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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FilmGFF 2021: Limbo
Scottish filmmaker Ben Sharrock blends absurdist humour and deep pathos to tell the story of a group of refugees left adrift on a desolate Scottish island as they wait for their asylum claims to be slowly processed Read more »| 04 Mar 2021 -
FilmGFF 2021: Apples
In an uncanny version of Athens free from iPhones and where cassette tapes are still in vogue, a virus breaks out robbing citizens of their memories, leaving many to start relearning how to live again from scratch Read more »| 02 Mar 2021 -
FilmGFF 2021: Eye of the Storm
Anthony Baxter (Flint, You've Been Trumped) follows the great Scottish painter James Morrison over the last two years of his life as he struggles with failing eyesight and poor health Read more »| 02 Mar 2021 -
FilmGFF 2021: Shorta
There are shades of Walter Hill in this breathless police thriller, which is great when trading in cop movie clichés but less sure-footed when trying to address real-world concerns about institutional racism and police brutality Read more »| 02 Mar 2021 -
FilmSweetheart: A new kind of coming-out movie
New coming-of-age film Sweetheart is a fresh take on the coming-out drama: it's more concerned with what happens next. Writer-director Marley Morrison and star Nell Barlow discuss the supportive shoot and avoiding the cliches of queer cinema Read more »| 01 Mar 2021 -
FilmGFF 2021: Iorram (Boat Song)
Blending audio from the past and images of the present, Iorram's mosaic of everyday life, myth and folk song paints a compelling portrait of the tight-knit fishing communities of the Outer Hebrides Read more »| 01 Mar 2021
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FilmGFF 2021: Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché
Blending archival footage, diary extracts and voiceover interviews, I Am A Cliché celebrates the life and legacy of X-Ray Spex frontwoman Poly Styrene Read more »| 26 Feb 2021 -
FilmGFF 2021: Black Bear
Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott and Sarah Gadon are electric as the three leads in Lawrence Michael Levine's metadrama concerned with shifting identities and cruel power games Read more »| 26 Feb 2021 -
FilmGFF 2021: Riders of Justice
If Taken featured scenes of screwball comedy and tender male bonding, it might look a bit like Riders of Justice, which stars Mads Mikkelsen as a soldier out for revenge after the death of his wife Read more »| 25 Feb 2021 -
FilmGFF 2021: Castro’s Spies
Compelling doc following the Cuban Five, a group of undercover agents who lived in Florida in the 1990s gathering intel for Castro Read more »| 25 Feb 2021 -
FilmGFF 2021: Creation Stories
Creation Stories is anchored by a magnetic performance from Ewen Bremner, but Nick Moran's biopic of the larger-than-life Alan McGee is surprisingly conventional Read more »| 25 Feb 2021 -
FilmGFF 2021: Minari
Lee Isaac Chung’s semi-autobiographical drama takes us back to the 1980s, where a Korean American family is trying to adjust to life in rural Arkansas. The result is a film touched by magic Read more »| 23 Feb 2021 -
Uk FestivalsLawrence Michael Levine on Black Bear
Aubrey Plaza is a revelation in Lawrence Michael Levine's surprising dark comedy Black Bear. Levine got the idea from a dream – over our chat we dig into his subconscious and the surreal film's hidden meanings Read more »| 18 Feb 2021 -
FilmGlasgow Short Film Festival returns for its 14th edition
The mighty Glasgow Short Film Festival reveals the films in its two competitions, and shares its 2021 launch trailer Read more »| 17 Feb 2021 -
FilmIFFR 2021: Small-scale film gems from Rotterdam
Part one of International Film Festival Rotterdam's two-part 2021 festival was sprinkled with enough small-scale gems to suggest arthouse and experimental cinema might still be in reasonable shape. We report back on some highlights Read more »| 15 Feb 2021