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Back for its 22nd year, the Glasgow Film Festival has a line-up which includes a focus on Sweden, a celebration of classics which speak truth to power, and of course the ever-popular Frightfest strand. It opens with a documentary inspired by Glasgow's community spirit, Everybody To Kenmure Street, and closes with homegrown comedy California Schemin.
The festival runs from from 25 February to 8 March.
View Films by Strand:
- Animation
- Audience Award
- Frightfest
- Galas
- Marilyn Monroe 100
- Official Selection
- Scotland on Screen
- Special Events
- Take a Chance on Me: Swedish Cinema
- Truth to Power
View previous years coverage of the Glasgow Film Festival festival:
Glasgow Latest Reviews
The tale of a young woman who learns firsthand the personal costs of societal shortcomings.
Russia, early 1990s. Amid post-Soviet chaos, a brilliant young man, Vadim Baranov, charts his path. First an artist, then a reality show producer, he becomes the spin doctor to a rising KGB agent: Vladimir Putin.
A grieving mother, fueled by her passion for true crime, seeks answers when a teenage girl is found dead in the desert and the police investigation stalls.
A successful black businessman, haunted by his crumbling marriage and identity crisis, is drawn into a sexualised game of cat and mouse with a mysterious white woman on a subway that leads to a violent conclusion.
Conor Marsh lives a secluded life with his dog, Sandy, until one day he begins playing OBEX, a new, state-of-the-art computer game. When Sandy goes missing, the line between reality and game blurs and Conor must venture into the strange world of OBEX to bring her home.
A family vlogger's teenage daughter discovers that her parents plan to have another child and begins to question the cost of her lifelong celebrity.
When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.
The tragic story behind a teenager driven to take her life by machines that were built to control people for profit.
Christmas Eve, a broken tooth, and just one dentist on call – thus begins the strange odyssey of the newly sober Cliff and the lonely Didi through the streets of Baltimore.
Splitsville picks up with Ashley asking for a divorce, watching as the good-natured Carey runs to his friends, Julie and Paul, for support. He’s shocked to discover that the secret to their happiness is an open marriage; that is, until Carey crosses the line and throws all of their relationships into chaos.
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