Edinburgh International Film Festival Interest List 2019
by Col Needham | created - 05 Jun 2019 | updated - 10 Apr 2020 | PublicHere are the films which I am most excited about seeing at The Edinburgh International Film Festival 2019. The list is in alphabetical order by English title.
The ones I see will be moved to my Edinburgh International Film Festival 2019 List.
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1. Get Duked! (2019)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Horror, Music
An anarchic, hip-hop inspired comedy that follows four city boys on a wilderness trek as they try to escape a mysterious huntsman.
Director: Ninian Doff | Stars: Lewis Gribben, Rian Gordon, Viraj Juneja, Jonathan Aris
Votes: 8,596
2. Acute Misfortune (2018)
Unrated | 91 min | Biography, Drama
The Film adaptation of Erik Jensen's award-winning biography of Adam Cullen is the story of the biographer and his subject, as it descends into a dependent and abusive relationship.
Director: Thomas M. Wright | Stars: Daniel Henshall, Toby Wallace, Gillian Jones, Robyne Spicer
Votes: 301
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3. Aleksi (2018)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Aleksi is a disaffected 28-year-old who ignores her pressing responsibilities by following her impulses with various men.
Director: Barbara Vekaric | Stars: Tihana Lazovic, Goran Markovic, Sebastian Cavazza, Jason Mann
Votes: 781
4. Aniara (2018)
R | 106 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A spaceship carrying settlers to Mars is knocked off course, causing the consumption-obsessed passengers to consider their place in the universe.
Directors: Pella Kagerman, Hugo Lilja | Stars: Emelie Garbers, Bianca Cruzeiro, Arvin Kananian, Anneli Martini
Votes: 11,894 | Gross: $0.04M
5. Aurora (I) (2019)
106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Aurora, a commitment-phobic party animal, meets Iranian Darian one night at a hot-dog stand in Lapland. Darian is running from death and Aurora is running from love. They need each other in order to finally stop running.
Director: Miia Tervo | Stars: Mimosa Willamo, Amir Escandari, Elá Yildirim, Oona Airola
Votes: 1,854
6. Before You Know It (2019)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
A pair of sisters find out that the mother they thought was dead is alive and starring on a soap opera.
Director: Hannah Pearl Utt | Stars: Hannah Pearl Utt, Ayden Mayeri, Oona Yaffe, Jen Tullock
Votes: 807 | Gross: $0.09M
7. Bodies at Rest (2019)
94 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Working in the morgue, a hardworking forensics expert and his assistant are suddenly accosted by masked intruders who demand access to a body involved in a recent crime.
Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Nick Cheung, Richie Jen, Zi Yang, Carlos Chan
Votes: 982
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8. Bulbul Can Sing (2018)
95 min | Drama
Exploring their sexual identities in the face of the patriarchal rules of their Assamese village, a teenager and her two friends are rocked by tragedy.
Director: Rima Das | Stars: Pakija Begam, Arnali Das, Manoranjan Das, Bonita Thakuriya
Votes: 461
9. Chippa (2019)
90 min | Drama
On the eve of his tenth birthday, when Chippa receives a letter for his long-absent father, he decides to leave his pavement abode to find out more.
Director: Safdar Rahman | Stars: Sunny Pawar, Mala Mukherjee, Surojit, Dilip
Votes: 1,188
10. The Deposit (2019)
90 min | Drama
Self-interest is at stake, and the fine line between kindness and cruelty is explored in Ásthildur Kjartansdóttir's graceful debut. Gisella dreams about writing important things, genuine ... See full summary »
Director: Ásthildur Kjartansdóttir | Stars: Elma Lísa Gunnarsdóttir, Enid Mbabazi, Raffaella Brizuela Sigurðardóttir, Claire Harpa Kristinsdóttir
Votes: 67
11. Cronofobia (2018)
93 min | Drama, Thriller
A mysterious lonely man and a young rebel woman, confront each other in a psychological drama about suspended identity.
