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UK Green Film Festival returns to Glasgow

Jenny Rustemeyer and Grant Baldwin to address audience.

by Jennie Kermode

Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story
Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story

The UK Green Film Festival is back at the Glasgow film theatre (GFT) this week with a short series of films exploring environmental issues. Running from 3 to 8 May, it includes screenings of Su Rynard's moving documentary The Messenger, about the decline of songbird populations, and Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story, which will be accompanied by a live satellite link Q&A with directors Jenny Rustemeyer and Grant Baldwin.

Also screening will be animated favourites Oddball And The Penguins and Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind. The festival is community led and supported by environmental organisations across the country.

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