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The 79th edition of Edinburgh International Film Festival will run from August 13 to 19. The guests will include Bruce Dern, Kenneth Branagh and Ewan McGregor. It will open with The Incomer.
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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.
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
A gangster finds his retirement in Spain cut short when a brutal bloke from the past comes to call.
A dysfunctional family's road trip to a beauty pageant.
FBI boffin Nicolas Cage and grizzled lifer Sean Connery save Alcatraz from wacko army general.
Black comic drama about the Edinburgh drugs scene. On re-release.
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