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Amazing Soundtracks for String Quartet: From Morricone to Harry Potter

Amazing Soundtracks for String Quartet: From Morricone to Harry Potter

Indulge in the enchanting melodies of this Italian string quartet at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

EIFF: Thelma Schoonmaker Presents: I Know Where I'm Going!

EIFF: Thelma Schoonmaker Presents: I Know Where I'm Going!

We welcome iconic editor Thelma Schoonmaker to The Cameo to deliver an extended intro to Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1945 romantic masterpiece. 

EIFF: Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust

EIFF: Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust

A radical new animated vision of a dystopian future probes our fears about social control and liberation. 

EIFF: Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Girl Bands

EIFF: Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Girl Bands

A revealing, funny and enraging documentary tracking the history of Scottish pop from the 1960s to the present via the women who often have been brushed out of that history. 

EIFF: The Ceremony

EIFF: The Ceremony

Two migrant workers find themselves thrown together in a quest to bury a body in this hypnotic and visually stunning drama. 

Nightpiece Film Festival

Nightpiece Film Festival

Now in our 11th season, Nightpiece has screened over 335+ short films from the UK and across the world since 2014. 

EIFF: Lollipop

EIFF: Lollipop

A stirring and powerful film about a young mother, recently released from prison and desperate to maintain custody of her two young children. 

EIFF: The Substance

EIFF: The Substance

A Hollywood superstar facing the ageism and sexism of an industry that is swiftly forgetting her is faced with an intriguing proposition in this wild satire. 

EIFF: The Radleys

EIFF: The Radleys

Bloodthirsty, dark comedy about a suppressed family of vampires, adapted from Matt Haig’s (The Midnight Library) titular novel by Talitha Stevenson, and developed by Jo Brand. 

EIFF: Armand

EIFF: Armand

A tightly wound and exhilarating drama that examines the assumptions that adults make whilst trying to uncover the truth. 

Eugene O'Neill's Thirst

Eugene O'Neill's Thirst

Slow death awaits shipwreck survivors on a drifting raft. 

EIFF: And Mrs

EIFF: And Mrs

A funny, touching exploration of fidelity, strength and the lengths we go to honour our commitments. 

EIFF: King Baby

EIFF: King Baby

A surreal comedy about serving others, arrogance and the slippery nature of power. 

EIFF: To Kill a Wolf

EIFF: To Kill a Wolf

A modern re-imagining of classic fable Little Red Riding Hood, this tightly calibrated film explores trauma, grief and redemption in a dangerous world. 

EIFF: A Shrine

EIFF: A Shrine

A middle-aged man builds a mobile religious shrine to make money in this darkly funny and moving exploration of consequences. 

EIFF: smiles and kisses you

EIFF: smiles and kisses you

An insightful and moving documentary about a thirty-something man and his relationship with the life-size AI doll he lives with, who is animated through an app. 

EIFF: Gaspar Noé Presents: Surprise Film

EIFF: Gaspar Noé Presents: Surprise Film

We are absolutely delighted to welcome iconic filmmaker Gaspar Noé to present an after hours, after dark screening of a surprise film in our line-up. 

EIFF: Joy Dancer

EIFF: Joy Dancer

A dance-filled documentary about South African choreographer and activist Gregory Maqoma. 

EIFF: Out of Competition Shorts

EIFF: Out of Competition Shorts

An impactful shorts programme drawing out intergenerational memories across the globe, from Scotland to Sierra Leone. 

EIFF: Ali Plumb's Untitled Film Quiz Project

EIFF: Ali Plumb's Untitled Film Quiz Project

We’re delighted to welcome BBC Radio 1’s film critic Ali Plumb to host a delightfully nerdy film quiz at EIFF. 

EIFF: Birdeater

EIFF: Birdeater

A gripping feature debut from co-directors Jim Weir and Jack Clark that provides a worthy revival and addition to the Australian horror tradition. 

EIFF: Acting

EIFF: Acting

An immersive documentary from acclaimed director Sophie Fiennes, looking behind the scenes of the acting process, from voice exercises to text analysis and the thrills of performan… 

EIFF: Xibalba Monster (Monstruo de Xibalba)

EIFF: Xibalba Monster (Monstruo de Xibalba)

A delicate portrait of a young Mexican boy who wants to know what happens when we die. 

EIFF: Bogancloch

EIFF: Bogancloch

A solitary soul in the Scottish wilderness is observed living a life that is harmonious and beautiful. 

