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Edinburgh International Film Festival

17 June – 28 May 2015

EIFF will host a screening of Back To The Future with a live orchestral performance.
EIFF will host a screening of Back To The Future with a live orchestral performance.

The 69th edition of Edinburgh International Film Festival will run from June 17 to 28. The main programme will be announced after Cannes but the incoming artistic director Mark Adams has already announced the main retrospective will be a celebration of American TV series of the Sixties and Seventies entitled Little Big Screen. There will also be a retrospective dedicated to Walter Hill's early work.

The festival's main country focus has been announced as Mexico, which will include new features and archive titles.

Continuing the Masters of Animation series, the festival will present a retrospective of the work of acclaimed animator Barry Purves, who will appear in person to discuss his work. There will also be a one-off screening of Roger Corman's Little Shop Of Horrors with a live performance of the entire soundtrack - including dialogue, foley and music. And to celebrate the 30th anniversary of EIFF's UK premiere of Back To The Future, there will be a screening of the film with live accompaniment.

The festival opened with Robert Carlyle's directorial debut The Legend Of Barney Thomson and close with Iona.

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  • Duel
    Review preview for Duel

    A remarkably efficient film.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    A car driver is relentlessly pursued by a truck.
  • Cop Car
    Review preview for Cop Car

    This is a tense and enjoyable genre picture, and one which gets terrific central performances from all involved.

    Robert Munro · 3.5 out of 5
    Two 10-year-old boys steal an abandoned police car.
  • West Side Story
    Review preview for West Side Story

    It still does things that surprise.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    Musical transposes the story of Romeo and Juliet to the gang-ridden streets of New York.
  • Restless Natives
    Review preview for Restless Natives

    The first half an hour of this rattles along with plenty of good humour, injected with further energy by the Big Country soundtrack, which is as dyed in the wool Scottish as a fine Highland kilt.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    Two friends start holding up tour buses.
  • Norfolk
    Review preview for Norfolk

    Norfolk is as much a statement about land as it is about the people who live there.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    A tough-love father's strong relationship with his teenage son is tested when the boy befriends a girl.
  • Therapy For A Vampire
    Review preview for Therapy For A Vampire

    Tobias Moretti and Jeanette Hain play the Count & Countess Közsnöm with arch reverence to vampire movies of old.

    Luke Shaw · 3.5 out of 5
    A vampire seeks assistance from Dr Freud.
  • Eadweard
    Review preview for Eadweard

    If you're going to make a film about the man considered to the be the "father of modern cinema" then it had better look good and debut feature director Kyle Rideout and his cinematographer Tony Mirza take this task to heart.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Biopic of photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge.
  • Desert Dancer
    Review preview for Desert Dancer

    Raymond might sometimes hit his beats too hard but he does keep his eye on the bigger picture.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    An Iranian youngster risks everything to start a dance company despite the fact the pastime is illegal in his country.
  • The Third Dad
    Review preview for The Third Dad

    Theresa Moerman's film is a deeply personal, deeply moving portrait of grief.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    A filmmaker sets out to find the grave of her estranged father.
  • Ottery
    Review preview for Ottery

    Less traditional but perhaps stronger for it.

    Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
    A mysterious glimpse of an England steeped in folkloric tradition.

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