The Edinburgh International Film Festival 2008 runs from Wednesday 18th June until Sunday 29th June 2008.

BFFS Scotland will be out and about viewing, reviewing and listening in to all the key film news throughout the festival so check back here often as we'll be updating the page every day!

Reviews

• The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins - documentary following a self indulgent artist dead set on adopting in a country where legal adoption doesn't exist... 
• Bigga Than Ben: A Russian's Guide to Ripping Off London - two Russian twenty-somethings scam their way round the darker side of London
• The Flyer - beautifully crafted short about a young Polish Woman in Edinburgh

• Good Dick - a porn fan and the clerk who she rents the films from start an uneasy relationship

• Pageant - documentary following 5 fabulous female impersonators in their bid to be Miss Gay USA
• Summer Hours (L'Heure d'été) - when the formidable matriach dies, 3 siblings must work out how to deal with their inheritance
• The Visitor - a jaded academic find he has two illegal squattors who shift his worldview...

Reviews Coming Soon

• Emmanual Jal Warchild - documentary on the past of this world music star and former child soldior
• Idiots & Angels - latest film from Bill Plympton considering how you reform the least angelic of people
• McLaren Animation 2 - some of the very best new UK animation
• The King of Ping Pong - power hungry preteen finds his ping pong universe destroyed (but love?!) as family secrets are revealed
• Three Miles North of Molkom - documentary of a particularly hippier than thou festival in Sweden
• A Complete History of My Sexual Failures - one man, many ex-girlfriends and much pained hilarity in this insanely honest documentary
• Vogelfrei - 4 directors form the story of one mans life
• Gloss: The Directors Cut - cynical Russian glossy magazine fairytale
• Standard Operating Procedure - Errol Morris in depth look at the Abu Grahib pictures and the soldiors that took them
• Angels in the Dust - An eccentric millionnaire sells up to look after children with AIDS in this puzzling documentary
• sleep furiously - A very sleepy welsh town is profiled in this slow moving documentary
• Trouble Sleeping - Powerful picture of the internal tensions of Muslim immigrants in Edinburgh
• Death Defying Acts - delightful glossy feature revolving around Houdini, a psychic and her talented daughter.
• Encounters at the End of the World - Wernor Herzog goes to the antarctic and finds travellers, amobae and suicidal penguins...
• Let the Right One In - a young boy and a young vampire girl become friends in this quirky romantic horror
• The Black Balloon - a warm funny film about a teenage boy struggles with his  older autisic brother
• To See if I'm Smiling - devastating first hand female accounts of Israeli national service and the young army's conduct towards Palestinians.
• Faintheart - A dedicated battle reenactor tries to win back his wife in this gentle geek comedy
• Man on Wire - documentary of Phillipe Petit's weird true mission to tightrope walk between the Twin Towers just after they were built...
• Summer - a sad beautiful exploration of love, friendship and the haunting memories of summer
• The Princess of Nebraska - young woman from Beijing has to decide whether or not to have an abortion
• Dreams with Sharp Teeth - notorious scriptwriter Harlon Ellison tells his best stories which proove to be brilliant
• WALL*E - a last little robot on Earth finds his stable existance of tidying and watching musicals disrupted by a new arrival..
• Made in Queens - pimp my bicycle: the short film
• The Ladies - two old seamstresses quibble and look after each other in this quirky short
• Hot Dog - a wee dog desperately dreams of joining the Fire Brigade in this Bill Plympton short
• The Man with the Electric Boots - a bizarre intriguing short about... well the title says it all...
• Hamdi and Maria - devastating short about the human price of politics in the middle east
• Smalltown Boy - documentary short about a teenage drag queen
• Out of Print - a tiny cinematic ode to the thrill of the chase!
• The New Ten Commandments - a uniquely Scottish perspective on the Universal Declaration of Human RIghts

EIFF TV: Highlights from EIFF 2008