GFF14 Brochure by Glasgow Film

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Opening & Closing Galas

Glasgow Youth Film Festival

Glasgow Short Film Festival

Glasgow Music and Film Festival

Pop-Up! Programmers

WElcome

CineChile

1939: Hooray For Hollywood

Events & Pop-Up Cinema

FrightFest Glasgow 2014

Kapow!@GFF

2014 promises to be an amazing year for Scotland, and Glasgow is right at the heart of it. You can feel the excitement in the city streets as all the hopes and dreams for a glorious Commonwealth Games start to become a thrilling reality and Homecoming beckons visitors from far and wide.

Game Cats Go Miaow!

Commonwealth

Crossing the Line

Festival Club Events

Nort Atlantik Drift: A Day of Shetland

2014 is also a year of great celebration for Glasgow Film Festival. In the decade since the Festival began it has grown almost beyond recognition into one of the best-attended film events in the United Kingdom. Glasgow Film Theatre celebrates its 40th birthday this year on a site that audiences have flocked to since the Cosmo cinema first opened its doors there in 1939. What makes Glasgow so special? You could claim it’s the quality of the programming, the hardworking team, the amazing gems lovingly sourced from around the world, the painstakingly curated retrospectives, the eagerness to embrace the whole joyous spectrum of cinema from arthouse to grindhouse, blockbuster to ghostbuster, Tarantino to Tarkovsky.

A to Z listings

15 – 62

Map and Venues

32 – 33

Staff Thank You

Partner Acknowledgements

Film and Event Index

We like to think all of that, but we know in our hearts what makes Glasgow special is the atmosphere and the audiences. This is an access-all-areas Festival where you can meet the filmmakers, challenge the programmers and make friends with the person sitting next to you. Everyone is a VIP. Over ten years, our audiences have been incredibly loyal and generous, encouraging our endeavours, forgiving our failings and always coming back for more. They ask the best questions, have impeccable taste and know instinctively who is the real deal. When Bertrand Tavernier visited the Festival he was told there would be a brief introduction and he would be invited on to the stage to thunderous applause. ‘Thunderous? I don’t think so’, he remarked. The audience roared its love and appreciation of this most remarkable of filmmakers, moving him to a stunned silence. Whether this is your first time here or you are one of our cherished regulars, you are most warmly welcome. Make yourself at home. This isn’t just a festival; it’s Glasgow Film Festival.

Glasgow Film Festival is an operating name of Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT). A company limited by guarantee, registered in Scotland No. 97369 with its registered office at 12 Rose Street, Glasgow, G3 6RB. GFT is registered as a charity (No SC005932) with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator.

Please note programme may be subject to change. Check www.glasgowfilm.org/festival for updates. We employ photographers to take photographs of certain screenings and events for promotional use. Cover illustration and design by D8 www.weared8.com

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ticketing

CELEBRATE OUR 10TH EDITION AT GFF13 PRICES!

HOW TO BUY TICKETS ONLINE – NO BOOKING FEES APPLY From Friday 24 January tickets for all events can be purchased from our website www.glasgowfilm.org/festival. Tickets for GFT, CCA and Cineworld screenings can be purchased online up until one hour before the performance. For all other participating venues, tickets can be purchased online until 9pm the day before the performance.

IN PERSON & OVER THE PHONE

PRICES STANDARD ticket prices £8.50 full price / £6.50 for all adult concessions £5 children (ages 14 & under) Adult concessions include full-time students, over-60s, Jobseekers Allowance or Income Support recipients and registered disabled people. Please produce proof of eligibility when purchasing or collecting tickets. GFF also honours the CEA card for all Festival events.

Please note that all GFF tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.

SPECIAL EVENTS AND PERFORMANCES Please note that some special events, live performances and screenings fall outside the standard ticket price and are marked with this symbol: £ . See individual listings for details.

From Friday 24 January you can purchase tickets for most events from the Central Festival Box Office at GFT during opening hours. From Friday 21 February – Sunday 2 March you can also purchase tickets in person for most events from the Festival Box Office at CCA, Sauchiehall Street and on the sixth floor of Cineworld Renfrew Street, during opening hours. These Box Offices open one hour before the first film each day. Tickets can be booked by calling 0141 332 6535. Please note there is £1.50 transaction fee for telephone bookings.

COLLECTION You can collect advance tickets from the Central Festival Box Office at GFT up until 9pm the day before the performance. On the day of the event, tickets MUST be picked up at the venue where the film is being shown or the event is being held.

FESTIVAL FOR A FIVER Our Festival for a Fiver films are a brilliant way to enjoy the Festival, these screenings are marked with this symbol: 5 and no further discounts apply.

FREE EVENTS Tickets for free events, marked with this symbol: F , will only be issued on the day, from the venue where the event is being held, unless otherwise specified in the A to Z. First come, first served (maximum 2 tickets per person).

HAVE YOU GOT A CINECARD OR UNLIMITED CARD? To reward the loyalty of GFT CineCard and Cineworld Unlimited Card holders, we’re offering £1 off all standard priced tickets. Tickets must be purchased in advance from the Festival Box Offices at GFT and Cineworld Renfrew Street (on the sixth floor, 21 Feb – 2 Mar only) or at www.glasgowfilm.org/festival

AGED 15–21 YEARS OLD? Join our free GFT Youth Card scheme and get standard price Festival tickets at the reduced price of £4.50. Proof of age required. Also applies throughout the year at GFT for standard priced events. To find out more and sign up, go to www.glasgowfilm.org/youthcard

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SPECIAL DEALS All tickets must be purchased in one transaction, either online at www.glasgowfilm.org/festival or at the Central Festival Box Office at GFT. Full terms and conditions on each deal are available online. Special deals are not available from other venues.

INTERNET SAVER DEALS* Love Glasgow Film Festival? Planning to come to see lots of films? Take advantage of one of our Internet Saver Deals. Only available at www.glasgowfilm.org/festival from 24 January 2014. Internet Saver 5 Films – £32.50 Internet Saver 10 Films – £60 Internet Saver 20 Films – £100 Internet Savers can only be redeemed against standard priced tickets. No further discounts apply.

Purchasing Internet Saver Deals If you wish to purchase an Internet Saver Deal, please find the films of your choice at www.glasgowfilm.org/festival and follow these instructions: •

CENTRAL GFF Box Office Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Tel: +44 (0)141 332 6535

OPENING HOURS Before the festival Friday 24 January (10am – 8pm) Saturday 25 January – Wednesday 19 February (12noon – 8pm) During the festival Open from 10.30am until the last film at GFT has started.

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Choose your 5, 10 or 20 ticket Internet Saver Deal price type from the list (a maximum of one ticket per show) Keep adding films until you reach 5, 10 or 20 tickets When you have selected your final film, the discount will automatically be applied

FRIGHTFEST PASSES Love being scared? Buy a FrightFest Pass and spend the weekend with us. FrightFest Pass (no further discounts apply) – £70 for all 11 films screening on 28 February to 1 March, only as part of FrightFest. Passes must be retained and produced if requested by a member of staff. *If you have no access to the internet, the Central GFF Box Office at GFT will be able to process internet ticket deals for you – subject to the discretion of the Duty Manager.

CERTIFICATION Films not certificated by the BBFC are marked N/C (Not Certificated) and accompanied by an age recommendation i.e. N/C 15 + (suitable for ages 15 and older, no-one under 15 will be admitted).

PLEASE ARRIVE PROMPTLY Please note that during the Festival all films and events will start at the stated times – no adverts will be screened. Latecomers will not be admitted. Please see www.glasgowfilm.org/festival for full terms and conditions.

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ENHANCE YOUR FESTIVAL EXPERIENCE! WHAT TO SEE? The Festival programme has been divided into strands which each have their own colour, to make it easier for you to identify the films which interest you most. Please see opposite for descriptions of each strand.

GO ONLINE AND GET MORE! www.glasgowfilm.org/festival For the latest Festival news, special guest announcements, newly confirmed events and exclusive special offers, sign up for our e-newsletters and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. It’s your Festival: bring friends; make friends and share what you’ve seen, loved and experienced! www.glasgowfilm.org/enewsletter www.facebook.com/glasgowfilmfestival @glasgowfilmfest

A large print version of this brochure is available from the Central GFF Box Office at GFT. Our website is fully accessible and can be changed in your browser to suit your requirements.

@glasgowfilmfest

Our website also offers trailers, photographs, reviews, interviews and blogs. Download our Festival calendar and find out about exclusive deals with our recommended partner hotels and restaurants. For a full list of venues and travel advice, please see the Festival map on p32–33.

FESTIVAL CLUB Join us every day of the Festival at Saramago Terrace bar in CCA to grab a drink and a bite to eat, rub shoulders with filmmaker guests, listen to live DJs, and meet fellow Festival goers. We’ll also be playing host to talks from industry professionals most days of the Festival from 6.30 – 7.30pm in CCA Theatre absolutely free – see A to Z listings for details.

THE CINESKINNY A daily magazine featuring the latest hot gossip and film reviews from Glasgow Film Festival. Produced independently by our friends at The Skinny, The CineSkinny is available at Festival venues across the city and is also downloadable at www.glasgowfilm.org/festival/cineskinny

ACCESS Glasgow Film Festival is committed to ensuring an open and accessible environment for everyone. For details on alternative brochure formats, accessible screenings and events, booking tickets and the accessibility of each Festival venue please visit www.glasgowfilm.org/festival/access. We want to make GFF accessible to as many people as possible, so if you have any questions or suggestions regarding access please contact Dawn Ross on 0141 352 8612 or dawn.ross@glasgowfilm.org until 2 March 2014.

GOING GREEN Glasgow Film Festival and GFT are committed to reducing the environmental impact of our Festival and are working to extend these principles to our creative partners, suppliers and patrons. You can help us by recycling this brochure. www.glasgowfilm.org/goinggreen

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Strands 1939: HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD James Stewart goes to Washington, John Wayne rides the stagecoach, Judy Garland follows the yellow brick road and Greta Garbo laughs. All you have to do is head to GFF for the finest films from the greatest year in the history of Hollywood. Every one is a classic.

BEST OF BRITISH Old masters and new voices rub shoulders in the very best of homegrown cinema. The cream of the crop from a collection of inventive filmmakers who stand tall on the quality of their imaginations rather than the size of their budgets.

CINECHILE Gloria and No were just the tip of the iceberg. Savour all the glories of a resurgent filmmaking Chile that is confronting the bitter truths of its past, celebrating the sweet triumphs of its heroic citizens and making some of the most consistently beguiling films in world cinema.

CROSSING THE LINE Audacious experimentation that teases and challenges. Exotic fusions of art and cinema that explore brave new worlds without the benefit of a safety net. Imagination and daring guaranteed as pioneers boldly go where no filmmaker has gone before. Expect the unexpected.

EUROVISIONS Didn’t make Cannes? Decided to give Venice a bit of a miss last year? Couldn’t quite find time for Berlin? Never fear as we offer a grand tour of Europe taking in the most acclaimed sights, from altercations on the streets of Sicily to revelations from the heart of Poland.

EVENTS & POP UP CINEMA We once again boldly go where no film festival has gone before! Making the most of our cinema city with special pop-up film screenings and events that cater for all tastes. Experience films in the most dramatic venues in Glasgow, and uncover new territory in some of the city’s most unusual spaces!

FRIGHTFEST Something wicked this way comes as the incorrigible FrightFest boys prepare to unleash the hounds of hell, or at least some sharp-fanged horror treats. Tales of terror to torment the senses and torture your soul, from the team that know what is good for you.

GALA Little black dresses on cold winter evenings. Amiable stars and gossipy geezers. Autograph hunters with notebooks and pens, smiling photographers snapping at them. When the night falls, when the stars shine, when the fans appear, we simply remember our favourite things and then go and book more tickets.

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GAME CATS GO MIAOW! Our favourite gamer Robert Florence of BBC Scotland’s Burnistoun and videoGaiden, is back for a second year with a snappy selection of video game events, discussions and unmissable film experiences.

GLASGOW MUSIC AND FILM FESTIVAL We are proud of Glasgow’s heritage as a cinema city and the producer of some of the world’s greatest music. Here we fuse the two to celebrate the best music on film from the past year, featuring specially commissioned live performances, thrilling documentaries and quirky music-themed feature films.

GREAT SCOTS Support your local film heroes as we present the best new productions from Scottish filmmakers and Scottish production companies. Cutting-edge documentaries and award-winning dramas offer a vital picture of the state of the nation.

IT’S A WONDERFUL WORLD Around the world in much less than eighty films, with top titles from all across the globe that have stormed the local box office, charmed the grumpiest critic or earned top festival prizes. A ticket to the world and you won’t even need a passport.

KAPOW!@GFF Our annual look into the world of superhero cinema, we invite you to get your geek on with us and immerse yourself in lively debates and masterclasses on comics and graphic novels, get tips and ideas on how to break into the industry and revel in some awesome movie moments.

OUT OF THE PAST There are no such things as ‘old’ movies; only great movies that you have yet to see. A selection of lovingly restored gems polished to perfection and looking as good as the day they first graced the inside of a cinema. Movies for the ages back where they belong.

STATE OF INDEPENDENTS Far from the madding Hollywood crowd, hot new American talents blossom, bringing an intensely personal vision to the most charming of romances and the kind of suspenseful thrillers that require you to sacrifice your nails. Filmmaking by individuals, not committees.

STRANGER THAN FICTION Incredible journeys, extraordinary lives and amazing stories that allow you to walk in someone else’s world, experience situations you would never personally encounter and understand a little more of how it feels to be human. The most dynamic documentaries from across the globe.

12.00

14.00

Aatsinki 13.30 - 15.00 / p17

Blue Ruin 13.40 - 15.15 / p20

15.00

10.15 / p15

Talk

THE BRIGGAIT

CCA THEATRE

CINEWORLD 18

CINEWORLD 17

CINEWORLD 16

GFT 3

GFT 2

GFT 1

SUNDAY 23 FEBRUARY

P/SHAWS HALL

PAISLEY ARTS

THE BRIGGAIT

CCA THEATRE

CINEWORLD 18

CINEWORLD 17

CINEWORLD 16

GFT 3

GFT 2

GFT 1

12.00

Hank and Asha 11.30 - 12.50 / p31

Dark Victory 5 11.00 - 12.50 / p24

11.00

Root 11.45 - 13.15 / p51

Stagecoach 5 11.00 - 12.45 / p52

11.00

SATURDAY 22 FEBRUARY

THE BRIGGAIT

CCA THEATRE

CINEWORLD 18

14.00

For Those Who… 13.30 - 14.55 / p27

Playing Dead 13.45 - 15.35 / p47

Aatsinki 13.30 - 15.00 / p17

Beyond the Edge 3D 13.15 - 14.50 / p19

An Inspector Calls 15.15 - 16.25 / p35

Of Horses and Men 15.30 - 16.55 / p46

14.00

A Touch of Sin 12.45 - 15.00 / p58

LFO 15.30 - 17.05 / p39

A Portrait of Robert… 15.30 - 17.00 / p48

A Long Way Down 15.45 - 17.25 / p39

Ilo Ilo 15.15 - 17.00 / p34

15.00

17.00

48 Hour Games 16.00 - 17.30 / p15

The Guilded Cage 15.30 - 17.10 / p28

Witching & Bitching 15.15 - 17.10 / p61

Rebel Without a Cause 16.00 - 17.55 / p50

A Spell to Ward Off the… 15.15 - 16.55 / p52

100 Year Old Man…. 15.30 - 17.25 / p15

16.00

17.00

Everybody’s Child 16.15 - 17.35 / p26

John Sessions… 16.00 - 17.00 / p35

Street Food Cinema: Ratatouile (film starts 16.30) 14.30 - 17.50 / p53

The Last of the Unjust 13.30 - 17.15 / p36

The Stag 13.00 - 14.40 / p52

Deceptive Practice 13.45 - 15.20 / p24

The Double 13.20 - 14.55 / p24

Run & Jump 12.45 - 14.30 / p51

13.00

16.00 20 Feet From Stardom 15.20 - 16.55 / p15

Speedy + Live Accompaniment 15.00 - 17.00 / p52

15.00

The Gilded Cage 15.00 - 16.40 / p28

Of Mice and Men £ 14.00 - 15.50 / p46

The Edge of the World 13.30 - 14.50 / p26 5

Night Moves 13.15 - 15.10 / p44

Salvo 13.00 - 14.50 / p51

13.00

17.00

The Grand Budapest Hotel 15.45 - 17.30 / p10

16.00

The Girl from the Wardrobe 15.15 - 16.50 / p28

The Strange Colour of Your.. 13.00 - 14.45 / p53

13.00

14.00

CINEWORLD 17

13.00

Back to the Garden 15.30 - 17.05 / p18

12.00

Mr Smith Goes to Washington 11.00 - 13.15 / p43

11.00

12.00

CINEWORLD 16

GFT 3

GFT 2

GFT 1

FRIDAY 21 FEBRUARY

GFT 1, 2 & 3

11.00

THURSDAY 20 FEBRUARY

FESTIVAL CALENDAR 19.00

19.00

20.00

19.00

Plot For Peace 18.30 - 20.00 / p47

A Touch of Sin 20.30 - 22.45 / p58 £

20.00

21.00

22.00

Rab’s Video Game Empty 20.30 - 22.30 / p50

Locke 20.45 - 22.15 / p39

Cannibal 20.30 - 22.30 / p20

The Quipse Girls 21.00 - 22.25 / p50

Bloody Beans 20.45 - 22.05 / p19

The Heart of Bruno… 21.00 - 22.15 / p31

Mood Indigo 20.30 - 22.35 / p42

The Girl from the Wardrobe 21.00 - 22.35 / p28

Witching & Bitching 20.45 - 22.40 / p61

Street Food Cinema: Withnail & I (film starts 21.30) 19.00 - 22.45 / p54

Laptop Guy F 18.30 - 19.30 / p36

The Book Thief 18.00 - 20.15 / p20

The Hour of the Lynx 17.45 - 20.00 / p31

22.00

The Strange Colour of Your… 20.45 - 22.35 / p53

The Stag 20.15 - 21.55 / p52

The Double 20.40 - 22.15 / p24

21.00

Partir to Live 20.30 - 21.45 / p46

Mistaken for Strangers 19.30 - 21.30 / p42

Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me 18.30 - 19.55 / p26

The Dance of Reality 17.45 - 20.00 / p23

Mystery Road 18.00 - 20.05 / p43

18.00

Ilo Ilo 20.45 - 22.30 / p34 A Long Way Down 20.30 - 22.10 / p39

22.00

For Those Who Can… 21.00 - 22.25 / p27

Root 20.45 - 22.15 / p51

Salvo 20.15 - 22.00 / p51

Between Weathers / Fjanna (starts 21.00) 19.45 - 22.45 / p19

20.00

21.00

22.00

Street Food Cinema: When Harry Met Sally (film starts 21.00) 19.00 - 22.45 / p54

Writing and… F 18.30 - 19.30 / p61

Starred Up 18.15 - 20.05 / p53

Cannibal 18.00 - 20.00 / p20

Back to the Garden 18.30 - 20.10 / p18

Hank and Asha 18.15 - 19.40 / p31

Of Horses and Men 17.45 - 19.05 / p46

Cas & Dylan 18.00 - 19.35 / p22

18.00

21.00

Starred Up 20.30 - 22.20 / p53

Street Food Cinema: Goodfellas (film starts 20.00) 18.00 - 22.45 / p53

Close up on… F 18.30 - 19.30 / p22

Night Moves 18.00 - 19.55 / p44

Visitors 18.15 - 19.55 / p60

LFO 18.30 - 20.10 / p39

20.00 Opening Gala / Grand Budapest… £ 19.30 - 21.30 / p10

Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me 18.30 - 19.55 / p26

Playing Dead 17.45 - 19.30 / p47

100 Year Old Man…. 18.00 - 19.55 / p15

18.00

23.00

0.00

The House of Him 23.15 - 0.45 / p34 Blue Ruin 23.00 - 0.35 / p20

23.00

Please note: This calendar contains the event running times only. Please check www.glasgowfilm.org/festival for details of guest introductions and Q&A sessions which may precede or follow the screenings.

