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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
During the Second World War, a band of misfits must come together to save the galaxy.
A documentary about the real-life 1945 witchcraft killing of Charles Walton - the terrifying event that inspired The Wicker Man and birthed the folk horror genre.
Eccentric lottery winner, Charles, dreams of getting his favorite musicians, Mortimer-McGwyer, back together. His fantasy turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis Island. Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig.
Over days and nights, McVeigh eats, sleeps, watches the news, meets a girl… all while inside his mind brews an unthinkable plan that will forever change the collective American psyche.
A family in East Germany finds millions in soon-to-be-worthless East German currency during reunification, and take what they can carry.
Humiliated in front of his son by a surf gang, a man gets drawn into an escalating conflict.
Rural policewoman Andrea wants to end her marriage and become a detective inspector in the city. After a birthday party, her drunken soon-to-be ex-husband runs out in front of her car. In a state of shock, Andrea commits a hit-and-run.
Trapped between the confines of her workplace and the solitude of her flat-share, a Portuguese warehouse picker in Scotland seeks to resist the loneliness, alienation and ensuing small talk which begin to threaten her sense of self.
Suburban Florida is transformed into a 3D animated wonderland in this musical comedy.
A teenage girl continues to follow her music dream.
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