Edinburgh International Film Festival 2012 details announced The festival will showcase 121 new features from 52 countries, including 11 European premieres and 76 UK premieres. Among the premieres, announced today by the festival's Artistic Director Chris Fujiwara, are Richard Ledes" feature Fred, Nathan Silver's Exit Elena and Benjamin Pascoe's Leave It on the Track. The longest-running festival event in the UK film calendar, the EIFF will open on 20 June with Exorcist director William Friedkin's new horror film, Killer Joe. It will close on 30 June with Pixar's latest animation Brave, which is set in the Highlands, and which Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond has called "the most high-profile film ever set in, and themed around, Scotland, featuring Scottish stars." Other highlights in the programme include 7 Days in Havana, a contemporary portrait of the Cuban city which is divided into seven chapters, each one directed by a different director; Benicio Del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Gaspar Noé, Juan Carlos Tabio and Laurent Cantet are all involved. Bobcat Goldthwait's God Bless America features in the Directors" Showcase. Japanese filmmaker Shinya Tsukamoto and Chinese documentary-maker Wang Bing will also bring together a collection of their films. Tsukamoto's latest project Kotoko will be screened; and Wang Bing will give a masterclass to aspiring filmmakers. British films competing for the Michael Powell Award will include, for the first time, documentaries contending alongside narrative films. Among them are seven World premieres including Peter Strickland's horror Berberian Sound Studio starring Toby Jones, John Roberts' Day of the Flowers with Carlos Acostas, and Maja Borg's Future Of My Love. In addition to the new features presented, the Festival will also host 29 older titles in Retrospectives and Special Screenings, bringing the total number of feature films to 150 across the 12-day event. Last summer, Telegraph film commentator David Gritten called the shrinking of the Edinburgh International Film Festival "one of the saddest sights in the British Film industry." Whether this action-packed programme will give it the boost it needs remains to be seen. More information: www.edfilmfest.org.uk