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GLASGOW 2025

Glasgow Film Festival announces the full programme for its 21st edition

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- Scotland’s largest film gathering will open with the world premiere of John Maclean’s survival thriller Tornado and close with Martyn Robertson’s doc Make It to Munich

Glasgow Film Festival announces the full programme for its 21st edition
Tornado by John Maclean

Unspooling from 26 February-9 March, the Glasgow Film Festival marks its 21st year highlighting the best of cinema from Scotland and beyond, having developed into the country’s largest film gathering. This year’s event boasts films from 39 countries, including 12 world and European premieres, 67 UK premieres and 12 Scottish premieres. This edition also marks Glasgow Film Festival director Allison Gardner’s final edition after 30 years at Glasgow Film.

The festival will open with the world-premiering sophomore feature of Scottish director John Maclean, a survival-thriller titled Tornado, starring Pulp Fiction thesp Tim Roth and star of the Apple TV+ series Slow Horses Jack Lowden, also shot on location in Scotland. The 12 days will close out with the world premiere of Scottish documentary filmmaker Martyn Robertson’s Make It to Munich, which follows teenager Ethan Walker as he cycled from Glasgow’s Hampden Park to Munich Football Arena for Scotland’s opening Euro24 match last July.

The world premieres include Hill by Alex Holmes, a documentary that follows Formula One world champion Damon Hill in his quest to step out of the shadow of his racing-star father, and the debut feature by Daniel V Masciari, Stationed at Home. The UK premieres coming to the festival include Uberto Pasolini's The Return [+see also:
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, the New Zealand ghost story Went up the Hill, starring Vicky Krieps, Luis Ortega's Argentinian crime caper Kill the Jockey [+see also:
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, Nacho Vigalondo’s Spanish sci-fi romance Daniela Forever [+see also:
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, Aude Léa Rapin’s French dystopian thriller Planet B [+see also:
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and Red Sea Film Festival winner Red Path [+see also:
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by Lotfi Achour.

Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Middle Ages-set Scottish folk horror Harvest [+see also:
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, Joshua Oppenheimer's post-apocalyptic musical The End [+see also:
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and the Nicolas Cage-led joyride horror The Surfer [+see also:
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by Lorcan Finnegan will all enjoy their Scottish premieres at the festival. Scottish-based Laura Carreira's festival favourite and Glasgow/Edinburgh-shot On Falling [+see also:
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will also emerge with its Scottish premiere on 28 February, with the event hosting special screenings of the movie at partner cinemas across the UK.

This year’s country focus is Austria, with a section entitled “From the Heart of Europe: Austria on Screen”. Top flicks from this section include Josef Hader's tragicomedy Andrea Gets a Divorce [+see also:
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, Juliane Niemann and Daniel Hoesel's Veni Vidi Vici [+see also:
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, and Michael Haneke's classic, Isabelle Huppert-led psychological drama The Piano Teacher [+see also:
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. The festival’s retrospective programme for this edition homes in on different perspectives on coming of age, featuring Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird and Julia Ducournau’s Raw [+see also:
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The Glasgow Film Festival is run by Glasgow Film, and is supported by Screen Scotland, the BFI National Lottery Audience Projects Fund, Glasgow Life and EventScotland. The Glasgow 850 Festival Fund will engage festival-goers with the city’s 850th birthday celebrations occurring this year, while MUBI sponsors the event’s Audience Award.

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