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The Glasgow Film Festival is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year and there's a great line-up to look forward to. This year also sees the return of the festival's popular events strand, which gives attendees the opportunity to enjoy immersive experiences and go on cinematic adventures together - and, of course, there's the ever-popular Glasgow Frightfest strand, which gives Scottish viewers the chance to see some of the world's scariest new offerings.
Special guests include Viggo Mortensen, who will participate in a special In Conversation event, as well as Emily Hampshire, George Mackay, Ben Wheatley, Rose Glass, Maxine Peake and Kevin Macdonald.
The festival runs from 28 February to 10 March.
View Films by Strand:
- Audience Award
- Czech, Please!
- Frightfest
- Galas
- International Features
- Main Selection
- Our Story So Far
- UK Premières
- World and European Premières
View previous years coverage of the Glasgow Film Festival festival:
Glasgow Latest Reviews
A lone officer with a broken ankle fights for survival at a police station.
After the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter’s precarious existence is ripped apart by figures from their past – both real and imagined.
A self-centred tattoo artist finds his request for a selfie leads to a dangerous late-night game after a famous client comes to call.
A couple producing custom erotic films are dragged into a nightmarish conspiracy.
Documentary about controversial fashion designer John Galliano.
A young couple records and collects folk songs in rural Ireland, selling them to a mysterious, rich buyer. When rumours of a song never-before-heard reach the couple, they find themselves in an uneasy alliance with a music professor to discover an ancient song, a song that may end up unlocking some dark truth from the past which will alter all their lives.
Thierno Souleymane Diallo sets out with his camera in search of the birth of filmmaking in Guinea.
A documentary about the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-Winning photographer Cathal McNaughton.
A young mother struggles to cope alone in a new home.
A budding art restorer travels to a small Italian village to bring a medieval painting back to its former glory. Little does she know the sinister secret behind it - or what is going on down in the cellar.
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