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| Co-directors Allan Hunter and Allison Gardner getting ready for GFF 2023 Photo: Eoin Carey |
The full line-up for the 19th edition of the Glasgow Film Festival was announced today. The event, which centres on the Glasgow Film Festival, will open with Adura Onashile's Girl, which was shot in the city, and close with the UK première of Nida Manzoor’s Polite Society.
Highlights of the programme include Mia Hansen-Løve's rich tale of love and responsibility One Fine Morning, Carol Morley’s fantastical road movie Typist Artist Pirate King, Jonas Chernick and Emily Hampshire romcom The End Of Sex, and Mickey Reece's deep dive into the psychology of music-making, Country Gold.
The ever-popular Frightfest strand, which attracts fans from all around the world, was announced last week. It opens with Quentin Dupieux's unlikely superhero story Smoking Makes You Cough.
This will be the last Glasgow Film Festival for co-director Allan Hunter, who is entering retirement, and he intends to enjoy it to the full. "It is always a thrill to raise the curtain on the GFF programme. The string of hand-picked gems for 2023 stretches from glorious new work by home grown talent to the very best that world cinema has to offer," he said, and expressed particular enthusiasm for this year's country focus, which is on Spain.
"We haven't really thought that far," said co-director, Allison Gardner when asked if somebody else will be attempting to fill his role. "We are obviously just really focusing on GFF '23 and getting through that. Actually what we're looking at is how to perhaps give more curatorial voices to young up and coming curators." She stressed, however, that no decisions have been made as yet.
The festival will run from 1 to 12 March.
