Glasgow Film Festival 2012 brochure by Glasgow Film

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16−26 FEBRUARY 2012

GLASGOW YOUTH FILM FESTIVAL: 5–15 FEBRUARY GLASGOW SHORT FILM FESTIVAL: 9–12 FEBRUARY

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contents How to Enjoy the Festival

How to Buy Tickets

Strands

Festival Calendar

welcome

5–9

Opening & Closing Galas

Glasgow Youth Film Festival

Glasgow Short Film Festival

Gene Kelly: Strictly Song and Dance

Welcome to Germany

Glasgow Music and Film Festival

FrightFest

Kapow!@GFF

Crossing the Line

Everybody loves the movies. The big awards season in Hollywood this year has been dominated by productions that salute all the joys and heartaches of moviemaking from Martin Scorsese’s valentine to the pioneering wonders of Georges Méliès in Hugo to Michelle Williams’ astonishing performance in My Week with Marilyn and that irresistible crowd-pleaser and inveterate prize-winner The Artist.

Weimarvellous

Fashion in Film

Glasgow Film Festival is a celebration that embraces the whole range of experiences from films that are heading to a multiplex near you to films that may never pass this way again. We include the mainstream and the avant-garde, the experimental and the classical, something brand new and something vintage that has been lovingly restored to the brilliance of its first appearance.

Staff Thank You

Sponsors and Supporters

Film and Event Index

Free Events

Film A to Z

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Map and Venues

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GFF12 is proud to be part of the Year of Creative Scotland – a celebration of Scotland’s cultural and creative strengths on a world stage. This year’s Festival contains all the established favourites and some exciting additions. We salute song ‘n’ dance man Gene Kelly, unveil a dazzling selection of new German cinema, trace the connections between music and film and fashion and film. There are galas and guests, premieres and parties and a collection of stunning documentaries from around the world. Cutting-edge work finds a new home in our Crossing the Line strand and steady those nerves and stifle those shivers as the FrightFest boys return with another slab of raw, blood-soaked gore for your delectation. Resistance is futile. Cinema has been a source of comfort and inspiration in some of the darkest days of the past century. It is a sanctuary where we go to escape the daily grind and weighty cares. It is a thrilling magic carpet ride that allows you to see the world through different eyes. You can add 3D, Dolby surround sound and motion capture performances but nothing has changed about the fundamental role that cinema plays in our lives. When the media is filled with doom and gloom, meltdown and crisis let’s give thanks for a film that lifts the spirits, feeds the imagination and touches the soul. The world always seems a better place when you’ve watched Gene Kelly go singing and dancing in the rain. Everybody does love the movies but nobody loves them more than Glasgow Film Festival. Come join the celebration this February.

Allison & Allan Allison Gardner & Allan Hunter Co-directors of GFF12

Please note programme may be subject to change. Check www.glasgowfilm.org/festival for updates. Glasgow Film Festival is an operating name of Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT). A company limited by guarantee, registered in Scotland No. 97369 with its registered office at 12 Rose Street, Glasgow, G3 6RB. GFT is registered as a charity (No SC005932) with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator.

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how to Enjoy the festival and explore Cinema City SELECTING A FILM The Festival programme has been divided into strands to make it easier for you to identify the films which interest you most. Included in these strands are our ‘Festivals within the Festival’ – Glasgow Youth Film Festival, Glasgow Short Film Festival and Glasgow Music and Film Festival – unique mini Festivals of specialist content, curated by GFF friends from across the city. Please see p4 for full strand descriptions.

GO ONLINE AND GET MORE! www.glasgowfilm.org/festival Don’t miss out! Keep up to date with the latest Festival news, special guest announcements, newly confirmed events and exclusive special offers and deals by signing up for our enewsletters and following us on facebook and twitter. www.glasgowfilm.org/enewsletter www.facebook.com/glasgowfilmfestival @glasgowfilmfest Our website also offers trailers, photographs, reviews, blogs and articles. You can plan your days by downloading our Festival calendar and use the Cinema City map to help you to navigate the city, exploring the Festival and Glasgow’s film-related history.

VISITING OUR CINEMA CITY www.glasgowfilm.org/cinema_city To help you make the most of your trip to Glasgow, check out our online Cinema City project. This is a celebration of Glasgow’s rich cinemagoing heritage, the films which have been made here, the fact that the city is the centre for Scotland’s broadcasting and film production, and the relationship the people of Glasgow have with the moving image. Visit the site for interactive maps, to read about and contribute your own cinema-going memories and to watch archive footage of Glasgow. Need somewhere to stay or eat during GFF? Use this online resource to access exclusive deals from our recommended partner hotels and restaurants. For a full list of venues and travel advice, please see the Festival map on p32–33.

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

ACCESS For details on the accessibility of each Festival venue please visit www.glasgowfilm.org/festival/access.

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ticketing

STANDARD ticket prices £8 full price/£6 for all adult concessions Adult concessions include full-time students, over-60s, Jobseekers Allowance or Income Support recipients and registered disabled people. Please produce proof of eligibility when purchasing or collecting tickets.

HAVE YOU GOT A CINECARD OR UNLIMITED CARD? To reward the loyalty of GFT CineCard and Cineworld Unlimited Card holders, we’re offering £1 off all standard tickets. Tickets must be purchased in advance from the Festival Box Offices at GFT and Cineworld Renfrew Street or at www.glasgowfilm.org/festival. SPECIAL EVENTS AND PERFORMANCES Please note that some special events, live performances and screenings fall outside the standard ticket cost. See individual listings for details. FREE EVENTS AND SCREENINGS Tickets for free events will only be issued on the day, from the venue where the event is being held, unless otherwise specifed in the A to Z. First come, first served!

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).

PLEASE GET HERE ON TIME Please note that during the Festival all films and events will start at the stated times – no adverts will be screened. Please see www.glasgowfilm.org for full terms and conditions.

HOW TO BUY TICKETS

ONLINE From Thursday 19 January tickets for all events can be purchased from the website: www.glasgowfilm.org/festival. Tickets can be purchased online until 9pm on the day before the performance for all participating venues, excluding GFT and Cineworld Renfrew Street. Tickets for GFT and Cineworld Renfrew Street events can be purchased online up until one hour before the performance. IN PERSON & OVER THE PHONE From Thursday 19 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). You can also purchase tickets for most events from the GFF Box Office at Cineworld Renfrew Street from Friday 17 – Thursday 23 February, during its opening hours. COLLECTION You can collect your advance tickets from the Central GFF 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.

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

OPENING HOURS Before the festival Thursday 19 January (10am – 8pm) Friday 20 January – Wednesday 15 February, Box Office is open every day from 12pm – 8pm (excluding Saturdays when it opens at 11am). During the festival Box Office is open from 10.30am until 30 minutes after the last film has started.

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SPECIAL DEALS

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

INTERNET SAVER DEALS* Love Glasgow Film Festival? Planning to come to see lots of films? Take advantage of one of our Internet Saver Deals. And, because it’s nice to share, we allow you to share this offer with another person and get a maximum of two tickets per eligible event, including Shorts and Youth events. Only available at www.glasgowfilm.org/festival from 19 January 2012. Internet Saver 5 Films – £30 Internet Saver 10 Films – £50 Internet Saver 20 Films – £90 Internet Savers can only be redeemed against standard price tickets. No further discounts apply. See www.glasgowfilm.org/festival for full details.

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

Choose your 5, 10 or 20 ticket Internet Saver Deal price type from the list (a maximum of 2 tickets per show) Keep adding films until you reach 5, 10 or 20 tickets. When you have selected your final film, the discount will automatically be applied.

FRIGHTFEST PASSES Love being scared? Buy a FrightFest Pass and spend the weekend with us... FrightFest Pass (no further discounts apply) – £55 for all 11 films screening on 24 & 25 February as part of FrightFest. Passes must be retained and produced if requested by a member of staff.

SHORT FILM FEST DEALS Standard price tickets £8 full price/£6 for all adult concessions Tickets for screenings at The Shed: £6 full price/£5 concessions Tickets for screenings at The Shed can also be bought in advance from Young’s Interesting Books, 18 Skirving Street, Shawlands, Glasgow G41 3BG / 0141 649 9599.

YOUTH FILM FEST DEALS Standard price tickets £8 full price/£6 for all adult concessions 21 and under £4 for all standard price GYFF events for those aged 21 and under with proof of age. No further discounts apply. Family Ticket Deal There are special GYFF deals for families for screenings of The Muppets, Tales of the Night 3D, Princess Mononoke, A Boy and His Samurai and Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey. Comes in combinations of 4 tickets, which should include at least 1 adult and 2 children with the fourth ticket being of either type. Gives you a discount of £1 per ticket on the total price. No further discount applies. 3D films come with an extra £1.50 charge per ticket. Full details found online. *If you have no access to the internet, the Central GFF Box Office at GFT will be able to process internet ticket deals for you – subject to the discretion of the Duty Manager.

strands BEST OF BRITISH

GLASGOW YOUTH FILM FESTIVAL

Savour a selection of finest British fare from an industry that continues to make small miracles on modest budgets. Old masters and new voices rub shoulders in the very best of home-grown cinema.

CROSSING THE LINE

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

GREAT SCOTS

A dot on the horizon? A mark in the sand? A leap in the dark? Join us for films that challenge the mainstream, defy the odds and mix disciplines to create something original and astounding.

THE EDGE OF THE WORLD Join us as we shine a light on indigenous cultures around the world, bringing you highlights from ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival in Canada as well as home-grown Gaelic talent.

EUROPEAN CINEMA A stunning array of choice films from across the continent from rising star Mia Hansen-Løve’s tale of first love to the newest heart-warmer from the Dardenne brothers. Welcome to the great big family of European cinema.

FASHION IN FILM Fabulous fashion films and unique events salute the tightly woven links between fashion and film, style icons and celluloid trendsetters.

FRIGHTFEST Films that will make your flesh creep, your stomach heave and your eyes roll heavenwards. Gore, grand guignol, giggles and groans. Pure cinema. Pure terror. From the team that knows what is good for you. And now the screaming starts...

GALA Roll out the red carpet, slip on the dark shades and book the stretch limo for the first glimpses of the finest films heading your way throughout 2012. Big names. Big budgets. Surprisingly small ticket prices. Glasgow: cinema-going with style.

GENE KELLY: STRICTLY SONG AND DANCE Pack an umbrella and let’s go singing and dancing in the rain for a centenary salute to one of the finest stars from Hollywood’s golden age. All the favourites are here from An American in Paris to Brigadoon.

GLASGOW MUSIC AND FILM FESTIVAL Crank up the volume to eleven and immerse yourself in a unique celebration of the special relationship between music and film. Amazing documentaries and extraordinary live performances curated in perfect harmony between the film buffs and the music geeks.

GLASGOW SHORT FILM FESTIVAL Brevity is the soul of wit. Short films are the life blood of moviemaking. GSFF is an amazing chance to view, network, savour, celebrate and take inspiration from the amazing skill and art of making a short film.

A celebration of native talent and local heroes with screenings of the best new productions from Scottish filmmakers and Scottish production companies. Archive gems from all-time greats and personal appearances from your nation’s movers and shakers.

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

KAPOW!@GFF Savour Glasgow’s very own dark nights with superhero classics old and new, unmissable discussions and debates, and premieres from the world of graphic novels, gaming and beyond.

OUT OF THE PAST Cinema’s finest achievements rescued from dusty archives, lovingly restored by experts, tenderly remastered and enthusiastically rediscovered. Classic movies in peak condition back on the big screen where they come alive all over again.

THE STATE OF INDEPENDENTS Welcome to the world of American cinema that lies beyond the razzle dazzle of what Hollywood has to offer. Intensely personal visions, incredibly compelling stories and quirky, funny, cutting-edge, state-ofthe-art joy from hot new talents.

STRANGER THAN FICTION There is nothing more riveting than real life and nothing more dynamic than the documentary. An exceptional selection of the best examples of the genre that will take you on amazing journeys, reveal incredible lives and challenge your views on pressing matters of crime and punishment, life and death.

WEIMARVELLOUS Taking its inspiration from the cabaret movement of Weimar Germany, Weimarvellous complements our Welcome to Germany strand with films, performance and glamour. Featuring films with live music and your chance to try out cabaroke (cabaret + karaoke), this fun-filled weekend will release your inner Sally Bowles!

WELCOME TO GERMANY A united nation, an economic powerhouse and the source of some of the most striking European films we’ve seen recently. What is Germany doing right? Find out with our country focus on the very finest German films of the past year.

2012 is the Year of Creative Scotland – a 12 month celebration of the nation’s artistic strengths, cultural assets, and creative vibrancy. To find out more go to www.visitscotland.com/creative 4

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Take 2: The Magicians 11.00 – 13.00 p56 F

LUX One to One Sessions 11.00 – 18.00 p44 £

Free Enterprise 15.00 – 16.30 p37

Film Nation: Shorts 14.00 – 15.30 p34 F

Practice Makes Perfect 14.00 – 15.30 p50 £

Scottish Animation Network

Virtuous or Vicious… 11.00 – 12.30 p60 £ 13.00 – 14.30 p52

For the Good of All 15.00 – 16.30 p36

They F**k You Up… 13.00 – 14.30 p58

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Butcher Boy 21.00 – 23.00 p24

Free Enterprise 20.00 – 21.30 p37 £

Douglas Hart 21.00 – 22.30 p27

Telling Stories 21.00 – 22.30 p57

Twiggy 20.45 – 22.10 p59

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Practice Makes Perfect 21.00 – 22.30 p50

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Slacker 2011 20.30 – 22.15 p54

Frames Per Second 19.30 – 23.00 p36

Grace & Redemption 19.00 – 20.30 p38

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Films for the Future 17.00 – 18.30 p34 F

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Corpo celeste 18.45 – 20.25 p25

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Bad Behaviour 21.00 – 22.30 p18

Terri 20.30 – 22.15 p58

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Print the Legend 20.00 – 21.30 p50 £

Intoxication & Betrayal 19.00 – 20.30 p42

The Great Outdoors 19.00 – 20.30 p38

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Ben Russell Trypps 19.00 – 20.30 p19

Simple Simon 18.30 – 20.00 p53

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Way Back When 17.00 – 18.30 p61

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Frank Marshall 17.15 – 18.45 p36

Sweet Sorrow 17.00 – 18.30 p56

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Print the Legend 19.00 – 20.30 p50

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What We Talk About… 17.00 – 18.30 p61

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Surreal/Political 19.00 – 20.30 p55

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Fight the Power 17.00 – 18.30 p31

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The Muppets 16.30 – 18.20 p47

The Rabbi’s Cat 3D 15.30 – 17.10 p51 £

Adapting Film to Stage workshop

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Telling Stories 15.00 – 16.30 p57

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Bad Behaviour 11.00 – 12.30 p18

Tales of the Night 3D 13.30 – 14.55 p57 £

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For the Good of All 13.00 – 14.30 p36

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Way Back When 13.00 – 14.30 p61

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Take 2: The Magicians 11.00 – 13.00 p56 £ F

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Enter the Archive 11.00 – 17.00 p30 F

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Napoleon Dynamite 23.00 – 00.30 p47 £

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Matthew Collings: GSFF Party 22.30 – late p45 £

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Café de flore 15.45 – 17.50 p24

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Gerhard Richter Painting 17.00 – 18.45 p37

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Black Gold 20.30 – 22.45 p22

Babycall 21.00 – 22.45 p17

Beauty 20.45 – 22.25 p18

A Man’s Story 20.30 – 22.15 p45

Trishna 20.40 – 22.50 p59

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High Places 20.00 – 22.30 p39 £

The Blue Angel 19.00 – 00.00 p22 £

Red Dog 18.30 – 20.10 p51

Buck 19.00 – 20.35 p23

On the Ice 18.45 – 20.30 p48

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Your Sister’s Sister 20.30 – 22.05 p10

Your Sister’s Sister 19.30 – 21.05 p10

Almanya 18.30 – 20.15 p16

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Harold and Maude 20.45 – 22.15 p39

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Award Winners 21.30 – 23.00 p17

Avé 20.45 – 22.15 p17

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Being Elmo 20.15 – 21.30 p18

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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 18.00 – 20.05 p19

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Hanna £ Tuulikki

The Wise Kids 19.30 – 21.00 p62

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J’aime regarder les filles

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Dragonslayer 18.15 – 19.30 p28

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Girl Model 17.15 – 18.35 p37

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Play 18.00 – 20.00 p50 F

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I Bequeath Unto Thee 17.00 – 18.30 p40 £

Meet the Filmmakers 17.00 – 19.00

State of the Nation 17.00 – 18.30 p55

Margaret Tait’s Films... 17.00 – 18.30 p45

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Children Who Chase Lost Voices…

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The Loves of Pharaoh 15.30 – 17.15 p44 Sing Your Song 15.00 – 16.50 p53

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Focus Left: Youth Edition

Your Sister’s Sister 15.45 – 17.20 p10

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Lessons of a Dream 15.15 – 17.10 p44

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Bill Douglas: Panel 15.00 – 16.30 p20 £

The Mexican Suitcase 14.45 – 16.20 p46 The Kid with a Bike 13.45 – 15.20 p43

Carol Channing... 13.30 – 15.00 p24

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Sweet Sorrow 15.00 – 16.30 p56

#tweetapitch 14.30 – 16.00 p20

David 14.30 – 15.50 p26

This is Not a Film 14.00 – 15.20 p58

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Oxygen 13.00 – 14.40 p49

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15.00 Princess Mononoke 14.45 – 16.55 p50

Grace and Redemption 14.00 – 15.30 p38 £

Protest/Film 13.00 – 14.30 p51

I Bequeath Unto Thee 13.00 – 14.30 p40

Fight the Power 13.15 – 14.45 p31

12.30 – 14.00 p46 £

Youth in the Archive 13.00 – 14.15 p62 F

Movie Poster Design...

Laura 11.30 – 13.05 p44

The Forgotten Space 11.00 – 13.30 p36

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Festival Breakfast 11.00 – 13.00

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A Boy and His Samurai 12.30 – 14.20 p23

GYFF Shorts at GSFF 11.30 – 13.00 p39 £

LIAF Family-Friendly Animations 11.00 – 12.05 p44 £

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The Reptile 23.00 – 00.30 p51

Sleepless Night 23.15 – 00.50 p54

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Planet of Snail 11.15 – 12.50 p50

Anchors Aweigh 11.00 – 13.20 p16

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Elena 11.30 – 13.25 p30

An American in Paris 11.00 – 13.00 p16

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Take 2: Surprise Movie 11.30 – 13.00 p56 F

Red Dog 11.15 – 12.55 p51

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A Man’s Story 13.00 – 14.45 p45

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In Darkness 13.00 – 15.30 p40

16.00 Michael 15.45 – 17.30 p46

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Blackthorn 18.15 – 20.00 p22

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This Must be the Place 20.30 – 22.35 p58

Finisterrae 21.00 – 22.25 p34

Breathing 20.45 – 22.20 p23

Two Years at Sea 20.40 – 22.15 p59

Wild Bill 20.30 – 22.10 p61

The GFF Film Quiz 20.00 – 22.00 p37 £

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Dreileben – One Minute of Darkness

Khodorkovsky 18.30 – 20.30 p43

Cloudburst 18.00 – 19.35 p24

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Wet Sounds 17.30 – 19.00 p61 £

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Michael 20.45 – 22.30 p46

Dreileben – One Minute of Darkness

Extraterrestrial 20.30 – 22.10 p31

Planet of Snail 20.30 – 22.05 p50

Wet Sounds 20.00 – 21.30 p61 £

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Dreileben – Don’t Follow Me Around

Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy 18.30 – 20.15 p42

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Café de flore 20.45 – 22.50 p24

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On the Ice 21.00 – 22.45 p48

The Monk 20.20 – 22.05 p46

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Salomé 19.00 – 20.15 p52

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In Darkness 18.00 – 20.30 p40

Dreileben – Don’t Follow Me Around

The Monk 16.00 – 17.50 p46

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Dreileben – Beats Being Dead

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The Plague of the Zombies 23.15 – 00.50 p50

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Jo Nesbo’s Headhunters 21.30 – 23.10 p43 Silver Tongues 21.00 – 22.35 p53

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If Not us, Who? 20.30 – 22.40 p40

The Adventures of Prince Achmed 20.00 – 21.10 p15

Serafina and Sam Steer 19.00 – 22.00 p52 £

We Bought a Zoo 18.15 – 20.25 p61

In the Family 17.15 – 20.05 p42

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Elles 16.15 – 17.55 p30

Time to Spare 15.15 – 17.05 p58

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We Bought a Zoo 15.30 – 17.40 p61

Patience (After Sebald)

All in Good Time 13.45 – 15.20 p16

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Jo Nesbo’s Headhunters 13.30 – 15.10 p43

Girl Model 19.15 – 20.35 p37

Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy 18.40 – 20.25 p42

Fort McCoy 17.50 – 19.35 p36

Dreileben – Beats Being Dead 17.00 – 18.35 p28

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Autumn Gold

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Sing Your Song

If Not us, Who? 14.15 – 16.25 p40

St. Nick 13.15 – 15.05 p54

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16.00 All in Good Time 15.40 – 17.15 p16

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Berlin: Symphony of a Great City 15.00 – 16.30 p19

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Hunky Dory 19.10 – 21.00 p40

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The Mexican Suitcase 18.30 – 20.05 p46

Glasgow: Symphony of a Great City 17.30 – 19.00 p38 £

Gerhard Richter Painting 16.30 – 18.15 p37

Laura 17.15 – 18.50 p44

Elena 16.30 – 18.25 p30

Trishna 15.50 – 17.55 p59

Beauty 15.00 – 16.45 p18

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The Kid with a Bike 17.15 – 18.50 p43

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Patience (After Sebald)

Unfinished Spaces 13.45 – 15.20 p59

A Night to Remember 13.15 – 15.25 p47

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Black Gold 13.20 – 15.35 p22

16.00 Sleepless Night 15.30 – 17.00 p54

Diana Vreeland... 14.50 – 16.15 p27

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Babycall 14.30 – 16.15 p17

Singin’ in the Rain 13.30 – 15.20 p54 The Day I was Not Born 13.00 – 14.40 p26

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Buck 12.30 – 14.05 p23

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Take 2: Surprise Movie

This is Not a Film 11.15 – 12.40 p58

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Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters 13.15 – 14.50 p28

Death of a Superhero 13.00 – 14.45 p26

How to Re-establish a Vodka Empire 14.00 – 15.20 p40

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Electric Man 16.45 – 18.25 p30

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Livid 21.15 – 22.50 p44

Bonsái 20.45 – 22.25 p22

Wrinkles 21.00 – 22.35 p62

A Psychocinematic Ritual 20.00 – 23.00 p51 £

Nobody Else But You 19.30 – 21.20 p48

Where Do We Go Now? 19.00 – 20.55 p61

Better this World 18.30 – 20.15 p20

TILT 18.45 – 20.30 p58

22.00 The Swell Season 21.00 – 22.35 p56

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Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone

Death of a Superhero 20.30 – 22.15 p26

Backyard 21.15 – 22.35 p17

Goodbye First Love 20.45 – 22.40 p38

And Under That – Margaret Tait Award 21.00 – 22.00 p16 F

The GFF Surprise Film 20.45 – TBC p37

21.00

St. Nick 20.45 – 22.35 p54

22.00

21.00 – 22.45 p31

Family Portrait in Black & White

Elles 20.45 – 22.25 p30

Stopped on Track 20.15 – 22.10 p55

Superheroes 19.20 – 20.45 p55

19.00

Night is Day 18.30 – 20.15 p47

All Divided Selves 18.00 – 19.35 p15

Bel Ami 17.00 – 18.45 p18

85A: Jan Svankmajer 16.00 – 19.00 p15 £

Women in Comics 15.15 – 16.15 p62

A History of Violence 15.00 – 16.40 p39

Chinese Take-Away 15.00 – 16.40 p24

How to Die in Oregon 15.45 – 17.40 p40

Mitsuko Delivers 16.30 – 18.25 p46

The Last Dogs of Winter 15.30 – 17.25 p43

Bel Ami 18.15 – 20.15 p18 The Jewel 18.00 – 19.55 p42

Into the Abyss 17.10 – 19.00 p42

17.00

Charlie Adlard 16.15 – 17.45 p60

16.00

The Jewel 15.10 – 17.00 p42

15.00

15.00 –15.45 p23

Bryan Hitch

Livid 16.20 – 17.55 p44

20.00

Bill Cunningham New York 19.15 – 20.45 p20

Mitsuko Delivers 18.30 – 20.25 p46

Volcano 18.30 – 20.15 p60

19.00

22.00

The Somnambulists 21.00 – 22.20 p54

The Decoy Bride 20.30 – 22.05 p27

The Maggie 19.30 – 21.15 p45

The Dilapidated Dwelling 19.00 – 21.15 p27 £

18.45 – 20.20 p19

Ben Rivers: The Scope Trilogy

Superman 17.45 – 20.25 p55

18.00

How to Re-establish a Vodka Empire 19.15 – 20.35 p40

Chinese Take-Away 18.30 – 20.05 p24

21.00

Flash Gordon 20.15 – 22.35 p34

20.00

Terraferma 19.00 – 20.30 p57

Tatsumi 18.00 – 19.40 p57

Better this World 17.15 – 19.00 p20

17.00

TILT 16.00 – 17.45 p58

At Night I Fly 15.45 – 17.20 p17

15.00 – 16.45 p31

Goodbye First Love 14.15 - 16.10 p38

Volcano 13.30 – 15.15 p60

Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone 13.00 – 14.55 p30

14.00

13.45 –14.30 p43

Kate Brown

16.00

Family Portrait in Black & White

Where Do We Go Now? 14.15 – 16.10 p61

Beats, Rhymes and Life... 13.00 – 14.45 p18

13.00

15.00

16.00 –16.45 p45

Mark Millar...

Blackthorn 16.00 – 17.45 p22

19.00

BAFTA in Scotland Event 18.00 – 19.45 p18

18.00

No One But Me 17.00 – 18.15 p47

17.00

Bonsái 16.30 – 18.10 p22

Omar Killed Me 15.30 – 17.10 p48

Backyard 14.45 – 16.05 p17

Khodorkovsky 15.30 – 17.30 p43

Two Years at Sea 15.00 – 16.35 p59

Wrinkles 14.00 – 15.35 p62

Sleeping Sickness 13.30 – 15.05 p54

12.30 – 13.15 p62

Writing...

14.00

Nobody Else But You 13.15 – 15.05 p48

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16.00

Omar Killed Me 15.15 – 17.00 p48

15.00

Setting the Scene 14.00 – 15.30 p52

This Must be the Place 13.15 – 15.20 p58

Finisterrae 13.00 – 14.25 p34

Breathing 13.30 – 15.05 p23

Carol Channing... 12.45 – 14.10 p24 £

The Decoy Bride 12.30 – 14.05 p27

The Other F Word 11.30 – 13.15 p48

On the Town 11.00 – 12.45 p48

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14.00

Wild Bill 13.15 – 14.55 p61

13.00

Tatsumi 12.00 – 13.40 p57

Terraferma 11.30 – 13.05 p57

The Pirate 11.00 – 12.50 p49

11.00

Time to Spare 10.45 – 12.30 p58

11.00 – 12.40 p57

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

11.00

00.00

23.15 –- 00.50 p28

Dracula – Prince of Darkness

The Crow 23.00 – 00.45 p25

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12.00

13.00

Gala

Gene Kelly: Strictly Song & Dance

Glasgow Music and Film Festival

Glasgow Short Film Festival

The Edge of the World

European Cinema

Fashion in Film

Vincent Wants to Sea 13.30 – 15.15 p59

14.00

Crossing the Line

SuperClásico 11.30 – 13.15 p55

Hello, Dolly! 12.00 – 14.35 p39

12.00

FrightFest

11.00

Take 2: Twigson 11.30 – 12.45 p56

16.00 Rites of Spring 15.30 – 17.10 p52

17.00

16.00

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Out of the Past

Kapow!@GFF

It’s a Wonderful World

Great Scots

Glasgow Youth Film Festival

Silver Apples: Play Twice Before Listening 15.30 – 17.20 p53

Death Watch 15.00 – 17.10 p27

15.00

FilmG 16.30 – 18.00 p31

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 15.15 – 17.50 p48

15.00

17.00

Tape 407... 16.00 – 17.50 p57

16.00

How to Die in Oregon 15.00 – 16.55 p40

15.00

Mesnak 14.15 – 16.00 p46

The Bengali Detective 13.00 – 14.55 p19

14.00

Take 2: Twigson 11.00 – 12.45 p56 £ F

13.00

13.15 – 14.45 p20

Penumbra 13.00 – 14.45 p49

12.00

14.00 Corman’s World... 13.30 – 15.15 p25

Bill Cunningham New York

13.00

Evidence 11.00 – 12.25 p30

11.00

Into the Abyss 11.15 – 13.05 p42

Brigadoon 11.00 – 12.55 p23

11.00

Best of British

10.00

19.00 Crawl 18.30 – 20.20 p25

19.00 Wang’s Arrival 18.30 – 20.25 p60

19.00

SuperClásico 20.45 – 22.30 p55

£ Special ticket price F Free event

Welcome to Germany

Weimarvellous

Stranger than Fiction

21.00

Silver Apples 20.30 – 23.30 p53 £

Bob and the Monster 20.30 – 22.00 p22

Le Havre 20.20 – 22.00 p10

The Phantom of the Opera 19.30 – 20.55 p49

20.00

The State of Independents

Big Banana Feet 18.15 – 19.35 p20

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen 18.00 – 20.00 p52

18.00

22.00

The Devil Inside 21.00 – 22.30 p27

21.00

Cry Parrot: Umberto 20.00 – 23.00 p26 £

20.00

Vivienne Westwood: Do it Yourself 20.30 – 21.30 p60 F

Bob and the Monster 20.45 – 22.15 p22

Gene Kelly Ceilidh + Brigadoon 19.00 – 23.00 p37 £

3 18.00 – 20.05 p15

18.00

22.00

The Day 21.00 – 22.35 p26

21.00

Up There 20.15 – 21.35 p59

20.00

85A: Jan Svankmajer 19.00 – 23.00 p15

God Save My Shoes 18.15 – 20.00 p38

The Other F Word 18.45 – 20.30 p48

Colour of the Ocean 17.45 – 19.25 p25

18.00

00.00

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00.00

Beats, Rhymes and Life... 22.45 – 00.25 p18

The Raid 23.15 – 01.00 p51

23.00

Natural Selection 22.30 – 00.05 p47

War of the Dead 23.15 – 00.45 p60

23.00

opening gala

closing gala

Humpday established writer/director Lynn Shelton as a wry, astute chronicler of the ties that bind friends and lovers. Your Sister’s Sister is going to introduce her talent to a much wider audience as it deftly unfolds a painfully funny and utterly captivating tale of bad timing, broken hearts and the healing power of love.

