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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2013

Classics from the archives and special previews. There will also be the Surprise Movie and a programme of animation in tribute to Scott Ward - who spent a decade as an EIFF programmer - who passed away earlier this year.

View other Edinburgh International Film Festival Films by strand: American Dreams, Animation, Black Box, Directors' Showcase, Fantastic Voyages: The Films of Richard Fleischer, Films on Film, Focus on Korea, Focus on Sweden, Galas, International Feature Film Competition, Michael Powell Award Competition, New Realities, Night Moves, Not Another Teen Movie, Shorts, Symphonies Of Life: The Films Of Jean Grémillon, World Perspectives

I Am Breathing I Am Breathing
I Am Breathing and Hawking
Fire in the Night (Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Anthony Wonke)
The world's worst offshore disaster remembered.
Hawking (Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Stephen Finnigan; Stars: Stephen Hawking, Nathan Chapple, Arthur Pelling, Martin King, Joe Lovell)
The struggles and the glories of the world-famous scientist.
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I Am Breathing (Country: UK, Denmark; Year: 2012; Director: Emma Davie, Morag McKinnon; Stars: Neil Platt, Louise Platt, Oscar Platt)
A documentary about one man's experience of motor neurone disease.
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Jurassic Park (Country: USA; Year: 1993; Director: Steven Spielberg; Writer: Michael Crichton, David Koepp; Stars: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob Peck, Martin Ferrero, Joseph Mazzello, Ariana Richards, Samuel L Jackson, Benedict Wong, Wayne Knight)
A trip to a dinosaur theme park turns deadly.
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Showing in 3D
Peaky Blinders (Episodes 1 and 2) (Year: 2013; Director: Otto Bathurst; Stars: Cillian Murphy, Sam Neill, Helen McCrory, Paul Anderson, Iddo Goldberg, Annabelle Wallis, Sophie Rundle, Joe Cole, Charlie Creed-Miles)
Sneak peak at a gangster series set in the aftermath of World War I.
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