Winner of the £50,000 Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence, EIFF 2026 | Directed by Kieron J. Walsh | 99 mins Skintown arrived at the 79th Edinburgh International Film Festival as one of the buzziest titles in competition and left as its crowned champion, winning the audience-voted £50,000 Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking […]
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There’s a special kind of magic that happens when a film feels like it could only have been made by one person, in one country, at one particular moment in time. The Incomer, the debut feature from Edinburgh-born writer-director Louis Paxton, is exactly that kind of film and it made a pitch-perfect choice to open
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Ollie Gardner and Jake Harvey’s The State of Us takes an emotionally dangerous premise: a young man breaking his terminally ill best friend out of the hospice for one last night together, and wisely refuses to treat it as straightforward misery. Instead, it turns grief into something messy, funny, and defiantly alive. At the centre
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The 79th Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) 2026 delivers a vibrant, re-energized programme that proudly celebrates local Scottish talent alongside bold international cinema. A fierce competitive showcase of global world premieres vying for the prestigious Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence forms the beating heart of the festival. OPENING FILMS The Incomer Two oddball
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WORLD PREMIERE AT EIFF MIDNIGHT MADNESS ON 13TH AUGUST IN UK & IRISH CINEMAS FROM 30TH OCTOBER Action Xtreme is thrilled to share a brand new teaser from their upcoming turbo charged action-thriller Bad Day at the Office. The film will have its World Premiere as the opening film of the prestigious Midnight Madness strand at the Edinburgh International
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SYNOPSIS: A satirical triptych that follows three young women, who all look identical. One girl stages a heist, another discovers her secret lover is also sleeping with her boyfriend, while the third sets out to save a woman from suicide. Now at the Edinburgh International Film Festival Fri 14 Aug 2026 | 21:15EIFF @ Cineworld
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