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FestivalsSummerhall Arts reveals 2025 Fringe programme
After a turbulent year of uncertainty around its future, Summerhall – one of Edinburgh and the Fringe’s most important venues – will begin ... Read more »| Updated 10 months ago -
FilmWay of the Sword: John Maclean on Tornado
The opening text of Tornado informs us that its events take place sometime in 1790s Britain. But don’t be braced for bonnets and corsets: this is not y... Read more »| Updated 9 months ago -
Food And Drink'The platonic ideal of a pub': The Old Toll Bar, Glasgow
What makes a pub ‘your local’? The obvious answer is to do with proximity, surely? It’s that place around the corner where everyone knows y... Read more »| Updated 8 months ago -
FilmKVIFF 2025: Out of Love
There’s a mystery at the heart of Out of Love, the bittersweet new drama from Nathan Ambrosioni: why does someone just walk out on a life? It’s a... Read more »| Updated 8 months ago -
FestivalsEdinburgh International Film Festival reveals 2025 programme
Navigating the Edinburgh Festivals in August is a bit like solving a complex maths equation where you have to try and balance out the hours in the day and th... Read more »| Updated 8 months ago -
FilmScottish Film Events: August 2025
We preview Edinburgh Film Festival (14-20 Aug) elsewhere in the mag and on this website, but it’s not the only UK festival of note this summer. Bristol... Read more »| Updated 7 months ago -
FestivalsTake One Action reveals 2025 programme
Last year, Take One Action announced it would be moving to a new biannual film festival model and today they’ve revealed the programme details for the ... Read more »| Updated 7 months ago -
FilmQueer Me Out: new queer cinema at Edinburgh Film Festival
Film festivals can act as barometers for assessing the health of indie filmmaking. Read any critic's report on the competitions at Cannes or Berlin and you&r... Read more »| Updated 7 months ago -
FilmThe Golden Spurtle
Who would have thought a documentary about porridge, the beigest of foodstuffs, would be so colourful? I’m not just talking about Dimitri Zaunders&rsqu... Read more »| Updated 6 months ago -
FestivalsBuilding Bridges: IberoDocs 2025 preview
IberoDocs is about to deliver its 11th and biggest edition. While the raison d'être of the festival might seem quite obvious – as its title sugge... Read more »| Updated 6 months ago -
FestivalsScottish Queer International Film Festival returns for 2025
Film festivals grow up so fast. It seems like only yesterday that Scottish Queer International Film Festival were the cool new kids on the block. Now that th... Read more »| Updated 6 months ago -
FestivalsYoung Team: Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2025 preview
Every summer, the GFT mentors a group of 15 to 18-year-old Glasgow students in the ways of film curation and festival coordination. And then, at the end of t... Read more »| Updated 5 months ago -
FilmGlasgow Film Festival reveals first films for 2026
Winter is slowly but surely approaching, and with those cold, dark months drawing in, we’re already getting excited for the promise of some great films... Read more »| Updated 4 months ago -
TheatreManipulate Festival reveals 2026 programme
Next year’s edition of Manipulate, we’re told, will see the animation, puppetry and visual theatre festival deliver one of its most ambitious pro... Read more »| Updated 3 months ago -
FilmFrench Film Festival UK 2025: Top Five Picks
This year’s French Film Festival UK lineup is sparkling. Richard Linklater, Hafsia Herzi, Cédric Klapisch, Julia Ducornau, and Rebecca Zlot... Read more »| Updated 4 months ago -
FilmJames McAvoy's California Schemin' to close Glasgow Film Festival
The 22nd Glasgow Film Festival will run from 25 February to 8 March, and today the festival has revealed the film its team has chosen to close proceedings: J... Read more »| Updated 3 months ago -
FilmHippFest reveals its 2026 programme
Is it just me, or is silent cinema suddenly en vogue? Over the summer of 2025, the centenary of Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin was celebrated ... Read more »| Updated 20 days ago -
FilmGlasgow Short Film Festival reveals Scottish Competition films for 2026
In the February issue of The Skinny, you can read an interview with Glasgow Film's new Head of Programme Paul Gallagher, where he celebrates the breadth of f... Read more »| Updated 14 days ago -
FilmGlasgow Film Festival announces guests for 2026
It was only last year that James McAvoy attended Glasgow Film Festival and received the festival’s Cinema City Award. It’s been confirmed today t... Read more »| Updated 12 days ago -
FilmThe best film events in Scotland in November
1) French Film Festival Lover for a Day It looks to have been a pretty good year in cinema for our neighbours across the channel, as evidenced by the ... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
FilmThe best film events in Scotland in January
1. Paul Thomas Anderson on 35mm Inherent Vice You’ve got a whole month still to go until the release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s fantastic new fi... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
FilmGreta Gerwig speaks out against Woody Allen: ‘I will not work for him again’
The weekend’s Golden Globe awards was a bittersweet affair. It was thrilling to see this most superficial of awards ceremonies – where the red ca... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
FestivalsTrainspotting producer Andrew Macdonald leads GFF Industry programme
The full programme for Glasgow Film Festival will be announced next Wednesday (24 Jan), but today the Industry Focus Strand (28 Feb-2 Mar) has been revealed ... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
FilmStar Wars to tour the UK with a live orchestra
Screening classic films with live music is all the rage nowadays, so it was only a matter of time before George Lucas’ Star Wars: A New Hope was given ... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
FilmLynne Ramsay is GFT's latest CineMaster
Over the next few weeks Glasgow Film Theatre is going to be chockablock with fantastic filmmakers, what with the Glasgow Film Festival taking over the cinema... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
FilmMargaret Salmon on Sacred Paws-scored speedway film Mm
Head down to Tramway this month and you’ll encounter the work of American-born, Glasgow-based artist Margaret Salmon. Circle, her first major retrospec... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
FilmThe best film events in Scotland in March
1. Glasgow Short Film Festival Scotland’s coolest film festival returns this month and the pleasures look to be myriad. As well as some sharply curate... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
FestivalsFemale directors rule at GSFF 2018 awards
The eleventh Glasgow Short Film Festival came to a close last night with a gala ceremony at its spiffy new venue Civic House. “It's been an exhilaratin... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
FilmThere’s a petition for an Avengers: Infinity War Edinburgh premiere
There’s a petition for everything nowadays, from the 50,000 people who tried to stop Barr changing the Irn-Bru recipe to the squad who called for fire ... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
TheatreTake Me Somewhere announces 2018 programme
The fearless legacy of the Arches looks to be alive and well in Take Me Somewhere, Glasgow’s newest festival of contemporary performance, which returns... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago