MOON
The jury have decided upon the winners of Edinburgh International Film Festivals. Once again the britspotting team had the right nose when presenting several of this year’s winning features and short films in the twelve competition categories…
MOON directed by David Bowie’s son, Duncan Jones, scooped the Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film. MOON [...]

MY LAST FIVE GIRLFRIENDS
The answer to the question ‘what factors contribute to the demise or survival of a modern relationship’ might be given in Julian Kemp’s new film MY LAST FIVE GIRLFRIENDS. It will be screened tomorrow at 7.45 pm at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (2nd Screening: 26th of june 4.30 pm).
The centre of [...]

LITTLE RED HOODIE
Short film fans watch out! In this year’s programme at the Edinburgh International Film Festival there are again excellent british and irish short films from all genres. Amongst the filmmakers are also many former britspotting participants.
In competition for the McLaren Award for British Animation (worth £ 1000) are amongst others Matthew Walker (ASTRONAUTS, [...]

KICKS
What happens when fandom turns into obsession was depicted vividly at the Edinburgh International Film Festival yesterday.
In Linda Heymanns second feature film KICKS, two girls want the keep their favourite football star from leaving the club to transfer to Spain. They are so obsessed with getting near him that they try track him down and [...]

WIDE OPEN SPACES
Friends of Irish Film, save the date! Tomorrow (Saturday) Tom Hall will present his new film WIDE OPEN SPACES as a world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (7pm, second screening: 21 June, 2:15pm).
The comedy will be screened as part of the Rosebud discovery strand where first and second time features of [...]