The world premiere of a brand new animated quick movie directed by Renée Zellweger, referred to as They, six James Bond films starring the late Sean Connery screened in a particular strand, and “In Dialog” occasions with the likes of Andrew and Kevin Macdonald, Andrea Arnold, Ben Wheatley and Andy Starke, and Nia DaCosta will all be a part of this 12 months’s 78th version of the Edinburgh Worldwide Movie Competition.
Among the many films in this system this 12 months are the likes of Piotr Winiewicz’s A few Hero with Vicky Krieps, which was written by an AI system skilled in Werner Herzog’s works, Eddie Marsan and Sam Claflin-starring “brooding, trendy thriller” All of the Devils Are Right here from Barnaby Roper, Jan-Ole Gerster’s Islands, “a mysterious and Highsmith-esque existential thriller,” Urška Djukic’s debut function and coming-of-age movie Little Hassle Women, and Elliot Tuttle’s Blue Movie, starring Kieron Moore and Reed Birney.
Documentaries screening at Edinburgh embody “Sepideh Farsi’s wrenching and well timed documentary Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Stroll [that] chronicles disarmingly frank and intimate video calls with younger Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona” and Gar O’Rourke’s Sanatorium, “a considerate, humane documentary providing a novel perspective on the present state of affairs in Ukraine.”
The pageant is led by CEO and fest director Paul Ridd and fest producer Emma Boa. “43 new function movies, 18 function movie world premieres, together with 10 world premieres competing for The Sean Connery Prize for Characteristic Filmmaking Excellence, six particular retrospective screenings, James Bond on the massive display screen and a celebration of the work of filmmaker Budd Boetticher, six quick movie packages, together with The Thelma Schoonmaker Prize for Brief Filmmaking Excellence competitors, the presentation of recent quick type work by the inaugural NFTS Sean Connery Lab, and the world premiere of a brand new animated movie by Renée Zellweger,” Edinburgh summarized its lineup.
Additionally, the favored Midnight Insanity screenings will return to the Scottish pageant, which runs Aug. 14-20.
All six Connery James Bond movies will probably be proven on the massive display screen in a particular strand dubbed “Sacred Bonds,” together with 4K restorations of Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Thunderball, and You Solely Reside Twice. The opposite movies are Goldfinger and Diamonds Are Eternally. “All [will be] launched by a collection of soon-to-be-announced particular friends,” the fest mentioned.
The fest beforehand unveiled a gap evening movie, Eva Victor’s Sorry, Child, and a closing movie, Paul Sng’s Irvine Welsh documentary Actuality Is Not Sufficient.
Take a look at key components of the Edinburgh movie fest lineup under.
Opening Movies
Sorry, Child | UK Premiere
Director: Eva Victor. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Eva Victor, Naomi Ackie, Lucas Hedges. United States, Spain, France. 2025. 1hr 44min. English.
Bulk | World Premiere | Midnight Insanity
Director: Ben Wheatley. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Alexandra Maria Lara, Sam Riley, Noah Taylor, Mark Monero. United Kingdom. 2025. 1hr 31min. English.
Closing Movies
Actuality Is Not Sufficient | World Premiere | Midnight Insanity
Director: Paul Sng. Documentary Characteristic. Solid: Irvine Welsh, Stephen Graham, Nick Cave, Maxine Peake, Olivia Caw, Ruth Negga. United Kingdom. 2025. 1hr 28min. English.
The Poisonous Avenger | World Premiere | Midnight Insanity
Director: Macon Blair. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Peter Dinklage, Kevin Bacon, Elijah Wooden, Julia Davis.
United States. 2023. 1hr 42min. English.
Screening with:
TOE | World Premiere
Director: Elly Howard. Narrative Brief. Solid: Greta Titelman, Mikael Mattsson. United States. 2024.
13min. English
The Sean Connery Prize for Characteristic Filmmaking Excellence
Finest Boy | World Premiere
Director: Jesse Noah Klein. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Lise Roy, Aaron Abrams, Caroline Dhavernas, Dylan Smith, Marc Bendavid. Canada. 2024. 1hr 31min. English.
Blue Movie | World Premiere
Director: Elliot Tuttle. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Kieron Moore, Reed Birney. United States. 2025. 1hr 28min. English.
Concessions | World Premiere
Director: Mas Bouzidi. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Rob Riordan, Jonathan Lorenzo Worth, Lana Rockwell, Michael Madsen. United States. 2025. 1hr 31min. English.
