One of the top film festivals in Europe, this year's Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) is set to be the biggest yet with a raft of premieres taking place across the event in March.
Stars set to appear, include the Oscar-nominated Paul Mezcal and Emily Watson, as well as home-grown talent Kelly Macdonald.
The annual celebration of cinema and film is set to take place from March 1 to 12 and will host 70 UK premieres, six world premieres, 16 European/international premieres and six Scottish premieres.
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The full programme for 2023 includes more than 250 screenings and events across the city.
Here are some of the highlights from the 19th Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) and Frightfest:
Oscar Nominees Paul Mescal and Emily Watson (God's Creatures)
One of the most anticipated films, God’s Creatures is a tense drama featuring a remote Irish fishing village community torn apart by allegations of sexual assault that will star the Oscar-nominated Paul Mescal alongside Harry Potter star Emily Watson. This will be the UK debut for the film following its September release in the US.
A special performance of Jonathan Glazer’s Under The Skin
A special tenth-anniversary screening of Jonathan Glazer’s Under The Skin will also take place, with a live performance of Mica Levi’s BAFTA-nominated score by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jonathan Berman.
Starring Scarlett Johansson as a sleek alien temptress stalking the streets of a very raucous and real Glasgow, this is a chance to revisit this otherworldly modern classic on the big screen.
Kelly MacDonald returns in Typist Artist Pirate King
In a special International Women’s Day Gala UK premiere, Kelly Macdonald and Monica Dolan star in Carol Morley’s fantastical road movie Typist Artist Pirate King, telling the story of real-life outsider artist Audrey Amiss whose extraordinary body of work was only discovered after her death.
Adura Onashile’s Glasgow-shot feature debut Girl
Opening the festival, the UK premiere will follow a woman named Grace (Déborah Lukumuena) and her 11-year-old daughter Ama (Le’Shantey Bonsu) as they try to build a new life in Glasgow after a traumatic past.
A celebration of Alfred Hitchcock
Marking the 60th anniversary of his iconic film The Birds, there will be several documentaries on the great man himself, offering new audiences the chance to learn all about his incredible works, including the Mark Cousins helmed My Name is Alfred Hitchcock which sees the legendary and notorious director rewatch his own films and question how they stand up in today’s society, courtesy of a pitch-perfect Hitchcock voiceover by impressionist Alistair McGowan.
Always Sunny in Philadelphia star Glenn Howerton and Hollywood actor Jay Baruchel team up (Blackberry)
Glenn Howerton and Jay Baruchel are starring in a new film called Blackberry, which looks at the rise and fall of the famous Canadian tech giant.
Scottish Horror Consecration (Frightfest, March 11)
Consecration is a supernatural horror story starring Jena Malone and Danny Huston, which sees a young woman investigating the alleged suicide of her priest brother in a remote Scottish convent where she discovers a disturbing truth.
The UK debut of the slasher film, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (Frightfest, March 10)
After Winnie the Pooh went into the public domain in 2022, it was only natural someone might do something wacky with it and director Rhys Frake-Waterfield created a horror movie that Winnie the Pooh and Piglet are sent on a murderous scavenger hunt for human flesh in the forest in East Sussex that inspired the Hundred Acre Wood.
Allison Gardner, co-director of GFF, said: “I’m always so excited to share the hard work of the team here at Glasgow Film and let our audiences and film colleagues across the UK and beyond know about the great range of films we have on offer."
Tickets for the full GFF23 programme go on sale at 12 noon on Monday, January 30 from GFT Box Office, online at www.glasgowfilm.org/festival.
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