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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FilmYoung Team: Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2025 preview
GFT's young film programming team have come up with an electric lineup of films for this year's Glasgow Youth Film Festival Read more »| 17 Sep 2025 -
FilmScottish Queer International Film Festival returns for 2025
The much-loved Scottish Queer International Film Festival – or SQIFF for short – celebrates its landmark year with features, an exhibition, a craft fair, live performance and lots of queer short films Read more »| 12 Sep 2025 -
FilmMaking Waves: Sea Change 2025 preview
Beach walks, wild swimming, fantastic films directed by women – welcome to Sea Change, the Tiree film festival returning this September Read more »| 10 Sep 2025 -
FilmBetter Worlds: Take One Action 2025 preview
Take One Action's director Rachel Hamada introduces this year's festival, which takes place under the banner of Real Utopias Read more »| 09 Sep 2025 -
FilmBuilding Bridges: IberoDocs 2025 preview
Welcome to a new era at IberoDocs. This essential festival's 11th edition is its biggest yet, and will expand to a new city and take place in the autumn for the first time Read more »| 04 Sep 2025 -
MusicEdinburgh Psych Fest 2025: The Review
Edinburgh Psych Fest's return brings together a diverse range of musical styles, all bound together by a shared desire to get the people going Read more »| 03 Sep 2025
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MusicThe Beat Goes On: 14 Festivals in Scotland this Autumn
Just when you thought festival season was over, Scotland’s music scene has other plans. We chat to some of the folks behind festivals taking place across the country this autumn Read more »| 01 Sep 2025 -
FilmEdinburgh Film Festival: Abdolreza Kahani wins top prize
Canada-based Iranian filmmaker Abdolreza Kahani takes home the £50,000 Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence for Mortician, a tragicomic drama he shot on his iPhone Read more »| 21 Aug 2025 -
MusicMade For You: Bemz on M4 Festival
We catch up with Bemz ahead of the sophomore outing of M4 Festival to talk creating opportunities and his love for the Scottish music scene Read more »| 20 Aug 2025 -
FilmDeaf
Eva Libertad's quietly urgent family drama Deaf reckons with disconnection and persisting pain Read more »| 20 Aug 2025 -
FilmEIFF 2025: Low Rider
Campbell X's long-awaited second feature lands with a disappointing thud. This queer road movie set in South Africa suffers from irritating characters, cliché-riddled dialogue, and simplistic politics Read more »| 20 Aug 2025 -
FilmIslands
Jan-Ole Gerster's Islands is a trouble-in-paradise thriller where the central mystery doesn't pay off Read more »| 18 Aug 2025 -
FilmEIFF 2025: Brides
Inspired by real stories, this intimate two-hander of friendship and teenage angst follows two girls on a one-way journey to Syria Read more »| 18 Aug 2025 -
FilmTake One Action reveals 2025 programme
Take One Action returns with a programme titled Real Utopias. Expect stories of solidarity and hope from across the world, including films from Mexico to Kenya via the US, UK and Philippines Read more »| 07 Aug 2025 -
FilmPuppet Masters: resistance in stop-motion animation
New stop-motion films from directors Alain Ughetto and Claude Barras, which screen at French Film Festival UK, tell intensely personal stories and harness the revolutionary potential of this old-school animation technique Read more »| 01 Aug 2025