12.00

14.00

Mood Indigo 13.30 - 15.40 / p42

14.00

Violeta Went To Heaven 13.30 - 15.25 / p59

agnés b class 5 13.45 - 14.45 / p41

Ida 13.30 - 14.55 / p34

THE ARCHES

THE ART SCHOOL

CENTRAL STN

CCA THEATRE

CINEWORLD 18

CINEWORLD 17

CINEWORLD 16

GFT 3

GFT 2

GFT 1

Illiterate 11.15 - 12.30 / p34

Wuthering Heights 11.00 - 12.50 / p62

11.00

WEDNESDAY 26 FEBRUARY

The Lunchbox 13.15 - 15.05 / p40

These Birds Walk 13.30 - 14.45 / p56

Who is Dayani Cristal? 13.45 - 15.20 / p60

The Italian Pastry Chef 13.00 - 14.45 / p35

Looking for Light 13.15 - 14.50 / p39

A Thousand Times Good Night 13.20 - 15.20 / p56

16.00

17.00

The Congress 15.30 - 17.35 / p23

Exhibition 15.45 - 17.35 / p27

Miss Violence 16.00 - 17.40 / p42

Barbaric Land 16.00 - 17.25 / p18

Iboga Nights 15.15 - 17.00 / p34

Yves Saint Laurent 15.45 - 17.35 / p62

18.00

19.00

20.00

21.00

Dear Mr Watterson 20.30 - 22.00 / p24

Northwest 21.00 - 22.35 / p44

Tom at the Farm 20.30 - 22.20 / p58

Gore Vidal: United States… 20.45 - 22.20 / p30

Ida 21.00 - 22.25 / p34

GFF14 Surprise Film 20.15 - 22.15 / p28

22.00

Exhibition 21.00 - 22.50 / p27

Who is Dayani Cristal? 21.15 - 22.45 / p60

The Italian Pastry Chef 20.45 - 22.30 / p35

The Lunchbox 20.40 - 22.30 / p40

Danny Brown w/ Rollo Jackson 19.00 - 22.00 / p23

22.00

Man of Steel 21.00 - 22.35 / p41

Cargo Camera Action Launch Party 20.00 - 1.00 / p22

Potholing Expedition 19.00 - 21.00 / p48

Tae Think Again F 18.30 - 20.00 / p55

Kon-tiki 18.00 - 20.05 / p36

Things the Way They Are 18.15 - 19.50 / p56

Norte, the End of History 18.30 - 22.45 / p44

Zero Charisma 18.30 - 20.00 / p62

Metalhead 18.15 - 20.00 / p41

Before the Winter Chill 18.00 - 19.50 / p18

21.00 Yves Saint Laurent 20.30 - 22.20 / p62

Grand Central 20.45 - 22.25 / p30

Suzanne 21.00 - 22.35 / p54

Capturing Dad 20.45 - 22.05 / p20

John Romita Jr M/class 20.00 - 21.30 / p35

Potholing Expedition 19.00 - 21.00 / p48

Film/TV Loc… F 18.30 - 19.30 / p27

The Congress 18.00 - 20.05 / p23

These Birds Walk 18.45 - 20.00 / p56

Miss Violence 18.15 - 19.55 / p42

Barbaric Land 18.45 - 20.10 / p18

Illiterate 18.30 - 19.45 / p34

20.00

Tron: Off the Grid 19.30 - 23.30 / p59

15.00

Grand Central 15.45 - 17.25 / p30

Bloody Beans 15.30 - 16.55 / p19

Lasting 15.20 - 17.00 / p36

19.00

A Thousand Times Good Night 18.00 - 20.00 / p56

18.00

22.00 M. Tait Award F 21.30 - 22.30 / p41

Two Lives 21.00 - 22.40 / p59

21.00

Geeks vs Gamers Quiz 20.00 - 21.30 / p27

Potholing Expedition 19.00 - 21.00 / p48

Story Writing F 18.30 - 19.30 / p53

Mr Morgan’s Last Love 18.15 - 20.15 / p43

The Last of the Unjust 18.30 - 22.15 / p36

Lasting 18.45 - 20.25 / p36

Violeta Went To Heaven 18.15 - 20.10 / p59

20.00

GLUE FACTORY 14.00

17.00

Harmony Lessons 16.00 - 18.05 / p31

An Inspector Calls 15.30 - 16.55 / p35

The Great Passage 15.15 - 17.30 / p30

16.00

The Book Thief 15.30 - 17.45 / p20

Visitors 15.45 - 17.15 / p60

The Quipse Girls 15.15 - 16.40 / p50

Rebel Without a Cause 15.30 - 17.00 / p50

19.00 Dark Blood 18.30 - 20.00 / p23

My Name is Hmmm… 18.00 - 20.00 / p43

18.00

Mistaken for Strangers 19.30 - 22.00 / p42

13.00

15.00

17.00

20 Feet From Stardom 16.00 - 17.35 / p15

16.00

Deceptive Practice 15.00 - 16.30 / p24

15.00

THE GLAD CAFE

CENTRAL STN

CCA THEATRE

Mr Morgan’s Last Love 13.15 - 15.15 / p43

CINEWORLD 18

Suzanne 13.00 - 14.35 / p54

13.00

Locke 13.00 - 14.30 / p39

The Hour of the Lynx 13.30 - 15.15 / p31

Plot For Peace 13.15 - 14.45 / p47

Harmony Lessons 13.00 - 15.05 / p31

A Spell to Ward Off the… 12.45 - 14.25 / p52

13.00

Run & Jump 13.15 - 15.00 / p51

12.00

Capturing Dad 11.15 - 12.35 / p20

Ninotchka 5 11.00 - 13.00 / p44

11.00

12.00

Goodbye Mr Chips 11.00 - 12.55 / p30

11.00

CINEWORLD 17

CINEWORLD 16

GFT 3

GFT 2

GFT 1

TUESDAY 25 FEBRUARY

CENTRAL STN

CCA THEATRE

CINEWORLD 18

CINEWORLD 17

CINEWORLD 16

GFT 3

GFT 2

GFT 1

MONDAY 24 FEBRUARY

23.00

0.00

16.00

Northwest 15.45 - 17.20 / p44

The Last Impresario 15.30 - 17.00 / p36

17.00

Gore Vidal: United States… 15.45 - 17.20 / p30

Metalhead 16.00 - 17.45 / p41

17.00

19.00

18.00

Everyone’s… F 18.30 - 19.30 / p26

Tracks 18.00 - 19.55 / p58

FRUITMARKET

THE ART SCHOOL

THE TALL SHIP

CCA THEATRE

CINEWORLD 18

CINEWORLD 17

CINEWORLD 16

GFT 3

GFT 2

GFT 1

SATURDAY 1 MARCH

THE ARCHES

KELVINGROVE

CCA THEATRE

FF: Video Nasties: Draconian… 11.00 - 12.50 / p59

14.00

Mary Queen of Scots 16.40 - 18.45 / p41

Pioneer 15.45 - 17.35 / p47

Benny & Jolene 15.30 - 17.00 / p19

A Street in Palermo 16.00 - 17.35 / p54

Summer of Flying Fish 15.45 - 17.25 / p54

Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential… 14.30 - 16.40 / p60

Pete’s Dragon 14.00 - 16.10 / p55

Borgman 13.15 - 15.15 / p20

On the Edge of the World 13.30 - 15.10 / p46

17.00

FF: Torment 16.00 - 17.50 / p58

16.00

Tracks 15.30 - 17.25 / p58

Tangerines 15.45 - 17.25 / p56

The Voice of the Voiceless 16.00 - 17.30 / p60

19.00 FF: Wolf Creek 2 18.45 - 20.40 / p61

The Last Impresario 18.30 - 20.00 / p36

B For Boy 18.15 - 20.15 / p17

19.00

Carl Craig

22.00

Admiral Fallow: We Are Ten 20.00 - 22.30 / p17

The Fog 20.45 - 22.15 / p55

Bad Hair 21.00 - 22.35 / p18

Concussion 20.45 - 22.25 / p23

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed 20.30 - 22.25 / p39

Love is Not What it Used… 20.30 - 22.05 / p40

FF: Almost Human 21.00 - 22.40 / p17

21.00

Place of Work - MT Revisited 20.15 - 22.05 / p47

On the Edge of the World 20.45 - 22.25 / p46

A Street in Palermo 21.00 - 22.35 / p54

The Red Robin 20.45 - 22.10 / p50

Requiem for Detroit? 20.00 - 03.00 / p50

20.00

FF: The Sacrament 21.15 - 23.10 / p51 The Punk Singer 21.00 - 22.35 / p48

21.00

Borgman 20.30 - 22.25 / p20

Half of a Yellow Sun 19.45 - 21.35 / p30

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 18.00 - 20.00 / p55

Film’s Craic 18.30 - 22.00 / p27

The Past 18.15 - 20.30 / p47

Workers 18.00 - 20.00 / p61

The Golden Dream 18.00 - 19.55 / p28

FF: Mindscape 18.30 - 20.25 / p42

You’ll Be a Man 18.00 - 19.30 / p62

Love is the Perfect Crime 20.30 - 22.25 / p40

22.00

Wakolda: The German… 21.00 - 22.35 / p60 Tangerines 20.45 - 22.25 / p56

Monster Mash: Young Frankenstein 19.00 - 22.30 / p42

Low Budget… F 18.30 - 19.30 / p40

Pioneer 18.00 - 19.50 / p47

18.00

20.00

Summer of Flying Fish 18.45 - 20.25 / p54

Unforgiven 18.00 - 20.20 / p59

Love is Not What it Used… 16.45 - 18.20 / p40

Documenting J Grierson 16.00 - 17.30 / p24

FF: Proxy 15.40 - 18.00 / p48

The Punk Singer 14.45 - 16.10 / p48

15.00

Documenting J Grierson 13.45 - 15.25 / p24

FF: The Scribbler 13.30 - 15.20 / p52

B for Boy 13.00 - 15.05 / p17

13.00

Love is the Perfect Crime 13.00 - 14.55 / p40

Wakolda: The German… 13.45 - 15.20 / p60

Workers 14.15 - 16.15 / p61

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12.00

Papusza 11.30 - 13.45 / p46

Quai D’Orsay 13.40 - 15.35 / p48

FF: Savaged 13.30 - 15.10 / p51

Heli 13.15 - 15.05 / p31

11.00

The Zero Theorem 11.15 - 13.05 / p62

Of Mice and Men 11.00 - 12.50 / p46

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CINEWORLD 16

GFT 3

GFT 2

GFT 1

FRIDAY 28 FEBRUARY

22.00

Ti West in Conversation 21.00 - 22.30 / p56

Drew: The Man Behind.. 20.00 - 21.40 / p26

The Voice of the Voiceless 18.45 - 20.15 / p60 Heli 18.30 - 20.20 / p31

21.00 The Zero Theorem 20.30 - 22.20 / p62

Papusza 20.00 - 22.15 / p46

20.00

Museum of Loneliness 18.45 - 20.30 / p43

Black Angel 18.30 - 20.00 / p19

Looking for Light 17.45 - 19.20 / p39

18.00

Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin 19.00 - 22.00 / p22

14.00

16.00 Quai D’Orsay 15.30 - 17.25 / p48

ORAN MOR

13.00

Kon-tiki 13.15 - 15.15 / p36

15.00

Norte, the End of History 13.45 - 18.00 / p44

The Red Robin 13.30 - 14.55 / p50

The Belles of St Trinians 13.45 - 15.20 / p18

15.00

Potholing Expedition 19.00 - 21.00 / p48

12.00

14.00

Before the Winter Chill 13.15 - 15.00 / p18

Tom at the Farm 13.00 - 14.50 / p58

13.00

CENTRAL STN

CCA THEATRE

CINEWORLD 18

CINEWORLD 17

11.00

Zero Charisma 11.30 - 13.00 / p62

GFT 3

CINEWORLD 16

Things the Way They Are 11.15 - 12.55 / p56

GFT 2

GFT 1

12.00

Love Affair 5 11.00 - 12.35 / p40

11.00

THURSDAY 27 FEBRUARY

0.00

FF:Killers 23.15 - 1.40 / p35

0.00

FF:Afflicted 23.30 - 01.05 / p17

On the Edge of the World 23.00 - 0.40 / p46

A Street in Palermo 22.45 - 0.20 / p54

23.00

14.00

15.00

18.00

Benny & Jolene 17.30 - 19.00 / p19

The Notebook 17.15 - 19.05 / p44

19.00

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Free event Festival for a Fiver

Stranger Then Fiction

Out of the Past Events and Pop-up Cinema

Great Scots It’s a Wonderful World

Gala Game Cats Go Miaow!

Crossing The Line

Eurovisions

Best of British

CineChile

NOTES

Special ticket price £

State of Independents

0.00

Kapow!@GFF

23.00

Glasgow Music and Film Festival

Killers 21.00 - 23.25 / p35

£ Closing Gala / Under the Skin 20.00 - 22.15 / p10

20.00

FrightFest

The Sacrament 18.30 - 20.15 / p51

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed 17.15 - 19.05 / p39

The Belles of St Trinians 16.45 -18.20 / p18

17.00

Wolf Creek 2 16.00 - 17.55 / p61

Half of a Yellow Sun 15.00 - 16.50 / p30

The Past 15.30 - 17.45 / p47

16.00

Commonwealth

Almost Human 14.00 - 15.30 / p17

The Golden Dream 13.15 - 15.10 / p28

Touki Bouki + A Thousand Suns 13.30 - 16.10 / p58

The Tale of Iya 13.45 - 16.35 / p55

Go for Sisters 13.15 - 15.25 / p28

Concussion 13.00 - 14.40 / p23

13.00

Video Nasties… 12.00 - 13.30 / p59

You’ll Be a Man 11.30 - 13.00 / p62

Mary Queen of Scots 11.15 - 13.15 / p41

12.00

The Wizard of Oz 11.00 - 12.45 / p61

11.00

1939: Hooray for Hollywood

STRANDS

CINEWORLD 18

CINEWORLD 17

CINEWORLD 16

GFT 3

GFT 2

GFT 1

SUNDAY 2 MARCH

opening gala

closing gala

The Grand Budapest Hotel GFT, thursday 20 february (19.30) GFT, friday 21 february (15.45) STANDARD TICKET PRICES

Under The Skin GFT, SUNDAY 2 MARCH (20.00)

Wes Anderson doesn’t just make great films, he creates beautifully hand-crafted magical moonrise kingdoms and then generously invites us to pay a visit. The Grand Budapest Hotel is one of his most ambitious creations reflecting the political turmoil and social upheaval of Europe between the wars through the hectic lives of the staff and guests at one of the most famous hotels on the continent. There is a hint of the bittersweet romanticism of Ernst Lubitsch, the freewheeling comedy of the Marx Brothers and the melancholy of a Dostoevsky novel all wrapped in the gorgeous production design and attention to detail that have become Anderson trademarks. Ralph Fiennes heads an astonishing all-star cast as the legendary hotel concierge Gustave H. Tony Revolori is the lobby boy Zero Moustafa who becomes his trusted friend and closest ally when the disputed ownership of priceless Renaissance painting Boy With Apple threatens to escalate into an international scandal. Love, death, fractured families, surrogate fathers and broken hearts are all part of the riotous mix in a perfect blend of style, substance and unforgettable characters from Tilda Swinton as Gustave’s elderly paramour and benefactor Madame D to Adrien Brody as her vengeance-seeking son Dimtri… plus many more! Gala Director: Wes Anderson Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton, Jude Law, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Murray USA 2014, 1h40m, N/C 12+, thanks to 20th Century Fox/Fox Searchlight Tickets are £12/£10 and include entry to the after party (over 18s only), on presentation of your ticket stub.

Jonathan Glazer’s audacious adaptation of Michel Faber’s extraordinary novel is the kind of mysterious, spellbinding cinema you only experience once in a generation. Strikingly original in look and execution, it offers an unsettling exploration of loneliness and alienation located in a desolate Glasgow that feels as remote as a distant planet. Scarlett Johansson is unforgettable as an alien entity who falls to earth in Scotland and assumes the form of a sexy seductress. She cruises the streets of Glasgow in a white van, a seemingly innocent damsel in distress luring her unsuspecting victims to their doom. The men she beguiles cannot quite believe their good fortune that such a beauty is in their midst and asking directions to the M8. The fact that these encounters were often semi-improvised with hidden cameras adds to the film’s unexpected humour and bold risk-taking. What happens to her besotted victims is truly shocking, but what happens to the alien visitor is even more haunting as she starts to gain a dangerous sense of what it means to feel human. A weirdly creepy fusion of gritty social realism and imaginative existential science fiction, Under the Skin is backed by an amazing, textured, discordant soundscape by ambient musician Mica Levi that heightens the air of mystery and unease. It is a visionary film that haunts the senses. Gala Director: Jonathan Glazer Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Paul Branningan, Joe Szula, Scott Dymond, Michael Moreland UK/USA 2013, 1h47m, 18, thanks to StudioCanal Tickets are £12/£10 and include entry to the after party (over 18s only), on presentation of your ticket stub.

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Glasgow youth film festival

Glasgow Short Film Festival

2 - 12 February

13 - 16 February

GYFF returns with an exciting selection of premieres, workshops and special events, all programmed by our talented Youth Team. We are kicking things off with acclaimed director Lukas Moodysson’s teen-punk comedy We Are the Best! and ending with our Closing Band Night, featuring an abundance of young musical and visual talent. In between, we will be hosting a Q&A with the cast and crew from Channel 4’s lauded drama My Mad Fat Diary, screening a raft of UK anime premieres, and getting dressed up in our best Beetlejuice outfits for this year’s Late Night Classic. We are also offering a range of workshops, including film poster design, getting started in the TV industry, and documentary filmmaking. For full programme details and to get involved, pick up a GYFF brochure or visit: www.glasgowfilm.org/gyff

Scotland’s leading short film festival returns for four days of screenings, workshops and parties. Whilst CCA remains our hub, this year the International competition will take place in the state-of-the-art GFT Cinema 3, and we venture into The Arches, Glasgow School of Art and an underground car park.

Glasgow Music and Film Festival

Pop-Up! Programmers

GFF once again teams up with our friends at The Arches to deliver an exciting and eclectic array of auditory treats for connoisseurs of both film and music, from hit local artists Admiral Fallow’s takeover of the Old Fruitmarket with their special one-off We Are Ten event (featuring new music by the band), to The Arches’ screening of Julien Temple’s Requiem for Detroit with a night of techno by Detroit legend Carl Craig. GMFF also stretches out over the city, with events at The Glad Café and Pollokshaws Burgh Hall. Our film screenings feature documentaries such as the inspiring The Punk Singer and innovative The National tour film Mistaken for Strangers, along with Spanishlanguage Beatlemania road-movie Living is Easy with Eyes Closed. • Admiral Fallow: We Are Ten • Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin with Golden Teacher • Danny Brown with Rollo Jackson • The Heart of Bruno Wizard • Living is Easy with Eyes Closed (Vivir es Fácil con los Ojos Cerrados) • Metalhead

We open with the world premiere of a collaboration between BritishBulgarian composer Dobrinka Tabakova and Scottish filmmaker Ruth Paxton. Alex Neilson of Trembling Bells showcases several new short film scores, Josie Long presents a night of comedy shorts, and we’re showcasing the film scene of Miami – the ‘next great hope of American film’, according to Indiewire. Detailed programme listings can be found in the GSFF brochure, or at www.glasgowfilm.org/gsff

8 - 24 February We are Pop-Up! Programmers, a group of 18 – 24-year-olds who create exciting film events and make cinema accessible in community spaces. This February we have four FREE unique film events ‘popping up’ across Glasgow and Ayr... Look out for: nostalgic TV classic The Steamie in Bridgeton; controversial Glaswegian TV play Just Another Saturday and wineswirling road trip Sideways in the Southside; tantalising romance In the Mood for Love in Cowcaddens; and pie-walloping kids favourite Bugsy Malone, 1980s extravaganza The Blues Brothers and off-beat hit Hedwig and the Angry Inch in Ayr. For more details on our screenings during GFF and past events go to www.glasgowfilm/popup

• Mistaken for Strangers • Partir to Live with Live Score by Jozef van Wissem • The Punk Singer • Requiem for Detroit • Speedy

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CineChile Chilean filmmakers have made waves since the great works of Raúl Ruiz and Aldo Francia in the 1960s, but the last handful of years have witnessed a glorious flowering of Chilean cinema that has been recognised around the world. Sebastián Silva’s The Maid was a prize-winner at Sundance, Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia de la luz/Nostalgia for the Light dazzled at Cannes, Paulina García was crowned an international star with her Best Actress win for Gloria at Berlin and Pablo Larraín’s incisive political drama No earned the country’s first Oscar nomination in 2013. This year’s country focus salutes the great new work from Chile with a selection of amazing films that address the ghosts of the past, celebrate the greatness of musician Violeta Parra, confront the hardships of remote communities, explore political and cultural divides, and confirm the great, glowing talent of Paulina García. • The Dance of Reality

• Illiterate

• Partir to Live with Jozef van Wissem

• The Quispe Girls

• Root

• The Summer of Flying Fish

• Things the Way They Are

• Violeta Went to Heaven

1939: Hooray For Hollywood 1939 was the greatest year in the history of Hollywood. The studio system was working at the peak of its creativity, leaving an unparalleled legacy of classic films. It was the year of Gone with the Wind and so many others that have become cherished audience favourites. Rather than celebrating an individual star in 2014, the Festival retrospective features a galaxy of stars as we screen nine Best Picture Oscar nominees from that extraordinary year. There are films with Bette Davis, James Stewart, Greta Garbo and John Wayne; films you know and love and films that deserve to be much better known. 1939 was also the year that the Cosmo cinema opened on the site where GFT now stands, providing a double cause for these 75th birthday celebrations. Even better, all these amazing films are back on the big screen where they truly shine. • 1939: Hooray for Hollywood

• Dark Victory

• Goodbye, Mr Chips

• Love Affair

• Mr Smith Goes to Washington

• Ninotchka

• Of Mice and Men

• Stagecoach

• The Wizard of Oz

• Wuthering Heights

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Events AND Pop-Up Cinema

Frightfest Glasgow 2014

Experience films in the most dramatic venues in Glasgow and uncover some of the city’s most unusual spaces! This year we make a foray into unchartered territory, The Briggait, bringing you a whole weekend of food-themed films with Street Food Cartel cooking up a storm. And make room for more as we invite you to our very own Monster Mash, with a rare screening of Young Frankenstein in the spectacular surroundings of Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery, join esteemed character actor John Sessions (Filth, The Iron Lady) in conversation, and climb aboard The Tall Ship for a day of delightful, whimsical and spooky films. For the adventurous among you, there’s even an expedition into the unknown! Once again, Glasgow Film Festival adds some extra special magic to the art of cinema going.

A long time ago – nine years in fact – in a galaxy far, far away (well, down south to you), Film4 FrightFest took its first baby steps towards GFF, to provide its fear-deprived audiences with some shock treatment. It turned out to be a marriage made in heaven – or hell? – because you loved us as much as we adored bringing you all the latest previews and premieres of genre goodies, handpicked by our warped minds to set your nerves jangling, and with surprise guest appearances for even more splatter sensation. So ‘We’re ba-a-a-ck!’ and devilishly delighted to do the horror honours once again as part of the brilliant GFF, with a lineup of movies so new to the festival circuit, so different and so startling, you really won’t believe your grazed retinas. The Fright Stuff from the expert team who know it best – accept no substitute.

• Cargo Camera, ACTION! - The Launch Party

• Afflicted

• GFF14 Surprise Film

• Almost Human

• John Sessions In Conversation

• Killers

• Masterclass with agnès b.

• Mindscape

• Monster Mash at Kelvingrove Museum: Young Frankenstein

• Proxy

• Potholing Expedition Seeks Recruits

• The Sacrament

• Street Food Cinema: Goodfellas

• Savaged

• Street Food Cinema: Ratatouille

• The Scribbler

• Street Food Cinema: When Harry Met Sally

• Ti West in Conversation

• Street Food Cinema: Withnail and I

• Torment

• The Tall Ship: The Fog

• Video Nasties: Draconian Days

• The Tall Ship: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

• Wolf Creek 2

• The Tall Ship: Pete’s Dragon

Kapow!@GFF

Game Cats Go Miaow!

GFF’s Kapow! strand offers filmic delights from the world of comic art. Kicking off with the triumphant return of the Kapow! quiz (this time facing off against GFF’s Game Cats) and welcoming John Romita Jr; who will be drawing from his illustrious 40+ year career to deliver an exciting masterclass. Alongside these events, we will be celebrating legendary poster artist Drew Struzan with Drew: The Man Behind the Poster, declaring our shared love for Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson with Dear Mr Watterson and playing host to the first event of the worldwide Will Eisner Week with a screening of the documentary Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist.

After the smashing success of our inaugural videogame focus in last year’s Festival, self-professed ‘God of Games’ Robert Florence returns to GFF for another series of screenings, events and antics from the virtual realm. We will once again be letting Robert and friends loose as they hold their Videogame Empty, transforming an old factory into a retro-futurist arcade forTron: Off the Grid, and hosting 48 Hour Games – an interactive live film event which blurs the lines between cinema and computer game. With a veritable feast of button-bashing goodness, Game Cats Go Miaow! offers unique experiences for both movie and videogame lovers.

• Dear Mr Watterson

• 48 Hour Games

• Drew: The Man Behind the Poster

• Geeks vs Gamers Super Quiz!

• Geeks vs Gamers Super Quiz

• Rab’s Videogame Empty

• John Romita Jr - Masterclass

• Tron: Off the Grid

• Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist

• Zero Charisma

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Commonwealth

Crossing the Line

This summer all eyes will be on Glasgow as our city hosts the XX Commonwealth Games, celebrating creative, sporting and cultural greatness. In this spirit, we wish to highlight a wonderful range of cinematic treats from the programme – which, like the Games themselves, revel in a diverse range of talent from all over the Commonwealth. Travel with us to Pakistan in These Birds Walk, to Singapore in Ilo Ilo and Nigeria in B for Boy, amongst, many more. Glasgow Film will be launching its new commission, Cargo, Camera, Action! on Wednesday 26 February with a party featuring previews from several other exciting projects from Scotland’s film scene. So come along and join us as we celebrate what promises to be one of the most exciting and important years in Glasgow’s history!

Visual art and cinema merge in this unforgettable series of screenings and events. Here’s a taste of what to expect: cult filmmaker and author Chris Petit invites you to explore the world of post-cinema in Museum of Loneliness; artist Ed Atkins belts out a tune or two behind the mask of his computer-generated avatar in Man of Steel; Glasgow-based artist Rachel Maclean hosts a discussion on Scottish identity in the year of the referendum, as well as premiering her new Margaret Tait Award film; and we proudly present the latest works by visionary artistfilmmakers Lav Diaz, Ben Rivers & Ben Russell, and Mati Diop.

• B for Boy - Nigeria

• Beyond the Edge 3D - New Zealand

• These Birds Walk - Pakistan

• Cargo Camera, ACTION! - The Launch Party

• Cas and Dylan - Canada

• Half of a Yellow Sun - UK/Nigeria

• Ilo Ilo - Singapore

• The Last Impresario - Australia

• The Lunchbox - India

• Mystery Road - Australia

• Tom at the Farm - Canada

• Tracks - Australia

Festival Club Events Following on from the success of last year’s inaugural Festival Club, we will once again be hosting a series of free events, talks and masterclasses from inside the world of filmmaking. Taking place each evening in CCA’s Theatre, these will be a chance to gain a unique insight into the world of cinema and beyond – from an in-depth look at the casting process to a spotlight on low budget filmmaking and a focus on writing in videogaming. These events are a perfect chance for Festival-goers to quench their thirst for knowledge, courtesy of key movers and shakers involved with the Festival, and they are all free! • Close up on Casting

• Everyone’s a Critic

• Film / TV Locations: Scotland on Your Screen

• Laptop Guy, Graphic Novel Launch

• Low Budget Filmmaking

• Story Writing for Games

• Tae Think Again: Rethinking Identity in Contemporary Scotland

• Writing and Filming the North

• Barbaric Land + Farther than the Eye Can See

• Man of Steel

• Margaret Tait Award: A Whole New World

• Museum of Loneliness with Chris Petit

• Norte, the End of History

• Place of Work - Margaret Tait Revisited

• A Spell to Ward off the Darkness

• Tae Think Again: Rethinking Identity in Contemporary Scotland

• Touki Bouki plus A Thousand Suns

Dr Eugene Calder’s Trust per Mactaggart & Co, Solicitors, Largs

Nort Atlantik Drift: A Day of Shetland Join us on Saturday 22 February for a unique, celebratory day of screenings, performance and discussion to promote a greater understanding of Shetland’s rich language, culture and complex identity. Part of the collaborative project Writing the North, the day includes the Michael Powell classic The Edge of the World, a screening of a new film on poet Robert Alan Jamieson, a round-table discussion on language, a ‘work-in-progress’ event on the production of Between Weathers and, to top it all off, a Fjanna – a cabaret-style evening of spoken word performance and song to a backdrop of films from the Shetland Moving Image Archive. Thanks to: University of Edinburgh and Professor Penny Fielding. Shetland Moving Image Archive. Between Weathers plus Fjanna

The Edge of The World

A Portrait of Robert Alan Jamieson

Writing and Filming the North

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The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

(Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann) GFT | Friday 21 February (18.00) & Sunday 23 February (15.30) Jonas Jonasson’s witty, feel-good international bestseller gave pleasure to millions and proved that it is never too late to let a little adventure in your life. The eagerly awaited screen version stars Robert Gustafsson as the Zelig-like Allan Karlsson who quietly escapes from the celebrations for his 100th birthday and takes to the road. Little misunderstandings and unfortunate coincidences soon find him in possession of a suitcase of cash and being hotly pursued by crooks and criminals. It’s hardly going to trouble a man who played a vital role in making the atomic bomb, has known several world leaders and participated in some of the key events of the last century. An outrageous delight. Eurovisions Director: Felix Herngren Cast: Robert Gustafsson, Iwar Wiklander, David Wiberg Sweden 2013, 1h52m, Swedish with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to StudioCanal

1939: Hooray for Hollywood GFT | Saturday 22 February (10.15) Andy Dougan, lecturer in the Screen Department at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, shares our belief that 1939 was the greatest year in the history of Hollywood. Everyone went to the movies on a weekly basis and the studio system fed that eager audience with some of the best westerns, finest thrillers and most delightful romances ever made. As the news of world events grew increasingly ominous, Hollywood created some of the most beguiling escapist entertainments. This illustrated talk explores the reasons for Hollywood’s annus mirabilis. Before John Wayne rides the range in Stagecoach (Saturday 22 February, 11.00), hear some expert analysis on the greatest of years and have your appetite whetted for the remaining titles in 2014’s retrospective. Free but ticketed, tickets available from GFT box office on the day. 30m, N/C 5+

20 Feet from Stardom GFT | Saturday 22 February (15.20) & Monday 24 February (16.00) 20 Feet from Stardom is an irresistible salute to the unsung heroines of the music industry: the back-up singers. You’ve hummed along to their harmonies without ever knowing their names or stories and this wonderful documentary changes all of that. There are great tales and spine-tingling vocals from the likes of Merry Clayton, who will attend the screening on Saturday 22 February and who sang on the Rolling Stones’ ‘Gimme Shelter’, and Darlene Love, lead vocalist of The Blossoms and back-up for the likes of Sinatra and Dionne Warwick. Archive footage of Bowie, Michael Jackson and Tom Jones is interwoven with fresh interviews with Springsteen, Mick Jagger and Stevie Wonder, as they trace the relationship between star and back-up singer in the creation of some unforgettable music. Gala Director: Morgan Neville Cast: Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer USA 2013, 1h31m, N/C 8+, thanks to Altitude Film Distribution

48 Hour Games CCA | Sunday 23 February (16.00) 48 Hour Games is a unique live cinema event, blending elements of film and videogames for a novel experience where you, the audience, get to choose which direction the story takes. Set over the course of one weekend at the Nordic Game Jam, where more than 300 game developers come together, it explores the intense productive and artistic process behind independent game development. Functioning on little sleep and a lot of caffeine, the interactive documentary charts several creative minds, as they work together to overcome time pressures and creative differences, towards the weekend’s grand finale. This unique live cinema event is fully interactive and asks the audience to choose the direction the story takes. The event will be hosted by Brian Baglow – Director of Scottish Games Network. Game Cats Go Miaow! Director: Suvi Andrea Helminen Denmark 2012, 2h, Danish with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to Knapnock Games and Scottish Games Network

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ADMIRAL FALLOW Formed in Glasgow in 2007, Admiral Fallow was originally a vehicle for singer Louis Abbott’s songs but in recent years the members have embraced a more collaborative form of writing. The band released their debut album Boots Met My Face in early 2010 to critical acclaim and appearances at SXSW in Austin, Texas and at all the major UK festivals followed. In 2011, they signed to Canadian label Nettwerk who released the band’s sophomore effort Tree Bursts in Snow in May 2012.

Admiral Fallow then embarked on full UK, European and North American tours and the year culminated in their acceptance of the prize for Music in December’s Creative Scotland Awards. In 2013 the band toured the UK, including a rare music performance at the Aye Write! Festival and visited Australia twice, while Tree Bursts in Snow was shortlisted for the Scottish Album of the Year Award. Admiral Fallow are currently working on album number three, scheduled for release in 2015.

Tom Harrison: Filmmaker Biog Admiral Fallow have programmed the evening in collaboration with London-based filmmaker and band advocate, Tom Harrison. Tom continues to work as a freelance videographer and editor, while following his own interests in experimental art, video and short film. A Stirling graduate, a survivor of film festival work in Ireland and a successful lecturer; Tom recently moved to London from the north of England and is currently developing two new shorts for production in 2014.

Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys GFT | Friday 21 February (13.30) & Saturday 22 February (13.30) Brothers Aarne and Lasse Aatsinki are ‘cowboys of the Arctic’ – carrying on the generations-old tradition of reindeer herding with quiet determination against the harshest climate imaginable. Director Jessica Oreck (Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo) silently follows the brothers across the gorgeous vistas and frozen forests of Finnish Lapland. From helicopter shots which exquisitely capture in detail the sparse landscape as the thousands-strong herds of reindeer bound onwards, to intimate fireside moments between the family, the film evokes a strong sense of union between the Aatsinki brothers, their animals and the land they both live off. Likened to past GFF favourite Sweetgrass in its poetical depiction of man’s bond with nature, Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys is a rare chance to share in the experiences of these modern cowboys. Stranger Than Fiction Director: Jessica Oreck Cast: Aarne Aatsinki, Lasse Aatsinki, Raisa Korpela USA/Finland 2013, 1h25m, Finnish with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to November Films

Admiral Fallow: We Are Ten Old Fruitmarket | Saturday 1 March (20.00) 2014 not only heralds the 10th edition of GFF, but also ten years since a group of five young musicians came to Glasgow, gradually forming what was to become the orchestral indie band, Admiral Fallow. Celebrating this shared anniversary, the band has programmed an evening of music and visuals. In their first foray into this kind of cross-genre event, Admiral Fallow’s ‘Ten Takes’ features collaborations with emerging UK filmmakers, working to a call-and-response brief and writing new music to bespoke visual content created for the event. The group will then play an eclectic set from their back catalogue enhanced by live visuals that reference Glasgow’s rich filmic history, thematically commemorating this special anniversary. This unique one-off performance will contain both old and new material from the band. Tickets: £15/£12 Music and Film Festival 2h, thanks to Lo-Five, Nettwerk Records and Scottish Screen Archive: NLS

Afflicted GFT | Friday 28 February (23.30) Just when you’d thought the ‘found footage’ trend had snatched its final breath...up pops another stellar example to expose that there still is untapped craftsmanship and creativity to be found in this fear-inducing format. The winner of the Best Special Effects Award at the Sitges Fantasy Festival for its jaw-dropping visuals, two best friends see their world trip of a lifetime take a dark turn when one is struck by a mysterious illness that changes his metabolism, making him superhuman. A clever spin on a classic scary story, dual-threat Clif Prowse and Derek Lee make an impressive horror feature debut. UK Premiere. FrightFest Director: Clif Prowse, Derek Lee Cast: Clif Prowse, Derek Lee, Edo Van Breeman Canada/USA 2013, 1h26m, N/C 18+, thanks to Entertainment One UK

Almost Human GFT | Saturday 1 March (21.00) Cineworld | Sunday 2 March (14.00) Mark Fisher disappeared from home in a blinding blue light flash. His friend Seth Hampton was the last person to see him alive. Two years later, a series of atrocious, grisly murders leads Seth to believe that Mark has somehow returned, but changed into something different, strange… not of this world. Mark has indeed become a humanoid alien receptacle for evil – and the last place you should look is in his cellar. The surprise hit at Toronto Midnight Madness, this short, sharp shock of super-violent scares and sci-fi splatter announces director Joe Begos’ arrival as an exciting genre talent. Scottish Premiere. FrightFest Director: Joe Begos Cast: Graham Skipper, Vanessa Leigh, Josh Ethier USA 2013, 1h20m, N/C 18+, thanks to Metrodome

B for Boy Cineworld | Friday 28 February (18.15) & Saturday 1 March (13.00) Deeply ingrained traditions and values are hard to resist in Chika Anadu’s compelling, eye-opening family drama. Thirty-nine-year-old Amaka (Uche Nwadili) has the best of all worlds in modern Nigeria, with a loving husband, fulfilling job, bright daughter and another child on the way. Her husband’s mother Mama (Ngozi Nwaneto) is determined that the child will be a boy and carryon the family name. If she doesn’t deliver, Mama is not beyond having her replaced with a second, younger wife. Fate is only about to increase the pressure on Amaka, with tragic developments that change everything. How far is she willing to go to protect her family? An unbearably tense and involving tale. It’s a Wonderful World Director: Chika Anadu Cast: Uche Nwadili, Ngozi Nwaneto, Nonso Odogwu Nigeria 2013, 1h54m, Ibo with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to Chika Anadu

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Back to the Garden Cineworld | Friday 21 February (15.30) & Saturday 22 February (18.30) Jon Sanders follows up his critically acclaimed Low Tide and Late September with Back to the Garden. The third in a loose trilogy of almost fully improvised films shot in Kent, it uses the same long fluid takes and natural light of his previous efforts, coupled with an inspiration from 1970s alternative theatre-going. The film is set a year following the death of an inspirational theatre director and teacher, when a close group of friends – many of them actors – gather to support his widow, who is struggling to come to terms with the loss. What follows over the course of the day, as each member of the group attempts to come to some kind of resolution, is an emotional dialogue filled with dreams, disappointments and unfulfilled relationships. Best of British Director: Jon Sanders Cast: Emma Garden, Anna Mottram, Bob Goody UK 2013, 1h33m, N/C 15+, thanks to Verve Pictures

Bad Hair (Pelo Malo) Cineworld | Saturday 1 March (21.00) Everyone has the odd bad hair day but for nine-year old Junior, his luxurious dark curls have become the bane of his existence. He sees himself as a crooning sensation with long, straight locks. His widowed mother Marta hates that he is not like other boys. His grandmother encourages him to be himself, singing and dancing around her house with a hairbrush for a microphone. She sees the glint in his eye when he visits the news stand run by a handsome young man even though Junior wouldn’t even know what gay means. Mariana Rondon’s tender tale of mother love and the struggle to be yourself is told with compassion, insight and an infectious soundtrack. Pure delight. It’s a Wonderful World Director: Mariana Rondon Cast: Samantha Castillo, Samuel Lange, Nelly Ramos Venezuela/Peru/Argentina/Germany 2013, Spanish with subtitles, 1h33m, N/C 15, thanks to Axiom Films

Barbaric Land (Pays barbare) GFT | Tuesday 25 February (18.45) & Wednesday 26 February (16.00) The latest film from artist couple Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci-Lucchi is a stunning polemic essay. Using archive footage from Italian colonial films of the 1920s and 1930s, recently discovered in a private collection, the pair chronicle the brutal Italian conquest in Africa under the dictatorial rule of Mussolini. Beautiful and horrifying, the footage has been hand-tinted, slowed and re-photographed to give it new meaning and the message is clear: every era has its own fascism. Preceded by short film Farther than the Eye Can See by Basma Alsharif (2012, 13m), which employs a dazzling stroboscopic style to tell the tale of a mass exodus of Palestinians from Jerusalem in 1948. Crossing the Line Directors: Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci-Lucchi France 2013, 1h5m, French/Italian with subtitles, thanks to Les Films d’ici

Before the Winter Chill (Avant l’hiver) GFT | Wednesday 26 February (18.00) & Thursday 27 February (13.15) Philippe Claudel’s intriguing psychological thriller skillfully dissects the comforting familiarity of a middle-class marriage. Life has been good to Paul (Daniel Auteuil), a neurosurgeon who has been married to Lucie (Kristin Scott Thomas) for thirty years. They are surrounded by friends, family and the trappings of success. When Paul starts to receive bouquets of red roses from a secret admirer it is more puzzling than troubling. Young Moroccan woman Lou (Leïla Bekhti) claims to be a former patient. Paul tolerates her attention and Lucie begins to suspect an affair but there is more going on here than any of them realise. A spiky domestic drama with a memorable star performance from Auteuil. Gala Director: Philippe Claudel Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Kristin Scott Thomas, Leïla Bekhti, Richard Berry France/Luxembourg 2013, 1h43m, French with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to Metrodome

The Belles of St Trinian’s GFT | Thursday 27 February (13.45) & Sunday 2 March (16.45) Forget those terrible remakes and savour the original British comedy classic in a sparkling new restoration. The peerless Alastair Sim is a complete hoot as Miss Millicent Fritton, the wily headmistress of a notorious school for young ladies where the pupils are proper little madams skilled in mischief, mayhem and raising merry hell. Game police sergeant Joyce Grenfell goes undercover to discover what goes on behind closed doors. A joyous adaptation of the Ronald Searle cartoons with an amazing cast that includes George Cole, Beryl Reid, Joan Sims and a young Barbara Windsor in her screen debut. Out of the Past Director: Frank Launder Cast: Alastair Sim, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell UK 1954, 1h26m, U, thanks to StudioCanal

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Benny & Jolene Cineworld | Saturday 1 March (15.30) GFT | Sunday 2 March (17.30) Benny (Craig Roberts from Submarine) and Jolene (Charlotte Ritchie from Fresh Meat) are an indiefolk duo. They are just friends who make music together. Having been invited to perform at a Welsh music festival, they finally feel like they are on the road to fame and glory. When their management suggests they might want to go a little more poppy and sexy with their music, the stage is set for a clash between high ideals and harsh commercialism, friendship and the possibility of something more. A fresh, winning independent British romantic comedy for anyone who has ever played in a band or just wishes they had started one. Best of British Director: Jamie Adams Cast: Craig Roberts, Charlotte Ritchie, Rosamund Hanson UK 2014, 1h23m, N/C 12+, thanks to Verve Pictures

Between Weathers plus Fjanna CCA | Saturday 22 February (19.45) | CCA Saramago, Saturday 22 February (21.00) Be the first to witness Between Weathers, a work-in-progress feature film set on contemporary Shetland which tells the story of… wait for it… an American millionaire who wants to buy the island and build a golf course. Producer Jim Brown will be present to talk us through the film, why he chose Shetland as the hero, and the challenges of trying to make a big production on one of Shetland’s remote islands. Then join us for a drink at the Fjanna! A cabaret-style evening of spoken word performance and song to a backdrop of films from the Shetland moving image archive, featuring performances from poet Robert Alan Jamieson and young Shetland band, The Teevliks. Screening as part of Nort Atlantik Drift: A Day of Shetland. All tickets £10 Great Scots Producer Jim Brown UK 2014, event running time approx 3h, N/C 18+, thanks to The University of Edinburgh and www.backfrombeyond.org

Beyond The Edge 3D GFT | Saturday 22 February (13.15) The Topp Twins director Leanne Pooley turns her attention to another remarkable duo in this aweinspiring 3D docu-drama. In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay captured the imagination of the world when they conquered Mount Everest. The story of the team expedition is told in a blend of original and vintage audio interviews, photos, film footage and breathtaking 3D images. There are also some seamless, incredibly convincing dramatic recreations of quiet heroics and steely determination as a team of thirteen westerners, thirty sherpas and over 300 porters tested themselves against the rugged terrain and harsh conditions to achieve what was once thought impossible. It’s a Wonderful World Director: Leanne Pooley Cast: Chad Moffitt, Sonam Sherpa, John Wraight New Zealand 2013, 1h33m, N/C 12+, thanks to Metrodome

Black Angel (followed by Q&A with Roger Christian) GFT | Thursday 27 February (18.30) Unseen for thirty-four years, believed lost for over twenty and now painstakingly restored, Black Angel originally screened before The Empire Strikes Back in the UK, Scandinavia and Australia in 1980. Funded by George Lucas and beautifully shot around Scotland in Cinemascope, the film centres on one knight’s quest to rescue a maiden from her dark overlord. With nods to Kurosawa and Tarkovsky, and a gorgeous early score by Trevor Jones – featuring electronics from BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s Paddy Kingsland – its influence on subsequent sword-and-sorcery epics (notably Excalibur and Legend) is clear. The film’s journey is itself legendary, and Christian will be present for this unique homecoming to talk on a number of subjects, including his seminal design work on Alien and Star Wars, the latter winning him an Academy Award. Out of the Past Director: Roger Christian Cast: Tony Vogel, Patricia Christian, James Gibb, John Young Canada/UK 1980, 22m, N/C 5+, thanks to Brice Parker, David Tanaka, Athena Studios and Skywalker Sound

Bloody Beans (Loubia Hamra) GFT | Sunday 23 February (20.45) Cineworld | Tuesday 25 February (15.30) Winner of the top prize at the prestigious CPH: DOX festival in Copenhagen, Bloody Beans is an extraordinary film in which Algerian children explore their country’s history of French colonial oppression and struggle for independence through a series of increasingly intense play sessions. Lord of the Flies meets The Battle of Algiers on a hot summer’s day as the children express their cultural heritage through dance, dodge invisible bombs, lead a violent revolution and condemn their French prisoner-of-war to eat beans. The surreal games manage to convey a good deal of the country’s complex past, and the energy and inventiveness of the children is exhilarating and completely enthralling. Stranger Than Fiction Director: Narimane Mari Benamer France/Algeria 2013, 1h21m, French/Arabic with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to Pascale Ramonda

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Blue Ruin GFT | Friday 21 February (13.40) & Saturday 22 February (23.00) Remember the first time you saw Blood Simple and knew that you wanted to see everything the Coen brothers were going to make in the future? Blue Ruin is that good. The story of a vagrant’s quest for blood-spattered revenge sounds like forgettable B-movie fare but director Jeremy Saulnier elevates familiar ingredients into something much more accomplished and appealing. Dwight (Macon Blair) is living on the beach and scavenging in bins when he learns that the man who murdered his parents has been released from jail. He cleans himself up and sets out for a day of reckoning. It’s not that simple as his actions have consequences for himself and his surviving family. Brutal, blackly comic genre filmmaking of the highest order. State of Independents Director: Jeremy Saulnier Cast: Macon Blair, Devin Rayray, Amy Hargreaves USA 2013, 1h32m, N/C 15+, thanks to Picturehouse Entertainment

The Book Thief Cineworld | Sunday 23 February (18.00) & Monday 24 February (15.30) The vast horrors of Nazi Germany are viewed through the personal experiences of one child in Brian Percival’s restrained and impeccably crafted adaptation of the Markus Zusak bestseller. The Downton Abbey director takes us to the heart of a period when the smallest communities were torn apart by fear and intimidation. Separated from her brother and mother, Liesel (Sophie Nélisse) arrives at her new home with foster parents Hans (Geoffrey Rush) and his stern wife Rosa (Emily Watson). The kindly Hans teaches Liesel to read and books become her greatest treasures as the family comes under increasing threat due to Hans’ refusal to join the Nazi party and their decision to harbour a Jewish fugitive. Gala Director: Brian Percival Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, Sophie Nélisse USA/Germany 2013, 2h11m, 12A: contains scenes of emotional distress, thanks to 20th Century Fox/Fox Searchlight

Borgman Cineworld | Friday 28 February (20.30) & Saturday 1 March (13.15) Stitch together a Buñuelian satire of the bourgeoisie with the enigmatic unease of Michael Haneke and the absurdist humour of Roy Andersson and you have an idea of what to expect from Borgman, an unsettling, blackly comic fable that is often outrageously funny. We are never quite sure who Borgman (Jan Bijvoet) might be. He has the bedraggled look of a wild-haired Messiah. Is he a cult leader or perhaps the devil in disguise? When Marina (Hadewych Minis) offers him food and shelter, her good deeds do not go unpunished. His presence soon challenges all the prejudices and assumptions of an affluent family in this elegantly teasing puzzle. Eurovisions Director: Alex van Warmerdam Cast: Jan Bijvoet, Hadewych Minis, Jeroen Perceval The Netherlands/Belgium 2013, 1h53m, Dutch with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Fortissimo Films

Cannibal (Caníbal) Cineworld | Saturday 22 February (18.00) & Sunday 23 February (20.30) A classic ‘beauty and the beast’ story is given a fresh modern twist in this soulful, enthralling chiller, set during the Easter festivities in sleepy Southern Spain. Carlos (Antonio de la Torre) is a respectable, mild-mannered tailor who lives alone in Granada and makes little impact on the world. He is also a cannibal; targeting Eastern European women whose disappearance goes unnoticed and unlamented until the beautiful twin sister of one of his victims comes to visit. Carlos is bowled over by the timid Nina (Olimpia Melinte) and a romance blossoms, undercut by the growing dread that he may not be able to control his animal instincts. Will he kiss her or kill her? Eurovisions Director: Manuel Martin Cuenca Cast: Antonio de la Torre, Olimpia Melinte Spain/Romania/Russia/France 2013, 1h56m, Spanish/Romanian with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Film Factory Entertainment

Capturing Dad (Chihi o tori ni) GFT | Monday 24 February (20.45) & Tuesday 25 February (11.15) Ryota Nakano’s debut feature is a real heartwarmer, filled with the kind of delicate storytelling and fresh insights that we have come to expect from the family dramas of Hirokazu Koreeda and the masterful Ozu. In southwest Tokyo, Higashimura tells her daughters Koharu (Matsubara Nanoka) and Hazuki (Yanagi Erisa) that their father is dying of cancer. It is fourteen years since he abandoned them, but Higashimura urges them to pay their respects and take a picture so that she can see what he looks like before he dies. Their train ride together is the start of an emotional journey in which they discover a host of family secrets and gain a much better understanding of their own lives in a touching and utterly charming tale. It’s a Wonderful World Director: Ryota Nakano Cast: Yanagi Erisa, Matsubara Nanoka, Watanabe Makiko Japan 2012, 1h14m, Japanese with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to Fortissimo Films

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George Sluizer If George Sluizer had only directed The Vanishing / Spoorloos he would be guaranteed his place in the pantheon of great European filmmakers. His classic chiller boasts the kind of nail-biting tension that Hitchcock might have admired. Sluizer’s wide-ranging career in drama and documentary is full of highlights, from surviving his time as production manager on Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo (1982) to directing an award-winning adaptation of Bruce Chatwin’s novel Utz (1992). Twenty years ago, the tragic death of River Phoenix forced the abandonment of Dark Blood when 80% of it had been shot. Sluizer has shown typical tenacity in returning to unfinished business and bringing the film to completion. Now British audiences have their first chance to see another amazing achievement from the indefatigable Sluizer.

FESTIVAL CLUB Glasgow Film Festival’s main hangout spot returns! Located at Centre for Contemporary Arts’ Terrace Bar, this relaxed location affords festival goers the chance to unwind between screenings, grab some food, some drink and rub shoulders with visiting guests. During the day our Festival team will be on hand to answer questions and offer upto-date information on the Festival, whilst at night DJs will takeover to provide tunes for those wishing to keep the Festival spirit alive until the small hours of each morning. CCA Saramago Bar 11am – 2am Friday 21st February – Saturday 1st March

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Cargo, Camera… ACTION! (The Launch Party!)

The Art School | Wednesday 26 February (20.00) In the run up to Glasgow’s Festival 2014 this summer, we will be playing host to an exciting preview of specially commissioned unique artist collaborations. Join us, as innovative Glasgow arts collective 85A set the theme for the evening with their provocative brand of installation art. Short films and snippets will be showcased from projects by The Centre for the Moving Image, marking the centenary of legendary animator Norman McLaren as well as Africa in Motion Film Festival, whilst live music will keep the party atmosphere of the night jumping! To headline the evening we welcome King Creosote, who will be unveiling an enchanting new musical accompaniment in collaboration with filmmaker Virginia Heath, using archive footage from the Scottish Screen Archive, and produced by Faction North. Festival for a Fiver - all tickets £5. Ready on set: this cinematic party is about to launch! Commonwealth N/C 15+, thanks to all contributors

Cas & Dylan GFT | Saturday 22 February (18.00) The directorial debut of actor-turned-director Jason Priestley is a smart, funny and heartfelt road-movie that pairs Academy Award-winning screen legend Richard Dreyfuss (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws, The Goodbye Girl) with rising Canadian star Tatiana Maslany (television’s Orphan Black). When curmudgeonly surgeon Dr. Cas Pepper (Dreyfuss) finds out some unexpected news, he decides to take to the road with nothing to lose. However, his plans are quickly altered when he reluctantly picks up the feisty twenty-two-year-old Dylan Morgan (Maslany), a reckless young woman whose go-for-broke attitude keeps the sixty-year-old guessing at every turn. As this modern day odd couple encounter unexpected twists at every step, this unique odyssey through the Canadian country quickly becomes a voyage of dashed dreams and last chances. Gala Director: Jason Priestley Cast: Tatiana Maslany, Richard Dreyfuss, Jayne Eastwood Canada 2013, 1h30m, N/C 12+

Cinema City Treasure Hunt Thursday 20 February – Sunday 2 March Star in your own Cinema City Treasure Hunt with this new interactive game! This is an event you download to your smartphone so you can take part at a time of your choosing throughout the Festival. Discover Glasgow’s cinema and film history up close and in person. You will solve riddles, unlock bonus questions and complete imaginative tasks at each fascinating stop with the Walking Heads Cinema City Treasure Hunt app (audio only MP3 version also available). Who wins? Teams or individual players with the most correct answers. Prizes will be awarded with a special live quiz session at our Festival Club in Saramago on Sunday 2 March at 1pm. Check website for details and download links. Ticket by download purchase: £2.99. Full details from www.walkingheads/cinemacity Great Scots Thanks to Walking Heads

Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin with Golden Teacher Oran Mor | Thursday 27 February (19.00) Enjoying a huge resurgence of interest in recent years, Goblin are the creators of some of the finest horror film soundtracks ever made. Throughout their career, which spans from 1972 to the present day, Goblin have soundtracked around twenty films, but it is their rescoring of cult horror films Profondo rosso, Suspiria and Dawn of the Dead that really forms the basis of their legendary reputation. Ultimately dealing in progressive rock, through their hugely celebrated soundtracks the band explored electronica, tribal rhythms and experimental orchestration, as well as the notorious distorted vocals and terrifying experimental sounds which so perfectly enhanced the on-screen action. All tickets £20. Music and Film Festival 3h, 14+, thanks to Synergy Concerts

Close Up on Casting CCA | Friday 21 February (18.30) Ever watched a film or TV programme and wondered just how an actor goes from an unknown face to a lead star? In this exciting event, casting director Kahleen Crawford joins GFF to talk over some tales from the frontline, shedding a light on the creative process of casting for big-budget film and TV. Kahleen has worked as casting director for recent hits such as Sunshine on Leith, Filth and GFF closing gala Under the Skin, along with successful TV programmes like River City. Do not miss this chance to gain real insight into one of the most important aspects of the filmmaking process, led by one of the leading professionals in her field. This is a free event in Glasgow Film Festival’s Festival Club venue, admission will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

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Concussion Cineworld | Saturday 1 March (20.45) & Sunday 2 March (13.00) Abby, a fortysomething wealthy lesbian housewife is becoming increasingly disillusioned in her married life with high-powered New York divorce lawyer Kate. One day Abby is hit on the head by a baseball tossed by one of her two children, leading to the titular concussion and a surprising awakening. Shedding her inhibitions, Abby instigates a double-life as a high-price call girl for lonely female clients. This unusual, frank and often sensual film is the auspicious debut of director Stacie Passon, who draws startling performances from her cast; especially Robin Weigart, who plays Abby simultaneously as assured and energetic yet shut-down and contained. A remarkably unique film, Concussion offers a novel study of a woman shaking up her sedate suburban middle-class existence and is by turns hilarious, erotic and tender State of Independents Director: Stacie Passon Cast: Robin Weigert, Maggie Siff, Johnathan Tchaikovsky USA 2013, 1h37m, N/C 18+, thanks to Picturehouse Entertainment

The Congress Cineworld | Tuesday 25 February (18.00) & Wednesday 26 February (15.30) Voted the European Animated Feature of the Year at the European Film Awards in December, The Congress is a mind-bending, multi-coloured trip around the themes of Stanislaw Lem’s cult novel The Futurological Congress. Faded, fortysomething Hollywood star Robin Wright (played by Wright) is so desperate to provide for her son that she accepts a lucrative offer to be scanned for posterity. Studio bosses can use her digital image in any way they see fit but she will never act in person again. Twenty years later, she is summoned to a mysterious congress. Ari Folman’s wildly ambitious follow-up to Waltz with Bashir transforms a science-fiction classic into a scathing assault on the fickleness of fame and the shallowness of Hollywood. It’s a Wonderful World Director: Ari Folman Cast: Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel, Paul Giamatti Israel/Germany/France/Belgium/Poland/Luxembourg 2013, 2h3m, N/C 15+, thanks to StudioCanal

The Dance of Reality (La danza de la realidad) GFT | Sunday 23 February (17.45) The legendary director of El Topo and Santa sangre returns with his first feature in almost a quarter of a century and it has been well worth the wait. The Dance of Reality is a joyously idiosyncratic exercise in imagined autobiography that revisits defining moments from Jodorowsky’s childhood in 1930s Chile. A witty, accessible magical mystery tour through his past finds the personal roots of his life-long fascination with religion, mysticism, poetry and philosophy. His childhood in Tocopilla is a fusion of Fellini and Monty Python, with a father who constantly tests his pain threshold and a mother who sings every line of dialogue with the passion of a great opera diva. A wonderful, exuberant feast of a film. CineChile Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky Cast: Brontis Jodorowsky, Pamela Flores, Jeremias Herskovits Chile/France 2013, 2h10m, Spanish with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to The Film Agency/Pathé International

Danny Brown with Rollo Jackson The Arches | Wednesday 26 February (19.00) An endlessly funny, inventive artist, Brown’s debut album XXX was named best hip-hop album of 2011 by Spin. His second, Old, was released last year, featuring a plethora of special guests including Schoolboy Q, A$AP Rocky and Purity Ring. His last visit to The Arches, in the midst of fresh controversy regarding onstage antics, was one of the craziest events of the venue’s season, and we expect his anticipated return to be no less spectacular. Accompanying the show will be a series of short videos by director Rollo Jackson. Jackson’s credits include the acclaimed documentary on mixtape culture Tape Crackers as well as videos for James Blake, Hot Chip and Danny Brown’s single ‘Dip’. Join us for one of the hip-hop shows of the year. All tickets £16. Glasgow Music and Film Festival 14+, thanks to Numbers and The Arches

Dark Blood GFT | Monday 24 February (18.30) When River Phoenix died in 1993 the filming of Dark Blood was abandoned, with everyone assuming it would never see the light of day. Now, director George Sluizer, who will attend the screening has assembled the existing footage and created a final cut in which his voiceover narrates the missing scenes. It is an elegant solution to an impossible situation. In this tense thriller, jet set actors Buffy (Judy Davis) and Harry (Jonathan Pryce) break down in the desert near a former nuclear testing ground. They stumble across Boy (Phoenix), a young widower waiting for the end of the world who takes a dangerous shine to Buffy. A tantalising vision of what might have been, ravishingly shot by Ed Lachmann. Out of the Past Director: George Sluizer Cast: River Phoenix, Judy Davis, Jonathan Pryce, Karen Black USA/UK/Netherlands 1993/2012, 1h26m, N/C 15+, thanks to Cinemavault

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Dark Victory GFT | Sunday 23 February (11.00) Nobody is as good as Bette Davis at her best. Dark Victory contains one of her finest performances as Judith Traherne, a giddy, carefree Long Island heiress stopped in her tracks by a series of blinding headaches and by failing vision. Forced to seek medical advice she surrenders to the concerns of kindly brain specialist George Brent. Faced with a chilling prognosis, dare she grasp at love and happiness as a victory over the dark shadows that threaten to overwhelm her? Pure, heartwrenching melodrama elevated to high art by the electric presence of Davis and a performance of utter conviction. Remember to bring a hankie. Festival for a Fiver - all tickets £5. 1939: Hooray for Hollywood Director: Edmund Goulding Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart USA 1939, 1h40m, PG, thanks to Park Circus

Dear Mr Watterson CCA | Wednesday 26 February (20.30) Calvin and Hobbes is one of the most iconic comic strips of all time, well beloved the world over by both adults and children. The cartoon adventures of a precocious American child and his anthropomorphic toy tiger appeared in over 24,000 newspapers worldwide during its decade-long run from 1985 – 1995. The decision to end the strip was made by creator Bill Watterson, who had strong feelings against merchandising and licensing, which he was under ever-increasing pressure to bow to. After retiring the comic, Watterson withdrew from the public eye into a private life in his hometown of Chagrin Falls, Ohio. This all-new documentary pays tribute to his legacy through fan interviews and testimonials, travelling to his hometown and reflecting on how Calvin and Hobbes changed the comic strip forever. Kapow!@GFF Director: Joel Allen Schroeder Cast: Berkeley Breathed, Jef Mallett, Stephan Pastis USA 2013, 1h29m, N/C 8+, thanks to Fingerprint Films

Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay GFT | Sunday 23 February (13.45) & Monday 24 February (15.00) Ricky Jay, one of the most significant characters in the world of modern magic, has been practicing sleight-of-hand trickery from the age of four. At seven he was in front of an audience and has pursued a career in the unique world of one-man magical performance ever since. Now in his sixties, Ricky Jay has branched out into writing and acting, collaborating with the likes of David Mamet and Paul Thomas Anderson. Featuring tremendous interviews with his many colleagues and admirers, along with exclusive archive footage of the career of the great man, Molly Bernstein and Alan Edelstein’s documentary effortlessly shows the legend behind the man and why his sardonic cool and contagious showmanship has enticed audiences for so many decades. Stranger Than Fiction Director: Molly Bernstein Cast: Dick Cavett, Ricky Jay USA 2013, 1h28m, N/C 12+, thanks to Molly Bernstein

Documenting John Grierson GFT | Friday 28 February (16.00) & Saturday 1 March (13.45) Pioneering Scot John Grierson was the father of the documentary. He established the conventions of a filmmaking movement that took root around the world. Laurence Henson’s compact, informative documentary tells the story of a trailblazer from his childhood in Stirlingshire to his pivotal role in supporting a generation of astonishingly creative filmmakers like Norman McLaren, Len Lye and Humphrey Jennings. Wonderful archive footage from Drifters, Night Mail and Scottish Oscar-winner Seawards the Great Ships is interwoven with fresh interviews with Grierson’s colleagues and students. Examples of Grierson’s work and legacy will accompany this screening, including Laurence Henson’s award-winning The Big Mill (1963, 25mins) on the production of sheet steel at Ravenscraig and Gartcosh and Health of a City (1965, 26m). Great Scots Director: Laurence Henson Cast: John Grierson, Murray Grigor, Sir Denis Forman Narrator: Bill Paterson Scotland/Ireland 2013, 30m, N/C 12+, thanks to Beacon Films, Hopscotch Films and Scottish Screen Archive. 1h30m approx.

