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French Film Festival UK 2022: Five films to see
The French Film Festival turns 30 this year and it’s got a fantastic lineup fitting of that milestone. Among the big names in the programme you’l... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
Film
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
This second feature from Alexandre Koberidze is a two-and-a-half-hour epic made with the playful experimentation and youthful vigour of a short. Set in Kutai... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
Intersections
Choose a Sustainable Christmas
Christmas is the most wasteful time of year. On the weeks, days, and hours running up to the big day we often panic, and end up buying our loved ones shiny n... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
Film
Scottish Film Events: December 2022
I hope you like Christmas films, because there’s not much else to feast your eyes on this month. All the old favourites are being dusted off but there ... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
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Scottish Film Events: January 2023
What better way to spend the new year than by slipping down a rabbit hole of cinema with We're Not in Kansas Anymore, Glasgow Film Theatre’s retrospect... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
Film
Save the Filmhouse: New protest set for 15 April
Six months on from Filmhouse – Edinburgh’s much-loved independent arthouse cinema – having its doors closed and boarded up without any publ... Read more »| Updated about 2 years ago -
Festivals
Edinburgh Fringe 2023: The comedy lineup so far
Get set for the madness to return. Edinburgh Fringe tickets are already up for grabs with some of the best comedians in the UK and beyond heading to Edinburg... Read more »| Updated about 2 years ago -
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Polite Society
Polite Society, the debut film from We are Lady Parts creator Nida Manzoor, is chockablock with teenage kicks – specifically the flying and s... Read more »| Updated about 2 years ago -
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The Damned Don't Cry
Fyzal Boulifa's The Damned Don’t Cry borrows its title from a similarly themed 1950s Joan Crawford melodrama, which centres on a woman using her f... Read more »| Updated almost 2 years ago -
Festivals
Edinburgh Film Festival 2023: Our Top Ten Picks
The 76th edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival kicks off next week, and it’s a smaller affair than usual, with no competition and only a... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
Film
Exclusive: Watch the trailer for A Cat Called Dom
If you like your documentaries to be both extremely meta and deeply moving, you’ll love A Cat Called Dom, the debut feature film from Will Anderson and... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
Festivals
Scottish Queer International Film Festival 2023 preview
The Scottish film festival with the niftiest acronym – SQIFF – is back this September after a break last year, and it’s been much missed. ... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
Film
Matt Johnson on BlackBerry
In The Social Network and Steve Jobs – both written by Aaron Sorkin – Silicon Valley success stories became baroque moral tragedies, with the tec... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
Film
Scottish Film Events: October 2023
The scary season is upon us, so hardcore scary movie nuts are in for a treat with two marathons. First, Edinburgh's Cameo presents All Night Horror Madn... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
Film
The Old Oak
The Old Oak is the closing chapter in Ken Loach's loose trilogy set in the North-East of England looking at the state of working-class Britain after 13 years... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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Creative Edinburgh Awards: The 2023 Shortlist
Once again Edinburgh’s creative community will be coming together to celebrate the wealth of talent in Scotland’s capital with the Creative Edinb... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
Film
Not Your Usual: Adura Onashile on her path to filmmaking
How does one become an award-winning actor and director across theatre and film? According to Glasgow-based actor-writer-director Adura Onashile, mostly by h... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
Music
Johnny Jewel on soundtracks, influences and playing live
It’s only around 11am Pacific Time when I call Johnny Jewel at his home near Joshua Tree in the Californian desert, but he’s been up working for ... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
Film
Sam H Freeman and Ng Choon Ping on Femme
In Femme, the electrifying London-set debut feature from Sam H Freeman and Ng Choon Ping, every character is playing a role. When we first meet Jules (Nathan... Read more »| Updated almost 2 years ago -
Festivals
Fokus, Films from Germany: 2024 preview
German cinema gets its annual celebration in Scotland once again with the return of Fokus, Films from Germany, the film festival from the Goethe-Institut Gla... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
Festivals
Glasgow Film Festival: Pop-up Screenings return in 2024
Glasgow Film Festival’s special pop-up screenings are legendary. Who can forget watching The Thing on a snowy ski slope in Braehead, or driving ou... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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Glasgow Film Festival reveals 2024 programme
Glasgow Film Festival (28 Feb-10 Mar), now Scotland’s biggest celebration of cinema, marks its 20th edition this year. But that's not the only annivers... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
Film
Viggo Mortensen, George Mackay set for Glasgow Film Festival
With just under two weeks to go until Glasgow Film Festival kicks off with neo-noir Love Lies Bleeding, it’s been announced today that the film's ... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
Film
Glasgow Short Film Festival 2024: The Award Winners
The curtain came down on another Glasgow Short Film Festival on Sunday (24 Mar), and it was a bittersweet affair, with the festival’s excellent program... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
Music
Hidden Door returns with a 10th birthday party
UPDATE: Hidden Door reveals underground venue for 10th birthday weekender Back in March, Hidden Door teased a new venue for their tenth birthday weeken... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
Festivals
Edinburgh Book Festival reveals first events for 2024
No one could accuse the Edinburgh International Book Festival of going niche with their new series, The Front List. After all, it is taking place in the huge... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
Music
Hen Hoose launches Beldina Odenyo bursary
One of the most exciting and innovative projects to emerge on the Scottish music scene over the last few years has been Hen Hoose, the Glasgow-based songwrit... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
Festivals
Edinburgh Film Festival will open with Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun
This year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival has found the perfect film to open its relaunched event: The Outrun, the much-anticipated new film ba... Read more »| Updated 12 months ago -
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Hoard
There are visceral movies and then there's Hoard. Luna Carmoon’s bracing debut overwhelms the senses. It’s a film concerned with grime, sweat, sa... Read more »| Updated 12 months ago -
Art
Edinburgh Art Festival announces its 2024 programme
Edinburgh Art Festival (EAF) turns 20 this summer and today they’ve announced what to look forward to at this year’s event, which runs at various... Read more »| Updated 11 months ago