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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024: Steppenwolf, by Simon Read

Kazakh filmmaker Adilkhan Yerzhanov‘s thriller Steppenwolf is an unflinching homage to classic Western and Samurai films, set in the dystopic scrublands of the Kazakh Steppe. The story concerns a woman named Tamara, (Anna Starchenko) whose son has been abducted by...

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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024: Timestalker, by Simon Read

Alice Lowe is no stranger to the Edinburgh Festival scene. I first saw her performing alongside Richard Ayoade and Matthew Holness in the Fringe stage show of Garth Marenghi’s Fright Knight in the year 2000, when I was a sixteen-year-old...

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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024: Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust, by Simon Read

Adapted from his short film of the same name, Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust, marks the feature debut oftalented graphic artist Ishan Shukla. While there is a lot to admire in its innovatve craft and graphic design – it is...

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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024: Bogancloch, by Simon Read

Director Ben Rivers revisits the subject of his 2011 documentary Two Years at Sea, featuring the forest-dwelling hermit Jake Williams. Williams lives a relatively solitary existence in a forested area in the highlands of Scotland known asBogancloch, and the film...

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