2024 Glasgow Film Festival Line Up Offers ‘Gore, Romance And Gravediggers’

We may not enjoy the weather outside, we do love one important date in January, the Glasgow Film Festival programme launch. Celebrating it’s 20th year, the 2024 edition will be a festival that will bring us gore, romance and gravediggers.

The friendliest Film Festival in existence, a festival that offers something for everyone. This year’s festival offers 12 packed days, the programme boasts 11 world and international premieres. Plus 69 UK premieres and 15 Scottish premieres, from 44 countries.

This year the opening and closing gala’s kept secret until the main launch. On 28th February direct from Sundance Film Festival Rose Glass (Saint Maud) jaw dropping Love Lies Bleeding. Starring Kirsten Stewart and Katy M.B O’Brian in a Bodybuilding psychological thriller of love that turned to violence. When a reclusive gym owner (Stewart) who falls hard for Jackie (O’Brian), an ambitious bodybuilder who’s heading to Las Vegas to pursue her dream. Their love soon leads to violence as they get pulled deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family.

The festival will end on 10th March with the World Premiere of Janey. An honest, moving and often hilarious documentary about Glasgow comedian Janey Godley, interweaving stories from her life with footage from her Not Dead Yet tour in the wake of her terminal cancer diagnosis.

Some of the big highlights will include Ciaran Lyons hallucinogenic Scottish black comedy Tummy Monster. Festival favourite Canadian filmmaker Jonas Chernick returns with The Burning Season, ’s Oscar entry The Teachers’ Lounge will make it’s UK premiere. Cynthia Erivo stars in Drift as a Liberian refugee who flees to a Greek island and befriends an American tour guide (Alia Shawkat). Real-life father and daughter duo Ewan and Clara McGregor taking a road trip in Bleeding Love.

Alice Rohrwacher’s genre-defying gravedigging romantic musical La Chimera starring Josh O’Connor. If you need some satire Radu Jude will deliver with Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World. 2023 saw many deaths including the legendary Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. Opus: Ryuichi Sakamoto marks his swansong performance recorded before his death.

The popular Audience Award now sponsored by MUBI is given to an outstanding feature film by a first or second time director and is chosen by the audience. This year features the atmospheric survivalist drama Milk Teeth. Falling into Place, a meet-cute romance set between London and a wintry Isle of Skye written, directed by and starring Aylin Tezel. Turkish Courtroom drama taut character study, Selman Nacar‘s Hesitation Wound, finds us embroiled in a murder trial defending a mentally fragile client. Football fans should check out Smari Gunn and Logi Sigursveinsson’s uplifting sporting underdog documentary The Home Game.

Lorena Padilla’s Martinez, an irresistibly droll Spanish comedy that sees a elderly office worker determined to live out his neighbour’s bucket list after she dies. British-Palestinian filmmaker Farah Nabulsi‘s powerful drama The Teacher starring Imogen Poots. Woken, Alan Friel’s psychological sci-fi thriller set in the near-future starring Maxine Peake. Viggo Mortensen stars and directs the epic new western The Dead Don’t Hurt, also stars Vicky Krieps and Danny Huston.

For 19 of the 20 years Pigeon Shrine FrightFest has shared the stage with the Glasgow Film Festival. Once again the dark heart of cinema will take over the main screen of GFT on the festival’s last weekend. Kicking off things with UK Premiere You’ll Never Find Me, a claustrophobic two-hander set in an Australian RV Park. The festival will wrap up on 9th March with Alan Scott Neal’s hard-hitting diner-invasion thriller, Last Straw.

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Czech, Please! will be this year’s Country Focus. The highlights include dystopian sci-fi Restore Point and chilling crime thriller Mr. and Mrs. Stodola. Also Czechia’s official submission to the 2024 Academy Awards Brothers, examines liberation and resilience in a story focused on an anti-Communist resistance group.

Check out the Festival’s Clip reel trailer…

Festival director Alison Gardner commented “I am extremely proud to have been here for every one of Glasgow Film Festival’s 20 editions. My thanks goes to everyone who has helped us to get this far. Many, many people have worked incredibly hard to make this the friendliest film festival in the world.

One of my highlights of GFF is our Audience Award, this year sponsored by MUBI. The Audience Award s emerging talent and it’s a joy to see these films play in front of our dedicated audiences. Watch all 8 of our hand picked films and these directors at the early stages of their directing careers.

Over the years, at Glasgow Film Festival, we have ed Scottish films and talent. Something that we are very proud to have done and this year is no exception. We also champion Scottish films from our past and this year we have some fantastic anniversaries to honour. Shallow Grave is 30 years old and Glaswegian Lynne Ramsay’s debut feature Ratcatcher screening from a new 4K print is 25 years old. Our motto is ‘Cinema For All’ and we strive to bring the best films from around the world to Glasgow. My advice to everyone is to choose films you know nothing about and take a chance, you might discover a hidden gem (and the programme is positively bursting with them!) that will stay with you forever. Here’s to the next 20 years.”

Tickets to Opening and Closing Galas go on sale at 11am on Thursday 25th January; tickets to all events go on sale to GFT Cinecard holders at 11am on Friday 26th January and on general sale at 11am on Monday 29th January at https://www.glasgowfilm.org/home and from the GFT Box Office.

The 20th Edition of Glasgow Film Festival will run from 28th February to 10th March. Mostly using Glasgow Film Theatre (itself celebrating its 50th anniversary this year) plus venues across the city.