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The Glasgow Film Festival turns 21 this year and it's also the final festival for longtime co-director Allison Gardner, so expect something really special. A packed line-up includes several special events themed around coming of age, with an amazing guest list - look out for in-conversation events with James McAvoy and Jessica Lange. We'll be adding more details as they come in, so watch this space.
The festival runs from 26 Feb to 9 Mar.
View Films by Strand:
- Audience Award
- Frightfest
- From the Heart of Europe: Austria on Screen
- Galas
- Mai Zetterling Retrospective
- Official Selection
- Our Time Is Now: Coming Of Age In The Movies
- Scottish Premières
- Special Events
- UK Premières
- World & European Premières
View previous years coverage of the Glasgow Film Festival festival:
Glasgow Latest Reviews

After two young shepherds are attacked on a mountainside, Achraf, 14, is ordered to take the severed head of his cousin Nizar back to their family as a macabre message.

Scots teenager Ethan Walker as he defies life-threatening injuries to cycle from Glasgow’s Hampden Park to Munich Football Arena for Scotland’s opening Euro24 match.

A young drifter finds shelter in a seedy motel and embarks on a dangerous love affair.

In the distant future, a space trucker from Khmelnytskyi is trying to get rid of over three billion tons of waste. When he hears from a woman on a distant space station, he becomes determined to reach her.

A woman living with her husband on a remote farm in the near future discovers that he has been keeping a big secret.

A portrayal of Irish writer Edna O'Brien's writing, loves, stardom, and unconventional life.

Odysseus washes up on the shores of Ithaca after returning from the Trojan war.

From sold-out concerts to family moments with her parents and sister, the passage of time brings loss but also provides liberation for an artist whose body is a canvas for artistic expression.

On Christmas Eve a cab driver is counting down to seeing the International Space Station... but his night will hold a series of encounters with strangers first.

A Japanese puppeteer's daughter gets caught up with criminals when their show crosses paths with a crime gang, led by Sugarman and his son Little Sugar.
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