The Double GFT | Saturday 22 February (20.40) & Sunday 23 February (13.20) After delighting GFF audiences with Submarine in 2011, multi-talented maestro Richard Ayoade, who will attend the screening on Saturday 22 February, returns with an inspired adaptation of the Fyodor Dostoevsky novella, featuring a tour-de-force dual performance from Jesse Eisenberg. Imagine a noirish, nightmare world that feels like somewhere behind the Iron Curtain in the 1950s. Simon is a meek, mild-mannered worker undervalued by his colleagues and invisible in any social situation. Then he is confronted by James, a smug, arrogant doppelganger with all the charm and confidence that Simon lacks. James has soon won everyone’s heart, including that of the beautiful Hannah. A darkly amusing existential comedy that descends into heartbreaking tragedy. Gala Director: Richard Ayoade Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Wallace Shawn, Cathy Moriarty UK 2013, 1h33m, N/C 12+, thanks to StudioCanal

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THE GOLDEN DREAM

Diego Quemada-Díez began his work in film as assistant to Ken Loach (who visited GFF in 2011) on films such as Land and Freedom, Carla’s Song and Bread and Roses. With this year’s The Golden Dream (La Juala de Oro) the Spanish-born director has carried the harsh realism and semi-improvisatory approach of his mentor over to this tale of the perilous journey from South America to the USA. The title translates as both The Golden Dream and The Golden Cage and is taken from a famed Mexican song that contrasts the idealism of life in the US with the ugly reality that immigrants face. With a principle cast made up of non-professional actors, along with extras who were actually trying to make their way from Guatemala to USA, the film offers a uniquely humanising view, as the audience are placed in the tattered shoes of its brave characters. It is one of many films in this year’s programme from south of the US border, from our exciting CineChile strand, thrilling Heli and beautifully minimalistic Workers (both also from Mexico) to the tender Venezuelan mother-son tale Bad Hair (Pelo Malo) – GFF once again highlights the vibrant cinema emerging from Latin America.

Drew: The Man Behind the Poster CCA | Thursday 27 February (20.00) Drew Struzan, a poster-artist with an unparalleled career in the industry, is the focus of this delightful documentary. His career is charted through the eyes of the many filmmakers and actors he has worked with, alongside unprecedented conversation with the man himself; from working with George Lucas on Indiana Jones to his iconic rendering of Michael J Fox’s Marty McFly in Back to the Future to the legendary artist’s recent retirement in 2008. Harrison Ford, Frank Darabont, Steven Spielberg and Guillermo del Toro (among many other artists and critics) all offer a unique insight into one of the most recognisable and influential pop culture artists of all time. Kapow!@GFF Director: Erik P Sharkey Cast: Drew Struzan, Harrison Ford, Michael J Fox USA 2013, 1h34m, N/C 12+

The Edge of the World CCA | Saturday 22 February (13.30) Kicking off our unique, celebratory day of screenings, performance and discussion designed to promote a greater understanding of Shetland’s rich language, culture and complex identity is this fantastic film by the great Michael Powell. Very early in his career Michael Powell ventured to the island of Foula to film this beautifully poetic tale of families torn apart by the decision to evacuate an island that is no long sustainable as a fishing port. The raging elements and bitter divisions create a tragic drama that also serves to capture the reality of life on the edge of the world. Screening as part of Nort Atlantik Drift: A Day of Shetland Festival for a Fiver - all tickets £5. Great Scots Director: Michael Powell Cast: Niall MacGinnis, Belle Chrystall, John Laurie UK 1938, 1h14m, U, thanks to BFI

Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me GFT | Friday 21 February (18.30) & Sunday 23 February (18.30) Elaine Stritch has been a Broadway baby for six decades. Her career runs the gamut from Woody Allen and Edward Albee to Two’s Company and 30 Rock via movies, television and landmark musicals. She has battled the booze, coped with diabetes, and met triumph and disaster with the same scalding frankness and acerbic wit. She has also become the pre-eminent interpreter of Stephen Sondheim lyrics. Nobody sings ‘I’m Still Here’ with more feeling and intensity. Chiemi Karasawa’s hugely entertaining documentary captures Stritch as she reflects on a long career and begins to confront her own mortality. An inspirational encounter with a true show business legend. Stranger Than Fiction Director: Chiemi Karasawa Cast: Elaine Stritch, Alec Baldwin, James Gandolfini, John Turturro USA, 2013, 1h20m, N/C 12+, thanks to Isotope Films

Everybody’s Child GFT | Saturday 22 February (16.15) Garry Fraser grew up in one of the poorest, most marginalised places in Scotland – Muirhouse, Edinburgh. After a life riddled with crime, drug addiction and poverty, Garry has been able to turn things around through filmmaking. In this bold, daring and ground-breaking documentary, Fraser takes viewers into the heart of his home community, revealing the harsh realities and injustices faced by people raised in such areas. An exceptionally illuminating look at why people from these schemes do the things they do, challenging normative societal views and broadening audiences’ views of the world. Following the engaging Garry we see just how it could have gone so wrong for him and for so many people around him. Great Scots Director: Garry Fraser Cast: Garry Fraser Scotland 2013, 1h25m, N/C 15+, thanks to Aconite Productions

Everyone’s a Critic CCA | Thursday 27 February (18.30) Ever since the dawn of Web 2.0, when the internet superhighway started flowing both ways, the world of film criticism has changed. From voting on a film’s IMDb rating, to pithy 100 word Amazon reviews and the treasure-trove of film writing hidden away on individual blogs, it seems everyone wants to weigh-in with their thoughts on the latest blockbuster, arthouse and indie releases. Join Sunday Herald Arts Editor Alan Morrison and a panel of invited critics as they debate and discuss the merits and detriments attached to this 21st century mass-democratisation of film journalism. This is a free event in Glasgow Film Festival’s Festival Club venue, admission will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Presented in association with The Sunday Herald.

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Exhibition Cineworld | Tuesday 25 February (21.00) & Wednesday 26 February (15.45) A firm favourite with Glasgow Film Festival audiences, Joanna Hogg returns with her third feature: a spare, stunningly composed examination of a couple and the home that has been the centre of their world for two decades. The stylish modernist building (the former home of architect James Melvin) is like a third character in the film that shapes and defines the daily lives of D (Viv Albertine, guitarist in the punk group The Slits) and H (Turner Prize nominated artist Liam Gillick). The decision to sell the house provokes a growing sense of unease, exposing the cracks in the seemingly smooth surface of their relationship. The film’s cool dry wit, acute sound design and raw, honest performances offer further testimony to Hogg’s singular talent. Best of British Director: Joanna Hogg Cast: Viv Albertine, Liam Gillick, Tom Hiddleston UK 2013, 1h50m, N/C 15+, thanks to Artificial Eye

Film’s Craic CCA | Saturday 1 March (18.30) An evening of film and music, featuring new compositions by Catriona McKay & Alistair MacDonald (Strange Rainbow), and work by artist/performer Aileen Campbell. Film’s Craic will present a synthesis of the traditional and contemporary, through live performances in song, harp, electroacoustics and film. The artists are invited to respond to the concepts of distance and time in Gaelic song and this will be introduced in a panel discussion with guest singers. Tickets: £10/£8 at GFF or CCA. Children under 14 are welcome in the venue until 10pm. For further announcements of performers please see www.ceolscraic.org Great Scots 3h30m, N/C 8+, thanks to Ceol’s Craic

Film/TV Locations: Scotland on Your Screen CCA | Tuesday 25 February (18.30) In recent years Scotland has become a hot-spot of film location work, from transforming Glasgow city centre into Philadelphia for World War Z and San Francisco for Cloud Atlas, to Roger Deakins’ beautiful capturing of the Scottish Highlands in James Bond’s latest outing, Skyfall and Jonathan Glazer’s eerie Under the Skin. Join Glasgow Film Office and National Trust for Scotland as they explore and discuss how and why Scotland has become such a Hollywood favourite in recent years. This is a free event in Glasgow Film Festival’s Festival Club venue, admission will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

For Those Who Can Tell No Tales Cineworld | Friday 21 February (21.00) & Saturday 22 February (13.30) During the Bosnian war 3000 people were murdered in the Visegrad massacre, an event that is conveniently denied by many of those for whom it should burn most brightly in the memory. The hauntingly beautiful For Those Who Can Tell No Tales dramatises the true story of Australian performance artist Kym Vercoe who bravely revisits her own experiences. During a carefree summer holiday in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kym visited Visegrad, staying in a hotel that left her feeling anxious and troubled. Afterwards, she discovered the hotel was used as a rape camp. Why was there no mention of this in the tourist guides? Why was there no memorial for those who had suffered and died? Eurovisions Director: Jasmila Zbanic Cast: Kym Vercoe, Boris Isakovic, Jasna Djuricic Bosnia-Herzegovina 2013, 1h12m, Bosnian with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to MPM Film

Geeks vs Gamers Super Quiz! CCA | Monday 24 February (20.00) The ultimate battle for Geekdom is here: the Geeks vs Gamers Super Quiz! Host of the Stan Lee Awards and comic Billy Kirkwood pits two teams of visiting professionals, celebs and comedians against each other in a panel show smack-down of genre knowledge. The mighty Geek team, lead by genre kingpin Mark Millar, takes on a team of thumb-blistered gaming boffins, lead by our resident gamer Robert Florence, as they face-off in a battle of aficionado Armageddon where anything can happen. Come down, join in the show and test your own know-how against our geek and gaming gods, and see who will walk away with this year’s cup! Festival for a Fiver - all tickets £5.

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GFF14 Surprise Film GFT | Wednesday 26 February (20.15) We will tell you how we are voting in the Independence Referendum, we will share what tax we paid last year, we will confide the very year in which we were born but we will never, under any circumstances, reveal the name of the legend that is GFF14 Surprise Film. There is a clue in the title. It could be a rarely seen silent epic, rescued from the salt mines of a distant empire and flown on winged chariots to Glasgow for your viewing pleasure. It could be something so spanking brand-new that they haven’t even started filming it yet. Unlikely, mind you, given the time restraints. Let’s just say you will be, well, surprised. A word of warning too: large beach balls may be deployed in the course of this event. Or not.

The Gilded Cage (La cage dorée) Cineworld | Friday 21 February (15.00) & Sunday 23 February (15.30) When thousands of European filmgoers recently voted for their favourite film of the past year, they didn’t choose Searching for Sugar Man or The Impossible or Anna Karenina. They voted for The Gilded Cage, a warm-hearted crowd-pleaser that stormed the French box office. Maria (Rita Blanco) and Jose (Joaquim de Almeida) emigrated from Portugal to Paris thirty years ago. She is a concierge and he is a building site foreman. They are happy and contented until the day Jose learns he has inherited the family winery in Portugal. Now they can go home and make all their dreams come true but is that what they really want and how do they break the news to their friends and neighbours? Eurovisions Director: Ruben Alves Cast: Rita Blanco, Joaquim de Almeida, Roland Giraud France 2013, 1h30m, French/Portuguese with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to The Festival Agency / Pathe International

The Girl from the Wardrobe (Dziewczyna z szafy) Cineworld | Friday 21 February (15.15) & Saturday 22 February (21.00) Jacek lives at home with his brother Tomek, the latter an autistic savant who needs constant care in the absence of their departed parents. Whilst he obviously cares deeply for his brother, Jacek also has to live an adult life – from career aspirations to finding a girlfriend – and often has to find someone to look after Tomek. One day, when rushing off to a business meeting, he leaves Tomek in the care of their eccentric young neighbor Magda, who often closes herself off to the world by smoking weed in her wardrobe. A tale of three oddball, alienated individuals, whose joint relationship grows in unexpected and compassionate ways, this surreal black comedy is the debut feature from Polish filmmaker Bodo Kox and is simultaneously heartwarming, hilarious and meaningful. Eurovisions Director: Bodo Kox Cast: Wojciech Mecwaldowski, Piotr Glowacki, Magdalena Rózanska Poland 2013, 1h29m, Polish with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Wytwórnia filmów dokumentalnych i fabularnych

Go for Sisters GFT | Sunday 2 March (13.15) The latest film from John Sayles has all the qualities we have come to expect from the master craftsman of Lone Star and Honeydripper. Sayles brings a great sense of place and character to a classic film noir tale, shifting between Los Angeles and Mexico. Years ago, Bernice and Fontayne were such close friends that they could have passed for sisters. Now, Bernice (Lisa Gay Hamilton) is a tough, merciless parole officer and Fontayne (Yolonda Ross) has spent way too long on the wrong side of the law. When her son goes missing, Bernice turns to Fontayne for help, and working with retired detective Freddy Suarez (Edward James Olmos) they cross the border to track him down State of Independents Director: John Sayles Cast: Lisa Gay Hamilton, Yolonda Ross, Edward James Olmos USA 2013, 2h3m, N/C 15+, thanks to Cinema Management Group

The Golden Dream (La jaula de oro) Cineworld | Saturday 1 March (18.00) & Sunday 2 March (13.15) The American Dream is a potent magnet for poor, huddled masses in search of a better life. Diego Quemada-Díez’s gripping debut feature is a piercing, poetic road movie following the fortunes of three Guatemalan teenagers on a desperate journey across the Mexican border into America. Quemada-Díez collaborated on several Ken Loach classics, including Carla’s Song, and Loach’s influence is evident in his compassion and commitment to realism. Juan, Samuel and Sara are joined by a young Tzotzil Indian boy, Chauk, as they ride the rails and constantly risk their lives for a distant chance of something better in a country that only sees them as expendable, cheap labour. An urgent, compelling debut. It’s a Wonderful World Director: Diego Quemada-Díez Cast: Brandon López, Rodolfo Domínguez, Karen Martínez Guatemala/Spain/Mexico 2013, 1h42m, Spanish with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Peccadillo Pictures

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Paulina García

IT ONLY TAKES ONE FILM TO CHANGE A CAREER. Paulina García was a successful actress, theatre director and playwright before Gloria came to town at last year’s Berlin Film Festival. Her vibrant, multi-layered performance as the free-spirited, middle-aged divorcee won her rave reviews and the Festival’s Silver Bear for Best Actress. Since then the film has conquered the world, winning hearts and minds on the road to becoming Chile’s Oscar candidate for 2014. Paulina García will be seen at Glasgow in Illiterate/Las analfabetas, offering another flawless performance as a complex woman. She has become the new face of Chilean cinema, a cinema that is offering unusually fine roles for women and making films that address the politics of the country in an accessible and entertaining manner. According to Paulina: ‘The secret of the new Chilean cinema is simple: obstinacy, persistence, the great work attitude of Chilean people, the fact that we never give up. We have always a few fundings at our disposal and this helps. I know it is a provocation, but it is true that the spirit of art becomes the intimate necessity of telling a story, not the earnings. And with a few means, by the way, everyone gives his or her best – and something more.’

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Goodbye, Mr Chips GFT | Monday 24 February (11.00) There was one major Oscar that eluded Gone with the Wind in 1939 and that was Best Actor. Trumping Clark Gable’s Rhett Butler was a wonderfully subtle, moving performance from the great Robert Donat as kindly schoolmaster Charles Chipping. The definitive screen version of the James Hilton novel traces six decades of devotion to pupils and school from a timid fellow who finds his life transformed through a holiday romance that blossoms into the love of his life. Greer Garson co-stars as the freespirited Katherine in a film that captures a potent sense of British decency and duty at the very moment that the country was heading into a world war. Festival for a Fiver - all tickets £5. 1939: Hooray for Hollywood Director: Sam Wood Cast: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, John Mills USA/UK 1939, 1h54m, U, thanks to BFI/Hollywood Classics

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia GFT | Wednesday 26 February (20.45) & Thursday 27 February (15.45) The late Gore Vidal was one of America’s finest literary talents and also one of the most acerbic, insightful commentators on the state of the nation. This magnetic documentary mixes extensive archive footage with lengthy interviews recorded in the final months of Vidal’s life, in which he reflects on a wide range of personal issues and political views. Here are reminders of his public sparring sessions with Norman Mailer and Jerry Brown, the misbegotten movie of Myra Breckinridge, his political ambitions and literary legacy, his waspish views on the decline and fall of liberal America and memories of his great love Howard Austen. An intimate, thought-provoking portrait of a magnificent life. Stranger Than Fiction Director: Nicholas D Wrathall Cast: Gore Vidal, Jay Parini, Christopher Hitchens USA/Italy 2013, 1h23m, N/C 12+, thanks to Nicholas D Wrathall

Grand Central Cineworld | Monday 24 February (20.45) & Tuesday 25 February (15.45) One of the discoveries of the Cannes Film Festival, Grand Central sets a torrid romance against the dangers of the nuclear power industry. Tahar Rahim’s Gary is among the expendable workers hired to clean and repair nuclear reactors. Safety is a matter for the individual; if Gary’s radiation levels rise he becomes unemployable. His attraction to Karole (Léa Seydoux from Blue is the Warmest Colour) is immediate and their affair plays out in a series of lyrical lakeside meetings. She is living with gentle giant Toni, which only adds to the sense of danger in lives that are being risked by a cynical industry every single working day. A poetic drama with a powerhouse cast. Eurovisions Director: Rebecca Zlotowski Cast: Tahar Rahim, Léa Seydoux, Olivier Gourmet France/Austria 2013, 1h34m, French with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Studiocanal

The Great Passage (Fune wo amu) GFT | Tuesday 25 February (15.15) How often have you struggled to find the right words to express exactly what you are feeling? The problem is even more acute for Mitsuya Majime because he has just joined an editorial team charged with creating a brand-new Japanese dictionary. He is supposed to have a way with words. The dictionary will contain 240,000 of them. Yet he still becomes flustered and tongue-tied when trying to have a simple conversation with his landlady’s attractive granddaughter. Japan’s Oscar submission is a smart, warm-hearted romantic charmer in which love is all around and Mitsuya finds a home among the eccentrics and academics constantly searching for le mot juste. It’s a Wonderful World Director: Yûya Ishii Cast: Ryûhei Matsuda, Aoi Miyazaki, Jô Odagiri Japan 2013, 2h13m, Japanese with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to Shochiku Co. Ltd.

Half of a Yellow Sun GFT | Saturday 1 March (19.45) Cineworld | Sunday 2 March (15.00) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s astonishing, Orange Prize-winning novel is brought to the screen in a sweeping, epic production written and directed by Nigerian playwright Biyi Bandele. Nigeria’s struggle for independence in the 1960s is captured through the lives and loves of very different twin sisters. Sociology professor Olanna (Thandie Newton) is beguiled by charismatic revolutionary Odenigbo (Chiwetel Ejiofor), whilst her sister Kainene (Anika Noni Rose) marries white British writer Richard (Joseph Mawle). Their struggles and sacrifices mirror a chaotic country torn apart by ethnic conflict as well as class and race issues, and one urgently seeking to break the chains of its colonialist past. Best of British Director: Biyi Bandele Cast: Thandie Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anika Noni Rose UK/Nigeria 2013, 1h51m, N/C 12+, thanks to Soda Pictures.

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Hank and Asha GFT | Saturday 22 February (18.15) & Sunday 23 February (11.30) True romantics will love Hank and Asha, a tender-hearted love story with echoes of Before Sunrise and the Oscar-winning Once. Asha is a film student in Prague impressed by a documentary screening at a local festival. She contacts the director Hank in New York and they begin to exchange video letters. The correspondence blossoms into a deep emotional connection as they share hopes and dreams, secrets and confidences. They put their hearts on the line to each other, but dare they take a chance on actually meeting? Told with immense charm and played to perfection by Mahira Kakkar and Andrew Pastides, this beguiling modern romance marks an impressive feature debut from documentary filmmaker James E Duff. State of Independents Director: James E Duff Cast: Mahira Kakkar, Andrew Pastides, Brian Sloan USA/Czech Republic 2012, 1h15m, N/C 8+, thanks to Paper Chain Productions

Harmony Lessons (Uroki garmonii) GFT | Monday 24 February (13.00) Cineworld | Tuesday 25 February (16.00) There is something of Michael Haneke in the stern control and air of mystery that distinguishes this stunning first feature from Kazakhstani writer-director Emir Baigazin. Thirteen-year-old loner Aslan lives on his grandmother’s remote farm and travels to school every day, where he is at the mercy of tough guy Bolat who extorts money to send to former pupils now in prison. Aslan’s elaborate scientific experiments are his one means of escape. When a new pupil arrives from the city, there is a brief moment when change seems possible, but this is a school ruled by bullying and intimidation in a society where only the fittest survive. Ranging in influences from Lord of the Flies to Dostoevsky, this is a compelling exploration of human cruelty with scenes that some viewers may find upsetting. It’s a Wonderful World Director: Emir Baigazin Cast: Timur Aidarbekov, Aslan Anarbayev, Mukhtar Andassov Kazakhstan/Germany/France 2013, 1h50m, Kazakh/Russian with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Films Distribution

The Heart of Bruno Wizard GFT | Sunday 23 February (21.00) ‘If Bruno Wizard had gone more mainstream, he wouldn’t be Bruno Wizard.’ A legend in the underground punk scene of 1970s and 1980s London, Wizard has been all but forgotten about today. In this new documentary, filmmaker Elisabeth Rasmussen offers a unique insight into the troubled life of the eternal, immortal punk. Tracing his life from gigs at the iconic Roxy in London alongside The Jam and The Clash, to the counter-culture performance art of the Warren Street squats andhis continued rebellion today. The film stands as a testament to the startling integrity of a man who defies expectation at every turn, and the hardship that comes along with it. Music and Film Festival Director: Elisabeth Rasmussen Cast: Bruno Wizard, Stephen Jones, Don Letts UK 2013, 1h22m, N/C 15+, thanks to Elisabeth Rasmussen

Heli Cineworld | Thursday 27 February (18.30) & Friday 28 February (13.15) Innocence is a luxury that nobody can afford in Amat Escalante’s brutal, shocking drama torn from the blood-drenched headlines of Mexico’s drug wars. It begins in uncompromising fashion with an execution. Then, we learn what led to this event. Heli (Armando Espitia) is an honest factory worker who lives with his wife, their baby, his father and his sister Estela (Andrea Vergara). Estela is constantly flirting with teenage police cadet Beto. When Beto hides a stash of cocaine on Heli’s property, he finds its and dumps it down a well. The last thing he wants is trouble. Winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes, this harrowing yet hopeful journey into hell contains scenes of torture that many will find distressing. It’s a Wonderful World Director: Amat Escalante Cast: Armando Espitia, Andrea Vergara, Linda González France/Germany/The Netherlands/Mexico 2013, 1h45m, Spanish with subtitles, N/C 18+, thanks to Network Releasing

The Hour of the Lynx (I lossens time) Cineworld | Sunday 23 February (17.45) & Monday 24 February (13.30) When Lisbeth, a psychiatrist working in an experimental institution for the criminally insane, encounters a young suicidal offender with religious visions, she turns to forty-five-year-old priest Helen for help. Together, the two women race against time, journeying deep into the mind of the troubled youth using the seemingly oppositional approaches of faith and science. Shot on 35mm, director Søren KraghJacobsen contrasts the vibrant, dark and beautifully autumnal countryside with the cold interiors of the psychiatric ward. Based on Per Olov Enquist’s 1988 play of the same name and introducing a revelatory performance by the young Frederik Christian Johansen alongside The Killing’s Sofie Gråbøl and Borgen’s Signe Egholm Olsen, The Hour of the Lynx is an emotionally captivating exploration of belief, science and mental care in the heart of Scandinavia. Eurovisions Director: Søren Kragh-Jacobsen Cast: Sofie Gråbøl, Søren Malling, Signe Egholm Olsen Denmark/Sweden 2013, 1h40m, Danish/Swedish with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Arrow Film Distributors

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Kama Sutra Restaurant 331 Sauchiehall St, G2 3HW One Cube or Two 134 Renfrew Street, G3 6ST

Trains: Glasgow Central, Glasgow Queen Street, Argyle Street and Charing Cross stations are all within short walking distance of our city centre venues (see map).

