Film Festivals
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FilmScottish Queer International Film Festival 2015
Finding good LGBT cinema on UK screens can be a challenge. Praise be, then, for SQIFF (24-27 Sep), a new community-focused film festival representing and reflecting queer identity Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
FilmHarold Crooks on The Price We Pay
Harold Crooks' documentary on corporate tax avoidance kicks off Take One Action! Film Festival in style. Read more »| 08 Sep 2015 -
FilmTake One Action 2015: Festival Preview
Take One Action! is the UK’s leading social change film festival, looking at humanitarian concerns. Read more »| 08 Sep 2015 -
FilmScalarama: An annual celebration of cinema
We look ahead to the annual festival that brings together the UK's film clubs and indie exhibitors for a month of cinema celebration Read more »| 02 Sep 2015 -
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A Girl at My Door
July Jung shows a delicate touch in A Girl at My Door which thrums with love, desire and violence. Read more »| 25 Aug 2015 -
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Take One Action! Launchs 2015 Festival Programme
Take One Action! Film Festival reveals its 2015 programme Read more »| 13 Aug 2015
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Theeb
Revenge, loss of innocence and the conflict between old and new permeate Naji Abu Nowar’s terrific debut, Theeb. Set in the desolate if beautiful lands... Read more »| 04 Aug 2015 -
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52 Tuesdays
52 Tuesdays chronicles the relationship of 16-year-old Billie (Tilda Cobham-Harvey) and her transgender mother, James (Del Herbert-Jane), who makes the diffi... Read more »| 03 Aug 2015 -
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Northern Greats: Manchester International Film Festival
The Great Northern Warehouse hosts the inaugural Manchester International Film Festival this July. We caught up with its ambitious organisers to hear of their plans for the event Read more »| 03 Jul 2015 -
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Eden
Mia Hansen-Løve is a master of party scenes – the standout moments from her two previous features (Goodbye First Love and The Father of My ... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
FilmBlack Coal, Thin Ice
In Black Coal, Thin Ice, writer-director Diao Yi'nan takes the tropes of a classic noir detective tale – a down-and-out alcoholic cop with a haunted pa... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
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Postcard from Auld Reekie – Big Gold Dream: Scottish Post-Punk and Infiltrating the Mainstream
Grant McPhee's ten years in the making Big Gold Dream charts the highs and lows of Edinburgh's post-punk scene. Two of its vanguards, Vic Godard and Malcolm Ross, recall those heady days ahead of the film's world premiere at Edinburgh Film Festival Read more »| 23 Jun 2015 -
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Doc to Doc: Doc/Fest 2015 Festival Round-up
Joining the docs at this year's Sheffield Doc/Fest, from a haunting movie about mass murder in 60s Indonesia to girl gearheads from Palestine Read more »| 18 Jun 2015 -
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EIFF 2015: The Legend of Barney Thomson
Fifty-something barber Barney Thomson (Robert Carlyle, playing the lead in his directorial debut) lives a life of desperate mundanity and awkward interaction... Read more »| 17 Jun 2015 -
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Bringing Up Bogdanovich: Peter Bogdanovich on his new comedy She's Funny That Way
Once the 70s wunderkind of American filmmaking, now one of its elder statesman, we chat to Peter Bogdanovich, whose new film, She's Funny That Way, an effervescent screwball throwback, heads to Edinburgh International Film Festival Read more »| 05 Jun 2015