EIFF

Year: 2025

15+

Case 137 (Dossier 137)

International Premiere

Case 137 (Dossier 137)

Powered by a topical resonance and quiet anger at institutional corruption, Dominik Moll’s excellent new thriller explores the murky moral maze surrounding a civilian casualty on the streets of Paris during a riot, and the excessive force that may have...

International Premiere
Dominik Moll
2025
1hr 55 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
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+

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
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+

Growing Down (Minden Rendben)

UK Premiere

Growing Down (Minden Rendben)

A gripping and taut drama exploring moral conflict and family loyalty from Hungarian writer-director Bálint Dániel Sós, shot in striking black and white. When a children’s birthday party ends in a tragic incident, a well-meaning, but over-protective father attempts to...

UK Premiere
Bálint Dániel Sós
2025
1hr 25 mins
18+

Hysteria

UK Premiere

Hysteria

An incrementally suspenseful whodunnit that tackles politics, religion and the complicity of cinema and art. While shooting a period film reenacting a racist attack, a burned holy book is discovered on set. Caught in the turmoil and searching for answers,...

UK Premiere
Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay
2025
1hr 45 mins
15+

Novak

World Premiere

Novak

An ostracised Croatian neuroscientist is drawn out of hiding in Athens by an activist group of idealistic young scientists fascinated by his previously discredited theories about electromagnetic pollution. As egos swell and actions take momentum, the community they form starts...

World Premiere
Harry Lagoussis
2025
1hr 50 mins
18+

I Live Here Now

UK Premiere

I Live Here Now

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...

UK Premiere
Julie Pacino
2025
1hr 50 mins

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Low Rider

A young British woman embarks on a road trip in South Africa to find her estranged father, aided by a charismatic stranger on the...

Campbell X
2025
1hr 35 mins

Ride Lonesome (1959)

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
1959
1hr 15 mins

Out of Competition Shorts

A powerhouse shorts programme showcasing some of the most extraordinary storytelling from across the globe, from Scotland and America to Sweden and Brazil. Reckonings...

Various
2024, 2025
2hr 15 mins