Glasgow Film Festival 2015
18 February − 1 March 2015
www.glasgowfilm.org/festival
Welcome
Everybody loves Casablanca. Most of us can probably recite the
dialogue, offer a passable imitation of Humphrey Bogart or hum along
with Ingrid Bergman as Sam is requested to play ‘As Time Goes By’.
When the film was made in war-time California, nobody knew if it would
even be successful. Nobody could have dreamt that it would become a
timeless classic.
Casablanca screens as part of our salute to Ingrid Bergman this year
and proves a movie business maxim that you never know when the
magic will happen. James Stewart used to say that when script,
performance and direction fall into alignment what you give audiences
are little pieces of time; precious moments that people remember all their
lives, cherishing and revisiting them like well-thumbed pages in a family
album.
Glasgow Film Festival’s 2015 family album is full of precious moments.
There are films that will take your imagination to infinity and beyond,
make you gasp in astonishment, purr with pleasure or think again about
the world we inhabit and the way we live now. We try not to be preachy
or pretentious about what movies can be. We champion the delightful
eccentricity of a Bruno Dumont epic with the same enthusiasm that we
draw your attention to the grisly genre delights in Fright Fest. We invite
you to join us not only at the cinema but also at iconic buildings across
the city that provide an extra special atmosphere for a sashay on the
dance floor, a work-out for the little grey cells or a spin around the disco.
Glasgow audiences love movies with a passion that is unparalleled. The
Cinema City strand celebrates that love affair and the introduction of a
Glasgow Film Festival Audience Award marks a new stage in that
relationship. Now you get to choose who deserves a glittering prize.
Glasgow Film Festival celebrates the old and champions the new. We
bring together great movies and unique experiences that happen on the
very streets where you live. Over twelve days in February there is a
dusting of movie magic all over the city. Come and join us – it could be
the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Allison & Allan
Festival Co-directors
Glasgow Film Festival is an operating name of Glasgow Film Theatre (G F T ). A
company limited by guarantee, registered in Scotland No. 97369 with its registered
office at 12 Rose Street, Glasgow, G3 6 R B. G F T is registered as a charity (No S
C 005932) with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator.
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Please note programme may be subject to change. Check
www.glasgowfilm.org/festival for updates. We employ photographers to take
photographs of certain screenings and events for promotional use.
Cover design by Niall Walker niallwalkerdesign.com
Accessible Word version produced by Braille Etc.
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Contents
Pressing CONTROL + CLICK on any of the items in the following table of
contents will take you to that item within the document.
Welcome ................................................................................................. 1
Contents .............................................................................................. 3
Ticketing ............................................................................................ 10
Prices ............................................................................................. 10
How To Buy Tickets ....................................................................... 11
Central Festival Box Office ............................................................. 11
Tickets On Sale Monday 26 Jan .................................................... 12
G F F 15 Audience Award ................................................................. 13
Enhance Your Festival Experience .................................................... 14
Opening and Closing Galas ............................................................... 16
Strewth! The Films Of Oz .................................................................. 17
Here’s Looking At You, Kid ................................................................ 18
Cinema City ....................................................................................... 19
Pioneer .............................................................................................. 19
Cine Masters ..................................................................................... 20
Modern Families ................................................................................ 21
Gala................................................................................................... 22
Special Events ................................................................................... 22
Nerdvana ........................................................................................... 23
Sound & Vision .................................................................................. 23
Best Of British ................................................................................... 24
Window On The World ...................................................................... 25
Stranger Than Fiction ........................................................................ 25
Fright Fest Glasgow 2015.................................................................. 26
Behind The Scenes ........................................................................... 27
Crossing The Line ............................................................................. 27
A - Z Listings ..................................................................................... 29
88................................................................................................... 29
10,000 k m ..................................................................................... 29
1001 Grams ................................................................................... 29
52 Tuesdays .................................................................................. 30
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The Adventures of Prince Achmed ................................................. 30
AlgoRhythm ................................................................................... 30
Altman............................................................................................ 31
Anastasia ....................................................................................... 31
Appropriate Behaviour ................................................................... 32
The Atticus Institute ....................................................................... 32
Autumn Sonata .............................................................................. 32
Backmask ...................................................................................... 33
BAFTA Masterclass: Production Design ........................................ 33
Beauty and the Right to the Ugly .................................................... 34
The Bells of St Mary’s .................................................................... 34
Black Coal, Thin Ice ....................................................................... 34
Black Souls .................................................................................... 35
Blind ............................................................................................... 35
Blood and Black Lace .................................................................... 36
The Boy and the World .................................................................. 36
Boychoir ......................................................................................... 37
Burroughs: The Movie .................................................................... 37
Buster Keaton Night with Neil Brand and Paul Merton ................... 37
Casablanca .................................................................................... 38
Cat Video Festival .......................................................................... 38
Catch Me Daddy ............................................................................ 39
Children of Film: Videogames ........................................................ 39
Children of Men.............................................................................. 39
Cinema, City, Ceilidh!..................................................................... 40
Cinema City Walking Tours ............................................................ 40
Cinema-Going in Glasgow Through the Ages ................................ 40
Close-Up on Casting with Kahleen Crawford & Morven Christie .... 41
Clouds of Sils Maria ....................................................................... 41
Clown ............................................................................................. 42
Coming Home (Gui lai)................................................................... 42
The Cut .......................................................................................... 42
The Dark Horse.............................................................................. 43
Dazed and Confused + Roller Disco .............................................. 43
The Dead Lands (Hautoa) .............................................................. 44
Dearest (Qin ai de) ......................................................................... 44
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Dreamcatcher ................................................................................ 44
Dungeons & Dragons Live ............................................................. 45
Eden .............................................................................................. 45
Editing Masterclass with Colin Monie ............................................. 45
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films ........... 46
Eliza Graves................................................................................... 46
Elle l’adore ..................................................................................... 47
Exit ................................................................................................. 47
The Fall of the House of Usher with Live Score ............................. 47
The Falling ..................................................................................... 48
Family Goldmine ............................................................................ 48
Fell ................................................................................................. 49
Fires on the Plain (Nobi) ................................................................ 49
For Whom the Bell Tolls ................................................................. 49
From What Is Before ...................................................................... 50
Gaslight.......................................................................................... 50
Gente de bien ................................................................................ 51
G F F 15 Surprise Film ................................................................... 51
A Girl at My Door (Dohee-ya) ......................................................... 51
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night ................................................. 52
Girlhood (Bande de filles) ............................................................... 52
The Golden Era (Huang jin shi dai) ................................................ 52
Good for Nothing (Buoni a nulla) .................................................... 53
The Goonies .................................................................................. 53
The Grump (Mielensäpahoittaja) .................................................... 54
The Hoarder ................................................................................... 54
I Can Quit Whenever I Want .......................................................... 54
I Know Where I’m Going: Shooting in Scotland .............................. 55
I Need a Dodge! Joe Strummer on the Run ................................... 55
Ingrid Bergman as a Feminist Icon ................................................. 56
It Follows ........................................................................................ 56
Jauja .............................................................................................. 56
Jeely Jars and Seeing Stars Glasgow’s Love Affair with the Movies
....................................................................................................... 57
Jodorowsky’s Dune ........................................................................ 57
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters+ Arcade Games ............... 58
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Land Ho! ........................................................................................ 58
Letters to Max ................................................................................ 58
Life in a Fishbowl (Vonarstræti)...................................................... 59
Life’s a Beach ................................................................................ 59
The Light Shines Only There.......................................................... 60
Li’l Quinquin (P’tit Quinquin) ........................................................... 60
Limited Partnership ........................................................................ 61
A Little Chaos................................................................................. 61
The Little Death.............................................................................. 61
Love Is All: 100 Years of Love and Courtship on Film .................... 62
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior ....................................................... 62
Man from Reno .............................................................................. 62
Mardan........................................................................................... 63
Margaret Tait Award....................................................................... 63
Margaret Tait Residency: O.K. Rick ............................................... 64
Marshland (La isla mínima) ............................................................ 64
Maya the Bee Movie ...................................................................... 65
Memphis ........................................................................................ 65
Mommy .......................................................................................... 65
Monsters: Dark Continent .............................................................. 66
Moomins on the Riviera ................................................................. 66
The Mule ........................................................................................ 67
Murder on the Orient Express ........................................................ 67
My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn ..................................... 67
Nancy Holt: Sun Tunnels / Revolve Selected by Charlotte Prodger 68
The New Girlfriend (Une nouvelle amie) ........................................ 68
Next to Her (At li layla) ................................................................... 69
A Night at the Regal: Lost Map, Joe McAlinden, British Sea Power69
The Ninth Cloud ............................................................................. 69
Notorious ....................................................................................... 70
Ólafur Arnalds Plays Broadchurch ................................................. 70
On the Trail of the Far Fur Country ................................................ 70
Our Extra-Sensory Selves .............................................................. 71
Pale Moon (Kami no tsuki) ............................................................. 71
Phoenix .......................................................................................... 72
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence ........................ 72
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Power Suit Yourself: Is the Power Suit Dead? ............................... 72
Power Suit Yourself: Mildred Pierce ............................................... 73
Power Suit Yourself: Working Girl and Party! ................................. 73
Pressure ........................................................................................ 73
Queens of Syria ............................................................................. 74
Rab’s Video Game Empty at the I MAX! ....................................... 74
Radiator ......................................................................................... 74
Reading in the Dark ....................................................................... 75
[REC] 4: Apocalypse ...................................................................... 75
Red Amnesia (Chuang ru zhe) ....................................................... 76
Red Army ....................................................................................... 76
Revenge of The Mekons ................................................................ 76
Rosewater ...................................................................................... 77
The Salt of the Earth (Le sel de la terre) ........................................ 77
The Samurai (Der Samurai) ........................................................... 78
Sea Without Shore ......................................................................... 78
A Second Chance (En chance til) .................................................. 78
Second Coming ............................................................................. 79
Shaun the Sheep the Movie ........................................................... 79
Shooting on a Shoestring ............................................................... 79
Short Skin ...................................................................................... 80
Small Faces ................................................................................... 80
Sound Masterclass with Glenn Freemantle .................................... 81
Spellbound ..................................................................................... 81
Spring ............................................................................................ 81
Square Legs, Round Bowls ............................................................ 82
Still Alice ........................................................................................ 82
Still the Water (Futatsume no mado) .............................................. 82
Stop Making Sense presented by Monorail Film Club .................... 83
Stray Dog ....................................................................................... 83
Strictly Ballroom at Kelvin-Groove! ................................................. 84
Stunt Rock presented by Matchbox Cineclub ................................. 84
Sunken Ripples .............................................................................. 84
Take 2: The Incredibles.................................................................. 85
Take 2: Red Dog ............................................................................ 85
The Tales of Hoffmann................................................................... 86
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Tales of the Grim Sleeper .............................................................. 86
Talking About Watching and Listening ........................................... 87
Tender ........................................................................................... 87
Theeb............................................................................................. 87
There Are Monsters ....................................................................... 88
Three Hearts (3 coeurs) ................................................................. 88
The Town That Dreaded Sundown ................................................ 89
The Treatment (De Behandeling) ................................................... 89
Uzumasa Limelight ........................................................................ 89
Wake in Fright ................................................................................ 90
Warsaw Uprising ............................................................................ 90
Wasted Time .................................................................................. 90
When Animals Dream .................................................................... 91
White Bird in a Blizzard .................................................................. 91
White God (Fehér Isten)................................................................. 92
Why Be Good?............................................................................... 92
Wild Tales (Relatos salvajes) ......................................................... 93
William McIlvanney: Living with Words ........................................... 93
A Woman’s Face (En kvinnas ansikte) ........................................... 93
The Wonders (Le meraviglie) ......................................................... 94
The Woods .................................................................................... 94
Wyrmwood ..................................................................................... 95
X + Y .............................................................................................. 95
Venues and City Info ...................................................................... 96
Festival Calendar............................................................................... 97
Wednesday 4 February .................................................................. 97
Thursday 12 February - Saturday 28 February .............................. 97
Wednesday 18 February ................................................................ 97
Thursday 19 February .................................................................... 97
Friday 20 February ......................................................................... 99
Saturday 21 February .................................................................. 101
Sunday 22 February..................................................................... 103
Monday 23 February .................................................................... 105
Tuesday 24 February ................................................................... 107
Wednesday 25 February .............................................................. 108
Thursday 26 February .................................................................. 110
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Friday 27 February ....................................................................... 112
Saturday 28 February .................................................................. 114
Sunday 1 March ........................................................................... 116
Staff Thank You ........................................................................... 119
Partners, Sponsors and Supporters ............................................. 121
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Ticketing
Prices
Standard Ticket Prices
£9.00 full price / £7.00 for all adult concessions
£5.00 children (ages 14 & under)
Adult concessions include full-time students, over-sixties, Jobseekers
Allowance or Income Support recipients and registered disabled people.
Please produce proof of eligibility when purchasing or collecting tickets.
G F F also honours the C E A card for all festival events.
Please note that all G F F tickets are non-refundable and nontransferable.
Special Events & Performances
Please note that some special events, live perfor-mances and
screenings fall outside the standard ticket price and are marked with this
symbol: (Special ticket price) See individual listings for details.
Festival For A Fiver
Our Festival for a Fiver films are a brilliant way to enjoy the festival.
These screenings are marked with this symbol: (Festival for a Fiver) and
no further discounts apply.
Free Events
Tickets for free events, marked with this symbol: (Free event) will only be
issued on the day, from the venue where the event is being held, unless
otherwise specified in the A to Z. First come, first served (maximum 2
tickets per person).
Have You Got A Cinecard Or Unlimited Card?
To reward the loyalty of G F T CineCard and Cine-world Unlimited Card
holders, we’re offering £1 off all standard priced tickets. Tickets must be
pur-chased in advance from the Festival Box Offices at G F T and C C A
or at www.glasgowfilm.org/festival
Aged 15-21 Years Old?
Join our free G F T Youth Card scheme and get standard priced festival
tickets at the reduced price of £4.50. Proof of age required. Also applies
throughout the year at G F T for standard priced events. To find out
more and sign up, go to www.glasgowfilm.org/youthcard
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How To Buy Tickets
Online - No Booking Fees Apply
From Monday 26 January at 10 a.m., tickets for all events can be
purchased from our website www.glasgowfilm.org/festival.
Tickets for G F T and C C A screenings can be purchased online up
until one hour before the performance. For all other participating venues,
tickets can be purchased online until 9pm the day before the
performance.
In Person - No Booking Fees Apply
From Monday 26 January you can purchase tickets for most events from
the central Festival Box Office at G F T during opening hours.
From Thursday 19 February – Saturday 28 February you can also
purchase tickets in person for most events from the Festival Box Office
at C C A, Sauchiehall Street.
Over The Phone - £1.50 Booking Fee Per Transaction
From Monday 26 January tickets can be booked by calling 0 1 4 1 3 3 2
6 5 3 5 during G F T opening hours. Please note there is a £1.50
booking fee per transaction for telephone bookings. Please note lines
may be busy.
Collection
You can collect advance tickets from the central Festival Box Office at G
F T or C C A up until 9 p.m. the day before the performance. On the
day of the event, tickets MUST be picked up at the venue where the film
is being shown or the event is being held.
See www.glasgowfilm.org/festival for full terms and conditions.
Central Festival Box Office
Glasgow Film Theatre
12 Rose St, Glasgow G3 6 R B
Tel: +44 (0)1 4 1 3 3 2 6 5 3 5
Opening Hours
Before the festival:
Monday 26 January (10.00–20.00)
Tuesday 27 January – Tuesday 17 February (12 noon – 8 p.m.)
During the festival:
Open from 10.00 a.m. until the last film at G F T has started.
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Certification
Films not certificated by the B B F C are marked N/C (Not Certificated)
and accompanied by an age recommendation i.e. N/C 15 + (suitable for
ages 15 and over, no-one under 15 will be admitted).
Please Arrive Promptly
Please note that during the festival all films and events will start at the
stated times – no adverts will be screened. Latecomers may not be
admitted.
Tickets On Sale Monday 26 Jan
Special Deals
All special deal tickets must be purchased in one transaction, either
online at www.glasgowfilm.org/festival or at the Central Festival Box
Office at G F T . Full terms and con-ditions on each deal are available
online. Special deals are not available from other venues.
Internet Saver Deals*
Allowing huge savings on the standard ticket price, to satisfy your thirst
for must-see cinema, and leave you with cash for the after-party. Only
available at www.glasgowfilm.org/festival from Monday 26 January
2015.
Internet Saver 5 Films – £32.50
Internet Saver 10 Films – £60
Internet Saver 20 Films – £100
Internet Savers can only be redeemed against standard priced tickets.
No further discounts apply. Internet saver deals are non-transferable and
non-refundable.
If you wish to purchase an Internet Saver Deal, please find the films of
your choice at www.glasgowfilm.org/festival and follow these
instructions:
• Choose your 5, 10 or 20 ticket Internet Saver Deal price type from the
list (a maximum of one ticket per show)
• Keep adding films until you reach 5, 10 or 20 tickets (by selecting the
correct price type from the list, e.g. ‘Internet Saver 5’ price type will only
work for the 5 films for £32.50 deal)
• When you have selected your final film, the dis-count will automatically
be applied
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*If you have no access to the internet, the Central G F F Box Office at G
F T will be able to process internet ticket deals for you – subject to the
discretion of the Duty Manager.
Fright Fest Passes
Join us for a weekend of gore with a Fright Fest Pass – ensuring your
bank statement won’t present you with another horror!
Fright Fest Pass (no further discounts apply) – £70 for all 11 films
screening on 27–28 February, only as part of Fright Fest. Passes must
be retained and produced if requested by a member of staff. On sale
from 10 a.m., Thursday 22 January.
Family Tickets
Get £1 off tickets with our family ticket package (available on screenings
in the Modern Families programme strand only). Choose price types
‘Family ticket deal adult’, ‘Family ticket deal child’ or ‘Family ticket deal
adult concession’ to receive the discount. A minimum of three tickets
must be purchased and at least one adult or concession ticket must be
selected. Discount will be applied at check-out.
G F F 15 Audience Award
This year, you the audience have a chance to shine the festival spotlight
on a film you think deserves to be shouted about, by picking your
favourite of ten specially selected films, all by first or second-time
directors, from the festival programme. Films that have the (Audience
Award) symbol by their listing are eligible for the award. Look out for
Audience Award voting boxes in screenings of these films. The winner
will be announced at the Closing Gala and online on Sunday 1 March.
G F F 15 Audience Award Nominees
52 Tuesdays
Sunday 22 (20.30) & Monday 23 February (13.30)
Appropriate Behaviour
Thursday 19 (15.45) & Friday 20 February (23.00)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Friday 27 (20.30) & Saturday 28 February (20.30)
Life in a Fishbowl
Tuesday24 (20.15) & Wednesday 25 February (11.00)
Mardan
Monday 23 (18.15) & Tuesday24 February (13.00)
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Radiator
Wednesday 25 (20.30) & Thursday 26 February (11.00)
Tender
Monday 23 (21.00) & Tuesday24 February (13.30)
Theeb
Thursday 19 (11.00) & Friday 20 February (18.15)
When Animals Dream
Saturday 21 (20.45) & Sunday 22 February (11.00)
The Wonders
Sunday 22 (15.00) & Monday 23 February (13.00)
Enhance Your Festival Experience
Our website is fully accessible and can be changed in your browser to
suit your requirements.
This brochure isn’t the only place to keep up-to-date with festival news.
Follow us on Facebook and Twitter to hear special guest
announcements, newly confirmed events and exclusive special offers.
Wi-Fi is available in Glasgow Film Theatre and many other festival
venues, so you can catch-up with news between screenings.
www.glasgowfilm.org/festival
facebook.com/glasgowfilmfestival
Twitter: @glasgowfilmfest #GFF15
Instagram: @glasgowfilmfest #GFF15
Join The Conversation
It’s your festival, so tell the world what you think of the films by tweeting
after screenings. Use the hashtag #G F F15 to air your festival opinions,
questions and provocations.
Festival Club
In between screenings, join us in the Saramago Terrace Bar in C C A .
Live D Js provide the soundtrack while you grab a drink and a bite to eat,
rubbing shoulders with fellow festival goers and filmmaker guests.
Our Behind the Scenes programme strand is also based in the C C A –
fascinating free industry talks in the C C A Cinema from 18.30–19.30
most days of the festival. See A to Z listings for details.
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G F F Blog
Can’t make it to the Festival Club between screenings? Check out our
online hub instead. From Q & As with programmers to recommendations on the must-see events, our blog will give you the inside scoop.
Our website also offers extra content, trailers, reviews and the
downloadable festival calendar. Plus you’ll find information about
exclusive deals with our recommended partner hotels and restaurants.
The Cineskinny
The official festival magazine features the latest hot gossip and film
reviews from Glasgow Film Festival, and in 2015 it’s expanding online!
Produced independently by our friends at The Skinny, The CineSkinny
is available at festival venues across the city, with additional content
updated daily at www.theskinny.co.uk/film/cineskinny
Sunday Herald
Our media partners at the Sunday Herald and Evening Times will be
covering the latest news as it emerges from the festival.
Going Green
Glasgow Film Festival and G F T are committed to reducing the
environmental impact of our festival and are working to extend these
principles to our creative partners, suppliers and patrons. You can help
us by recycling this brochure.
Access
Glasgow Film Festival is committed to ensuring an open and accessible
environment for everyone. For details on alternative brochure formats,
accessible screenings and events, booking tickets and the accessibility
of each festival venue please visit www.glasgowfilm.org/festival/access.
We want to make G F F accessible to as many people as possible, so if
you have any questions or suggestions regarding access please contact
Dawn Ross on 0 1 4 1 3 5 2 8 6 0 8 or dawn.ross@glasgowfilm.org
Getting Around
Nextbike: A free hour rental for all G F F -goers. Register at
nextbike.co.uk and use code 575357 in the voucher section of your
online account to claim your free ride time.
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Opening and Closing Galas
Opening Gala:
While We’re Young
G F T, Wednesday 18 February (Doors 19.00, Film 20.00)
G F T, Thursday 19 February (13.00 & 15.30)
standard ticket prices
Growing older, feeling younger has rarely seemed as bittersweet as it
does in the latest cautionary comedy from Frances Ha director Noah
Baumbach. There are moments here to make everyone squirm with
recognition and rock with laughter as Baumbach mines wry comic gold
from an unexpected meeting of the generations. Filmmaker Josh (Ben
Stiller) has reached the age when his eyesight is failing, his memory is
unreliable and his marriage to Cornelia (Naomi Watts) is settled and
comfy. He just doesn’t have the spark or ambition he once possessed.
Everything changes when Josh meets aspiring filmmaker Jamie (Adam
Driver) and his wife Darby (Amanda Seyfried). Josh is flattered by their
attention and attracted by the energy and idealism of a young couple
who soon become close friends. It is a second chance to be young at
heart and one that Josh and Cornelia grab with more enthusiasm than
prudence. The breezy comic tone deepens and darkens into something
more profound in this smartly observed portrait of a loving couple and
what it takes to make them count their blessings. The entire ensemble
cast shine with Naomi Watts revealing a delightful talent for physical
comedy and Ben Stiller giving one of his most appealing performances.
U K Premiere
Director: Noah Baumbach
Cast: Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried, Charles
Grodin
U S A 2014, 1h34m, N/C 12+
Thanks to Icon Film Distribution
(Special ticket price) Tickets are £12 / £10 and include entry to the after
party (over 18s only), on presentation of your ticket stub.
OPENING GALA PARTY
The Art School, Wednesday 18 Feb, 22.00–Late, £5
A limited number of party-only tickets are available: celebrate the launch
of G F F 15 with some of the best music talent from Glasgow in the city’s
home of style, The Art School.
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Closing Gala:
Force Majeure
G F T, Sunday 1 Mar (Doors 19.30, Film 20.00)
One single moment can change everything in a relationship and that’s
exactly what happens in Force Majeure, a brilliant, Cannes prizewinner
destined to leave you debating long after the final credits. A happy family
are on a skiing vacation in the French Alps. An ordinary lunch becomes a
moment fraught with terror as an avalanche heads inexorably towards
their mountaintop restaurant. Tomas (Johannes Bah Kuhnke) grabs his
mobile and runs, leaving his wife Ebba (Lisa Loven Kongsli) and their
children to fend for themselves. His instinct for self-preservation is the
spark for a scalpel-sharp examination of love, guilt and devotion that may
be even more destructive than the avalanche. Writer / director Ruben
Östlund has found an ingenious way to explore the flaws and cracks in a
marriage by creating the circumstances in which everything we take for
granted is torn away. We think we know where our sympathies lie, but
the film has surprises in store; confrontations and confessions that probe
further into the nature of this union. Is there just an unbridgeable gap
between the way men and women view the world? Told you it would get
you talking. Prepare to battle for the moral high ground with one of the
year’s most audacious and gripping films. U K Premiere
Director: Ruben Östlund
Cast: Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Clara Wettergren
Sweden / Norway / Denmark / France 2014, 1h58m,
Swedish / English / French / Norwegian with subtitles, N/C 15+
Thanks to Curzon Film World
(Special ticket price) Tickets are £12 / £10 and include entry to the after
party (over 18s only), on presentation of your ticket stub.
Strewth! The Films Of Oz
What have the Australians ever done for us? Apart from giving us
worldbeating, visionary filmmakers like Baz Luhrmann and Peter Weir,
Oscar-winning superstars from Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchett to
Russell Crowe and Peter Finch, and a collection of unforgettable movie
classics that range from Picnic at Hanging Rock to the Mad Max
trilogy, Shine and Ten Canoes? This year’s country focus is devoted to
the very best of Australian cinema, introducing audiences to the brightest
new talents and revisiting some all-time classics. It’s not just the sequins
in Strictly Ballroom that sparkle; discover Sophie Hyde’s Sundance
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prizewinner 52 Tuesdays, Lynette Wallworth’s wonderfully uplifting
exploration of bereavement in Tender, and a collection of films that
range from raucous comedy to heart-piercing drama. Grab a unique
chance to go walkabout in the far corners of Australian cinema.
• 52 Tuesdays
• Fell
• The Little Death
• Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
• The Mule
• Strictly Ballroom at Kelvin-Groove!
• Stunt Rock
• Tender
• Wake in Fright
Here’s Looking At You, Kid
Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982) holds a unique place in the affections of
cinemagoers. No other Golden Age star matched such Hollywood
success with an equally impressive contribution to world cinema.
Cherished for her role as Ilsa in the peerless Casablanca, Bergman
received seven Academy Award nominations during her forty-year film
career, winning Oscars for Gaslight, Anastasia and Murder on the
Orient Express. Bergman could play saints and sinners with equal
conviction, investing her characters with a radiant and compelling
sincerity that helped to create a string of enduring classics. Glasgow Film
Festival is proud to salute this extraordinary star in the year that marks
the centenary of her birth.
