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FilmGlasgow 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 over 1 year ago -
MusicHidden 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 over 1 year ago -
FestivalsEdinburgh 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 over 1 year ago -
MusicHen 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 over 1 year ago -
FestivalsEdinburgh 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 over 1 year ago -
FilmHoard
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 over 1 year ago -
ArtEdinburgh 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 over 1 year ago -
ArtOn The Move: Moving Image at Glasgow International
Enzo Camacho, Ami LienOfferings for Escalante Offerings for Escalante, a new exhibition from Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien, comprises two film elements &nd... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
FestivalsEdinburgh International Book Festival announce 2024 programme
The main theme of this year’s new look Edinburgh International Book Festival is 'Future Tense' but there’s been plenty of present tension too. La... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
TravelThe Skinny On... a Random Highland Coo from Pollok Park
We’ve been banging on all throughout this issue about why you should leave the cities and explore what’s happening across Scotland. But what if w... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
FilmEdinburgh Film Festival: The 2024 award winners
The curtain came down on the 2024 Edinburgh International Film Festival last night with the world premiere of Carla J Easton and Blair Young’s vibrant ... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
FestivalsScottish Queer International Film Festival announces 2024 programme
Queers, assemble! The essential Scottish Queer International Film Festival (or SQIFF for short) is returning this Autumn, running 8 to 12 October at the CCA ... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
ArtHidden Door moves to Maybury paper factory for 2025
Hidden Door, the Edinburgh organisation that opens up forgotten urban spaces to host wild and wonderful multi-arts festivals, have announced they will be bac... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
FilmScotland's Film Festival Scene: Vibrant but Running on Fumes
If you’re a film fan living in Scotland, you’re spoiled for choice when it comes to film festivals. Are you nuts for Japanese animation? Check ou... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
FilmScottish Film Events: October 2024
Might there be too many film festivals in October? Perhaps. In our October issue you’ll find previews of SQIFF, Samizdat, Weird Weekend, Edinburgh Span... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
FilmTrue Stories: Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival preview
The long-running Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival is back with a wide-ranging programme taking place all over Scotland. All the arts are celebrated, and ... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
FilmScotland on Screen: Jagoda Tłok on short film Care
Every year, the Scottish film scene produces at least one breakout short, and in 2024 that film is Care. The crackerjack graduate project directed by Edinbur... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
FilmScottish Film Events: November 2024
Film festivals show no sign of abating. This month there’s the return of Scotland Loves Anime and French Film Festival UK. Add to this pair Taiwan Film... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
FilmBAFTA Scotland 2024: Scottish horror Out of Darkness wins big
Scotland's film and telly community was out in force last night (Sun 17 Nov) for the annual BAFTA Scotland awards. In terms of film, the big winner of the ni... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
FilmWhy I love watching It's a Wonderful Life at GFT
It's fair to say that Christmas favourite It’s a Wonderful Life is much adored, but for Glaswegians, this love is approaching obsession. We d... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
FilmConclave
Conclave, a thriller enveloping us in the skullduggery surrounding the election of a new Pope, is essentially cosy Sunday night telly with a Hollywood budget... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
FilmScotland on Screen: Review of 2024
Allison Gardner – CEO, Glasgow Film; Director, Glasgow Film Festival Cinema adjacent highlight of 2024?I'd have to say Viggo Mortensen attending the f... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
FilmScottish Film Events: February 2025
The film world was rocked last month by the death of David Lynch, the most original and influential American filmmaker to emerge after the New Hollywood era.... Read more »| Updated 11 months ago -
FestivalsHippFest returns for its 15th edition
Scotland is not short of film festivals but there are none quite like HippFest. Scotland’s annual celebration of silent cinema returns to the Hippodrom... Read more »| Updated 11 months ago -
MusicJupiter Rising x EAF: First details for 2025 revealed
Jupiter Artland and Edinburgh Art Festival have once again teamed up to throw one of the parties of the summer. One-night-only shindig Jupiter Rising x EAF t... Read more »| Updated 9 months ago -
FilmCan't Get No Sleep: Meet the director and star of Restless
Hollywood thrillers aren’t very relatable, are they? Not many people can claim to have been behind the wheel of a bus rigged to explode if its speed dr... Read more »| Updated 9 months ago -
FestivalsEdinburgh Art Festival reveals its 2025 programme
Edinburgh Art Festival has revealed its busy programme for its 2025 edition, which takes place 7 to 24 August and will feature 82 exhibitions spread across 4... Read more »| Updated 7 months ago -
FilmRemembering cult TV series Moviedrome with Alex Cox
It’s the early 90s, and a young film nut sits cross-legged in his pyjamas late on a Sunday night waiting for Mad Max 2 to start on TV. He’d recen... Read more »| Updated 6 months ago -
TravelThe Skinny Guide to Edinburgh: Bars and Pubs
This article is taken from the 2025 edition of The Skinny Guide to Edinburgh – a 116-page selection of some of our favourite things to do and places to... Read more »| Updated 5 months ago -
FestivalsBen Wheatley's BULK to world premiere at Edinburgh Film Festival
Hot on the heels of announcing its opening film, Sorry, Baby, the Edinburgh International Film Festival has revealed the film that will open its Midnight Mad... Read more »| Updated 8 months ago