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Edinburgh International Film Festival

12 August – 20 August 2022

This year's 75th edition of the festival will run from August 12 to 20. It will open with Aftersun and close with After Yang. Its Central Gala is Nude Tuesday

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  • 32 Sounds
    Review preview for 32 Sounds

    If you listen closely to what this film has to say, you won’t listen to the world the same way afterwards.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A meditation on the power of sound to bend time, cross borders, and profoundly shape our perception of the world around us.
  • A Clever Woman
    Review preview for A Clever Woman

    We spend most of our time inside the house in spaces which could as easily be rendered on a stage, but presenting it as film allows the actors to go deeper inside their characters, improvising the dialogue, with Sanders knitting together the best stuff.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Returning to their childhood home on the Isle of Wight, a house filled with art and the songs and poetry their mother once wrote, Dorothy and Phoebe deal with conflicting feelings about the difficult woman who raised them.
  • My Love Affair With Marriage
    Review preview for My Love Affair With Marriage

    If there’s a single word to describe the latest film from Signe Baumane, it’s vibrancy.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Some people spend their lives wondering why a marriage didn’t last. Signe Baumane set out to get some answers. The result is this animated film, which combines ancient mythology and contemporary neuroscience.
  • Women Behind The Wheel
    Review preview for Women Behind The Wheel

    Television schedules seem to be crammed with middle-aged men taking train journeys or motorcycle rides, so the first thing that’s notable about Women Behind The Wheel is that it brings with it the freshness of a much younger demographic in addition to its female perspective.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    The directors become the first women to drive the entirety of Central Asia’s Pamir Highway.
  • Electric Malady
    Review preview for Electric Malady

    Lidén isn’t interested in rehashing controversies which it’s easy to explore elsewhere. Her interest is in William’s lived experience of what is happening to him.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    An intimate portrait of a chronically ill man who ascribes his symptoms to electromagnetic hypersensitivity syndrome.
  • Huesera
    Review preview for Huesera

    Wonderfully uncomfortable.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Valeria has long dreamed about becoming a mother. After learning that she’s pregnant, she expects to feel happy, yet something’s off. Nightmarish visions and an unshakeable paranoia have her questioning what she wants, and an ancient evil spirit may be the cause.
  • Plaza Catedral
    Review preview for Plaza Catedral

    This is a film which might sound cloying sentimental, yet is anything but.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Architect Alicia, a Mexican in Panama, can’t quite seem to fit in anywhere. The only constant in her life is the 14-year-old boy Alexis, who looks after the cars parked on her street... but tragedy is about to strike.
  • Calendar Girls
    Review preview for Calendar Girls

    Without the soft focus common in representations of female subjects, we get to see their faces in all their lived-in three dimensionality.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A coming-of-golden-age look at Florida's most dedicated dance team for women over 60, shaking up the outdated image of "the little old lady," and calling for everyone to dance their hearts out, while they still can.
  • Framing Agnes
    Review preview for Framing Agnes

    For such a studiously artificial work...it is profoundly moving.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    After discovering case files from a 1950s gender clinic, a cast of transgender actors turn a talk show inside out to confront the legacy of a young trans woman forced to choose between honesty and access.
  • After Yang
    Review preview for After Yang

    Kogonada is the directorial equivalent of a careful tea maker himself, he knows how to infuse his films with complex ideas without getting preachy or overtechnical about it.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    In a near future, a family reckons with questions of love, connection, and loss after its A.I. helper unexpectedly breaks down.

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