Guests Announced For 2024 Glasgow Film Festival
George Mackay, Emily Hampshire, Viggo Mortensen, Maxine Peake, Dale Dickey, Solly Mcleod and more will walk the red carpet at Glasgow Film Festival this year.
Later this month, the Glasgow Film Festival will celebrate it’s 20th Anniversary. Like any big celebration you need big talent and today the festival have announced there guests that will take the red carpet.
The 20th edition of the Festival will take place from 28th February until 10th March. We’ll be there as it’s our local film festival with online and podcast reviews.
Walking the red carpet will be 1917 star George Mackay at the Scottish premiere of sci-fi romance The Beast (7th March). Schitt’s Creek star Emily Hampshire will be at the World premiere of her new horror Mom (9th March); If there’s an actor whom you can call one of Tinsel town’s great character actors it has to be Dale Dickey. The Breaking Bad star will be in town for her revenge thriller The G (29th February); Maxine Peake will be at the fest with the UK premiere of new dystopian sci-fi Woken (3rd March);
The Gold star Nichola Burley with the World premiere of haunting Cornish drama Edge of Summer (8th March) and The Vampire Diaries’ Sara Canning in the World premiere of The Burning Season (3rd March), a tragic love story told backwards. Three-time Best Actor Oscar nominee and Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen will also be in town for GFF, doing a special live In Conversation event and introducing the UK premiere of his new Western, The Dead Don’t Hurt (3rd March), which he directs and stars in. He’ll be joined Scottish actor Solly McLeod who stars in the film and the nail-biting police siege Jericho Ridge (9th March) screening at the Fest.
Award-winning comedian Janey Godley will be at the World premiere of the new documentary about her final tour following her terminal cancer diagnosis Janey (10th March) this is the film that will close the festival ; Beats star Lorn Macdonald at the World premiere of Glasgow-shot hallucinogenic comic thriller Tummy Monster (2nd March).
It’s not just the acting talent coming to Glasgow Film Festival, British director Rose Glass will be at the Opening Gala UK premiere of her Sundance hit Love Lies Bleeding (28th February). veteran filmmaker Murray Grigor introducing the World premiere of the new restoration of his rarely-seen 1975 documentary of Billy Connolly’s tour of Ireland Big Banana Feet (3rd March); BAFTA-winning British-Palestinian director Farah Nabulsi with the UK premiere of her new feature The Teacher (4th March), about a Palestinian school teacher struggling to reconcile his life-threatening commitment to political resistance with the chance of a new romantic relationship with a volunteer worker.
German actor Aylin Tezel (7500) with the UK premiere of her Isle of Skye-shot directorial debut Falling Into Place (2nd March). Festival favourite Ben Wheatley will also introduce a 15th anniversary screening of his debut feature Down Terrace (1st March) .Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald will be busy back in his home town when he will introduce both the Scottish premiere of his new fashion documentary High & Low: John Galliano (5th March) and the UK premiere of Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger (5th March), featuring his own grandfather Emeric Pressburger.
Glasgow Film Festival takes place at Glasgow Film Theatre and venues across the city from 28th February to 10th March. The programme boasting 11 world and international premieres, 69 UK premieres and 15 Scottish premieres, from 44 countries.
Tickets are on sale now for all screenings, at GFT Box Office or online atglasgowfilm.org
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