Glasgow Film Festival 18 - 28 February 2010 Programme

PROGRAMME 18 TO 28 FEBRUARY 2010

www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk

CONTENTS How to enjoy your festival

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Tickets

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Strands Festival Calendar

WELCOME Welcome to the sixth Glasgow Film Festival.

There is a famous story about Cary Grant that remains irresistible. In the era before Google and Wikipedia, a penny-pinching journalist wanted to know the great star’s age. Determined to use as few words as possible, he dispatched a telegram to Grant’s agent, brazenly demanding: “How old Cary Grant?” Grant just happened to see the telegram and sent a breezy reply stating: “Old Cary Grant fine. How you?”

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Opening Gala: Micmacs

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Closing Gala: Legacy

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Glasgow Music and Film Festival

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Glasgow Short Film Festival

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FashionArtFilm

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Glasgow Youth Film Festival

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Cary Grant

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Great Scots

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Departures: New Japanese Cinema

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FrightFest

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Up Close and Personal

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Ceol is Craic: Gaelic Film Festival

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Film A to Z

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Map

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Sponsors and Supporters

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Film and Event Index

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The 2010 Glasgow Film Festival is our sixth edition and we too are just fine as we pay tribute to Cary Grant in this year’s retrospective. The Festival continues to attract ever increasing audience numbers, welcoming more than 28,000 people from near and far in 2009. This year human and financial resources have been stretched to the limit in preparing a Festival bursting at the seams with premieres, special screenings, unique events and amazing guests. The Glasgow Youth Film Festival has films to inspire and delight. Departures celebrates the rising talents in Japanese cinema and pays tribute to Akira Kurosawa. We celebrate the links between fashion and film, music and movies, Scotland and the wider world. The FrightFest team return to make your flesh crawl and the Short Film Festival provides unparalleled chances to gather and gaze, network and nourish.

We are particularly indebted to our sponsors and all the incredibly hardworking individuals who make the Festival possible. From the opening night to the closing gala, we promise you a feast of films that delight the eye and touch the heart, tickle the funny bone and shiver the spine, open our eyes to the wider world and allow us to escape from our own little universe. Film is the greatest art form of our age and the Festival is here to ensure that all its riches are on show at a cinema near you.

Welcome to the feast!

Allison & Allan Allison Gardner & Allan Hunter Co-directors of GFF10

Glasgow Film Festival is kindly supported by MLG

HOW TO ENJOY YOUR FESTIVAL Need help picking which films to watch and at which venue? Or maybe you’re looking for a dinner reservation on Opening Night? Whatever it is you’re looking for, this section is all you need to get the most out of GFF10.

VENUES

The diversity of the programme and our venues mirrors the uniqueness of Glasgow’s cultural scene. From the family friendly Cineworld, the beautiful Art Deco surroundings of Glasgow Film Theatre and iconic music venues throughout the city, the festival now stretches across 17 city venues, so there really is something for everyone. For full venue listings and maps see p36 - 37.

SELECTING A FILM

The film selection has been divided into 15 strands to make it easier for you to identify the films which most interest you.

Within these strands are our ‘festivals within the festival:’ The Youth Film Festival (see p19), the Short Film Festival (see p17) and the Music and Film Festival, co-curated with our friends at the Arches (see p16). Each film listing is colour coded and signposted with its appropriate strand throughout this brochure. For full strand descriptions please see p6.

ACCOMMODATION AND RESTAURANT OFFERS

We always strive to keep our ticket prices as low as possible and want to make sure the festival is accessible to everyone in terms of cost – we don’t bump up the prices just because it’s festival time! So alongside being able to purchase tickets from only £4 you can also take advantage of some great accommodation and restaurant deals. This includes dinner deals at Mama San and Bar Soba and preferential rates at Saint Judes and Malmaison hotels. Check out all these great offers and more at www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk/offers

WWW.GLASGOWFILMFESTIVAL.ORG.UK

Don’t miss out! Keep up to date with the latest festival news, special guests, events and screenings by visiting www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk. Stay in the loop by signing up to the e-newsletter to receive daily updates, follow the GFF blog www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk/blog with special guest bloggers, download our daily newspaper The Cine Skinny or become our friend on Facebook, Myspace and Twitter. On our site you will also find film trailers, official photos and our video galleries with coverage of our Q&A sessions and gala screenings, vox-pops and interviews plus live broadcasts online. Plan your day with our visual calendar, with full day-to-day listings and buy tickets online. Use the map online to find your way from venue to venue and locate our partner restaurants.

ACCESS

For details of each venue’s disabled access go to www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk/access

A large print version of this programme is available from GFT box office.

PLEASE NOTE

Programme is subject to change. Check www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk for updates and details of additional screenings.

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BOX OFFICE 0141 332 6535

TICKETS prices

Single tickets for individual screenings: £7 full price / £6 concession* Special events/performances: various prices - please see A - Z and website for details GFT CineCard and Cineworld Unlimited cardholders get concession rate entry to all events. However tickets can only be purchased in advance from the central GFF Box Office or online. You cannot get this discount at other participating venues Box Offices.

INTERNET SAVER DEALS 5 film saver - £25 10 film saver - £45 20 film saver - £80 Purchase any online deal in one transaction (with a maximum of 2 tickets for any screening/event) at the above prices.

There are a limited number of Internet Saver Deals available so book early to avoid disappointment. The Internet Saver Deal is available from 11am on Thursday 21 January.

Special events/performances are not available as part of the online ticket deals*. * For full terms and conditions please go to www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk

free events and screenings

Tickets for free events will only be issued on the day, from the venue where the event is being held. Please note that all films and events will start at the stated times – no adverts will be screened.

Certification

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

How to buy tickets IN ADVANCE

ONLINE From 11am on 21 January tickets for all events can be purchased from the website: www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk. Tickets can be purchased online until 9pm the day before the performance for all participating venues, excluding GFT. Tickets for GFT events can be purchased online up until 1 hr before the performance.

IN PERSON & OVER THE PHONE From 21 January you can purchase tickets for most events from the central GFF Box Office at GFT during opening hours (see below for full box office details).

COLLECTION You can collect your advance tickets from the GFF central 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.

ON THE DAY

ONLINE Only tickets for GFT events can be purchased online through www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk on the day of the event - up until 1 hour before the performance.

IN PERSON & OVER THE PHONE On the day of the event tickets must be collected or purchased at the venue where the film is being shown or the event is being held (see venue details on p36 - 37 for contact details).

GFF Box Office

Glasgow Film Theatre 12 Rose Street Glasgow G3 6RB Tel: +44 (0)141 332 6535

Opening Hours

Before the festival: Thursday 21 January – Wednesday 17 February, Box Office is open every day 12pm - 8pm During the festival: GFF Box Office is open 10.30am until 30 minutes after the last film has started.

For full terms and conditions, frequently asked questions and further information please go to www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk/information BUY TICKETS ONLINE AT WWW.GLASGOWFILMFESTIVAL.ORG.UK

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STRANDS THE BEST OF BRITISH

The choicest new cuts from low-budget independents to star-studded glamour.

CARY GRANT

The perfect Hollywood star in a retrospective sparkling with witty comedies, tender-hearted romances and tense thrillers.

DEPARTURES - NEW JAPANESE CINEMA

A stunning selection of contemporary cinema from the land of Kurosawa and Miyazaki.

EUROPEAN CINEMA

Films from first time directors to some of the great auteurs working in Europe today.

FASHIONARTFILM

Need we say more, a celebration of Glasgow’s insatiable appetite for all things different from art, fashion and film.

FRIGHTFEST

The little shop of horrors is open for business as the FrightFest boys return to make your spine tingle and your flesh crawl.

GALAS

Hot new films for chilly winter nights. A first glimpse of the must-see red carpet titles of 2010.

GLASGOW SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

The Magic Lantern curates a selection of new international shorts and artists’ film & video, all competing for the inaugural Best International Short Film Award.

GLASGOW YOUTH FILM FESTIVAL

Showcase of the best contemporary international cinema for and by young people alongside workshops, masterclasses, competitions and special events.

GREAT SCOTS

Celebrating the best of home-grown talent from promising newcomers to acclaimed veterans.

IT’S A WONDERFUL WORLD

The best of global cinema hand-picked and delivered to a cinema near you.

OUT OF THE PAST

Classic films rediscovered, restored and brought back to life on the back screen.

THE STATE OF INDEPENDENTS

Journey beyond Hollywood and discover the heart of American cinema in captivating new features that span the States.

STRANGER THAN FICTION

Eyecatching documentaries offering proof that fact is often more compelling than fiction.

GLASGOW MUSIC AND FILM FESTIVAL

GFF embraces Glasgow’s vociferous music scene, described by many as Europe’s secret capital of rock music, to present a varied line up of live performances supported by an avant-garde programme of films.

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cowaRDs 15+ 16.00 - 17.30 /p35

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THE APE 14.00 - 15.30 /p28

SAVAGE 13.15 - 14.45 /p57

ONLY ANGELS HAVE...

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HIS & HERS 13.30 - 15.00 /p46

APPLAUSE 13.15 - 14.45 /p28

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HOLIDAY 13.30 - 15.15 / p46 VINCERE 13.00 - 15.15 / p66

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WHISKY AND VODKA 13.45 - 15.45 / p67

HOLIDAY 11.00 - 12.45 / p46

T2: TURTLE £ 11.30 -13.00 /p63

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BRINGING UP BABY 13.00 - 15.00 / p32

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SATURDAY 20 febRUARY

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SHE, A CHINESE 16.15 - 18.00 / p60

CON ARTIST 15.30 - 17.00 /p34

GENTLEMEN P...

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HIDDEN DIARY 16.00 - 17.45 / p45

PACHAMAMA 15.30 - 17.15 / p54

THE BOYS...

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MICMACS 20.15 - 22.00 / p14

VINCERE 18.45 - 21.00 / p66

APPLAUSE 18.30 - 20.00 /p28

ALL AROUND US 18.00 - 20.30 / p27

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BLUEBEARD 21.15 - 22.45 /p31

AUTUMN 20.30 - 22.15 / p29

BOMBER 20.45 - 22.45 / p31

AMERICAN: THE BILL...

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AKIRA £ 22.45 - 1.00 / p27

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LUCKYME PARTY / COURTYARD 22.00 - LATE / p52

THE CRAZIES 21.15 - 23.00 / p35

THE APE 21.00 - 22.30 /p28

SHE, A CHINESE 20.45 - 22.30 / p60

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SONGS FOR...

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Cary Grant FrightFest Great Scots Special ticket price

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ADRIFT 20.45 - 22.30 / p26

DOGTOOTH 20.45 - 22.20 / p38

ROOM AND A HALF 20.15 - 22.30 / p57

BEYOND THE...

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European Cinema Glasgow Music and Film Festival Out of the Past

BRINGING UP BABY GROSVENOR 18.00 - 19.30 / p32

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CAPITALISM: A...

20.30 - 22.45 / p32

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21.00 - 22.30 /p56

HIDDEN DIARY 21.00 - 22.45 / p45

PERE UBU £ THE CLASSIC GRAND 20.00 - 23.00 / p55

SPACE & LIGHT £ See p61 for details

LOVE & RAGE 18.30 - 20.05 /p51

HIS & HERS 18.15 - 19.45 /p46

ABOUT ELLY 18.00 - 20.00 / p26

CENTRAL... p33 17.00 - 18.30

COMP... 5 p34 16.30 - 18.00

PAUL COTTER f APPLE STORE 16.00 - TBC / p24

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YATTERMAN 17.45 - 19.45 / p68

Departures: New Japanese Cinema Galas It’s a Wonderful World Free Event

ARTIST FILM AND...

14.30 - 16.20 / p29

COMP... 4 p34 14.00 - 15.20

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GROSVENOR 18.00 - 19.45 / p32

THIS IS NOT A...

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I’M GLAD MY...

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CONTINUeD fROM PReVIOUS PAGe...

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Events Glasgow Shorts Film Festival The State of Independents

OPTIMO SUBCLUB 23.00 - 03.00 / p54

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RADIO MAGNETIC PARTY p56 COURTYARD / 22.30 - LATE

OTHer VeNueS

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KICKING IT 13.45 - 15.25 / p49

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I KILLED MY...

15.45 - 17.30 / p47

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15.30 - 17.15 / p67

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WAKE IN FRIGHT 20.45 - 22.55 / p66

THAT EVENING SUN 21.00 - 23.00 / p64

AJAMI 20.30 - 22.30 / p27

STORM 20.45 - 22.45 / p62

FROM TIME TO TIME 20.30 - 22.30 / p42

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18.30 - 20.10 / p50

HILDE 18.00 - 20.25 / p45

VACATION 18.15 - 20.15 / p66

BARE ESSENCE OF...

18.15 - 20.15 / p30

NORTH BY NORTHWEST 17.45 - 20.05 / p53

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YATTERMAN 18.00 - 20.00 / p68

THAT EVENING SUN 18.15 - 20.15 / p64

DOGTOOTH 18.00 - 19.45 / p38

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CHOPIN: DESIRE FOR LOVE 17.45 - 20.45 / p33

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON...

16.00 - 18.45 / p43

TRUCKER 15.30 - 17.00 /p65

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The Best of British FashionArtFilm Glasgow Youth Film Festival Stranger Than Fiction

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European Cinema Glasgow Music and Film Festival Out of the Past

I KILLED MY...

20.30 - 22.10 p47

L’AFFAIRE FAREWELL 20.45 - 22.45 / p50

LIFE DURING...

20.30 - 22.10 / p50

THE LITTLE ONE 20.45 - 22.30 / p51

1234 20.30 - 22.00 /p26

I AM LOVE 20.15 - 22.15 / p46

COMEDIE... £ 19.00 - 20.30 /p33

VACATION 18.00 - 20.00 / p66

BEETLE QUEEN 18.30 - 20.00 /p30

LOURDES 18.30 - 20.10 / p51

CITY OF LIFE & DEATH 18.00 - 20.15 / p33

KAKERA 18.15 - 20.10 / p49

THE FIRST...

18.00 - 19.20 / p41

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Departures: New Japanese Cinema Galas It’s a Wonderful World Free Event

BARE ESSENCE OF...

15.30 - 17.30 / p30

LA DANSE: THE PARIS OPERA...

13.15 - 16.00 / p49

NOTORIOUS 13.30 - 15.15 / p53

HILDE 13.00 - 15.25 / p45

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Cary Grant FrightFest Great Scots Special ticket price

WOMEN WITHOUT...

11.15 - 13.00 / p68

ARSENIC AND OLD...

11.00 - 13.00 / p29

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Events Glasgow Shorts Film Festival The State of Independents

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TRAMWAY

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IvUl F 11.00 - 13.00 / p48

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TO caTch a ThIef 13.30 - 15.15 / p65

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The lITTle ONe 16.00 - 17.45 / p51

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OPENING GALA MICMACS (MICMACS A TIRE-LARIGOT)

Jean-Pierre Jeunet has been dazzling and delighting audiences for thirty years. Delicatessen, the beloved Amelie and A Very Long Engagement are all perfect examples of his ability to harness an amazing visual imagination to the most romantic, magical storytelling. His latest charmer is a beguiling salute to all the dreamers and rebels ready to take a stand against outrageous injustices and fight for lost causes. It is a film that lifts the spirits and brings a great big smile to your face.

Dany Boon was anointed France’s hottest comedy star after the runaway success of Welcome To The Sticks (Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis). He stars as Bazil, a man who was orphaned as a youngster after his soldier father was killed by a roadside bomb. Now, Bazil has been hit by a stray bullet and begun to think the arms industry holds a personal grudge against him. Ex-con Placard (Jean-Pierre Marielle) offers him a helping hand and a fresh start among a group of kindred spirits living outside mainstream society. It is a chance to build his own sense of family, fight for what he believes is right and take an ingeniously executed, hilarious revenge against the arms manufacturers.

GFT Thursday 18 February (19.30 & 20.15) Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet Featuring Dany Boon André Dussollier Nicolas Marié Jean-Pierre Marielle France 2009, 1h45m, 12A 12A: Contains moderate violence and sex and references to hard drugs

Fizzing with invention, Micmacs employs a wonderful ensemble of French talent that includes Seraphine’s Yolande Moreau, André Dussollier and Jeunet regular Dominque Pinon. If you feel disillusioned by politicians, dubious about the possibility of change or sceptical about the power of the individual, Micmacs offers a shining beacon of hope in a world of cynicism. A perfect tonic for what ails you.

Thanks To E1 Check www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk for updates about special guests and for details of the opening party.

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CLOSING GALA LEGACY

Glasgow-based production company Black Camel Pictures has emerged as an ambitious new force in Scottish filmmaking. Their zesty chiller Outpost was the very definition of a guilty pleasure and a sequel is already on the way. Taut psychological thriller Legacy is an even more enterprising production that sees them joining forces with British/Nigerian director Thomas Ikimi who caught the eye with his debut feature Limbo (2004). The Wire star Idris Elba is the executive producer and lead actor in a tale that provides him with the kind of demanding role that actors dream about. Elba stars as Black Ops soldier Malcolm Gray. Having barely survived a botched mission in Eastern Europe, he takes sanctuary in a Brooklyn motel room. Brooding on the guilty legacy of his past actions, he replays events in his mind as he focuses on the seemingly inexorable rise of his smooth-talking brother Darnell (Eamonn Walker), a ruthlessly ambitious, fear-mongering senator with his sights firmly set on the White House. Paranoia, vengeance and the possibility of salvation prove a lethal cocktail in a film infused with potent echoes of cinema classics The Manchurian Candidate and Taxi Driver. The Glasgow Film Festival is proud to close the 2010 Festival with the world premiere of this exciting new production from a Glasgow company with international success in their sights.

GFT Sunday 28 February (20.30) Director Thomas Ikimi Featuring Idris Elba Eamonn Walker Monique Gabriela Curnen Clarke Peters Julian Wadham Richard Brake

UK 2010, 1h30m, N/C 15+ Photo: Š George Cameron Geddes

Thanks To Black Camel Pictures

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Glasgow is a city renowned for its musical talent, past and present. Many musicians choose to make the city their home, and ‘Glasgow based’ is a tag attached to many excellent bands. GFF is committed to an eclectic mix of musical events and screenings appealing to die hard fans and first timers. Combined with the knowledge and taste from our friends at the Arches, we hope to hit the right note.

2009 hit Shhh! will return this year with a more electronic and instrumental lineup of local talent, reworking the soundtracks to their favourite films. See website for details.

Glasgow Music and Film Festival is cocurated by www.thearches.co.uk, and is kindly supported by the PRS Foundation, The French Music Bureau and Glasgow Unesco City of Music. www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk/music 1234

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The Boys: The Sherman Brothers Story

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Burning: Mogwai

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Chopin: Desire for Love

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Do It Again

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Dope: Monorail Film Club

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The Good Son

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Hipsters (Stilyagi)

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No One Knows About Persian Cats

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Pere Ubu – Long Live Pere Ubu! The Spectacle 55 Songs for an Airless Room

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Thomas Truax: Songs From the Films of David Lynch

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Topp Twins - Untouchable Girls

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Until the Light Takes Us

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When You're Strange: A Film About The Doors 67 White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights

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With One Voice

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Zombie Zombie

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19 - 21 February 2010 Scotland’s leading independent short film programmers The Magic Lantern returns for a third year with a core competition programme celebrating emerging international filmmakers whose innovative, experimental and rulebreaking work introduces them as the strong new voices of cinema. This year GSFF introduces a Best International Short Film Award, judged by a jury of international and local guests, with all 33 invited filmmakers competing for the cash prize.

We are delighted to present for the first time in the UK a retrospective of the unstoppable American low-budget collective COURT 13, and two extraordinary screenings of films, made in 1988 and 1972, revisited and remade in 2009 by artist Cynthia Beatt and GFF favourite Murray Grigor.

We bring you guest-curated programmes by the likes of Radio Magnetic and New Media Scotland, and we have teamed up with LUX, Central Station, RSAMD and Skillset Screen Academy to stage workshops for both filmmakers and visual artists; parties from LuckyMe, Radio Magnetic, Huntleys & Palmers and Optimo; and even a mobile cinema in a caravan. GSFF 2010 promises to thrill and challenge its audience by wedding an international perspective to the best of Glasgow’s dynamic film, art and music scenes. www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk/shorts

Artists' Film & Video Programme

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Central Station Presents Art/Roc/Doc

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Competition 1: Standstill

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Competition 2: Worlds Collide

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Competition 3: No Yesterdays

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Competition 4: Learning To Breathe

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Competition 5: Leave A Trail

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How'S The Ghost? Presents: The Movie Trailer*

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Introducing the Red

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The Invisible Frame + Cycling the Frame

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Knickerbocker Glory

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LuckyMe Party

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LUX: One-To-One*

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LUX: Dispersion*

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Optimo (Espacio) GSFF Closing Party*

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Radio Magnetic Party

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Radio Magnetic Present: Images from the Independent Music Scene in Glasgow

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Short Documentary Film Case Study: The Inner Shape By Johanna Wagner

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Space & Light Revisited*

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The Story Room: Discovering Character*

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“This is Not a Boat”: The Improbable Story of the Court 13 Collective

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Shorts Ticket Offer – any three standard price shorts programmes for £12 when purchased online (excludes *) £

GSFF is directed by Rosie Crerar and Matt Lloyd of The Magic Lantern www.themagiclantern.org Image: Wintering

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FASHIONARTFILM Glasgow Film Festival is committed to expanding and diversifying the audience for non-mainstream films. In FashionArtFilm we will be showcasing and nurturing new emerging talent, promoting collaboration between partners and platforms and promoting the city as a national and international centre for the creative industries.

