Edinburgh Film Festival Sets 2024 Competition Lineups And Events Including Gaspar Noé Masterclass
The revamped Edinburgh Film Festival will screen 37 new feature films, 18 of which will be world premieres during its 2024 edition, running August 15 – 21.
The full Edinburgh lineup was revealed this afternoon in the Scottish capital by the festival’s new director Paul Ridd, former head of acquisitions at Picturehouse. The festival’s international feature competition, now dubbed the Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence, will screen 10 films, all world premieres.
The competition titles include All The Mountains Give by Arash Rakhsha, Jack King’s powerful Yorkshire-set drama The Ceremony, and Mary Jiménez and Bénédicte Liénard’s Fuga. Scroll down for the full list.
The festival will screen 18 titles out of competition. The screenings will include the world premiere of Euros Lyn’s The Radleys starring Damian Lewis and Kelly Macdonald and Alice Lowe’s latest Timestalker. Popular titles from across the festival circuit like Camera D’Or Winner Armand featuring Renate Reinsve and Guan Hu’s Un Certain Regard Main Prize Winner Black Dog will also screen out of competition.
Alongside the Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence, the festival this year also launches the inaugural Thelma Schoonmaker Prize for Short Filmmaking Excellence Competition Shorts, curated by programmer and writer Lillian Crawford. Thelma Schoonmaker will also attend the festival and introduce a retrospective screening of Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell’s I Know Where I’m Going! (1945). Other retrospective screenings during the fest include Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables (1987), which will be presented by The Connery Foundation, and a 50th anniversary screening Phantom of the Paradise (1974).
Elsewhere, Gaspar Noé (Irreversible) will attend the festival for an “In Conversation” event where he will discuss his career and filmmaking, ahead of presenting a screening of Dario Argento’s giallo masterpiece Suspiria (1977).
“I am thrilled by what the team, our collaborators, and our supporters have put together these past months for all sections of the programme and across our exciting new festival footprint,” Ridd said this morning of his 2024 edition. “Through a spirit of collaboration, passion, and above all teamwork, we have worked to fashion something special out of a shared vision for what we want this historic festival to be going forward, and to offer a platform to an enormous range of film work.”
Ridd added the can’t wait to see this year’s “formally exciting, thematically rich and unforgettable films to find their audience” at Edinburgh.
“Bring it on,” he added.
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The Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence
LILIES NOT FOR ME (Will Seefried, US) World Premiere
Told through elegant flashbacks, two men wrestle with their sexuality in the repressive English society of the 1920s. Exploring a neglected period in queer history, this drama is defined by a haunting mix of romanticism and unflinching honesty.
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