Director: Francesco Rizzi | Stars: Vinicio Marchioni, Sabine Timoteo, Leonardo Nigro, Giorgia Salari
Votes: 199
12. The Emperor of Paris (2018)
TV-MA | 120 min | Adventure, Crime, History
Vidocq escapes captivity in 1805; years later he's a fabric merchant in Paris under an alias. He makes a deal of amnesty for catching criminals. He builds an efficient team of ex-cons to catch or kill them.
Director: Jean-François Richet | Stars: Vincent Cassel, Patrick Chesnais, August Diehl, Olga Kurylenko
Votes: 6,130
13. End of Sentence (2019)
96 min | Adventure, Drama
After being widowed, Frank Fogle reluctantly embarks on a journey to honor his wife's last wish of spreading her ashes in a remote lake in her native Ireland and a promise of taking his ... See full summary »
Director: Elfar Adalsteins | Stars: John Hawkes, Logan Lerman, Sarah Bolger, Andrea Irvine
Votes: 4,547
14. The Fall of the American Empire (2018)
R | 127 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A shy and insecure delivery truck driver accidentally arrives on the scene of a major crime and picks up two bags of cash and hides them. Only the help of a prostitute and a former biker released from jail might get him out of trouble.
Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Alexandre Landry, Maripier Morin, Rémy Girard, Louis Morissette
Votes: 4,269 | Gross: $2.18M
15. The Flip Side (2018)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
Australian madness via the visitors-from-hell mixed with love, lust and a bloody good shiraz.
Director: Marion Pilowsky | Stars: Eddie Izzard, Vanessa Guide, Hugh Sheridan, Tina Bursill
Votes: 210
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16. Go Back to China (2019)
TV-14 | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
When spoiled rich girl Sasha Li blows through most of her trust fund, she is cut off by her father and forced to go back to China and work for the family toy business.
Director: Emily Ting | Stars: Anna Akana, Richard Ng, Lynn Chen, Kelly Hu
Votes: 1,208
17. Gospod postoi, imeto i' e Petrunija (2019)
100 min | Drama
A Macedonian woman throws herself into a traditionally men-only ceremony, kicking up a ruckus and standing her ground.
Director: Teona Strugar Mitevska | Stars: Zorica Nusheva, Labina Mitevska, Stefan Vujisic, Suad Begovski
Votes: 2,545
18. The Grizzlies (2018)
R | 102 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
In a small Arctic town struggling with the highest suicide rate in North America, a group of Inuit students' lives are transformed when they are introduced to the sport of lacrosse.
Director: Miranda de Pencier | Stars: Jack Anawak, Fred Bailey, Seth Burke, Mary Buscemi
Votes: 2,679
19. How to Fake a War (2019)
84 min | Comedy
When an outbreak of peace threatens rock star Harry Hope's charity concert, he dispatches his PR consultant to create a fake war story - until the concert, at least.
Director: Rudolph Herzog | Stars: Katherine Parkinson, Hannah Jewell, Volker Zack, Jay Pharoah
Votes: 392
20. Liberté (2019)
Not Rated | 138 min | Drama, History
Madame de Dumeval, the Duke de Tesis and the Duke de Wand, libertines expelled from the court of Louis XVI, seek the support of the Duc de Walchen, German seducer and freethinker, lonely in a country where hypocrisy and false virtue reign.
Director: Albert Serra | Stars: Helmut Berger, Marc Susini, Iliana Zabeth, Laura Poulvet
Votes: 1,396
21. Love Type D (2019)
95 min | Comedy
A woman who has been dumped eleven times in a row, discovers (to her dismay) that she has a loser in love gene.
Director: Sasha Collington | Stars: Maeve Dermody, Rory Stroud, Oliver Farnworth, Tovah Feldshuh
Votes: 494
22. Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary, Biography, History
An in-depth voyage into the sci-fi film Alien (1979) with the visionary filmmakers who created it. See how one of the most terrifying movies of all time came to life 40 years ago, inspired by ancient mythology and our universal fears.
