Glasgow Film Festival 2017

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The Princess Bride The Princess Bride
The Princess Bride and Abulele
Abulele (Country: Israel; Year: 2015; Director: Jonathan Geva; Writer: Jonathan Geva; Stars: Yoav Sadian, Idan Barkai, Bar Minali, Makram Khoury, Nati Kluger, Micha Celektar), Official Site
A boy whose family is in crisis after his brother's death begins to put his life back together after meeting a friendly monster - but the monster may need his help.
How To Steal A Dog (Gae-leul Hoom-chi-neun Wan-byeok-han Bang-beob) (Country: South Korea; Year: 2014; Director: Sung-ho Kim; Writer: Sung-ho Kim, Yeon-Shick Shin; Stars: Hye-ja Kim, Hye-jeong Kang, Lee Re)
A irl tries to help her family escape homelessness by stealing rich people's dogs and returning them for reward money.
Louis & Luca – The Big Cheese Race (Solan og Ludvig: Herfra til Flåklypa) (Country: Norway; Year: 2015; Director: Rasmus A Sivertsen; Writer: Kjell Aukrust, Karsten Fullu; Stars: John F Brungot, Anders Bye, Kåre Conradi, Fredrikke Egeberg, Kari Ann Grønsund, Bjarte Hjelmeland, Trond Høvik, Mads Iversen, Scott Maurstad, Jakob Oftebro, Morten Røhrt, Steinar Sagen, Espen Sandvik, Sara Luna Baumann Semb, Per Skjølsvik)
Competitors vye to be the big cheese in an inter-town competition.
My Life As A Courgette (Ma Vie De Courgette) (Country: Switzerland, France; Year: 2016; Director: Claude Barras; Writer: Gilles Paris, Morgan Navarro, Céline Sciamma, Germano Zullo; Stars: Voices of: Michel Vuillermoz, Natacha Koutchoumov, Paulin Jaccoud, Brigitte Rosset, Adrien Barazzone, Véronique Montel, Monica Budde, Anne-Laure Brasey, Estelle Hennard, Jean-Claude Issenmann, Sixtine Murat, Raul Ribera, Elliot Sanchez, Gaspard Schlatter, Lou Wick)
Stop-motion story of a boy, who is sent to a group home for orphans after the death of his mum.
The Princess Bride (Country: US; Year: 1987; Director: Rob Reiner; Writer: William Goldman, adapted from his own novel.; Stars: Cary Elwes, Robin Wright Penn, Mandy Patinkin, André the Giant, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, Peter Falk)
Ordinary farm boy Westley takes on the world to recover his true love in an enduringly popular comic fantasy.
My Life As A Courgette My Life As A Courgette
My Life As A Courgette and Snowtime!
Rock Dog (Country: China, US; Year: 2016; Director: Ash Brannon; Writer: Ash Brannon, Kurt Voelker; Stars: Luke Wilson, Eddie Izzard, JK Simmons, Lewis Black, Kenan Thompson, Mae Whitman, Jorge Garcia, Matt Dillon, Sam Elliott, Will Finn, Ash Brannon, Liza Richardson, Jennifer Hale, Maddie Taylor, Julie Craig)
A Tibetan Mastiff dreams of becoming a musician.
Snowtime! (Country: Canada; Year: 2015; Director: Jean-François Pouliot, François Brisson; Writer: Normand Canac-Marquis, Roger Cantin, Danyèle Patenaude, Paul Risacher; Stars: Angela Galuppo, Mariloup Wolfe, Lucinda Davis, Nicholas Savard-L'Herbier, Sophie Cadieux, Anne Casabonne, Hélène Bourgeois Leclerc, Ross Lynch, Catherine Trudeau, Gildor Roy, André Sauvé, Sebastién Reding, Heidi Lynne Weeks, Hugolin Chevrette-Landesque, Liz MacRae)
A snowball fight builds into days of battle as tensions rise.
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