Five must-see movies at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival
An Elephant Sitting Still
26 and 30 June
29-year-old debut director Hu Bu committed suicide shortly after completing this four-hour epic about the vicissitudes of contemporary life in newly capitalist China, above. Serious cineastes have already anointed it a future classic.
Searching
21 and 22 June
Innovative social media detective thriller starring the always excellent John Cho as a father who turns digital gumshoe to find his missing daughter.
Flammable Children (AKA Swinging Safari)
27 and 29 June
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Anna and the Apocalypse
29 and 30 June
A Christmas-themed zombie high school musical set in Glasgow, this horror hybrid, below, has won plenty of admirers on the festival circuit. See it off-season here.
Piercing
29 and 30 June
Nicolas Pesce follows up The Eyes of My Mother with this twisted tale about a new father (Christopher Abbot) whose plan to commit the perfect murder goes seriously awry when his intended victim (Mia Wasikowska) turns out to have a few kinks of her own.