A group of young filmmakers from Screen Education Edinburgh and BFI Academy have won Best Film 16–19 at the prestigious Into Film Awards 2026, the UK’s leading celebration of young filmmaking talent organised by education charity Into Film. Award-winning broadcaster and best-selling children’s author Konnie Huq hosted the awards that honoured the most inspiring andContinue reading “Six Edinburgh Young Filmmakers Win at 2026 Into Film Awards”
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EIFF to Present World Premiere of Six Films from NFTS Sean Connery Talent Lab
Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF), the National Film and Television School (NFTS) Scotland and The Sean Connery Foundation have announced that, for the second consecutive year, six short films created as part of the second NFTS Sean Connery Talent Lab will have their World Premieres in this year’s Film Festival. The six short films are Bubbles (Writer/Director:Continue reading “EIFF to Present World Premiere of Six Films from NFTS Sean Connery Talent Lab”
Film from Edinburgh Director to Open Edinburgh International Film Festival 2026
Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has announced that Edinburgh-born filmmaker Louis Paxton’s debut film, The Incomer will open its 79th edition starring Domhnall Gleeson, Gayle Rankin and Grant O’Rourke with ensemble cast including John Hannah, Michelle Gomez and Emun Elliott. The Incomer is set on a remote Scottish island and follows siblings Isla (Gayle Rankin) and Sandy (GrantContinue reading “Film from Edinburgh Director to Open Edinburgh International Film Festival 2026”
16th Edition of Hippfest Chalked Up As Another Festival Success
HippFest, Scotland’s annual festival of silent film, has marked another successful year with its 16th edition welcoming audiences to the Hippodrome Cinema for five days of silent film with live music. Audiences flocked from across the UK and beyond to enjoy the programme, with more expected to tune in online when HippFest at Home 2026Continue reading “16th Edition of Hippfest Chalked Up As Another Festival Success”
Think of England Set for the 2026 Glasgow Film Festival
Giant Films, an independent UK film company run by father and daughter Nick and Poppy O’Hagan, is delighted to announce the release of British feature film Think of England, inspired by a wartime urban myth that the UK government commissioned pornographic films to boost troop morale during World War II. Think of Englandis also a controversial filmContinue reading “Think of England Set for the 2026 Glasgow Film Festival”
Scotland’s Silent Film Festival, HippFest, Announces 16th Programme for 2026
The swanky premises of Edinburgh Gin Distillery may be a far cry from the 1920’s gin joints that were their predecessors, but they served as a fitting venue for the launch of this year’s Hippfest programme. Now in its 16th year, Hippfest once again packs a variety of silent film and live music into theContinue reading “Scotland’s Silent Film Festival, HippFest, Announces 16th Programme for 2026”
Testament (15)
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)”
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)”
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