Festival: Edinburgh International Film Festival 2026

12A

Out There

World Premiere

Out There

Still grieving the disappearance of her scientist father, amateur teenaged astronomer Maz (Stocks) is convinced she has spotted something suspicious hovering above her sleepy Welsh hometown. Recruiting the support of her best mate Little Elis (Moya), UFO-obsessed conspiracy theorist Bryn...
World Premiere
Simon Ryninks
2026
80 mins
18+

Faces of Death

UK Premiere

Faces of Death

The iconic series is given a gloriously meta and intelligent update in this macabre reboot. When a website content moderator discovers a series of disturbing clips that seem eerily similar to scenes from the original Faces of Death franchise, she...
UK Premiere
Daniel Goldhaber
97 mins
15+

Hungry

World Premiere

Hungry

When a group of tourists ventures off the beaten track in the vast swamplands of the Louisiana Bayou, they find themselves trapped in a claustrophobic open locale by a very large, very active, very food-centred hippo. As the group fights...
World Premiere
James Nunn
2026
92 mins
18+

Rise of the Footsoldier: Retribution

World Premiere

Rise of the Footsoldier: Retribution

Determined to avenge the murder of his best friend and partner in crime, Pat Tate (Fairbrass) journeys to Ibiza on a roaring rampage of revenge. Up against arms traffickers, the CIA, some familiar foes and a seemingly endless parade of...
World Premiere
Nick Nevern
2026
112 mins
U

The Best Summer

UK Premiere

The Best Summer

A transfixing documentary from Tamra Davis (Crossroads, CB4, Billy Madison) which offers an unfiltered immersion into archival footage of the electric 1995 Summersault festival, featuring iconic performances and candid interviews with alternative rock legends including The Foo Fighters, Beastie Boys,...
UK Premiere
Tamra Davis
2025
84 mins
18+

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

No Premiere

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

Beginning as an exhaustive journey through the origins of Hollywood, moving through the invention and evolution of genres and heralding the work of unsung heroes of classical and modern cinema, Scorsese’s mammoth documentary made with the BFI in 1995 is...
No Premiere
Martin Scorsese, Michael Henry Wilson
221 mins
18+

Coming Home

No Premiere

Coming Home

A US Marine Corps captain’s wife (Jane Fonda) finds herself drawn to a paraplegic war vet (Jon Voight) after her husband (Bruce Dern) leaves to fight in Vietnam. By the time her husband returns from the front, each one of...
No Premiere
Hal Ashby
128 mins
PG

Hamlet

No Premiere

Hamlet

The King of Denmark is dead, and the Queen has married his brother. Prince Hamlet, seeing spirits and feigning madness, seeks out revenge. Famously faithful to the unabridged original text, director and actor Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation boasts a star studded...
No Premiere
Kenneth Branagh
242 mins
15+

Bridging The Gap Shorts

Bridging The Gap Shorts

EIFF is delighted to present the World Premieres of the most exciting new short form documentaries coming from Scotland, supported by the Scottish Documentary Institute through the Bridging the Gap training programme. – Emma Boa

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104 mins
PG

Our Cinema 26 Shorts: ‘What is felt but not spoken’ with Scott Graham

Our Cinema 26 Shorts: ‘What is felt but not spoken’ with Scott Graham

Our Cinema is an innovative new approach to film education in Scotland delivered by Transgressive North and Folk Film Gathering and modelled on Japan’s world-leading Children Meet Cinema project. Join us for a unique celebration of the freshest young filmmaking...

117 mins

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The Talented Mr. Ripley

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1999
139 mins