These films and special events have been co-programmed with a selection of friends and partners throughout the UK and includes artists film and video, fashion and new media.

Art at Tramway Tramway is delighted to present Duncan Campbell’s first major exhibition in Scotland, Make it new John (22 January - 14 March 2010) a new film co-commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella, Chisenhale, Tramway and The Model, Sligo. Based on the life of American car engineer John Delorean, and the story of the failed car plant he set up in Northern Ireland in the 1980s, this ambitious work witnesses Campbell’s increasing maturity and confidence as a filmmaker, with particular interest in the problematic relationship of truth and fiction in the documentary realm. See www.tramway.org for full details.

Coinciding with the exhibition, Tramway presents the following film programme: Artist Talk/Book Launch (Duncan Campbell)

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Comedie & Here is Always Somewhere Else, the Disappearance of Bas Jan Ader 33 Mouth Room/ After School Special

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Fashion in Film A special thanks goes to Glasgow Caledonian University, our new programming partner and Tessa Hartmann, our fashion ambassador. Also www.glasgowstylemile.com come on board this year to develop a new Fashion in Film presence within our programme. See www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk/fashionartfilm for more info.

Comrade Couture with SWG3 & Noir!

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Film Rocks @ The Shed

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GSA Mutual

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Ivul (Andrew Kötting)

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Place Lumiere

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William McLaren An Artist Out Of Time

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7 - 15 February 2010

Acting Masterclass with Joe Dempsie

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Scotland’s most exciting and innovative film festival for young audiences, featuring film premieres, inspiring workshops and special guests.

An Audience with Skins

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The Blue Bird

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A Boy Called Dad

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GYFF celebrates work made by and starring young people, chosen by our very own youth programming team. It is the only film festival in Scotland where young people are involved at all stages of festival production – from selecting the film line up to handling event management. Find out about the team and get involved with what’s happening in February at www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk/youth

Chew TV Awards with First Light Premieres

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Co-operative Young Filmmakers

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Cowards

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Creative Identities Red Carpet Showcase

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Evangelion 1.0

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Evangelion 2.0

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Film the Human

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Gentlemen Broncos

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Journey of the Childmen: The Mighty Boosh on Tour

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Mommo – The Bogeyman

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Ponyo

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Potential

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The Scouting Book for Boys

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Scriptwriting Masterclass with Ben Schiffer

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Sita Sings The Blues

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Stella

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Summerhood

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Take 2: The Crocodiles

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Take 2: Surprise Movie

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Take 2: Turtle: The Incredible Journey

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Universe Vodcast

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Want to see your work on the big screen at GYFF in February?

Enter our Chew TV One Minute Movie competition! The competition is open to young people aged 14-19 years old, as individuals or in a group, across the whole of Scotland. Entry forms and guidelines can be downloaded from www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk/oneminutemovie GYFF includes a curriculum-responsive schools programme for nursery to S6. For programme details and to book visit our website - www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk/schools. Schools events are free to Glasgow schools and £3 per pupil for all other schools.

Tickets for public shows (listed right) are £3.50 for 12-19 year olds with valid proof of age (no further discount applies).

All other film tickets are £7/£6 with £1 off for GFT CineCard and Cineworld Unlimited cardholders. £

Masterclasses and workshops are priced separately. Selected events are free but ticketed.

See p24 for events at Apple Store for young people.

www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk/youth Image: Stella

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CAry grant Is there anyone who doesn’t love Cary Grant? Who doesn’t envy his suave manner, his impeccable sartorial style, his easy wit, his perfect timing and the effortless grace under pressure displayed evading a sinister crop duster on a lonely highway or a frisky leopard on a wild goose chase? Who doesn’t respond to his playful banter, the unerring chivalry in his every action and the romantic twinkle in the merry depth of his eyes? He remains the perfect movie star and was one of the finest actors from Hollywood’s Golden Age with a talent that flourished in screwball comedies and ripping adventure yarns, sophisticated thrillers and the most tender of romances.

It seems incredible that Cary Grant never won an Oscar and yet he probably appeared in more true classics than any other male star of his generation. We were spoilt for choice in compiling this retrospective and have selected films that reflect the breadth of his career and the full range of his talent. Cary Grant retired at the top of his profession in 1966, refusing all offers to return and insisting that fans should remember him the way he was. Time has done nothing to dent his charisma or diminish the power of his greatest performances as you will discover in this unmissable big screen revivals. www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk/cary An Affair To Remember

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Arsenic and Old Lace

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Bringing Up Baby

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His Girl Friday

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Holiday

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I Was A Male War Bride

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North By Northwest

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Notorious

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Only Angels Have Wings

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To Catch a Thief

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Great scots Turn any corner of the film industry and there is a fair chance you will encounter a Scot. Scottish talent has left an incredible impression on world cinema. We may be a small country but we produce filmmakers of enormous stature from admirably adventurous Oscar-winner Tilda Swinton to renaissance man Peter Mullan who holds a unique position in cinema history as the winner of both the Cannes Best Actor Prize and the Venice Golden Lion for The Magdalene Sisters.

Great Scots celebrates the very best of Scottish films and filmmakers. Highlights this year include a 30th anniversary salute to the beloved Gregory’s Girl, in-person appearances from Peter Mullan, Mark Millar and Oscar-winner Kevin Macdonald and a chance to discover the remarkable legacy of WIlliam McLaren, a neglected Scottish painter brought back into the limelight by a brand new documentary. www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk/scots Director's Cut Kevin Macdonald

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The First Movie

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Glasgow On Screen (it could be you!)

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Gregory's Girl

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Legacy

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Mark Millar

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Passing Places with Maireared Green

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Scottish Production Archive: Peter Mullan

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Tormod: An Audience with Robbie Fraser

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William McLaren An Artist Out of Time

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DEPARTURES: NEW JAPANESE CINEMA The 2009 Oscars were a triumph for Japanese cinema with Departures (Okuribito) winning Best Foreign Film and The House Of Small Cubes (Tsumiki no le) chosen as Best Animated Short. Japan has a vibrant film culture that stretches from Ozu and Mizoguchi to Kitano and Koreeda yet surprisingly few Japanese films ever secure British distribution. The heartwarming Departures is just the tip of the iceberg and this year’s Glasgow Film Festival has curated a focus on new Japanese cinema importing a selection of titles that can only be seen in Glasgow.

Our selections vary across genre, style and subject from the polished period thriller Zero Focus based on the classic murder mystery by Seicho Matsumoto and Island Of Dreams, an astonishing cinemascope debut feature from Tsuta Tetsuichiro, to the wild and wonderful Yatterman, the latest offering from cult director Takashi Miike.

March 2010 marks the centenary of the birth of Akira Kurosawa, an anniversary we celebrate with a rare screening of his epic Ran. Kurosawa is the director who introduced many international audiences to Japanese cinema. It seems appropriate that we honour his remarkable legacy in the year that we celebrate a new wave of Japan’s finest filmmakers.

Supported by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and The Japan Foundation. www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk/japan Akira

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All Around Us (Gururi no koto)

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Bare Essence Of Life (Urutora mirakuru rabu sutôrî)

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Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo

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Island of Dreams (Yume no Shima)

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Kakera

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Ran

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Vacation (Kyûka)

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Yatterman (Yattâman)

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Zero Focus

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FRIGHTFEST Out of control genetic experiments (Splice), redneck cannibals (2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams), horror viruses ([REC] 2), underground shocks (Stag Night), treacherous ski slopes (Frozen), brutal ocean slaughter (Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre), classic giallo (A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin) and neo giallo (Amer). Yes, it’s that time of year again as Film4 FrightFest returns to its second home in Scotland with more world, European and UK premieres than ever. Great Britain’s biggest and best horror fantasy film festival celebrated a 10th year anniversary in 2009 with their most epic London event yet. So of course we want Glasgow to join us in commemorating those festivities too. We’ve assembled a line-up of all the latest must-see titles, current hot fantasy festival favourites, plus one restored Italian masterpiece to ensure there’s something wicked for everyone. Joining the party are some really special guests.

FrightFest patron saint Adam Green is flying straight from the set of Hatchet 2 to present Frozen. Cube director Vincenzo Natali will launch Splice. And Helen Cattet and Bruno Forzani will present Amer, their homage to Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci and Italian thrillers of the 70s. It’s going to be a fabulous weekend of fear, fun and friends you just won’t want to miss… www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk/frightfest 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams

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Amer

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Frozen

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A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin

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[REC] 2

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Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre

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Splice

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Stag Night

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FrightFest Weekend Pass (see all 8 films) £40 FrightFest Day Pass (Friday 26 February – 3 films) £18 FrightFest Day Pass (Saturday 27 February – 5 films) £30

Image: Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre

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UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL It’s part of our mission to get as many directors, stars, special guests and film experts to Glasgow during the festival so you, our audience, can experience the film industry first hand. Last year we welcomed over 100 industry guests including Bill Paterson, Armando Iannucci, Sergey Dvortsevoy and Alan G Parker. This year’s guests are being confirmed as you read so keep up to date at www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk/events. See the list below for all special events and performances confirmed at time of going to press.

Acting Masterclass With Joe Dempsie

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LUX: Dispersion

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An Audience With Skins

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LUX: One-To-One

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Artist Talk/ Book Launch with Duncan Campbell

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Mark Millar

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Artists’ Film & Video Programme

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Opening Gala: Micmacs and party!

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Burning: Mogwai

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Optimo (Espacio) GSFF Closing Party

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Central Station Presents Art / Roc / Doc

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Pere Ubu – Long Live Pere Ubu! The Spectacle

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Closing Gala: Legacy

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Place Lumiere

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Comrade Couture with SWG3 & Noir!

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Radio Magnetic Party

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Director's Cut With Kevin Macdonald

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Scottish Production Archive: Peter Mullan

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Film Rocks @ The Shed

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Scriptwriting Masterclass with Ben Schiffer

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Glasgow On Screen (it could be you!)

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The Good Son

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Short Documentary Film Case Study: The Inner Shape By Johanna Wagner

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Gregory’s Girl

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Songs For An Airless Room

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GSA Mutual

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Space & Light Revisited

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How'S The Ghost? Presents: The Movie Trailer

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The Story Room: Discovering Character

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Thomas Truax : Songs From The Films Of David Lynch

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Introducing The Red

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Tormod

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Ivul (Andrew Kötting)

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Zombie Zombie

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The Journey

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The List Surprise Film

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LuckyMe Party

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In Conversation with James Earl Jones

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events at the apple store iMovie Workshop for Kids (5-13 years) Sunday 7 February 15.30 - 17.30

All events are free however spaces are limited so please book your places early.

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Young Filmmakers: Make Your First Music Video (14-19 years) Saturday 13 February 9.00 - 11.00

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Glasgow Film Festival: Best of Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2009-2010 Sunday 14 February 16.00 - 17.30 Paul Cotter: From Shorts to Features Sunday 21 February 16.00 In Conversation with Richard Jobson Thursday 25 February 18.00 Meet the Filmmaker: David Hayman Sunday 28 February 16.00 iMovie and iDVD Hands-on Workshop Every Tuesday and Thursday in February 12.00 - 13.30

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Children from the age of 5 to 13 years must be accompanied by a guardian, who will have to stay at the venue for the duration of the workshop.

Details how to get to the Apple Store, Buchanan Street can be found at www.apple.com/uk/buchananstreet

Final Cut Pro Workshop Every Monday in February 11.00 - 12.00

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Creative Loop are proud to bring the Student Media Festival to the Glasgow Film Festival Wednesday 10 - Friday 12 February 2010 Creative Loop - Bridging the gap between Scotland’s Colleges and the Creative Media Industry.

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Ceol is Craic: Gaelic Film Festival Saturday 27th February 2010 Ceol is Craic brings Gaelic to the masses... A great opportunity to watch films in Gaelic (though there will be subtitles) and to practise your spoken language. A brilliant day of film, rounding it all off with an excellent programme of music, and of course, a bit of craic.

FilmG - competition winners from its first two years

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Passing Places with Maireared Green

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Tormod: An Audience with Robbie Fraser

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A TO Z 1234 Giles Borg’s impressive debut feature casts a wry eye over the dramas and disappointments of anyone who has ever dreamed of forming their own band. Wannabe musician Stevie works in a call centre with his drummer pal Neil. Guitarist Billy and bass player Emily are the eager recruits they attract to their latest venture. We follow the band’s progress in segments bearing the name of a track title (‘Track Two. Anyone Can Play Guitar’ etc).

The result is a slight but endearing British charmer with sharply observed performances from a fine young cast, a sprinkling of easygoing humour and a light touch.

2001 MANIACS: FIELD OF SCREAMS “If they kill you, they will come”! Authorities have shut down the ‘detour’ ensnaring unsuspecting Northerners, so those Pleasant Valley cannibals are heading west in search of new blood.

Unfortunately for two beautiful heiresses, and the crew of their reality series ‘Road Rascals’, the human meat freaks are about to become more than just ratings killers. Bill (Devil’s Rejects) Moseley steps in as Mayor George W. Buckman in the anarchic sequel. Returning director Tim Sullivan promises the Glasgow world premiere is “Filled with sexiness, bloodiness and politically incorrectness. If the original didn’t secure me a warm spot in Hell, this one sure will!”

ABOUT ELLY (DARBAREYE ELLY) Winner of the Berlin Silver Bear and the Best Narrative Feature at Tribeca, About Elly is a compelling drama about the culture of deception that has come to define Persian life. Elly (Taraneh Alidoosti) is a nursery school teacher who is persuaded to accompany a group of old university friends on a trip to the Caspian. Elly doesn’t realise that Sepideh (Golshifteh Farahani) has the ulterior motive of playing matchmaker to her and the divorced Ahmad (Shahab Hosseini). Sepideh’s good intentions have tragic consequences as the gentle, lighthearted charm of the film’s early sequences darkens into a haunting, tension-filled mystery.

ACTING MASTERCLASS WITH JOE DEMPSIE Joe Dempsie (Skins, The Damned United, Doctor Who and Merlin) will host a unique acting workshop on performing for the screen. £

Cost of workshop is £10 (£7).

Music and Film GFT Wednesday 24 February (20.30) Director Giles Borg Featuring Ian Bonar Matthew Baynton Lyndsey Marshal UK 2008, 1h16m, N/C 15+ Thanks To Soda Pictures

FrightFest GFT Friday 26 February (21.30) Director Tim Sullivan Featuring Bill Moseley Lin Shaye Christa Campbell USA 2010, 1h30m, N/C 18+ Thanks To Anchor Bay

It’s A Wonderful World Cineworld Renfrew Street Sunday 21 February (18.00) Director Asghar Farhadi Featuring Golshifteh Farahani Taraneh Alidoosti Merila Zare’i Iran 2009, 1h59m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To Dreamlab Films

Youth Glasgow Media Access Centre, Trongate 103 Friday 12 February (10.00 - 15.00) Suitable for ages 15-18 Thanks to Cinemagic

If you would like to apply to take part please email shauna@cinemagic.org.uk or call Cinemagic 028 90 311900.

ADRIFT (A DERIVA) The familiar territory of marital strife and adolescent conflict is explored with sympathy and assurance in Adrift. Set in Brazil during the early 1980s, it offers a bittersweet remembrance of a defining summer in the life of a teenage girl. The story unfolds during a family vacation in Buzios. Filipa is fourteen and the eldest of three children. Her father, played by Vincent Cassel, is a successful French writer intent on finishing his latest novel. Filipa’s discovery of her father’s affair plunges her into the complexities that await in the adult world. A handsome, accessible drama from a director to watch.

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Gala Cineworld Renfrew Street Sunday 21 February (20.45) Monday 22 February (16.00) Director Heitor Dhalia Featuring Vincent Cassel Laura Neiva Camilla Belle Brazil 2009, 1h43m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To Revolver

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AGAINST THE CURRENT A quirky charmer confronting the lingering pain of grief, Against The Current offers a winning blend of deadpan comedy and heartfelt drama. Joseph (Flash Forward) Fiennes’ Paul has spent five years coming to terms with the death of his pregnant wife.

Now, he decides to fulfil a childhood dream of swimming the entire 150 miles of the Hudson River in one month. Sarcastic, wise-cracking best friend Jeff (a scene-stealing Justin Kirk) and Liz (Elizabeth Reaser) provide the moral support and technical back-up as he tackles his impossible quest. Little do they realise that he has another plan for when the task is completed.

AJAMI Scandar Copti is a Palestinian. Yaron Shani is an Israeli.

Together they have collaborated on an extraordinary crime drama set on the mean streets of Ajami, one of the toughest neighbourhoods in Jaffa. Weaving together stories of violence and vendettas, illegal refugees and conscience-stricken cops, dreams of escape and hopes of sanctuary, they have created a film that offers a startling insight into the tensions, resentments and misunderstandings that are part of everyday life in Ajami.

Winner of the London Film Festival’s Sutherland Trophy, a prize previously given to Persepolis, Red Road and Tarnation.

AKIRA No Japanese retrospective would be complete without Otomo’s animated masterpiece Akira. Regarded by many as a landmark production for Japan, its critical acclaim and box office success paved the way for the growth of anime culture across the world.

Join the GFF for a special late night screening of this amazing cult classic.

State Of Independents Cineworld Renfrew Street Monday 22 February (20.30) Tuesday 23 February (13.30) Director Peter Callahan Featuring Joseph Fiennes Justin Kirk Mary Tyler Moore USA 2009, 1h39m, N/C 15+ Thanks To Fortissimo Films

It’s A Wonderful World Cineworld Renfrew Street Tuesday 23 February (20.30) Wednesday 24 February (13.15) Directors Scandar Copti Yaron Shani Featuring Shahir Kabaha Fouad Habash Ibrahim Frege Israel 2009, 2h, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To Vertigo

Departures GFT Friday 19 February (22.45) Director Katsuhiro Otomo Japan 1988, 2h4m, subtitles, 15 Thanks to Kodansha Ltd and Scotland Loves Animation

£ Special ticket price: £3.50 for students with a valid matric card, £5 for everyone else.

ALL AROUND US (GURURI NO KOTO) Ryosuke Hashiguchi’s lyrical epic offers an intimate portrait of a marriage set within the bigger picture of sweeping social change in Japan. Kanao works in a shoe repair shop and has recently married his college sweetheart Shoko. The leisurely flow of their life together changes when Kanao is offered a job as a courtroom sketch artist. His new occupation gives him a front row seat at some of the country’s most notorious cases and allows the film to depict the dark heart of Japanese society. A country’s troubled soul is reflected in the trials and tribulations of Kanao’s own marriage in this richly detailed drama.

AMER (BITTER) Gialli fans will not want to miss co-directors Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s immaculately executed and flawless valentine to the 70s thriller genre popularized by Dario Argento and Mario Bava. Recreating the motifs, clichés and visual codes from the vintage Italian back catalogue (including A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin, Suspiria and Deep Red), the Belgian duo unfold a virtually dialogue-free tale of frightening obsession, sexual sensation and stunning black-gloved murder. Scored to recycled Italian soundtrack selections in the Tarantino tradition, the hypnotic and ethereal allure of the classic gialli lives again in this boldly imaginative cult phenomenon.

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Departures GFT Saturday 20 February (18.00) CCA Tuesday 23 February (15.30) Director Ryosuke Hashiguchi Featuring Tae Kimura Lily Franky Japan 2008, 2h20m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To Celluloid Dreams

FrightFest GFT Saturday 27 February (16.15) Directors Hélène Cattet Bruno Forzani Featuring Marie Bos Delphine Brual Harry Cleven France 2009, 1h30m, subtitles, N/C 18+

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AMERICAN: THE BILL HICKS STORY The ferociously funny, eternally fearless Bill Hicks died in 1994 from pancreatic cancer. He was just 32 and one of the most revered stand-up comics of his time. This unconventional biography captures the full flavour of the man and his art by using an innovative animation technique, previously unseen footage and the affectionate personal testimonies of the friends and family members who knew him best. The result is a perceptive, unvarnished account of the man and his determination to speak the truth about everything from America’s misguided foreign adventures to his alter ego Goatboy.

AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER The path to true love is strewn with impossible obstacles in this peerless romantic weepie. Suave playboy Cary Grant meets Deborah Kerr on a luxury ocean liner. They banter, flirt and fall deeply in love during an unforgettable voyage. The only trouble is that she is engaged to be married and he is a notorious womaniser. They make a vow that if their love is meant to be they will meet again in six months time at the top of the Empire State Building. However, fate has other plans in store for the couple. Grant has a wonderful rapport with Scottish-born Kerr in a tale that is effortlessly witty, sophisticated and incredibly moving. Remember to bring a handkerchief.

AN AUDIENCE WITH SKINS Critically acclaimed drama Skins returns to E4 for more hedonistic teenage behaviour. To celebrate its success, writer Ben Schiffer and actor Joe Dempsie (Chris) visit GFT to discuss developing the show for young audiences. Get your questions at the ready!

THE APE (APAN) Jesper Ganslandt is at the cutting edge of a new generation of Swedish filmmakers. His daring second feature The Ape features an amazing central performance from Olle Sarri who never knew what was going to happen next until he arrived at the various locations. Sarri’s Krister awakes on a bathroom floor. He is dirty, dishevelled and disorientated. He hurries to work, rearranging his schedule of clients waiting for their next driving lesson. It is the beginning of a long day’s journey into the dark heart of his existence in a raw, unsettling drama.

