HIGHLIGHTS

● Boyz in the Wood:

Edinburgh-born director Ninian Doff opens the festival with his debut feature, about a group of teenage boys being hunted down in the remote wilderness of the Highlands.

● Balance, Not Symmetry:

Biffy Clyro provide the soundtrack for the Glasgowset drama, this year’s “People’s Gala,” about an art school student whose life is turned upside down when her father suddenly dies.

● Toy Story 4: Woody, Buzz and the gang return with a

companion, Forky, in a special festival preview just days before the Disney-pixar film’s eagerlyawaited release.

● Brightburn: Elizabeth Banks, David Denman and Matt Jones star in the new American superhero horror about a sinister child who is raised on Earth by a couple after his spaceship crash-lands.

● The Souvenir: Tilda Swinton and her daughter Honor star together in a drama focusing on a young filmmaker who falls for the wrong man in 1980s London.

● Yesterday: Director Danny Boyle and writer Richard Curtis join forces for their first film, about a struggling singersongwriter who wakes up from an accident into a world which has never heard of the Beatles or their songs.

● The Dead Don’t Die: Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Chloe Sevigny, Iggy Pop and Steve Buscemi play it for laughs in Jim Jarmusch’s zombie comedy.

● Them That Follow: Oscarwinning actress Olivia Colman plays the mother of a young man having doubts about his religion in a drama based on a true story about a extreme Appalachian Pentecostal group.

● Loopers - The Caddie’s Long Walk: Caddyshack star Bill Murray narrates a documentary tracing the origins and importance of the characters who have worked with legends of the game like Jack Nicklaus.

● Robert the Bruce: Angus Macfadeyn reprises his role from Mel Gibson’s Oscarwinning epic Braveheart.

● Schemers: Dundee takes centre stage in writer-director David Mclean’s film based on his experiences of the city’s grass-roots music industry in the late 1970s.