Glasgow Film Festival 2014

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Grand Central Grand Central
Grand Central and The Strange Colour Of Your Body's Tears
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared (Country: Sweden; Year: 2013; Director: Felix Herngren; Writer: Felix Herngren, Hans Ingemansson, Jonas Jonasson; Stars: Robert Gustafsson, Iwar Wiklander, David Wiberg, Mia Skäringer, Jens Hultén, Bianca Cruzeiro, Alan Ford, Sven Lönn, David Shackleton, Georg Nikoloff, Simon Säppenen, Manuel Dubra, Cory Peterson, Kerry Shale, Philip Rosch)
A man escapes from an old folks' home and goes on an unlikely adventure.
Borgman (Country: Netherlands; Year: 2013; Director: Alex van Warmerdam; Writer: Alex van Warmerdam; Stars: Jan Bijvoet, Hadewych Minis, Jeroen Perceval)
The Devil moves into a suburban street and turns the lives of its inhabitants upside-down.
Cannibal (Caníbal) (Country: Spain, Romania, Russia, France; Year: 2013; Director: Manuel Martín Cuenca; Writer: Rafael de la Uz, Alejandro Hernández; Stars: Antonio de la Torre, María Alfonsa Rosso, Joaquín Núñez, Olimpia Melinte, Gregory Brossard)
A serial killer finds himself falliing for a potential victim.
For Those Who Can Tell No Tales (Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina; Year: 2013; Director: Jasmila Žbanić; Writer: Zoran Solomun, Kym Vercoe, Jasmila Zbanic; Stars: Kym Vercoe, Branko Cvejic, Jasna Djuricic, Boris Isakovic, Damir Kustura, Leon Lucev, Simon McBurney, Sasa Orucevic, Pamela Rabe)
An Australian tourist finds a trip to Bosnia changes her life forever.
The Gilded Cage (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Ruben Alves; Stars: Rita Blanco, Joaquim de Almeida, Roland Giraud)
Life becomes complicated for Portuguese immigrants living happily in France when one of them inherits a winery in the old country.
Of Horses and Men Of Horses and Men
Of Horses and Men and For Those Who Can Tell No Tales
The Girl From The Wardrobe (Dziewczyna Z Szafy) (Country: Poland; Year: 2013; Director: Bodo Kox; Writer: Bodo Kox; Stars: Wojciech Mecwaldowski, Piotr Glowacki, Magdalena Rózanska, Eryk Lubos)
A young man leaves his mentally disabled brother in the care of an eccentric neighbour.
Grand Central (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Rebecca Zlotowski; Writer: Gaëlle Macé, Rebecca Zlotowski; Stars: Léa Seydoux, Tahar Rahim, Denis Ménochet)
A complex romance set against the backdrop of the nuclear power industry.
The Hour Of The Lynx (I lodjurets timma, I lossens time) (Country: Denmark, Sweden; Year: 2013; Director: Søren Kragh-Jacobsen; Writer: Jonas T Bengtsson, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Tobias Lindholm, based on the novel by Per Olov Enquist; Stars: Søren Malling, Sofie Gråbøl, Signe Egholm Olsen, Lia Boysen, Börje Ahlstedt, Frederik Christian Johansen, Jens Jørn Spottag, Julie Carlsen, Nis Bank-Mikkelsen, Donald Högberg, Henrik Birch, Barbro Enberg, Jakob Ulrik Lohmann, Rasmus Elton, Susan Olsen)
Psychological thriller about a priest, a researcher and a disturbed young man.
Ida (Country: Poland, Denmark; Year: 2013; Director: Pawel Pawlikowski; Writer: Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Pawel Pawlikowski; Stars: Agata Kulesza, Joanna Kulig, Dawid Ogrodnik, Adam Szyszkowski, Agata Trzebuchowska)
A novice nun comes face-to-face with her family’s past in 1960s Poland.
The Italian Pastry Chef (Il Pasticciere) (Country: Italy; Year: 2012; Director: Luigi Sardiello; Stars: Antonio Catania, Rosaria Russo, Ennio Fantastichin)
A pastry chef whose diabetes means he cannot taste his own creations is inadvertently caught up in a murder plot.
My Name Is Hmmm... My Name Is Hmmm...
My Name Is Hmmm... and Mr Morgan’s Last Love
Lasting (Country: Poland, Spain; Year: 2013; Director: Jacek Borcuch; Writer: Jacek Borcuch; Stars: Jakub Gierszal, Magdalena Berus, Angela Molina)
An emotional love story about two Polish students who fall in love with each other while working summer jobs in Spain. An unexpected nightmare interrupts their carefree time in the heavenly landscape and throws their lives into chaos.
LFO (Country: Sweden, Denmark; Year: 2013; Director: Antonio Tublén; Stars: Patrik Karlson, Izabella Jo Tschig, Per Löfberg)
An unhappy sound technician discovers a frequency that lets him control other people's minds.
