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Edinburgh Reviews
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Reviews‘Reality Is Not Enough’ review: Entertaining portrait of Scottish writer Irvine Welsh covers familiar ground
Paul Sng’s creative, confessional documentary closes Edinburgh
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Reviews‘In Transit’ review: Jennifer Ehle shines in Jaclyn Bethany’s melancholy chamber piece
Alex Sarrigeorgiou writes and stars in this study of the relationship between a painter and her subject
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Reviews‘Low Rider’ review: LGBTQ+ drama follows a young British woman on a South African roadtrip
Director Campbell X follows-up ’Stud Life’ with this overstuffed feature
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Reviews‘Once You Shall Be One Of Those Who Lived Long Ago’ review: Bittersweet portrait of a declining Swedish mining town
Documentary follows the few remaining residents of Malmberget in northern Sweden
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Reviews‘Novak’ review: Zlatko Buric’s convincing mad scientist elevates this offbeat Greek debut
Harry Lagoussis’s ambitious feature premieres in Edinburgh competition
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Reviews‘Blue Film’ review: UK rising star Kieron Moore impresses in provocative, uneven US debut
Elliot Tuttle’s Los Angeles-based camboy drama bows in Edinburgh competition
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Reviews‘On The Sea’ review: Helen Walsh follows ‘The Violators’ with sensitive Welsh LGBTQ+ drama
The novelist/filmmaker’s second feature stars Barry Ward and Lorne MacFadyen
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Reviews‘Mortician’ review: Sensitive, slow-burn drama follows two Iranian exiles in Canada
Abdolreza Kahani’s latest stars Nima Sadr and singer Golazin Ardestani
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Reviews‘Best Boy’ review: A bizarre family contest unveils dark secrets in Canadian woodland thriller
Jesse Noah Klein’s genre-bending feature premieres in Edinburgh competition
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Reviews‘Concessions’ review: Michael Madsen stars in thinly sketched elegy for the moviegoing experience
Mas Bouzidi sets his feature debut in an independent US movie theatre on the verge of closure
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Reviews‘Lollipop’: Edinburgh Review
A woman fights to regain her children in this affecting British debut drawn from personal experience
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Reviews‘The Ceremony’: Edinburgh Review
Two undocumented migrants take a strange road trip through the wilds of Yorkshire in this black-and-white British debut
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Reviews‘Smiles And Kisses You’: Edinburgh Review
Sensitive documentary explores the relationship between a North Carolina man and his AI-enhanced sex doll
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Reviews‘A Shrine’: Edinburgh Review
Mobile phone-shot drama about an Iranian ex-pat in Montreal and a dubious get-rich-quick scheme he comes to regret
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Reviews‘To Kill A Wolf’: Edinburgh Review
Strong debut effectively updates Little Red Riding Hood to the modern day forests of Oregon
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Reviews‘Acting’: Edinburgh Review
Documentarian Sophie Fiennes teams with theatre company Cheek By Jowl for this illuminating exploration of the acting process
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Reviews‘Xibalba Monster’: Edinburgh Review
The Mayan ruins in Yucatan are fertile ground for a young boy’s fascination with death in this Edinburgh highlight
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Reviews‘Sunlight’: Edinburgh Review
British comedian Nina Conti’s feature debut is an off-kilter road trip romance between a man and a woman dressed as a monkey
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Reviews‘All The Mountains Give’: Edinburgh Review
Kurdish smugglers eke out an existence in the Iran/Iraq borderlands in this impressive documentary filmed over six years