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Edinburgh goes Under The Radar

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The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has added a new section at this year’s edition, celebrating “cult” cinema. Titled Under The Radar, the sidebar will feature two UK, two international and two world premieres.

From the UK, Crack Willow by EIFF Best Short Film winner Martin Radich receives a world premiere. The film looks at the psychological effects of social decay.

The other featured UK film is Bigga Than Ben: A Russians’ Guide to Ripping Off London, directed by S.A. Halewood. This dark comedy stars Ben Barnes (The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian), features music by Pete Doherty and Joe Strummer and is based on the bestselling Russian diaries of Pavel Tetersky and Sergei Sakin.

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The other selections are Robert Beaucage’s horror/romance Spike (USA), Alex Orr’s comic/horror Blood Car (USA), Luciano Podcaminsky’s experimental travelogue The Third Pint (Argentina) and Rona Mark’s twin sister porn and trepanation saga Strange Girls (USA).

EIFF Artistic Director Hannah McGill said: “The term ‘cult cinema’ has become mere marketing-speak in recent years. With this new section, we want to re-animate the spirit of the truly cult-worthy ‘midnight movie’, by showing films that take real risks with their ideas, their aesthetic choices and their humour.

“This is a diverse section, but it is all the work of filmmakers with vision, creativity, and balls (figuratively speaking, of course, as two of them are women!). They are highly appropriate discoveries for a festival that has in the past welcomed many of the great cult innovators, among them Sam Fuller, John Waters, George Romero and Roger Corman.”

2007 EIFF guest John Waters has been cited as inspiration for the new section.

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