Category Archives: Film

This year, the seventh edition of the Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival (ESFF) will take place entirely online due to the current coronavirus restrictions, when audiences will have access to each film for either 24 or 48 hours. While those of us who relish the trip to the cinema have lost out, the move online ofContinue reading “Edinburgh’s 2020 Spanish Film Festival Goes Online”

First ever and free to access Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh takes place digitally between 18 and 27 September at www.taiwanfilmfestival.org.uk. The ambitious programme features 20 carefully selected titles, including 10 UK premieres. With the earliest film from 1960, the Festival explores the cultural, societal and political changes in Taiwan throughout the decades. In collaboration with ScottishContinue reading “Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh to Be Free to Access Online”

After 5 months Filmhouse is delighted to be reopening its doors to Edinburgh’s film-fans. The opening programme includes Tenet; A White, White Day; Parasite; The Whistlers; Moffie; Max Richter’s Sleep and The History of the Kelly Gang. Filmhouse isn’t just a cinema, it is a charity and a community hub for film lovers across EdinburghContinue reading “Filmhouse Reopens with Highly Anticipated Movie Tenet”

As one of Scotland’s most exciting annual events for filmmakers, the Scottish Short Film Festival (SSFF), enters its 8th year, it will join other arts organisations in responding to the Covid crisis by going online. From the 6th to the 11th September 2020, viewers will be able to watch 25 of the best Scottish shortContinue reading “Scottish Short Film Festival 2020 Joins Ranks of Online Streams”

The Glasgow Short Film Festival is the largest competitive short film festival in Scotland, championing new film talent by providing an annual showcase. This year was its 12th and a half edition and on Sunday 23 August winners were announced at on online Closing Ceremony.  An international jury, made up of Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur programmerContinue reading “And the Winners of the Glasgow Short Film Festival 2020 are…”

Glasgow Short Film Festival (GSFF), the largest competitive short film festival in Scotland, announces its 2020 online programme, its first as an independent charitable organisation. Like other arts organisations, GSFF has had to adapt to new circumstances so the full programme planned back in March can no longer go ahead. Instead their competition selections, thatContinue reading “Glasgow Short Film Festival Online Programme Announced”

On Thursday, 27 August, the ambitious new project from the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) and Unique Events, Drive-in Movies, will arrive at Edinburgh Airport and the first titles are now available to the public.  The August line-up includes 13 films and every month from August 2020 until January 2021, Drive-in Movies will welcome up to 250 cars at theContinue reading “Edinburgh’s First Drive-in Movies announced for August Opening”

Streaming as part of EDFILMFEST AT HOME brought to you by EIFF and Curzon Home Cinema (CHC) In Sebastien Lifshitz’s latest documentary he looks, not for the first time on the issues surrounding gender dysphoria. 7 year old Sacha lives with her family in small-town France. Assigned male at birth, Sasha has set her heartContinue reading “Little Girl”

Streaming as part of EDFILMFEST AT HOME brought to you by EIFF and Curzon Home Cinema (CHC) Directed by New Zealander Justin Pemberton, this is a clear and concise distillation of Thomas Piketty’s book that should fill you with a mixture of dread, hope and wonder. He has assembled a most impressive cast of scholarsContinue reading “Capital in the Twenty-first Century”

Streaming as part of EDFILMFEST AT HOME brought to you by EIFF and Curzon Home Cinema (CHC) The late Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson, perhaps best known for his scores for The Theory of Everything andSicario, adapted Last and First Men from W Olaf Stapledon’s influential 1930 science fiction masterwork. First presented at Manchester International Festival withContinue reading “Last and First Men”