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The Edge of the World (1937) + Thelma Schoonmaker Intro

Retrospective Screening

The Edge of the World (1937) + Thelma Schoonmaker Intro

EIFF welcomes legendary film editor Thelma Schoonmaker in person to introduce her late husband Michael Powell’s classic 1937 film presented in a digital restoration.  Set on an isolated Scottish island, Powell’s beautifully filmed and stirring film dramatises the shifts in...

Retrospective Screening
Michael Powell
1937
1hr 30 mins

The Wind That Shakes The Barley

Retrospective Screening

The Wind That Shakes The Barley

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...

Retrospective Screening
Ken Loach
2006
2hr 13 mins
15+

Fires Of The Moon (Tanau’r Lloer)

World Premiere

Fires Of The Moon (Tanau’r Lloer)

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...

World Premiere
Christopher Forster
2025
1hr 25 mins
18+

Competition Shorts

World Premiere

Competition Shorts

A selection of the finest new short films from across the world, ranging from biting realism to surreal satire. Board games, Thanksgiving dinners and a dictator’s dog all play a part in this year’s short film competition, which explores the...

World Premiere
Various
2025
2hr 25 mins
15+

Animation Shorts

UK Premiere, World Premiere

Animation Shorts

Explore the infinite possibilities of animation with this global tour of a medium being used to tell a stunning variety of inventive, expressive, entirely unique tales.This collection of shorts includes everything from a daring lunar adventure, to a family-friendly parable...

UK Premiere, World Premiere
Various
2023, 2024, 2025
1hr 30 mins
15+

Brides

UK Premiere

Brides

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...

UK Premiere
Nadia Fall
2025
1hr 35 mins
18+

Crushed

World Premiere

Crushed

Further cementing his place as one of the UK’s boldest and most distinctive independent filmmakers, Simon Rumley’s latest is an unflinching meditation on faith, grief, and vengeance. When their daughter disappears in suburban Bangkok, a pastor and his wife are...

World Premiere
Simon Rumley
2025
1hr 45 mins
U

Grow

World Premiere

Grow

A troubled young girl begins a new life with her tough aunt and discovers a supernatural talent that might help her win the contentious local pumpkin-growing contest. Director John McPhail (Anna and the Apocalypse) returns with this exuberant and thoroughly...

World Premiere
John McPhail
2025
1hr 50 mins
15+

Bulk

World Premiere

Bulk

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...

World Premiere
Ben Wheatley
2025
1hr 35 mins
15+

Bridging the Gap Shorts

World Premiere

Bridging the Gap Shorts

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...

World Premiere
Various
2025
1hr 15 mins

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The Tall T (1957)

Screening as part of Budd Boetticher: The Ranown Cycle. EIFF presents six compact and beautiful films directed by Budd Boetticher, which present the apotheosis...

Budd Boetticher
1957
1hr 20 mins

Cutting Through Rocks (اوزاک يوللار)

A wind of change moves through a remote Iranian village in the form of Sara Shahverdi—its first elected councilwoman. With unwavering determination, she challenges...

Sara Khaki & Mohammadreza Eyni
2025
1hr 35 mins

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,...

Various
2024, 2025
1hr 30 mins