It may be the most famous and biggest movie event in the world, but the Cannes Film Festival, which runs from May 16 to 27, will provide little celluloid for Edinburgh’s own festival next month.
Indeed, for Chris Fujiwara, the artistic director currently putting the final touches to his first Edinburgh International Film Festival, this year’s programme, the 66th, is almost done and unlikely to be changed now.
Launched later this month, the EIFF 2012 – in a delicate but interesting process of recovery after a near-fatal 2011 – already has its opening gala booked, William Friedkin’s Killer Joe, its closing gala, Brave, the Disney-Pixar cartoon, and its retrospective, the works of Japanese director Shinji Somai. Between these tent-poles hangs a “solid programme”, Fujiwara says, speaking to The Herald down the line from South Korea.
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