EIFF

Country: United States

18+

Blue Film

World Premiere

Blue Film

Drawn by the promise of easy money and anonymous sex, queer camboy Aaron Eagle (Moore) is shocked to discover a personal connection with the mysterious stranger (Birney) who has paid for his company. Over the course of one night, the...

World Premiere
Elliot Tuttle
2025
1hr 30 mins
15+

Concessions

World Premiere

Concessions

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...

World Premiere
Mas Bouzidi
2025
1hr 31 mins
15+

About A Hero

UK Premiere

About A Hero

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...

UK Premiere
Piotr Winiewicz
2024
1hr 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
PG

Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)

Retrospective Screening

Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)

Screening as part of Budd Boetticher: The Ranown Cycle. EIFF presents six compact and beautiful films directed by Budd Boetticher, which present the apotheosis of the Western genre and all star classic Hollywood golden age movie icon Randolph Scott. Presented...

Retrospective Screening
Budd Boetticher
1958
1hr 20 mins
PG

Cutting Through Rocks (اوزاک يوللار)

UK Premiere

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 patriarchal norms, by fighting for womens’ right to property and to participate in decisions that affect...

UK Premiere
Sara Khaki & Mohammadreza Eyni
2025
1hr 35 mins
15+

Dead Lover

UK Premiere

Dead Lover

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...

UK Premiere
Grace Glowicki
2025
1hr 35 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+

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
PG

Decision at Sundown (1956)

Retrospective Screening

Decision at Sundown (1956)

Screening as part of Budd Boetticher: The Ranown Cycle. EIFF presents six compact and beautiful films directed by Budd Boetticher, which present the apotheosis of the Western genre and all star classic Hollywood golden age movie icon Randolph Scott. Presented...

Retrospective Screening
Budd Boetticher
1956
1hr 20 mins

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