Edinburgh Festivals
The Skinny guide to art, book and film festivals in Edinburgh. The latest previews, reviews and features.
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BooksSuper-Powered: Comics and Graphic Novels at Jura Unbound
The debate about the legitimacy of comics as an art form is over. As Literary Death Match and Illicit Ink prepare comics-themed events for Jura Unbound, we celebrate the rise and rise of sequential art Read more »| 02 Jul 2013 -
BooksThree Decades of Edinburgh International Book Festival
Edinburgh International Book Festival is celebrating its 30 year anniversary and Jura Unbound is getting in on the action. We spoke to the organisers of three events reflecting upon a specific decade and one that encompasses all three Read more »| 02 Jul 2013 -
BooksJura Unbound 2013: An Introduction
It is 2013 and the Edinburgh International Book Festival is celebrating its 30th birthday. If the Book Festival is the respectable adult of Charlotte Square ... Read more »| 02 Jul 2013 -
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Unbound 2013: Events Listings
Be Unbound every night of the Edinburgh International Book Festival in the Guardian Spiegeltent, Charlotte Square Gardens. Events start at 9pm, and are free and unticketed. Best get there early if you want a seat Read more »| 02 Jul 2013 -
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Discover a World, in Words: Edinburgh International Book Festival, 10-26 Aug
Every August the Edinburgh International Book Festival takes place in Charlotte Square Gardens, a leafy green space just a stone’s throw from views of ... Read more »| 02 Jul 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2013 - The Winners
This year's Edinburgh International Film Festival awards winners were announced today. The internationally-known EIFF is seen as one of the most forward-thin... Read more »| 28 Jun 2013
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EIFF 2013: When Night Falls (Wo Hai You Hua Yao Shuo)
A stanch exposé of real-life injustice, When Night Falls dramatises the plight of Wang Jimnei, whose son Yang Jia was convicted of killing seven polic... Read more »| 28 Jun 2013 -
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EIFF 2013: Il Futuro (The Future)
Chilean writer-director Alicia Scherson’s languid coming-of-age tale follows Roman teens Bianca (Martelli) and Tomas (Ciardo), who are thrust toward th... Read more »| 28 Jun 2013 -
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EIFF 2013: Emperor Visits the Hell (Tang huang you di fu)
Sixteenth century Chinese novel Journey to the West has been adapted dozens of times in dozens of ways, from cult Japanese television show Monkey to Damon Al... Read more »| 27 Jun 2013 -
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EIFF 2013: Svengali
One of Svengali’s running jokes is that protagonist Dixie – a postman from rural Wales who ups-sticks for London hoping to nurture a distinctly u... Read more »| 26 Jun 2013 -
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EIFF 2013: This Is Martin Bonner
Martin Bonner (Eenhoorn) is at a lull in his life. An Aussie expat, he finds himself leaving his grown-up east-coast family and moving to Reno, Nevada for th... Read more »| 25 Jun 2013 -
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EIFF 2013: uwantme2killhim?
The internet is a dangerously empowering tool in this true story, which has been knit into a taut thriller by British director Andrew Douglas. Set in 2003, u... Read more »| 25 Jun 2013 -
FilmEIFF 2013: We Are the Freaks
Following three teenage friends on a night out in 1990, after Thatcher has just stepped down, We Are the Freaks opens with self-reflexive narration that posi... Read more »| 23 Jun 2013 -
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EIFF 2013: Magic Magic
Writer-director Sebastián Silva here channels early Polanski to produce a beguiling and gut-wrenching psychological horror for the Diablo Cody generat... Read more »| 23 Jun 2013 -
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EIFF 2013: From Tehran to London
Mania Akbari’s film is dedicated to “all those filmmakers in Iran, who have served a prison sentence and the ones who are still in prison.”... Read more »| 22 Jun 2013