Film Festivals
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FilmI Am Not Your Negro
Raoul Peck brings James Baldwin’s powerful words to the screen Read more »| 28 Feb 2017 -
FilmLipstick Under My Burkha wins GFF audience award
Glasgow Film Festival audiences vote banned Indian movie Lipstick Under My Burkha as this year’s Audience Award winner Read more »| 27 Feb 2017 -
Music
Lost In France @ O2 ABC, 21 Feb
In 2015 a group of scene-defining Scottish musicians escaped from the present to travel almost two decades back to their past. With the space and distance to... Read more »| 24 Feb 2017 -
FilmWeirdos
An endearingly sweet, emotionally satisfying road movie from Bruce McDonald Read more »| 23 Feb 2017 -
FilmRD Laing and Psychiatry on Screen
With RD Laing biopic Mad to be Normal closing the Glasgow Film Festival, we take a look at other films which shed light on the controversial psychiatrist's a... Read more »| 23 Feb 2017 -
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Juho Kuosmanen on The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki is about an unassuming Finnish boxer who has his nation's hopes pinned on his success. We speak to its directo... Read more »| 22 Feb 2017
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Lipstick Under My Burkha
An unflinching drama observing the depths of women’s suffering in contemporary Indian society. Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
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The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
A quartet of essay film portraying the great writer, artist and critic John Berger Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
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Bodkin Ras
Documentary and fiction collide in this tale of a mysterious stranger's arrival in a Scottish town Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
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Headshot
Brutal action flick from Indonesia featuring Raid star Iko Uwais Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
FilmAngry Inuk
Documentary looking at seal hunting from the point of view of an Inuit community who see it as a way of life Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
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Graduation
Great Romanian new wave director Cristian Mungiu returns with another beautifully structured film about a family mired in a suspenseful web of compromises Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
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Way of the Gun: Cinema's most underrated shootouts
Ahead of Ben Wheatley's new film Free Fire, we pay tribute to some of cinemas great, but under-appreciated, gun fights. Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
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Illegitimate
A black comedy-infused drama from Romania taking on two tough subjects: abortion and incest Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
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In Praise of the visionary Gore Verbinski
Ahead of GFF's screening of A Cure for Wellness, one writer takes a look at the career of its mercurial director, Gore Verbinski, one of the more divisive Hollywood directors regularly handed big budgets Read more »| 20 Feb 2017