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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.

18+

Hope

UK Premiere

Hope

A rural Korean village is under attack from a mysterious creature laying waste to buildings, vehicles and anyone unfortunate to cross its path. Now it

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UK Premiere
Na Hong-jin
2026
165 mins
PG

End of Times

European Premiere

End of Times

The members of a film workshop at a psychosocial rehabilitation center for people with schizophrenia come together to create a movie about the end of the world....
European Premiere
Ismael Morales, Mao Osorio
2026
19 mins
12A

Amaretti

World Premiere

Amaretti

Acclaimed actor Stacy Martin directs this thematically rich, thorny and moving short about an elderly woman who forms a surprising connection with a psychiatrist after the discovery that her adult son may have deceived her for years about a medical...
World Premiere
Stacy Martin
2026
14 mins
15+

Homing

UK Premiere

Homing

One morning a family living on the south coast of England is shocked to find a man in their back garden, a refugee who has washed up on the shoreline. A very contemporary and propulsive story of the refugee crisis...
UK Premiere
Hansel Rodrigues, Lizzie Atherton
2026
17 mins
PG

The Pigeon

UK Premiere

The Pigeon

A young woman believes a loved one has been reincarnated when a pigeon appears in her apartment. Chloe Culpin’s poignant portrait of the many stages of grief is compelling, nuanced and deeply affecting in its heartfelt simplicity.- Emma Boa...
UK Premiere
Chloe Culpin
2025
12 mins
12A

DINGO

UK Premiere

DINGO

An 81-year-old undiscovered street photographer prodigy, named Dingo, and his daughter confront how photography affects their memories and grief. - Paul Ridd...
UK Premiere
James Marcus Haney
2026
18 mins
15+

Lesbian Ditch Day

World Premiere

Lesbian Ditch Day

Two queer teens skip school for a day of fun, but all is not what it seems in this playful, meta short. - Emma Boa...
World Premiere
Olivia Cade
2025
14 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
15+

My NDA

International Premiere

My NDA

A gripping observational documentary exposing secrecy as a psychological weapon wielded by corporate America, as three ordinary people choose to break their non-disclosure agreements. This nail-biting film reveals how pervasive public censorship is manipulating justice in every corner of American...
International Premiere
Miriam Shor, Juliane Dressner
2026
102 mins
12A

The Peril At Pincer Point

UK Premiere

The Peril At Pincer Point

A feckless sound recordist is sent to a strange island by a tyrannical film director, but becomes obsessed with the mysteries and litany of eccentrics he discovers there in this constantly inventive, superbly atmospheric British comedy debut. Beautifully shot, full...
UK Premiere
Jake Kuhn, Noah Stratton-Twine
2026
83 mins
15+

These Violent Delights

World Premiere

These Violent Delights

Scottish Ballet’s intoxicating, beautifully realised retelling of the classic Shakespeare tragedy combines stunning choreography, gorgeous costuming and fluid cinematography and movement to create a ballet film with a difference. -Elena Gaitanarou...
World Premiere
Christopher Hampson, Oscar Sansom
2025
70 mins
12A

Sheep in the Box

UK Premiere

Sheep in the Box

In an attempt to come to terms with their grief, a couple welcome a humanoid robot version of their deceased son into their home. Under the characteristically subtle and nuanced direction of Kore-Eda, what begins as a thoughtful study of...
UK Premiere
Hirokazu Kore-eda
2026
126 mins
15+

Sea of Glass

World Premiere

Sea of Glass

After experiencing immense family turmoil in the wake of her husband’s death, a woman seeks solace in a quiet seaside town. There, she forms an unexpected bond with a young woman struggling with her own fractured relationship with her violent...
World Premiere
Alexis Alexiou
2026
130 mins
15+

Queen at Sea

UK Premiere

Queen at Sea

When Amanda (Binoche) walks in on her elderly parents in the throes of what appears to be a consensual sexual encounter her instinct is to call the police, believing her mother Leslie (Calder-Marshall) who is suffering from dementia, is incapable...
UK Premiere
Lance Hammer
2026
121 mins
15+

Northbound

World Premiere

Northbound

Frustrated with living out his final days in a nursing home, elderly rogue Arthur (Dern) recruits his uptight grandson Kevin (Parrish) to break him out. Together the pair head north to Canada, picking up an enigmatic stranger (Fox) along the...
World Premiere
William Scoular
2026
92 mins
18+

