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Opening Night Film: Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist
Celebrating its 64th edition in 2010, EIFF is the longest continuously running film festival in the world. It began in 1947 as a champion of documentary films and has expanded to include the full gamut of features, documentaries and short films and is currently under the artistic directorship of Hannah McGill.
The festival will open with Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist on June 16.
Skeletons won the Michael Powell Award and The Dry Land was named best international feature. Read about all the winners here.
This year's retrospective strand is After the Wave: Lost and Forgotten British Cinema 1967-1979.
View Films by Strand:
- After The Wave
- Animation
- Black Box
- British Gala
- Director's Showcase
- Document
- Gala
- Night Moves
- Rosebud
- Shorts
- Special Screenings
- Under The Radar
View previous years coverage of the Edinburgh International Film Festival:
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Exploration of evolution and life.
Super 8/digital hybrid experimental film, exploring use of colour.
Avant garde depiction of the salt fields of central Kaatch.
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