Glasgow Film Festival 2013

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White Elephant White Elephant
White Elephant and A Map For Love
After Lucía (Después de Lucía) (Country: Mexico, France; Year: 2012; Director: Michel Franco; Writer: Michel Franco; Stars: Tessa Ia, Gonzalo Vega Jr., Tamara Yazbek, Hernán Mendoza)
The story of a bullied teenager.
Everybody Has A Plan (Todos Tenemos Un Plan) (Country: Argentina, Spain, Germany; Year: 2011; Director: Ana Piterbarg; Writer: Ana Piterbarg; Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Soledad Villamil, Daniel Fanego)
Twin brothers - one a beekeeper with a criminal history, one a doctor - are drawn together into dangerous confrontations in the Argentinian swamplands.
Gangs Of Wasseypur Part One (Country: India; Year: 2012; Director: Anurag Kashyap; Writer: Akhilesh Jaiswal, Anurag Kashyap, Sachin K. Ladia, Zeishan Quadri; Stars: Manoj Bajpai, Richa Chadda, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Jameel Khan, Piyush Mishra, Jaideep Ahlawat, Huma Qureshi, Zeishan Quadri, Vipin Sharma, Satyakam Anand, Aditya Kumar, Vineet Singh, Raj Kumar Yadav, Mukesh Chhabra)
An epic tale of rivalries between and within the families vying for control of a small town.
Gangs Of Wasseypur Part Two (Country: India; Year: 2012; Director: Anurag Kashyap; Writer: Anurag Kashyap, Sachin K. Ladia; Stars: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Manoj Bajpayee, Richa Chadda, Tigmanshu Dhulia)
The struggle continues between rival gangs determined to dominate a small town.
Here And There (Aquí y allá) (Country: US, Spain, Mexico; Year: 2012; Director: Antonio Méndez Esparza; Writer: Antonio Méndez Esparza; Stars: Pedro Santos De los, Teresa Ramírez Aguirre, Lorena Guadalupe Pantaleón Vázquez, Heidi Laura Solano Espinoza, Néstor Tepetate Medina, Carolina Prado Ángel.)
After years in the US, Pedro returns home to his family in Mexico, but the lure of the north remains as strong as ever.
Wadjda Wadjda
Wadjda and Here And There
A Map For Love (Mapa Para Conversar) (Country: Chile; Year: 2012; Director: Fernández Constanza; Writer: Fernández Constanza; Stars: Moro Andrea, Francisca Bernardi, Romano Kottow, Francisco Pizarro Saenz de Urtury), Official Site
A young woman, her girlfriend and her mother go on a sailing trip together, and tension grows between them.
The Thieves (Dodookdeul) (Country: South Korea; Year: 2012; Director: Dong-Hoon Choi; Writer: Dong-Hoon Choi, Lee Gi-Cheol; Stars: Gianna Jun, Hae-suk Kim, Hye-su Kim, Soo Hyun Kim, Yun-seok Kim, Angelica Lee, Jung-Jae Lee)
A team of highly talented thieves is assembled to try and steal a famous diamond.
Tower (Country: Canada; Year: 2012; Director: Kazik Radwanski; Writer: Kazik Radwanski; Stars: Derek Bogart, Nicole Fairbairn, Deborah Sawyer)
An isolated, nerdy man with poor social skills embarks on a romantic relationship, but can it help him connect to the wider world?
Wadjda (Country: Saudi Arabia, Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour; Writer: Haifaa Al-Mansour; Stars: Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed, Abdullrahman Al Gohani, Ahd, Sultan Al Assaf, Dana Abdullilah, Rehab Ahmed, Rafa Al Sanea, Mohammed Albahry, Mariam Alghamdi, Ali Algorbani, Sara Aljaber, Mohammed Alkhozain, Maram Alkohzaim, Mariam Alkohzaim)
A young Saudi girl who will stop at nothing to earn enough money to buy the bicycle she craves.
White Elephant (Elefante blanco) (Country: Argentina, Spain; Year: 2012; Director: Pablo Trapero; Writer: Alejandro Fadel, Martín Mauregui, Santiago Mitre, Pablo Trapero; Stars: Ricardo Darín, Jérémie Renier, Martina Gusman, Miguel Arancibia, Federico Barga, Esteban Díaz, Pablo Gatti, Walter Jacob, Raul Ramos, Susana Varela, Julio Zarza)
The story of the friendship between two priests who settle in a Buenos Aires slum area to carry out their ministry and social work.
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