Edinburgh's films in the picture

This year's Edinburgh International Film Festival will bring the cinema world to the Scottish capital for the 54th year.

It starts with Lars Von Trier's Dancer In The Dark, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes earlier this year, and ends across the world with In The Mood For Love, a tale of unrequited passion from Hong Kong's Wong Kar-Wai.

In between, there is the usual mix of star-studded premières and dicussions with directors, and artistic director Lizzie Francke is promising films to "remind us just why cinema is the light in the dark".

Björk stars as a blind factory worker in Dancer In The Dark. She will join director Lars Von Trier at the film's UK première

Charlotte Rampling, Lena Headley, Stellan Skarsgard and Ian Hart appear in the moving drama Aberdeen

Julie Walters and Jamie Bell star in Billy Elliot, the story of a boy from the north of England who becomes a ballet dancer

Daniel Craig and Toni Collette star in Hotel Splendide, a dark comedy about a decaying guest house populated by misfits

The House of Mirth will recieve its world première: Gillian Anderson plays American socialite Lily Bart in a period drama

George Clooney is an escaped chain-gang convict on the run in America's Deep South in the 1940s in O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Chris Beattie and Greg McLane play two Newcastle United fans trying to earn money to buy a season ticket in Purely Belter

Saffron Burrows in Time Code 2000 - four seperate takes, shot simultaneously and presented on one screen split into quarters

Sir Anthony Hopkins in Julie Taymor's adaptation of Shakespeare's Titus, which also stars Jessica Lange and Alan Cumming