• Anastasia
• Autumn Sonata
• The Bells of St Mary’s
• Casablanca
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Gaslight
• Ingrid Bergman as a Feminist Icon
• Murder on the Orient Express
• Notorious
• Spellbound
• A Woman’s Face
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Cinema City
Glasgow’s love affair with the movies spans generations: in the 1930s,
Glasgow had more cinemas per head of population than anywhere else
in the world; in the 21st century it has become a place where Oscarwinners like Brad Pitt and Halle Berry come to make movie magic.
Cinema City is the culmination of a four-year local history project run by
Glasgow Film and celebrates all aspects of cinema-going in the city, with
screenings of classic Glasgow-set films like Gillies MacKinnon’s Small
Faces, the world premiere of a documentary on one of Glasgow’s
favourite writers William McIlvanney, walking tours, free talks and, of
course, a ceilidh. The strand’s centrepiece is Jeely Jars and Seeing
Stars, a brand new exhibition running at the Mitchell Library from
February 12 – 28 bringing together memorabilia, archive footage and
oral histories supplied by film lovers aged from 19 to 92. Memories are
made of this.
• Cinema, City, Ceilidh!
• Cinema City Walking Tours
• Cinema-Going in Glasgow Through the Ages
• Jeely Jars and Seeing Stars
• A Night at the Regal
• Small Faces
• Wasted Time
• William McIlvanney: Living with Words
Pioneer
Choose brand new films. Choose fresh new talents. Choose cuttingedge
work. Choose exciting first and second features from around the globe.
Choose work full of promise and wonder that delights the senses and lifts
the spirits. Choose a feast of curated gems. Choose to glow with the
excitement of discovery at the end of it all, wishing the film you saw could
start all over again. Choose to spread the word about the magic you
have seen. Choose the future of cinema and watch the first steps of
filmmakers who are destined to leave their mark on the world. Choose
our Pioneer strand for the sheer joy of talent-spotting, and the kudos of
being able to say you knew their early stuff. The greatest names in movie
history had to begin somewhere. Open your eyes and dream.
• 10,000 k m
• Appropriate Behaviour
• Blind
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• The Dark Horse
• Elle l’adore
• Gente de bien
• A Girl at My Door
• A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
• I Can Quit Whenever I Want
• It Follows
• Life in a Fishbowl
• Mardan
• Next to Her
• The Samurai
• Short Skin
• Spring
• Theeb
• The Town That Dreaded Sundown
• When Animals Dream
• Wild Tales
• The Wonders
Cine Masters
World class talents at the very top of their game. Cine Masters is where
you will find international directors of rare vision and insight whose
careers have been showered with glittering prizes. These are the
filmmakers whose latest projects are keenly anticipated and whose track
records have made them essential parts of the cinematic landscape.
These films will be among the most significant of the year. Our 2015
collection ranges from Roy Andersson’s Venice Golden Lion winner A
Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, Lav Diaz’s
extraordinary Locarno Golden Leopard winner From What Is Before
and Xavier Dolan’s stunningly emotional Cannes prizewinner Mommy to
G F F favourite Franҫois Ozon’s The New Girlfriend, Ann Hui’s lustrous
biographical epic The Golden Era and Zhang Yimou’s Coming Home.
This is the very cream of the crop; handcrafted works that will take you to
the far shores of the human imagination.
• 1001 Grams
• Clouds of Sils Maria
• Coming Home
• Dearest
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• Fires on the Plain
• From What Is Before
• Girlhood
• The Golden Era
• Good for Nothing
• Li’l Quinquin
• Mommy
• A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting
• Red Amnesia
• A Second Chance
• Still the Water
• The Tales of Hoffman
• Why Be Good?
Modern Families
Give us a child at an impressionable age and we’ll make them an avid
cinemagoer for life. Wasn’t that what Miss Jean Brodie promised, more
or less? Children love movies, it seems to be part of their D N A. Give
them a glimpse of Paddington, the treat of a Disney animated classic or
a first chance to follow the yellow brick road and they are completely
captivated. The festival has always been a treasure trove for adult
audiences, now Modern Families has been purpose built to provide a
selection of childfriendly delights and firm family favourites. With big
screen experiences featuring beloved characters like the Moomins and
chances to see top family films before everyone else, this is the place to
find something for the youngest film lover in your household.
See Ticketing section for Modern Families ticket deals.
• The Adventures of Prince Achmed
• The Boy and the World
• Cat Video Festival
• The Goonies
• Maya the Bee Movie
• Moomins on the Riviera
• Shaun the Sheep the Movie
• Take 2: The Incredibles
• Take 2: Red Dog
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Gala
Every film at Glasgow Film Festival is special but there are some films
that are just that wee bit more special than the others. The Galas are
films that deserve the red carpet, razzle dazzle treatment. This is where
you will discover Julianne Moore giving an Oscar-worthy performance in
the touching Still Alice. This is where you can catch a first glimpse of X
+ Y, a complete charmer that is set to be one of the top British films of
2015. The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart proves to be just as gifted behind
the camera as he is in front of it with Rosewater, and nobody can warm
the cockles of the heart with such effortless aplomb as Dustin Hoffman in
Boychoir. Starry, starry nights full of grand masters, rising talents and
extraordinary films that are destined to become your new favourites.
What titles can we add to your must-see list?
• Boychoir
• G F F 15 Surprise Film
• The New Girlfriend
• Rosewater
• Still Alice
• White Bird in a Blizzard
•X+Y
Special Events
Watch as the familiar is transformed into the extraordinary with our
Special Events and explore corners of the city you never knew existed
with screenings staged in unique venues. Plunge into the deepest
darkest depths of the unknown with Sunken Ripples at the I MAX, make
moon eyes at your beau during Love Is All: 100 Years of Love &
Courtship in the beautiful surroundings of Mackintosh Queen’s Cross,
and stifle your scream as the same church becomes the chilling setting
for Australian thriller Wake in Fright. Fancy yourself as a bit of a
detective? Then wax your Poirot moustache for Murder on the Orient
Express at Trades Hall; a live action murder mystery where everyone is
a suspect. And those without a 'tache should don their most sequined
finery and cha-cha slide into the grand ballroom of Kelvingrove Art
Gallery and Museum for Strictly Ballroom at Kelvin-Groove!
• Cinema, City, Ceilidh! - St Andrew’s in the Square
• The Fall of the House of Usher - Pollokshaws Burgh Hall
• Love Is All - Mackintosh Queen’s Cross
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• Murder on the Orient Express - Trades Hall
• Power Suit Yourself Events - C C A
• Strictly Ballroom at Kelvin-Groove! - Kelvingrove Art Gallery and
Museum
• Sunken Ripples - I MAX
• Wake in Fright - Mackintosh Queen’s Cross
Nerdvana
Back in 2011 we unleashed our inner-geek with Kapow!, a strand
celebrating the ever-expanding world of comic books and their role in the
film industry. In 2013 Game Cats Go Miaow brought video game culture
crashing into the cinema with irresistible style. Now in 2015 we proudly
present Nerdvana, where the alternative rules, cult filmmaking is king
and the geeks are firmly in control. With passionate gamer and cult
comedy writer Rab Florence as our fearless ambassador, we bring you
the cream of the nerdy crop, including the untold story of Jodorowsky’s
Dune, the funniest game of Dungeons & Dragons you’ll ever see, and
quite literally the biggest gaming experience in Glasgow’s history - Rab’s
Video Game Empty at the freaking I MAX! It all culminates in a day-long
Drygate takeover, with special screenings, customised menus, and popup events that epitomise the ethics of fun. Nerdvana: Best. Strand. Ever.
• Children of Film: Videogames
• Children of Men
• Dazed and Confused + Roller Disco
• Dungeons & Dragons Live
• The Goonies
• Jodorowsky’s Dune
• The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters + Arcade Games
• Rab’s Video Game Empty at the I MAX!
Sound & Vision
Glasgow Film Festival presents the very best of sonic cinema,
documentaries and features from around the world, along with live
performances that showcase the most exciting blend of music and
movie-going. This year we are delighted to reclaim Glasgow’s A B C
venue, transforming the former picturehouse back into an alternative
home of film and live music for our A Night at the Regal extravaganza.
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We also welcome silent film experts Neil Brand and Paul Merton for their
Buster Keaton Night celebrating the silent comedy icon. Our film
programme features Mia Hansen-Løve’s exploration of 90s French
electronica in Eden, a documentary endearingly exploring the longsuffering life of Leeds punk band The Mekons in Revenge of The
Mekons, and the evocative portrait of a Memphis musician struggling
with his art in Memphis.
• Buster Keaton Night with Neil Brand and Paul Merton
• Eden
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• I Need a Dodge! Joe Strummer on the Run
• Memphis
• A Night at the Regal: British Sea Power
• Ólafur Arnalds Plays Broadchurch
• Revenge of The Mekons
• Stop Making Sense
Best Of British
Remember the first time you experienced Billy Casper taking flight in Ken
Loach’s Kes? Or Iggy Pop’s electrifying drumroll delivery in the opening
reel of Trainspotting? How about Laura Jesson and Alec Harvey
sharing a cup of tea in Brief Encounter? Worldclass film is at the heart
of Britain, and here at Glasgow Film Festival we celebrate it in its many
and varied forms. Homegrown talent – from big-budget masterpieces to
unsung heroes making micro-miracles on micro-budgets – is the focus
here, where old masters rub shoulders with new voices in a celebration
of all things us. Catch Alan Rickman’s sophomore directorial offering A
Little Chaos, Daniel Wolfe’s invigorating Catch Me Daddy, Carol
Morley’s masterful follow-up to Dreams of a Life, The Falling, and Tom
Green’s Monsters: Dark Continent, the sequel to Gareth Edwards’ cult
sci-fi hit. Take your seats, break out the rich teas and get comfy.
• Catch Me Daddy
• The Falling
• A Little Chaos
• Monsters: Dark Continent
• The Ninth Cloud
• Pressure
• Radiator
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• Second Coming
Window On The World
A trip to the movies can be a trip to the moon, a journey into the wild or
the invitation to an encounter at the end of the world. The movies take us
to corners of the planet we could never imagine visiting and make the
great cities of the globe seem as familiar as the streets we walk along
every day. Who doesn’t think of Woody Allen on a visit to New York or
remember Amélie when strolling through the sacred heart of Paris?
Window on the World provides a showcase for some of the most
distinctive films from around the globe. There are incredible journeys in
store, flights of fancy and voyages of discovery that will take you from a
bittersweet road movie through the majestic beauty of Iceland, to a
journey far from the straight and narrow in a Japan where the
appearance of propriety is everything. No passport or inoculations
required; all you need is a ticket.
• Black Coal, Thin Ice
• Black Souls
• The Cut
• The Dead Lands
• Exit
• The Grump
• Jauja
• Land Ho!
• The Light Shines Only There
• Man from Reno
• Marshland
• Pale Moon
• Phoenix
• Three Hearts
• Uzumasa Limelight
• White God
Stranger Than Fiction
We are in awe of the world around us. We yearn for films that tell of
unbelievable obstacles and how they are overcome; of surprising stories
that stun us and stay with us; and of unimaginable journeys that ignite
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our sense of adventure. Stranger Than Fiction is filled with world-class
documentaries that transform real lives and true events into innovative
cinematic experiences. John Grierson once described documentary as
‘the creative treatment of actuality’. The definition of what makes a film a
documentary has been constantly changing as directors challenge the
boundaries of the genre and push our expectations to a higher level.
These films will educate and entertain, provoke and inspire, and linger in
the memory long after the lights have come up. Welcome to the real
world.
• Altman
• Burroughs: The Movie
• Dreamcatcher
• Electric Boogaloo
• Family Goldmine
• Life’s a Beach
• Limited Partnership
• My Life Directed by N W R
• On the Trail of the Far Fur Country
• Queens of Syria
• Red Army
• The Salt of the Earth
• Stray Dog
• Tales of the Grim Sleeper
• Warsaw Uprising
Fright Fest Glasgow 2015
Fright Fest continues to grow as the leading U K shocktacular and its
honoured place in Glasgow Film Festival has been an instrumental part
of that ever-increasing success story. So what else can its creators do
but finesse the fear and heighten the horror for their beloved Scottish
fans, presenting a totally brand new line-up of must-sees to instill aweinspiring terror? Prepare for the best of the genre to provoke your worst
nightmares, from the dreadheads who care about your scares and put
the gleam in your screams.
See Ticketing section for Fright Fest pass deals.
• 88
• The Atticus Institute
• Backmask
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• Blood and Black Lace
• Clown
• Eliza Graves
• The Hoarder
• [REC] 4: Apocalypse
• There Are Monsters
• The Treatment
• The Woods
• Wyrmwood
Behind The Scenes
Want to get a foot in the film industry door or take that first step towards
your BAFTA acceptance speech? With Behind the Scenes, we present
the chance to get up close and personal with industry insiders in a series
of free talks, discussions and masterclasses. Based in the C C A
Cinema and open to all, we bring you the finest British film talent
discussing the aspects of the industry they know best. Curious about
how to get cast in your dream role? You’re in luck, as casting director
Kahleen Crawford returns for her ever-popular ‘Close-Up on Casting’.
Oscar winner Glenn Freemantle (Gravity, Sea Without Shore) delivers
a masterclass on sound design while Colin Monie (We Are Northern
Lights, NEDS) imparts his wisdom on the tough art of film editing. Sound
advice, practical insights and inspirational speakers. Best of all, it is
brought to you absolutely free.
• BAFTA Masterclass: Production Design
• Close-Up on Casting
• Editing Masterclass with Colin Monie
• I Know Where I’m Going: Shooting in Scotland
• Shooting on a Shoestring
• Sound Masterclass with Glenn Freemantle
• Talking About Watching and Listening
Crossing The Line
Crossing the Line is where visual art and cinema meet to create films
that challenge and inspire. We have teamed up with LUX Scotland, C C
A, MAP and some of Glasgow’s best experimental filmmakers to bring
you a packed programme of treats. Margaret Tait Award-winner
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Charlotte Prodger will unveil a brand new piece honouring the late Nancy
Holt and her work with minimalist sculpture and land art. We will also
feature 2014 Margaret Tait Residency artist Florrie James’ newly
commissioned work following her period of reflection and discovery in
Orkney. Square Legs, Round Bowls features a unique exploration of
music and visual art while Sea Without Shore is a haunting exploration
of love and loss informed by the writings of fin de siècle poets Renée
Vivien and Charles Algernon Swinburne. Expect the unexpected.
• AlgoRhythm
• Beauty and the Right to the Ugly
• Letters to Max
• Margaret Tait Award
• Margaret Tait Residency: O.K. Rick
• Nancy Holt: Sun Tunnels / Revolve
• Our Extra-Sensory Selves
• Reading in the Dark
• Sea Without Shore
• Square Legs, Round Bowls
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A - Z LISTINGS
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G F T, Friday 27 February (21.00)
There are two sides to every story. From the team behind Dead Before
Dawn 3 D comes a glorious, gory and fastpaced homage to cult
exploitation revenge thrillers, starring Fright Fest Scream Queen
Katharine Isabelle (American Mary). Gwen arrives at a mysterious
roadside diner, but in her anguished state, she has no idea where she is
or how she got there. Split between two timelines, Gwen gets taken on a
violent journey as she seeks out the person responsible for her lover’s
death, becoming the most wanted woman in Tennessee.
Fright Fest. Director: April Mullen Cast: Katharine Isabelle,
Christopher Lloyd, Michael Ironside
Canada 2015, 1h28m, N/C 18+ Thanks to Wango Films
10,000 k m
C C A Theatre, Wednesday 25 (20.45) & Thursday 26 February (15.30)
Does absence really make the heart grow fonder? In recession-hit Spain,
photographer Alex (Natalia Tena) is struggling to make a living but still
planning a future that includes a family with teacher Sergi (David
Verdaguer). The offer of a one-year residency in Los Angeles is one that
she cannot refuse, but teaching commitments force Sergi to remain in
Barcelona. Can true love bridge the gap of 10,000 kilometres? Surely the
wonders of modern technology have made a long distance relationship
more viable than ever? A sexy, soulful tale of modern love.
Pioneer. Director: Carlos Marques-Marcet
Cast: Natalia Tena, David Verdaguer
Spain 2014, 1h39m, Spanish / Catalan / English with subtitles, N/C 15+
Thanks to Visit Films
1001 Grams
G F T, Friday 27 (18.15) & Saturday 28 February (13.00)
Bent Hamer’s gentle, beguiling new film celebrates the capacity within all
of us to change for the better. Scientist Marie (Ane Dahl Torp) works at
Norway’s Bureau of Weights and Measures. She lives in a world of
precisely controlled measurements, exact values and unshakeable logic.
She is the obvious choice to attend the Kilogram Convention in Paris. In
the City of Light, she meets romantic, impulsive Pi (Laurent Stocker) and
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begins to discover that a little human chaos might just have something to
offer. An absolute charmer perfectly designed for incurable romantics.
Cine Masters. Director: Bent Hamer Cast: Ane Dahl Torp, Laurent
Stocker, Stein Winge
Norway / Germany / France 2014, 1h33m, Norwegian / French / English
with subtitles, N/C 12+ Thanks to Norwegian Film Institute
52 Tuesdays
(Audience Award)
C C A Theatre, Sunday 22 (20.30) & Monday 23 February (13.30)
An awardwinning triumph from Sundance to Berlin, 52 Tuesdays is an
extraordinary tale of family ties and a love in transition. Billie is just
sixteen when her mother Jane informs her that she is choosing to live
her future life as a man. Billie is to live with her father but over the course
of a year, every Tuesday will be sacred as a space in which Billie and
Jane / James can spend time together. It is a year fraught with tension,
tears, conflict and resentment as well as growth, peace, love and
understanding. An emotional tale of growing up and gaining wisdom
graced by some amazing performances.
Strewth! Director:: Sophie Hyde Cast: Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Del
Herbert-Jane, Imogen Archer
Australia 2013, 1h54m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Peccadillo Pictures
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
In partnership with Fruitmarket Nights: Classic Silent Movies
Old Fruitmarket, Sunday 1 March (18.30)
(Special ticket price) Tickets £14 / £12 conc and £5 for under 26’s.
Lotte Reiniger’s classic silent film The Adventures of Prince Achmed
inspires a remarkable East-West fusion from the phenomenal French
bass player Renaud Garcia-Fons and his band. This gorgeous silhouette
animation tells stories from the Arabian Nights, a world full of
enchantments and danger: wizards, flying horses, evil genies, princes,
princesses... Garcia-Fons draws on the musical traditions of the
Mediterranean, taking sounds and ideas from Spain, Turkey, Morocco
and Southern France, fusing them into an amazing crossover score
fronted by his own astounding playing.
Modern Families. Director: Lotte Reiniger
Germany 1926, 1h7m, P G Thanks to Fruitmarket Nights
AlgoRhythm
The Art School, Thursday 26 February (19.00)
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(Special ticket price) Not ticketed, but a charge of £2 will be applied on
the door.
AlgoRhythm is a series of collaborative art and music events that brings
together practitioners from a variety of creative fields who specialise in
the use of technology in their practice. The event manifests in the form of
a live performance and installation that explores the relationship between
sonic and visual art practices. Each AlgoRhythm event aims to address
a different theme by providing underlying communication on a social or
historical topic whilst also responding to the environment where the
event is taking place. The third AlgoRhythm for Crossing the Line will
see an exploration of audience participation and interaction combined
with moving image and sound.
Crossing the Line. Director: Marianne Wilson, 3h approx. N/C 18+
Thanks to The Art School
Altman
C C A Theatre, Sunday 22 (18.20) & Monday 23 February (16.00)
Eternal iconoclast Robert Altman changed the face of American cinema,
creating experimental, multi-character films that work against the grain of
audience expectation and constantly explode the myths that built a
nation. Highlights from his fifty-year career include M*A*S*H (1970),
Nashville (1975), The Player (1992) and Gosford Park (2001). Made
with the support of the director’s widow Kathryn Reed Altman, Ron
Mann’s respectful, illuminating documentary uses extensive archive
interviews from actors and family to explore what Altman was really like
and what inspired his finest films.
Stranger Than Fiction. Director: Ron Mann Cast: Robert Altman,
Robin Williams, Julianne Moore
Canada 2014, 1h35m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Soda Pictures
Anastasia
G F T, Thursday 26 February (10.30)
(Festival for a Fiver)
Hollywood welcomed back Ingrid Bergman from professional exile with a
second Best Actress Oscar for her magnificent, wide-ranging
performance in Anastasia. In the Paris of 1928, Russian emigree
General Bounine (Yul Brynner) is determined to prove that the Grand
Duchess Anastasia survived the 1917 revolution and is alive and well
enough to claim her vast inheritance. He discovers mysterious refugee
Anna (Bergman) who bears an uncanny resemblance to the Duchess.
Can she be transformed into Russian royalty and convince even the
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Empress Dowager (Helen Hayes) that she is the real thing? A
sumptuous, intriguing period drama.
Here’s Looking At You, Kid. Director: Anatole Litvak Cast: Ingrid
Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes
U S A 1956, 1h41m, U Thanks to Hollywood Classics
Appropriate Behaviour
(Audience Award)
G F T, Thursday 19 (15.45) & Friday 20 February (23.00)
Lena Dunham’s Girls have got nothing on lead character Shirin in this
outrageously entertaining, quasi-autobiographical first feature from writer
/ director / star Desiree Akhavan, creator of the cult web series The
Slope. Shirin is a bisexual Brooklynite with an amazing ability to
sabotage everything she touches. A bitter break-up with girlfriend Maxine
(Rebecca Henderson) leaves her wondering where it all went wrong and
how to win her back. Shirin’s strict Iranian parents don’t know the half of
what is going on in her complicated life. This smart, self-deprecating
saga of arrested development makes Akhavan a talent to watch.
Pioneer. Director: Desiree Akhavan
Cast: Desiree Akhavan, Rebecca Henderson, Halley Feiffer
U S A / U K 2014, 1h 26m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Peccadillo Pictures
The Atticus Institute
G F T, Friday 27 February (13.30)
Dr Henry West founded The Atticus Institute in the 1970s to study
telekinesis, clairvoyance, E.S.P. and other unexplained psi-related
phenomena. Scientific methods were used to test thousands of subjects,
many of whom showed abilities defying explanation by known physical
laws. But just after West published the promising results of their research
work, the small facility was mysteriously shut down in November 1976 by
a concerned US Government. The reason? They met Judith Winstead…
You won’t believe your eyes watching the shockumentary of the year
from director Chris Sparling, writer of Buried.
Fright Fest. Director: Chris Sparling Cast: William Mapother, Rya
Kihlstedt, Rob Kerkovich
U S A 2015, 1h 32m, N/C 18+ Thanks to Universal Pictures U K
Autumn Sonata
(Höstsonaten)
G F T, Friday 27 February (10.30) Festival for a Fiver
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Ingrid Bergman’s final film contains one of her greatest performances.
Working with Ingmar Bergman for the only time in her career, Ingrid
plays Charlotte, a world-famous concert pianist making a rare visit to her
daughter Eva (Liv Ullmann). The reunion soon descends into a dark
night of soul-searching as Eva accuses her mother of heartless neglect
and the selfish pursuit of personal happiness. Bitter resentment
challenges Charlotte to confront the guilt of a lifetime in a searing,
beautifully acted drama with an intensely personal resonance for
Bergman who received a seventh and final Oscar nomination for her
heartbreaking performance.
Here’s Looking at You, Kid. Director: Ingmar Bergman Cast: Ingrid
Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman
Sweden / France / West Germany 1978, 1h39m, Swedish with subtitles,
P G Thanks to Swedish Film Institute / Metro Tartan
Backmask
G F T, Friday 27 February (23.15)
From Marcus Nispel, director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and
Friday the 13th remakes: sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll possession. Six
teens throw a party in a rundown building and find a vintage record. Talk
turns to ‘backmasking’ – subliminal messages recorded onto a music
groove heard only when the track is played backwards – and they play
the vinyl for a giggle. Soon, a seemingly malevolent entity infiltrates the
group, wreaking havoc. However, the spirit is actually trying to convey a
message and the real source of horror is something, or someone, much
closer to home.
Fright Fest. Director: Marcus Nispel Cast: Stephen Lang, Brett Dier,
Brittany Curran
U S A 2015, 1h30m, 18 Thanks to Studio canal
BAFTA Masterclass: Production Design
C C A, Friday 27 February (18.30) (Free event)
Mark Leese is one of the leading production designers working in the U
K. His prolific work in television and film includes Shane Meadows’ This
Is England, Stuart Murdoch’s God Help the Girl and the Peter Mullan
films NEDS and The Magdalene Sisters. Glasgow Film Festival, in
association with BAFTA Scotland, is pleased to welcome Mark as he
discusses his technical expertise, the creative process that drives a
project through every stage of production, and various experiences from
his twenty year career.
Behind the Scenes Mark Leese, U K 2015, 1h, N/C 15+
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Free tickets available on the day at C C A . Max 2 per person.
Beauty and the Right to the Ugly
C C A, Sunday 22 February (18.00)
This film focuses on a Dutch community centre called 't Karregat in
Eindhoven. Built in 1974, the centre was part of a social architectural
experiment by the city council in order to transfer ownership of
environments of living, work and leisure back to its citizens. Wendelien
van Oldenborgh not only examines the centre’s rich history and potential,
but actively uses the participative nature of the architecture and past and
present users within the infrastructures of filming and editing. This oneoff
film screening is organised in collaboration with Collective, Edinburgh
where Beauty and the Right to the Ugly is being shown as an
installation from 17 January – 29 March 2015.
Crossing the Line. Director: Wendelien van Oldenborgh Cast: Hans
Muskens, Maria Stortelder, Mirjam Kuhr
Netherlands / Belgium 2014, 56 mins, Dutch with subtitles, N/C 15+
Thanks to Auguste Orte
The Bells of St Mary’s
G F T, Tuesday24 February (10.30) / Paisley Arts Centre Saturday 28
February (15.00) (Festival for a Fiver)
The Oscarwinning sequel to Going My Way is a true winter heartwarmer
that became one of the biggest box office hits of Ingrid Bergman’s
career. Bing Crosby’s genial Father O’ Malley is dispatched to work his
magic on a school in dire need of repair. He is soon winning hearts and
minds, changing lives and clashing with Sister Benedict (Bergman) over
the best way to raise children and improve family life. It is a friendly
rivalry in which Crosby’s easygoing charm is perfectly matched by
Bergman’s natural warmth. Both performances were nominated for
Oscars and the film fixed Bergman’s saintly image in the eyes of the
moviegoing public.
