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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Film EventsScottish Film Events: May 2022
The Italian Film Festival and Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival return in May, while we get very excited about the CineSkinny Film Club, debuting with a James Price retrospective Read more »| 04 May 2022 -
FestivalsAlchemy Film & Moving Image Festival returns in-person
As Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival returns, its directors tell us to expect a more focused festival with community, collaboration and local filmmaking at its heart Read more »| 29 Apr 2022 -
OpinionTen Films to Watch this International Workers Day
Workers of the world, unite! And also watch these films from all over the world exploring workers' rights and the power of unionisation Read more »| 27 Apr 2022 -
FestivalsThe Road Dance
The Road Dance has ambitions to explore the devastating impact of war on isolated communities. It doesn't quite succeed, but it's a handsomely mounted period piece nonetheless Read more »| 25 Apr 2022 -
InterviewsJuho Kuosmanen on Compartment No.6
Juho Kuosmanen's new film Compartment No.6 has been described as Finland's answer to Before Sunrise. We chat to this talented young filmmaker about this spiky, complex and rather delightful romantic drama Read more »| 11 Apr 2022 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: April 2022
April's film highlights include a Nicole Holofcener season in Glasgow, a Sidney Poitier retrospective at Filmhouse, and the in-person return of Alchemy Film Festival Read more »| 30 Mar 2022
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InterviewsScotland on Screen: Bryan M. Ferguson
We catch up with Bryan M. Ferguson, one of the most distinct voices on the Scottish short film scene, to discuss his ridiculously prolific filmmaking practice and hear about his planned coming-of-age feature set in a funeral home Read more »| 25 Mar 2022 -
FestivalsIberoDocs: 2022 festival preview
IberoDocs returns with a hybrid edition featuring in-person events in Glasgow and Edinburgh as well as online screenings across the UK. As usual, expect a sharply-curated selection of documentary from Spanish, Portuguese and Latin-American filmmakers Read more »| 24 Mar 2022 -
FestivalsMeet the stars of Glasgow Short Film Festival 2022
As is now tradition, we speak to some of the filmmakers behind our favourite shorts at this year's Glasgow Short Film Festival Read more »| 22 Mar 2022 -
InterviewsRenate Reinsve on The Worst Person in the World
In Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier’s latest, The Worst Person in the World, a star is born with Renate Reinsve, who plays a woman about to turn 30 and drifting between careers and relationships in Oslo. We chat to Reinsve about her rapturous performance Read more »| 21 Mar 2022 -
New ReleasesThe Worst Person in the World
Set over 12 chapters, Joachim Trier's exuberant new film The Worst Person in the World follows a young woman from Oslo as she explores her career options and vacillates between romantic relationships Read more »| 21 Mar 2022 -
New ReleasesBaby Assassins
Part oddball slacker comedy, part effervescent action film, Baby Assassins is a delight Read more »| 16 Mar 2022 -
New ReleasesMurina
Arriving with the best first feature film award from Cannes and with Martin Scorsese on board as an executive producer, Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s fraught family drama Murina is one of GFF22’s hottest tickets Read more »| 14 Mar 2022 -
New ReleasesThe Novice
Isabelle Fuhrman is fantastic as a freshman rower with an obsession to be the best in this gripping, gut-punching sports drama Read more »| 11 Mar 2022 -
FestivalsBack in the News: Dziga Vertov’s Kino-Pravda at GSFF
Glasgow Short Film Festival present three episodes from Dziga Vertov's avant-garde newsreel series Kino-Pravda at this year's edition. We ask the series' curator, Matevž Jerman, why he wanted to contextualise this century-old news for a modern audience Read more »| 11 Mar 2022