EIFF is committed to ensuring that our Festival is accessible to all audiences. Below, you will find instructions on how to book tickets and request accessibility services, a link to our full 2025 EIFF Access Guide, a description of each of our different enhanced access screening offerings, as well as the full list of access screenings for EIFF’s 2025 Festival.
How to Book
Online
• edfilmfest.org
• edfringe.com or download the official EdFringe app on the App Store or Google Play
In-person
• The Fringe Box Office – Old Assembly Close, High Street, EH1 1QS
• At EIFF Box Offices across our venues during Festival dates (14 – 20 August)
Edinburgh Fringe Access Booking Service
This service is here to assist anyone with an access requirement to make sure their experience of EIFF meets their needs. The access booking service can help you:
• Book specific accessibility services, e.g. enhanced screenings or seating in relation to the location of a BSL interpreter
• If you require specific accessibility information for each venue
• If you require extra assistance when at a venue, including avoiding waiting in queues and busy environments
• If you have specific seating requirements
• If you are a wheelchair user
• If you require a complimentary personal assistant ticket to attend a screening or event.
To contact the Access Booking Service, you can contact EdFringe Box Office via:
– Phone: +44 (0) 131 226 0002
– Email: accessbookings@edfringe.com
– WhatsApp: +44 (0)7923 525799 (text only)
– Via Contact Scotland’s BSL video interpreting relay service
– In person: Fringe Shop and Box Office, 180 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1QS Opening hours: 10:00 – 18:00, Monday to Friday.
Relaxed screenings (RS)
In our Relaxed screenings, the cinema environment is specifically tailored for a neurodiverse audience, including those who are autistic and have sensory sensitivities, as well as their families, friends and carers.
For these screenings:
• The lights are dimmed, although not turned off.
• Volume levels are a little lower than usual.
• Seating capacity is reduced, giving people more personal space.
• Audience members are free to move around, make noise and to enter and exit the cinema at any time. A quiet space will be available.
Audio-Described (AD)
AD cinema provides a live commentary of the film’s visuals. For audience members who are blind or partially sighted, AD is delivered via personal headsets or headphones which can be collected from venue staff.
Hard-of-Hearing (HOH)
These screenings are specifically designed for people who are Deaf, deafened or hard-of-hearing. Any dialogue is subtitled and additional audio description is captioned, centred at the bottom of the screen. They are a transcription rather than a translation, so as well as reproducing dialogue, they aim to describe every additional non-dialogue sound available to a hearing audience watching a film, e.g. ‘(sighs)’ or ‘(door creaks)’ and song lyrics.
British Sign Language (BSL)
We will provide BSL interpreters for the introductions and Q&As at all of our HOH screenings. They will be visible to all audience members under appropriate lighting.
A full list of Audio-Described screenings.
This is a live list. It will be updated here if any additional Audio-Described screenings are added.
Thursday 14 August
23:59
Bulk
Cameo 1
AD
Friday 15 August
16:00
Bulk
Hawthornden Lecture Theatre
AD
18:30
The Memory Blocks
Hawthornden Lecture Theatre
Relaxed, HOH, AD
Saturday 16 August
21:30
Dragonfly
Cameo 1
AD
13:30
Bridging the Gap Shorts
Hawthornden Lecture Theatre
HOH, AD
Sunday 17 August
16:00
Surviving Earth/Truckload
Cameo 1
AD
23:59
I Live Here Now/Drainomania
Cameo 1
AD
16:00
Bridging the Gap Shorts
Filmhouse 3
HOH, AD
21:30
Surviving Earth/Truckload
Vue 12
AD
Monday 18 August
18:30
Surviving Earth/Truckload
Filmhouse 2
AD, HOH
16:00
I Live Here Now/Drainomania
Filmhouse 3 AD
11:00
Dragonfly
Hawthornden Lecture Theatre
AD
Tuesday 19 August
21:00
All The Devils Are Here
Filmhouse 1
AD
17:45
Dragonfly
Filmhouse 2
AD, HOH
10:30
Surviving Earth/Truckload
Hawthornden Lecture Theatre
AD
Wednesday 20 August
11:00
Deaf/Bumblebee
Hawthornden Lecture Theatre
Relaxed, HOH, AD
16:30
All The Devils Are Here
Hawthornden Lecture Theatre
AD
20:30
All The Devils Are Here
Vue 12
AD, HOH
A full list of Hard-of-Hearing screenings.
This is a live list. It will be updated here if any additional Hard-of-Hearing screenings are added.
