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59 Years of the Edinburgh International Film Festival
Started as a documentary festival in 1947 by the visionaries of the Edinburgh Film Guild, at a time when only two film festivals – Venice and Cannes – were in existence, the Edinburgh International Film Festival is 60 this year.

By way of celebration, we've selecteed 30 of the very best of the titles that remain available to us (many no longer exist, and with many others the cost of screening them is prohibitively high) which demonstrate, if evidence were needed, what an important festival EIFF has been ... and continues to be.


Serenity

This witty and intelligent sci-fi was the long-awaited feature debut from the creator of Buffy and Angel, and holds the record for the fastest-selling Film Festival screening ever. When tickets went on sale on Fri 15 Jul last year the EIFF website received 40,000 hits in the first hour, and tickets for the film and the Joss Whedon Reel Life event were later changing hands on eBay for hundreds of pounds.

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SerenityinScotland wrote:
And I am finally going to see the BDM at a cinema tomorrow! I'm really excited!

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