Festivals
Step into a vibrant celebration of culture with The Skinny festival guide. We bring you the latest UK and international festival news; you'll find festival information, previews, reviews, features, and interviews.
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ArtAn Imaginary Museum: Trans Masc Studies at EAF25
Unbound by institutional rules, artist Ellis Jackson Kroese's research project collects and curates ephemera related to the Scottish trans masculine community Read more »| 15 Sep 2025 -
Uk FestivalsScottish 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 -
ArtTemporary Worlds: Mike Nelson, Siân Davey and HOST at EAF25
Among the varied programme of the 2025 Edinburgh Art Festival, three exhibitions in the city are threaded together through a shared interrogation of transformed space and memory Read more »| 12 Sep 2025 -
Uk FestivalsMaking 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 -
Uk FestivalsBetter 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 -
FilmVenice Film Festival 2025: 100 Nights of Hero
Julia Jackman's adaptation of Isabel Greenberg's graphic novel is a distinctive feminist fairy tale powered by excellent performances and endlessly quotable dialogue Read more »| 08 Sep 2025
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Uk FestivalsBuilding 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 -
Artwho will be remembered here @ EAF Pavilion
An EAF25 X The Skinny Emerging Writer responds to a tender film that connects queer stories with Historic Environmental Scotland sites Read more »| 04 Sep 2025 -
Edinburgh FestivalsScotland on Screen: Edinburgh Film Festival 2025
This year's Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence at Edinburgh Film Festival unearthed a mixed bag of work, with a few glimmers of talent and invention to be found Read more »| 03 Sep 2025 -
FilmVenice Film Festival 2025: The Smashing Machine
Dwayne Johnson is unrecognisable in The Smashing Machine, Benny Safdie's biopic of mixed martial artist Mark Kerr, but the film is lacking in force and depth Read more »| 02 Sep 2025 -
FilmVenice Film Festival 2025: No Other Choice
Director Park Chan-wook returns to Venice with a Machiavellian teardown of capitalism and masculinity that saves its gory best for last Read more »| 30 Aug 2025 -
FilmVenice Film Festival 2025: After the Hunt
Julia Roberts gives one of her best performances in Luca Guadagnino's After the Hunt, but the wordy movie around her feels more like an exhaustive debate rather than a compelling drama Read more »| 30 Aug 2025 -
FilmVenice Film Festival 2025: Bugonia
Yorgos Lanthimos reunites with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons for a bold conspiracy theory thriller Read more »| 30 Aug 2025 -
Edinburgh FringeAideen McQueen @ Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
Aideen McQueen's Waiting for Godot parody doesn't quite hit all the right buttons Read more »| 28 Aug 2025 -
Edinburgh FringeJohn Tothill @ Pleasance Courtyard
This Must Be Heaven is a breakout hour of gossipy gluttony from John Tothill Read more »| 28 Aug 2025