Film Festivals
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EIFF announce new strands, retrospectives and award
Edinburgh International Film Festival returns to the August festival bonanza with a new look programme and a new award – the Powell and Pressburger Award – celebrating creativity in both British film and cinema from further afield Read more »| 29 Jun 2022 -
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Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival returns in-person
As Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival returns, its directors tell us to expect a more focused festival with community, collaboration and local filmmaking at its heart Read more »| 29 Apr 2022 -
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The Road Dance
The Road Dance has ambitions to explore the devastating impact of war on isolated communities. It doesn't quite succeed, but it's a handsomely mounted period piece nonetheless Read more »| 25 Apr 2022 -
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Scotland on Screen: Bryan M. Ferguson
We catch up with Bryan M. Ferguson, one of the most distinct voices on the Scottish short film scene, to discuss his ridiculously prolific filmmaking practice and hear about his planned coming-of-age feature set in a funeral home Read more »| 25 Mar 2022 -
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IberoDocs: 2022 festival preview
IberoDocs returns with a hybrid edition featuring in-person events in Glasgow and Edinburgh as well as online screenings across the UK. As usual, expect a sharply-curated selection of documentary from Spanish, Portuguese and Latin-American filmmakers Read more »| 24 Mar 2022 -
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Meet the stars of Glasgow Short Film Festival 2022
As is now tradition, we speak to some of the filmmakers behind our favourite shorts at this year's Glasgow Short Film Festival Read more »| 22 Mar 2022
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Renate Reinsve on The Worst Person in the World
In Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier’s latest, The Worst Person in the World, a star is born with Renate Reinsve, who plays a woman about to turn 30 and drifting between careers and relationships in Oslo. We chat to Reinsve about her rapturous performance Read more »| 21 Mar 2022 -
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Baby Assassins
Part oddball slacker comedy, part effervescent action film, Baby Assassins is a delight Read more »| 16 Mar 2022 -
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Murina
Arriving with the best first feature film award from Cannes and with Martin Scorsese on board as an executive producer, Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s fraught family drama Murina is one of GFF22’s hottest tickets Read more »| 14 Mar 2022 -
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The Novice
Isabelle Fuhrman is fantastic as a freshman rower with an obsession to be the best in this gripping, gut-punching sports drama Read more »| 11 Mar 2022 -
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Back in the News: Dziga Vertov’s Kino-Pravda at GSFF
Glasgow Short Film Festival present three episodes from Dziga Vertov's avant-garde newsreel series Kino-Pravda at this year's edition. We ask the series' curator, Matevž Jerman, why he wanted to contextualise this century-old news for a modern audience Read more »| 11 Mar 2022 -
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My Old School
Alan Cumming lip-syncs to the voice of notorious Bearsden Academy student Brandon Lee in Jono McLeod's fun and moving documentary My Old School Read more »| 10 Mar 2022 -
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GFF 2022: Angry Young Men
There's plenty of invention in shoe-string budget feature Angry Young Men and sequences that work brilliantly, but there's little to draw you into its central drama Read more »| 10 Mar 2022 -
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Happening
Set in 1960s France, Audrey Diwan's powerful film explores the plight of a promising young university student who becomes unwillingly pregnant and tries to do something about it, despite abortion being illegal Read more »| 09 Mar 2022 -
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The Fall of the House of Usher at HippFest
Ahead of the premiere of a new score to The Fall of the House of Usher at HippFest, we chat to musicians Elizabeth-Jane Baldry and Stephen Horne about the art of breathing life into cinema from the silent era Read more »| 09 Mar 2022