THE AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEES
If you are attending a screening of any of the titles below, you will be able to rate the film using the voting cards provided. Share your thoughts using #edfilmfest.
Astronaut
SAT 22 JUNE 18:00 / MON 24 JUNE 18:05
Best Before Death
THU 27 JUNE 20:45 / FRI 28 JUNE 18:00
The Best of Dorien B.
SAT 29 JUNE 20:45 / SUN 30 JUNE 11:05
Bulbul Can Sing
SUN 23 JUNE 18:10 / MON 24 JUN 20:55
Champions
FRI 21 JUNE 18:00 / SUN 23 JUNE 10:50
The Deposit
SAT 22 JUNE 21:00 / SUN 30 JUNE 11:05
Go Back to China
MON 24 JUNE 20:30 / WED 26 JUNE 18:15
God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya
SAT 29 JUNE 18:20 / SUN 30 JUNE 13:35
Love Type D
FRI 21 JUNE 18:10 / SAT 22 JUNE 15:40
Memory: The Origins of Alien
THU 20 JUNE 20:20 / SUN 23 JUNE 18:30
Robert the Bruce
SUN 23 JUNE 15:00 / TUE 25 JUNE 20:25
Schemers
SAT 29 JUNE 18:10 / SUN 30 JUNE 13:20
So Pretty
THU 20 JUNE 20:45 / SUN 23 JUNE 13:20
THE MICHAEL POWELL AWARD FOR BEST BRITISH FEATURE FILM
Michael Powell was one of Britain's most original filmmakers, with a career spanning 60 years. The Michael Powell Award was inaugurated at EIFF in 1990 to honour imagination and creativity in British filmmaking and is regarded as a mark of prestige both within and without the UK film industry.
Bait
FRI 21 JUNE 20:45 / SUN 23 JUNE 15:20
Balance, Not Symmetry
SUN 23 JUNE 20:30
The Black Forest
THU 27 JUNE 18:25 / SAT 29 JUNE 15:30
Boyz in the Wood
WED 19 JUNE 20:45
Carmilla
FRI 28 JUNE 20:00 / SAT 29 JUNE 20:30
Farming
THU 20 JUNE 20:15 / SAT 22 JUNE 18:10
Gwen
SUN 23 JUNE 20:55 / TUE 25 JUNE 20:30
Hurt by Paradise
THU 20 JUNE 18:00 / SAT 22 JUNE 20:25
Mrs Lowry & Son
SUN 30 JUNE 17:15
The Souvenir
MON 24 JUNE 20:10 / WED 26 JUNE 20:50
THE AWARD FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
EIFF seeks to represent global trends in cinema by introducing important new films and new filmmaking directions. This award is intended to highlight filmmaking from outside the UK that is imaginative innovative and deserving of wider recognition.
Aren’t You Happy?
MON 24 JUNE 20:20 / WED 26 JUNE 20:40
Aurora
FRI 21 JUNE 18:15 / SUN 23 JUNE 17:45
Cages
THU 27 JUNE 18:20 / SUN 30 JUNE 13:40
The Grizzlies
THU 20 JUNE 20:30 / SUN 23 JUNE 15:35
h0us3
THU 20 JUNE 20:35 / SAT 22 JUNE 15:30
Liberté: A Call to Spy
FRI 21 JUNE 20:25 / SAT 22 JUNE 15:20
The Red Phallus
FRI 21 JUNE 20:20 / SUN 23 JUNE 15:30
Undertow
SAT 29 JUNE 18:10 / SUN 30 JUNE 11:15
Vai
SAT 28 JUNE 18:00 / SAT 29 JUNE 13:20
The Vast of Night
FRI 28 JUNE 18:30 / SAT 29 JUNE 15:00
THE AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
This award recognises the immense strength of documentary filmmaking in pioneering new ways of imagining the world, while insisting with urgency, creativity and vigour on the vital relationship between film and reality. Feature-length documentaries around the world are eligible for the award.
