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Glasgow Youth Film Festival · 2017

Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2017

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7 films · 3 reviews

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At Eye Level (Auf Augenhöhe)

An 11-year-old orphan boy and a person of restricted growth find out that they are father and son... both have to come to terms with the fact.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2016; Director: Joachim Dollhopf, Evi Goldbrunner; Writer: Evi Goldbrunner, Joachim Dollhopf, Nicole Armbruster; Stars: Luis Vorbach, Jordan Prentice, Ella Frey, Mira Bartuschek, Philipp Laude, Sebastian Fräsdorf, Anica Dobra, Sebastian Gerold, Patrick Kalupa, Marco Licht, Anselm Haderer, David Omeni, Julius Mainzer, Cristiano Hoenning, Thomas Birnstiel)

Daphne

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It's an unfairness to the quality of her supporting cost to mention how good Beecham is again and again, but life isn't fair.

Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
A young woman finds herself thrown off balance after she saves the life of a shopkeeper.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Peter Mackie Burns; Writer: Nico Mensinga; Stars: Emily Beecham, Geraldine James, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Nathaniel Martello-White, Osy Ikhile, Sinead Matthews, Timothy Innes, Ritu Arya, Stuart McQuarrie, Karina Fernandez, Ryan McParland, Matthew Pidgeon, Richard Banks, Victoria Willing, Ragevan Vasan)

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Jasper Jones

A boy who is already struggling to cope with his parents' fracturing marriage decides to try and solve a murder.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2017; Director: Rachel Perkins; Writer: Shaun Grant, based on the book by Craig Silvey; Stars: Levi Miller, Hugo Weaving, Toni Collette, Angourie Rice)

Just Charlie

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The heart of the film is a performance from Harry Gilby, in a feature debut - ably managing to convey not only the struggles but the strengths of young Charlie in the face of any number of vicissitudes.

Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
The life of a young football prodigy is turned upside down after they come out as transgender.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Rebekah Fortune; Writer: Peter Machen; Stars: Ewan Mitchell, Scot Williams, Karen Bryson, Patricia Potter, Caroline Nash, Jeff Alexander, Joshua Pascoe, John Draycott, Jess Collett, Oliver Huntingdon, Eleanor Ham, Benjamin Humphrey, Craig Painting, Harry Gilby, Tia Noakes)

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Léon (Léon The Professional)

An assassin reluctantly looks after a 12-year-old after her family is slaughtered, and she becomes his protégée.

(Country: France; Year: 1994; Director: Luc Besson; Writer: Luc Besson; Stars: Jean Reno, Natalie Portman, Gary Oldman)

Moonrise Kingdom

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The perfect summer movie for the eternally 12 who like to travel in style.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
Two children make a pact and run off, prompting the local community to go on the hunt for them.

(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Wes Anderson; Writer: Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola; Stars: Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Harvey Keitel, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Jason Schwartzman, Kara Hayward, Jared Gilman, Bob Balaban, L.J. Foley, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Charlie Kilgore, Jake Ryan, Neal Huff)

Full review See: Harvey Keitel on Sorrentino, Campion and Scorsese

Step

The senior year of a girls’ high school step team in inner-city Baltimore is documented, as they try to become the first in their families to attend college. The girls strive to make their dancing a success against the backdrop of social unrest in their troubled city.

(Year: 2016; Director: Amanda Lipitz)