New @90minfilmfest.bsky.social pod! 🎧 We spoke to Rose Matafeo LIVE at @monkeybarrelcomedy.bsky.social during #EdFilmFest 🎤 pod.fo/e/35bc1e

EIFF 2025: Misper Film Review - Seensome.com Review of Misper (2025), Harry Sherriff’s dark comedy debut exploring disappearance, grief, and emotional isolation at a fading seaside hotel.

Still catching up on reviews out of #EIFF2025, this time with offbeat British missing person drama Misper, which had its world premiere at #edfilmfest this month.

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Mortician - Film Review - Eye For Film A mild-mannered Iranian mortician in Canada forms an unexpected bond with a dissident singer in exile.

We take a look at EIFF Sean Connery Prize-winner Mortician www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/morti... #EdFilmFest #EIFF2025

Cutting Through Rocks - Film Review - Eye For Film As the first elected councilwoman of her Iranian village, Sara Shahverdi aims to break long-held patriarchal traditions by training teenage girls to ride motorcycles and stopping child marriages. When...

Cutting Through Rocks follows an Iranian ex-midwife who is taking on the patriarchy www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/cutti... #EIFF2025 #EdFilmFest

Mother Goose - Film Review - Eye For Film After the death of her husband, Janet decides to distract herself by rearing a goose... which becomes an obsession.

We take a look at EIFF's Thelma Schoonmaker Prize-winner Mother Goose www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/mothe... #EIFF2025 #EdFilmFest #FilmSky🎬

Laurence Tratalos (left) and director Harry Sherriff on the red carpet

A wood-panelled hotel reception. A check-in clerk sits at the desk and another man, in a suit is standing looking to camera. From Misper

Talents lurking in the shadows of The Shining - why
Misper director Harry Sherriff and writer Laurence Tratalos want to 'write it dark and cast it funny' www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2025... #FilmSky🎬 #EIFF2025 #EdFilmFest

Misper - Film Review - Eye For Film A staff member at a seaside hotel vanishes without a trace.

Misper follows what happens after a staff member at a seaside hotel vanishes without a trace www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/mispe... #EIFF2025 #EdFilmFest #FilmSky🎬

Edinburgh Film Festival: Abdolreza Kahani wins top prize - The Skinny Canada-based Iranian filmmaker Abdolreza Kahani takes home the £50,000 Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence for Mortician, a tragicomic drama he shot on his iPhone.

Abdolreza Kahani picks up the top prize at this year's #EdFilmFest for his new film Mortician – @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social recaps this year's competition winners...

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Helen Walsh at Edinburgh Film Festival

'It felt timely to write about a very masculine world' -
On the Sea Director Helen Walsh on sex, desire, class and the influence of the Dardennes www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2025... #EIFF2025 #EdFilmFest

An elderly woman stands holding a goose in this black and white still

Two people tand at either side of a tree

Mortician wins top prize at EIFF, Mother Goose takes short prize www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/news/2025-08... #FilmSky🎬#EIFF2025 #EdFilmFest

The Golden Spurtle: winning porridge-making doc - The Skinny The styles of both Wes Anderson and Christopher Guest are evoked in this winning documentary about the kooky community surrounding the annual World Porridge Making Championship in Carrbridge.

Both Wes Anderson and Christopher Guest are evoked in The Golden Spurtle, a winning documentary following the annual World Porridge Making Championship

Our #edfilmfest review by @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social

www.theskinny.co.uk/film/new-rel... @dogwoofdocs.bsky.social

Let's gooooooo! #edfilmfest

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk | TAKE ONE | Reviews PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK is not a neutral film by any stretch of the imagination, but it should not be. Farsi’s documentary is urgent, heart-wrenching, and deeply personal, profiling a…

"PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK is not a neutral film but it should not be. Farsi’s documentary is urgent, heart-wrenching, & deeply personal, profiling a single life among the tens of thousands lost too soon." - @carmenchloie.bsky.social's first EIFF2025 dispatch: buff.ly/ab3qwQe #edfilmfest

Bonus introduction by Jason Connery! #EdFilmFest

About to watch You Only Live Twice on the big screen at #edfilmfest. Only ever seen it once before…in 1984 (according to Letterboxd).

EIFF 2025: Dragonfly Film Review - Seensome.com Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn shine in Paul Andrew Williams' startling domestic drama Dragonfly.

#EIFF Review: Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn shine in startling domestic drama Dragonfly, the latest from director Paul Andrew Williams - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Screening as part of #edfilmfest #EIFF2025

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Bulk | GeekChocolate Ben Wheatley sends Sam Riley's drugged journalist into a strange and unpredictable dimension of fractured minds and eternal conflict in Bulk.

