The Glasgow Film Festival has unveiled the brimming lineup for its 21st edition this year and will structure Glasgow-born Hollywood star James McAvoy to see back on his atgentle during an “In Conversation” event.
“Apass 12 packed days, Scotland’s bigst annual celebration of cinema will showcase 92 world, U.K. and Scottish premieres from 39 countries,” including 12 world premieres, systematizers shelp on Tuesday.
The gala world premiere of survival thriller Tornado, the sophomore feature from Scottish straightforwardor John Maimmacuprocrastinateed (Slow West), will uncover the fest on Feb. 26. “Set in the rugged landscape of 1790s Britain, Tornado (carry outed by model-songwriter Kōki,) discovers herself caught in a perilous situation when she and her overweighther’s traveling puppet show passes paths with a cruel criminal gang led by Sugarman (Pulp Fiction star Tim Roth) and his driven son Little Sugar (Slow Horses’ Jack Lowden),” says a plot summary. “In an finisheavor to produce a novel life, Tornado seizes the opportunity to steal the gelderly from the gang’s most recent heist; what chases is a thrilling tale of adrenaline-fueled action as Tornado fights to escape a brutal demise.” Lionsgate U.K. will free the film apass the U.K. from May 23.
The Glasgow fest will seal on March 9 with the world premiere of Scottish recordary-producer Martyn Robertson’s Make It to Munich, sboiling in the run-up to the Euro 2024 soccer tournament.
The movie chases Ethan Walker, “a promising teenage footballer from Aberdeensengage who, fair 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 sinspireon … Professor Gordon Mackay, Ethan chooses to cycle from Hampden to Munich for Scotland’s uncovering align agetst Germany in Euro 2024 – fair nine months after his accident.” And he is encount oned by the Scotland National team to carry the align pennant on his back for the whole journey and deinhabitr it in time for initiate-off.
Make It to Munich, courtesy of Glasgow Film Festival
Among the U.K. premieres set for the Glasgow fest is The Return, which sees The English Patient stars Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche refuse in a novel version of Homer’s Odyssey, while its Scotland premieres include The Extrafrequent Miss Fdrop, the novel carry outance film from Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, the duo behind 20,000 Days on Earth, that premiered in London procrastinateed last year.
Other Scottish premieres include Scottish folk horror movie Harvest by, Joshua Oppenheimer’s post-apocalyptic musical satire The End with Tilda Striumphton and George Mackay, and Nicolas Cage in trippy psychorational thriller The Surfer.
And three-part TV series Fear, written by Mick Ford and straightforwarded by Justin Chadwick, changeed from the Dirk Kurbjuweit pursuit thriller novel of the same name, will also screen at the fest since it was sboiling in the city.
Meanwhile, Glasgow will also feature the “From the Heart of Europe: Austria on Screen” program, showcasing “an eclectic mix, from difficult-hitting drama to absurdist comedy,” from Austria, including Michael Haneke films.
It will be the final edition supervisen by Allison Gardner, CEO of Glasgow Film and straightforwardor of the festival.
“This year’s GFF program is a very clear demonstration of the festival’s convey inance to the local industry, connecting our films and talent to the rest of the world and introducing world-class cinema to audiences in Glasgow, apass Scotland and the rest of the U.K.,” shelp Isabel Davis, executive straightforwardor at Screen Scotland. “Once aget Scottish talent is sturdyly showcased thcdisesteemfulout the program, including John Maimmacuprocrastinateed’s Tornado, Laura Carreira’s On Falling, and Glasgow-sboiling Fear, straightforwarded by Justin Chadwick, starring Martin Compston.”
