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WELCOME TO GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 SHARING LAUGHTER OR TEARS IS PROOF THAT WE HAVE SO MUCH MORE IN COMMON THAN ANY OF THE FORCES THAT TRY TO TEAR US APART. A WELCOME FROM US There is so much we can’t wait to share with you this year. So many films to recommend, emotions to experience, CONTENTS moments to cherish. Opening & Closing Gala 2 Audience Award 3 Films come alive in a cinema. They blossom in the warm glow Special Venue: Neo-Glasgow 4 of an audience’s anticipation. We still get goosebumps as the Special Events 5 hushed silence of total concentration descends when the lights Behind the Scenes 7 go down. That’s the moment we all become part of “those Festival Strands 8 wonderful people out there in the dark.” A-Z Listings 13 Festival Calendar 32 The 2020 programme is packed with goodness. We promise A-Z Listings (continued) 38 to take you on incredible journeys from the finest creators of Ticketing & Festival Info 58 world cinema to the most cherished of our local filmmakers. Film & Event Index 64 Even after a lifetime of devouring films, there are still relatively uncharted areas of global cinema waiting to be explored. The marathon documentary Women Make Film topples the foundations of conventional film history. Forget everything you think you know and watch the development of an art form exclusively through the work of women directors. The festival has always taken pride in championing women filmmakers but this year’s programme boasts more films made by women than ever before. We have vast epics and exquisite minatures, films that raise the spirits and soothe the soul. FrightFest return to ensure their little shop of horrors is open for business. Sound & Vision provides the soundtrack to the festival and Future Cult serves up some of the coolest, hippest movies on the block. People sometimes suggest the cinema experience is dead. We know that cinema is alive and well and flourishing in Glasgow. All aboard for the 2020 festival. Allan and Allison Festival Co-Directors 1 OPENING GALA PROXIMAGFT Wed 26 Feb (19.00) We open the Festival with the UK premiere of the latest award- job and seemingly untroubled by their family responsibilities. Opening Gala/Director winning drama from Alice Winocour, director of Augustine Separated from her husband, Sarah tends to the needs of Alice Winocour and Disorder. Eva Green gives one of her most powerful her sensitive seven year-old daughter Stella (Zelie Boulant- Featuring Eva Green, Matt Dillon, Zelie performances in a heartfelt portrait of a woman torn between Lemesle) who is struggling with the long separation that lies Boulant-Lemesle. professional ambition and the demands of motherhood. ahead. The pressures intensify as Sarah finds herself facing France, Germany, 2019, Astronaut Sarah Loreau (Green) is undertaking the gruelling some impossible choices. Meticulously observed, Proxima 1h47m, English, French, mental and physical training required for a one year mission offers a tender portrait of a mother-daughter relationship. German, and Russian with English subtitles. aboard the International Space Station. She is the only mother Due to alcohol being served on the premises ticket holders must be 18 in a diverse international crew. Her colleagues, including Thanks to Picturehouse years or older. If you are lucky enough to look under 25 you will be asked Entertainment American NASA veteran Mike (Matt Dillon), are focused on the to prove that you are aged 18 or over. CLOSING GALA HOW TO BUILD A GIRL GFT Sun 8 Mar (19.00) We are thrilled to conclude the 2020 Glasgow Film Festival music magazine, reinvents herself as Queen of Mean rock Closing Gala/Director Coky Giedroyc with the UK premiere of How to Build a Girl. The big screen critic Dolly Wilde and heads to the big city. But as her critical Featuring version of Caitlin Moran’s cherished, semi-autobiographical savagery brings her greater and greater success, the lines Beanie Feldstein, Alfie bestseller is a hilarious, inspirational coming-of-age between Johanna Morrigan and Dolly Wilde begin to haze. She Allen, Paddy Considine. comedy that is set to be the homegrown crowd-pleaser of has certainly figured out how to build a girl but is this the girl UK, 2019, 1h42m the year. Beanie Feldstein (Booksmart) shines as Johanna that she wanted to be? Penned by Moran with her trademark Thanks to Lionsgate Morrigan, a sixteen-year-old extrovert from the outskirts of humour, Coky Giedroyc (Stella Does Tricks, Harlots) directs a Wolverhampton. Her bedroom is adorned with posters of her wise and witty delight with a terrific cast. heroes such as Jo March, Cleopatra, and Sylvia Plath, who Due to alcohol being served on the premises ticket holders must be come to life and provide the closest