Mi Amor

UK Premiere

Mi Amor

Following a spirited DJ’s search for her missing friend on an island in Gran Canaria, this tense thriller unfolds through striking imagery, a growing sense of unease and a pulsing techno score. Outstanding performances from Pom Klementieff and Benoît Magimel,...
UK Premiere
Guillaume Nicloux
2026
113 mins
15+

Borges and Me

World Premiere

Borges and Me

In the early 1970s writer and student Jay Parini (Whitehead) finds himself committed to driving blind poet Jorge Luis Borges (Gnecco) across the Scottish countryside. Over the course of an eventful journey the pair form a complex and rich bond,...
World Premiere
Marc Turtletaub
2026
109 mins
15+

The Last Resort

UK Premiere

The Last Resort

A sun-drenched Gran Canaria resort becomes the unlikely setting for an urgent moral reckoning. When an unexpected incident leaves a family bound to a refugee in desperate need, nothing that follows is straightforward or comfortable. With lead performances that are...
UK Premiere
Maria Sødahl
2026
98 mins
The Incomer
15+

The Incomer

International Premiere

The Incomer

Raised on a remote Scottish island, oddball siblings Isla (Rankin) and Sandy (O’Rourke) spend their days hunting, squabbling and telling stories. But when nervy council official Daniel (Gleeson) arrives on the island intent on moving them along, the pair must...
International Premiere
Louis Paxton
2025
102 mins
15+

The Education of Jane Cumming

UK Premiere

The Education of Jane Cumming

In early nineteenth-century Edinburgh, two women run a girls’ boarding school, trying to build an independent life in a world with little room for women outside convention. When a wealthy grandmother enrols her granddaughters, including 15-year-old Jane Cumming, the school’s...
UK Premiere
Sophie Heldman
2026
114 mins
18+

I Want Your Sex

UK Premiere

I Want Your Sex

Stuck in a relationship going nowhere with his girlfriend Minerva (Charli xcx) and confused about his sexuality, frustrated and neurotic twentysomething Elliott (Hoffman) finds himself suddenly at the sexual beck and call of his boss, domineering and ultra-confident art gallery...
UK Premiere
Gregg Araki
2025
90 mins
18+

Her Private Hell

UK Premiere

Her Private Hell

Glamorous young actresses are targeted by the killer Leather Man and a vengeful GI searches for his daughter in this hypnotic, ultraviolent film from Nicolas Winding Refn. Set against the backdrop of a surreal, neon soaked city, a bizarre high...
UK Premiere
Nicolas Winding Refn
2026
109 mins
15+

Goodbye Cruel World

UK Premiere

Goodbye Cruel World

When a bullied young schoolboy goes into hiding from his classmates, a lonely girl from his class discovers him and a delicate, respectful relationship begins to form, opening their worlds up in myriad ways. Beautifully shot with painterly compositions, a...
UK Premiere
Félix de Givry
2026
93 mins
12A

Extra Geography

UK Premiere

Extra Geography

In their final year at boarding school in the early 2000s, two best friends with their own shared language and offbeat ideas about growing up set themselves the task of falling in love with their geography teacher. Two breakout star...
UK Premiere
Molly Manners
2026
94 mins
15+

Empty Heaven

World Premiere

Empty Heaven

Abdolreza Kahani (A Shrine, Mortician, winner of The Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence, EIFF 2025) returns to EIFF once more with a confidently and cleverly crafted character study. When a lonely Iranian dissident becomes embroiled with a local...
World Premiere
Abdolreza Kahani
2026
87 mins
18+

Douglas Gordon by Douglas Gordon

UK Premiere

Douglas Gordon by Douglas Gordon

Blurring the boundary between documentary and artistic experiment, this hypnotic film immerses audiences in the world of influential Scottish artist Douglas Gordon. Combining archival footage, disorientating imagery and candid exchanges filled with humour and honesty, the film explores artistic identity...
UK Premiere
Finlay Pretsell
2026
88 mins
15+

The Arrow at Rest at Every Instant of its Flight

World Premiere

The Arrow at Rest at Every Instant of its Flight

Three seemingly disconnected stories unfold across New York City. Gus Birney stars as Violet, a jaded arcade worker, Sinopia, an upper-class professor bored with her marriage, and Jade, an endlessly cool young woman who decides to help a stranger out...
World Premiere
Theodore Schaefer
2026
81 mins
18+

Bodyhackers

World Premiere

Bodyhackers

Intent on exposing the cosmetics industry for exploiting insecurities through unrealistic beauty standards, an environmental activist falls in love with a ballerina with her own obsession with unattainable beauty, becoming dangerously drawn into the world of underground plastic surgery. Director...
World Premiere
Carlos Conceição
2026
83 mins

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