Edinburgh winners named

The Edinburgh International Film Festival has announced the winners of its new prizes for feature and short filmmaking.

The Ceremony, directed by Jack King, a self-taught filmmaker from Bradford, received the £50,000 Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence. Filmed entirely in black and white, it tells the story of two migrant workers tasked with burying a colleague in the Yorkshire hills. When one insists on giving the deceased a proper Islamic burial, tensions rise, leading to a powerful struggle over what is right.

In the short filmmaking category, Manny Wolfe, directed by Trevor Neuhoff, won the £15,000 Thelma Schoonmaker Prize for Short Filmmaking Excellence. The film follows a weary actor in 1947 Hollywood who, despite being a real werewolf, faces nonstop rejection until a chance encounter offers him a role in a major monster movie.