EIFF: The Mountain Within Me

EIFF: The Mountain Within Me

This emotional and inspiring documentary details the road to recovery for rugby player Ed Jackson after an almost fatal spinal cord injury. 

EIFF: Competition Shorts

EIFF: Competition Shorts

A bold short film programme highlighting pioneering work from Scotland and beyond. 

EIFF: In Conversation: Alex Garland and Andrew Macdonald

EIFF: In Conversation: Alex Garland and Andrew Macdonald

Globally renowned filmmaker Alex Garland is joined by longtime producing collaborator Andrew Macdonald for an in-depth discussion of their collaborations, which include recent hit … 

EIFF: Lynda Myles Celebrates: Gala & Kiwi

EIFF: Lynda Myles Celebrates: Gala & Kiwi

A gritty and emotional drama about two women forced to face hard truths about their friendship and a showcase for dazzling filmmaking on a tight budget. 

EIFF: Sing Sing

EIFF: Sing Sing

With a career best performance from Colman Domingo, Sing Sing is a poignant drama that unfolds within the walls of the notorious prison in upstate New York. 

EIFF: Fugue (Fuga)

EIFF: Fugue (Fuga)

A richly poetic and moving film about a young person journeying to bury their lover in the heart of the Peruvian jungle. 

EIFF: Sunlight

EIFF: Sunlight

A darkly comedic, subversive and uniquely realised road trip film about a monkey, a man and a dead man’s watch. 

EIFF: My Favourite Cake (Keyke Mahboobe Man)

EIFF: My Favourite Cake (Keyke Mahboobe Man)

A profoundly moving meditation on ageing, loneliness and love in unexpected places. 

EIFF: Animation Shorts

EIFF: Animation Shorts

Animations to arouse the senses. 

EIFF: Sunray: Fallen Soldier

EIFF: Sunray: Fallen Soldier

An adrenaline-fuelled thriller that explores the true power of revenge. 

EIFF: All the Mountains Give

EIFF: All the Mountains Give

A powerful account of the Kolbari covert goods traden between the Kurdish cities and towns of Iran and borders of Iraq. 

EIFF: Timestalker

EIFF: Timestalker

Alice Lowe’s vibrant second feature offers a playful take on the romantic comedy with a reincarnation twist. 

EIFF: Lilies Not for Me

EIFF: Lilies Not for Me

An intricately constructed, lyrical and heart-breaking film about two young men wrestling with their sexuality in the repressive English society of the 1920s. 

EIFF: In Conversation: Gaspar Noé

EIFF: In Conversation: Gaspar Noé

We are joined by the iconic filmmaker and master provocateur Gaspar Noé (Irreversible, Climax, Enter The Void) for a wide-ranging discussion of his career and filmmaking. 

Sacred Arts Festival Film at St Vincent's Chapel

Sacred Arts Festival Film at St Vincent's Chapel

La Vie et la Passion de Jésus Christ. 

EIFF: A New Kind of Wilderness

EIFF: A New Kind of Wilderness

An intimate portrait of family bonds, rural life and the importance of human connection in the survival from grief. 

EIFF: Oddity

EIFF: Oddity

In the wake of the brutal murder of her sister, a blind medium is determined to find the killer in this truly scary haunted house horror. 

EIFF: Blue Sun Palace

EIFF: Blue Sun Palace

A beautiful rumination on absence, grief and the human need for connection. 

EIFF: Between the Temples

EIFF: Between the Temples

A cantor undergoing a crisis of faith runs into his high school music teacher who is intent on having a late life Bat Mitzvah in this sweet, melancholic comedy. 

EIFF: Experimental Shorts

EIFF: Experimental Shorts

Ten works that explore photochemical film’s astonishing capacity to operate as a mirror for memory: invoking, reflecting and distorting moments and experiences by turn resonant, … 

EIFF: Black Dog

EIFF: Black Dog

A young man returns to his hometown after a stint in jail, only to form a strong bond with a stray whippet in this profound and moving film. 

EIFF: Steppenwolf

EIFF: Steppenwolf

Dystopian, genre-straddling road trip set during civil war in a stark, bleakly violent landscape. 

EIFF: Mongrel

EIFF: Mongrel

Raw, commanding and thoughtful Taiwanese drama about compassion and decency in the face of inequality and invisibility. 

EIFF: The Outrun

EIFF: The Outrun

A vivid and unflinching adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s wrenching personal memoir of addiction, powered by an extraordinary central performance from Saoirse Ronan. 