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The House of Him GFT | Saturday 22 February (23.15) GFF’s very own Robert Florence makes his directorial debut with the world premiere of this surreal and claustrophobic horror chamber piece. A misogynistic masked killer prepares for the routine slaying of Anna, his 27th victim, in the comfort of his own home. As Anna struggles to break out of the role the killer has chosen for her, the dead women in the walls and floors play a last desperate card, with a soundtrack by Iain Cook of CHVRCHES, this startling and unique film was made for less than £1000 and shot over 16 days in Glasgow. Great Scots Director: Robert Florence Cast: Richard Rankin, Louise Stewart, Kirsty Strain, Amy E Watson Scotland 2014, 1h25m, N/C 18+, thanks to Bold Yin

Iboga Nights GFT | Wednesday 26 February (15.15) Ten years ago, filmmaker David Graham Scott bravely chronicled his attempt to conquer his drug addiction in the award-winning documentary Detox or Die. He used the African hallucinogen ibogaine, an unlicensed substance hailed as a ‘magic bullet’ that could cure addiction. He has subsequently become an expert in addiction issues and an advocate for iboga treatments. His latest documentary is an unflinching and fair-minded exploration of iboga as he seeks wider evidence that it can cure but also accepts the reality of individuals it may have killed. The stories of lives scarred by addiction and individuals desperate to risk the iboga detox form the backbone of a compelling, thought-provoking film that makes a vital contribution to the addiction debate. Great Scots Director: David Graham Scott Scotland 2013, 1h36m, N/C 15+, thanks to Hopscotch Films

Ida GFT | Tuesday 25 February (13.30) & Wednesday 26 February (21.00) Pawel Pawlikowski’s return to his native Poland has resulted in one of his most powerful films, in which a single human story becomes the key to addressing defining moments in the country’s past. In the 1960s, novitiate nun Anna is about to take her vows in the Catholic Church when the Mother Superior insists that she must visit her aunt. Middle-aged Wanda informs Anna that her real name is Ida. It is the first in a chain of revelations about the family that also illuminate the dark shadows of the war and the relationship between the country’s Catholic and Jewish populations. Beautifully composed in black and white, Ida is a masterful evocation of intimate dilemmas and the weight of history. Eurovisions Director: Pawel Pawlikowski Cast: Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska Poland/Denmark 2013, 1h20m, Polish with subtitles, 15, thanks to Artificial Eye

Illiterate (Las analfabetas) GFT | Tuesday 25 February (18.30) & Wednesday 26 February (11.15) Paulina García was one of the breakthrough stars of 2013 with her smashing, award-winning performance in Gloria. She is just as captivating here, repeating her stage triumph in the screen version of the Pablo Paredes play. García’s Ximena has spent her life devising clever strategies to conceal the fact that she cannot read. A neighbour’s daughter arrives one day asking if she might continue her late mother’s tradition of reading Ximena a newspaper. It is the beginning of a feisty friendship in which Jackeline (Valentina Muhr) is determined to make use of her teaching degree whether Ximena is a willing pupil or not. A delightful, touching two hander. CineChile Director: Moisés Sepúlveda Cast: Paulina García, Valentina Muhr Chile 2013, 1h13m, Spanish with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to Habanero Film Sales

Ilo Ilo Cineworld | Friday 21 February (20.45) & Saturday 22 February (15.15) Ilo Ilo has been gaining fans and prizes since it won the Caméra d’Or at Cannes, and it is easy to see why. Anthony Chen’s first feature is a delicately handled portrait of family life set in Singapore during the Asian financial crisis of 1997. Exasperated by the antics of their demanding, ten-year-old brat of a son Jiale (Koh Jia Ler), Teck (Tian Wen Chen) and his pregnant wife Hwee Leng (Yann Yann Yeo) decide to hire a live-in maid. The arrival of Teresa (Angeli Bayani) and the hard-won trust she achieves with Jiale only seem to accentuate the tensions tearing at the heart of the family in a gentle, soulful film that takes a powerful grip on your emotions. It’s a Wonderful World Director: Anthony Chen Cast: Koh Jia Ler, Angeli Bayani, Tian Wen Chen Singapore 2013, 1h39m, Mandarin/Tagalog/Hokkien/English with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to Soda Pictures

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An Inspector Calls GFT | Friday 21 February (15.15) & Tuesday 25 February (15.30) Alastair Sim gives a superb performance as the mysterious Inspector Poole in the taut screen version of J B Priestley’s landmark play. A wealthy, privileged Edwardian family have just finished a sumptuous meal when the inspector pays a call, informing them of the death of a local girl. What possible interest or concern could it be to them? The inspector’s troubling presence and unspoken accusations prompt the exposure of guilty secrets at the heart of the family and the core of a society scarred by class division and hypocrisy. A little classic of British cinema from future Bond director Guy Hamilton, splendidly restored for the film’s 60th anniversary. Out of the Past Director: Guy Hamilton Cast: Alastair Sim, Arthur Young, Bryan Forbes UK 1954, 1h20m, PG, thanks to StudioCanal

The Italian Pastry Chef (Il pasticciere) GFT | Tuesday 25 February (20.45) & Wednesday 26 February (13.00) Achille (Antonio Catania) is a master pastry chef in a southern Italian village, creating the most mouthwatering, tempting sweet treats that he can never eat. He is diabetic and survives on plain pasta and boiled potatoes. The diet is as bland as his life until the day he delivers some delicious pastries to a swanky mansion and discovers a dead body. Soon there is a gun pointed at his head and an offer that he cannot refuse: help transport the body over the border or else. Accustomed to doing exactly what he is told, Achille complies, beginning a twisted film noir thriller in which he might finally take control of his life and start calling the shots. Literally. Eurovisions Director: Luigi Sardiello Cast: Antonio Catania, Rosaria Russo, Ennio Fantastichini Italy 2012, 1h40m, Italian with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to Ellipsis.

John Romita Jr Masterclass CCA | Tuesday 25 February (20.00) John Romita Jr has a wealth of experience within the comics industry, beginning his career with sketches for covers of reprints for Marvel UK in the 1970s before moving on to work on Iron Man and Spider-Man, along with a notable run on Daredevil. Since 1990 he has collaborated with the likes of Frank Miller, Neil Gaiman and GFF’s own Mark Millar on several projects, directing a section of the 2010 film adaptation of Millar’s Kick-Ass. Glasgow Film Festival is excited to welcome John for this special event, where he will be discussing his career and hosting a master class on the process of comic book artistry. Kapow!@GFF 1h30m, thanks to John Romita Jr.

John Sessions in Conversation GFT | Saturday 22 February (16.00) From Spitting Image to Stella Street, and from Gangs of New York to The Iron Lady and recent box-office hit Filth, the incomparable John Sessions has constantly proven himself as one of the most versatile and accomplished Scottish actors of his generation. He made his film debut in Roger Christian’s The Sender (1982) and has the rare distinction of being directed by both Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro (The Good Shepherd), of playing Ted Heath and Harold Wilson, of sharing the screen with Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer, Kenneth Branagh and Anthony Hopkins and many others. Effortlessly witty, keenly intelligent and an amazing mimic, John Sessions will discuss his career and take questions from the audience in this special event. Festival for a Fiver - all tickets £5. Great Scots 1h

Killers GFT | Saturday 1 March (23.15) Cineworld | Sunday 2 March (21.00) Join The Mo Brothers (Macabre) on a dark voyage into the warped minds of two men with nothing in common: Nomura, a self-obsessed serial killer residing in Tokyo who posts his sick handiwork on the internet, and Bayu, a failing journalist and struggling father in Jakarta who turns sadistic vigilante. Connected through their violent blood-soaked incidents, both men inexplicably start to feed off each other. But as their lives become more uncontrollable, each of them starts a shocking journey into a toxic maze of violent self-discovery. Fresh from Sundance comes this twisted tale by Nightmare Detective producer Ushiyama Takuji. UK Premiere. FrightFest Directors: Kimo Stamboel, Timo Tjahjanto Cast: Ray Sahetapy, Oka Antara, Rin Takanashi Indonesia/Japan 2013, English/Indonesian/Japanese with subtitles, 2h20m, N/C 18+, thanks to Lionsgate

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Kon-Tiki Cineworld | Wednesday 26 February (18.00) & Thursday 27 February (13.15) Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl’s legendary voyage from Peru to Polynesia in 1947 remains the kind of grand adventure that a modern generation can only dream about. This stirring, Oscarnominated epic tells the true tale with style and some breathtaking cinematography. Pal Sverre Hagen stars as the dashing academic who dared to challenge the orthodox view that Polynesia was settled by Asia. He believed South American explorers were the first settlers. When nobody accepted his theory, he set out to prove them wrong by assembling a crew, building a raft and sailing the Pacific Ocean in the exact manner of any initial expeditions. A gloriously thrilling, old-fashioned yarn. Eurovisions Director: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg Cast: Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Gustaf Skarsgård. Norway/UK/Denmark/Germany/Sweden 2012, 1h58m, Norwegian/French/Swedish/English with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to Arrow Film Distributors

Laptop Guy, Graphic Novel Launch CCA | Sunday 23 February (18.30) What happens when a creator starts being stalked by his own fictional character? That’s the premise of Laptop Guy, a ‘sitcomic’ book from Jack Lothian and Sha Nazir. It follows the hapless lead character as he attempts to launch a comic, only to see it fail and the title character to haunt his waking days... Lothian and Nazir talk about the book, published by Black Hearted Press. Jack Lothian is a film and television writer whose credits include Doc Martin, Late Night Shopping and Shameless. Sha Nazir is an artist, whose works include Telling Scotland’s Story and producing Glasgow Comic Con (making The List’s Hot 100 for 2013). A free event in GFF’s Festival Club venue, admission is allocated on a first come, first served basis.

The Last Impresario Cineworld | Thursday 27 February (15.30) & Friday 28 February (18.30) Glasgow-born producer Michael White appears to know everyone, a legendary social butterfly who impacted upon countless iconic figures in popular culture within his sixty-year career –from partying with The Rolling Stones and The Beatles, to helping form Monty Python and bringing revolutionary performers like Pina Bausch and Yoko Ono to British audiences. This debut feature (born from a chance encounter at Cannes Film Festival) from twenty-six-year-old Gracie Otto features a stellar line up, with famous faces such as Naomi Watts, Kate Moss, John Waters, Barry Humphries, John Cleese and many more discussing their relationships with White. Also offering extensive and intimate interviews with the man himself, this snappy documentary pays tribute and offers fascinating insight into the life and career of the most famous man you have never heard of. Stranger than Fiction Director: Gracie Otto Cast: Michael White, Naomi Watts, Kate Moss, John Cleese Australia/UK/USA/France 2013, 1h22m, N/C 15+, thanks to Dogwoof Pictures

The Last of the Unjust (Le dernier des injustes) Cineworld | Sunday 23 February (13.30) & Monday 24 February (18.30) In 1975, Claude Lanzmann, the director of Shoah, conducted a lengthy interview in Rome with the controversial Rabbi Benjamin Murmelstein that was never made public. During the war, Murmelstein worked with Adolf Eichmann to arrange for the emigration of 120,000 Jews to Palestine. He was also appointed the last Jewish Elder of the notorious Czech show camp Theresienstadt. Was he a collaborator who should have been hanged or a man who did the best he could in unimaginable circumstances? Lanzmann uses that interview as the heart of a spellbinding documentary in which he revisits Austria, Poland, Israel and the Czech Republic to confront the horrors of the past and explore the way that history is constructed in the eye of the beholder. Stranger Than Fiction Director: Claude Lanzmann Cast: Benjamin Murmelstein France/Austria 2013, 3h38m, German/French/English with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to Le Pacte

Lasting (Nieulotne) Cineworld | Monday 24 February (18.45) & Tuesday 25 February (15.20) Polish students Michal and Karina meet each other whilst working summer jobs in the sun-kissed vineyards of Spain. Head over heels and experiencing the heady thralls of first love, their idyllic and pure adoration seems impenetrable. However, one devastating moment changes everything as secrets beget secrecy and the seemingly unbreakable bonds that once held the young couple together begin to buckle and fray. Jakub Gierszal and Magdalena Berus deliver outstanding performances as the troubled young couple at the centre of the film. Director Jacek Borcuch gives the film a natural, immersive touch – efficaciously demonstrating how one moment can sharply collide ecstasy and abandon with the sobering troubles of adulthood. Eurovisions Director: Jacek Borcuch Cast: Jakub Gierszal, Magdalena Berus, Ángela Molina Poland/Spain 2013, 1h35m, Polish/Spanish with subtitles, N/C 18+, thanks to AP Mañana

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Jack O’Connell

CAN WE START DECLARING 2014 THE YEAR OF JACK O’CONNELL? You may recognise this dynamic young British actor from Skins and films like Eden Lake, Tower Block and The Liability but now he is moving into a whole different league. He is stunning as violent, troubled teenager Eric in David Mackenzie’s Starred Up, fighting the demons of his past and his circumstances whilst trying to remain tru to himself. It is a performance that reminds you of the blazing ability and presence that a Gary Oldman or a Tim Roth showed at the same age – he is only 23. This year he will also be seen in 300: Rise Of An Empire; 71; and Unbroken, directed by Angelina Jolie from a script by the Coen brothers. O’Connell plays Olympic runner Louis Zamperini who was a Japanese prisoner during the Second World War. If that isn’t enough for one year, he is also among those tipped to join the cast of Star Wars. Talent will out.

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LFO Cineworld | Friday 21 February (18.30) & Saturday 22 February (15.30) What would you do if one day you discovered you had the ability to control minds? This is the position that Robert, a schlubby and solitary man with a disdainful, unfaithful wife and an increasingly distant son, finds himself in. Whilst testing the psychological effects of electronic sound (the titular Low Frequency Oscillations), Robert discovers that he can subliminally open the human mind to hypnotic suggestion. Using this as an outlet for his pent-up frustrations, loneliness and base desires, he begins to mould a new life for himself. A truly lo-fi, dark indie tale, we watch as Robert gains increasingly dangerous control of the world around him, whilst losing control of himself. LFO has gained comparisons to Peter Strickland’s recent Berberian Sound Studio, and is further proof that big budgets are not necessary for big ideas. Eurovisions Director: Antonio Tublén Cast: Patrik Karlson, Izabella Jo Tschig, Per Löfberg Sweden/Denmark 2013, 1h34m, Swedish with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Ping Pong Films

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed (Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados)

Cineworld | Saturday 1 March (20.30) & Sunday 2 March (17.15) Beatlemania touched every corner of the world in the 1960s. David Trueba’s tender, bittersweet road movie tells a true story from Spain. Schoolteacher Antonio (Almodóvar regular Javier Cámara) is a devoted Beatles fan and uses the lyrics of ‘Help!’ to teach his pupils English. When John Lennon arrives in Almeria to shoot How I Won the War, Antonio cannot resist the chance to catch a glimpse of his idol. Taking to the road, he picks up pregnant Belén (Natalia de Molina) and runaway Juanjo (Francesc Colomer). What follows is a coming of age story underpinned by the sadness of the Franco era. The film’s title, of course, comes from the lyrics of ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’, which Lennon wrote during his time Spain. Music and Film Festival Director: David Trueba Cast: Javier Cámara, Natalia de Molina, Francesc Colomer Spain 2013, 1h48m, Spanish with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to 6 Sales

Locke Cineworld | Sunday 23 February (20.45) & Monday 24 February (13.00) Steven Knight’s ingenious British feature is a fantastic example of why you don’t need a big budget to make a big impact. Crafted with precision and boasting a tour-de-force performance from Tom Hardy, it maintains a relentless sense of pace as we are given a front row seat to see one man’s world come crashing down. Construction site manager Ivan Locke is en route from Birmingham to London. He is due to oversee the pouring of the foundations of a massive skyscraper but has a much more pressing and personal appointment. He calls his teenage sons to say he will not be joining them as planned. All of this is way out of character and we discover why during a long night’s journey into day. Best of British Director: Steven Knight Cast: Tom Hardy, Olivia Colman, Andrew Scott UK 2013, 1h25m, N/C 15+, thanks to Lionsgate

A Long Way Down Cineworld | Friday 21 February (20.30) & Saturday 22 February (15.45) Hogmanay can be the loneliest night of the year; a time for maudlin regrets and suicidal impulses. Disgraced television presenter Martin (Pierce Brosnan) has decided to end it all but finds he’s not alone as single mum Maureen (Toni Collette), teenager Jess (Imogen Poots) and rock star JJ (Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul) have similar plans. It’s getting crowded on that lofty ledge. If they all decide to sit down and share their problems could that be enough to get them through the darkest moments? Adapted from Nick Hornby’s hilarious and heartbreaking novel, A Long Way Down is brought to the screen by Heartbreaker director Pascal Chaumeil and an all-star cast. Best Of British Director: Pascal Chaumeil Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Rosamund Pike, Aaron Paul, Toni Collette UK 2014, 1h36m, N/C 12+, thanks to Lionsgate

Looking for Light: Jane Bown GFT | Wednesday 26 February (13.15) & Thursday 27 February (17.45) Since her first black and white portrait of Bertrand Russell in 1949, celebrated photographer Jane Bown has captured everyone from Orson Welles and John Lennon to Margaret Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth II (for her 80th birthday), and has gained immense critical acclaim along the way. Her photos have become iconic definitions of many of the great and the good (and a few bad) characters from throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In this all-new documentary from Luke Dodd and Michael Whyte, we see her outstanding determination to succeed in an almost exclusively male world, along with the evolution of her working process. With exclusive interviews from fellow photographers Rankin, Nobby Clark and Don McCullin, Looking for Light is a stunning portrait of one of the most important photographers of modern times. Stranger Than Fiction Directors: Luke Dodd and Michael Whyte Cast: Jane Bown, John Rankin Waddell, Don McCullin UK 2013, 1h30m, N/C 12+, thanks to Soda Pictures

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Love Affair GFT | Thursday 27 February (11.00) Long before Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr embarked on An Affair to Remember, Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne set sail on an equally eventful transatlantic voyage in one of the great romantic tales from Hollywood’s Golden age. Philandering playboy Boyer is sailing from Naples to New York where he is to wed a wealthy heiress. Nightclub singer Dunne is also heading home to marital bliss. Thrown together during the long voyage, they become good friends and so much more. They make a pledge that if their feelings remain as strong in six months time they will reunite at the top of the Empire State Building. Fate has other plans in store in a film that earned six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. Festival for a Fiver - all tickets £5. 1939: Hooray for Hollywood Director: Leo McCarey Cast: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya USA 1939, 1h27m, U, thanks to BBC

Love is Not What It Used to Be (El amor no es lo que era) GFT | Friday 28 February (16.45) & Saturday 1 March (20.30) A young man and woman taking the tentative steps towards forging a new relationship, a chance encounter between two older lovers, a middle-aged couple trying to save their ever-fading bond; El amor no es lo que era shows the many different trajectories that love can take. Director Gabriel Ochoa’s sweet, funny and touching rumination on love plays with the basic mathematical principles of hyperbola and parabola, as seemingly predetermined origins and destinations are disrupted by the unpredictability of emotions. By focusing on three separate relationships in the same city, Love Is Not What It Used to Be represents a unique and relatable reflection on the opportunities offered by love. Eurovisions Director: Gabriel Ochoa Cast: Alberto San Juan, Aida Folch, Petra Martínez Spain 2013, 1h29m, Spanish with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Paloma Mora

Love is the Perfect Crime (L’amour est un crime parfait) Cineworld | Thursday 27 February (20.30) & Friday 28 February (13.00) Claude Chabrol, Hitchcock and Patricia Highsmith are some of the names that come to mind in this entertainingly twisted murder mystery from the Larrieu brothers. Marc (Mathieu Amalric) is a creative writing professor in the Swiss Alps with a well-deserved reputation as a ladies man. After spending the night with one of his students the girl disappears. Her anxious stepmother isn’t the only one demanding answers but the head of the department remains sympathetic because he has a fondness for Marc’s sister Marianne (Karin Viard). As accusations fly and the finger of suspicion is pointed in many directions, it becomes clear that the pristine snow of the Alps is a convenient cover for a multitude of guilty secrets. Eurovisions Director: Jean-Marie and Arnaud Larrieu Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Karin Viard, Maïwenn France/Switzerland 2013, 1h51m, French with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Gaumont

Low Budget Filmmaking CCA | Friday 28 February (18.30) Making a film is no easy task, one made even harder when budgets are tight. How do you afford the camera, the actors, the catering? From becoming a human lab rat, to shooting in your workplace when the boss goes home, Hollywood is full of filmmakers who got their big break through low-budget filmmaking. In this special event, a panel of emergent filmmakers will be discussing how necessity can often be the mother of invention, and how with enough skill and determination, a lack of finance can be substituted for an increased imagination. This is a free event in GFF’s Festival Club, tickets will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

The Lunchbox Cineworld | Tuesday 25 February (20.40) & Wednesday 26 February (13.15) Ritesh Batra’s debut feature is utterly charming, bringing the romantic glow of an Ernst Lubitsch delight to the streets of Mumbai. Every day Ila (Nimrat Kaur) lovingly prepares a delicious lunch that is delivered to a husband who fails to appreciate the food or her. One day the food is mistakenly delivered to mild-mannered widower Saajan (Irrfan Khan). He is astonished by the tender loving care in every mouthful. Once she realises the error, Ila writes her mystery diner a note and soon they are exchanging the most tender of confidences through the lunchboxes. A wonderful, feel-good tale with a generous spirit that is quite irresistible. It’s a Wonderful World Director: Ritesh Batra Cast: Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddiqui India/France/Germany/USA 2013, 1h44m, Hindi with subtitles, N/C 8+, thanks to Artificial Eye

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Man of Steel GFT | Tuesday 25 February (21.00) By turns amusing, surprising and unnerving, this programme of moving image works has been curated by artist Ed Atkins, who in 2013 was nominated for the Jarman Award and exhibited at the Venice and Lyon biennales as well as Glasgow’s own CCA. A personal consideration of avatar performances, the eclectic programme presents classic artists’ films by the likes of Vito Acconci and Charles Atlas alongside contemporary works, including Atkins’ own recent Even Pricks. All the films feature surrogates that speak or act in the place of an artist or performer. Punctuating the evening will be short musical interludes by Atkins, karaoked via a computer-generated, motion-captured avatar. Crossing the Line 1h30m approx, N/C 18+, Man of Steel first premiered as part of the Performa 13 Biennial, organised by Performa Curator Mark Beasley. Image: Even Pricks by Ed Atkins, courtesy of the artist, Cabinet Gallery, London and Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin, commissioned by the Lyon Biennial 2013

Margaret Tait Award: A Whole New World GFT | Monday 24 February (21.30) GFF’s Margaret Tait Award recognises experimental Scottish or Scotland-based artists who work with the moving image. 2013’s winner Rachel Maclean largely works with green screen composite video, creating hypercoloured fantasy worlds around existing audio, and was also shortlisted for the Jarman Award. A Whole New World portrays the fantastical ruins of a fallen empire. Combining grand narrative with cheap product placement, the work explores themes related to British Imperial history and national identity. Narrated by a statuesque Britannia Goddess, the action frequently shifts genre, moving from an all-singing, all-dancing musical score to sedate period drama and battlefield conflict. Maclean plays all the characters in the work, miming to a multilingual soundtrack and bedecked in an elaborate combination of prosthetic make-up, historical costume and Union Jack-encrusted tourist tat. World Premiere. Crossing the Line Director: Rachel Maclean Cast: Rachel Maclean United Kingdom 2014, 32min, English/French/Arabic/Hindi/Cantonese/Zulu with subtitles, N/C 8+ Please note this work was originally announced under the title Happy and Glorious, thanks to Creative Scotland and Lux

Mary Queen of Scots GFT | Saturday 1 March (16.40) & Sunday 2 March (11.15) Swiss director Thomas Imbach brings a fresh perspective to the key events in the life of Mary, Queen of Scots, stripping away the romantic artifice and melodrama in Hollywood versions of that life in favour of something more stark and true to history. Camille Rutherford captures the insecurity and vulnerability of a young woman faced with carrying the burden of a nation’s dreams in a court filled with treachery, self-interest and a refusal to accept her absolute right to rule. The rivalry with her cousin Elizabeth, the marriage to Darnley and the relationship with the Earl of Bothwell are among the vital factors that shape this tragic history lesson. Eurovisions Director: Thomas Imbach Cast: Camille Rutherford, Sean Biggerstaff, Edward Hogg Switzerland/France 2013, 2h, English/French with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to Picture Tree International GmbH

Masterclass with agnès b. GFT | Tuesday 25 February (13.45) French designer Agnès Troublé (aka agnès b.) is well known across the world for her self-named fashion brand whilst also nurturing a keen interest in cinema, culminating in her deeply personal debut feature My Name is Hmmm…. Prior to this film agnès worked with Matthew Barney on his film Drawing Restraint 9 and, with her production company ‘Love Streams Productions’, helped produce films by the likes of Harmony Korine (on his 2007 feature Mister Lonely). In this exclusive event, agnès b. will be discussing her involvement in film, along with her inspirations – which range from the cinema of her own country to the work of John Cassavetes. Events and Pop-Up Cinema Running time approv 1h, N/C 15+

Metalhead (Málmhaus) GFT | Wednesday 26 February (18.15) & Thursday 27 February (16.00) In the alarming opening minutes of Ragnar Bragason’s Metalhead, the young Hera’s sun-soaked, idyllic life is forever changed when she witnesses the shocking accidental death of her older brother Baldur. As a way of dealing with her grief, Hera adopts her long-haired older sibling’s love for Heavy Metal music; wearing his clothes and dreaming of leaving her hometown to become a rock star. Simultaneously, she uses the deafening, decibel-blasting Heavy Metal genre as a way of turning her back on the world and of filling the gaping hole in her familial life left by her departed brother. Bragason’s film understands that whilst adolescence may not be the most balanced time in our life, it is what shapes us into who we become, with the culture, influences and events we experience becoming forever engrained in the person we grow up to be. Music and Film Festival Director: Ragnar Bragason Cast: Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Thora Bjorg Helga Iceland/Norway 2013, 1h37m, Icelandic with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Picture Tree International GmbH

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Mindscape GFT | Saturday 1 March (18.30) John is a mind detective, paid to enter people’s memories and uncover the reality behind crimes. It’s down to people like him to explore the shadows of the psyche, sifting out selective fact from false recognition fiction. But what will he make of his new assignment, the brilliant, troubled and allegedly sexually abused teenager Anna? As John enters her mind and becomes more involved in her total recall, he must decide if she is indeed the victim of unspeakable trauma or a very clever and manipulative sociopath. Produced by Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan, Unknown, Non-Stop), can you guess the twist ending? UK Premiere. FrightFest Director: Jorge Dorado Cast: Mark Strong, Taissa Farmiga, Brian Cox USA/Spain 2013, 1h35m, N/C 18+, thanks to StudioCanal

Miss Violence Cineworld | Tuesday 25 February (18.15) & Wednesday 26 February (16.00) Following in the wake of Dogtooth and Alps, Miss Violence offers further evidence of the power and assurance in a new wave of Greek cinema. Director Alexandros Avranas tackles a shocking tale of domestic abuse with a cool command of mood and image. On the day of her eleventh birthday Angeliki plunges from the balcony of a family apartment to her death. As the unnamed patriarch (Themis Panou) deals with the condolences of schoolteachers and social workers, it is obvious that the family refuses to accept the death as a suicide; but then this is no ordinary family. As we slowly discover the truth behind fixed smiles, dead-eyed stares, numbed emotions and ambiguous family ties, the film becomes a deeply disturbing journey into the cycle of abuse. Eurovisions Director: Alexandros Avranas Cast: Themis Panou, Kostas Antalopoulos, Chloe Bolota Greece 2013, 1h38m, Greek with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Metrodome