Here’s Looking at You, Kid. Director: Leo McCarey Cast: Bing
Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers
U S A 1945, 2h5m, U Thanks to Filmbank
Black Coal, Thin Ice
(Bai ri yan huo)
G F T, Thursday 19 (21.00) & Friday 20 February (15.20)
Winner of the Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival, Black Coal, Thin Ice
is a brooding, atmospheric murder mystery set amidst the raw, wintry
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desolation of Heilongjiang in northern China. In 1999, divorced cop
Zhang (Liao Fan) is seriously wounded during a murder case that ends
in death and disgrace. Five years later, he is working as a security guard
at a coal factory when an old colleague tells him that similar crimes have
been committed and remain unsolved. He begins his own investigation,
tracing a connection to a widowed laundry worker Wu Zhizhen (Gwei
Lun-Mei). The plot thickens as the sense of melancholy and dread
deepens.
Window on the World. Director: Diao Yi’nan Cast: Liao Fan, Gwei
Lun-Mei, Wang Xuebing
China / Hong Kong 2014, 1h46m, Mandarin with subtitles, N/C 15+
Thanks to Studio canal
Black Souls
(Anime nere)
G F T, Saturday 21 (20.30) & Sunday 22 February (15.15)
Lovers of Gomorra and Romanzo Criminale will relish this tough, tense
journey through the dark heart of organised crime in modern Italy. The
grey, lawless Calabrian Mountains are an area where honour demands
respect and the slightest insult must be avenged. Luciano (Fabrizio
Ferracane) has left the family ‘business’ to dedicate himself to farming
but his young son Leo (Giuseppe Fumo) cannot wait to fire a shot in
anger. Leo’s impetuous actions propel the family into a bloody feud,
transforming their lives into the stuff of Greek tragedy. A steely, violent
thriller that builds to a gripping climax.
Window on the World. Director: Francesco Munzi Cast: Marco
Leonardi, Peppino Mazzotta, Fabrizio Ferracane
Italy / France 2014, 1h43m, Italian with subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to
Vertigo Films
Blind
G F T, Friday 20 (20.40) & Saturday 21 February (13.30)
An outstanding debut feature from writer / director Eskil Vogt, Blind
tackles some powerful themes with a light, playful touch. Former teacher
Ingrid (Ellen Dorrit Petersen) has recently lost her sight. She rarely
leaves her apartment and even the simplest task has become an
adventure. She has lost none of her wit or imagination and spends her
days writing fictional flights of fancy reflecting her repressed desires, her
anxieties, the lives of her neighbours and even her husband. The
increasingly blurred lines between fact and fiction spark wry reflections
on creativity as a means of escape, catharsis and seeing the world more
clearly.
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Pioneer. Director: Eskil Vogt Cast: Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Henrik
Rafaelsen, Vera Vitali
Norway 2014, 1h36m, Norwegian with subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to
Axiom Films
Blood and Black Lace
(Sei donne per l’assassino)
G F T, Saturday 28 February (13.30)
One of the most influential horror thrillers of all time, Italian Maestro of
Terror Mario Bava’s shimmering fever dream is a visually stunning,
elegantly mounted and erotically charged catalogue of homicidal cruelty.
Six models at Contessa Cristina Como’s chic Rome fashion house are
tortured and murdered by a masked psychopath for a telltale diary
containing incriminating scandal. A chiller way ahead of its time, and
considered the main evolutionary starting point for the giallo genre that
would inspire Dario Argento, this key masterpiece is presented here in all
its restored glory.
Fright Fest. Director: Mario Bava Cast: Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok,
Lea Lander
Italy / France / Monaco 1964, 1h28m, Italian with subtitles, 18 Thanks to
Arrow
The Boy and the World
(O menino e o mundo)
Odeon at the Quay, Sunday 22 February (12.00) / Cineworld Parkhead,
Saturday 28 February (15.00)
If you love the animated classics of Hayao Miyazaki then you will want to
see this vibrant and imaginative Brazilian production. The story is simple:
a young boy in rural Brazil goes on a quest to find his father who has
gone to find work in the city. Director Alê Abreu uses different styles and
techniques, from watercolours to crayons, to capture the boy’s journey
through the different landscapes. He also tackles some serious issues in
the yawning gap between town and country, rich and poor. An
enchanting, dialogue-free film that unfolds to a great Brazilian
soundtrack.
Modern Families. Director: Alê Abreu Cast: Marco Aurélio Campos,
Vinicius Garcia, Lu Horta
Brazil 2013, 1h20m, N/C 8+ Thanks to Elo Company
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Boychoir
G F T, Tuesday24 February (18.15) / Grosvenor Wednesday 25
February (20.30)
Anything Gareth Malone can do, Dustin Hoffman can do even better in
this irresistible heartwarmer. Left an orphan after his mother’s death in a
car crash, eleven-year-old Stet (Garrett Wareing) journeys from a small
Texas town to a new life in an East Coast boarding school. He is an
unruly youngster, angry with the world and everyone in it. He also has
the voice of an angel. Old school choirmaster Carvelle (Hoffman)
demands the highest standard of discipline and dedication from his
students. He is instantly at odds with Stet but music has a way of
soothing even the most troubled souls.
Gala. Director: Franҫois Girard Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Kathy Bates,
Josh Lucas
U S A 2014, 1h46m, P G Thanks to Curzon World
Burroughs: The Movie
G F T, Saturday 21 February (10.45) / C C A Friday 27 (18.15) &
Saturday 28 February (13.30)
Widely considered the most intimate and revealing portrait of William S
Burroughs, Howard Brookner’s documentary all but disappeared after its
initial release in 1983. Rediscovered and restored, it is an invaluable
portrait of the Naked Lunch writer, made with Burroughs’ full
cooperation. Brookner accompanies Burroughs as he revisits his
hometown of St Louis, where a childhood acquaintance dubbed him a
‘walking corpse’. There are sociable evenings in New York with old
friends like Allen Ginsberg, readings and mesmerising stories from the
killing of his wife to the years in Tangier. A must see film for anyone with
an interest in Burroughs and the Beat Generation.
Stranger Than Fiction. Director: Howard Brookner Cast: William S
Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Terry Southern
U S A 1983, 1h30m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Janus Films / Pinball Online
Buster Keaton Night with Neil Brand and Paul
Merton
In partnership with Fruitmarket Nights: Classic Silent Movies
Old Fruitmarket, Monday 23 February (19.30)
(Special ticket price) Tickets £14/£12 concession and £5 for under 26s
Paul Merton might never have become a comedian were it not for the
influence of Buster Keaton: fabulous clown, unbelievably dauntless
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stuntman, matchless player / director. Merton and pianist Neil Brand are
two of the most engaging and knowledgeable silent comedy buffs
around, and they jointly present a fantastic evening of classic comedy,
fascinating facts and insights, and live music to celebrate one of the
great funny men of all time.
Sound & Vision.
2h, N/C 8+
Casablanca
G F T, Saturday 21 February (10.30) (Festival for a Fiver)
Conceived in chaos and executed in confusion, the miracle of
Casablanca is that it emerged as a flawless Hollywood classic. Incurable
romantic Rick (Humphrey Bogart) has gathered together the pieces of
his broken heart and taken refuge in Morocco, running a bar brimming
with corrupt officials and patriotic refugees. Memories of Paris and a lost
love sustain him. Then, out of all the gin joints in the world, Ilsa (Ingrid
Bergman) walks into his. Can he ever forgive her? Ilsa is not alone but
even the problems of these three little people don’t amount to a hill of
beans in a world torn apart by war. You must remember this.
Here’s Looking at You, Kid. Director: Michael Curtiz Cast: Humphrey
Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
U S A 1942, 1h42m, P G Thanks to Park Circus
Cat Video Festival
Go M A, Saturday 21 (13.00) & Sunday 22 February (13.00) / G F T
Sunday 1 Mar (10.45 & 12.30) (Free event)
Go M A and Glasgow Film Festival are delighted to present the Scottish
Premiere of the first offline celebration of online cat videos, The Internet
Cat Video Festival, produced and curated by the Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis. The festival is a live event, gathering a curated collection of
cat clips – from six second Vine videos to short films and everything in
between. This edition of kitty rumpus features a new selection of videos
programmed by Will Braden, creator of the Henri Le Chat Noir videos
and recipient of the first Golden Kitty (People’s Choice) Award. Due to
unprecedented demand for tickets to Go M A’s three hour catstravaganza, there will be two screenings of the 73m cat video collection
at G F T .
Modern Families. Director: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Cast:
various cats, Worldwide, 2014, 1h 13m, N/C 5+, some subtitles
Thanks to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, U S A www.walkerart.org.
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Free tickets to G F T screenings available on the day at G F T . Max 2
per person.
Catch Me Daddy
G F T, Thursday 19 (17.40) & Friday 20 February (15.50)
The feature debut of music promo director Daniel Wolfe, co-written and
directed with his brother Matthew, offers a bleak vision of a postindustrial Britain and a Pakistani family in which a father’s sense of
honour is more prized than life itself. Cinematographer Robbie Ryan
brilliantly captures the misty chill of the Yorkshire moors where runaway
teenager Laila (Sameena Jabeen Ahmed) and her Scottish boyfriend
Aaron (Conor McCarron from NEDS) have set up temporary home.
Laila’s brother Zaheer (Ali Ahmad) is closing in, and he is not alone in his
determination to see honour upheld and defiance punished. A powerful,
blood-spattered thriller.
Best of British. Directors: Daniel Wolfe, Matthew Wolfe Cast:
Sameena Jabeen Ahmed, Conor McCarron, Gary Lewis
U K 2014, 1h51m, N/C 18+ Thanks to Studio canal
Children of Film: Videogames
C C A, Monday 23 February (18.30) (Free event) (Special ticket price)
How did Ridley Scott’s direction inform Alien Isolation’s gameplay? How
much was The Last of Us inspired by the likes of The Road and No
Country for Old Men? Rab Florence is joined by special guests for a
discussion on cinema’s enduring impact on modern videogames, from
soundtracks to storytelling. Followed by a screening of another influential
classic - Alfonso Cuarón’s apocalyptic masterpiece Children of Men.
Nerdvana. 1h, N/C 15+ Thanks to Rab Florence
Free tickets available on the day at C C A . Max 2 per person.
This event will be BSL interpreted.
Children of Men
C C A, Monday 23 February (20.00) (Festival for a Fiver)
Offering us a glimpse into the deeply divided world of 2027, Children of
Men is an harrowingly convincing portrait of an all-too-familiar looking
future. Decades of infertility have left society on the brink of collapse.
The U K has closed its borders and immigrants are imprisoned. War has
broken out between the totalitarian state and the revolutionary rebels that
oppose it. Is this where we’re headed? Along with Emmanuel Lubezki’s
stunning cinematography, it is this terrifying question that sets Cuarón’s
dystopian masterpiece out as a significant influence on modern game
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design. Find out more in Rab Florence’s pre-screening panel discussion,
Children of Film: Videogames.
Nerdvana. Director: Alfonso Cuarón Cast: Clive Owen, Julianne
Moore, Chiwetel Ejiofor
U K / U S A 2006, 1h49m, 15 Thanks to Filmbank. Please note this
screening will be captioned.
Cinema, City, Ceilidh!
St Andrew’s in the Square, Saturday 21 February (19.00) (Special
ticket price) All tickets £12 / £10
There is no better way to celebrate our Scottish heritage than with a
ceilidh! Don your best pressed tartans and join us to step right into
Glasgow’s cinema history. We have a live band, Stravaig, to make sure
you know all the steps, and a visual treat in store: a showcase of archival
footage illustrating the diverse and beautiful cinemas, stars, and people
within Glasgow, our Cinema City. You will be reeling and swinging
amongst them all!
Cinema City. 5h
Archival footage is presented with thanks to Scottish Screen Archive,
National Library of Scotland, Templar Film Studios and Catherine Weir.
Cinema City Walking Tours
West End, Thursday 26 February (18.30) / City Centre Saturday 28
February (14.00) (Festival for a Fiver)
Cinema historians Gordon Barr and Gary Painter of the
scottishcinemas.org website will take you on a two-hour guided walk,
telling the story of Glasgow’s unique and architecturally diverse cinema
history, from converted warehouses to the finest 30s art deco supercinemas, highlighting cinemas that were, cinemas that are, and cinemas
that might have been.
Cinema City. 2h
£5 payable on the day. Limited places, must be booked in advance by
emailing walks@scottishcinemas.org (starting point will be emailed to
you nearer the time).
Fancy doing a walk yourself anytime? Free selfguided versions of the
walks can be found on the Cinema City website at
cc.glasgowfilm.org/cinema-city
Thanks to Gordon Barr and Gary Painter
Cinema-Going in Glasgow Through the Ages
C C A, Thursday 19 February (18.30) (Free event)
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Glasgow is a city that has always loved the movies. Do you remember
your first trip to the pictures? Do you recall some of the city’s long gone
venues? Did people really exchange jam jars for a ticket to the pictures?
Local historians and architects come together on this panel to nudge our
memories with images and stories that celebrate cinema-going in the city
and some of the most famous cinema buildings past and present.
Cinema City. 1h Free tickets available on the day at C C A . Max 2 per
person.
This event will be B S L interpreted.
Close-Up on Casting with Kahleen Crawford &
Morven Christie
C C A, Friday 20 February (18.30) (Free event)
Have you ever wondered how the world of casting actually works? After
this event, you’ll be all the wiser. Casting director Kahleen Crawford
returns to G F F with her ever-enlightening and entertaining discussion
on all things cast. Fresh from her work on Robert Carlyle’s directorial
debut The Legend of Barney Thomson and John Maclean’s Sundance
premiere Slow West, Kahleen has played a vital part in a string of recent
global successes including Jimmy’s Hall, Filth, Sunshine on Leith and
Under the Skin. She will discuss the creative process of casting
alongside actress Morven Christie (Grantchester, Lilting, Shell) to give a
true inside perspective on the casting process.
Behind the Scenes.
U K 2015, 1h, N/C 15+
Free tickets available on the day at C C A . Max 2 per person.
Clouds of Sils Maria
G F T, Sunday 22 (17.30) & Monday 23 February (15.30)
There are strong echoes of All About Eve in this complex, compelling
drama from Olivier Assayas starring a luminous Juliette Binoche as a
performer confronted by the inevitable passage of time. Twenty years
after she made her name in an acclaimed stage play, world renowned
Maria (Binoche) is approached to play the older woman in a revival. The
younger role, her role, is to be played by rising star Jo-Ann (Chloë Grace
Moretz). Maria retreats to the Swiss Alps with assistant Valentine
(Kristen Stewart) to learn her lines and gather her strength for the storms
ahead.
Cine Masters. Director: Olivier Assayas Cast: Juliette Binoche, Chloë
Grace Moretz, Kristen Stewart
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France / Switzerland / Germany 2014, 2h4m, English / French / Germany
/ Swiss German with subtitles N/C 15+ Thanks to Curzon Film World
Clown
G F T, Saturday 28 February (11.00)
Fright Fest Glasgow favourite Eli Roth sends in the clowns… When the
entertainer hired for his son’s sixth birthday party is a no-show, doting
father Kent dons a clown outfit himself. But after the festivities, he finds
he can’t take it off – the bulbous nose is stuck to his face, the frizzy wig
glued to his hair and the make-up permanently etched on his features.
When he learns the costume is the skin of an ancient demon, his family
must race to break the curse before Kent’s transformation into a
homicidal killer with outsize shoes is complete.
Fright Fest. Director: Jon Watts Cast: Peter Stormare, Eli Roth, Laura
Allen
U S A / Canada 2014, 1h42m, 18 Thanks to Studio canal
Coming Home (Gui lai)
G F T, Saturday 28 February (18.00) & Sunday 1 Mar (16.45)
Zhang Yimou’s reunion with Gong Li results in his best film in a decade.
Coming Home sensitively traces the national impact of the Cultural
Revolution through the lives of one devoted couple. When college
professor Lu Yanshi (Chen Daoming) is sent away for ‘re-education’, his
wife Feng Wanyu (Gong Li) is left to raise their daughter. Years later,
there is a possibility of reconciliation but Feng no longer recognises the
man who claims to be her husband and Lu is faced with the prospect that
there is no way back. A poignant tale, told with the elegance and emotion
that marked early Zhang Yimou classics like Red Sorghum and Ju Dou.
Cine Masters. Director: Zhang Yimou Cast: Gong Li, Chen Daoming,
Zhang Huiwen
China 2014, 1h49m, Mandarin with subtitles, N/C 12+ Thanks to Wild
Bunch
The Cut
G F T, Friday 27 (18.00) & Saturday 28 February (15.15)
Fatih Akin’s sweeping, David Lean-style epic bravely confronts the
legacy of the Armenian genocide of 1915 in which 1.5 million people
died. Nazaret Manoogian (Tahar Rahim) is a humble metal-smith who
survives some of the worst violence in the history of his country. The fate
of his wife and twin daughters remains unknown and prompts him to
embark on a global search from the orphanages of Syria to the barrios of
Cuba, to Florida and the wintry wastes of Minnesota. Akin’s heartfelt
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production is infused with the spirit of classic westerns and the
melancholic sense of a country’s suffering.
Window on the World. Director: Fatih Akin Cast: Tahar Rahim,
Simon Abkarian, Makram Khoury
Germany / France / Italy / Russia / Poland / Jordan / Turkey / Canada
2014, 2h18m, some subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to Soda Pictures
The Dark Horse
G F T, Thursday 19 (20.00) & Friday 20 February (11.00)
Triumphant, richly textured biopic, The Dark Horse tells the true story of
Genesis ‘Gen’ Potini, a charismatic chess champion who struggled with
severe bipolar disorder. Cliff Curtis (Once Were Warriors, Training
Day) gives the performance of his career as the corpulent, fragile Gen
who gets his life back on track by agreeing to coach Eastern Knights, a
chess club for at-risk youth. He brings his nephew Mana (James
Rolleston) to the group, opening the teenager’s eyes to a world beyond
the macho gang culture that has defined his father’s life. The battle for
Mana’s future has profound consequences for everyone.
Pioneer. Director: James Napier Robertson Cast: Cliff Curtis, James
Rolleston, Kirk Torrance
New Zealand 2014, 2h4m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Koch Media
Dazed and Confused + Roller Disco
Drygate, Saturday 28 February (Doors 20.00, Roller Disco 20.30, Film
starts 22.45) (Special ticket price) Special-price - £12 / £10
Following the near-universal acclaim for Boyhood, we celebrate director
Richard Linklater’s formidable talents with this cool and affectionate
portrait of American youth culture. A coming-of-age classic, Dazed and
Confused follows the exploits of a group of American students on their
last day of high school in 1976. And as a real nostalgic treat, join the premovie Roller Disco! Roll up in your best retro style to skate and groove,
order a burger and a shake before relaxing in your seat to be both dazed
and slightly confused!
Nerdvana. Director: Richard Linklater Cast: Jason London, Matthew
McConaughey, Wiley Wiggins
U S A 1993, 1h42m, 15 Thanks to Filmbank *Please note: Skating is a
potentially hazardous activity. We recommend that you do not drink
alcohol before attending the event. Anyone thought to be a danger to
themselves or others will be asked to remove their skates. Skaters must
accept and sign Terms and Conditions of entry, and only a limited
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number can skate at one time. Full F A Qs @
www.glasgowfilm.org/festival
The Dead Lands (Hautoa)
G F T, Friday 27 February (22.45) / Grosvenor Saturday 28 February
(15.00)
Pre-colonial New Zealand is the setting for a savage, bloodthirsty coming
of age story that is timeless in its themes of honour, respect and
revenge. When his tribe is slaughtered, the chieftain’s teenage son
Hongi (James Rolleston) sets out to avenge his father and bring peace to
the lost souls of his family. Outnumbered and inexperienced, he must
venture into the forbidden ‘Dead Lands’ and seek the help of the
legendary fighter ‘Warrior’ (Lawrence Makoare). A groundbreaking
adventure from Dean Spanley director Toa Fraser featuring the
traditional Maori martial art of Mau rakau.
Window on the World. Director: Toa Fraser Cast: James Rolleston,
Lawrence Makoare, Te Kohe Tuhaka
New Zealand 2014, 1h48m, Maori with subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to
Icon Film Distribution
Dearest (Qin ai de)
G F T, Tuesday24 (15.30) & Wednesday 25 February (20.15)
Few things are more devastating than losing a child. Inspired by true
stories from the parents of kidnapped children, Dearest charts a
sensitive, subtle path through an emotional minefield. When their young
son goes missing, Tian Wen-jun (Huang Bo) and his ex-wife Lu Xiaojuan (Hao Lei) spend years hoping for news and feeling a fresh sense of
loss at every false sighting or dead end. The guilt never fades and
nothing is ever straightforward again, even when there is the promise of
discovering what happened. An intensely personal drama marbled with
acute reflections on the state of modern China.
Cine Masters. Director: Peter Hosun Chan Cast: Zhao Wei, Huang
Bo, Tong Dawei
China / Hong Kong 2014, 2h10m, Mandarin with subtitles, N/C 12+
Thanks to Versatile Films
Dreamcatcher
G F T, Saturday 28 February (15.45)
Brenda Myers-Powell is one of the most extraordinary women that you
will ever meet. A drug-addicted teenage prostitute known as ‘Breezy’,
Brenda woke in hospital after a violent encounter with a client and
decided that her life had to change. She now runs the Dreamcatcher
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foundation working with hundreds of women and girls who want to make
similar changes. Kim Longinotto’s important documentary puts Brenda’s
inspirational example at the heart of an unflinching examination of the
cycle of neglect, violence and exploitation that leaves thousands of
women believing that prostitution is their only option for survival.
Stranger Than Fiction. Director: Kim Longinotto
U K / U S A 2015, 1h38m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Dogwoof
Dungeons & Dragons Live
C C A, Sunday 22 February (20.00) (Festival for a Fiver)
Sit down with Rab Florence and friends as they improvise their way
through a session of classic pen and paper R P G Dungeons &
Dragons in this intimate, hilarious live show. Witness what will surely be
a true classic of swords and sorcery as it is improvised LIVE. Expect raw
language and some highstakes dice-rolling as we all descend into the
darkest dungeons.
Nerdvana. 2h, N/C 15+ Thanks to Rab Florence
Eden
G F T, Saturday 28 February (20.40) & Sunday 1 Mar (11.00)
This fourth film from Mia Hansen-Løve offers a look into the burgeoning
French ‘Touch’ electronic dance music (E D M) scene in 1990s Paris.
Based on the experiences of the director’s brother, the narrative revolves
around a young DJ named Paul. Teaming up with his friend, they play
music heavily influenced by the American garage house scene. Ironically
named Cheers, the two indulge in drugs, drink and sex to the sounds of
beats and bass along with others from the same scene, including two
friends who form the duo Daft Punk. A heartfelt tale of youthful ambition
and love, Hansen-Løve uses the music to frame her story, with locations
spanning Paris to Chicago and cameos from reallife house names.
Sound & Vision. Director: Mia Hansen-Løve Cast: Félix de Givry,
Pauline Etienne, Greta Gerwig
France 2014, 2h11m, French / English with subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to
Metrodome
Editing Masterclass with Colin Monie
C C A, Thursday 26 February (18.30) (Free event)
How do you fit all the pieces together? The art of editing is explored in
depth in this discussion with one of the U K’s leading editors, Colin
Monie. Colin has worked with directors including Peter Mullan, Deepa
Mehta and David Mackenzie, on features NEDS, Hallam Foe, and From
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Scotland with Love, alongside TV productions Shetland and The Field
of Blood. Colin will discuss the craft to be found within the editing suite,
sharing all the skills, techniques and decisions involved in telling
unforgettable stories on film.
Behind the Scenes. Colin Monie
U K 2015, 1h30m, N/C 15+ Free tickets available on the day at C C A .
Max 2 per person.
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon
Films
G F T, Friday 27 February (20.45) / C C A Saturday 28 February
(15.45)
Mark Hartley follows his affectionate salutes to Ozploitation and Filipino
B-movies by celebrating the eclectic legacy of the late Menahem Golan
and Yoram Globus. This dynamic duo purchased the Cannon Group in
1979 and stormed the Hollywood barricades by funding action fodder
from Charles Bronson, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Chuck Norris as
well as backing John Cassavetes, Franco Zeffirelli and Barbet
Schroeder. Electric Boogaloo covers the triumphs and disasters, fads
and failures, cheesy B-movies and tacky press stunts. It’s a wickedly
entertaining guilty pleasure.
Stranger Than Fiction. Director: Mark Hartley Cast: Dolph Lundgren,
Bo Derek, Richard Chamberlain
Australia/ U S A /Israel/ U K 2014, 1h47m, N/C 15+ Thanks to
Metrodome
Eliza Graves
G F T, Thursday 26 February (21.00)
A glossy, starry, sumptuous gothic horror based on the Edgar Allan Poe
story ‘The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether’. When young
Doctor Edward Newgate arrives at Stonehearst Asylum in search of an
apprenticeship, he is warmly welcomed by superintendent Doctor Lamb
(Ben Kingsley). At first intrigued by Lamb’s modern methods of treating
the insane, a series of events and warnings from the stunningly beautiful
Eliza Graves (Kate Beckinsale) lead him to make a shocking discovery.
It’s a revelation that exposes Lamb’s medical utopia and pushes Edward
to the limits of his conscience, as nobody is who or what they appear to
be.
Fright Fest. Director: Brad Anderson Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Ben
Kingsley, Jim Sturgess
U S A 2014, 1h52m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Lionsgate
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Elle l’adore
C C A, Tuesday24 (18.00) & Wednesday 25 February (15.30)
One of the best French comic thrillers in recent years, Elle l’adore
shows fan worship taken to the ultimate extreme. Divorced mum Muriel
(Sandrine Kiberlain) is the biggest fan of singer Vincent Lacroix (Laurent
Lafitte). She has worn out his albums, attended his concerts and bought
all the t-shirts. One night, he arrives at her door asking for a favour. She
is to drive an item to his sister in Switzerland, asking no questions and
telling nobody, especially the authorities. It is the beginning of a hilarious
comic odyssey involving a missing persons case, amorous detectives
and a chance for Muriel to prove her worth.
Pioneer. Director: Jeanne Herry Cast: Sandrine Kiberlain, Laurent
Lafitte, Olivia Côte
France 2014, 1h44m, French with subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to Studio
Canal
Exit
C C A, Monday 23 (18.30) & Tuesday24 February (15.30)
The heart is a resilient little muscle in Exit, a plaintive portrait of a
middle-aged woman coping with the loneliness of growing older and
feeling unappreciated. Ling (Shaing-chyi Chen) lives in a rundown
apartment in the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung. Her daughter treats the
place like a hotel and her hospital-bound mother expects daily visits; Ling
can already feel herself becoming invisible in a world of shrinking
possibilities. She retains a generous heart and starts to care for an
injured man in her mother’s hospital ward. A gentle, understated charmer
of a film with a magnetic, award-winning central performance.