Finnish great Aki Kaurismäki has been making exceedingly good films for the past thirty years, developing a cult following that has gradually expanded into an army of devoted admirers who await his every new film the way children pine for Christmas. Kaurismäki excels even past delights like Drifting Clouds and The Man without a Past with his latest, award-winning treat Le Havre. The film carries echoes of Charlie Chaplin and neo-realism, the moody film noir of Jean-Pierre Melville and the sunny novels of Marcel Pagnol but all of these diverse influences are filtered through Kaurismäki’s lugubrious sensibility to create a world that is uniquely and delightfully his own.

Your Sister’s Sister

Distinguished by its tart dialogue and flawless performances, Your Sister’s Sister fits somewhere between the world of Woody Allen and Eric Rohmer, the latter impression underlined by some atmospheric locations in the San Juan islands off the coast of Washington State. Jack (Mark Duplass) is still struggling to come to terms with the death of his brother when best friend Iris (Emily Blunt) suggests he spend some time in an isolated family cottage. He arrives to discover Iris’s half-sister Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt) already in residence. Hannah is raw from a relationship that has ended after seven years. Initial hostility and awkwardness melts over a few drinks and some confessional conversation. Next morning Iris arrives unexpectedly, sensing an atmosphere. What happened the night before and can she and Jack ever stop being supportive friends long enough to become something more? Shot in just twelve days and frequently improvised, Your Sister’s Sister explores a complex web of conflicting emotions with wit, understanding and a true sense of human frailty. The result is American independent filmmaking at its finest. Gala GFT Thursday 16 February (19.30 & 20.30), ticket includes access to exclusive after-party Friday 17 February (15.45) Director/Screenwriter Lynn Shelton Cast Emily Blunt, Mark Duplass, Rosemarie DeWitt, Tom Birbiglia

Le Havre

Kaurismäki regular André Wilms plays Marcel Marx, a warm-hearted fellow scraping a living as a shoeshine man in an age when everyone favours trainers. Marcel lives contentedly in the French port of Le Havre with his wife Arletty (Kati Outinen), but when she is hospitalised he befriends a young African immigrant called Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) who is on the run from the authorities as personified by man in black, Inspector Monet (Jean-Pierre Darroussin). The intricately woven tale of hide and seek that ensues is full of priceless poker-faced comedy and heart-rending tenderness. Kaurismäki can break your heart into little pieces and then fix it so that it feels better than ever. Destined for acclaim as one of the best films of the year, Le Havre is Kaurismäki on top form. Gala GFT Sunday 26 February (20.20) Director/Screenwriter Aki Kaurismäki Cast André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Jean-Pierre Léaud Finland/France/Germany 2011, 1h33m, N/C 12+, French with subtitles Thanks to Artificial Eye

USA 2011, 1h30m, N/C 15+ Thanks to StudioCanal

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youth film festival

short film festival

Cinema’s greatest journey starts at Glasgow Youth Film Festival (GYFF) 2012, Europe’s most innovative film festival for young audiences.

Glasgow Short Film Festival (GSFF) expands to a mighty four days of screenings, workshops and parties in slavish worship of all things curt. Over seventy titles will compete for four different awards: our international short film award (renamed in honour of Scotland’s finest filmmaker, Bill Douglas); a brand new award dedicated to new work produced in Scotland; and the Scottish and international Audience Awards which offer you the chance to vote for your favourites.

5–15 February

9–12 February

Curated entirely by Glasgow-based teenagers, this is their best programme yet and comes complete with an exciting line-up of film previews, workshops and special events. Celebrating the ambition and talent of young people across the world, GYFF highlights for 2012 include a special family gala of The Muppets, movie poster design and theatre workshops, plus the chance to win a trip abroad. The GYFF schools programme is available online at www.glasgowfilm.org/festival/schools.

Full programme details can be found in the GSFF brochure.

Adapting Film to Stage workshop

Avé

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey

BFI Future Film presents: #tweetapitch

A Boy and His Samurai

Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below

Corpo celeste

David

Dragonslayer

FellSwoop Theatre presents: Belleville Rendez-vous

Film Nation: Shorts presents: Film Director Masterclass with Luke Snellin

Focus Left – Youth Edition

GYFF Shorts at GSFF

Harold and Maude

J’aime regarder les filles

Lessons of a Dream

LIAF Family-Friendly Animations

Movie Poster Design workshop

The Muppets

Napoleon Dynamite

Oxygen

Play

Princess Mononoke

The Rabbi’s Cat 3D

Simple Simon

Slacker 2011

Take 2: Surprise Movie

Take 2: The Magicians

Take 2: Twigson

Tales of the Night 3D

Terri

Twiggy

The Wise Kids

Youth in the Archive

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We present a survey of the hottest new film talents from Iceland, the European premiere of a multi-director remake of indie classic Slacker and a retrospective of music videos by The Jesus and Mary Chain bassist Douglas Hart. And this all takes place a week before GFF starts, so you’ve no excuse for missing it.

Award Winners

Bad Behaviour: International Competition 7

Ben Russell: Trypps 1–7

Bill Douglas: Panel 4

Butcher Boy

Douglas Hart Music Videos

Enter the Archive

Fight the Power: International Competition 3

Films for the Future

For the Good of All: International Competition 4

Frames Per Second

Frank Marshall

Free Enterprise: Scottish Competition 3

Grace and Redemption: Scottish Competition 4

The Great Outdoors: International Competition 2

GYFF Shorts at GSFF

Hanna Tuulikki

I Bequeath Unto Thee: Scottish Competition 5

Intoxication and Betrayal (Icelanders Abroad): Iceland Focus 3

LIAF Family-Friendly Animations

LUX One to One Sessions

Margaret Tait’s Films For Children

Matthew Collings: GSFF Opening Night Party

Paradox: Iceland Focus 2

Practice Makes Perfect: Scottish Competition 2

Print the Legend: Scottish Competition 1

Protest/Film: Panel 3

Scottish Animation Network: Panel 2

Short Stuff: Parent & Baby Screening

Slacker 2011

State of the Nation: Iceland Focus 4

Surreal/Political: Animations from Oberhausen

Sweet Sorrow: International Competition 6

Telling Stories: International Competition 5

They F**K You Up, Your Mum and Dad: International Competition 8

Virtuous or Vicious Circle? (Kubrick Never Crowdfunded): Panel 1

Way Back When: International Competition 1

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Iceland Focus 1

gENE KELLY: WELCOME TO GERMANY STRICTLY SONG AND DANCE If Fred Astaire was the epitome of dapper elegance then Gene Kelly was the embodiment of athletic exuberance. ‘Fred represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat,’ Kelly once said. Kelly was born in Pittsburgh in 1912 and this centenary salute includes screenings of all the Kelly greats and some of the finest musicals ever to grace a cinema. Kelly became a Broadway star in 1939 as the lead in Pal Joey and when Hollywood came calling he signed with MGM, widely regarded as the ritziest of all the big studios. It was where Kelly the dancer, choreographer and director would revolutionise the screen musical, pushing its artistic boundaries to create a uniquely American art form that dazzled the world. On the Town (1949) dragged the musical on to the streets of urban America, An American in Paris (1951) won the Oscar for Best Picture and Singin’ in the Rain (1952) gave us the perfect expression of what it feels like to be giddy with the first flush of love. His musicals explode with energy, colour, daring and joy. Kelly’s breezy charm, twinkling smile and muscular approach made it all look so effortless. In 1951, he received a special Oscar applauding his ‘brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film’. The era of the great original Hollywood musicals ended in the 1950s. Gene Kelly continued to sing and dance on stage and screen, celebrating that MGM golden era in That’s Entertainment (1974). He died in 1996 leaving as his legacy an unparalleled collection of films that convinced us we could all go singing and dancing in the rain. Come and catch the Kelly classics on the big screen and then put on your dancing shoes and join us for the Gene Kelly Ceilidh. An American in Paris

Anchors Aweigh

Brigadoon

Gene Kelly Ceildh + Brigadoon

Hello, Dolly!

On the Town

The Pirate

Singin’ in the Rain

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

When was the last time you went to see a really great German film? Wim Wenders’ stunning 3D salute to Pina Bausch? The Oscar-winning The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) perhaps or was it Run Lola Run (Lola rennt)? Germany has given world cinema some of its most indelible images from the magnificence of Metropolis to the madness of Aguirre, Wrath of God and yet contemporary German cinema continues to be under-represented on British screens. The Glasgow Film Festival 2012 country focus shines the spotlight on a stunning selection of new German features that have been making waves around the globe from Maggie Peren’s Toronto discovery Colour of the Ocean (Die Farbe des Ozeans) to Andreas Dresen’s Cannes triumph Stopped on Track (Halt auf freier Strecke) to Ulrich Köhler’s Berlin prize-winner Sleeping Sickness (Schlafkrankheit) and the award-winning Vincent Wants to Sea (Vincent will Meer). These are films that boldly tackle social taboos, that hold up an unflinching mirror to contemporary society or that allow us to reflect on the lessons of the past. There are rowdy comedies, sombre dramas and tales that are guaranteed to make you think and feel. This is a snapshot of the best German films of the past year and a chance to savour what we have all been missing. A huge thanks to Marlies Pfeifer and the Goethe Institut who have been indispensable in making this country focus happen.

Almanya – Welcome to Germany

Colour of the Ocean

The Day I was Not Born

Dreileben – Beats Being Dead

Dreileben – Don’t Follow Me Around

Dreileben – One Minute of Darkness

If Not us, Who?

Sleeping Sickness

Stopped on Track

Vincent Wants to Sea

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frightfest

Film4 FrightFest is thrilled to be part of Glasgow Film Festival for its seventh straight year, defining horror fantasy for our dear neighbours north of the border. And this year we’ve grown – there are eleven fantastic premieres, previews and special events to shock, thrill and amaze over two days, plus those must-meet guests from all corners of the genre. Be part of the best community spirit in the country while watching the best fright films currently on offer. There couldn’t be a better way to delve into 2012 and ready yourselves for ‘FrightFest the 13th’ in August. And if the FrightFest weekend doesn’t quench your thirst for horror, check out the films marked FrightFest Extra in the A to Z: these tasty morsels are recommended by the FrightFest crew but are not available as part of the FrightFest Pass.

MUSIC AND film festival

Hot patooties! Glasgow Music and Film Festival is back in 2012 to continue its tradition of blending reverential cult offerings with new, experimental sonic and visual explorations. Honed and cultivated by seasoned film fanatics at GFF and switched on music aficionados at the Arches, the Festival celebrates the special relationship between film and music. This year’s expertly crafted selection of jaw-dropping live events and fascinating documentaries champion the lost, the unseen, the psychedelic, the imagined and the nostalgic. The 2012 programme includes unmissable live events such as a rare performance from Simeon of cult 1960s avant-garde act Silver Apples, the return of Wet Sounds, US ethereal art rockers High Places and the horror-obsessed, otherworldliness of Umberto with a live soundtrack to a secret film. Backyard

Beats Rhymes and Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest

Bob and the Monster

Cry Parrot presents: Umberto

Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone

High Places

No One But Me

The Other F Word

The Phantom of the Opera

A Psychocinematic Ritual

Serafina and Sam Steer: A Focus Left Special

Silver Apples

Silver Apples: Play Twice Before Listening

The Swell Season

Wet Sounds

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Corman’s World: Exploits of a Horror Rebel

Crawl

The Day

The Devil Inside

Evidence

Penumbra

The Raid

Rites of Spring

Tape 407: The Mesa Reserve Incident

Wang’s Arrival

War of the Dead

KAPOW!@GFF

Now in its second year at GFF, this strand is dedicated to all things comic and superhero. GFF ambassador Mark Millar is back to help us make Kapow! a kick-ass strand, and this year we’re hosting a diverse range of feature films and documentaries, both local and international, as well as lively debates. From a film based on the life and short stories of manga artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi to a journey inside the world of real-life caped crusaders, there is something for all. Hugh Fraser Foundation Bryan Hitch in Conversation

The Crow

Death of a Superhero

Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters

Electric Man

Flash Gordon

A History of Violence

Kate Brown in Conversation

Mark Millar and Frank Quitely

Night is Day

Setting the Scene: Scotland and the Future of Comics

Superheroes

Superman

Tatsumi

Walking Dead Illustrator Charlie Adlard in Conversation

Women in Comics

Writing for Games and Comics

CROSSING THE LINE

A brand new strand for this year’s Festival which explores the crossover between cinema and visual art. Discover films by internationally renowned artists as well as the best in experimental and avant-garde cinema. Crossing the Line is a platform for daring and alternative approaches to cinema and explores the very limits of the medium. Also included in this strand is the winning commission from our Margaret Tait Award, given each year to an artist working in film to create a new piece of work. Thanks to Hugo Brown

85A presents: Jan Svankmajer

All Divided Selves

And Under That: Margaret Tait Award

Ben Rivers: The Scope Trilogy

Crossing the Line at GoMA

The Dilapidated Dwelling

Finisterrae

The Forgotten Space

Patience (After Sebald)

Two Years at Sea

FASHION IN FILM

This year’s Fashion in Film strand is bursting at the seams with some of the hottest names in the biz. GFF Fashion Ambassador Tessa Hartmann of the Scottish Fashion Awards has helped us clear the cinematic runway for in-depth portraits of the lives of iconic designers, fashion editors and celebrated photographers. Throw in a little 1920s glamour from a silent gem and a lively debate on the power and seduction of high heels and we’ve got fashion in film covered from head to toe. Don’t forget to keep an eye on our website for information on more fashion events taking place around town during the Festival. Bill Cunningham New York

Diana Vreeland: The Eye has to Travel

Girl Model

God Save My Shoes

A Man’s Story

Salomé

Vivienne Westwood: Do it Yourself

WEIMARVELLOUS

To add some fun and old-fashioned glamour to the dark winter months we have curated a special event inspired by the cabaret movement of Weimar Republic Germany. This tumultuous period, seen as a ‘wild crucible for modern ideas and experiments’, provides the perfect stimulus for a weekend of entertainment and experiment. We launch the weekend with a screening of The Blue Angel (with a free drink, dahlink), followed by a short selection of cabaret acts in the CCA café/ bar and rounding off with your chance to sing karaoke inspired by Bob Fosse’s 1972 film Cabaret. On Saturday we present two experiments in film, sound and presentation: a live improvised accompaniment to silent film Berlin: Symphony of a Great City by an established Scottish jazz trio and, later, a novel amalgamation – a live film and sound improvisation titled Glasgow: Symphony of a Great City. We close the weekend with a screening of the beautiful and historic Prince Achmed, created in the 1920s by avant-garde animator Lotte Reiniger. Curated and sponsored by the University of Edinburgh in partnership with GFF and Cinema Spectacular.

The Adventures of Prince Achmed

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

The Blue Angel

Glasgow: Symphony of a Great City

FREE EVENTS

Visiting our Festival needn’t cost a packet. Our standard ticket prices are kind to your pocket and we also offer a range of fabulous free events: from fashion and art film screenings to stunning short film programmes, there’s something for everyone to enjoy. We’ve also included free animation, drama and archive film events which are suitable for the whole family. And Under That: Margaret Tait Award

Award Winners

BFI Future Film Presents: #tweetapitch

Crossing the Line at GoMA

Enter the Archive

Film Nation: Shorts presents: Film Director Masterclass with Luke Snellin

Films for the Future

Focus Left – Youth Edition

The Forgotten Space

Play

Vivienne Westwood: Do it Yourself

Youth in the Archive

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A-Z LISTINGS

Drei Revered as the director of Run Lola Run and the forthcoming Cloud Atlas, Tom Tykwer has created a stylish, sophisticated exploration of modern love in 3. Described as ‘straight out of Shakespeare via Lubitsch’, 3 captures longterm Berlin lovers Hanna and Simon at a point in their relationship when they are restless for something new. Hanna finds her attention straying to research biologist Adam and eventually gives in to temptation. Simon surprises himself with an attraction to the personable man he meets while swimming. The man, of course, is Adam. The complications of this unexpected ménage à trois unfold in a sexy, witty adult tale with a seriously cool soundtrack.

85A presents: Jan Svankmajer Maverick sound/art collective 85A – currently in production on their own film Chernozem – ecstatically present the work of genius Czech filmmaker Jan Svankmajer, in all its demented glory! Each short film will be housed inside specially constructed theatres, coaxing Svankmajer’s surreal imagery off the screen and into life in front of you. Tailor-made installations, costumed performers and a cosy bar all beckon you ‘down to the cellar’. And with the main cinema-space ultimately transforming into a thumping discothèque on the Friday… a night at a multiplex this is not! Přijít! Vidět! Slyšet!

Welcome to Germany GFT Saturday 25 February (18.00) Director/Screenwriter Tom Tykwer Cast Sophie Rois, Sebastian Schipper, Devid Strieson Germany 2010, 1h59m, N/C 15+, German with subtitles In association with Goethe-Institut

Crossing the Line The Glue Factory Thursday 23 February (16.00–19.00) (matinee only) Friday 24 February (19.00–23.00) Director Jan Svankmajer Czechoslovakia 1964–92, N/C 18+, Czech/French/English with subtitles Thanks to BFI

Tickets cost £4 for the event on Thursday 23 February and £8/£6 for the event on Friday 24 February. Tickets are available from GFF and the 85A website: www.85A.org.uk.

Adapting Film to Stage workshop FellSwoop Theatre are a young, emerging company of recent graduates known for their bold and inventive productions. Their latest show is a live action adaptation of the French animated film Belleville Rendez-vous (2003), a sell-out success last year at the Edinburgh Fringe and now on tour across the country. Who better, then, to lead a GYFF workshop exploring the process of adapting film to stage? Participants will devise ways of presenting film on stage using a variety of found objects to create sound effects, characters and imagery.

Glasgow Youth Film Festival The Arches (Practice Room) Saturday 11 February (11.00–12.00) 8–13-year-olds (15.00–16.00) 14–21-year-olds Thanks to FellSwoop Theatre and The Arches

Open to 8–13-year-olds and 14–21-year-olds. £5 per participant. To book please call The Arches Box Office on 0141 565 1000.

The Adventures of Prince Achmed Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed

Ten years before Snow White, pioneering filmmaker Lotte Reiniger directed what is generally considered the first animated feature. Painstakingly created over three years, The Adventures of Prince Achmed is a dazzling achievement. Inspired by her love of Chinese shadow puppetry, Reiniger and her husband Carl Koch used 300,000 camera shots of frame-by-frame silhouette animation to create an enchanting tale from The Arabian Nights. Once upon a time, a young prince arrives on a magical island where he falls in love with Princess Peri Banu. But to win her hand and ensure their future, he must battle ogres and vanquish an evil sorcerer. A beautifully crafted, utterly charming fairy tale and a wonderful piece of film history.

All Divided Selves Luke Fowler is a Glasgow-based artist and filmmaker. His work has been exhibited internationally, with solo shows at the Serpentine Gallery, London and in February 2012 at Inverleith House, Edinburgh. In 2008 he won the inaugural Derek Jarman Award for experimentation in film. In All Divided Selves Fowler returns to a subject he has tackled before (in What You See is Where You’re At, 2001), that of the life and work of Glasgow counter-culture psychiatrist R D Laing. Drawing on an impressive selection of archive material, Fowler builds up a layered collage, juxtaposing a multitude of viewpoints to create an unconventional portrait of a fascinating figure and a thought-provoking exploration of the very nature of documentation.

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Weimarvellous CCA Saturday 18 February (20.00) Director/Screenwriter Lotte Reiniger Germany 1926, 1h5m, PG, silent Thanks to BFI and the University of Edinburgh

Crossing the Line GFT Thursday 23 February (18.00) Director/Screenwriter Luke Fowler Cast R D Laing UK 2011, 1h33m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Luke Fowler

All in Good Time East is East writer Ayub Khan-Din returns with another funny, tender-hearted portrait of family strife. Based on his popular play Rafta, Rafta (itself inspired by Bill Naughton’s 1960s classic All in Good Time), the film is set in Bolton where Atul and Vina are celebrating their marriage. However, a honeymoon spent with his parents was not part of their plans. Thoughtless patriarch Eeshwar seems determined to emasculate and embarrass his son. As the weeks pass, consummating their union becomes an impossibility that threatens the couple’s entire future. A breezy mixture of heartbreak and hilarity, All in Good Time also offers peerless performances from original stage stars Harish Patel and Meera Syal.

Almanya – Welcome to Germany Almanya – Willkommen in Deutschland

Winner of Best Film and Best Screenplay at the German Film Awards, Almanya has been one of Germany’s biggest box-office hits over the past year. An irresistible crowd-pleaser with echoes of East is East, it explores the immigrant experience in Germany with warm-hearted humour and a great generosity of spirit. Huseyin came to Germany in the 1960s as a ‘Gastarbeiter’ and has become a model citizen with a large family. He has decided to purchase some land in his home village in Anatalya, Turkey and insists that all his family accompany him on a sentimental journey home. The clash between the generations and a nostalgia for the past combine in a joyous, feel-good production.

An American in Paris Gene Kelly’s extraordinary influence on American screen musicals reached an artistic peak with this Oscar-winning classic. The combination of vibrant colour photography, glorious Gershwin tunes and inspired dance numbers is used to tell the story of a struggling American artist who finds himself a wealthy patron but loses his heart to the irresistible Leslie Caron in her screen debut. The modern ballet that ends the film remains one of the greatest sequences in the history of MGM and Kelly earned a special Oscar for his ‘brilliant achievements in the art of choreography’. Highlights of this Best Picture Oscar-winner include ‘I Got Rhythm’, ‘S’Wonderful’ and ‘Our Love is Here to Stay’.

Anchors Aweigh Forget the slender plot and savour the joyous energy and dazzling dance numbers in one of Gene Kelly’s best-loved musicals. The first of three films Kelly made with Frank Sinatra, Anchors Aweigh set a new benchmark for MGM musicals as it follows the romantic trials and tribulations of two sailors on shore leave in Hollywood. Kelly earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his exuberant performance as Joe ‘Sea Wolf’ Brady, loyal pal and romantic rival to Sinatra’s bashful Clarence ‘Brooklyn’ Doolittle when they meet aspiring singer Kathryn Grayson. Sinatra croons the Oscar-winning ‘I Fall in Love too Easily’ and Kelly tears up the screen with some athletic, innovative routines including a groundbreaking dance with cartoon favourite Jerry the mouse. Irresistible.

And Under That: Margaret Tait Award Anne-Marie Copestake is the winner of the 2011 Margaret Tait Award, supported by Creative Scotland and in partnership with LUX. Tonight is the world premiere and only screening of her unique film commission And Under That. And Under That combines the footage and sounds surrounding two women, creating a portrait through the acts of looking and listening. Emerging themes are legacies and patterns of so-called emancipation. The women vocalise fragmented language built from ideas, questions, observations, histories uncovered, history’s subjective nature, moments of alienation and resisting completion. The language explores particular environments, associations, female voices of authority and histories.

Best of British GFT Sunday 19 February (15.40) Monday 20 February (13.45) Director Nigel Cole Screenwriter Ayub Khan-Din Cast Reece Ritchie, Amara Karan, Meera Syal UK 2011, 1h33m, N/C 15+ Thanks to StudioCanal

Welcome to Germany GFT Friday 17 February (18.30) Director Yasemin Samdereli Screenwriters Yasemin Samdereli, Nesrin Samdereli Cast Vedat Erincin, Fahri Yardim, Lilay Huser Germany 2011, 1h37m, N/C 12+, German with subtitles In association with Goethe-Institut

Gene Kelly: Strictly Song and Dance GFT Sunday 19 February (11.00) Director Vincent Minnelli Screenwriter Alan Jay Lerner Cast Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant USA 1951, 1h48m, U Thanks to BFI

Gene Kelly: Strictly Song and Dance GFT Monday 20 February (11.00) Director George Sidney Screenwriters Natalie Marcin, Isobel Lennart Cast Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson USA 1945, 2h20m, U Thanks to Filmbank

Crossing the Line GFT Wed 22 February (21.00) Director/Screenwriter Anne-Marie Copestake UK 2011, 1h, N/C 8+ Thanks to LUX. The Margaret Tait Award is supported by Creative Scotland.

GLASGOW MARGARET TAIT AWARD

Immediately following the screening will be a live soundtrack performance by Glasgow-based musician/composer/producer Stevie Jones and band Muscles of Joy, of which filmmaker Anne-Marie Copestake is a member. Free but ticketed, tickets available on the day from GFT.

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At Night I Fly New Folsom is one of California’s maximum security prisons and a place where many inmates are serving life sentences. Swedish director Michel Wenzer opens the door to a different side of prison life than one we usually see on the big screen. He takes a look at Folsom’s Arts in Correction programme, a scheme that has been running across prisons in the US since the 1970s. At Night I Fly captures gospel choirs, poetry readings and blues guitar sessions while following a group of characters who, with great eloquence, talk about the difficulties of life inside. A film about the sense of freedom that creativity can give, even in the most oppressive places.

Autumn Gold Herbstgold

Training for a sporting World Championship is a formidable task. For Alfred, Jiří, Ilse, Gabre and Herbert however there’s an added challenge: these athletes are all aged between eighty and 100. Autumn Gold follows the greyhaired group as they prepare to compete in the World Championships in track and field. How will 100-year-old Alfred, a discus thrower from Vienna, fare after being fitted with an artificial knee six months before the competition? Will Jiří, an eighty-two-year-old high jumper from the Czech Republic, make the one metre mark one last time? This is an inspiring, touching and often very funny film about taking on life’s greatest challenges.

Stranger than Fiction GFT Wed 22 February (15.45) Director Michel Wenzer Sweden/Denmark 2011, 1h28m, N/C 12+ In partnership with the Scottish Documentary Institute. Thanks to the Swedish Film Institute

Stranger than Fiction GFT Sunday 19 February (16.00) Director Jan Tenhaven Cast Alfred Proksch, Gabre Gabic, Herbert Liedke Germany 2010, 1h34m, N/C 12+, German/Czech/ Swedish/Italian/English with subtitles In partnership with the Scottish Documentary Institute. Thanks to Gebrueder Beetz

Preceded by Kirkcaldy Man (17 mins, directed by Julian Schwanitz), an awardwinning short film that goes in search of Jocky Wilson, once Scotland’s world darts champion.

Avé Hitch-hiking from Sofia to Ruse, art student Kamen meets seventeen-year-old Avé who is bewitching, mischievous and a compulsive liar. From ride to ride, Avé concocts new identities for the two, each more fantastic than the last. Both intrigued and put off by Avé’s ability to lie herself in and out of any situation, Kamen eventually gives her the slip... but, of course, fate brings them back together.

Award Winners A chance to catch the prize-winners of Glasgow Short Film Festival 2012. We will screen the recipients of the Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film and the Scottish Short Film Award, both selected by jury, as well as the films voted the favourite of the audience in each competition. End the Festival on a cinematic high!

Glasgow Youth Film Festival GFT Monday 13 February (20.45) Director Konstantin Bojanov Cast Angela Nedialkova, Ovanes Torosian Bulgaria 2011, 1h26m, N/C 15+, Bulgarian with subtitles Thanks to Network Releasing Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Sunday 12 February (21.30) 1h30m, N/C 15+

Free but ticketed, tickets available from CCA on the day.

Babycall Fast emerging as one of Europe’s most versatile stars, Dragon Tattoo’s Noomi Rapace won the Best Actress prize at the Rome International Film Festival for her intense performance in this gripping psychological thriller. Rapace stars as Anna, a single mother who moves to a secret address in Oslo with her eightyear-old son Anders to escape the boy’s violent father. She buys a baby call to check on her sleeping son but finds that it picks up strange noises hinting at the murder of a child. Meanwhile Anders has a strange new friend and his drawing is stained with blood. Is Anna losing her mind or is there real danger lurking in the building?

Backyard The Reykjavík music scene is bursting with great bands from múm and FM Belfast to Hjaltalín and Sin Fang Bous. In the summer of 2009, Árni Rúnar thought it was worth celebrating this abundance of talent and started to plan a gathering of bands in his own backyard. He bought recording equipment, invited all the neighbours round and prepared pizza, cupcakes and pancakes. Imagine Árni’s surprise when the idea took on a life of its own and some of the most thrilling Icelandic musicians of his generation ambled along to play and enjoy the afternoon! Backyard captures the joy and music of an inspired event. Could the same thing happen in Glasgow?

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European Cinema Cineworld Renfrew Street Friday 17 February (21.00) Saturday 18 February (14.30) Director Pål Sletaune Cast Noomi Rapace, Kristoffer Joner, Henrik Rafaelsen Norway 2011, 1h36m, N/C 15+, Norwegian and Swedish with subtitles Thanks to Soda Pictures

Glasgow Music and Film Festival Cineworld Renfrew Street Tuesday 21 February (14.45) Wed 22 February (21.15) Director Árni Sveinsson Cast Árni Rúnar Hlöðversson Iceland 2011, 1h14m, N/C 15+, Icelandic with subtitles Thanks to the Icelandic Film Centre

Bad Behaviour: International Competition 7 The weight of adult expectation is forced on the young in our seventh international selection. Boundaries are demarcated, transgressions are punished. But why can’t grown ups behave like kids once in a while? Featuring the hilarious Las Palmas, winner of the audience award at Encounters and Gothenburg Film Festivals, Sundance favourite The Strange Ones, and Green Crayons, the latest film from GSFF alumnus Kazik Radwanski (Princess Margaret Blvd., Out in that Deep Blue Sea). Full details of all the films are provided in the Glasgow Short Film Festival brochure.

BAFTA in Scotland Event Glasgow Film Festival is proud to welcome the participation of BAFTA in Scotland in this year’s programme. In this special event, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts bring a major film personality to Scotland to discuss their distinguished career and take questions from the audience. The identity of the guest will be announced after the official launch of GFF12’s programme but we think it might be worth purchasing your tickets now as we can promise you a great evening.

Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest In the late 1980s, fresh-faced and straight out of high school, New York-bred A Tribe Called Quest formed and set about transforming the face of hip hop. Their innovative style would lead them to no fewer than five gold and platinum selling albums and leave them regarded as one of the most influential acts in the history of hip hop. Beats, Rhymes and Life explores the history and methods of the group throughout their existence. Beginning on their 2008 reunion tour, we see what twenty years can do to childhood relationships when music, ego and creativity become involved.

Beauty

Skoonheid Oliver Hermanus’s award-winning second feature is a mesmerising tale of desire and destructive self-loathing. Deon Lotz is unforgettable as Francois, a successful middle-aged Afrikaner businessman whose carefully ordered world is ripped apart at his daughter’s wedding when he is introduced to the son of an old friend. He is completely smitten by the handsome, athletic Christian (Charlie Keegan). Fascination turns to obsession as he starts to stalk the young man, unable to act on his fatal attraction or to accept the homosexuality he has long repressed. A disturbing, provocative tragedy with a striking performance from Lotz as a man consumed by his own denial.

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey Our second helping of Muppet goodness (following The Muppets on p47) comes courtesy of this hugely winning documentary about the man behind that helium-voiced megastar Elmo. As an average teenager growing up in 1970s Baltimore, Kevin Clash had very different aspirations from his classmates – he wanted to be a puppeteer. With a supportive family behind him, Kevin made those dreams come true, landing a spot on Sesame Street where he performed several characters until, one fateful day in 1984, he was handed a small, furry red monster...

