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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Edinburgh FestivalsWang Bing: The Mystery of a Fact Clearly Described
In advance of the UK premiere of Wang Bing's latest feature at Edinburgh International Film Festival, the master documentary filmmaker looks through his back catalogue and discusses the relationship between truth and imagery Read more »| 26 Jun 2014 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEIFF 2014: Garnet’s Gold
In Ed Perkin’s documentary Garnet’s Gold, a peculiar man with an improbable name, Garnet Frost, sets out on the quest of his life, a quixotic jou... Read more »| 25 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: The Paternal House
The opening scene of Iranian drama The Paternal House plays like a home invasion thriller, as a weeping young woman flees from room to room, barricading door... Read more »| 25 Jun 2014 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEIFF 2014: Home (Hemma)
Coffee is the beverage of choice in Maximilian Hult’s sweet but never treacly directorial debut, and with a name like Home, it’s not difficult to... Read more »| 25 Jun 2014 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEIFF 2014: Uncertain Terms
Almost everyone who saw Nathan Silver’s first film and EIFF debut in 2012, Exit Elena, was hugely impressed by a new, smart and humane voice in US... Read more »| 24 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: Hellion
Hellion is a low-key family drama that explores grief and responsibility. Former Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul features as Hollis, a boozy single parent who&r... Read more »| 24 Jun 2014
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EIFF 2014: Joe
With Joe, director David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, Prince Avalanche) returns to his roots, examining the grim reality of society’s underclass wi... Read more »| 24 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: I Believe in Unicorns
A merging of Terrence Malick’s Badlands and Terry Gilliam’s Tideland might be read as a possible influence on I Believe in Unicorns, but this ver... Read more »| 24 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: Castles in the Sky
It’s hard to represent the creative process of invention on screen without resorting to cliché. Gillies Mackinnon’s Castles in the Sky, ho... Read more »| 23 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: Stray Dogs
Stray Dogs is an existentialist study of human endurance presented in two acts. Both are spectacular. The first follows a man (Tsai’s go-to leading man... Read more »| 22 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: Violet
Violet opens with a silent act of violence, the murder of a teenage boy in an empty shopping mall, wordlessly captured from multiple angles on CCTV. After wi... Read more »| 22 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: Snowpiercer
Adapted from a French comic, directed by South Korean maverick Bong Joon-ho (The Host, Memories of Murder), and featuring a stacked roster of American, Europ... Read more »| 21 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: Finding Vivian Maier
In 2007 John Maloof, while researching for a book on Chicago, happened upon a collection of 30,000 prints and negatives by one Vivian Maier. Googling her nam... Read more »| 21 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: Cold in July
The exploitation revival of the last ten or so years has produced more duds than doozies, but Jim Mickle here delivers a real highlight of the sub-genre with... Read more »| 20 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: Let Us Prey
This visually stylish low budget horror looks like it’ll be a real treat from the doom-leaden and aggressive opening, as a flock of crows and chilling ... Read more »| 20 Jun 2014