After last year’s event was forced online due to Covid restrictions, a touch of glitz and glamour is returning for this year’s edition of the festival, running from March 2-13.
There will be four European premieres, 65 UK premieres and 13 Scottish premieres, while the feast of film will host an exclusive preview screening of the first episode in Season Six of the global smash-hit Outlander, and a range of famous faces will be walking the red carpet.
Films will be screened in partner cinemas across the UK – from Stornoway to Bristol – while Glasgow-born writer, director, producer and performer Armando Iannucci will appear live at a special ‘In Conversation’ event.
And organisers can also boast 10 world premieres which will be shown for the first time at the festival, many of which will also include post-screening Q&As with the filmmakers.
Tickets for most of them are still available on the festival website.
So, here are the films you can see before anybody else in Glasgow next month.
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5. Skint
Skint will premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival on Thursday, March 10, at 5.30pm. The compendium brings together a wealth of talent on both sides of the camera to tell vivid, heartrending personal stories of living with poverty and homelessness, and how it is used to define who you are. Highlights include Heart Of Glass written and directed by Jenni Fagan and starring Isis Hainsworth, and James Price’s The Taking Of Balgrayhill Street with a tour-de-force performance from Peter Mullan. Photo: Contributed
6. A Cloud So High
A Cloud So High premieres as part of Frightfest at the Glasgow Film Theatre at 4pm on Friday, March 11, including a Q&A with Christopher Lee Parson. While living under the roof of his ageing, disgraced ex-cop father Gene, mentally unstable 22-year-old war veteran Paul evolves from a petty thief and ransacker to brutal killer. Gene, who is a recovering alcoholic, is now forced to confront a fierce new nemesis: his own son. Photo: Contributed
7. Monstrous
Monstrous will have its world premiere as part of Frightfest at the Glasgow Film Theatre on Saturday, March 12, at 5.45pm, including a Q&A with director Chris Sivertson. Christina Ricci gives a powerful and emotional performance as Laura. Traumatised by an abusive relationship, she finally flees from her ex-husband with her seven-year-old son, Cody. But in their new, idyllic and remote sanctuary, they find that they have a bigger and more terrifying monster to deal with…one that will test their physical and mental limits the max. Photo: Contributed
8. Wake Up Punk
Wake Up Punk has its world premiere at 6pm on Saturday, March 12, at the Glasgow Film Theatre, including a Q&A with filmmaker Nigel Askew and star Joe Corre. In 2016 the son of Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood burnt millions of pounds worth of punk-era memorabilia in protest. Nigel Askew's freewheeling documentary recalls the energy and anarchy of the punk era and gives a voice to Corre’s fear that 'punk has become part of business as usual', but It also finds hope that the punk spirit survives in the guise of current protest movements, bringing the hunger for change into the hands of the people. Photo: Contributed