Screening as part of Sacred Bonds. Join us every morning of the Festival as we celebrate the remarkable original six James Bond films starring Sean Connery in his most famous role as the suave secret agent. Featuring daring stunts, elaborate...
In this bruising, intense and beautifully acted prison drama, a murderer unravels through flashbacks to his youth which expose the history of trauma that set him on the path to violence. Featuring a powerful central performance from Iain Glen, 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...
A special 40th anniversary screening in association with the Local Cinema Network, EIFF presents the raucous Scottish classic on the big screen for all to enjoy. Featuring the soaring music of Big Country, and directed with aplomb by Michael Hoffman,...
Kate Dickie stars in Andrea Arnold’s debut feature as a lonely CCTV security operator monitoring Glasgow’s fabled Red Road high rises. When a man appears that she recognises, she starts to follow him. Arnold’s gritty, psychological thriller is a masterclass...
Screening as part of Sacred Bonds. Join us every morning of the Festival as we celebrate the remarkable original six James Bond films starring Sean Connery in his most famous role as the suave secret agent. Featuring daring stunts, elaborate...
Nicolas Roeg’s haunting, nightmarish and lyrical 1980 puzzle film details the toxic relationship between a neurotic psychologist (Garfunkel) and a volatile young woman (Russell), set against the backdrop of modern Vienna. Told in a non-linear style, this is troubling, confrontational...
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...
In this classic Ealing comedy, Alec Guiness stars as a brilliant young chemist who is determined to create a fabric that will never stain or wear out. But he and his invention fall foul of factory workers and management who...
Selected by our special guest, major UK filmmaker Kevin Macdonald, as a film that has hugely influenced him, this classic 1957 Soviet era war film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov explores the physical and pyschological impact of WWII on the Russian...
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Further cementing his place as one of the UK’s boldest and most distinctive independent filmmakers, Simon Rumley’s latest is an unflinching meditation on faith,...
A selection of the finest new short films from across the world, ranging from biting realism to surreal satire. Board games, Thanksgiving dinners and...
