Glasgow Film Festival ‘Will Be Watching YOU’ In 2027
2027 is only weeks away and the first British film Festival of the year Glasgow Film Festival will be with us before you know it. Today the festival has announced the first films for its 2027 edition, which ‘will be watching YOU’.
Scotland’s leading international celebration of film will take place on 24th February until 7th March. Confirming it’s first films including its popular Country Focus theme, this year focus on Canadian cinema.
The highly anticipated Retrospective Programme will be returning with a chance to watch classic films on the big screen for free. The 2027 edition retrospective theme is ‘Somebody’s Watching: Surveillance, Voyeurism and Performance’. Exploring the voyeuristic obsession of watching being watched in cinema. The highlights include Michael Radford’s adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 (1984), Michelangelo Antonioni’s acclaimed thriller Blow-Up (1966). Also Richard Linklater’s animated adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly (2006), starring Keanu Reeves.
the 23rd edition of the Glasgow Film festival and will spotlight films from Canada, with the Country Focus theme ‘Great Takes: Canadian Cinema’. A hand-picked selection that includes the UK premiere of Leah Nelson‘s animated drama Tangles, based on Sarah Leavitt’s graphic novel Tangles. A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother and Me, which explores the impact of Alzheimer’s as a young queer woman returns home to care for her mother. Full of irreverent humour and poignant emotion, the film features a star-studded cast, including Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Abbi Jacobson, Bryan Cranston, Seth Rogen, Beanie Feldstein and Sarah Silverman.
Jay Baruchel‘s comedy driver The Stunt Driver, all about real-life daredevil Ken Carter, who attempts a seemingly impossible rocket-car jump across the St. Lawrence River; French Canadian thriller L’autre, promises a film with a touch of Cronenbergian body-horror about a cancer patient recovering from surgery. Gloria Mercer’s debut crime thriller A Safe Distance is all about a woman who befriends a pair of notorious fugitives after being abandoned by her boyfriend in the forest.
The festival’s home base will be the iconic Glasgow Film Theatre aka the GFT. The fest will welcome Omniplex Cinemas, taking over an entire floor of its Renfrew Street venue. With four screens showcasing films from across the programme, a familiar venue to festival fans (formerly owned by Cineworld)
“Cinema is by its nature a voyeuristic medium, and there is a rich history of filmmakers wrestling with that uneasy realitvy. said Paul Gallagher, Head of Programme for Glasgow Film. “In our current moment we are all increasingly aware of being watched, both with and without our consent, so it feels like a perfect time to ask what cinema has taught us about the perils and pleasures of looking and being looked at.
“I am also delighted with the spread of new films we are showcasing in our ‘Great Takes: Canadian Cinema’ strand. From world-class animation to bold drama to genre-pushing documentaries, these Canadian filmmakers are at the top of their game, and I can’t wait for Glasgow audiences to discover them.”
Tickets for the free retrospective titles cannot be booked in advance and are available from GFT Box Office on the morning of the screening. Films shown within the Retrospective Programme may be subject to change, with the full selection yet to be announced.
The full selection of Country Focus titles is yet to be announced, and tickets will go on sale with the full festival programme in January. The 2027 Glasgow Film Festival programme will be announced on Wednesday 20th January.
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