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...
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...
When life gets thrown off its axis by her husband’s diagnosis with dementia, onefilmmaker is determined to capture it and treasure it all the same. Following her husband’s diagnosis with early onset Alzheimer’s, filmmaker HeidiLevitt copes the only way she...
After a traumatic incident, a young woman sleepwalks through life as an academic on campus, but with the arrival of an old friend with exciting news, she begins to question her life and the choices she has made. This beautifully...
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...
A hapless middle aged man is thrust into the role of a brutal avenger after a disastrous encounter with chemical waste. In this inventive, hilarious reboot, director Macon Blair reimagines the cult character familiar from the grisly 80s franchise. Featuring...
A broken, grieving mother finds herself trapped in a loop of unfulfilling vengeance. Traveling through the Multiverse, she has but one purpose: to kill the man who murdered her daughter in every universe. Her quest is upended, however, when she...
A wealthy socialite (Cherry) and a struggling writer (Chalotra) are thrown together at a debauched party in this remarkable satire of greed and excess with a supernatural twist in the tale. With its striking visual language, extravagant production design and...
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...
When plans to make his own true crime film fall through at the last minute, Charlie Shackleton turns the camera back on himself to examine the tropes, seduction and shock tactics of a problematic yet extremely popular genre. Countless films...
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Building on an impressive body of work exploring the darker side of British life, filmmaker Paul Andrew Williams (London to Brighton, Bull) returns with...
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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...
