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Glasgow Film Festival · 2019

Glasgow Film Festival 2019

Crossing the Line

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6 films · 1 review

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Erased, Ascent Of The Invisible (Erased, ____ Ascent Of The Invisible)

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The nature of erasure and memory rubs up against ideas of collective guilt in Ghassan Halwani's measured and moving documentary.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
Documentary about thousands of people who disappeared during the Lebanon Civil War.

(Country: Lebanon; Year: 2018; Director: Ghassan Halwani)

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The Grand Bizarre

Filmed over five years and in as many countries, this all-analogue travelogue finds thousands of textiles and printed designs dancing across locations from Mexico to Morocco to India.

(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Jodie Mack)

I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead

Material shot on the eve of the 45th US presidential inauguration blends moments of perilous public authority with tender portraits and intimate scenes from the director’s daily life to explore gender, poetry and disobedience.

(Country: US, Italy, UK; Year: 2018; Director: Beatrice Gibson)

Pinochet Porn

The intertwined stories of five people growing up under the Pinochet regime in Chile, taking in subversive sexuality and the horrors of fascism.

(Country: US, UK; Year: 2018; Director: Ellen Cantor; Stars: Ellen Cantor, Lia Gangitano, Harri Kupiainen)

The Thoughts That Once We Had

A personal history of cinema prompted both by the theories of Gilles Deleuze and by classic Hollywood musical comedies.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Thom Andersen)

Tremor - Es Ist Immer Krieg

A journey between memory and nightmare, Tremor is driven by the voices of poets and madmen, speaking accounts of violence and war.

(Country: Belgium; Year: 2017; Director: Annik Leroy)