The Edinburgh International Film Festival is the world's oldest continually running film festival. In 2008 it moved to June, while retaining its wide programme, including international premières and retrospectives on show at the Edinburgh Filmhouse.
The festival started in 1947 alongside the Edinburgh International Festival and the spontaneous start of the Edinburgh Fringe and in 2007, in common with its fellow festivals, it celebrated its 60th birthday with a new director.
In its early years the festival presented premières of Flaherty's Louisiana Story and Rossellini's Germany Year Zero. The organisers have pulled off other impressive premières too - Spielberg's ET and a number of Woody Allen films being among the blockbusters first screened here.
New features added in recent years include a world premières section, Rosebud, and a major new film study section, Scene by Scene, whose guests have included Steve Martin and the Coen Brothers. The festival's organisers can now rightly claim that the event is as important a diary date for cinema-lovers and makers as its Cannes and Berlin counterparts. This view is confirmed by none other than Maltese Falcon director John Huston, who called Edinburgh "the only film festival...worth a damn." True to this status, the festival acts as a deal-making forum for the British film industry, organising a series of events under the Film UK umbrella.
Details for the now-earlier annual festival are announced in early May, so keep an eye on the Edinburgh Film Festival website for all the breaking news.
In its early years the festival presented premières of Flaherty's Louisiana Story and Rossellini's Germany Year Zero. The organisers have pulled off other impressive premières too - Spielberg's ET and a number of Woody Allen films being among the blockbusters first screened here.
New features added in recent years include a world premières section, Rosebud, and a major new film study section, Scene by Scene, whose guests have included Steve Martin and the Coen Brothers. The festival's organisers can now rightly claim that the event is as important a diary date for cinema-lovers and makers as its Cannes and Berlin counterparts. This view is confirmed by none other than Maltese Falcon director John Huston, who called Edinburgh "the only film festival...worth a damn." True to this status, the festival acts as a deal-making forum for the British film industry, organising a series of events under the Film UK umbrella.
Details for the now-earlier annual festival are announced in early May, so keep an eye on the Edinburgh Film Festival website for all the breaking news.
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