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FestivalsHidden Door 2022 programme revealed
Hidden Door are in the process of preparing the former Royal High School on Calton Hill to host this year’s festival. We can’t wait to see the tr... Read more »| Updated almost 4 years ago -
FestivalsJupiter Rising reveals co-curators and first acts for 2022
Festival season is almost upon us, and ahead of The Skinny’s music festival special in our April issue, there’s some exciting news coming out of ... Read more »| Updated almost 4 years ago -
FestivalsAlchemy Film & Moving Image Festival returns in-person
The team at Alchemy Film & Arts are waiting for something terrible to happen. I’m speaking to the Hawick-based cultural organisation’s direct... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
FestivalsEdinburgh International Film Festival: The 2022 programme
As Edinburgh International Film Festival celebrates its 75th year, the UK’s oldest film event receives a major dose of spit and polish, with a new Crea... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
FilmEdinburgh Film Festival 2022: 15 Must-See Films
Leonor Will Never DieDir. Martika Ramirez EscobarFiction and reality blur in this surreal comedy from the Philippines. The Leonor of the title is an age... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
FilmTake One Action returns for its 15th edition
We feel like we write this every 12 months but: Take One Action, Scotland’s film festival dedicated to positive social change, feels more important tha... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
ArtDavid Livingstone Birthplace to host free storytelling weekend
Storytelling brings people together. Over the weekend of 22 to 23 October, the David Livingstone Birthplace in Blantyre will be doing just that by inviting a... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
FilmFrench 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 about 3 years ago -
FilmWhat 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 about 3 years ago -
IntersectionsChoose 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 about 3 years ago -
FilmScottish 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 about 3 years ago -
FilmScottish 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 almost 3 years ago -
FilmSave 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 over 2 years ago -
FestivalsEdinburgh 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 over 2 years ago -
FilmPolite 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 over 2 years ago -
FilmThe 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 over 2 years ago -
FestivalsEdinburgh 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 2 years ago -
FilmExclusive: 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 2 years ago -
FestivalsScottish 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 2 years ago -
FilmMatt 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 about 2 years ago -
FilmScottish 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 about 2 years ago -
FilmThe 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 about 2 years ago -
NewsCreative 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 about 2 years ago -
FilmNot 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 about 2 years ago -
MusicJohnny 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 about 2 years ago -
FilmSam 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 over 2 years ago -
FestivalsFokus, 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 about 2 years ago -
FestivalsGlasgow 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 about 2 years ago -
FilmGlasgow 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 almost 2 years ago -
FilmViggo 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 almost 2 years ago