Edinburgh film festival to return this summer after shock closure

Scaled down version will run alongside Edinburgh’s other arts festivals, while panel considers reviving standalone event from 2024 on

The Edinburgh international film festival is to return later this year in a scaled-down form after the shock announcement of its closure in October 2022 when Centre for the Moving Image, operator of both the festival and Edinburgh’s Filmhouse cinema chain, went into administration.

The festival announced that it had joined with the Edinburgh international festival, the large-scale summer event renowned for its theatre, comedy and musical performances, to present a “compact selection of films” in “a hand-picked programme” designed to “celebrate the work of exceptional local and global film-makers”.