Lindsey Ryan's Debut 'Capsized' to World-Premiere at Edinburgh Film Festival

Filmmaker Lindsey Ryan's debut feature Capsized will have its world premiere in competition at the 2026 Edinburgh International Film Festival, which runs 13–19 August. The film screens at Cineworld Screen 4 on Saturday 15 August and Sunday 16 August Edinburgh Film Festival.

Capsized follows Diane (Lily Rabe) and her five children on what should be an idyllic houseboat trip — until revelations of financial strife, kept secret by the family patriarch Ray (Rhys Ifans), throw everything into disarray. The five children are played by Sarah Catherine Hook, Griffin Gluck, Eli D Goss, Ada Bland and Joan Stein. Hook is known for her role in The White Lotus The Hollywood Reporter.

Ryan shot the film on a real boat at sea, with the Coast Guard keeping a close watch on the production. The child actors were contracted for no more than four hours of filming a day The Hollywood Reporter. The film runs 105 minutes and carries a 15+ age rating Edinburgh Film Festival.

The setting is no accident. Ryan grew up in a big fishing family on the South Shore of Long Island and could drive a boat before she could drive a car. She worked as a deckhand in one of her earlier jobs, and her last film before Capsized was a short called Seasick, also set on board a boat. She cites Jaws and Gilligan's Island among her maritime film inspirations The Hollywood Reporter.

Ryan has described Capsized as a film that explores family dysfunction in a way most everyone can understand Burns Film Center. She is an artist-in-residence at the Burns Film Center, a role she held before moving into feature directing Burns Film Center.

The Edinburgh festival unveiled its full 2026 programme on 1 July, including 21 world premieres across its competition and showcase strands Screen Daily. Capsized is one of those premieres, described in the festival's initial announcement as a houseboat holiday comedy starring Ifans Screen Daily. The programme also includes Paul Wright's film Mission among its selections Screen Daily.

For Ryan, the Edinburgh premiere marks the moment a filmmaker who has spent her life on the water brings that world to the big screen for the first time at feature length — with a cast led by Rabe and Ifans, and a story about a family discovering that the ground beneath them, or rather the deck, is not as solid as they thought.