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Trine Dyrholm is fantastic in this funny-sad drama about a mother whose mental illness has pushed her to the edge of her adult children's lives.

Canadian-Hungarian filmmaker Sophy Romvari depicts a story reminiscent of her own childhood in this deeply evocative family drama where the line between memory, family history and filmmaking collide.

Louis Paxton’s debut feature The Incomer, a buzzy title from this year’s Sundance, will open the 79th edition of Edinburgh International Film Festival this August.

The Cineskinny is the film review podcast from The Skinny – this time round, Jamie chats to Rose of Nevada director Mark Jenkin.

Anahit is away, so we decided our Film editor, Jamie, should have a crack at the advice column.

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.

Klarissa Webster and Elisabeth Subrin took home the top prizes as Glasgow Short Film Festival came to a close this weekend.

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…

Glasgow Short Film Festival has announced the films competing in its always-popular Scottish Competition for 2026, with GSFF favourites like Duncan Cowles, Will Anderson and Leyla Coll-O'Reilly among…

Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts goes into liquidation and closes today following several years of managerial and financial turmoil.

Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts goes into liquidation and closes today following several years of managerial and financial turmoil.

Glasgow will welcome a slew of comedians to the city this March, with huge names in standup comedy like Tim Key, Daniel Sloss and Bridget Christie among the lineup.

From the grind of poverty to the perfection of porridge via samurai and swearing, this was 2025 in Scottish film.

Filmhouse and GFT celebrate the French New Wave in a big way, the Goethe Institute presents Fokus, the first film festival of 2026, and Ben Wheatley takes his new experimental feature BULK on tour.

We survey some of our favourite Scottish film festivals and programmers to hear their cinema highlights of 2025 and get a taste of what they're cooking up for 2026.

We survey some of our favourite Scottish film festivals and programmers to hear their cinema highlights of 2025 and get a taste of what they're cooking up for 2026.

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The Outrun and On Falling shared the spoils at this year’s BAFTA Scotland awards, while Trainspotting and Star Wars star Ewan McGregor was honoured for his Outstanding Contribution to Film & Televisio...

GFF 2026's retrospective strand will feature films where characters fight back against the machine of power, while the Country Focus next year will be on Sweden.

The long-running and much-loved French Film Festival UK has an exceptional lineup this year. Over 60 films screen at over 40 different locations across the UK. We suggest five films to seek out.

This month's highlights include Noirvember double bills at Filmhouse, Melodrama practically everywhere and possibly too many film festivals.

We catch up with Scotland's most prolific filmmaker to discuss his success in the States, and his channelling of 70s paranoid thrillers in Relay.

Fear the Walking Dead star Frank Dillane gives a wonderful performance in Urchin, the debut film from Babygirl actor Harris Dickinson.

GFT's young film programming team have come up with an electric lineup of films for this year's Glasgow Youth Film Festival.

This film contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy. Simon (Glory Gore), a dazzling star of Montreal's drag scene, finds his world turned upside ...

Beach walks, wild swimming, fantastic films directed by women – welcome to Sea Change, the Tiree film festival returning this September

Canada-based Iranian filmmaker Abdolreza Kahani takes home the £50,000 Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence for Mortician, a tragicomic drama he shot on his iPhone.

We meet the talented young French filmmaker Nathan Ambrosioni, winner of Crystal Globe for Best Director at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

Take Me Somewhere returns to Glasgow this October with an eclectic programme exploring subjects such as care, communal feasting and desire.

Call My Agent's Camille Cottin is superb in this nuanced French drama about a middle-aged woman suddenly charged with the care of her niece and nephew.

EIFF is back with new venues, 007 and Budd Boetticher retrospectives, new films from Andrew Kotting, and Charlie Shakleton and on-stage talks from Andrea Arnold and Ben Wheatley.

We're so back! After a heroic rescue effort, Filmhouse is very close to opening its doors again. Ahead of its 'soft launch' at the end of June, we chat to Andrew Simpson and Rod White, the directors…

Art Workers for Palestine Scotland (AWFPS) have made a statement after the CCA's closure due to AWFPS's pro-Palestine protests, while Scotland's arts community react to the centre's handling of the si...

Filmhouse reopens with a programme of films released during their closure and some special screenings, with tickets at half price.

Film critic Ryan Gilbey talks to us about It Used to Be Witches, his playful new study of queer cinema history blending personal memoir, critical analysis and insightful new interviews with an…

The UK’s largest annual festival of visual art returns with a programme featuring performance by Linder and Lewis Walker, film work by CJ Mahony and Lewis Hetherington, festival Jupiter Rising, plus i...

A bumper pod this week –  we review Amalia Ulman's Magic Farm about a bunch of hipster journalists getting lost in Argentina, and India Donaldson's Good One about a v v awkward intergenerational campi...

Ben Wheatley's new film BULK will open Edinburgh International Film Festival's Midnight Madness strand this year.

The 2025 Edinburgh International Film Festival will kick off with Sorry, Baby, the offbeat comedy-drama and Sundance hit from director Eva Victor.

There's a new dawn at Summerhall as Summerhall Arts launches its inaugural Fringe programme. Drag icon Jonny Woo, playwright Ellie Keel, comedian Mark Thomas, Russian anarchists Pussy Riot and absurdu...

There's a glut of film festivals happening in Scotland this spring, covering a myriad of subjects and forms. We look forward to five of them.