Sunshine on Leith star Freya Mavor is to make a red carpet appearance at the UK premier of her latest film - a French road movie - in Edinburgh.
The Scots-born actress is attending the screening of The Lady in The Car with Glasses and A Gun at the French Film Festival UK next month along with director Joann Sfar.
Her new film is the third directorial effort from cartoonist Sfar and based on Sebastien Japrisot’s 1966 crime novel.
The 22-year-old helped propel Edinburgh-shot Sunshine on Leith, the cinema adaptation of the Proclaimers' songs-based hit musical, to acclaim.
The actress, who now lives in Paris and speaks fluent French, was raised between Edinburgh and La Rochelle and is daughter of playwright and Edinburgh Napier University MA Screenwriting director James Mavor.
Her great-grandfather was James Bridie, director of the Scottish Arts Council who was instrumental in the creation of the Edinburgh International Festival.
She has also been a member of the National Youth Theatre.
Last year Mavor was seen on Channel 4's New Worlds in which she played opposite Fifty Shades of Grey star Jamie Dornan.
The 23rd French Film Festival UK will run from November 5 to December 13, showing Cannes award-winners, classic masterpieces, a celebration of Gaumont - the world’s oldest film company - new talents, student exchanges, schools screenings and a panoply of guests.
Along with the main venues in London, Edinburgh - the Filmhouse and Dominion - and the GFT in Glasgow the French Film Festival UK will have screenings in Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness, Kirkcaldy and Hawick.
Mavor is attending the Edinburgh Filmhouse screening of The Lady in The Car with Glasses and A Gun on November 7.
Other highlights include newly restored masterpiece The Big Blue and Cannes opening film Standing Tall.
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