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EIFF opening night film is a crime thriller
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...
EIFF has designs on young filmmakers
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...
Virgin Atlantic ready for EIFF take off
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...
Ten per cent rise in ticket sales at Edinburgh’s Film Festival
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...
DInosaurs on the loose in Edinburgh!
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...
EIFF Awards ceremony held today
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...
EIFF – About Time – The Surprise Movie
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...
TER’s Picks For EIFF 2013 – Struck By Lightning, Frankenstein’s Army and Hawking
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...
TER’s Picks For EIFF 2013 – Monsters University and Old Stock
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....
TER’s Picks For EIFF 2013 – Upstream Colour, The Bling Ring, And More
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...
TER’s Picks For EIFF 2013 – Frances Ha and Svengali
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"....
TER’s Picks For EIFF 2013 – Days Of Grace and A Long Way From...
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....
Edinburgh International Film Festival programme now available
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...
Breathe In to open Edinburgh International Film Festival
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...
Film Festival brings back the Student Critics Jury
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...
Schools Film competition launched
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...
Bob Last to chair the Edinburgh International Film Festival
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...
Edinburgh International Film Festival – Something Else For The Weekend
Here are two more films for you to choose from this weekend, courtesy of our friends at the EIFF.
God Bless America
The land of the spree.
Frank is at the end of his rope. Middle-aged and...
Edinburgh International Film Festival – One to watch, one best avoided.
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,...
Edinburgh International Film Festival – Picks For Next Weekend (part 1)
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...
Edinburgh International Film Festival – Top Pick For Sunday
Just one film today, I'm afraid. It's a cracker though.
Leave It On The Track
Sex, violence and roller skates.
Benjamin Pascoe's debut feature documentary tells the story of modern roller derby by focussing on the two...
Edinburgh International Film Festival – What’s Worth Catching On Monday
Day Of The Flowers
Viva 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...
Edinburgh International Film Festival – What To See This Saturday
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:...
Edinburgh International Film Festival – Highlights For Friday
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...
Edinburgh International Film Festival – Tomorrow at the festival
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...
Edinburgh International Film Festival – Opening Night film Killer Joe
by Ryan McNeely
Killer Joe
Sleazy, 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 teams up with Edinburgh International Film Festival
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,...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2012 – Young Talents programme
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...
Film Festival chooses opening night film
THRILLER “KILLER JOE” TO KICK OFF 66th EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
The 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...
Pixar’s Scottish film to premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival
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...
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