Few cities undergo such a transformation as Scotland's capital city in the month of August.

The normally easy-going, historic city suddenly jolts to life as thousands of actors, artists,

The Edinburgh Filmhouse is showcasing eight films from the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival between 1 and 28 August.

Here the the award-winners of the Edinburgh Film Festival 2008.

EIFF Awards night blog

The Edinburgh International Film Festival today confirmed that actor Robert Carlyle has accepted the role of Festival Patron

Completely against my predictions (I plumped for Duane Hopkins Better Things), the prolific and ever popular Shane Meadows (having come close once before) wins the Michael

I have it on very good authority that to include the words 'Mae West' and 'Smelly Feet' into my blog and its title will ensure it thousands of hits in a matter of seconds so let's call this particular blog entry a social experiment. Now let's just skip that madness and get back to the real biscuit in hand - the very last official day

EIFF Blog - Day 10. I racked up another Michael Powell Award contender last night in the shape of Matthew Thompson's debut feature Dummy.

A quick update. Since scribing a few words back there in my last blog on Better Things, I ought to tell you that I also saw Helen, also in contention for the Michael Powell award and Wall-E

Well I have an hour to kill so I might as well kill it with a wee update. I'm racing now to finish seeing all the Michael Powell award contenders before the winner is announced

Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in), showing at the EIFF, is a film which it is difficult to get a handle on initially – as difficult as finding a pulse on a vampire, we might say.

Where do the boundaries of obscenty lie for you? Consider a few possibilities:

1. D H Lawrence, with Lady Chatterley's Lover

The Cool World, showing at the Edinburgh International Film Festival as part of the Shirley Clarke retrospective, is a film that takes a bit of getting used to. We open with a literally in your face close-up shot of a black preacher spreading the word that God is black, the devil is white and that white hell / babylon is about to fall

It's Day 8 of the Edinburgh Film Festival and time for another blog around the block. Yesterday proved to be a more fruitful venture with two great films in a row and a rain sodden rooftop party for the festival to thank Scottish Screen (the government funded agency for film in Scotland) for its continued support