Prime time for Gayle Rankin with The Incomer at Edinburgh International Film Festival and Jean Brodie on stage

With The Incomer at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and Miss Jean Brodie in the National Theatre of Scotland’s revival, the star of Cabaret on Broadway and House of the Dragon talks about life in America, finding her characters and how the political extremism of the 1930s is being replicated today

The 11th Black Star International Film Festival will explore four key pillars under its 2026 theme, ‘Film & Global Culture: The New Wave of African Cinema’.

The new initiative aims to emulate the success of recent Irish-language films.

The WIBFF remains committed to building bridges between Africa and the global Black community.

This year’s festival is superpowered by a strong year for Scottish cinema, showing it can thrive under the ‘four dimensional perpetual catch-22’ of global ambitions Now that its disastrous collapse and speedy rebirth is a trauma slowly receding in the rear-view mirror, the Edinburgh international film festival can set

Two years ago, Edinburgh Intl. Film Festival was talking rebuild. Now it can start talking momentum. The world’s longest continually running film festival opens its 79th edition Thursday with 38 new feature presentations, 21 world premieres, a pumping 30th-anniversary celebration of “Trainspotting,” Ewan McGregor, Kenn

This year’s Busan International Film Festival has named Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui as the recipient of the Camellia Award, presented to filmmakers who have made significant contributions to elevating the status of women in the film industry. Hui was a leading figure in the Hong Kong New Wave as a director, screenwrite