Skip to main content

Festival coverage

Edinburgh International Film Festival

2010

Opening Night Film: Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist
Opening Night Film: Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist

Celebrating its 64th edition in 2010, EIFF is the longest continuously running film festival in the world. It began in 1947 as a champion of documentary films and has expanded to include the full gamut of features, documentaries and short films and is currently under the artistic directorship of Hannah McGill.

The festival will open with Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist on June 16.

Skeletons won the Michael Powell Award and The Dry Land was named best international feature. Read about all the winners here.

This year's retrospective strand is After the Wave: Lost and Forgotten British Cinema 1967-1979.

Other years (27)

Box office and information

Latest reviews

  • Boy
    Review preview for Boy

    This is an upbeat, often hilarious, but never mawkish, celebration of love.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    A Boy and his brother find their fantasy version of their dad is somewhat different to the real deal.
  • Behaviour
    Review preview for Behaviour

    A triumph, albeit an uneasy one.

    Andrew Robertson · 5 out of 5
    A first shift in a care home takes a sinister turn.
  • My Invisible Friend
    Review preview for My Invisible Friend

    Entertaining throughout, with moments of both wry amusement and vocal laughter.

    Andrew Robertson · 5 out of 5
    Tomas is incredibly shy... perhaps an imaginary friend will help.
  • Cocoon
    Review preview for Cocoon

    Beautifully shot, with some excellent tracking work, it's visually impressive.

    Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
    A haircut promises to make a big difference to a teenager's life.
  • Echo
    Review preview for Echo

    An unrelentingly emotionally tense and harrowing experience from start to finish... one of the most accomplished short films I have seen this year.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    Two boys are forced to face up to their crime.
  • Countdown To Zero
    Review preview for Countdown To Zero

    Lucy Walker's chilling documentary serves as a reminder that the threat of a nuclear bomb going off somewhere in the world to devastating effect has not diminished just because it has slipped from the public consciousness.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A history of the atomic bomb and the current nuclear arms race.
  • Paradise Later
    Review preview for Paradise Later

    Sometimes the sense of a thing is enough, and Paradise Later delivers ably.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    Shots of pollution in an Indonesian river are accompanied by the sounds of a travelling salesman reporting to his board.
  • State Of Flux (Wave #1)
    Review preview for State Of Flux (Wave #1)

    Only just avoids outstaying its welcome.

    Andrew Robertson · 2 out of 5
    Exploring the nature of chaotic systems through the examination of water.
  • What Part of the Earth Is Inhabited (After Pliny the Elder)
    Review preview for What Part of the Earth Is Inhabited (After Pliny the Elder)

    Messy, seeming unmoderated.

    Andrew Robertson · 1.5 out of 5
    Exploration of evolution and life.
  • De Luce 1: Vegetare
    Review preview for De Luce 1: Vegetare

    Hand-processed super8 film makes patterns, colours, shapes that raise questions about technique, origin, which remain unanswered.

    Andrew Robertson · 2 out of 5
    Super 8/digital hybrid experimental film, exploring use of colour.

A–Z of Edinburgh International Film Festival 2010 reviews

Features

News