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Silent Roar will open the festival
This year's EIFF will be hosted by Edinburgh International Festival after the collapse of its parent charity the Centre for the Moving Image last year. The festival will run from August 18 to 23. It will open with Silent Roar and close with Fremont. The full schedule has now been announced.
View Films by Strand:
- Cinema Under The Stars: Outdoor Screenings
- Feature film programme
- Galas
- Rebellious Voices in American Indie Cinema
- Retrospective Special
- Short Films
View previous years coverage of the Edinburgh International Film Festival festival:
EIFF Latest Reviews
Docufiction interpretation of Virginia Woolf's novel.
The story of Simon, who must deal with the disappointment of two impossible loves: a passionate but destructive crush on Oliver and a distant and cold relationship with his mother Claire, who has just moved back in after a 15-year absence.
Popular anonymous blogger Aubrey Gordon spent five years writing about the realities of living as a self-described “very fat person.” Now, she is about to face the public for the very first time.
Georgie is a dreamy 12-year-old girl who lives happily alone in her London flat, filling it with magic. Out of nowhere, her estranged father turns up and forces her to confront reality.
A married man cheats on his husband with a woman... then tells him about it.
While navigating daily discrimination, a filmmaker who inhabits and loves her unusual body searches the world for another person like her, and explores what it takes to love oneself fiercely despite the pervasiveness of ableism.
A couple and their young son choose to move to a remote cabin in the Danish Forest for an experiment in off-grid living, with no human contact for a year. When they encounter another family in the forest, identical to themselves in almost every way, the fabric of their identities faces a test.
Romance unfolds at a chicken packing factory.
Donya works for a Chinese fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Formerly a translator for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, she struggles to put her life back in order. In a moment of sudden revelation, she decides to send out a special message in a cookie.
Nora and Hae Sung, two childhood friends, are separated from each other when Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York where Nora now lives with her American husband.
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