In Transit | World Premiere
Director: Jaclyn Bethany. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Alex Sarrigeorgiou, Francois Arnaud, Jennifer Ehle. United States. 2025. 1hr 22min. English.
Low Rider | World Premiere
Director: Campbell X. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Emma McDonald, Thishiwe Ziqubu, Martin Kluge. United Kingdom, South Africa. 2025. 1hr 33min. English.
Mortician | World Premiere
Director: Abdolreza Kahani. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Nima Sadrzadeh, Gola, Canada. 2025. 1hr 35min. Persian (Farsi) with English subtitles
Novak | World Premiere
Director: Harry Lagoussis. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Ella Rumpf, Yannis Papadopoulos, Elena Topalidou. Greece, Switzerland. 2025. 1hr 51min. English, Greek with English subtitles.
On the Sea | World Premiere
Director: Helen Walsh. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Barry Ward, Lorne Macfadyen, Celyn Jones, Liz White. United Kingdom. 2025. 1hr 51min. English.
As soon as You Shall Be One Of These Who Lived Lengthy In the past | World Premiere
Director: Alexander Rynéus, Per Bifrost. Documentary Characteristic. Sweden. 2025. 1hr 44min. Swedish with English subtitles.
Two Neighbors | World Premiere
Director: Ondine Viñao. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Chloe Cherry, Anya Chalotra, Ralph Ineson. United Kingdom, United States. 2025. 1hr 44min. English.
Out of Competitors
About A Hero | UK Premiere
Director: Piotr Winiewicz. Documentary Characteristic. Denmark, Germany, United States. 2024. 1hr 25min.English, German with English subtitles.
All The Devils Are Right here | World Premiere
Director: Barnaby Roper. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Eddie Marsan, Sam Claflin, Burn Gorman, Tienne Simon, Suki Waterhouse, Rory Kinnear. United Kingdom. 2025. 1hr 27min. English
Lynda Myles Celebrates After This Demise | UK Premiere
Director: Lucio Castro. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Mia Maestro, Lee Tempo, Rupert Pal. United States. 2025. 1hr 36min. English, Spanish with English subtitles.
Brides | European Premiere
Director: Nadia Fall. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Ebada Hassan, Safiyya Ingar. United Kingdom. 2025. 1hr 33min. English, Turkish with English subtitles.
Case 137 | Worldwide Premiere
Director: Dominik Moll. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Léa Drucker, Yoann Blanc, Guslagie Malanda.
France. 2025. 1hr 55min. French with English subtitles.
Christy | UK Premiere
Director: Brendan Canty. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Danny Energy, Diarmuid Noyes, Emma Willis. Eire, United Kingdom. 2025. 1hr 34min. English.
Crushed | World Premiere
Director: Simon Rumley. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Steve Oram, Margaux Dietrich, Sahajak Boonthanakit. United Kingdom. 2025. 1hr 41min. English.
Slicing By way of Rocks | UK Premiere
Director: Sara Khaki, Mohammadreza Eyni. Documentary Characteristic. That includes: Sara Shahverdi. Iran, Germany, United States, Netherlands, Qatar, Chile, Canada. 2025. 1hr 34min. Persian (Farsi), Azerbaijani with English subtitles.
Deaf | UK Premiere
Director: Eva Libertad. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Alvaro Cervantes, Miriam Garlo. Spain. 2025. 1hr 39min. Spanish with English subtitles.
Screening with:
Bumblebee | UK Premiere
Director: Fon Cortizo. Narrative Brief. Solid: Cory Mañá, Machi Salgado. Spain. 2024. 19min. Galician with English subtitle
Dragonfly | UK Premiere
Director: Paul Andrew Williams. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Andrea Riseborough, Jason Watkins, Brenda Blethyn. United Kingdom. 2025. 1hr 38min. English.
Fires of the Moon | World Premiere
Director: Christopher Forster. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Huw Ynyr, Elin Prichard, Annes Elwy, Dylan Morrison Jones. United Kingdom. 2025. 1hr 25min. Welsh with English subtitles.
The Golden Spurtle | UK Premiere
Director: Constantine Costi. Documentary Characteristic. That includes: Charlie Miller, the individuals of Carrbridge. United Kingdom, Australia. 2025. 1hr 15min. English.
Develop | World Premiere
Director: John McPhail. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Priya-Rose Brookwell, Golda Rosheuvel, Nick Frost, Jane Horrocks, Alan Carr, Joe Wilkinson, Sanjeev Kohli, Dominic McLaughlin. United Kingdom. 2025. 1hr 47min. English.
