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The 2026 Edinburgh International Film Festival will unfastened pinch The Incomer, the debut characteristic from Edinburgh-born filmmaker Louis Paxton.
Focus and Universal person taken world authorities connected nan title, which debuted astatine Sundance. The movie stars Domhnall Gleeson (Ex Machina, The Paper), Gayle Rankin (House of The Dragon, Glow), and Grant O’Rourke (Outlander). The wider formed features John Hannah (Sliding Doors, The Last of Us), Michelle Gomez (Green Wing, Doom Patrol), and Emun Elliott (The Gold Sexy Beast).
The Incomer is group connected a distant Scottish land and follows siblings Isla (Rankin) and Sandy (O’Rourke), who person lived successful serene isolation for decades, hunting seabirds, chatting to mythic creatures, and defending their isle from dreaded Incomers. The charismatic synopsis reads: “Their world is upended pinch nan presence of Daniel (Gleeson), an awkward assembly worker, tasked pinch uprooting them to nan mainland.”
The movie was written and directed by Paxton, produced by Shirley O’Connor and Emily Gotto, and co-produced by Wendy Griffin. The BFI and Screen Scotland supported nan film, pinch further support from musician Moby and Lindsay Hicks’ U.S. accumulation institution Little Walnut, Trevor Noah’s Day Zero Productions, UK’s Head Gear Films, and Ireland’s Inevitable Pictures.
Universal Pictures International will merchandise The Incomer successful nan UK and Ireland later this year.
“With wit, grace and intelligence, this striking, unpredictable and beautifully acted Scottish debut dazzled, moved and amused america immensely erstwhile we first saw it backmost successful January,” EIFF CEO and Festival Director, Paul Ridd, said of nan movie successful a statement.
“We are thrilled to unfastened this year’s version pinch a movie which embodies specified a stirring and inspiring tone of creativity, empathy and invention successful filmmaking. This is precisely nan benignant of movie that EIFF is each about.”
The 2026 EIFF runs from 13 – 19 August.
