Film Festivals
-
FilmOliver Hermanus on Moffie
South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus returns with Moffie, an extraordinary drama about a gay teen conscripted to fight in the Angolan war in Apartheid-era South Africa Read more »| 26 Feb 2020 -
FilmRiot Girls: Michael Caton-Jones on Our Ladies
Veteran filmmaker Michael Caton-Jones returns to filmmaking in Scotland for the first time since 1995's Rob Roy for Our Ladies, his long-in-the-making adaptation of Alan Warner’s The Sopranos Read more »| 24 Feb 2020 -
FilmMasculinity in Crisis: Peter Mackie Burns on Rialto
Daphne director Peter Mackie Burns returns with fine-grained drama Rialto, which follows a middle-aged Dublin dock worker going through a crisis. The Glaswegian director tells us how the likes of Chekhov, Mike Leigh and David Bowie influence his work Read more »| 21 Feb 2020 -
FilmHow we watch movies in the age of streaming
Not a year goes by without some blowhard predicting the death of cinema, but in 2020, the dominance of streaming platforms is becoming hard to ignore. Join us at GFF to discuss how we watch films in the age of streaming Read more »| 20 Feb 2020 -
FilmAlice Winocour on Glasgow Film Festival opener Proxima
Disorder director Alice Winocour tells how new film Proxima, which follows an astronaut juggling space training with raising her young daughter, is still very much an "earthy" movie Read more »| 20 Feb 2020 -
FilmDystopian Sci-fi at Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Hoping for a bright, shiny future with flying cars and labour-saving technology? Glasgow Film Festival's daily retrospective suggests some less upbeat possibilities for humanity Read more »| 19 Feb 2020
-
FilmGlasgow Short Film Festival: The 2020 programme
The newly independent Glasgow Short Film Festival announces its jam-packed five-day programme of over 180 screenings Read more »| 13 Feb 2020 -
FilmParasite comes to Glasgow Film Festival in black & white
Glasgow film fans will be the first to see the new black and white version of Best Picture-winner Parasite, Bong Joon-ho’s wildly inventive class satire, the colour version of which is currently going great guns in UK cinemas Read more »| 12 Feb 2020 -
FilmScott Graham & the cast on Scottish small-town drama Run
Shell and Iona director Scott Graham returns with third feature Run. Sitting down with The Skinny and some of the film's cast, Graham tells us how his tale was inspired by a visit to his hometown and the story of a Bruce Springsteen obsessed fisherman Read more »| 07 Feb 2020 -
FilmGlasgow Film Festival 2020: Our Top Ten Films
Family feuds, apocalyptic absurdism and hard-hitting historical drama – here are our picks from the GFF programme Read more »| 31 Jan 2020 -
FilmThe Skinny at Glasgow Film Festival 2020
We're presenting a chat on the future of cinema at Glasgow Film Festival – and helping throw a whopper of a party as well... Read more »| 29 Jan 2020 -
FilmGlasgow Film Festival 2020: Programme revealed
The GFF 2020 programme features new films from Anthony Baxter, Mark Cousins and Hirokazu Kore-eda Read more »| 29 Jan 2020 -
FilmDays of the Bagnold Summer set for Glasgow Film Festival
The Skinny are teaming up with Glasgow Film Festival for the Scottish premiere of the new film by Simon Bird, with a soundtrack by Belle and Sebastian Read more »| 24 Jan 2020 -
FilmGlasgow Short Film Festival unveils 2020 opening film
Glasgow Short Film Festival opens with a hybrid of film and performance, with the 2020 edition also hosting a rare gig from synth pioneer Felix Kubin Read more »| 23 Jan 2020 -
FilmCaitlin Moran’s How to Build a Girl to close Glasgow Film Festival
This UK premiere starring Booksmart’s Beanie Feldstein will be joined by French drama Proxima, starring Eva Green, which will open the festival Read more »| 09 Jan 2020