A fishy Pixar sequel, Trainspotting, Highlander and opening and closing Scottish films mark this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival programme.

In his second year at the helm of the festival, which celebrates its 70th edition in 2016, director Mark Adams has included a raft of Scottish films as well as Finding Dory, the sequel to the popular Finding Nemo.

The festival will run between June 15 and 26 this year and will include 22 world premieres, five international premieres, 17 European premieres and 84 UK premieres.

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Actress Kim Cattrall and cult movie maker Kevin Smith will also be in conversation at the festival.

The celebrations will open with Jason Connery's drama Tommy's Honour, set in the 19th century world of golf, and close with the remake of Whisky Galore! by Gillies MacKinnon.

Mr Adams said: "They are both very different films but both made with a sense of passion.

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"There is a real sense of Scottishness as well.

"There is a wonderful history to golf, but it is not really about that, it is about a father and son (Jack Lowden playing Tom Morris, Peter Mullan as Old Tom Morris) and it is very funny too.

"I am sure the golfing community will be interested."

He added: "I am pleased there are so many Scottish films, or films by Scots."

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Mr Adams said that he believes there is great talent in the Scottish movie world but it needs a new "breakout" success and a film studio to succeed long-term as a well as a stronger sense of "community".

He said: "You see the amount of films that come through, and there is a sense that there is a lot of good films being made, there is great talent there, both behind the camera and in front of it - there are some great actors coming through. The films are well made, there's some great composers.

"What you always fear is that they will drift away, they will follow it somewhere else, and I think actually if there was a real stronger sense of community, and people sharing much more, it could only benefit.

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"You do need to have a few [films] to break out, for a few actors to hit the zeitgeist at the same time, and it can spiral away.

"A studio of course is going to help that. But it's not just one thing, lots of things need to happen.

"The danger is losing it, if people drift away. It's there to be done, it's there to be achieved.

"When Trainspotting 2 comes out, that spotlight will really shine again on Scotland."

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On Finding Dory, he said: "The relationship we have with Disney is wonderful and the film has not been reviewed anywhere yet.

"It's wonderful. I haven't seen the finished version - I don't think it is even finished - but one trusts Disney to create something wonderful.

"We are showing Finding Nemo in the free screenings in the square too."

He said he hoped some members of the second Trainspotting film would be able to attend the showing of the restored original Trainspotting movie from 1996.

The cast of the first film are currently shooting the sequel with director Danny Boyle in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

"It was such an important film and it opened so many doors. We never know, with people shooting, their schedule is so crazy, whether they will come along," he said.

The director said the opening and closing Scottish films had fallen into place.

Mr Adams said: "I don't think there was a conscious effort to open and close with Scottish films - but we did it last year as well. We were aware of these films being shot some time ago but film production, you never known when they are going to be finished, there are other dynamics at play.

"It just so happened that the producers of Tommy's Honour and Whisky Galore wanted to use Edinburgh as the right platform.

"They haven't been shown and they are really fresh. It's exciting."

Elsewhere in the festival, E.T: The Extra Terrestrial will be shown, with John Williams’ score performed live by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra at the Festival Theatre.

The Best of British strand includes David Blair’s "heart-wrenching" drama Away, starring Timothy Spall and Juno Temple, Rita Osei’s debut Bliss!, Mercedes Grower’s debut Brakes led by Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding and János Edelényi’s The Carer starring Brian Cox, who will be in attendance, and Charles Henri Belleville’s Jet Trash.

Other films include The Library Suicides, a Welsh language movie about librarians planning revenge, the highly-rated Moon Dogs and two Icelandic movies from Scottish filmmaker Graeme Maley, Pale Star and A Reykjavik Porno.

Agyness Deyn will star in the "complex dystopian thriller" The White King by Alex Helfrecht and Jörg Tittel.

Taking part in the series of In Person talks will be Dominique Pinon of Alien: Resurrection, Amélie, and Outlander.

Jeremy Thomas, the prolific producer of over fifty films, including 1983’s Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, starring the late David Bowie, will be present and the movie screened.

There will be a "rom-com treat" from director Rebecca Miller in the form of Maggie's Plan, with Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke and Julianne Moore as well as Meg Ryan’s directorial debut Ithaca, and The Fundamentals of Caring, a "charming comedy-drama" that pairs Paul Rudd and UK actor Craig Roberts as caregiver and dependent.

Paco Cabezas’ Mr Right stars Anna Kendrick and Sam Rockwell.

The festival's documentary sections includes Mike Day’s "ode to the Faroe Islands" The Islands and the Whales, among many others.

Bigger Than The Shining, the "provocative new work" by Mark Cousins will be shown as well as three episodes of the Gaelic drama Bannan.

The free St Andrew Square Garden screenings for Film Fest in the City will include The Muppets, The Breakfast Club, Minions, Mad Max Fury Road, Finding Nemo, Pitch Perfect, Star Wars Episode 7, and Grease.