UK Festivals
Welcome to The Skinny UK festival guide. We bring you previews, reviews, and line-up information for arts, film, music and comedy festivals around the UK.
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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 -
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 -
FilmYoung 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 -
FilmMaking 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
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FilmBetter 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 -
FilmBuilding 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 -
MusicMade For You: Bemz on M4 Festival
We catch up with Bemz ahead of the sophomore outing of M4 Festival to talk creating opportunities and his love for the Scottish music scene Read more »| 20 Aug 2025 -
FilmDeaf
Eva Libertad's quietly urgent family drama Deaf reckons with disconnection and persisting pain Read more »| 20 Aug 2025 -
FilmEIFF 2025: Low Rider
Campbell X's long-awaited second feature lands with a disappointing thud. This queer road movie set in South Africa suffers from irritating characters, cliché-riddled dialogue, and simplistic politics Read more »| 20 Aug 2025 -
FilmIslands
Jan-Ole Gerster's Islands is a trouble-in-paradise thriller where the central mystery doesn't pay off Read more »| 18 Aug 2025 -
FilmEIFF 2025: Brides
Inspired by real stories, this intimate two-hander of friendship and teenage angst follows two girls on a one-way journey to Syria Read more »| 18 Aug 2025 -
FilmPuppet Masters: resistance in stop-motion animation
New stop-motion films from directors Alain Ughetto and Claude Barras, which screen at French Film Festival UK, tell intensely personal stories and harness the revolutionary potential of this old-school animation technique Read more »| 01 Aug 2025 -
MusicFringe by the Sea: A Love Letter to Scotland’s Freshest Festival
Ahead of this year's Fringe by the Sea, one East Lothian local invites you to ditch the cobbles, skip the crowds, and get yourself to the coast this August Read more »| 25 Jul 2025