
Running from 28th February to 10th March here's our pick of the films showing at Glasgow Film Festival 2024
Wednesday 28th February
Love Lies Bleeding
Love and violence come together in an explosive cocktail in this
thriller starring Kristen Stewart as a gym manager who falls for a
bodybuilder, with dangerous implications for them both.
Opening Film - Also showing on the 29th February
Thursday 29th February
Black Dog
An extrovert foster kid desperate to see his sister ends up on an
unexpected road trip with an introverted fellow teen in
actor-turned-director George Jaques’s funny and touching tale of
friendship and moving on.
Also showing on the 1st March
Dale Dickey (Winter’s Bone, A Love Song) stars in this pacy and complex
revenge thriller that proves hell hath no fury like a grandmother
scorned.
Also showing on the 2nd March
Radu Jude’s latest satire takes us on an absurdist road trip through
Romania past and present as a worn-out production assistant tries to
make a workplace safety video come together.
Also showing on the 1st March
Friday 1st March
The Teachers Lounge
An idealistic teacher finds her good intentions leave her trapped in a
moral maze after she tries to get to the bottom of school thefts in lker
Çatak’s tense drama.
Also showing on the 2nd March
Martinez
Also showing on the 29th February
Sleep
Also showing on the 2nd March
Saturday 2nd March
Based on true events, Audrey (Jena Malone) is drifting through life. She loses her
job and her boyfriend and is struggling to pay the rent. YouTube videos
of adult adoption inspire her to seek an older couple who might be
prepared to adopt her. When she meets eccentric, uptight engineer Otto
(an unforgettable Robert Hunger-Bühler) and his wife Sonny (Emily Kuroda) it is hardly a match made in heaven, but a bond gradually develops that challenges and surprises all of them.
Also showing on the 3rd March
Falling Into Place
Also showing on the 3rd March
An undocumented immigrant who signs up to the Foreign Legion becomes
increasingly psychologically troubled after a mission to the Niger Delta
in this gripping and hallucinatory character study, starring Franz
Rogowski.
Also showing on the 3rd March
Sorcery
After her father is murdered by German settlers, a young Indigenous girl
on a remote Chilean island embraces witchcraft in a bid for justice in
this atmospheric and otherworldly tale.
Also showing on the 3rd March
Sunday 3rd March
In 2041 an unnatural death doesn’t have to mean the end. When a
developer of the technology and his wife are murdered, a detective
becomes mired in the case.
Also showing on the 2nd March
The Burning Season
The story of a long-running love affair linked to an incident from the
past unspools backwards to reveal its secrets in a twisty tale of a bad
romance.
Also showing on the 4th March
Monday 4th March
Milk Teeth
An atmospheric survivalist drama with a fairy-tale edge sees trouble
brewing for a young woman and her mother after they take in a foundling
youngster against the wishes of their community.
Also showing on the 5th March
Only The River Flows
This moody Asian-noir crime thriller, laced with dark humour, charts a
detective’s attempts to identify a serial killer in a rural town as the
secrets of the locals are gradually revealed.
Also showing on the 5th March
Tuesday 5th March
Made In England: The Films Of Powell And Pressburger
Directing great, Martin Scorsese, offers a personal consideration of the
work and influence of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, who made
classics including The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death.
Also showing on the 6th March
Biopic about Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson as she works on her
hit book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent, which was sparked by the
killing of unarmed Black teenager Trayvon Martin.
Also showing on the 2nd March
Hesitation Wound
Taut character study observing an intense 24 hours in the life of a
lawyer defending a man accused of murder while, at home, she faces
difficult decisions regarding her hospitalised mother.
Also showing on the 6th March
Wednesday 6th March
Baby Assassins 2
The kick-ass assassins with slacker tendencies are back in a fast-paced
and funny sequel that sees them trying to pay off a gym debt while
avoiding losing their spot in the Assassins’ Guild to a pair of rivals.
Also showing on the 7th March
Happy Together
Regarded as one of the best LGBT films in the New Queer Cinema movement,
this is a rare opportunity to see Wong Kar wai’s empathetic and lonely
love story on screen.
Thursday 7th March
You'll Never Find Me
Claustrophobic, tense Australian thriller set over the course of one
stormy night. Paranoia begins to boil after a young woman seeks shelter
in the caravan of an older man.
In Flames
A grieving student grappling with patriarchal oppression and debt in the
wake of the death of her grandfather finds herself stalked by a
sinister force in this powerful psychological horror.
Also showing on the 8th March
French auteur Bertrand Bonello presents a bold, centuries-spanning tale
of romance and obsession in the shadow of an impending catastrophe
freely adapted from Henry James’s The Beast In The Jungle.
Also showing on the 8th March
The Wizard of Oz
To celebrate the year
1939, which not only marks the film’s release but also the year that
the Cosmo Cinema (now GFT) was founded Glasgow Film Festival provides a rare opportunity to see The Wizard of Oz on the big screen.
Friday 8th March
Daisy Ridley stars as a solitary office worker who resolutely avoids
office banter in favour of a quiet life, until a friendly new employee
begins to find a crack in her shell.
The Deep Dark
Decades after a deadly cave-in, a veteran miner is forced to accompany a
professor underground and, after a landslide, they find themselves up
against an ancient mutant that craves blood.
Saturday 9th March
Riddle of Fire
After a trio of kids make a deal with their mum over a video game they
embark on a fantasy journey in search of a speckled egg in this
nostalgic charmer.
Also showing on the 3rd March
Jericho Ridge
After a trio of kids make a deal with their mum over a video game they
embark on a fantasy journey in search of a speckled egg in this
nostalgic charmer.
Also showing on the 10th March
Sunday 10th March
An honest, moving and often hilarious documentary about comic Janey
Godley, interweaving stories from her life with footage from her Not
Dead Yet tour in the wake of her cancer diagnosis.
Closing Film