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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Film
HippFest 2024 programme revealed
The Hippodrome Silent Film Festival is back with another knockout lineup of silent cinema, featuring early cinematic visions of Scotland, some of the biggest stars of the silent era and loads of rarities, all performed with live music Read more »| 06 Feb 2024 -
Film
Glasgow Film Festival reveals 2024 programme
This year’s GFF opens with much-anticipated new thriller Love Lies Bleeding starring Kristen Stewart, and closes with the world premiere of a new documentary on Glasgow comedian Janey Godley Read more »| 24 Jan 2024 -
Comedy
Glasgow Comedy Festival: Five under-the-radar picks
Glasgow Comedy Festival returns this March with a stacked lineup. We run through the headline acts before our Comedy Editor picks her must-attend under-the-radar shows Read more »| 19 Jan 2024 -
Uk Festivals
Glasgow Film Festival and GSFF team up to celebrate Bill Douglas
One of Scotland’s greatest filmmakers, Bill Douglas, will receive much love at the upcoming Glasgow Film Festival and Glasgow Short Film Festival, as GFF hosts new documentary Bill Douglas: My Best Friend while GSFF opens with some of Douglas's 8mm shorts Read more »| 16 Jan 2024 -
Uk Festivals
Fokus, Films from Germany: 2024 preview
Fokus returns for an eighth edition with a sharply curated lineup of brand-new German films, recent highlights from some of Germany's best contemporary filmmakers and some little-seen gems made in the German Democratic Republic Read more »| 21 Dec 2023 -
Music
M for Montréal 2023: The Report
We eat, sleep and breathe music at Canada's M for Montréal festival, leaving with a new tattoo as well as a new favourite band Read more »| 13 Dec 2023
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Uk Festivals
Glasgow Film Festival: Pop-up Screenings return in 2024
Glasgow Film Festival reveals the first programme details for its landmark 20th edition, including a bunch of pop-up screenings and their annual free morning retrospective Read more »| 08 Dec 2023 -
Uk Festivals
Take One Action 2023 Programme: Time to Renew
Take One Action returns for its 16th edition with a programme exploring the idea of renewal – of art, material, environment and society. Take One Action programmer Xuanlin Tham talks us through some of the programme's film and event highlights Read more »| 01 Dec 2023 -
Uk Festivals
One More 'Toon: Scotland Loves Anime 2023 preview
Annual celebration of Japanese animation Scotland Loves Anime returns with a diverse programme offering something for everyone Read more »| 27 Oct 2023 -
Uk Festivals
Discovery Film Festival 2023: 5 Films to See
Discovery Film Festival, which turns 20 this year, is back with an ambitious programme of films, shorts, events and workshops for young people and family audiences. Here are five picks from the international feature films on offer Read more »| 09 Oct 2023 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Edinburgh Art Festival: Keg de Souza at Royal Botanic Gardens
One writer reflects on Keg de Souza's exhibition at Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden, which examines the legacies of colonialism on the global south's natural ecologies Read more »| 03 Oct 2023 -
Uk Festivals
Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival: 5 Films to See
Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival turns ten this year. As ever, it gives a snapshot of contemporary Spanish filmmaking, from prison thrillers to social satires to historical dramas, with a few classics in the mix. Here are five titles to look out for Read more »| 28 Sep 2023 -
Uk Festivals
Scottish Queer International Film Festival 2023 preview
The Scottish Queer International Film Festival returns with a programme of films old and new, as well as two exhibitions and a series of workshops and events, including an end-of-festival party at Bonjour Read more »| 14 Sep 2023 -
Art
Edinburgh Art Festival: Jesse Jones’ The Tower
One writer reflects on her experience of Jesse Jones’ intensely haunting installation at Talbot Rice, which explores terrifying histories of misogyny in Ireland and beyond Read more »| 12 Sep 2023 -
Art
Edinburgh Art Festival: Markéta Luskačová at Stills
One writer explores the work of Prague-born, UK-based photographer Markéta Luskačová and her enduring photographs of children from the 1960s to the present day Read more »| 11 Sep 2023