EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Rachel Maclean’s Make Me Up
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i lmmaker and EIFF honorary patron Mark Cousins will introduce his latest projects, The Eyes of Orson Welles and Storm in My Heart. Scotland will be well represented across the animation strand, too, including screenings of Dorte Bengtson’s family i lm Vitello and an early look at Red Kite’s animated feature Princess Emmy which includes the voice talents of John Hannah and Franka Potente. The extensive lineup of homegrown shorts includes Charlotte Wells’ Blue Christmas and Anna Stoltzmann’s My Head on the Mountain along with work from the Scottish Film Talent Network. Looking towards the small screen, EIFF audiences will be treated to a preview of the i rst three episodes of Skye-set TV show Bannan’s fourth series, which follows a young woman returning to the island home she left when she was 18.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival proudly presents a diverse range of Scottish screen work at this year’s event. Nikki Baughan picks through the highlights from an iconic 80s movie to a modern zombie musical
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The festival will also celebrate Scotland’s eclectic i lm and television history by screening Maurice Hatton’s industry satire Long Shot, which was i lmed during the 1977 EIFF, and director Bill Forsyth will be in attendance to introduce a screening of his classic 1983 i lm Local Hero. ‘Edinburgh is renowned around the world for discovering and promoting the very best in international cinema, and Scottish talent has always been at the heart of that,’ said EIFF artistic director Mark Adams. ‘The festival’s programme always helps shine the light on to Scottish themes, performances and i lmmakers, and I’m thrilled that once again we can celebrate this high level of craft in past and present Scottish work.’
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While the Edinburgh International Film Festival has built a reputation as an essential showcase for the best in world cinema, the support of Scottish i lms and i lmmakers has always been central to its remit. In this forthcoming 72nd edition, homegrown talent will once again take centre stage, starting with opening i lm, Puzzle, which features Scottish actress Kelly Macdonald in the lead role of a woman whose newfound passion for jigsaws changes her life in ways she could never have imagined.
From there, the country is broadly represented across the programme. In the feature lineup, Matt Palmer’s debut Calibre, a Highlands-set thriller which stars Scottish actor Jack Lowden (Dunkirk) and Martin McCann (‘71) as two friends on an ill-fated hunting trip, joins John McPhail’s anticipated zombie horror / musical Anna and the Apocalypse. Kenny Glenaan’s Dirt Road to Lafayette, which follows a father and son as they travel from Scotland to North Alabama, will receive its world premiere here and audiences can also look forward to pop-art drama Make Me Up by Glasgow-based video artist Rachel Maclean.
Elsewhere, Shauna Macdonald will be seen in Paul Raschid’s horror White Chamber, while Tommy Flanagan appears in Michael Noer’s updating of Papillon, and James Cosmo stars in Anthony Byrne’s crime thriller In Darkness.
frontman Scottish documentaries are also in abundance. Travis Fran Healy’s Almost Fashionable: A Film About Travis will debut, as will Meeting Jim, Ece Ger’s i lm about Traverse Theatre founder and Edinburgh Festival Fringe champion Jim Haynes. Additionally, award-winning Edinburgh-based documentary