French Film Festival Jean-Michel Bouchard (Rémy Girard) is a lifelong bachelor and retired archivist who is living out the late autumn of his life in a spacious apartment in a comfortable retiral home. His inner thoughts are heard as he strolls the home’s environs in his tweedy three-piece suits, when we learn that he has comeContinue reading “Testament (15)”
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Out of Love (Les Enfants vont biens)
French Film Festival 2025 This latest film from young French director Nathan Ambrosioni opens innocuously enough with shots of two children, nine year old Gaspard (Manoã Varvat) and six year old Margaux (Nina Birman), waiting for their Mum, Suzanne (Juliette Armanet), in the back seat of their car at a garage. They are on aContinue reading “Out of Love (Les Enfants vont biens)”
The Session Man (12A)
Dir Michael Treen Nicky Hopkins could lay claim to being one of the greatest rock musicians of all time. His playing graced over 250 albums, enhancing work by the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Kinks, Joe Cocker and each of the Beatles. He toured with the Stones and Art Garfunkel among others and as wellContinue reading “The Session Man (12A)”
A Magnificent Life (Marcel et Monsieur Pagnol)
French Film Festival 2025 French master of animation, Sylvain Chomet, brings his immense talent to the 2025 film chosen to open of this year’s French Film Festival UK that took place at Edinburgh’s Cameo cinema. Known for the wonderfully dark Belleville Rendezvous (Les Triplettes de Belleville) and the gentler, more benign but equally fabulous tributeContinue reading “A Magnificent Life (Marcel et Monsieur Pagnol)”
33rd French Film Festival UK Announced for Winter 2025
French Film Festival UK (FFF UK), the unique annual francophone cinema event, makes a welcome return this winter to more than 40 different locations across the UK featuring a host of new films from acclaimed and debut directors alongside beloved and rarely seen classics. The varied programme includes 32 UK premieres out of a total of 62 films, including aContinue reading “33rd French Film Festival UK Announced for Winter 2025”
I SWEAR (15) Cameo
I SWEAR is a no holds barred account of how a teenage boy goes from being a talented goalie for his local football team in Galashiels to being socially crippled by the symptoms of Tourette Syndrome. Before the preview screening at Edinburgh’s Cameo, writer and director Kirk Jones spoke briefly to the packed audience, mentioningContinue reading “I SWEAR (15) Cameo”
Edinburgh International Film Festival Announces 2025 Programme
43 new feature films, 18 feature film World Premieres including 10 World Premieres competing for The Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence, 6 special retrospective screenings, James Bond on the big screen and a celebration of the work of filmmaker Budd Boetticher; 6 short film programmes including The Thelma Schoonmaker Prize for Short Filmmaking Excellence competition, the presentation of new short form workContinue reading “Edinburgh International Film Festival Announces 2025 Programme”
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025 to Present World Premiere of NFTS Sean Connery Talent Lab Short Films
The NFTS Sean Connery Talent Lab is supported by the Sean Connery Foundation Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF), the National Film and Television School (NFTS), NFTS Scotland and The Sean Connery Foundation have announced that the six short films created as part of the inaugural NFTS Sean Connery Talent Lab will have their World PremieresContinue reading “Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025 to Present World Premiere of NFTS Sean Connery Talent Lab Short Films”
YOUNG SCOTTISH FILMMAKER WINS AUDIENCE AWARD AT 2025 INTO FILM AWARDS
A young filmmaker from Scotland has won the publicly voted Audience Award at the annual star-studded film awards ceremony organised by leading film education charity, Into Film. The prize was awarded to Edward Ryan (14) from Sanquhar, Dumfries and Galloway at the awards ceremony in London’s Leicester Square by actor Andy Serkis and presenter Edith Bowman. Edward won the award – votedContinue reading “YOUNG SCOTTISH FILMMAKER WINS AUDIENCE AWARD AT 2025 INTO FILM AWARDS”
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025 announces Premiere of Cult Classic Remake The Toxic Avenger
Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has announced that the UK premiere of Macon Blair’s gloriously outlandish cult classic remake THE TOXIC AVENGER starring Peter Dinklage, Elijah Wood, Kevin Bacon and Julia Davis will be the closing night film of the Festival’s Midnight Madness strand. Before Deadpool and Venom, there was The Toxic Avenger, the original mutant mop-wielding heroContinue reading “Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025 announces Premiere of Cult Classic Remake The Toxic Avenger”
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