The Edinburgh International Film Festival, the longest continuously running film festival in the world, moves to a new fortnight long run in June. Traditionally the EIFF has taken place in August, at the same time as the other August festivals.

Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, and Matthew Rhys are expected to be here for this year's Opening Film, the Dylan Thomas biopic The Edge of Love, as are many of the people behind the Closing film, MySpace user-led movie Faintheart.

The EIFF includes:

• 142 feature films from 29 countries
  
• documentaries by masters such as Erroll Morris and Werner Herzog
• kitsch and gore in the Under the Radar strand
• New pop and promo flicks in Mirrorball
• Retrospective of French screen siren Jeanne Moreau
  
• Retrospective of actress and choreographer Shirley Clarke
  
• Film Festival Under the Stars - free outdoor screenings
• In person events with filmmakers
  

Tickets
Tickets for the EIFF programme go on sale at noon on 9 May. Get them online or by phone. The In Person events go quickly. The Best of the Fest, at the end of the festival, has been a great deal in previous years - see 2007's Best of Fest.