Mistaken for Strangers Paisley Arts Centre | Saturday 22 February (19.30) The Glad Cafe | Tuesday 25 February (19.30) As The National embark on their largest tour to date, Matt Berninger invites his younger brother Tom to join them as a roadie. However budding filmmaker Tom has little interest, instead deciding to act as unofficial documentarian. In the shadow of his successful older sibling, Tom acts every bit the younger brother; complaining and shirking his responsibilities. This hilarious warts-and-all chronicle ventures beyond the music industry gloss to reveal a story of brotherhood, artistic aspiration and identity. Paisley Arts Centre screening on Saturday 22 Feb will be followed by a music night from local bands. Festival for a Fiver - all tickets £5. The Glad Cafe screening on Tuesday 25 Feb will be followed by a set by Rozi Plain of This is the Kit, who supported The National on their latest European tour. Tickets £10/£8. Music and Film Festival Director: Tom Berninger Cast: Tom Berninger, Matt Berninger, Bryan Devendorf, Scott Devendorf USA 2013, 1h20m, English, N/C 15+, thanks to The Glad Cafe and American Mary Productions

Monster Mash at Kelvingrove: Young Frankenstein Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum | Friday 28 February (19.00) The grandest gothic gallery in Glasgow, Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, plays host to a monstrous occasion! Gene Wilder stars as neurosurgeon Frederick Frankenstein, who inherits his grandfather’s Transylvanian castle and encounters a host of curious characters with horrifyingly hilarious results! A live organ performance and mysterious monster make-up add to the fun of Mel Brooks’ most inspired spoof. Attendees are encouraged to take inspiration from their favourite creature features and dress appropriately! 2014 marks the 40th anniversary of Glasgow Film Theatre, which we celebrate with one of the very best films of 1974. And just remember it is pronounced Fronk-en-STEEN! Tickets £10/£8. Events and Pop-Up Cinema Director: Mel Brooks Cast: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Peter Boyle. USA 1974, 1h46m, PG

Mood Indigo (L’écume des jours) GFT | Sunday 23 February (20.30) & Monday 24 February (13.30) Michel Gondry’s delightful screen version of the cult Boris Vian novel is as charming and romantic as a carefree stroll in the park with the one you love. In a contemporary Paris with the retro look and feel of the 1950s, Colin (Romain Duris) is instantly smitten with Chloe (Audrey Tautou). Love blossoms into a giddy, intoxicating happiness and soon they are married and contemplating a long future together. Then they discover that Chloe has something growing in her lungs. Told with a painstaking attention to detail, a fondness for the surreal and an extravagant visual style, Mood Indigo has a jazzy, freewheeling exuberance that will lift your spirits and break your heart. Eurovisions Director: Michel Gondry Cast: Audrey Tautou, Romain Duris, Gad Elmaleh, Omar Sy France/Belgium 2013, 2h10m, French with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to StudioCanal

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Mr Morgan’s Last Love Cineworld | Monday 24 February (18.15) & Tuesday 25 February (13.15) A moving tale of how a fond friendship can lighten the gloomiest of times, Mr Morgan’s Last Love features a fantastic lead performance from Michael Caine. He plays Matthew Morgan, an American philosophy professor in Paris struggling to come to terms with the death of his wife. A chance meeting with dance instructor Pauline (Clémence Poésy) leads to a friendship that blossoms as they stroll through Paris, meet for lunch and enjoy each other’s company. When he is hospitalised, his family arrive full of questions and awkward attempts to build bridges. An elegant adaptation of the Francoise Dorner novel La douceur assassine elevated by the warm rapport between Caine and an enchanting Clémence Poésy. Eurovisions Director: Sandra Nettelbeck Cast: Michael Caine, Clémence Poésy, Gillian Anderson Germany/Belgium/USA/France 2013, 1h56m, N/C 12+, thanks to Arrow Film Distributors

Mr Smith Goes to Washington GFT | Friday 21 February (11.00) Superman may have made his first appearance in 1938 but the following year saw the arrival of another enduring champion of truth, justice and the American Way. James Stewart’s Oscarnominated performance as Jefferson Smith remains one of the defining roles of his legendary career. When a vacancy arises in the Senate, naive, smalltown patriot Smith is considered the perfect dupe by a cynical political machine intent on driving a lucrative bill into law. Inspired by his admiration of Lincoln and the love of hardboiled assistant Clarissa (a wonderful Jean Arthur), Smith fights for the lost cause of democracy with every last inch of his moral strength. A rousing crowdpleaser. Festival for a Fiver - all tickets £5. 1939: Hooray for Hollywood Director: Frank Capra Cast: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Thomas Mitchell USA 1939 2h9m, U, thanks to Park Circus

Museum of Loneliness with Chris Petit GFT | Thursday 27 February (18.45) Join cult filmmaker and writer Chris Petit for a unique evening of screenings and discussion around the concept of post-cinema. Chris founded the Museum of Loneliness in 2010 as an anti-institution, based on the observation that modern life’s primary relationship is now with the screen. The Museum is driven by the idea of post-cinema, and exists beyond the usual boundaries of film culture, within the world of the exploded image bank. The evening will include rare screenings of Chris’s films Negative Space (1999, 40m) and Dead TV (1998, 12m), and the premiere of a new short film about the Museum, specially commissioned by Glasgow Film Festival. Crossing the Line Event running time 1h45m approx, N/C 15+, thanks to Chris Petit and Illuminations Films

My Name is Hmmm… (Je m’appelle hmmm...) GFT | Monday 24 February (18.00) The feature directorial debut of French fashion designer and producer Agnès Troublé, aka agnès b., My Name is Hmmm… tells the story of Céline, an eleven-year-old girl who suffers nightly at the hands of her abusive unemployed father whilst her worried mother (Sylvie Testud – Lourdes, La Vie en Rose) works late. This abuse leads her to run away one day whilst on a school trip, hiding in an unlocked truck, only awaking when the vehicle is once again on the road. The driver, a lonely forty-year-old named Peter (Glasgow-born artist Douglas Gordon) is mourning the loss of his wife and child and as the two travel together, he grows to care for Céline and is able to offer the wounded youth her first real chance of childhood. Eurovisions Director: agnès b. (Agnès Troublé) Cast: Sylvie Testud, Jacques Bonnaffé, Lou-Lélia Demerliac, Douglas Gordon France 2013, 2h01m, French/English with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Soda Pictures

Mystery Road GFT | Sunday 23 February (18.00) Ivan Sen’s flinty, satisfying thriller uses a murder mystery to shine a light on some of the less admirable aspects of Australian society. Indigenous detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) returns to the remote Queensland town that is still home to his estranged wife and daughter. His first case is the murder of a teenage Aboriginal girl. The locals seem unwilling to cooperate and his fellow police officers seem reluctant to investigate too deeply. What exactly is going on and why does everyone resent his intrusion into matters best left alone? An atmospheric, expertly controlled film of quietly escalating intensity with the feel of a modern day western. It’s a Wonderful World Director: Ivan Sen Cast: Aaron Pedersen, Hugo Weaving, Jack Thompson, Ryan Kwanten Australia 2013, 1h52m, N/C 15+, thanks to Axiom Pictures

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Night Moves Cineworld | Friday 21 February (18.00) & Saturday 22 February (13.15) How do you change the world when the world seems so impervious to change? How far can you go in the pursuit of your ideals? Kelly Reichardt’s elegant, eco-terrorist thriller is imbued with the weight of moral dilemma as it follows the fate of three activists who embark on a dangerous plot to blow-up a hydroelectric dam. Josh (Jesse Eisenberg), Dena (Dakota Fanning) and Harmon (Peter Sarsgaard) have come together for this one act of defiance but find it impossible to go their separate ways as they face the stark consequences of their actions. A beautifully photographed move into a Hitchcock-style suspense story from the director of Meek’s Cutoff and Old Joy. State of Independents Director: Kelly Reichardt Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, Peter Sarsgaard USA 2013, 1h52m, N/C 12+, thanks to Soda Pictures

Ninotchka GFT | Tuesday 25 February (11.00) ‘Garbo Laughs!’ claimed the ads and the whole world laughed with her in 1939. This sublime romantic comedy is the perfect illustration of the famed Lubitsch touch; a mixture of impish wit and effortless sophistication that made director Ernst Lubitsch a true master of the genre. Greta Garbo is an icy Russian diplomat dispatched to Paris on official government business. She meets her match in the suave, irresistibly charming Melvyn Douglas who might just be the fellow to persuade her that the decadent pleasures of Western capitalism are not as awful as she might think. Pure delight, with a script co-written by Billy Wilder and an Oscar-nominated performance from Garbo that is one of her finest. Festival for a Fiver - all tickets £5. 1939: Hooray for Hollywood Director: Ernst Lubitsch Cast: Great Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi USA 1939 1h45m, U, thanks to BFI

Norte, the End of History Cineworld | Wednesday 26 February (18.30) & Thursday 27 February (13.45) Combining epic scope with intimate detail, this astonishing masterpiece intelligently rethinks Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Filipino auteur Lav Diaz has emerged in recent years as one of the most ambitious and visionary talents in contemporary world cinema: Norte, his devastating twelfth feature, has received ecstatic reviews following its Cannes debut last year. When a nihilistic law student commits a horrific double murder, it prompts not only his own downfall, but the wrongful incarceration of a gentle family man. Shot in blazing colour, this multi-layered work unites Diaz’s longstanding obsessions: cultural memory, national guilt, and the origin of evil. Crossing the Line Director: Lav Diaz Cast: Sid Lucero, Angeli Bayani, Archie Alemania Philippines 2013, 4h10m, Tagalog with subtitles, N/C 18+, thanks to New Wave Films

Northwest (Nordvest) Cineworld | Wednesday 26 February (21.00) & Thursday 27 February (15.45) Set in the multi-ethnic Copenhagen suburb of Nordvest, this latest addition to the ever-flourishing Scandinavian noir genre explores themes of brotherhood and compassion set against a systematically gritty and violent underworld. When 18-year-old Caspar moves from small-time robbery to more nefarious dealings, working for ruthless crime boss Bjorn (Roland Moeller), it is not long before his younger brother Andy becomes embroiled also, as the siblings spiral out of control and deeper into the murky crime syndicate. Real-life brothers Gustav and Oscar Dyekjær Giese play the teenage siblings – highlighting the emotional sensitivity at the centre of the story. Co-written by director Michael Noer and Rasmus Heisterberg (who wrote the Oscar-nominated A Royal Affair), Northwest is simultaneously tough and tender, with surprising moments of humour sprinkled throughout. Eurovisions Director: Michael Noer Cast: Gustav Dyekjær Giese, Oscar Dyekjær Giese, Lene Maria Christensen Denmark 2013, 1h31m, Danish with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Arrow Film Distributors

The Notebook (A nagy füzet) GFT | Sunday 2 March (17.15) The horrors of the Second World War are revisited in this utterly gripping adaptation of Agota Kristof’s award-winning Hungarian novel. In 1944, thirteen-year-old brothers are sent to the countryside and left in the safekeeping of a grandmother known locally as ‘the witch’. The move is meant to protect them from the dangers of the city but they are soon at the mercy of a tyrannical regime of physical and psychological suffering. The twins devise their own shocking strategy to cope with the cruelty around them, dutifully keeping a journal of their experiences. Starkly beautiful and infused with the air of a Grimm fairytale, this is a ferocious indictment of man’s inhumanity to man. Eurovisions Director: János Szász Cast: András Gyémánt, László Gyémánt, Gyöngyvér Bognár Germany/Hungary/Austria/France 2013, 1h50m, Hungarian with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to Beta Cinema

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“You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it’s a lie.”

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During my time working in the music industry – as a journalist and as a performer – I have encountered varying forms and degrees of sexism, but have always found solace in the fearless voice of Kathleen Hanna. Her insistence that we don’t have to accept being treated as ‘less than’. We can do things on our own terms. We don’t have to let the industry dictate how we are presented, how we should behave or the kind of art we ‘should’ be making. Lauren Mayberry Co-founder of TYCI and member of the band CHVRCHES

Of Horses and Men (Hross i oss) GFT | Friday 21 February (15.30) & Saturday 22 February (17.45) Breathtaking visions of Iceland’s volcanic landscapes provide a stunning backdrop to Benedikt Erlingsson’s striking, award-winning debut feature, which captures the remarkable bond between human and horse. Iceland’s Oscar submission offers a collection of stories built around the power and grace of individual horses. The affection between Kolbeinn and Solveig is matched by the obvious attraction between their horses. A Spanish tourist relies on his horse when he is caught in a snowstorm. A local man rides out to a Russian ship intent on buying cheap vodka. Magnificent horses are central to these tales of love and death, loyalty, suffering and sacrifice. A boldly original and beguiling film. Eurovisions Director: Benedikt Erlingsson Cast: Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Charlotte Bøving, Helgi Björnsson Iceland/Germany 2013, 1h21m, Icelandic/Swedish/English with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Axiom Films

Of Mice and Men Paisley Arts Centre | Saturday 22 February (14.00) GFT | Friday 28 February (11.00) The finest screen version of the John Steinbeck novel is distinguished by the sheer quality and pathos in the acting. Burgess Meredith is George and horror icon Lon Chaney Jr gives the performance of his career as his giant, hulking, child-like friend Lennie. The two men drift through the American heartland seeking a refuge from the Great Depression and dream of owning a small farm that they might call home. Their hopes of a better life are crushed by the prejudices and callousness of an unjust, unthinking world. A sensitive adaptation of a landmark novel with a superb, Oscar-nominated score from Aaron Copland. Rarely screened and unjustly neglected. Festival for a Fiver - all tickets £5 for the GFT screening on Friday 28 February Tickets £5/£3 for the Paisley Arts Centre screening on Saturday 22 February 1939: Hooray for Hollywood Director: Lewis Milestone Cast: Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney Jr, Betty Field USA 1939, 1h47m, PG, thanks to Arrow Film Distributors

On the Edge of the World (Au dord du monde) Cineworld | Friday 28 February (20.45) & Saturday 1 March (13.30) GFT | Saturday 1 March (23.00) Stunning images of Paris after dark form the backdrop to a beguiling documentary giving a voice to an invisible army of homeless people who sleep under bridges or huddle in dark alleys within the shadows of some of the city’s most magnificent landmarks. The majesty of a twinkling Eiffel Tower or the shimmer of lights on an unruffled Seine provide the ironic counterpoint to individuals who have fallen from the comforting grasp of traditional society. Wenceslas, Christine, Jeni and others tell stories of loss and regret, stoicism and joy in the quiet acts of kindness from random strangers. They are articulate, pragmatic and resigned to a world that finds no place for them. An achingly beautiful and heartrending film. Stranger Than Fiction Director: Claus Drexel Cast: Jeni, Wenceslas, Cristine, Pascal France 2013, 1h38m, French with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to Films Distribution

Papusza GFT | Thursday 27 February (20.00) & Friday 28 February (11.30) Bronisława Wajs died in 1987, having won international acclaim as a poet who bore witness to the history of Poland and the hardships of her own Roma-Polish community. This exquisitely photographed, award-winning biography from the husband and wife team of Joanna Kos and Krzysztof Krauze captures many facets of an extraordinary life and features a superb central performance from Jowita Budnik. The film begins in 1971 when Papusza is imprisoned and travels back and forth in time to tell of her birth in 1909, her defiance in learning to read and write, the man who encouraged her to write down her verses and the horrors of the Nazi period as the Roma are hunted and executed. Eurovisions Directors: Joanna Kos, Krzysztof Krauze Cast: Jowita Budnik, Joanna Niemirska, Antoni Pawlicki Poland 2013, 2h11m, Polish/Romany with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to New Film Europa Sales

Partir to Live with Jozef van Wissem CCA | Friday 21 February (20.30) Dutch minimalist composer Jozef van Wissem performs a live soundtrack to this screening of Chilean film Partir to Live. Jozef has recently collaborated with filmmaker/musician Jim Jarmusch on several projects and was awarded the Soundtrack Award at the 2013 Cannes International Film Festival for his work on Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive. An experimental expedition into a dark subconscious, the film follows a young man as he traverses through the desolate Chilean countryside, searching for the paranormal and otherworldly. With looming shots of high-tension cables, forests and abandoned churches, the directorial debut of twenty-five-year-old Domingo García-Huidobro is described as ‘an experience into sensations, ethical confusion, and physical & psychic contusions’. Warning – this film contains strobe effects. Music and Film Festival Director: Domingo García-Huidobro Cast: Martín Castillo, Javiera Díaz de Valdés Chile 2013, 1h11m, Spanish with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Domingo Garcia-Huidobro

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The Past (Le passé) Cineworld | Saturday 1 March (18.15) & Sunday 2 March (15.30) Iranian director Asghar Farhadi follows A Separation with another intelligent, densely plotted exploration of the tragedies that lurk in the bitter afterglow of love. The Artist’s Bérénice Bejo won the Cannes Best Actress Award for her fiery performance as Marie. Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa) arrives in Paris from Tehran to formalise their divorce. He stays with Marie and her daughters from a previous relationship in a house she shares with her new partner Samir (Tahar Rahim) and his son young Fouad. It sounds perfectly civilised but beneath the surface picture of happy families, there are tensions, guilty secrets and unresolved emotions that tie them all inescapably to the events of the past. It’s a Wonderful World Director: Asghar Farhadi Cast: Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa France/Italy 2013, 2h10m, French with subtitles, N/C 8+, thanks to Artificial Eye

Pioneer (Pioner) Cineworld | Friday 28 February (18.00) & Saturday 1 March (15.45) Insomnia director Erik Skjoldbjærg returns with a tense conspiracy thriller based on true events from the burgeoning North Sea oil industry in the 1980s. The exploitation of oil and gas reserves tests the physical limits of divers asked to descend to 500 meters to install a vital pipeline. Petter (Aksel Hennie) is part of an American-Norwegian team exploring the limits of human endurance in deep-sea diving. A tragic accident results in the death of his brother. Petter’s determination to uncover the truth about what happened is the starting point for a shocking and still highly relevant tale of shady politicians and the collateral damage from the ruthless pursuit of profit. Eurovisions Director: Erik Skjoldbjærg Cast: Aksel Hennie, Wes Bentley, Stephen Lang Norway/Germany/Sweden/France/Finland 2013, 1h46m, Norwegian with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to Arrow Film Distributors

Place of Work – Margaret Tait Revisited CCA | Friday 28 February (20.15) In this celebratory event we explore pioneering Orcadian filmmaker Margaret Tait’s legacy and influence on experimental filmmaking, focusing in particular on the work of Scottish-based artists Stina Wirfelt and Oliver Mezger. Wirfelt’s new short film Before Words (2013, 12m) brings Tait’s unrealised script Video Poems for the ’90s vividly to life, while in Air Sgàth – For the Sake of Margaret Tait (2013, 40m) Mezger revisits and re-engages with the people and places that Tait captured nearly fifty years ago in her 1966 film Caora Mor: The Big Sheep. A 16mm screening of Tait’s ‘film-poem’ Place of Work (1976, 31m) and a discussion led by Tait expert Dr Sarah Neely complete the evening. Crossing the Line 1h50m approx, N/C 8+, thanks to LUX, Stina Wirfelt, Oliver Mezger and Alex Pirie

Playing Dead (Je fais le mort) GFT | Friday 21 February (17.45) & Saturday 22 February (13.45) Lovers of murder mysteries will delight in Playing Dead, an entertaining romp from Arsène Lupin director Jean-Paul Salomé that deftly blends an intriguing thriller with genial comic tones and some spectacular, snow-dusted Alpine locations. It provides a fantastic star role for François Damiens (Heartbreaker) as Jean Renault, an actor who won a Cesar in the 1980s and is now struggling to keep his career alive. Desperate for employment, he accepts an offer to play in a police re-enactment of a murder and soon finds himself playing detective for real. Playful and winning, this is Agatha Christie territory with a strong flavour of Inspector Clouseau antics. We expect director Jean-Paul Salomé to join us for the UK premiere, screening in association with the French Film Festival UK. Eurovisions Director: Jean-Paul Salomé Cast: François Damiens, Geraldine Nakache, Lucien Jean-Baptiste France 2013, 1h43m, French with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to Films Distribution

Plot for Peace Cineworld | Sunday 23 February (18.30) & Monday 24 February (13.15) An intricate and surprising documentary of immense historical value, Plot for Peace recounts the otherwise unknown tale of ‘Monsieur Jacques’ – the alias of Jean-Yves Ollivier, a French businessman who was instrumental in the fall of apartheid and release of Nelson Mandela. Ollivier remained silent about his contribution until recently, recounting in intricate detail how he traversed a rugged landscape of moral dilemmas to deliver cross-continent business deals between bitter enemies. Directors Mandy Jacobson and Carlos Agulló meticulously fuse archive footage and exclusive interviews to construct a dense and fast-paced docu-thriller that proves the power of the individual within national political machinations. Stranger Than Fiction Directors: Mandy Jacobson, Carlos Agulló Cast: Jean-Yves Ollivier, Pik Botha, President Joaquim Chissano South Africa 2013, 1h23m, English/French/Portuguese/Spanish/Afrikaans with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Trinity Films

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A Portrait of Robert Alan Jamieson CCA | Saturday 22 February (15.30) Novelist and poet, Robert Alan Jamieson grew up in the crofting community of Sandness, Shetland. This film is based on his a collection of poems Nort Atlantik Drift, described by Jamieson as originally intended ‘for my three sons, a record of who their father might be and who he once thought he might be. But as with life, the narrative developed in ways I didn’t foresee’. The same could be said of the film as less than a week before filming began his father died at the age of eighty-four – as with life, the narrative of the film developed in ways Alan could not have foreseen. Robert Alan Jamieson will attend the screening to perform a poem and participate in a Q&A chaired by Mary Blance of Shetland ForWirds. Screening as part of Nort Atlantik Drift: A Day of Shetland. Festival for a Fiver - all tickets £5. Great Scots Director: Susan Kemp UK 2014, 1h10m, N/C 8+, thanks to the University of Edinburgh and Shetland Moving Image Archive

Potholing Expedition Seeks Recruits Central Station | Monday 24 to Thursday 27 February (19.00) Glasgow Film Festival marks its tenth year with a cinematic descent deep beneath Glasgow’s Central Station. Recruits must be ready for anything, have a strong survival instinct and cope well within confined spaces. Claustrophobics should not apply. Gear will be provided, sturdy footwear recommended. Meet your expedition representative at 19.00 underneath the clock on the main concourse of Central Station, with your ticket. Arrive promptly or miss out. Space is extremely limited, advance booking essential. All tickets £10. Events and Pop-Up Cinema 2h, 18, with thanks to Stalled Spaces, GFT’s Pop-up Programmers, The Arches and Network Rail

Proxy GFT | Friday 28 February (15.40) Attacked and beaten by a hooded assailant after seeing her gynaecologist, pregnant Esther seeks consolation in a support group where she meets Melanie, a mother who lost a child. But nothing is as it appears in this intensely gripping chiller because one of these damaged women is a psychodrama queen, the other seriously deranged. However, which one is which and where to draw the line? Friendship and empathy between the two turns dangerous for both in an astonishing delve into perverse psychosis that’s part Brian De Palma, part Lars von Trier, part Martyrs yet all astonishingly and disturbingly original. UK Premiere. FrightFest Director: Zack Parker Cast: Alexia Rasmussen, Alexa Havins, Kristina Klebe USA 2013, 2h, N/C 18+, thanks to XYZ Films

The Punk Singer GFT | Friday 28 February (21.00) & Saturday 1 March (14.45) Kathleen Hanna, feminist activist and founder of key ‘riot grrrl’ acts such as Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, led the charge against the sexist and heteronormative oppression of the music industry from the early 1990s until mid-2000s, when she disappeared from the public eye. In this enlightening and inspirational new documentary, director Sini Anderson (herself a performance artist and poet) sheds a light on the singer, delving into her legacy – created not only through her music, but also through her activism, rebellious spirit and ability to stand up against a system she saw as broken. The screening on Friday 28 February will be introduced by Lauren Mayberry, co-founder of feminist collective TYCI and member of the band CHVRCHES. Music and Film Festival Director: Sini Anderson Cast: Kathleen Hanna, Carrie Brownstein, Kim Gordon USA 2013, 1h20m, N/C 15+, thanks to Autlook Filmsales GmbH

Quai d’Orsay GFT | Thursday 27 February (15.30) & Friday 28 February (13.40) Pitched somewhere between Yes, Minister and The West Wing, Quai d’Orsay is a merciless satire of the French political classes that will resonate with anyone who has ever lamented the calibre of our elected representatives. The great Bertrand Tavernier brings a sense of glee to this breezy adaptation of the award-winning graphic novel by Abel Lanzac, a former government speechwriter. Raphaël Personnaz is hired as speechwriter for mercurial, unpredictable Foreign Minister Alexandre Taillard de Worms, played to the hilt by Thierry Lhermitte. He is soon confronted by the cut-throat world of international diplomacy and a minister who has turned gibberish into an art form. Eurovisions Director: Bertrand Tavernier Cast: Thierry Lhermitte, Raphael Personnaz, Niels Arestrup France 2013, 1h53m, French with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to Pathe International

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STREET FOOD CINEMA

Dinner and a movie, with a twist… Goodfellas (18) Friday 21 February Doors 18.00

Street Food Cinema is an event for cinephiles and gourmets alike, proving that cinema snacks needn’t just be popcorn! Join usin the atmospheric surroundings of The Briggait, a Grade-A listed covered market in Glasgow’s stylish Merchant City for a relaxed evening of food and film.

When Harry Met Sally (15) Saturday 22 February Doors 19.00

Street Food Cartel, a collective of guerrilla caterers, are driving Scotland’s street food revolution with high quality food served to order in unique locations.

Ratatouille (U) Sunday 22 February Doors 14.30 Withnail and I (15) Sunday 22 February Doors 19.00

‘We aim to bring the best in world food to Glasgow through Street Food Cartel, and Glasgow Film Festival are always looking for ways to highlight the city’s unusual spaces. Collaborating on our first pop-up event is an exciting way to bring food lovers and film fans together.’ Jonathan MacDonald Street Food Cartel

Tickets available in advance only, from Glasgow Film Festival box office. See p53 – p54 for further information and pricing. Photographer Credit: Christopher Currie

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The Quispe Girls (Las niñas Quispe) Cineworld | Sunday 23 February (21.00) & Monday 24 February (15.15) A hauntingly beautiful, unsentimental dramatisation of true events provides a shocking insight into the hardships of Pinochet’s Chile in the heartbreaking The Quispe Girls. In the early 1970s, sisters Justa (Digna Quispe, a niece of the sisters), Lucia (Catalina Saavedra) and Luciana (Francisca Gavilan) barely cling to their existence as goatherds in the mountains of northern Chile. Life is bleak but they have each other and the fond memories of an elder sister who raised them. There are rumours that Pinochet has issued an edict making it illegal to herd. Other families have sold their animals and abandoned the area. What are they to do when it is the very essence of their existence that has been outlawed? CineChile Director: Sebastián Sepúlveda Cast: Digna Quispe, Catalina Saavedra, Francisca Gavilan Chile 2013, 1h23m, Spanish with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Pascale Ramonda

Rab’s Videogame Empty CCA | Sunday 23 February (20.30) Another year, another Empty. Since you all behaved yourselves last time, Robert Florence is inviting you back round to his place for another night of gaming and audience participation. Special guests, live music and videogames – what’s not to like? If you were there last time, you know what to expect. If you weren’t there last time, don’t miss out on this one! Game Cats Go Miaow! 1h30m, N/C 12+, thanks to Robert Florence

Rebel Without a Cause GFT | Sunday 23 February (16.00) & Monday 24 February (15.30) Almost half a century after his death, James Dean remains a potent symbol of anguished, misunderstood adolescence. Rebel Without a Cause features one of his most indelible performances as a youngster frustrated by the timid conformity of his parents’ generation, yet one far too sensitive to just be part of the crowd among his delinquent peers. This breathtaking restoration was unveiled in Los Angeles in November, where Martin Scorsese commented: ‘I’ve seen the picture many times over the years and it’s never lost its power. When I saw this restoration, I was suddenly back there in 1955, seeing it again for the first time with all its force and beauty.’ A must see. Out of the Past Director: Nicholas Ray Cast: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus USA 1955, 1h51m, PG, thanks to Park Circus. Restored by Warner Bros. in collaboration with The Film Foundation. Restoration funding provided by Warner Bros, GUCCI, and The Film Foundation.

