Rose McGowan stars in Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof

Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof - one half of the double bill that was released in the US as Grindhouse - is included in the line-up.

Organisers say 25 of the 120 films being shown will be world premieres, while 68 will be UK premieres.

The festival runs from 15 to 26 August at venues across the city.

It opens with Scottish director David Mackenzie's Hallam Foe, which stars Billy Elliot actor Jamie Bell as a young man looking for the cause of his mother's death.

The closing film comes from French actress and director Julie Delpy, whose Two Days in Paris centres on a quirky French-American couple's trip to the capital.

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Other gala screenings include Matthew Vaughn's Stardust and Michael Winterbottom's A Mighty Heart, which stars Angelina Jolie as Mariane Pearl, the wife of slain journalist Daniel Pearl.

World cinema events include showings of German hit The Counterfeiters and Belgium director Bela Tarr's The Man from London.

Five films will be competing for the Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature, including And When Did You Last See Your Father?, from director Anand Tucker, and Was, starring Selma Blair and Stellan Skarsgard.

Last year, the festival attracted stars including Charlize Theron, Sigourney Weaver and Sir Sean Connery.