Glasgow Film Festival

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  Mr. K

  Review preview for Mr. K

  Production designers Manolito Glas and Maarten Piersma do a stunning job with the sets, creating an atmosphere of sleaze and decay which one can almost smell, whilst layering in detail.

  A magician checks into a hotel full of strange occupants... and discovers there is no way to leave.
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  Meanwhile On Earth

  Review preview for Meanwhile On Earth

  There’s a sweet, melancholy flavour to Clapin’s work.

  Siblings Elsa and Franck were very close. Since Franck disappeared during a space mission three years ago, Elsa has struggled to move on with her life. Until one day she is contacted by an unidentified life form.
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  Harvest

  Review preview for Harvest

  At times the discomfort that Harvest causes is not from dirt or despair but the room it leaves for interpretation.

  Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears.
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  From Hilde, With Love

  Review preview for From Hilde, With Love

  This non-sensationalist approach allows much more room to address the psychological effects of prison life itself, whilst emphasising the mundanity of much of what happened under the Nazis.

  In Berlin 1942, Hilde finds her place within an anti-Nazi resistance group as gradually as she falls in love with one of its members. The two spend an unforgettable summer until they get caught by the Gestapo and Hilde is imprisoned, eight months pregnant.
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  Red Path

  Review preview for Red Path

  Achour does a fine job of binding us to his adolescent hero’s perspective, as the boy tries to process the death and what it means within the limited framework of ideas available to him.

  After two young shepherds are attacked on a mountainside, Achraf, 14, is ordered to take the severed head of his cousin Nizar back to their family as a macabre message.
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  Make It To Munich

  Review preview for Make It To Munich

  It’s not particularly dramatic and it doesn’t deal in miracles, but it’s a deeply engaging and enjoyable piece of work.

  Scots teenager Ethan Walker as he defies life-threatening injuries to cycle from Glasgow’s Hampden Park to Munich Football Arena for Scotland’s opening Euro24 match.
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  Motel Destino

  Review preview for Motel Destino

  In this hothouse, madness easily exerts its grip.

  A young drifter finds shelter in a seedy motel and embarks on a dangerous love affair.
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  U Are The Universe

  Review preview for U Are The Universe

  Given that U Are The Universe is practically a one-man-play, Volodymyr Kravchuk masterfully commands the screen combining his knack for humour with a strong sense for drama.

  In the distant future, a space trucker from Khmelnytskyi is trying to get rid of over three billion tons of waste. When he hears from a woman on a distant space station, he becomes determined to reach her.
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  In Vitro

  Review preview for In Vitro

  The plot is not the film’s strongest point, but it functions well enough as a device through which to explore a troubled relationship.

  A woman living with her husband on a remote farm in the near future discovers that he has been keeping a big secret.
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  Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story

  Review preview for Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story

  An overflowing life is presented to us through archival interviews and film clips, and most revealingly through on-camera insights from O’Brien herself.

  A portrayal of Irish writer Edna O'Brien's writing, loves, stardom, and unconventional life.

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Features

• Until the dance
  Andreas Dresen on resistance, ensemble storytelling and From Hilde, With Love
• Away game
  Martyn Robertson on the challenge of cycling while filming Make It To Munich
• Money and justice
  Natja Brunckhorst on recreating East Germany and making Two To One
• Having the final say
  Sinéad O’Shea on Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story
• Taking their time
  Ryan J Sloan and Ariella Mastroianni on spiral stories and creating Gazer
• For the sake of belonging
  Michael Premo and Rachel Falcone on going inside MAGA to make Homegrown
• A very British murder
  Rupert Russell on the Charles Walton murder, folk horror and The Last Sacrifice
• 'When you fall in love, you get very self-obsessed'
  Filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud on depicting young desire in Dreams
• 'She's a character who is almost experiencing performance anxiety'
  Laura Carreira on buidling character with her cast and cinematographer in On Falling
• Down on the farm
  Will Howarth and Talia Zucker on developing In Vitro
• 'It’s not just making a movie for me, it’s a journey'
  Rima Das on bringing sequel Village Rockstars 2 to the screen
• A great opportunity
  Ishaya Bako on exploring the world of scammers in I Do Not Come To You By Chance
• Freshly squeezed Florida
  Julian Glander on small stakes drama and animating Boys Go To Jupiter
• Wishing on space hardware
  Daniel V Masciari and Eliza VanCort discuss Stationed At Home
• 'Our life is defined by work. I think it's consuming us'
  Laura Carreira on the gig economy and loneliness in her Silver Shell-winner On Falling
• 'This film is set in the future but it’s about our present'
  Joshua Oppenheimer and George Mackay on dystopian musical The End
• 'I think a country without movies is a country without memory'
  César Díaz on bringing Mexico 86 to the screen
• 'I was imagining my mother in a similar situation'
  Bérénice Bejo on why Mexico 86 reminded her of her own family
• Sculpting a story
  Jianjie Lin on working layer by layer on Brief History Of A Family
• Family ties
  Klaudia Reynicke on crazy casting and bringing her own emotions to Reinas
• Oscar contender takes life at a gallop
  Deniz Gamze Ergüven on pride, prejudice, identity and wild horses.
• House rules, part 2
  Deniz Gamze Ergüven on Mustang, Offside and Escape From Alcatraz.
• House rules, part 1
  Deniz Gamze Ergüven on Mustang, Augustine, Selin Sozen and Warren Ellis.
• Scout's honour
  Thomas Turgoose and Tom Harper talk about The Scouting Book For Boys.
• Racism and rights of passage
  Actor Stephen Graham discusses his role in this year's most talked-about British film, This Is England.

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