Love Is Not What It Used to Be (El Amor No Es Lo Que Era) (Country: Spain; Year: 2013; Director: Gabriel Ochoa; Writer: Ada Hernández, Gabriel Ochoa, Rafael Cobos; Stars: Alberto San Juan, Aida Folch, Petra Martínez)
Couples at different stages of their relationships experience the different forms and directions love can take.
Love Is The Perfect Crime (L'amour est un crime parfait) (Year: 2013; Director: Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu; Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Maïwenn, Karin Viard)
A professor forms a realtionship with one of his student's mothers after her daughter disappears
Mary, Queen Of Scots (Country: Switzerland; Year: 2013; Director: Thomas Imbach; Writer: Thomas Imbach, based on the book by Stefan Zweig.; Stars: Camille Rutherford, Sean Biggerstaff, Aneurin Barnard, Ian Hanmore)
A biopic of the ill-fated Scottish monarch.
Mood Indigo Mood Indigo
Mood Indigo and Northwest
Miss Violence (Country: Greece; Year: 2013; Director: Alexandros Avranas; Stars: Themis Panou, Kostas Antalopoulos, Chloe Bolota)
The death of an 11-year-old leads to the unravelling of ugly family secrets.
Mood Indigo (Country: Belgium; Year: 2013; Director: Michel Gondry; Writer: Luc Bossi, based on the novel by Boris Vian; Stars: Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Omar Sy, Michel Gondry)
This dreamlike story of two pairs of lovers, a cook and a kitchen mouse is an adaptation of the cult novel by French writer Boris Vian.
Mr Morgan’s Last Love (Country: Germany, Belgium, USA, France; Year: 2013; Director: Sandra Nettelbeck; Writer: Sandra Nettelbeck, based on the book by Françoise Dorner.; Stars: Gillian Anderson, Michael Caine, Clémence Poésy)
A retired philosophy professor falls for a young Parisian woman.
My Name Is Hmmm... (Je m’appelle Hmmm…) (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: agnes b; Writer: agnes b; Stars: Sylvie Testud, Jacques Bonnaffé, Lou-Lélia Demerliac, Douglas Gordon)
An abused young girl runs away from home and forms an unlikely bond with a trucker.
Northwest (Nordvest) (Country: Denmark; Year: 2013; Director: Michael Noer; Writer: Rasmus Heisterberg, Michael Noer; Stars: Dulfi Al-Jabouri, Hamza Al.Jaburi, Oliver Altman, Kevin Andersen, Irina V Babenko, Jelena Bundalovic, Lene Maria Christensen, Sandra El-Hussein, Nick Philip Engel, Monika Paula Fasula, Gustav Dyekjær Giese, Oscar Dyekjær Giese, Jacob Wagner Guldager, Carsten Hartmann, Nicholas Westwood Kidd)
A teenager gets sucked into a turf war.
Love Is Not What It Used to Be Love Is Not What It Used to Be
Love Is Not What It Used to Be and Ida
The Notebook (A nagy füzet) (Country: Germany, France, Hungary, Austria; Year: 2013; Director: János Szász; Writer: Tom Abrams, Agota Kristof, András Szekér, János Szász; Stars: András Gyémánt, László Gyémánt, Gyöngyvér Bognár, Piroska Molnár, András Réthelyi, Ulrich Thomsen, Orsolya Tóth, János Derzsi, Péter Andorai, Miklós Székely B., Krisztián Kovács, Ákos Köszegi, Ulrich Matthes, Gyula Kovács, Diána Kiss)
Twins try to cope after they are left with their alcoholic gran in wartime Hungary.
Of Horses and Men (Hross í oss) (Country: Iceland; Year: 2013; Director: Benedikt Erlingsson; Writer: Benedikt Erlingsson; Stars: Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Maria Ellingsen, Helgi Björnsson, Kristbjörg Kjeld, Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Atli Rafn Sigurðsson, Steinn Ármann Magnússon, Charlotte Bøving, Kjartan Ragnarsson, Sigríður María Egilsdóttir, Juan Camillo Roman Estrada, Erlingur Gíslason)
A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human.
Papusza (Country: Poland; Year: 2013; Director: Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze; Writer: Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze; Stars: Jowita Budnik, Joanna Niemirska, Antoni Pawlicki)
The story of the famous Romany poet.
Pioneer (Pionér) (Country: Norway; Year: 2013; Director: Erik Skjoldbjærg; Writer: Nikolaj Frobenius, Hans Gunnarsson, Cathinka Nicolaysen, Erik Skjoldbjærg, Kathrine Valen; Stars: Wes Bentley, Stephen Lang, Jonathan LaPaglia, Stephanie Sigman, Aksel Hennie, Jørgen Langhelle, Ane Dahl Torp, André Eriksen, David A. Jørgensen, Jerker Fahlström, Arne Lindtner Næss, Endre Hellestveit, Janne Heltberg, Eirik Stubø, Laurents Rørvik)
Conspiracy thriller, can a man turn whistleblower and preserve his slice of Norwegian Oil Bubble riches?
