LGBT films at the Glasgow Film Festival

Glasgow Film Festival, showing 90 films over 11 days, running from 15 to 25 Feb, promises a massive range of films spanning genres and continents. Here are six LGBT films worth catching.

Sunday 18 February 8.45pm and Monday 19 at 1.30pm - Glasgow Film Theatre: The Dying Gaul, Craig Lucas's directorial debut which sees Robert (Peter Sarsgaard), a struggling screenwriter, meeting with studio exec Jeffrey (Campbell Scott), who offers Robert a million bucks for his screenplay about his AIDS-stricken lover. But there's a catch: Robert must change the pair from gay to straight. (2005, Cert 15, 1h15m)

Tuesday 20 February 6.00pm – Glasgow Film Theatre: A Soap, a Danish film by Pernille Fischer Christensen. 32-year-old Charlotte (Trine Dryholm) moves away from her boyfriend and into the flat above the transsexual Veronica (David Dencik). Veronica prefers to keep to herself with her little dog and a romantic soap show on TV, while Charlotte gets through the nights with one-night stands. (2006, Cert 18, 1h44m)

Wednesday 21 February 8.15pm – Glasgow CCA: The Wayward Cloud. An
idiosyncratic film by Taiwanese director Ming-liang Tsai, featuring
explicit sex scenes, true love and camp musical numbers set during a
drought in Taipei. (2006, Cert 18, 1h52m)

Thursday 22 February 6.30pm – Glasgow Film Theatre: The Blossoming of
Maximo Oliveros. Young Maxi (Nathan Lopez) is growing up gay in the slums
of Manilla, hopelessly devoted to his protective family of small-time
criminals until he meets new police recruit Victor Perez (JR Valentin)
inspiring Maxi to lead a better life. (2005, Cert 15, 1h40m)

Friday 23 February 8.45pm – Glasgow Film Theatre: Summer in Berlin.
Friends Nike (Inka Friedrich) and Katrin (Nadja Uhl) have their
stable, if dysfunctional, lives radically altered with the arrival of
Ronald the trucker (Andreas Schmidt) (2005, Cert 15, 1h07m)