Edinburgh International Film Festival

Filmmaker Friday: Bryan Carberry

Director of *smiles and kisses you* Bryan Carberry is no stranger to the film festival world. He directed, produced and edited 2015’s Finders Keepers, which premiered at Sundance 2015 and went on to play Sundance Next, South by Southwest, Hot Docs and True/False film festivals. Purchased by The Orchard at its premiere, the film played theaters nationwide, and via Netflix and Amazon Prime has been enjoying a growing following since.

Bryan has also directed videos for Lady Blackbird, Morrissey and Scott Weiland, theater for Public Assembly Theater, and commercial spots for Project Fly and Adriano Goldshmeid. He is currently developing a feature narrative starring Keir Gilchrist and Logan Miller.

He hails from Valparaiso, Indiana, home of the Popcorn Festival, and currently resides in Los Angeles. To keep up with his future works, you can find him at: www.bryancarberry.com

📸1: Kat Gollock

Supporter shoutout ✨

It was a delight to work closely with INDY on to deliver world-class cinema in unexpected spaces.

Many thanks to INDY for their expertise and support on setting up our fringe venues for a host of exciting events across industry panels, competition features and short programmes.

🔗 www.indycinemagroup.com

Kelsey Taylor was raised in the wilds of Eastern Washington State and moved to Los Angeles to attend Loyola Marymount University to pursue Film Production, Film Studies, and Music. She began her entertainment career as a cinematographer and camera assistant, which led to an intimate understanding of how to capture images. She soon transitioned into directing and has since built a diverse portfolio of both commercial and narrative work.

Taylor has said that she has loved fairytales as long as she can remember. In To Kill A Wolf, she wanted to capture the wonder and mystique of a fairytale but keep it grounded in a real world where everyone is capable of good and evil.

If you'd like to follow Kelsey Taylor in her future endeavors, keep up with her online:
Instagram:
Website: www.kelseytaylor.me

📸: Aimee Todd

Supporter shoutout ⭐

It's a huge privilege to have the support of many innovative and inspiring organisations. Today, we'd like to thank Omnex Pro Film Ltd for joining us as a supporter for .

Established in 1987, Omnex supplies, installs, services and maintains technologies to cinemas throughout the UK and Ireland. They work alongside leading equipment manufacturers and their goal is to support exhibitors in making cinema the ultimate place to enjoy the movie experience.

🔗 www.omnex.co.uk

Filmmaker Friday: Manuela Irene

Manuela Irene is a Mexican/ Colombian filmmaker. The universe in her films is poetic, yet also humorous and mysterious. Her first feature Monstruo de Xibalba, is a coming-of-age piece that explores the loneliness in its child protagonist as well as his reluctance to come to terms with his mortality; the strange relationship between human beings and nature is also central.

Fun fact: Manuela Irene's father, Manuel Irene, plays the Hermit in the film. Though the character is loosely based on her father, he was too young to play the part when Manuela first began filming. However, the film took over ten years to create, so when it came time to film, enough time had passed that he looked the part... with a little help from some makeup!

If you enjoyed Xibalba Monster and want to keep up with her future work, you can follow along on Instagram:

📸 1: Kat Gollock

Filmmaker Friday shines a spotlight on the directors and other talent behind our incredible 2024 Competition Films strand. We hope you will support their future works, and give them some EIFF love along the way 🧡

If you attended even a single EIFF event this year, we want to hear from you!

Access our survey to tell us what you loved and any (constructive) feedback you might have. Your insight is invaluable, and helps us assess this year’s event and plan for future iterations of the Festival.

🔗https://form.typeform.com/to/Ug4mgtPG

Happy National Cinema Day!

How are you celebrating all things Cinema today? We just might mosey over to to catch a screening or two. We miss it already!

📸 Kat Gollock

Filmmaker Friday: Jack King

Director of EIFF 2024 award-winning feature The Ceremony, Jack King is a self-taught writer/Director from Yorkshire. King began making music videos that racked up views and accolades online and made a variety of independent shorts before his short film 'The Crossing' was funded by the & Creative England, and selected to play at multiple BAFTA & Academy Festivals.

🤔 Did you know? King also previously participated in EIFF Talent Lab Connects in 2022 with his feature project, Snowbird!

