Category: EIFF 2026

EIFF 2026 Prize Winners Announced

EIFF 2026 Prize Winners Announced

We are delighted to announce the winners of our prize for feature filmmaking and our prize for short filmmaking. The awards were presented at a special ceremony at Cameo Cinema in Edinburgh by Jason Connery on behalf of The Connery...

Just Announced: Hope in IMAX

Just Announced: Hope in IMAX

One of the year’s biggest cinematic events is coming to EIFF in IMAX. Hope, the epic new sci-fi action thriller from visionary filmmaker Na Hong-jin, joins the Festival as a late addition....

Guests Attending EIFF 2026 Revealed

Guests Attending EIFF 2026 Revealed

We are delighted to reveal a new selection of exciting guests attending this year’s Festival in support of World, International and UK Premieres and special events....

Your Essential Guide to EIFF 2026

Your Essential Guide to EIFF 2026

You may have spotted our EIFF 2026 brochures out in wild. Download and explore the full programme and discover must-see films....

Faces of Death to Close Midnight Madness Strand at EIFF 2026

Faces of Death to Close Midnight Madness Strand at EIFF 2026

The UK Premiere of Daniel Goldhaber’s wildly entertaining Faces of Death will be the Closing Night film of this year’s Midnight Madness strand at Edinburgh International Film Festival....

Bad Day at the Office to Open Midnight Madness Strand at EIFF 2026

Bad Day at the Office to Open Midnight Madness Strand at EIFF 2026

Chee Keong Cheung’s unique and riotously inventive action thriller will open this year’s Midnight Madness strand....

Louise Lockwood’s Bel to Close EIFF 2026

Louise Lockwood’s Bel to Close EIFF 2026

We are excited to announce the World Premiere of Louise Lockwood’s powerful debut documentary feature Bel as our Closing Night Film at EIFF 2026....

Key Dates for Your Diary: EIFF 2026

Key Dates for Your Diary: EIFF 2026

With the Festival now just over two months away, we're pleased to share some key dates for your diary as we prepare to unveil the full EIFF 2026 programme....

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2026 to open with International Premiere of Louis Paxton’s debut feature The Incomer

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2026 to open with International Premiere of Louis Paxton’s debut feature The Incomer

Domnhall Gleeson in The Incomer. Courtesy of NBC Universal Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has announced today that Edinburgh-born filmmaker Louis Paxton’s spirited and witty debut film, The Incomer will open its 79th edition, running from 13 – 19 August...

Edinburgh International Film Festival Reception at the Berlin International Film Festival Celebrates Collaboration and the Future of Independent Cinema

Edinburgh International Film Festival Reception at the Berlin International Film Festival Celebrates Collaboration and the Future of Independent Cinema

Paul Ridd (EIFF), Emma Boa (EIFF), Holly Gordon (Sean Connery Foundation), Isabel Davis (Screen Scotland), Andrew Macdonald (DNA Films)...

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NFTS Sean Connery Lab Shorts

EIFF is honoured to partner with NFTS Scotland and The Sean Connery Foundation for a second year to present the World Premiere of six...

95 mins

As I Lay Dying

We were many. When it was all over, we went our separate ways....
Mohammadreza Farzad, Pegah Ahangarani
2025
15 mins

Homing

One morning a family living on the south coast of England is shocked to find a man in their back garden, a refugee who...
Hansel Rodrigues, Lizzie Atherton
2026
17 mins