EIFF: Alien: Romulus

EIFF: Alien: Romulus

Whilst exploring a derelict space station a hapless group of young people encounter the most terrifying life force in the universe in a spectacular new entry in the iconic Alien fr… 

The Katet vs John Williams

The Katet vs John Williams

The Katet – Edinburgh’s eight-piece jazz-funk superband, famed for their infamous treatment of Stevie Wonder’s back-catalogue – invite you to join them on the dance floor a… 

Charlie Chaplin’s Late-Night Cinema

Charlie Chaplin’s Late-Night Cinema

Relive the golden age of Hollywood as our cinema pianist improvises a film score to Charlie Chaplin’s best silent films including The Gold Rush (1925) – live! During the silent f… 

One Man Arnie

One Man Arnie

Can one man recreate live on stage, the greatest Arnold Schwarzenegger movie ever? Laurence Tuck is that man. 

Dreamgun: Film Reads

Dreamgun: Film Reads

Dreamgun: Film Reads is back at the Fringe and serving up the usual night of nostalgia, banter and chaos! Tackling The Silence of the Lambs, they cooked up a script that’s true t… 

C digital performance and film

C digital performance and film

Hand-picked shows from our digital performance programme and highlights from our critically-acclaimed short film programme. 

Special Preview Screening of Theater Camp

Special Preview Screening of Theater Camp

Theater Camp is a hilarious feel-good mockumentary movie that celebrates the wonderful world of performing arts with all its eccentricities. 

In Conversation with… Ken Loach

In Conversation with… Ken Loach

Born in 1936 in Nuneaton. 

Nightpiece Film Festival

Nightpiece Film Festival

Nightpiece Media, the production company of filmmaker Al Carretta, have been filmmaking disruptors since 2010. 

The Katet vs John Williams

The Katet vs John Williams

The Katet – Edinburgh’s eight-piece jazz-funk superband, famed for their infamous treatment of Stevie Wonder’s back catalogue – invite you to join them on the dance floor a… 

Sacred Arts Festival Film at St Vincent's Undercroft

Sacred Arts Festival Film at St Vincent's Undercroft

The Desert in the Heart of the World is a filmic study of the impact of the Carthusian monastic movement on the French landscape. 

Adult Film Club

Adult Film Club

Adult Film Club is a raucous showcase of comedy short films, bizarro music videos and truly effed-up MP4s. 

Chris Thorburn: Cineman

Chris Thorburn: Cineman

Jokes about films. 

DJ Yoda’s Tarantino AV Show

DJ Yoda’s Tarantino AV Show

An immersive audio-visual experience blending classic movie footage, soundtracks and insane turntable wizardry! ‘To me, movies and music go hand in hand’ (Quentin Tarantino). 

The George Lucas Talk Show

The George Lucas Talk Show

Comedian Connor Ratliff (Dead Eyes, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel) appears as George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, and interviews guests like a “normal talk show”. 

2 Joke Thieves at High Altitude (Laura's Version)

2 Joke Thieves at High Altitude (Laura's Version)

BAFTA crew director and award-winning stand-up Laura McMahon presents an hour that is half stand up and half documentary about joke theft and parrallel thinking covering legal case… 

Life with Oscar

Life with Oscar

Life With Oscar is Nicholas Cohen's brutally honest first person (and occasionally third person) account, detailing his own personal heroes journey from Lewisham, South-east Lo… 

C digital performance and film

C digital performance and film

Hand-picked shows from our digital performance programme and highlights from our critically acclaimed short-film programme. 

Nightpiece Film Festival

Nightpiece Film Festival

Now in its ninth consecutive season, Nightpiece continues to platform exciting filmmakers from across the globe. 

The Katet vs John Williams

The Katet vs John Williams

After four years of their infamous Stevie Wonder show, the eight-piece Edinburgh superband completely sold-out its 2019 follow up, tackling their next legendary artist. 

Adam Smith: Father of the Fringe, Or Is He?

Adam Smith: Father of the Fringe, Or Is He?

Just what is the Edinburgh Fringe? Some say it’s the world’s greatest uncensored platform for freedom of expression; some see it as a free market, money-driven fun-fest. 

Apartness

Apartness

A multimedia hybrid, part live stand-up, part film, featuring Sylvester McCoy, Linda Marlowe and introducing Eleanor May Blackburn in a tale of two isolated souls and their devilis… 

Dick

Dick

Amputation is the only way! Dick ‘One Man in 100,000’, a comic tragedy of hope over death, tells Richard Stamp’s shock diagnosis of penis cancer. 

