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Edinburgh International Film Festival

2009

Away We Go opened 63rd edition
Away We Go opened 63rd edition

The festival celebrated its 63rd year. The longest continually running film festival in the world, EIFF began in 1947 as a champion of documentary films and has expanded to include the full gamut of features, documentaries and short films and was under the artistic directorship of Hannah McGill in 2009.

The programme was announced on May 6 and included a Roger Corman retrospective, plus UK premieres of Rudo Y Cursi, Moon and Mary and Max. The festival opens on June 17 with Sam Mendes' Away We Go and closed on June 28 with the international premiere of Adam.

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  • Junk
    Review preview for Junk

    A vertiginous crane, the shadowy physicians, the Leviathan-punctuated roiling seascape all invite ever further attention.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    What happens when an obssession with junk food goes too far...
  • Paraphernalia
    Review preview for Paraphernalia

    Paraphernalia is a product of a significant team effort, and it shows in its quality.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    Atari struggles with his useless robot, but his real struggle is more complex.
  • The Hurt Locker
    Review preview for The Hurt Locker

    An unrelenting, absolutely riveting and often unflattering portrait of frontline action through the eyes of brave people doing their best to survive.

    Trinity · 4.5 out of 5
    An elite bomb disposal unit struggles to function in the heart of the Iraq war.
  • Boogie Woogie
    Review preview for Boogie Woogie

    Less the free-form, jazzy ensemble satire on the art world it aspires to be than an over-elaborate and under-funny undertaking by high quality actors who should know better.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    Art world satire.
  • Moon
    Review preview for Moon

    Moon represents a return to a more sedate and thoughtful science fiction of the Seventies and Eighties.

    Tony Sullivan · 4.5 out of 5
    An astronaut starts to lose the plot at the end of a mission to the moon - but is there something else going on? Plus read our exclusive interview with
  • My Year Without Sex
    Review preview for My Year Without Sex

    Testing a family for breaking points within a comic framework is not exactly new territory, but Watt's scripting is sharp and she plays fast and loose with audience expectation in the cliche department.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Film traces a year of recovery in a family hit by sickness.
  • Salvage
    Review preview for Salvage

    Salvage does a lot with limited means.

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    A divorced mum faces trouble when a military experiment goes wrong.
  • Crying With Laughter
    Review preview for Crying With Laughter

    Much of the plot reads as a barely tempered collection of cliches, but in the hands of writer/director Justin Molotnikov, and McCole's runaway success, becomes a highly effective character study and a well-constructed psychological thriller.

    Scott Macdonald · 4 out of 5
    Black comedy about a comedian whose past is unearthed.
  • Company Limited
    Review preview for Company Limited

    Nigh-on unmissable.

    James Benefield · 4 out of 5
    Acidic middle-class drama set in Calcutta.
  • Long Weekend
    Review preview for Long Weekend

    Without question an eerie and ambiguous piece.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    Remake of the cult horror that sees nature turn predator.

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