Stranger Than Fiction GFT Saturday 20 February (20.15) Directors Matt Harlock Paul Thomas Featuring Bill Hicks Lynn Hicks Mary Hicks USA 2009, 1h50m, N/C 15+ Thanks To Matt Harlock & Paul Thomas

Cary Grant GFT Sunday 28 February (13.00) Director Leo McCarey Featuring Cary Grant Deborah Kerr Cathleen Nesbitt USA 1957, 1h49m, U Thanks to Twentieth Century Fox

Youth GFT Friday 12th February (18.00) 1h45m, N/C 15 + Thanks to Cinemagic

European Cinema Cineworld Renfrew Street Friday 19 February (21.00) Saturday 20 February (14.00) Director Jesper Ganslandt Featuring Olle Sarri Francoise Joyce Sean Pietrulewicz Sweden 2009, 1h21m, subtitles, N/C 18+ Thanks To ICA

APPLAUSE (APPLAUS) Paprika Steen gives a fearless, award-winning performance in this acclaimed portrait of a woman coping with alcohol addiction, divorce, the loss of custody of her two sons and the unbearable burden of simply getting through another day clean and sober. Thea (Steen) is an acclaimed actress, winning rave reviews for her stage performance as Martha in Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? Yet her personal life is as volatile as the play, as she emerges from a lengthy spell in rehab desperate to prove her love to her sons and regain a measure of self-respect. The influence of John Cassavetes is strongly felt in this brilliant tour de force.

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European Cinema Cineworld Renfrew Street Friday 19 February (13.15) Saturday 20 February (18.30) Director Martin Zandvliet Featuring Paprika Steen Michael Falch Sara-Marie Maltha Denmark 2009, 1h26m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To Danish Film Institute/TrustNordisk

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AROUND A SMALL MOUNTAIN (36 VUES DU PIC SAINT LOUP) The latest film from nouvelle vague veteran Jacques Rivette is a typically elegant tale of the eternal clash between life and art recounted with a witty lightness of touch. Jane Birkin stars as Kate, a woman returning to the circus she abandoned fifteen years earlier. Stranded next to her car on a country road she finds her knight in shining armour with the appearance of Vittorio (Sergio Castellitto). His magic touch soon brings the car back to life and might just be enough to restore Kate to a state of happiness as we discover how she has become trapped by the tragedies and regrets of her past.

ARSENIC AND OLD LACE Riotously funny adaptation of the long-running Broadway farce with Cary Grant giving a masterclass in frantic comic exasperation. It should be the happiest day of Grant’s life as he enters into a state of holy matrimony with the lovely Priscilla Lane. Then all hell breaks loose as he discovers the unholy activities of his kindly spinster aunts and their lethal elderberry wine. Add to the mix an eccentric uncle who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt and fugitive criminals Peter Lorre and Raymond Massey who have no idea of the madhouse they have entered. A true classic of black comedy that has stood the test of time.

ARTIST TALK/BOOK LAUNCH Duncan Campbell will be in conversation with screenwriter and director Eleanor Yule, at the launch of a new publication to coincide with the exhibition. £

Free tickets are available on the day from the Tramway box office.

ARTISTS’ FILM & VIDEO PROGRAMME A showcase of wide-ranging approaches to the moving image, from filmed performance to experimental documentary and pop art. The democratization of the medium afforded by digital technology allows artists to move back and forth between narrative cinema and their own practice. How will the blurring of these boundaries affect the future of film? Featuring work by: Luke Fowler / Lila De Magalhaes / Jeff Keen / Shelly Nadashi / Steve Sutcliffe / Carla Easton / Kate Burton / Andrew Kötting / Ross Sinclair / Rose Ruane.

European Cinema Cineworld Renfrew Street Sunday 21 February (15.45) Monday 22 February (18.30) Director Jacques Rivette Featuring Jane Birkin Sergio Castellitto André Marcon France 2009, 1h24m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To Verve

Cary Grant GFT Tuesday 23 February (13.00) Wednesday 24 February (11.00) Director Frank Capra Featuring Cary Grant Josephine Hull Jean Adair USA 1944, 1h58m, PG Thanks To BFI

FashionArtFilm Tramway Sunday 28 February (14.00) 1hr, N/C 8+

Shorts CCA Sunday 21 February (14.30) 1h45m, N/C 15+ Curated by Gregor Johnstone

This programme includes a panel discussion with Gregor Johnstone, Mike Sperlinger (LUX), Steve Sutcliff and Mitch Miller (How’S the Ghost)

AUTUMN (SONBAHAR) An auspicious debut from Turkish director Ozcan Alper, Autumn is set in the wild mountainous region in the north of the country and makes stunning use of the natural rugged landscapes. Political activist Yusuf is released from prison after ten years and returns to his home village. In failing health, he discovers that the youthful idealism he shared with university colleagues has long gone. When Eka crosses the border to the nearby Batum, the two lost souls embark on a relationship. A tale of personal tragedy develops into a bittersweet reflection on a wider sense of disillusionment with the socialist dream.

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It’s A Wonderful World Cineworld Renfrew Street Saturday 20 February (20.30) Sunday 21 February (13.00) Director Özcan Alper Featuring Onur Saylak Megi Kobaladze Gulefer Yenigul Turkey 2008, 1h39m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To Media Luna

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BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS Banish any thoughts of Abel Ferrara and a naked Harvey Keitel as director Werner Herzog puts his own outlandish stamp on the tale of a cop in moral meltdown. Filmed amidst the broken heart of New Orleans, Herzog’s film features a demented tour de force from Nicolas Cage as a drug-addled homicide detective. Gripped in the fever of an addiction, visited by hellish hallucinations and the owner of a lucky crack pipe, Cage is still determined to serve the greater cause of justice when he is assigned to investigate the massacre of a family of Senegalese immigrants. A riveting journey into the heart of human darkness.

BARE ESSENCE OF LIFE (Urutora mirakuru rabu sutôrî) Hailed as one of the emerging superstars of Japanese cinema, writer/director Satoko Yokohama’s second feature is an assured, heartfelt romantic drama. Kenichi Matsuyama stars as a mentally challenged young farmer who happily tends his grandmother’s organic vegetable garden. A beautiful nursery schoolteacher arrives from Tokyo to make a fresh start and come to terms with the tragic death of her boyfriend. Set against a vivid depiction of rural life, this is a sensitively handled, offbeat tale combining human drama with acute observations about our relationship with the land.

BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO It may sound like a cult B-movie from the glory days of Godzilla but Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo is actually a lyrical, spellbinding documentary on Japan’s fascination with insects.

All children have a ghoulish attraction to creepy crawlies but in Japan it seems like a national pasttime. Director Jessica Oreck is an entomologist at the Museum Of Natural History in New York and her first feature has all the curiosity and wonder of a true enthusiast. She encourages experts and authors to trace the cultural history of Japan’s love affair with insects and captures enthralling footage of the children, collectors and sellers who have taken the bugs to their hearts.

BERGFEST (WITHOUT YOU I’M NOTHING) Made for just €50,000 in ten days, Bergfest is an exemplary piece of low-budget, independent filmmaking from writer/ director Florian Eichinger. The eerie silence and snow-covered vastness of the Bavarian Alps provides an atmospheric setting for an intense family drama with echoes of Thomas Vinterberg’s Festen. 25 year-old Hannes is on a mountaineering trip with his girlfriend when they stop at a little family hut that is supposed to be deserted. Instead, he discovers his father and his girlfriend.

Conditions make it impossible to leave yet bad feelings make it undesirable to stay as father and son have not met in eight years.

BEYOND THE POLE As urgent as An Inconvenient Truth but with a few more belly laughs, Beyond The Pole is a comical mockumentary with an eco-agenda. Determined to make their contribution to the fight against global warming, amateur explorers Stephen Mangan and Rhys Thomas decide to embark on the first carbon neutral, vegetarian and organic expedition to the North Pole. The fact that they have no experience or common sense is not going to stop them. Confronted by polar bears, cocky Norwegian rivals and the eerie, unsettling vistas of endless snow they discover the high price of activism.

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Gala GFT Thursday 25 February (20.30) Cineworld Renfrew Street Friday 26 February (20.45) Director Werner Herzog Featuring Nicolas Cage Eva Mendes USA 2009, 2h1m, N/C 18+ Thanks To Lionsgate

Departures GFT Tuesday 23 February (18.15) CCA Wednesday 24 February (15.30) Director Satoko Yokohama Featuring Kenichi Matsuyama Kumiko Aso Japan 2009, 2h, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to Nikkatsu Corporation

Departures CCA Wednesday 24 February (18.00) GFT Thursday 25 February (15.30) Director Jessica Orek USA 2009, 1h31m, N/C 10+ Thanks To Myriapod Productions

European Cinema Cineworld Renfrew Street Saturday 27 February (19.00) Sunday 28 February (13.45) Director Florian Eichinger Featuring Anna Bruggemann Peter Kurth Martin Schleiss Germany 2009, 1h29m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To Bergfilm

Best Of British GFT Sunday 21 February (20.15) Director David L Williams Featuring Rhys Thomas Stephen Mangan Helen Baxendale UK 2009, 1h27m, N/C 15+ Thanks To Shooting Pictures

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BIG FAN

State Of Independents

Robert D. Siegel wrote the tangy script for Mickey Rourke’s heartrending comeback in The Wrestler. He brings a similar sympathy for the lone, misfit outsider to his impressive directorial debut. Patton Oswald stars as Paul, a thirtysomething garage attendant living at home with his mother. His life revolves around an obsessive devotion to the New York Giants and his frequent calls to the local sports radio show. He is their number one fan, so it seems entirely appropriate that he follow his favourite Giants player into New York for a night on the town that has all kinds of unpleasant consequences. A quirky, expertly realised character drama.

THE BLUE BIRD (AOI TORI) This is a tense, award-winning drama about the aftermath of a spate of classroom bullying. Starring Japanese heart throb Kanata Hongo.

Cineworld Renfrew Street Friday 19 February (19.00) Saturday 20 February (14.15) Director Robert D. Siegel Featuring Patton Oswalt / Kevin Corrigan USA 2009, 1h26m, N/C 15+ Thanks To Sierra Pictures

Youth GFT Friday 12 February (16.00) Director Kenji Nakanishi Japan 2008, 1h45m, N/C 13+ Thanks to Bandai Channel

BLUEBEARD (BARBE BLEUE) Catherine Breillat creates her own darkly distinctive version of the Charles Perrault fairytale in this compelling account of sisterly love and a shocking serial killer. In 1950s France, a young girl torments her older sister by reading the story of the notorious Bluebeard. We are then transported back in time where two teenage sisters are left penniless orphans by the death of their father. Marriage to the local squire is an attractive option although the sudden disappearance of his previous wives is a worry and there is a sinister room that nobody must enter.

Thus an elegant slice of grand guignol unfolds.

BOMBER Paul Cotter’s wonderfully droll little gem of a road movie marks his first feature after a number of eye-catching shorts.

It is notable for its polished visuals, dry wit and expert central performances. Alastair is in his eighties and has decided to personally apologise to the residents of a small German village that he accidentally bombed during World War 2. A road trip is planned with his wife Valerie but when Alastair proves a less than reliable driver their son Ross is bullied into the role. Minor frictions and longstanding grievances come bubbling to the surface during their bittersweet and ultimately poignant journey.

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European Cinema The Grosvenor Friday 19 February (18.00) Cineworld Renfrew Street Saturday 20 February (21.15) Director Catherine Breillat Featuring Dominique Thomas Lola Creta France 2009, 1h20m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To New Wave Films

Best Of British GFT Saturday 20 February (20.45) Director Paul Cotter Featuring Shane Taylor Benjamin Whitrow Eileen Nicholas UK 2009, 1h24m, N/C 15+ Thanks To Boris Films

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A BOY CALLED DAD

GFT Friday 12 February (14.00)

After the screening members of the cast and crew will be answering questions from the audience.

Thanks to Cinemagic

THE BOYS: THE SHERMAN BROTHER’S STORY The Boys: The Sherman Brothers’ Story is an intimate journey through the lives of Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman, the astoundingly prolific, Academy Award®-winning songwriting team that defined family musical entertainment for five decades. Their career highlights range from Mary Poppins to The Jungle Book and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. This featurelength documentary, conceived, produced and directed by two of the songwriters’ sons, takes audiences behind the scenes of the Hollywood magic factory and offers a rare glimpse of a unique creative process at work. It also explores a deep and longstanding rift that has kept the brothers personally estranged throughout much of their unparalleled professional partnership.

BRINGING UP BABY Glorious, helter skelter romantic comedy reuniting Cary Grant with the incomparable Katharine Hepburn. The bespectacled Grant is a strait-laced paleontologist who likes a life of calm, conventional order. His plans include a simple wedding and the completion of his prize dinosaur. Hepburn is the scatterbrained eccentric who turns his world upside down as they go chasing after a missing bone and a million dollar donor accompanied by a lively leopard called Baby. The result is a breathless, madcap riot with priceless performances from the entire cast. Simply one of the finest screwball comedies ever made.

BURNING: MOGWAI & LIVE DJ SET Glasgow-based musicians Mogwai present a black and white concert film, capturing their unique layered rock sound. Burning is directed by two people responsible for some of the best music video in the industry. Shot over three nights in Brooklyn, the imagery of the film is artistic and beautiful. Band members are almost motionless as soft melody inevitably gives in to the cacophony of distortion and raw emotion the band are famed for. A compilation of music videos representing the best of Glasgow label Rock Action Records’ recent releases will be screened prior to the film (including videos from Errors, Remember Remember, DeSalvo, Part Chimp and Kling Klang). The screening will be followed by a special live DJ set with band members at a secret venue (to be confirmed) for ticket holders only.

CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY Michael Moore is a fearless champion of informed debate. He has brought a disarming wit and a provocative fresh perspective to key issues like gun control and health care. His latest documentary questions America’s love affair with capitalism in an era of growing unemployment, failing companies, reckless financial institutions and economic meltdown. He puts a human face to the debate by visiting families whose lives have been destroyed by the economic downturn and questions the real motives behind the big bank bailout of 2008. Essential, accessible viewing for anyone who cares about the way we live now.

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Youth

When he becomes a father at the tender age of 14, Robbie’s life quickly spirals out of control. Feeling neglected by his own dad, he kick-starts a series of events that will catapult him at great speed into adulthood.

Director Brian Percival UK 2009, 1h20m, N/C 15+

Music and Film GFT Friday 19 February (15.45) The Grosvenor Saturday 20 February (18.00) Directors Gregory V. Sherman Jeffrey C. Sherman Featuring Julie Andrews Roy E.Disney Angela Lansbury USA 2009, 1h40m, NC 8+ Thanks To Walt Disney

Cary Grant GFT Thursday 18 February (13.00) Friday 19 February (11.00) The Grosvenor Sunday 21 February (18.00) Director Howard Hawks Featuring Cary Grant Katharine Hepburn USA 1938, 1h42m, U Thanks to BFI

Music & Film GFT Sunday 28 February (18.30) Directors Vincent Moon & Nat le Scouarnec UK 2009, 1h30m, NC 15+ Thanks to Mogwai and Rock Action Records

Stranger Than Fiction GFT Sunday 21 February (20.30) Director Michael Moore USA 2009, 1h45m, 12A 12A: Contains strong language Thanks To Paramount

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CENTRAL STATION PRESENTS ART / ROC / DOC Art, music, screenings, talks, conversation and a glass of wine.

Join Central Station for the preview screening of Art / Roc / Doc, shot at Frieze 2009 and featuring Glasgow-based band Isosceles. We’ll also be showing art and music shorts made by our members. Get behind-the-scenes insights: the screenings will be followed by discussion about the work. Then join us all for conversation over a couple of drinks.

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CHEW TV ONE MINUTE FILM COMPETITION AWARDS & FIRST LIGHT PREMIERE The best quick-fire filmmaking talent in Scotland screened alongside the world premiere of short films Honest and Night Barber. Will you win one of our fabulous prizes?

Shorts CCA Sunday 21 February (17.00) 1h30m, N/C 18+ Central Station is a creative social network for art, film and design. Find out more at www.thisiscentralstation.com

Youth GFT Saturday 13 February (14.00) Ih30m, N/C 12+ Thanks to GMAC, Platform, Chew TV, Fopp and First Light

For information on how to enter our Chew TV One Minute Movie Competition see page 19. £

Free tickets are available on the day from GFT box office.

CHOPIN: DESIRE FOR LOVE (CHOPIN. PRAGNIENIE MILOSCI) Widely recognised as one of the most historically accurate films on the life of Frederic Chopin, Chopin: Desire For Love offers a remarkable combination of gorgeous images and an impeccable soundtrack of great performances from the finest classical artists including Polish virtuoso Janusz Olejniczak, Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax and Yukio Yokoyama. The heart of the film is the relationship between Chopin (Piotr Adamczyk) and the feminist author Aurore Dupin (Danuta Stenka) better known as George Sand. To mark Chopin’s birthday the film will be preceded by a 20 minute piano recital by Aleksander Kudajczyk - the unsurpassable Chopin virtuoso, who has made Glasgow his home and who has just returned from a tour of Australia and Indonesia. Part of Chopin 2010 celebrations.

CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH (NANJING NANJING) A majestic production filmed in stunning black and white, City Of Life And Death sheds a powerful light on the Rape Of Nanking, often described as the forgotten Holocaust of World War Two. Set during the Japanese invasion of China in 1937, it offers an eyewitness account of the brutality of war and the human instinct for survival. True events are dramatised through the stories of key individuals from a kind-hearted Japanese officer to the courageous leader of Chinese guerrilla fighters, a Japanese “comfort woman” and the Schindler-like figure who saved many civilians. Epic filmmaking with an arresting human heart.

COMEDIE & HERE IS ALWAYS SOMEWHERE ELSE, THE DISAPPEARANCE OF BAS JAN ADER Duncan Campbell has selected the little seen Beckett film Comédie, which, with its absence of action, cinematography and dramaturgy, stands as a masterpiece of modernity.

Tracking Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader’s emergence in the radical art scene of the 1960s and his shocking disappearance at sea, the film is a sweeping overview of contemporary art film, featuring artist interviews such as Chris Burden, Tacita Dean, Rodney Graham, and Pipilotti Rist. £

Music & Film GFT Monday 22 February (17.45) Director Jerzy Antczak Featuring Piotr Adamczyk Danuta Stenka Sara Muldner Poland 2002, 2h14m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To the Polish Consulate, Edinburgh and Elise Kelly, Arts Manager

It’s A Wonderful World Cineworld Renfrew Street Wednesday 24 February (18.00) Thursday 25 February (13.00) Director Lu Chuan Featuring Liu Ye Hideo Nakaizumi Fan Wei China 2009, 2h15m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To High Fliers

FashionArtFilm Tramway Wednesday 24 February (19.00) Directors Marin Karmitz Samuel Beckett Rene Daalder 1h26m, N/C 15+ Thanks To Marin Karmitz and carlier | gebauer and Aaron Ohlmann

Tickets £4/£3 available from GFT or Tramway.

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COMPETITION 1: STANDSTILL A collection of characters trapped – by external forces, by their fear of the future or by lust and deception. Physical and mental constraints spark creativity, invention and drama in our first international competition selection. Full details of all the films will be provided in the Glasgow Short Film Festival brochure.

COMPETITION 2: WORLDS COLLIDE The clash of cultures is the focus of our second international competition programme. Racial, religious and class differences are challenged in both form and content, in a series of films that conflate the personal and the political. Full details of all the films will be provided in the Glasgow Short Film Festival brochure.

COMPETITION 3: NO YESTERDAYS Our third international programme explores the erasure of the past and the reinvented present. Characters seek to transform or escape from landscapes of their own making. Others attempt to recall long-forgotten histories. Full details of all the films will be provided in the Glasgow Short Film Festival brochure.

COMPETITION 4: LEARNING TO BREATHE Loss, rejection and trauma have brought the protagonists of our fourth international selection to the brink. Only rebirth and baby steps can bring them back to safety. By turns funny, melancholic and shocking, this is an emotional one. Full details of all the films will be provided in the Glasgow Short Film Festival brochure.

COMPETITION 5: LEAVE A TRAIL Travel broadens the mind they say. Well perhaps for some.

Others just get lost, tricked or abandoned along the way. Take a walk into the unknown in our final international selection. Full details of all the films will be provided in the Glasgow Short Film Festival brochure.

COMRADE COUTURE with SWG3 & NOIR! Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, fashionable East Berliners created a fantasy world that was not available on state stocked wardrobes and clothing retailers. This fascinating documentary examines the perils of an industry taken for granted in the west, and has the insight of both director Wilms – labelled an ‘enemy of the state’ as a teenager - and stylist Frank Schafer.

This personal account is at times very touching, and also very thrilling – a constant fear of arrest hangs over the scene. The screening is followed by a grand fashion show staged by Noir! and a warehouse party reflecting the theme of the film.

CON ARTIST “Modern art is a con,” Mark Kostabi once said, “and I am the world’s greatest con artist.” Michael Sladek’s documentary certainly provides the proof of the pudding as it offers a witty profile of the disgraced enfant terrible of the New York art scene.

Kostabi had a hunger for fame and attention in the 1980s that makes Jordan looking like a shy, retiring violet. He made no secret of the fact that he employed people to supply bright ideas, passed those on to skilled painters and then made his sole contribution of adding a signature to the finished canvas.

Shameless charlatan or sly satirist? This is your chance to decide.

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Shorts CCA Saturday 20 February (12.00) 1h21m, N/C 15+ Curated by The Magic Lantern

Shorts CCA Saturday 20 February (14.00) 1h23m, N/C 15+ Curated by The Magic Lantern

Shorts CCA Saturday 20 February (16.45) 1h19m, N/C 15+ Curated by The Magic Lantern

Shorts CCA Sunday 21 February (14.00) 1h20m, N/C 15+ Curated by The Magic Lantern

Shorts CCA Sunday 21 February (16.30) 1h24m, N/C 15+ Curated by The Magic Lantern

FashionArtFilm SWG3 Thursday 25 February (20.00) Director Marco Wilms Featuring Marco Wilms Frank Schafer Germany 2009, 1h24m, N/C 18+ Thanks to SWG3, Glasgow Caledonian University and Noir

Stranger Than Fiction GFT Saturday 20 February (15.30) Director Michael Sladek Featuring Mark Kostabi Giuseppe Orier Heidi Follin USA 2009, 1h24m, N/C 15+ Thanks To Acme Pictures

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A CONGREGATION OF GHOSTS Edward Woodward’s film career included outstanding performances in The Wicker Man and Breaker Morant. Inspired by true events, plaintive British feature A Congregation Of Ghosts gave him a final great role as the Reverend Densham. In 1932, Densham returned from missionary work in India to begin his pastoral duties in the remote Cornish village of Warleggan on Bodmin Moor. His fierce piety soon alienated the local congregation and he became an isolated, increasingly eccentric figure. In 1967, new owners arrive at the Rectory to discover that Densham continues to haunt the area.

CO-OPERATIVE YOUNG FILMMAKERS Thought-provoking and creative work from young filmmakers in Scotland who entered the Co-operative Young Filmmakers in 2009 aged 8-22. Programme includes animations, documentaries and dramas.

Best Of British GFT Saturday 20 February (18.00) Sunday 21 February (11.30) Director Mark Collicott Featuring Edward Woodward Nicholas Gleaves Susannah Doyle UK 2009, 1h33m, N/C 10+ Thanks To Whitechapel Films

Youth GFT Saturday 13 February (12.00) N/C 8+ Supported by Project Ability and The Co-operative Membership Scotland.

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CORSO - THE LAST BEAT

Stranger Than Fiction

Filmmaker Gustave Reininger befriended the poet Gregory Corso during the last years of his life. When Corso’s good friend and contemporary Allen Ginsberg died in 1997, Corso became the last of the Beat generation poets. Reininger’s award-winning documentary follows him to Europe as he revisits some of his favourite haunts of the 1950s and we learn the story of his life. Corso was born in 1930 and always believed that his mother had abandoned him. The true story of her actions is incredibly moving and is a key part of an enthralling documentary on the man that Ginsberg called “ the poet’s poet”.

GFT Sunday 28 February (20.45) Director Gustave Reininger Featuring Gregory Corso William S. Burroughs Ethan Hawke USA 2009, 1h37m, N/C 15+ Thanks To Gustave Reininger

COWARDS (COBARDES) Bullied at school, Gaby takes matters into his own hands after constant harassment but his actions have unexpected consequences for his family and friends in this award-winning film.

An unsettling but accessible look at the use of modern technology in the service of bullying.

THE CRAZIES Imagine living in a small, sleepy Iowa town where everything is safe and happy…until suddenly it isn’t! Imagine your family, friends and neighbours going quickly and horrifically insane. The reason? A mysterious toxin has contaminated the water supply. In a terrifying tale of the ‘American Dream’ gone horribly wrong, Tim (Hitman) Olyphant and Radha (Silent Hill) Mitchell find themselves trapped in their once idyllic hometown fighting for survival in the highly anticipated reinvention of George Romero’s 1973 cannibalistic classic. Directed

by Breck Eisner from a screenplay by Ray Wright (Case 39) and Scott Kosar (The Amityville Horror).

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Youth GFT Saturday 13 February (16.00) Directors José Corbacho, Juan Cruz Spain, 2008, 1h29m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to Filmax International

Gala Cineworld Renfrew Street Friday 19 February (21.15) Saturday 20 February (16.30) Director Breck Eisner Featuring Tim Olyphant Radha Mitchell USA 2010, 1h40m N/C 18+ Thanks To Paramount

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CREATIVE IDENTITIES RED CARPET SHOWCASE An eclectic mix of short films made by young people in Scotland, showcasing their stories, hopes fears and joys - from horror films to interviews with pop stars.

Youth GFT Sunday 14 February (14.30) 1h15m, N/C 8+

£ Free tickets are available on the day from the GFT box office.

CUCKOO Two sisters have lost their mother at an early age, and now one may be losing her mind in this tense, atmospheric thriller. Polly (played by Glasgow actress Laura Fraser) is facing the twin traumas of a cheating partner, and a supervisor taking more than a passing interest in her personal life - expertly played by Grant.

This dark film builds towards a very black and unsettling ending.

Best of British GFT Friday 19 February (23.00) Director Richard Bracewell Featuring Laura Fraser Richard E. Grant Antonia Bernath UK 2009, 1h29m, N/C 15+

DIRECTOR’S CUT WITH KEVIN MACDONALD In conversation with BBC Movie Café Presenter Janice Forsyth and presented in partnership with The University of Aberdeen’s Director’s Cut series.

Kevin Macdonald is a Scottish two-time BAFTA winning director, most famous for his films Touching the Void (2003), The Last King of Scotland (2006) and State of Play (2009). Glaswegian Macdonald is the grandson of the Hungarian-born filmmaker, Emeric Pressburger, and his brother is film producer Andrew Macdonald. The Director’s Cut is a series of discussions with well-known and innovative international filmmakers and broadcasters, staged by the University of Aberdeen (www.abdn.ac.uk/directorscut/). We are delighted to welcome Kevin and the University of Aberdeen to Glasgow for this special event to explore his career and current projects, including The Eagle of the Ninth (2010), starring Jamie Bell and Donald Sutherland, filmed on locations across Scotland.

DO IT AGAIN Geoff Edgers is a newspaper reporter fearing the onset of his 40th birthday when he decides to find the surviving members of the Kinks – and convince them to reunite. The words ‘Tall’ and ‘Order’ come to mind, but also the words ‘Sunny’ and ‘Afternoon’ – just one of the many beautiful tracks from an impressive back catalogue. Despite the difficulty of the task, Geoff secures meetings with other Kinks fans including Sting, REM guitarist Peter Buck and Zooey Deschanel. The film is made by the capable hands of Robert Patton-Spruill, who also made the Public Enemy documentary, Welcome to the Terrordrome.

DOGTOOTH (KYNODONTAS) Winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes, Dogtooth offers a merciless, deadpan satire of middle-class respectability.

Kept under the thumb of ruthlessly controlling parents, three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate lest they be contaminated by contact with the wider world. There is an imaginary brother whose sorry fate is meant to be a lesson to them all. The only outsider to enter their estate is a woman hired to satisfy the son’s natural urges. Her presence fans the flame of resistance as sex becomes the utimate act of rebellion.

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Great Scots GFT Saturday 27 February (14.30) 1h30m Thanks to The University of Aberdeen’s Director’s Cut series

Music and Film GFT Sunday 21 February (15.15) Director Robert Patton-Spruill Featuring Sting Paul Weller Peter Buck USA 2009, 1h30m, N/C 12+ Thanks To Filmshack and The Loneliest Monk Productions

European Cinema Cineworld Renfrew Street Sunday 21 February (20.45) Monday 22 February (18.00) Director Yorgos Lanthimos Featuring Christos Stergioglou Michele Valley Greece 2009, 1h36m, subtitles, N/C 18+ Thanks to Verve

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DOPE + THE DELIAN MODE MONORAIL FILM CLUB Shot in a lilting, evocative style by filmmakers Sheldon and Diane Rochlin (now Flame Schon), Dope was praised as a film “ahead of its time” by Ricky Leacock. It works as a magnifying glass into the swinging London drug scene of the ‘60s with a great soundtrack mixed by Mark Dichter and includes rare footage of Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd.

Beautiful as well as chilling, Dope melds shots of that inbetween realm - the fragile edges of reality and dream, order and chaos, inertia and motion-reflecting transience, mortality and impermanence. Dope will be preceded by Kara Blake’s The Delian Mode (25minutes) a fascinating documentary on Delia Derbyshire, the pioneering composer and BBC Radiophonic Workshop innovator who realised the original “Doctor Who” theme and whose influence today is stronger than ever.

Music and Film GFT Sunday 28 February (16.00) Directors Diane Rochlin Sheldon Rochlin USA 1968, 1h30m, N/C 18+ Thanks To Flame Schon & Kara Blake

This event will be introduced by John Cavanagh, broadcaster, musician and friend of the late Delia Derbyshire

DOUBLE TAKE In life Alfred Hitchcock couldn’t resist sly cameo appearances in his best thrillers. In death he moves centre stage in this wildly inventive, blurring of fact and fiction from Belgian filmmaker and media artist Johan Grimonprez. Inspired by a Jorge Luis Borges story, this is a suspenseful plunge into the paranoia of the Cold War era weaving together the witty tale of Hitchcock encountering his double during the filming of The Birds, rising tensions between America and the Soviets and a stirring attack on the power of the media. Ron Burrage makes a fantastic Hitchcock in this constant delight.

DOWN TERRACE Imagine if Mike Leigh had made The Sopranos and shot it in eight days at his parents house with a cast that mixed cutting-edge comedy stars with members of his own family and you begin to have the measure of Down Terrace.

Ben Wheatley’s award-winning debut feature focuses on a father and son who are both just out of prison and desperate to discover who sold them out. The paranoia grows and the body count rises in a darkly unsettling kitchen sink comedy laced with the blackest of humour.

“It’s just a film about work really,” claims Wheatley, “work which happens to be criminal.”

ECCENTRICITIES OF A BLONDE-HAIRED GIRL (SINGULARIDADES DE UMA RAPARIGA LOURA) The remarkable Manoel de Oliveira is 101 years old and has been making films for over seventy years. His latest is based on a short story by Eca de Queiros and is a typically slim, elegant reflection on that old devil called love. De Oliveira’s grandson Ricardo Trepa stars as Macario, a Lisbon accountant who becomes infatuated with the beautiful blonde girl he spies in the widow across the street. Infatuation leads to obsession but Macario is an old-fashioned romantic, bound by social codes that seem more appropriate to a Jane Austen novel than a 21st century suitor and he discovers that the path of true love is strewn with obstacles.

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European Cinema CCA Thursday 25 February (18.15) Friday 26 February (20.30) Director Johan Grimonprez Featuring Ron Burrage Mark Perry Delfine Bafort Belgium 2009, 1h20m, N/C 15+ Thanks To Soda Pictures

Best Of British GFT Thursday 25 February (18.00) Director Ben Wheatley Featuring Robin Hill Robert Hill Julia Deakin UK 2009, 1h29m, N/C 18+ Thanks To Boum Productions

European Cinema Cineworld Renfrew Street Friday 19 February (19.15) Saturday 20 February (16.45) Director Manoel de Oliveira Featuring Ricardo Trepa Catarina Wallenstein Diogo Doria Portugal 2009, 1h4m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To New Wave Films

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EVANGELION: 1.0 YOU ARE (NOT) ALONE In search of his father, Shinji arrives in Tokyo-3, a city rebuilt after its destruction by giant creatures called the Angels. It soon transpires that he has been chosen to pilot a giant mech that has been built to destroy the invaders. Introduced by Emily Fussell, BBFC examiner and followed with a masterclass in Anime certification.

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EVANGELION: 2.0 YOU CAN (NOT) ADVANCE

Youth GFT Monday 15 February (15.30) Directors Masayuki Kazuya Tsurumaki Japan, 2007,1h38m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to Scotland Loves Animation, Manga Entertainment and BBFC.

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Shinji continues his training in his quest to rid the planet of the Angels that threaten to wipe out mankind. The film will be introduced by Anime expert Jonathan Clements, author of Schoolgirl Milky Crisis: Adventures in the Anime and Manga Trade.

GFT Monday 15 February (17.45)

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EVERYBODY’S FINE Robert De Niro gives his best performance in years in this warmhearted Kirk (Waking Ned, Nanny McPhee) Jones remake of Giuseppe Tornatore’s Stanno Tutti Bene. Following in the footstseps of Marcello Mastroianni, De Niro plays a retired widower who embarks on an impromptu road trip to reconnect with each of his grown children only to discover that their lives are far from picture perfect.

An extraordinary ensemble cast includes Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell, but it is the heartfelt sincerity of De Niro’s weary, understated performance that dominates.

EXPANSIVE GROUNDS This documentary takes an appropriately sombre look from a German filmmaker’s perspective on the collective guilt at the horror of the holocaust.

Berlin’s memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe has seen thousands of visitors since its opening in 2004, and Gerburg speaks with many of them on their experiences after contemplating the memorial.

EYES WIDE OPEN (Einaym Pkuhot) Haim Tabakman’s intense, mature first feature explores the notion that religion can never quite legislate for the workings of the human heart.

Aaron is a respectable kosher butcher in an ultraorthodox area of Jerusalem. He is married with four sons. One rainy day he offers sanctuary to Ezri, a strikingly handsome twenty-two year old student.

He takes a shine to the younger man, offering him the hand of friendship and taking him under his wing. Aaron soon understands that what he feels is love. Torn apart by guilt and the unbearable pressure to conform, he must choose between faith and desire.

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Gala GFT Friday 19 February (20.15) Writer and Director Kirk Jones Featuring Robert De Niro Drew Barrymore Kate Beckinsale Sam Rockwell USA 2009, 1h39m, 12A 12A: Contains one use of strong language Thanks to Walt Disney

Stranger Than Fiction CCA Tuesday 23 February (20.30) Director Gerburg Rohde-Dahl Germany 2008, 1h6m, subtitles, N/C 12+ Thanks to Filmproduktion Gerburg Rohde-Dahl

It’s A Wonderful World CCA Thursday 25 February (20.30) Friday 26 February (15.30) Director Haim Tabakman Featuring Zohar Shtrauss Ran Danker Ravit Rozen Israel 2009, 1h30m, subtitles, N/C 18+ Thanks To Peccadillo

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FILM ROCKS @ THE SHED The Shed Live, in association with iMan 4D, are presenting a Festival of Film Rock to be held at The Shed. The event will comprise an all-day multimedia programme showcasing musicians inspired by cinema performing to a backdrop of film and live visuals and an accompanying programme of shorts celebrating the collaborative synergy of music and moving image. This event will be augmented with a full supporting programme involving exhibitions of art, photography & installation work along with performance and fashion with the associating theme being “Music and Cinema”. Featuring Steven Severin (Siouxsie & The Banshees), A Band Called Quinn, Isa & The Filthy Tongues, Honeytone Cody and a host of others.

ArtFashionFilm The Shed Saturday 20 February (13.00) 9h30m, 18+

£ Tickets only available from The Shed. See www.shedglasgow.co.uk for details.

FILM THE HUMAN Join filmmakers and producers from Amnesty International, Diversity and Autonomi Films (Glasgow) and Ethical TV for a unique debate on the place of filmmaking to defend human rights with guidance on how you can get involved – as filmmaker or audience member. £

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Youth GFT Monday 15 February (13.45) 1h30m, N/C 13+ Thanks to Amnesty International Scotland, Autonomi and Diversity Films and Ethical TV.

Great Scots

An excellent opportunity to see the best of the winning films from the first two years of FilmG, a Gaelic short film competition that attracted 54 entries in 2009. Run by MG Alba, a range of genres from not only Scotland, but also North America and the Isle of Man. Some of the filmmakers will be present to talk about their experience making everything from action movies to animation.

THE FIRST MOVIE Northern Irish cineaste Mark Cousins is a passionate advocate of the power of film to transform our understanding of the world. In The First Movie he visits a small village in the Kurdish North of Iraq armed with a projector, a selection of great movies and three small cameras to allow the children there to express their inner imaginations. The result is a film about war and its human casualties but also an uplifting account of how innocence survives and beauty endures. The Guardian describes it as; “A terrifically enjoyable and engaging film: open-minded and open-hearted, and utterly unlike the material on regular commercial release.”

THE FRENCH KISSERS (LES BEAUX GOSSES) Imagine American Pie but told with wit, charm and real insight into adolescent behaviour and you have the measure of French Kissers, a striking debut from comic book writer Riad Sattouf. Herve is a spotty, geeky teenager living in provincial Brittany with his needy mother. His grades are average, his aptitude for sport is minimal and his hormones are raging. He couldn’t be less cool. One day he is approached by the prettiest girl in his class and the two begin an awkward relationship that is captured with painful accuracy and lingering affection. Could this be France’s answer to Gregory’s Girl?

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CCA Saturday 27 February (15.00) 1h30m, N/C 8+ Thanks to Highlands & Islands Enterprise and Canan.

Great Scots GFT Wednesday 24 February (18.00) Director Mark Cousins UK/Iraq, 1h16mins, N/C 15+ Thanks To CONTENT Film Ltd

Gala Cineworld Renfrew Street Saturday 20 February (19.00) Sunday 21 February (14.15) Director Riad Sattouf Featuring Vincent Lacoste Anthony Sonigo Alice Tremoliere France 2009, 1h30m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To Other Angle Pictures

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FRIENDS (WITH BENEFITS) Let’s talk about sex, maybe? A group of six close buddies (three men and three women) live by some simple rules including the belief that friends do not sleep together. Chloe and Owen have known each other since childhood and want to move things to a different level. They embark on a relationship that is strictly physical with no complicating emotional ties. Their decision sends shock waves through the group leading the other four friends to question what they really want. Sharply written by director Gorman Bechard, this is a polished, provocative take on modern relationships with a smart cast and a great soundtrack.

FROM TIME TO TIME Oscar-winning renaissance man Julian Fellowes has written and directed a charming film for all the family in From Time To Time.

Based on the beloved Green Knowe novels by Lucy M Boston, it begins in 1944 when Manchester teenager Tolly is sent to live with his estranged grandmother as his own mother awaits news of a father who is missing in action. The lad soon discovers more of the family’s troubled present and tragic past when half of the manor house was destroyed. The past becomes strikingly real when Tolly is visited by ghostly figures from the Napoleonic era.

FROZEN We’ve UK-launched Hatchet, Spiral and Grace for our good friend director/producer Adam Green. He’s returned the favour with those wonderful ‘Road to FrightFest’ shorts we highlight every August. Last year he filmed an intro for Grace’s Glasgow debut from the Frozen set. So we are delighted to host the European premiere of Green’s latest chiller so soon after its Sundance debut. A typical day on the ski slopes turns into a nightmare for three snowboarders stranded on the chairlift before their last run. Dangling high off the ground with no way down, how will they survive frostbite, hypothermia and other unexpected dangers?

State Of Independents GFT Thursday 25 February (14.15) CCA Friday 26 February (18.15) Director Gorman Bechard Featuring Margaret Laney Alex Brown Lynn Mancinelli USA 2009, 1h34m, N/C 18+ Thanks To What Were We Thinking Films

Gala GFT Tuesday 23 February (20.30) Director Julian Fellowes Featuring Alex Etel Maggie Smith Dominic West UK 2009, 1h35m, N/C 8+ Thanks To Ealing Studios

FrightFest GFT Friday 26 February (19.00) Director Adam Green Featuring Shawn Ashmore Emma Bell USA 2010, 1h32m, N/C 18+ Thanks To Momentum Film Distributors

Special guest director Adam Green will introduce the UK premiere of Frozen.

GENTLEMEN BRONCOS Benjamin is an aspiring writer whose ideas are stolen by a fantasy novelist, hysterically played by Flight of the Conchords’ Jemaine Clement, and then made into a disastrous low-budget film. Gentlemen Broncos is an immensely funny and quotable film from the creators of Napoleon Dynamite. A real cult in the making.

GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell make wonderful sparring partners in this glorious Technicolor adaptation of the Anita Loos Broadway musical that has been lovingly restored to the big screen by Glasgow distributor Park Circus. Monroe is adorable gold-digger Lorelei Lee and Russell is her more cynical pal Dorothy. The duo are lounge singers on a liner headed for Paris seeking fun, adventure and a wealthy sugar daddy. The men don’t stand a chance in a sassy, brassy delight where the production numbers include Two Little Girls From Little Rock and Monroe’s legendary rendition of Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend.

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Youth GFT Monday 15 February (20.15) Director Jared Hess USA 2009, 1h30m, 12A Thanks To 20th Century Fox 12A: Contains infrequent crude humour

Out of The Past GFT Saturday 20 February (16.00) Director Howard Hawks Featuring Marilyn Monroe Jane Russell Charles Coburn USA 1953, 1h31m, U Thanks To Park Circus

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THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN The latest film from Andre Techine creates a sophisticated, thought-provoking drama from a true incident in which a young woman fabricated an account of being the subject of a racist attack on a train. The story grabbed the front pages in France and seemed to reflect so much about the different cultures and classes within that country. Here Emilie Duquenne is the naive girl who lives in the leafy suburbs with her widowed mother Catherine Deneuve.

A stormy relationship with aspiring wrestler Nicolas Duvauchelle drags her into a very different world and a life she can only rationalise by creating a story in which she is the innocent victim.

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (MAN SOM HATAR KVINNOR) Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy has been one of the publishing sensations of the past decade. The keenlyawaited screen version of the bestselling first novel is a violent, brooding whodunnit that exposes the ugly truth about the corruption and misogyny at the heart of Swedish society. An aging industrialist invites journalist Mikael Blomkvist to investigate the long ago murder of his niece.

Blomkvist calls upon the services of 24 year-old wild child Lisbeth Salander, one of the most brilliant hackers and damaged individuals in recent crime fiction. A satisfying, knife edge thriller.

Glasgow on Screen (it could be you!)

Over the years, Glasgow has hosted numerous productions from award-winning British films like Andrea Arnold’s critically acclaimed Red Road, large scale international productions such as Neil Marshall’s Doomsday and the yet to be released The Last Word, starring Ewan McGregor and Eva Green as well as high profile adverts for global companies like Sony and Vodafone. The spectacular variety of locations and Glasgow’s many architectural styles has enabled the city to double for London, New York, Moscow and even the Vatican City.