Bel Ami Robert Pattinson gives his best screen performance to date as notorious scoundrel Georges Duroy in this handsome adaptation of the classic Guy de Maupassant novel. In the Paris of the 1890s, Georges is a penniless, dissolute ex-soldier. Unexpectedly thrust into high society, he quickly discovers that the real power in Paris lies not with the men but with their wives and mistresses. Madeleine (Uma Thurman), Virginie (Kristin Scott Thomas) and Clotilde (Christina Ricci) are all ripe for the picking as this callous seducer and ruthless social-climber relentlessly pursues wealth and status. There is a hint of American Psycho’s Patrick Bateman in Pattinson’s chilling portrayal of the creepy charmer.

Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Thursday 9 February (21.00) Saturday 11 February (11.00) 1h30m, N/C 15+

Event GFT Tuesday 21 February (18.00) 1h30m approx, N/C 8+ Thanks to Jude MacLaverty, Director of BAFTA in Scotland

Glasgow Music and Film Festival Cineworld Renfrew Street Wed 22 February (13.00) GFT Saturday 25 February (22.45) Director Michael Rapaport Cast Q Tip, Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Muhammad USA 2011, 1h38m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Autlook Filmsales GmbH

It’s a Wonderful World Cineworld Renfrew Street Friday 17 February (20.45) Saturday 18 February (15.00) Director Oliver Hermanus Screenwriters Oliver Hermanus, Didier Costet Cast Deon Lotz, Charlie Keegan, Michelle Scott South Africa 2011, 1h39m, N/C 18+, Afrikaans with subtitles Thanks to Peccadillo Pictures

Glasgow Youth Film Festival GFT Wed 15 February (20.15) Directors Constance Marks, Philip Shane USA 2011, 1h16m, N/C 8+ Thanks to The Festival Agency and Hanway Films

Best of British Cineworld Renfrew Street Wed 22 February (18.15) Thursday 23 February (17.00) Directors Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod Screenwriter Rachel Bennette Cast Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas UK 2011, 1h42m, N/C 15+ Thanks to StudioCanal

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Ben Rivers: The Scope Trilogy Three short films from rising star Ben Rivers, whose debut feature Two Years at Sea is also showing at this year’s Festival. Ah Liberty! (2008) is a snapshot of a family living in a remote landscape – children, animals, junk and nature collide in this fragmented look at freedom. In I Know Where I’m Going (2009) the director takes a road trip to the Isle of Mull, embracing serendipity and meeting eccentrics and hermits on the way. And lastly in Slow Action (2011) Rivers explores landscape again, this time taking images from four corners of the globe to create a post-apocalyptic futuristic world.

Ben Russell: Trypps 1–7 Ben Russell is a Chicago-based experimental filmmaker whose work engages with the very essence of cinema; drawing on the history of film, scrutinising the act of looking and playfully considering the conventions of the camera. The seven 16mm films in Russell’s Trypps series, made between 2005 and 2010, each take a different approach to what Russell refers to as ‘Psychedelic Ethnography’. Referencing both Jean Rouch and Richard Pryor, the series explores naturallyderived psychedelia, from the repetitive flashing signs of contemporary cityscapes, to the manipulation of found footage, to the trance-like intensity of a Lightning Bolt gig.(Programme contains strobing effects.)

Crossing the Line CCA Tuesday 21 February (18.45) Director/Screenwriter Ben Rivers UK 2008–2011, 1h29m, N/C 15+ Thanks to LUX Image courtesy of Ben Rivers and LUX

Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Friday 10 February (19.00) Director/Screenwriter Ben Russell USA 2005–2010, 1h30m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Light Cone

We are delighted to welcome Ben Russell to introduce the screening.

The Bengali Detective No writer of fiction could devise a character as beguiling as Rajesh Ji, a paunchy private detective who patrols the mean streets of Kolkata solving murders, prying into the messy lives of divorcing couples and thwarting endless dodgy scams. Rajesh is also a dedicated family man with a passion for dance and the abiding conviction that his smooth moves may yet bring him stardom. Philip Cox’s documentary has a great central subject but also provides a fresh, offbeat perspective on modern India and the thousands of everyday stories that build a vivid portrait of a society in transition. Stephen Frears is set to direct a fictional version of the Rajesh story – catch the original while you can.

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt

Walter Ruttmann’s groundbreaking documentary captures the pulse of Berlin in a single day in the late 1920s. It is a moment of calm between the nightmare of the Depression and the horrors of the Nazi era. Inspired by Dziga Vertov (The Man with a Movie Camera), he compiles an impressionistic portrait of a bustling metropolis from the first light of dawn to the last gasp of the city’s neon-lit nightlife. Cameras hidden on vehicles and in suitcases capture an authentic picture of children hurrying to school, factories billowing smoke, rush-hour traffic and even the President Paul von Hindenburg. It is a wonderful time capsule made all the more poignant by the city’s virtual destruction in the Second World War. This special screening is accompanied by a live improvised performance from Scottish Jazz Trio AAB as musicians Tom and Phil Bancroft and Kevin Mckenzie rock the house with a unique fusion of bop, folk, house and indie rock.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Forget the misery of broken Britain and head to the glorious warmth of India. That’s the plan adopted by a diverse collection of British pensioners in this delightful adaptation of the Deborah Moggach bestseller These Foolish Things. Shakespeare in Love director John Madden has assembled a once-in-a-generation cast of British actors for a truly heart-warming, captivating tale set amid the wonders of India. Fearing for the future, newly widowed Judi Dench, lonely Tom Wilkinson and grumpy Maggie Smith are among the pensioners attracted to the charms of a luxury Indian hotel run by Dev Patel. Nothing is as they had expected but fresh challenges bring exciting new opportunities.

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Stranger than Fiction GFT Saturday 25 February (13.00) Director Philip Cox Cast Rajesh Ji UK/India 2011, 1h50m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Network Releasing

Weimarvellous CCA Saturday 18 February (15.00) Director Walter Ruttmann Screenwriter Karl Freund Cast Paul Von Hindenburg Germany 1927, 1h14m, PG, German with subtitles Thanks to Goethe-Institut Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh

Gala GFT Friday 17 February (18.00) Director John Madden Screenwriter Ol Parker Cast Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson UK 2011, 1h58m, N/C 12+ Thanks to 20th Century Fox

Better this World In 2008, friends Brad Crowder and David McKay were so shocked by the American invasion of Iraq that they vowed to express their opposition at the Republican National Convention in Minnesota. Isn’t the right to protest what distinguishes a democratic state? Posing as a protest leader, an FBI informant encouraged them to create pipe bombs and caused their arrest and subsequent prosecution as terrorists. The two men rejected the chance to plea bargain and withstood unbearable pressure to testify against each other. Their story offers a chilling, heartbreaking insight into how easily civil liberties and idealistic individuals become collateral damage.

BFI Future Film presents: #tweetapitch What makes a great pitch? Come and learn from the professionals! Send in a pitch for a documentary you’d like to make via Twitter @Yollywoodfilm or email in 140 characters to futurefilminstitute@bfi. org.uk. The six best pitches will be selected and the filmmakers invited to join us at this live pitching event where you’ll need to convince our panel of industry judges that your film idea is the best of the bunch. Two winners will be selected on the day and invited to a filmmaking workshop at one of four partner venues across Europe (www. docnextnetwork.org).

Stranger than Fiction Cineworld Renfrew Street Wed 22 February (17.15) Thursday 23 February (18.30) Directors/Screenwriters Kelly Duane de la Vega, Katie Galloway Cast Brad Crowder, David McKay, Brandon Darby USA 2011, 1h38m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Dogwoof

Glasgow Youth Film Festival The Arches (Practice Room) Sunday 12 February (14.30–16.00) Thanks to BFI, Doc Next Network, European Cultural Foundation and The Arches

Entrants must be aged 16–25 and live in Scotland. They will also have to make their own way to the event on Sunday 12 February. Free but ticketed, tickets available on the day from The Arches.

Big Banana Feet

Great Scots

Inspired by D A Pennebaker’s classic Bob Dylan documentary Don’t Look Now, director Murray Grigor and cinematographer David Peat followed Billy Connolly on his 1975 Irish tour from the opening concert in Dublin to the final night in Belfast. Unlike Dylan, Billy Connolly welcomes the presence of the filmmakers and invites the viewer into his world. The result is a fascinating time capsule of the young Connolly at the height of his powers braving a tense political situation with a breezy: ‘Naw, Ah’m no scared’. David Peat was the 2011 BAFTA in Scotland recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to Craft Award for a distinguished career as a director, cinematographer and stills photographer. An exhibition of his photographs will be on display in GFT’s Café Cosmo during the Festival.

GFT Sunday 26 February (18.15) Director Murray Grigor Cinematographer David Peat Cast Billy Connolly Scotland 1976, 1h17m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Pacific Film Archive, Viz. Productions and Billy Connolly

David Peat will discuss Big Banana Feet and his career in conversation with Murray Grigor after the screening.

Bill Cunningham New York Bill Cunningham is one of the great unsung heroes of the fashion world. Every week this reclusive photographer contributes two spreads to the Sunday Styles section of The New York Times. ‘On the Street’ captures cutting-edge trends as they develop among the everyday New Yorkers he snaps. ‘Evening Hours’ showcases the latest haute couture statements from the rich and famous around town. His work over the past thirty years contains all the changing faces of fashion and the many sides of New York. This documentary celebrates a life dedicated to fashion photography and includes rousing endorsements of its subject from Anna Wintour, Annie Flanders and countless others. Highly recommended if you loved The September Issue.

Bill Douglas: Panel 4 We consider Scotland’s greatest director to be an honorary short filmmaker. Why? Because he never made a film that conformed to commercial standards of duration. His films are whatever length he felt was artistically appropriate. To celebrate the renaming of our international award in his honour, we are screening his student film Come Dancing and gathering together three people who knew him well to discuss his life and work – the director Ian Sellar, who got his first break working on the Trilogy, actor Alex Norton, who memorably played fourteen roles in Comrades, and Bill’s lifelong friend and fellow collector of film ephemera, Peter Jewell.

Fashion in Film Cineworld Renfrew Street Wed 22 February (19.15) GFT Friday 24 February (13.15) Director Richard Press Cast Bill Cunningham, Anna Wintour, Tom Wolfe USA 2010, 1h24m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Dogwoof

Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Sunday 12 February (15.00) 1h30m, N/C 15+ Thanks to South West Film & Television Archive and London Film School

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23-25 March 2012

minimal EXTREME

The most eclectic Minimal fest yet with the loudest, softest, rockiest, smoothest, shortest, longest freest, strictest works so far! Tickets:

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24-26 May 2012

GLASS 75

Large Phil Fingerprint/Random, 1979 © Chuck Close/ Courtesy The Pace Gallery Photo by: Paula Goldman/ Courtesy The Pace Gallery

Part II

Events include Philip Glass in Recital, Dracula with the Kronos Quartet and the BBC SSO performing Glass' Symphony No.6

Various venues, Glasgow

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Black Gold Epic filmmaking in the tradition of Lawrence of Arabia, Black Gold is a sweeping historical adventure blending superb action sequences with political insight and intimate human drama. Based on Hans Reusch’s novel The Great Thirst, the tale begins in the 1930s when rulers Nesib (Antonio Banderas) and Amar (Mark Strong) agree to end their destructive feud. To guarantee the peace, Amar allows his two sons to be raised in Nesib’s household. One of the sons Auda (Tahar Rahmin) becomes the conscience of his nation, inspired by Nesib’s betrayals to become a charismatic leader. James Horner’s rousing score adds to the majesty of Jean-Jacques Annaud’s heroic saga.

Blackthorn Imagine that Butch Cassidy did not die in a hail of bullets in 1908. Mateo Gil’s stunningly handsome western is set twenty years later with Cassidy living in South America under the name of James Blackthorn. Yearning to reconnect with America and the man who could be his son, Blackthorn hits the trail and soon encounters slippery stranger Eduardo who seems determined to fill the role vacated by the Sundance Kid and nudge him back into a life of crime. Can history repeat itself amid the social and moral changes of the Roaring Twenties? An old-school western with a modern twist, breathtaking scenery and a performance to savour from Sam Shepard.

The Blue Angel Der blaue Engel

Where better to begin Weimarvellous – our weekend celebration of the Weimar Republic’s cabaret culture – than with Marlene Dietrich in The Blue Angel? The role of cabaret performer Lola-Lola, who becomes the ruin of a high school Professor, launched Dietrich’s career. Her performance has been described as perfectly portraying ‘the playful and captivating, enchanting and disquieting hybridity of Weimar cabaret’. After the screening we move into the CCA’s café bar to enjoy an hour or so of cabaret acts ranging from burlesque dance to poetry. And (any excuse for a sing-song) the evening finishes with the chance to belt out your favourite numbers to a like-minded crowd in our cabaroke (cabaret-themed karaoke). Fancy dress enthusiasts are, of course, welcome.

Gala Cineworld Renfrew Street Friday 17 February (20.30) Saturday 18 February (13.20) Director Jean-Jacques Annaud Screenwriters Jean-Jacques Annaud, Menno Meyjes Cast Tahar Rahim, Antonio Banderas, Mark Strong France/Italy/Qatar 2011, 2h10m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Warner Brothers

Gala Cineworld Renfrew Street Monday 20 February (18.15) Tuesday 21 February (16.00) Director Mateo Gil Screenwriter Miguel Barros Cast Sam Shepard, Eduardo Noriega, Stephen Rea USA 2011, 1h38m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Artificial Eye

Weimarvellous CCA Friday 17 February (19.00–00.00) Director Josef von Sternberg Screenwriter Robert Liebmann, Carl Zuckmayer, Karl Vollmöller Cast Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron Germany 1930, 1h46m, N/C 18+, German with subtitles Thanks to Goethe-Institut Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh

Tickets cost £12/£10 and include a drink before the film and the cabaret afterwards.

Bob and the Monster Bob and the Monster follows the story of notorious American rocker Bob Forrest, from his struggles with addiction in the drug-saturated 1980s LA music scene to his reinvention as an inspired drugs counsellor. Through a turbulent period of spiralling drug abuse we hear from friends about Forrest’s journey from precocious young musical talent to lost soul risking HIV-infected needles. With first-hand recollections from his friends and musical peers Anthony Kiedis, Flea and Courtney Love, the film follows the chaotic and unexpected path of Bob’s life, delivering a poignant yet never puritanical anti-drugs message.

Bonsái Chilean director Cristián Jiménez caught the world’s attention with his quirky debut feature Optical Illusions (2009). Bonsái is even better as it juggles love and longing in a hip, funny, slacker romance inspired by Marcel Proust. Julio is obsessed by literature. He is also desperate to impress fellow student Emilia. We are told that they are not destined to be together which does nothing to spoil the pleasure of a film that tiptoes back and forward in time. Eight years later, Julio is intent on becoming a writer and takes his inspiration from his student days’ passion for Emilia. The remembrance of romance past is handled with humour and charm in this adaptation of the Alejandro Zambra novella.

Glasgow Music and Film Festival CCA Friday 24 February (20.45) GFT Sunday 26 February (20.30) Director Keirda Bahruth Cast Bob Forrest, Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Courtney Love USA 2011, 1h25m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Shaker Films

It’s a Wonderful World Cineworld Renfrew Street Tuesday 21 February (16.30) Thursday 23 February (20.45) Director/Screenwriter Cristián Jiménez Cast Diego Noguera, Nathalia Galgani, Gabriela Aranciba Chile 2011, 1h35m, N/C 15+, Spanish with subtitles Thanks to Network Releasing

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A Boy and His Samurai Dark Water screenwriter Yoshihiro Nakamura has previously wowed audiences with his tense thrillers but A Boy and His Samurai – a family film about a lost samurai, custard tarts and yakuza gangs – presents a radical change of pace. Yusa is struggling to balance work and raise a child by herself when a 19th-century samurai called Kajima is transported into their world and changes everything. Frustrated by Kajima’s inability to cope with modern-day Tokyo, Yusa employs him as a housekeeper and it’s not long before he realises that he prefers baking cakes to hacking people to pieces. Based on the popular manga, A Boy and His Samurai won the Fantastic Fest 2011 Audience Award for its charming mix of the absurd and the adorable.

Breathing Atmen

Actor Karl Markovics (The Counterfeiters) makes a hugely impressive directorial debut with this beautifully judged, completely captivating human drama. Non-professional actor Thomas Schubert is perfect as Roman, a sullen, muted eighteen-year-old in juvenile detention. Constantly turned down for parole, he tries a succession of day release jobs that always end in failure. Things begin to change when he starts a job hauling bodies to the city morgue. One of the deceased shares his surname and this sets him on a quest to discover the woman who abandoned him years ago. It is the first step on his way back to engaging with the world and finding a place within it.

Brigadoon The time has come to set aside your prejudices and reclaim Brigadoon as one of the great underrated treasures in the MGM musical pantheon. Dismissed in the 1950s as pure tartan kitsch and despised for choosing Hollywood make-believe over location shooting in Scotland, Brigadoon is still a wonderfully romantic musical with some unforgettable numbers in ‘The Heather on the Hill’ and ‘Almost Like Being in Love’. Gene Kelly is the American visitor to the Highlands who stumbles across an idyllic, enchanted village and a bewitching lassie played by the stunning Cyd Charisse. Little does he realise the huge obstacle in the path of their happy ever after.

Bryan Hitch in Conversation British comic book artist Bryan Hitch is widely recognised as one of the industry’s leading artists and storytellers, with his books regularly selling over 100,000 copies an issue in America alone. Also highly credited for his design work, his designs have appeared in the successful relaunch of Doctor Who in 2005 and numerous feature films, including Captain America, Thor and Star Trek (2009), as well as the upcoming The Avengers film, based on The Ultimates comic book by himself and Mark Millar. Bryan will discuss his career, including his new book co-written with Jonathan Ross, before taking questions from the audience.

Glasgow Youth Film Festival GFT Sunday 12 February (12.30) Director/Screenwriter Yoshihiro Nakamura Cast Ryô Nishikido, Rie Tomosaka Japan 2010, 1h48m, N/C 8+, Japanese with subtitles Thanks to Geneon Universal Entertainment Japan, LLC

European Cinema Cineworld Renfrew Street Monday 20 February (20.45) Tuesday 21 February (13.30) Director/Screenwriter Karl Markovics Cast Thomas Schubert, Karin Lischka, Gerhard Liebmann Austria 2011, 1h33m, N/C 15+, German with subtitles Thanks to Verve Pictures

Gene Kelly: Strictly Song and Dance GFT Friday 24 February (11.00) Director Vincent Minnelli Screenwriter Alan Jay Lerner Cast Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse, Van Johnson USA 1954, 1h43m, U Thanks to BFI

Kapow!@GFF CCA Wed 22 February (15.00) 45m, N/C 8+

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Buck Buck Brannaman was the real-life inspiration for Robert Redford’s character in the massively popular movie The Horse Whisperer. He has an amazing affinity with horses and a great sensitivity to what they are feeling and thinking. He wins their trust with kindness and understanding. His inspirational story is the subject of a warmly appealing documentary that tells of his early years as a child rodeo star, his harsh treatment at the hands of a fearsome father and the shining influence of a wonderful foster mother. His own ability to handle horses and their owners is never less than astonishing in a film that also includes an interview with Robert Redford.

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Stranger than Fiction Cineworld Renfrew Street Friday 17 February (19.00) Saturday 18 February (12.30) Director Cindy Meehl Cast Buck Brannaman, Bibb Frazier, Robert Redford USA 2011, 1h28m, N/C 8+ Thanks to Revolver Entertainment

Butcher Boy Butcher Boy is a Glasgow-based band known for gentle indie pop music and wistful, evocative lyrics. The band’s influences stretch far beyond music, citing filmmakers including Bill Douglas and Robert Bresson as inspirations. In 2009 Butcher Boy performed a live soundtrack to Scottish director Enrico Cocozza’s film Chick’s Day at Glasgow Film Theatre. Glasgow Short Film Festival is delighted to invite the band to perform to film again, in a special event for this year’s Festival.

Café de flore Jean-Marc Vallée (C.R.A.Z.Y., The Young Victoria) continues to prove himself one of the most versatile filmmakers in world cinema with Café de flore, an elegantly woven duo of tales on intense love and unbearable loss. In contemporary Montreal, divorced dad Antoine is devoted to his daughters and his new girlfriend although his ex-wife Carole believes that they are destined to be together. In the Paris of 1969, single mother Jacqueline is devoted to Laurent, a young boy with Down’s syndrome who loves to hear the jazz album Café de flore. Music seems to be the only thing that unites the stories but the connections become more apparent in a film of tender extremes.

Carol Channing: Larger than Life Carol Channing is a show business legend. The original Dolly Levi in the Broadway production of Hello, Dolly!, she also originated the role of Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, was Oscar-nominated for Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), has performed with the Muppets, rubbed shoulders with Presidents and is still going strong in her nineties. Dori Berinstein’s documentary is a glorious tribute to an irrepressible trouper and a touching human interest story: Channing was reunited with her childhood sweetheart Harry Kullijian in 2003 and subsequently became his wife, enjoying the ‘happy ever after’ they should have started seventy years ago. A film that just makes you feel good about life.

Glasgow Short Film Festival The Berkeley Suite Friday 10 February (21.00) 2h, N/C 18+

It’s a Wonderful World Cineworld Renfrew Street Friday 17 February (15.45) Saturday 18 February (20.45) Director Jean-Marc Vallée Cast Vanessa Paradis, Kevin Parent, Hélène Florent Canada 2011, 2h, N/C 15+, French with subtitles Thanks to Momentum Pictures

Stranger than Fiction GFT Friday 17 February (13.30) Tuesday 21 February (12.45) Director Dori Berinstein Cast Carol Channing, Harry Kullijian, Jerry Herman, Angela Lansbury USA 2012, 1h23m, N/C 8+ Thanks to Film Sales Corp

All tickets are £4 for the screening on Tuesday 21 February (12.45).

Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below When young Asuna learns about Agartha, an underground world that can grant any wish, she heads off to the mysterious land to bring her friend back from the dead. Pursued by a ruthless group of soldiers, Asuna must confront her greatest fears if she wants to get there first. Heralded as the new Miyazaki, Makoto Shinkai has produced a thought-provoking, gorgeous animation about life, death and saying goodbye.

Chinese Take-Away Un cuento chino

Winner of Best Film and the Audience Prize at the Rome International Film Festival and nominated for fourteen Argentinean Oscars, Chinese Take-Away is a little gem of a charmer with a great central performance from Ricardo Darín, star of The Secret in their Eyes (2009). Darín plays Roberto, a grumpy shopkeeper in Buenos Aires who lives by a strict routine and likes to keep the world at arm’s length. All of that changes when he turns good samaritan to Jun, a young Chinese man in search of his uncle. The bizarre circumstances that led Jun on his quest provide the film with its unforgettable opening sequence. The fact that Jun speaks not a word of Spanish only adds to the challenge of their friendship as Roberto’s world is turned upside down. A warm-hearted delight.

Cloudburst Imagine Thelma and Louise had lived happily ever after and matured into a loving lesbian couple who take no nonsense from anyone. Then you would have feisty Stella (Olympia Dukakis) and her beloved Dot (Brenda Fricker). In Thom Fitzgerald’s award-winning delight Cloudburst, they have been together for over thirty years when Dot falls ill and her granddaughter dispatches her to a care facility. Stella is not about to let that happen and so steals her away in the middle of the night for a road trip to Nova Scotia where they can marry. Along the way, they encounter handsome hitchhiker Prentice (Ryan Doucette) in a film that expertly blends tender-hearted romance and uproarious comedy and gives Olympia Dukakis one of the best roles of her career.

Glasgow Youth Film Festival GFT Sunday 12 February (17.30) Director Makoto Shinkai Cast Hisako Kanemoto, Kazuhiko Inoue, Miyu Irino Japan 2011, 1h56m, N/C 12+, Japanese with subtitles Thanks to Scotland Loves Animation It’s a Wonderful World Cineworld Renfrew Street Tuesday 21 February (18.30) Thursday 23 February (15.00) Director/Screenwriter Sebastián Borensztein Cast Ricardo Darín, Muriel Santa Ana, Ignacio Huang Argentina 2011, 1h33m, N/C 15+, Spanish with subtitles Thanks to Latido Films

It’s a Wonderful World GFT Monday 20 February (18.00) Director/Screenwriter Thom Fitzgerald Cast Olympia Dukakis, Brenda Fricker, Ryan Doucette USA/Canada 2011, 1h33m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Sidney Kimmel Entertainment

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Colour of the Ocean Die Farbe des Ozeans

No good deed goes unpunished in Maggie Peren’s impressive feature woven around attitudes to the waves of African refugees desperately seeking a better life in Europe. Zola and his son Mamadou are among the ten survivors of a refugee boat washed ashore in the Canaries. German tourist Nathalie is the first person to reach them and her instinct is to do everything she can to help. Border guard José’s instinct is to start the process that will see them deported. Is he callous or just realistic? Is Nathalie admirable or hopelessly naive? The struggle to do the right thing places issues of responsibility, compassion and moral duty at the heart of an utterly compelling human drama.

Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel A fascinating documentary that tracks the rise of Roger Corman, the legendary writer, director and producer known for his low budget exploitation movies of the 1950s and 60s. A true maverick, Corman dealt with hot button social topics like race (The Intruder), drugs (The Trip) and feminism (The Student Nurses) long before it was fashionable to do so and in fact made them important themes for future cinema. Corman’s World celebrates all the brilliance of the director’s budget career, and comes illustrated with great clips and insights from his contemporaries, students and stars, including Jack Nicholson as you’ve never seen him before! Scottish premiere.

Corpo celeste Marta has just moved from Switzerland to Calabria, Italy, with her mother and sister. A rebellious teen, she soon falls foul of the straight-laced local church minions who are trying to focus her and a group of girls on the elaborate preparations for their Catholic confirmation... Discovered in the Directors’ Fortnight section at Cannes last year, this winning drama of one girl’s bumpy spiritual journey and coming of age is beautifully observed and laced with irreverent humour.

Crawl A thrilling cinematic work crafted with nuance and skill, Crawl is an accomplished homage to film noir filled with white-knuckle suspense. In an unknown rural town, seedy bar owner Slim Walding (Paul Holmes) hires a mysterious Croatian hitman to murder a local garage owner after a shady business deal goes wrong, but the plan backfires and innocent waitress Marilyn Burns (Georgina Haig) is taken hostage. Director Paul China makes this slow-burning study in terror particularly effective through atmospheric lighting, fluid camerawork and by employing long, tense periods of silence. This is a dark and claustrophobic flick that builds to a terrifying climax. UK premiere.

Crossing the Line at GoMA For the first time GFF sets up camp at GoMA, screening a cycle of three awardwinning contemporary art films from Glasgow-born art collector Hugo Brown’s Cobra to Contemporary Collection. Nicolas Provost’s Plot Point (2007), which was awarded an Honourable Mention at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, uses hidden-camera footage of everyday life around Times Square in New York, edited and scored to lead the viewer into a subconscious process of discovering a story. Pruitt-Igoe Falls (2009) by Cyprien Gaillard, recent winner of the Marcel Duchamp Prize at the Centre Pompidou, rhymes the 2008 demolition of the Sighthill tower block in Glasgow with the destruction of the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St Louis, Missouri, in 1972. Lucia, Luis and the Wolf (Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León, Niles Atallah, 2007/8) is a two-part stop-motion animation from Chile which has won awards at both VIS Vienna Independent Shorts and the YouTube Play Biennale at The Guggenheim in New York.

Welcome to Germany GFT Friday 24 February (17.45) Director/Screenwriter Maggie Peren Cast Álex González, Sabine Timoteo, Hubert Koundé Germany 2011, 1h35m, N/C 15+, German with subtitles Thanks to Telepool GmbH and Goethe-Institut Glasgow

FrightFest GFT Friday 24 February (13.30) Director Alex Stapleton Screenwriters Alex Stapleton, Gregory Locklear Cast Jack Nicholson, Quentin Tarantino, Pam Grier, Traci Lords USA 2011, 1h41m, N/C 18+ Thanks to Anchor Bay

Glasgow Youth Film Festival GFT Saturday 11 February (18.45) Director Alice Rohrwacher Cast Yle Vianello Italy/Switzerland/France 2011, 1h40m, N/C 12+, Italian with subtitles Thanks to Artificial Eye FrightFest GFT Friday 24 February (18.30) Director Paul China Cast George Shevtsov, Georgina Haig, Paul Holmes, Andy Barclay Australia 2011, 1h21m, N/C 18+ Thanks to Paul and Ben China

Crossing the Line Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) From Friday 16 – Sunday 26 February (screened continuously during GoMA opening hours) Thanks to Hugo Brown

Free, not ticketed

The Crow Alex Proyas’s brooding, bravura version of The Crow is one of the finest comic book screen adaptations. Inspired by James O’Barr’s cult comic, it looks as black and inky as the bleakest night, filled with shadows and sorrow. Bruce Lee’s son Brandon, who tragically died during the shooting, stars as guitarist Eric Draven. A year after a street gang killed him and his fiancée, Draven is brought back to life by a crow who guides him on a relentless quest to achieve bloody revenge. One by one the invincible vigilante tracks down and confronts the guilty thugs before a showdown with crime lord TopDollar. A dark, dynamic grand guignol chiller with an unexpected melancholy at its core.

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Kapow!@GFF GFT Thursday 23 February (23.00) Director Alex Proyas Screenwriters David J Schow, John Shirley Cast Brandon Lee, Michael Wincott, Ernie Hudson USA 1994, 1h42m, 18 Thanks to Entertainment Film Distributors Ltd

Cry Parrot presents: Umberto A true master of the horror film soundtrack aesthetic, Umberto’s music is a hypnotic, all-consuming journey, reeling you into a foggy, neon-lit world of graveyards, stalkers, haunted houses, witches and blood-stained corpses. Evoking the unsettling progressive rock of Goblin and the sinister, dystopian synth-work of John Carpenter, his acclaimed releases are as playful and experimental as they are expertly crafted. Flying over from Kansas City, Missouri for this special performance, Umberto will provide a live soundtrack to a secret film of his choice in cutting-edge arts venue SWG3.

Glasgow Music and Film Festival SWG3 Saturday 25 February (20.00) 3h, N/C 18+ Thanks to Cry Parrot

Co-presented by independent promoters Cry Parrot, expect a suitably creepy production and otherworldly performance. All tickets £5

David As the son of the Imam of the local Brooklyn mosque, young Daud has to juggle the high expectations of his father and his feelings of isolation and difference – even from his peers in the Muslim community. Through an innocent act of good faith, he inadvertently befriends a group of Jewish boys who mistake him for a fellow classmate at their Orthodox school. A genuine friendship grows between Daud and one of the Jewish boys. Unable to resist the joy of a camaraderie that he has never felt before, David, as he is known, is drawn into a complicated dilemma inspired by youthful deceit and the best of intentions.

Glasgow Youth Film Festival GFT Sunday 12 February (14.30) Directors/Screenwriters Joel Fendelman, Patrick Daly Cast Muatasem Mishal, Maz Jobrani, Dina Aishah USA 2010, 1h20m, N/C 12+ Thanks to David the Film LLC

Winner of the Ecumenical Prize at the Montreal World Film Festival 2011. This screening is followed by a panel discussion hosted by West of Scotland Racial Equality Council.

