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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. Some of the films will be accompanied by exclusive Q&As. Stars contributing these include Jodie Foster, Tahar Rahim, Ewen Bremner and Ben Whishaw.
The festival will run between 24 February and 7 March.
View Films by Strand:
- Documentaries
- Focus on South Korea
- Frightfest
- Galas
- International Selection
- Scottish highlights
- Shanghai Selection
- UK Premieres
- Welcome To
- World and European Premieres
View previous years coverage of the Glasgow Film Festival festival:
Glasgow Latest Reviews
Markus has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident - or so it seems until a mathematics geek, who was also a fellow passenger on the train, and his two colleagues show up.
Wanda nurses the patriarch of the wealthy Wegmeister-Gloor family. When an unexpected complication arises, family secrets come to light.
A cook with a group of fur trappers strikes up a connection with a Chinese emigre in the Old West.
A struggling songwriter reconnects with a former bandmate who is now teaching music.
A Nigerian toilet attendant, desperate for survival, forced to manipulate unsuspecting women for men watching from behind a two-way mirror in a Glasgow club.
A toll booth operator's secret past comes back to haunt him.
The work, lives and personal journeys of two iconic American artists coalesce with creative combustion in this innovative dual-portrait documentary.
An impoverished, recently dumped actor who is moonlighting as a cop meets a victim of domestic abuse who is planning to kill herself, and an unexpected connection forms between them.
In a future where all black people have been forced to live inside a compound, one woman's quest for revenge sparks civil war.
In 1995, in a pub in King’s Cross, a group of friends discussed the idea of a gay rugby club. From that casual conversation, the first gay rugby team was born.
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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