Window on the World. Director: Hsiang Chienn Cast: Shiang-chyi
Chen, Easton Dong
Taiwan / Hong Kong 2014, 1h34m, Mandarin with subtitles, N/C 12+
Thanks to Facet Film Distribution Ltd
The Fall of the House of Usher with Live Score
Pollokshaws Burgh Hall, Sunday 22 February (Doors 20.00, Film 20.30)
(Special ticket price) £12 / £10
Jean Epstein’s adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House
of Usher was hailed by Time Out as ‘one of the most imaginative and
entrancing horror movies of the silent era’. A brooding, gothic nightmare,
it explores the tensions between life, love and death. This stunningly
beautiful fantasy is accompanied by an exquisite live score by Irene
Buckley which draws the audience into a compelling meditation on the
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macabre and is an ethereal lament for voice, electronics and organ.
Produced by the team behind G F F 13’s unforgettable Passion of Joan
of Arc event at Glasgow Cathedral, and featuring live music played on
an original Wurlitzer Cinema Organ, this promises to be another truly
unique event.
Special Events. Director: Jean Epstein Cast: Jean Debucourt,
Marguerite Gance, Charles Lamy
France 1928, 1h3m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Cinematheque Franҫaise
Event producer: Paul Bloom Composer: Irene Buckley Live organist:
James McVinnie
The Falling
G F T, Thursday 26 February (20.40) / Grosvenor Friday 27 February
(20.30)
Carol Morley’s follow up to Dreams of a Life is a feverish exploration of
raging hormones and teenage angst set in a girls’ school in 1969.
Generally ignored by her agoraphobic mother, Lydia (Maisie Williams
from Game of Thrones) becomes infatuated with her charismatic friend
Abbie (Florence Pugh). Abbie adores being the centre of attention but
events gradually push Lydia into the limelight and fill the school with a
sexual energy and hysteria that spreads like an infection. Strikingly
photographed by Agnès Godard and set to a dreamy score by Tracey
Thorn, The Falling confirms Morley as one of Britain’s most distinctive
and exciting filmmakers.
Best of British. Director: Carol Morley Cast: Maisie Williams, Maxine
Peake, Monica Dolan
U K 2014, 1h42m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Metrodome
Family Goldmine
G F T, Friday 20 (17.50) & Saturday 21 February (12.45)
Claude Nicolay is a man largely unafraid of failure. An entrepreneur with
successes (and failures) in the worlds of Arabian upholstering and
Chinese tractor-importing, we follow his journey into the world of
goldmining in Mali, bringing in tow his wife Moira and their two sons,
twenty two-year-old Craig and nineteen-year-old Pierre. There’s just one
problem: none of them has any experience in modern mining. Robbie
Fraser’s documentary is a warm portrait of a family experiencing the
glorious highs and disastrous pitfalls of life. Driven by Claude’s towering
ambition, they battle floods and financial difficulty, as well as the
blistering African heat.
Stranger Than Fiction. Director: Robbie Fraser
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Scotland 2014, 1h18m, English / French with subtitles, N/C 12+ Thanks
to Pure Magic Films
Fell
C C A, Saturday 21 (20.45) & Sunday 22 February (13.30)
The raw ache of grief and the bitter hunger for revenge are deeply felt in
this intense debut feature from award-winning shorts director Kasimir
Burgess. Businessman Thomas (Matt Nable) takes his young daughter
on a camping trip through the imposing natural beauty of a vast forest.
Logger Luke (Daniel Henshall) is responsible for a horrific death. Years
later when Luke has a daughter of his own, Thomas returns to the forest
desperate to exact his revenge. A beautiful score for guitar and string
quartet underlines the mood of loss and despair and the possibility of
redemption.
Strewth! Director: Kasimir Burgess Cast: Matt Nable, Daniel Henshall,
Jacqueline McKenzie
Australia 2014, 1h33m, N/C 15+ Thanks to The Yellow Affair
Fires on the Plain (Nobi)
G F T, Sunday 22 February (13.00)
Previously filmed by Kon Ichikawa, Shōhei Ōoka’s acclaimed novel
remains one of the most visceral, haunting accounts of the hell of human
warfare. Tetsuo director Shin’ya Tsukamoto brings his own unflinching
aesthetic to a new adaptation in which he also stars as Tamura, a writer
drafted into the Japanese army and enduring the chaos and carnage of
the Allied liberation of the Philippines. Riddled with tuberculosis, starving
and frightened, a delirious Tamura descends into hell in a disturbing film
designed to place the viewer right in the middle of his nightmarish
experiences.
Cine Masters. Director: Shin’ya Tsukamoto Cast: Shin’ya Tsukamoto,
Rirî Furankî, Yûko Nakamura
Japan 2014, 1h27m, Japanese / Filipino with subtitles, N/C 18+ Thanks
to Co-production Office
For Whom the Bell Tolls
G F T, Friday 20 February (10.30) Festival for a Fiver
A radiant Ingrid Bergman earned her first Best Actress Oscar nomination
as Maria in this magnificent adaptation of the classic Ernest Hemingway
novel. At the height of the Spanish Civil War, idealistic Robert (Gary
Cooper) undertakes a dangerous mission to destroy a vital bridge. He
joins forces with peasant fighters hiding in the mountains and is instantly
attracted to the adoring, vulnerable Maria. A tender love blossoms under
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the darkening shadows of a country mired in death and the growing
threat of dictatorship. Filmed in gorgeous Technicolor, this is one of
Golden Hollywood’s great underrated romantic epics.
Here’s Looking at You, Kid. Director: Sam Wood Cast: Gary Cooper,
Ingrid Bergman, Katina Paxinou
U S A 1943, 2h50m, P G Thanks to Filmbank
From What Is Before
(Mula sa kung ano ang noon)
G F T, Thursday 26 February (12.10) & Sunday 1 Mar (13.30)
One of the most visionary and distinctive directors, Lav Diaz follows the
acclaimed Norte, the End of History with a monumental exploration of
the conditions that laid the ground for the rise of Ferdinand Marcos.
Filmed in luminous black and white, it unfolds in a remote village in 1972.
Itang (Hazel Orencio) and her sister Joselina (Karenina Haniel) serve as
traditional village healers. A series of strange events sows discord in the
community, a feeling only intensified by the arrival of the army and their
determination to stamp out rebel forces. A devastating lament for the
past and the tragic lessons it offers.
Cine Masters. Director: Lav Diaz Cast: Perry Dizon, Roeder
Camañag, Hazel Orencio
Philippines 2014, 5h38m, Filipino / Tagalong / English with subtitles, N/C
15+ Thanks to Sine Olivia Pilipinas
Gaslight
G F T, Monday 23 February (10.30) (Festival for a Fiver)
Ingrid Bergman suffers exquisitely in her Oscar-winning performance as
Paula in this superb MGM adaptation of Patrick Hamilton’s classic gothic
melodrama. Years after the shocking, unsolved murder of her aunt,
Paula finds happiness with suave, dashing Gregory (Charles Boyer). The
newlyweds make their home in the gloomy London mansion where
Paula’s aunt once lived, but an increasingly overwrought Paula hears
footsteps in the attic, imagines a presence in the house and starts to
question her sanity. Is she losing her mind or is something more sinister
afoot? Foggy, threatening London adds to the atmosphere in a tense
thriller that also features the film debut of a teenage Angela Lansbury.
Here’s Looking at You, Kid. Director: George Cukor Cast: Charles
Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
U S A 1944, 1h54m, P G Thanks to Hollywood Classics
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Gente de bien
C C A, Wednesday 25 (18.15) & Thursday 26 February (13.30)
Class remains the big divide around the world and is at the very heart of
this witty, assured social drama. Ten-year-old Eric (Brayan Santamarià)
is packed off to Bogota and a new life with his impoverished handyman
father Gabriel (Carlos Fernando Perez). Everything is a struggle until
well-off Maria Isabel (Alejandra Borrero) takes them under her wing. Eric
is given a taste of how the other half live but he feels more unhappy than
ever and keen to rebel in the most outrageous ways. The road to class
conflict is paved with good intentions in this funny, thoughtprovoking tale.
Pioneer. Director: Franco Lolli Cast: Brayan Santamarià, Carlos
Fernando Perez, Alejandra Borrero
France / Colombia 2014, 1h26m, Spanish with subtitles, N/C 12+
Thanks to Network Distribution Ltd
G F F 15 Surprise Film
G F T, Wednesday 25 February (20.45)
More mysterious than the voting habits of a Strictly Come Dancing
audience, the Surprise Film is never something that you should take for
granted. Just when you think you have it all worked out, we might just go
and change it. In recent years, quality surprises have included Spring
Breakers and the award-winning Calvary. What could it possibly be this
year? Here’s a clue – it is definitely not Star Wars: Episode V I I - The
Force Awakens. Far too early for that. Can you imagine the security?
So, absolutely not that. No, really. Would it even be finished? You’ll just
have to buy a ticket and hope that the force is with you. No, honestly it’s
not. It’s really, really not.
N/C 18+
A Girl at My Door (Dohee-ya)
G F T, Friday 27 (12.45) & Saturday 28 February (20.20)
No good deed goes unpunished in July Jung’s striking first feature. The
charismatic Bae Doona (Cloud Atlas, The Host) stars as Young-nam,
the new chief of police in a small seaside town. Battling the ghosts of her
past, she takes an interest in the welfare of a shy teenage girl at the
mercy of a brutal, boozy stepfather. A sudden death makes Young-nam
increasingly protective of the girl and sets her on a collision course with a
community riven with guilty secrets and deep-rooted prejudices. An
intriguing tale that twists and turns in unexpected ways as it builds to a
disturbing climax.
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Pioneer. Director: July Jung Cast: Bae Doona, Kim Sae-ron, Song
Sae-byeok
South Korea 2014, 1h59m, Korean with subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to
Peccadillo Pictures
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
(Audience Award)
G F T, Friday 27 February (20.30) / Grosvenor Saturday 28 February
(20.30)
In the fictitious Iranian ghost town of Bad City, a lonely, hijab-wearing
female vampire stalks the streets by night in search of prey. Handsome
Arash (Arash Marandi) would leave town if it wasn’t for his dying junkie
father and the debt he owes. When Arash meets this enigmatic lost soul,
it is the beginning of a beautiful love story. Filmed in lustrous
monochrome, Ana Lily Amirpour’s stunning debut carries the influence of
Jim Jarmusch and David Lynch as she brings a fatalistic, feminist
perspective to this sly, stylish exercise in genre subversion.
Pioneer. Director: Ana Lily Amirpour Cast: Sheila Vand, Arash
Marandi, Dominic Rains
U S A 2014, 1h39m, Persian with subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to Studio
Canal
Girlhood (Bande de filles)
G F T, Tuesday24 (20.40) & Wednesday 25 February (12.45)
Marieme (newcomer Karidja Touré) is sixteen, black and lives in the high
rise suburbs of Paris. She has reached an age when life should be full of
possibilities. Instead, she finds herself boxed in by society’s
expectations, peer pressure and limited opportunities. Excluded from
school and wary of her violent older brother, Marieme takes sanctuary in
a girl gang, renaming herself ‘Vic’ for Victory. The film captures her
changing appearance and growing confidence as she moves from timid
schoolgirl to defiant, leather-clad gang member in a film full of brash
energy, insight and a blistering soundtrack that includes Light Asylum’s
‘Dark Allies’ and an exuberant lip sync to Rihanna’s ‘Diamonds’.
Cine Masters. Director: Céline Sciamma Cast: Karidja Touré, Assa
Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh
France 2014, 1h53m, French with subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to Studio
Canal
The Golden Era (Huang jin shi dai)
G F T, Thursday 26 February (12.40) & Sunday 1 Mar (10.30)
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Writer and novelist Xiao Hong was one of the most fascinating figures to
live through the upheavals of 1930s China. Long overshadowed by the
attention focused on her male colleagues, she receives her full due in
this sweeping, authoritative biographical epic. Xiao Hong (Tang Wei) is
just twenty when she flees her abusive father and the prospect of an
arranged marriage. She is soon pregnant, heavily in debt and all alone in
the world. Writing is her salvation as she becomes a front line witness to
history and an adventurous free spirit who challenged every rule and
restriction of her times.
Cine Masters. Director: Ann Hui Cast: Tang Wei, Feng Shaofeng,
Wang Zhiwen
China / Hong Kong 2014, 2h58m, Mandarin with subtitles, N/C 12+
Thanks to Edko Films Ltd
Good for Nothing (Buoni a nulla)
G F T, Saturday 21 (18.30) & Sunday 22 February (12.45)
The incomparable Gianni Di Gregorio follows Mid-August Lunch and
The Salt of Life with another delight, sprinkled with his sly wit and
irresistible charm. Easy-going Gianni is looking forward to a life
untroubled by the demands of his ex-wife and nosy neighbours. On the
eve of his retirement, he is informed that a change in the law obliges him
to work three more years. He is transferred to company headquarters
and faced with the outrageous possibility of having to do a full day’s
work. There might still be a way to achieve a quiet life if only Gianni can
learn to say that most difficult of words – no.
Cine Masters. Director: Gianni Di Gregorio Cast: Gianni Di Gregorio,
Marco MarzoC C A, Valentina Lodovini
Italy 2014, 1h27m, Italian with subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to BiBi Film
The Goonies
Drygate, Saturday 28 February (Doors 12.00, Film 13.00) (Festival for a
Fiver)
Hey you guys! It’s The Goonies! This classic comedy adventure has it
all; booby traps, exploration, stunts, the truffle shuffle, friends and an
infamous quest for treasure. Join Mikey, Brad, Chunk and the guys as
they find a treasure map and go hunting for the treasure at ‘X’. Whilst out
on this quest they must dodge a group of really bad guys who also want
the treasure and will stop at nothing to get it. Nestle down in Drygate with
family, friends and a feast to watch this motley crew of lovable misfits.
Nerdvana. Director: Richard Donner Cast: Sean Astin, Josh Brolin,
Jeff Cohen
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U S A 1985, 1h54m, P G Thanks to Filmbank
The Grump (Mielensäpahoittaja)
G F T, Thursday 19 (15.15) & Friday 20 February (13.30)
If you loved The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the
Window, you will relish the adventures of another elderly rascal. The
Grump (Antti Litja) is a stubborn, sourfaced curmudgeon happily
attached to a rosy-eyed vision of the past. Incapacitated by a fall, the old
devil moves from the family farm to the city home of his exasperated
daughter-in-law. Every conversation is a battlefield, any newfangled
invention defeats him. Then it starts to become apparent that the old
fellow could still teach the modern world a few tricks and the film moves
from a playful, chalk and cheese comedy into something much more
poignant.
Window on the World. Director: Dome Karukoski Cast: Antti Litja,
Petra Frey, Mari Perankoski
Finland 2014, 1h44m, Finnish / Russian / English with subtitles , N/C 12+
Thanks to The Yellow Affair
The Hoarder
G F T, Friday 27 February (16.00)
When Ella (The O.C. star Mischa Barton) discovers her Wall Street
banker boyfriend is renting a secret storage unit, she suspects he’s using
it to hide an affair. Enlisting the help of her best friend Molly (The
Inbetweeners’ Emily Atack) she breaks into the facility, only to discover
something more terrifying instead. Trapped in a darkened building with a
group of neurotic strangers who start disappearing one by one, Ella soon
uncovers even worse horror in the dank depths. Her life or death battle to
escape eternal enslavement is about to begin… and so are your nastiest
nightmares.
Fright Fest. Director: Matt Winn Cast: Mischa Barton, Robert
Knepper, Charlotte Salt
U K 2015, 1h24m, N/C 18+ Thanks to Sunny Day Media
I Can Quit Whenever I Want
(Smetto quando voglio)
C C A, Thursday 26 February (18.15) / G F T, Friday 27 February
(15.30)
Breaking Bad Italian-style, as a group of unemployed academics decide
to reinvent themselves as cutting-edge drug dealers. When
neurobiologist Pietro (Edoardo Leo) loses his research funding, he
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recruits some of his fellow professors to create barely legal highs from
ingredients that have yet to be banned. Italy’s biggest comedy hit of the
past year is a smartly written classical farce laced with a bittersweet
topicality reflecting the struggles of a generation driven to desperate acts
in the age of crippling economic recession. A highly promising first
feature from Sydney Sibilia.
Pioneer. Director: Sydney Sibilia Cast: Edoardo Leo, Valeria Solarino,
Stefano Fresi
Italy 2014, 1h40m, Italian with subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to Fandango
I Know Where I’m Going: Shooting in Scotland
C C A, Tuesday24 February (18.30) (Free event)
What do World War Z, Cloud Atlas, Prometheus and Skyfall have in
common? They all include scenes filmed in Scotland. The country’s
popularity with filmmakers shows no sign of abating. 2015 will see
Scotland’s landscapes feature in such keenly anticipated films as
Terence Davies’ Sunset Song, Robert Carlyle’s directorial debut The
Legend of Barney Thomson and Macbeth starring Michael
Fassbender and Marion Cotillard. What benefits does this exposure have
for Scotland, and in particular for the Scottish film industry? Find out at
this discussion event being held in conjunction with the Sunday Herald
and BAFTA Scotland.
Behind the Scenes. U K 2015, 1h, N/C 15+ Thanks to Sunday Herald
and BAFTA Scotland
Free tickets available on the day at C C A . Max 2 per person.
I Need a Dodge! Joe Strummer on the Run
C C A, Friday 20 February (18.15) / Paisley Arts Centre, Saturday 28
February (19.30)
The Clash frontman Joe Strummer was a leading figure in the punk
movement of the 1970s, and arguably one of the most important and
influential figures in rock and roll history. After the dissolution of the band
in the 1980s, the singer-songwriter travelled the world searching for new
musical influences. On a Spanish radio show in 1997 Strummer
mentioned a classic Dodge that he somehow misplaced in Madrid.
Through interviews with Strummer’s close friends and members of 091,
Radio Futura and The Clash, director Nick Hall investigates what
Strummer was doing in Spain at the time, and what happened to his
Dodge.
Sound & Vision. Director: Nick Hall
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Spain / U K 2014, 1h 7m, English / Spanish with subtitles, N/C 15+
Thanks to Music Film Network
Ingrid Bergman as a Feminist Icon
C C A, Thursday 19 February (17.00) (Free event)
In this talk journalist and film critic Ulrika Knutson celebrates Ingrid
Bergman as a pioneering feminist who battled the Hollywood studio
system, cherished her independence and refused to accept any
limitations placed upon her as a performer or a woman. Celebrated for
her natural beauty and the lack of artifice in her acting, Bergman made
bold choices in her roles and her directors. When news of her adulterous
affair with Roberto Rossellini became public knowledge, she was
hounded into exile and attacked on the floor of the American senate. She
would later return to Hollywood in triumph and remains an inspirational
figure as a successful independent woman who lived by her own rules.
Here’s Looking at You, Kid
1h Thanks to the Embassy of Sweden
Free tickets available on the day at C C A . Max 2 per person.
It Follows
Grosvenor, Friday 20 February (20.30) / G F T, Saturday 21 February
(23.15)
David Robert Mitchell makes a smart move into the territory of John
Carpenter and David Cronenberg with a teen horror film in which the
threat comes from a sexually transmitted phantom plague. It manifests
itself as decaying, drooling apparitions that only the infected victim can
see, and the only chance of survival is to pass it on to another sexual
partner. Nineteen-year-old Jay (Maika Monroe) is the latest victim faced
with impossible choices as she figures out how to stay alive and fight
back. A horror film where the brains are in the screenplay rather than
splattered all over the screen.
Pioneer. Director: David Robert Mitchell Cast: Maika Monroe, Keir
Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto
U S A 2014, 1h47m, 15 Thanks to Icon Film Distribution
Jauja
G F T, Thursday 26 (18.20) & Friday 27 February (13.00)
There are echoes of The Searchers and Apocalypse Now in this epic
journey into obsession starring co-producer Viggo Mortensen. Danish
engineer Dinesen (Mortensen) is stationed with the Argentine army in a
remote corner of Patagonia in the 1880s. When his teenage daughter
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elopes with a young soldier, Dinesen vows to track them down. His quest
leads deeper into a dangerous, unsettling wilderness where time
becomes irrelevant and any notions of a paradise on earth remain just
out of reach. Painterly and poetic, this haunting existential western was
voted one of the ten best films of 2014 in the Sight & Sound critics’ poll.
Window on the World. Director: Lisandro Alonso Cast: Viggo
Mortensen, Viilbjørk Mallin Agger, Ghita Nørby
Argentina / U S A / Netherlands 2014, 1h48m, Danish / Spanish with
subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to Soda Pictures
Jeely Jars and Seeing Stars
Glasgow’s Love Affair with the Movies
Mitchell Library Glasgow Room, Thursday 12 February – Saturday 28
Feb
Monday - Thursday (09.00 - 20.00)
Friday & Saturday (09.00 - 17.00)
Closed Sunday
Free entry
Who doesn’t remember their first trip to the cinema? Glasgow Film
Festival has gathered together some of your fondest memories of
cinema-going over the past eighty years to create a wonderful
multimedia exhibition celebrating Glasgow’s love affair with the movies.
Take a stroll down memory lane amongst cinema artifacts, archive film,
photos, first-hand stories, movie memorabilia and free talks. Full details
here: www.glasgowfilm.org/jeelyjars
Cinema City
Jodorowsky’s Dune
G F T, Friday 20 February (16.00) / Grosvenor, Saturday 21 February
(15.00)
One of the great lost projects in cinematic history, Alejandro
Jodorowsky’s distinctive vision of Frank Herbert’s epic novel Dune
proved too pricey for the American Studios’ wallets - they backed out just
before filming was scheduled to begin. The film’s legacy, however, lives
on, with Frank Pavich’s incredible documentary unearthing Jodorowsky’s
plan for his sci-fi opus, featuring Pink Floyd, Orson Welles, Mick Jagger,
H R Giger and Salvador Dali as an intergalactic space baron. On the
2015 Oscars shortlist for best documentary feature, Jodorowsky’s
Dune is a fascinating journey into the heart of a true visionary.
Nerdvana, Director: Frank Pavich
Cast: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Nicolas Winding Refn, H R Giger
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U S A / France 2014, 1h28m, English / French / German/ Spanish with
subtitles, N/C 12+
Thanks to Disney
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters+ Arcade
Games
Drygate, Saturday 28 February (Doors & Gaming 16.00, Film 16.30,
More Gaming 18.00) (Festival for a Fiver)
When the highest ever Donkey Kong score was smashed by restaurant
owner and and self-proclaimed ‘Sauce King of Florida’, hot sauce mogul
Billy Mitchell in 1982, no gamers could come close to beating him.
However, nearly twenty five years later, science teacher and family man
Steve Wiebe demolished Mitchell’s record by over 130,000 points. And
so begins a documentary so brilliant and bizarre it should have been
created by Christopher Guest. We’ll be providing a host of retro arcade
machines and Drygate will be tailoring a menu just for the screening, so
don’t forget to bring some change!
Nerdvana, Director: Seth Gordon Cast: Steve Wiebe, Billy Mitchell,
Mark Alpiger
U S A 2007, 1h19m, P G Thanks to Filmbank
Land Ho!
Grosvenor, Tuesday24 February (20.30) / G F T, Wednesday 25
February (15.30)
Fans of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel will love this bittersweet road
movie in which two old friends attempt to get their groove back with a
jaunt to Iceland. Boisterous, big-hearted Mitch (Earl Lynn Nelson)
decides that the best way to cheer up his former brother-in-law Colin
(Paul Eenhoorn) is to book them a trip to the land of hot springs and cool
happenings. Who cares if they are the oldest swingers in town? Beautiful
location photography and irresistible performances are just two of the
attractions in this raunchy but warm-hearted celebration of growing old
disgracefully.
Window on the World. Directors: Martha Stephens, Aaron Katz Cast:
Paul Eenhoorn, Earl Lynn Nelson, Daníel Gylfason
U S A / Iceland 2014, 1h36m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Sony Pictures
Releasing International
Letters to Max
C C A, Friday 27 February (20.30)
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When filmmaker Eric Baudelaire posted a letter to Maxim Gvinjia,
Abkhazia’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs, he expected it to be
returned ‘destination unknown’. To his surprise, he received a phone call
from Max. So begins a conversation between them, chronicling the
contested state of Abkhazia, which seceded from Georgia during the
1992–93 civil war, and whose independence is recognised by few
countries. Among recent questions of self-determined statehood, Letters
to Max is a timely meditation on a country’s physical and legal space,
and how new nations might be imagined into existence. The screening
will be introduced by LUX Scotland’s Isla Leaver-Yap.
Crossing the Line. Director: Eric Baudelaire Cast: Nancy Holt, Dennis
Wheeler, Maxim Gvinjia
France 2014, 1h43m, English / Russian / Abkhazian / French with
subtitles, N/C 12+
Thanks to Electronic Arts Intermix & LUX Scotland
Life in a Fishbowl (Vonarstræti)
(Audience Award)
G F T, Tuesday24 (20.15) & Wednesday 25 February (11.00)
Iceland’s financial collapse had profound economic and moral
repercussions that touched every life in the country. Baldvin
Zophoníasson’s hugely successful multi-story drama focuses on three
lives to illuminate the bigger picture. Single mother Eik struggles to make
ends meet and provide for her daughter. Former footballer Sölvi is
climbing the corporate ladder if he can overlook his ethical concerns.
Once-respected author Móri has taken refuge in alcohol. The
connections between these wounded survivors become apparent in an
utterly compelling tale of loss, love, redemption, the way we live now and
how we come to terms with the past.
Pioneer. Director: Baldvin Zophoníasson Cast: Hera Hilmarsdóttir,
Þorsteinn Bachmann, Thor Kristjansson
Iceland 2014, 2h10m, Icelandic / English with subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks
to Films Boutique
Life’s a Beach
G F T, Thursday 26 (21.15) & Friday 27 February (10.45)
Life’s a Beach is a moving and beautifully shot documentary about one
man’s fight to live outside the system; to live for and by himself; to be
free. Jerry ‘Mungo’ Francis is a local legend. Using driftwood, fishing
debris and old car parts, he builds his own home on a Folkestone beach
and carves out an idyllic, self-sustainable lifestyle. However, bureaucracy
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is never far away. Mungo’s mission suffers a setback as the land he lives
on comes under dispute. Will David defeat Goliath in this endearing
documentary?