The Day The apocalypse has arrived and the world is a brutal and dangerous place to live. It’s been ten years since an unnamed disaster occurred and a group of five survivors are heading to greener pastures to try and find a place to plant some rare vegetable seeds. They’re low on ammunition and food and one of the group is sick and so they decide to break from their usual protocol and hole up in an abandoned two-storey farmhouse. It isn’t long before cannibals come looking for prey. Visually stark just like the landscapes, The Day delivers splatter kills, edge-of-your-seat suspense and visceral action. UK premiere.

The Day I was Not Born Das Lied in mir

An impressive, prize-winning feature debut from Florian Cossen, The Day I was Not Born is an absorbing, flawlessly acted tale of a woman’s search for her true identity. Jessica Schwarz is immensely touching as Maria, a competitive swimmer on a brief stopover in Buenos Aires who recognises a nursery rhyme she hears. She seems to know all the words even though she barely speaks any Spanish. The city itself feels strangely familiar. When she mentions these feelings to her father back in Germany, it is the first step in discovering the secrets and lies buried deep in her family history. A haunting, emotional drama.

Death of a Superhero After several cycles of chemotherapy, fourteen-year-old Donald feels he has little left to hope for. When Donald’s parents urge him to confront his feelings, he retreats further into his own head, channelling his thoughts into sinister and eerily beautiful comic book drawings. In the universe of his sketches he becomes a brawny superhero dedicated to fighting his arch-enemy: a mad scientist called The Glove, who wields syringes for fingers. Director Ian Fitzgibbon’s film is a poignant coming-of-age story with a dark undertone, addressing the most painful of circumstances alongside a rich and often humorous treatment of classic teen preoccupations.

FrightFest GFT Friday 24 February (21.00) Director Douglas Aarniokoski Screenwriter Luke Passmore Cast Dominic Monaghan, Shawn Ashmore, Cory Hardrict Canada 2011, 1h30m, N/C 18+ Thanks to Entertainment One

Welcome to Germany GFT Saturday 18 February (13.00) Director Florian Cossen Cast Jessica Schwarz, Michael Gwisdek, Rafael Ferro Germany 2010, 1h35m, N/C 15+, German and Spanish with subtitles In association with Goethe-Institut

Kapow!@GFF Cineworld Renfrew Street Wed 22 February (20.30) Thursday 23 February (13.00) Director Ian Fitzgibbon Screenwriter Anthony McCarten, based on his novel Cast Andy Serkis, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Aisling Loftus Germany 2011, 1h38m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Bavaria Film International

The screening on Wednesday 22 February (20.30) will be introduced by a representative from Teenage Cancer Trust.

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Death Watch La mort en direct

Before Big Brother gripped the nation or David Cronenberg entered the Videodrome, Bertrand Tavernier came to Glasgow to film this strikingly prescient futuristic drama. Ace reporter Roddy (Harvey Keitel) has a camera implanted in his eye to record everything he sees. His job is to capture the last days of the terminally ill Katherine (Romy Schneider) for the viewing pleasure of voyeuristic millions. Refusal to comply is not an option in a cult classic that earned five César nominations and makes atmospheric use of the decaying industrial heartland of 1970s Glasgow. Long unseen in the UK, this is a welcome restoration prior to a cinema re-issue from Glasgow-based distributor Park Circus.

The Decoy Bride Bridget Jones meets Local Hero in this fizzy romantic confection that features a sparkling screwball comedy performance from Kelly Macdonald. Hollywood star Lara (Alice Eve) and her writer fiancé James (David Tennant) are desperate for a quiet romantic wedding far from the prying eyes of the paparazzi. The tiny Scottish island of Hegg seems ideal but the media are soon descending in their hordes. A cunning plan is devised to stage a fake wedding and throw them off the trail. Local lass Katie (Macdonald) is the decoy bride but nothing goes entirely as expected in an entertaining romp with echoes of I Know Where I’m Going.

The Devil Inside In 1989, emergency responders receive a 911 call from Maria Rossi (Suzan Crowley) confessing to the brutal murder of three people. Twenty years later, her daughter Isabella (Fernanda Andrade) is still trying to understand the truth about that fateful night and confront her own personal demons. She decides to travel to Italy to the Centrino Hospital for the Criminally Insane where her mother has been locked away, in the hope to determine if she is mentally ill or demonically possessed. When she recruits two young exorcists to cure her mother, using unconventional and unauthorised methods, they come face-to-face with pure evil. UK premiere.

Diana Vreeland: The Eye has to Travel The life of the notorious High Empress of Fashion, Diana Vreeland, is brought to the screen for the first time in this touching documentary. As writer and editor for both Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue and consultant for the Costume Institute of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, this impressive woman, one of 20th century fashion’s most iconic tastemakers, helped set the gold standard in style. Told through archive interviews with Vreeland herself, interwoven with prominent fashion figures discussing Vreeland’s influence on their work and the industry today, Diana Vreeland: The Eye has to Travel provides an exhilarating look into the life and times of this fashion legend.

The Dilapidated Dwelling Best known for the documentaries London and Robinson in Space, idiosyncratic essayist Patrick Keiller turns his attention to the British love affair with old houses in The Dilapidated Dwelling. Why does the nation prefer ancient to modern, vintage to brand new? The question is seen through the work of a woman who has spent twenty years in the Arctic with people who build their homes from snow. Now she is asked to investigate ‘the predicament of the house’. So why do the British cling to their bricks and mortar? Trends and tastes are considered in archive footage, interviews and statistics all leading to the big question: why can’t the UK effectively produce cheap houses that are comfortable to live in and that people want to buy? Screening alongside three short films: Adam Chodzko’s Around, Redmond Entwhistle’s Belfast Trio and William Raban’s The Houseless Shadow.

Out of the Past/Cinema City GFT Sunday 26 February (15.00) Director Bertrand Tavernier Screenwriters Bertrand Tavernier, David Rayfiel Cast Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton, Max von Sydow UK 1980, 2h8m, 15 Thanks to Park Circus

Great Scots Cineworld Renfrew Street Tuesday 21 February (20.30) Wed 22 February (12.30) Director Sheree Folkson Cast Kelly Macdonald, David Tennant, Alice Eve UK 2011, 1h30m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Cinema NX

FrightFest GFT Saturday 25 February (21.00) Director William Brent Bell Cast Fernanda Andrade, Simon Quarterman, Suzan Crowley USA 2012, 1h25m, N/C 18+ Thanks to Paramount Pictures

Fashion in Film GFT Saturday 18 February (14.50) Director Lisa Immordino Vreeland USA 2011, 1h17m, N/C 12+ Thanks to StudioCanal Image courtesy of the Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby’s Crossing the Line Tramway Tuesday 21 February (19.00) Director/Screenwriter Patrick Keiller Narrator Tilda Swinton UK 2000, 2h15m, N/C 8+ Thanks to Henry Moore Foundation, UIS, Arts and Business Scotland’s New Arts Sponsorship scheme and LUX Image courtesy of Patrick Keiller and LUX

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Douglas Hart Music Videos A founder member of The Jesus and Mary Chain, Douglas Hart first began making music videos in the late 80s for the likes of My Bloody Valentine and The Stone Roses. Over the last thirty years he has made more than 100 films working with a range of artists from Pete Doherty to the Pet Shop Boys, developing a distinct style recognisable for its minimalism and bold use of colour. The programme will include his short football documentary Brazil 1970: The Sexiest Kick-off, with music by Primal Scream. Don’t miss this first retrospective of possibly Scotland’s most prolific filmmaker!

Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Saturday 11 February (21.00) Director Douglas Hart 1h30m, N/C 15+

We are delighted to welcome Douglas Hart to introduce the screening and discuss his work.

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Dracula – Prince of Darkness You just can’t keep an indestructible vampire in his grave. Seven years after their sensational international success with Dracula, Hammer resurrected the franchise with this full-blooded sequel. The Count has been dead for ten years but has left instructions that the castle should always be ready to welcome guests. Defying the dire warnings of the locals, two English couples come a travelling but can’t quite understand the very warm welcome that they receive. One of the best of the Hammer horrors thanks to tight direction and the sheer, menacing presence of a sparingly used Christopher Lee who will haunt your nightmares. Screening from a restored digital print.

Dragonslayer Winner of the Grand Jury prize for Best Documentary Feature at SXSW last year, Dragonslayer depicts the life and times of one Josh ‘Skreech’ Sandoval, a Californian skateboarding vet in his early twenties. Part-punk, part-bohemian, virtually homeless, Skreech is living an extended adolescence, riding empty swimming pools, getting wasted, camping in friends’ backyards and hanging with his girl. But his endless summer is finally about to collide with the future... Skaters, fans of Gus Van Sant and Harmony Korine – this one’s for you.

Dreileben – Beats Being Dead Dreileben – Etwas Besseres als den Tod

Inspired by an impassioned exchange of views in the film magazine Revolver, Dreileben (‘Three Lives’) is a trio of interlocking tales by three of Germany’s leading filmmakers. Each director works from the same basic premise of a convicted murderer and sex offender who has escaped from a hospital. Jerichow director Christian Petzold approaches it as a romantic thriller. Young medical student Johannes is attracted to Ana but he is not prepared for her to quit her job and become totally dependent on him. Is this how he sees the future or is Ana just a mistake he has made along the way?

Dreileben – Don’t Follow Me Around Dreileben – Komm mir nicht nach

Inspired by an impassioned exchange of views in the film magazine Revolver, Dreileben (‘Three Lives’) is a trio of interlocking tales by three of Germany’s leading filmmakers. Each director works from the same basic premise of a convicted murderer and sex offender who has escaped from a hospital. Director Dominik Graf maintains the unease in Christian Petzold’s film but concentrates on psychologist Johanna who is brought in to help in the manhunt. She decides to stay with an old friend and her husband and the obvious tensions between the trio take the story into very different territory.

Dreileben – One Minute of Darkness Dreileben – Eine minute dunkel

Inspired by an impassioned exchange of views in the film magazine Revolver, Dreileben (‘Three Lives’) is a trio of interlocking tales by three of Germany’s leading filmmakers. Each director works from the same basic premise of a convicted murderer and sex offender who has escaped from a hospital. Director Christoph Hochhäusler cuts to the chase as escaped killer Frank hides in the woods and a detective starts to question the evidence in the case against him. The thrill of the manhunt is contrasted with a more brooding, troubling sense of mystery as dots are joined and lives are changed.

Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters Tetris is the most popular video game ever created, selling around 35 million copies worldwide since its original release in 1984. It is so addictive that dedicated players are known to suffer the Tetris effect of mild hallucinations and wanting to arrange things in boxes and blocks. Adam Cornelius’s equally addictive documentary follows the preparations for the Tetris World Championships in Los Angeles that have attracted some of the finest players of the game that the world has ever seen. The big question is whether the tournament might witness the return of Thor, a player unseen for twenty years who is rumoured to have reached the game’s supposedly unreachable level 30. Filled with unforgettable characters, friendly competitors and knife-edge tension, Ecstasy of Order captures the agony and the ecstasy of playing one of the world’s greatest games.

FrightFest Extra GFT Thursday 23 February (23.15) Director Terence Fisher Screenwriter John Sansom Cast Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir UK 1966, 1h26m, 15 Thanks to StudioCanal

Glasgow Youth Film Festival GFT Wed 15 February (18.15) Director Tristan Patterson USA 2011, 1h14m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Animals of Combat, LLC

Welcome to Germany Cineworld Renfrew Street Sunday 19 February (17.00) Monday 20 February (15.00) Director Christian Petzold Cast Jacob Matschenz, Luna Mijovic, Vijessan Ferkic Germany 2011, 1h28m, N/C 15+, German with subtitles Thanks to Bavaria Film International and GoetheInstitut Glasgow Welcome to Germany Cineworld Renfrew Street Sunday 19 February (19.00) Monday 20 February (17.00) Director Dominik Graf Cast Jeanette Hain, Susanne Wolf, Misel Maticevic Germany 2011, 1h29m, N/C 15+, German with subtitles Thanks to Bavaria Film International and GoetheInstitut Glasgow Welcome to Germany Cineworld Renfrew Street Sunday 19 February (21.00) Monday 20 February (19.00) Director Christoph Hochhäusler Cast Stefan Kurt, Eberhard Kirchberg, Imogen Kogge Germany 2011, 1h30m, N/C 15+, German with subtitles Thanks to Bavaria Film International and GoetheInstitut Glasgow Kapow!@GFF CCA Thursday 23 February (13.15) Director Adam Cornelius USA 2011, 1h33m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Adam Cornelius

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An illumination by Mirrie Dancers, a public art project conceived by artists Roxane Permar and Nayan Kulkarni and commissioned by Shetland Arts Development Agency (photo: Mark Sinclair)

Electric Man The Maltese Falcon meets The IT Crowd in this diverting mixture of romantic comedy and hectic chase thriller from co-writer/director David Barras. Buddies Jason and Wolf are the impoverished owners of Deadhead Comics and need £5,000 to save the business. Then a mint condition copy of the Electric Man comic from 1937 just falls into their hands – only they don’t recognise it. The coveted comic is hotly pursued by an American collector, the sinister Jimmy and a femme fatale by the name of Lauren McCall. The dry wit of the screenplay and bantering relationship between the central duo are the star attractions in this impressive micro-budget Scottish production.

Elena From the director of The Return (2003) comes a compelling, slow-burning morality tale with a spellbinding score by renowned composer Philip Glass. Elena is the story of a loyal wife and mother who lives with her wealthy husband. When Elena’s unemployed son from a previous marriage asks for help to finance her grandson’s education (and thus help him escape being drafted into the army) she becomes drawn into a complex web of questions concerning family ties and allegiances. An expertly crafted film that gradually builds to a powerful conclusion, Elena won the prestigious Special Jury Prize at 2011’s Cannes Film Festival.

Elles Juliette Binoche gives a luminous performance in this frank, compelling exploration of female sexuality from rising talent Malgorzata Szumowska. Binoche plays Anne, a wife, mother and journalist researching an article on student prostitution for ELLE magazine. Her research leads her to Polish student Alicja and Charlotte, a French girl from the housing projects in the Paris suburbs; both have very different reasons for working in the sex trade. As Anne gains their confidence she also acquires an insight into their lives and the sordid work demanded of them and is forced to confront the bourgeois comforts of her own existence.

Enter the Archive Moving image archives are vital repositories of film heritage and communal memory. But with limited resources, the archivist is faced with a series of dilemmas. Which films to save or exclude? How to balance the sometimes contradictory aims of preservation and promotion? And how should the re-use of archive material be controlled? Glasgow Short Film Festival presents a series of discussions and workshops exploring issues surrounding film archives and their responsibilities to filmmakers, researchers, curators and the general public. Featuring speakers from Scottish Screen Archive, the archive of Oberhausen Film Festival, LUX and Archives for Creativity amongst others, this event promises lively and engaging debate.

Kapow!@GFF CCA Thursday 23 February (16.45) Director David Barras Screenwriters David Barras, Scott MacKay Cast Toby Manley, Mark McKirdy, Jennifer Ewing Scotland 2011, 1h38m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Dugbus Ltd

It’s a Wonderful World GFT Saturday 18 February (16.30) Sunday 19 February (11.30) Director Andrei Zvyagintsev Cast Nadezhda Markina, Andrei Smirnov, Yelena Lyadova Russia 2011, 1h49m, N/C 12+, Russian with subtitles Thanks to Pyramide

European Cinema Cineworld Renfrew Street Monday 20 February (16.15) Tuesday 21 February (20.45) Director Malgorzata Szumowska Cast Juliette Binoche, Joanna Kulig, Anaïs Demoustier France/Poland/Germany 2011, 1h36m, N/C 15+, French and Polish with subtitles Thanks to Artificial Eye Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Friday 10 February (11.00–17.00) N/C 15+

Free but ticketed. See www.glasgowfilm.org/enter_archive for programme details and to register.

Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone Fishbone’s story has everything – humour, conflict, break-ups and breakdowns. This band’s revolutionary blend of punk, funk and soul defied racial categorisation and united the divided communities of America. While critically acclaimed by their peers from Ice T to Gwen Stefani and George Clinton, their hyper-energetic on-stage antics and boundless creativity sadly did not lead to commercial success. Narrated by Laurence Fishburne, this film tells the fascinating stories of brainwashing and kidnapping allegations that rocked the band’s twenty-five year career, and also how their optimism has kept them going despite the setbacks. What Variety is calling ‘an inspirational happy film about failure’.

Evidence There’s no denying the ‘found footage’ genre is here to stay, yet once in a while a film pops up which takes the whole shockumentary format to another level. Ryan (Ryan McCoy) decides to make a documentary about his friend Brett (Brett Rosenberg) and their camping trip to the Los Angeles canyons. Keeping them company are their girlfriends Abi (Abigail Richie) and Ashley (Ashley Bracken). It all starts off well around the campfire with a few drinks but then the noises start, they find weird carvings on trees and something seems to be following them. It’s then the full horror descends with no holds barred... UK premiere.

Glasgow Music and Film Festival CCA Wed 22 February (20.30) GFT Thursday 23 February (13.00) Directors/Screenwriters Chris Metzler, Lev Anderson USA 2010, 1h47m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler

FrightFest GFT Saturday 25 February (11.00) Director Howie Askins Screenwriter Ryan McCoy Cast Abigail Richie, Ashley Bracken, Brett Rosenberg, Ryan McCoy USA 2011, 1h20m, N/C 18+ Thanks to Snowbox Media Group

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Extraterrestrial

European Cinema

Extraterrestre

Timecrimes (2007) established writer/director Nacho Vigalondo as a bright new star in the pantheon of wildly inventive genre filmmakers. Extraterrestrial confirms that promise with an original, ingeniously plotted take on the alien invasion chiller. One morning, Julia awakes in her Madrid apartment next to a hung-over Julio and with no clear idea of what happened the previous night. Before the awkward farewells can be exchanged, they both notice an eerie silence that has descended on the city. Alien spaceships dominate the skyline and anyone with any sense has fled. Then Julia’s boyfriend arrives and things get a little trickier. A quirky, extremely funny, low-budget sci-fi romp.

Family Portrait in Black and White Winner of Best Canadian Documentary at Hot Docs, Family Portrait tells the extraordinary story of Olga Nenya, a Bulgarian woman who is now mother to twenty-seven children. Most of the kids are biracial, the offspring of West African immigrants who have disappeared, been deported or lost their custody rights. Olga is a tireless foster mother teaching them all to live in perfect harmony in the bosom of a family that has been compared to a Benetton advert. It all sounds admirable but Olga is also controlling; blocking adoption offers and stifling independence. Filmed over three years, this is a compelling documentary on a complex issue.

FellSwoop Theatre presents: Belleville Rendez-vous Following their sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, FellSwoop Theatre bring you their original stage adaptation of Sylvain Chomet’s Academy Award nominated animated film. Belleville Rendez-vous follows a club-footed grandmother and her pudgy mutt as they cross the Atlantic in an attempt to rescue her cyclist grandson who has been kidnapped from the Tour de France by two sinister gangsters. Enacted by a playful ensemble of actors, dancers, musicians and puppeteers complete with a live jazz-quartet, this special performance promises to amaze and enthrall audiences of all ages.

GFT Saturday 18 February (23.30) Cineworld Sunday 19 February (20.30) Director Nacho Vigalondo Cast Julián Villagran Spain 2011, 1h30m, N/C 15+, Spanish with subtitles Thanks to Icon Stranger than Fiction Cineworld Renfrew Street Tuesday 21 February (21.00) Wed 22 February (15.00) Director Julia Ivanova Cast Olga Nenya Canada/Ukraine 2011, 1h39m, N/C 8+ Thanks to Interfilm Productions Inc

Glasgow Youth Film Festival The Arches Saturday 11 February (19.00) 1h, N/C 8+ Thanks to FellSwoop Theatre and The Arches

Tickets cost £7/£5 and are available from The Arches Box Office on 0141 565 1000.

Fight the Power: International Competition 3 Against the odds, the films in our third international selection show small gestures of resistance, defiantly approaching horrific political realities with honesty and dark comedy. Featuring two films from Scotland, Jimmy and Asylum, the Iranian film The Wind is Blowing on my Street, which won a special mention at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, and a devastating critique of China’s suppression of dissent which premiered in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. Full details of all the films are provided in the Glasgow Short Film Festival brochure.

FilmG Gaelic short film competition FilmG is now a permanent fixture in the filmmaker’s calendar. This year the star-studded awards ceremony will take place in March and we’re getting a sneak preview of the best of the short-listed films. Some of the filmmakers will be present to talk about their experience of making everything from action movies to animation.

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Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Thursday 9 February (17.00) Sunday 12 February (13.15) 1h30m, N/C 15+

The Edge of the World CCA Saturday 25 February (16.30) UK 2011, 1h30m, N/C 12+, Gaelic with subtitles Thanks to FilmG and ScreenHI

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Film Nation: Shorts presents: Film Director Masterclass with Luke Snellin BAFTA nominated and Virgin Media Shorts-winning director Luke Snellin (Mixtape, Disco) will share his directorial secrets in this special masterclass. 104 Films’ Michelle Eastwood will talk to Luke about the production process and inspirations behind his work, followed by an audience Q&A.

Glasgow Youth Film Festival GMAC Saturday 11 February (14.00–15.30) Thanks to Film Nation: Shorts, Panasonic and GMAC

Run in partnership with Panasonic, Film Nation: Shorts will introduce young people to filmmaking, support them in developing their talent, and give everyone who enters a chance to have their work screened around the UK. Winning films will be screened during the Olympic and Paralympic Games in London in 2012. www.filmnation.org.uk Open to 15–25-year-olds only. Free but limited places available. To reserve a place, please email youth@glasgowfilm.org.

Films for the Future Could you make a film that changes the way we see the future? In an epoch of doom and gloom it takes both imagination and courage to visualise alternative futures. Open to all genres – fiction, artists’ moving image and documentary – Films for the Future challenges Scottish filmmakers to creatively engage with our present and possible futures. With funding and production support available, this is a unique opportunity within the Year of Creative Scotland and is part of the Northern Lights project in collaboration with A Scottish Wave of Change. Come along and meet producers Nick Higgins, Lisa-Marie Russo and Paul Welsh to find out more.

Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Saturday 11 February (17.00) 1h30m, 15+

Free but ticketed, tickets available on the day from CCA.

Finisterrae Two Russian ghosts embark on a surreal, dreamlike journey from the Sonar Festival in Barcelona to Finisterrae, the end of the world. On their trip the pair traverse hostile landscapes, encounter bizarre characters and become swept up in strange trances. In Finisterrae conceptual artist Sergio Caballero (co-director of Sonar) has created a film like no other; blending surrealism, humour and striking imagery (courtesy of A Single Man cinematographer Eduard Grau) to unforgettable effect. Described as ‘a weirdly wonderful blend of high art and low comedy’ by The Hollywood Reporter.

Flash Gordon (Geek Night Special) The clock is ticking as all-American hero Flash Gordon and newshound Dale Arden race to save planet Earth from the evil plot of Ming the Merciless in this extravagantly entertaining Dino De Laurentiis production. Lorenzo Semple Jr had written episodes of Batman in the 1960s and the same campy tone infects a film notable for its eyepopping production design, soaring Queen soundtrack and a terrific performance from Max von Sydow as Ming. Mike Hodges directs with pace and panache and while Sam J Jones is no actor, he is pretty good in tight corners and tight shorts. All comic strip adaptations should offer this much fun.

Crossing the Line Cineworld Renfrew Street Monday 20 February (21.00) Tuesday 21 February (13.00) Director Sergio Caballero Cast Pau Nubiola, Santi Serra, Pavel Lukiyanov Spain 2010, 1h20m, N/C 12+, Russian/Catalan/Finnish with subtitles Thanks to Eddie Saeta and Sonar Advanced Music Kapow!@GFF GFT Tuesday 21 February (20.15) Director Mike Hodges Screenwriters Lorenzo Semple Jr, Michael Allin Cast Sam J Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow USA 1980, 1h46m, PG Thanks to StudioCanal

Before the film GFF Ambassador Mark Millar will be interviewed by Paul Greenwood as to why this is his favourite Geek Film!

Focus Left – Youth Edition As part of GYFF 2012, The Arches will showcase short films made by up-and-coming young filmmakers at its in-house film event. Come and see the work of young Scottish directors, share ideas and network with like-minded young people. GYFF is looking for short pieces at any stage of development to preview at this event. Selected filmmakers will be invited on stage to discuss their film in front of the audience.

Glasgow Youth Film Festival The Arches Sunday 12 February (16.30) 1h30m, N/C 15+ Thanks to The Arches

If you’re aged 15–21 and would like to submit your film please email youth@glasgowfilm.org by Monday 20 January. Free but ticketed, tickets available on the day from The Arches.

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For the Good of All: International Competition 4 Picture a world in which winning The Apprentice is the pinnacle of creative aspiration. This programme is all about regulation, regimentation and institutionalisation. There is no place for spontaneity and self-expression. From a South Korean registry office to Canadian office cubicles, via a German pitching workshop and a female cadet school in Moscow, the absurdity of the corporate mindset is plain to see, hilarious and chillingly familiar. Full details of all the films are provided in the Glasgow Short Film Festival brochure.

The Forgotten Space The sea is forgotten until disaster strikes, but perhaps the biggest seagoing disaster is the global supply chain which leads the world economy into the abyss. Allan Sekula and Noël Burch’s award-winning film essay offers a lucid and lyrical document of worker’s conditions, the inhuman scale of containerised sea trade and the secret lives of port cities. Presented as part of The Glasgow School of Art’s Friday Event lecture programme, The Forgotten Space is screened in collaboration with Stills, Edinburgh where Allan Sekula is currently exhibiting his most recent series of photographs Ship of Fools (www.stills.org).

Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Friday 10 February (13.00) Saturday 11 February (15.00) 1h30m, N/C 15+

Crossing the Line GFT Friday 17 February (11.00) Directors Allan Sekula, Noël Burch The Netherlands 2010, 1h12m, N/C 12+ Thanks to DocEye Film

Free but ticketed, tickets available on the day from GFT.

Fort McCoy Kate Connor’s award-winning debut Fort McCoy is a wholesome, heartfelt labour of love reflecting the true story of her family’s memories of life at a Wisconsin military base during the Second World War. Frank and Ruby Stirn arrive at the base in May 1944 with their two children and Ruby’s younger sister Anna. Unable to fight in the war, a guilty Frank makes use of his skills as a barber on a base that also serves as a POW camp for interned and often unrepentant Germans. The pressures and challenges for the family are played out in the shadow of an enemy who is rarely seen and seldom understood. A notable cast includes Eric Stoltz as Frank and the multitalented Kate Connor as Ruby.

Frames Per Second Short film takes to the stage for an evening of spoken word, theatre and music, specially curated by Words per Minute and Flatrate for this year’s Festival. We bring you performances by the city’s most exciting writers, artists, musicians and theatremakers, all of whom are exploring moving image beyond the boundaries of the cinema. Featuring musician and filmmaker Adam Stafford, writers Alan Bissett, Ewan Morrison and Kapka Kassabova and theatremaker Harry Wilson, with many more acts still to be confirmed. A truly diverse event that recasts short film in a whole new light.

Frank Marshall Frank Marshall (1896–1979) is one of Scotland’s lesser-known film talents. He made the family story film his own particular reserve, firstly with his son and daughter and then later his grandchildren as willing actors. He wrote, directed, produced, edited and sometimes acted in his films which are often pervaded with his wry and gentle humour. He also built and designed his own sets and props. During his lifetime he produced over 120 films of different genres, achieving frequent national and international success at amateur film festivals.

The State of Independents GFT Sunday 19 February (17.50) Directors Kate Connor, Michael Worth Screenwriter Kate Connor Cast Kate Connor, Eric Stoltz, Lyndsy Fonseca USA 2011, 1h41m, N/C 8+ Thanks to Marzipan Entertainment

Glasgow Short Film Festival The Berkeley Suite Saturday 11 February (19.30) 3h30m, N/C 18+

Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Friday 10 February (17.15) Director Frank Marshall UK 1930–1960, 1h30m, N/C 5+ Thanks to the National Library of Scotland Scottish Screen Archive

This screening will be introduced by Professor Karen Lury of University of Glasgow.

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Free Enterprise: Scottish Competition 3 Five of the thirty-one films competing for the inaugural Scottish Short Film Award. This programme features Will Anderson’s animation/live-action hybrid The Making of Longbird, recent Glasgow 48 Hour Film Challenge production Philippa & Nancy, stunning animation The Golden Bird by Cat Bruce, comic allegory The Phone Box by Ian Robertson and the epic Wind Over Lake by the mysterious Jeorge Elkin. Full details of all the films are provided in the Glasgow Short Film Festival brochure.

Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Saturday 11 February (15.00) The Shed Saturday 11 February (20.00) 1h30m, N/C 15+

Tickets cost £6/£5 at The Shed screening only.

Gene Kelly Ceilidh + Brigadoon It is impossible to watch a Gene Kelly film without wanting to make your own humble attempts at poetry in motion. We can’t promise any poetry but there will be energetic fun for all in this unique evening that forms part of our special centenary tribute to Gene Kelly. Join us for a wee dram followed by a screening of the MGM musical classic Brigadoon at St Andrew’s in the Square. Food is then served to provide you with the sustenance to take to the dance floor for a good, old-fashioned, rip-roaring ceilidh complete with a live ceilidh band and a caller to help you master any of the trickier moves. Please note: seating for the screening will be cabaret style.

Gene Kelly: Strictly Song and Dance St Andrew’s in the Square Saturday 25 February (19.00) Director Vincente Minnelli Screenwriter Alan Jay Lerner Cast Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse USA 1954, 1h48m, U Duration of whole event: 4h approx Thanks to St Andrew’s in the Square

Tickets cost £15 full price / £12 concession

Gerhard Richter Painting A rare insight into the artistic process of one of the world’s greatest living painters. Gerhard Richter Painting takes us into Richter’s studio in Cologne during the spring and summer of 2009 as he works on several large abstract paintings. We see the artist as he works and reworks his creations, sometimes choosing to destroy them and start again. Documentary maker Corinna Belz has created a quiet, intelligent and contemplative film that examines the act of creation, the relationship between an artist and their work and, in turn, the way we view and interpret the finished product.

The GFF Film Quiz Join film buffs and trivia nuts Paul Gallagher, Paul Greenwood and Keir Hind for an evening of movie facts and figures at The GFF Film Quiz. If you know your movies from De Sica to DiCaprio, and Kubrick to Kutcher, come along and test your knowledge against our quizmasters. Even if you don’t, there’s bound to be a round for everyone, so assemble your team of up to four people and come and join in the fun.

Stranger than Fiction Cineworld Renfrew Street Friday 17 February (17.00) Saturday 18 February (16.30) Director Corinna Belz Cast Gerhard Richter Germany 2011, 1h37m, N/C 8+, German and English with subtitles Thanks to Soda Pictures

Event The Berkeley Suite Monday 20 February (20.00) 2h, N/C 18+ Illustration by Terry Anderson

Tickets cost £2 per person, available on the door only.

