‘Truth To Power’ Glasgow Film Festival Unveil First 2026 Films

It’s nearly that time again as the Glasgow Film Festival unveils the first films, strands  for the 2026 edition of the festival.  Scotland’s flagship film festival  promising it  delivers ‘Truth To Power‘.

The 22nd edition will return for its 22nd edition from 25th February to 8th March 2026. Revealing its highly anticipated Retrospective Programme, which gives audiences the chance to catch classic films back on the big screen for free, as well as its Country Focus theme.

‘Truth to Power’ retrospective theme will feature 10 classics from the 1930s to the present day. All standing as cinematic statements of resistance, or feature characters that rise against the machines of power. Many of the Highlights include Kubrick-directed satire Dr Strangelove (1964), starring comic genius Peter Sellers, where military blunders push the world towards nuclear annihilation. Ava DuVernay‘s  Oscar-nominated civil rights epic Selma (2014), chronicling  Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s 1965 march to secure equal voting rights. The late great Robert Redford’s political thriller All the President’s Men (1976), following the journalists who famously broke the Watergate scandal which celebrates its the 50th anniversary.

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The lineup will also include  In the Name of the Father (1993), starring Daniel Day-Lewis. Steven Soderbergh’s dynamic crowd-pleaser Erin Brockovich (2000), staring the Oscar winning Julia Roberts and Italian-Algerian war film The Battle of Algiers (1966), a recreation of Algeria’s 1950s battle for independence from the French government.

The ever popular Country Focus for 2026 festival  will spotlight on films from Sweden, with  ‘Take a Chance on Me: Swedish Cinema’. The films include  UK premieres of political satire Eagles of the Republic about an adored Egyptian actor who takes the lead role in a major government propaganda film; slick horror The Home where strange events unfold after the protagonist takes his mother into a care facility for dementia; and sci-fi Egghead Republic set in an alternative reality where the Cold War didn’t end.

The female-directed drama Live a Little, which follows a young woman’s exploration of her boundaries on an interrailing trip after she wakes up in a man’s bed with no memory of the night before. The unique and visually stunning Redoubt, about a farmhand who builds a fortress in his home during the Cold War, are also announced today.

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The Festival also revealed their new impressive brand logo for 2026…

Paul Gallagher, Head of Programme for Glasgow Film, said: “The idea for this year’s retrospective began as I reflected on the legacy and influence of the late Robert Redford. With his classic All the President’s Men serving as a starting point, ‘Truth to Power’ focuses on filmmakers who have taken on daunting targets – power, corruption and injustice – and created all-time classic films in the process; films that are not only hugely entertaining but retain sharp relevance to this day.”

The 2026 Glasgow Film Festival will take place from 25th February to 8th March 2026. This festival is our local film festival and hopefully we’ll be there! The 2026 line up will be revealed on 21st January.

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