The Red Robin GFT | Thursday 27 February (13.30) & Friday 28 February (20.45) There are echoes of Festen in this taut family drama set in a wintry suburban New Jersey house. Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr Nathaniel Shellner (Judd Hirsch) is dying of cancer and has gathered his children around him to celebrate what may be his last birthday. His son Tommy arrives, making outrageous accusations that his father was another Mengele, adopting children so he could experiment on them. His siblings assume these are the ravings of a man unhinged by grief but there are enough hints and suspicions to create doubt in the mind of the viewer. The film heads into increasingly dark territory as the family confronts some ugly truths. State of Independents Director: Michael Z Wechsler Cast: Judd Hirsch, Ryan O’Nan, CS Lee USA 2013, 1h32m, N/C 15+, thanks to Cinemavault

Requiem for Detroit? The Arches | Friday 28 February (20.00) Detroit, once the embodiment of the American Dream, has now become home to a slow-motion tidal wave of urban desolation. In this celebrated documentary, director Julien Temple paints an evocative portrait of the city. With an even-handed approach the film shows how hope is creeping back into the city, with streets being turned into art, and a thriving music scene emerging. The influence of Detroit music from Motown, The Stooges, Juan Atkins, Derrick May and J Dilla looms large over Glasgow clubbing culture, so to complement the film Pressure will present a DJ set from the legendary Detroit Techno producer Carl Craig. Requiem for Detroit? is a free screening. Tickets for Carl Craig are £20, available from GFF and The Arches box office. Music and Film Festival Director: Julien Temple Cast: Julien Temple, Lowell Boileau, Paul Thal UK 2008, 1h, N/C 15+

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Root (Raiz) GFT | Friday 21 February (20.45) & Saturday 22 February (11.45) Director Matías Rojas Valencia’s impressive debut is a subtle, soulful road movie that unfolds in the remote landscapes of southern Chile. Twenty-six-year-old Amalia (Mercedes Mujica) heads home for an uncomfortable family reunion with her distant mother. A cherished maid from her childhood has died but nobody seems unduly concerned about the future of the dead woman’s nine-year-old son Cristobal (Cristobal Ruiz). Amalia takes it upon herself to accompany him on a trip to find his father. The search is as much about discovering themselves in a country that is also trying to make sense of its past and come to terms with its history. CineChile Director: Matías Rojas Valencia Cast: Mercedes Mujica, Elsa Poblete, Cristobal Ruiz Chile 2013, 1h21m, Spanish with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to Sueno Surenola, La Bicicleta Producciones

Run & Jump GFT | Sunday 23 February (12.45) & Cineworld | Tuesday 25 February (13.15) GFF have partnered up with The Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival for a special presentation of acclaimed indie drama Run & Jump. Nebraska and Saturday Night Live star Will Forte stars as an American psychologist who comes to stay with the Casey family, where Vanetia is struggling to deal with the personality change suffered by her husband after a stroke. Steph Green’s award-winning drama deals in a sensitive way with family life, and provides a useful springboard to discussion about how mental health issues are portrayed in cinema. The screening on Sunday 23 February will be followed by a discussion with panellists including Isabella Goldie, Head of the Mental Health Foundation in Scotland. State of Independents Director: Steph Green Cast: Maxine Peake, Edward MacLiam, Will Forte Ireland/Germany 2013, 1h42m, thanks to Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival and Samson Films

The Sacrament GFT | Friday 28 February (21.15) Cineworld | Sunday 2 March (18.30) From the darkest imagination of indie poster-boy Ti West, and produced by genre guru Eli Roth, comes The House of the Devil director’s freakiest chiller so far. Two reporters with a TV exposé show travel to a secret para-religious group to meet up with their fashion photographer friend’s sister, a reformed junkie, who credits turning her life around to the jungle-set Eden Parish commune run by the charismatic Father. Is the place a paradise on Earth free of cares, racism and stress? Or is it the sinister cult the news duo suspect? Hold on tight for suspenseful, jolting surprises. Scottish Premiere. FrightFest Director: Ti West Cast: Joe Swanberg, AJ Bowen, Amy Seimetz USA 2013, 1h32m, N/C 18+, thanks to Films in the House

Salvo GFT | Friday 21 February (20.15) Cineworld | Saturday 22 February (13.00) Winner of the Critics Week Grand Prix at Cannes, Salvo is like a cool, slow-burning Sicilian homage to Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai. Salvo (Saleh Bakri) is a ruthless Mafia assassin. When he is ambushed by a rival mob, he sets out to kill the man responsible. Waiting in the shadows for his target to return home, Salvo discovers the man’s sister Rita (Sara Serraiocco), a beautiful blind girl. It is the beginning of events that are to change both their lives and melt his cold, cold heart. An assured debut from directors Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza, who will attend the screening on Friday 21 February, Salvo offers an intense, unsettling saga of redemption. Gala Directors: Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza Cast: Saleh Bakri, Luigi Lo Cascio, Sara Serraiocco Italy/France 2013, 1h44m, Italian with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Peccadillo Pictures

Savaged GFT | Friday 28 February (13.30) The Crow meets I Spit On Your Grave in a viciously gory supernatural shocker. Travelling across country to be with her fiancé, deaf mute Zoe (the entrancing Amanda Adrienne) stumbles on a horrific crime. Zoe’s brave attempt to intervene seals her fate; she’s brutalized and left for dead. When an Indian shaman finds her clinging to life in a shallow grave he attempts to save her – but in the mystical process the spirit of an ancient Apache warrior enters her corpse hell-bent on revenge. But can she slaughter the men who attacked her in time before her body decomposes completely? Scottish Premiere. FrightFest Director: Michael S Ojeda Cast: Amanda Adrienne, Tom Ardavany, Ronnie Gene Blevins USA 2013, 1h35m, N/C 18+, thanks to Raven Banner Entertainment

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The Scribbler GFT | Saturday 1 March (13.30) Writer-artist Dan (Doghouse) Shaffer’s celebrated graphic novel is adapted for this thrilling blend of sci-fi action, film noir and mind-bending slasher. Dealing with multiple-personality disorder, Suki moves into a halfway house for recently released mental patients. But residents are dying at an alarming rate in the facility as dissociative Suki undergoes an experimental procedure to cure her illness involving ‘The Siamese Burn’ machine, designed to eliminate her unwanted identities. But she’s losing time, and the machine is changing, doing something new, something that turns her world inside out and highlights the dangers of mechanical thinking in an organic world. World Premiere. FrightFest Director: John Suits Cast: Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Eliza Dushku USA 2014, 1h28m, N/C 18+, thanks New Artists Alliance

Speedy Pollokshaws Burgh Hall | Saturday 22 February (15.00) Harold Lloyd’s final silent film is also one of his finest. The Oscar-nominated Speedy is a warmhearted comic caper with the King of Daredevil Comedy in his element as he fights greedy, ruthless businessmen to save the last horse-drawn tram in New York. We all know how tricky these newfangled trams can be. Racing against the clock, Lloyd triumphs against impossible odds, enjoys some achingly romantic moments with his girl and even manages to get the legendary Babe Ruth to his baseball game on time. A joyous, nostalgic delight filmed on the streets of New York and amidst the fairground attractions of Coney Island. Fun for all the family, with live musical accompaniment on the Wurlitzer Cinema Pipe Organ! Music and Film Festival Director: Ted White Cast: Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Babe Ruth USA 1928, 1h26m, U, thanks to Park Circus

A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness GFT | Sunday 23 February (15.15) & Monday 24 February (12.45) This extraordinary collaboration between internationally celebrated artist-filmmakers Ben Rivers (Two Years at Sea) and Ben Russell (Let Each One Go Where He May) is a radical proposition for the existence of utopia in an increasingly secular world. We follow an unnamed character (played by musician Robert AA Lowe, aka Lichens) on a journey through three seemingly disparate stages in his life: as an uncertain participant in an Estonian commune, in isolation in the majestic wilderness of northern Finland, and as the guitarist for a neo-pagan black metal band in Norway. Shot on Super 16mm, this mesmerising ethnography reaches moments of true transcendence. Crossing the Line Director: Ben Rivers, Ben Russell France/Germany/Estonia 2013, 1h35m, N/C 15+, thanks to Rouge International

The Stag GFT | Saturday 22 February (20.15) & Cineworld | Sunday 23 February (13.00) The feature film debut of author John Butler, The Stag is a hilarious and heartwarming tale of a bachelor weekend in the great outdoors gone awry. Fionnan is a set designer so comfortable in his masculinity that he has no problem micro managing every detail of his upcoming nuptials. However when his bride-to-be Ruth wants her controlling fiancé out of her hair she requests that his friends, headed by best man Davin take him on a calm hiking trip for a stag weekend. The one catch is that they will have to invite her brother, an aggressively obnoxious provocateur who calls himself ‘The Machine’. As the group attempts to survive their weekend, they find new friendships formed whilst old ones are fortified in this uproarious and uplifting of male bonding. Eurovisions Director John Butler Cast Andrew Scott, Hugh O’Conor, Peter McDonald Ireland 2013, 1h34m, thanks to Arrow Film Distributors

Stagecoach GFT | Saturday 22 February (11.00) After a decade’s toil in B-movie oaters and Saturday morning serials, John Wayne graduated to A-list stardom in this landmark John Ford western. A superb combination of rip-roaring action and heartbreaking emotion, it follows an overland stagecoach on a desperate journey through hostile terrain. The telegraph lines have been cut, Geronimo is on the rampage and a disparate group of travellers are forced to rely on each other as they gallop towards safety. Claire Trevor heads an outstanding cast of character actors as Dallas, a shop-soiled floozie with a heart of gold who wins the love of Wayne’s gallant outlaw The Ringo Kid. One of Ford’s best films and an Oscar-winner for the music and supporting actor Thomas Mitchell. Festival for a Fiver - all tickets £5. 1939: Hooray for Hollywood Director: John Ford Cast: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Thomas Mitchell, Donald Meek USA 1939 1h36m, U, thanks to BFI

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Starred Up GFT | Friday 21 February (20.30) & Cineworld | Saturday 22 February (18.15) A complex father/son relationship is viewed through a brutal depiction of prison life in Starred Up, one of the most powerful and assured films of David Mackenzie’s career. There are echoes of Scum and A Prophet in a riveting drama shot on location at Crumlin Road Gaol in Belfast. Jack O’Connell gives an extraordinary performance as Eric, a teenage young offender so aggressive and unpredictable that he is prematurely moved to an adult prison. His fellow inmates include Neville (Ben Mendelsohn), the father he hasn’t seen since he was five. Neville is caught between protecting him and punishing him, provoking an increasingly tense situation in which Eric fights to be true to himself. Gala Director: David Mackenzie Cast: Jack O’Connell, Ben Mendelsohn, Rupert Friend UK 2013, 1h45m, 18, thanks to 20th Century Fox/Fox Searchlight

Story Writing for Games CCA | Monday 24 February (18.30) What is it like to write for videogames? How do we make best use of the videogame medium to tell our stories? And how do we do it well? Rab Florence speaks to some of the best in the field about their experiences with their own brilliant games, and where we can expect videogame storytelling to go in the future. Ragnar Tørnquist (The Longest Journey, Dreamfall), Rhianna Pratchett (Tomb Raider, Mirror’s Edge) and Sam Barlow (Silent Hill: Shattered Memories) join us for a discussion that every gamer will want to hear. This is a free event in Glasgow Film Festival’s Festival Club venue, admission will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears (L’étrange couleur des larmes de ton corps)

GFT | Friday 21 February (13.00) & Saturday 22 February (20.45) Following on from their critically acclaimed debut feature Amer, writer-directors Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani return to the arthouse giallo genre with this brutal, electric and surreal mystery thriller. When Dan Kristensen returns home to his apartment to find his wife missing, with the door locked from the inside and reports of a ghoulish force lurking in the walls, he immediately launches himself into a labyrinthine investigation. With grisly showdowns, ear-splitting screams and intense close-ups, Cattet and Forzani wear their influences (Leone, Argento, Fulci) on their sleeves, mixing in some classic 1970s Italian scores from the likes of Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai. A luscious, erotic and violent puzzle-box of a film, you will find yourself guessing to the very end. Eurovisions Directors: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani Cast: Klaus Tange, Ursula Bedena, Joe Koener Belgium/France/Luxembourg 1h42m, French/Dutch with subtitles, N/C 18+, thanks to Metrodome

Street Food Cinema: Goodfellas The Briggait | Friday 21 February (18.00) Martin Scorsese’s epic tale of gangsters, greed and gnocchi is arguably one of the most stylish mob movies ever made. Goodfellas follows the life of a young career criminal, played by Ray Liotta, from errand boy to fully-fledged wise guy. With Joe Pesci as the world’s scariest psycho, and a soundtrack to die for, Goodfellas is considered by many to be Scorsese’s finest hour. Tickets are £20, which includes £10 of credit towards food or drinks on the night. Due to the pop-up nature of this event a cash-only system will be in operation. For further information please see Street Food Cinema on p49. Events and Pop-Up Cinema Director: Martin Scorsese Cast: Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci USA 1990, 2h26m, 18

Street Food Cinema: Ratatouille The Briggait | Sunday 23 February (14.30) Disney-Pixar’s Ratatouille is a romp through the kitchens of Paris’ finest restaurants, telling the tale of Remy the rat, a talented cook who becomes one of France’s top chefs against the odds. A feast for the eyes with lashings of humour and plenty of wit for grown-ups, you’re bound to work up an appetite for Street Food Cartel’s delicious food! Bring your family to this screening with a special ticket price: £10 for adults and £5 for children under fifteen. Tickets do not include any food or drink so please bring enough cash with you to buy food for your group. Due to the pop-up nature of this event a cash-only system will be in operation. For further information please see Street Food Cinema on p49. Events and Pop-Up Cinema Director: Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava Cast: Brad Garret, Lou Romano, Patton Oswalt USA 2007, 1h51m, U

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Street Food Cinema: When Harry Met Sally The Briggait | Saturday 22 February (19.00) Can men and women just be friends? Will Harry and Sally ever get together? Is this the best romantic comedy of all time? Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan star in this classic rom-com about men, women and everything in between. Writer Nora Ephron’s ultimate feel-good movie is a smart, funny account of two smart, funny people over an eleven-year period. We’ll have what she’s having, thanks. Tickets are £20, which includes £10 of credit towards food or drinks on the night. Due to the pop-up nature of this event a cash-only system will be in operation. For further information please see Street Food Cinema on p49. Events and Pop-Up Cinema Director: Rob Reiner Cast: Meg Ryan, Billy Crystal, Carrie Fisher USA 1989, 1h 36m, 15

Street Food Cinema: Withnail and I The Briggait | Sunday 23 February (19.00) Two ‘resting’ actors go on holiday by mistake. The rest is history. Join us for a unique presentation of one of the best-loved, and most quotable, films ever produced. Richard E Grant and Paul McGann give outstanding performances as two unemployed actors fleeing Camden for a peaceful holiday in Uncle Monty’s Lake District cottage, where they find themselves battling dreadful weather, unfriendly locals and Uncle Monty himself… Tickets are £20, which includes £10 of credit towards food or drinks on the night. Due to the pop-up nature of this event a cash-only system will be in operation. For further information please see Street Food Cinema on p49. Events and Pop-Up Cinema Director: Bruce Robinson Cast: Richard E Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths UK 1987, 1h45m, 15

A Street in Palermo (Via Castellana Bandiera) Cineworld | Friday 28 February (21.00) & Saturday 1 March (16.00) GFT | Saturday 1 March (22.45) Stand by for a tense showdown on the streets of Sicily, but forget any lazy stereotypes of Mafia mayhem or gun-totin’ gangsters. It is a blisteringly hot day as Rosa and Clara bicker and bitch driving through the backstreets of Palermo. Meanwhile, Samira is driving her family home after a fractious day at the beach. Both drivers enter Via Castellana Bandiera. Both believe they have right of way. Neither one is willing to budge an inch or reverse a metre and so the stage is set for a petty dispute to escalate into a major confrontation involving fellow drivers, innocent bystanders and two women who shall not be moved. An eye-catching debut from Emma Dante in which Pirandello is infused with the spirit of Laurel and Hardy. Eurovisions Director: Emma Dante Cast: Emma Dante, Elena Cotta, Alba Rohrwacher Italy/Switzerland/France 2013, 1h34m, Italian/Albanian with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to Films Distribution

The Summer of Flying Fish (El verano de los peces voladores) GFT | Friday 28 February (18.45) & Saturday 1 March (13.45) Documentary director Marcela Said makes an impressive dramatic debut with a feature that oozes atmosphere. When an affluent Chilean family head to their lakeside estate for the summer, you can almost smell the sense of dread in the air. There is menace in the misty morning vistas and the sticky breath of every hot spring. Landowner Don Francisco (Gregory Cohen) enjoys his privileges to the full and dismisses the territorial claims of his Mapuche neighbours. The growing sense of unease subtly escalates as pets go missing, the mood shifts towards violence and there is talk of monsters lurking in the woods. A striking social and political critique that has earned comparisons with the films of Lucrecia Martel. CineChile Director: Marcela Said Cast: Gregory Cohen, Francisca Walker, María Izquierdo Chile/France 2013, 1h35m, Spanish with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Alpha Violet

Suzanne Cineworld | Monday 24 February (21.00) & Tuesday 25 February (13.00) The second feature from Love Like Poison director Katell Quillévéré confirms her talent for capturing the precious moments that can define and shape a life. Suzanne offers snapshots of the title character from carefree child to careworn adult and is graced by a luminous performance from Sara Forestier. Raised by her widowed father, Suzanne’s life changes when she becomes pregnant. What follows builds into a family album filled with births, deaths, wrong turns and piercing regrets. An atmospheric, haunting score by Verity Susman captures the changing moods of a film that in its finer moments can readily stand comparison with the films of the Dardenne brothers. Eurovisions Director: Katell Quillévéré Cast: Sara Forestier, François Damiens, Adèle Haenel France/Belgium 2013, 1h31m, French with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to StudioCanal

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Tae Think Again: Rethinking Identity in Contemporary Scotland CCA | Wednesday 26 February (18.30) A response to the upcoming referendum on Scottish independence, this symposium curated by artist Rachel Maclean intends to delve deeper than a simple yes/no debate and look at the broader social, cultural and historical background to contemporary Scottish national identity. The event will include a screening of the artist’s recent work The Lion and the Unicorn, which playfully reimagines Jeremy Paxman and Alex Salmond as the film’s titular heraldic characters. Rachel won the Festival’s 2013 Margaret Tait Award, and her resulting film A Whole New World is screening on Monday 24 February (21.30). See p41. This is a free event in GFF’s Festival Club venue, admission will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis. Crossing the Line 1h45m approx, N/C 12+, Tae Think Again was originally developed as a symposium co-commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival and Edinburgh Printmakers, Image: ‘The Queen’ by Rachel Maclean, 2013, courtesy of the artist and Edinburgh Printmakers.

The Tale of Iya GFT | Sunday 2 March (13.45) Rapturously received at its world premiere in Tokyo, the second feature from Tetsuichiro Tsuta has rightly earned comparisons with the beguiling sweep of a Shohei Imamura epic or a dense, dazzlingly imaginative novel by Haruki Murakami. The tale begins in the falling snow of a savage wilderness, as a man walks across the ice to rescue a baby who is the sole survivor of a car accident. The baby grows into teenager Haruna (Rina Takeda) who shares a log cabin in the remote mountains with her benefactor. The area is undergoing massive changes marked by the growing tensions between a construction company digging a tunnel through the valley and a group of student protesters. The clash between ancient and modern, tradition and progress creates a magical, unforgettable drama. It’s A Wonderful World Director: Tetsuichiro Tsuta Cast: Rina Takeda, Shima Ohnishi, Min Tanaka Japan 2013, 2h49m, Japanese with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Asia House Pan Asia Film Festival/Pia Film Festival

The Tall Ship: The Fog Tall Ship | Saturday 1 March (20.45) Wrap up and join us below decks on The Tall Ship, an atmospheric three-masted barque not unlike the supernatural clipper featured in this original 1980 version of The Fog. As midnight strikes on the centennial of a sleepy coastal town, local fishermen notice an old-fashioned clipper ship draw closer. The fishermen never return. Radio host Stevie finds herself at the centre of a sweeping tide of fear and suspense. Fatalities build as an eerie, impenetrable fog starts to close in on the town and we discover the malevolent presence within… Doors open forty-five minutes prior to the screening, and a licensed café bar is available – you may need a stiff drink. Events and Pop-Up Cinema Director: John Carpenter Cast: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh USA 1980, 1h26m, 15, thanks to Park Circus

The Tall Ship: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Tall Ship | Saturday 1 March (18.00) The first ever Glasgow Film Festival back in 2005 showed The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and we reprise it in honour of our 10th Festival, which also sees director Wes Anderson’s latest film as our Opening Gala! Bring your shipmates to celebrate the enigmatic director’s penchant for the idiosyncratic with a rare chance to experience the film at sea! Bill Murray stars among a cast of Anderson regulars as Steve Zissou, a renowned Oceanographer seeking revenge on a Jaguar Shark responsible for the death of his former partner. Anderson’s highly stylized aesthetic is emphasised by stop motion animation from Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas) and a standout soundtrack from Seu Jorge. Doors open forty-five minutes prior to the screening, and a licensed café bar is available to warm your cockles. Events and Pop-Up Cinema Director: Wes Anderson Cast: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Anjelica Huston USA 2004, 1h59m, 15

The Tall Ship: Pete’s Dragon Tall Ship | Saturday 1 March (14.00) The captivating tale of an orphan boy called Pete and his friend Elliott, who just happens to be a nine-foot tall, bright green, magical dragon! Pete escapes his nasty adoptive parents with Elliott’s help, beginning a quest to find a place to belong. Happening upon a coastal town in Maine, Pete befriends the local lighthouse keeper and his daughter. Elliott’s mischievous nature gets the pair into scrapes with comedic results, and Pete finds the loving home he has been searching for. A mix of live action and animation in the vein of Mary Poppins and Bedknobs and Broomsticks, the film features an Oscar-nominated soundtrack. Events and Pop-Up Cinema Director: Don Chaffey Cast: Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Mickey Rooney USA 1977, 2h8m, U

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Tangerines (Mandariinid) Cineworld | Thursday 27 February (20.45) & Friday 28 February (15.45) Tangerines may sound like a sombre morality tale but the joy of the film lies in the way it captures the intensity of warfare, and how heightened emotions can shift from hatred to hilarity in a heartbeat. Georgian director Zaza Urushadze’s award-winning feature is set in a small village in 1992 during the War in Abkhazia. Two men have remained behind to harvest the tangerine crop. When a fight breaks out in front of their home, they give shelter to a Chechen mercenary who appears to be the lone survivor. A young Georgian soldier has also survived and is also given shelter, bringing the intense feud between the two countries right into their front room. Could these sworn enemies find common ground? Eurovisions Director: Zaza Urushadze Cast: Mikheil Meskhi, Misha Meskhi, Giorgi Nakashidze Georgia/Estonia 2013, 1h36m, Russian/Estonian with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to Allfilm

These Birds Walk Cineworld | Tuesday 25 February (18.45) & Wednesday 26 February (13.30) Dusk, and a young boy gallops over the sand on a moonlit beach, away from the troubles of the city behind him and towards the escape of the crashing ocean waves. Captured with beautifully poetic and lyrical ‘cinema vérité’ camerawork that sits somewhere between Errol Morris and Terrence Malick, These Birds Walk introduces viewers to the world of Karachi, Pakistan through a wholly unique perspective. The documentary chronicles the life of a young runaway named Omar, juxtaposing the youngster with the reluctant ambulance driver who takes him to the Edhi Foundation, one of the largest social welfare charities in Pakistan. Simultaneously heart-breaking and life-affirming, These Birds Walk is a truly novel piece of cinema, one which offers a beautiful meditation on an otherwise unseen world. Stranger than Fiction Director: Omar Mullick, Bassam Tariq Pakistan/USA 2013, 1h11m, Urdu with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to Oscilloscope

Things the Way They Are (Las cosas como son) Cineworld | Wednesday 26 February (18.15) GFT | Thursday 27 February (11.15) An award-winning favourite at festivals from New York to Karlovy Vary, Things the Way They Are is a subtle, intriguing exploration of loneliness and obsession. Sporting an impressive hipster beard, Jeronimo (played by photographer Cristóbal Palma) runs a guest house in Santiago with all the charm of a sullen Norman Bates. When Norwegian teacher Sanna (Ragni Orsal Skogsrod) arrives, he acts more like a creepy stalker or a protective parent than a landlord. Her carefree, outgoing attitude to life starts to change his behaviour and draw him into a wider world he has long sought to avoid. He might even enjoy himself in a thoughtful, haunting drama that really gets under your skin. CineChile Director: Fernando Lavanderos Cast: Cristóbal Palma, Ragni Orsal Skogsrod Chile 2013, 1h34m, Spanish/English with subtitles , N/C 15+, thanks to Leslie Vuchot, the Festival Agency

A Thousand Times Good Night GFT | Tuesday 25 February (18.00) & Wednesday 26 February (13.20) How do you choose between work and family life when work is one of the things that make you feel truly alive and worthwhile? A Thousand Times Good Night won the Grand Prize at the Montreal Film Festival and is a powerful emotional tale of a photojournalist confronted by impossible choices. Rebecca (Juliette Binoche) lives in Ireland with husband Marcus (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and their teenage daughter Steph (Lauryn Canny). She spends most of her life travelling the world as an obsessive, front-line witness to conflict and injustice. A brush with death brings increasing pressure to remain at home until she is tempted by a seemingly safe assignment to Kenya and takes Steph with her. Eurovisions Director: Erik Poppe Cast: Juliette Binoche, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Larry Mullen Jr. Norway/Ireland/Sweden 2013, 1h57m, N/C 12+, thanks to Arrow Film Distributors

Ti West in Conversation GFT | Thursday 27 February (21.00) Nobody does nostalgia-brushed spookiness and minimalist horror like independent director Ti West, king of the slow-burn shocker. FrightFest has been there from the very start – our video label released his 2005 debut feature The Roost – and we’ve watched with pride as the Delaware-born quirky talent has grown in global genre stature through The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers, V/H/S and now his game-changing, Eli Roth produced The Sacrament. Join us for this very special FrightFest event in which Ti West will talk candidly to film critic and author Alan Jones about his extraordinary career, his influences and exciting future plans. FrightFest 1h30m, N/C 18+

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Monster MASH at Kelvingrove

THESE BIRDS WALK There is the film you make and the film you don’t make, the one you dreamt up, and the one the world gives you when you head out. Our secret is that the title may be as apt a summation of our process as it is indicative of the characters in the film. The process of filmmaking a documentary like this one is of coming down out of that open blue and taking it all step by step. You build the wings you need and yo walk more than you ever fly. Omar Mullick and Bassam Tariq Directors of These Birds Walk

Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum Friday 28 February (19:00)

It’s ALIVE!!! If you’re blue and you don’t know where to go to then why not come along to Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum for a unique screening of Mel Brooks’ uproarious classic Young Frankenstein. Glasgow Film Theatre first opened its doors in 1974 and we are celebrating that special 40th birthday by showing one of the greatest films from that year. Kelvingrove is a breathtaking setting for a gothic rib-tickler and the party atmosphere will be set by a live organ performance, monster make-up sessions and more! Take inspiration from your favourite creature features, dress appropriately and join us for an unforgettable night at the museum. Special ticket price of £10/8 See p42 for details.