European Cinema Cineworld Renfrew Street Saturday 27 February (20.30) Sunday 28 February (13.30) Director Andre Techine Featuring Emilie Dequenne Catherine Deneuve Michel Blanc France 2009, 1h41m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To Soda Pictures

Gala GFT Sunday 21 February (17.30) Monday 22 February (16.00) Director Niels Arden Oplev Featuring Michael Nyqvist Noomi Rapace Lena Endre Sweden 2009, 2h32m, subtitles, 18 Thanks To Momentum Pictures

Great Scots GFT Wednesday 24 February (16.15) 1h20m

Glasgow Film Office actively promotes the city as a film location and not only relies on the support from Glasgow City Council but also from the abundance of private location owners in the city. If you want to find out about the types locations used in film and television productions or how you can be a part of it – sign up to learn more.

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THE GOOD SON Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard are a duo of acclaimed British artists who will be appearing in person to discuss the premier of their work, The Good Son. The film is a collection of observations on the music of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, named after the landmark album. A host of famous, infamous and unknown individuals talk about the impact these musicians have had on their lives. The subjective portrait was pulled together after an exhaustive 18 months spent together. Iain and Jane will also share some other film highlights from a career that spans 14 years. The Good Son is one of a number of projects they are working on with Nick and co, including a promo for the single ‘Dig.’ BUY TICKETS ONLINE AT WWW.GLASGOWFILMFESTIVAL.ORG.UK

Music and Film GFT Monday 22 February (19.00) Directors Iain Forsyth Jane Pollard Featuring Spider Stacey (Pogues) Paul Banks (Interpol) UK 2009, 1h30m, N/C 15+

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THE GREATEST Filled with echoes of Nanni Moretti’s The Son’s Room, The Greatest is a beguiling tale of a family’s all-consuming grief handled with restraint and maturity by writer/director Shana Feste. Carey Mulligan’s Rose has barely had time to savour her relationship with dream soulmate Bennett (Aaron Johnson) when he is killed in a car crash. His death has a devastating effect on his mother (Susan Sarandon), emotionally reserved father (Pierce Brosnan) and younger brother Ryan (Johnny Simmons). Rose becomes an object of both curiosity and resentment in a beautifully photographed tale of love and loss.

GREGORY’S GIRL: 30th ANNIVERSARY SCHOOL REUNION BAFTA-winning Gregory’s Girl is probably the most beloved Scottish film ever made. Writer-director Bill Forsyth beautifully portrays the awkwardness and cock-eyed optimism of adolescence in a film that captures school life like no other. John Gordon Sinclair is the gangly teenager besotted with the new star player in the school football team (the gorgeous Dorothy) but fate has other plans in store for his romantic longings. We hope to welcome cast and crew members to this special 30th anniversary screening that is dedicated to the late Clive Parsons, one of the film’s producers.

GSA MUTUAL The mutual is a collective of fine art graduates from the Glasgow School of Art, presenting a whole day of diverse events. Anne Rees Morag starts events off with ‘Living Memory’ at 2pm, followed by ‘After the Paint Has Dried,’

by Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe at 2.45pm. The mystery movie – as voted by Central Station – screens at 3pm.

Johnny Long’s animation screens at 5pm, followed by ‘Mr Fox’, by Maximillion Swinton at 5.20. Panel including Henry Coombes, Gregor Johnstone and hosted by John Calcutt will be open to questions from 6pm to 7.40pm.

Katie Gallagher’s animation screens at 7.45pm, and Lila de Maghalaes presents the last film of the evening at 8.10.

Gala Cineworld Renfrew Street Thursday 25 February (21.00) Friday 26 February (13.30) Director Shana Feste Featuring Carey Mulligan Susan Sarandon Pierce Brosnan USA 2009, 1h39m, N/C 12+ Thanks To High Fliers

Great Scots GFT Sunday 28 February (15.30) Director Bill Forsyth Featuring John Gordon Sinclair Dee Hepburn Clare Grogan Scotland 1980, 1h27m, 12 Thanks To Davina Belling

FashionArtFilm CCA Thursday 25 February (14.00) 15+

£ All day tickets £3, available from CCA only. See www. cca-glasgow.com for details.

The GSA Mutual also present an installation in the CCA foyer during Glasgow Short Film Festival weekend.

GIULIA DOESN’T DATE AT NIGHT (GIULIA NON ESCE LA SERA) An award-winning Valeria Golino gives one of the best performances of her career in this soulful romance from writer/director Giuseppe Piccioni. Beautifully observed and impeccably played, the film draws you into the bond that grows between two people after a chance meeting. Guido is a married novelist who has just been nominated for a coveted literary prize. Seeking a distraction, he decides to take lessons from his daughter’s swimming instructor. He can’t get her out of his mind but when he invites her out he discovers that she is on day release from a prison sentence for a crime of passion.

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European Cinema Cineworld Renfrew Street Monday 22 February (21.00) Tuesday 23 February (15.30) Director Giuseppe Piccioni Featuring Valeria Golino Valerio Mastandrea Sonia Bergamasco Italy 2009, 1h45m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To IntraMovies

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HANDSOME HARRY Cult director Bette (Variety) Gordon returns to filmmaking with this powerful journey into the dark heart of male friendship.

Jamey Sheridan brings a compelling intensity to his role as Harry, a former Navy man called to the bedside of a dying friend (Steve Buscemi) preoccupied by the transgressions of the past. Harry has a hazy memory of what really happened one long ago night and sets out on an obsessive quest to reconnect with his guilty comrades and make amends to the man they wronged. Fused with an atmospheric jazz score, this plaintive ensemble drama also features John Savage, Aidan Quinn and Karen Young.

HEARTLESS Writer/director Philip Ridley makes a long overdue return to filmmaking with this gloriously ambitious mixture of psychological thriller, modern morality tale and graphic urban chiller. Jim Sturgess stars as a young amateur photographer whose life has been defined by the heart-shaped birthmark on his face. Having endured the taunts and prejudices of others on the vicious streets of London’s East End, he is offered a Faustian pact that grants him a beautiful girlfriend and a happy family. It seems too good to be true and that’s because it is. A mindblowing tale of eerie beauty and heartbreaking emotion that will haunt your dreams.

HIDDEN DIARY (MERES ET FILLES) There is an echo of Julie & Julia is this subtle, assured French drama where events from the past help to unlock the bitter emotions and resentments of the present. A pregnant Audrey returns home to France and a less than warm welcome from her mother Martine. When Audrey discovers the diary of her grandmother Louise it provides a valuable insight into her unbearable existence as a 1950s housewife, why she abandoned her husband and children and the haunting effect on Martine.

Beautifully acted by a powerhouse of French performers this is a sensitive and touching tale of a family at war with itself.

HILDE Hildegard Knef (1925–2002) was many things – Broadway star, songstress, screen diva, international icon and bestselling author. In this compelling biography Heike Makatsch gives a knockout performance as Knef, who walked out of the rubble of post-war Berlin and embarked on a career so amazing it could only be true. Infamous for appearing in the first nude scene in German cinema (in Die Sünderin, 1951) and called ‘the best singer without a voice’ by Ella Fitzgerald, Knef’s adventures in Hollywood, on Broadway and back home in her beloved Germany is the stuff of showbiz legend. A classy support cast includes Monica Bleibtreu and Michael Gwisdek.

HIPSTERS (STILYAGI) ‘Stilyagi’ was a term conceived by Soviet citizens to negatively label their ‘comrades’ who had an interest and passion in western culture immediately following the end of WWII. The war opened up the previously isolated country to an idea of what living on the other side of the iron curtain was like. However, the insight gained from Jazz LPs, movies of the era, and clothing was not the most accurate and realistic. An accomplished director and cast managed to turn the subject into a funny and ultimately romantic film that may be one if the best Russian films of the last ten years.

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State Of Independents GFT Saturday 27 February (20.15) Director Bette Gordon Featuring Jamey Sheridan Steve Buscemi Campbell Scott USA 2009, 1h34m, N/C 15+ Thanks To Worldview Entertainment

Best Of British GFT Friday 19 February (20.30) Director Philip Ridley Featuring Jim Sturgess Clemence Poesy Timothy Spall Noel Clarke UK 2009, 1h54m, 18 Thanks To Lionsgate

European Cinema Cineworld Renfrew Street Friday 19 February (16.00) Saturday 20 February (21.00) Director Julie Lopes-Curval Featuring Catherine Deneuve Marina Hands France 2009, 1h45m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to BAC Films International

European Cinema Cineworld Renfrew Street Tuesday 23 February (18.00) Wednesday 24 February (13.00) Director Kai Wessel Featuring Heike Makatsch Dan Stevens Monica Bleibtreu Germany 2009, 2h17m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To BetaFilm and the Goethe-Institut, Glasgow

Music and Film Cineworld Renfrew Street Friday 26 February (17.30) Saturday 27 February (13.15) Director Valeriy Todorovskiy Featuring Anton Shagin Oksana Akinshina Russia 2008, 1h55m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To Krasnaya Strela

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HIS & HERS Fresh from its international premiere at Sundance, the awardwinning His & Hers is a film that you will clutch to your heart like a long lost relative. Ken Wardrop’s documentary takes a simple notion and transforms it into an acutely observed and profoundly moving salute to the joys and hopes, longings and sorrows that we all experience. Filmed in the small Irish towns of Athlone and Tullamore, it collects testimonies from a whole spectrum of women who discuss their husbands and fathers, sons and lovers. The ages range from cradle to grave and the memories touch on the happiest of times and the saddest of occasions. A wonderful slice of life.

HIS GIRL FRIDAY Breathless, helter skelter adaptation of the Broadway classic The Front Page that may be the fastest comedy ever made.

Rosalind Russell gives the performance of her career as a star reporter with news print in her veins. She is about to bid her colleagues farewell and marry Ralph Bellamy when a convicted killer escapes from prison on the eve of his execution. It is an irresistible story and conniving editor Grant will do anything to ensure that Russell stays to file his front page. The fact that she is also his ex-wife couldn’t possible have anything to do with his desire to thwart her plans for wedded bliss. Could it?

HOLIDAY One of the great underrated gems from Cary Grant’s early career, Holiday is a magical adaptation of the Philip Barry play with Grant delivering one of his most witty, thoughtful and charming performances. Grant falls in love with New York heiress Doris Nolan but once he meets the parents he feels a whole world of stuffy, stifling high society formality beginning to squeeze the life out of him. Fortunately, Nolan’s unconventional sister is played by a beguiling Katharine Hepburn and so there is a kindred spirit on hand to offer an escape route from a fate that seems signed, sealed and delivered. Sheer delight.

HOW’S THE GHOST? PRESENTS: THE MOVIE TRAILER A special exhibition of shorts, fragments and filmic artifacts, The Movie Trailer takes 100-year old movies, the fair and all its dark arts as inspiration. Mitch Miller - a showman - and Chris Dooks - a frequent punter of the fairground - will be turning the Mobile Picture Salon into a cinema where fact and fabrication vie for supremacy. With a cast of elephants, Lynchian clowns and the travelling showpeople of Dalmarnock and Shettleston, this outsider-insider soiree will illuminate the unseen corners of the carnival on the edge of town. £

Cineworld Renfrew Street Friday 19 February (13.30) Sunday 21 February (18.15) Director Ken Wardrop Ireland 2009, 1h20m, N/C 9+ Thanks To Venom Films

Cary Grant GFT Sunday 21 February (13.30) Monday 22 February (11.00) Director Howard Hawks Featuring Cary Grant Rosalind Russell Ralph Bellamy USA 1939, 1h31m, U Thanks to Park Circus and BFI

Cary Grant GFT Friday 19 February (13.30) Saturday 20 February (11.00) Director George Cukor Featuring Cary Grant Katharine Hepburn Lew Ayres USA 1938, 1h33m, U Thanks To Columbia/Park Circus

Shorts Mobile Picture Salon, Garnethill Park, Rose Street Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 February (12.30 and 16.30) 1h30m, N/C 15+ Curated by Mitch Miller and Chris Dooks. Thanks to Ewan Sinclair

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I AM LOVE (IO SONO L’AMORE) Chosen by many critics as one of the best films of the year, I Am Love is a film of breathtaking beauty and formal elegance that invites comparisons with the great masters of world cinema from Visconti and Douglas Sirk to Hitchcock and Antonioni.

Set among a wealthy industrial family in Milan, it presents a calm surface that masks a growing emotional turmoil. Tilda Swinton excels as the stylish matriarch only too eager to escape the comfortable prison she has built for herself. Maintaining a formidable control of mood and pace, Luca Guadagnino has created a film that grows more enthralling with every new revelation.

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Stranger Than Fiction

Gala GFT Wednesday 24 February (20.15) Cineworld Renfrew Street Thursday 25 February (18.00) Director Luca Guadagnino Featuring Tilda Swinton Edoardo Gabbriellini Pippo Delbono Italy 2009, 2h, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To Metrodome

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I KILLED MY MOTHER (J’AI TUE MA MERE) The turbulent relationship between a mother and a son unfolds with a compelling combination of savage fury and melting affection in I Killed My Mother. This stunning, semiautobiographical tour de force from writer/director/producer and lead actor Xavier Dolan is a film with the sting of shrewdly observed truth. Petulant, floppy-haired gay adolescent Hubert (Dolan) hates every aspect of his mother’s life from the way she eats to the clothes she wears. He isn’t shy about telling her.

The film skillfully captures both sides of a complex relationship depicted with brutal honesty and wild humour.

I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE Sparkling comedy of errors with Cary Grant as you have never seen him before. Grant is a French army officer whose frosty relationship with American WAC Ann Sheridan soon melts into true love and a marriage that takes place on the very day she is ordered home. Now they have to face an army of bureaucrats who insist the only way Grant can leave Europe at such short notice is as a war bride. If those are the rules then he is just going to have to oblige no matter how intense the embarrassment. A hilarious, breezy battle of the sexes romp beautifully played by the two stars.

I’M GLAD THAT MY MOTHER IS ALIVE (Je suis heureux que ma mère soit vivante) Collaborating with his son Nathan, French director Claude Miller has created one of the most expertly crafted, heartrending dramas of his long career. Inspired by a true incident, the film tells the story of Thomas (Vincent Rottiers). Given up for adoption by his teenage mother Julie (Sophie Cattani), Thomas has grown into an angry young man. He is obsessed with the woman who abandoned him and unable to fully embrace the kind-hearted couple who have given him a loving home. Beautifully acted by Rottiers and Cattani, this is a tenderly observed exploration of the way we hurt the ones we love the most.

IN CONVERSATION WITH JAMES EARL JONES James Earl Jones is one of the legendary names from the American arts with a career in film, theatre and television that spans more than four decades. He is currently playing Big Daddy in the acclaimed London production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof but has kindly agreed to come to the Glasgow Film Festival to discuss a film career that began with Stanley Kubrick’s classic Dr Strangelove (1964). He received a Best Actor Oscar nomination for The Great White Hope (1970) and his many career highlights include Claudine (1974), Matewan (1987), Coming To America (1988), Field Of Dreams (1989), Cry The Beloved Country (1995) and, of course, the Star Wars series in which he provides the unforgettable voice of Darth Vader. James Earl Jones will discuss his career in an illustrated interview with GFF Co-Director Allan Hunter.

INTRODUCING THE RED The Digital Film and Television course at the RSAMD is the first institution in Scotland to train its graduates on the RED ONE Digital camera. Steven Soderbergh, Peter Jackson and Lars von Trier are just a few of the directors who have enthusiastically embraced this cutting edge camera. Come and see what the industry is getting so excited about.

This workshop will feature a demonstration of the camera, an insight into the production process, and a chance to see the quality of image that can be generated.

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It’s A Wonderful World GFT Tuesday 23 February (15.45) CCA Wednesday 24 February (20.30) Director Xavier Dolan Featuring Anne Dorval Xavier Dolan Suzanne Clement Canada 2009, 1h40m, N/C 18+ Thanks To Rezo Films

Cary Grant GFT Thursday 25 February (13.15) Friday 26 February (11.30) Director Howard Hawks Featuring Cary Grant Ann Sheridan William Neff USA 1949, 1h45m, PG Thanks to 20th Century Fox and NFTVA

European Cinema Cineworld Renfrew Street Sunday 21 February (16.15) The Grosvenor Tuesday 23 February (18.00) Directors Claude Miller Nathan Miller Featuring Vincent Rottiers Sophie Cattani France 2009, 1h30m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To Orly Films

Event GFT Sunday 21 February (15.30) 1h30m

Shorts CCA 5 Saturday 20 February (13.45) 1h30m. N/C 15+ A Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama event www.rsamd.ac.uk

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THE INVISIBLE FRAME + CYCLING THE FRAME In 1988 director Cynthia Beatt invited Tilda Swinton and sound artist Simon Fisher Turner to join her on a filmic adventure, cycling along the Berlin Wall. They wanted to document the places the Wall had cut through, but also tried to capture West Berlin’s introspection as well as glimpses of East Berlin on the other side of the Wall. In the summer of 2009 they returned to re-trace the now ‘invisible frame’ in a second film - this time meandering between its two sides, looking for what has changed.

Shorts CCA Friday 19 February (19.30) 1h45m, N/C 9+ Thanks to the Goethe-Institut Glasgow

We are delighted to welcome Cynthia Beatt to introduce the screening.

ISLAND OF DREAMS (YUME NO SHIMA) Tsuta Tetsuichiro was just 23 when he made this eyecatching debut feature, a loving throwback to the Nikkatsu film noir action movies of the early 1960s. Shot in black and white cinemascope, it focuses on Alan, a young man of Indian descent who works on the notorious artificial island/rubbish dump in Tokyo Bay known as Dream Island. Appalled by Japan’s casual disregard for the environment, he turns eco-terrorist targetting factories in Tokyo with his home made bombs. Detective Terayama races against the clock to prevent a major incident in a suspenseful retro thriller with a strong social conscience.

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Departures GFT Sunday 28 February (18.45) Director Tsuta Tetsuichiro Featuring Makoto Adachi Toshio Ando Kakeru Hirasawa Japan 2008, 1h23m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To PIA Film Festival

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Ivul is the third fiction feature film by Andrew Kötting. In this intimate and eccentric family story a brother and sister are caught playing taboo games by their father. In his fury, the father tells his son, Ivul, never to set foot on his land again – an order the boy follows literally, taking to the trees and living a life off the ground. Screening in collaboration with Glasgow School of Art - Friday Events.

GFT Friday 26 February (11.00)

This event is free but ticketed, tickets are available from GFT box office on the day.

Thanks To Artificial Eye and Glasgow School of Art

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JOURNEY OF THE CHILDmEN: THE MIGHTY BOOSH ON TOUR Come on a comedy tour throughout time and space, to the world of The Mighty Boosh! This revealing documentary observes the genius of the Boosh as they set sail across a nation hooked on its cult. We hope the cast of the show will join us to answer questions after the screening! Preceded by Julian Barratt’s brilliant short film Curtains (15m).

Image: © Dave Brown

THE JOURNEY A powerfully stylised account of one girl’s freedom from slavery, writer/director Richard Jobson’s short film The Journey is designed to stimulate debate and discussion about the serious issues involved with human trafficking. Executive produced and narrated by Emma Thompson, The Journey follows Svetlana as she travels from Eastern Europe to London in the hope of living a better life, only to find herself the helpless victim of a ruthless criminal underworld. Containing strong sexual and violent images, The Journey’s uncompromising narrative directly tackles the harsh realities of modern sexual slavery.

Director Andrew Kötting Featuring Capucine Aubriot Manon Aubriot France/Switzerland 2009, 1h26m, subtitles, N/C 15+

Youth GFT Sunday 12 February (20.15) Director Oliver Ralfe Featuring Julian Barratt Noel Fielding David Walliams UK 2010, 1h25m, N/C 15+

Event GFT Thursday 25 February (16.15) Director Richard Jobson Featuring Alison Playford Alan McKenna Emma Thompson UK 2009, 15m, N/C 18+ Thanks to Quiet Storm Films

The screening will be accompanied by a Q & A with the filmmakers involved, with additional contributions from other groups concerned with arresting the growing spread of human trafficking. £

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KAKERA Director Momoko Ando has been earning comparisons with Sofia Coppola for her haunting debut feature. Loosely based on the manga title Love Vibes, Kakera follows dreamy college student Haru. Coasting along in a dull relationship with her loutish boyfriend, she meets Riko, a woman who works as a prothetist. There is an immediate spark between the two women that Riko is keen to explore further. Haru is won over by Riko’s attention and passion but finds herself facing an entirely new set of problems in a relationship that grows increasingly intense and suffocating. The music is by former Smashing Pumpkins star James Iha.

KANDAHAR BREAK Filmed at considerable personal risk to the cast and crew, Kandahar Break is a nail-biting drama set in the Afghanistan of the late 1990s. Richard is a British engineer under contract to clear the landmines that pepper the country. His task is to remain an objective professional regardless of the increasingly intolerable conditions under the Taleban. His situation becomes impossible as his love for a local woman puts him at odds with the regime and places them both in grave danger. An engrossing, tautly handled personal tale from the front line of a country in permanent conflict.

KICKING IT A chronicle of the experience of seven homeless football players representing their country at the Cape Town 2006 Homeless World Cup. Najib from war torn Afghanistan; Alex from the slums of Kenya; Damien and Simon from the drug rehab clinics of Dublin; Craig from the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina; Jesus from the shelters of Madrid and Slavan from St. Petersburg. The seven heroes on the pitch have a harder game to play getting off the streets, and out of their horrific situations.

KNICKERBOCKER GLORY New Media Scotland presents a programme of animated shorts with a CGI focus. Each film reveals the effects of life’s little tremors through a variety of trails and transformations, both physical and emotional. Imagine a world made of logos overrun by the characters of various corporations, a man coming to terms with a sense of displacement after he’s dramatically hit by a meteorite, or a new perspective on society caused by the loss of a wallet and a lot of caffeine. Thankfully the day will be saved in a swoosh.

LA DANSE - THE PARIS OPERA BALLET Frederick Wiseman has long been considered one of the world’s master documentary filmmakers. Now he has turned his searching eye on the Paris Opera Ballet offering the viewer an amazing access-all-areas pass to one of the most celebrated dance companies. His immersion in the art and craft of ballet means a wide-ranging production that glides effortlessly from the sweat and discipline of the rehearsal studio to the tireless work of the marketing department. A generous benefactor can pay $25,000 for the privilege of sitting in on a rehearsal. Here, all you need is a cinema ticket. A must for dance lovers.

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Departures Cineworld Renfrew Street Wednesday 24 February (18.15) Thursday 25 February (20.30) Director Momoko Ando Featuring Ken Mitsuishi Hikara Mitsushima Tasuku Nagaoka Japan 2009, 1h47m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To Third Window Films

Best Of British GFT Saturday 27 February (18.15) Director David Whitney Featuring Shaun Dooley Dean Andrews Rasheed Naz UK 2009, 1h34m, N/C 15+ Thanks To Millhouse Films

Stranger Than Fiction GFT Monday 22 February (13.45) Directors Susan Koch Jeff Werner Featuring Colin Farrell USA 2008, 1h38m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Homeless World Cup Foundation

Shorts CCA 5 Saturday 20 February (15.30) 1h, N/C 15+ Curated by New Media Scotland www.mediascot.org

European Cinema GFT Wednesday 24 February (13.15) Thursday 25 February (11.15) Director Frederick Wiseman France/USA 2009, 2h38m, subtitles, N/C 9+ Thanks To Soda Pictures

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L’AFFAIRE FAREWELL

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Joyeux Noel director Christian Carion makes a confident move into the world of John Le Carre with this atmospheric Cold War thriller. Set in the Moscow of 1981 it deftly captures the human toll on those at the front line of the spying game. Guillaume (Tell No One) Canet stars as a French engineer recruited as a middle man between French intelligence and KGB spy Emir Kusturica who has decided to leak explosive documents that could trigger the fall of the Soviet Union. A tense, brooding tale of cat and mouse intrigue with a powerful international cast that also includes Fred Ward as President Ronald Reagan.

Cineworld Renfrew Street Wednesday 24 February (20.45) Thursday 25 February (18.15) Director Christian Carion Featuring Guillaume Canet Emir Kusturica Willem Dafoe France 2009, 1h53m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To The Works

LEAVING (PARTIR) Leaving tells one of the oldest stories in the world as a married woman leaves her husband for the arms of another man. The consequences of her infidelity are less conventional and more intriguing as the aggrieved husband retaliates with a concerted campaign of economic warfare designed to destroy their lives.

Kristin Scott Thomas’ Suzanne has been married for twenty years and is the mother of two grown children. When she falls passionately in love with hunky Spanish handyman Ivan (Sergi Lopez) she grabs the chance of a new life in a steamy melodrama with an irresistible cast.

LEBANON (LEVANONE) Samuel Maoz’s extraordinary autobiographical debut feature Lebanon won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Maoz was a twenty-year-old novice soldier in the early days of the first Lebanon war in 1982. Traumatised by his experiences, he ultimately decided to confront the past by creating a fictionalised version of harrowing true events. The film follows four young Israel soldiers in a single tank on a mission to enter a Lebanese village and clear it of possible PLO terrorists. It is a mission that goes horribly wrong resulting in death, destruction and a claustrophobic, sweatily convincing account of the living hell of modern warfare.

LIFE DURING WARTIME Todd Solondz makes a remarkable return to form with this unconventional sequel to his award-winning Happiness.

Solondz revisits the same characters a decade later with the added twist of a completely different all-star cast. Ciaran Hinds is a convicted paedophile about to be released back into society. Allison Janney is his neurotic ex-wife seeking a second chance at a ‘normal life’ with the older Michael Lerner. Shirley Henderson is Janney’s sister trapped by her memories of old lovers. All of them are haunted by the past, in a caustic exploration of family ties, secrets, lies and the endless bittersweet search for a state of happiness.

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Gala GFT Friday 19 February (18.15) Director Catherine Corsini Featuring Kristin Scott Thomas Sergi Lopez Yvan Attal France 2009, 1h30m, subtitles, N/C 18+ Thanks To Metrodome

It’s A Wonderful World GFT Thursday 25 February (20.15) Director Samuel Maoz Featuring Yoav Donat Itay Tiran Oshri Cohen Israel 2009, 1h33m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To Metrodome

Gala Cineworld Renfrew Street Tuesday 23 February (18.30) Wednesday 24 February (20.30) Director Todd Solondz Featuring Shirley Henderson Charlotte Rampling Ciaran Hinds USA 2009, 1h36m, N/C 18+ Thanks To Artificial Eye

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THE LIST SURPRISE FILM To paraphrase Forrest Gump, “The Surprise Film is like a box of chocolates-you never know what you’re gonna get.” Last year we even surprised ourselves by showing O’Horten which proved to be one of the year’s loveliest foreign-language films. Previous surprises include Inland Empire and Son Of Rambow. Maybe it really is time for a great big Hollywood blockbuster? On the other hand there are so many fine films from the Soviet silent era that deserve to be much better known. Hazelnut heaven or caramel caress? You will only find out on the night.

THE LITTLE ONE (LA PIVELLINA) Documentary duo Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel make an auspicious move into narrative filmmaking with this low-budget charmer set among an extended family of Rome-based circus folk. Patti is wandering the streets of suburban Rome in search of her runaway dog Hercules when she spots a two-year old girl sitting on a swing. The child appears to have been abandoned and so Patti decides to take her home. The little girl is adorable and is soon befriended by teenager Tairo and the whole circus.

They all know they should contact the police but cannot contemplate letting her go in a tale performed with amazing grace by a non-professional cast.

A LIZARD IN A WOMAN’S SKIN Where do dark dreams end and repulsive reality begin? Find out in the re-mastered, restored and never-before-seen fully uncut version of Italian gore-meister Lucio Fulci’s hippy, trippy 1971 giallo classic. Did rich socialite Carol Hammond (gialli goddess Florinda Bolkan) kill her nymphomaniac neighbour during a depraved orgy of LSD-induced sadistic sex? Or is her philandering husband framing her? Swinging London decadence, scandalous blackmail, neurotic visions and gory throat slashing all wrapped up in one of Ennio Morricone’s finest scores. Quirky touches of Fulci fantasy horror make this stylish psycho thriller a quintessential masterpiece of the giallo genre.

LOURDES Lourdes is a magnet for Christian pilgrims in search of a miracle.

It has the second largest number of hotels in France after Paris.

Jessica Hausner’s feature follows the longings and yearnings of one particular pilgrim. Christine is confined to a wheelchair and desperate for company and comfort. She adopts an attitude of piety so that she is made welcome on church trips. Befriending believers and sceptics alike, Christine is revealed as an incredibly poignant figure whose pilgrimage unfolds in sardonic encounters, awkward conversations and a touching central performance from Sylvie Testud.

LOVE AND RAGE (VANVITTIG FORELSKET) Cyron Bjorn Melville’s intense, utterly believable central performance won him the Best Actor prize at Montreal and is the lynchpin of this tautly handled psychological thriller.

Melville’s Daniel is a gifted, highly strung pianist in Copenhagen, ambitious to win a place at Julliard. Suffering from stage fright and struggling to come to terms with his father’s suicide, his life gets back on track when he finds a professional mentor and a loving girlfriend in Sofie. It is the calm before the storm as Daniel’s paranoia and jealousy eat away at his happiness, convincing him that neither Sofie nor his mentor can be trusted.

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Event Cineworld Renfrew Street Saturday 27 February (20.15) 18+

European Cinema Cineworld Renfrew Street Wednesday 24 February (20.45) Thursday 25 February (16.00) Directors Tizza Covi Rainer Frimmel Featuring Patrizia Gerardi Tairo Caroli Asia Crippa Italy/Austria, 1h40m, subtitles, N/C 12+ Thanks To Films Distribution

FrightFest GFT Saturday 27 February (14.00) Director Lucio Fulci Featuring Florinda Bolkan Stanley Baker Jean Sorel Italy 1971, 1h50m, N/C 18+ Thanks To Optimum Releasing

European Cinema Cineworld Renfrew Street Wednesday 24 February (18.30) Thursday 25 February (15.30) Director Jessica Hausner Featuring Sylvie Testud Lea Seydoux Bruno Todeschini Austria/France/Germany, 1h36m, subtitles, N/C 12+ Thanks To Artificial Eye

European Cinema Cineworld Renfrew Street Sunday 21 February (18.30) Monday 22 February (13.45) Director Morten Giese Featuring Cyron Bjorn Melville Sara Hjort Ditlevsen Charlotte Fich Denmark 2009, 1h39m, subtitles, N/C 18+ Thanks To Danish Film Institute

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LUCKYME PARTY (GSFF Opening Night party) LuckyMe is a genre-blurring record label and artist collective based in Glasgow who throw and play parties and art-direct in fashion and music. They produce new electronic hip hop, pop, post rock and underground dance musics. Their members include Hudson Mohawke, American Men, Rustie, Mike Slott, The Blessings, Dema & Lunice. Join them for a night of live and synthetic music and bespoke visuals. Featuring American Men (Live), The Blessings (Live), Eclair Fifi & David Barbarossa.

Shorts CCA Courtyard Café-Bar Friday 21 February (22.00 till late) 18s+ www.thisisluckyme.com

£ Half-price entry on door with The Invisible Frame ticket.

See www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk/shorts for details.

LUX: ONE-to-ONE

Shorts

LUX is an international arts agency, based in London, for the support and promotion of artists’ moving image practice and the ideas that surround it. LUX exists to provide access to, and develop audiences for, artists’ moving image work; to provide professional development support for artists working with the moving image; and to contribute to and develop discourse around practice. Mike Sperlinger and Benjamin Cook from LUX will be conducting short one-to-one sessions with local artists.

CCA Clubroom Sunday 21 February (10.30) 3h www.lux.org.uk

Spaces are limited. To sign up for one of these please contact shorts@glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk. £ All tickets £3.50

LUX: DISPERSION

Shorts

Mike Sperlinger and Benjamin Cook from LUX will lead a small group in discussion about how questions of distribution affect artists working with film and video. The discussion will take as its starting point the artist Seth Price’s short essay ‘Dispersion’.

Spaces are limited. To sign up for one of these please contact shorts@glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk. £ All tickets £3.50

MARK MILLAR

1h30m www.lux.org.uk

Great Scots

Comic books have taken on a resurgence over the past few years, perhaps in no small part due to the talent of the Coatbridge born phenomenon, Mark Millar. The writer of the American industry’s biggest selling books in a decade, his career started by dropping out of university for stints at 2000AD, Warner Brothers and most recently Marvel Entertainment where he has been in charge of X-Men, Spider-Man and all their best known characters. His own creations too have been successful movie spin-offs including Wanted (with James McAvoy and Angelina Jolie) and the forthcoming Nicolas Cage feature Kick-Ass. Next up is Wanted 2, American Jesus and War Heroes for Sony Pictures.

Mark will take questions from both fans and aspiring writers alike, and talk about writing, producing and his forthcoming directorial debut. Despite many offers to relocate, he will be travelling to this event from his home in Glasgow.

MOMMO - THE BOGEYMAN (KIZ KARDESIM) After the death of their mother, Ahmet and Ayse’s father abandons them to live with their frail grandfather. Despite being only 9 years old, Ahmet realises that he must provide his sister with love, education and shelter if they are to thrive. A touching story on devotion between siblings.

MOUTH ROOM/ AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL London based artist James Richards has curated two programmes of film and video work for Tramway by artists including Duncan Campbell. Supported by Lux, London. Mouth Room (49mins) Duncan Campbell, Michael Curran, Kim Fielding, Stuart Marshall, Anne McGuire and Stephen Sutcliffe. After School Special (64mins) John Smith, Corin Sworn and archive footage from the C-100 Film Corporation. £

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CCA Clubroom Sunday 21 February (17.00)

GFT Friday 26 February (16.00) 1h30m

Youth GFT Sunday 14 February (12.30) Director Atalay Tasdiken Turkey 2009, 1h34m, subtitles, N/C 12+

FashionArtFilm Tramway Thursday 25 February (20.00) 1h53m, N/C 15+

Tickets £4/£3 available from Tramway box office.

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NEW YORK, I LOVE YOU After the enormous success of Paris je t’aime it was only a matter of time before the whole process was repeated in another iconic city. New York, I Love You invites eleven international filmmakers to offer their vision of the Big Apple and the diverse crosssection of individuals seeking to find romance and relationships within its warm embrace. Highlights include Julie Christie as a melancholy retired opera singer, Eli Wallach and Cloris Leachman as a bickering elderly couple, Natalie Portman’s tender tale of a divorced couple and the children trapped by their bitterness and Albert Hughes’ memorable evocation of a passionate one night stand.

NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT PERSIAN CATS (KASI AZ GORBEHAYEH IRANI KHaBAR NADAREH) Filmed in seventeen days under the eyes of disapproving authorities, No One Knows About Persian Cats is an eye-opening account of the underground music scene in Tehran. Inspired by true events, it follows musicians Negar and Ashkan as they strive to assemble a rock/heavy metal band in a society where playing western music is a crime and women are forbidden to perform any kind of music.

Desperate to obtain passports and visas for the band, the duo meet music promoter Nader and the film becomes a fast-paced odyssey through the streets of Tehran blending dark humour and stark drama with the authenticity of a documentary.

NORTH BY NORTHWEST The perfect Hitchcock thriller with Cary Grant at his debonair best as an innocent advertising executive mistakenly identified as a mythical figure fabricated by the C.I.A. Soon, he stands accused of murder and is running for his life tangled up in the velvety villainy of James Mason and falling in love with ice cool blonde Eva Marie Saint. A wonderful cocktail of cliffhanging adventure and witty romance peppered with virtuoso moments from the crop duster attack on a lonely desert highway to the nailbiting finale on the treacherous slopes of Mount Rushmore. A thrilling experience in this special 50th anniversary print.

NOTORIOUS Alfred Hitchcock offers one of his most polished romantic thrillers in which Cary Grant is partnered by one of his favourite co-stars, Ingrid Bergman. Grant is an American agent hot on the trail of a dastardly international conspiracy. Party girl Bergman is the daughter of a convicted spy given a chance to redeem herself by working undercover to seduce Nazi agent Claude Rains. The more she risks her life, the more the helpless Grant falls in love with her. The result is a tense cloak and dagger mystery with an electric chemistry between the two stars and scene-stealing villainy from an Oscar-nominated Rains. Unmissable.

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Gala GFT Wednesday 24 February (15.45) Thursday 25 February (18.15) Directors Fatih Akin Shekhar Kapur Natalie Portman etc Featuring Shia LaBoeuf John Hurt Orlando Bloom USA 2009, 1h44m, N/C 15+ Thanks To The Works

Music and Film GFT Saturday 27 February (22.45) Director Bahman Ghobadi Featuring Hamed Behdad Ashkan Koohzad Negar Shaghagi Iran, 1h46m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To Network Releasing/ Martin Myers

Cary Grant GFT Monday 22 February (13.00) Tuesday 23 February (17.45) Director Alfred Hitchcock Featuring Cary Grant Eva Marie Saint James Mason USA 1959, 2h16m, PG Thanks to BFI

Cary Grant GFT Wednesday 24 February (13.30) Thursday 25 February (11.00) Director Alfred Hitchcock Featuring Cary Grant Ingrid Bergman Claude Rains USA 1946, 1h40m, U Thanks To BFI

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OLD PARTNER (WONANGSORI) Raymond Depardon’s Modern Life was one of the documentary highlights of the 2009 Glasgow Film Festival. Old Partner is a similarly lyrical, touching portrait of a disappearing way of rural life that has become the biggest independent box-office hit in the history of Korean cinema. Octogenarian farmer Choi and his wife have been together for forty years but there has always been a third partner in their marriage - their loyal, hard-working ox. All of them are approaching the end of their days and Old Partner beautifully captures the loving bond between two soulmates and the farmer’s wife.

ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS Terrific adventure yarn with Cary Grant as the hardbitten head of an air freight company dispatching pilots on treacherous missions through the Andes mountains.

Jean Arthur is the sexy, smart-talking Brooklyn chorus girl intent on becoming one of the boys as she sets her sights on melting Grant’s cold heart.

Oscar-nominated visual effects add an extra edge to a compelling character study of flawed individuals enduring unbearable pressure from the hazards of their profession and the claustrophobic setting of their tiny quarters in the mist enshrouded mountains. A quintessential Howard Hawks tale of courage under fire.

OPTIMO (ESPACIO) GSFF CLOSING PARTY No strangers to the oeuvre of Cinema and its controversies, Optimo (espacio) are thrilled to work in association with GSFF to host the closing event for the 2010 festival. Optimo will create both musical and visual entertainments – programmed inside and outside of the subclub - to celebrate the conclusion of this year’s exceptional programme.

Tickets only available from Subclub. Show GSFF ticket for reduced rate on door.

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PACHAMAMA Inhabiting the desolate, but eerily beautiful salt plains of Bolivia, this tells the story of a dying tradition through a father and son. Their respect for ‘Pachamama’ (translation – Mother Earth) is strong, but gradually western influences are changing the small towns the father and son pass through, trading salt for other goods. Beautiful photography detail an area and a way of life few westerners witness for themselves.

PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN One of the most beautiful romantic tales in the history of cinema, Pandora And The Flying Dutchman is a haunting story of love, devotion and self-sacrifice.

Played by a gorgeous Ava Gardner, Pandora Reynolds is the kind of woman who treats a string of admirers with thinly disguised contempt. Then she meets the mysterious Hendrick (James Mason), a man condemned to roam the seas throughout eternity. Every seven years he is allowed to live as a mortal. If he can win the love of a girl willing to die for him his ordeal will be ended. Shot in ravishing Technicolor by Jack Cardiff, this is a classic that deserves to be as feted and loved as the work of Powell & Pressburger.

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Stranger Than Fiction GFT Friday 26 February (13.45) Director Chung-Ryoul Lee Featuring Choi Won-Kyun Lee Sam-soon South Korea 2009, 1h18m, subtitles, N/C 9+ Thanks To Indiestory

Cary Grant GFT Saturday 20 February (13.30) Sunday 21 February (11.00) Director Howard Hawks Featuring Cary Grant Jean Arthur Rita Hayworth USA 1939, 2h1m, PG Thanks to BFI

Shorts Subclub, 22 Jamaica Street Sunday 21 February (23.00 to 03.00) Over 18s only www.optimo.co.uk www.subclub.co.uk

It’s A Wonderful World GFT Friday 19 February (15.30) Monday 22 February (11.30) Director Toshifumi Matsushita Featuring Christian Huaygua Luis Mamani Bolivia/Japan/USA 2008, 1h42m, N/C 12+

Out Of The Past GFT Thursday 25 February (15.30) Director Albert Lewin Featuring James Mason Ava Gardner Nigel Patrick UK 1950, 2h6m, PG Thanks To Park Circus

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PASSING PLACEs with Maireared Green Commissioned for New Voices at the Celtic Connections festival 2009, Mairearad Green’s creative musical is perfectly synched with images of Wester Ross. The talented accordion player’s home town of Achiltibuie features heavily, and her musical prowess has won acclaim from further afield. Passing Places is not just a stop on the road, it is a journey in its own right. £

Great Scots CCA Saturday 27 February (20.00) UK 2009, N/C 9+ Thanks to Highlands & Islands Enterprise and Mairearad Green

Tickets £8. Tickets only available from CCA.

PERE UBU – LONG LIVE PERE UBU! THE SPECTACLE After Pere Ubu’s Legendary Live Score to a 3D version of They Came From Outer Space at the Arches a few years back, David Thomas and his band are welcomed back to Glasgow. “Long Live Père Ubu!” is inspired by the proto-Absurdist stage play that gave the band its name – Alfred Jarry’s “Ubu Roi” (King Ubu). This vicious and satiric re-telling of Shakespeare’s Macbeth lambastes do-gooder monsters and the survival of the Unfit.

Pere Ubu has devised an extraordinary concert event that involves connective dialogue, electronic ambience, choreography, and animations by legendary filmmakers The Brothers Quay. Singer David Thomas stalks centre-stage, with other band members playing his minions, in an avant-garde radio play format. £

Music and Film Classic Grand Saturday 20 February (20.00) 3h, 14+

Ticket £14 advance.

PLACE LUMIERE Dress code for this evening, featuring a variety of film footage screened at the atmospheric site of the city’s old abbatoir, is wellies, hats and gloves! The backdrop is courtesy of the city lights, as archive footage is interspersed with short film, documentary – and a chance to reflect upon what it means to live in an urban sprawl. The show is in conjunction with PLACE projects and market gallery.

FashionArtFilm Old abbatoir (Opp. Bellgrove Station) Saturday 27 February, (17.00) 2h30m, N/C 15+ Thanks To Scottish Arts Council, Glasgow City Council, Reidvalle Molendinar and City Property LLP.

See www.marketgallery.org.uk for more information.

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Youth

GYFF launches with a family preview of the latest animated masterpiece from the acclaimed director of Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle.

GFT Sunday 7 February (13.00)

Tickets costs £7 for adults and £6 for children.

Special family passes available from box office at £15 (1 adult, 2 children) or £20 (2 adults, 2 children)

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POTENTIAL A promising teenage ska band has big plans to conquer the Canadian live circuit but they struggle to remain friends while trying to develop their sound. An amusing and eye-opening documentary for any aspiring basement rock stars. Featuring live performances from local bands!

Director Hayao Miyazaki Thanks To Optimum Releasing

Youth GFT Saturday 13 February (18.15) Director Gord More Canada 2010, 47m (total running time of event is 1h20m), N/C 15+ Thanks To The Arches and Lack of Gravity Pictures

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PUNISHMENT PARK Tying in with Duncan Campbell’s exploration of historical narrative, Punishment Park is typical of Peter Watkins’ radical approach to filmmaking, mixing improvisational, dramatic and documentary techniques to incredible and innovative effect. Pulled after only 4 days screening in New York, it anticipates the conventions of reality TV, showing ‘ordinary people’ reacting to a highly charged situation in ways that are always credible and often disturbing.

FashionArtFilm Tramway Friday 26 February (19.00) Director Peter Watkins USA 1971, 1h28m, 15 Thanks To Eureka!

£ Tickets £4/£3 available from Tramway box office

RABBIT WITHOUT EARS 2 (ZWEIOHRKUEKEN) Fizzy romantic comedy Rabbit Without Ears was one of the audience favourites of the 2009 Glasgow Film Festival. Since then, actor/director Til Schweiger has raised his international profile even further as one of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. Now he returns as cocky, muckraking Berlin reporter Ludo for a second round in the battle of the sexes. He’s living with Anna and striving to become a worthy life partner but his roving eye, an innocent chat with an ex and a series of misunderstandings threatens to undermine everything. That’s before Anna’s hunky friend Ralph arrives on the scene.

RADIO MAGNETIC PRESENT: IMAGES FROM THE INDEPENDENT MUSIC SCENE IN GLASGOW A chronological audio-visual tour of Glasgow’s world-revered independent music heritage of the last 30 years, presented through the creative vision of music video producers close to the featured acts. From post-punk to aqua-crunk, we begin with the 1980s Postcard years and work through to the groundbreaking production of Hudson Mohawke and video producer Tom Konx-on-Pax via c86, Chemikal Underground, Soma Recordings, Belle and Sebastian, Franz Ferdinand, Mogwai and much much more.

RADIO MAGNETIC PARTY The UK’s longest running internet radio station Radio Magnetic hosts, creates and produces a wide variety of on-demand specialist music shows, features and podcasts.

RM celebrates the very best of Glasgow’s vibrant music scene, promoting it to music fans worldwide. Radio Magnetic is the definitive and most comprehensive online destination for music in Scotland. To celebrate the Radio Magnetic GSFF programme Images from the Independent Music Scene in Glasgow, RM will host the GSFF Saturday party with music from celebrated Glasgow DJs Divine, Wilkes and more.

European Cinema Cineworld Renfrew Street Saturday 27 February (17.45) Sunday 28 February (16.00) Director Til Schweiger Featuring Til Schweiger Nora Tschirner Matthias Schweighoefer Germany 2009, 2h2m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To Bavaria Film International

Shorts CCA Saturday 20 February (21.00) 1h30m, N/C 15+ Curated by Radio Magnetic www.radiomagnetic.com

Shorts CCA Courtyard Saturday 20 February (22.30 till late) Over 18s Over 18s www.radiomagnetic.com

£ Half-price entry on door with Court 13 or Radio Magnetic screening ticket. See www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk/shorts for details.

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RAN Legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa was born in March 1910. We celebrate the centenary of his birth with a screening of one of his most enduring achievements. The Oscar-winning Ran offers a majestic reinterpretation of King Lear as a warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons plunging the country into chaos as the two elder sons battle for supremacy.

Peerless storytelling that reveals Kurosawa’s dazzling command of the film medium from the quality of the performances to the beauty of the images and epic battle scenes that haunt the memory. A true classic of international cinema.

[REC] 2 FrightFest welcomed co-directors Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza to Glasgow for the UK premiere of their smash hit [REC].

So it’s only fitting we premiere [REC] 2, their real-time sequel taking off the moment its predecessor ends. With TV presenter Manuela Velasco being dragged away into the night, darkness causes the audience’s adrenalin to keep on pumping while uncanny satanic thrills ramp up the shockudrama even more.

This is another non-stop ride of frenetic camerawork, jolting scares and pulse-pounding suspense from the talented Spanish duo. Be amazed and surprised by where this horrific virus borne through blood and saliva goes next.

REYKJAVIK WHALE WATCHING MASSACRE You don’t have to go to Texas for a brutal massacre. Try cold Icelandic waters instead. That’s where a group of tourists embark on a sightseeing trip aboard a whaling vessel with none other than Captain Gunnar (Leatherface) Hansen himself.

When the ship breaks down, the terror starts as the day-trippers come under attack from a crew of deranged Fishbillies hellbent on mayhem and slaughter. Let the bloody sea battle begin in director Julius Kemp’s horror comedy hybrid with a strong surreal flavour, the first exploitation film ever made by the Icelandic Film Industry

ROOM AND A HALF A labour of love for director Andrey Khrzhanovsky, Room And A Half combines drama, documentary footage, archive material and animation to create a richly imaginative, semi-fictionalised biography of Nobel prize-winning Russian poet Josef Brodsky.

Considered one of the greatest poets of the past century, Brodsky was exiled to America in 1972 and never returned. The film imagines a fictional homeward journey in which Brodsky reflects on his life from a happy childhood to a troubled exile.

Inspired by Brodsky’s autobiographical essays this Festival favourite is witty, charming and brimming with pathos.

SAVAGE Drawing comparisons to Shane Meadows’ masterful Dead Man’s Shoes, this is a classic revenge thriller, set in Dublin.

Healy plays photographer Paul Graynor, the victim of a horrific assault that he struggles to overcome, until choosing a path of vengeance. Most of the film is shot at night, a dark but intriguing portrayal of a European city asleep but in a nightmare for the troubled lead. Savage is a very apt title for a very uncomfortable and chilling conclusion.

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Departures Cineworld Renfrew Street Friday 26 February (18.00) Saturday 27 February (12.30) Director Akira Kurosawa Featuring Tatsuya Nakadai Akira Terao Mieko Harada Japan 1985, 2h33m, 15 Thanks To Optimum Releasing

FrightFest GFT Saturday 27 February (19.00) Directors Jaume Balaguero Paco Plaza Featuring Manuela Velasco Spain 2009, 1h20m, subtitles, N/C 18+ Thanks To E1

FrightFest GFT Saturday 27 February (23.30) Director Julius Kemp Featuring Aymen Hamdouchi Gunnar Hansen Miranda Hennessy Terence Anderson.

Iceland 2009, 1h30m, N/C 18+ Thanks To E1

It’s A Wonderful World Cineworld Renfrew Street Sunday 21 February (20.15) Monday 22 February (13.30) Director Andrey Khrzhanovskiy Featuring Alisa Freindlich Sergei Yursky Russia 2008, 2h10m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To Yume Pictures

European GFT Sunday 21 February (13.15) Director Brendan Muldowney Featuring Darren Healy Nora Jane Noone Ireland 2009, 1h25m, N/C 18+ Thanks To High Fliers

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SCHEHERAZADE, TELL ME A STORY (EHKY YA SCHAHRAZAD) Yousry Nasrallah has been called a master of compelling narratives infused with telling social critique. Scheherazade is his most polished and provocative work offering a view of Egypt rarely seen in the western media. Mona Zakki stars as an outspoken talk-show host who sacrifices her career to the political ambitions of her husband. Re-assigned to cover softer “women’s stories”, she discovers a world of tales about the ordinary lives and struggles of Egyptian women that are just as incendiary, especially when she uncovers the tragic story of three sisters and the labourer who works for them.

SCOTTISH PRODUCTION ARCHIVE: PETER MULLAN Scotland has produced outstanding directors, writers and actors in recent times but only one person has truly mastered all of these functions while maintaining an unparalleled and intense clarity of artistic vision. Peter Mullan’s performances have illuminated celebrated films like Trainspotting, My Name is Joe and Young Adam and as a writer/director he has excelled with Orphans and The Magdalene Sisters. Now in post-production on Neds, Peter is the very first subject of a new initiative of the University of the West of Scotland. The UWS SPA is designed to capture and collate accounts of the recent history of film and TV in Scotland, and will also establish a research and information database to complement and support Scotland’s production activity.

THE SCOUTING BOOK FOR BOYS Teenager David helps his runaway friend Emily disappear.

But, as the police close in, their relationship becomes more complicated. We hope that actor Thomas Turgoose (This is England, Sommerstown) and director Tom Harper will join us for this Scottish premiere.

SCRIPTWRITING masterclass WITH BEN SCHIFFER Ben will lead a group of budding scriptwriters through techniques used when writing for film and television. Ben is currently contracted to the award-winning E4 series Skins and has written a feature-length screenplay for Slumdog Millionaire producer Christian Colson.

It’s A Wonderful World Cineworld Renfrew Street Saturday 27 February (17.45) Sunday 28 February (15.45) Director Yousry Nasrallah Featuring Mona Zakki Mahmoud Hemeda Egypt, 2h14m, subtitles, N/C 18+ Thanks To Pyramide International

Great Scots GFT Friday 26 February (18.30) 1h30m Presented in partnership with University of the West of Scotland Scottish Production Archive (UWS SPA)

Youth GFT Thursday 11 February (18.00) Director Tom Harper UK 2009, 1h33m, 15 Thanks To Pathé and Warner Brothers.

Youth GFT Education Room Friday 12 February (10.00- 15.00) Suitable for age 16 - 25 Thanks To Cinemagic

£ Cost of workshop is £10 (£7). If you would like to apply to take part please email shauna@cinemagic.org.uk or call Cinemagic 028 90 311900.

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SHE, A CHINESE (ZHONGGUO GUNIANG) The latest feature from director Xiaolu Guo (How Is Your Fish Today?), follows a sullen, stubborn Chinese girl on a journey from her small village to London. Li Mei endures a miserable life in rural China. The first stage on her journey is a bus to Chongqing where she finds work in a succession of dead end jobs and meets a hitman. The calendar in his room has a picture of Big Ben which becomes her inspiration for the dream of a fresh start in a faraway land that doesn’t always live up to her expectations. A lowbudget drama delicately capturing the fragments of a broken life.

SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILM CASE STUDY: THE INNER SHAPE BY JOHANNA WAGNER The Inner Shape was Johanna Wagner’s graduation film from the MA Directing course at Edinburgh Skillset Screen and Media Screen Academy. The film went on to win the Best Short Film award at BAFTA Scotland New Talent Awards in 2008. In conversation with Head of Film & TV at Edinburgh College of Art, Emma Davie, Johanna describes the process of making the film from idea to distribution and the support that she received from the Screen Academy along the way.

THE SILENT ARMY An unsentimental drama on the plight of African child soldiers, The Silent Army combines the gritty authenticity of a documentary with the pace and adrenaline rush of a thriller. Eduard owns a restaurant in an unnamed African city. When his wife is killed in a car accident, Eduard is left with the responsibility of raising their nine year-old son Thomas. When Thomas’s best friend Abu is abducted during an attack by rebel soldiers, Eduard goes in search of the boy on a journey that opens his eyes to the injustice and violence that has been all around him. A sensitive, hard-hitting tale fuelled by righteous anger.

SITA SINGS THE BLUES A colourful and musical interpretation of the Ramayana legend set to the soulful jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw. Beautiful Sita falls in love with the god Rama but is kidnapped by a jealous warrior.

Highly inventive in its visual style, featuring a cast of flying monkeys, goddesses and evil monsters.

SONGS FOR AN AIRLESS ROOM (2009 2010) Experience a live music event conceived by Martin Parker especially for cinema performances. Surround sound, live visuals – along with the vocals of Phil Minton and percussion of Joby Burgess – immerse the audience in Martin’s take on the obsessive isolation brought by digital technologies. Songs for an airless room evolved from the experience of the Japanese loner, known as ‘Hikikomori’. The live event is preceded by a 22minute documentary, Hikikomori, by Francesco Jodice and Kal Karman.

It’s A Wonderful Life Cineworld Renfrew Street Friday 19 February (20.45) Saturday 20 February (16.15) Director Xiaolu Guo Featuring Lu Huang Wei Yi Bo UK/France/Germany, 1h38m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To Optimum Releasing

Shorts CCA Saturday 20 February (16.45) 1h30m, N/C 15+ An Edinburgh Skillset Screen and Media Academy event www.essama.org www.screenacademyscotland. ac.uk

It’s A Wonderful World GFT Sunday 28 February (13.15) Director Jean va de Velde Featuring Marco Borsato Andrew Kintu Abby Mukiibi Nkaaga Netherlands 2008, 1h32m, subtitles, N/C 18+ Thanks To High Fliers

Youth GFT Monday 15 February (12.00) USA 2008, 1h22m, N/C 10+ Thanks To Nina Paley

Music and Film GFT Friday 19 February (18.45) Director/Composer Martin Parker Starring Phil Minton, Joby Burgess 1h10m, N/C 15+ Thanks To Scottish Arts Council and University of Edinburgh

Note: This performance contains flickering images.

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SOUNDLESS WIND CHIME As dreamy and seductive as a Wong Kar-Wai romance, Soundless Wind Chime offers a lyrical autobiographical tale of love, loss and bittersweet memories from writer/ director Kit Hung. Ricky has just arrived in Hong Kong from Beijing when he meets and falls in love with Swiss juggler Pascal. Their relationship is passionate, intense and tragically shortlived. Ricky subsequently heads to Switzerland is search of solace and closure. Instead, he meets Ueli who bears a striking resemblance to Pascal.

Filmed on beautiful international locations, Soundless Wind Chime is a beguiling metaphysical musing on the power of love.

SPACE & LIGHT REVISITED St Peter’s Seminary at Cardross is Scotland’s neglected modernist masterpiece, a triumphant creation of ‘sacred space’ in 1966, but closed and abandoned only 14 years later. In 1972 filmmaker Murray Grigor celebrated the building in a near-wordless 20-minute film, with music by Frank Spedding. In February 2009 he returned to the derelict, graffiti-ridden site to make an exact shot-for-shot remake. We present the new film projected alongside the restored original in a remarkable time-spanning cinema diptych, with a new recording of the score by students of RSAMD.

It’s A Wonderful World Cineworld Renfrew Street Thursday 25 February (20.45) Friday 26 February (14.00) Director Kit Hung Featuring Yulai Lu Bernhard Bulling Wong Siu Ying Hong Kong 2009, 1h50m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To Peccadillo

Shorts CCA Sunday 21 February (19.30) 20m, N/C 9+

We are delighted to welcome Murray Grigor to introduce this screening. £ All tickets £3.50 F Two further non-ticketed screenings will take place at 20.15 and 20.45.

SPLICE From Vincenzo Natali, director of Cube and Cypher, and visionary producer Guillermo del Toro, comes a new kind of monster movie. Rebellious scientists Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named ‘Dren’ the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful chimera, who forges a bond with both of her creators. But then that bond turns deadly in a Frankenstein fable for the modern era showcasing stunning special effects and startling fantasy imagery.

FrightFest GFT Saturday 27 February (21.00) Director Vincenzo Natali Featuring Adrien Brody Sarah Polley Canada/France, USA 2009, 1h50m, N/C 18+ Thanks To Optimum Releasing

Special guest director Vincenzo Natali will introduce the UK premiere of Splice.

STAG NIGHT Mind the doors! Three New Yorkers out on a stag night hit on two hotties on the subway. Getting peppersprayed for their actions, in the ensuing confusion, they all accidentally get off at the wrong station – an abandoned stop that’s been closed since the 1970s.

Stranded, they make their way down the subway tunnel to find an exit – and witness some homeless men brutally killing a guard. Realising they are sharing the dank warren with a cannibal clan of primitive subway dwellers, their frantic escape from the deranged murderers is just the beginning of a very bloody and terrifying night.

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FrightFest GFT Friday 26 February (23.40) Director Peter A. Dowling Featuring Breckin Meyer Vinessa Shaw USA 2009, 1h24m, N/C 18+ Thanks To Kaleidoscope

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Youth

Stella lives above her parents’ bar, has no taste in clothes, can’t talk to boys and gets into fights in her posh Paris school. By turns both touching and wryly amusing this is a compassionate, beautifully paced story of growing up in 1970s France and feeling different from the rest.

GFT Saturday 13 February (20.15) Director Sylvie Verheyde France 2008, 1h43m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To Films Distribution SAS

STOLEN Filmmakers Ayala and Fallshaw go to refugee camps in the Algerian desert to make a film about a family reunion. Everything changes when the Saharawis start to talk about a different subject...their freedom. The film then becomes more of a political thriller, lifting the lid on modern day slavery with the help of very brave people unafraid to speak out against their oppression.

STORM (STURM) The director of supernatural chiller Requiem, Hans-Christian Schmid turns his attention to the war crimes committed in Bosnia for this absorbing courtroom drama. Kerry Fox plays a prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribune in the Hague.

Her latest case involves prosecuting a general accused of atrocities in a small town near Sarajevo. When the case crumbles, Fox heads to Bosnia in search of fresh evidence, uncovering allegations of a vicious rape and murder. Her only hope of a successful prosecution is finding a witness willing to testify. Anamaria Marinca from 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days co-stars.

THE STORY ROOM: DISCOVERING CHARACTER Led by screenwriter, producer and commissioner Paul Welsh, The Story Room is a process-based workshop for story and script development in film. The Story Room has now worked with over 200 filmmakers with support from partners including EM Media, Film Four / Cinema Extreme, North West Vision, Screen South, DigiCult and LFF’s Think Shoot Distribute. For GSFF, Paul will present a half-day workshop on character, combining discussion, short screenings and practical exercises.

The workshop is targeted at emerging screenwriters and writer/ directors with at least one short film credit to date.

Stranger Than Fiction GFT Saturday 27 February (16.15) Directors Violeta Ayala Daniel Fallshaw Australia 2009, 1h15m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To United Notions Film

European Cinema GFT Tuesday 23 February (20.45) Director Hans-Christian Schmid Featuring Kerry Fox Anamaria Marinca Stephen Dillane Germany 2009, 1h50m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To Soda Pictures

Shorts Novotel, Pitt Street Saturday 20 February (10:00) 4h Thanks To Paul Welsh

£ Tickets are £10. Spaces are limited. To sign up for one of these please contact shorts@glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk.

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STRIGOI There is no more fashionable genre than the vampire film but Faye Jackson’s beautiful, blackly humorous debut feature Strigoi brings something fresh to the table. Steeped in the folklore traditions of Romania, it follows prodigal son Vlad as he returns to his home village. The locals seem wary of his presence and suddenly more prosperous.

Once feared officials are only seen in the dark of night. The dead are restless in their graves and Vlad’s family have their own secrets to hide in a rich red stew of deadpan comedy, blood ties, class conflict and the realities of life before and after Ceausescu.

SUMMERHOOD A 10-year-old nicknamed Foetus falls head over heels for the camp’s local preteen beauty during his stay at a chaotic summer camp. An incredibly funny and romantic comedy, featuring a droll narration by John Cusack!

TAKE 2: THE CROCODILES Confined to his wheelchair, teenager Kai’s mum won’t leave him alone and thinks he spends too much time online. But when Kai meets the coolest gang in town, The Crocodiles, he leaves his PC behind and begins an amazing crime-busting adventure!

Glasgow Young Scot or Kidz Card holders and an accompanying adult get in Free! All other tickets at are £3.50. Each child’s ticket admits one adult free of charge. For full terms and conditions see Take 2 leaflet. £

TAKE 2: SURPRISE MOVIE

Best Of British Cineworld Renfrew Street Monday 22 February (20.15) Tuesday 23 February (13.30) Director Faye Jackson UK 2009, 1h45m, subtitles, N/C 18+ Thanks To St Moritz Productions

Youth GFT Sunday 14 February (17.00) Director Jacob Medjuck USA 2008, 1h36m, N/C 15+ Thanks To Jacob Medjuck

Youth GFT & Cineworld Parkhead Saturday 13 February (11.30) Director Christian Ditter Germany 2009, 1h32m, subtitles, N/C 10+ Thanks To the Goethe-Institut, Glasgow

Youth

A surprise treat for all the family! Will it be an action adventure, romantic reel (yuck!), spook show or an all-singing, all-dancing animated feast? Take a chance on us!The Take 2 surprise movie replaces the previously advertised screening of The Spy Next Door which due to reasons beyond our control, has been cancelled.

GFT & Cineworld Parkhead Saturday 27 February (11.30) Director TBC Suitable for 8+ (tbc)

Glasgow Young Scot or Kidz Card holders and an accompanying adult get in Free!

All other tickets at are £3.50. Each child’s ticket admits one adult free of charge. For full terms and conditions see Take 2 leaflet. £

TAKE 2: TURTLE - THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY Follow a cute loggerhead turtle as she follows in the path of her ancestors on one of the most extraordinary journeys in the natural world. Born on a beach in Florida, she rides all the way to the frozen North Pole before swimming to Africa and finally back home to the beach where she was born!

Youth GFT & Cineworld Parkhead Saturday 20 February (11.30) Director Nick Stringer UK & Austria 2009, 1h21m, N/C 8+ Thanks To Cinemagic

£ Glasgow Young Scot or Kidz Card holders and an accompanying adult get in FREE! All other tickets at are £3.50. Each child’s ticket admits one adult free of charge. For full terms and conditions see Take 2 leaflet.

