The line-up for this year’s Glasgow Film Festival has just been revealed and there’s a bundle of big-screen goodies on offer for Glaswegians, Scottish movie lovers and visitors to the festival.
Festival opens on February 26 with the world premiere of John Maclean’s Tornado, a survival thriller starring Slow Horses star Jack Lowden and Shōgun’s Takehiro Hira. The Tornado in question is not the windy kind, but the name of a young Japanese woman (model-songwriter Kōki) who crosses path with Tim Roth’s ruthless gang of bandits in 1790s Britain.
The closing gala on March 9 is another world premiere from a Scottish filmmaker, Martyn Robertson’s Make it to Munich. The documentary follows 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.
Also catching the eye are Went Up The Hill, chilling New Zealand ghost story starring Phantom Thread’s Vicky Krieps, The Return, with Ralph Fiennes buffing up to play Odysseus and Juliette Binoche as Penelope, and Scottish folk horror Harvest.
Jessica Lange and Ed Harris offer a big ticket double-act for a new adaptation of Eugene O'Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, directed by theatre legend Jonathan Kent.
A pair of new music docs, Peaches Goes Bananas and Desire: The Carl Craig Story, should help get the afterparties started.
Look out, too, for an Aussie-set Nicolas Cage thriller, The Surfer, and Joshua Oppenheimer’s apocalyptic satire The End, with Tilda Swinton and George Mackay.
Head to the official festival website for all the programme details and other info.
How to get tickets for the Glasgow Film Festival?
Tickets for the opening and closing galas (£14-17) go on sale at 10am on Wednesday, January 22. The full programme goes on sale to CineCard holders at 10am on Thursday, January 23, and 10am on Monday, January 27 to the general public. Standard tickets cost £12.
Headquartered at the lovely Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) and with venues across the city, the festival spans 12 days of premieres and screenings, as well as career ‘in conversation’ sessions with James McAvoy and Jessica Lange.
There are 12 world and European premieres, 67 UK premieres and 12 Scottish premieres on this year’s programme, running between February 26 and March 9.
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