festival news
www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk Glasgow Film Festival is supported by Scottish Screen through its support of the GFT, a cultural cinema hub. This year, Scottish Screen is also sponsoring the Great Scots! strand. Glasgow Music & Film Festival, another of this year’s strands, ran by The Arches, is supported by the National Lottery through Scottish Screen’s Audience Development Fund.
Allan's Choices Laila's Birthday
Il Divo
Funny Face
Everlasting Moments
Friday 13 February (16.00) & Saturday 14 February (20.45) Life in Palestine might inspire bitter anger or heartrending tragedy but director Rashid Masharawi makes a brave move with a film of gentle humour and warm humanity. He captures all the frustrations and discomfort of life in an occupied territory but does it with the lightest of touches as we follow an esteemed judge working as a taxi driver on a day he has promised to return home with a cake for his daughter's birthday.
Saturday 14 February (14.00) If you only manage to see one film in the Audrey Hepburn season then this is the one. Funny Face is simply one of the most sophisticated, romantic and elegant of musicals with a once-in-a-lifetime pairing of Hepburn and Fred Astaire, gorgeous colour, Paris locations and a wonderful Gershwin soundtrack. Make this your Valentine's Day treat.
Thursday 19 February (20.15) & Friday 20 February (16.15) The Consequences Of Love established Italian director Paolo Sorrentino as one of the great new names in European cinema. Il Divo is even more impressive; a dazzling journey through Italian politics that focuses on the inscrutable Giulio Andreotti who led seven governments. Tony Servillo gives a stunning performance as Andreotti, the music is amazing and the film is unmissable.
Sunday 22 February (16.15) Jan Troell is a past Oscar nominee for films like The Emigrants and The New Land. Everlasting Moments is a fantastic return to form inspired by the true story of his wife's grandmother. Trapped in a marriage to a loutish wastrel, Maria Heiskanen finds an unexpected escape from her life when she begins to take photographs and finds a whole new perspective on the world.
The Divine Lady
Sunday 15 February (16.30) The GFF has been working hard to fuel interest in the work of Glasgow-born director and Hollywood pioneer Frank Lloyd who was the first Scot to win an Oscar. Last year we sold out his 1922 version of Oliver Twist. This year we have imported a rare print of the film that won him the Best Director Oscar recounting the notorious love affair between Lord Nelson and Emma Hamilton. Frank's grandchildren are coming from California to introduce the film.
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