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All that’s happening on the film festival circuit, from up-and-coming indie events to SXSW, BFI’s Seasons and the London Film Festival.
We Are One Global Film Festival – A City Called Macau (2019)
Directed by Li Shaohong, A City Called Macau follows casino broker Xiao-Ou (Bai Baihe) working in Macau after its return to Chinese sovereignty in 1999. Amid financial and medical outbreaks, she encounters developer Duan Keiwen (Wu Gang)…
We Are One Film Festival – Sisterhood (2016)
Directed by Tracy Choi, Sisterhood follows thirtysomething Sei (Gigi Leung), a struggling alcoholic who runs an inn with her husband in Taiwan. When she spots a newspaper ad informing her that her former best friend Ling (Jennifer Yu) has…
NEWSFLASH: FrightFest Will Return!
Always topical - the new poster for ARROW FrightFest 2020, designed by artist Graham Humphreys, incorporates some of the reallife horrors facing the world today
It was inevitable, but disappointing none-the-less, to hear that this…
We Are One: A Global Film Festival Announced
We Are One: A Global Film Festival, will be a ten day digital festival produced and organized by Tribeca Enterprises. Starting May 29 it will feature programming from 20 festivals including Berlin International Film Festival, Cannes Film…
Run – Interview with Scott Graham
Run is set in Fraserburgh, young men dream of escapism through late-night drag races. Finnie used to be one, but now he works at the fish factory and it's his son's turn to race. Until one night he steals the boy's car for one last…
GFF20: Blood Machines (2020) – Film Review
Blood Machines is a neon-soaked, synth-fuelled slice of science fiction that is perfect for Glasgow Film Festival's Future Cult strand.
When two space hunters track down a renegade ship, they see the ghost of a young woman pull herself…
GFF20: Spookies (1986) – Film Review
Glasgow Film Festival has unearthed Spookies as part of this year's Future Cult strand. This curiosity with a fabled past is certainly an oddity but one not without its charms.
Taking a wrong turn, travelers find themselves trapped in a…
GFF20: Tammy And The T-Rex (1994) – Film Review
Like dinosaur blood within a mosquito encased in amber, Glasgow Film Festival spared no expense to bring the extinct cult classic Tammy And The T-Rex roaring back to life at GFF20.
However were they so preoccupied with whether or not…
GFF20: Proxima (2020) – Film Review
Eva Green gives an (inter)stellar performance in Alice Winocour's Proxima. A film where one woman dreams of the stars but finds the draw of family pulls harder than gravity.
Writer-Director Winocour is no stranger to the Glasgow Film…
Portrait Of A Lady On Fire (2020) – Film Review
Céline Sciamma's Oscar-nominated Portrait Of A Lady On Fire paints a bold and vivid picture of love, loss and longing in 18th century France.
When asked by a pupil about a portrait in her workshop, art teacher Marianne reminisces about…