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Glasgow Film Festival

28 February – 10 March 2024

The Glasgow Film Festival is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year and there's a great line-up to look forward to. This year also sees the return of the festival's popular events strand, which gives attendees the opportunity to enjoy immersive experiences and go on cinematic adventures together - and, of course, there's the ever-popular Glasgow Frightfest strand, which gives Scottish viewers the chance to see some of the world's scariest new offerings.

Special guests include Viggo Mortensen, who will participate in a special In Conversation event, as well as Emily Hampshire, George Mackay, Ben Wheatley, Rose Glass, Maxine Peake and Kevin Macdonald.

The festival runs from 28 February to 10 March.

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  • The Teacher
    Review preview for The Teacher

    A Teacher is not the most finely crafted film, but it is a cri de cœur.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A Palestinian schoolteacher struggles to reconcile his risky commitment to political resistance with the chance of a new relationship with volunteer-worker and his emotional support for one of his students.
  • The Universal Theory
    Review preview for The Universal Theory

    Multiverses have become a box office staple lately, courtesy of Marvel and the like, but they are rarely as elegantly mounted as this retro and twisty little mystery from Timm Kröger.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    1962. A physics congress in the Alps. An Iranian guest. A mysterious pianist. A bizarre cloud formation in the sky and a booming mystery under the mountain.
  • Sleep
    Review preview for Sleep

    Mixing horror elements with character study and a tender portrait of a relationship in crisis, Sleep easily slides between genres and, in the process, keeps viewers guessing.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A couple find their marriage deteriorating after a disturbing episode when the husband declares in his sleep, “Someone’s inside”.
  • 7 Keys
    Review preview for 7 Keys

    McDonald is excellent.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    When Lena learns Daniel has the keys to every place he’s ever lived, she wants to use them. But what starts as a romantic tour soon takes a sinister turn.
  • Coup!
    Review preview for Coup!

    How it feels to take credit for something you haven’t done is one of the questions Coup! invites us to contemplate.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 3.5 out of 5
    Sheltering from the 1918 Spanish Flu at their seaside estate, a progressive journalist and his socialite wife take in a mysterious grifter as a private cook... and soon find themselves facing mutiny.
  • Only The River Flows
    Review preview for Only The River Flows

    No matter that the plot development is deliberately murky, it’s the mood that catches you in its tides.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A detective on the trail of a serial killer begins to lose his mind.
  • Made In England: The Films Of Powell And Pressburger
    Review preview for Made In England: The Films Of Powell And Pressburger

    Hinton’s documentary visually points to all the complicated, often triangular entanglements.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    Documentary about the acclaimed directors, their work and its legacy.
  • Sorcery
    Review preview for Sorcery

    Part fantasy, part western, the film is exquisitely shot, the humid atmosphere of the island creating a degree of visual uncertainty to confound viewers further.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    On the remote island of Chiloé in the late 19th century, an indigenous girl named Rosa lives and works with her father on a farm. When the foreman brutally turns on Rosa’s father, she sets out for justice, seeking help from the king of a powerful organisation of sorcerers.
  • Janey
    Review preview for Janey

    There’s nothing to challenge or expand upon the average viewer’s pre-existing knowledge of who Janey is.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    Documentary profile of comic Janey Godley.
  • Hesitation Wound
    Review preview for Hesitation Wound

    Hesitation Wound is a melancholy piece of cinema but such an accomplished one that it is a delight to watch.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A criminal lawyer faces difficult moral and emotional choices.

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