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The Glasgow Film Festival turns 21 this year and it's also the final festival for longtime co-director Allison Gardner, so expect something really special. A packed line-up includes several special events themed around coming of age, with an amazing guest list - look out for in-conversation events with James McAvoy and Jessica Lange. We'll be adding more details as they come in, so watch this space.
The festival runs from 26 Feb to 9 Mar.
View Films by Strand:
- Audience Award
- Frightfest
- From the Heart of Europe: Austria on Screen
- Galas
- Mai Zetterling Retrospective
- Official Selection
- Our Time Is Now: Coming Of Age In The Movies
- Scottish Premières
- Special Events
- UK Premières
- World & European Premières
View previous years coverage of the Glasgow Film Festival festival:
Glasgow Latest Reviews
A magician checks into a hotel full of strange occupants... and discovers there is no way to leave.
Siblings Elsa and Franck were very close. Since Franck disappeared during a space mission three years ago, Elsa has struggled to move on with her life. Until one day she is contacted by an unidentified life form.
Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears.
In Berlin 1942, Hilde finds her place within an anti-Nazi resistance group as gradually as she falls in love with one of its members. The two spend an unforgettable summer until they get caught by the Gestapo and Hilde is imprisoned, eight months pregnant.
After two young shepherds are attacked on a mountainside, Achraf, 14, is ordered to take the severed head of his cousin Nizar back to their family as a macabre message.
Scots teenager Ethan Walker as he defies life-threatening injuries to cycle from Glasgow’s Hampden Park to Munich Football Arena for Scotland’s opening Euro24 match.
A young drifter finds shelter in a seedy motel and embarks on a dangerous love affair.
In the distant future, a space trucker from Khmelnytskyi is trying to get rid of over three billion tons of waste. When he hears from a woman on a distant space station, he becomes determined to reach her.
A woman living with her husband on a remote farm in the near future discovers that he has been keeping a big secret.
A portrayal of Irish writer Edna O'Brien's writing, loves, stardom, and unconventional life.
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