The GFF Surprise Film

GFT Wed 22 February (20.45)

Something appealing? Nothing appalling – we promise. Something for everyone – a comedy tonight? Or a drama? Or a chiller? Or a musical? The thing is you will only find out by buying a ticket. The GFF Surprise Film is always the best kept secret in the Festival. Even the projectionists will not know until the night, so don’t even think of appealing to their better natures. In the past, lucky devils in Glasgow have had the chance to see Son of Rambow, Inland Empire, Ben Stiller in Greenberg and 13 Assassins long before anyone else in the country. Surely you could offer us a clue? No we can’t and please don’t call me Shirley.

Girl Model Shedding new light on a complex supply chain at the heart of today’s fashion industry, this topical documentary moves between Siberia, Japan and the United States. Plucked from the obscurity of a Russian village by Ashley, an ambivalent US model scout, we follow Nadya, an optimistic and fragile thirteen-year-old aspiring model who is sent to Tokyo to find her fortune during a summer of castings. An intimate emotional and psychological portrait evolves of two very different people inextricably bound to the labyrinthine world of fashion. Enough to make you seriously question the ethics of the industry and the reality of the images we see in magazines.

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Fashion in Film Cineworld Renfrew Street Friday 17 February (17.15) Saturday 18 February (19.15) Directors David Redmon, Ashley Sabin Cast Nadya, Madlen, Ashley Arbaugh, Rachel Blais UK 2011, 1h18m, N/C 12+, English/Russian/Japanese with subtitles Thanks to Dogwoof

Glasgow: Symphony of a Great City A new approach to cinema – a live improvisation of sound and image. Our third event in the Weimarvellous weekend is offered as a companion piece to Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (see p19) but with a twist. In November 2011 a group of four sound designers, collectively known as Synchresis, came up with a whole new approach to cinema. Using a combination of computer programming and live performance they improvise the image in tandem with the sound, breaking the time-honoured rule that the image leads. Synchresis have teamed up with a filmmaker to create this symphony to Glasgow, constructed especially for GFF12. The live film event will last roughly fifteen minutes but will be shown three times in succession with short intervals for discussion with the artists, who welcome the chance to engage with an audience on the ways the viewing experience shifts with each performance.

Weimarvellous CCA Saturday 18 February (17.30) Collaborating artists: Gervais Harry, Fiona Keenan, Susan Kemp, Varun Nair and Chris Prescott Scotland 2012, 1h30m approx, N/C 8+ Thanks to the University of Edinburgh Image copyright Susan Kemp

All tickets £5

God Save My Shoes Relationships may come and go but a pair of killer heels can win your heart for a lifetime. The average woman is believed to own up to twenty pairs of shoes (only twenty?) and some will admit to concealing their latest extravagant purchase from their penny-pinching partner. So what is it about women and shoes? Director Julie Benasra talks to designers, celebrities and women of the world to get the skinny on why shoes matter for comfort, style and everything in between. Along the way we meet professional poker player Beth Shak and her collection of 900 pairs of shoes. That’s more like it. Feel the passion and share the obsession in a must-see movie for fashionistas and everyone who wants to understand them.

Fashion in Film CCA Friday 24 February (18.15) Director Julie Benasra Cast Manolo Blahnik, Kelly Rowland, Fergie, Beth Shak USA 2011, 1h, N/C 12+, French and English with subtitles Thanks to Caid Productions

A panel of shoe experts will join us after the screening to discuss the themes raised in the film.

Goodbye First Love Un amour de jeunesse

Mia Hansen-Løve is one of the rising stars of European cinema and her third feature confirms her promise as the François Truffaut of her generation. Set mostly in 1999, 2003 and 2007, it tells a tale of the lingering intensity of an unforgettable first love. In 1999, fifteen-year-old Camille is infatuated with nineteen-year-old Sullivan and is convinced she has found her soulmate. When he leaves for a ten-month trip to South America, he promises: ‘It isn’t the end of the world’. It is for her and the film charts the haunting, unbearable wrench of separation from the one man she considered her soulmate. An achingly beautiful film with a star-making performance from Lola Créton.

Grace and Redemption: Scottish Competition 4 Six of the thirty-one films competing for the inaugural Scottish Short Film Award. This programme features Joern Utkilen’s award-winning Asylum, documentaries Night Shift and Kirkcaldy Man, which goes in search of Jocky Wilson, GSFF11 Audience Award-winner Stuart Elliott’s new film Saved, surreal quickie Egg & Fag and Gregor Johnstone’s dark classroom comedy The Rule of Thumb. Full details of all the films are provided in the Glasgow Short Film Festival brochure.

European Cinema Cineworld Renfrew Street Wed 22 February (20.45) Thursday 23 February (14.15) Director/Screenwriter Mia Hansen-Løve Cast Lola Créton, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Magne-Håvard Brekke France/Germany 2011, 1h50m, N/C 15+, French with subtitles Thanks to Artificial Eye

Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Saturday 11 February (19.00) The Shed Sunday 12 February (14.00) 1h30m, N/C 15+

Tickets cost £6/£5 at The Shed screening only.

The Great Outdoors: International Competition 2 The open countryside can be a place of ritual or a setting for allegory. It can represent freedom or danger, a utopian state or a border to be crossed. This programme includes Ben Russell’s River Rites (more of Ben’s work can be seen in his Trypps screening, see p19) and To Make a Prairie by James Nares, whose 1982 film Waiting for the Wind featured in the New York No Wave retrospective at GSFF11. Films from Poland and Iran, and multi-awardwinning Romanian thriller Silent River complete the programme. Full details of all the films are provided in the Glasgow Short Film Festival brochure.

Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Thursday 9 February (15.00) Saturday 11 February (19.00) 1h30m, N/C 15+

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GYFF Shorts at GSFF Glasgow Youth Film Festival’s Youth Team has scoured the planet for the coolest shorts to showcase at Glasgow Short Film Festival 2012. Come along to see badly-behaved toddlers, mutant birds, strangers locked in suitcases, bloody camping trips and more... Full details of all the films are provided in the Glasgow Short Film Festival brochure.

Glasgow Youth Film Festival Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Sunday 12 February (11.30) 1h30, N/C 15+

All tickets £4

Hanna Tuulikki Hanna Tuulikki is a Glasgow-based vocalist who experiments with ways of dissolving language and distinctions between separate phenomena. For GSFF she will be performing Air falbh leis na h-eòin (Away with the Birds), a work-inprogress composition for three voices, with Nerea Bello and Lucy Duncombe. In the Scottish Gaelic oral tradition, melody and rhythm are often used in song to emulate birdsong. Hanna has deconstructed these songs in order to weave together a new composition that evokes several species of birds within a Hebridean landscape. The performance will incorporate short films selected by Hanna from the Scottish Screen Archive. http://bit.ly/Birdsong

Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Sunday 12 February (20.30) 45m, N/C 12+ Air falbh leis na h-eòin is produced by Trigger. Thanks to the National Library of Scotland Scottish Screen Archive

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Harold and Maude Director Hal Ashby (The Last Detail, Shampoo) was always the connoisseur’s Movie Brat of choice, and this is arguably his choicest offering – brimming with black humour, absurdist, antiauthoritarian intelligence and counter-culture wit. Teenager Harold is depressed by life, fascinated by death, drives a hearse and gatecrashes funerals for fun. It’s at a funeral that he meets free-spirited seventynine-year-old Maude, and the pair embark on an unlikely romance… We know, it should be bad taste, but weirdly, it isn’t – you’ll just have to trust us on this one. A real cult alternative for Valentine’s Day.

Hello, Dolly! Harshly reviewed in the era of Easy Rider and M*A*S*H, Hello, Dolly! just keeps improving with age and now looks like the last of the great old school Hollywood musicals. Gene Kelly proves himself a masterful director expertly juggling the pressures of a hefty studio budget, the expectations built by a legendary Broadway show and a volatile star team of Barbra Streisand and Walter Matthau who famously did not become bosom buddies. None of the off-screen tales matter as the film is a lavish, spirited spectacle with show-stopping numbers, a scene-stealing Michael Crawford as Barnaby and Louis Armstrong joining the party for a rousing rendition of the title tune. Look at the old girl now fellas!

High Places Music and visual art reach a perfect fusion in High Places, a collaboration between Ros Barber and Mary Pearson. The duo have toured the world and worked with fellow LA band Lucky Dragons who captivated us at their GMFF show in 2011. Rob studied and taught fine art and Mary studied bassoon performance before they met and started trading backgrounds and aesthetics. Albums High Places and Original Colors have won acclaim for their melodic lyricism and eye-catching collage work. Aside from creating accompanying artwork and limited editions of etchings with their EPs, they have also devised evolving live visuals that document their daily lives and travels. This promises to be a fun, unforgettable evening.

Glasgow Youth Film Festival GFT Tuesday 14 February (20.45) Director Hal Ashby Screenwriter Colin Higgins Cast Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon, Vivian Pickles USA 1971, 1h31m, 15 Thanks to Filmbank and Paramount Home Entertainment Gene Kelly: Strictly Song and Dance GFT Sunday 26 February (12.00) Director Gene Kelly Screenwriter Ernest Lehman Cast Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Louis Armstrong USA 1969, 2h19m, U Thanks to 20th Century Fox

Glasgow Music and Film Festival The Arches Thursday 16 February (20.00) 2h30m, N/C 18+

All tickets £8

A History of Violence David Cronenberg created one of his most popular films with this lean, flinty version of the graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke. There are echoes of the classic James Stewart/Anthony Mann westerns of the 1950s in the story of small-town diner owner Tom, played by Viggo Mortensen. Tom is a mildmannered pillar of the community until trouble comes to town and he reacts like a trained killer. The media hail him as a have-a-go hero for his brave actions in preventing a robbery. Naturally, he shies away from all the attention but is there a reason he shuns the limelight? And who is the mystery man claiming to be an old friend? A taut, suspenseful yarn that grips from start to finish.

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Kapow!@GFF CCA Thursday 23 February (15.00) Director David Cronenberg Screenwriter Josh Olson Cast Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, William Hurt USA/Germany 2005, 1h36m, 18 Thanks to Entertainment Film Distributors Ltd

How to Die in Oregon The right to die with dignity and determine the timing and manner of your own demise provokes heated arguments in Scotland. How to Die in Oregon is a powerful, compassionate and deeply moving contribution to the debate. In 1994, Oregon became the first American state to pass an assisted suicide law. Peter Richardson’s documentary begins with the terminally ill Roger taking the cocktail of drugs that will kill him. It follows a number of individuals considering a similar option, as well as Nancy Ziedzielski as she attempts to get a Death with Dignity law passed in Washington State. Told with acute sensitivity, this is a balanced, thought-provoking documentary on an issue that touches us all.

How to Re-establish a Vodka Empire This is the story of a bumbling filmmaker who finds himself embarking on an unlikely endeavour. Daniel Edelstyn is fascinated with the diaries of his late grandmother, a wealthy dancer from Ukraine who fled to Ireland during the Bolshevik revolution. In an attempt to fill in the gaps in her story he decides to travel to the remote village where she once lived and is surprised to stumble across a vodka distillery that years before was owned by his family. Inspired by this discovery he vows to bring the vodka to the UK and so begins a challenging journey into the world of the alcohol industry. A charming documentary filled with beautiful animation and historical recreations.

Hunky Dory Anyone addicted to Glee will love Hunky Dory, an engaging British twist on the heartache and heartbreak of putting on a show. In the sweltering summer of 1976, drama teacher Vivienne (Minnie Driver) is in desperate need of a little Gareth Malone magic as she tries to inspire her pupils to give their all to a musical production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Shy David has been cast as Ferdinand but is distracted by his infatuation with Stella who plays Miranda. The headmaster has stepped in to play Prospero and everyone is predicting disaster. Can she snatch victory from the jaws of defeat? A bittersweet charmer with a soundtrack courtesy of Bowie, Nick Drake and ELO.

I Bequeath Unto Thee: Scottish Competition 5 Seven of the thirty-one films competing for the inaugural Scottish Short Film Award. This programme features Douglas Hart’s Long Distance Information starring Peter Mullan, Catriona MacInnes’s Skye-set A Cuillin Rising, minimalist documentary portrait The Lady with the Lamp, Edinburgh College of Art drama Guilt, BAFTA Scotland award-winning animation Fixing Luka, Lucy Asten Elliott’s James Dean and Pitch Black Heist by former Beta Band member John Maclean, starring Michael Fassbender. Full details of all the films are provided in the Glasgow Short Film Festival brochure.

Stranger than Fiction Cineworld Renfrew Street Thursday 23 February (15.45) GFT Friday 24 February (15.00) Director Peter Richardson USA 2011, 1h47m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Dogwoof

Best of British Cineworld Renfrew Street Tuesday 21 February (19.15) Thursday 23 February (14.00) Director Daniel Edelstyn Cast Daniel Edelstyn, Hilary Powell, Conrad Asquith UK 2011, 1h15m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Daniel Edelstyn

Best of British GFT Saturday 18 February (19.10) Director Marc Evans Screenwriter Laurence Coriat Cast Minnie Driver, Aneurin Barnard, Danielle Branch UK 2011, 1h49m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Entertainment One UK

Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Sunday 12 February (13.00) The Shed Sunday 12 February (17.00) 1h30m, N/C 15+

Tickets cost £6/£5 at The Shed screening only.

If Not us, Who?

Wer wenn nicht wir?

Winner of Best Film at the German Film Awards, If Not us, Who? is a powerful drama woven around the life stories of Baader-Meinhof militant Gudrun Ensslin and her lover Bernward Vesper. In the early 1960s, Vesper is a passionate student of literature and staunch defender of his father, a notorious Nazi-era author. He is instantly drawn to Gudrun and the film subtly captures the way in which key events from that turbulent decade radicalised both of them and led Gudrun into the arms of charismatic activist Andreas Baader. Documentary filmmaker Andres Veiel’s provocative first dramatic feature combines political awakening, personal trauma and social unrest in a captivating picture of a key period in recent German history.

In Darkness Polish veteran Agnieszka Holland has made one of her finest films with In Darkness, an epic tale of her wartime homeland that has been selected as Poland’s Oscar submission. Based on true events, it focuses on Catholic sewer worker Leopold Socha, an instinctive anti-Semite who finds his prejudices challenged and undermined by the human suffering around him. As the Nazi persecution of the Jewish population intensifies in 1944, the rat-infested, muck-encrusted, claustrophobic sewers became a rare place of refuge. The slightest hint of collaboration could have lethal consequences for Leopold and his family but opportunism turns to altruism as he provides a sanctuary in the darkness.

Welcome to Germany Cineworld Renfrew Street Saturday 18 February (20.30) Sunday 19 February (14.15) Director/Screenwriter Andres Veiel Cast August Diehl, Lena Lauzemis, Alexander Fehling Germany 2011, 2h4m, N/C 15+, German with subtitles Thanks to Soda Pictures

Gala Cineworld Renfrew Street Sunday 19 February (18.00) Monday 20 February (13.00) Director Agnieszka Holand Cast Robert Wieckiewicz, Bennu Fürmann Poland/Canada/Germany 2011, 2h25m, N/C 15+, Polish/ Ukrainian/Yiddish/German with subtitles Thanks to Metrodome

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In the Family British hit Weekend signalled a new era in gay cinema with a universal emotional appeal. In the Family makes good on that promise with a compelling, beautifully modulated tale of love, devotion and family. Writer/director/star Patrick Wang justifies every minute of the film’s marathon running time as he builds a detailed, unerringly authentic personal drama that has earned him comparisons with John Cassavetes and Douglas Sirk. Wang stars as Joey, the partner of schoolteacher Cody (Trevor St John) and joint father of Cody’s six-year-old son Chip (an astonishing Sebastian Brodziak). When Cody dies, his sister uses an old will to claim custody of Chip leaving Joey out in the cold struggling to gain recognition of his part in the boy’s life. The result is captivating and heart-rending. One of the best American independent films of the past year.

Into the Abyss The latest documentary from Werner Herzog is one of his finest as he explores the human cost of crime and its consequences. Herzog brings a forensic thoroughness to the stories of a wide range of individuals touched by a triple homicide case in Conroe, Texas in 2000 that led to the convictions of teenagers Michael Perry and Jason Burkett. Herzog’s interest is much less in the grisly details of what happened and more in the legacy it left for the families of the victims, the convicted killers themselves and their loved ones. He presents his evidence and challenges the viewer to form their own opinion. That is the power and the profundity of this poignant, lyrical film.

Intoxication and Betrayal (Icelanders Abroad): Iceland Focus 3 With a population of only 300,000, Iceland has always had limited resources to sustain an indigenous film industry. Filmmakers regularly travel abroad to study and work, making films in languages other than their own. Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson attended film school in Poland, before making Anna’s Day in Denmark. Hákon Pálsson (Guilt) and Ísold Uggadóttir (Clean) studied in Edinburgh and New York respectively, while Dagur Kári, best known for features Nói albínói and The Good Heart, studied at the National Film School of Denmark, where he made Lost Weekend. Full details of all the films are provided in the Glasgow Short Film Festival brochure.

Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy The authentic voice of Irvine Welsh shines through this long-awaited adaptation of ‘The Undefeated’ story from his Ecstasy collection. A charismatic Adam Sinclair stars as Lloyd, a drug-dealing, Edinburgh party animal having the time of his life at the heart of a vibrant rave scene. His mounting debt to the dodgy Solo is something that can wait for another day. Concern for his ailing father is the only cloud in his life. Then he meets the beguiling Heather (Kristin Kruek), a woman desperate to escape the shackles of her dull, respectable life. Can their giddy, chemical romance develop into the real deal? All they need is love in this stylish, energetic blast of pure Welsh.

J’aime regarder les filles A sleeper hit in France last year, this is the perfect film for young lovers on Valentine’s Day... Primo, an ordinary middle-class kid studying for his bac (A-levels), falls hard for rich girl Gabrielle, one of a group of preppy teens who drive fast cars and holiday in Saint Tropez. To woo her, and to win over her posh friends, Primo must bite his (left-wing) tongue and pretend to be someone he’s not. A romantic French comedy, with some unexpected twists and a neat sting in the tail (mais oui!).

The Jewel Il Gioiellino

Masterful Italian actor Toni Servillo is reunited with Andrea Molaioli (director of GFF favourite The Girl by the Lake) for this timely financial thriller charting the rise and fall of a food and drink company as its ambitious intentions are corrupted by greed and mismanagement. The true story of food giant Parmalat provides the inspiration for a film that illuminates so many of the financial woes crippling Italy and the eurozone. Amanzio Rastelli (Remo Girone) has built Leda from a small family deli into a major corporation. His Chief Financial Officer Ernesto Botta (Servillo) has dedicated his life to the company’s success which is why he is willing to bend the law and break all the rules when it is faced with ruin.

The State of Independents GFT Monday 20 February (17.15) Director/Screenwriter Patrick Wang Cast Patrick Wang, Trevor St John, Sebastian Brodziak USA 2011, 2h49m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Patrick Wang

Stranger than Fiction GFT Thursday 23 February (17.10) Friday 24 February (11.15) Director Werner Herzog Cast Richard Lopez, Michael Perry, Damon Hall USA 2011, 1h46m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Revolver

Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Friday 10 February (19.00) 1h30m, N/C 15+

Great Scots GFT Saturday 18 February (18.40) Cineworld Renfrew Street Sunday 19 February (18.30) Director Rob Heydon Cast Adam Sinclair, Kristin Kreuk, Billy Boyd Canada 2011, 1h39m, N/C 18+ Thanks to Intandem

Glasgow Youth Film Festival GFT Tuesday 14 February (19.00) Director Frédéric Louf Cast Pierre Niney France 2011, 1h32m, N/C 15+, French with subtitles Thanks to Pascale Ramonda and Les Filmes de Pierre European Cinema CCA Wed 22 February (18.00) GFT Thursday 23 February (15.10) Director Andrea Molaioli Screenwriters Andrea Molaioli, Gabriele Romagnoli, Ludovica Rampoldi Cast Toni Servillo, Remo Girone, Sarah Felberbaum Italy 2011,1h50m, N/C 15+, Italian with subtitles Thanks to Indigo Film

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Jo Nesbo’s Headhunters Hodejegerne

Jo Nesbo is the new king of Scandinavian crime writing and there is no surprise that Headhunters quickly became Norway’s biggest ever box-office hit. Director Morten Tydlum slams the accelerator to the floor and creates a breathless, twisting thriller that never slackens its grip. Roger Brown is a successful, high-powered headhunter living way beyond his means, lavishing gifts on his stunning blonde trophy wife. He supplements his income by stealing rare artworks from his clients. Handsome Clas Greve and his original Rubens seem like an irresistible target but Clas lives the life of a Bond villain and the two men are soon embroiled in a deadly feud.

Kate Brown in Conversation

What does it take to build a full-time career as a comicker? Is it something you might want to do? Kate Brown will tell you everything you want to know but have never dared to ask. In 2010, Kate was awarded the Arts Foundation Fellowship for Graphic Novels and used it to fund the completion of her self-published comic Fish + Chocolate, which has since been picked up for publication by SelfMadeHero. Her other credits include the all-ages title The Spider Moon for The DFC/The DFC Library (adapted into a performance piece by PlayBox Theatre). Currently she is working on the all-ages title The Lost Boy for the Phoenix. Kate will speak about her wide experience in the comics industry and take questions from the audience.

Khodorkovsky Khodorkovsky captures the ugly face of Putin’s Russia. Mikhail Khodorkovsky was one of the richest men in the world who founded Russia’s first private bank after the fall of Communism. He has spent the past nine years in a Siberian gulag, convicted of embezzlement and tax evasion. Many people suspect the charges were fabricated as part of a plan to silence his opposition to Vladimir Putin and his ruling party. Khodorkovsky knew the risk he was taking when he spoke out, so what made him do it? That’s what director Cyril Tuschi tries to understand in an eye-opening documentary that includes an exclusive interview with Khodorkovsky recorded behind bars.

The Kid with a Bike Le gamin au vélo

Cyril is an eleven-year-old boy left in a children’s home after his father decides he cannot look after him. Angry and defiant, Cyril sets out to find his father and also his beloved missing bike. His path crosses with Samantha, a woman who, in an act of generosity, buys back Cyril’s bike for him after he discovers it has been sold on by his father. The Kid with a Bike follows the relationship between Cyril and Samantha and her endeavours to prevent the volatile boy from going astray. The Dardenne Brothers prove yet again that they are masterful storytellers with this touching, but never sentimental, tale destined to captivate viewers with its impressive performances and quiet honesty.

The Last Dogs of Winter Brian Ladoon is the kind of wilderness man who seems tailor-made for a Werner Herzog film. In 1976, Ladoon began a lifelong mission to protect and preserve the beautiful Canadian Eskimo dog – qimmiq – which is the rarest registered breed of dog in the world. The dogs once numbered in their thousands but had been reduced to hundreds by the late 1970s. The Last Dogs of Winter tells Ladoon’s story and that of Caleb Ross, a young New Zealand actor who travelled to Churchill, Manitoba in search of adventure and stayed three years. An inspirational documentary with awe-inspiring footage of the landscapes, the dogs and the polar bears who share their territory.

Gala GFT Saturday 18 February (21.30) Cineworld Renfrew Street Sunday 19 February (13.30) Director Morten Tydlum Screenwriters Lars Gudmestad, Ulf Ryberg Cast Askel Hennie, Synnøve Macody Lund Norway 2011, 1h41m, N/C 15+, Norwegian with subtitles Thanks to Momentum Pictures

Kapow!@GFF CCA Wed 22 February (13.45) 45m, N/C 8+

Stranger than Fiction Cineworld Renfrew Street Monday 20 February (18.30) Tuesday 21 February (15.30) Director Cyril Tuschi Germany 2011, 1h54m, N/C 12+, Russian and German with subtitles Thanks to Trinity Filmed Entertainment

Gala Cineworld Renfrew Street Friday 17 February (13.45) GFT Saturday 18 February (17.15) Directors/Screenwriters Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne Cast Thomas Doret, Cécile de France, Jérémie Renier Belgium/France/Italy 2011, 1h27m, N/C 8+, French with subtitles Thanks to Artificial Eye

The Edge of the World GFT Thursday 23 February (15.30) Director Costa Botes Cast Brian Ladoon, Caleb Ross New Zealand 2011, 1h37m, N/C 8+ Thanks to NZ Film

This film will screen with beautiful animated short Amaqqut Nunaat (The Country of Wolves, 11 mins), winner of the prestigious Best Short Drama and Best Emerging Artist awards at the ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival 2011.

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Laura Who could possibly want to kill Gene Tierney’s lovely, beguiling Laura? That’s what New York detective Dana Andrews must discover as his growing fascination with the dead woman colours his investigation and his assessment of the suspects, including smarmy Southern playboy Vincent Price, waspish columnist Clifton Webb and shifty aunt Judith Anderson. Otto Preminger’s Oscar-winning murder mystery helped to define the dark shadows of the film noir genre and remains a witty, haunting study of romantic obsession that unfolds to the unforgettable music of David Raskin. A true classic that deserves to be seen back on the big screen.

Lessons of a Dream Der ganz große Traum

Germany without football is hard to imagine, and yet the beautiful game may never have taken root there were it not for the enthusiasm and determination of one man – Konrad Koch. German-born but Oxford-educated, Koch was hired to teach English by a strictly-run German boys school in 1874. A visionary teacher, he introduces football – well established in England, but unknown in Germany – to teach the boys English, self-esteem and good old British values of ‘fair play’. Needless to say, this progressive curriculum gets him into all kinds of trouble with parents, administrators and other teachers… By turns dramatic and funny, the film has a first-rate cast led by the excellent Daniel Brühl (Goodbye Lenin!, The Edukators).

LIAF Family-Friendly Animations A lovely bunch of animated shorts perfect for wee ones, selected from this year’s London International Animation Festival. Featuring films from all over the world that are guaranteed to spark the imaginations of our younger audience. So much better than Sunday morning TV and not a toy advert in sight! These films are suitable for children of all ages but are specifically intended for 3–7-year-olds.

Out of the Past GFT Friday 17 February (11.30) Cineworld Renfrew Street Saturday 18 February (17.15) Director Otto Preminger Cast Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Vincent Price USA 1944, 1h25m, U Thanks to BFI

Glasgow Youth Film Festival GFT Wed 15 February (15.15) Director Sebastian Grobler Screenwriters Philipp Roth, Johanna Stuttmann Cast Daniel Brühl, Burghart Klaußner, Thomas Thieme Germany 2011, 1h53m, N/C 12+, German with subtitles In association with Goethe-Institut

Glasgow Youth Film Festival Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Sunday 12 February (11.00) 1h10m, N/C 3+ Thanks to London International Animation Festival

Tickets cost £4 and allow entry for one adult and one child.

Livid There are striking echoes of Guillermo Del Toro and Dario Argento in Livid, the latest twisted, blood-drenched gothic nightmare from the Inside (2007) team of Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury. Set in a chilly backwater of Brittany, it stars Chloé Coulloud as Lucie, a young nurse hired to care for the wealthy Madame Jessel, a former ballet mistress who lies in a coma in an old dark house filled with stuffed animals. The house is also rumoured to contain a stash of hidden treasure. You know that Lucie and her boyfriend will be unable to resist returning one inky black night to plunder the house. You may not guess the welcome party waiting to greet them and punish them for their greed. Atmospheric, superbly crafted fairytale horror taken to nerve-shredding extremes.

The Loves of Pharaoh

FrightFest Extra Cineworld Renfrew Street Wed 22 February (16.20) Thursday 23 February (21.15) Directors/Screenwriters Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury Cast Chloé Coulloud, Félix Moati, Jérémy Kapone France 2011, 1h28m, N/C 18+, French with subtitles Thanks to StudioCanal

Out of the Past

Das Weib des Pharao

GFT Friday 17 February (15.30)

Ernst Lubitsch was a master of sophisticated romantic comedies but The Loves of Pharaoh reveals that he was also a filmmaker to rival the scale and ambition of DW Griffith or Peter Jackson. The Loves of Pharaoh is notable for its spectacular production design, gorgeous costumes, beautiful chiaroscuro cinematography and crowd scenes involving thousands of extras in an age before the convenience of computer generated effects. Future Oscar-winner Emil Jannings is the Egyptian Pharaoh who rejects the beloved daughter of the king of Ethiopia in favour of his infatuation with slave girl Theonis. It is a recipe for conflict, heartbreak and epic drama. A stunning digital restoration heralds the return of a major silent production.

Germany 1922, 1h40m, N/C 8+, silent

LUX One to One Sessions LUX is an international arts agency, based in London, for the support and promotion of artists’ moving image practice. Director of LUX Benjamin Cook will be conducting informal hour long sessions with local artists working with the moving image who are no longer in full-time education, offering advice and guidance on areas such as developing your practice; exhibition possibilities and appropriate organisations/events to approach; self-promotion; funding; production.

Director Ernst Lubitsch Screenwriters Norbert Falk, Hanns Kräly Cast Emil Jannings, Dagny Servaes, Harry Liedtke

Thanks to Alpha-Omega and Goethe-Institut Glasgow

Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Saturday 11 February Individual sessions available from 11.00–17.00

All tickets £4. Space extremely limited. To book please contact shorts@glasgowfilm.org.

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The Maggie at The Tall Ship Alexander Mackendrick was born in 1912 and is fondly remembered as the director of films like Whisky Galore, The Ladykillers and Sweet Smell of Success. He was a key figure at Ealing Studios when he made this wry, darkly amusing cultureclash comedy. Paul Douglas plays an American airline executive determined to ship furniture to a small island near Kiltarra that is the site of a surprise summer home for his wife. When nobody else will oblige, he is tricked into hiring a ramshackle old puffer and its rascally captain to transport the cargo from Glasgow. A BAFTA nominee for Best Film, The Maggie is a delightful precursor to Local Hero, and will be shown in the unique surroundings of the Clyde-built The Tall Ship. Screening in the fully heated cargo hold with bar facilities available. The ship is wheelchair accessible.

Great Scots The Tall Ship  Tuesday 21 February (19.30) Director Alexander Mackendrick Screenwriter Alexander Mackendrick, William Rose Cast Paul Douglas, Alex Mackenzie, James Copeland UK 1954, 1h32m, U Thanks to StudioCanal and The Tall Ship

Limited seating of sixty places only!

A Man’s Story Here’s a documentary profile as stylish as its subject: designer and larger-than-life fashion world figure Ozwald Boateng. Director Varon Bonicos began shooting back in 1998, when Boateng’s life was in tatters following a nasty divorce and the collapse of his tailoring business. What should have been a six-month shoot turned into a twelve-year one, and we follow as Boateng is appointed Givenchy creative director, stars in his own American reality series and marries a Russian model. Runways, parties, planes – it’s a glittery blur, with Boateng as its charismatic, hardworking centre.

Margaret Tait’s Films for Children The Orcadian filmmaker Margaret Tait was a true pioneer of Scottish cinema and several recently rediscovered works have deepened our understanding of this extraordinary film talent. Even though many of Tait’s films feature children as their subjects, she made the important distinction that these films were made ‘for children, not too much about children’. This programme will look at four of Tait’s films that focus on the child and/or the child’s point of view: Happy Bees (1955), Orquil Burn (1955), and two of the rediscovered films, Splashing (1966) and All These New Relations (1953). Suitable for children of all ages, from five to ninety-five.

Mark Millar and Frank Quitely Writer Mark Millar and superstar DC and Marvel artist Frank Quitely talk about their first collaboration together in ten years, taking us through the step-by-step process of an idea becoming a script, a comic book and eventually a big budget movie. Both living and working in Glasgow, they explain how geography is no disadvantage in Hollywood movies or New York publishing and open the floor up to any aspiring writers and artists in what’s bound to be a very lively session. Their last book together was award-winning Authority and their new, yet-to-be-revealed project is already one of the most anticipated comic-book events in 2012.

Matthew Collings: GSFF Opening Night Party Matthew Collings makes ‘music from the ends of the earth’. And what beautiful music it is – gorgeous lo-fi sounds created through an eclectic range of instruments, from tapes to battered guitars, influenced by many years spent in Iceland. Matthew will perform excerpts from his soundtrack to Hákon Pálsson’s Guilt (showing in both GSFF’s Scottish and Icelandic programmes), with Lorcan Doherty on violin and Ally Winford on guitar, followed by an Icelandic themed DJ set. An atmospheric celebration of our focus on Iceland and a great opening to this year’s Festival.

Fashion in Film GFT Friday 17 February (20.30) Cineworld Renfrew Street Saturday 18 February (13.00) Director Varon Bonicos Cast Ozwald Boateng, Giorgio Armani, Daniel Day-Lewis UK 2010, 1h38m, N/C 8+ Thanks to Trinity Filmed Entertainment

Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Sunday 12 February (17.00) Director Margaret Tait UK 1953–66, 1h30m, N/C 5+ Thanks to Sarah Neely and National Library of Scotland Scottish Screen Archive

Kapow!@GFF CCA Tuesday 21 February (16.00) 45m, N/C 8+ Thanks to Mark Millar and Frank Quitely

Glasgow Short Film Festival The Berkeley Suite Thursday 9 February (22.30 until late) N/C 18+

All tickets £4

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Mesnak   A cryptic message brings Dave, a young Innu man living in Montreal, back to his reserve for the first time since his adoption. Instead of a joyful family reunion, he unearths a painful past scarred by secrets and lies. Despite his ancestral ties to the First Nation, Dave experiences an identity crisis and struggles to understand his family, his community and his feelings for Osalic, a young woman destined for tragedy. Yves Sioui Durand’s remarkable debut feature is a bold adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet set on an Innu community in Quebec, and a courageous portrayal of one man’s journey to understanding. This film will screen with the Gaelic short Rathad a’ Ghlinne (The Glen Road, 7 mins).

The Mexican Suitcase For seventy years much of legendary photographer Robert Capa’s work on the Spanish Civil War was presumed lost forever, the negatives having disappeared from his Parisian studio in the early days of the Second World War. In this film we learn the astonishing story behind the recent discovery of these breathtaking images by Capa and colleagues Taro and Seymour – from the battlefields of Spain, all the way to their eventual rediscovery in Mexico City. Dynamic, thought-provoking photography, archival footage and interviews with survivors and experts make this a must-see for all history and photography lovers.

Michael The very idea of a serious film about the everyday existence of a paedophile will be enough to deter some viewers, but Markus Schleinzer’s Michael is a rigorously responsible, endlessly disquieting piece of work, acutely sensitive to issues of exploitation. The approach is almost like a forensic examination as we enter the world of Michael, a thirty-five-year-old man whose life has all the surface appearance of normality. Everything about him seems unremarkable – from his wardrobe to his working life. Everything apart from the fact that he is keeping a ten-year-old boy prisoner in his cellar. Schleinzer constantly stresses the normality of this abnormality in a thoughtful, quietly disturbing drama.

Mitsuko Delivers Hara ga kore nande

Sawako Decides director Yûya Ishii returns with Mitsuko Delivers, a quirky charmer featuring a beguiling star performance from Riisa Naka. Mitsuko is twenty-four, heavily pregnant and estranged from the American father of her child. Her parents believe she is happy and successful in America and are unaware that she has secretly returned to Tokyo. Making the biggest decisions on the slightest whim, she moves back into the tenement street where she lived as a child. The move changes lives, reignites old romances and creates a supportive circle of love that may be exactly what Mitsuko needs. A film that is guaranteed to make you smile.

The Monk Le Moine

The road to hell is paved with pious good intentions in this painterly, nerve-shredding version of the notorious 18th century supernatural classic from Lemming director Dominik Moll. Vincent Cassel excels as Ambrosio, an abandoned infant raised by priests who has matured into a powerful and respected soldier of the Lord thanks to his unshakeable faith. ‘Satan only has the power we grant him,’ he argues. Why then is he plagued by blinding headaches and a recurring dream in which a woman in red is seen praying in the sunlight? The answer lies at the heart of a thunderous, torrid gothic tale in which Ambrosio’s convictions are tested to the limit.

Movie Poster Design workshop Hosted by acclaimed illustrator Erin McGrath and Park Circus designer and marketing genius Jen Davies, this is an interactive arts workshop on how to design movie posters just like the professionals. Jen and Erin will discuss what makes a great poster design, how posters fit into film marketing, coming up with ideas, sourcing images, typography and what film posters require. You’ll be given a brief plus materials to plan and mock up your own movie poster masterpiece! Please note – this workshop is aimed at aspiring designers and illustrators but does not involve computers or use of any creative software.

The Edge of the World CCA Saturday 25 February (14.15) Director Yves Sioui Durand Screenwriters Robert Morin, Louis Hamelin, Yves Sioui Durand Cast Victor Turgeon, Eve Ringuette Canada 2011, 1h36, N/C 15+, French/Innu with subtitles Thanks to Kunakan Prods and Les Films de L’Isle Stranger than Fiction Cineworld Renfrew Street Friday 17 February (14.45) Saturday 18 Februay (18.30) Director Trisha Ziff Mexico/Spain/USA 2011, 1h30m, N/C 12+, Spanish/ Catalan/English with subtitles Thanks to Autlook Filmsales GmbH

European Cinema Cineworld Renfrew Street Sunday 19 February (20.45) GFT Monday 20 February (15.45) Director Markus Schleinzer Cast Michael Fuith, David Rauchenberger, Christine Kain Austria 2011, 1h36m, 18, German with subtitles Thanks to Artificial Eye

It’s a Wonderful World Cineworld Renfrew Street Wed 22 February (18.30) Thursday 23 February (16.30) Director Yûya Ishii Cast Riisa Naka, Aoi Nakamura, Ryo Ishibashi Japan 2011, 1h49m, N/C 12+, Japanese with subtitles Thanks to Third Window Films

European Cinema GFT Sunday 19 February (20.20) Cineworld Renfrew Street Monday 20 February (16.00) Director Dominik Moll Cast Vincent Cassel, Sergi López, Geraldine Chaplin France 2011, 1h41m, N/C 15+, French with subtitles Thanks to Metrodome

Glasgow Youth Film Festival The Arches (Practice Room) Sunday 12 February (12.30–14.00) Thanks to Jen Davies, Erin McGrath and The Arches

Open to 15–21-year-olds. £5 per participant. To book please call The Arches Box Office on 0141 565 1000.

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The Muppets The hottest ticket in town – scratch that, in Britain – has to be this very, very special preview. The first Muppets movie for (gasp!) a whole twelve years, it opened for Thanksgiving in the States to rave reviews, and on the back of one of the best trailer campaigns in ages. The story this time has dedicated Muppet fan Walter, big brother Gary and girlfriend Mary, rounding up the fuzzy gang for a telethon to save their old theatre from demolition at the hands of nasty oil baron Tex.

Glasgow Youth Film Festival GFT Sunday 5 February (16.30) Director James Bobin Screenwriter Jason Segel, Nicholas Stoller Cast Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper USA 2011, 1h50m, U Thanks to Disney

Screening preceded by a very special Pixar treat!

Napoleon Dynamite A perfect example of a Marmite film, on first release Napoleon Dynamite baffled some but was embraced by many for its weird cast of social rejects and bizarre dialogue. Napoleon is an eccentric high school student with a rather fertile imagination. Left in the care of his deluded uncle, Napoleon is determined to get everybody to vote for his buddy Pedro as class president. A seriously daft but immensely likeable teen comedy. Preceded by the pretty sweet (but pretty gory) short film The Legend of Beaver Dam (12 mins). Tickets cost £7/£5 plus free entry to NICE N SLEAZY on presentation of your ticket after the film.

Natural Selection Winner of Best Narrative Feature and the Audience Award at SXSW, Natural Selection marks an auspicious feature debut from writer/director Robbie Pickering. A fresh, funny mixture of road movie and wry odd-couple comedy, it features a terrific central performance from Rachael Harris as Linda White, a fortysomething Christian housewife trapped in a loveless, childless marriage to pious husband Abe. When Abe suffers a stroke at a family planning clinic, Linda discovers that he has been secretly donating sperm for over twenty years. She sets off in search of his eldest biological son, a mullet-headed ex-con called Raymond.

Night is Day Jason was just a normal twenty-something Glaswegian until, one day, supernatural powers were bestowed upon him. Since then he’s been hiding in the shadows, protecting the city in secret, while Police Superintendent Sloan attempts to silence all tales of the real-life superhero vigilante. But now a new danger is threatening the city: the Caillech, a not-so-mythological creature, has teamed up with the evil businessman Mr Philips and together they have vowed to destroy the world in three days. Can Jason stop them? This Glasgow-set scifi was self-funded thanks to the support and donations of local supporters and businesses.

A Night to Remember It is one hundred years since the unsinkable RMS Titanic embarked on its maiden voyage. Countless filmmakers have sought to dramatise the fate of the vessel, none more spectacularly than James Cameron. Historians generally agree that A Night to Remember is the most meticulous in its use of the known facts. Veteran director Ray Ward Baker (1916–2010) brings a documentary-like intensity to the story, eschewing fictional romances to concentrate on second officer Herbert Lightoller (Kenneth More) and his heroic acts. The result is a film all the more moving for its sense of British reserve and all the more striking in this brand new restoration.

No One But Me Annie Ross is a jazz giant. Raised in Glasgow, her seven-decade career runs the gamut from precocious child star – ‘the Scottish Shirley Temple’ – to indefatigable living legend. In this intimate, revealing profile, she discusses her many lives from Paris singer in the 1940s to incomparable lyricist in the 1950s and Covent Garden impresario in the 1960s. Along the way there are tales of Billie Holiday, her lover Lenny Bruce, triumph and tragedy, drug addiction and her deep, abiding affection for beloved brother Jimmy Logan. Throughout it all there is the beautiful, beguiling music often with her own lyrics and always performed in her inimitable style.

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Glasgow Youth Film Festival GFT Friday 10 February (23.00) Director Jared Hess Screenwriter Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess Cast Jon Heder, Efren Ramirez, Haylie Duff USA 2004, 1h26m, N/C 15+ (due to the certification of the short film, no-one under 15 will be admitted) Thanks to Paramount Pictures

The State of Independents GFT Friday 24 February (22.30) Director/Screenwriter Robbie Pickering Cast Rachael Harris, John Gries, Matt O’Leary USA 2011, 1h30m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Goldcrest Films International

Kapow!@GFF CCA Wed 22 February (18.30) Director/Screenwriter Fraser Coull  Cast Chris Summers, John Gaffney, Steven McEwan, Kirsty Anderson UK 2011, 1h43m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Fraser Coull

Out of the Past GFT Sunday 19 February (13.15) Director Roy Ward Baker Screenwriter Eric Ambler Cast Kenneth More, Honor Blackman, John Cairney UK 1958, 1h57m, PG Thanks to Park Circus

Glasgow Music and Film Festival GFT Tuesday 21 February (17.00) Director Brian Ross Cast Annie Ross, Jon Hendricks, Kenny Lynch UK 2012, 1h15m, N/C 8+ Thanks to Gill Parry and Connect Film

Nobody Else But You Poupoupidou

If the Coen Brothers ever make a film in Europe, it might look like Nobody Else But You, an ingenious, wintry murder mystery set in a no man’s land between France and Switzerland. Crime novelist David Rousseau arrives in Mouthe for the reading of his uncle’s will. When local starlet Candice is found dead in the snow, the authorities conclude that it has been a tragic suicide. Rousseau is not convinced. Investigating the life and death of Candice, he discovers a woman who believed herself to be the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe. The evidence, including an affair with the local President, suggests that she may have been right. An original, intriguing thriller told with style and wit.

Omar Killed Me Omar m’a tuer

Actor Roschdy Zem (Days of Glory, Point Blank) establishes himself as an impressive all-round filmmaker with this urgent dramatisation of true events. In June 1991, wealthy widow Ghislaine Marchal was found beaten to death in the basement of her villa in the South of France. There was no forensic evidence, no witnesses and just one major clue written in the victim’s blood: ‘Omar killed me’. Omar was a young Moroccan gardener who considered Ghislaine as a second mother. French justice considered him the prime suspect and his trial exposed a country rife with prejudice and racism. This compelling courtroom drama features a gripping lead performance from Sami Bouajila as Omar.

On the Ice One of the hottest titles at Sundance and Berlin in 2011 was this impressive, prizewinning debut from writer-director Andrew Okpeaha Maclean. Set in the freezing seclusion of northern Alaska, it has echoes of Lee Tamahori’s Once Were Warriors in its evocative tale of a small town rocked by the unexpected death of a young man in a seemingly tragic hunting accident. Teenagers Qalli and Aivaaq were on a seal hunt with the boy and only they know the truth of what happened. In a claustrophobic, small community, can there ever be closely guarded secrets or will the guilty truth force its way to the surface? A powerful tale of loss and regret set in an unforgettable snowy landscape.

On the Town The MGM musical escapes the soundstages of Hollywood and bursts on to the boisterous streets of New York, New York in this Oscar-winning landmark. Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin are the three sailors with just one day of shore leave to take a bite out of the Big Apple, catch all the sights from the Empire State Building to the Statue of Liberty and go looking for romance. A wonderful adaptation of the stage musical that has a vivacity and dynamism that never ages. Gene Kelly’s athletic style and creative ambitions for the musical are visible in every frame of a film that he also co-directed with his future Singin’ in the Rain collaborator Stanley Donen.

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

European Cinema GFT Wed 22 February (13.15) CCA Thursday 23 February (19.30) Director Gérald HustacheMathieu Cast Jean Paul Rouve, Sophie Quinton, Guillaume Gouix France 2011, 1h39m, N/C 15+, French with subtitles Thanks to MK2

European Cinema GFT Tuesday 21 February (15.15) Wed 22 February (15.30) Director Roschdy Zem Screenwriters Olivier Gorce, Roschdy Zem Cast Sami Bouajila, Denis Podalydès, Maurice Bénichou France 2011, 1h25m, N/C 15+, French with subtitles Thanks to Icon

The Edge of the World Cineworld Renfrew Street Friday 17 February (18.45) Saturday 18 February (21.00) Director/Screenwriter Andrew Okpeaha Maclean Cast Frank Qutuq Irelan, John Miller, Josiah Patkotak, Adamina Kerr USA 2011, 1h36m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Coach 14

Gene Kelly: Strictly Song and Dance GFT  Thursday 23 February (11.00) Directors Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen Cast Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Ann Miller USA 1949, 1h38m, U Thanks to BFI

It’s a Wonderful World

Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da

GFT Saturday 25 February (15.15)

The latest triumph from revered Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Distant, Climates) is a haunting, hypnotic tale of a group of men involved in a police investigation in the backwater district of Anatolia. One night they embark on a journey, with a prisoner in tow, to retrieve the body of a murdered man. Yet this is far from your ordinary police drama – Ceylan takes little interest in action, preferring instead to build up a remarkable sense of atmosphere and to examine the shifting internal struggles of his characters. Add to the mix the director’s trademark striking cinematography and it’s easy to see why Once Upon a Time in Anatolia captivated critics at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Grand Jury Prize.

Turkey/Bosnia and Herzegovina 2011, 2h37m, N/C 12+, Turkish with subtitles

Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan Screenwriters Ercan Kesal, Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan Cast Muhammet Uzuner, Yilmaz Erdogan,Taner Birsel

Thanks to New Wave Films

The Other F Word

Glasgow Music and Film Festival

What happens when a generation’s ultimate anti-authoritarians – punk rockers – become society’s ultimate authorities – dads? This funny, fast-paced and tender documentary explores just that conundrum. Interviewees include Ron Reyes (Black Flag), Tony Adolescent (The Adolescents), Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and Fat Mike (NOFX), but the film’s anchor is Pennywise frontman Jim Lindberg – a man who once had a hit with the song ‘F*** Authority’, now to be found dyeing his goatee (‘Gotta keep the dream alive!’) and censoring his kids’ use of the expletive ‘turd-head’. A ‘comingof-middle-age’ story at heart, this is a lively, genuinely charming film.

Director Andrea Blaugrund Nevins

GFT Thursday 23 February (11.30) CCA Friday 24 February (18.45)

USA 2011, 1h28m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Elephant Eye Films

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Oxygen Adem

Centring on a seriously ill teen, Oxygen disregards the expected melodramatic tears and inspirational message to deliver a realistic portrait of youth facing mortality far too soon. Brothers Tom and Lucas both suffer from cystic fibrosis. Tom reacts against his short life expectancy by getting involved in petty crimes. When he meets Xavier, an affluent young man suffering from the same illness but behaving like a top athlete, Tom’s forced to reconsider the time he has left and what’s important in life. Winner of the European Discovery award at the European Film Awards 2011.

Paradox: Iceland Focus 2 In 1967 two young men set out to make a short film. The film was never finished, but the experience kept haunting one of the actors in the film. Many years later he hired a composer and an editor from a younger generation to finish what had been started over forty years earlier. But could the differing notions of two generations be resolved? Or would the aesthetic gap be too wide? Paradox restores to life unique and forgotten footage shot at a time when short films were almost unheard of in Iceland. The film raises questions about time, generational conflict and the fragility of a creative process.

Patience (After Sebald) Patience (After Sebald) is a film essay based on the novel The Rings of Saturn by celebrated writer W G Sebald. Award-winning filmmaker Grant Gee (Joy Division, Meeting People is Easy) heads out on a long walk along the East Anglian coastline exploring the landscape that features in the novel while simultaneously exploring the themes of landscape and art, memory and loss, and the life and work of Sebald himself. Featured in the documentary are a selection of artists and writers who have been influenced by his work including Tacita Dean, Rick Moody and Robert Macfarlane.

Penumbra Film 4 FrightFest is proud to present Adrián García Bogliano’s latest work, an eerie and atmospheric experiment in creeping paranoia. Marga (Cristina Brondo), a successful businesswoman from Spain, is in Buenos Aires looking for a tenant for her family’s run-down apartment. Rapidly losing her patience while waiting for an applicant to arrive, she runs into the mysterious Jorge (Berta Muñiz) lurking outside who informs her that he has a client willing to pay four times what she is asking in rent. There’s one catch – the paperwork must be signed immediately. As Marga waits to complete the transaction several of Jorge’s associates suspiciously appear at the apartment ready to strip the wallpaper. And what’s behind the décor signals a startling fate worse than death. UK premiere.

The Phantom of the Opera Known as ‘The Man of a Thousand Faces’, Lon Chaney was the undisputed master of horror in the 1920s and one of the biggest box-office stars in the history of Universal Pictures. This stunning silent version of the Gaston Leroux classic remains one of his creepiest productions. Lovingly restored, it features a groundbreaking use of two-strip technicolor in the notorious Bal Masque sequence and hand tinting elsewhere. Chaney finds the pathos in the scarred composer, haunting the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera house, obsessed with a beautiful young soprano whom he kidnaps to ensure she will only ever sing for him. This screening is accompanied by live music on the Wurlitzer Cinema Organ played by organist David Gray.

The Pirate Pure Hollywood escapism as Gene Kelly is reunited with Judy Garland in a colourful MGM musical directed by Garland’s then husband Vincent Minnelli. The Caribbean village of Calvados is the setting for a larger-than-life yarn in which Garland’s Manuela is expected to marry boring, bullying town mayor Don Pedro (Walter Slezak). She consoles herself with fantasies of being swept off her feet by the legendary Pirate Mack ‘The Black’ Macoco. When dashing circus performer Serafin (Kelly) tumbles into town, the heady scent of romance fills the air and life in Calvados is never quite the same again. An exhilarating romp set to a glorious Cole Porter score that includes the classic number ‘Be a Clown’.

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Glasgow Youth Film Festival GFT Wed 15 February (13.00) Director Hans Van Nuffel Cast Stef Aerts, Wouter Hendrick, Marie Vinck Belgium/Netherlands 2010, 1h38m, N/C 12+, Dutch with subtitles Thanks to A Private View

Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Thursday 9 February (21.00) Directors Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, Sigurður Skúlason Iceland 2011, 54m, N/C 12+, Icelandic with subtitles Thanks to Mystery Ísland ehf

Crossing the Line Cineworld Renfrew Street Sunday 19 February (14.30) Monday 20 February (14.30) Director/Screenwriter Grant Gee Narrator Jonathan Pryce UK 2011, 1h24m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Soda Pictures

FrightFest GFT Saturday 25 February (13.00) Directors/Screenwriters Adrián García Bogliano, Ramiro García Bogliano Cast Cristina Brondo, Camila Bordonaba, Berta Muñiz Argentina 2011, 1h25m, N/C 18+, Spanish with subtitles Thanks to Adrián and Ramiro García Bogliano

Glasgow Music and Film Festival Pollokshaws Burgh Hall Sunday 26 February (19.00 doors open, 19.30 film starts) Director Rupert Julian Cast Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry USA 1925, 1h20m, PG In association with the Southside Film Festival. Thanks to Park Circus

Gene Kelly: Strictly Song and Dance GFT  Wed 22 February (11.00) Director Vincent Minnelli  Screenwriter Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett  Cast Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak USA 1948, 1h42m, U Thanks to BFI

The Plague of the Zombies Long before Night of the Living Dead, Hammer horror made a bold move into zombie territory with this 1965 shocker. Inexplicable deaths in a Cornish village prompt a local doctor to call on his medical mentor for assistance. Professor Forbes arrives with his daughter and soon the churchyard gives up its secrets as the dead walk again at the bidding of a master with the power of voodoo at his command. Director John Gilling’s best Hammer chiller has style to spare and no less an authority than Alan Jones commends ‘a quite stunning decapitation scene’. Screening from a restored digital print.

Planet of Snail Award-winning documentary Planet of Snail takes viewers into the world of Young-Chan, a man who has been blind and deaf since birth. With the help of his wife Soon-Ho he learns to interact with the outside world, the two communicating by touching each others’ fingers as if playing the piano. Yet Soon-Ho cannot always be there for Young-Chan, as she herself suffers from a damaging spinal disability meaning the two must also learn to live alone. From South Korea comes a documentary of great poetry and tenderness, an exploration of the senses that marvels at life’s small wonders.

Play Over the course of a tense afternoon in central Gothenburg, five African immigrant boys toy with three well-heeled teens. The outcome, essentially, is the theft of a mobile phone, but the boys’ purpose is also more subtle and sadistic – a complex ‘game’ of intimidation that takes advantage of white liberal guilt and political correctness. One of the outstanding titles at Cannes last year, this is a provocative, unsettling film that you’ll be pondering for days. This screening is followed by a panel discussion about issues raised in the film.

FrightFest Extra GFT Saturday 18 February (23.15) Director John Gilling Screenwriter Peter Bryan, Anthony Hinds (writing as John Elder) Cast Andre Morell, Diane Clare, Brook Williams UK 1965, 1h26m, 15 Thanks to StudioCanal Stranger than Fiction GFT Sunday 19 February (20.30) Monday 20 February (11.15) Director Seung-Jun Yi Cast Young-Chan, Soon-Ho South Korea 2011, 1h27m, N/C 8+, Korean with subtitles In partnership with Sheffield Doc/Fest. Thanks to Dogwoof

Glasgow Youth Film Festival GFT Monday 13 February (18.00) Director Ruben Östlund Cast Yannick Diakité, Kevin Vaz, Anas Abdirahman Sweden/Denmark/Finland 2011, 1h58m, N/C 15+, Swedish with subtitles Thanks to the European Parliament Office in Scotland and the Coproduction Office

Free but ticketed, tickets available on the day from GFT.

Practice Makes Perfect: Scottish Competition 2 Eight of the thirty-one films competing for the inaugural Scottish Short Film Award. This programme features experimental silent film Dogged, Martin Smith’s documentary Jimmy, Ronald Forbes’ Joking Apart, Tali Yankelevich’s The Perfect Fit, which reveals the surprising origins of ballet shoes, stalker animation Étude, disturbing comedy Asexual Healing and the unclassifiable and gleeful Five, Six, Seven, Eight! by Felipe Bustos Sierra. Full details of all the films are provided in the Glasgow Short Film Festival brochure.

Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Friday 10 February (21.00) The Shed Saturday 11 February (14.00) 1h30m, N/C 15+

Tickets cost £6/£5 at The Shed screening only.

Princess Mononoke Mononoke-hime

All of Hayao Miyazaki’s films are masterpieces but Princess Mononoke is arguably his greatest work: brimming with imagination, beauty and tragedy on an epic scale. Inflicted with a deadly curse, a young warrior named Ashitaka sets out for the forests of the west in search of the cure that will save his life. He becomes entangled in a bitter battle between a proud clan of humans and the forest’s animal gods who are led by Princess Mononoke, a young girl raised by wolves. The film remains an effortless classic that transcends indifferent perceptions of Japanese anime – ignore it at your peril.

Print the Legend: Scottish Competition 1 Five of the thirty-one films competing for the inaugural Scottish Short Film Award. This programme features two films set at the chalk-face of the Edinburgh tourist industry, rickshaw driver drama Three-Legged Horses and ghost tour mockumentary Pouncer. No More Shall We Part is set in the Highland emigrant community of 19th century Nova Scotia, The Fisherman’s Daughter is a mythic tale of island life, and in Tumult a band of Norse warriors face an unfamiliar foe. Full details of all the films are provided in the Glasgow Short Film Festival brochure.

Glasgow Youth Film Festival GFT Sunday 12 February (14.45) Director/Screenwriter Hayao Miyazaki Voice Cast Claire Danes, Billy Crudup, Gillian Anderson Japan 1997, 2h8m, PG, English language version Thanks to StudioCanal

Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Thursday 9 February (19.00) The Shed Friday 10 February (20.00) 1h30m, N/C 15+

Tickets cost £6/£5 at The Shed screening only.

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Protest/Film: Panel 3

Glasgow Short Film Festival

In the last twelve months barely a week appears to have gone by without news of protests in different corners of the globe. Unsurprisingly these events have inspired filmmakers to reach for their cameras to document a new, emerging restlessness. GSFF and Document International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival present a selection of films responding to political protests past and present in order to examine the overlap between art and activism, asking questions about the role of film in a new age of political activism and provoking lively debate from a panel of filmmakers and activists.

CCA Sunday 12 February (13.00) 1h30m, N/C 15+

All tickets £4

A Psychocinematic Ritual  After their spectacular warm-up for Italian horror soundtrack legends Goblin at last year’s festival, occult project OV returns for a much-anticipated evening of live experience – this time using ritual, coincidence, numerology and a hefty dose of magick to explore both the beauty and cruelty of war. An unsettling collaboration between members of Desalvo, Unwinding Hours and Sons and Daughters, OV was born from a shared fascination with the occult, magick and the otherworldly. Performing live film soundtracks alongside intriguing visuals, prepare to be reminded of the power of music and cinema to shock and disturb.

Glasgow Music and Film Festival The Old Hairdressers   Thursday 23 February (20.00) 3h, N/C 18+ Thanks to OV, Psychogeographical Commission and The Wyrding Module

All tickets £5

The Rabbi’s Cat 3D Le chat du rabbin

Adapted from the celebrated graphic novel, The Rabbi’s Cat tells the story of a rabbi and his feline philosopher. After devouring the family parrot, the rabbi’s cat gains the ability to speak – much to his master’s disapproval. The rabbi vows to educate him in the ways of the Torah but the cat is more interested in his Bar Mitzvah. When a mysterious stranger arrives in the city, the Rabbi and his companion set off on a journey into the unknown heart of Africa. Winner of Annecy Animation Film Festival Crystal for Best Feature, The Rabbi’s Cat is a colourful comedy set in the hazy days of pre-war Algeria.

Glasgow Youth Film Festival GFT Saturday 11 February (15.30) Directors Antoine Delesvaux, Joann Sfar Screenwriters Sandrina Jardel, Joann Sfar Voice Cast François Morel, Maurice Bénichou, Hafsia Herzi France/Austria 2011, 1h40m, N/C 12+, French with subtitles Thanks to The Festival Agency

3D: £1.50 on top of ticket prices

The Raid Director Gareth Evans reunites with his Merantau star Iko Uwais for The Raid – the high octane, adrenalin-fuelled cult film of the year. In Jakarta’s poorest neighbourhood sits a fifteen-storey building that is a refuge for the most dangerous criminals in Indonesia. When an elite SWAT force, led by tough cop Rama, attempts to bring down the building’s defences, the operation doesn’t go according to plan and the team wind up trapped inside. Packed with dynamic stunts The Raid is an elegant, super-charged action flick that will hold you in its grip until the breathtaking finale. UK premiere.

Red Dog Australia has never seen anything quite like Red Dog. A huge, award-winning box-office hit, it has won hearts and minds all across the continent and it’s easy to see why. Based on the novel by Louis de Bernières, it is an irresistible salute to a very special dog. In 1971, a smelly, red-dust covered kelpie hitches a ride into the iron ore town of Dampier. Named Red, he selects American bus driver John (Josh Lucas) as his master and sets about becoming a legend in the area, renowned for his lengthy travels and indomitable spirit. Greyfriars Bobby had nothing on him. Told with visual panache and a soundtrack of 1970s rock this could be the feel-good film of 2012.

The Reptile Filmed back-to-back with The Plague of the Zombies, The Reptile is an atmospheric, second division Hammer chiller set in a 19th century Cornish village. When Harry Spalding arrives with his new bride, the villagers lock their doors and close their mouths. Harry’s late brother is just one of the victims in a spate of unexplained deaths. The locals suspect plague but Harry’s investigations uncover a deadly curse and introduce a new monster to the Hammer pantheon. A florid gothic chiller complete with a rubbery creature, a wonderfully hammy John Laurie as Mad Peter and some old-style, full-throttle melodrama. Screening from a restored digital print.

