Film
The Skinny magazine film guide. We bring you the latest new releases, UK film festivals, previews, reviews, exclusive interviews with film directors and actors, opinion pieces and film features.
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Film EventsScottish Film Events: April 2026
April sees the arrival of a new folk horror festival, John Waters favourite Mink Stole brings her IDOL WORSHIP show to Edinburgh, and there's lots and lots of repertory cinema Read more »| 01 Apr 2026 -
NewsGlasgow Short Film Festival 2026: The Award Winners
Klarissa Webster took home GSFF's Scottish Competition prize for her documentary Each to Their Own World, while Manal Issa, 2024 by Elisabeth Subrin won The Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film Read more »| 23 Mar 2026 -
InterviewsHippFest: Dan Abrahams and Philippe Boudot on scoring Finis Terræ
Dan Abrahams and Philippe Boudot discuss their latest collaboration, a new folk-tinged score to Jean Epstein’s landmark experimental drama Finis Terræ, which they will be debuting live at this year's HippFest Read more »| 12 Mar 2026 -
New ReleasesThe Good Boy
Anson Boon plays a 19-year-old hoodlum who receives some unconventional rehabilitation from Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough in this strange and thought-provoking drama Read more »| 11 Mar 2026 -
InterviewsBi Gan on Resurrection
We are living in the Bi Gan era! This hugely talented Chinese filmmaker discusses his latest work, Resurrection, a dazzling epic spanning the history of cinema Read more »| 10 Mar 2026 -
InterviewsHlynur Pálmason on The Love That Remains
Hlynur Pálmason's fourth feature is an idiosyncratic look at a family in crisis that's set over four seasons and regularly drifts from the quotidian to the surreal. The Icelandic writer-director discusses his unique approach to filmmaking Read more »| 10 Mar 2026
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InterviewsGlasgow Short Film Festival: James Ley on Sleazy Tiger
Celebrated playwright James Ley discusses his debut short film, Sleazy Tiger, ahead of it competing in the Scottish Competition at the Glasgow Short Film Festival. We discuss queer crisis, flagrant film references and a horny Alan Cumming Read more »| 10 Mar 2026 -
New ReleasesThe Love That Remains
Hlynur Pálmason follows up his epic 2022 film Godland with this tender look at a broken marriage where love endures Read more »| 09 Mar 2026 -
ArtCCA Glasgow: What We've Lost
With the CCA in Glasgow now in liquidation, its staff left jobless, and its windows boarded up, we speak to some of the artists and programmers who use this space and ask what we've lost in the wreckage and what we can salvage if the CCA returns Read more »| 05 Mar 2026 -
New ReleasesGFF 2026: Super Nature
Director Ed Sayers assembles Super 8 footage from contributors in 25 countries in this heartfelt testament to the natural world and DIY filmmaking Read more »| 04 Mar 2026 -
New ReleasesDead Man's Wire
There are shades of 70s classic Dog Day Afternoon in this excellently constructed nail-biter from Gus Van Sant Read more »| 03 Mar 2026 -
New ReleasesSound of Falling
This century-spanning drama from Germany tells the story of trauma across generations through the eyes of four young protagonists Read more »| 02 Mar 2026 -
Interviews"Hope is a Privilege": Raoul Peck on Orwell 2+2=5
In Orwell 2+2=5, Raoul Peck uses the life and writing of George Orwell as the connective tissue to tell a wider history of totalitarian power and media manipulation, past and present. We find out more from this trenchant political filmmaker Read more »| 02 Mar 2026 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: March 2026
This month choose between two great film festivals (HippFest and GSFF), explore the films of John Schlesinger and Andrzej Wajda, and check out GSA's new cinema season Read more »| 27 Feb 2026 -
New ReleasesBroken English
Marianne Faithfull has the last word in this hybrid doc blending interviews, archive, and performance, framed by an imaginary institution fronted by Tilda Swinton Read more »| 26 Feb 2026