The 22nd edition of Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) will be taking place between 25 February and 8 March, showcasing a total of 126 films from 44 countries, with 16 world, European, and international premieres, 68 UK premieres and 18 Scottish premieres.

For the first time, Scotland’s largest film festival will open and close with UK premieres of films shot in Glasgow. The festival kicks off with BAFTA-winner Felipe Bustos Sierra’s documentary Everybody to Kenmure Street [+lee también:
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Scottish films having their world premiere include Sailm nan Daoine (Psalms of the People), Jack Archer’s documentary about Scotland’s cultural heritage of traditional Gaelic psalm singing, Welcome to G-Town, the debut feature from twin brothers Ben McQuaid and Nathan McQuaid, and Marc Silver’s documentary Molly vs THE MACHINES.

Other Scottish films having their UK premieres include Edinburgh filmmaker Sean Dunn's hotly anticipated debut The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford, also selected in Sundance; Hassan Nazer’s Iranian-Scottish co-production Without Permission; Polly Findlay’s Midwinter Break, starring Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds; and Vladimir de Fontenay’s My Father's Island [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] starring Swann Arlaud and world-premiered in last year’s Sundance. Films with ties to Scotland that will have their Scottish premiere at the festival, such as Stroma Cairns' The Son and the Sea [+lee también:
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FrightFest, GFF’s resident horror festival, will also open with the world premiere of Vasily Chuprina’s high-stakes action thriller Jailbroken, a Scottish co-production.

The UK premieres include Couture [+lee también:
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ficha de la película]. Foreign language films by female filmmakers take a prominent place in the programme with Agnieszka Holland’s Franz [+lee también:
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The Country Focus strand ‘Take a Chance on Me: Swedish Cinema’ will include UK premieres of recent Swedish titles. The festival’s retrospective, with the theme ‘Truth to Power’, will feature 10 classics from the 1930s to present day that stand as cinematic statements of resistance or feature characters that rise against the systems of power, including Alan J Pakula’s All the President’s Men. Head of programme Paul Gallagher said, “The idea for this year’s retrospective began as I reflected on the legacy and influence of the late Robert Redford. With his classic All the President’s Men serving as a starting point, ‘Truth to Power’ focuses on filmmakers who have taken on daunting targets – power, corruption and injustice – and created all-time classic films in the process; films that are not only hugely entertaining but retain sharp relevance to this day.”