Its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Ben Wheatley sends Sam Riley through an unstable portal to the strange fragmented world of the brain collider in Bulk.

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#review #newrelease #scifi #Bulk #EdFilmFest #Edinburgh

On The Sea - Film Review - Eye For Film Love story about a married mussel farmer who falls in love with a handsome newcomer.

A married mussel farmer who falls in love with a handsome newcomer in On The Sea www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/on-th... #EdFilmFest #EIFF2025 #FilmSky🎬

Lorne MacFadyen and Barry Ward in On The Sea - pic shows two men who look as though they'v been swimming sitting looking at one another

Pic of Lorne MacFadyen and Barry Ward at Edinburgh's Caledonian hotel

A Passionate double act: On The Sea's Barry Ward and Lorne MacFadyen on bonding, intimacy and drawing on their roots www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2025... #EIFF2025 #EdFilmFest #FilmSky🎬

@filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social for #Edfilmfest when discovering Terence Stamp, 87, has passed away. Here is one image I can find of the actor at the Edinburgh Film Festival (in 2002). Should be a minute’s silence before every movie screening around the world today. A great talent, genuinely iconic

Seeing Goldfinger at #edfilmfest. According to Letterboxd, I haven’t seen it since 1987. That can’t be right, surely?

EIFF 2025: Christy Film Review - Seensome.com Brendan Canty's debut feature, Irish drama Christy, screened at the 2025 Edinburgh International Film Festival.

EIFF Review: Brendan Canty's Irish drama Christy is a hopeful and richly drawn coming-of-age story - ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Now screening at #edfilmfest

#EIFF2025 #EIFF

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Jason Watkins - he is middleagedd with round rimmed specs

Paul Andrew Williams speaking in Karlovy Vary Film Festival. He is wearign an orange shirt and has a pair of sun spects on his head

Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn in Dragonfly

'Basically I write for me … and then see where the characters lead' - Paul Andrew Williams and Jason Watkins on defying categories in Brenda Blethyn and Andrea Riseborough-starrer Dragonfly www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2025... #EIFF2025 #EdFilmFest #FilmSky🎬

Sacred Bonds poster with Sean Connery

Jason Connery and Paul Ridd introduce Dr No

EIFF’s Sacred Bonds season exploded onto @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social Screen One this morning as Jason Connery introduced Dr. No and spoke about watching the film with pals while in school and realising exactly what his dad did for a living. #edfilmfest

Christy (2025) Film Review: An Irish Standout Christy follows a teen’s turbulent last few weeks of foster care as he returns to his hometown of Cork for the first time since his mother’s passing.

An incredible breakthrough performance from newcomer Power solidifies Brendan Canty's CHRISTY as a must-see! 🤩

Read @bethanylola.bsky.social's 5-star review from the Edinburgh Film Festival!

Out in cinemas in Ireland on 29 August and Britain on 5 September! 😍

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

#Christy #EdFilmFest

Brendan Canty speaks on a microphone in Karlovy Vary

"Because the film is about foster kids we needed them to feel when watching the film that they were represented. We ran everything by them and the film is very much theirs." - Brendan Canty on his award-winning Christy www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2025... #EIFF2025 #EdFilmFest #FilmSky🎬

Eva Victor smiles as she speaks to the EIFF audience on opening night alongside festival director Paul Ridd

EIFF's opening star Eva Victor on rite of passage and feeling the warmth as Sorry, Baby opens Edinburgh International Film Festival www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/news/2025-08... #EIFF2025 #EdFilmFest #FilmSky🎬

letterboxd reviews tagged #edfilmfest, #edfilmfest2025, #eiff2025, #eiff-2025
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Young Mothers Review: When Kids Have Kids The Dardenne brothers’ Young Mothers is a simple but moving tapestry of the hardships of teenage maternity. The young actresses shine.

The Dardenne brothers’ YOUNG MOTHERS (Jeunes Mères) is a simple but moving tapestry of the hardships of teenage maternity.

Read @cynicalfilm.bsky.social's review and watch it tomorrow at the Edinburgh Film Festival and 29 August in U.K. cinemas! 🤩

@curzon.com #EdFilmFest #YoungMothers

Queer Me Out: new queer cinema at Edinburgh Film Festival - The Skinny Four out of the ten films competing in this year's Sean Connery Prize for Filmmaking Excellence at EIFF concern LGBTQ+ themes. We speak to these films' directors to explore what their work reveals abo...

Head over to @theskinnymag.bsky.social now to read their #interview with director Jaclyn Bethany on her latest feature IN TRANSIT celebrating its #WorldPremiere this Sunday in competition at #EIFF

#interview #edfilmfest #lgbtqia #queercinema
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