That’s right, the geeky movie guy with the specs off BBC Radio 1 is BACK BACK BACK with another big screen film quiz, on the road once again to ask you “Can you recognise the film from the out-of-context LEGO...
Ken Loach’s 2006 Palme D’Or winning film is a heartfelt and stirring epic exploring the rift that emerges between two brothers who find themselves fighting against one another in the conflict over Irish independence in the early 1920s. Presented from...
In Dead Lover, Grace Glowicki crafts a macabre yet tender reimagining of Frankenstein, where a gravedigger’s grief leads to madcap resurrection experiments. Shot on 16mm within minimalist black-box sets, the film blends horror, comedy, and romance, echoing influences from German...
An AI version of Werner Herzog narrates a crime mystery generated by AI in an absurd, deep fake universe. When small town factory worker Dorem Clery dies under mysterious circumstances, Herzog travels to Germany to investigate, yet nothing is as...
Two disillusioned 15-year-old girls, Doe and Muna, make a pact to leave their troubled lives in the UK to embark on a life-changing journey to the Syrian border, after being influenced by propaganda on social media. Though danger and uncertainty...
EIFF is delighted to partner with Scottish Documentary Institute to present the short documentary films created through the Bridging the Gap training programme. Inner forces and outside influences shape this collection of short documentaries which take us into intimate, poetic...
As a writer takes a train journey home at night, he is forced to confront the memory of events which led to his mother’s institutionalisation decades before. This gorgeous black-and-white Welsh language film with music by renowned composer Gareth Glyn...
An intimate and emotional drama about the challenges of starting a family. Miriam Garlo stars as Ángela, a deaf pottery artist, who has to find her own way through the difficulties of pregnancy and raising a daughter in a world...
A quintessential midnight movie, Ben Wheatley’s wildly inventive, darkly funny and completely unpredictable new film draws on a wealth of references from Airfix and Thunderbirds to Philip K Dick and Zelda in a delightful melting pot of ideas, noirish conspiracy...
This gorgeously filmed US comedy brings an appealing vitality and soul to its story of a rundown cinema on the day of closure and the various intersecting lives of its staff and customers. Propelled by a witty and weirdly lyrical...
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Kate Dickie stars in Andrea Arnold’s debut feature as a lonely CCTV security operator monitoring Glasgow’s fabled Red Road high rises. When a man...
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Powered by a topical resonance and quiet anger at institutional corruption, Dominik Moll’s excellent new thriller explores the murky moral maze surrounding a civilian...
