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 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 ReleasesExtra 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 ReleasesThe Incomer
Edinburgh writer-director Louis Paxton's oddball feature debut is full of childlike wonder and quirks, but its quaintness may not be everyone’s bag 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 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: February 2026
Look out for celebrations for Valentine's Day (and Galentine’s Day), a tribute to the foreboding cinema of Béla Tarr and so many great screenings at Glasgow Film Festival Read more »| 03 Feb 2026
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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 -
New ReleasesIs This Thing On?
The stand-up origin story of Liverpudlian comic John Bishop provides the unlikely inspiration for Bradley Cooper's pleasingly low-key drama Is This Thing On? Read more »| 26 Jan 2026 -
New ReleasesThe Voice of Hind Rajab
Kaouther Ben Hania uses the real audio recording of Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed by Israeli military forces, to dramatise her failed rescue. The resulting hybrid film – nominated for an Oscar – is powerful and devastating Read more »| 22 Jan 2026 -
NewsGlasgow Film Festival reveals 2026 programme
GFF is back with a bumper 22nd edition. Highlights include new films from Jim Jarmusch, Mark Jenkin and Gus Van Sant as well as a very strong lineup of homegrown cinema, from doc Everyone to Kenmure Street to James McAvoy's California Schemin’ Read more »| 21 Jan 2026 -
New ReleasesThe History of Sound
Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor star as young men whose mutual love for music turns into romance in the latest period film from South African director Oliver Hermanus Read more »| 19 Jan 2026 -
New ReleasesNo Other Choice
Director Park Chan-wook returns with a Machiavellian teardown of capitalism and masculinity that saves its gory best for last Read more »| 16 Jan 2026 -
Interviews
Kaouther Ben Hania on The Voice of Hind Rajab
The murder of five-year-old Hind Rajab by IDF soldiers shook filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania to her core. She tells us why she felt it was her responsibility to tell Hind's story as a devastating piece of cinema Read more »| 13 Jan 2026 -
InterviewsBen Wheatley on micro-budget sci-fi BULK
Ben Wheatley went from big-budget Hollywood behemoth Meg 2: The Trench to his new film BULK, a micro-budget wonder that he's taking on tour across the UK. This protean filmmaker discusses the freedom he finds in making sci-fi on a shoestring Read more »| 07 Jan 2026 -
NewsEverybody To Kenmure Street to open Glasgow Film Festival 2026
Felipe Bustos Sierra's documentary on Glaswegians' successful stand against a Home Office deportation van will kick off this year's Glasgow Film Festival Read more »| 07 Jan 2026