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Glasgow Film Festival · 2024

Glasgow Film Festival 2024

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8 films · 5 reviews

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The Dead Don't Hurt

Feminist-focused Western that centres on a Danish carpenter and his French-Canadian wife as they strive to settle in a corrupt Nevada town.

(Country: Mexico, Canada, Denmark; Year: 2023; Director: Viggo Mortensen; Writer: Viggo Mortensen; Stars: Vicky Krieps, Viggo Mortensen, Solly McLeod, Garret Dillahunt, W. Earl Brown, Danny Huston, Shane Graham, Rafel Plana, Alex Breaux, Jason Clarke, Arturo Coronado, Marc Dennis, John Getz, Atlas Green, Angela Lentz)

Falling Into Place

Review preview for Falling Into Place

As might be expected from an actress-turned-director, the performances are important to Tezel but she also shows an aptitude for visual storytelling.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
A romance between two people, who met too briefly over a winter weekend while on the run from themselves.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2023; Director: Aylin Tezel; Writer: Aylin Tezel; Stars: Aylin Tezel, Chris Fulton, Alexandra Dowling, Rory Fleck Byrne)

Full review See: Interview with Aylin Tezel about Falling Into Place

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.

(Country: Turkey, France, Romania, Spain; Year: 2023; Director: Selman Nacar; Writer: Selman Nacar; Stars: Tülin Özen, Görkem Ipek)

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The Home Game

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Even non-football fans are likely to find themselves won over almost immediately by this tale of one team’s determination against the odds.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
A man becomes determined to realise his dad's dream of taking their small-town football club to the Icelandic FA Cup and playing a home game.

(Country: Iceland; Year: 2023; Director: Smari Gunn, Logi Sigursveinsson)

Full review See: Smari Gunn and Logi Sigursveinsson on their underdog football documentary The Home Game

Martinez

An ageing office worker on the cusp of retirement discovers there’s more to life than he thought after the death of his neighbour.

(Country: Mexico, France; Year: 2023; Director: Lorena Padilla; Writer: Lorena Padilla; Stars: Humberto Busto, Francisco Reyes, Martha Claudia Moreno)

Milk Teeth (Milchzähne)

Review preview for Milk Teeth

This is a splendid exercise in world building. Bösch gives us everything we need to believe in this place and understand the character dynamics, but does not stray beyond that.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
Trouble brews for a young woman and her mother after they take in a foundling youngster against the wishes of their community.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Sophia Bösch; Writer: Sophia Bösch, Roman Gielke, based on the book by Helene Bukowski; Stars: Mathilde Bundschuh, Susanne Wolff, Viola Hinz)

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The Teacher

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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.

(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Farah Nabulsi; Writer: Farah Nabulsi; Stars: Imogen Poots, Stanley Townsend, Saleh Bakri, Paul Herzberg)

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Woken

A woman wakes up and can't remember anything, not even her husband.

(Country: Italy, Ireland; Director: Alan Friel; Writer: Alan Friel; Stars: Erin Kellyman, Maxine Peake, Ivanno Jeremiah, Corrado Invernizzi, Peter McDonald, Oscar Coleman, Derek Carroll, Jonathan Gunning, Sophia Adli, Angelica Pascoe, Joseph Palmer, Damien Revins)