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 EventsScottish Film Events: October 2023
With Halloween coming up, it's horror madness on our screens this October, including two unmissable All Night Horror Madness lineups. Plus, new festival CineAstra and the early films of Hou Hsiao-hsien Read more »| 02 Oct 2023 -
FestivalsEdinburgh 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 -
FestivalsScottish 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 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: September 2023
Heroes of 70s American cinema are celebrated in Scottish cinemas this month, one of our favourite festivals returns, and there's the latest free screening from the CineSkinny Film Club Read more »| 31 Aug 2023 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: August 2023
EIFF is getting the east coast excited, but there's plenty of cinema action on the west coast too, with big screen epics, a Lars von Trier season and a new festival celebrating artists' films made in Scotland Read more »| 31 Jul 2023 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: May 2023
This month GFT and Cameo go big on Wes Anderson ahead of the release of Asteroid City, transgender stories are explored in a travelling programme from SQIFF and things get spooky in Dundee with the return of DCA's horror festival Dundead Read more »| 02 May 2023
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Film EventsScottish Film Events: April 2023
In April, Alchemy Film Festival returns, and we celebrate anniversaries for Safety Last!, The Big Lebowski and Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colours trilogy Read more »| 28 Mar 2023 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: March 2023
This month's film column is all about Berwick-upon-Tweed, imaginary Brad Pitt and BFFs Read more »| 02 Mar 2023 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: February 2023
February sees a Sarah Polley retrospective at GFT, a Weimar season at Cameo, and Andrew Black finally screens his Margaret Tait Award commission Read more »| 31 Jan 2023 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: January 2023
Start 2023 with a trip into the nightmarish worlds of David Lynch, an eye-popping 80s double-bill and a rarely-screened Studio Ghibli gem Read more »| 05 Jan 2023 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: December 2022
It's Christmas time, there's no need to be afraid, apart from at Cameo's Holiday Horror-a-thon. Plus basically all of your Christmas favourites get a showing in Scottish cinemas this December, from It's a Wonderful Life to Eyes Wide Shut Read more »| 30 Nov 2022 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: November 2022
Another busy month for the Scottish film calendar, with the French Film Festival, Africa in Motion, Havana Glasgow Film Festival and the Doc'n Roll Film Festival all returning Read more »| 01 Nov 2022 -
Film EventsScotland Loves Anime: 2022 Preview
Scotland Loves Anime, the UK's longest running film festival dedicated to Japanese animation, is back with another sparkling lineup featuring trips into the future, a bombastic rock opera, a few coming-of-age numbers and a deep dive into digital realms Read more »| 11 Oct 2022 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: October 2022
October is a jam-packed month for Scottish cinemas, featuring scary movies, 100-year-old movies, a plethora of film festivals and a fair few weird movies. Dive in! Read more »| 04 Oct 2022 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: September 2022
Scottish cinemas have quite a lineup this month: saucy 30s Hollywood, Marilyn Monroe being an icon in the 60s, Kinuyo Tanaka addressing love and sex head-on in 60s Japan, David Cronenberg creeping us out in the 80s, and werewolves attacking in 1981 Read more »| 30 Aug 2022