Film
The Skinny magazine film guide. We bring you the latest new releases, UK film festivals, previews, reviews, exclusive interviews with film directors and actors, opinion pieces and film features.
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NewsGlasgow Short Film Festival reveals 2026 programme
The much-loved GSFF returns for its 19th edition with a spotlight on Iranian filmmaker Gelare Khoshgozaran, an archive programme celebrating the Clyde, and the festival’s usual expert curation of shorts from across the world Read more »| 19 Feb 2026 -
InterviewsNew GFF head Paul Gallagher on the future of Glasgow Film Festival
Paul Gallagher, the long-time programmer at Glasgow Film Theatre, recently took over as Head of Programme for all of Glasgow Film's operations, which include the annual festival. We chat to him about his hopes for GFF ahead of his first edition in charge Read more »| 19 Feb 2026 -
InterviewsKleber Mendonça Filho on The Secret Agent
Nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, The Secret Agent has been a huge success for its talented director, Kleber Mendonça Filho. Even world leaders are taking notice of it! The Brazilian filmmaker tells us more Read more »| 17 Feb 2026 -
New ReleasesThe Secret Agent
Kleber Mendonça Filho's The Secret Agent, set during Brazil's brutal dictatorship, blends a dazzling thriller plot with a compelling depiction of a community creating a pocket of resistance Read more »| 17 Feb 2026 -
New ReleasesThe Testament of Ann Lee
Amanda Seyfried gives a stunning performance as the female Christ in Mona Fastvold's transcendent chronicle of faith, utopia and intractable pain Read more »| 16 Feb 2026 -
New ReleasesIf I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Rose Byrne gives a brilliant, harrowing turn as a frazzled mother being put through the wringer in this impeccably put-together black comedy that's as repellent as it is compelling Read more »| 16 Feb 2026
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NewsGlasgow Film Festival announces guests for 2026
James McAvoy will present his directorial debut, California Schemin', in person at GFF this year. Other filmmakers in attendance include Mark Jenkin, Alice Winocour and Felipe Bustos Sierra Read more »| 13 Feb 2026 -
InterviewsFelipe Bustos Sierra on Everybody to Kenmure Street
The Kenmure Street protest of 2021 saw a community save two of their neighbours from deportation through solidarity and collective action. Felipe Bustos Sierra's film Everybody to Kenmure Street immortalises this special day in Glasgow's history Read more »| 12 Feb 2026 -
InterviewsHasan Hadi on The President’s Cake
Hasan Hadi’s directorial debut, The President’s Cake, sees a young girl go on an odyssey to bake Saddam Hussein a cake. Hadi explains why it was imperative that the film be shot in Iraq and his ambitions for it to encourage more filmmaking in the country Read more »| 10 Feb 2026 -
NewsGlasgow Short Film Festival reveals Scottish Competition films for 2026
Glasgow Short Film Festival has announced the films competing in its always-popular Scottish Competition for 2026, with GSFF favourites like Duncan Cowles, Will Anderson and Leyla Coll-O'Reilly among the lineup Read more »| 10 Feb 2026 -
New ReleasesSundance 2026: Josephine
Beth de Araújo’s follow-up to 2022's Soft & Quiet is a lucid analysis of the banality of male aggression filtered through the eyes of an eight-year-old girl Read more »| 05 Feb 2026 -
New ReleasesSundance 2026: Extra Geography
Molly Manners’ feature debut follows the painfully relatable unravelling of a ride-or-die friendship when that delicate microcosm opens up to others Read more »| 05 Feb 2026 -
New ReleasesSundance 2026: The Incomer
From Edinburgh to Park City, writer-director Louis Paxton brings a piece of Orkney folklore to Sundance with his oddball feature debut, which won the NEXT Innovator Award at the Sundance Film Festival Read more »| 04 Feb 2026 -
NewsHippFest reveals its 2026 programme
HippFest, Scotland's unmissable film festival pairing silent cinema with live music, returns for its 16th edition with its biggest lineup yet. Expect soaring melodrama, epic sci-fi, death-defying stunt work, rib-tickling slapstick and Roaring 20s chic Read more »| 04 Feb 2026 -
Opinion11 unmissable films at Glasgow Film Festival 2026
New films from indie cinema legends, exciting festival hits and intriguing documentaries – here are our picks from this year's GFF lineup Read more »| 29 Jan 2026