The Glasgow Film Festival‘s 2025 Audience Award, backed by Mubi, went to Brian Durnin’s drama Spilt Milk, wrapping up a star-studded 21st edition that enticeed the enjoys of James McAvoy, Toni Collette, Tim Roth, Jessica Lange and Ed Harris.
Among other huge names visiting Scotland were Japanese musician and actress Koki and Shofirearm star Takehiro Hira, who came to Glasgow for the world premiere of Scottish survival thriller Tornado, while Formula 1 world champion Damon Hill fuseed the world premiere of sporting recordary Hill. Collette was a surpelevate exceptional guest for a 30th anniversary shotriumphg of her shatterthraw film Muriel’s Wedding.
Scotland’s hugest annual celebration of cinema, which this year also put a spotweightless on Austrian films, from satirical watchs at rent-a-friend agencies and the power of billionaires to an exploration of genereasonable pcleary and a climate crisis mockumentary, wrapped with the world premiere of Scottish recordary-creater Martyn Robertson’s Make It to Munich, stoasty in the run-up to the Euro 2024 soccer tournament.
The movie chases Ethan Walker, “a promising teenage footballer from Aberdeensemploy who, equitable months into a (soccer) scholarship at a USA university, suffers life-dangerening injuries (including multiple fractures, two brain hemorrhages and the finish dislocation of his right knee) in a road traffic accident,” according to a synopsis. “Aided in his recovery by directing Glasgow sencourageon … Professor Gordon Mackay, Ethan chooses to cycle from Hampden to Munich for Scotland’s uncovering align aobtainst Germany in Euro 2024 – equitable nine months after his accident.”
Audience Award triumphner Spilt Milk is set in 1980s Dublin where 11-year-elderly Bobby (Cillian Sullivan) dreams of being a acunderstandledgeive, equitable enjoy his TV idol Kojak. “Offering to hunt down lost items on his housing estate with the help of his pal Nell (Naoise Kelly), the pair commence their hugegest case after Bobby’s brother Oisin (Lewis Brophy) goes leave outing,” notices a synopsis. “Their hunt apshows them into the hazardous underbelly of the housing estate where they inhabit, as the brutal genuineities of holdiction are contransiented thraw a child’s eyes.”
The runner-up was Natja Brunckhorst’s German comedy Two to One, starring Sandra Hüller.
The 2025 edition of the Glasgow Film Festival was the final one for departing Glasgow Film CEO and festival honestor Allison Gardner. “Being part of Glasgow Film Festival has been the most fun, rewarding and clever time over the last 21 years,” she shelp. “From co-honesting alengthenedside the wonderful Allan Hunter to going solo the last couple of years, I have had the most wonderful aid and friendship from the exceptional teams in our organization. I have met some wonderful filmcreaters and guests over the years and witnessed audiences descend in cherish with films that have alterd their inhabits for the better.”