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TERRIBLY HAPPY (FRYGTELIG LYKKELIG) Filled with clever twists and caustic humour, Terribly Happy is a cracking thriller that has been earning comparisons with the best of the Coen brothers. Cop Jakob Cedergren is emerging from the other side of a mental breakdown when he is posted to the small border town of Skarrild. The locals hardly welcome him or any concepts of traditional justice. Lene Maria Christensen is the distressed damsel who begs his help to escape from the clutches of an abusive husband, played by the menacing Kim Bodnia. Events unfold but not quite in the manner you might expect in this smart, taught adaptation of the Erling Jepsen novel.

THAT EVENING SUN Hal Holbrook’s Oscar-nominated performance was one of the highlights of Into The Wild. The veteran actor gives another glorious careercapping performance here as Abner, an irascible Tennessee farmer determined to spend his final days on the family farm. Escaping from a nursing facility, he discovers that his son has rented the property to a thirtysomething ne’er-do-well.

Fearing for the future, he moves into a shack on the farm and a battle of wills slowly escalates into a desperate feud. A beautifully acted human drama from the American heartland that has become an audience favourite at international festivals.

‘THIS IS NOT A BOAT’: THE IMPROBABLE STORY OF THE COURT 13 COLLECTIVE A menace to fire marshals and coast guards from New York to New Orleans, Court 13 is a rule-breaking lo-fi collective producing some of the most visionary images anywhere in the world today. Join Ray Tintori (soon to be directing his Spike Jonze-produced feature debut) as he introduces the collective’s films and music promos, including the long overdue UK premiere of the colossal Glory At Sea, a modern myth filmed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and his recent controversial promo for MGMT’s ‘Kids’.

European Cinema Cineworld Renfrew Street Monday 26 February (21.00) Tuesday 27 February (15.45) Director Henrik Ruben Genz Featuring Jakob Cedergren Lene Maria Christensen Kim Bodnia Denmark 2008, 1h40m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To Danish Film Institute

State Of Independents Cineworld Renfrew Street Monday 22 February (18.15) Tuesday 23 February (21.00) Director Scott Teems Featuring Hal Holbrook Ray McKinnon Walter Goggins USA 2009, 1h49m, N/C 15+ Thanks To Dogwood Entertainment

Shorts CCA Saturday 20 February (19.00) 1h45m, N/C 15+

We are delighted to welcome director Ray Tintori to introduce the screening

THOMAS TRUAX: SONGS FROM THE FILMS OF DAVID LYNCH Thomas Truax has recorded a covers album made up of songs featured in David Lynch’s films and, somewhat paradoxically, made them somehow more Lynchian. Beyond merely being a stylistic exercise, it’s a celebration and renewal of some great songs. When he performs, it is a spectacle - the originality and seeming impossibility of what he does is much of the appeal.

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TO CATCH A THIEF Persuaded back to the screen after his premature retirement in 1953, Cary Grant displays all his old magic in this stylish Hitchcock cocktail of mystery and romance. Oscar-winning cinematography from Robert Burks makes the Cote d’Azur sparkle with the inviting warmth of a shimmering blue ocean.

Grant is a retired jewel thief alarmed that a devious crook appears to be copying his style. Grace Kelly joins in the fun to discover whether he’s telling the truth and if he still has what it takes to impress. Witty banter, glamorous locations and Oscarnominated fashions from the legendary Edith Head make this lightweight romp the epitome of chic escapism

the TOPP TWINS: UNTOUCHABLE GIRLS Where have these girls been all our lives? The Topp Twins is a joyous crowdpleaser celebrating the life and times of Kiwi icons Lynda and Jools Topp. The lesbian twin sisters have become national treasures with an infectious act of yodelling, country and western music and boisterous comic asides. Leanne Pooley’s documentary brings together a fascinating collection of archive material, concert footage and interviews with Billy Bragg and former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark. The more Pooley reveals, the more astonishing the girls’ lives become as entertainers and activists for gay equality, Maori rights, nuclear disarmament and anti-apartheid. To watch this film is to fall in love with it.

TORMOD: AN AUDIENCE WITH ROBBIE FRASER

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Robbie Fraser is one of Gaelic’s most prolific and innovative young directors with his most recent works premiering on BBC Alba to critical acclaim. Robbie spent much of the last nine months living and breathing Norman MacLean to produce this brilliant retrospective on this amazing man’s life: Tormod. Robbie will be talking about his experience working with a tortured genius and some of his other works.

Please join us for a drink and an opportunity to network after this event. All ticket holders for this event will receive a discounted entry Passing Places (see p55).

TRUCKER Michelle Monaghan gives the performance of her career in this enormously likable melodrama. Monaghan’s Diane is a harddrinking, independent truck driver who lives life according to her own set of rules. When her ex-husband reveals that he is terminally ill, she must finally assume responsibility for the son she abandoned years earlier. You may guess the outcome but what makes it so fresh and moving is the strength of the performances with Jimmy Bennett capturing the resentment and wariness of the boy and Monaghan refusing to sugar-coat her portrait of a selfish woman forced to re-think her priorities.

UNIVERSE VODCAST Direct, shoot, and edit your very own scientific documentary using cutting edge technology in this fantastic Video Podcasting Workshop led by experts from the Glasgow Science Centre.

Cary Grant GFT Friday 26 February (13.30) Saturday 27 February (11.00) Director Alfred Hitchcock Featuring Cary Grant Grace Kelly Jessie Royce Landis USA 1955, 1h46m, PG

Music & Film The Grosvenor Thursday 25 February (18.00) Cineworld Renfrew Street Friday 26 February (15.30) Saturday 27 February (20.45) Director Leanne Pooley Featuring Jools Topp Linda Topp Helen Clark New Zealand 2009, 1h24m, N/C 12+ Thanks To Diva Films

Great Scots CCA Saturday 27 February (17.00) Director Robbie Fraser Starring Norman MacLean 2h, N/C 18+ Thanks To Highlands & Islands Enterprise, MG Alba and Pure Magic Films.

Gala GFT Monday 22 February (15.30) Tuesday 23 February (11.00) Director James Mottern Featuring Michelle Monaghan Jimmy Bennett Nathan Fillion USA 2008, 1h30m, N/C 15+ Thanks To High Fliers

Youth GFT Education Room Sunday 14 February (12.30) Monday 15 February (12.30) Suitable for ages 12 - 15

Entry is free but places are limited. To reserve in advance contact Paul on info@gft.org.uk or call 0141 352 8604. Workshop lasts approximately 2 hours.

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UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US This is a biopic of black metal music from Norway, directed by two Americans who were outsiders to the scene before becoming involved in arson, suicide and murder. We did say it was black. As the genre begins to garner more attention from other musicians, this documentary attempts to shed light on an admittedly dark subject. One lead singer of a metal group, Per Yngve Ohlin blew his brains out, leaving a suicide note that said ‘Sorry for the mess.’

Thankfully, there are other musicians featured with craniums intact.

VACATION (KYUKA) Capital punishment remains a highly contentious issue in Japanese society. Without recourse to tear-jerking melodrama, Hajime Kadoi creates a compassionate, moving drama around the issues of law and order. Hirai is a middle-aged prison guard worn down by the daily grind of his job. Kaneda is a model inmate on death row. When a date is set for Kaneda’s execution, Hirai is asked to assist the prisoner in his final moments. The reward is a week’s vacation in time for his honeymoon. The cost is accompanying Kaneda through his final meal, his last hours and physically supporting him as the execution takes place.

Music and Film GFT Friday 26 February (20.30) Directors Aaron Aites, Audrey Ewell USA 2008, 1h33m, N/C 15+ Thanks To Aaron Aites, Audrey Ewell

Departures GFT Monday 22 February (20.45) Cineworld Renfrew Street Tuesday 23 February (18.15) The Grosvenor Wednesday 24 February (18.00) Director Hajime Kadoi Featuring Kaoru Kobayashi Hidetoshi Nishijima Japan 2008, 1h52m, subtitles, N/C 18+ Thanks To Little Bird

VINCERE The official version of Benito Mussolini’s early life overlooks the fact that he had a wife and a son. Veteran director Marco Bellocchio drags that hidden relationship into the spotlight for a bravura film with startling insights into the true nature of Il Duce.

The young Mussolini met Ida Dalser in 1907. It was Ida who financed his political career. She bore him a son and became his wife only to discover that her husband had married another woman and would gradually erase her from his life. Told with all the passion and energy of a grand opera, Vincere combines newsreel footage and fiery performances to haunting effect.

WAKE IN FRIGHT First shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 1971 Wake In Fright has been described by Nick Cave as “the best and most terrifying film about Australia in existence”. Long considered a lost masterpiece, it has now been rediscovered and beautifully restored to a fresh wave of acclaim. Gary Bond stars as a young teacher who plans to stay overnight in a rough outback mining town before catching a plane to Sydney. One night becomes a five day alcohol-fuelled odyssey of drinking, gambling, selfloathing and self-destruction. A raw, uncompromising work from director Ted Kotcheff that deserves to be much better known.

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European Cinema GFT Friday 19 February (13.00) Cineworld Renfrew Street Saturday 20 February (18.45) Director Marco Bellocchio Featuring Giovanna Mezzogiorno Filippo Timi Italy 2009, 2h8m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To Artificial Eye

Out Of The Past Cineworld Renfrew Street Tuesday 23 February (20.45) Wednesday 24 February (16.00) Director Ted Kotcheff Featuring Donald Pleasence Gary Bond Chips Rafferty Australia 1971, 1h49m, N/C 18+ Thanks To Madman Entertainment

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WHEN YOU’RE STRANGE: A FILM ABOUT THE DOORS Whilst the term ‘iconic’ is overused, few would argue that it can appropriately attached to the 1960s rock group The Doors. The Oliver Stone biopic delivered a generation of new fans to the band, and this documentary will provide factual information on a ground breaking (and occasionally law breaking) group. The film not only features interviews with all four band members, but also footage filmed by Jim Morrison himself. The film is narrated by Johnny Depp, and attempts to uncover the truth behind a great deal of myth, not least that Morrison faked his own death.

WHIP IT Drew Barrymore makes a confident move into the director’s chair with this rollicking sports comedy set in the bruising world of competitive roller-skating. Ellen (Juno) Page is the tough Texas tomboy encouraged to enter beauty pageants by her doting mom Marcia Gay Harden. A clandestine trip to a roller derby night in Austin introduces her to a world of kneepads and fishnets and derby girls called Iron Maven and Bloody Holly. The girl has found her true home and never looks back as she starts leading a thrilling double-life. Great fun especially when you realise that all the famous names did their own stunts.

WHISKY AND VODKA (WHISKY MIT VODKA) Renowned actor Otto has two loves - drinking and film. Fitting for the title, there are elements of fun and melancholy in this comedy drama. Even when blind drunk he still has more vision in filmmaking than the amateur directing his latest movie. Otto makes a mess of things on the film, inevitably being replaced by an understudy who is a fan of the older actor. With witty dialogue, and a complicated interplay between the star, his director and love interest, Whisky and Vodka has a great spirit that shines on the screen.

WHITE STRIPES UNDER GREAT WHITE NORTHERN LIGHTS A ‘brother and sister’s’ journey across the great white north, as we are invited to join the White Stripes on their 2007 Canadian tour. The tour, like this portrayal, is epic, featuring a stop in every province and territory and an intimate look at the relationships between Jack, Meg... and their many fans. Feedback-infused blues are shot in the band’s trademark colours of black, red and white. Fans are treated to many free shows, including playing a city bus in Winnipeg, and a flour mill – an uplifting or ‘self raising’ appearance. Sorry – see the film.

WILLIAM MCLAREN AN ARTIST OUT OF TIME William McLaren was a prolific Scottish painter, illustrator and decorative artist who died in 1987 and has never received the recognition he deserves. This fascinating pioneering documentary has traced hundreds of his works and gathered the testimony of those who knew him. A graduate of the Edinburgh College Of Art, McLaren was a regular illustrator for the Radio Times and created a series of paintings for the staircase of Hopetoun House and many commissions for public buildings where he developed his trompe l’oeil style. Screening with the award-winning documentary And So Goodbye which led the filmmakers to their interest in McLaren.

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Music and Film GFT Wednesday 24 February (18.15) Director Tom DiCillo Starring Jim Morrison Ray Manzarek Robbie Krieger John Densmore USA 2009, 1h30m, N/C 15+ Thanks To The Works UK

Gala Cineworld Renfrew Street Friday 26 February (18.30) Saturday 27 February (15.30) Director Drew Barrymore Featuring Ellen Page Marcia Gay Harden Juliette Lewis USA 2009, 1h51m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Lionsgate

European Cinema Cineworld Renfrew Street Friday 19 February (18.30) Saturday 20 February (13.45) Directors Andreas Dresen Featuring Henry Hubchen Corinna Harfouch Germany 2009, 1h44m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To the Goethe-Institut.

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Music and Film GFT Monday 22 February (21.00) Tuesday 23 February (15.30) Director Emmett Malloy Starring Jack White Meg White USA 2009, 1h33m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Three Foot Giant

Great Scots CCA Tuesday 23 February (18.30) Thursday 25 February (15.30) Director Jim Hickey Scotland 2009, 51m & 24m, N/C 12+ Thanks To Freedonia Films & Cadies Productions

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WITH ONE VOICE (D’UNE SEULE VOIX) Recording choirs in conflict zones around the world is the unconventional day job for a French filmmaker who grew up in the relative multiracial harmony of New York. A musician himself, Xavier de Lauzanne took on the arduous task of uniting Israeli and Palestinian musicians. The political divides between the musicians are not instantly forgotten, but ultimately overcome in the desire to share music and experiences. This record of a musical tour with a difference also documents those involved as they unite as brothers and sisters.

WOMEN WITHOUT MEN (ZANAN-E BEDUN-E MARDAN) Internationally renowned for her photography and video installations, Shirin Neshat’s feature debut won the Silver Lion at Venice and is a powerful adaptation of the controversial Shahrnush Parsipur novella set in Tehran on the eve of the CIA-backed coup that restored the Shah to power in 1953. The film deftly interweaves the stories of several women striving to escape the clutches of their society and achieve independence.

The poignant characters include Munis who is at the mercy of her brother, army wife Fakhri and prostitute Zarin. A gorgeous, involving, multi-layered drama.

YATTERMAN (YATTAMAN) Director Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi The Killer) underscores his cult reputation with this frantic big screen adaptation of the hit 1970s television anime. Marbled with explosive action sequences, raunchy innuendo and goofy humour, the film is a breathless spectacle with echoes of Indiana Jones and Barbarella. Aided by their giant canine robot, teenager Gan Takada and girlfriend Ai Fukuda are locked in eternal battle with the evil Lady Doronjo who seems to buy her clothes from the same fetish shop as Halle Berry’s Catwoman. Their goal is possession of an all-powerful Skull Stone that could obliterate the planet. A wild, fun-filled guilty pleasure.

ZERO FOCUS (ZERO NO shôten) Seicho Matsumoto is renowned as one of the finest post-War Japanese thriller writers. Zero Focus was originally published in serial form in the late 1950s and became one of his most popular titles. Previously filmed in 1961, it has now been brought to the screen in a sumptuous new version that remains true to the late 1940s setting and the story of a young woman whose husband goes missing shortly after their wedding night.

The quest to discover what became of him forces her to turn detective as she uncovers dark secrets and a shocking truth in this supremely stylish Hitchcockian suspense story.

ZOMBIE ZOMBIE PERFORM THE MUSIC OF JOHN CARPENTER Glasgow Music and Film Festival have specially commissioned Zombie Zombie (Paris) to perform a tribute to the music of John Carpenter alongside some of their own compositions.

Carpenter and Zombie Zombie alike, use sound and rhythm to explore the feeling of fear growing deep from within, like in a horror movie, when your car won’t start, and someone is trying to kill you. Zombie Zombie are led by Professor Etienne Jaumet and Cosmic Neman (from Herman Dune). A full a/v show will accompany. £

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Music and Film GFT Sunday 21 February (13.15) Tuesday 23 February (11.30) Directors Xavier de Lauzanne France 2008, 1h28m, subtitles, N/C 10+ Thanks To Aloest Productions

It’s A Wonderful World GFT Tuesday 23 February (13.15) Wednesday 24 February (11.15) Directors Shirin Neshat Shoja Azari Featuring Pegah Ferydoni Orsi Toth Iran 2009, 1h37m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To Artificial Eye

Departures GFT Sunday 21 February (17.45) The Grosvenor Monday 22 February (18.00) Director Takashi Miike Featuring Sho Sakurai Fyoko Fukada Saki Fukude Japan 2009, 1h51m, subtitles, N/C 18+ Thanks to Nikkatsu/Shochiku

Departures Cineworld Renfrew Street Thursday 25 February (18.00) Director Isshin Inudou Featuring Ryoko Hirosue Miki Nakatani Japan 2009, 2h10m, subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks To Toho

Music and Film MONO Thursday 18 February (20.00) 3h, 18+ Thanks To The Arches

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Comedie & Here is Always Somewhere Else…

33

About Elly (Darbareye Elly)

26

Competition 1: Standstill

34

Acting Masterclass with Joe Dempsie

26

Competition 2: Worlds Collide

34

Competition 3: No Yesterdays

34

2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams

Adrift (Å Deriva)

26

Against the Current

27

Ajami

27

Akira

27

All Around Us (Gururi Nokoto)

27

Amer

27

American: The Bill Hicks Story An Affair To Remember

28 28

Glasgow On Screen (it could be you!)

Lux: Dispersion

52

Stag Night

61

43

Mark Millar

52

Stella

62

Good Son, The

43

Micmacs

14

Stolen

62

Greatest, The

44

Storm (Sturm)

62

Gregory's Girl

44

Mommo – The Bogeyman

GSA Mutual

44

Guilia Doesn't Date At Night

Mouth Room/ After School Special 52

44

Competition 4: Learning To Breathe 34

Handsome Harry

45

New York, I Love You

53

Heartless

45

Competition 5: Leave A Trail

Hidden Diary (Mères et filles)

No One Knows About Persian Cats

53

45

North By Northwest 53

Hilde

45

Notorious

53

Take 2: Turtle: The Incredible Journey

63

Old Partner (Wyo-nang so-ri)

54

Terribly Happy (Frygtelig Lykkelig)

64

That Evening Sun

64

“This is not a Boat”: The Improbable…

64

Thomas Truax

64

To Catch a Thief

65

Topp Twins Untouchable Girls

65

34

Comrade Couture with SWG3 & Noir!

34

Hipsters (Stilyagi)

45

Con Artist

34

His & Hers

46

His Girl Friday

46

Holiday

46

Congregation of Ghosts, A

35

Co-operative Young Filmmakers

35

An Audience with Skins

28

Ape, The

28

Corso The Last Beat

Applause (Applaus)

28

Cowards (Cobardes) 35

Around a Small Mountain

29

Crazies, The

35 35

How'S The Ghost?

Presents: The Movie Trailer 46

Pere Ubu

55

Place Lumiere

55

Trucker

65

Ponyo

55

Universe Vodcast

65

Potential

55

Punishment Park

56

Until the Light Takes Us

66

Vacation (Kyûka)

66

Introducing the Red 47

Rabbit Without Ears 2 (Zweiohrküken) 56

Vincere

66

Invisible Frame, The + Cycling the Frame 48

Radio Magnetic Party

Wake in Fright

66

Island of Dreams (Yume no Shima)

48

Radio Magnetic Present: Images From…

56

When You're Strange: A Film About The Doors

67

Ivul

48

Ran

57

Whip It

67

[REC] 2

57

Whisky and Vodka (Whisky mit Wodka)

67

White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights 67

47

29

I'm Glad My Mother is Alive

Artists' Film & Video Programme

29

Autumn (Sonbahar)

29

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans 30 Bare Essence Of Life (Urutora mirakuru rabu sutôrî) 30

Dogtooth (Kynodontas)

38

Dope

39

Double Take

39

Down Terrace

39

Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo

30

Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl

Bergfest

30

Evangelion 1.0

40

Beyond the Pole

30

Evangelion 2.0

40

Big Fan

31

Everybody's Fine

40

31

Expansive Grounds

40

Bluebeard (Barbe Bleue)

31

Eyes Wide Open (Einaym Pkuhot)

40

Bomber

31

Boy Called Dad, A

32

Film Rocks @The Shed

Take 2: Surprise Film 63

Tormod: An Audience with Robbie Fraser 65

Cuckoo

38

54

63

Take 2: Crocodiles, The (Vorstadtkrokodile) 63

55

47

Artist Talk/ Book Launch

38

Pachamama

63

Summerhood

54

I Killed My Mother (J'ai tue ma mere) I Was A Male War Bride

Do It Again

Optimo GSFF Shorts Closing Party 54

Strigoi

Passing Places

46

Creative Identities Red Carpet Showcase 38 Director's Cut Kevin Macdonald

54

Story Room Discovering Character, The 62

Pandora & The Flying Dutchman

I am Love

Arsenic and Old Lace 29

38

Only Angels Have Wings

52

47

In Conversation with James Earl Jones 47

56

Journey of the Childmen, The

48

Journey, The

48

Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre

57

Kakera

49

Room and a Half

57

Kandahar Break

49

Savage

57

Kicking It

49

Knickerbocker Glory 49

Scheherazade, Tell Me A Story 58

William McLaren An Artist Out of Time

67

41

La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet

Scottish Production Archive: Peter Mullan 58

With One Voice (D'une seule voix)

68

Film the Human

41

L'affaire farewell

50

FilmG

41

Leaving (Partir)

50

Scouting Book for Boys, The

58

32

First Movie, The

41

Lebanon

50

Legacy

15

58

Zero Focus

68

32

French Kissers, The (Les beaux gosses)

Scriptwriting Masterclass with Ben Schiffer

Women Without Men (Zanan-e bedun-e mardan) 68

41

Life During Wartime

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She, A Chinese

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