Irvine<\/a> Welsh, producer Andrew Macdonald, production designer Kave Quinn and costume designer Rachael Fleming will also attend the anniversary event.\n<\/p>\n\n The screening forms part of a wider EIFF 2026 programme featuring premieres, industry events and special appearances.\n<\/p>\n
\n This year\u2019s festival will run from August 13 to August 19.\n<\/p>\n
\n International guests attending premieres and special events include Domhnall Gleeson, Alan Cumming, Ashley Benson, John Hannah, Radha Mitchell, Tom Courtenay, Stacy Martin, Darren Emerson and Fionn Whitehead.\n<\/p>\n
\n Previously announced guests include Christine Vachon, Kenneth Branagh, Bruce Dern, Ken Burns, Prano Bailey-Bond and Marc Turtletaub.\n<\/p>\n
\n The festival\u2019s Midnight Madness strand will showcase genre films and special guests, including Chee Keong Cheung presenting Bad Day at the Office alongside stars Radha Mitchell and John Hannah.\n<\/p>\n
\n Director Nick Nevern and cast members Tamer Hassan, Leo Gregory and Vanessa Bauer will attend for Rise of the Footsoldier: Retribution, while Grace Gallagher and Cameron Wright will appear for Abandoned.\n<\/p>\n
\n Founded in 1947, the Edinburgh International Film Festival is the world\u2019s oldest continually running film festival.\n<\/p>\n
\n Following changes after the 2023 edition, a new organisation was created to lead a refreshed EIFF from 2024 onwards.\n<\/p>\n
\n Paul Ridd was appointed festival director in December 2023, with the team aiming to create a major showcase for independent film and emerging filmmaking talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trainspotting stars are set to reunite (Image: Park Circus\/ Film4) He will be joined by Ewan McGregor, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":["post-577301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}