UK Festivals
Welcome to The Skinny UK festival guide. We bring you previews, reviews, and line-up information for arts, film, music and comedy festivals around the UK.
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FestivalsEdinburgh International Festival: The 2021 line-up
Laura Mvula, Nadine Shah, Anna Meredith, Damon Albarn, Karine Polwart, Floating Points, Kathryn Joseph, Caribou and tUnE-yArDs are just some of the highlights from the eclectic lineup of music coming to Edinburgh as part of the International Festival Read more »| 02 Jun 2021 -
FilmAlchemy Film and Moving Image Festival returns
Ahead of the 11th Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, we catch up with the festival's co-directors to hear what they've been up to during lockdown and how this year's programme has embraced the circular nature of the COVID-era Read more »| 28 Apr 2021 -
FilmFemspectives returns online for 2021
Femspectives, the annual Glasgow-based feminist film festival, is back with a virtual edition. Among the highlights are the 50th feature by renowned documentary maker Alanis Obomsawin and sci-fi tinged Georgian drama Comets Read more »| 12 Apr 2021 -
FilmIberoDocs' 8th edition celebrates Art as a Need
IberoDocs returns with an online edition of the festival celebrating Ibero-American culture, with a programme of over twenty documentaries, filmmaker Q&As and a virtual exhibition Read more »| 30 Mar 2021 -
MusicThe Great Eastern: Edinburgh festival moves to November
BEAK>, Free Love, BC Camplight, Broken Records and The Ninth Wave are lined up for the rescheduled Great Eastern music festival in Edinburgh Read more »| 24 Mar 2021 -
FilmMeet the stars of Glasgow Short Film Festival 2021
We speak to some of the filmmakers behind our favourite shorts at this year's Glasgow Short Film Festival Read more »| 22 Mar 2021
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FilmShort Circuit: Glasgow Short Film Festival interview
Get the lowdown on Glasgow Short Film Festival's second online edition. They tell us what they've learned after a year of digital festivals and give us some hints about this year's event, which includes dogs and dance but absolutely no Zoom-based dramas Read more »| 10 Mar 2021 -
FilmGlasgow Short Film Festival announce 2021 programme
Scotland’s premier short film celebration returns with new programmes and old favourites. Some films directly address the strange times we're living in, while others feature cool dogs and reminisce about messy nights out Read more »| 10 Mar 2021 -
FilmFrench Film Festival brings more films online
French Film Festival UK bring us a sequel to their COVID-curtailed 2020 edition, with some of the most anticipated films from last year available online Read more »| 08 Mar 2021 -
FilmHippodrome Silent Film Festival goes online for 2021
HippFest takes its tenth edition online, with films featuring silent-era icons like Marlene Dietrich, Louise Brooks and Rudolph Valentino, and music from the likes of jazz composer Wycliffe Gordon, the Graves Brothers and HippFest fave Neil Brand Read more »| 08 Mar 2021 -
FilmThe Skinny on… Adura Onashile
As Adura Onashile's short film Expensive Shit arrives in film festival programmes this month, we quiz her about dream dinner guests and memories of the before-times Read more »| 08 Mar 2021 -
FilmGFF 2021: Spring Blossom
Spring Blossom, from 20-year-old writer-director-star Suzanne Lindon, tells the story of a teen girl's infatuation with an older man. A young, female perspective on this subject is welcome and timely, but Lindon's film is ultimately unsuccessful Read more »| 08 Mar 2021 -
FilmGFF 2021: Gunda
Victor Kossakovsky's Gunda invites us into the idyllic-seeming life of a massive pig and her brood of rambunctious piglets Read more »| 08 Mar 2021 -
FilmGFF 2021: Dreams on Fire
Dance movie Dreams on Fire occasionally trades in clichés but thrives when working as an unapologetic examination of trying to make it in a precarious industry Read more »| 08 Mar 2021 -
FilmGFF 2021: A Brixton Tale
There's too much going on in this look at race and love in modern Britain, with A Brixton Tale’s enigmatic first half giving way to a more obvious socioeconomic crime narrative Read more »| 08 Mar 2021