Stranger Than Fiction. Director: John Baker Cast: Jerry ‘Mungo’
Francis, Billy Francis, Jodanna Stone
U K 2014, 53m, N/C 12+ Thanks to BritFlicks
The Light Shines Only There
(Soko nomi nite hikari kagayaku)
G F T, Saturday 21 (17.45) & Sunday 22 February (12.30)
Japan’s contender for the Oscars is a moody heartbreaker based on a
novel by the late Yasushi Sato. The aimless, guilt-ridden Tatsuo (Gō
Ayano) drinks his days away, lingering in a pachinko parlour. Then he
meets the brash Takuji (Masaki Suda) who takes him home to meet the
family. He experiences a frisson of attraction to Takuji’s older sister
Chinatsu (Chizuru Ikewaki) but bitter experience has made her wary of
another relationship. Can these two lonely souls escape the pain of the
past to take a chance on love? A tough, Bukowski-style tale of hope
rising from the deepest despair.
Window on the World. Director: Mipo Oh Cast: Gō Ayano, Chizuru
Ikewaki, Masaki Suda
Japan 2014, 2h, Japanese with subtitles, N/C 18+ Thanks to Open
Sesame Co Ltd
Li’l Quinquin (P’tit Quinquin)
G F T, Tuesday24 (13.30) & Wednesday 25 February (13.45)
Think of a cross between Twin Peaks and The League of Gentlemen
set in the Opal Coast of Normandy and directed by Bruno Dumont. It
sounds like a nightmare but Li’l Quinquin is a complete hoot – a
genuinely hilarious, oddball murder mystery with a wonderfully eccentric,
sharply comic touch. The mystery begins with the discovery of a dead
cow that is found to contain human remains. A completely clueless
detective and his sidekick arrive to investigate the first of several
murders that reflect the underlying racism and xenophobia in this small
seaside community. Originally a mini-series and now showing as one
fantastic, self-contained film.
Cine Masters. Director: Bruno Dumont Cast: Alane Delhaye, Lucy
Caron, Bernard Pruvost
France 2014, 3h20m, French with subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to
Mantarraya
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Limited Partnership
C C A, Friday 27 (15.45) & Saturday 28 February (18.15)
Limited Partnership packs a huge emotional punch as it charts a fortyyear love affair that was inextricably linked with the struggle for gay rights
in America. American citizen Richard Adams and Sydney-born Tony
Sullivan met in 1971. In 1975, they were married in Colorado, the first
state to issue a same sex marriage licence. When Richard applied for a
green card for his spouse, it was denied on the official grounds that ‘you
have failed to establish that a bona fide marital relationship can exist
between two faggots’. Contemporary interviews, newsreel footage and
home movies cover the long fight for equality and an inspirational,
unbreakable romance.
Stranger Than Fiction. Director: Thomas G Miller Cast: Tony
Sullivan, Richard Adams
U S A/ Australia 2014, 1h16m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Limited Partnership
Movie
A Little Chaos
G F T, Saturday 21 February (18.00) / Grosvenor, Sunday 22 February
(15.00)
It has been far too long since Alan Rickman directed a film but right-royal
romp A Little Chaos has been worth the wait. Rickman stars as King
Louis X I V, a monarch with a penchant for the lavish statement. He
commissions architect André Le Nôtre (Matthias Schoenaerts) to design
lavish gardens for the Palace of Versailles. Sabine de Barra (Kate
Winslet), a mere woman, is the surprise choice to make the plans a
reality as she steps into a court full of intrigue, backstabbing and many
who would love to see her fail. A witty, biting historical comedy with
deliciously funny performances from Rickman and Stanley Tucci.
Macaron anyone?
Best of British. Director: Alan Rickman Cast: Kate Winslet, Matthias
Schoenaerts, Stanley Tucci
U K 2014, 1h56m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Lionsgate
The Little Death
C C A, Friday 20 (20.45) & Saturday 21 February (13.30)
Let’s talk about sex, shall we? Actor turned director Josh Lawson’s
controversial first feature lifts the lid on the hidden desires that flourish
behind the white picket fence of respectable suburban Sydney. One
couple’s recourse to role playing gets way out of hand. One woman can
only achieve orgasm when her distressed partner weeps. One wife
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yearns for her husband to make her rape fantasy a reality. Even the
latest addition to the neighbourhood has his own little secrets. Breaking
taboos and crossing the line of acceptability, The Little Death is a bold,
hilarious debut feature that really hits the spot.
Strewth! Director: Josh Lawson Cast: Josh Lawson, Bojana
Novakovic, Damon Herriman
Australia 2014, 1h36m, N/C 18+ Thanks to Kaleidoscope Film
Distribution
Love Is All: 100 Years of Love and Courtship on Film
Mackintosh Queen’s Cross, Friday 27 February (Doors 17.30, Film
18.00) (Festival for a Fiver)
Mackintosh Queen’s Cross plays fitting host to Love Is All, the celluloid
story of love and courtship since the birth of the movie camera. Weaving
together spell-binding archival footage and a stunning Richard Hawley
soundtrack that elegantly takes us from the very first kisses caught on
film, through youth culture, liberation and the fight for free love.
Showcasing our flirting advances from tea dances to the cinema back
row, join us for this fine romance in the architecture of one of Glasgow’s
finest hidden gems, and we have a sweet little treat in store for you too.
Special Events. Director: Kim Longinotto
U K 2014, 1h10m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Dogwoof and Sheffield Doc / Fest
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
I MAX, Tuesday24 February (19.30)
Just before Tom Hardy stamps his authority on the Mad Max saga, grab
this chance to see Mel Gibson on the biggest screen in Glasgow. Mad
Max 2 is the best film in the series; director George Miller lets rip as postapocalyptic drifter Max becomes the reluctant saviour of an idealistic
tribe under siege from crazed desert warriors who will do anything to
capture their supply of oil. A rip-roaring action yarn with incredible stunt
work, great comic relief from Bruce Spence and full throttle commitment
from everyone involved. Mad Max in I MAX! What more do you need?
Strewth! Director: George Miller Cast: Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence,
Vernon Wells
Australia 1981, 1h36m, 18 Thanks to Warner Brothers, Park Circus and
Arnold Clark
Man from Reno
G F T, Thursday 26 February (16.00) / C C A , Friday 27 February
(20.45)
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Dave Boyle’s award-winning murder mystery brings some fresh twists to
the kind of classic film noir detective yarn that Dashiell Hammett might
have penned. One foggy California night, sheriff Del Moral (Pepe Serna)
accidentally hits a man who subsequently vanishes from a hospital bed.
In San Francisco, lonely Japanese novelist Aki Akahori (Ayako Fujitani)
escapes a publicity tour for an impetuous fling with a handsome stranger
who also disappears. Figuring out the connections between the two
cases is the basis of a surprisingly touching, impressive low-budget
production.
Window on the World. Director: Dave Boyle Cast: Ayako Fujitani,
Pepe Serna, Kazuki Kitamura
U S A 2014, 1h51m, English / Japanese with subtitles, N/C 12+ Thanks
to Eleven Arts
Mardan
(Audience Award)
G F T, Monday 23 (18.15) & Tuesday24 February (13.00)
Iraq’s Oscar candidate marks a remarkable debut from director Batin
Ghobadi, younger brother of A Time for Drunken Horses director
Bahman Ghobadi. There is something of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Once Upon
a Time in Anatolia in a film that unfolds in the rugged mountainous
landscapes of Iraqi Kurdistan. Taciturn, brooding police officer Mardan
(Hossein Hasan) is asked to investigate the disappearance of a
construction worker. As the case unfolds, he is drawn back to a traumatic
childhood memory. The personal pain of the past reflects the troubled
history of the country in a beautifully composed drama.
Pioneer. Director: Batin Ghobadi Cast: Hossein Hasan, Helan
Abdulla, Feyyaz Duman
Kurdistan 2014, 1h50m, Kurdish with subtitles, N/C 12+ Thanks to
Versatile Films
Margaret Tait Award
G F T, Monday 23 February (19.00) (Free event)
Named after acclaimed Scottish experimental filmmaker Margaret Tait,
Glasgow Film Festival’s annual award is supported by Creative Scotland
and LUX, and recognises Scottish artists and Scotland-based artists who
work within film and moving image in an experimental and innovative
way. Join us for the world premiere of a new film by 2014 winner
Charlotte Prodger, whose work customarily brings together narratives
from a variety of sources in multi-channel sculptural installation. Her
Margaret Tait piece will bring together digital animation, footage shot on
phones, and archive footage on mini D V, and will consider ways to
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block, divide and reveal. Join Charlotte on Sunday 22 February at Nancy
Holt: Sun Tunnels/ Revolve, to hear her discuss her inspiration for the
piece.
Crossing the Line. Director: Charlotte Prodger
U K 2014, 30m approx., N/C 15+ Thanks to Creative Scotland and LUX
Free tickets available on the day at G F T . Max 2 per person.
Margaret Tait Residency: O.K. Rick
G F T, Tuesday24 February (18.30) (Free event)
O.K. Rick is a short drama set on Mainland-5, a fictional island inspired
by both Orkney and Shetland. The film imagines female versions of Rick
Blain and Victor Laszlo from Casablanca travelling around Mainland-5
collecting data for the National Census. During their journey walking and
hitchhiking around the island they encounter struggles surrounding
ownership of the shore, ideas of democratic representation, and their
own feelings of powerlessness within the structures of government
manipulation and exploitation. Director Florrie James participated in the
Margaret Tait Residency in Orkney during 2014. The film features an
original score by Dick 50.
Crossing the Line. Director: Florrie James Cast: Anna Schneider,
Anna Pearce, Martin Sweeney
U K 2014, 50m approx, N/C 5+ Thanks to Creative Scotland, LUX and
Pier Arts Centre
Free tickets available on the day at G F T . Max 2 per person.
Marshland (La isla mínima)
G F T, Thursday 19 (18.00) & Friday 20 February (13.45)
Imagine True Detective set in the Andaluz swamplands and you begin
to get the measure of Alberto Rodriguez’s atmospheric, richly textured
Spanish murder mystery. It is 1980 and Spain is slowly emerging from
the shadows of the Franco era. In the sleepy backwater of Villafranco del
Guadalquivir, two teenage girls have disappeared. Detectives Pedro
(Raúl Arévalo) and Juan (Javier Gutiérrez) arrive from Madrid to
investigate and soon find themselves at odds with a community deeply
suspicious of their presence and yoked to misogynistic attitudes of the
past. A superb Southern gothic thriller.
Window on the World. Director: Alberto Rodriguez Cast: Javier
Gutiérrez, Raúl Arévalo, Nerea Barros
Spain 2014, 1h45m, Spanish with subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to Altitude
Film Distribution
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Maya the Bee Movie
Cineworld Parkhead, Saturday 21 February (15.00) / Odeon at the
Quay, Saturday 28 February (12.00)
Curious little bee Maya and her friend Willy save their hive from the
greedy queen’s advisor and end the long-term hostility between bees
and hornets. When the Royal Jelly is stolen Maya must travel beyond the
meadow to the hornets’ nest and prove their innocence from the evil
Buzzlina. Along the way, Maya and Willy meet various inhabitants of the
corn poppy meadow, including a smart hornet boy named Sting. Through
a series of thrilling events and encounters, Maya soon finds her place in
the bee community and beyond, discovering that friendship is always
thicker than honey!
Modern Families. Director: Alexs Stadermann Cast: Kodi SmitMcPhee, Noah Taylor, Jacki Weaver
Australia / Germany 2014, 1h29m, N/C 5+ Thanks to Studio 100 Media
Memphis
Grosvenor, Thursday 26 (20.30) & Friday 27 February (15.00)
Experimental lo-fi singer-songwriter Willis Earl Beal stars in this
tempered mosaic of a struggling artist in Memphis, Tennessee. Beal
provides an enigmatic and enchanting score as his onscreen persona
wanders the neighbourhood, interacting with other musicians, religious
figures, beautiful women and a wolf pack of kids. The second feature
from director Tim Sutton, the film explores the idea of God-given talent;
filling each frame with an aura of burning musical spirituality that is both
guiding the nomadic protagonist and confining him within his drive for
artistic self-discovery. The always-mysterious Beal provides a perfect
anchor for the dreamlike narrative, inviting questions that are only
answered through his music.
Sound & Vision. Director: Tim Sutton Cast: Willis Earl Beal,
Constance Brantley, Larry Dodson
U S A 2013, 1h18m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Visit Films
Mommy
G F T, Monday 23 February (20.30) / Grosvenor, Tuesday24 February
(15.00)
Five years after his dazzling debut I Killed My Mother, Xavier Dolan
returns with a captivating companion piece. Winner of the Jury Prize at
Cannes, Mommy explores an intense bond between a mother and son
that unfolds with emotional fireworks, scalding humour and tender,
bittersweet reflections on love, friendship and devotion. Anne Dorval
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gives a tour de force performance as Diane, a woman willing to take
more than one chance on her exasperating hyperactive teenage son
Steve, played with immense energy and charisma by Antoine-Olivier
Pilon. Outrageously funny, incredibly moving and technically audacious,
Mommy is one of the films of the year.
Cine Masters. Director: Xavier Dolan Cast: Anne Dorval, Suzanne
Clément, Antoine-Olivier Pilon
Canada 2014, 2h14m, French with subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to
Metrodome
Monsters: Dark Continent
Grosvenor, Thursday 19 February (20.30) / G F T, Friday 20 February
(22.45)
Ten years have passed since Monsters and now those many-tentacled,
bioluminescent beasties have gone global. The spectacular sequel is set
in an unspecified Middle Eastern country where raw recruit Michael (Sam
Keeley) and jaded, battle-weary veteran Noah (Johnny Harris) are
among the American soldiers on a do-or-die mission to rescue four
comrades held in enemy territory. The invaders of a country must face
the invaders of a planet as the soldiers journey through a land that has
become one more happy hunting ground for the slippery, squid-like alien
residents. This means war!
Best of British. Director: Tom Green Cast: Johnny Harris, Sam
Keeley, Joe Dempsie
U K / U S A / Jordan 2014, 2h2m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Vertigo Films
Moomins on the Riviera
(Muumit rivieralla)
Odeon at the Quay, Saturday 21 February (12.00) / Cineworld
Parkhead, Sunday 22 February (15.00)
Everyone deserves a taste of the good life, especially the Moomins after
the terrible times they have endured recently. A little name change to ‘De
Moomin’ and the clan are soon swanning around the best hotels in the
South of France. It’s enough to turn anyone’s head and that’s exactly
what happens to Moominpappa and Snorkmaiden as they find the
temptations of fame, fortune and high society just too much to resist. A
cautionary tale becomes a delightful, hand-drawn animated feature that
is sure to delight tiny tots and Tove Jansson fans of all ages.
Modern Families. Directors: Xavier Picard, Hanna Hemilä Cast:
Russell Tovey, Nathaniel Parker, Tracy Ann Oberman
Finland / France 2014, 1h20m, N/C 5+ Thanks to Vertigo Films
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The Mule
C C A, Thursday 19 (20.45) & Friday 20 February (13.30)
Devilishly dark, The Mule celebrates a feat of human endurance rarely
mentioned in the Guinness Book of Records. It is 1983 and gullible Ray
(Angus Sampson) swallows twenty condoms filled with Bangkok heroin.
He is caught by customs officers who have the right to detain him for
seven days without charge. They just need to wait for nature to take its
course. Ray is made of sterner stuff and vows that these bowels shall not
move. A brutal thriller blends with pitch black comedy in a gutsy slice of
entertainment that is all in the worst possible taste.
Strewth! Directors: Angus Sampson, Tony Mahony Cast: Hugo
Weaving, Angus Sampson, Leigh Whannell
Australia 2014, 1h43m, English / Russian / Thai with subtitles N/C 15+
Thanks to Bulldog Film Distribution
Murder on the Orient Express
The Trades Hall, Wednesday 25 February (Doors 19.00, Film 20.00)
(Special ticket price) £12 / £10
Sidney Lumet’s Oscar-winning classic is the finest Agatha Christie
adaptation ever filmed. A brutal murder is committed on the luxurious
Orient Express. Heavy snow stops the train in its tracks and means that
the killer is still on board. Fortunately, dapper Belgian sleuth Hercule
Poirot (a wonderful Albert Finney) is also on board and prepared to put
his famous little grey cells to use interrogating a star-studded list of
suspects that includes Lauren Bacall, Sean Connery, Vanessa Redgrave
and an Oscar-winning Ingrid Bergman. Join us in the investigation at the
exquisite Trades Hall. Please dress for an evening of high glamour and
intriguing mystery before the film screening. And do be on your guard –
you never know who-in-the-room-dunnit…
Here’s Looking at You, Kid. Director: Sidney Lumet Cast: Albert
Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman
U K 1974, 2h11m, P G Thanks to Filmbank
My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
G F T, Wednesday 25 (18.30) & Thursday 26 February (10.45)
When her husband Nicolas Winding Refn headed to Thailand to film
Only God Forgives, Liv Corfixen decided to film the experience as a
sort-of family home movie. The project quickly developed into a
documentary on the making of the production in which she would have
access to all areas of the creative process. But the access wasn’t as
extensive as she might have wanted, leading her to question her
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presence as a wife and as a filmmaker. The result is an intriguing,
unconventional window into the world of Refn, the uncompromising
director of Drive and Bronson.
Stranger Than Fiction. Director: Liv Corfixen Cast: Nicolas Winding
Refn, Ryan Gosling, Alejandro Jodorowsky
U S A 2014, 58m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Icon Film Distribution
Nancy Holt: Sun Tunnels / Revolve Selected by
Charlotte Prodger
C C A, Sunday 22 February (20.15)
Margaret Tait Award-winning artist Charlotte Prodger presents a doublebill of work by pioneering American artist Nancy Holt (1938-2014). Sun
Tunnels documents the making of Holt’s major site-specific sculpture in
the Utah desert. Completed in 1976 and comprising four concrete tubes,
this ‘American Stonehenge’ charts the cycles of the sun within a vast
desert landscape. Revolve, meanwhile, uses multiple camera angles
and repetitions to modulate Dennis Wheeler’s personal narrative of his
battle with leukaemia. Includes Q & A with Charlotte Prodger and LUX
Scotland Director Isla Leaver-Yap.
Crossing the Line. Director: Nancy Holt Cast: Nancy Holt, Dennis
Wheeler
U S A 1977 / 78, 2h10m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Electronic Arts Intermix
The New Girlfriend (Une nouvelle amie)
G F T, Friday 20 (20.30) & Saturday 21 February (15.45)
G F F favourite François Ozon has taught us to expect the unexpected
and doesn’t disappoint with his latest subversive exploration of love,
desire, gender and sexuality. Claire (Anaïs Demoustier) is devastated by
the death of her closest friend. Struggling with a deep despair and
problems in her own marriage, she is determined to make good on a
deathbed promise to watch over her friend’s widower David (Romain
Duris) and newborn baby. She heads to their suburban home only to
discover a big surprise that will change both their lives. An elegant, witty
adaptation of a Ruth Rendell story.
Gala. Director: François Ozon Cast: Anaïs Demoustier, Romain Duris,
Raphaël Personnaz
France 2014, 1h47m, French with subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to
Metrodome
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Next to Her (At li layla)
G F T, Friday 27 February (15.45) / C C A , Saturday 28 February
(20.30)
Real-life experiences have inspired this intense, subtly handled
exploration of an unhealthy symbiotic relationship between two sisters.
Security guard Chelli (Liron Ben-Shlush) devotes her life to caring for her
disabled sister Gabby (Dana Ivgy). The women share everything but
when Gabby is enrolled in a day care centre she begins to claim a
degree of independence. Chelli seems to retaliate by falling in love with
her colleague Zohar (Yaakov Daniel Zada) who becomes a part of the
family. Jealousy, resentment and insecurity all combine to reveal the
suffocating co-dependency between the sisters.
Pioneer. Director: Asaf Korman Cast: Liron Ben-Shlush, Dana Ivgy,
Yaakov Daniel Zada
Israel 2014, 1h30m, Hebrew with subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to
Peccadillo Pictures
A Night at the Regal: Lost Map, Joe McAlinden,
British Sea Power
O2 A B C, Thursday 19 February (Doors 18.00) (Special ticket price)
£16 / £14.50
This year, G F F takes over the O2 A B C (formerly the A B C Regal) for
a night of live sonic cinema events paying tribute to both the venue’s
cinematic history and its musical present, co-curated with Lost Map
Records (whose artists Monoganon and eagleowl will present a series of
innovative compositions to film and video). The night will also feature
EDIT, a screening / live performance collaboration between musician Joe
McAlinden and artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard (20,000 Days on
Earth). Headlining the event are pioneers of esoteric post-rock
soundscapes British Sea Power, who will perform their score by Penny
Woolcock’s evocative feature-length archive film From the Sea to the
Land Beyond.
Sound & Vision. 3h30m approx. N/C 15+ Thanks to Sheffield Doc /
Fest
The Ninth Cloud
G F T, Sunday 1 Mar (17.00)
A young woman’s attempt to discover the meaning of her life is the basis
of this ambitious existential comedy. Zena (Megan Maczko) arrives in
1990s London and becomes infatuated with poet, playwright and freespirit Bob (Michael Madsen). She tells the world that Bob is gay but
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might be persuaded to fall for her charms. She also becomes devoted to
raising money for an eight-year-old orphan boy from the Congo with only
one leg. Philanthropy, infatuation and a comic odyssey through a world
of deluded eccentrics are all part of her heroic quest for significance.
Best of British. Director: Jane Spencer Cast: Megan Maczko,
Michael Madsen, Jean-Hugues Anglade
Switzerland / U K 2014, 1h33m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Shoreline
Notorious
G F T, Wednesday 25 February (10.30) (Festival for a Fiver)
Alfred Hitchcock offers one of his most polished romantic thrillers in
which Ingrid Bergman is partnered with one of her favourite co-stars,
Cary Grant. Party girl Bergman is the daughter of a convicted spy who is
given a chance to redeem herself by working undercover to seduce Nazi
agent Claude Rains. Grant is an American agent hot on the trail of an
international conspiracy and the more Bergman risks her life, the more
Grant falls helplessly in love with her. A tense cloak and dagger mystery
with an electric chemistry between the two stars and some scenestealing villainy from an Oscar-nominated Rains.
Here’s Looking at You, Kid. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary
Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
U S A 1946, 1h37m, U Thanks to B F I
Ólafur Arnalds Plays Broadchurch
O2 ABC, Wednesday 25 February (19.00 doors) (Special ticket price)
£20
Since 2007 Icelandic composer / performer Ólafur Arnalds has built up a
dedicated international following and is well established for his genrecrossing compositions blending classical, pop and ambient / electronica
influences. He has scored films such as Another Happy Day and
Gimme Shelter, and has had tracks featured in Hunger Games and
300: Rise of an Empire. In 2013 he scored the celebrated I T V thriller
Broadchurch (winning him a BAFTA Television Craft Award) and in this
special event Arnalds will perform the eerily beautiful score live, evoking
the rich themes and dark textures explored in the series.
Sound & Vision 3h, N/C 15+
On the Trail of the Far Fur Country
G F T, Thursday 26 February (13.15) & Sunday 1 Mar (14.20)
Kevin Nikkel’s delicate and reflective documentary takes us on an epic
journey that retraces a forgotten expedition and rediscovers the
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neglected narratives of Canada’s Aboriginal population. In 1919, a film
crew set out to document the voyage made by the Hudson Bay
Company as it travelled North America in search of furs. As Nikkel
follows in these footsteps, he breathes new life into the archival film and
stops to exhibit the footage to the native people. The result is an intimate
and moving reflection on the forgotten histories of the indigenous
communities of Canada.
Stranger Than Fiction Kevin Nikkel
Canada 2014, 1h20m, N/C 8+ Thanks to Five Door Films
Our Extra-Sensory Selves
C C A, Thursday 19 February (20.30)
Allison Gibbs’s new film is the result of an exploration on the possibilities
of becoming extra-sensory. It refers to things and phenomena that
operate beyond the realm of the regular human senses of vision,
hearing, touch, taste and smell. Extra-sensory knowledge is produced
and received not through the ordinary faculties but via the mind in an
expanded state of consciousness and in communication with a highly
receptive and sensual body. The film shows one group’s journey as they
attempt to reclaim their extra-senses, asking what if we learn to exercise
them beyond a personal context, in a larger social and political reality as
well? Allison will be present for a Q & A after the screening.
Crossing the Line. Director: Allison Gibbs
France / Lithuania / Scotland 2014, film 32m, event 2h approx, N/C 8+
Thanks to C C A.
Pale Moon (Kami no tsuki)
G F T, Thursday 19 February (18.15)
What tempts anyone from the straight and narrow? Daihachi Yoshida’s
award-winning drama follows bank employee Rika (Rie Miyazawa) as
she casts aside respectability to get what she really, really wants from
life. Trading on the trust she has developed with her elderly clients, Rika
starts to embezzle large sums of money and has soon acquired a toy
boy lover and a taste for the high life. This cannot end well but her
actions are regarded with a sneaking admiration in a country that prides
itself on conformity and keeping up appearances. An intriguing morality
tale with a knock-out performance from Rie Miyazawa.
Window on the World. Director: Daihachi Yoshida Cast: Rie
Miyazawa, Sōsuke Ikematsu, Satomi Kobayashi
Japan 2014, 2h6m, Japanese with subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to
Shochiku Co. Ltd
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Phoenix
G F T, Sunday 22 (18.00) & Monday 23 February (13.40)
The remarkable collaboration between Christian Petzold and Nina Hoss
(Barbara, Jerichow) continues with a superbly crafted post-war
melodrama that carries strong flavours of Billy Wilder, Hitchcock and
Fassbinder. Disfigured concentration camp survivor Nelly (Hoss) has
undergone reconstructive facial surgery. She returns to Berlin
desperately seeking Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld), the husband who may
have betrayed her to the Nazis. Will love prove more powerful than the
desire for justice? A seductive tale of intrigue and paranoia reflecting a
country coming to terms with the raw guilt of the recent past.
Window on the World. Director: Christian Petzold Cast: Nina Hoss,
Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf
Germany 2014, 1h38m, German with subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to Soda
Pictures
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
(En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron)
G F T, Sunday 22 (14.45) & Monday 23 February (16.00)
Winner of the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival, Roy Andersson’s
masterful reflection on the human condition unfolds in thirty nine
meticulously composed tableaux vivants. One constant through this
magical mystery tour of suffering, indulgence and melancholy is the pair
of travelling salesmen Jonathan and Sam, who are spectacularly
unsuccessful in their attempts to hawk novelty items and bring a little fun
into people’s lives. Comparisons with Bergman and Fellini seem
inevitable for a film that blends visual fantasy, deadpan comedy and
existential angst into a statement on the struggle to be human.
