Actor-director Kenneth Branagh arrived in Edinburgh to accept the festival’s inaugural Outstanding Contribution to Cinema award from festival director Paul Ridd and immediately joked that he would break it up into little pieces. “Actually, I wouldn’t,” he told the audience, “but if I did, I would give to you, and I’m not just being sappy. Certainly, the reason why I’m standing here is that because over the last number of years, so many of you have been kind enough to support the films that we do and that are celebrated here at the festival. It just wouldn’t be possible to
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