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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
An elderly nun witnesses the aftermath of a young construction worker's fatal accident, compelling her to question the ethical principles of the institution she has devoted her life to.
The day before a violent criminal is due to be released from prison, he receives a threatening call. Armed only with a mobile phone, he must somehow save his family - and himself.
A documentary about Scotland’s cultural heritage of traditional Gaelic psalm singing.
After her mother's overdose, teen Red Riding moves from London to her estranged grandmother's Scottish estate, where dark family secrets, missing children, and a monstrous wolf blur reality, forcing her to fight for survival.
A journey to Michoacán’s hypermasculine rodeos descends into the subconscious of memory, queer desire, and longing, leading to a reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind.
Kenneth, fixated on ancestor Douglas Weatherford, descends into madness as a fantasy TV show invades his town, disregarding traditions.
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.
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