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Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2025

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025

Retrospectives

Programme

6 films · 3 reviews

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The Cranes Are Flying

A tragic love story set across the background of impending war.

(Country: Soviet Union; Year: 1957; Director: Mikhail Kalatozov; Writer: Viktor Rozov, Viktor Rozov; Stars: Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Aleksandr Shvorin, Svetlana Kharitonova, Konstantin Kadochnikov, Valentin Zubkov, Antonina Bogdanova, Boris Kokovkin, Ekaterina Kupriyanova, Valentina Ananina, Olga Dzisko, Klarina Frolova-Vorontsova, Leonid Knyazev, Georgiy Kulikov)

Presented by Kevin Macdonald

Go

Review preview for Go

The humour is fast, the car chases hairy, the characters way wicked, the venues seedy, the fun accident prone, the sex tantric and the chance of living until tomorrow slim.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
A sex-drugs-and-rave-till-you-cave flick?

(Country: US; Year: 1999; Director: Doug Liman; Writer: John August; Stars: Katie Holmes, Sarah Polley, Suzanne Krull, Desmond Askew, Nathan Bexton, Robert Peters, Scott Wolf, Jay Mohr, Timothy Olyphant, Jodi Bianca Wise, William Fichtner)

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Presented by Nia DaCosta

The Man In The White Suit

A young chemist is determined to create a stain-proof invention but fouls foul of factory workers afraid he'll put them out of business.

(Country: UK; Year: 1961; Director: Alexander Mackendrick; Stars: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker)

Red Road

Review preview for Red Road

The film makes no compromises to its audience.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
A psychological thriller from Glasgow's heart of darkness.

(Country: UK/Denmark; Year: 2006; Director: Andrea Arnold; Writer: Andrea Arnold; Stars: Kate Dickie, Tony Curran, Martin Compston, Nathalie Press, Andrew Armour, Paul Higgins)

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Presented by Andrea Arnold

Restless Natives

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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.

(Country: UK; Year: 1985; Director: Michael Hoffman; Writer: Ninian Dunnett; Stars: Vincent Friell, Joe Mullaney, Teri Lally, Ned Beatty, Robert Urquhart, Bernard Hill, Mel Smith, Bryan Forbes, Nanette Newman, Ann Scott-Jones, Rachel Boyd, Iain McColl, Dave Anderson, Eiji Kusuhara, Ed Bishop)

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Silent Scream

A murderer unravels through flashbacks of his youth revealing what set him on the path to violence.

(Country: UK; Year: 1990; Director: David Hayman; Stars: Iain Glen, Andrew Barr, Kenneth Glenaan)