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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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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In an industry where independent film is simultaneously more accessible and harder to sustain than ever, writer-director Zeshaan Younus represents an unusual case study. His second feature, I’ve Seen All I Need to See, premiered at the Glasgow Film Festival 2026, and it got there not through conventional industry channels, but through a model built
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The makers of Don’t Worry About Me made something rare: a film where restraint is a philosophy, not just a workaround. Here’s what the industry can learn from it. There’s a particular kind of courage in making a film about things that actually happened to you — and then deliberately fictionalising them anyway. Steven Louis Arnold, the
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Eight years after his debut feature Hippopotamus premiered at the Manchester Film Festival, Edward Palmer returns with a psychological thriller that signals a filmmaker hitting his stride, and a team worth watching. Palmer used the eight years between features deliberately. A series of shorts served as a directed apprenticeship: one built around an all-female cast
21 Days, No Names, No Interference : The Making of a Truly Independent Film Director Richard on shooting a WWII-era ensemble in under three weeks, the brutal reality of late-stage casting, building a remote edit suite across two continents, and why “independent film” is a label most productions don’t deserve. After a gap of more
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How Howard J. Ford’s indie creature feature went from idea to international distribution — and what it tells us about where independent genre filmmaking is heading. There’s a version of Bonekeeper that never gets made. The version where the director waits for a studio green light, where the cave sequences are built on a soundstage,
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Alive is a new 12-minute short film written and directed by Marc Nelson and produced by Double Six Productions. The film will premiere on 21 February as part of a private screening event, accompanied by a fundraising initiative in support of Andy’s Man Club. Structured as a dialogue-free narrative, Alive follows a single male protagonist,
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At the Edinburgh International Film Festival, acclaimed Iranian director Abdolreza Kahani presented his latest film Mortician. Known for pushing boundaries, Kahani shot the project entirely on an iPhone with no additional equipment, relying solely on natural light and a minimal sound setup. Working with only a handful of actors and no crew, he created a
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