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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Uk FestivalsEIFF 2016: The Childhood of a Leader
Bérénice Bejo, Liam Cunningham and Robert Pattinson star in Brady Corbet's operatic period drama centred on an unruly child Read more »| 18 Jun 2016 -
Uk FestivalsEIFF 2016: Maggie's Plan
Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke and Julianne Moore star in Rebecca Miller's offbeat romantic comedy Read more »| 18 Jun 2016 -
Uk FestivalsParklife 2016: The Review
Manchester's flagship celebration of dance, electro, pop and rock returns to Heaton Park for a fourth year in fine form Read more »| 17 Jun 2016 -
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EIFF 2016: The Fits
Anna Rose Holmer's beguiling debut, about a young female dance troupe who one-by-one experience mysterious seizures, is more audio-visual poem than traditional sports movie Read more »| 17 Jun 2016 -
Uk FestivalsEIFF 2016: Seoul Station & The ReZort
Zombie fever is catching at this year’s EIFF with two distinct strains of horror emerging from Sang-yo Heon’s Korean animation Seoul Station and ... Read more »| 17 Jun 2016 -
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EIFF 2016: Hunt for the Wilderpeople & Slash
Two great coming-of-age films from the 70th Edinburgh International Film Festival that embrace their outsiders as sympathetic and complicated human beings: T... Read more »| 16 Jun 2016
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Uk Festivals
Gottwood Festival 2016: review
Gottwood proves once again why it's the undisputed champ of the small festival circuit. Read more »| 16 Jun 2016 -
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Tommy's Honour
Edinburgh International Film Festival opens with an earnest golfing drama that's as exciting as you'd expect, but the fine cast save it from being mired in the rough Read more »| 15 Jun 2016 -
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A Snapshot of American Independent Cinema in 2016
A report back from Sundance London, where the best of American indie film was on the menu Read more »| 15 Jun 2016 -
Comedy
Is the Edinburgh Fringe too small?
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme was launched to a chorus of disappointment last week, as it was discovered that the Fringe has shrunk in size. Read more »| 15 Jun 2016 -
Uk Festivals
Cinema is dead. Long live Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality was all over this year's Sheffield Doc/Fest, but is it the future of visual storytelling? Read more »| 15 Jun 2016 -
Uk FestivalsField Day 2016: The Review
Field Day rings in 10 years with celebratory headline turns from James Blake, PJ Harvey and some almighty storm clouds. Read more »| 15 Jun 2016 -
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LIMF launches radio station for 2016
Liverpool International Music Festival Radio will reflect both the past and present of the city's thriving music scene Read more »| 15 Jun 2016 -
International Festivals
Primavera Sound 2016: The Review
For British music festival veterans wearily accustomed to watching live music from under the hood of a dripping anorak, Barcelona’s Primavera Sound – a festival effectively located on a Mediterranean beach – is something of a sunny novelty Read more »| 13 Jun 2016 -
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Michael Moore on Trump, Blair and Brexit
Sheffield Doc/Fest, the UK's number one documentary festival, kicked off yesterday with opening film Where to Invade Next and a stirring Q&A with its dir... Read more »| 11 Jun 2016