Cine Masters. Director: Roy Andersson Cast: Holger Andersson, Nils
Westblom, Charlotta Larsson
Sweden / Norway / France / Germany 2014, 1h41m, Swedish with
subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to Curzon Film World
Power Suit Yourself: Is the Power Suit Dead?
C C A, Saturday 21 February (16.00) (Free event)
Since the heyday of shoulder pads in the 1940s, costume has been used
to illustrate female power on screen. But when Sarah Lund’s woolly
jumpers hit the headlines, did perceptions shift? A panel of guests will
discuss wearable power and explore what this means today. The session
will be illustrated by a presentation from students at the University of
Edinburgh’s M S c Film Exhibition and Curation course. Please visit
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www.powersuityourself.com for announcements of additional exciting
events.
Special Events. 1h30m, N/C 8+ Thanks to Susan Kemp and University
of Edinburgh
Free tickets available on the day at C C A . Max 2 per person.
Power Suit Yourself: Mildred Pierce
C C A, Saturday 21 February (13.00) (Festival for a Fiver)
Joan Crawford suits up for the role of Mildred Pierce in this 1940s
American noir by Michael Curtiz. Determined to provide her aspirational
daughter with the luxuries of life, Mildred works her way up to become an
independent and successful businesswoman. This is the opening
screening of a day of special events exploring female power dressing in
cinema. Find updates on additional events at
www.powersuityourself.com
Special Events. Director: Michael Curtiz Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack
Carson, Zachary Scott
U S A 1945, 1h51m, P G Thanks to Filmbank, Susan Kemp and
University of Edinburgh
Power Suit Yourself: Working Girl and Party!
C C A, Saturday 21 February (19.00) (Festival for a Fiver)
Melanie Griffith, Sigourney Weaver and Harrison Ford star in this 1980s
classic from the late director Mike Nichols. Griffith dons a sharp suit and
climbs the corporate ladder in the cut-throat working world of Manhattan.
Put on your shoulder pads and dress for the film as your ticket includes
entry to the after-party which features 80s karaoke and a free drink. This
is the final screening of a day of special events exploring female power
dressing in cinema. Find updates on additional events at
www.powersuityourself.com
Special Events. Director: Mike Nichols Cast: Melanie Griffith,
Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver
U S A 1988, 1h55m, 15 Thanks to Filmbank, Susan Kemp and
University of Edinburgh
Party over 18s only
Pressure
G F T, Monday 23 (20.40) & Tuesday 24 February (11.00)
Four men. Claustrophobia. Paranoia. Incarceration. Survival. Pressure
is about all these things and more as four deep-sea divers become
trapped in their saturation bell at the bottom of the ocean off the Kenyan
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coast. Starring Matthew Goode and Danny Huston, the film is
reminiscent of existential no-escape thrillers like Solaris, 127 Hours or
Apollo 13. A taut and propulsive piece of filmmaking that pits man
against man, as each minute inches them closer to their fate at the
hands of the ocean’s terrifying expanse.
Best of British. Director: Ron Scalpello Cast: Danny Huston, Matthew
Goode, Joe Cole, Alan McKenna
U K 2015, 1h27m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Pinewood Pictures
Queens of Syria
G F T, Sunday 22 (20.15) & Monday 23 February (13.15)
Award-winning filmmaker Yasmin Fedda (A Tale of Two Syrias,
Breadmakers) makes a welcome return to Glasgow Film Festival with a
new film illuminating the human consequences of the turmoil in Syria. In
the autumn of 2013, sixty Syrian refugee women who fled to Jordan
came together to create and perform their own version of the Greek
tragedy The Trojan Women. None of them had acted before. Fedda
follows seven weeks of rehearsals as the women begin to feel that the
play could have been inspired by their own lives and experiences of
being uprooted, enslaved and bereaved by conflict.
Stranger Than Fiction. Director: Yasmin Fedda
Lebanon / Jordan / U K / United Arab Emirates 2014, 1h5m, Arabic with
subtitles, N/C 12+ Thanks to Refuge Productions
Rab’s Video Game Empty at the I MAX!
I MAX, Thursday 26 February (19.00)
Rab Florence’s uncle has given him the keys to the I MAX at Glasgow
Science Centre, so Rab’s taking a liberty by having another Empty. See
videogames on an I MAX screen with Rab and his guests, eat popcorn
like you’re at the pictures, and maybe you’ll get your hands on the
controller too. A unique, funny, live videogame show on an irresponsibly
massive scale!
Nerdvana
1h30m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Rab Florence
Radiator
(Audience Award)
G F T, Wednesday 25 (20.30) & Thursday 26 February (11.00)
Veteran British actor Richard Johnson (The Haunting, Khartoum) gives
a beautifully understated, deeply moving performance in this inspirational
low-budget British debut feature. Leonard (Johnson) and Maria (Gemma
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Jones) have spent forty years in a remote Cumbrian cottage but it has
now become a prison, crammed with the junk of a lifetime and overrun
with mice. Their middle-aged son Daniel (Daniel Cerqueira) arrives from
London to take control but Leonard is not about to go gently and as old
family habits reassert themselves, the film develops into a poignant
portrait of family life, tinged with black comedy and heartbreak.
Best of British. Director: Tom Browne Cast: Richard Johnson,
Gemma Jones, Daniel Cerqueira
U K 2013, 1h33m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Turnchapel Films
Reading in the Dark
C C A, Wednesday 25 February (20.30)
Suzanne van der Lingen presents a programme of artist film and video
exploring the relationship between text and moving image. Through
playful processes of translation, (mis)communication, and editing, these
works investigate formal overlaps between the structures of language
and film. The screening will include work by Peter Rose, Laure Prouvost,
Gerard Byrne and Sarah Forrest, and will be followed by a talk with
invited speakers. This event is the second instalment of a research
project by the Edinburgh-based artist and writer and is commissioned
and produced by MAP.
Crossing the Line. Directors: Gerard Byrne, ‘Why it’s time for imperial,
again’, Ireland, 1998-2000, 23m / Sarah Forrest, ‘Absence of Evidence is
not Evidence of Absence’, U K, 2012, 9m20s / Laure Prouvost, ‘Owt’, U
K, 2007, 3m and ‘You Are The Only One’, 2008, U K, 1m42s / Peter
Rose, ‘Secondary Currents’, US, 1982, 16m. N/C 8+
Thanks to the artists, LUX and MAP Magazine
[REC] 4: Apocalypse
G F T, Saturday 28 February (21.30)
Fright Fest unleashed [REC] onto unsuspecting audiences and we are
delighted to host the U K premiere of the shattering visceral conclusion
to the global horror phenomenon. Expanding on the mythos from all
three predecessors, this latest instalment picks up the intense action
immediately after [REC] 2. T V reporter Ángela Vidal is extracted from
the cursed apartment building and taken to a high-security quarantine
facility aboard an oil tanker. There, in the bowels of the dark and
desolate ship, Dr Ricarte is experimenting with the infectious virus to find
a cure before another outbreak occurs.
Fright Fest. Director: Jaume Balagueró Cast: Manuela Velasco, Paco
Manzanedo, Héctor Colomé
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Spain 2014, 1h36m, Spanish with subtitles, N/C 18+ Thanks to e-One
Entertainment
Red Amnesia (Chuang ru zhe)
G F T, Tuesday24 (13.10) & Thursday 26 February (18.30)
Red Amnesia is a film that seems designed to catch you off guard. What
begins as a benign portrait of a widow and her family gradually deepens
to reflect the communal guilt that lingers from China’s Cultural
Revolution. Deng (Zhong Lü) takes an active part in the lives of her
grown sons and also cares for her elderly mother. She seems
unremarkable until a stone is thrown through her window, the phone
rings and nobody is there, and a young boy arrives. It appears that
hidden events in her past have returned for a moment of reckoning in a
brave, mysterious film in the tradition of Michael Haneke’s Hidden.
Cine Masters. Director: Wang Xiaoshuai Cast: Yuanzheng Feng,
Zhong Lu, Hao Qin
China 2014, 1h56m, Mandarin with subtitles, N/C 12+ Thanks to
Chinese Shadows
Red Army
G F T, Thursday 19 February (13.30) / C C A , Saturday 21 February
(15.45)
The Cold War wasn’t just fought on borders and in diplomatic skirmishes.
Sport provided a gladiatorial arena in which ideology was as important as
athleticism. Gabe Polsky’s hugely appealing documentary tells the story
of Slava Fetisov, a legendary Russian ice hockey player who became a
key figure in the intense rivalry between Soviet Russia, U S A and
Canada. Fetisov paved the way for huge changes in the game, as
communism gave way to capitalism and lucrative N H L contracts
attracted ‘Red Army’ stalwarts to a new country and a new approach to
their sport.
Stranger Than Fiction. Director: Gabe Polsky Cast: Slava Fetisov,
Scotty Bowman, Alexei Kasatonov
U S A / Russia 2014, 1h25m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Curzon Film World
Revenge of The Mekons
C C A, Thursday 26 (20.45) & Friday 27 February (13.30)
One of the most provocative and innovative bands of the punk rock
generation, The Mekons started in Leeds in 1977 as a group of art
students who could barely play their instruments and – despite a career
consigned to the margins – have somehow managed to keep touring and
making albums today. As the members of the band moved on, got day
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jobs and even relocated to other continents, they have continued to
produce more adventurous and challenging albums. Revenge of The
Mekons is the remarkable, inspiring and heartwarming account of a
criminally under-recognised group of lively musicians and artists held
with cult-like adoration by fans and critics.
Sound & Vision. Director: Joe Angio Cast: Vito Acconci, Fred
Armisen, Rico Bell
U S A 2013, 1h35m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Joe Angio
Rosewater
G F T, Sunday 22 February (20.30) / Grosvenor Monday 23 February
(15.00)
Jon Stewart makes an impressive directorial debut with a political drama
inspired by events in which The Daily Show played a critical role. In
June 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari (Gael García
Bernal) was covering Iran’s election. He was arrested by the
Revolutionary Guard on a charge of treason and held in Evin prison. It
becomes the mission of Javadi (Kim Bodnia) to break his spirit and
obtain a confession that he is a spy. Stewart salutes his struggle for
survival and the importance of the freedom of the press in a film with the
edge of a Costa-Gavras classic and a captivating central performance
from Gael García Bernal.
Gala. Director: Jon Stewart Cast: Gael García Bernal, Kim Bodnia,
Shohreh Aghdashloo
U S A 2014, 1h43m, 15 Thanks to The Works
The Salt of the Earth (Le sel de la terre)
G F T, Sunday 22 (20.45) & Monday 23 February (10.45)
Hauntingly beautiful images are matched with illuminating testimony to
create an utterly captivating tribute to the extraordinary life of
photographer and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado. Breathtaking
photos of the Brazilian gold mines in the 1970s, the famine in Ethiopia
and the genocide of Rwanda confirm Salgado’s ability to capture the
humanity of a moment as he bore witness to history. Salgado’s
memories of a specific shot or particular time are invaluable, as is our
understanding of what led him to spearhead the rebuilding of an entire
eco-system in Brazil. A fitting tribute to an inspirational figure.
Stranger Than Fiction. Directors: Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro
Salgado Cast: Sebastião Salgado
France / Brazil / Italy 2014, 1h49m, French / Portuguese / English with
subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to Curzon Film World
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The Samurai (Der Samurai)
G F T, Friday 27 (23.00) & Saturday 28 February (23.20)
The Company of Wolves meets Dressed to Kill in a gleeful horror yarn
hailed as ‘a masterpiece of tense and weird sexual energy’. An isolated
German village is under siege from a wanton killer. Young police officer
Jakob (Michel Diercks) makes it his mission to save his community.
Heading into the woods, he encounters a man carrying a katana Samurai
sword and wearing a pretty white dress. He has such big, wild eyes - all
the better to see into Jakob’s heart and uncover his true desires. A
favourite of Fright Fest guru Alan Jones who declared: ‘I want people to
respond to its extreme slasher gore and playful homo-erotic subtext.’
Pioneer. Director: Till Kleinert Cast: Michel Diercks, Pit Bukowski,
Uwe Preuss
Germany 2014, 1h19m, German with subtitles, N/C 18+ Thanks to
Peccadillo Pictures
Sea Without Shore
G F T, Saturday 28 February (18.15)
A fascinating journey into the loss of a loved one, André Semenza and
Fernanda Lippi’s poetic feature utilises physical theatre, dance, and
sound (designed by sound supervisor Glenn Freemantle, fresh from his
Oscar win for Gravity) alongside a haunting score by The Hafler Trio
(Andrew McKenzie, who has collaborated with artists such as Autechre,
Nurse with Wound and Jónsi Birgisson of Sigur Rós) to compose an
astounding journey through the subconscious. An elemental and
impassioned feature that expresses motion and sound as embodied
emotion, Sea Without Shore is an unforgettable experience. World
Premiere
Crossing the Line. Director: André Semenza, Fernanda Lippi Cast:
Livia Rangel, Fernanda Lippi, Anna Mesquita
Brazil / U K / Sweden 2015, 1h31m, Swedish with subtitles, N/C 15+
Thanks to Maverick Motion
A Second Chance (En chance til)
C C A, Saturday 21 (18.15) & Sunday 22 February (15.30)
Reunited with screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen, Oscar-winning
director Susanne Bier presents another emotionally devastating drama in
which the best intentions create the toughest moral dilemmas. Veteran
police officer Andreas (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is happily married and a
devoted father. A domestic disturbance incident brings him into contact
with abusive junkie Tristan (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) whose infant son is
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neglected and left lying in his own filth. Protecting the child becomes an
obsession that blinds Andreas to the growing problems in his own life.
Cine Masters. Director: Susanne Bier Cast: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau,
Ulrich Thomsen, Maria Bonnevie
Denmark 2014, 1h45m, Danish / Swedish with subtitles, N/C 15+
Thanks to Vertigo Films
Second Coming
G F T, Wednesday 25 (18.15) & Thursday 26 February (15.15)
Jackie (Nadine Marshall), her husband Mark (Idris Elba) and their son JJ
(Kai Francis-Lewis) form a hard-working, tight-knit middle-class family in
London. Finding time for a romantic evening is almost impossible, so
when Jackie discovers that she is pregnant, she knows that she hasn’t
slept with her husband in months. She also hasn’t been with anyone
else. How can she explain this? The dreamy, entrancing first feature
from award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker Green is full of fine
performances and provocative notions as it explores the devastating
reactions to this immaculate conception.
Best of British. Director: Debbie Tucker Green Cast: Nadine Marshall,
Idris Elba, Kai Francis-Lewis
U K 2014, 1h45m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Kaleidoscope Entertainment
Shaun the Sheep the Movie
G F T / Odeon at the Quay, Wednesday 4 February (18.00)
The big screen adventure of everyone’s favourite fluffy farm animal!
Based on the hit television show, this all-new film follows what happens
when Shaun decides to take a day off and have some fun. Pretty soon
he finds himself in bother as a mix up with a caravan and a very steep
hill leads to his farmer being forced to leave the farm. Soon it is up to
Shaun and his flock to travel to the big city and mount a daring rescue for
their farmer. From Aardman Animations, the team behind Wallace and
Gromit, this special preview screening, earlier than the main
programme, is a must-see treat for the whole family.
Modern Families. Directors: Mark Burton, Richard Starzack Cast:
Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes
U K / France 2015, 1h25m, U Thanks to Studio canal
Shooting on a Shoestring
C C A, Wednesday 25 February (18.30) (Free event)
Financing a film is a continuous battle for filmmakers, whether first-timers
or industry veterans. Financial constraints force resourceful producers
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and directors to think creatively and have inspired some incredible works
of art. We discuss the process of low budget filmmaking with filmmakers
such as Tom Browne, whose Radiator (screening at G F F 15) was
primarily filmed in his parents’ old house. A host of fellow talents help
prove that it’s not the size of your budget that matters but what you do
with it that counts.
Behind the Scenes
U K 2015, 1h, N/C 15+
Free tickets available on the day at C C A . Max 2 per person.
Short Skin
C C A, Thursday 19 (18.00) & Friday 20 February (16.00)
Adolescence can be difficult enough without believing that you are
different from everyone else. Sensitive seventeen year-old Edoardo (a
delightful Matteo Creatini) is more than ready to experience life, love and
sex but he has suffered from phimosis since childhood. An extremely
tight foreskin has made sex impossible and is threatening to turn him into
a nervous wreck. A bawdy streak of American Pie-style humour runs
through Duccio Chiarini’s first feature (watch out for the scene with the
octopus) but the film ultimately has more in common with Gregory’s
Girl, as its gawky, endearing hero tries to negotiate the mysteries of
girls, growing pains and male insecurity.
Pioneer. Director: Duccio Chiarini Cast: Matteo Creatini, Francesca
Agostini, Nicola Nocchi
Italy / Iran / U K 2014, 1h26m, Italian with subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to
Peccadillo Pictures
Small Faces
G F T, Sunday 1 Mar (14.10)
Gillies MacKinnon’s award-winning autobiographical remembrance of
growing up in 1960s Glasgow is one of the most vivid coming of age
films that Scotland has ever produced. Written by Gillies and his brother
Billy, it focuses on feisty teenager Lex (Iain Robertson) as he finds
himself torn between the very different role models of his art student
brother Alan (Joe McFadden) and his hardman brother Bobby (Steven
Duffy). Involvement in the city’s gang culture seems inevitable, especially
when Lex falls foul of ‘mental’ Malky (Kevin McKidd). We hope to
welcome members of the cast and crew to this special 20th anniversary
screening.
Cinema City. Director: Gillies MacKinnon
Cast: Iain Robertson, Joe McFadden, Laura Fraser, Kevin McKidd
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U K 1996, 1h44m, 15 Thanks to B F I / Pathe
Sound Masterclass with Glenn Freemantle
C C A, Saturday 28 February (15.00) (Free event)
Having begun his life in the industry at the tender age of sixteen, Glenn
Freemantle has risen in the ranks to become one of the world’s greatest
and most experienced sound designers. With over seventy films under
his belt (recent hits include The Theory of Everything, Paddington and
Sunshine on Leith) and a well-deserved Oscar win for Gravity, no-one
has a better understanding of how to implement sound as a character in
its own right. Join Glenn as he discusses his illustrious career, as well as
his work on two G F F 15 titles, Pressure and Sea Without Shore.
Behind the Scenes. 1h
Free tickets available on the day at C C A . Max 2 per person.
Spellbound
G F T, Sunday 22 February (10.30) (Festival for a Fiver)
Ingrid Bergman’s first collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock received six
Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. It is a playful thriller in which
the master of suspense puts his stamp on psychoanalysis. When the
head of the Green Manors asylum retires, renowned psychiatrist Dr
Anthony Edwardes (Gregory Peck) arrives in his place. Dr Constance
Petersen (Bergman) soon uncovers that he is an imposter and suffering
from chronic amnesia. So, what happened to the real Dr Edwardes? The
answer is locked within a fragile mind. Miklós Rózsa’s rousing score and
the famous Salvador Dali dream sequence help make this a classic.
Here’s Looking at You, Kid. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ingrid
Bergman, Gregory Peck, Leo G Carroll
U S A 1945, 1h51m, P G Thanks to B F I
Spring
G F T, Saturday 21 February (23.00) / Grosvenor, Monday 23 February
(20.30)
Imagine if the endearing romance of Before Sunrise took an
unexpected turn towards the horrific. That’s what Resolution directors
Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead achieve in this intriguing, wildly
imaginative genre mash-up. Reeling from the death of his mother, Evan
(Lou Taylor Pucci) impulsively leaves California for Italy. He meets
genetics student Louise (Nadia Hilker) who is smart, funny and sexy.
They make a perfect couple but Louise is strangely reluctant to discuss
her past. What is her big dark secret and why does she need those
regular injections?
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Pioneer. Directors: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead Cast: Lou Taylor
Pucci, Nadia Hilker, Francesco Carnelutti
Italy / U S A 2014, 1h49m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Metrodome
Square Legs, Round Bowls
Stereo, Friday 20 February (19.00) (Festival for a Fiver)
A programme of new works investigating the relationship between
composers using film as a musical timbre and visual artists that use
musical structures in their film work. In showing Torsten Lauschmann,
Rob Churm, Joe Howe, Beatrice Gibson, Richy Carey and Anneke
Kampman together, we will illustrate new directions taken by current
artists and composers in exploring film’s musical potential, raising
questions around system, process and the future of audiovisual
musicality. Please also join us on Sunday 22 February for a round table
discussion at C C A on what the terms ‘composer’ and ‘artist’ mean in
contemporary audiovisual practice.
Crossing the Line. Directors: Torsten Lauschmann, Rob Churm, Joe
Howe, Beatrice Gibson, Richy Carey, Anneke Kampman
3h approx, N/C 18+ Thanks to LUX, the Goethe Institute, Glasgow and
Richy Carey
Still Alice
G F T , Saturday 21 February (21.00) Sunday 22 February (15.00)
Julianne Moore caps an amazing year (Maps to the Stars, Mockingjay
Part 1) with a magnificent, Golden Globe-winning performance as Alice
Howland, a renowned linguistics professor diagnosed with early-onset
Alzheimer’s. The temptation to turn her decline into a shameless weepie
is staunchly resisted in a film all the more heartbreaking for its honesty
and restraint. Moore offers a powerful sense of a woman in retreat from
the world as all the memories and feelings that made her unique become
lost to her. Husband Alec Baldwin and daughters Kristen Stewart and
Kate Bosworth provide strong support in a poignant adaptation of the
Lisa Genova novel.
Gala. Directors: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland Cast: Julianne
Moore, Kristen Stewart, Alec Baldwin
U S A 2014, 1h39m, 12A; infrequent strong language, moderate sex
references. Thanks to Curzon Film World
Still the Water (Futatsume no mado)
G F T , Tuesday24 (20.00) & Wednesday 25 February (15.45)
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Naomi Kawase is a master of serene, spiritual dramas in which earthly
troubles are contrasted with the healing powers of the natural world. Still
the Water is set on the tropical Japanese island of Amami where
sixteen-year-old Kyôko (Jun Yoshinaga) is falling in love with Kaito (Nijirô
Murakami) and facing the terminal illness of her mother. Then a body is
washed up on the shore, bringing to light new revelations that change
Kaito’s life. A gentle, touching film – although, be warned, some viewers
may be upset by scenes of goats being slaughtered.
Cine Masters. Director: Naomi Kawase Cast: Nijirô Murakami, Jun
Yoshinaga, Miyuki Matsuda
Japan / France / Spain 2014, 1h56m, Japanese with subtitles, N/C 15+
Thanks to Soda Pictures
Stop Making Sense presented by Monorail Film Club
G F T , Friday 20 February (23.15)
A sharp, slim, besuited man carrying a guitar and a boombox steps onto
an empty stage. He sets the boombox down and the now familiar
drumbeat that opens Talking Heads’ Psycho Killer begins. The man –
David Byrne – taps his feet and launches into a solo rendition of the hit.
Over the course of the set, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth and Chris
Frantz join Byrne onstage. They change instruments and clothes. More
performers emerge. Byrne wears a big suit. And filmmaker Jonathan
Demme (Silence of the Lambs) captures all the carefully
choreographed sonic arrangements as the band rattle through a stellar
setlist in one of the greatest concert films ever made.
This new digital print will be introduced by Scott Paterson as part of
Monorail Film Club.
Sound & Vision. Director: Jonathan Demme Cast: David Byrne, Jerry
Harrison, Tina Weymouth
U S A 1984, 1h28m, P G Thanks to Palm Pictures
Stray Dog
G F T , Monday 23 (21.00) & Tuesday24 February (15.40)
Debra Granik met Vietnam veteran (and burly biker with a heart of gold)
Ronnie ‘Stray Dog’ Hall during the filming of her previous feature
Winter’s Bone, where Hall played the minor character Thump Milton.
Granik’s first documentary follows Hall though his modest life in an
understated and touching snapshot of Americana, avoiding stereotypes,
clichés and sentimentality whilst carving a joyful study of an All-American
subject who the film refuses to marginalise. Exploring elements of faith,
loss and love, Granik delivers a heart-warming portrait of a man amidst
his Harleys.
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Stranger Than Fiction. Director: Debra Granik Cast: Ronnie ‘Stray
Dog’ Hall
U S A 2014, 1h45m, English / Spanish with subtitles, N/C 12+ Thanks to
Still Rolling Productions
Strictly Ballroom at Kelvin-Groove!
Kelvingrove Museum, Friday 20 February (Doors 18.30, Film 19.45)
(Special ticket price) £12 / £10
The iconic Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum’s grand hall will be
brought to life by the rhumba and glitz of Strictly Ballroom, the iconic
debut film from extravagant Australian director Baz Luhrmann. In perfect
Luhrmann style, Strictly Ballroom tells the story of Scott Hastings
(Mercurio), a classically trained ballroom dancer who, restricted by the
formalities of ballroom, seeks to establish his personal style of dance,
taking him on a whirl of tango, sequins and all things not strictly ballroom.
To get your hips swaying, reigning Scottish Ballroom and Latin Dance
Champions Tibor Poc and Hilary Mouat will be rhumba-ing past, so
remember dress to impress and, of course, a little musicality please!
Strewth! Director: Baz Luhrmann Cast: Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice,
Bill Hunter
Australia 1992, 1h34m, P G Thanks to Beyond Distribution
Stunt Rock presented by Matchbox Cineclub
The Old Hairdressers, Thursday 19 February (19.00) (Free event)
‘Death Wish at 120 Decibels!’ No, the tagline doesn’t make sense, but
when you’ve named your film Stunt Rock, there’s not much else to say.
A high-octane, death-proof vehicle for Mad Max stunt coordinator and
industry legend Grant Page, Stunt Rock is a shamelessly crowdpleasing mix of blood-curdling stunt work and Spinal Tap-esque rock
music (courtesy of magician-musicians Sorcery). As thin on plot as Page
is thick of hide, Stunt Rock is an unfiltered, hilarious blast of pure
cinema. Matchbox Cineclub present this special free screening of an
Ozploitation classic. This is a free event. Sign up for your ticket in
advance to avoid disappointment, bit.ly/stunt-rock
Strewth! Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith Cast: Grant Page, Monique
van de Ven, Margaret Gerard
Australia / Netherlands 1980, 1h26m, N/C 15+ under 18s must be
accompanied by an adult. Thanks to Brian Trenchard-Smith
Sunken Ripples
I MAX, Wednesday 25 February (18.00 & 19.30) (Free event)
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Come and experience the exciting cutting edge technology of an
interactive spherical display as part of a new kind of audiovisual
performance. For the first time ever, a spherical display will be joined
with the I MAX screen to create an immersive and playful experience in
an underwater landscape. Join us in the world of Sunken Ripples,
where interaction and touch on the spherical display ripple into huge
proportions. This event is brought to you by the University of Glasgow
Public and Performative Interaction Group.