If you'd like to keep up with Jack King's future projects, be sure to follow his website: www.kingjack.co.uk

Filmmaker Friday shines a spotlight on the directors and other talent behind our incredible 2024 Competition Films strand. We hope you will support their future works, and give them some EIFF love along the way 🧡

📸1: Pako Mera

"It has been a tremendous pleasure working with my incredible team these past months to shape and reinvent the Festival. Their phenomenal passion, diligence and hard work made it all possible and I’m so proud of what we’ve achieved together. 2025, bring it on." - Paul Ridd, Festival Director & CEO

Still celebrating our week of world-class cinema 🧡

P.s our audience survey is now open! Let us know what you thought of EIFF 2024 here: https://form.typeform.com/to/Ug4mgtPG

📸 Kat Gollock

🏆 Manny Wolfe 🏆

The winner of The Thelma Schoonmaker Prize for Short Filmmaking Excellence Competition is Manny Wolfe, directed by Trevor Neuhoff.

The short film competition winner was also decided on by an audience vote and is awarded £15,000 to support their future projects.

It’s 1947. Manny Wolfe is an actor exhausted by Tinseltown. He also happens to be a real werewolf. After nonstop rejection, a chance encounter sets him up to get a role in a major monster movie. Does Manny sacrifice artistic integrity and take the job? Or is there another path?

The other shorts in the competition were Lisa Clarkson’s starkly realist Paternal Advice; Jamie Di Spirito’s powerful Homework; Gavin Reid’s quirky and poignant documentary My Dad and the Volcano; Liberty Smith’s experimental documentary My Exploding House; Max Olson’s bold and haunting Nico; Inés Villanueva’s beautiful Argentine comedy Shoal (Cardumen); and Wilma Smith’s Jubilee which blends live-action with napkin-based stop-motion animation.

🏆 The Ceremony 🏆

The winner of the inaugural Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence, decided on by an audience vote and funded by The Connery Foundation is: The Ceremony, directed by Jack King.

Ten feature-length World Premieres were presented at EIFF as part of the competition with the winning filmmaker being awarded £50,000 to support their future projects.

Two migrant workers are forced to bury a colleague in the Yorkshire hills. When one demands to perform the dead man his rightful Islamic burial, nerves begin to fray and a righteous power struggle emerges as the long and bitter winter night closes in on them. Beautifully directed and performed and shot in stark black and white with a vivid sense of visual splendour, this humane and moving film packs quite the emotional punch.

The other films in competition films were Arash Rakhsha’s urgent documentary All The Mountains Give; Mary Jiménez and Bénédicte Liénard’s richly poetic Fugue (Fuga); Will Seefried’s haunting q***r drama Lilies Not For Me; Daisy-May Hudson’s stirring film Lollipop; Abdolreza Kahani’s subversive comedy drama A Shrine; Bryan Carberry’s clear-eyed take on artificial intelligence *smiles and kisses you*; Nina Conti’s absurdist road movie Sunlight; Kelsey Taylor’s dark psychological thriller To Kill A Wolf; and Manuela Irene’s delicately moving Xibalba Monster (Monstruo de Xibalba).

In just a few hours, Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland's Girl Bands will make its World Premiere 🎤

We are delighted to collaborate with Girls On Film to present this terrific Scottish work as our Closing Night film at the Festival. It could not be a more fitting end to a phenomenal Festival season.

Photo: Lung Leg photographed by Graham Gavin

Thank you all again for following our journey, supporting our kickstarter, sending us your memories and memorabilia, for being patient and for sticking with us.

This hasn't happened overnight. THIS is happening TONIGHT!!!!

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Edinburgh International Film Festival

Let's take a moment to celebrate our incredible Films in Competition!

We are immensely proud of our competition strands for short & feature-length films. The audience reaction to these World Premieres has been nothing short of amazing, and we are so grateful to those of you who have given these filmmakers such a warm welcome to .

(Part one)

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1. Abdolreza Kahani & Nima Sadr of A Shrine
2. Bryan Carberry of *smiles and kisses you*
3. Karl Hartman, Arash Rakhsha, Kate Bolger & Pegah Rakhsha of All The Mountains Give
4. Will Seefried of Lilies Not For Me
5. Nina Conti, Shenoah Allen & Rachel Kylian of Sunlight

Photographers:
1+3+4: Kat Gollock
2: Ingrid Mur
5: Aimee Todd

The last few days have been full of engaging conversations, insightful panels and of course, excellent film. With just a few more days remaining, we are excited to make the most of it. Bring it on 💪

1. Gaspar Noé photo by Cameron Allan
2. Monkey Barrel Comedy Industry Brunch photo by Aimee Todd
3. Xibalba Monster director Manuela Irene photo by Cameron Allan
4. Exhibition of Maria Gros Vatne's photos, photo by Kat Gollock
5. Gaspar Noé on FaceTime with Dario Argento, photo by Cameron Allan
6. (Left to right) Aliyah Harfoot, Ellie Land & Ashionye Ogene, Animation Shorts photo by Aimee Todd
7. Curtain Raiser Industry Event photo by Tiu Makkonen

