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Edinburgh International Film Festival

18 August – 25 August 2021

The 2021 edition of Edinburgh Film Festival will run as a hybrid event, from August 18 to 25. There will be physical screenings in the capital's Filmhouse and St Andrew's Square, with additional outdoor screenings at Port Edgar Marina in South Queensferry. Films will additionally be screened via an online platform. The full programme will be announced on July 28.

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  • The Bayview
    Review preview for The Bayview

    It's one where the camera less becomes a fly on the wall than a sleeping dog in front of the fireplace, one where the comfort of the subjects gives us a better insight into them.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    A glimpse into the world of a family who have turned the previously derelict hotel into a place of respite for international fishermen when they come to land.
  • Born In Damascus
    Review preview for Born In Damascus

    This is meditative, melancholy, moving.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    After ten years apart, a Scottish filmmaker tries to reconnect with her closest cousin after their paths were separated by war.
  • Affairs Of The Art
    Review preview for Affairs Of The Art

    The film is a love letter to the sort of women too often squeezed out of cinema.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A family is obsessed with everything from drawing to taxidermy.
  • Everybody's Talking About Jamie
    Review preview for Everybody's Talking About Jamie

    Creative licence has been taken with Jamie's story, of course, but the essence of it - and particularly the emotional beats - have a strong ring of truth.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A teenager overcomes prejudice to fulfil his ambition of becoming a drag queen.
  • The Servant
    Review preview for The Servant

    Bogarde, proving not for the first time that he was a whole lot more than just a pretty face, brings a real subtlety and edge to Barratt, letting just enough of the Machiavellian glint through to let us know there's more to this than first appears.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    Psychological thriller about a servant who begins to manipulate his employer.
  • The Road Dance
    Review preview for The Road Dance

    I'm trying hard not to spoil a film which has plot beats that are so obvious and familiar it might as well be blasting them out on bagpipes.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    With the world on the brink of war a young woman dreams of a world and a life away from the harsh land and strict religion of her Hebridean island home.
  • Even Mice Belong In Heaven
    Review preview for Even Mice Belong In Heaven

    There's an odd dynamic to this animation in that the visually stunning imagery seems to have come from an entirely more rich imagination than the rather perfunctory and, at times, borderline annoying storytelling which accompanies it.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A mouse and a fox meet in animal heaven and forge an unexpected friendship.
  • Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase The Blues Away
    Review preview for Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase The Blues Away

    The kind of film that immediately after watching I find myself trying to determine how I can get it in front of my parents to watch.

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    The story of how a Louisiana sharecropper became one of the most influential guitarists of all time
  • Two Cents Worth Of Hope
    Review preview for Two Cents Worth Of Hope

    With a largely amateur cast there is a roughness to a lot of the performance, but it works.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    Love blossoms between a young village boy and the daughter of a wealthy landowner
  • Skies Of Lebanon
    Review preview for Skies Of Lebanon

    A period piece, shot in Cyprus, it's full of detail that shows care and consideration.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    A Swiss woman moves to Lebanon where she falls in love with an astrophysicist but their peace is threatened by the civil war.

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