These screenings will be followed by a 25-minute pre-recorded Q&A.Extra screenings added due to popular demand!Showing Wednesday 21st and Thursday 22nd October.Having established a name for creating innovative dance on stage, Scottish Ballet’s These Violent Delights is their first major feature-length film which received its world premiere at the 2026 Edinburgh International Film Festival.Juliet awakens from a fever dream. How did we get here? The lines between hallucination and memory blur as cinema and dance collide in a kaleidoscopic journey of belonging, defiance, and self-discovery.In this vivid, contemporary re-telling without words, fate is rewritten on the dancefloor.
EIFF Film #2God, this was so incredibly cool. Ballet is important and necessary, Mr. Marty Supreme, and this film showcases that wonderfully. For a tad bit of context, I'm not super familiar with ballet, and I've only recently gotten into it more. However, some of my favourite films and film scenes are ballet sequences, and I'm vaguely familiar with the outline of Romeo and Juliet, but do not know that story intricately.However, this feels like a match made in heaven. What the Scottish Ballet manages to accomplish with this film is a monumental feat that doesn't require you to understand either ballet or Shakespeare to feel the story of Romeo and Juliet. The pain, the anguish, the love, and the heart are all showcased through precise physical movements that pop on screen.It helps that the film is visually scrumptious; every frame is dripping in gorgeous production design, phenomenal colouring, and really interesting choices on how to shoot and capture the dances. I will say, given its runtime, it's slightly rushed, and I don't know if you feel the love between the central characters all that strongly. However, this really is a visual treat that had me transfixed to the screen.