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FrightFest GFT Saturday 25 February (23.15) Director Gareth Evans Cast Iko Uwais, Doni Alamsyah, Yayan Ruhain Indonesia/USA 2011, 1h40m, N/C 18+, Indonesian with subtitles Thanks to Momentum Pictures It's a Wonderful World Cineworld Renfrew Street Friday 17 February (18.30) Saturday 18 February (11.15) Director Kriv Stenders Screenwriter Dan Taplitz Cast Josh Lucas, Rachael Taylor, Noah Taylor Australia 2011, 1h31m, PG Thanks to G2 Pictures

FrightFest Extra GFT Friday 17 February (23.00) Director John Gilling Screenwriter Anthony Hinds (writing as John Elder) Cast Noel Willman, Jennifer Daniel, John Laurie UK 1966, 1h26m, 15 Thanks to StudioCanal

Rites of Spring In the spring of 1984 five teenagers go missing. The disappearances continue for the next twenty-four years but no bodies are ever recovered. Back to the present day and a murderous lunatic goes about the seasonal business of selecting victims whilst four sleazy criminals are planning an audacious kidnap from a nearby estate. One-to-watch first-time director Padraig Reynolds cleverly interweaves both stories until the two collide and all hell breaks loose. Add into the menacing mix the popular current scream team of AJ Bowen (The House of the Devil, Hatchet 2, A Horrible Way to Die) and Anessa Ramsey (Yellowbrickroad, The Signal) and you have a chilling tale of unexpected horror. UK premiere.

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen  A preposterous pipe dream nourishes an unlikely romance in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, a crowd-pleasing delight based on the Paul Torday bestseller. Cast against type, Ewan McGregor is a pompous, cardigan-wearing fisheries expert asked to devise a means of introducing salmon into the waterways of Yemen as a way of flying the flag for AngloYemeni relations. He assumes it is a joke until Emily Blunt and £50 million from an idealistic sheikh convince him otherwise. As the dream becomes a reality, two lonely souls are gently nudged together in a captivating romantic comedy with stunning locations and a scenestealing Kristin Scott Thomas as a ruthless spin doctor in the Malcolm Tucker mould.

Salomé Based on Oscar Wilde’s decadent play, Alla Nazimova and Charles Bryant’s Salomé tells the biblical story of King Herod and his execution of John the Baptist at the request of Salomé, his daughter and object of lust. A commercial flop on release back in 1923, the film now enjoys cult status. It is revered for its camp acting and for Natacha Rambova’s highly stylised Aubrey Beardsley-esque sets and costumes (many made with fabrics from Maison Lewis of Paris). The bold designs and the profusion of silver lamés, veils, turbans and peacock feathers make this a stunning visual treat. Screened with live piano accompaniment.

FrightFest GFT Saturday 25 February (15.30) Director/Screenwriter Padraig Reynolds Cast Anessa Ramsey, AJ Bowen, Sonny Marinelli USA 2011, 1h20m, N/C 18+ Thanks to Jinga

Gala GFT Sunday 26 February (18.00) Director Lasse Halström  Screenwriter Simon Beaufoy  Cast Ewan Mcgregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas UK 2011, 1h52m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Lionsgate Films

Fashion in Film  GFT Sunday 19 February (19.00) Director Charles Bryant Screenwriter Natacha Rambova Cast Mitchell Lewis, Alla Nazimova, Rose Dione USA 1923, 1h12m, U Thanks to Fashion in Film Festival and Lobster Films

This screening is a preview for the Fashion in Film Festival which takes place at GFT in March.

Scottish Animation Network: Panel 2 The Scottish Animation Network is dedicated to promoting and celebrating the Scottish animation industry. We aim to raise the profile of all animation produced in Scotland from freelance animation to studio productions. For GSFF12 the Scottish Animation Network brings together a panel of animators and industry experts to discuss the creative and practical differences between short film and commercial work, how the processes differ and what the relative challenges and rewards might be.

Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Saturday 11 February (13.00) 1h30m, N/C 15+

All tickets £4

Serafina and Sam Steer: A Focus Left Special Multi-instrumentalist and multi-talented harpist Serafina Steer is used to Joanna Newsom comparisons by now. But Steer’s London-tinged Victoriana-folk stories, haunting melodies and captivating wordsmithery make her sound one of the most unique and intriguing of the past decade; a sound confirmed and enhanced by collaborations with artists from John Foxx and Benge to Chromehoof and Patrick Wolf. For this special gig, Steer will perform her own live scores using harp and vocals alongside the fairy-tale animations of her filmmaker brother Sam Steer in what promises to be a magical and enthralling live experience.

Glasgow Music and Film Festival The Arches   Saturday 18 February (19.00) 3h, N/C 18+ In association with Focus Left

Tickets cost £6 full price / £4 concessions

Setting the Scene: Scotland and the Future of Comics Two of the stars of the BBC film Scotland’s Amazing Comic Book Heroes will use their powers to step off the screen and expand the discussion on the future of comics in Scotland. Dr Chris Murray runs the Comic Studies MLitt/PGDip course at the University of Dundee. His research interests lie in comics, film and popular culture, and he has published essays on various aspects of comics. John McShane is chairman of the Scottish Cartoonists Society and his company, Fat Man Press, published The Bogie Man, one of the early examples of a comic book to film adaptation (starring Robbie Coltrane, no less). He has also published works by Grant Morrison, Mark Millar, Eddie Campbell and other famous comics creators. John and Chris will expand upon ideas raised in the film and answer your questions.

Kapow!@GFF CCA Tuesday 21 February (14.00) 1h30m, N/C 8+ Thanks to BBC Scotland

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Short Stuff: Parent & Baby Screening We present an hour and a bit of highlights from our eight international competition programmes, specially chosen for parents and babies. The selection will remain a secret until the curtains open, but we guarantee entertaining and thought-provoking drama, documentary and animation from around the world. No extreme content or sudden loud noises, and the lights will remain on low to allow easy movement during the screening.

Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Friday 10 February (11.15) 1h15m, N/C 12+

All tickets £4. Babies must be 18 months or younger (and go free, obviously!).

Silver Apples Pioneers of space and electronic rock, hugely influential avant-garde duo Silver Apples formed in 1967 in New York. A contrast to the flowery psychedelic rock of the 1960s, they assembled an assortment of filters, telegraph keys, radio parts, lab gear and a variety of second-hand electronic junk and oscillators to create their minimalistic, experimental sound. They have influenced everyone from Kraftwerk to Suicide and Spacemen 3. Simeon Coxe III will perform this exclusive and rare solo show for Glasgow Music and Film Festival which will follow the world premiere of Silver Apples: Play Twice Before Listening at GFT on Sunday 26 February (15.30).

Glasgow Music and Film Festival Mono Sunday 26 February (20.30) 3h, N/C 18+ Thanks to Silver Apples, The Arches, Huntleys & Palmers and Monorail

All tickets £10

Silver Apples: Play Twice Before Listening Having languished in obscurity for many years, 60s duo Silver Apples are now recognised as pioneers of electronica, thanks to their groundbreaking work melding psychedelic rock with primitive oscillators. At the time, switched on taste-makers like John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix sang their praises, but it’s been in latter years, with the likes of Beck, the Beastie Boys, and Portishead’s Geoff Barrow acknowledging their influence, that the band’s renown has grown. This documentary unfolds the story of the enigmatic duo through interviews, rare performance footage and contributions from a gallery of enthusiastic talking heads. World premiere.

Glasgow Music and Film Festival GFT Sunday 26 February (15.30) Director Barak Soval Cast Simeon, Danny Taylor, Joey Ramone, Thurston Moore USA 2011, 1h45m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Barak Soval, Huntleys & Palmers and Monorail

We’re delighted to welcome director Barak Soval and Simeon from Silver Apples to take part in a Q&A following the screening.

Silver Tongues Scottish filmmaker Simon Arthur impresses with the cool poise, technical flair and unsettling mind games of his exceptional feature debut Silver Tongues. Expanded from his short of the same name, Silver Tongues has echoes of Soderbergh, Atom Egoyan and Michael Haneke as it reveals a darkly playful tale of deception and deceit. Gerry (Lee Tergesen) and Joan (Enid Graham) travel the backwaters of New York indulging their passion for role-playing to dangerous extremes. They enact scenarios designed to challenge, humiliate and manipulate everyone they meet from a newlywed couple to a sceptical police officer. Arthur keeps us constantly guessing about the dynamics of the relationship, creating an original film that is beautifully acted and full of intrigue.

Simple Simon

I rymden finns inga känslor Simon has Asperger syndrome which means he has trouble interacting with people and also a fondness for circles and punctuality. Unable to live with his parents any longer, Simon moves in with his big brother Sam and his girlfriend, who isn’t exactly overjoyed at his arrival. When his erratic behaviour causes the couple to split up, Simon vows to find his brother the perfect replacement – with hilarious consequences. Simple Simon was Sweden’s entry for the 2010 Academy Awards and is excellent viewing for fans of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

The State of Independents GFT Saturday 18 February (21.00) Director/Screenwriter Simon Arthur Cast Lee Tergesen, Enid Graham, Rosa Arredondo USA 2010, 1h28m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Simon Arthur

Glasgow Youth Film Festival GFT Friday 10 February (18.30) Director Andreas Öhman Screenwriters Jonathan Sjöberg, Andreas Öhman Cast Bill Skarsgård, Martin Wallström, Cecilia Forss Sweden 2010, 1h25m, N/C 12+, Swedish with subtitles Thanks to the Swedish Film Institute

Preceded by short film Little Brother (7 mins) by Callum Cooper, selected for Sundance Film Festival 2011.

Sing Your Song Audiences around the world know Harry Belafonte as a beautiful singer and talented actor but Sing Your Song salutes his inspirational life as a fighter for civil rights and social justice around the world. The son of a Jamaican immigrant, Belafonte has spent his every waking breath trying to make a difference, from tearing down the walls of segregation in the American entertainment industry to marching alongside Martin Luther King in the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. He has opposed apartheid in South Africa and the war in Iraq. Extraordinary archive footage and an insightful interview with Belafonte transform Sing Your Song into a humbling record of an astonishing legacy.

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Stranger than Fiction Cineworld Renfrew Street Friday 17 February (15.00) Sunday 19 February (16.15) Director/Screenwriter Susanne Rostock Cast Harry Belafonte USA 2011, 1h46m, N/C 8+ Thanks to Verve Pictures

Singin’ in the Rain Everyone’s favourite MGM musical is sixty years old and just as fresh, funny and beguiling as the day it was first released. Hollywood’s calamitous transition from silent movies to talking pictures provides the backdrop to a peerless romantic romp in which Gene Kelly’s dashing matinee idol Don Lockwood finds true love with his lucky star Cathy, played by a sensational Debbie Reynolds. Co-star Donald O’Connor stops the show with his virtuoso comic display in ‘Make ‘Em Laugh’ and Kelly’s exuberant dance in the pouring rain is one of the most joyous expressions of being alive and in love that the movies have ever created. An absolute must on the big screen.

Slacker 2011 Richard Linklater’s debut feature Slacker (1991) portrayed a generation of over-qualified under-achievers and reanimated American independent cinema. His film followed a series of hipsters and oddballs over a twenty-four-hour period, taking in weird obsessions, rituals and even matricide along the way. To mark the film’s 20th anniversary, Austin Film Society invited twenty-four groups and filmmakers to remake a scene each. Some chose to update the script, others tracked down original cast members. What emerges is a smart and funny love letter to Austin: a city whose laid-back spirit, despite two decades of change, remains the same.

Gene Kelly: Strictly Song and Dance GFT Saturday 18 February (13.30) Directors Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen Cast Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O’Connor USA 1952, 1h42m, U Thanks to BFI

Glasgow Short Film Festival Glasgow Youth Film Festival GFT Friday 10 February (20.30) USA 2011, 1h44m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Austin Film Society

We are delighted to welcome producer Daniel Metz to introduce this European premiere screening.

Sleeping Sickness Schlafkrankheit

Winner of the Silver Bear at Berlin, Sleeping Sickness marks a third impressive feature from director Ulrich Köhler that has the feverish quality of a half-remembered dream. German doctor Ebbo has been working to eradicate a sleeping sickness pandemic in the Cameroon. He has been ordered to return home with his wife and daughter but he no longer recognises Europe as his home and is unwilling to once again embrace the values of the West. His actions tip an unsettling, unpredictable film into territory defined by Joseph Conrad and shed a piercing light on a Western view of African society permanently distorted by a colonialist past.

Sleepless Night Nuit blanche

Frédéric Jardin takes a bold leap into Tarantino territory with this blistering cat-and-mouse thriller. A gunshot brutally shatters the silence of a Paris morning as two men in balaclavas intercept a car on a drug run. Shots are fired and an escape is made but one of the men is recognised. Both of them are cops and the coke belongs to a nightclub owner who does not respond well to losing his property. He retaliates by kidnapping the cop’s son and offering his safety in return for the drugs. The clock is ticking as Vincent races to save his son and the scene moves to a labyrinthine nightclub where danger lurks around every corner. If you loved Point Blank at last year’s Festival then this is the film for you.

The Somnambulists The latest film from Richard Jobson is a piercing cry of a rage against Britain’s part in the war in Iraq. Inspired by Joanna Kane’s 2008 exhibition, The Somnambulists is an inventive, heartfelt production that confronts the viewer with actors delivering fifteen intense testimonies of British men and women who served in the deathtrap of Basra. Captured against stark black backdrops, the dead tell tales of anger, hatred, suicide and despair. Those left behind are depicted with loving fondness but the film is primarily a powerful, biting attack on the madness of conflict and on the shame of a nation seemingly content to sleepwalk into war.

St. Nick David Lowery is one of the rising stars of American independent cinema. He really impresses with St. Nick, a commanding, atmospheric feature following a brother and sister who have run away from some unspecified family tragedy. There is an echo of Night of the Hunter and Terrence Malick in the story of a twelve-year-old boy and his eight-year-old sister who eventually take refuge in an empty, ramshackle house in rural Texas. Abandoned and alone, they make the most of their freedom from adult control, even as Lowery conjures up an ever-present sense of dread over what might befall them.   Showing with Lowery’s short Pioneer (2010, 16 mins), an epic bedtime story starring Will Oldham.

Welcome to Germany GFT Wed 22 February (13.30) Director/Screenwriter Ulrich Köhler Cast Pierre Bokma, JeanChristophe Folly, Hippolyte Girardot Germany 2011, 1h31m, N/C 15+, German with subtitles In association with Goethe-Institut

European Cinema GFT Friday 17 February (23.15) Saturday 18 February (15.30) Director Frédéric Jardin Cast Tomer Sisley, Joey Starr, Julien Boissellier France/Belgium/Luxembourg 2011, 1h29m, N/C 15+, French with subtitles Thanks to Icon Film Distribution Great Scots GFT Tuesday 21 February (21.00) Director/Screenwriter Richard Jobson Cast Jack O’Connell, Steven Robertson, Jonathan Kerrigan UK 2011, 1h16m, N/C 15+ Thanks to No Bad Films

The State of Independents GFT Monday 20 February (13.15) CCA Tuesday 21 February (20.45) Director/Screenwriter David Lowery Cast Tucker Sears, Savanna Sears, Monique Byars USA 2009, 1h26m, N/C 12+ Thanks to David Lowery

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State of the Nation: Iceland Focus 4 The final programme in our Iceland focus examines how short filmmakers have tackled the economic upheaval of 2008 and its repercussions. A sense of trouble brewing can be detected in certain films made earlier in the decade, particularly in The Man on the Back, a curious satire made by Jón Gnarr, later to become the self-styled anarcho-surrealist mayor of Reykjavík. Post-2008 works in various genres make oblique or direct reference to Iceland’s unenviable status as the first casualty of the world economic crisis. Full details of all the films are provided in the Glasgow Short Film Festival brochure.

Stopped on Track Halt auf freier Strecke

A good life is measured by the quality of its passing in Stopped on Track, an emotionally intense, utterly absorbing account of a dying man’s last months. Director Andreas Dresen has a rare talent for addressing subject matter that other filmmakers consider taboo, from the sex lives of septuagenarians in the brilliant Cloud 9 (2008) to terminal illness in this film. Drawing on real-life situations and featuring genuine members of the medical profession, the fictional tale follows forty-year-old Frank from the moment he discovers his brain tumour is inoperable through all the stages of anger, denial and acceptance. It is unrelentingly heartbreaking but also incredibly life-affirming.

SuperClásico SuperClásico could rival The Descendants with its smart lessons about forgiveness, growing up and letting go. Christian owns a Copenhagen shop that specialises in rare wines. The shop is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, Christian is drifting apart from his son Oscar and stunned by his ex-wife Anna’s impending marriage to sexy Argentinean footballer Juan Diaz. Finding courage in the bottom of a glass, he decides to take Oscar to Buenos Aires and win back the love of the woman he lost. As Buenos Aires works its magic on him, Christian’s noble quest becomes a journey towards emotional maturity in this witty, endearing delight from the director of Prague (2006) and Flame and Citron (2008).

Superheroes Across America an expanding number of cities are witnessing the appearance of an extraordinary subculture: real-life superheroes. Like most of our beloved fictional heroes, many live fairly run-of-the-mill lives, but when the sun sets they transform into their fantastical alter-egos, fighting crime and dispensing justice (some more adeptly than others). Superheroes follows the exploits of a handful of these self-appointed caped crusaders as they attempt to make a difference in their communities. For some, being a superhero is all about wearing the colourful costume and confronting crooks, while for others it’s as simple as making sure a homeless man has clean clothes to wear.

Superman When Superman was released in 1978 comic book blockbusters were a rare event. Director Richard Donner set himself the task of making the world believe that a man could fly and succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. His first stroke of genius was casting young stage actor Christopher Reeve as the gauche, clumsy reporter Clark Kent and the Man of Steel. Donner surrounds the unknown Reeve with a brilliant allstar cast that includes Marlon Brando as Superman’s father Jor-El, Glenn Ford as Pa Kent, Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor and Terence Stamp as General Zod. The result is a groundbreaking production filled with a sense of awe and wonder often lacking from more recent blockbusters.

Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Sunday 12 February (17.00) 1h30m, N/C 15+

Welcome to Germany GFT Thursday 23 February (20.15) Director Andreas Dresen Cast Milan Peschel, Steffi Kühnert, Bernhard Schutz Germany 2011, 1h50m, N/C 12+, German with subtitles In association with Goethe-Institut

European Cinema GFT Saturday 25 February (20.45) Sunday 26 February (11.30) Director Ole Christian Madsen Cast Anders W Berthelsen, Paprika Steen, Sebastián Estevanez Denmark 2011,1h39m, N/C 15+, Danish with subtitles Thanks to the Danish Film Institute Kapow!@GFF GFT Thursday 23 February (19.20) Director Mike Barnett USA 2011, 1h22m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Superheroes LLC

Kapow!@GFF GFT Wed 22 February (17.45) Director Richard Donner Screenwriters Mario Puzo, David Newman, Leslie Newman, Robert Benton Cast Marlon Brando, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman UK 1978, 2h23m, PG Thanks to Warner Bros

This screening will be introduced by British comic book artist Bryan Hitch.

Surreal/Political: Animations from Oberhausen The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen runs one of the world’s most notable, largest and oldest short film archives. This special selection features eight award-winning animations dating from 1964 to 1997, in which filmmakers don’t shy away from taking a political stance. The programme takes a journey through time, tracing the history of the animated short, particularly those of the surreal variety. Many of the works on view have long since attained the status of classics; as such, they also reflect the history of the Oberhausen Festival.

Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Thursday 9 February (19.00) 1h30m, N/C 15+ In association with Goethe-Institut

We are delighted to welcome Oberhausen archivist Carsten Spicher to introduce this screening and discuss the films.

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Sweet Sorrow: International Competition 6 When love dies, how do we react? Denial, escape, desire, obsession, acceptance and grief are the states of mind explored in this bittersweet selection. Featuring Fred Worden’s experimental reworking of a scene from the 1932 film Possessed, the minimalist Brazilian sketch Fantasmas, and the latest film from Rachel Lang (For You I Will Fight, GSFF11), fresh from winning the prestigious Ingmar Bergman Award at Uppsala Short Film Festival: White Turnips Make it Hard to Sleep. Full details of all the films are provided in the Glasgow Short Film Festival brochure.

The Swell Season Who can forget the 2008 Oscar ceremony when host Jon Stewart broke with tradition and invited Markéta Irglová back to the stage to make her thank-yous for the Oscar she shared with Glen Hasard for Best Song ‘Falling Slowly’? It was a fairy-tale ending for the couple who had charmed the world in the low-budget Irish triumph Once and found true love along the way. Sustaining that love was a different matter as the couple were swept along by global fame and adulation. The beautiful black-and-white documentary The Swell Season eloquently captures the pressures of fame, the power of the couple’s music and their determination to keep working together after the love had gone.

Take 2: The Magicians  Het geheim

Eight-year-old Ben is desperate to be a magician. His dad Koos offers to go to lessons with him and pretty soon they’re performing as a father-and-son act, together with Ben’s friend Sylvie. It’s all going well until one day – abracadabra and whoops! – Sylvie disappears in a magic trick and won’t come back. As days pass with no sign of her, Ben’s happy family starts to fall apart under the strain. Now Ben must find a way to make her reappear, before his mum leaves his dad, Sylvie’s parents lose it, and the reputation of magic is forever tarnished.

Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Friday 10 February (17.00) Sunday 12 February (15.00) 1h30m, N/C 15+

Glasgow Music and Film Festival GFT Thursday 23 February (21.00) Directors Nick August-Perna, Chris Dapkins, Carlo MirabellaDavis Cast Markéta Irglová, Glen Hasard USA 2011, 1h31m, N/C 12+ Thanks to Elephant Eye Films

Glasgow Youth Film Festival GFT  Saturday 11 February (11.00) Cineworld Parkhead  Saturday 11 February (11.00) Director Joram Lürsen Screenwriter Frank Ketelaar Cast Thor Braun, Theo Maassen, Daan Schuurmans The Netherlands 2010, 1h30m, N/C 5+, Dutch with subtitles Thanks to IDTV Film

We’ll have a mysterious and magical surprise before the screening for everyone attending – you’ll have to turn up to find out what it could be! The Magicians screens at 11.30am. Glasgow Young Scot and Kidz Card holders and an accompanying adult get in free to Take 2. Other tickets (available at GFT only) £4.00.

Take 2: Surprise Movie Every year we present a surprise family movie – we give you no advance warning of the title, director, stars or genre, but promise it’ll be suitable for ages 8 and up – and every year, it’s one of our most popular slots at GYFF. Considering we lavish so much energy on providing full information for our screenings, it may seem odd to actively keep something secret – but we know from past experience that you love a mystery... What will it be this year? Only the Festival Co-Director knows for certain, and NOTHING will get her to spill the beans.

Glasgow Youth Film Festival GFT  Saturday 18 February (11.30) Cineworld Parkhead  Saturday 18 February (11.30)

Glasgow Young Scot and Kidz Card holders and an accompanying adult get in free to Take 2. Other tickets (available at GFT only) £4.00.

Take 2: Twigson Knerten

Junior has just moved to the countryside. With both parents out at work all day, he must manage on his own. With no other houses for miles around, he soon finds that his new life is a bit lonely. That’s until, one day, he encounters a mischievous talking twig – Twigson – and suddenly life is filled with excitement and drama, and ordinary errands become epic quests... Set in 1960s Norway and based on a classic children’s book series, Twigson is a beautiful, vividly imaginative film, a family favourite at film festivals across the world. We’ll announce the winners of our Wee Movies competition and give out special treats to everyone in attendance before the GFT screening! Twigson screens at 11.30am.

Glasgow Youth Film Festival GFT  Saturday 25 February (11.00) Cineworld Parkhead  Saturday 25 February (11.30) Director Åsleik Engmark Screenwriter Birgitte Bratseth Cast Adrian Grønnevik Smith, Åsleik Engmark, Pernille Sørensen Norway 2009, 1h11m, N/C 5+, Norwegian with subtitles Thanks to the Norwegian Film Institute

Glasgow Young Scot and Kidz Card holders and an accompanying adult get in free to Take 2. Other tickets (available at GFT only) £4.00.

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Take Me Out to the Ball Game A sprinkling of MGM magic and the genius of Gene Kelly could transform the corniest of plots into a thing of joy. Set in 1908, Take Me Out to the Ball Game reunites Kelly and Frank Sinatra as star players in an American League baseball team who also happen to have dreams of making it big in vaudeville. Swimming sensation Esther Williams has a rare chance to stay dry as the feisty new owner of the team. The legendary Busby Berkeley was in the director’s chair but Kelly and Stanley Donen carried much of the responsibility for the film and for the snap and sparkle of delightful showstoppers like ‘The Hat My Father Wore on St Patrick’s Day’.

Tales of the Night 3D Les contes de la nuit

Michel Ocelot is the master of contemporary French animation and films such as Kirikou and the Sorceress have thrilled audiences worldwide. His latest engages with more cultures than ever before, weaving together six exotic fables from different periods and locales – from Tibet to medieval Europe, Aztec Mexico to the plains of Africa. Prepare to be whisked to enchanted lands full of dragons, werewolves, captive princesses, sorcerers and enormous talking bees… and all in glorious 3D!

Gene Kelly: Strictly Song and Dance GFT  Tuesday 21 February (11.00) Director Busby Berkeley Screenwriters Harry Tugend, George Wells, Harry Crane Cast Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams USA 1949, 1h29m, U Thanks to BFI

Glasgow Youth Film Festival GFT Saturday 11 February (13.30) Director/Screenwriter Michel Ocelot Voice Cast Julien Beramis, Marine Griset, Michel Elias France 2011, 1h24m, N/C 8+, French with subtitles Thanks to Soda Pictures

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Tape 407: The Mesa Reserve Incident Returning to Los Angeles after a Christmas break in New York, Trish (Abigail Shrader) and Jessie (Samantha Lester) settle down aboard Optima Flight 37A. But before you can say Snakes on a Plane, their aircraft hits extreme turbulence. The relentless bad weather leads to panic and terror amongst the passengers until the plane ultimately crashes in a mysterious and remote area. But as a handful of survivors emerge from the crash, they soon realise their nightmare has only just begun. Moving subtly from disaster movie to horror adventure and then into political conspiracy theory, Tape 407 is a gripping feature with a twisting plot line that will keep you guessing until the very end. UK premiere.

Tatsumi Former comic artist Eric Khoo is a long-time admirer of Yoshihiro Tatsumi, the father of the gekiga (‘dramatic pictures’). Inspired by Tatsumi’s hefty autobiography A Drifting Life, Khoo’s film is a tender, completely animated tribute to the artist’s life that also illustrates five of his most celebrated short stories. The autobiographical interludes are narrated by Tatsumi and in full colour, telling of his childhood, influence and revolutionary role in advancing the comic art to tackle gritty adult themes. The five stories – ‘Hell’, ‘Beloved Monkey’, ‘Just a Man’, ‘Occupied’ and ‘Good-bye’ are in the style of the original manga with delicate shadings and muted colour tones. The highlight is the Hiroshima tale ‘Hell’ which is said to have inspired the recent Waltz with Bashir.

Telling Stories: International Competition 5 This programme examines, confounds and subverts conventions of storytelling. Genres clash in a self-referential struggle for narrative supremacy. Bill Plympton remakes his 2005 film Guard Dog with the aid of seventy animators recruited online, each recreating a scene in their own style, while Now Follows dissects the ‘typical’ short film shot by shot, to great comic effect. Also featuring multi-award-winning sci-fi schlocker Decapoda Shock, Sundance favourite Pioneer, starring Will Oldham, and Johnny Barrington’s highland epic Tumult. Full details of all the films are provided in the Glasgow Short Film Festival brochure.

Terraferma Emanuele Crialese (Respiro, The Golden Door) returns to Sicily and the beautiful island of Linosa for this magnificent, award-winning tale of a fishing community torn between traditional values and the changing world around them. A stubborn patriarch refuses to believe that the sea will no longer provide a sustainable living even as his children embrace the burgeoning tourism industry. When the family discover a group of illegal immigrants, they give sanctuary to a pregnant woman, well aware that the law obliges them to report her. Isn’t it in their blood to offer assistance to those in peril on the sea? Topical issues are addressed in a drama unfolding against breathtaking landscapes in Italy’s entry for the 2012 Oscars.

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FrightFest GFT Friday 24 February (16.00) Directors Dale Fabrigar, Everette Wallin Cast Abigail Schrader, Samantha Lester, James Lyons USA 2011, 1h30m, N/C 18+ Thanks to G2

Kapow!@GFF Cineworld Renfrew Street Tuesday 21 February (18.00) Wed 22 February (12.00) Director/Screenwriter Eric Khoo Cast Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Tetsuya Bessho, Motoko Gollent Singapore 2011, 1h36m, 15, Japanese with subtitles Thanks to Soda Pictures

Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Friday 10 February (15.00) Saturday 11 February (21.00) 1h30m, N/C 15+

European Cinema GFT Tuesday 21 February (19.00) Wed 22 February (11.30) Director Emanuele Crialese Screenwriters Emanuele Crialese, Vittorio Moroni Cast Filippo Pucillo, Donatella Finocchiaro, Mimmo Cuticchio Italy 2011, 1h28m, N/C 12+, Italian with subtitles Thanks to Elle Driver

Terri When quiet student Terri is teased for his pudgy frame he responds by wearing pyjamas to class. His odd behaviour attracts the attention of Vice-Principal Mr Fitzgerald (John C Reilly) whose inept efforts to motivate Terri only make matters worse. High school movies about awkward misfits are common and Terri could have easily become a series of indie clichés. Thankfully, the film excels where many others fail with its honest storytelling and performances. A big hit at Sundance last year, Terri is moving, original and, above all, very funny.

They F**k You Up, Your Mum and Dad: International Competition 8 They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had, and add some extra, just for you. Our final international selection explores parental crimes, failings and disappointments. Featuring Bjørn Melhus’s I’m Not the Enemy, which won a special mention at Oberhausen, Japanese filmmaker Satsuki Okawa’s sibling rivalry drama Tidy Up, the new film from GSFF alumnus Stephen Fingleton, Shirin and Douglas Hart’s Peter Mullan-starring Long Distance Information. Full details of all the films are provided in the Glasgow Short Film Festival brochure.

This is Not a Film In film nist

In December 2010, renowned Iranian writer/director Jafar Panahi was sentenced to six years in prison and a twenty-year ban on filmmaking or giving any form of interview after a conviction for crimes against the Islamic Republic. His crime was supporting the protests over the 2009 re-election of President Ahmadinejad and making beautiful films like The White Balloon and Offside which showed Iran to the world. This is Not a Film has been hailed as an ‘urgent and personal defence of the artist’ and covers a day in the life of a filmmaker; a filmmaker barred from making films but who can still dream, plan and let his imagination run free.

This Must be the Place Paolo Sorrentino has enthralled audiences with films like The Consequences of Love and Il Divo. His first English-language venture is an extraordinary fusion of road movie, revenge drama and touching family history with echoes of Paris, Texas. A fearless Sean Penn stars as reclusive, oddball rock star Cheyenne. When his father falls ill, Cheyenne heads from Dublin to New York. He discovers that his father nursed a lifelong grudge against a former SS guard who may still be alive. He embarks on an epic quest to find his father’s nemesis in a film of staggering beauty and immense heart with a killer soundtrack from David Byrne and Will Oldham.

TILT Young love unfolds amid the political upheavals of the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe in this massive home-grown hit that has become Bulgaria’s Oscar submission for 2012. The story begins in the Sofia of 1989 where handsome Stash and his friends scrape a living from the illegal distribution of German porn videos. He starts to date the free-spirited Becky but is warned off by her policeman father. When the Berlin Wall tumbles, Stash and the gang head to Germany but the news of Bulgaria’s Velvet Revolution brings them home to a population and a country that have undergone radical change. A personal story that captures the sweeping changes of Europe in transition.

