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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FilmGFF 2022: Angry Young Men
There's plenty of invention in shoe-string budget feature Angry Young Men and sequences that work brilliantly, but there's little to draw you into its central drama Read more »| 10 Mar 2022 -
MusicJupiter Rising reveals co-curators and first acts for 2022
Jupiter Rising announce this year’s guest curators – Young Fathers’ Alloysious Massaquoi and Hen Hoose’s Tamara Schlesinger – as well as their first acts for 2022, including Emma Pollock, MALKA and Poster Paints Read more »| 10 Mar 2022 -
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
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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 -
ComedyGlasgow Comedy Festival 2022: The Highlights
Glasgow Comedy Festival rides again to deliver an excellent line-up of local laughs – here are some of our programme highlights Read more »| 07 Mar 2022 -
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