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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 almost 2 years 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 almost 2 years 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 almost 2 years 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 almost 2 years 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 almost 2 years 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 over 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 over 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 over 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 over 1 year 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 about 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 about 1 year 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 12 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 12 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 12 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 12 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 about 1 year 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 9 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 9 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 7 months ago -
ComedyGlasgow International Comedy Festival returns with huge lineup for 2026
Glasgow International Comedy Festival (GICF) will be bringing 560 shows to 40 venues across Scotland’s largest city from 11 to 29 March. The lineup run... Read more »| Updated 5 months ago -
ArtGlasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts to close
Glasgow’s Centre for Contempory Arts (CCA), once one of the most important and vital multi-arts venues in Scotland, is set to close. The news was first... Read more »| Updated 4 months ago -
TravelTravel blogger Carrie-Ann Lightley discusses inclusive travel
Being able to travel, to escape your daily routine for a few hours, days or weeks and explore somewhere new, is one of the greatest gifts we have as human be... Read more »| Updated about 2 months ago -
FilmOut of Time: Mark Jenkin on Rose of Nevada
For an audio version of this interview, listen to the latest episode of The Cineskinny podcast in the player below, or wherever you get your podcasts... ... Read more »| Updated about 1 month ago -
FilmScottish Film Events: April 2026
There’s an earthy new film festival on the block! Fiends in the Furrows (23-26 Apr) is a celebration of folk horror from cinema collectives Leith ... Read more »| Updated about 2 months ago -
FilmScottish Film Events: May 2026
Who says scary movies are just for the spooky season? The always excellent Dundead (7-10 May), the annual horror fest from Dundee Contemporary Arts, returns ... Read more »| Updated 20 days 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 over 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 almost 7 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 over 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 almost 2 years ago