EIFF

A feature length River City with cartoon characters and obnoxious saxophones.

Showcasing three new acts at different stages of their career, gently posing a question of success, but does little more.

Documentary about former chess champion is far more exciting than you might otherwise imagine.

Making of a Legend will be a coarse watch for even the most hardened of Marley admirers. 

Irish adventure that matches heart with humour.

British film with a real sense of character, though not quite cinematic enough for it's own good.

When Marta returns home to find her partner has just sold her young daughter to the mafia as a prostitute, she realizes there is nothing for it but to run. Leaving behind Belarus with nothing but the shirt on her back, her daughter and next to nothing in the way of hope, the pair illegally travel to Sweden and are forced into government accommodation to undergo the systems and processes of immigration. It is here that we meet a whole host of characters, each paranoid and desperate to find their own place away from that which has forsaken 

The Bang Bang Club

As a film interpretation of a book of the same name, it retells the fictionalised account of combat photographers thrust into the frontline as South Africa is on the brink of collapse - 

An important documentary that's one of the most endearing in this year's EIFF selection.

Ewan McGregor (Michael) and Eva Green (Susan) star in this startling love story set within a world that's being subjected to an uncontrollable epidemic where the infected are losing each of their senses.