Rising Down | UK Premiere
Director: Bálint Dániel Sós. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Szabolcs Hajdu, Ágoston Sáfrány, Anna Hay. Hungary. 2025. 1hr 25min. Hungarian with English Subtitles.
Hysteria | UK Premiere
Director: Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Devrim Lingnau, Mehdi Meskar. Germany. 2025. 1hr 44min. German, English, Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic with English subtitles.
Islands | UK Premiere
Director: Jan-Ole Gerster. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Sam Riley, Stacy Martin, Jack Farthing, Dylan Torrell. Germany. 2025. 2hr 3min. English, Spanish with English subtitles.
Little Hassle Women | UK Premiere
Director: Urška Djukic. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Jara Sofija Ostan, Mina Švajger, Saša Tabaković. Croatia, Italy, Slovenia, Serbia, France. 2025. 1hr 40min. Slovenian with English Subtitles.
The Reminiscence Blocks | World Premiere
Director: Andrew Kötting. Experimental Characteristic. Solid: Eden Kötting, Charlie Stephens. United Kingdom. 2025. 1hr 17min. English.
Misper | World Premiere
Director: Harry Sherriff. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Samuel Blenkin, Emily Carey, Christine Bottomley. United Kingdom. 2025. 1hr 13min. English.
Screening with:
Terence | UK Premiere
Director: Edem Kelman. Narrative Brief. Solid: Terence Nzaji-Egnie. United Kingdom. 2024. 15min. English
Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Stroll | UK Premiere
Director: Sepideh Farsi. Documentary Characteristic. That includes: Fatma Hassona. France, Palestine, Iran. 2025. 1hr 50min.
Sanatorium | UK Premiere
Director: Gar O’Rourke. Documentary Characteristic. Eire, Ukraine, France. 2025. 1hr 31min. Ukrainian with English subtitles.
Surviving Earth | European Premiere
Director: Thea Gajić. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Slavko Sobin, Olive Grey, Stuart Martin. United Kingdom. 2024. 1hr 40min. English, Serbian with English subtitles.
Screening with:
Truckload | U.Ok. Premiere
Director: Aella Jordan-Edge. Narrative Brief. Solid: Evie Jones, Jodie Whittaker, Joe Dempsie. United Kingdom. 2025. 19min. English.
Stroll With Me | UK Premiere
Director: Heidi Levitt. Documentary Characteristic.
That includes: Heidi Levitt, Charlie Hess. United States.2024. 1hr 30min.
Younger Moms | Worldwide Premiere
Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Babette Verbeek, Janaina Halloy Fokan, Samia Hilmi, Elsa Houben, Lucie Laruelle. Belgium, France. 2025. 1hr 45min.
Zodiac Killer Undertaking | UK Premiere
Director: Charlie Shackleton. Documentary Characteristic. United Kingdom, United States. 2025. 1hr 32min. English.
Midnight Insanity
See above for The Poisonous Avenger
Lifeless Lover | UK Premiere
Director: Grace Glowicki. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie, Lowen Morrow. Canada. 2025. 1hr 22min. English.
Screening with:
Demise’s Peak | World Premiere
Director: Willy Truthful. Animation Brief. Solid: Simon Pavelich. United Kingdom. 2025. 9min
I Reside Right here Now | The Evolution of Horror and EIFF current | UK Premiere
Director: Julie Pacino. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Lucy Fry, Matt Rife, Madeline Brewer, Sheryl Lee. United States. 2025. 1hr 32min. English.
Screening with:
Drainomania | UK Premiere
Director: Christopher Greenslate. Narrative Brief. Solid: Gabrielle Maiden, Sally Maersk. United States. 2025. 15min. English.
Odyssey | European Premiere
Director: Gerard Johnson. Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Polly Maberly, Mikael Persbrandt, Jasmine Blackborow. United Kingdom. 2025. 1hr 50min. English.
Screening with:
Sleazy Tiger | World Premiere
Director: James Ley. Narrative Brief. Solid: Jay Newton, Jack Douglas, Alan Cumming. United Kingdom. 2024. 15min.
Redux Redux | UK Premiere
Administrators: Matthew McManus, Kevin McManus.
Narrative Characteristic. Solid: Michaela McManus, Stella Marcus. United States. 2025. 1hr 47min. English.
Screening with:
Em & Selma Go Griffin Looking | UK Premiere
Director: Alex Thompson. Narrative Brief. Solid: Pollyanna McIntosh, Milly Shapiro. United States. 2025. 18min. English.