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This year's Glasgow Film Festival is being held online due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. It opens with Minari and will close with Spring Blossom.
The festival will run between 27 February and 7 March.
View Films by Strand:
- Documentaries
- Focus on South Korea
- Frightfest
- Galas
- International Selection
- Scottish highlights
- Shanghai Selection
- UK Premieres
- World and European Premieres
View previous years coverage of the Glasgow Film Festival festival:
Glasgow Latest Reviews

At a remote lake house, a filmmaker plays a calculated game of desire and jealousy in the pursuit of a work of art that blurs the boundaries between autobiography and invention.

Omar is a promising young musician. Separated from his Syrian family, he is stuck on a remote Scottish island awaiting the fate of his asylum request. Due to the plaster-cast on his arm, he cannot play his oud and instead wanders the epic landscapes searching for answers to a complex past and daunting future.

A lonely neurosurgeon falls in love but when she moves to Budapest to be with him, the love of her life says they've never met before.

The director recalls the impact of Soviet propaganda on her childhood.

Pigs, cows and chickens. Intimate portraits of living beings who wind up dead on a plate every day.

An otherworldly journey through a Europe in decline - a collection of darkly humorous, fantasy tales about ill-fated characters and doomed fortune.
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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