Film Festivals
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FilmHappening
Set in 1960s France, Audrey Diwan's powerful film explores the plight of a promising young university student who becomes unwillingly pregnant and tries to do something about it, despite abortion being illegal Read more »| 09 Mar 2022 -
FilmThe Fall of the House of Usher at HippFest
Ahead of the premiere of a new score to The Fall of the House of Usher at HippFest, we chat to musicians Elizabeth-Jane Baldry and Stephen Horne about the art of breathing life into cinema from the silent era Read more »| 09 Mar 2022 -
FilmGFF 2022: Fire (Both Sides of the Blade)
Juliette Binoche, Vincent Lindon and Grégoire Colin's characters become involved in a messy love triangle in the latest film from Claire Denis Read more »| 08 Mar 2022 -
FilmGFF 2022: Once Upon a Time in Uganda
Welcome to Wakaliwood! Entertaining documentary Once Upon a Time in Uganda takes us inside the world of filmmaker Isaac Nabwana and the no-budget gonzo action movies he makes from a slum in Kampala Read more »| 08 Mar 2022 -
FilmVortex
The latest from French provocateur Gaspar Noé uses split-screen to tell the story of an elderly couple (played by Dario Argento and Françoise Lebrun) in their twilight years Read more »| 08 Mar 2022 -
FilmSurf's Up: Martyn Robertson on Ride the Wave
Glasgow-based documentarian Martyn Robertson brings his first feature film, Ride the Wave, to Glasgow Film Festival this month. We talked to him about life among the surfers and what it means to bring Scottish stories to a wider audience Read more »| 08 Mar 2022
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FilmThe Hermit of Treig
Lizzie Mackenzie's compassionate documentary The Hermit of Treig follows an ageing hermit whose declining health may force him to leave the remote wilderness he called home for four decades Read more »| 07 Mar 2022 -
FilmBenedetta
Basic Instinct and Elle director Paul Verhoeven dips his toe into the lesbian nun sub-genre with Benedetta, a darkly comic and provocative drama exploring the overlap between religious devotion and eroticism Read more »| 04 Mar 2022 -
FilmBergman Island
In Mia Hansen-Løve's latest, a filmmaking couple takes a trip to island of Fårö in Sweden, where Ingmar Bergman shot many of his films and where he resided in later life Read more »| 04 Mar 2022 -
FilmA Banquet
Tensions between a widowed mother and her eldest daughter arise when the latter gives up eating due to potentially unnatural forces in this feature film debut from Ruth Paxton Read more »| 04 Mar 2022 -
FilmRed Rocket
Sean Baker returns with another tale from the fringes. In Red Rocket, his focus is a washed-up porn actor who's looking to get back on his feet Read more »| 04 Mar 2022 -
FilmLizzie Mackenzie on The Hermit of Treig
We meet up with documentarian and Oban native Lizzie Mackenzie ahead of the Glasgow Film Festival premiere of her debut feature The Hermit of Treig to find out about her fascination with outsiders and rebels Read more »| 28 Feb 2022 -
FilmSean Baker on Red Rocket
With Red Rocket, Sean Baker has once again turned his camera on a corner of the US rarely represented in American cinema. Baker introduces us to the concept of the 'suitcase pimp' and explains why he's happy working outside the Hollywood mainstream Read more »| 28 Feb 2022 -
FilmThe Skinny on… Armando Iannucci
Armando Iannucci returns to his hometown this month for an on-stage talk at Glasgow Film Festival; ahead of that chat, we asked Iannucci to fill out our Q&A Read more »| 28 Feb 2022 -
FilmGlasgow Short Film Festival reveal films in 2022 competitions
GSFF are back in-person and have revealed the films competing for the Bill Douglas Award and the Scottish Short Film Competition. The Skinny favourites James Price, Cat Bruce and Bryan M Ferguson are among those with films in the latter Read more »| 10 Feb 2022