
The Face

Inner-city pressure: the films following Europe’s rawest musical talents
Four trailblazer musicians, four rising filmmakers, four cities. This is the result.

AIDS Plays Project is bringing forgotten queer theatre back to life
The Project revives work written by queer authors who were lost during the AIDS crisis. The latest, Colm Ó Clúbhán’s Reasons for Staying, is a masterwork of outsider theatre.

Fantasy Island shows Ireland as it really is
In compiling the work of 70 Irish photographers from 1975 to the present day, Belfast-based creatives Lucy Jackson and Joel Seawright shine a light on Irish culture beyond the Troubles.

Meet the creative class of 2025
To see in Nike’s Dn8 launch, THE FACE and Nike present “Powered by 8”, pairing four filmmakers with four musical mavericks in Berlin, London, Manchester and Paris. Here’s a taste of what’s to come.

The story behind THE FACE’s Ukraine cover
As the work prepares to be shown at Photo London, writer Serhiy Morgunov, photographer Jesse Glazzard, and creative producer Eugenia Skvarska reflect on what it was like to document the lives of queer soldiers during Ukraine's fight against Russia.

Erika de Casier makes a move with the slinky trip-hop track You Got It!
Also on the Rated by The Face playlist: PinkPantheress, Isaiah Hull and James Massiah

Let’s talk about sex scenes on screen
Puritanical online discourse about shagging on-screen is rife. And it's boring. Revolutionary Desires, a curious, incisive new book by critic and journalist Xuanlin Tham, is the perfect antidote.

Chloe Qisha will heal your teenage self
Alt-pop’s rising star on dodging fuckboys, swapping wardrobes with Jacob Elordi and the dark depths of HorseTok.
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Breaking the grass ceiling
For the first time since records began, American women are consuming more weed than men. Almost 25 years on from reefer bro films like Dude, Where’s My Car? and Pineapple Express, what does the stoner look like in 2025?
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The hairdressers keeping their profession alive
In 2023, just 1,520 students completed their hairdressing training, down from 8,660 in 2015 – that's astonishingly low numbers for an industry that’s essentially AI-proof. But these lot aren't letting their clippers gather dust.

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- 2 Listen to THE FACE’s podcast with Irvine Welsh and Gabriel Krauze
- 3 Movies where behind-the-scenes drama was better than the actual film
- 4 The story behind Kito and AI Grimes’ new single Cold Touch
- 5 Got mitt? Why we love body scrubs
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