Friday 15 August
18:30
The Memory Blocks
Hawthornden Lecture Theatre
Relaxed, HOH, AD, BSL
21:30
Bulk
Vue 10
HOH, BSL
Saturday 16 August
12:30
Brides
Filmhouse 2
HOH, BSL
19:00
Experimental Shorts
Filmhouse 3
HOH, BSL
13:30
Bridging the Gap Shorts
Hawthornden Lecture Theatre
HOH, AD, BSL
20:30
NFTS Shorts
Vue 10
HOH, BSL
13:00
Experimental Shorts
Vue 11
HOH, BSL
Sunday 17 August
21:15
Deaf/Bumblebee
Cameo 1
HOH, BSL
10:00
Grow
Filmhouse 2
HOH, BSL
16:00
Bridging the Gap Shorts
Filmhouse 3
HOH, AD, BSL
20:45
NFTS Shorts
Filmhouse 3
HOH, BSL
12:45
Competition Shorts
Hawthornden Lecture Theatre
HOH, BSL
20:45
Two Neighbors
Hawthornden Lecture Theatre
HOH, BSL
13:00
Concessions
Vue 12
HOH, BSL
Monday 18 August
13:45
Little Trouble Girls
Filmhouse 1
HOH, BSL
16:15
Restless Natives (1985)
Filmhouse 1
HOH, BSL
13:15
Deaf/Bumblebee
Filmhouse 2
HOH, BSL
18:30
Surviving Earth/Truckload
Filmhouse 2
AD, HOH, BSL
18:45
Competition Shorts
Filmhouse 3
HOH, BSL
21:45
Out of Competition Shorts
Filmhouse 3
HOH, BSL
Tuesday 19 August
13:15
Out of Competition Shorts
Cameo 2
HOH, BSL
15:15
Animation Shorts
Filmhouse 2
HOH, BSL
17:45
Dragonfly
Filmhouse 2
AD, HOH, BSL
13:30
In Transit
Vue 12
HOH, BSL
15:45
Low Rider
Vue 12
HOH, BSL
Wednesday 20 August
14:00
Silent Scream (1990)
Cameo 1
HOH, BSL
11:00
Deaf/Bumblebee
Hawthornden Lecture Theatre
Relaxed, HOH, AD, BSL
12:15
Deaf/Bumblebee
Vue 11
HOH, BSL
15:00
Animation Shorts
Vue 11
HOH, BSL
20:30
All The Devils Are Here
Vue 12
AD, HOH, BSL
A full list of Relaxed screenings
This is a live list. It will be updated here if any additional Relaxed screenings are added.
Friday 15 August
18:30
The Memory Blocks
Hawthornden Lecture Theatre
Relaxed, HOH, AD
Wednesday 20 August
11:00
Deaf/Bumblebee
Hawthornden Lecture Theatre
Relaxed, HOH, AD
A full list of British Sign Language screenings.
This is a live list. It will be updated here if any additional BSL screenings are added.
Friday 15 August
18:30
The Memory Blocks
Hawthornden Lecture Theatre
Relaxed, HOH, AD, BSL
21:30
Bulk
Vue 10
HOH, BSL
Saturday 16 August
12:30
Brides
Filmhouse 2
HOH, BSL
19:00
Experimental Shorts
Filmhouse 3
HOH, BSL
13:30
Bridging the Gap Shorts
Hawthornden Lecture Theatre
HOH, AD, BSL
20:30
NFTS Shorts
Vue 10
HOH, BSL
13:00
Experimental Shorts
Vue 11
HOH, BSL
Sunday 17 August
21:15
Deaf/Bumblebee
Cameo 1
HOH, BSL
10:00
Grow
Filmhouse 2
HOH, BSL
16:00
Bridging the Gap Shorts
Filmhouse 3
HOH, AD, BSL
20:45
NFTS Shorts
Filmhouse 3
HOH, BSL
12:45
Competition Shorts
Hawthornden Lecture Theatre
HOH, BSL
20:45
Two Neighbors
Hawthornden Lecture Theatre
HOH, BSL
13:00
Concessions
Vue 12
HOH, BSL
Monday 18 August
13:45
Little Trouble Girls
Filmhouse 1
HOH, BSL
16:15
Restless Natives (1985)
Filmhouse 1
HOH, BSL
13:15
Deaf/Bumblebee
Filmhouse 2
HOH, BSL
18:30
Surviving Earth/Truckload
Filmhouse 2
AD, HOH, BSL
18:45
Competition Shorts
Filmhouse 3
HOH, BSL
21:45
Out of Competition Shorts
Filmhouse 3
HOH, BSL
Tuesday 19 August
13:15
Out of Competition Shorts
Cameo 2
HOH, BSL
15:15
Animation Shorts
Filmhouse 2
HOH, BSL
17:45
Dragonfly
Filmhouse 2
AD, HOH, BSL
13:30
In Transit
Vue 12
HOH, BSL
15:45
Low Rider
Vue 12
HOH, BSL
Wednesday 20 August
14:00
Silent Scream (1990)
Cameo 1
HOH, BSL
11:00
Deaf/Bumblebee
Hawthornden Lecture Theatre
Relaxed, HOH, AD, BSL
12:15
Deaf/Bumblebee
Vue 11
HOH, BSL
15:00
Animation Shorts
Vue 11
HOH, BSL
20:30
All The Devils Are Here
Vue 12
AD, HOH, BSL