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Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme) Cineworld | Wednesday 26 February (20.30) & Thursday 27 February (13.00) Prolific, multi-talented Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan continues to underline his astonishing versatility with his fourth feature, a psychological thriller based on the play by Michel Marc Bouchard. Dolan plays Tom, an advertising copywriter who travels to rural Quebec for the funeral of his lover Guillaume. He is met by Guillaume’s grieving mother Agathe (Lise Roy) and his macho, hostile brother Francis (Pierre-Yves Cardinal). It soon becomes apparent that neither of them was aware of their exact relationship and the stage is set for some increasingly threatening confrontations. A lethal tale of love and loss. It’s a Wonderful World Director: Xavier Dolan Cast: Xavier Dolan, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Lise Roy Canada/France 2013, 1h35m, French/English with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Network Releasing

Torment GFT | Saturday 1 March (16.00) Newlyweds Cory and Sarah Morgan head to the country for some much-needed family time where they hope Liam, Cory’s seven-year-old son from his previous marriage, will learn to accept his stepmother. But arriving at their home, they discover someone has been living there while they were away. After speaking with the Sheriff they assume the intruders have moved on, however when Liam disappears they discover just how wrong they were. They must confront a deranged family of killers who have been hiding in the house all along and are now holding Liam in their sadistic cult-like grip. European Premiere. FrightFest Director: Jordan Barker Cast: Peter DaCunha, Katharine Isabelle, Stephen McHattie Canada 2013, 1h30m, N/C 18+, thanks to Altitude

A Touch of Sin (Tian zhu ding) Cineworld | Saturday 22 February (20.30) & Sunday 23 February (12.45) The latest film from acclaimed director Jia Zhangke is filled with righteous anger as it takes aim at the moral vacuum in a lawless China. Inspired by real-life events, it constructs a disturbing fresco of injustice and frustration from four interlinked stories of individuals who are victims of the extreme social changes in the country. An ex-miner enraged by corruption, a migrant worker, a sauna receptionist and a youngster working impossibly long hours are the abused, downtrodden citizens who eventually turn and exact their revenges. A Cannes winner for its screenplay, this is a brutal work offering a shocking insight into the state of a troubled nation. It’s a Wonderful World Director: Jia Zhangke Cast: Zhao Tao, Jiang Wu, Wang Baoqiang China 2013, 2h23m, Mandarin/Cantonese with subtitles, N/C 18, thanks to Arrow Film Distributors

Touki Bouki plus A Thousand Suns GFT | Sunday 2 March (13.30) Mati Diop’s hauntingly beautiful film merges fantasy and reality as it imagines the fate of the two lead characters from Touki Bouki, the classic Senegalese film made by her late uncle Djibril Diop Mambéty in 1973. Set in Dakar and Alaska, A Thousand Suns is a moving exploration of personal, national and cinematic history. Followed by Touki Bouki: Inspired by the French New Wave and prefiguring the spirit of punk, Touki Bouki has a legendary reputation in African cinema. This beautifully shot freewheeling road movie follows the plight of two young lovers as they plot their escape from Senegal to the freedom of Paris. Crossing the Line A Thousand Suns Director: Mati Diop Cast: Magaye Niang France 2013, 45m, Wolof with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to Anna Sanders Films Crossing the Line Touki Bouki Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty Cast: Magaye Niang, Mareme Niang, Aminata Fall Senegal 1973, 1h25m, Arabic/ French with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna / World Cinema Foundation

Tracks Cineworld | Thursday 27 February (18.00) & Friday 28 February (15.30) An incredible true-life journey is transformed into a tale of extraordinary human endeavour in Tracks. In 1977, Robyn Davidson set herself the task of walking 2700 kilometres from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean. She would be accompanied only by her dog and four camels as she traversed the unforgiving, sun-baked desert terrain. Financial necessity obliged her to accept an assignment for National Geographic that required her to be photographed along the way by Rick Smolan (Adam Driver) but otherwise she spent nine months testing herself against the elements. A luminous Mia Wasikowska is magnificent as Robyn in a film that charts her physical challenges and the inner journey of self-discovery. It’s a Wonderful World Director: John Curran Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver UK/Australia 2013, 1h50m, N/C 12+, thanks to Entertainment One UK

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Tron: Off the Grid The Glue Factory | Tuesday 25 February (19.30) Celebrate the best in 1980s arcade culture with this special pop-up screening of Tron, introduced by Robert Florence. Expect a cash bar and 1980s arcade games in the lo-fi surroundings of the Glue Factory, so bring plenty of change and enter the game! This 1982 classic captured the first wave of videogame mania and its iconic computer generated visuals have influenced a generation of filmmakers and game designers. Computer genius Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) takes on the corporation who stole his videogame ideas by hacking in to their system. When Flynn is sucked into the grid itself, he finds that the ultimate tool becomes the ultimate enemy… Game Cats Go Miaow! Director: Steven Lisberger Cast: Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner USA 1982, 1h36m, suitable for those 18+

Two Lives (Zwei Leben) GFT | Monday 24 February (21.00) Germany’s Oscar candidate is an elegantly gripping family drama reflecting a country chained to the grubby secrets of its recent past. Katrine (Juliane Köhler) is the daughter of a Norwegian mother (Liv Ullmann) and one of the German soldiers who occupied Norway during the Second World War. Raised in an East German children’s home she is only reunited with her mother years later. In 1990, a Norwegian lawyer starts to investigate her case in order to file a claim for reparations for child confiscation. He inadvertently exposes Katrine’s mysterious double life and ruffles the calm surface of a family in which the closest ties conceal the darkest secrets. Eurovisions Directors: Georg Maas, Judith Kaufmann Cast: Juliane Köhler, Ken Duken, Liv Ullmann Germany/Norway 2013, 1h37m, German/Norwegian with subtitles, N/C 12+ Thanks to Beta Cinema, supported by the Goethe-Institut Glasgow

Unforgiven (Yurusarezaru mono) GFT | Friday 28 February (18.00) It takes a brave man to follow in the wake of Clint Eastwood’s Oscar-winning classic. Lee Sang-il proves more than worthy of the task with his stunning remake of the iconic western. In the Hokkaido of 1880, former samurai assassin and widowed father Jubei Kamata (Ken Watanabe) is a law-abiding farmer struggling to make a living for his family. A group of prostitutes offer a 1000 yen bounty for the lives of the bandits who mutilated one of their own. It is enough of an incentive to send him back into action, accompanied by an old comrade and a hotheaded youngster. Gorgeous cinematography and rich storytelling combine in a true epic. It’s Wonderful World Director: Lee Sang-il Cast: Ken Watanabe, Akira Emoto, Kôichi Satô Japan 2013, 2h15m, Japanese/Ainu with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Warner Entertainment Japan Inc

Video Nasties: Draconian Days GFT | Saturday 1 March (11.00) Cineworld | Sunday 2 March (12.00) The highly anticipated follow-up to their critically acclaimed Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape documentary, director Jake West and producer Marc Morris continue uncovering the shocking story of home entertainment since the 1984 Video Recordings Act. A time when Britain plunged into a new Dark Age of the most restrictive censorship, where the horror movie became the bloody eviscerated victim of continuing dread created by self-aggrandizing moral guardians. With passionate and entertaining interviews from the people who lived through it and more jaw-dropping archive footage, get ready to reflect on and rejoice in the passing of a landmark era. World Premiere. FrightFest Director: Jake West Cast: James Ferman, Christopher Smith, Kim Newman UK 2014, 1h20m, N/C 18+, thanks to Nucleus Films.

Violeta Went to Heaven (Violeta se fue a los cielos) GFT | Monday 24 February (18.15) & Tuesday 25 February (13.30) A gutsy, heartfelt performance from Francisca Gavilán lights up this elegant biography of iconic Chilean singer-songwriter Violeta Parra. Raised in poverty in southern Chile, Parra become one of the country’s most beloved artists, creating lyrical songs full of passion and her commitment to social justice and indigenous culture. Based around a TV interview she gave in 1962 and deftly interweaving key moments from her life, the film offers a rounded and not uncritical portrait of a woman whose professional achievements came at the cost of personal heartache. Beautifully crafted, the film features around twenty of Parra’s songs, including the heartrending ‘The Sparrowhawk (El gavilán)’. CineChile Director: Andrés Wood Cast: Francisca Gavilán, Thomas Durand, Christian Quevedo Chile/Argentina/Brazil 2011, 1h50m, Spanish/French/Polish with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Latido Films

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Visitors Cineworld | Friday 21 February (18.15) & Monday 24 February (15.45) Visionary director/visual poet Godfrey Reggio returns after the Qatsi trilogy of Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, and Naqoyqatsi with Visitors, a painterly evocation of humanity’s relationship with technology slowly expressed across a stark black and white cinematic canvas. Teaming once more with Philip Glass, who provides an exceptionally moving score to compliment the dazzling imagery, Reggio’s filmic ode creates a mysterious auratic power closer to trance and ritual than narrative storytelling. Accounting for the total summation of current human existence, the film asks who or what a visitor is in our technologically dependent society, capturing the solitary vocabularies of a face, or a hand, as they deal directly with the instruments of modern culture. A mesmerizing marriage of motion and music, as Reggio and Glass demonstrate their mastery over mood and tone. Stranger than Fiction Director: Godfrey Reggio Cast: Jeff Pope, Rob Tunstall USA 2013, 1h27m, no dialogue, N/C 15+, thanks to Metrodome

The Voice of the Voiceless (La voz de los silenciados) Cineworld |Thursday 27 February (18.45) & Friday 28 February (16.00) There are stories so shocking that you cannot believe they would actually happen in this day and age. Keep reminding yourself that The Voice of the Voiceless is based on true events. Olga is a young deaf woman sent by her family to a sign language school in New York. Soon she is the victim of a crime syndicate, forced to sell trinkets on the subway and desperate to escape. The Voice of the Voiceless is all the more striking for the way in which director Maximón Monihan puts us right inside Olga’s anguish. The film is mostly shot in black and white and is silent, using only a low frequency sound design so that the viewer is confronted by the same harsh, uncomfortable world that Olga faces. It’s a Wonderful World Director: Maximón Monihan Cast: Janeva Adena Calderon Zentz, Kevin Tamayo, Ricky Powell Guatemala/USA 2013, 1h25m, N/C 15+, thanks to Pascale Ramonda

Wakolda: The German Doctor Cineworld | Thursday 27 February (21.00) & Friday 28 February (13.45) In the Patagonia of 1960, an Argentinean family travel the long road to the Nahuel Huapi Lake where they intend to open a lodging house. En route they meet Helmut Gregor, a German doctor. He is affable, affluent and well-mannered, and becomes their first paying guest. He is fascinated by their daughter Lilith, a twelve-year-old with a body too small for her age. She reawakens his interest in achieving physical perfection. Slowly, the family begin to question exactly who this man might be and why there are so many people within the local German community willing to protect and serve him. An intriguing, atmospheric tale based on director Lucía Puenzo’s own novel. It’s a Wonderful World Director: Lucía Puenzo Cast: Àlex Brendemühl, Natalia Oreiro, Diego Peretti Argentina/France/Spain/Norway 2013, 1h34m, Spanish/German/Hebrew with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Peccadillo Pictures

Who is Dayani Cristal? Cineworld | Tuesday 25 February (21.15) & Wednesday 26 February (13.45) An anonymous body is found in the Arizona desert with only a tattoo of the words ‘Dayani Cristal’ acting as a clue to the identity. From this starting point, director Marc Silver and actor-producer Gael García Bernal investigate immigration from Latin America across the southern US border. They use an innovative hybrid documentary style to do so, cutting from American anthropologists in Arizona investigating the body to testimonials from residents of the man’s home in Honduras, whilst Bernal retraces the harrowing journey between the two locations. A moving, informative and beautifully shot look at the discussion surrounding immigration; Who is Dayani Cristal? answers important questions as to why some choose to undergo the treacherous exodus, shining a light on both the personal and political sides of the debate. Stranger Than Fiction Director: Marc Silver Cast: Gael García Bernal Mexico/UK 2013, 1h24m, English/Spanish with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Pulse Films

Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist The Art School | Saturday 1 March (14.30) Will Eisner is one of the most celebrated and important comic book artists of all time, his sixty-plus year career spanning the early beginnings of comics in the 1930s through to the graphic novels of recent years. In this enlightening documentary, narrated by Art Spiegelman (creator of the graphic novel Maus), we are offered a fascinating insight into the artist’s life, woven in with the history of 21st century USA. Featuring archive interviews with Eisner himself and a host of America’s foremost literary talent, including Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Chabon, Jules Feiffer, Jack Kirby, Frank Miller, Stan Lee and Gil Kane. Followed by a live reading of Eisner’s short story Family Matters. Screening as part of the worldwide ‘Will Eisner Week’ – visit www.willeisnerweek.com for more details. Kapow!@GFF Director: Andrew D Cooke Cast: Will Eisner, Michael Chabon, Max Allan Collins USA 2010, 1h36m, N/C 15+, thanks to Montilla Pictures

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Witching & Bitching (Las brujas de Zugarramurdi) Cineworld | Saturday 22 February (20.45) & Sunday 23 February (15.15) The latest demented, genre-bending, politically incorrect outrage from cult director Álex de la Iglesia plays like a bonkers version of From Dusk Till Dawn. An unforgiving custody schedule forces divorced dad Jose (Hugo Silva) to take his young son with him on a daring raid of a pawnshop. The gang flee the scene of the crime, heading into the Basque countryside towards the French border. Jose expected the police and his ex-wife to be hot on his trail but he really didn’t expect to stumble across a coven of witches who believe that the end of the world is nigh. Completely over-the-top mayhem ensues, infused with a jaw-dropping view of women. You have been warned. Eurovisions Director: Álex de la Iglesia Cast: Hugo Silva, Mario Casas, Carmen Maura Spain/France 2013, 1h50m, Spanish with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Film Factory Entertainment

The Wizard Of Oz GFT | Sunday 2 March (11.00) MGM’s magical, Oscar-winning musical fantasy remains one of the finest films from Hollywood’s golden year and the definitive screen version of the beloved L Frank Baum children’s stories. Judy Garland will break your heart as she plaintively sings ‘Over the Rainbow’, leaving monochrome Kansas far behind when she follows the yellow brick road on her unforgettable journey to confront the omnipotent Oz. Groundbreaking special effects, soaring, sing-along musical numbers and a peerless cast have helped to make this an audience favourite for seventy-five years and a classic film that deserves to be seen again and again on the cinema screen. Festival for a Fiver - all tickets £5. 1939: Hooray for Hollywood Director: Victor Fleming Cast: Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley USA 1939, 2013, 1h37m, U, thanks to BFI

Wolf Creek 2 GFT | Friday 28 February (18.45) Cineworld | Sunday 2 March (16.00) Mick Taylor is back with a few days to kill! Bolder, gorier and placed on a far bigger canvas than the original Ozploitation classic, star John Jarratt and director Greg McLean return with an even more twisted sequel that maintains the savagery and nerve-jangling tension, while dazzling further with a spectacular and surprising use of Down Under landscapes and fauna. Two arrogant cops, two unwitting German backpackers and a Good Samaritan British tourist become the prey for the crazed pig-shooting psycho as the outback becomes drenched in rivers of blood and his underground lair reveals even sicker secrets. UK Premiere. FrightFest Director: Greg McLean Cast: John Jarratt, Ryan Corr, Shannon Ashlyn Australia 2013, 1h47m, N/C 18+, thanks to eOne

Workers Cineworld | Saturday 28 February (14.15) & Saturday 1 March (18.00) Jose Luis Valle’s dry, deadpan comedy offers a rueful salute to the dignity of labour in an age when the rich get richer and the poor get betrayed. In Tijuana, foreigner Rafael (Jesús Padilla) is close to retirement after thirty years as a diligent factory janitor. His illegal status means he might never collect a pension. His ex-wife Lidia (Susana Salazar) is a housemaid to a wealthy eccentric. When her employer dies, a vast fortune passes to pampered greyhound Princess, but if the dog was to meet with a little accident then everyone would be better off. Fighting an unjust world is the basis of a precision-engineered delight, beautifully filmed by cinematographer César Gutiérrez Miranda. It’s a Wonderful World Director: Jose Luis Valle Cast: Jesús Padilla, Susana Salazar, Barbara Perrin Rivemar Mexico/Germany 2012, 2h, Spanish with subtitles, N/C 12+, thanks to MPM films

Writing and Filming the North CCA | Saturday 22 February (18.30) Scotland has a contested history and equally complex geography, consisting of a scattered and diverse archipelago surrounding its mainland. Across this varied landscape the debates around Scotland’s identity are wide-ranging and intertwine questions of culture and politics. As Scotland gears up for the year of the referendum on independence these questions have a growing edge, in light of how self-determination will draw from what we know and don’t know about the country as a whole. These are debates that will continue long after the votes are cast and counted. One strand of constant discussion is language and dialect and, as part of Nort Atlantik Drift: A Day of Shetland, our panel discusses the value of using the Sheltandic dialect in literature and on film. This is a free event in Glasgow Film Festival’s Festival Club venue, admission will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

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Wuthering Heights GFT | Wednesday 26 February (11.00) Nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor, William Wyler’s celebrated version of the Emily Brontë classic captures all the wild romantic spirit and gothic melodrama of the novel. A stranger’s visit to the gloomy, grief-laden Wuthering Heights is what prompts a telling of the doomed romance between fickle, haughty Cathy and the brooding, darkly handsome Heathcliff who grows to love her with a passion that overwhelms them both. Laurence Olivier is a memorable Heathcliff and Merle Oberon gives the performance of her career as Cathy. The brilliant cinematography by Gregg Toland deservedly won the film’s only Oscar. Festival for a Fiver - all tickets £5. 1939: Hooray for Hollywood Director: William Wyler Cast: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Geraldine Fitzgerald USA 1939, 1h43m, U, thanks to Park Circus

You’ll Be a Man (Tu seras un homme) GFT | Saturday 1 March (18.00) & Sunday 2 March (11.30) At ten years old, precocious pre-teen Leo seems to have left behind the light of his childhood; at twenty, Theo is carefree and refuses to grow up. When Leo’s father employs Theo to look after his son, the two misfits spark up a surprising and touching friendship despite their age difference. As the two grow together in unique ways, they face the challenges of family and friendship, learning to face up to their responsibilities. With utterly charming performances from its young stars, assured direction and an enriching soundtrack, You’ll Be a Man is a buoyant celebration of youth, adulthood and the healing powers of friendship. Eurovisions Director: Benoît Cohen Cast: Aurelio Cohen, Jules Sagot, Eleonore Pourriat France 2013, 1h27m, French with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Benoît Cohen

Yves Saint Laurent GFT | Tuesday 25 February (20.30) & Wednesday 26 February (15.45) The pioneering French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent is stunningly portrayed in this evocative biopic which charts twenty years of the prodigal creative’s life, from his innovative work under the Dior label, to the entrepreneurial formation of his own fashion house with his partner Pierre Bergé. Laurent is brought to life by Pierre Niney; who perfectly embodies the lanky physicality, artistic determination and pathological shyness of the icon, whilst director Jalil Lespert fills each and every frame with faultless and loving attention to period detail. A touching and exciting look at the early life and love of the genius, the film gives an impressive insight into the relationship between success, talent, beauty and art. Eurovisions Director: Jalil Lespert Cast: Pierre Niney, Charlotte Le Bon, Guillaume Gallienne France 2013, 1h41m, French with subtitles, N/C 15+, thanks to Entertainment One UK

Zero Charisma GFT | Wednesday 26 February (18.30) & Thursday 27 February (11.30) Scott Weidemeyer lives for Tuesday nights, when, as the seemingly omnipotent Games Master, he rules over his group of friends who gather for their weekly soda-and-snacks fuelled evening of tabletop gaming. Living with his grandmother and working in a donut shop, he secludes himself from the world with heavy metal music, fixating on his hobbies. When he loses a member of his group, he is forced to find a new recruit. Enter Miles, a smart, confident and attractive neo-nerd who is the embodiment of ‘geek-chic’. With lackadaisical charm and a beautiful girlfriend, Miles is the antithesis, and soon the nemesis, of Scott. With the odd outsider appeal of Napoleon Dynamite, this hilarious and warm look at geek culture today was a hit at both SXSW and Tribeca Film Festivals. Kapow!@GFF Directors: Katie Graham, Andrew Matthews Cast: Sam Eidson, Anne Gee Byrd, Brock England USA 2013, 1h26m, N/C 15+, thanks to Zero Charisma, LLC

The Zero Theorem GFT | Thursday 27 February (20.30) & Friday 28 February (11.15) A reclusive computer genius strives to crack a fiendishly impossible mathematical equation, discover the meaning of life and find a measure of true happiness in The Zero Theorem, a wildly inventive dystopian fantasy from that other genius Terry Gilliam. There are echoes of Orwell and nods to Kafka in the story of Qohen Leth (Christoph Waltz), a man who spends his days in a derelict church awaiting a phone call that will reveal all the answers to his questions. When he is summoned by the mysterious Management, the careful order of his universe starts to unravel. The visual spectacle matches the intellectual fireworks in this plaintive reflection on the escalating absurdity of the modern world. Gala Director: Terry Gilliam Cast: Christoph Waltz, Mélanie Thierry, Tilda Swinton, Matt Damon UK/Romania/France 2013, 1h47m, N/C 12+, thanks to Sony Sony Pictures Releasing

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FILM AND EVENT INDEX The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

1939: Hooray for Hollywood

20 Feet from Stardom

48 Hour Games

Aatsinki: the Story of Artic Cowboys

Admiral Fallow: We Are Ten

Afflicted

Almost Human

B For Boy

Back to the Garden

Bad Hair

Barbaric Land + Farther than the Eye Can See

Before the Winter Chill

The Belles of St Trinians

Benny & Jolene

Between Weathers plus Fjanna

Beyond the Edge 3D

Black Angel with Roger Christian

Bloody Beans

Blue Ruin

The Book Thief

Borgman

Cannibal

Capturing Dad

Cargo, Camera, ACTION!

Film’s Craic

Masterclass with agnès b.

Stagecoach

Film/TV Locations

Metalhead

Starred Up

For Those Who Can Tell No Tales

Mindscape

Story Writing for Games

Geeks vs Gamers Super Quiz!

Miss Violence

The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears

GFF14 Surprise Film

Mistaken for Strangers

Street Food Cinema: Goodfellas

The Gilded Cage

Monster Mash at Kelvingrove Museum:

Street Food Cinema: Ratatouile

The Girl from the Wardrobe

Go for Sisters

The Golden Dream

Goodbye, Mr Chips

Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia

Grand Central

The Great Passage

Half of a Yellow Sun

Hank and Asha

Harmony Lessons

The Heart of Bruno Wizard

Heli

The Hour of the Lynx

The House of Him

Iboga Nights

Ida

Illiterate

Ilo Ilo

An Inspector Calls

The Italian Pastry Chef

- The Launch Party

John Romita Jr - Masterclass

Cas & Dylan

John Sessions in Conversation

Cinema City Treasure Hunt

Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin

Young Frankenstein

Mood Indigo

When Harry Met Sally

Mr Morgan’s Last Love

Street Food Cinema: Withnail and I

Mr Smith Goes to Washington

A Street in Palermo

The Summer of Flying Fish

Suzanne

Tae Think Again

The Tale of Iya

The Tall Ship: The Fog

Museum of Loneliness

Street Food Cinema:

with Chris Petit

My Name is Hmmm…

Mystery Road

Night Moves

Ninotchka

Norte, the End of History

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Northwest

The Tall Ship: Pete’s Dragon

The Notebook

Tangerines

Of Horses and Men

These Birds Walk

Of Mice and Men

Things the Way They Are

On the Edge of the World

A Thousand Times Good Night

Papusza

Ti West in Conversation

Partir to Live with Jozef van Wissem

Tom at the Farm

The Past

Torment

Pioneer

A Touch of Sin

Touki Bouki plus A Thousand Suns

Tracks

Tron: Off the Grid

Two Lives

Unforgiven

Video Nasties: Draconian Days

Violeta Went to Heaven

Visitors

The Voice of the Voiceless

Wakolda: The German Doctor

Who is Dayani Cristal?

Place of Work -

The Tall Ship:

Margaret Tait Revisited

Playing Dead

Killers

Plot for Peace

Kon-Tiki

A Portrait of Robert Alan Jamieson

Close up on Casting

Laptop Guy, Graphic Novel Launch

Potholing Expedition Seeks Recruits

Concussion

The Last Impresario

Proxy

The Congress

The Last of the Unjust

The Punk Singer

The Dance of Reality

Lasting

Quai D’Orsay

Danny Brown with Rollo Jackson

LFO

The Quispe Girls

Dark Blood

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed

Rab’s Videogame Empty

Dark Victory

Locke

Rebel Without a Cause

Dear Mr Watterson

A Long Way Down

The Red Robin

Portrait of a Sequential Artist

Will Eisner:

Looking for Light: Jane Bown

Requiem for Detroit?

Witching & Bitching

and Mentors of Ricky Jay

Love Affair

Root

The Wizard of Oz

Documenting John Grierson

Love is Not What it Used to Be

Run & Jump

Wolf Creek 2

The Double

Love is the Perfect Crime

The Sacrament

Workers

Drew: The Man Behind the Poster

Low Budget Filmmaking

Salvo

Writing and Filming the North

The Edge of the World

The Lunchbox

Savaged

Wuthering Heights

Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me

Man of Steel

The Scribbler

You’ll Be a Man

Everybody’s Child

Margaret Tait Award: 41

Yves Saint Laurent

A Whole New World

Speedy

Everyone’s a Critic

Zero Charisma

Exhibition

Mary Queen of Scots

A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness The Stag

The Zero Theorem

Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries