Festivals
Step into a vibrant celebration of culture with The Skinny festival guide. We bring you the latest UK and international festival news; you'll find festival information, previews, reviews, features, and interviews.
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FilmGlasgow Film Festival reveals 2026 programme
GFF is back with a bumper 22nd edition. Highlights include new films from Jim Jarmusch, Mark Jenkin and Gus Van Sant as well as a very strong lineup of homegrown cinema, from doc Everyone to Kenmure Street to James McAvoy's California Schemin’ Read more »| 21 Jan 2026 -
FilmNo Other Choice
Director Park Chan-wook returns with a Machiavellian teardown of capitalism and masculinity that saves its gory best for last Read more »| 16 Jan 2026 -
FilmEverybody To Kenmure Street to open Glasgow Film Festival 2026
Felipe Bustos Sierra's documentary on Glaswegians' successful stand against a Home Office deportation van will kick off this year's Glasgow Film Festival Read more »| 07 Jan 2026 -
FilmGlasgow Film Festival reveals first films for 2026
GFF 2026's retrospective strand will feature films where characters fight back against the machine of power, while the Country Focus next year will be on Sweden Read more »| 11 Nov 2025 -
FilmFrench Film Festival UK 2025: Top Five Picks
The long-running and much-loved French Film Festival UK has an exceptional lineup this year. Over 60 films screen at over 40 different locations across the UK. We suggest five films to seek out Read more »| 04 Nov 2025 -
FilmScotland Loves Anime 2025: Our Top Five Picks
Scotland Loves Anime returns with a mouthwatering lineup of Japanese animation. Over 20 features screen across four venues in three cities – here are five of our favourites Read more »| 31 Oct 2025
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FilmFrench Film Festival UK: The 2025 Programme
The French Film Festival UK returns with anticipated new films including Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater), The Stranger (François Ozon) and Sirat (Oliver Laxe) among its 62-film lineup Read more »| 16 Oct 2025 -
FilmIndigo Korres on ten years of SQIFF
Scottish Queer International Film Festival turns ten – the festival's director, Indigo Korres, reflects on SQIFF's contribution to Scotland's queer scene over the past decade, looks to its future and helps pick out some highlights from this year's event Read more »| 14 Oct 2025 -
FilmAll the Devils Are Here
Barnaby Roper's crime drama doesn't break the mould, but its excellent performances from the likes of Eddie Marsan, Rory Kinnear and Sam Claflin make this zippy thriller very much worth your while Read more »| 23 Sep 2025 -
Uk FestivalsYoung Team: Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2025 preview
GFT's young film programming team have come up with an electric lineup of films for this year's Glasgow Youth Film Festival Read more »| 17 Sep 2025 -
ArtAn Imaginary Museum: Trans Masc Studies at EAF25
Unbound by institutional rules, artist Ellis Jackson Kroese's research project collects and curates ephemera related to the Scottish trans masculine community Read more »| 15 Sep 2025 -
Uk FestivalsScottish Queer International Film Festival returns for 2025
The much-loved Scottish Queer International Film Festival – or SQIFF for short – celebrates its landmark year with features, an exhibition, a craft fair, live performance and lots of queer short films Read more »| 12 Sep 2025 -
ArtTemporary Worlds: Mike Nelson, Siân Davey and HOST at EAF25
Among the varied programme of the 2025 Edinburgh Art Festival, three exhibitions in the city are threaded together through a shared interrogation of transformed space and memory Read more »| 12 Sep 2025 -
Uk FestivalsMaking Waves: Sea Change 2025 preview
Beach walks, wild swimming, fantastic films directed by women – welcome to Sea Change, the Tiree film festival returning this September Read more »| 10 Sep 2025 -
Uk FestivalsBetter Worlds: Take One Action 2025 preview
Take One Action's director Rachel Hamada introduces this year's festival, which takes place under the banner of Real Utopias Read more »| 09 Sep 2025