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FestivalsThe Substance to close EIFF’s Midnight Madness strand
Watched from afar, this year’s Cannes Film Festival didn’t exactly set the heather on fire. But one film did appear to get critics hot and bother... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
FestivalsEdinburgh International Festival announces 2024 opening event
It doesn’t feel like the August festivities in Edinburgh have truly begun until the International Festival’s opening event. This year’s spe... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
FilmEdinburgh International Film Festival reveals 2024 programme
It’s all-change once again at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. The long-running event goes in a new direction this year with a new-look progr... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
FilmJanis Pugh on Chuck Chuck Baby
Janis Pugh is a force of nature. On a shoestring budget, this 50-year-old filmmaker has created Chuck Chuck Baby, a rapturous queer musical set in and around... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
ArtOut of the Cities: Explore museums and galleries further afield
In Scotland, we’re lucky to have cities filled with wonderful venues offering ways to explore art, culture and history. But if you already know your lo... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
TravelEdinburgh's Zoo: Famous Edinburgh Animals Who Aren't Greyfriars Bobby
Wojtek The most badass animal on our list, Wojtek was a brown bear from Iran who was adopted by the Polish army and joined them in their fight against Benit... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
FilmScottish Film Events: August 2024
If you’ve not had the chance to check out Offline, the relatively new DIY cinema and exhibition space in Glasgow’s Govanhill, then you’ve p... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
FilmFede Álvarez on Alien: Romulus
The 77th edition of Edinburgh International Film Festival kicked off last night with the UK premiere of The Outrun. Last night also saw EIFF launch its new M... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
FilmRoad Trip: Queer East On The Road preview
Queer East is London-based but it’s bringing its annual showcase of boundary-pushing LGBTQ+ cinema on the road. The festival’s aim is to amplify ... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
FilmInverness Film Festival reveals 2024 programme
Hats off to the Inverness Film Festival. It can be a tricky business securing the most splashy arthouse titles for your film event, but IFF has quietly found... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
FilmFirst details of Glasgow Film Festival 2025 revealed
Next year’s Glasgow Film Festival will be a big one: its 21st edition. Which means the festival is now officially all grown up. To mark this coming-of-... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
FilmLaura Carreira introduces On Falling
Have you ever noticed how rarely you see people working on screen? It’s something that dawned on Portuguese filmmaker Laura Carreira around the time sh... Read more »| Updated 10 months ago -
FilmCiaran Lyons and Lorn Macdonald on Tummy Monster
One of the first films to sell out at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival was also the cheapest to make: Tummy Monster, the debut feature from talented y... Read more »| Updated almost 2 years ago -
ArtEdinburgh International Mural Festival to launch this summer
The summer in Edinburgh spills over with festivals, and a new one is joining the throng: the Edinburgh International Mural Festival. Titled EIMF for short,... Read more »| Updated 8 months ago -
BooksRyan Gilbey on his new queer cinema book It Used to Be Witches
Ryan Gilbey is feeling like a poacher turned gamekeeper. He’s fresh from filing an interview this morning for The Guardian, where he’ll often be ... Read more »| Updated 7 months ago -
FilmFilmhouse announces date for its reopening
It’s been two years and eight months since an audience has crossed the threshold of Edinburgh’s Filmhouse. But in just over three weeks, on 27 Ju... Read more »| Updated 7 months ago -
FilmOpen the Doors: Filmhouse returns
There’s been a hole at the heart of Edinburgh’s film community since 6 October 2022. That was the day Filmhouse, the city’s beloved arthous... Read more »| Updated 7 months ago -
FestivalsRemake of The Toxic Avenger comes to EIFF
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 »| Updated 6 months ago -
FilmEdinburgh Film Festival reveals 2025 opening film
Edinburgh International Film Festival returns this August and today it has announced that comedy-drama Sorry, Baby, the debut feature from writer-director Ev... Read more »| Updated 8 months ago -
ArtCCA apologise for treatment of Palestine protesters
Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) has been closed since the shameful incident on 24 June when the arts centre called police to remove pro-Pal... Read more »| Updated 4 months ago -
ArticlesMegalopolis is now streaming on MUBI
Movies don’t get more spectacular, more hallucinatory or more wildly bonkers than Megalopolis, the hugely ambitious and uninhibited new film from Holly... Read more »| Updated 4 months ago -
MusicKai Reesu win the 2025 SAY Award
The great and good of Scotland’s music scene gathered tonight (6 Nov) in Dundee to celebrate the biggest prize in Scottish music: the Scottish Album of... Read more »| Updated about 2 months ago -
FilmMeet Jennifer Reeder: the world needs her feminist short films right now
Jennifer Reeder is one of our favourite filmmakers. The Chicago-based artist has been active on the experimental film scene since the mid-90s, but in recent ... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
Things To DoWhat's On Scotland 6-13 Sep: Doors Open Day
Doors Open Days "If I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written... But I'll bet you can't tell me what it smells... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Things To DoWhat's On Scotland 30 May-5 Jun: Degree shows, Hidden Door and more
Degree show season is upon us, and art students across the land have been working themselves to the bone, predictably with countless sleepless nights to get ... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Things To DoWhat's On Scotland 14-20 Oct: Taiwan Film Festival & more
What a dark week it has been for the Scottish film scene. The closure of Filmhouse in Edinburgh, The Belmont in Aberdeen and the Edinburgh International... Read more »| Updated about 3 years ago -
Things To DoWhat's On Scotland 1-8 Aug: The Edinburgh Festivals begin
Edinburgh International Festival The Fringe has been delivering previews galore since Monday but it never feels like the Edinburgh Festivals have truly begu... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
Things To DoWhat's On Scotland 13-20 Sep: V&A Dundee
V&A Dundee Opening Weekend The time has come, the wait is finally over, and other melodramatic statements, which inevitably lead up to the announcement ... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Things To DoWhat's On Scotland 6 Jun-13 Jun: LeithLate, Southside Film Festival
Three cheers for the return of LeithLate (8&9 Jun), following a break last year due to funding issues – hip hip hooray! We’re teaming up with... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Things To DoWhat's On Scotland 4-11 Feb: Honor Swinton Byrne Q&A, Jamali Maddix and more
Joanna Hogg’s much-anticipated followup to her heartbreaking, semi-autobiographical drama The Souvenir hits cinemas this weekend and we ... Read more »| Updated almost 4 years ago