIFF25 welcomed over 300 filmmakers, producers and distributors to present their films, as well as over 16,500 festival attendees. Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025 draws to a close following a seven-day programme...

EIFF 2025 Competition Winners

After an incredible week of world class cinema, we announced the winners of the prize for feature filmmaking and the prize for short filmmaking at the EIFF closing ceremony. The winner of this year’s The Sean Connery Prize for Feature...

Guests in attendance at EIFF

We've announced the major filmmaking talent attending this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival including Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Eddie Marsan, Ella Rumpf, Francois Arnaud, Ralph Ineson and more!...

Thelma Schoonmaker & Rose Matafeo added to EIFF25 line up!

We’ve added more amazing talent to our line up this year. Legendary film editor Thelma Schoonmaker will discuss her late husband Michael Powell's life and filmmaking career, and acclaimed comedian Rose Matafeo will join Sam Clements for the live recording...

The EIFF25 Industry Programme has been announced!

This year's programme presents an impactful series of panels as well as networking opportunities for local and international creatives to engage with industry experts....

In Conversation Events

EIFF’s In Conversation strand features a range of major filmmaking talent who will discuss their creative careers! All events have been paired with a special retrospective screening of the filmmakers’ past work or a film which has influenced their career. In...

The EIFF25 Programme has been announced!

We can’t wait to present the World Premiere of the NFTS Sean Connery Talent Lab Short Films at EIFF this August!...

NFTS Sean Connery Talent Lab shorts get World Premiere at EIFF

We can’t wait to present the World Premiere of the NFTS Sean Connery Talent Lab Short Films at EIFF this August!...

‘The Toxic Avenger’ UK Premiere to close Midnight Madness

We are so excited to announce that the UK premiere of Macon Blair’s gloriously outlandish cult classic remake The Toxic Avenger will be the closing night film of EIFF25’s beloved Midnight Madness strand....

‘Reality Is Not Enough’ World Premiere to close EIFF 2025

Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) will present the World Premiere of Paul Sng’s immersive documentary Reality Is Not Enough as the closing night film of this year’s Festival....

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Sanatorium

The clientele of a rundown Soviet-era health resort search for love, health and happiness in war-torn Ukraine where air raid sirens and plumes of...

Gar O’Rourke

2025

1hr 35 mins

Sorry, Baby

After a traumatic incident, a young woman sleepwalks through life as an academic on campus, but with the arrival of an old friend with...

Eva Victor

2025

1hr 45 mins

Go (1999)

Selected by our special guest, Nia Da Costa, as a film that has influenced her filmmaking career, Doug Liman’s black comedy thriller about a...

Doug Liman

1999

1hr 45 mins

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Edinburgh International Film Festival Ltd (EIFF) is registered in Scotland No. SC776670 with its registered office at 6 Logie Mill Road, Edinburgh. EIFF is a company limited by guarantee and is registered as a charity (No. SC053218 ) with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator.