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15+

Lynda Myles celebrates: After This Death

UK Premiere

Lynda Myles celebrates: After This Death

Isabel begins a passionate affair with Elliot, the eccentric frontman of an underground band. After a devastating personal loss and the mysterious disappearance of Elliot, she finds herself the unwilling focus of his obsessive fan base. Cryptic messages and eerie...

UK Premiere
Lucio Castro
2025
1hr 40 mins
15+

In Transit

World Premiere

In Transit

An enigmatic painter (Ehle) invites a young bartender to pose for her as a strange, confusing relationship develops that will change both women forever. Beautifully written by Sarrigeorgiou (who also stars) and gorgeously shot with painterly compositions, its crisp, visual...

World Premiere
Jaclyn Bethany
2025
1hr 25 mins
18+

I Live Here Now

UK Premiere

I Live Here Now

A young woman finds herself in a strange, derelict hotel as nightmarish visions from her past come to haunt her. As the lines of reality become increasingly blurred, the roots of her trauma come to the fore. Uncompromising, visually striking...

UK Premiere
Julie Pacino
2025
1hr 50 mins
18+

Hysteria

UK Premiere

Hysteria

An incrementally suspenseful whodunnit that tackles politics, religion and the complicity of cinema and art. While shooting a period film reenacting a racist attack, a burned holy book is discovered on set. Caught in the turmoil and searching for answers,...

UK Premiere
Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay
2025
1hr 45 mins
15+

Growing Down (Minden Rendben)

UK Premiere

Growing Down (Minden Rendben)

A gripping and taut drama exploring moral conflict and family loyalty from Hungarian writer-director Bálint Dániel Sós, shot in striking black and white. When a children’s birthday party ends in a tragic incident, a well-meaning, but over-protective father attempts to...

UK Premiere
Bálint Dániel Sós
2025
1hr 25 mins
18+

Experimental Shorts

European Premiere, International Premiere, UK Premiere, World Premiere

Experimental Shorts

A journey from the microscopic to the planetary, these ten works collectively map an unsettled present and an unknown future. Beginning in the quiet, observational terrain of nature, light, and breath, and unfolding through questions of memory, identity, and power,...

European Premiere, International Premiere, UK Premiere, World Premiere
Various
2024, 2025
1hr 30 mins
18+

Dragonfly

UK Premiere

Dragonfly

Building on an impressive body of work exploring the darker side of British life, filmmaker Paul Andrew Williams (London to Brighton, Bull) returns with this complex and thoroughly engaging thriller in which two troubled women form an uneasy relationship against...

UK Premiere
Paul Andrew Williams
2025
1hr 40 mins
18+

NFTS Sean Connery Lab Shorts

World Premiere

NFTS Sean Connery Lab Shorts

EIFF is delighted to partner with NFTS Scotland and The Sean Connery Foundation to present the World Premiere of six short films created via the inaugural Sean Connery Talent Lab. These rich, vibrant and diverse films showcase six new filmmakers...

World Premiere
Various
2025
1hr 25 mins
18+

Out of Competition Shorts

UK Premiere

Out of Competition Shorts

A powerhouse shorts programme showcasing some of the most extraordinary storytelling from across the globe, from Scotland and America to Sweden and Brazil. Reckonings with the past connect this year’s selection of astonishing short films, including meditative documentaries and heartbreaking...

UK Premiere
Various
2024, 2025
2hr 15 mins
15+

Reality Is Not Enough

World Premiere

Reality Is Not Enough

Whether discussing his writing process, experimenting with hallucinogenic drugs or mixing music in his life as a DJ, acclaimed Scottish author and outsider icon Irvine Welsh remains a figure of fascination, and in this striking new film director Paul Sng...

World Premiere
Paul Sng
2025
1hr 30 mins

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1956
1hr 20 mins

Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)

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Budd Boetticher
1958
1hr 20 mins

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2025
1hr 45 mins