Film Festivals
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FilmFilm Event Highlights – November 2012
The Coens come to the Cameo; DCA delivers a symphony of horror; French cinema is celebrated across Scotland; a new film night launches in Glasgow; and the GFT hosts a Jewish movie simkhe Read more »| 30 Oct 2012 -
FilmGlasgay! 2012: Queer Shorts
We preview the local and international short film programmes screening at this year's Glasgay! Read more »| 26 Oct 2012 -
FilmGood Gaul: French Film Festival UK 2012
November sees the English Channel narrow as a boatload of French fancies make their way across for the 20th French Film Festival UK. Highlights include a new Asterix romp and a retrospective of great cinema modernist Chantal Akerman Read more »| 24 Oct 2012 -
FilmGlasgay! 2012: The Movies
We preview the movies being screened in Glasgow's annual celebration of queer culture Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
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Document 10: A Year of Independence
Document celebrates a decade of politically minded, socially driven film curation with a programme titled A Year of Independence. Homelessness, people trafficking and revolution are just some of the themes in this tenth edition Read more »| 04 Oct 2012 -
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Africa in Motion 2012: Redraw Your Movie Map
Africa in Motion, the UK's finest celebration of African cinema, is back for a 7th consecutive year with another bursting programme. Here's a taster of what you can expect, from Arab Spring docs to ass kicking femmes fatales Read more »| 03 Oct 2012
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Play Poland 2012: Looking Back to the Future
To mark the start of Play Poland, the largest mobile film event in Britain, we speak to Bartosz Konopka, director of Fear of Falling and Rabbit à la Berlin, two of the key titles in this year's event Read more »| 01 Oct 2012 -
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Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival 2012: Walk in My Shoes
The Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival asks audiences to experience the world through different eyes. No art form is better for this task than cinema. We speak to Eddie Harrison, the festival's film programmer, to learn more Read more »| 01 Oct 2012 -
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Scotland Loves Anime 2012: Animation Looks East
Scotland Loves Anime returns for a third year with its best line-up yet. With Pixar churning out princess stories and sequels, we need to look east to Japan for innovative animation more than ever Read more »| 28 Sep 2012 -
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Venice Film Festival 2012: Movie Love on the Lido
James Franco singing a Britney ballad, Olivier Assayas reliving his blissed-out rabble rousing youth and Joaquin Phoenix's return to acting – just some of the highlights of the 69th Venice International Film Festival Read more »| 20 Sep 2012 -
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Take One Action 2012: Harold Crooks on Surviving Progress
Is civilisation doomed? The stakes don't get any higher than in Take One Action Film Festival's opener, Surviving Progress. The Skinny speaks to Harold Crooks, one of the film's directors, ahead of this UK premiere Read more »| 07 Sep 2012 -
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Take One Action 2012: The Revolution's Here
Take One Action returns for a fifth year and is a powerful reminder of the part cinema can play in people's fight for freedom and equality across the globe Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
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Film at the Festival: Double-bills and Polish cinema at Summerhall
The moving image continues to be conspicuous by its absence from Edinburgh's August arts festivals. But if you make your way to The Royal Dick you'll find Summerhall summer programme bursting with cinema. We preview two of its film strands Read more »| 01 Aug 2012 -
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Southside Film Festival 2012
Southside Film Festival (17-20 May) returns for a second year to provide an oasis of film to an area of Glasgow that's starved of the moving image for much of the year Read more »| 14 May 2012 -
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Il Boom
Set in the luxurious apartments of Italy's nouveau riche during the country's postwar economic boom, the rather aimless satire of Il Boom (1963) seems an unl... Read more »| 17 Apr 2012