Film Festivals
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Rent Out of Shape: Fredrik Gertten on housing doc Push
This year's Take One Action opens with timely doc Push, which takes a compelling deep dive into global housing issues. We speak to Push's director, Fredrik Gertten, who explains that the current crisis is much more complex than rampant gentrification Read more »| 12 Sep 2019 -
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Take One Action: Films with a youth focus
At Take One Action Film Festival, young people are leading the way – here are six films from this year's programme with youth at the forefront Read more »| 09 Sep 2019 -
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Glasgow Youth Film Festival: Young Programmers' Highlights
The Glasgow Youth Film Festival Young Programmers – the GFT's team of sharp young film-fans aged 15-18 – introduce some of the films screening in this year's festival Read more »| 05 Sep 2019 -
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Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2019 preview
One of the UK’s most adventurous moving image festivals enters its 15th year, trailing a constellation of lush cine-poetry, sensorial encounters with the natural world and a nocturnal lullaby from Lav Diaz Read more »| 29 Aug 2019 -
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SQIFF announces 2019 programme
Scottish Queer International Film Festival is back with a programme featuring a celebration of ballroom culture, Latinx legends and Janelle Monáe Read more »| 28 Aug 2019 -
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Tom Schiller on lost masterpiece Nothing Lasts Forever
In 1984, a comic sci-fi starring Bill Murray disappeared without a trace when it was canned by its studio. 35 years later, Nothing Lasts Forever gets its Scottish premiere as part of Weird Weekend – we find out more from its director, Tom Schiller Read more »| 26 Aug 2019
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Take One Action Film Festival reveals 2019 programme
The festival focused on global change unveils a lineup that includes 20 feature films as well as shorts, masterclasses, workshop and community events Read more »| 14 Aug 2019 -
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Glasgow Youth Film Festival announce 2019 programme
Glasgow Film’s teen programmers are back with another zesty programme blending brand-new films with some modern classics Read more »| 13 Aug 2019 -
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Ken Loach's new film to close Take One Action 2019
Take One Action 2019 will close with Sorry We Missed You, the latest film from Ken Loach, and will open with Push, a doc concerned with the worldwide crisis in affordable housing Read more »| 02 Aug 2019 -
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Weird Weekend to unearth lost Bill Murray masterpiece
Tom Schiller's lost comic gem Nothing Lasts Forever features in the second Weird Weekend from Matchbox Cineclub, as does Joe Dante's suburban satire The 'Burbs and Věra Chytilová’s teen horror Wolf’s Hole Read more »| 10 Jul 2019 -
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Schemers
Schemers is the inspiring true-life story of how a Dundee teen set his town's music scene alight – it's just a shame that the film has little interest in the women of that scene Read more »| 29 Jun 2019 -
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Cronofobia
An atmospheric psychological drama from first-time director Francesco Rizzi, Cronofobia's arresting visuals and committed performances make this one of the most memorable films of the year Read more »| 28 Jun 2019 -
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What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
As an overview of the career of the contentious film critic, What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael is a congenial ode to a unique and important cultural voice of the 20th century Read more »| 28 Jun 2019 -
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Underdown
Life below the poverty line in Beirut’s concrete jungle is explored in Sarah Kaskas’ humanistic feature debut Underdown Read more »| 27 Jun 2019 -
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Balance, Not Symmetry
Director Jamie Adams collaborates with Biffy Clyro for Glasgow-set drama Balance, Not Symmetry, an unbearable film marred by clichés and an inconsistent structure Read more »| 27 Jun 2019