2040
THU 20 JUNE 18:20 / SUN 23 JUNE 11:10
The Amber Light
SAT 22 JUNE 18:10 / SUN 23 JUNE 20:20
Bludgeon
FRI 21 JUNE 18:00 / SUN 23 JUNE 13:25
Hamada
SAT 29 JUNE 13:25 / SUN 30 JUNE 15:30
Notes for a Heist Film
MON 24 JUNE 17:45 / WED 26 JUNE 20:45
Sakawa
SAT 29 JUNE 18:00 / SUN 30 JUNE 13:20
Scheme Birds
MON 24 JUNE 18:05 / WED 26 JUNE 21:00
Underdown
THU 27 JUNE 20:20 / FRI 28 JUNE 20:30
Up the Mountain
MON 24 JUNE 20:20 / WED 26 JUNE 18:10
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
MON 24 JUNE 18:10 / SAT 29 JUNE 13:10
THE AWARD FOR BEST PERFORMANCE IN A BRITISH FEATURE FILM
Judged by the Michael Powell Award competition jury, this award is intended to celebrate and promote the great tradition of the art of film performance in the UK.
THE AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM
This award affirms EIFF's long-standing support of directors of short films and is intended to recognise the outstanding achievements possible within the short format, while offering encouragement to feature filmmakers of the future. Films in the competition are drawn from the Shorts, Black Box and Animation strands of EIFF.
A Study of Fly (screening in Black Box Shorts: Entangled Experience)
Ada (screening in McLaren Animation 3)
Afronte (screening in Shorts: Film Is Resistance!)
Ajo (screening in Shorts: Constellations)
Alien Culture (screening in Shorts: Satellites)
ALTIPLANO (screening in Black Box Shorts: Communicating Contact)
Archie (screening in McLaren Animation 1)
Athabasca (screening with Vulture)
Boys Night (screening in Shorts: Scotland – Generations)
The Call (screening in International Animation)
Catman's Greenock (screening in Shorts: Satellites)
Chopin (screening in Shorts: Radical Archives)
Churubusco Inventory (screening in Black Box Shorts: Communicating Contact)
Concrete (screening in International Animation)
Dancing Frog (screening in International Animation)
Dark Road (screening in Shorts: Scotland – Acceptance)
Edge of Red (screening in Shorts: Haunting the Image)
Enceindre (screening in Shorts: Radical Archives)
The Fabric of You (screening in McLaren Animation 2)
Gold Fish (screening in International Animation)
Hotel Bardo (screening in Black Box Shorts: Communicating Contact)
It has to be lived once and dreamed twice (screening in Black Box Shorts: Politics of Place)
The Jarariju Sisters (screening in Shorts: Haunting the Image)
Las Breas (screening in Black Box Shorts: Politics of Place)
Le Mans 1955 (screening in International Animation)
Monument (screening in Shorts: Image Is Memory)
Not (a) part (screening in Black Box Shorts: Entangled Experience)
Pwdre Ser the rot of stars (screening in Black Box Shorts: Entangled Experience)
Red Film (screening in Shorts: Radical Archives)
The Sea Runs Thru My Veins (screening in Shorts: Film Is Resistance!)
Sir Bailey (screening in Black Box Shorts: Entangled Experience)
Souvenir (screening in Shorts: Haunting the Image)
Soy Una Tumba (screening in International Animation)
The Spirit Keepers of Makuta’ay (screening in Shorts: Haunting the Image)
Toli Toli (screening in Shorts: Haunting the Image)
Under Covers (screening in International Animation)
Wax and Feathers (screening in Shorts: Satellites and Shorts: Time Passes Me)
Wunderschein (screening in Black Box Shorts: Communicating Contact)
THE MCLAREN AWARD FOR BEST NEW BRITISH ANIMATION
First awarded in 1990, the McLaren Award provides a focus for new British short animation and recognises the spirit of creativity. Named in honour of Norman McLaren, the renowned Scottish-born animator. The winner is decided by audience voters.
Nominated films screen in the below programmes:
The McLaren Award: New British Animation 1