Film Festivals
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Know Your Anime: Scotland Loves Anime 2024 preview
Scotland Loves Anime returns with a mouthwatering programme of mint-fresh anime and a smattering of classics. We take a look at what's on offer Read more »| 23 Oct 2024 -
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Inverness Film Festival reveals 2024 programme
Inverness Film Festival is back with another packed lineup that should delight Highland audiences – highlights include new films from Mike Leigh, Sean Baker and Andrea Arnold Read more »| 11 Oct 2024 -
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Sicko Mode: Weird Weekend returns to Glasgow
Weird Weekend, Matchbox Cine's celebration of strange and wonderful cinema, is back – we take a look at the 2024 programme Read more »| 10 Oct 2024 -
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Road Trip: Queer East On The Road preview
Queer East, the festival of Asian LGBTQ+ cinema, heads on a UK tour this month – we look at the programme ahead of a batch of Edinburgh screenings Read more »| 03 Oct 2024 -
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Open Hearts, Open Minds: SQIFF 2024 preview
We hear from SQIFF director Indigo Korres ahead of the ninth edition of this fantastic, forward-thinking film festival celebrating LGBTQ+ cinema Read more »| 01 Oct 2024 -
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Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival returns for 2024
Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival brings some of Spain's most exciting recent filmmaking to Scotland – we look at this year's programme Read more »| 30 Sep 2024
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Subversive Shorts: How Eastern Bloc animators evaded Soviet censors
This year's Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival opens with a programme of animation made during the tail end of Soviet rule. Czech filmmaker Michaela Pavlátová tells us how artistic freedom and creativity for animation flourished during this era Read more »| 24 Sep 2024 -
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Tarsem Singh on arthouse epic The Fall
From the archives, our 2008 interview with The Fall director Tarsem Singh on the inspirations behind – and reaction to – his globe-spanning epic Read more »| 24 Sep 2024 -
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TIFF 2024: On Falling
Laura Carreira’s workplace drama On Falling does Ken Loach better than Ken Loach – it's a deeply moving depiction of emotional purgatory in working-class Scotland Read more »| 23 Sep 2024 -
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Scotland on Screen: In Praise of Far-Flung Film Festivals
Love films? Like to travel? Adore the scenic beauty of Scotland? Dig wild swimming? If so, we recommend you consider a trip to a far-flung film festival like Sea Change in Tiree or LandxSea in Montrose Read more »| 06 Sep 2024 -
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Scottish Queer International Film Festival announces 2024 programme
SQIFF returns for its ninth annual celebration of LGBTQIA+ filmmaking talent with a five-day festival that includes a documentary on the lesbian Greek paradise Lesvos, an installation celebrating the much-missed Bonjour, and a lively short film programme Read more »| 26 Aug 2024 -
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EIFF 2024: *smiles and kisses you*
A man's relationship with an AI doll is the heart of this engaging, humane but slightly repetitive documentary Read more »| 21 Aug 2024 -
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Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scottish Girl Bands
Ahead of its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, we chat to Carla J. Easton to find out more about new documentary Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland's Girl Bands Read more »| 06 Aug 2024 -
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Følkløric: Glasgow Short Film Festival's folk horror strand
One of the highlights of Glasgow Short Film Festival this year is Følkløric, a two-part strand of shorts exploring traditional and contemporary visions of folklore. The strand's co-curators, Grace Feinmann and Heather Bradshaw, introduce their concept Read more »| 12 Mar 2024 -
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La Chimera
Josh O’Connor plays a grave robber in the ethereal new film from Happy as Lazzaro director Alice Rohrwacher Read more »| 05 Mar 2024