Mom – review by Danielle O’Neill
Mom Glasgow FrightFest – part of Glasgow Film Festival, 2024 Mom dares to use the taboo subject of post partum depression combined with what may or may not be supernatural external forces. This is an unsettling, dark film which sees Meredith, a new mother with a seemingly doting husband and a beautiful lavish home, slowly […]
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Thursday, March 14, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Film Reviews, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2024, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Love Lies Bleeding, GFF24, review by Pat Byrne
Love Lies Bleeding GFF24 Opening Gala Fasten your seatbelts, folks as sex, drugs, violence and bitterness explode onto the screen in Rose Glass’ movie ‘Love Lies Bleeding’. Rose Glass’s second film, following her debut, the critically acclaimed Saint Maud, was the choice for the Opening Gala at GFF24. It premiered at Sundance and the Berlin […]
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The Deep Dark review by Danielle O’Neill
Part of FrightFest at Glasgow Film Festival 2024 UK Premiere “It’s 1856, and in the historic coal mines of Northern France, a group of miners find themselves trapped in the subterranean depths after a cave-in.” Director: Mathieu. Turi Cast: Samuel LeBihan, Amir El Kacem, Jean-Hughes Anglade. It’s a creature feature for the grown ups, characters […]
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Wednesday, March 13, 2024 | Filed under: Film reviews, Film Reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2024
Audience Award Glasgow Film Festival 2024
The Home Game Icelandic football film The Home Game scoops prestigious Audience Award on closing night of Glasgow Film Festival Smari Gunn and Logi Sigursveinsson’s documentary about plucky underdogs Reynir FC’s bid for Cup glory scored the highest audience score in the Award’s 10-year history Other films shortlisted for the Award, sponsored by MUBI, included […]
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Monday, March 11, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2024, Pat's Home Page Blog
Glasgow Film Festival Industry Programme – 10 Year Vision
Glasgow Film Festival Industry Focus 2024 has unveiled its 10-Year Vision for Glasgow Film Festival’s Industry programme, with ambitious plans to become the UK’s main destination for independent filmmakers Scottish writer-Director Selina Wagner has been awarded £5000 in development funding for animation project Tirrick following success at inaugural Animatic Live Pitches Over 5 days, delegates […]
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Friday, March 8, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2024, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
I Dream In Photos GFF24
7 and 8 March, 2024 Scottish Premiere Festival alumni Gary Lennon and Ollie Aslin (Casto Spies) explore the life and work of photographer Cathal McNaughton on a hiatus from photography, as he reflects on his impressive and emotionally taxing career. Northern Irish photographer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 Cathal McNaughton contemplates the […]
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Wednesday, March 6, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2024
Rosalie GFF24
9 and 10 March, 2024 A period drama about a woman who suffers from hirsutism – making her what is considered a ‘bearded lady’. She keeps it a secret until a man marries her for her dowry. In 1870s France, a young woman is keeping a closely guarded secret. Rosalie (Nadia Tereskiewicz) was born with […]
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GFF24 Special Event: The Wizard of Oz
Thursday 7 March, 2024 8pm Cottiers, 91 – 93 Hyndland Street, G11 5PU Join GFF at Cottiers for a very special screening as they celebrate the year 1939, which not only marks the film’s release but also the year that the Cosmo Cinema (now GFT) was founded. After a tornado sweeps though their home, Dorothy […]
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The Home Game GFF24
6 and 7 March, 2024 The real story of how a plucky village football team became determined to play a home game in Iceland’s FA Cup is a celebration of team spirit for underdogs everywhere. In 1994 one man in the Icelandic village of Hellissandur (population: 369) had a dream to build a football pitch […]
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Glasgow FrightFest – In Flames – UK Premiere
7 March, 2024 – UK Premiere also showing 8 March, 2024. – Buy tickets In Flames is an incendiary horror-thriller that illuminates the psychological impact of gendered oppression and the horror of being young and in love in a fiercely patriarchal society. After the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter’s precarious existence […]
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Gestures of Memory: R21 AKA Restoring Solidarity
Friday, 8 March, 2024 – 8.30 p.m. CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Upon receiving a mystery package containing 16mm film, the filmmaker scanned it to reveal twenty lost films collected by the Japanese activists who were part of the country’s solidarity movement with Palestine. Excerpts of these archival films captured by filmmakers in various […]
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Late Bloomers GFF24
10 March, 2024, 1.30 p.m. Starring Scottish superstar and festival favourite Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy), Late Bloomers is a dark comedy that’s bursting with feeling and laugh out loud humour. When a struggling musician’s questionable life choices leave her in hospital with a broken hip and a broken heart, her unlikely bond with […]
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Blue Sunshine
Tuesday 5 and Thursday 7 March, 2024 Buy tickets > This finely tuned drama focuses on the inner strength of a transgender teacher as she makes her transition to her new life as Bhanu while working in a conservative small-town school. When she finds herself under pressure to marry, she decides to embrace her new […]
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Glasgow FrightFest 2024 All You Need Is Death
9 March, 2024 at 8.25 p.m. ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH (GLASGOW FRIGHTFEST) Blending Irish folklore and musical traditions with nerve-wracking horror, Paul Duane’s masterful debut feature All You Need is Death is one of the most unique and unsettling films of the year. A young couple on a journey for dark, forbidden knowledge travel […]
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The Philadelphia Story, GFF24 at CCA
