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The Glasgow Film Festival returns for its 13th edition in 2017. The festival opened with Handsome Devil on February 15 and closed with the world premiere of Mad To Be Normal on February 26. You can read details of Glasgow Short Film Festival here.
This year's Audience Award went to Lipstick Under My Burkha.
View Films by Strand:
- Cinemasters
- Crossing The Line
- Dangerous Dames
- Frightfest
- Galas
- Local Heroes
- Mifune: The Last Samurai
- Modern Families
- Nerdvana
- Pioneer
- Sound And Vision
- Special Events
- Stranger Than Fiction
- True North: The New Canadian Cinema
- Window On The World
View previous years coverage of the Glasgow Film Festival festival:
Glasgow Latest Reviews

A boy whose family is in crisis after his brother's death begins to put his life back together after meeting a friendly monster - but the monster may need his help.

After hitting rock bottom, former youth boxing champion Jimmy McCabe returns to his childhood boxing club and his old team.

A US teenager is magically transported to ancient China and learns to convert his video game skills into those of a Kung Fu warrior.

An alcoholic drifter must battle withdrawal and psychotic rednecks after he becomes the target of a deranged sporting event.

Three Palestinian women share a flat in Tel Aviv.

Japan is plunged into chaos upon the appearance of a giant monster.

A grieving mother sets out to contact her dead chiild.

A woman who uses clothes as an emotional crutch discovers her life isn't as ideal as she thought.

One New Year's Eve party, Nico, a naive 20-year-old, sets out ready to lose his virginity at all costs. In the middle of the party, his gaze crosses Medea, a cunning and attractive mature woman.

When a sonic pulse turns the hearing population into zombies, what effect will it have on the lives of the deaf people who survive?
Glasgow Film Festival Features
Glasgow Film Festival News

Filming sensations Mathieu Amalric on Pierre Léon, Jeanne Balibar and the sounds and colours of Barbara
Character arc Seth A Smith on filming with a two-year-old and bringing marbling to life in The Crescent
Keeping up appearances Marcello Martinessi on cultural conservatism and filmmaking honesty in The Heiresses
A different space Kelly Macdonald on working with Marc Turtletaub on Puzzle
Out of the past Susanna Nicchiarelli on Trine Dyrholm and the costume design in Nico, 1988
The iconic man Jonathan Baker on Becoming Iconic and Inconceivable
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