Playing Dead (Je Fais Le Mort) (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Jean-Paul Salomé; Stars: François Damiens, Geraldine Nakache, Lucien Jean-Baptiste)
A struggling actor helps out with a police reenactment and finds himself caught up in the search pf a killer.
Witching And Bitching Witching And Bitching
Witching And Bitching and Yves Saint Laurent
Quai d’Orsay (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Bertrand Tavernier; Stars: Thierry Lhermitte, Raphael Personnaz, Niels Arestrup)
Satire about a speechwriter hired to work for the French Foreign Minister.
The Strange Colour Of Your Body's Tears (L’étrange Couleur Des Larmes De Ton Corps, The Strange Color Of Your Body's Tears) (Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg; Year: 2013; Director: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani; Writer: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani; Stars: Klaus Tange, Jean-Michel Vovk, Sylvia Camarda, Sam Louwyck, Anna D’annunzio, Manon Beuchot)
A woman's disappearance forms the central mystery in this visually stylish neo-giallo.
The Stag (The Bachelor Weekend) (Country: Ireland; Year: 2013; Director: John Butler; Stars: Andrew Scott, Hugh O’Conor, Peter McDonald)
The presence of an obnoxious soon-to-be brother in law complicates a stag do.
A Street In Palermo (Country: Italy, Switzerland, France; Year: 2013; Director: Emma Dante; Writer: Emma Dante, Giorgio Vasta; Stars: Emma Dante, Alba Rohrwacher, Elena Cotta, Renato Malfatti, Dario Casarolo)
The chaos caused when two cars meet in side street in Palermo and neither will budge to let the other pass.
Suzanne (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Katell Quillévéré; Stars: Sara Forestier, Adèle Haenel, François Damiens)
The close relationship between two sisters and their widowed father becomes complicated when one of them falls pregnant.
The Girl From The Wardrobe The Girl From The Wardrobe
The Girl From The Wardrobe and Papusza
Tangerines (Mandariinid) (Country: Estonia, Georgia; Year: 2013; Director: Zaza Urushadze; Writer: Zaza Urushadze; Stars: Lembit Ulfsak, Elmo Nüganen, Giorgi Nakashidze, Misha Meskhi, Raivo Trass)
As the Abkhazian War in Georgia approaches, two villagers are the only ones who haven’t left.
A Thousand Times Good Night (Tusen ganger god natt) (Country: Norway, Ireland, Sweden; Year: 2013; Director: Erik Poppe; Writer: Erik Poppe, Harald Rosenløw-Eeg, Kirsten Sheridan; Stars: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Juliette Binoche, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Eve Macklin, Larry Mullen Jr., Chloë Annett, Lauryn Canny, Denise McCormack, Mads Ousdal, Carl Shaaban, Anna Leah Thorseth Poppe, Stephen Mullan, Larry Mullen, Bush Moukarzel)
Semi-autobiographical story of a photojournalist forced to choose between family and her career.
Two Lives (Country: Germany, Norway; Year: 2013; Director: Georg Maas, Judith Kaufmann; Stars: Juliane Köhler, Ken Duken, Liv Ullmann)
Family lives are complicated by dark secrets buried in the past and Norway's occupation by the Nazis.
Witching And Bitching (Las Brujas De Zugarramurdi) (Country: Spain, France; Year: 2013; Director: Álex de la Iglesia; Writer: Jorge Guerricaechevarría, Álex de la Iglesia; Stars: Hugo Silva, Mario Casas, Carmen Maura, Gabriel Delgado, Carlos Areces, Carolina Bang, Macarena Gómez, Pepón Nieto, Secun de la Rosa, María Barranco, Jaime Ordóñez, Enrique Villén, Terele Pávez, Beatriz Urzáiz, Julián Valcárcel-Carbonell)
When three men go on the run after a heist goes bad, they run into a coven of witches.
You’ll Be A Man (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Benoît Cohen; Stars: Aurelio Cohen, Jules Sagot, Eleonore Pourriat)
A ten-year-old boy and the 20-year-old hired to look after him become best friends.
Mary, Queen Of Scots Mary, Queen Of Scots
Mary, Queen Of Scots and Borgman
Yves Saint Laurent (Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Jalil Lespert; Writer: Jacques Fieschi, Jérémie Guez, Marie-Pierre Huster, Jalil Lespert; Stars: Pierre Niney, Charlotte Le Bon, Guillaume Gallienne, Judi Beecher, Nikolai Kinski, Ruben Alves, Laura Smet, Janicke Askevold, Xavier Lafitte, Anne Alvaro, Xavier Alcan, Marianne Basler, Jeanne Dandoy, Astrid Whettnall, Rani Bheemuck)
Biopic of the French fashion designer.
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