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The 79th edition of Edinburgh International Film Festival ran from August 13 to 19. The guests included Kenneth Branagh and Ewan McGregor. It opened with The Incomer. Skintown won the Sean Connery Prize.
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Two young girls flee their hometown drawn by the seductive promise of the Hollywood but their American Dream soon fractures.
In the early 1970s writer and student Jay Parini finds himself committed to driving blind poet Jorge Luis Borges across the Scottish countryside. The pair form a bond over the journey.
During the 1994 IRA ceasefire, two best friends try to escape their lives in a small Irish town.
Nicole's discovery of an eviction notice shatters her family's houseboat vacation, forcing them to confront their patriarch's troubles, lost homes, and fractured identities.
After experiencing immense family turmoil in the wake of her husband’s death, a woman seeks solace in a quiet seaside town. There, she forms an unexpected bond with a young woman.
A lazy sound designer is sent to the remote island where a film was shot to capture a sound powerful enough to elevate its finale. Once there, eerie local fables surface: for years, ambitious and headstrong youth have lost their souls to a ghostly sea captain for his spectral crew.
A couple take a humanoid robot into their home as a replacement for their dead son.
Edinburgh, 1810. Two female teachers find themselves at the centre of a scandal.
On a remote Scottish isle, siblings Isla and Sandy hunt birds and talk to mythical beings while fighting off outsiders. Their lives change when Daniel, an awkward official, arrives to relocate them.
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