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Glasgow Film Festival

21 February – 4 March 2018

Isle Of Dogs is the opening film
Isle Of Dogs is the opening film

The 14th edition of the Glasgow Film Festival will be held in 2018 with the line-up set to include special tributes to the cinema of Ireland and the Baltic countries. Special guests as the festival, which features 13 world and European premières, include David Tennant, Bill Pullman, Lynne Ramsay and Ben Wheatley.

The festival opens with Wes Anderson's Isle Of Dogs and closes with international tale of solidarity Nae Pasaran.

The festival runs from 21 February to 4 March.

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  • Revenge
    Review preview for Revenge

    Fargeat uses a lot of old tricks to give her desert a haunting, mystical quality, but she uses them well in a film that oozes style.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
  • Filmworker
    Review preview for Filmworker

    Few voices are missing from this incredibly thorough piece of work.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Documentary about the working relationship between actor Leon Vitali and Stanley Kubrick.
  • Secret Santa
    Review preview for Secret Santa

    A natural crowd movie.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    The Pope family’s Christmas Eve dinner goes horribly and hilariously wrong when someone puts something in the party punch causing everyone to tell the unvarnished truth at the already dysfunctional holiday reunion.
  • Nae Pasaran
    Review preview for Nae Pasaran

    The journey to this point for Sierra speaks of the passion project that it is - and the film benefits hugely from his engagement with the emotional aspects of the story.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    The story of the East Kilbride factory workers who refused to carry out repairs on warplane engines in an act of solidarity against the violent military coup in Chile.
  • Life And Nothing More
    Review preview for Life And Nothing More

    The family may be only one major money event away from poverty but this is a portrayal of dearth by a thousand cuts that many working class people face - and not just in America.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    Story of a single mother and her two children trying to make ends meet in Florida.
  • Tigers Are Not Afraid
    Review preview for Tigers Are Not Afraid

    The performances that director Issa López gets out of the children, most of whom are new to acting, are extraordinary.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A dark fairy tale about a gang of five children trying to survive the horrific violence of the cartels and the ghosts created every day by the drug war.
  • Sicilian Ghost Story
    Review preview for Sicilian Ghost Story

    It avoids every cliche laid down in the history of search-and-rescue movies

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    When a boy disappears, a young girl goes looking for him in the dark world that has swallowed him.
  • Pin Cushion
    Review preview for Pin Cushion

    With a keen eye for absurdity and the hypocrisies of suburban life, Haywood finds comedy in the bleakest situations.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Trouble brews after the unusually close bond between a mother and daughter is disrupted when they move to a new town.
  • Sweet Country
    Review preview for Sweet Country

    There is artistry here and an absence of cliche.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Australian frontier drama, told from an Aboriginal perspective.
  • My Friend Dahmer
    Review preview for My Friend Dahmer

    This is a sudden and astonishing arrival for an adult actor.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    Before Jeffrey Dahmer became one of the most notorious serial killers of all time, he was a teenage loner.

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