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FilmGlasgow Youth Film Festival returns for 2022
GYFF, the innovative festival curated by young people from Glasgow, returns with a mix of old films and mint fresh ones, such as the new comedic murder mystery See How They Run, which opens the festival Read more »| 18 Aug 2022 -
FestivalsEdinburgh International Film Festival: The 2022 programme
In its 75th year, Edinburgh International Film Festival reveals the 87 feature films that will screen at a new-look festival Read more »| 20 Jul 2022 -
FestivalsEIFF announce new strands, retrospectives and award
Edinburgh International Film Festival returns to the August festival bonanza with a new look programme and a new award – the Powell and Pressburger Award – celebrating creativity in both British film and cinema from further afield Read more »| 29 Jun 2022 -
FestivalsGlasgow Short Film Festival reveal films in 2022 competitions
GSFF are back in-person and have revealed the films competing for the Bill Douglas Award and the Scottish Short Film Competition. The Skinny favourites James Price, Cat Bruce and Bryan M Ferguson are among those with films in the latter Read more »| 10 Feb 2022 -
FestivalsHippFest 2022 preview: Scotland's silent film fest returns
Mark Kermode's band scores FW Murnau’s City Girl and Withnail & I’s Paul McGann narrates the closing gala, L’Homme du Large – those are just a few potential highlights from this year's HippFest Read more »| 09 Feb 2022 -
NewsListen to The Cineskinny podcast!
The Cineskinny is the film review podcast from The Skinny – this time, reviews of Plainclothes and Good Boy, and some of our Halloween horror picks Read more »| 03 Feb 2022
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FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival reveal 2022 programme
Glasgow Film Festival returns as a hybrid of in-person and at-home screenings, where work from the world's great auteur filmmakers (Claire Denis, Sean Baker, Mia Hansen-Løve) is paired with films with a local flavour Read more »| 27 Jan 2022 -
FestivalsEIFF 2021 will close with Billy Crystal comedy
The Edinburgh Film Festival will come to a close with a few laughs this year with Here Today, the new comedy written, directed by and starring the legendary Billy Crystal Read more »| 09 Jul 2021 -
FestivalsEIFF plan outdoor festival by the Firth of Forth
Edinburgh International Film Festival will return to in-person screenings with a weekend of aquatically-themed films, from Jaws to Titanic, screening on the banks of the Firth of Forth Read more »| 01 Jul 2021 -
NewsGlasgow Short Film Festival returns for its 14th edition
The mighty Glasgow Short Film Festival reveals the films in its two competitions, and shares its 2021 launch trailer Read more »| 17 Feb 2021 -
NewsGFF 2021 add more films to the lineup
GFF will host UK premiere of Tina and First Cow, as well as a free screening of doc Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In Read more »| 17 Feb 2021 -
FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival highlights Black Scottish filmmakers
Glasgow Film Festival presents Welcome To: a programme shining a light on Black Scottish filmmaking Read more »| 02 Feb 2021 -
FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival returns online in 2021
Irvine Welsh's biopic of infamous music impresario Alan McGee and a brilliant tragicomedy about a refugee trapped on a remote Scottish island are just two highlights from this year's fully-online Glasgow Film Festival Read more »| 14 Jan 2021 -
FestivalsSQIFF unveils 2020 programme
The mighty SQIFF – Scottish Queer International Film Festival for the uninitiated – returns with queer dystopia, stories of QTIPOC activism, LGBTQIA+ disruptions in sport and a queer horror icon setting the record straight Read more »| 09 Sep 2020 -
FestivalsGlasgow Short Film Festival 2020 goes online
Glasgow Short Film Festival present edition 'twelve-and-a-half' of the groundbreaking and always-exciting festival Read more »| 29 Jul 2020