glasgow film festival

One of the most a-peel-ing movies at this year's Glasgow Film Festival is the Greek film Apples. A film that looks at the importance of memory in defining who we are. Amidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged…

Lawrence Michael Levine's Black Bear is destined to bake many a noodle at this year's Glasgow Film Festival. A woman sitting on the dock of the bay, watching the tide roll away. She gets up, returns to her house to sit down with a pen…

It is a case of fairground attraction in more ways than one in Zoe Wittock's fantastical romance Jumbo. Noemie Merlant (Portrait Of A Lady On Fire) is the painfully shy and awkward Jeanne. A young woman who lives with her brash mother…

Just like The Toll he oversees, Michael Smiley discovers that everybody has to pay for the sins of the past. Calling local cop Catrin to his toll booth late one night, he spins her a web of intrigue as tangled as a Spaghetti western.…

Nick Moran gives it lock, stock and two smoking barrels to recreate the hedonistic Britpop era in Creation Stories. Does his Alan McGee biopic, debuting at the Glasgow Film Festival, succeed? Definitely maybe. So what's the story?…

The latest film by American filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung, Minari stars Burning actor Steven Yuen in a quiet tale about a Korean family making a life in Arkansas. At the heart of the film is Jacob (Yuen), who has uprooted his family to…

Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) today announced the full programme for its 2021 festival, with screenings hosted on Glasgow Film’s new online viewing platform Glasgow Film At Home. The programme contains 6 World premieres, 2 European premieres…

What a difference six months makes. When Vivarium screened at the London Film Festival in October 2019 it was favourably compared to the likes of Black Mirror. Fast forward to April 2020 and just like the best episodes of that show, truth…

Scientist James is obsessed with solving the mystery to unlocking time travel. However the only one standing in his way is himself... literally... in James Vs His Future Self. "There is not fate but what we make for ourselves". It is…

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…