![]() Babak Jalali | USA | A stylish deadpan dramedy about an insomniac Afghan woman unable to dream the American dream. ![]() From the lopsided charm of Louis McCartney’s Dondo, to Ella Lily Hyland’s turn as crisp-chomping Sas, to Hannah Peel’s soaring score, Silent Roar from debut feature filmmaker, Johnny Barrington is a film infused with mystic charisma.ĬLOSING NIGHT: FREMONT | Dir. Johnny Barrington | World Premiere | UK | A teenage tale of surfing, sex and hellfire set in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. Designed for an eclectic spectrum of film fans, and defined by a love of independent cinema, this compact programme shines a light on new talent, and offers a smashing six-day journey for the EIFF’s passionate audiences.” Taylor took over the post from Kristy Matheson, who is now heading the BFI’s LFF.ĭiscussing her first edition, Taylor said: “With this year’s vivid film selection the EIFF programme team has favoured the bold, drawn to filmmakers with searching perspectives and style to burn. This year’s event is the first organized by the new Programme Director, Kate Taylor. The festival will also host a retrospective screening of Shane Meadows’ Dead Man’s Shoes, which had its World Premiere at EIFF in 2004. In December, Screen Scotland, a national funding body, announced that it had acquired the intellectual property rights to the festival.Įlsewhere, the festival will host an American independent cinema retrospective featuring four films made by “rebellious filmmaking” voices in the 1980s and 1990s. The cinema and the festival both closed down when their owner, the Centre for the Moving Image (CMI) appointed administrators late last year. Edinburgh had previously been based out of the Edinburgh Filmhouse cinema, which was sold to a commercial operator earlier this year.
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