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Festival in Focus: Revamped Edinburgh Film Festival Launches With Strong Competition Strands Focused On World Premiere Titles & Attracting New Audiences


The Edinburgh Film Festival runs from August 15 to August 21.

Titles include Nina Conti’s comedy Sunlight, Kurdish political documentary All The Mountains Give, and American filmmaker Kelsey Taylor’s To Kill A Wolf, a reimagining of Little Red Riding Hood set in snowy Oregon. Fringe has grown to such prominence that it has far eclipsed the Edinburgh International Festival, the city’s original summer arts event, which takes places across the same period and features classical music and dance performances. Alongside the crowdpleasing titles, there are also some challenging films out-of-competition like the 2024 Cannes Un Certain Regard main prize winner Black Dog by Guan Hu and Bogancloch, the latest from experimental British artist Ben Rivers.

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