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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 about 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 about 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 about 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 12 months 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 12 months 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 11 months 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 12 months 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 11 months 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 9 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 9 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 7 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 7 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 5 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 4 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 4 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 6 months ago -
FilmKVIFF 2025: Nathan Ambrosioni on Out of Love
It’s been a few weeks since my visit to the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and I’m still thinking about Out of Love. That intimate Fren... Read more »| Updated 3 months ago -
FilmEIFF 2025: After this Death
The title of the second feature from talented Argentine director Lucia Castro is pretty instructive. It braces you for a work dealing with loss and grief, an... Read more »| Updated 3 months ago -
FestivalsScotland on Screen: Edinburgh Film Festival 2025
There’s a lot riding on Edinburgh International Film Festival’s Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence, and I’m not just talk... Read more »| Updated 2 months ago -
FestivalsBetter Worlds: Take One Action 2025 preview
Take One Action (TOA), Scotland’s film festival for social change, has had a reinvention. The upcoming edition will be its 17th, but the first of a new... Read more »| Updated about 2 months ago -
FilmScotland on Screen: Robert Aramayo on I Swear
Anyone who thinks acting is a doddle should meet Robert Aramayo. This talented 32-year-old from Hull takes his craft extremely seriously. Deep research, imme... Read more »| Updated 30 days ago -
FilmScottish Film Events: October 2025
The autumn film festival season is still very much upon us. You can read all about SQIFF (various venues, Glasgow, 27 Oct-1 Nov) in our October issue, and ou... Read more »| Updated about 1 month ago -
FilmFrench Film Festival UK: The 2025 Programme
Is this a banner year for French cinema? A quick scan of the brochure for this year’s French Film Festival UK suggests the answer is a resounding yes! ... Read more »| Updated 21 days ago