EIFF 2023: Interview with Babak Jalali, Director and Co-Writer of Fremont
Closing the festival this year is Fremont, a film that follows Donya (Anaita Wali Zada) a former translator from Afghanistan as she tries to re-settle in America after being displaced…
Modern Two art gallery to close indefinitely
Modern Two, one of the two galleries at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, is closing until further notice. The National Galleries of Scotland is facing an unprecedented crisis…
EIFF: Official Competition Review
Predictability is often a quality in a movie’s plotting that leaves it open for derision. In film, the audience should be taken on a journey that they aren’t expecting, revelling…
EIFF 2022: Dream Agency Review
Dreams are famously rather nebulous and unfathomable things. Their elusive nature makes them objects of fascination, readily able to be picked apart in our great search for meaning. Dreams have…
EIFF 2022: The Cloud and The Man Review
The Cloud and The Man is a beautiful film. It tells the story of a man’s relationship with a cloud, much as the title would suggest. Yet in a subtle,…
EIFF 2022: Fogareau Review
Brazillian director Flávia Neves launched the UK premiere of her debut Fogaréu, which explores the legacy of Brazil’s colonial past with a close-up look at the sinister events taking place…
EIFF 2022: Nothing Compares Review
Having known very little about Sinead O’Conner before viewing this film, what is most apparent is how remarkable her rise to the top truly was. In the space of 97…
Edinburgh International Film Festival: the best (and worst) of
The timing of the Edinburgh International Film Festival was pertinent. This two-week celebration of cinema from around the globe squatted neatly over the Brexit vote, and whilst political discussion was…