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe | Stars: Clarke Wolfe, Nicholas Cull, William Linn, Dan O'Bannon
Votes: 3,478 | Gross: $0.03M
23. The Mystery of Henri Pick (2019)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
An editor discovers a novel that she considers to be a masterpiece in a library whose particularity is to collect the manuscripts refused by publishers. The text is signed "Henri Pick", a Breton pizza-maker who died two years earlier.
Director: Rémi Bezançon | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Camille Cottin, Alice Isaaz, Bastien Bouillon
Votes: 4,781
24. Ode to Joy (I) (2019)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
Charlie has a neurological disorder in which strong emotions, especially joy, make him faint. He lives with his brother. Working as librarian gives him a quiet environment, but then Francesca enters the library and his life.
Director: Jason Winer | Stars: Martin Freeman, Morena Baccarin, Jake Lacy, Melissa Rauch
Votes: 6,723 | Gross: $0.02M
25. Robert the Bruce (2019)
TV-14 | 124 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of the nobleman-turned-outlaw hero who was crowned king of Scots in the 14th century.
Director: Richard Gray | Stars: Angus Macfadyen, Diarmaid Murtagh, Jared Harris, Stephen Murphy
Votes: 4,879
26. She's Missing (2019)
100 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
When her best friend goes missing at a rodeo, Heidi goes on a search across the desert, digging up secrets and encountering the violence of life on the road.
Director: Alexandra McGuinness | Stars: Lucy Fry, Eiza González, Christian Camargo, Josh Hartnett
Votes: 432
27. Sons of Denmark (2019)
Not Rated | 123 min | Drama, Thriller
Denmark four years into the future. After a major bomb attack in Copenhagen radicalization and ethnic tensions are running high, and a racist leader is leading the polls.19-year old Zakaria is afraid, wanting to do something.
Director: Ulaa Salim | Stars: Zaki Youssef, Mohammed Ismail Mohammed, Rasmus Bjerg, Imad Abul-Foul
Votes: 1,890
28. Synonyms (2019)
Unrated | 123 min | Comedy, Drama
A young Israeli man absconds to Paris to flee his nationality, aided by his trusty Franco-Israeli dictionary.
Director: Nadav Lapid | Stars: Tom Mercier, Quentin Dolmaire, Louise Chevillotte, Uria Hayik
Votes: 6,291
29. The Tobacconist (2018)
117 min | Drama, History, War
Based on the international bestseller by Robert Seethaler. A tender, heart-breaking story about one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna....
Director: Nikolaus Leytner | Stars: Simon Morzé, Bruno Ganz, Johannes Krisch, Emma Drogunova
Votes: 2,002
30. Undertow (I) (2018)
TV-MA | 96 min | Drama, Thriller
Struggling to accept the loss of her baby, Claire becomes suspicious of her husband's relationship with a feisty young woman, Angie.
Director: Miranda Nation | Stars: Laura Gordon, Olivia DeJonge, Rob Collins, Josh Helman
Votes: 348
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31. We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Merricat, Constance and their Uncle Julian live in isolation after experiencing a family tragedy six years earlier. When cousin Charles arrives to steal the family fortune, he also threatens a dark secret they've been hiding.
Director: Stacie Passon | Stars: Taissa Farmiga, Alexandra Daddario, Crispin Glover, Sebastian Stan
Votes: 9,529 | Gross: $7.67M
32. Justine (II) (2019)
TV-MA | 106 min | Drama
The film follows Lisa Wade, a single mom who is forced to move in with her father-in-law after the death of her husband. She takes a job as a caretaker to Justine, a young girl with spina ... See full summary »
Director: Stephanie Turner | Stars: Stephanie Turner, Glynn Turman, Daisy Prescott, Darby Stanchfield
Votes: 872
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