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Glasgow Film Festival

18 March – 1 March 2015

Opening gala film While We're Young
Opening gala film While We're Young

The Glasgow Film Festival is back for its 11th edition, now bigger than ever and sprawling across a range of unusual venues as it celebrates Glasgow's status as a Cinema City. It opens with Noah Baumbach's While We're Young and closes with Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure. Along the way there are celebrations of strong women in film, of games and geekery, and of the unforgettable star that was Ingrid Bergman.

Plus, of course, there's the ever-popular Frightfest, back with an extended lie-up of films to make you frightened of sleeping - not that you're likely to have time for that if you take full advantage of special event like Strictly Ballroom dance spectacular or live Paul Merton tribute to Buster Keaton. With even Shaun the Sheep getting in on the act, Glasgow is the place to be in February 2015.

The Glasgow Youth Film Festival has grown big enough to strike out on its own this year, and you can see what's happening at it here.

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  • The Falling
    Review preview for The Falling

    A difficult film, and a film about difficult women.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A fainting sickness hits a girls school in the Sixties.
  • Dazed And Confused
    Review preview for Dazed And Confused

    This is an ensemble triumph, somehow made all the more amiable by its general lack of earth-shattering incident.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    It's the last day of school and the kids are ready to party.
  • Theeb
    Review preview for Theeb

    This is a well structured and affecting piece of film-making.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    A Bedouin boy experiences a desert adventure when he joins a British officer searching for a well on the eve of the 1916 Arab Revolt.
  • The Wonders
    Review preview for The Wonders

    Wisdom is quiet and the future a mystery

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    Nothing will be the same at the end of this summer for Gelsomina and her three younger sisters.
  • Li'l Quinquin
    Review preview for Li'l Quinquin

    Dumont - for all the outlandishness of the film in other aspects - prioritises a messy realism over straightforward likeability in relation to his protagonists.

    Rebecca Naughten · 4 out of 5
    A blackly comic murder mystery develops in a small town in northern France.
  • Stonehearst Asylum
    Review preview for Stonehearst Asylum

    The pitting of Kingsley against Caine in this context is delightful.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A medical school graduate gets more than he bargained for at a mental institution.
  • Second Coming
    Review preview for Second Coming

    Nadine Marshall delivers a performance of quiet intensity.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A family is shaken by an unexplained pregnancy.
  • The Dead Lands
    Review preview for The Dead Lands

    A corking action film.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    A young Maori man sets out to avenge the death of his father.
  • Wyrmwood: Road Of The Dead
    Review preview for Wyrmwood: Road Of The Dead

    Utterly lacking in decorum or shame, this is a film that reeks of self-indulgence but gets away with it completely.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    During a post- apocalyptic zombie crisis, a mechanic sets out to rescue his sister from the clutches of a mad scientist.
  • The Asylum
    Review preview for The Asylum

    The teenagers really feel like teenagers, even when spouting leaden lines.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    Six teenagers partying in an abandoned building find themselves in trouble after experimenting with the supernatural.

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