We are delighted to have such amazing talent spanning multiple genres here in Edinburgh for the Festival 🧡

1. Fionn O'Shea photographed by Kat Gollock
2. Anthony & Teanne Andrew of We Are Parable & Sing Sing director Greg Kwedar photographed by Cameron Allan
3. Tanya Reynolds of Timestalker photographed by Pako Mera
4. Arash Rakhsha, director of All The Mountains Give, photographed by Kat Gollock
5. Director Alice Lowe and actress Kate Dickie photographed by Pako Mera
6. Black Dog Director Guan Hu & Producer Justine O. photographed by Kat Gollock
7. The Outrun star Saoirse Ronan, Writer Amy Liptrot, and Director Nora Fingscheidt photographed by Kat Gollock
8. Ed & Lois Jackson photographed by Kat Gollock

EIFF 2024 has begun!

The UK Premiere of The Outrun was a smashing success. Author Amy Liptrot, director Nora Fingscheidt, lead Saoirse Ronan, and other incredible members of the cast & crew helped us welcome audiences The Cameo Cinema right here in Edinburgh.

EIFF 2024 is made possible due to support from our valuable Funders, Partners and Supporters:

✨ Our Funders Screen Scotland, BFI, The National Lottery Community Fund , EventScotland, The City of Edinburgh Council and The Scottish Government PlaCE Programme delivered by Creative Scotland.

🎬 Our Partner The Sean Connery Foundation.

🎥 Our Industry partners, including BBC Film, DNA Films, Film4 , IMDb and MUBI UK & Ireland.

Photographer: Kat Gollock

Edinburgh Film Festival 2024 is here!

Two UK Premieres kick off the Festival tonight. Will we see you there?

To get tickets to the preview screenings at the EIFF click here https://www.edfilmfest.org/film/sunlight/

EIFF is about community and connection. Whether you are a Film Fest veteran reuniting with old friends, or a brand new Festival-goer looking to meet new people, we welcome you to 2024 🧡

📸 Networking Drinks 2022
Photographer: Anastasia Yules

Jumping for joy because EIFF 2024 is in just. one. week.

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EIFF Young Critics 2022
Photographer: Pako Mera

🎬 New event announced 🎬

This year we will welcome iconic Film Editor Thelma Schoonmaker In Conversation with us for this special late addition to the programme. In a career-encompassing interview, Thelma will discuss her incredible work, which includes a decades-long creative partnership with director Martin Scorsese.

Tickets for this event go on sale TOMORROW, 8 August, at 3pm on our website.

Read more: https://www.edfilmfest.org/special-in-conversation-with-thelma-schoonmaker-announced/

With less than two weeks to go until 2024, we're still figuring out how to squeeze in as many films as possible. What's on your list?

📸1+3: Ingrid Mur
📸2: Joanne Davidson

At 3pm today we are releasing new events and more tickets!

👉Late Night Screening of 28 Days Later
👉Surprise Film presented by Gaspar Noé
👉Ali Plumb's Untitled Film Quiz Project
👉In Conversation: Alex Garland and Andrew Macdonald
👉New ticket drops from across the programme

Make sure you head to our website at 3pm to secure your spot at these exciting new events, or maybe even a screening you missed the first time around 👀

🎟️ https://tickets.edfilmfest.org/ 🎟️

Edinburgh International Film Festival An intimate portrait of family bonds, rural life and the importance of human connection in the survival from grief. The Payne family lead an idyllic, off-the-grid lifestyle in the Norwegian wilderness. When a tragic event shatters their world, they are forced to give up their home for a less rural m...

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Pollyanna Macintosh; Darlin Q+A 2019
Photographer: Andy Pryde

NEW TRAILER ALERT ✨ Lynda Myles Celebrates: Gala & Kiwi ✨

Gala & Kiwi is a gritty and emotional drama about two women forced to face hard truths about their friendship and a showcase for dazzling filmmaking on a tight budget. During a wild, drunken night, surprising details about the girls’ past are revealed. This leads them to question the foundation of their entire friendship.

The film will be introduced by producer, screenwriter and former EIFF Director, Lynda Myles.

Find out more: https://www.edfilmfest.org/film/lynda-myles-celebrates-gala-kiwi/

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Sunday 18 August | 18:45 | The Cameo
Monday 19 August | 13:30 | 50 George Sq
Cert. 12A

🎬 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o95gyAgLCWs

Gala & Kiwi (2024) - Trailer Sinopsis: Gala and Kiwi, once inseparable in high school, drifted apart as they grew older. After six years, they reunite for a special night, dancing, actin...