Glasgow Film Festival 2016

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Cain’s Children ((Káin Gyermekei) (Country: Hungary, France; Year: 2014; Director: Marcell Gerö)
Three men who have been incarcerated all their adult lives strive to rehabilitate themselves and work out where they go from here.
The Colours Of The Alphabet (Country: New Zealand, UK, Zambia; Year: 2015; Director: Alastair Cole)
A year in the life of a Zambian school where the teacher speaks one local language, her pupils another, and she must get them all to learn English.
Favula (Country: Argentina; Year: 2014; Director: Raúl Perrone; Writer: Raúl Perrone; Stars: Lucia Ozan, Nix Noise, Aleli Sueldo, Sara Navarro, Sergio Boggio, Juan Rodriguez)
A cross between Snow White and Cinderella set in a tropical jungle.
Finders Keepers (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Bryan Carberry, J Clay Tweel; Stars: Shannon Whisnant, John Wood)
A documentary about the conflict that ensued after one man unwittingly purchased another man's amputated leg in an auction.
Frame By Frame (Country: Afghanistan; Year: 2015; Director: Alexandria Bombach, Mo Scarpelli; Stars: Massoud Hossaini, Wakil Kohsar, Najibullah Musafer, Farzana Wahidy)
A documentary about Afghan photojournalists.
Peace Officer Peace Officer
Peace Officer and I Am Belfast
Hitchcock/Truffaut (Country: France, US; Year: 2015; Director: Kent Jones; Writer: Kent Jones, Serge Toubiana; Stars: Wes Anderson, Olivier Assayas, Peter Bogdanovich, Arnaud Desplechin, David Fincher, James Gray, Alfred Hitchcock, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Richard Linklater, Paul Schrader, Martin Scorsese, François Truffaut)
Filmmakers talk about the influence of Truffaut's book Cinema According To Hitchcock.
I Am Belfast (Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Mark Cousins; Writer: Mark Cousins; Stars: Richard Buick, Simon Millar, Shane McCaffrey, Helena Bereen, Felicity McKee)
A cinematic essay about the city.
Peace Officer (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Brad Barber, Scott Christopherson; Stars: William Lawrence)
The man who established Utah's first SWAT team investigates the death of his son-in-law at the hands of another SWAT team, unwilling to accept the official ruling.
The Pearl Button (Le Bouton de Nacre) (Country: Chile, France, Spain; Year: 2015; Director: Patricio Guzmán; Writer: Patricio Guzmán)
Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its ocean floor.
The Propaganda Game (Country: US, France, Germany, Spain, China, North Korea; Year: 2014; Director: Álvaro Longoria; Writer: Álvaro Longoria)
Documentary analysing the different propaganda techniques and strategies, focussing on the surprising and always prominent case of North Korea.
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