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Glasgow Film Festival

24 February – 7 March 2021

Dreams On Fire
Dreams On Fire

This year's Glasgow Film Festival is being held online due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. It opens with Minari and will close with Spring Blossom. Some of the films will be accompanied by exclusive Q&As. Stars contributing these include Jodie Foster, Tahar Rahim, Ewen Bremner and Ben Whishaw.

The festival will run between 24 February and 7 March.

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  • Riders Of Justice
    Review preview for Riders Of Justice

    Mikkelsen anchors this movie with a performance that allows emotional turmoil to glint through Markus' regimented facade, playing off the impressive combination of anger and grief that Gaderberg brings to Mathilde.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Markus has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident - or so it seems until a mathematics geek, who was also a fellow passenger on the train, and his two colleagues show up.
  • My Wonderful Wanda
    Review preview for My Wonderful Wanda

    My Wonderful Wanda picks just the right moments to introduce real emotion into the mix.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Wanda nurses the patriarch of the wealthy Wegmeister-Gloor family. When an unexpected complication arises, family secrets come to light.
  • First Cow
    Review preview for First Cow

    The simplest of pleasures bring the greatest moments of joy in Reichardt’s latest film.

    Matthew Anderson · 4.5 out of 5
    A cook with a group of fur trappers strikes up a connection with a Chinese emigre in the Old West.
  • Da Capo
    Review preview for Da Capo

    Lovingly rendered, however, with songs that have a clear appeal for K-rock fans.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A struggling songwriter reconnects with a former bandmate who is now teaching music.
  • Expensive Shit
    Review preview for Expensive Shit

    In a festival selection that included a number of feminist works and perspectives this was a standout.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    A Nigerian toilet attendant, desperate for survival, forced to manipulate unsuspecting women for men watching from behind a two-way mirror in a Glasgow club.
  • The Toll
    Review preview for The Toll

    Much of the humour in the film depends on contrasting viewers' expectations of rural life with the paraphernalia of Sixties spy movies and Seventies cop shows.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    A toll booth operator's secret past comes back to haunt him.
  • Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
    Review preview for Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation

    A remarkably candid and intimate look at two men who lived a good part of their lives in public.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    The work, lives and personal journeys of two iconic American artists coalesce with creative combustion in this innovative dual-portrait documentary.
  • Our Midnight
    Review preview for Our Midnight

    Park is on fine form throughout.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    An impoverished, recently dumped actor who is moonlighting as a cop meets a victim of domestic abuse who is planning to kill herself, and an unexpected connection forms between them.
  • Welcome II The Terrordome
    Review preview for Welcome II The Terrordome

    What comes across most clearly is the anger at its core.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    In a future where all black people have been forced to live inside a compound, one woman's quest for revenge sparks civil war.
  • Steelers: The World's First Gay Rugby Club
    Review preview for Steelers: The World's First Gay Rugby Club

    A cheery little film with a subject which will be dear to the hearts of many viewers.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    In 1995, in a pub in King’s Cross, a group of friends discussed the idea of a gay rugby club. From that casual conversation, the first gay rugby team was born.

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