thing to friendship that 18 years or older. If you are lucky enough to look under 25 you will she has. Yearning to make a name for herself, she answers an be asked to prove that you are aged 18 or over. ad seeking ‘hip young gunslinger’ journalists for a cool London Scotland The Perfect Stage for events visitscotland.com/events @eventscotnews #perfectstage 24 AUDIENCE AWARD Sponsored by: We have only one award and it is decided by the people who matter most - you. Each year, we support new and emerging talent by selecting ten outstanding features by first or second time directors that are eligible for the Audience Award. All of them showcase a director whose work deserves the love and attention of a wider audience. All you have to do is vote for your favourite. The 2020 winner will be announced at the Closing Gala and online on Sunday 8 March. Look out for the Audience Award symbol next to film listings and cast your vote in the voting boxes at screenings of these films. GFF20 AUDIENCE PREVIOUS AWARD NOMINEES WINNERS Agnes Joy p13 Harry Birrell: Arracht p14 Films of Love and War 2019 Blow the Man Down p16 Custody 2018 A Bump Along the Way p17 Lipstick Under My Burkha 2017 The Garden Left Behind p24 Mustang 2016 Gay Chorus Deep South p24 Radiator 2015 Isaac p27 Lost Transmissions p30 Song Without a Name p48 The Twentieth Century p53 53 SPECIAL VENUE It’s Judgement Day and there is only one safe place to go. We are taking over Argyle Street Arches for one weekend and transforming it into Neo-Glasgow. As well as watching some of our science fiction favourites, experience a pseudo-vacation to dystopian Glasgow; get your food, drink and supplies from the Platform street market and take part in events that will teach you how to separate science from fiction, survive the apocalypse and save our planet. Opening times: Fri 28 Feb (17.00 - 23.30), Sat 29 Feb (12.00 - 23.30) & Sun 1 Mar (12.00 - 23.00) Please visit our website for more information. Total Recall Tank Girl Fri 28 Feb (Doors open 19.30) £15/£13 Sat 29 Feb (Doors open 19.30) £15/£13 Follow Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) on a virtual vacation to It is the year 2033. Earth is a desolate wasteland after a comet disrupts the Mars gone awry. You will be left doubting everything you thought you knew planet’s natural rain cycle. Water is scarce and huge corporations fight to about your life, unable to trust your memories and asking yourself: “If I’m control the dwindling supply. Survival on this planet is tough, but Tank Girl not me, then who the hell am I?” is even tougher. Join our rebellion and hide out from the W+P troops as Lori Petty, Naomi Watts and Ice T join forces to take down the system! Director Paul Verhoeven Cast Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside Director Rachel Talalay Cast Lori Petty, Naomi Watts, Ice-T USA, 1990, 1h53m, 18+ Thanks to Park Circus and Scare Scotland USA, 1995, 1h44m, 18+ (Due to alcohol being sold on the premises) Thanks to Park Circus Wall-E £ £6.50 tickets Train to Busan Sun 1 Mar (Doors open 13.30) £6.50 Sun 1 Mar (Doors open 19.30) £15/£13 Wall-E is the last robot left on earth. With only a single cockroach as a After a breach at a local biotech facility, a workaholic father boards a high- companion he spends his days clearing trash, watching vintage musicals speed train from Seoul to Busan with his estranged young daughter. What and dreaming about love. That is until the mysterious EVE pays a visit to follows is a harrowing, adrenalin-filled journey to rival the last train home earth and his life changes forever. Wall-E has captured hearts and opened between Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley on a Friday night. eyes to the role humans have to play in the future of our planet. Come along Join us for a thrilling evening as you and your friends try to make it through to our fun-packed event where we put a family-friendly spin on robots, the night avoiding the zombie hoard. Remember, look out for zero-waste lifestyle and reducing your carbon footprint. signs of infection and trust no one! Director Andrew Stanton Cast Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin Director Yeon Sang-ho Cast Gong Yoo, Ma Dong-Seok, Jung Yu-mi. USA, 2008, 1h37m, U Thanks to Park Circus South Korea, 2016, 1h58m, 18+ (Due to alcohol being sold on the premises) Thanks to Park Circus and Scare Scotland THE DEDICATED PARTNERSHIP SUPPORTING SCOTLAND’S SCREEN SECTOR. www.screen.scot | @screenscots 4 SPECIAL EVENTS BEYOND THE The Breakfast Club SECRET LOCATION: Final Destination STRATHCLYDE UNION Sat 7 Mar (Doors open 19.00) SCAVENGER HUNT Thu 5 Mar Cancel your Saturday plans; you all have detention! Bring out your inner (17.30 – 20.00 / Doors open 20.00 / Film 20.30) jock, freak, prom queen, geek and rebel from your youth.