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It’s a powerful film that can make a working-class lad from the Lowlands care about Highland gentry, but that’s precisely the case with Cindy Jan... Read more »

Félix De Givry’s achingly tender coming-of-age film opens on a pitch-black night over a small provincial French town. There’s commotion on... Read more »

Most of Her Private Hell’s more maddening qualities could be defended as the artistic choices of a filmmaker who’s more than happy to needle his ... Read more »

Since his debut in Karl Markovics’ Breathing, Thomas Schubert has been attracted to difficult characters who may not fully understand their own motivat... Read more »

It feels odd calling a film about brothers murdering their abusive dad on a hunting trip 'accessible', but any film about parents and children benefits from ... Read more »

The stunning, foreboding rural Oregon landscape is the backdrop to director Kelsey Taylor’s modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. An unnamed wood... Read more »

Chris Stokes is not what most people would envision when they hear about the guy who married his AI-animated sex doll (or “love doll”, to use Chr... Read more »

Comparing any surreal, genre-fluid movie to David Lynch's work is often a hack move in film criticism. That being said, the feature debut of writer-director ... Read more »

The city of Fremont in northern California is an innocuous place – quiet, everyday, nondescript. It is not, perhaps, a particularly cinematic place; or... Read more »

Orlando is a poet and aristocrat who can change their sex, found in the pages of Virginia Woolf’s fictionalised biography of Orlando's centuries-long l... Read more »

It's going to be a bit longer than planned before we see the new look Edinburgh International Film Festival programme. The programme launch was original... Read more »

Everyone's a critic nowadays, right? But if you're interested in more than just firing off hot takes into the abyss of Twitter, Edinburgh International Film ... Read more »

Disney•Pixar love Edinburgh International Film Festival. During the last decade, no edition of the long-running festival has felt complete without ... Read more »

COVID has significantly limited our movements and narrowed our lives to an extent, showing us how much we took mobility for granted. This year, as part of th... Read more »

Today Edinburgh International Film Festival launched its The Young & the Wild programme, the festival’s strand devoted to films about and for young... Read more »

Under traditional sharia law, there is a doctrine named the qisas that is still practised in parts of the Islamic world. Based in retaliatory justice, it pla... Read more »

For the last decade or so, Edinburgh cinephiles have had a quiet August. The Edinburgh International Film Festival was first held in 1947, the same year as t... Read more »

It Is in Us All, the directorial debut from Irish actor Antonia Campbell-Hughes, is a slow-burn. The indie drama follows Hamish (Cosmo Jarvis), a businessman... Read more »

In The Justice of Bunny King, the titular character is a struggling mother of two trying to re-enter society after serving time in prison for murdering her a... Read more »

The parts of Sophie Heldman’s historical drama are excellent: a strong cast, a sweeping score just the right side of sentimental, meticulous historical... Read more »

The retrospective for this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival has been announced, and organisers say they’ve been inspired by current a... Read more »

Fifty years ago, Edinburgh International Film Festival hosted its highly influential Women's Event. Helmed by revolutionary film theorists Laura Mu... Read more »

Stories of dramatic measures in service for a film shoot make great meta subjects, but few have as much fun as The Peril at Pincer Point. The surreal tone is... Read more »

Like many of our colleagues and friends in Scotland's creative community, The Skinny have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. We're asking for your su... Read more »

Is there a tougher job in UK cinema exhibition than being head of the Edinburgh International Film Festival? From the outside, it appears not. This venerable... Read more »

We’ll say this for EIFF: it’s got catholic tastes. The first four films announced for the festival offer something for pretty much everyone. Ther... Read more »

We at The Skinny are very excited to discover what shape Edinburgh International Film Festival will take this year. After the cancellation of the 2020 event ... Read more »

In 2007, Belgian artist Wim Delvoye – infamous for tattooing pigs in the name of artistic genius – turned his needle to the then-unknown Tim Stei... Read more »

Getting started in film journalism can be tricky, but a fine place to learn the ropes is as part of Edinburgh International Film Festival’s Student Cri... Read more »

If last year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival Opening Gala film Puzzle left something to be desired, it looks like we’re in for a treat th... Read more »