Tag: Edinburgh International Film Festival

Rampling repeats Berlin success

The Edinburgh Film Festival has honored Berlin nominee 45 Years with its Best British Feature Film award, and honoured its lead actress Charlotte Rampling as one of two Best Performances in a British Feature Film. The jury said 45 Years – a drama about a couple approaching their forty fifth wedding anniversary – was a […]

A Film Festival in a Day, at Edinburgh 2014

Every film festival has its own identity and they’re all about so much more than just watching films. From industry seminars to networking events and awards ceremonies, festivals across the world provide days of activities for everyone from film-makers and journalists to, in most cases, members of the public too. But even the most discerning […]

Best of British film honoured in Edinburgh

The London-based writer-director Joanna Coates and her husband, co-writer and producer Daniel Metz have won the £20,000 Michael Powell Award for the Best British Feature FIlm at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, for a film that was so low budget, Metz says it cost less than the prize money to make. Hide and Seek, about […]

Documentaries reign at the Edinburgh Film Festival

Highlighting the increasing prominence of international co-productions, the 67th Edinburgh International Film Festival has awarded it’s Best International Film prize to a UK-based film-maker, while the Best British Film went to a French director who shot her film in the seas off North America, admittedly with a British co-director. The Best British Film went to […]