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 FestivalsSurge Festival 2012
Surge Festival comes to Glasgow, celebrating the myriad forms of physical theatre with a selection of installations, performances and events to amaze and astound. Let's get physical! Read more »| 02 Jul 2012 -
Edinburgh FestivalsReel Talk: EIFFing good festival
It's roughly the mid-point of the 66th Edinburgh International Film Festival. I’m sitting in the Filmhouse bar, the festival's main hub, and I feel env... Read more »| 29 Jun 2012 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2012: The Search for Emak Bakia
Taking Man Ray’s inscrutable cine-poem Emak-Bakia (1927) as inspiration, The Search for Emak Bakia sees director Oskar Alegria walk the Basque coast wi... Read more »| 29 Jun 2012 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEIFF 2012: Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal
While we don’t know for sure how Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal was pitched to investors, we’d like to think it was something along the lines o... Read more »| 29 Jun 2012 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEIFF 2012: Brake
A mildly impressive joyride, but some staggeringly stupid twists put on the brakes Read more »| 29 Jun 2012 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2012: God Bless America
Bobcat Goldthwait, one of USA's most adventurous directors, is back with a biting satire on American culture Read more »| 29 Jun 2012
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Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF blog: Kinship, Sacrifice, Diplomacy
A roundup of the trio of docs in Edinburgh International Film Festival's Focus on Denmark strand, which was one of the highlights of this year's event Read more »| 28 Jun 2012 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2012: The Ambassador
It sounds like the start of a bad joke: how does a “caucasian, pigment-challenged” Dane become Liberia’s diplomatic representative in the C... Read more »| 25 Jun 2012 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2012: The Lifeguard
A documentary that's as precisely plotted as any fiction Read more »| 25 Jun 2012 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2012: Sun Don't Shine
Amy Seimetz's delightfully oblique road-movie neatly sidesteps any potential fears of yet another generic lo-fi couple-with-issues indie. Crystal (Kate Lyn S... Read more »| 25 Jun 2012 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2012: Isn't Anyone Alive? (Ikiteru mono inai no ka)
Who'd have thought the world coming to an end would be so much fun? Read more »| 24 Jun 2012 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2012: Dr Seuss' The Lorax
The Lorax continues the trend of poor cinematic adaptations of Dr Seuss Read more »| 24 Jun 2012 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2012: Maja Borg on Future My Love
Maja Borg's Future My Love is competing for the coveted Michael Powell award at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival. We spoke to the filmmaker about her film, a poetic blend of doc, road trip and love story Read more »| 24 Jun 2012 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2012: Exit Elena
This highly accomplished, micro-budget drama from Nathan Silver offers a rich study of loneliness and its different effects. Newly qualified nurse Elena (Kia... Read more »| 23 Jun 2012 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2012: Girimunho
An evocative portrait of life in rural Brazil Read more »| 23 Jun 2012