See It On Screen Summer 22

See It On Screen Summer 22

Three original short films made in Edinburgh, by new Edinburgh film company See It On Screen. 

Apartness

Apartness

A multimedia hybrid, part live stand-up, part film, featuring Sylvester McCoy, Linda Marlowe and introducing Eleanor May Blackburn in a tale of two isolated souls and their devilis… 

12 Angry Women

12 Angry Women

Some of the monologues are shorter than others and vary in length and topic but all of the women have some form or variation of anger inside them. 

Ian Cognito: A Life and A Death On Stage

Ian Cognito: A Life and A Death On Stage

Award-winning documentary film about one of the most popular, controversial and troubled comedians in the UK. 

David Sheeran: Carpe Your Diem!

David Sheeran: Carpe Your Diem!

Under Covid, every day is like Groundhog Day. 

Dreamgun Video

Dreamgun Video

The most iconic films you’ve never seen, because we made them up. 

Taiwan Season: ai-sa-sa

Taiwan Season: ai-sa-sa

Ai~sa~sa meaning ‘Get over yourself’ is brilliant. 

Dreamgun: Film Reads

Dreamgun: Film Reads

Dreamgun: Film Reads are back at the Fringe and ready to ruin your childhood! At a time when podcasts are very on trend and live recordings are foisted upon an unsuspecting public … 

Right in the Eye – Live Movie-Concert of Georges Méliès' Films

Right in the Eye – Live Movie-Concert of Georges Méliès' Films

Georges Méliès is often described as the inventor of cinema. 

Cock, Cock... Who's There?

Cock, Cock... Who's There?

Cock, cock… Who’s there? is a multimedia, autobiographical documentary-cum-social experiment all about writer-performer Samira Elagoz’s relationship with men after being rape… 

Century Song

Century Song

A woman stands downstage right, a spotlight illuminating her from one side. 

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari

If you want a break from the theatre and live performances, if you want to try a calmer, different kind of show, this late-night screening of The Cabinet of Dr. 

Sleeping Trees at the Movies

Sleeping Trees at the Movies

The Sleeping Trees feel like the love child of Police Cops and Max and Ivan: high-paced, energetic character comedy with inventive visual effects and impressive teamwork. 

Comedian's Cinema Club: Beauty and the Beast

Comedian's Cinema Club: Beauty and the Beast

Film and comedy lovers alike will appreciate this increasingly popular show, led by an impressive group of comedians that changes every performance, along with the film they choo… 

BARRERA

BARRERA

Barrera is what a clown AA meeting would look like. 

National Theatre Live: Coriolanus

National Theatre Live: Coriolanus

For those who couldn’t get down to London to watch the brilliant Tom Hiddleston boast a magnificent Coriolanus at the National Theatre, the Fringe is hosting the next best thing … 

The Lady Vanishes

The Lady Vanishes

The Lady Vanishes is one of those shows that doesn’t fit into simple categories. 

4D Cinema

4D Cinema

In 1923, Marlene Dietrich made the transition from stage to cinema through a bit part in German silent comedy The Little Napoleon. 

4D Cinema

4D Cinema

Mamoru Iriguchi performs live, rigged up with a screen around his face and a projector above his head. 

This Is Always The Result

This Is Always The Result

Gus Watcham hurries onto the stage as Kathy, looking frazzled, determined and slightly deranged. 

That Deadly Noir Magic

That Deadly Noir Magic

The low peal of a jazz trumpet. 

Comedians' Cinema Club

Comedians' Cinema Club

No amount of advance research can prepare you for Comedians’ Cinema Club. 

Newt North

Newt North

Sometimes circumstances conspire to flummox a band’s gigging intentions: NeWt’s trombonist’s lip was injured and swollen, such that “I can’t play some of the notes the tunes need!”… 

Aidan Goatley's 10 Films With My Dad

Aidan Goatley's 10 Films With My Dad

It’s hard to find a better word to describe Aiden Goatley’s comedy than sweet-natured. 

Rent

Rent

A solid production of Rent that will entertain you for an evening but won’t remain with you. 

Simon Munnery's Fylm School

Simon Munnery's Fylm School

Simon Munnery believes that the camera should be used more in live performance, and the result is the fantastical world of his Fylm School. 

At the Crossroads

At the Crossroads

I was the only one watching this show, and what a mistake the hordes of people outside on Victoria Street made. 

Fringe Film Festival

Fringe Film Festival

C’s Fringe Film Festival is a smorgasbord of productions shuffled neatly into one come-and-go styled theatre. 

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