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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
- General Features
- Marilyn Monroe 100
- 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
In May 2021, a UK Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Scotland’s most diverse neighbourhood, hundreds of residents rush to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbours.
Delves deep into Orwell’s final months and visionary works to explore the roots of the vital and troubling concepts he revealed to the world in his dystopian masterpiece… Doublethink, Thoughtcrime, Newspeak, the omnipresent spectre of Big Brother… disturbing socio-political truths which resonate ever-more powerfully today.
During the Second World War group of six people is delivered to an uninhabited island with a secret mission – to make some pornographic films which in the government’s opinion should boost the fighting morale of the boys at the front.
Fresh out of Juilliard, a young violist returns home to live with her parents in the heart of New York City. Now it’s time to play gigs in the homes of strangers and make art with friends - nothing can go wrong, right?
Seventy-two hours before Nino's chemotherapy, he must complete the two missions given to him by his doctor.
At the peak of the Cold War, farm worker Karl-Göran Persson starts fortifying his house. He gathers scrap metal and casts it into the walls to build a fortress meant to protect himself and his neighbours setting him on the path to conflict with his community
After losing both hands in an accident, Boyd Grayson becomes the prime candidate for an experimental replacement procedure in this queer, campy, erotic horror.
Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet, works in the post office. After an eager and flattering young admirer appears on his doorstep, Saxberger is beckoned into a coterie of twentysomething admirers who anoint him as a rediscovered genius.
A Japanese girl travels to Taiwan to track down the motive behind a friend's bizarre death, which seems to be linked to strange social media posts.
Two Scottish lads from Dundee conned the music industry by pretending to be an established Californian rap duo, bagging a record deal and appearing on MTV until their scam unraveled.
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