Edinburgh International Film Festival Highlights

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

The Neighbours reunion you never knew you wanted. Guy Pearce re-teams with Kylie Minogue for this kitschy comedy about randy suburban living in 1970s Australia. Radha Mitchell (another Ramsay Street escapee) co-stars.

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.

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.