Time to Spare Alle tijd

Casting director Job Gosschalk proves to be a talent to watch with his debut feature Time to Spare, a fizzy, immensely likeable comedy drama with characters that easily win your heart. Since the death of their mother, forty-something music teacher Maarten has been a brother and a father to his sister Molly. She is twentyone and has decided that the time is right to move in with her boyfriend. Maarten’s loyal pal Reina buys him a dog called Doodle to help him feather his empty nest. A chance encounter with the dashing, mixed-up Arthur might help to fill his empty bed but life has a way of taking everyone by surprise in this witty, warm-hearted romp.

Glasgow Youth Film Festival GFT Thursday 9 February (20.30) Director Azazel Jacobs Screenwriter Patrick Dewitt Cast John C Reilly, Jacob Wysocki, Creed Bratton USA 2011, 1h45m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Coach 14 Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Friday 10 February (21.00) Saturday 11 February (13.00) 1h30m, N/C 15+

Stranger than Fiction GFT Friday 17 February (14.00) Saturday 18 February (11.15) Directors/Screenwriters/Cast Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Jafar Panahi Iran 2011, 1h15m, N/C 8+, Farsi with subtitles  Thanks to Tartan Palisades

Gala Cineworld Renfrew Street Monday 20 February (20.30) Tuesday 21 February (13.15) Director Paolo Sorrentino Screenwriter Umberto Contarello Cast Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch USA 2011, 1h58m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Trinity Filmed Entertainment European Cinema Cineworld Renfrew Street Wed 22 February (16.00) Thursday 23 February (18.45) Director Viktor Chouckov Jr Cast Yavor Baharov, Radina Kardjilova, Ovanes Torosian Bulgaria 2011, 1h37m, N/C 12+, Bulgarian with subtitles  Thanks to Chouchkov Brothers Ltd

European Cinema GFT Monday 20 February (15.15) Tuesday 21 February (10.45) Director/Screenwriter Job Gosschalk Cast Paul de Leeuw, Karina Smulders, Lineke Rijxman The Netherlands 2011, 1h31m, N/C 15+, Dutch with subtitles Thanks to NL Film productions

Screening with black comedy short Scrubbers (director Paul Fuller, screenwriter/producer Caroline Jowett, 2011, 11 mins).

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Trishna Michael Winterbottom’s bold re-imagining of Tess of the D’Urbervilles successfully translates Thomas Hardy’s Victorian classic to the heat and dust of modern India. The issues of class privilege, inequality and masculine arrogance still resonate in a film that journeys from hope to heartache as romance turns to unbearable shame. Jay (Riz Ahmed) catches sight of the beautiful Trishna (Freida Pinto) in rural Rajasthan and is instantly smitten. He offers her a job at his father’s hotel in Jaipur. He charms and seduces her but his actions show an increasing disregard for her feelings. Stunningly shot on location with a beguiling soundtrack by Shigeru Umebayashi, this is one of Winterbottom’s finest achievements.

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La brindille Here’s a film with a plot-line straight out of a hysterical soap opera, but so brilliantly acted and directed that the result is entirely un-gooey. Sarah, a gallery intern in her early twenties, collapses at work. When taken to hospital for tests, she’s shocked to learn that she is six months pregnant. Her reaction is apparently one of breezy avoidance, but underneath it’s a different story, and as b-day approaches Sarah must confront the reality of her impending maternity. Tough, uncompromising and absolutely heartbreaking.

Two Years at Sea Ben Rivers is without doubt one of the most exciting visual artists and filmmakers currently working in the UK. Two Years at Sea is his debut feature, a beautiful, quietly observed documentary about a man living a life of solitude in a remote forest in rural Scotland. Handsomely shot on black-and-white 16mm, Two Years at Sea immerses the viewer in the gentle rhythms of Williams’ daily life, gradually building up a portrait of an intriguing character whose story would otherwise have passed us by. A hit with critics, Two Years at Sea won the FIPRESCI Prize for best film at Venice Film Festival 2011.

Unfinished Spaces In 1961, Fidel Castro commissioned Ricardo Porro, Roberto Gottardi and Vittorio Garatti to design ‘the most beautiful of art schools in the world’. They succeeded beyond his wildest dreams with the National Art Schools built in the grounds of a lavish golf course previously frequented by the rich and privileged. The spectacular, futuristic school became a centre of artistic excellence until 1965 when the revolution changed, the construction was halted and the trio went into exile. Unfinished Spaces reunites the three architects forty years later for emotional recollections of what happened and beautiful images of decaying buildings that deserve to be preserved. A masterful mixture of archive history, politics and hope.

Up There Zam Salim’s keenly awaited first feature is a witty, wonderfully lugubrious dark comedy that views life after death in a way that you have never seen before. Adapted from Salim’s prize-winning short Laid off, Up There stars Burn ‘Torchwood’ Gorman as Mark. Killed in a car crash, Mark discovers that the afterlife is run by an officious, Kafka-like bureaucracy and has none of the benefits of being able to walk through walls or send shivers up the spine. Assigned the role of carer with motormouth novice Rash (Aymen Hamdouchi) as his sidekick, he is dispatched in search of a runaway. When he meets Liz (Kate O’Flynn) he might just have found a good reason for staying dead.

Vincent Wants to Sea Vincent will Meer

Winner of Best Film and Best Actor at the 2011 German Film Awards, Vincent Wants to Sea is a feel-good crowd-pleaser. Star Florian David Fitz also wrote the story of Vincent, a twenty-seven-year-old with Tourette’s syndrome. Dispatched to a health facility after his mother’s death, Vincent quickly bonds with rebellious fellow patient Marie (Karoline Herfurth). They make a break for freedom accompanied by Vincent’s obsessive-compulsive roommate Alexander (Johannes Allmayer). The trio head for the Italian coast where Vincent intends to scatter his mother’s ashes and their road trip becomes a touching, comical tale of confronting home truths and finding their inner strength.

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Best of British GFT Friday 17 February (20.40) Cineworld Renfrew Street Saturday 18 February (15.50) Director/Screenwriter Michael Winterbottom Cast Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed, Roshan Seth UK 2012, 1h57m, N/C 18+, English and Hindi with subtitles Thanks to Artificial Eye

Glasgow Youth Film Festival GFT Saturday 11 February (20.45) Director/Screenwriter Emmanuelle Millet Cast Christa Théret, Johan Libéreau, Maud Wyler France 2011, 1h22m, N/C 12+, French with subtitles Thanks to Films Distribution

Crossing the Line GFT Monday 20 February (20.40) Tuesday 21 February (15.00) Director Ben Rivers Cast Jake Williams UK 2011, 1h28m, N/C 8+ Thanks to LUX Image courtesy of Ben Rivers and LUX Stranger than Fiction GFT Sunday 19 February (13.45) Directors Benjamin Murray, Alysa Nahmias Cast Vittorio Garatti, Roberto Gottardi, Ricardo Porro USA 2011, 1h26m, N/C 12+, Spanish with subtitles Thanks to Ajna Films

Great Scots GFT Friday 24 February (20.15) Director/Screenwriter Zam Salim Cast Burn Gorman, Kate O’Flynn, Aymen Hamdouchi Scotland 2011, 1h22m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Eyeline Entertainment

Welcome to Germany GFT  Sunday 26 February (13.30) Director Ralf Huettner Screenwriter Florian David Fitz Cast Florian David Fitz, Karoline Herfurth, Heino Ferch Germany 2010, 1h36m, N/C 15+, German with subtitles Thanks to Beta Cinema and Goethe-Institut Glasgow

Virtuous or Vicious Circle? (Kubrick Never Crowdfunded): Panel 1 Crowdfunding is fast becoming a staple of independent production, and filmmakers are increasingly recognising the benefits of using social media to engage with a wide audience at all stages of pre-production, production and distribution. But does crowdfunding change your filmmaking? Do directors find themselves tailoring their work to a particular expectation or demand? And how sustainable is all this mutual crowdfunding anyway? Join a panel of production and social media experts from Scottish Documentary Institute, Netribution and Trigger as they discuss the implications for creativity of the social media boom.

Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Saturday 11 February (11.00) 1h30m, N/C 15+

All tickets £4

Vivienne Westwood: Do it Yourself As fashion icons go, you can’t get much more iconic than Dame Vivienne Westwood. When she exploded onto the scene in the 1970s her visionary embrace of punk fashion (safety pins, bondage gear and spiked collars) and love of tartan gave her designs an unequivocal Westwood stamp. Always politically engaged, the threetimes British Designer of the Year has become an outspoken civil rights and climate change activist. Filmmakers Jean-Marie and Letmiya Sztalryd gain behind-thescenes access to this famous and surprisingly softly-spoken, gentle woman to learn how she works and what makes her tick.

Fashion in Film CCA Friday 24 February (20.30) Director Letmiya Sztalryd Screenwriters Letmiya Sztalryd, Jean-Marie Sztalryd Cast Vivienne Westwood France 2011, 57m, N/C 8+ Thanks to Arte France

Free but ticketed, tickets available from CCA on the day.

Volcano Eldfjall

Volcano marks a profoundly moving feature debut from acclaimed shorts filmmaker Rúnar Rúnarsson. There is an admirable emotional maturity in the way he handles cross-generational conflict and the notion that it is never entirely too late to seek redemption. Hannes has spent forty years as a school caretaker in Reykjavík. Adrift in aimless retirement, he sinks further into misanthropy, alienating a family who only come to visit out of loyalty to their long-suffering mother Anna. When Anna suddenly falls ill, Hannes looks after her, showing glimpses of the caring human being that has been unseen for decades. Told with an acute understanding of the way we sometimes hurt the ones we love the most.

Walking Dead Illustrator Charlie Adlard in Conversation Apocalyptic graphic novel The Walking Dead, a survival story of a world overtaken by zombies, captured the imaginations of a legion of fans and is now a multi-million dollar US TV series. In this unique event, Shropshire-based artist Charlie Adlard drops in on GFF to discuss how he came on board as illustrator for the series and the effect it has had on his career. After the conversation we will screen one of Charlie’s favourite episodes from the Golden Globe-nominated series. An unmissable event for fans keen to delve deeper into one of the hottest comics and TV shows around.

Wang’s Arrival L’arrivo di Wang

Wang’s Arrival is an award-winning sci-fi from Marco and Antonio Manetti, a potent creative force on the Mondo Italiano art scene. Chinese-language interpreter Gaia (Francesca Cuttica) is called up out of the blue by the Italian authorities with an urgent and confidential translation assignment. She is whisked away to a secret underground location and ushered into a pitch-black room where she is asked to interpret the harsh interrogation of a mysterious presence, the eponymous Mr Wang (Li Yong). Gaia is unable to translate properly and asks for the lights to be turned on only to discover just why the identity of Mr Wang had been kept top secret. Wang’s Arrival is a devious and sinister modern-day morality tale. UK premiere.

War of the Dead In 1939 a series of anti-death medical experiments are performed on captured Russian soldiers by a Gestapo officer. Two years later Finnish and American forces, on a mission to seize an underground bunker on the Soviet border, are caught up in a Russian ambush. But the survivors must face a far deadlier force – the flesh-hungry victims of those secret experiments. With a stirring soundtrack by Joel Goldsmith, War of the Dead delivers wave after wave of satisfying, action-packed, living dead mayhem. A must for fans of Call of Duty’s Nazi Zombies video game. UK premiere.

European Cinema GFT Wed 22 February (18.30) Thursday 23 February (13.30) Director/Screenwriter Rúnar Rúnarsson Cast Margrét Helga Jóhannsdóttir, Theodór Júlíusson Denmark/Iceland 2011, 1h39m, N/C 15+, Icelandic with subtitles Thanks to the Danish Film Institute

Kapow!@GFF CCA Wed 22 February (16.15) 1h30m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Charlie Adlard and FX UK

FrightFest GFT Saturday 25 February (18.30) Directors/Screenwriters Antonio Manetti, Marco Manetti Cast Ennio Fantastichini, Francesca Cuttica, Li Yong Italy 2011, 1h22m, N/C 18+, Italian with subtitles Thanks to Antonio and Marco Manetti

FrightFest GFT Friday 24 February (23.15) Director Marko Mäkilaakso Cast Andrew Tiernan, Mikko Leppilampi, Samuli Vauramo Lithuania/USA/Italy 2011, 1h25m, N/C 18+ Thanks to Momentum Pictures

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Way Back When: International Competition 1 Memories of a time long past haunt the films in our first international selection, from a childhood abruptly ended in Zaire, to youthful misadventures, some more sinister than others. We can never truly escape our past sins. Featuring unnerving Japanese animation 663114, Serbian drama Sergeant, reminiscent of Claire Denis’s work in its visceral portrayal of masculinity, and the hilarious one shot quickie 15 Summers Later. Full details of all the films are provided in the Glasgow Short Film Festival brochure.

We Bought a Zoo Jerry Maguire director Cameron Crowe returns with a heart-warming family drama inspired by Benjamin Mee’s memoir. Matt Damon gives a winning performance as widowed journalist Benjamin. Seeking a means to bind his family together and move on, he buys an eighteen-acre estate in Southern California that has been home to a collection of wild animals. He assumes it will only take a few renovations before he can re-open it as a zoo but in fact things aren’t so simple: he ventures into uncharted waters with his teenage son and precocious seven-year-old daughter, and needs a lot of help from Scarlett Johansson as zookeeper Kelly. If you love the books of Gerald Durrell or are addicted to wildlife documentaries, this is a delight.

Wet Sounds A sell-out at GFF 2011, we’re giving you a second chance to experience this ‘cinema for the ear’. Bring a costume and some goggles, and join us at the beautiful Victorian baths of the North Woodside Leisure Centre where we’ll be floating and diving, immersed in sound coming from inside and outside the water. The sound, detailed and clear, is perceived by the bones and creates an incredibly intimate and immersive listening experience. With two sound systems playing different content, each are heard separately – except while floating on the surface of the water. Features live performances by Joel Cahen and La Horrox.

Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Thursday 9 February (13.00) Saturday 11 February (17.00) 1h30m, N/C 15+

Gala Cineworld Renfrew Street Saturday 18 February (18.15) Sunday 19 February (15.30) Director Cameron Crowe Screenwriters Cameron Crowe, Aline Brosh McKenna Cast Matt Damon, Scarlet Johansson USA 2011, 2h4m, PG Thanks to 20th Century Fox

Glasgow Music and Film Festival North Woodside Leisure Centre Sunday 19 February Session 1: 17.30–19.00 Session 2: 20.00–21.30 1h30m, suitable for all ages Thanks to www.wetsounds.co.uk

All tickets £9, must be bought in advance from GFF.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Iceland Focus 1 The first programme in our Icelandic focus traces the unusual ways in which love is demonstrated, from childhood to old age. The programme is book-ended by two multi-award-winning films by Rúnar Rúnarsson, 2 Birds and The Last Farm. Rúnar’s debut feature Volcano also screens at GFF this year (see p60). Grímur Hákonarson’s Wrestling and Ísold Uggadóttir’s Family Reunion take different perspectives on convention and prejudice. Helena Stefánsdóttir’s quirky, visually delightful Anna completes the programme. Full details of all the films are provided in the Glasgow Short Film Festival brochure.

Where Do We Go Now? Et maintenant, on va où?

Winner of audience awards in Toronto, San Sebastián and Oslo, Where Do We Do Now? is the new feature from Caramel director Nadine Labaki. She brings a typical warmth and compassion to the most sobering of subjects – a land torn apart by violence. A village in the Lebanese countryside is pock-marked with landmines, the legacy of a devastating conflict. As tensions rise once more, women in the village band together to distract their belligerent menfolk by any means necessary – from Ukranian showgirls to hash cookies. A young man’s accidental death inspires them to seek a more radical way to prevent a religious war in a thought-provoking crowdpleaser representing Lebanon in the 2012 Oscars.

Wild Bill Actor Dexter Fletcher’s directorial debut is a complete charmer with a very likeable central performance from Charlie Creed-Miles as ‘Wild’ Bill Hayward. Released from prison after an eight-year sentence, Bill returns to a South London estate planning to stay out of trouble, serve out his parole and then head to Scotland. But he cannot easily escape his history with the dodgy geezers and dangerous drug dealers on the estate or his obligations to fifteen-year-old Dean (Will Poulter) and his younger brother Jimmy (Sammy Williams). If he doesn’t stick around the boys will be put in care, leaving Bill with the weight of the world on his shoulders in this surprisingly upbeat and endearing tale.

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Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Thursday 9 February (17.00)  1h30m, N/C 15+

It’s a Wonderful World Cineworld Renfrew Street Wed 22 February (14.15) Thursday 23 February (19.00) Director Nadine Labaki Cast Claude Baz Moussawbaa, Leyla Hakim, Nadine Labaki France/Lebanon/Italy/Egypt 2011, 1h40m, N/C 12+, Arabic and Russian with subtitles Thanks to Revolver Entertainment

Best of British GFT Monday 20 February (20.30) Tuesday 21 February (13.15) Director Dexter Fletcher Screenwriters Danny King, Dexter Fletcher, Tim Cole Cast Charlie Creed-Miles, Will Poulter, Liz White UK 2011, 1h37m, 15 Thanks to The Works UK

The Wise Kids This critically acclaimed, coming-of-age drama follows three teenagers from a religious community in South Carolina as they come to terms with separating from each other and embarking on their new lives after high-school graduation. There’s the devout Laura, openly gay Tim (who is anxious to start film school in New York), and Brea who is undergoing a deep crisis of faith. One of the best of a recent spate of dramas observing American Christian life, The Wise Kids features an impressive ensemble cast and a sympathetic depiction of the conflict between sexuality and religion.

Glasgow Youth Film Festival GFT Sunday 12 February (19.30) Director/Screenwriter Stephen Cone Cast Tyler Ross, Molly Kunz, Allison Torem USA 2011, 1h31m, N/C 12+ Thanks to The Film Collaborative, Lock Up Your Daughters and LGBT Youth Scotland

This Lock Up Your Daughters screening will be introduced by LGBT Youth Scotland and followed by a panel discussion to celebrate LGBT History Month.

Women in Comics Casual graphic fiction readers might see the way women are represented and decide that the medium must be male dominated and that the industry is a prejudiced place for women to work. But is all as it seems? How does sexism in comics compare to that in mainstream film? And what are the actual experiences of women working in the comics industry? Women in Comics presents original research by Graphic Scotland and brings together Denise Mina, Kate Brown, Penny Sharp and Gillian Hatcher to talk about the difficulties of getting into the industry and the future of how women are drawn.

Kapow!@GFF CCA  Thursday 23 February (15.15) 45m, N/C 8+

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Wrinkles Arrugas

Spanish heartbreaker Wrinkles follows the Oscar-nominated The Illusionist in illustrating the visual beauty and tender emotion that can be created by traditional animation techniques. Ignacio Ferreras’s adaptation of the award-winning graphic novel is as achingly poignant and real a tale of old age as anything that flesh and blood cinema has offered. When former bank manager Emilio starts to show the early signs of Alzheimer’s, his family dispatch him to an institution. His roommate is wily, wheeler-dealer Miguel who guides him through life and death in his new home. The result is a wry, smartly observed account of the challenges and indignities of old age that is one of the finest films of the year.

Writing for Games and Comics So you have a great idea for a video game or comic but where do you start? We bring together a panel of distinguished video game and comic book writers, including Rhianna Pratchett and Gordon Rennie, to give you tips on how to get into the industry and get ahead. They discuss the ups and downs of being involved in the industry, the difference between writing for games and comics and the challenges you might face. Learn about the games studios that make comics and hear stories of how your favourite comic books were brought to life on screen as games.

European Cinema Cineworld Renfrew Street Wed 22 February (14.00) Thursday 23 February (21.00) Director Ignacio Ferreras Screenwriters Paco Roca, Ignacio Ferreras, Rosanna Cecchini, Ángel de la Cruz Voice Cast Alvaro Guevara, Tacho Gonzalez Spain 2011, 1h29m, N/C 12+, Spanish with subtitles Thanks to 6 sales

Kapow!@GFF CCA  Wed 22 February (12.30) 45m, N/C 8+

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Youth in the Archive Selected by the GYFF Youth Team, this programme of amateur films from Scottish Screen Archive reveals how young people have inspired filmmakers in the past to make adventurous documentaries and innovative dramas. Come and see how young people in Scotland put themselves ‘in the picture’ long before the advent of YouTube. Introduced by Professor Karen Lury and Dr Ryan Shand, the screening will be followed by a discussion with members of the GYFF Youth Team on the practice of young people’s filmmaking – past, present and future.

Glasgow Youth Film Festival GFT Sunday 12 February (13.00) Scotland 1940–2000, 1h15m, N/C 8+ Thanks to Professor Karen Lury, Dr Ryan Shand, Scottish Screen Archive and the Arts & Humanities Research Council

Free but ticketed, tickets available on the day from GFT Box Office.

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A BIG THANK YOU TO OUR WONDERFUL TEAM... YOU MAKE THE MAGIC HAPPEN! Tamara Anderson Finn Aschavir Neil Baxter Colin Beattie Michael Benjamin Simon Biggam Conor Black Claire Blackwood Heather Brotton Malcolm Brown Baillie Liz Cameron Jordan Campbell John Carson Julie Cathcart Alba Cruells Roger John Cunningham Rebecca Davies Andi Denny Ryan Diamond Cllr Frank Docherty Jack Edward Marisol Erdman Alice Freeman Angela Freeman Kevin Frew Grant Fullerton Allison Gardner Alia Ghafar Megan Glassford David Gordon Mirren Green Callum Hall Kirstin Halliday Janice Halkett Debbie Hannan Tessa Hartmann Jane Hartshorn Lisa Henderson Teddy Hope Allan Hunter Clara Hutchison  Steve Inch   Peter Johnstone Susan Kemp Jamie Kenyon Sean Kerr Andrew Leitch

Learning & Events Manager GYFF Youth Team Glasgow Film Board Member Glasgow Film Board Member Finance Assistant Glasgow Film Board Member GYFF Youth Team Festival Press and Marketing Assistant GYFF Assistant Deputy Technical Manager Chair of Glasgow Film Board GYFF Youth Team Programme & Events Assistant Head of Communications & Marketing GSFF Assistant Projectionist Guest Assistant Marketing Assistant GYFF Youth Team Glasgow Film Board Member GYFF Youth Team GFT Door & Bar Staff GYFF Youth Team GFT Senior Front of House Manager GFT Bar Staff GFT Bar Staff GFF Co-director GYFF Youth Team GYFF Youth Team Glasgow Film Board Member GFT Bar Staff GYFF Youth Team GYFF Youth Team GFT Cleaner GFT Box Office Staff GFF Fashion Ambassador Press Desk Assistant Operations Manager, Cineworld GYFF Youth Team GFF Co-director GYFF Youth Team Glasgow Film Board Member GYFF Youth Team Film Studies Lecturer, University of Edinburgh Programmer, CCA GFT Bar & Kitchen Staff Glasgow Film Board Member

Matt Lloyd Rachael Loughlan Margaret Lynch Barney McCue Sadie McCue Mairi McCuish Cieran McCusker Jaki McDougall Erin McGrath Emily Macdonald Connor Macgregor Paul Macgregor Chris MacMillan Liana Marletta Christopher Martin Lauren Mair Mark Millar Nick Milligan Carolyn Mills Megan Mitchell Nosheena Mobarik Marion Morrison Myriam Mouflih Corinne Orton Kyle Palmer Marion Pearson Daniel Pryde Jenny Reburn Bryan Reynolds Susan Robinson Laura Shand Fiona Shaw Jackie Shearer John Skivington Celia Stevenson Susan Stewart Claire Stuart Johny Thompson Gail Tolley Rebecca Tritschler Katrine Turner Bryan Wilson Louise Wilson Kristi Wylie David Wylie Alison Young Eleanor Yule Paul Zealey

GSFF Director GFT Front of House Manager GFT Head Cleaner & Bar staff Technical Manager GFT Bar & Kitchen Staff GFT Cleaner & Usher GYFF Youth Team Chief Executive of Glasgow Film GFT Door & Box Office Staff GYFF Youth Team GYFF Youth Team Learning Projects Coordinator GFT Head Chef Festival Development Executive Volunteer Coordinator GMFF Assistant and Press Desk Assistant Kapow!@GFF Ambassador GFT Door & Bar Staff Marketing Coordinator GYFF Youth Team Glasgow Film Board Member GFT Cleaner GYFF Youth Team Festival Coordinator Print Traffic Coordinator Head of Finance GFT Box Office Staff GFT Box Office Staff Music Programme Manager, The Arches Glasgow Film Board Member GYFF Youth Team GFT Front of House & Box Office Manager Glasgow Film Board Member GFT Cleaner & Bar Staff Glasgow Film Board Member Glasgow Film Board Member Events Assistant GFT Door & Bar Staff GFF & GSFF Programmer GYFF Youth Team GFT Bar Staff GFT Front of House Manager GFT Bar Staff Sponsorship Assistant Projectionist Press Coordinator Glasgow Film Board Member Glasgow Film Board Member

A heartfelt thank you also to our fantastic GFF volunteers and interns, as well as our colleagues from other organisations: the teams at The Arches, CCA, Cineworld, FrightFest, The Tall Ship and the Film Studies: Film in the Public Space team at The University of Edinburgh. Image taken from the GFF12 trailer by director Allistair Burt and animator Joanna Susskind

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GFF12 would like to thank the following, without whom none of this would be possible:

GFF12 would also like to thank: The Berkeley Suite, Glasgow Film Office, Glue Factory, GMAC, GoMA, Icelandair, Inverarity Vaults, Mclaughlin Gibson Communications, Mono, The Old Hairdressers, Scotland Loves Animation, St Andrewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the Square, SWG3, The Tall Ship, The Shed, Tramway, Cllr Frank Docherty.

FILM AND EVENT INDEX 3

The Decoy Bride

The Jewel

Short Stuff: Parent & Baby Screening

85A presents: Jan Svankmajer

The Devil Inside

Jo Nesbo's Headhunters

Silver Apples

Adapting Film to Stage workshop

Diana Vreeland: The Eye has to Travel

Kate Brown in Conversation

Silver Apples: Play Twice Before Listening 53

The Adventures of Prince Achmed

The Dilapidated Dwelling

Khodorkovsky

Silver Tongues

All Divided Selves

Douglas Hart Music Videos

The Kid with a Bike

Simple Simon

All in Good Time

Dracula – Prince of Darkness

The Last Dogs of Winter

Sing Your Song

Almanya – Welcome to Germany

Dragonslayer

Laura

Singin' in the Rain

An American in Paris

Dreileben – Beats Being Dead

Le Havre

Slacker 2011

Anchors Aweigh

Dreileben – Don't Follow Me Around

Lessons of a Dream

Sleeping Sickness

And Under That: Margaret Tait Award

Dreileben – One Minute of Darkness

LIAF Family-Friendly Animations

Sleepless Night

At Night I Fly

Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters

Livid

The Somnambulists

Autumn Gold

Electric Man

The Loves of Pharaoh

St. Nick

Avé

Elena

LUX One to One Sessions

State of the Nation

Award Winners

Elles

The Maggie at The Tall Ship

Stopped on Track

Babycall

Enter the Archive

A Man's Story

SuperClásico

Backyard

Superheroes

Margaret Tait's Films for Children

Bad Behaviour

Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone

Superman

BAFTA in Scotland Event

Evidence

Mark Millar and Frank Quitely

Beats Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest

Extraterrestrial

Matthew Collings: GSFF Opening Night Party

Surreal/Political: Animations from Oberhausen

Family Portrait in Black and White

Mesnak

Sweet Sorrow

Beauty

The Swell Season

The Mexican Suitcase

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey

FellSwoop Theatre presents: Belleville Rendez-vous

Take 2: The Magicians

Bel Ami

Fight the Power

Michael

Take 2: Surprise Movie

Ben Rivers: The Scope Trilogy

FilmG

Mitsuko Delivers The Monk

Take 2: Twigson

Ben Russell: Trypps 1–7

Movie Poster Design workshop

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

The Bengali Detective

The Muppets

Tales of the Night 3D

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

Napoleon Dynamite

Tape 407: The Mesa Reserve Incident

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Natural Selection

Tatsumi

Better this World

Night is Day

Telling Stories

BFI Future Film presents: #tweetapitch

A Night to Remember

Terraferma

Big Banana Feet

No One But Me

Terri

Bill Cunningham New York

Nobody Else But You

They F**k You Up, Your Mum and Dad

Bill Douglas: Panel 4

Omar Killed Me

This is Not a Film

Black Gold

On the Ice

This Must be the Place

Blackthorn

On the Town

TILT

The Blue Angel

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Time to Spare

Bob and the Monster

The Other F Word

Trishna

Bonsái

Oxygen

Twiggy

A Boy and His Samurai

Paradox

Two Years at Sea

Breathing

Patience (After Sebald)

Unfinished Spaces

Brigadoon

Penumbra

Up There

Bryan Hitch in Conversation

The Phantom of the Opera

Vincent Wants to Sea

Buck

The Pirate

Virtuous or Vicious Circle?: Panel 1

Butcher Boy

The Plague of the Zombies

Vivienne Westwood: Do it Yourself

Café de flore

Planet of Snail

Volcano

Carol Channing: Larger than Life

Play

Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below

Practice Makes Perfect

Walking Dead Illustrator Charlie Adlard in Conversation

Wang's Arrival

Chinese Take-Away

Princess Mononoke

Cloudburst

Print the Legend

War of the Dead

Colour of the Ocean

Protest/Film: Panel 3

Way Back When

A Psychocinematic Ritual

We Bought a Zoo

The Rabbi's Cat 3D

Wet Sounds

The Raid

Red Dog

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

The Reptile

Where Do We Go Now?

Rites of Spring

Wild Bill

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

The Wise Kids

Salomé

Women in Comics

Scottish Animation Network: Panel 2

Wrinkles

Writing for Games and Comics

Your Sister's Sister

Youth in the Archive

Film Nation: Shorts presents: Film Director Masterclass

Films for the Future

Finisterrae

Flash Gordon

Focus Left – Youth Edition

For the Good of All

The Forgotten Space

Fort McCoy

Frames Per Second

Frank Marshall

Free Enterprise

Gene Kelly Ceilidh + Brigadoon

Gerhard Richter Painting

The GFF Film Quiz

The GFF Surprise Film

Girl Model

Glasgow: Symphony of a Great City

God Save My Shoes

Goodbye First Love

Grace and Redemption

The Great Outdoors

GYFF Shorts at GSFF

Hanna Tuulikki

Harold and Maude

Hello, Dolly!

High Places

A History of Violence

Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel

How to Die in Oregon

Corpo celeste

How to Re-establish a Vodka Empire

Crawl

Hunky Dory

Crossing the Line at GoMA

I Bequeath Unto Thee

The Crow

If Not us, Who?

Cry Parrot presents: Umberto

In Darkness

David

In the Family

The Day

Into the Abyss

The Day I was Not Born

Intoxication and Betrayal

Death of a Superhero

Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy

Death Watch

J'aime regarder les filles

Serafina and Sam Steer: A Focus Left Special

Setting the Scene: Scotland and the Future of Comics

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