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The Sleeping Beast (Dir. Jaak Kilmi) The imagination of youth blends with the harsh reality of adulthood in this evocative coming-of-age film from Estonia.... Read more »

The autumn film festival calendar is an embarrassment of riches this month with at least half a dozen great festivals taking place. There’s the final w... Read more »

I’m in bed with the director of In Bed with Victoria. Well, virtually. French filmmaker Justine Triet is in a hotel room lying flat, her head propped u... Read more »

HippFest (or The Hippodrome Silent Film Festival to give it its full title) returns to its stunning home at the Hippodrome cinema in Bo’ness from ... Read more »

Andrew Cumming’s gnarly survivalist horror Out of Darkness makes great use of its Highland setting. Set in the Paleolithic age, it follows a band ... Read more »

One of the most imaginatively curated festivals on Scotland's festival calendar is the Glasgow Short Film Festival, and this year’s programme looks to ... Read more »

Cultural boycotts work. One only has to look at how artists, writers and cultural institutions contributed to the end of Apartheid in South Africa. Today, ma... Read more »

One of the most heartening stories from the film world this year has been the huge well of support that has gathered around the Cinema for Gaza campaign, whi... Read more »

On 2 May, 1974, the Glasgow Film Theatre had its very first screening. That film was Federico Fellini’s flamboyant Roma. Fifty years later to the day, ... Read more »

The heart wants what the heart wants – and sometimes that’s a bodybuilder with a sweet smile who gets a bit antsy after one too many steroid inje... Read more »

Dinosaur, a new comedy set in Glasgow by Ashley Storrie and Matilda Curtis, doesn’t look like your typical Scottish sitcom. No shade to the likes of Sc... Read more »

At this month’s Sheffield Doc/Fest, Scottish documentarian Duncan Cowles will launch his debut feature, called Silent Men, into the world. Described as... Read more »

On 4 July, after 14 years and five prime ministers, each more hopeless than the last, we will hopefully be saying goodbye to our cruel, corrupt and inept Tor... Read more »

Making a film takes a village (sometimes a small city) of talented people, yet too often film discourse venerates the film director above everyone else. So i... Read more »

If you live in Scotland’s Central Belt, you’re spoiled for choice in terms of film festivals. Coming up in the next couple of months alone you ha... Read more »

We at The Skinny are pretty keen on Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Girl Bands – so much so that we gave it a Bestie award &ndash... Read more »

The Summerhall saga continues. Back in ​​May, the multi-arts hub in Edinburgh was put up for sale by its owners, the Isle of Man-based Oesselmann Estate... Read more »

I think I speak for everyone with even a smidgen of interest in the Scottish arts scene when I say, thank fuck 2024 is over. Fissures had long been visible w... Read more »

Be prepared to see a lot of films in January, because for some reason every distributor in this country is crowbarring their most-anticipated titles into cin... Read more »

Of all the talented young filmmakers working on the Scottish short film scene, the most visually distinctive might be Bryan M. Ferguson. His early work is di... Read more »

Glasgow Film Festival, Scotland’s largest celebration of film, is currently dusting off its red carpet and step-and-repeat banner hoardings as it gears... Read more »

Flying Lotus is back. It's been five years since FlyLo's last album, You’re Dead!, but the multi-disciplinary LA-based artist known to his pals as Stev... Read more »

Brady Corbet is in a buoyant mood. The 36-year-old American actor-turned-filmmaker is speaking to us over Zoom while supping tea in a London hotel. Our chat ... Read more »

Glasgow Short Film Festival can probably lay claim to putting on the coolest parties on the Scottish film scene, and they’ve found the perfect opening ... Read more »

Film festivals are political, and film festival programmers have a responsibility to engage with the social and political issues of our time. Few festivals i... Read more »

March is chockablock with film festivals. In our March issue you can read features on Glasgow Film Festival (till 9 Mar), Glasgow Short Film Festival and Hip... Read more »

Scotland’s annual celebration of short film, the Glasgow Short Film Festival, came to a close this weekend. Despite the major setback of the festival&r... Read more »

Last September, Hidden Door announced that they had found a huge site for their 2025 edition: The Paper Factory, a 15.5-acre site occupied by the former Saic... Read more »

The CCA’s winter closure has been a massive blow to Glasgow’s film scene, but with spring arriving its doors are reopening with a film that will ... Read more »

The Glasgow International Comedy Festival came to a close last night (30 Mar) with a gala ceremony and the awarding of its most coveted prize – the Sir... Read more »