8 March, 2024 CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and James Stewart star as a dynamic threesome in this comedic romp. On the day before her wedding, an ex-husband (Grant) and an undercover journalist (Stewart) turn up on the door of a wealthy socialite (Hepburn). The Philadelphia Story was Katharine Hepburn’s […]
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Tummy Monster, GFF24
7 March, 2024, 12.50 p.m. GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Rising Scottish star Lorn Macdonald (Beats) stars as a self-centred tattoo artist whose fixation on getting a selfie with a famous client embroils him in a bizarre and dangerous game. Glasgow-based director Ciaran Lyons makes a virtue of his low budget in this blackly […]
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Tuesday, March 5, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2024
The Invisible Fight
6 and 7 March, 2024 Heavy metal and kung-fu comedy come together with anarchic absurdity in this tale of a soldier whose brush with death leads him to decide to become a martial arts monk. The colourful exuberance and dodgy fashions of the 1970s are perfectly captured in Rainer Sarnet’s anarchic kung-fu comedy. When Black […]
Bleeding Love – GFF24 review by Pat Byrne
Bleeding Love is a road trip movie starring Ewan McGregor and his daughter Clara. They play father and daughter taking a trip together from San Diego to New Mexico after the daughter has experienced a drug overdose. It’s a long drive to where they are going, apparently to see an artist friend, and the two […]
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Sunday, March 3, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Film reviews, Film Reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2024, Pat's Home Page Blog
Float – Series 2, GFF24
4 March, 2024 Black Camel Pictures’ award-winning drama from writer Stef Smith returns for a second series. Jade and Collette reunite 18 months after the first series as the show moves beyond the world of the swimming pool. Black Camel Pictures’ queer short-form drama from writer Stef Smith, revolving around the intense relationship that develops […]
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Hounds GFF24 at Cineworld2
4 and 5 March, 2024 Set over a single night, this tightly wound thriller charts a kidnapping gone awry at the hands of a financially struggling father and son who are on a job for the local mob. A father (Abdellatif Masstouri) and his son (Ayoub Elaïd) are trying to make ends meet. They find […]
Only The River Flows
4 and 5 March, 2024 (4th sold out) This moody Asian-noir crime thriller, laced with dark humour, charts a detective’s attempts to identify a serial killer in a rural town as the secrets of the locals are gradually revealed. A quick arrest after a murder sits uneasily with chief of police Ma Zhe (Yilong Zhu), […]
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Love Jones GFF24
4 March, 2024 – 5.45 p.m. From the golden age of 1990s African American cinema comes Love Jones, a classically cool Black love story that made room for more diverse depictions of Black love on screen. Boy (a poet) meets girl (a photographer) at an open mic night in a ‘90s Chicago bar. Sexy, smooth […]
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The Burning Season GFF 2024
3 and 4 March, 2024 The story of a long-running love affair linked to an incident from the past unspools backwards to reveal its secrets in a twisty tale of a bad romance. Married couple Alena (Sara Canning) and Tom (Joe Pingue) have been visiting the Luna Lake cabins every summer for years. This year […]
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Saturday, March 2, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2024, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Teacher
4 and 5 March, 2024 (4 th screening sold out) nspired by true events, this powerful West Bank-set drama centres on a grieving schoolteacher who is attempting to keep a student out of trouble whilst engaging in his own acts of political resistance. British-Palestinian Farah Nabulsi – who won a BAFTA for her short film […]
Milk Teeth GFF24
4 and 5 March, 2024 An atmospheric survivalist drama with a fairy-tale edge sees trouble brewing for a young woman and her mother after they take in a foundling youngster against the wishes of their community. In a near-future isolated community where suspicion and superstition thrive, Skalde (Mathilde Bundschuh) has a difficult relationship with her […]
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Woken GFF24
3 and 4 March, 2024 Set in the near-future, this psychological sci-fi thriller stars Erin Kellyman (Solo: A Star Wars Story) as Anna, a pregnant woman who wakes up on an island with no recollection of anyone she’s living with — including her husband. Alan Friel’s twisty debut follows Anna as she becomes increasingly suspicious […]
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Tickets on sale Glasgow Film Festival 2024
28 February – March, 2024 The wait is over! You’ve had a few days to soak up GFF24’s jam packed programme, and been on the edge of your seats and biting your nails waiting for your chance to snag those tickets. GFF is thrilled to announce that the full programme general sale is now live! […]
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The Dead Don’t Hurt at GFF
3 and 4 March, 2024 Viggo Mortensen writes, directs and stars in this original take on the classic Western, in a story that centres on the adventurous life of fiercely independent Vivienne Le Coudy, played by Vicky Krieps. Viggo Mortensen heads back to the 1860s for this moving romantic Western. Vicky Krieps stars as French-Canadian […]
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Filmmaking with Kevin Macdonald at Glasgow Film Festival 2024
Tuesday 5 March, 2024 at 4 p.m. GFF Industry Focus is excited to welcome Glasgow’s very own Kevin Macdonald, the renowned film director of The Last King of Scotland, State of Play and Touching the Void fame. This extra special panel dubbed Filmmaking with Kevin Macdonald, will host Kevin as he discusses his career in […]
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Brothers Glasgow Film Festival 2024
Friday 1 and Saturday 2 March, 2024 Czechia’s entry for this year’s Best International Feature Oscar recounts the gripping true story of the Mašín brother’s anti-Communist resistance and their attempt to flee to the West in 1953. Official Entry: Czechia – Best International Feature – 96th Academy Awards® Seven decades after brothers Josef and Ctirad […]
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Friday, March 1, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2024, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
