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Glasgow Film Festival · 2025

Glasgow Film Festival 2025

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The Ballad Of Wallis Island

Review preview for The Ballad Of Wallis Island

I laughed, and was not alone in doing so, out loud, and repeatedly.

Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
Eccentric lottery winner, Charles, dreams of getting his favorite musicians, Mortimer-McGwyer, back together. His fantasy turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis Island. Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig.

(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: James Griffiths; Writer: Tom Basden, Tim Key; Stars: Tim Key, Tom Basden, Steve Marsh, Sian Clifford, Akemnji Ndifornyen, Carey Mulligan, Luka Downie, Kerrie Thomason, Arron Long)

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Long Day's Journey Into Night

Adaptation of the classic play about addictions and acrimony.

(Country: Ireland; Year: 2025; Director: Jonathan Kent; Writer: David Lindsay-Abaire, Eugene O'Neill; Stars: Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ben Foster, Colin Morgan, Ericka Roe, Derek Carroll, Lesa Thurman)

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.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
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.

(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Martyn Robertson; Stars: Ethan Walker)

Full review See: Interview with Martyn Robertson about Make It To Munich

On Falling

Review preview for On Falling

Carreira shows how quiet desperation can be eroding

Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
Trapped between the confines of her workplace and the solitude of her flat-share, a Portuguese warehouse picker in Scotland seeks to resist the loneliness, alienation and ensuing small talk which begin to threaten her sense of self.

(Country: UK, Portugal; Year: 2024; Director: Laura Carreira; Writer: Laura Carreira; Stars: Joana Santos, Inês Vaz, Neil Leiper, Ola Forman, Deborah Arnott, Katharine K.K. Kennedy, Piotr Sikora, Robert Rutonic, Ross Ian-Martin, Daniel McGuire, Helen Robinson)

Full review See: Laura Carreira on buidling character with her cast and cinematographer in On Falling , Laura Carreira on the gig economy and loneliness in her Silver Shell-winner On Falling

Tornado

Review preview for Tornado

The script is lean, the sword edges keen and the characters mean.

Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
A Japanese puppeteer's daughter gets caught up with criminals when their show crosses paths with a crime gang, led by Sugarman and his son Little Sugar.

(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: John Maclean; Writer: John Maclean; Stars: Kôki, Rory McCann, Jack Lowden, Tim Roth, Takehiro Hira, Rory McCann,)

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