Film Events
Stay up to date with current and upcoming film events. Here you’ll find info on approaching film festivals, and interviews with festival curators.
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Film Events
Scottish Film Events: May 2025
May's cinema highlights include three great film festivals (Alchemy, Falastine and Folk Film Gathering) plus GFT's 51st birthday and the Cameo showing some David Lynch love Read more »| 29 Apr 2025 -
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Falastin Film Festival returns for 2025
Falastin Film Festival, the new and urgent Palestinian film festival in Scotland, returns for its second edition with an expanded programme. We look at how the event goes beyond passive film watching to foster a space of learning, solidarity and action Read more »| 28 Apr 2025 -
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Spring Breakers: Five Great Scottish Film Festivals
There's a glut of great film festivals happening in Scotland this spring, covering a myriad of subjects and forms. We look forward to five of them Read more »| 25 Apr 2025 -
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Glasgow Film Theatre reveal 2025 birthday programme
The Glasgow cinema will celebrate its 51st birthday this May with a month-long programme that includes a David Lynch season and loads of classics back on the big screen, with some screenings on 35mm and 70mm Read more »| 09 Apr 2025 -
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Scottish Film Events: April 2025
The CCA makes a welcome return, physical media love letter Kim's Video goes on tour, and the essential Derek Jarman and Chantal Akerman retrospectives continue at GFT Read more »| 31 Mar 2025 -
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Scottish Film Events: March 2025
This March, expect many film festivals, unmissable retrospectives on two hugely influential filmmakers and a whole load of Q&A screenings for new work Read more »| 28 Feb 2025
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Glasgow Film Festival announces guests for 2025
Actors Tim Roth, Ed Harris and George MacKay, directors John Maclean and Laura Carreira, and Formula One star Damon Hill are just some of the talent coming to Glasgow Film Festival this year Read more »| 05 Feb 2025 -
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HippFest returns for its 15th edition
Scotland's silent film festival – HippFest – is back with another crackerjack lineup of classics and recently uncovered gems that will be accompanied by some brilliantly talented musicians Read more »| 04 Feb 2025 -
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Scottish Film Events: February 2025
Scottish cinemas begin their tributes to the late, great David Lynch, the Japan Touring Programme returns and there are a few unique ways to experience Brady Corbet's Oscar-nominated epic The Brutalist this month Read more »| 04 Feb 2025 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2025: Ten Films to See
Ahead of the 2025 edition of Scotland's biggest film festival, our film editor picks out some highlights from the Glasgow Film Festival programme Read more »| 31 Jan 2025 -
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Scottish Film Events: January 2025
Mike Leigh visits GFT, an epic film about the Flow Country at Celtic Connections and a whole load of Oscar bait! Plus, our film podcast The CineSkinny escapes the studio for a live post-film discussion about 21st-century queer cinema Read more »| 07 Jan 2025 -
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Scottish Film Events: December 2024
It was the worst of times, it was the best of times. With many arts venues hanging by a thread this year, why not see out 2024 with a visit to your local indie cinema? Read more »| 29 Nov 2024 -
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Scottish Film Events: November 2024
There are loads more film festivals this month, plus a brilliant season of noir to mark Noirvember and an exhibition celebrating the late, great Derek Jarman Read more »| 31 Oct 2024 -
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Puppet Masters: Two great stop-motion films at French Film Festival UK
New stop-motion films from directors Alain Ughetto and Claude Barras, which screen at French Film Festival UK, tell intensely personal stories and harness the revolutionary potential of this old-school animation technique Read more »| 29 Oct 2024 -
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Know Your Anime: Scotland Loves Anime 2024 preview
Scotland Loves Anime returns with a mouthwatering programme of mint-fresh anime and a smattering of classics. We take a look at what's on offer Read more »| 23 Oct 2024