Festivals
Step into a vibrant celebration of culture with The Skinny festival guide. We bring you the latest UK and international festival news; you'll find festival information, previews, reviews, features, and interviews.
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FilmFirst details of Glasgow Film Festival 2025 revealed
Glasgow Film Festival celebrates its 21st edition next year, and to mark this coming-of-age milestone, the festival will be treating audiences to a free retrospective of fantastic coming-of-age films from across cinema history Read more »| 30 Oct 2024 -
MusicBeyond the Music 2024: The Report
Now in its second year, we dip our toes into two of the four days of Manchester’s ambitious Beyond the Music conference and showcase festival Read more »| 17 Oct 2024 -
FilmInverness Film Festival reveals 2024 programme
Inverness Film Festival is back with another packed lineup that should delight Highland audiences – highlights include new films from Mike Leigh, Sean Baker and Andrea Arnold Read more »| 11 Oct 2024 -
FilmSicko Mode: Weird Weekend returns to Glasgow
Weird Weekend, Matchbox Cine's celebration of strange and wonderful cinema, is back – we take a look at the 2024 programme Read more »| 10 Oct 2024 -
FilmTrue Stories: Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival preview
Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival returns with the new film from Duncan Cowles, and a trio of intriguing and personal documentaries Read more »| 04 Oct 2024 -
FilmRoad Trip: Queer East On The Road preview
Queer East, the festival of Asian LGBTQ+ cinema, heads on a UK tour this month – we look at the programme ahead of a batch of Edinburgh screenings Read more »| 03 Oct 2024
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MusicFind Your New Favourite Band at these Autumn Music Festivals
The nights are fair drawing in, but there's new music to be found! We look at some of the music festivals happening near and far this October and November Read more »| 02 Oct 2024 -
FilmOpen Hearts, Open Minds: SQIFF 2024 preview
We hear from SQIFF director Indigo Korres ahead of the ninth edition of this fantastic, forward-thinking film festival celebrating LGBTQ+ cinema Read more »| 01 Oct 2024 -
FilmEdinburgh Spanish Film Festival returns for 2024
Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival brings some of Spain's most exciting recent filmmaking to Scotland – we look at this year's programme Read more »| 30 Sep 2024 -
FilmSubversive Shorts: How Eastern Bloc animators evaded Soviet censors
This year's Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival opens with a programme of animation made during the tail end of Soviet rule. Czech filmmaker Michaela Pavlátová tells us how artistic freedom and creativity for animation flourished during this era Read more »| 24 Sep 2024 -
Uk FestivalsTarsem Singh on arthouse epic The Fall
From the archives, our 2008 interview with The Fall director Tarsem Singh on the inspirations behind – and reaction to – his globe-spanning epic Read more »| 24 Sep 2024 -
FilmTIFF 2024: On Falling
Laura Carreira’s workplace drama On Falling does Ken Loach better than Ken Loach – it's a deeply moving depiction of emotional purgatory in working-class Scotland Read more »| 23 Sep 2024 -
Uk FestivalsEnd to end: Dundee Design Festival's BOOKENDS exhibit
Dundee Design Festival's BOOKENDS exhibit sees 30 Scotland-based designers respond to the travel writing of two Victorian Dundee women, who travelled to the ends of the Earth for DC Thomson in the 19th century Read more »| 12 Sep 2024 -
FilmScotland on Screen: In Praise of Far-Flung Film Festivals
Love films? Like to travel? Adore the scenic beauty of Scotland? Dig wild swimming? If so, we recommend you consider a trip to a far-flung film festival like Sea Change in Tiree or LandxSea in Montrose Read more »| 06 Sep 2024 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEdinburgh Art Festival: Sequoia Danielle Barnes' Everything Is Satisfactual
One writer takes a deep dive into the themes of Sequoia Danielle Barnes' exhibition at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, which unravels how the consumption of cuteness perpetuates oppression and marginalisation Read more »| 05 Sep 2024