Special Events 45m approx. N/C 8+ Thanks to University of Glasgow
Free tickets available from 16.00 at I MAX on the day.
Take 2: The Incredibles
G F T , Saturday 28 February (11.30) (Festival for a Fiver) (Free event)
- see below
Fifteen years ago, Mr Incredible was recognised as one of the world’s
greatest heroes – using his amazing super-strength to perform
astonishing feats of bravery for the good of the people. Nevertheless,
after several lawsuits he and his similarly super-powered family and
friends are forced into hiding, trying to live normal lives and mask their
powers. Longing for the glory days, he takes on a secret mission which
allows him to use his powers freely once more. However, when he is
captured it is up to his family to come to the rescue, banding together to
become the most incredible super-family the world has ever seen!
Free to Glasgow Young Scot or Kidz Card holders (tickets available from
box office on the day), all other tickets £5.
All child tickets admit one accompanying adult free of charge.
Modern Families. Director: Brad Bird Cast: Craig T Nelson, Samuel L
Jackson, Holly Hunter
U S A 2004, 1h55m, U
Take 2: Red Dog
G F T , Saturday 21 February (11.30) (Festival for a Fiver) (Free event)
- see below
Greyfriars Bobby has nothing on Red Dog. A huge, award-winning box
office hit in Australia, this film won hearts and minds all across the
continent and it’s easy to see why. Based on the novel by Louis de
Bernières, it’s an irresistible salute to a very special dog. In 1971, a
smelly, red-dust covered kelpie hitches a ride into the iron ore town of
Dampier. Named Red, he selects American bus driver John (Josh Lucas)
as his master and sets about becoming a legend in the area, renowned
for his lengthy travels and indomitable spirit. Told with visual panache
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and a soundtrack of 1970s rock, this is a heartfelt, feel-good timeless tale
of the bond between man and dog.
Free to Glasgow Young Scot or Kidz Card holders (tickets available from
box office on the day), all other tickets £5.
All child tickets admit one accompanying adult free of charge.
Modern Families. Director: Kriv Stenders Cast: Josh Lucas, Rachael
Taylor, Noah Taylor
Australia / U S A 2011, 1h31m, P G
The Tales of Hoffmann
G F T, Saturday 21 (13.00) & Monday 23 February (11.00)
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were among the most
audacious, visionary filmmakers in British cinema history. A glorious 4K
restoration of The Tales of Hoffmann with previously unseen footage
offers breathtaking testimony of their dazzling visual imagination and
boundless artistic daring. Their Oscar-nominated adaptation of
Offenbach’s opera is a feverish swirl of colour and intense emotion as
the poet Hoffmann recalls the three great loves of his life and how
unbearable sadness inspires the most sublime artistry. A firm favourite of
Martin Scorsese that begs to be seen on a cinema screen.
Cine Masters. Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger Cast:
Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville, Ludmilla Tchérina
U K 1951, 2h18m, U Thanks to Park Circus
Restored by The Film Foundation and the B F I National Archive in
association with Studio canal.
Tales of the Grim Sleeper
G F T, Friday 20 (13.00) & Saturday 21 February (15.30)
Nick Broomfield’s ability to get under the skin of a country or a character
has made him a hugely respected documentary filmmaker. Here, he
chronicles a serial killer whose reign of terror lasted for twenty-five years
in one of America’s poorest and most powerless communities. Lonnie
Franklin Jr was arrested in 2010 and is thought to be responsible for over
100 unsolved murders. Courageous former prostitute Pam joins
Broomfield in South Central Los Angeles to discover what kind of person
Franklin was and why this largely African-American area was left to fend
for itself. A powerful portrait of grave injustice.
Stranger Than Fiction. Director: Nick Broomfield U S A / U K 2014,
1h50m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Shear Entertainment
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Talking About Watching and Listening
C C A, Sunday 22 February (15.00) (Free event)
Are we talking about audiovisual artwork correctly? If film is a form of
sound art, does redefining the artist as a composer enhance our criticism
of the form or are these terms superfluous to a contemporary practice?
This discussion will review how we mediate the problem of sound in
moving image. With particular reference to the Square Legs, Round
Bowls live event and Kari Robertson’s new film commissions at S W G3
Gallery, the panel will explore audiovisual process and the ways in which
this is translated in the gallery. Square Legs, Round Bowls screens at
G F F 15 as part of the Crossing the Line strand at Stereo on Friday 19
Feb.
Behind the Scenes. U K 2014, 1h, Presented by Richy Carey and S W
G3 Gallery in association with C C A Glasgow
Free tickets available on the day at C C A . Max 2 per person.
Tender
(Audience Award)
C C A, Monday 23 (21.00) & Tuesday24 February (13.30)
Death is the last taboo: a subject we avoid and a process we leave to the
tender mercies of the professionals. Not in the seaside town of Port
Kembla where a community group have decided to establish a charity
funeral service for the town’s hard-up residents. They tackle the
endeavour with good cheer and boundless compassion until one of their
own is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness and everything assumes
a much more personal significance. Lynette Wallworth’s beautifully
observed, uplifting documentary salutes a vibrant community and
provides a life-affirming view of coming to terms with death, with a score
by Nick Cave.
Strewth! Director: Lynette Wallworth Music: Nick Cave, Warren Ellis
Australia 2013, 1h13m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Scarlett Pictures
Theeb
(Audience Award)
G F T, Thursday 19 (11.00) & Friday 20 February (18.15)
There are echoes of Kipling and classic westerns in Naji Abu Nowar’s
thrilling, award-winning adventure yarn shot on breathtaking locations in
southern Jordan. It is 1916 in the Hejaz Province of the Ottoman Empire.
Bedouin boy Theeb (Jacir Eid Al-Hwietat) and his elder brother Hussein
(Hussein Salameh) are largely unaware of the global conflict until British
officer Edward (Jack Fox) and his Bedouin guide arrive at their camp.
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Hussein is assigned to accompany them and the uninvited Theeb tags
along on an epic journey fraught with danger, death and derring-do. A
captivating piece of storytelling offering a very different perspective on
the era of T E Lawrence.
Pioneer. Director: Naji Abu Nowar Cast: Jacir Eid Al-Hwietat, Hussein
Salameh, Hassan Mutlag
Jordan / Qatar / United Arab Emirates / U K 2014, 1h40m, Arabic with
subtitles, N/C 12+ Thanks to Rupert Lloyd, Bassel Ghandour
There Are Monsters
G F T, Saturday 28 February (23.30)
Monsters are taking over the world, slowly, quietly and efficiently – but
you won’t see them coming until it’s far too late! Four film students
embark on a road trip to obtain promotional interviews for their college.
However, en route they witness a series of odd events, strange
behaviour, shocking actions and what seems to be a surplus of twins.
Their well-ordered universe literally changes before their camera lenses,
uncovering a terrifying secret lurking just under the surface of the calm
urban landscape. You will be scared out of your wits right from the start
of this instant cult classic – guaranteed!
Fright Fest. Director: Jay Dahl Cast: Matthew Amyotte, Jason Daley,
Michael Ray Fox
Canada 2013, 1h30m, N/C 18+ Thanks to The Works Film Group
Three Hearts (3 coeurs)
C C A, Tuesday24 February (20.30) / Grosvenor, Wednesday 25
February (15.00)
Three hearts rarely beat as one in this handsome, intricately plotted
melodrama, played to perfection by some of France’s best actors. Tax
inspector Marc (Benoît Poelvoorde) misses the last train home to Paris.
Stranded in a small provincial town, he meets Sylvie (Charlotte
Gainsbourg). They chat the night away (shades of Before Sunrise) and
believe they have begun a fine romance. Fate has other plans. Later,
Marc meets antique dealer Sophie (Chiara Mastroianni) and love
blooms. On the eve of their marriage Marc discovers what we have
known all along, that Sylvie and Sophie are sisters. A civilised delight costarring the great Catherine Deneuve.
Window on the World. Director: Benoît Jacquot Cast: Benoît
Poelvoorde, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chiara Mastroianni Germany /
Belgium / France 2014, 1h46m, French with subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to
Metrodome
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The Town That Dreaded Sundown
G F T, Saturday 21 (23.30) & Sunday 22 February (10.45)
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s reinvention of slasher classic The Town That
Dreaded Sundown is full of sly, knowing references to the 1976 original,
keeping a 1970s genre vibe whilst dragging it kicking, screaming and
bleeding into the 21st century. More than sixty years have passed since
the Phantom Killer brought terror to the streets of Texarkana. Now, the
‘moonlight murders’ begin again. Is it a case of history repeating or
imitation being the most sincere form of serial killer flattery? Lonely high
school girl Jami (Addison Timlin) must uncover the truth if she is to
survive the carnage.
Pioneer. Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Cast: Addison Timlin, Gary
Cole, Denis O’Hare
U S A 2014, 1h26m, N/C 18+ Thanks to Metrodome
The Treatment (De Behandeling)
G F T, Saturday 28 February (18.30)
Based on the chiller by acclaimed British author Mo Hayder, Nordic Noir
turns frighteningly Flemish in Belgium’s top-grossing film of 2014. Gutwrenching and harrowing to an unprecedented degree, nerves of steel
are required to watch this truly shocking serial killer thriller. Inspector
Nick Cafmeyer is haunted by the unsolved disappearance of his younger
brother. A known sex offender was questioned but quickly released, and
he now takes fiendish pleasure in tormenting Nick. When a similar case
involving a missing juvenile comes to light, Nick’s real nightmare
begins...
Fright Fest. Director: Hans Herbots Cast: Geert Van Rampelberg, Ina
Geerts, Johan van Assche
Belgium 2014, 2h5m, Flemish with subtitles, N/C 18+ Thanks to
Peccadillo Pictures
Uzumasa Limelight
(Uzumasa raimuraito)
G F T, Friday 20 (20.15) & Saturday 21 February (15.20)
Inspired by the Charlie Chaplin classic Limelight, Ken Ochiai has
created a wonderfully touching, nostalgic salute to all the proud artists
who never made top-billing. Kamiyama (Seizô Fukumoto) has spent a
lifetime as a movie extra dying in spectacular fashion by the sword of
countless stars. Now that the golden age of chanbara (sword-fighting
dramas) is over, his only employment is studio tours. Then, rising star
Satsuki (Chihiro Yamamoto) asks to learn the dying art of dying and
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Kamiyama has a chance to pass on his skills. An utterly charming gem of
a film with a graceful performance from the leathery Fukumoto that
deserves to make him a star.
Window on the World. Director: Ken Ochiai Cast: Seizô Fukumoto,
Chihiro Yamamoto, Masashi Goda Japan 2014, 1h43m, Japanese with
subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to Eleven Arts Inc
Wake in Fright
Mackintosh Queen’s Cross, Friday 27 February (21.00) (Festival for a
Fiver)
Dramatic, visually beautiful and psychologically terrifying, Wake in
Fright is one of those incredible movies you just have to see. Shot in the
expansive and brutal Australian outback, it charts the unnerving demise
of a young schoolteacher stranded and plunging headfirst towards his
own destruction with the help of forceful locals and their unconventional
and violent rituals. Martin Scorsese dubbed it ‘a deeply – and I mean
deeply – unsettling movie. It left me speechless’ while Nick Cave calls it
‘the best and most terrifying film about Australia’, and we would agree.
Take solace in Mackintosh Queen’s Cross and watch this real
unforgettable masterpiece.
Strewth! Director: Ted Kotcheff Cast: Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond,
Chips Rafferty
Australia 1971, 1h54m, 18 Thanks to Eureka!
Warsaw Uprising
G F T, Thursday 26 (18.00) & Friday 27 February (11.00)
Constructed entirely from documentary footage shot by six propaganda
cameramen in 1944, Warsaw Uprising allows the viewer to become an
eyewitness to history. Black and white images have been colourised and
actors give voice to dialogue that has been compiled by lip-reading. The
experiences of cameramen and an American airman are used to provide
a narrative structure as we watch Poles huddled in air raid shelters,
soldiers shaving, people dodging sniper fire and a no man’s land confab
with a Nazi. The result feels as vivid and urgent as a news bulletin.
Stranger Than Fiction. Director: Jan Komasa Cast: Piotr Adamczyk,
Miroslaw Baka, Jeff Burrell
Poland 2014, 1h27m, Polish / English with subtitles, N/C 12+ Thanks to
Warsaw Uprising Museum
Wasted Time
G F T, Saturday 28 February (14.00)
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Accused of a crime he did not commit, Tommy decides to take the blame
and serve a sentence at Glasgow’s Barlinnie prison, presuming his
family will be looked after. However, he finds himself at the mercy of
prison life whilst his family are left to fend for themselves. When he is
finally released he is forced to pick up the pieces of his life and face the
reality of his situation. A wrenching story about how spending time in
prison affects both those inside and outside of the walls, this unique
production mixed professional and non-professional actors, some of
whom were serving time and have used acting as a road to rehabilitation.
World Premiere
Cinema City. Director: David Hayman Jr, Moe Abutoq Cast: Robert
Johnstone, Brian McCardie, David Hayman
U K 2014, 53m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Shooters Films
When Animals Dream
(Når dyrene drømmer)
(Audience Award)
G F T, Saturday 21 (20.45) & Sunday 22 February (11.00)
More Let the Right One In than An American Werewolf in London,
When Animals Dream is a soulful horror story that unfolds beneath
glowering skies. On the west coast of Denmark, sixteen-year-old Marie
(Sonia Suhl) has begun to notice some unusual changes in her body.
What is the strange birthmark on her chest? Why is hair sprouting from
places where it has no business to grow? What is the real reason her
silent mother is confined to a wheelchair? A brooding atmosphere and a
welcome sense of restraint help locate the heartbreak in the horror
before all hell is let loose.
Pioneer. Director: Jonas Alexander Arnby
Cast: Sonia Suhl, Lars Mikkelsen, Jakob Oftebro
Denmark 2014, 1h24m, Danish with subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to
Altitude Film Distribution
White Bird in a Blizzard
G F T, Thursday 19 February (20.20) / Grosvenor, Friday 20 February
(15.00)
Gregg Araki’s adaptation of the Laura Kasischke novel has all the
dreamy, emotional intensity and visual flair we have come to expect from
the director of Mysterious Skin and Kaboom. In 1988, Eve (Eva Green)
disappears, leaving a family shattered by her loss. Teenage daughter
Kat (Shailene Woodley) faces a coming of age marked by a haunting
confrontation with love, death and the hidden lives of her parents. Rising
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star Shailene Woodley (The Descendants, The Fault in our Stars)
gives a powerful central performance in a tale that unfolds to a terrific
1980s soundtrack featuring the Cocteau Twins, The Cure and Depeche
Mode.
Gala. Director: Gregg Araki Cast: Shailene Woodley, Eva Green,
Christopher Meloni
France / U S A 2014, 1h31m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Altitude Film
Distribution
White God (Fehér Isten)
G F T, Sunday 22 (17.45) & Monday 23 February (15.45)
Every dog has his day. When thirteen-year-old Lili (Zsófia Psotta) is
obliged to spend three months with her father, she assumes dad will also
take her devoted dog Hagen. Instead, he callously leaves the dog at the
side of the road. Hagen then embarks on an incredible journey, gathering
the support of fellow mongrels and finally reaching breaking point. One of
the discoveries at Cannes, White God is an ambitious, strikingly original
political allegory in which Lassie meets Sam Fuller. Filled with clever
ideas and memorable images. Unleash the hounds.
Window on the World. Director: Kornél Mundruczó Cast: Zsófia
Psotta, Sándor Zsótér, Lili Horváth
Hungary / Germany / Sweden 2014, 1h57m, Hungarian with subtitles,
N/C 15+ Thanks to Metrodome
Why Be Good?
G F T, Tuesday24 (18.00) & Wednesday 25 February (13.30)
Colleen Moore was one of the biggest Hollywood stars of the silent era.
An impish embodiment of the free-spirited, fun-loving flapper, Moore
earned $12,500 a week at the height of her fame. Few of her silent films
have survived until now. Reuniting the mute picture with the original
Vitaphone disc soundtrack, Why Be Good? restores Moore to all her
screen glory in a rollicking romantic comedy. Moore’s sales girl Pert Kelly
is the kind of jazz baby you want on your arm for a night on the town but
is she good enough for boss’s son Neil Hamilton (the future
Commissioner Gordon)? Find out in this sparkling Roaring Twenties
romp.
Cine Masters. Director: William A Seiter Cast: Colleen Moore, Neil
Hamilton, Bodil Rosing
U S A 1929, 1h28m, P G Thanks to Park Circus, Film restored by
Warner Brothers at Ritrovato Laboratory
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Wild Tales (Relatos salvajes)
G F T, Friday 20 February (18.00) / Grosvenor, Saturday 21 February
(18.45)
We are all mad as hell at the world but some of us aren’t prepared to
take it any more. Damían Szifrón’s zesty black comedy weaves together
six short tales of individuals on the verge of a complete meltdown.
Frustrated by petty bureaucracy, incensed by a cheating husband,
emboldened by extreme road rage or sickened by a desperately unfair
society, various individuals decide to have their revenge in the most
public, aggressive and satisfying way possible. A comic compendium
that has struck a chord with audiences around the world, this is also a
stinging assault on the corrupt soul of a country in crisis.
Pioneer. Director: Damián Szifrón Cast: Ricardo Darín, Oscar
Martínez, Rita Cortese
Argentina / Spain 2014, 2h2m, Spanish with subtitles, 15 Thanks to
Curzon World
William McIlvanney: Living with Words
G F T, Monday 23 February (18.30)
Known as the ‘Godfather of Tartan Noir’, William McIlvanney has
enjoyed a career resurgence in recent years. Landmark novels like
Laidlaw have returned to print and earned him a new generation of
admirers whilst Docherty was recently voted one of the top ten Scottish
novels of all time. Living with Words, produced by Gill Parry, offers an
intimate portrait of McIlvanney in his own words and those of family and
colleagues, including his brother, celebrated sports writer Hugh
McIlvanney. A welcome profile of a writer whose passionate sense of
Scotland and socialist ideals have made him inspirational. We anticipate
William McIlvanney will join us for the world premiere screening of this
documentary.
Cinema City. Director: Maurice O’Brien Cast: William McIlvanney,
Hugh McIlvanney, David Hayman, Ian Rankin
U K 2015, 30m, N/C 10+ Thanks to CONNECT Film Ltd
A Woman’s Face (En kvinnas ansikte)
G F T, Thursday 19 February (10.30) (Festival for a Fiver)
Long before Hollywood came to call, Ingrid Bergman was a major film
star in her native Sweden. A Woman’s Face contains one of her best
early performances and helped cement her growing international
reputation. Badly disfigured by a fire, Anna (Bergman) has grown into a
bitter, cynical young woman involved in a life of crime. One of her
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blackmail victims proves to be the wife of a renowned plastic surgeon
who gives her an opportunity to change both physically and mentally. An
intense, psychological drama that Hollywood remade with Joan
Crawford; this is a rare opportunity to see the superior Bergman original.
Here’s Looking at You, Kid. Director: Gustaf Molander Cast: Ingrid
Bergman, Tore Svennberg, Anders Henrikson
Sweden 1938, 1h36m, Swedish with subtitles, N/C 10+ Thanks to
Swedish Film Institute
The Wonders (Le meraviglie)
(Audience Award)
Grosvenor, Sunday 22 (20.30) / G F T, Monday 23 February (13.00)
Alice Rohrwacher’s prize-winning follow-up to her striking debut feature
Corpo celeste offers an enchanting portrait of a girl caught in the
moment between adolescence and independence. Gelsomina (Maria
Alexandra Lungu) is the oldest daughter of former student revolutionaries
who now make their home in the Tuscan countryside far from the
creature comforts of the world. Bee-keeping sustains their precarious
existence but their paradise is under threat, especially as Gelsomina
grows to realise this is not the life she wants. A rich, resonant coming of
age drama.
Pioneer. Director: Alice Rohrwacher Cast: Maria Alexandra Lungu,
Alba Rohrwacher, Monica Bellucci
Italy / Switzerland / Germany 2014, 1h50m, Italian / French / German
with subtitles, N/C 12+ Thanks to Soda Pictures
The Woods
G F T, Saturday 28 February (16.00)
In October 1997, a group of filmmakers ventured into the Maryland
woods to produce a low budget independent horror movie. The Blair
Witch Project would become a global phenomenon and began the
‘found footage’ genre that remains a potent force today. Now, for the first
time, you can see how that record-breaking groundbreaker came into
being. From never-before-seen recordings of pre-production meetings,
audition tapes and test footage to the actual shooting and first preview
screenings at the Sundance Film Festival, all the key personnel guide
you through the discussions and decisions that minted a shock sensation
classic.
Fright Fest. Director: Russell Gomm
Cast: Edward Sanchez, Daniel Myrick, Gregg Hale
U S A 2015, 1h24m, N/C 18+ Thanks to Aurora Pictures
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Wyrmwood
G F T, Friday 27 February (18.30)
A post-apocalyptic zombie invasion, caused by a wayward comet, turns
personal for an Oz mechanic when his sister is abducted by a sinister
team of gas-masked soldiers for flesh-eating experiments by a mad
scientist. An absolutely astonishing and brilliant feature bow from
Australian brothers Kiah and Tristan Roache-Turner, Wyrmwood is the
deadpan bloodbath everybody is talking about. Sporting Mad Max-style
designs, a glorious sense of humour, energetic execution, outrageous
zombie lore and KC and the Sunshine Band, this super-fresh spin on a
favourite genre is a raucous riot of black comedy, catastrophic carnage
and over-the-top splatter.
Fright Fest. Director: Kiah Roache-Turner Cast: Jay Gallagher,
Bianca Bradey, Leon Burchill
Australia 2014, 1h38m, N/C 18+ Thanks to Studio canal
X+Y
G F T, Wednesday 25 February (18.00) / Grosvenor, Thursday 26
February (15.00)
Prepare to have your heart well and truly warmed. Nathan (Asa
Butterfield) is a teenage maths prodigy with mild autism. He has always
been a handful for his loving mother Julie (Sally Hawkins). The rational
purity of mathematics is the one thing that allows him to make sense of
the world. Tutor Mr Humphreys (Rafe Spall) encourages him to try for a
place in the British team at the International Mathematics Olympiad. A
training trip to Taiwan is the beginning of an incredible journey as Nathan
learns that there may be more to life than prime numbers. Understated,
beautifully acted and completely wonderful.
Gala. Director: Morgan Matthews Cast: Asa Butterfield, Sally Hawkins,
Rafe Spall
U K 2014, 1h51m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Koch Media
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Venues
GFT
CCA
Grosvenor Cinema
Cineworld Parkhead
Odeon at the Quay
I MAX
The Art School
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
St Andrew’s in the Square
Old Fruitmarket
Pollokshaws Burgh Hall
The Trades Hall
Mackintosh Queen’s Cross
Drygate
Stereo
O2 A B C
The Mitchell Library
Paisley Arts Centre
Hotels And Restaurants
citizen M, Hilton Hotel, Thistle Hotel, Novotel, Grand Central Hotel,
Saramago, Sarti, The Butterfly & the Pig, The Hanoi Bike Shop, Two
Fat Ladies at the Buttery, Two Fat Ladies City Centre, Malmaison, The
Honours, The Project Café.
Check out www.5pm.co.uk/film-food for food and film deals across
Glasgow.
See www.glasgowfilm.org/festival for exclusive deals and discounts.
Glasgow Taxis: +44 (0) 141 429 7070
Register at nextbike.co.uk and use code 575357 in the voucher section
of your online account to claim your free ride time. A free hour rental for
all Glasgow Film Festival-goers.
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Festival Calendar
Please note: This calendar contains the event running times only.
Please check www.glasgowfilm.org/festival for details of guest
introductions and Q & A sessions which may precede or follow the
screenings.
Wednesday 4 February
GFT 1
Shaun the Sheep the Movie
18.00 - 19.25 (Modern Families)
Odeon At The Quay
Shaun the Sheep the Movie
18.00 - 19.25 (Modern Families)
Thursday 12 February - Saturday 28 February
Mitchell Library
Jeely Jars and Seeing Stars: Glasgow’s Love Affair with the Movies
- Exhibition
Monday - Thursday 09.00 - 20.00, Friday - Saturday 09.00 - 17.00.
Closed Sundays (Cinema City) (Free Event)
Wednesday 18 February
G F T 1,2 & 3
Opening Gala / While We’re Young
Doors 19.00, Film 20.00 - 21.45 Gala (Special ticket price)
Thursday 19 February
GFT 1
A Woman’s Face
10.30 - 12.15 (Here’s Looking at You, Kid) (Festival for a Fiver)
While We’re Young
13.00 - 14.40 Gala
The Grump
15.15 - 17.05 (Window on the World)
Marshland
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18.00 - 19.50 (Window on the World)
White Bird in a Blizzard
20.20 - 21.55 Gala
GFT 2
Theeb
11.00 - 12.45 (Pioneer) (Audience Award)
Red Army
13.30 - 15.00 (Stranger Than Fiction)
While We’re Young
15.30 - 17.10 Gala
Catch Me Daddy
17.40 - 19.35 (Best of British)
The Dark Horse
20.00 - 22.10 (Pioneer)
GFT 3
Appropriate Behaviour
15.45 - 17.15 (Pioneer) (Audience Award)
Pale Moon
18.15 - 20.25 (Window on the World)
Black Coal, Thin Ice
21.00 - 22.50 (Window on the World)
C C A Theatre
Short Skin
18.00 - 19.35 (Pioneer)
The Mule
20.45 - 22.35 (Strewth! The Films of Oz)
C C A Cinema
Ingrid Bergman as a Feminist Icon
17.00 - 18.00 (Here’s Looking at You, Kid) (Free Event)
Cinema-Going
18.30 - 19.30 (Cinema City) (Free Event)
Our Extra-Sensory Selves
20.30 - 22.30 (Crossing the Line)
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Grosvenor
Monsters: Dark Continent
20.30 - 22.35 (Best of British)
O2 A B C
A Night at the Regal
18.00 - 21.30 (Sound and Vision) (Special ticket price)
Old Hairdressers
Stunt Rock
19.00 - 20.40 (Strewth! The Films of Oz) (Free Event)
Friday 20 February
GFT 1
For Whom the Bell Tolls
10.30 - 13.25 (Here’s Looking at You, Kid) (Festival for a Fiver)
Marshland
13.45 - 15.35 (Window on the World)
Jodorowsky’s Dune
16.00 - 17.35 (Nerdvana)
Wild Tales
18.00 - 20.05 (Pioneer)
The New Girlfriend
20.30 - 22.20 Gala
Stop Making Sense
23.15 - 00.45 (Sound and Vision)
GFT 2
The Dark Horse
11.00 - 13.10 (Pioneer)
The Grump
13.30 - 15.20 (Window on the World)
Catch Me Daddy
15.50 - 17.40 (Best of British)
Theeb
18.15 - 20.00 (Pioneer) (Audience Award)
Blind
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20.40 - 22.20 (Pioneer)
Monsters: Dark Continent
22.45 - 00.50 (Best of British)
GFT 3
Tales of the Grim Sleeper
13.00 - 14.55 (Stranger Than Fiction)
Black Coal, Thin Ice
15.20 - 17.10 (Window on the World)
Family Goldmine
17.50 - 19.10 (Stranger Than Fiction)
Uzumasa Limelight
20.15 - 22.00 (Window on the World)
Appropriate Behaviour
23.00 - 00.30 (Pioneer) (Audience Award)
C C A Theatre
The Mule
13.30 - 15.20 (Strewth! The Films of Oz)
Short Skin
16.00 - 17.35 (Pioneer)
I Need a Dodge
18.15 - 19.25 (Sound and Vision)
The Little Death
20.45 - 22.25 (Strewth! The Films of Oz)
C C A Cinema
Close-Up on Casting
18.30 - 19.30 (Behind the Scenes) (Free Event)
Grosvenor
White Bird in a Blizzard
15.00 - 16.35 Gala
It Follows
20.30 - 22.20 (Pioneer)
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Kelvingrove
Strictly Ballroom at Kelvin-Groove!
