Glasgow Film Festival 2016

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The Brand New Testament The Brand New Testament
The Brand New Testament and Remember
11 Minutes (11 minut) (Country: Ireland, Poland; Year: 2015; Director: Jerzy Skolimowski; Writer: Jerzy Skolimowski; Stars: Richard Dormer, Agata Buzek, Andrzej Chyra, Dawid Ogrodnik, David L. Price, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Miroslaw Zbrojewicz, Grazyna Blecka-Kolska, Jan Nowicki, Wojciech Mecwaldowski, Janusz Chabior, Piotr Glowacki, Paulina Chapko, Ryszard Ronczewski)
Thriller following the same 11 minutes in the life of various characters – young and old, affluent and poor.
The Brand New Testament (Le tout nouveau testament) (Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg; Year: 2015; Director: Jaco van Dormael; Writer: Thomas Gunzig, Jaco Van Dormael; Stars: Benoît Poelvoorde, Yolande Moreau, Catherine Deneuve)
The new adventures of God, who lives in Brussels with his teenage daughter and falls foul of her hacking skills.
Dheepan (Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Jacques Audiard; Writer: Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Noé Debré; Stars: Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Franck Falise, Vincent Rottiers, Marc Zinga, Claudine Vinasithamby)
The story of a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker outside Paris.
Eisenstein In Guanajuato (Country: Mexico, Netherlands, Finland, Belgium, France; Year: 2015; Director: Peter Greenaway; Writer: Peter Greenaway; Stars: Stelio Savante, Lisa Owen, Maya Zapata, Elmer Bäck, Luis Alberti, Jakob Öhrman, Rasmus Slätis, Raino Ranta)
The 10 days that shook Eisenstein.
Experimenter (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Michael Almereyda; Writer: Michael Almereyda; Stars: Peter Sarsgaard, Jim Gaffigan, Taryn Manning, Tom Farrell, Winona Ryder, Kellan Lutz, Lori Singer, Anton Yelchin, John Leguizamo, Josh Hamilton, Ned Eisenberg, Dennis Haysbert, Anthony Edwards, Edoardo Ballerini, Donnie Keshawarz, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Emily Tremaine, Harold Takooshian)
A drama about the life of Stanley Milgram and his famous experiments on obedience.
Dheepan Dheepan
Dheepan and Office
Francofonia (Country: France, Germany; Year: 2015; Director: Aleksandr Sokurov; Writer: Aleksandr Sokurov; Stars: Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Vincent Nemeth, Benjamin Utzerath, Johanna Korthals Altes)
Dramatised story of the two men who tried to preserve the treasures of the Louvre in the face of war.
Journey To The Shore (Kishibe No Tabi) (Country: Japan; Year: 2015; Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa; Writer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, based on the book by Kazumi Yumoto; Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Eri Fukatsu)
A devoted wife lets her husband, who drowned at sea three years ago, take her on a journey.
Men And Chicken (Mænd & høns) (Country: Denmark, Germany; Year: 2015; Director: Anders Thomas Jensen; Writer: Anders Thomas Jensen; Stars: David Dencik, Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Søren Malling, Nicolas Bro, Stine Engberg Andersen, Rikke Louise Andersson, Ulla Asbjørn-Damsted, Thor Bisbjerg, Valdemar Bemmann Bredning, Lisbet Dahl, Johnny Didriksen, Matti Ehlers, Daniel Engstrup, Jens Fitzau)
Black comedy about a pair of brothers who discover a dark family secret.
Mountains May Depart (Shan He Gu Ren) (Country: China, Japan; Year: 2015; Director: Jia Zhangke; Writer: Jia Zhangke; Stars: Zhao Tao, Zhang Yi, Dong Jing, Dong Zijian)
A young woman chooses between two men as China is torn between its traditional values and a capitalist future.
Office (Hua Li Shang Ban Zou, Design For Living, Gorgeous Office Workers) (Country: Hong Kong, China; Year: 2015; Director: Johnnie To; Writer: Sylvia Chang, Wai Ka-Fai ; Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Sylvia Chang, Eason Chan, Wei Tang, Cheung Siu-Fai )
Musical set in the world of finance.
Men And Chicken Men And Chicken
Men And Chicken and That Demon Within
Remember (Country: Canada, Germany; Year: 2015; Director: Atom Egoyan; Writer: Benjamin August; Stars: Christopher Plummer, Dean Norris, Martin Landau, Henry Czerny, Jürgen Prochnow, Bruno Ganz, Natalie Krill, James Cade, Peter DaCunha, Sofia Wells, Duane Murray, Kim Roberts, Sugith Varughese, T.J. McGibbon, Janet Porter, Heinz Lieven)
Zev has a mission: to avenge family, murdered 70 years ago by a Nazi guard who lives under an assumed identity in America.
Summertime (La Belle Saison) (Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Catherine Corsini; Writer: Catherine Corsini, Laurette Polmanss; Stars: Cécile De France, Izïa Higelin, Noémie Lvovsky)
Drama about social change in France in the early 1970s.
That Demon Within (Mo Jing) (Country: Hong Kong, China; Year: 2014; Director: Dante Lam; Writer: Dante Lam; Stars: Daniel Wu, Nick Cheung, Sixuan Chen, Kai Chi Liu, Ka Wah Lam, Andy On, Kwok-Lun Lee, Stephen Au, Kuan-Chun Chi, Ken Wong, Deep Ng, Sammuel Leung, Lam Tsing, Philip Keung, Astrid Chi Ching Chan)
After a policeman unwittingly saves the life of a notorious gang leader, he sets out to try to dismantle his criminal network.
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