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 FestivalsReel Life: Sheffield Doc/Fest 2013
We look back at the runners and riders at the 20th Sheffield Doc/Fest Read more »| 01 Jul 2013 -
Uk FestivalsEdinburgh International Fashion Festival 2013
Ahead of this summer's Edinburgh International Fashion Festival, we speak to curators Jonathan and Anna Freemantle about art, storytelling, and the new talent they have unearthed for this year's programme Read more »| 01 Jul 2013 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2013 - The Winners
This year's Edinburgh International Film Festival awards winners were announced today. The internationally-known EIFF is seen as one of the most forward-thin... Read more »| 28 Jun 2013 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2013: When Night Falls (Wo Hai You Hua Yao Shuo)
A stanch exposé of real-life injustice, When Night Falls dramatises the plight of Wang Jimnei, whose son Yang Jia was convicted of killing seven polic... Read more »| 28 Jun 2013 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2013: Il Futuro (The Future)
Chilean writer-director Alicia Scherson’s languid coming-of-age tale follows Roman teens Bianca (Martelli) and Tomas (Ciardo), who are thrust toward th... Read more »| 28 Jun 2013 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2013: Emperor Visits the Hell (Tang huang you di fu)
Sixteenth century Chinese novel Journey to the West has been adapted dozens of times in dozens of ways, from cult Japanese television show Monkey to Damon Al... Read more »| 27 Jun 2013
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Edinburgh FestivalsEIFF 2013: Svengali
One of Svengali’s running jokes is that protagonist Dixie – a postman from rural Wales who ups-sticks for London hoping to nurture a distinctly u... Read more »| 26 Jun 2013 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2013: This Is Martin Bonner
Martin Bonner (Eenhoorn) is at a lull in his life. An Aussie expat, he finds himself leaving his grown-up east-coast family and moving to Reno, Nevada for th... Read more »| 25 Jun 2013 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2013: uwantme2killhim?
The internet is a dangerously empowering tool in this true story, which has been knit into a taut thriller by British director Andrew Douglas. Set in 2003, u... Read more »| 25 Jun 2013 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2013: Magic Magic
Writer-director Sebastián Silva here channels early Polanski to produce a beguiling and gut-wrenching psychological horror for the Diablo Cody generat... Read more »| 23 Jun 2013 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2013: We Are the Freaks
Following three teenage friends on a night out in 1990, after Thatcher has just stepped down, We Are the Freaks opens with self-reflexive narration that posi... Read more »| 23 Jun 2013 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2013: From Tehran to London
Mania Akbari’s film is dedicated to “all those filmmakers in Iran, who have served a prison sentence and the ones who are still in prison.”... Read more »| 22 Jun 2013 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2013: National Security
What can be more worthy than a film highlighting the cruelty of torture? And what more torturous than almost two hours as witness to such soulless barbarity?... Read more »| 22 Jun 2013 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2013: The Berlin File
With the hyped-up, swaggering gait of a gunslinger on speed, Korean action supremo Ryoo Seung-wan delivers East meets West double agent intrigue in The Berli... Read more »| 22 Jun 2013 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF: People's Park
Private lives of the Peoples Republic of China are played out in the public space of a Chengdu park and recorded as historical document in Libbie D Cohn and ... Read more »| 22 Jun 2013