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EIFF presents a wide selection of World, International and UK Premieres of feature films from all over the world, representing a diverse genres, forms and perspectives. Including acclaimed films fresh from Sundance, Berlinale and Cannes as well as brand new titles, this selection speaks to our commitment to international cinema of the highest quality and interest.

18+

All The Devils Are Here

World Premiere

All The Devils Are Here

A taut psychological crime thriller where guilt festers, loyalties shift, and the codes that bind men begin to break. When a group of London criminals

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World Premiere

Barnaby Roper

2025

1hr 30 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

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UK Premiere

Nadia Fall

2025

1hr 35 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

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International Premiere

Dominik Moll

2025

1hr 55 mins

15+

Christy

UK Premiere

Christy

17-year-old Christy has been kicked out of his latest foster home and is stuck staying with his hotheaded half-brother Shane. Met with many estranged family

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UK Premiere

Brendan Canty

2025

1hr 35 mins

18+

Crushed

World Premiere

Crushed

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, grief,

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World Premiere

Simon Rumley

2025

1hr 45 mins

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

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UK Premiere

Sara Khaki & Mohammadreza Eyni

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

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UK Premiere

Eva Libertad

2025

2hr 0 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

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World Premiere

Christopher Forster

2025

1hr 25 mins

Grow

World Premiere

Grow

A troubled young girl begins a new life with her tough aunt and discovers a supernatural talent that might help her win the contentious local

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World Premiere

John McPhail

2025

1hr 50 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

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UK Premiere

Piotr Winiewicz

2024

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

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UK Premiere

Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay

2025

1hr 45 mins

15+

Misper

World Premiere

Misper

An assured debut from director Harry Sherriff unfurls a darkly comic missing person tale set in a once-grand, now fading seaside hotel. When staff member

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World Premiere

Harry Sherriff

2025

1hr 30 mins

15+

Lynda Myles celebrates: After This Death

UK Premiere

Lynda Myles celebrates: After This Death

Isabel begins a passionate affair with Elliot, the eccentric frontman of an underground band. After a devastating personal loss and the mysterious disappearance of Elliot,

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UK Premiere

Lucio Castro

2025

1hr 40 mins

15+

Little Trouble Girls (Kaj ti je deklica)

UK Premiere

Little Trouble Girls (Kaj ti je deklica)

Lucia, a reserved sixteen-year-old, joins her Catholic school’s girls’ choir, where she quickly catches the attention of the slightly older and charismatic Ana-Maria. During a

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UK Premiere

Urška Djukic

2025

1hr 40 mins

15+

Islands

UK Premiere

Islands

Spending his days teaching tennis to distracted families and his nights partying with strangers, aimless former tennis champion Tom (Sam Riley) has resigned himself to

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UK Premiere

Jan-Ole Gerster

2025

2hr 5 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

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UK Premiere

Bálint Dániel Sós

2025

1hr 25 mins

18+

Dragonfly

UK Premiere

Dragonfly

Building on an impressive body of work exploring the darker side of British life, filmmaker Paul Andrew Williams (London to Brighton, Bull) returns with this

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UK Premiere

Paul Andrew Williams

2025

1hr 40 mins

15+

Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk

UK Premiere

Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk

Acting as a vivid and disturbing video testimony to life under the bombs in Gaza, this powerfully raw and affecting film proves testament to the

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UK Premiere

Sepideh Farsi

2025

1hr 50 mins

15+

Sanatorium

UK Premiere

Sanatorium

The clientele of a rundown Soviet-era health resort search for love, health and happiness in war-torn Ukraine where air raid sirens and plumes of smoke

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UK Premiere

Gar O’Rourke

2025

1hr 35 mins

15+

Surviving Earth

UK Premiere

Surviving Earth

A Yugoslav refugee balances his days as a counsellor with nights filled by the rhythms of a Balkan band, stitching together a new, harmonious life

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UK Premiere

Thea Gajić

2024

2hr 0 mins

The Golden Spurtle

UK Premiere

The Golden Spurtle

Every year contestants from around the globe travel to the scenic village in the Scottish Highlands to compete in the World Porridge Making Championship. The

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UK Premiere

Constantine Costi

2025

1hr 15 mins

The Memory Blocks

World Premiere

The Memory Blocks

An experimental reflection on the changeable and complex nature of memory through the lens of neurodivergence. The latest project from filmmaker Andrew Kötting sees his

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World Premiere

Andrew Kötting

2025

1hr 20 mins

Walk With Me

UK Premiere

Walk With Me

When life gets thrown off its axis by her husband’s diagnosis with dementia, onefilmmaker is determined to capture it and treasure it all the same.

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UK Premiere

Heidi Levitt

2024

1hr 30 mins

15+

Young Mothers (Jeunes Mères)

International Premiere

Young Mothers (Jeunes Mères)

The intersecting and colliding lives of the women at a shelter for young mothers form the subject of this beautiful and poetic film from the

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International Premiere

Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne

2025

1hr 45 mins

18+

Zodiac Killer Project

UK Premiere

Zodiac Killer Project

When plans to make his own true crime film fall through at the last minute, Charlie Shackleton turns the camera back on himself to examine

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UK Premiere

Charlie Shackleton

2025

1hr 35 mins

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1hr 35 mins

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