Tag: Edinburgh International Film Festival

Hyena a crime thriller developed by Film4 is to open the 68th Edinburgh International Film Festival next month. The Festival runs from 18 to 29 June 2014. This will be the first opportunity for any audience...

 The closing date for Student Critic applications is 12 May 2014, so if this is for you then make sure you get your application in. Details are at the end of this article. Edinburgh International...

Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) this week announced Virgin Atlantic as Official Airline Partner for the 68th edition of the Festival. As part of the deal, Virgin Atlantic will fly many of the high profile industry...

The 67th edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival enjoyed a healthy increase in admissions at the 2013 Festival. More than 44,000 tickets were issued across the 12 day event which is a ten...

A Tyrannosaurus Rex has been on the rampage through Edinburgh - despite being extinct for the last 65 million years. The aftermath of the mischievous carnivore’s car-crushing antics caused bemusement among shoppers on Princes Street...

The winners of this year’s prestigious Edinburgh International Film Festival awards were announced at the Festival’s awards ceremony, held at Filmhouse today and hosted by Grant Lauchlan, producer and presenter of stv’s Moviejuice.  The...

I haven’t been able to catch much of the Edinburgh International Film Festival this year, and didn’t have any plans to go this evening. But I had a fairly rough day at work and...

 As the festival begins to wind down for another year, here are my recommendations for tomorrow.Struck By Lightning Screening as part of the festival's Not Another Teen Movie strand, Struck By Lightning (Cineworld, 6:10) is...

 Tomorrow is Family Gala day at the festival, with two special screenings of the latest release from Disney-Pixar. If that sort of thing isn't to your taste, there is plenty more to choose from....

 As always, the two weekends at EIFF are the busiest period, with almost twice as many films available to see as on the weekdays. Here are a few you might want to look out...

 When I ask my friends if they'd like to come along to a film festival with me, a lot of them reply "no thanks, I'd prefer to go see Fast and Furious 6 instead"....

 As you would have seen in today's "Five Things" column, the 2013 Edinburgh International Film Festival Opening Night Gala screening of Breathe In from director Drake Doremus at the Festival Theatre takes place tonight....

The programme for this year's EIFF is as diverse as always, and the official trailer for it shows you a mere hint of what will be on offer from 19-30 June. There are 146...

Award-winning director-writer Drake Doremus’ moving and beautifully acted BREATHE IN will be the Opening Night film at the 67th edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF).Starring Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce and Amy Ryan, BREATHE...

Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) is pleased to confirm the return of the Student Critics Jury. Now in its second year, the initiative supports the future of film criticism and this year will bring...

The Edinburgh Schools Film Competition is now live! Screen Education Edinburgh and the Edinburgh International Film Festival today opened entries for short films to the Edinburgh Schools Film Competition. Open to all nursery, primary, secondary...

The Centre for the Moving Image, the parent company of the Filmhouse Cinema and the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF), today announced the appointment of Bob Last (Producer of Terence Davies’ HOUSE OF MIRTH...

Here are two more films for you to choose from this weekend, courtesy of our friends at the EIFF.God Bless AmericaThe land of the spree.Frank is at the end of his rope. Middle-aged and...

You may have noticed that I have quite enjoyed all the films I have reviewed at the festival, to one degree or another. Well, today marks my first negative experience at this year’s EIFF,...

Shadow Dancer Some very good Belfast accents. Belfast, 1973. Young Collette McVeigh sees her younger brother shot to death during a skirmish between the British Army and the IRA. Twenty years later, Collette is a member...

Just one film today, I'm afraid. It's a cracker though.Leave It On The TrackSex, violence and roller skates.Benjamin Pascoe's debut feature documentary tells the story of modern roller derby by focussing on the two...

Day Of The FlowersViva la revolución, big yin.When their father suddenly dies, two Glasgow sisters - one a socialist activist, the other a party girl - take his ashes to Cuba to scatter them...

As the name suggests, there is a very international flavour to this festival, with the majority of films being at least partially in another language. Both of my picks for Saturday are subtitled movies:...

Grabbers Drink up, they're after you. Erin Island, Ireland. Garda Lisa Nolan arrives from the mainland for a two-week tour of duty, just as another guest arrives from a bit further away. Now Lisa must team...

by Ryan McNeely Pusher A week in the life... In this English-language remake of Nicolas Winding Refn's 1996 debut, Richard Coyle stars as Frank, a small-time coke dealer in London. Over the course of seven increasingly frantic...

by Ryan McNeelyKiller JoeSleazy, in the best way.Chris Smith has a problem. Owing more than he can afford to a local loan shark, the only alternative to a duct tape grave is to have...

easyJet, Scotland’s largest airline, is the official European travel partner for the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2012, its second year of association with one of the city’s leading Festivals.As part of the sponsorship deal,...

The Edinburgh International Film Festival has just opened its programme for young film critics, for schools who want to make their own films and Media Days for schools to meet the filmmakers. Building on last...

THRILLER “KILLER JOE” TO KICK OFF 66th EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALThe Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) announced today that William Friedkin’s shockingly cool and blackly comic noir thriller KILLER JOE will be the Opening Gala...

First Minister Alex Salmond and Chris Fujiwara, Artistic Director Edinburgh International Film Festival have announced that the much anticipated Disney-Pixar animated film Brave, will receive a glittering European premiere, on the closing night of...