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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FilmTake One Action returns this week
Take One Action, Scotland's film festival aiming to inspire activism and global change, returns for its fully-online 13th edition. Here's what to look out for Read more »| 16 Sep 2020 -
FilmSQIFF unveils 2020 programme
The mighty SQIFF – Scottish Queer International Film Festival for the uninitiated – returns with queer dystopia, stories of QTIPOC activism, LGBTQIA+ disruptions in sport and a queer horror icon setting the record straight Read more »| 09 Sep 2020 -
Film10 Great Scottish Short Films from GSFF 2020
The 13th Glasgow Short Film Festival may have been downgraded to the “12th and a half edition”, but that didn't dampen the quality of the films. Particularly strong were the Scottish shorts – here are ten of our favourites Read more »| 07 Sep 2020 -
FilmStream Spirit: Scotland's Virtual Film Festivals
Cannes couldn't and EIFF effed off till later in the year, but some film festivals have embraced taking their programmes online after in-person events were kiboshed by COVID-19, including the upcoming Take One Action and SQIFF Read more »| 31 Aug 2020 -
FilmThe Skinny's Best Scottish Short Films of the 2010s
As we enter the 2020s, we'll be looking back at the incredible Scottish short films to emerge in the 2010s at Glasgow Short Film Festival Read more »| 10 Aug 2020 -
FilmGlasgow Short Film Festival 2020 goes online
Glasgow Short Film Festival present edition 'twelve-and-a-half' of the groundbreaking and always-exciting festival Read more »| 29 Jul 2020
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FilmDive In: Glasgow Short Film Festival's free online fest
Joined by some of Scotland's best film programmers and festivals, GSFF present two weeks of free online screenings Read more »| 09 Jul 2020 -
ComedyJamali Maddix @ Glasgow Comedy Festival
Jamali Maddix is a fantastic tease, but his material leaves one’s balls a little blue Read more »| 26 Mar 2020 -
FilmQuarantine Culture: Your At-Home Film Festival
It's just like a normal film festival, but you don't have to wear trousers – bunker down with our curated list of films to stream at home Read more »| 24 Mar 2020 -
FilmGlasgow Short Film Festival goes online
The Glasgow Short Film Festival was meant to begin today (18 March) but has been among the many events cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The show will go on though… online that is Read more »| 18 Mar 2020 -
FilmSilence is golden: HippFest 2020 preview
We take a peek at this year's HippFest programme, featuring a cross-dressing Hamlet, gender-bending steampunk pirates and a live narration by Withnail & I’s Paul McGann Read more »| 13 Mar 2020 -
FilmResin
New Zealand-born, Denmark-based director Daniel Joseph Borgman returns with Resin, a lyrical family story that morphs into a dark thriller Read more »| 12 Mar 2020 -
MusicThe evolution of sound system culture
As festivals get ready to celebrate weighty bass music around the world, we sit down with the Scottish branch of sound system culture to find out more Read more »| 12 Mar 2020 -
FilmBacurau
Bacurau raises unanswered questions around gun violence and race – but it's so insane that it hardly matters Read more »| 12 Mar 2020 -
FilmGlasgow Film Festival 2020 round-up
Another packed Glasgow Film Festival came to a close last week, recording its largest audience yet with over 43,000 attendees. Films about a female astronaut preparing to leave earth and a care nurse communing with God were among the highlights Read more »| 10 Mar 2020