Edinburgh Festivals
The Skinny guide to art, book and film festivals in Edinburgh. The latest previews, reviews and features.
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BooksDevorah Baum, Alva Gotby and Sophie K Rosa on what radical love looks like
Ahead of their event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, we ask authors Devorah Baum, Alva Gotby and Sophie K Rosa about their most utopian imagination of what love can look like Read more »| 09 Aug 2023 -
InternationalEIF: Dusk @ Lyceum Theatre
Brazilian director Christiane Jatahy's UK debut skilfully merges cinema and theatre to confront themes of exploitation, xenophobia, and the reemergence of fascism Read more »| 07 Aug 2023 -
BooksCamilla Grudova on Children of Paradise and The Coiled Serpent
We chat to Camilla Grudova, author of the creepy Children of Paradise and upcoming short story collection The Coiled Serpent, about capitalist horror, British class politics, and why people can't flush the toilet Read more »| 03 Aug 2023 -
FilmSam H Freeman and Ng Choon Ping on Femme
Directors Sam H Freeman and Ng Choon Ping explore myriad modes of masculinity in their bristling queer thriller Femme, which sees a drag artist out to exact revenge on a homophobic thug Read more »| 31 Jul 2023 -
FilmA New Wave: Johnny Barrington on Silent Roar
Johnny Barrington's Silent Roar is a disarmingly leftfield coming-of-age drama that makes evocative use of its setting on the Isle of Lewis. We chat with Barrington ahead of his film's premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival Read more »| 12 Jul 2023 -
FilmFremont to close Edinburgh Film Festival 2023
The curtain will come down on the 2023 Edinburgh International Film Festival with the immigration tale Fremont from Iranian-British filmmaker Babak Jalali Read more »| 27 Jun 2023
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ArtEdinburgh Art Festival: Platform 2023 preview
Edinburgh Art Festival has announced the details of its annual Platform exhibition, celebrating the work of four Scotland-based emerging artists Read more »| 20 Jun 2023 -
BooksEdinburgh International Book Festival 2023: The programme
The Edinburgh Book Festival returns to the Edinburgh College of Art this August for its 40th year – here's a look at the 2023 programme Read more »| 14 Jun 2023 -
Film
Silent Roar opens Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023
The opening gala film for the new-look Edinburgh International Film Festival will be Outer Hebrides-set teen movie Silent Roar Read more »| 14 Jun 2023 -
InternationalEdinburgh International Festival: The 2023 programme
EIF returns with a new director in Nicola Benedetti, theatre from Johnny McKnight and Punchdrunk, and a music lineup including Alison Goldfrapp and Anouska Shankar Read more »| 24 Apr 2023 -
FilmLooking Violence in the Eye: Icíar Bollaín on Maixabel
As Maixabel – Icíar Bollaín's drama about a victim of terrorism – opens Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival, we talk to the director about delegitimising violence, and second chances Read more »| 29 Sep 2022 -
FilmAfter Yang
After Yang, Kogonada's followup to Columbus, is a metaphysical sci-fi that feels its way through the complex heartbreak and revelation of memory with a beautifully human touch Read more »| 20 Sep 2022 -
ArtEcological Empathy and Oysters Divination
Sofia Cotrona recounts her experience of Oyster Readings, a performance by Cooking Sections, in a piece commissioned as part of Edinburgh Art Festival's Emerging Writers programme Read more »| 07 Sep 2022 -
ArtAshanti Harris, Dancing a Peripheral Quadrille, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
Beth James responds to Ashanti Harris' exhibition Dancing a Peripheral Quadrille, in this piece commissioned as part of Edinburgh Art Festival's Emerging Writers programme Read more »| 05 Sep 2022 -
ArtJosè Campos on finding belonging and creating community
Hazel Peters meets Josè Campos (aka Studio Lenca) to discuss his practice. This piece was commissioned as part of Edinburgh Art Festival's Emerging Writers programme Read more »| 05 Sep 2022