Doors 18.30, Film 19.45 - 22.00 (Strewth! The Films of Oz) (Special
ticket price)
Stereo
Square Legs, Round Bowls
19.00 - 22.00 (Sound and Vision) (Festival for a Fiver)
Saturday 21 February
GFT 1
Casablanca
10.30 - 12.20 (Here’s Looking at You, Kid) (Festival for a Fiver)
The Tales of Hoffmann
13.00 - 15.20 (Cine masters)
The New Girlfriend
15.45 - 17.35 Gala
A Little Chaos
18.00 - 20.00 (Best of British)
Still Alice
21.00 - 22.45 Gala
It Follows
23.15 - 01.05 (Pioneer)
GFT 2
Take 2: Red Dog
11.30 - 13.05 (Modern Families) (Festival for a Fiver) (Free Event)
Blind
13.30 - 15.10 (Pioneer)
Tales of the Grim Sleeper
15.30 - 17.25 (Stranger Than Fiction)
Good for Nothing
18.30 - 20.00 (Cine masters)
When Animals Dream
20.45 - 22.15 (Pioneer) (Audience Award)
Spring
23.00 - 00.50 (Pioneer)
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GFT 3
Burroughs: The Movie
10.45 - 12.20 (Stranger Than Fiction)
Family Goldmine
12.45 - 14.05 (Stranger Than Fiction)
Uzumasa Limelight
15.20 - 17.05 (Window on the World)
The Light Shines Only There
17.45 - 19.50 (Window on the World)
Black Souls
20.30 - 22.20 (Window on the World)
The Town That...
23.30 - 01.00 (Pioneer)
C C A Theatre
The Little Death
13.30 - 15.10 (Strewth! The Films of Oz)
Red Army
15.45 - 17.15 (Stranger Than Fiction)
A Second Chance
18.15 - 20.05 (Cine masters)
Fell
20.45 - 22.20 (Strewth! The Films of Oz)
C C A Cinema
Power Suit: Mildred Pierce
13.00 - 14.55 (Special Events) (Festival for a Fiver)
Power Suit: Is the Power Suit Dead?
16.00 - 17.30 (Special Events) (Free Event)
Power Suit Yourself: Working Girl + Party
19.00 - 23.00 (Special Events) (Festival for a Fiver)
Grosvenor
Jodorowsky’s Dune
15.00 - 16.35 (Nerdvana)
Wild Tales
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18.45 - 20.50 (Pioneer)
GO M A
Cat Video Festival
13.00 - 16.00 (Modern Families) (Free Event)
Odeon at the Quay
Moomins on the Riviera
12.00 - 13.30 (Modern Families)
Cineworld Parkhead
Maya the Bee Movie
15.00 - 16.30 (Modern Families)
St Andrew’s In the Square
Cinema, City, Ceilidh!
19.00 - 00.00 (Cinema City) (Special ticket price)
Sunday 22 February
GFT 1
Spellbound
10.30 - 12.25 (Here’s Looking at You, Kid) (Festival for a Fiver)
Fires on the Plain
13.00 - 14.30 (Cine masters)
Still Alice
15.00 - 16.45 Gala
Clouds of Sils Maria
17.30 - 19.40 (Cine masters)
Rosewater
20.30 - 22.20 Gala
GFT 2
When Animals Dream
11.00 - 12.30 (Pioneer) (Audience Award)
Good for Nothing
12.45 - 14.15 (Cine masters)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch...
14.45 - 16.30 (Cine masters)
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Phoenix
18.00 - 19.45 (Window on the World)
The Salt of the Earth
20.45 - 22.40 (Stranger Than Fiction)
GFT 3
The Town That dreaded sundown
10.45 - 12.15 (Pioneer)
The Light Shines Only There
12.30 - 14.35 (Window on the World)
Black Souls
15.15 - 17.05 (Window on the World)
White God
17.45 - 19.50 (Window on the World)
Queens of Syria
20.15 - 21.30 (Stranger Than Fiction)
C C A Theatre
Fell
13.30 - 15.05 (Strewth! The Films of Oz)
A Second Chance
15.30 - 17.20 (Cine masters)
Altman
18.20 - 20.00 (Stranger Than Fiction)
52 Tuesdays
20.30 - 22.30 (Strewth! The Films of Oz) (Audience Award)
C C A Cinema
Talking About
15.00-16.00 (Behind the Scenes) (Free Event)
Beauty and the right to the ugly
18.00-19.00 (Crossing the Line)
Nancy Holt: Sun Tunnels / Revolve
20.15 - 22.25 (Crossing the Line)
Grosvenor
A Little Chaos
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15.00 - 17.00 (Best of British)
The Wonders
20.30 - 22.25 (Pioneer) (Audience Award)
Odeon at the Quay
The Boy and the World
12.00 - 13.25 (Modern Families)
GO M A
Cat Video Festival
13.00 - 16.00 (Modern Families) (Free Event)
Cineworld Parkhead
Moomins on the Riviera
15.00 - 16.25 (Modern Families)
C C A Club Room
Dungeons & Dragons Live
20.00 - 22.00 (Nerdvana) (Festival for a Fiver)
P/Shaws Hall
The Fall of the House of Usher
Doors 20.00, Film 20.30 - 22.00 (Special Events) (Special ticket price)
Monday 23 February
GFT 1
Gaslight
10.30 - 12.30 (Here’s Looking at You, Kid) (Festival for a Fiver)
The Wonders
13.00 - 14.55 (Pioneer) (Audience Award)
Clouds of Sils Maria
15.30 - 17.40 (Cine masters)
M. Tait Award
19.00-20.00 (Crossing the Line) (Free Event)
Mommy
20.30 - 22.50 (Cine masters)
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GFT 2
The Tales of Hoffmann
11.00 - 13.20 (Cine masters)
Phoenix
13.40 - 15.25 (Window on the World)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch...
16.00 - 17.45 (Cine masters)
W. McIlvanney
18.30 - 19.30 (Cinema City)
Pressure
20.40 - 22.15 (Best of British)
GFT 3
The Salt of the Earth
10.45 - 12.40 (Stranger Than Fiction)
Queens of Syria
13.15 - 14.30 (Stranger Than Fiction)
White God
15.45 - 17.50 (Window on the World)
Mardan
18.15 - 20.15 (Pioneer) (Audience Award)
Stray Dog
21.00 - 22.50 (Stranger Than Fiction)
C C A Theatre
52 Tuesdays
13.30 - 15.30
Altman
16.00 - 17.40
Exit
18.30 - 20.10
Tender
21.00 - 22.15
(Strewth! The Films of Oz) (Audience Award)
(Stranger Than Fiction)
(Window on the World)
(Strewth! The Films of Oz) (Audience Award)
C C A Cinema
Children of Film: Videogames
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18.30 -19.30 (Nerdvana) (Free Event)
Children of Men
20.00 - 22.00 (Nerdvana) (Festival for a Fiver)
Grosvenor
Rosewater
15.00 - 16.50 Gala
Spring
20.30 - 22.20 (Pioneer)
Old Fruitmarket
Buster Keaton Night
19.30 - 21.30 (Sound and Vision) (Special ticket price)
Tuesday 24 February
GFT 1
The Bells of St Mary’s
10.30 - 12.40 (Here’s Looking at You, Kid) (Festival for a Fiver)
Red Amnesia
13.10 - 15.10 (Cine masters)
Dearest
15.30 - 17.45 (Cine masters)
Boychoir
18.15 - 20.10 Gala
Girlhood
20.40 - 22.40 (Cine masters)
GFT 2
Pressure
11.00 - 12.35 (Best of British)
Li’l Quinquin
13.30 - 16.55 (Cine masters)
M. Tait Residency
18.30 - 19.45 (Crossing the Line)
Life in a Fishbowl
20.15 - 22.30 (Pioneer) (Audience Award)
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GFT 3
Mardan
13.00 - 15.00 (Pioneer) (Audience Award)
Stray Dog
15.40 - 17.30 (Stranger Than Fiction)
Why Be Good?
18.00 - 19.30 (Cine masters)
Still the Water
20.00 - 22.00 (Cine masters)
C C A Theatre
Tender
13.30 - 14.45 (Strewth! The Films of Oz) (Audience Award)
Exit
15.30 - 17.10 (Window on the World)
Elle l’adore
18.00 - 19.50 (Pioneer)
Three Hearts
20.30 - 22.20 (Window on the World)
C C A Cinema
I Know Where
18.30 - 19.30 (Behind the Scenes) (Free Event)
Grosvenor
Mommy
15.00 - 17.15 (Cine masters)
Land Ho!
20.30 - 22.10 (Window on the World)
I MAX
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
19.30 - 21.15 (Strewth! The Films of Oz)
Wednesday 25 February
GFT 1
Notorious
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10.30 - 12.15 (Here’s Looking at You, Kid) (Festival for a Fiver)
Girlhood
12.45 - 14.45 (Cine masters)
Land Ho!
15.30 - 17.10 (Window on the World)
X+Y
18.00 - 19.55 Gala
GFF15 Surprise Film
20.45 - 22.45 (may vary) Gala
GFT 2
Life in a Fishbowl
11.00 - 13.15 (Pioneer) (Audience Award)
Li’l Quinquin
13.45 - 17.10 (Cine masters)
Second Coming
18.15 - 20.05 (Best of British)
Radiator
20.30 - 22.10 (Best of British) (Audience Award)
GFT 3
Why Be Good?
13.30 - 15.00 (Cine masters)
Still the Water
15.45 - 17.45 (Cine masters)
My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
18.30 - 19.35 (Stranger Than Fiction)
Dearest
20.15 - 22.30 (Cine masters)
C C A Theatre
Elle l’adore
15.30 - 17.20 (Pioneer)
Gente de bien
18.15 - 19.45 (Pioneer)
10,000 km
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20.45 - 22.30 (Pioneer)
C C A Cinema
Shooting on a Shoestring
18.30 - 19.30 (Behind the Scenes) (Free Event)
Reading in the Dark
20.30 - 22.00 (Crossing the Line)
Grosvenor
Three Hearts
15.00 - 16.50 (Window on the World)
Boychoir
20.30 - 22.25 Gala
I MAX
Sunken Ripples
18.00 -18.45 & 19.30-20.15 (Special Events) (Free Event)
Trades Hall
Murder on the Orient Express
Doors 19.00, Film 20.00 - 23.00 (Here’s Looking at You, Kid) (Special
ticket price)
O2 A B C
Ólafur Arnalds Plays Broadchurch
19.00 - 22.00 (Sound and Vision) (Special ticket price)
Thursday 26 February
GFT 1
Anastasia
10.30 - 12.20 (Here’s Looking at You, Kid) (Festival for a Fiver)
The Golden Era
12.40 - 15.40 (Cine masters)
Man from Reno
16.00 - 17.55 (Window on the World)
Jauja
18.20 - 20.10 (Window on the World)
The Falling
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20.40 - 22.25 (Best of British)
GFT 2
Radiator
11.00 - 12.40 (Best of British) (Audience Award)
On the Trail of the Far...
13.15 - 14.40 (Stranger Than Fiction)
Second Coming
15.15 - 17.05 (Best of British)
Warsaw Uprising
18.00 - 19.30 (Stranger Than Fiction)
Eliza Graves
21.00 - 23.00 (Fright Fest Glasgow 2015)
GFT 3
My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
10.45 - 11.50 (Stranger Than Fiction)
From What Is Before
12.10 - 17.55 (Cine masters)
Red Amnesia
18.30 - 20.30 (Cine masters)
Life’s a Beach
21.15-22.15 (Stranger Than Fiction)
C C A Theatre
Gente de bien
13.30 - 15.00 (Pioneer)
10,000 km
15.30 - 17.15 (Pioneer)
I Can Quit Whenever I Want
18.15 - 20.00 (Pioneer)
Revenge of The Mekons
20.45 - 22.25 (Sound and Vision)
C C A Cinema
Editing Masterclass with Colin Monie
18.30 - 20.00 (Behind the Scenes) (Free Event)
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Grosvenor
X+Y
15.00 - 16.55 Gala
Memphis
20.30 - 21.55 (Sound and Vision)
WEST END
Cinema City Walking Tour
18.30 - 20.30 (Cinema City) (Festival for a Fiver)
I MAX
Rab’s Video Game Empty
19.00 - 21.00 (Nerdvana)
THE ART SCHOOL
AlgoRhythm
19.00 - 22.00 (Crossing the Line) (Special ticket price)
Friday 27 February
GFT1
Autumn Sonata
10.30 - 12.10 (Here’s Looking at You, Kid) (Festival for a Fiver)
The Atticus Institute
13.30 - 15.15 (Fright Fest Glasgow 2015)
The Hoarder
16.00 - 17.30 (Fright Fest Glasgow 2015)
Wyrmwood
18.30 - 20.15 (Fright Fest Glasgow 2015)
88
21.00 - 22.50 (Fright Fest Glasgow 2015)
Backmask
23.15- 00.50 (Fright Fest Glasgow 2015)
GFT2
Warsaw Uprising
11.00 - 12.30 (Stranger Than Fiction)
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Jauja
13.00 - 14.50 (Window on the World)
I Can Quit Whenever I Want
15.30 - 17.15 (Pioneer)
1001 Grams
18.15 - 19.55 (Cine masters)
A Girl Walks Home Alone...
20.30 - 22.15 (Pioneer) (Audience Award)
The Dead Lands
22.45 - 00.40 (Window on the World)
GFT3
Life’s a Beach
10.45 - 11.45 (Stranger Than Fiction)
A Girl at My Door
12.45 - 14.50 (Pioneer)
Next to Her
15.45 - 17.20 (Pioneer)
The Cut
18.00 - 20.25 (Window on the World)
Electric Boogaloo
20.45 - 22.40 (Stranger Than Fiction)
The Samurai
23.00 - 00.25 (Pioneer)
C C A Theatre
Revenge of The Mekons
13.30 - 15.10 (Sound and Vision)
Limited Partnership
15.45 - 17.05 (Stranger Than Fiction)
Burroughs: The Movie
18.15 - 19.50 (Stranger Than Fiction)
Man from Reno
20.45 - 22.40 (Window on the World)
C C A Cinema
BAFTA Masterclass: Production Design
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18.30 - 19.30 (Behind the Scenes) (Free Event)
Letters to Max
20.30 - 22.30 (Crossing the Line)
Grosvenor
Memphis
15.00 - 16.25 (Sound and Vision)
The Falling
20.30 - 22.15 (Best of British)
Mackintosh Queen’s
Love Is All
Doors 17.30, Film 18.00 - 19.15 (Special Events) (Festival for a Fiver)
Wake in Fright
21.00 - 23.00 (Strewth! The Films of Oz) (Festival for a Fiver)
Saturday 28 February
GFT1
Clown
11.00 - 12.50 (Fright Fest Glasgow 2015)
Blood and Black Lace
13.30 - 15.05 (Fright Fest Glasgow 2015)
The Woods
16.00 - 17.45 (Fright Fest Glasgow 2015)
The Treatment
18.30 - 20.55 (Fright Fest Glasgow 2015)
[REC] 4: Apocalypse
21.30 - 23.10 (Fright Fest Glasgow 2015)
There Are Monsters
23.30- 01.00 (Fright Fest Glasgow 2015)
GFT2
Take 2: The Incredibles
11.30 - 13.25 (Modern Families) (Festival for a Fiver) (Free Event)
Wasted Time
14.00-15.00 (Cinema City)
Dreamcatcher
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15.45 - 17.30 (Stranger Than Fiction)
Sea Without Shore
18.15 - 19.50 (Crossing the Line)
Eden
20.40 - 22.55 (Sound and Vision)
The Samurai
23.20 - 00.45 (Pioneer)
GFT3
1001 Grams
13.00 - 14.40 (Cine masters)
The Cut
15.15 - 17.40 (Window on the World)
Coming Home
18.00 - 19.55 (Cine masters)
A Girl at My Door
20.20 - 22.25 (Pioneer)
C C A Theatre
Burroughs: The Movie
13.30 - 15.05 (Stranger Than Fiction)
Electric Boogaloo
15.45 - 17.40 (Stranger Than Fiction)
Limited Partnership
18.15 - 19.35 (Stranger Than Fiction)
Next to Her
20.30 - 22.05 (Pioneer)
C C A Cinema
Sound Masterclass with Glen Freemantle
15.00-16.00 (Behind the Scenes) (Free Event)
Grosvenor
The Dead Lands
15.00 - 16.55 (Window on the World)
A Girl Walks Home Alone...
20.30 - 22.15 (Pioneer) (Audience Award)
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Odeon at the Quay
Maya the Bee Movie
12.00 - 13.30 (Modern Families)
Drygate
The Goonies
Doors 12.00, Film 13.00 - 14.55 (Nerdvana) (Festival for a Fiver)
King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters + Arcade Games
Doors / Games 16.00, Film 16.30-17.55, Games cont. to 19.15
(Nerdvana) (Festival for a Fiver)
Dazed and Confused + Roller Disco
Doors & Bar 20.00, Roller Disco 20.30 - 22.00, Film 22.45 - 00.30
(Nerdvana) (Special ticket price)
City Centre
Cinema City Walking Tour
14.00 - 16.00 (Cinema City) (Festival for a Fiver)
Cineworld Parkhead
The Boy and the World
15.00 - 16.25 (Modern Families)
Paisley Arts Centre
The Bells of St Mary’s
15.00 - 17.10 (Here’s Looking at You, Kid) (Festival for a Fiver)
I Need a Dodge
19.30 - 20.40 (Sound and Vision) (Festival for a Fiver)
Sunday 1 March
GFT1
Cat Video Festival
10.45 - 12.00 (Modern Families) (Free Event)
Cat Video Festival
12.30 - 13.45 (Modern Families) (Free Event)
Small Faces
14.10 - 16.00 (Cinema City)
The Ninth Cloud
17.00 - 18.35 (Best of British)
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Closing Gala / Force Majeure
Doors 19.30, Film 20.00 - 22.10 Gala (Special ticket price)
GFT2
The Golden Era
10.30 - 13.30 (Cine masters)
On the Trail of the Far Fur Country
14.20 - 15.45 (Stranger Than Fiction)
Coming Home
16.45 - 18.40 (Cine masters)
Closing Gala / Force Majeure
Doors 19.30, Film 20.00 - 22.10 Gala (Special ticket price)
GFT3
Eden
11.00 - 13.15 (Sound and Vision)
From What Is Before
13.30 - 19.10 (Cine masters)
Closing Gala / Force Majeure
Doors 19.30, Film 20.00 - 22.10 Gala (Special ticket price)
Old Fruitmarket
The Adventures...
18.30 - 19.45 (Modern Families) (Special ticket price)
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Jeely Jars and Seeing Stars
12th — 28th February 2015 Free
An exhibition celebrating Glasgow’s love affair with the movies
Mon–Thursday : 9 a.m.–8 p.m. Fri–Sat: 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Sun: Closed
Mitchell Library
Old Glasgow Room
North St, Glasgow, G3 7 D N
www.glasgowfilm.org/jeelyjars
The Scottish Film Summit at Glasgow Film Festival
Saturday 21 February, 2 p.m. until late.
Film City Glasgow
401 Govan Road, Glasgow G51 2 Q J.
Free but please register via Eventbrite. Industry panels, screenings,
networking, and much more. Facebook:
www.facebook.com/ScottishFilmSummit
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Thank You
Finn Arschavir G F T Bar Staff
Martin Baillie Jeely Jars Graphic Designer
Catriona Baird Exhibition Project Curator
Liam Bartie Programme & Events Assistant
Joseph Blythe Festival Press Assistant
Karlean Bourne G F T Front of House Manager
Malcolm Brown Technical Manager
Richard Cairns Glasgow Film Board Member
Adrianne Calgie G Y F F Marketing & Engagement
Bailie Liz Cameron Glasgow Film Board Member
Iain Canning Festival Programme Coordinator
Damien Chalmers G F T Front of House Staff
Ailie Crerar Festival Press Assistant
Gavin Crosby Design & Digital Marketing Officer
Morvern Cunningham G S F F Coordinator
Cllr Frank Docherty Glasgow Film Board Member
Louise Donoghue Learning Projects Coordinator
Neil Thomas Douglas Photographer
Robbie Duncan Technician
Sarah Emery Guest Services Coordinator
Lula Erdman G F T Front of House Staff
Marisol Erdman G F T Front of House Staff
Amy Eusebi G F T Front of House Staff
Angela Freeman Senior Front of House Manager
Angela Fussell Oral History Project Manager
Paul Gallagher Marketing Manager
Sam Gallagher Festival Trailer Composer
Allison Gardner Head of Cinemas / G F F Co-director
David Gattens Head of Finance
David Gordon Glasgow Film Board Member
Greg Grant G F T Bar Staff
Mirren Green G F T Box Office Staff
Sean Greenhorn Programme Coordinator
Clare Gunn G F F Comms & Venue Marketing Assistant
Janice Halkett G F T Cleaner
Jane Hartshorn Marketing & Press Officer
Tim Hughes G F T Bar Staff
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Allan Hunter G F F Co-director
Steve Inch, O B E Chair of Glasgow Film Board
Kirstin Innes Press Manager
Sanne Jehoul G S F F Assistant
Matt Lloyd G S F F Director
Margaret Lynch G F T Head Cleaner
Rachael Loughlan Volunteer Coordinator
Alex Mackenzie G F T Front of House Manager
Chris MacMillan G F T Box Office Staff
Lee MacPherson G F T Front of House Manager
James Macvicar G F T Front of House Staff
Liana Marletta Development Executive
Mairi McCuish G F T Cleaner
Jaki McDougall Chief Executive of Glasgow Film
Eleanor McAllister, O B E Glasgow Film Board Member
Abi McCormack G F T Bar Staff
Emma McIntyre Event Coordinator
Simon McMillan Glasgow Film Board Member
Fiona McQuillan G Y F F Assistant
Uzma Mir-Young Glasgow Film Board Member
Richie Morgan Festival Filmmaker
David Morrow Festival Trailer Animator
Dame Nosheena Mobarik Glasgow Film Board Member
Marion Morrison G F T Cleaner
Liz Murphy G F T Bar Staff
William Nation G F T Cleaner
Nav Noorbakhsh Print Traffic Coordinator
Corinne Orton Festival Producer
Sofia Permiakova Guest Assistant
Jenny Reburn G F T Box Office Staff
Susan Robinson Glasgow Film Board Member
Dawn Ross Public Engagement Coordinator
Ieva Rotomskyte G F T Bar Staff
Miriam Rune Festival Marketing Assistant
Jackie Shearer Glasgow Film Board Member
John Skivington G F T Cleaner
Susan Stewart Glasgow Film Board Member
Alicja Tokarska Front of House Assistant & Box Office
Niall Walker Festival Creative Designer
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Bryan Wilson Admin & Finance Assistant
David Wylie Technician
Eleanor Yule Glasgow Film Board Member
Paul Zealey Glasgow Film Board Member
A massive thank you also to our fantastic G F F and G F T volunteers, and all staff
at our festival venues.
Partners, Sponsors and Supporters
G F F 15 would like to thank the following, without whom none of this
would be possible:
Major Partners
Creative Scotland; EventScotland; B F I; Glasgow City Council; Glasgow
City Marketing Bureau
Sponsors
Heritage Lottery Fund; Arnold Clark; McKinlay Kidd; Arts & Business
Scotland
Supporters
Glasgow Film Theatre; Cameron Presentations; Embassy of Sweden;
Hugh Fraser Foundation; McAllister Litho Glasgow Ltd.; University of
Glasgow Confucius Institute; Digital Cinema Media; Exterion Media;
Japan Foundation; T P A; Sasakawa Foundation, Mr & Mrs William
Donald’s Memorial Trust, per Mactaggart & Co. Solicitors, Largs; S P T;
Scottish Citylink; Instituto Italiano de Cultura; Alliance Francaise
Glasgow; Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Edinburgh;
Goethe Institut Glasgow; Brewdog; Link-Tel Communications;
ProperCorn.
Media Partners
The Skinny; Sunday Herald; Evening Times; The Big Issue; S T V; The
List Guides.
Programme Partners
Europa Cinemas; Film4 FrightFest; The University of Edinburgh; LUX;
Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life; National Library of
Scotland Scottish Screen Archive; University of Glasgow; SIPS; BAFTA
Scotland; Glasgow Libraries; Centre for Contemporary Arts.
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Thanks to: The Art School, Craignish Trust, Dancesport, Drygate
Brewery, Glasgow Concert Halls, Glasgow Life, Glasgow Life Photo
Library, Go M A, Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, L A Group,
Mackintosh Queen's Cross, Merchant's House of Glasgow, The Mitchell
Library, O2 A B C, Old Fruitmarket, Paisley Arts Centre, Pier Arts Centre,
Pollokshaws Burgh Hall, Saints and Sinners, Saramago, Sheffield Doc /
Fest, St Andrew’s in the Square, Stereo, Synergy Concerts, The Trades
Hall of Glasgow, West of Scotland Chauffeur Drive.
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