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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Uk FestivalsBuilding Bridges: IberoDocs 2025 preview
Welcome to a new era at IberoDocs. This essential festival's 11th edition is its biggest yet, and will expand to a new city and take place in the autumn for the first time Read more »| 04 Sep 2025 -
Artwho will be remembered here @ EAF Pavilion
An EAF25 X The Skinny Emerging Writer responds to a tender film that connects queer stories with Historic Environmental Scotland sites Read more »| 04 Sep 2025 -
Edinburgh FestivalsScotland on Screen: Edinburgh Film Festival 2025
This year's Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence at Edinburgh Film Festival unearthed a mixed bag of work, with a few glimmers of talent and invention to be found Read more »| 03 Sep 2025 -
Uk FestivalsEdinburgh Psych Fest 2025: The Review
Edinburgh Psych Fest's return brings together a diverse range of musical styles, all bound together by a shared desire to get the people going Read more »| 03 Sep 2025 -
FilmVenice Film Festival 2025: The Smashing Machine
Dwayne Johnson is unrecognisable in The Smashing Machine, Benny Safdie's biopic of mixed martial artist Mark Kerr, but the film is lacking in force and depth Read more »| 02 Sep 2025 -
MusicThe Beat Goes On: 14 Festivals in Scotland this Autumn
Just when you thought festival season was over, Scotland’s music scene has other plans. We chat to some of the folks behind festivals taking place across the country this autumn Read more »| 01 Sep 2025
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FilmVenice Film Festival 2025: No Other Choice
Director Park Chan-wook returns to Venice with a Machiavellian teardown of capitalism and masculinity that saves its gory best for last Read more »| 30 Aug 2025 -
FilmVenice Film Festival 2025: After the Hunt
Julia Roberts gives one of her best performances in Luca Guadagnino's After the Hunt, but the wordy movie around her feels more like an exhaustive debate rather than a compelling drama Read more »| 30 Aug 2025 -
FilmVenice Film Festival 2025: Bugonia
Yorgos Lanthimos reunites with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons for a bold conspiracy theory thriller Read more »| 30 Aug 2025 -
Edinburgh FringeAideen McQueen @ Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
Aideen McQueen's Waiting for Godot parody doesn't quite hit all the right buttons Read more »| 28 Aug 2025 -
Edinburgh FringeJohn Tothill @ Pleasance Courtyard
This Must Be Heaven is a breakout hour of gossipy gluttony from John Tothill Read more »| 28 Aug 2025 -
Edinburgh FringeJain Edwards @ Underbelly Bristo Square
Cult comic Jain Edwards displays a flair for the weird in an under-powered hour Read more »| 28 Aug 2025 -
Edinburgh FringePickled Republic @ Summerhall
Ruxandra Cantir's solo show is a charming, weird, and timely reflection on society, via some truly unique characters Read more »| 27 Aug 2025 -
Edinburgh FringeEd Night @ Monkey Barrel
Your Old Mucker is an hour of solid gold gags from the incomparably offbeat Ed Night Read more »| 26 Aug 2025 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEIF: Figures in Extinction @ Festival Theatre
Nederlands Dans Theater's EIF co-production with Complicité examines how artists, and by extension people, can meaningfully exist in the face of extinction and mortality. Read more »| 25 Aug 2025