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FestivalsGlasgow 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 -
FestivalsGlasgow 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 -
NewsGet The Skinny presents... Indie Cinema Guide!
Looking for a copy of our new Indie Cinema Guide? Here's where to find it in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and beyond Read more »| 15 Sep 2023 -
NewsFilmhouse: Former staff launch reopening campaign
A fundraising campaign to reopen Filmhouse in Edinburgh is underway, while in Aberdeen, the council has approved plans for a community group to take over the Belmont cinema Read more »| 14 Sep 2023 -
NewsEdinburgh Film Festival: The 2023 programme
Edinburgh Film Festival reveals its 2023 programme, which includes a documentary on Irvine Welsh, a patricide thriller set in the Highlands and possibly the year's best film, alongside new work from Kelly Reichardt, Christian Petzold and Ira Sachs Read more »| 06 Jul 2023 -
NewsScottish Film Events: July 2023
SAFAR, the UK’s largest festival of Arab cinema, comes to GFT, while DCA and Cameo get us revved up for Barbie with Greta Gerwig seasons Read more »| 04 Jul 2023
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FestivalsFremont to close Edinburgh Film Festival 2023
The curtain will come down on the 2023 Edinburgh International Film Festival with the immigration tale Fremont from Iranian-British filmmaker Babak Jalali Read more »| 27 Jun 2023 -
FestivalsSilent Roar opens Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023
The opening gala film for the new-look Edinburgh International Film Festival will be Outer Hebrides-set teen movie Silent Roar Read more »| 14 Jun 2023 -
NewsScottish Film Events: June 2023
This month The Folk Film Gathering returns with a focus on Ukrainian cinema and gives some classic Play for Today films the big screen treatment Read more »| 31 May 2023 -
NewsSave the Filmhouse: New protest set for 15 April
Campaigners behind the Save the Filmhouse group are organising a National Protest for the Arts on 15 April, coinciding with World Art Day Read more »| 06 Apr 2023 -
FestivalsGlasgow Short Film Festival: The 2023 Awards
A roundup of the winners from this year's Glasgow Short Film Festival Read more »| 28 Mar 2023 -
NewsEdinburgh Film Festival to return in 2023 with EIF
Edinburgh International Film Festival gets a reprieve – for one year at the very least – returning in 2023 for a special edition under the umbrella of the Edinburgh International Festival, with a new head of programming Read more »| 08 Mar 2023 -
FestivalsGlasgow Short Film Festival reveal 2023 programme
GSFF showcase the rise of our AI overlords, host nights of world-building animation and a focus on Lebanese short films, plus new shorts from Ainslie Henderson, Duncan Cowles, Simone Smith and Jack Goessens in the Scottish competition Read more »| 22 Feb 2023 -
FestivalsGlasgow Short Film Festival: First events for 2023
Glasgow Short Film Festival opens with Rhys Hollis’ OMOS, and Aussie mashup geniuses Soda_Jerk are back with their latest film, Hello Dankness Read more »| 09 Feb 2023 -
NewsWatch the award-winning Close for free with The Skinny & MUBI
The CineSkinny Film Club returns this month, and kicks off with free screenings of one of 2023's best films so far – Lukas Dhont's Close Read more »| 08 Feb 2023