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Edinburgh International Film Festival

18 August – 23 August 2023

Silent Roar will open the festival
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.

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  • Orlando, My Political Biography
    Review preview for Orlando, My Political Biography

    Capturing the experience of living in a world where one’s gender doesn’t fit better than almost any other film to date, Preciado’s work is all about claiming space and present day narrative.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Docufiction interpretation of Virginia Woolf's novel.
  • Solo
    Review preview for Solo

    Solo features wonderfully detailed sets which give depth and meaning to its characters’ lives, plus fantastic costume work both on and off the stage.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    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.
  • Your Fat Friend
    Review preview for Your Fat Friend

    Viewers are likely to go away appreciating Aubrey’s frustrations and perhaps, if they share them, feeling validated, but without the tools to do anything about them.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    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.
  • Scrapper
    Review preview for Scrapper

    Simultaneously bold, sweet and sometimes off-putting.

    Jeremy Mathews · 3 out of 5
    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.
  • Passages
    Review preview for Passages

    One of the most subtle films of the ongoing year.

    Levan Tskhovrebadze · 3.5 out of 5
    A married man cheats on his husband with a woman... then tells him about it.
  • Is There Anybody Out There?
    Review preview for Is There Anybody Out There?

    There’s lot of video footage of her playing as a child, obviously very happy and doing the same kinds of things as any other kid her age.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    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.
  • Superposition
    Review preview for Superposition

    Whilst there is an element of science fiction here, co-writer/director Karoline Lyngbye focuses on the psychological possibilities that it opens up.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    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.
  • Chuck Chuck Baby
    Review preview for Chuck Chuck Baby

    Janis Pugh’s ability to blend crowdpleasing comedy and emotional poignancy should not be underestimated.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Romance unfolds at a chicken packing factory.
  • Fremont
    Review preview for Fremont

    In many ways Fremont is advocating the importance of accepting that a life can be both average and fulfilling.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    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.
  • Past Lives
    Review preview for Past Lives

    To say too much about what happens in each episode would be to spoil the joy of encountering Song’s finely worked screenplay, which lets its characters' emotions glitter in the light.

    Amber Wilkinson · 5 out of 5
    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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