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The 72nd edition of Edinburgh International Film Festival will run from June 20 to July 1 and open with Marc Turtletaub's Puzzle.
So far, the three-strand retrospective has been announced. Entitled Time of the Signs: Chasing the American Zeitgeist - it is split into subsections, American Woman: Female Directors in American Cinema; American Exposé: The Media in Mainstream American Cinema; and The American Nightmare: Horror in Mainstream American Cinema. Read more about the films showing here.
The main programme will be announced on May 23.
View Films by Strand:
- American Dreams
- American Exposé: The Media in Mainstream American Cinema 1975-1990
- American Woman: Female Directors in American Cinema
- Animation
- Best Of British
- Black Box
- Documentaries
- European Classics
- European Perspectives
- Fest In The City
- Film Fest Junior
- Focus On Canada
- Galas
- Night Moves
- Shorts
- The American Nightmare: Horror in Mainstream American Cinema 1980-1985
- Unlocking The Archives
- World Perspectives
View previous years coverage of the Edinburgh International Film Festival festival:
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After his 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a desperate father breaks into her laptop to look for clues to find her. A thriller that unfolds entirely on computer screens.
An ageing news anchor is fired by his network and when an on-air rant boosts ratings, the channel sees an opportunity.
Portrait of André Leon Talley.
Documentary about drag nights in New York.
Manny, Joel and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents as Jonah embraces a world of imagination.
Documentary looking at the impact of an asylum seeker detention centre on Christmas Island.
A US diplomat flees Lebanon in 1972 after a tragic incident at his home. Ten years later, he is called back to war-torn Beirut by CIA operatives to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind.
Agnes, taken for granted as a suburban mother, discovers a passion for solving jigsaw puzzles which unexpectedly draws her into a new world – where her life unfolds in ways she could never have imagined.
Stuck in a post high-school limbo, Tammy works long days in the family chip shop.
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