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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
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FestivalsDive In: Glasgow Short Film Festival's free online fest
Joined by some of Scotland's best film programmers and festivals, GSFF present two weeks of free online screenings Read more »| 09 Jul 2020 -
NewsGlasgow Short Film Festival goes online
The Glasgow Short Film Festival was meant to begin today (18 March) but has been among the many events cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The show will go on though… online that is Read more »| 18 Mar 2020 -
NewsEdinburgh’s Filmhouse planning ambitious new six-screen cinema
New Filmhouse you say? Ambitious plans to replace the much-loved arthouse theatre with a multi-story, state-of-the-art cinema on neighbouring Festival Square have been announced today, with a consultation process taking place over the coming 12 weeks Read more »| 11 Mar 2020 -
NewsJason Connery to head up Scottish film studio
The son of Sean Connery, along with producer Bob Last, has been appointed to develop and run First Stage Studios in Leith Read more »| 10 Mar 2020 -
FestivalsGlasgow Short Film Festival: The 2020 programme
The newly independent Glasgow Short Film Festival announces its jam-packed five-day programme of over 180 screenings Read more »| 13 Feb 2020 -
NewsThe French Dispatch looks like Wes Anderson to the max
The trailer for Wes Anderson’s latest star-studded movie, The French Dispatch is here, featuring Frances McDormand, Saoirse Ronan, Tilda Swinton, Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody, Anderson’s talisman Bill Murray... and Timothée Chalamet in the bath Read more »| 12 Feb 2020 -
FestivalsParasite comes to Glasgow Film Festival in black & white
Glasgow film fans will be the first to see the new black and white version of Best Picture-winner Parasite, Bong Joon-ho’s wildly inventive class satire, the colour version of which is currently going great guns in UK cinemas Read more »| 12 Feb 2020 -
NewsParasite causes a glorious upset at the Oscars
Bong Joon-ho’s Palme d’Or-winning satire comes up trumps at the Oscars, beating bookies’ favourite 1917 to the top prize. It’s the first foreign-language film ever to do so Read more »| 10 Feb 2020 -
FilmScottish Film and Streaming Highlights: February 2020
A look at this month's top film events, from a Fellini season in Edinburgh to the return of IberoDocs and Glasgow Film Festival Read more »| 04 Feb 2020