The Edinburgh International Film Festival's 60th Birthday Party

The Edinburgh International Film Festival's 60th Birthday Party

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The Edinburgh International Film Festival's 60th Birthday Party

The Edinburgh International Film Festival, the longest continually running film festival in the world, celebrated its 60th year of the festival with a star studded party hosted by festival patron Sir Sean Connery at the National Gallery in Edinburgh.

The film festival started in 1947, the Edinburgh International Film Festival is one of the true homes of innovative and exciting cinema. For over half a century, the festival has presented some of the cinema's most important and exciting moments and played host to the world's greatest filmmakers.

The longest continually running film festival in the world, it has come a long way from its birth in the wake of world war two. Its spirit was and is bold and its focus international. The Edinburgh International Film Festival has long been a champion of British films.

Guests arriving for the Edinburgh International Film Festival's 60th birthday party

Guests arriving for the 60th birthday party

Ex Edinburgh Lord Provost Eric Milligan and wife Janice arriving for the party

John Gordon Sinclair and wife arriving for the Edinburgh International Film Festival's 60th birthday party

Sir Sean Connery and wife being interviewed about his career

Sir Sean Connery

Sir Sean Connery and wife hosts of the Edinburgh International Film Festival's 60th birthday party

Writer Ian Rankin arriving for the party

Brian De Palmer arriving for the 60th birthday party

Richard Jobson arriving at the Edinburgh International Film Festival's 60th birthday party

Gabriel Byrne being interviewed at the 60th birthday party

Director David McKenzie and brother Alistair McKenzie at the 60th birthday party

Jennifer Schwalbach Smith enjoying the atmosphere

Tilda Swinton at the Edinburgh International Film Festival's 60th birthday party

The Lord Provost Lesley Hinds representing Edinburgh at the party

Jennifer Schwalbach Smith and Kevin Smith

Muriel Grey and husband at the 60th birthday party

Robbie Coltrain at the Edinburgh International Film Festival's 60th birthday party

Charlize Theron arriving for the party

Charlize Theron walking into the party

John Hurt being interviewed

John Hurt at the 60th birthday party

John Hurt and wife at the Edinburgh International Film Festival's 60th birthday party

Shane Danielson Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival with his parents

Copyright photographs taken by Andrew Murphy

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