Edinburgh International Film Festival 2021
Here are the films I have seen from The Edinburgh International Film Festival 2021 in chronological viewing order. Films #1 to #3 were seen ahead of the festival and #4 onwards at the festival itself (from home vs. in-person again).
Titles are fed from my Edinburgh International Film Festival Interest List 2021.
Titles are fed from my Edinburgh International Film Festival Interest List 2021.
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- DirectorHarri ShanahanSiân A. WilliamsStarsIndigo AzidahakaKaren FischREBEL DYKES is a full-length documentary about the explosion that happened when punk met feminism, told through the lives of a gang of lesbians in the riotous London of the 1980s.
- DirectorYngvild Sve FlikkeStarsKristine Kujath ThorpArthur BerningNader KhademiAstronaut, forest-keeper, cartoonist. Young Rakel has a whole lot of other plans than becoming a mother. She would rather party, get drunk or stoned instead of sitting hours on the toilet. But she can't ignore it. Is it her or the baby?
- DirectorMichael SarnoskiStarsNicolas CageAlex WolffAdam ArkinA truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregon wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.
- DirectorCindy JansenA look at the life of Lawrence MacEwen who has farmed the Isle of Muck since the 1960s.
- DirectorShannon WalshApp developers lured a massive labor force by promising flexible hours with no offices or bosses-but with gig workers from Uber, Amazon, Lyft and more in front of the camera, the human cost of disruption runs deep.
- DirectorHaider RashidStarsAdam AliSvetlana YanchevaPietro CicirielloKamal has fled Iraq to try to enter "Fortress Europe". At the Turkish-Bulgarian border, local mercenaries are ruthlessly hunting down migrants. Alone in the forest, Kamal has three days to escape.
- DirectorRuth MeehanStarsGemma-Leah DevereuxSiobhán CullenKaren EganA stand-up comedian's life changes when she is diagnosed with breast cancer.
- DirectorRuth PlattStarsKiera ThompsonDenise GoughSienna SayerLeah, 10, lives in a large vicarage, full of lost souls and the needy. In the day the house is bustling with people; at night it is dark, empty, a space for Leah's nightmares to creep into. A small, nightly visitor brings Leah comfort, but soon she will realise that her little visitor offers knowledge that might be very, very dangerous.
- DirectorQuentin DupieuxStarsGrégoire LudigDavid MarsaisAdèle ExarchopoulosWhen simple-minded friends Jean-Gab and Manu find a giant fly trapped in the boot of a car, they decide to train it in the hope of making a ton of cash.
- DirectorGaysorn ThavatStarsEssie DavisThomasin McKenzieLively NiliA triumph over adversity tale about women fighting their way back from the bottom of society.
- DirectorPhil TippettStarsAlex CoxNiketa RomanSatish RatakondaThe Assassin travels through a nightmare underworld of tortured souls, ruined cities and wretched monstrosities forged from the primordial horrors of the unconscious mind of Phil Tippett, the world's preeminent stop-motion animator.
- DirectorRyan BraundStarsNick EriksenJeremy J. Smith-SebastoHarry DyerFollows a genius programmer who sacrifices everything in his personal and professional life to build a supercomputer of unprecedented power.
- DirectorKateryna GornostaiStarsMaria FedorchenkoArsenii MarkovYana IsaienkoNavigating the emotional turmoil of waiting for life to begin while hanging around with classmates - a radical, authentic, and sensitive insight into the unsettling feeling of being young and an inside perspective on Ukrainian youth.
- DirectorJennifer NgoFaceless takes us to the frontline of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong to meet four such young people.
- DirectorFirouzeh KhosrovaniStarsFarahnaz SharifiHossein KhosrovaniTayi"Mother married a photo of Father," says director Firouzeh Khosrovani in the opening of this deeply personal documentary. She's not speaking metaphorically though. Her mother Tayi literally married a portrait of Hossein in Teheran -he was in Switzerland studying radiology and was unable to travel back to his homeland for the wedding. The event illustrates the abyss that still exists in their marriage: Hossein is a secular progressive and Tayi a devout, traditional Muslim. But this family history is also a sort of x-ray, laying bare the conflicts of Iranian society in the run-up to, and aftermath of the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Besides Khosrovani's commentary, we hear letters being read aloud and recollections of conversations between her parents. At the same time, we see photographs and videos from the family archive. These fragments of intimacy are interspersed with stylized shots of the filmmaker's parental home, its decor and furnishings subtly reflecting each new phase in her parents' marriage-and in Iranian society. Credit: IDFA 2020.
- DirectorRichie AdamsStarsHermione CorfieldWill FletcherMark GatissA young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy befalls her.
- DirectorDavid BrucknerStarsRebecca HallSarah GoldbergVondie Curtis-HallA widow begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.
- DirectorChloé MazloStarsAlba RohrwacherWajdi MouawadIsabelle ZighondiIn the 1950s, Alice leaves her Swiss homeland for Lebanon. There, the best years of her life are marred by the threat of war.
- DirectorMaryam MoghadamBehtash SanaeehaStarsMaryam MoghadamAlireza Sani FarPourya Rahimi SamMina's life is turned upside down when she learns that her husband was innocent of the crime for which he was executed, so she starts a silent battle against a cynical system for her own and her daughter's sake.
- DirectorBilly CrystalStarsBilly CrystalChad JenningsDierdre FrielWhen veteran comedy writer Charlie Burnz meets New York street singer Emma Payge, they form an unlikely yet hilarious and touching friendship that kicks the generation gap aside and redefines the meaning of love and trust.