EIFF

Language: with English subtitles

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+

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+

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+

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
15+

Brides

UK Premiere

Brides

Two disillusioned 15-year-old girls, Doe and Muna, make a pact to leave their troubled lives in the UK to embark on a life-changing journey to the Syrian border, after being influenced by propaganda on social media. Though danger and uncertainty...

UK Premiere
Nadia Fall
2025
1hr 35 mins
15+

Deaf (Sorda)

UK Premiere

Deaf (Sorda)

An intimate and emotional drama about the challenges of starting a family. Miriam Garlo stars as Ángela, a deaf pottery artist, who has to find her own way through the difficulties of pregnancy and raising a daughter in a world...

UK Premiere
Eva Libertad
2025
2hr 0 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+

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
PG

Once You Shall Be One Of Those Who Lived Long Ago

World Premiere

Once You Shall Be One Of Those Who Lived Long Ago

An affecting, gorgeously crafted documentary about the remaining people in Malmberget in north Sweden, a small town slowly collapsing into the mines beneath it. As residents reflect on the once vibrant community, the town itself is gradually dismantled around them....

World Premiere
Alexander Rynéus & Per Bifrost
2025
1hr 35 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

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