Interviews

With the second cohort from NFTS Scotland's Sean Connery Lab due to premiere their short films at next month's Edinburgh International Film Festival, we look back to one of the most impressive works from the scheme's inaugural year: Ryan Pollock's Gowk Read more »

We talk to Portuguese film writer and director Laura Carreira about what she's learned from 14 years living in Edinburgh Read more »

French director Vladimir de Fontenay and English actor Woody Norman talk to us about working together on My Father's Island, following a father and son on an ill-advised trip to live on a Norwegian Island for a year Read more »

Daniele Rugo's devastating documentary Life Support follows international medical professionals who are bringing out images and first-person testimonies of the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza Read more »

Hidden cameras, smuggled pliers and time travel; in Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol have spliced together what’s likely the funniest, and definitely the most interesting, comedy of 2026 Read more »

Sophy Romvari's extraordinary debut, Blue Heron, explores the unmoored nature of memory. She tells us how she uses cinema as a way of grappling with the past and filling in the gaps in her memories that may not have even existed in the first place Read more »