1 The Outrun (Dir: Nora Fingscheidt) Saoirse Ronan stars in this adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s memoir about surmounting addiction and leaving London for her childhood home in Orkney. 2 The Substance (Dir: Coralie Fargeat) A gonzo body-horror satire of ageism and sexism in Hollywood, featuring Demi Moore in a career-redefining role comparable to John Travolta in Pulp Fiction. 3 Lollipop (Dir: Daisy-May Hudson) British independent film award-nominated film-maker and documentarian Daisy-May Hudson makes her fiction feature debut with this drama about a woman released from prison trying to regain custody of her children. 4 A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things (Dir: Mark Cousins) Mark Cousins brings his award-winning documentary to Edinburgh for its UK premiere. Narrated by Tilda Swinton, this is a rapturous, intensely personal study of Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. 5 Acting (Dir: Sophie Fiennes) The paranoid world of Macbeth is revived in this immersive documentary by Sophie Fiennes, which looks at a group of young actors preparing to perform the Scottish play. 6 Bogancloth (Dir: Ben Rivers) Documentarian Ben Rivers revisits the subject of his 2011 film Two Years at Sea, about a forest-dwelling man in the Scottish wilderness - a film which promises to question the nature of solitude and reclusiveness. 7 Armand (Dir: Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel) Something for those who think Norwegian star Renate Reinsve deserves more than just being the dead woman in flashbacks in the Apple TV+ series Presumed Innocent. She plays a woman disturbed by her son’s behaviour in this debut film from Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, grandson of Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman. 8 Black Dog (Dir: Guan Hu) A film for dog people – Guan Hu’s Chinese drama, set in 2008, is about a motorbike stunt rider and ex-convict who tries to earn money offered by the government by rounding up stray dogs in preparation for the Beijing Olympics and winds up befriending his canine target. 9 My Favourite Cake (Dirs: Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha) This wonderfully charming, gentle and humane drama from Iran now comes to Edinburgh – a story of a lonely widow quietly defying her country’s joyless puritanism and finding love with a shy taxi driver. 10 Sing Sing (Dir: Greg Kwedar) Never was a title more appropriate – and promises to be a delight, even for those who remember Max Bialystock’s production of Prisoners of Love. Colman Domingo stars in this uplifting drama about a real-life project to teach theatre and music skills to prisoners at Sing Sing jail. 11 Oddity (Dir: Damian Mc Carthy) Irish film-maker Damian Mc Carthy won the Midnighter Audience award at SXSW in Austin, Texas, with this unsettling horror: a blind medium discovers the truth about her sister’s death with the help of a strange wooden mannequin. 12 I Know Where I’m Going! (Dirs: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger) Thelma Schoonmaker, editor and colleague of Martin Scorsese and widow of Michael Powell, gives a very special and uniquely insightful introduction to this Powell/Pressburger classic. The Edinburgh international film festival runs from 15-21 August