Glasgow fans of hit show Outlander will be able to see the first episode of the new season before anyone else.
As part of the Glasgow Film Festival, there will be an exclusive screening of the first episode of season six ahead of its worldwide release on March 6.
The screening is among 10 world premieres, 13 Scottish premieres, 65 UK premieres, and four European premieres taking place across the festival which kicks off on March 2 at Glasgow Film Theatre and Cineworld Renfrew Street.
The festival will be opening with the UK premiere of The Outfit starring Academy Award winner Mark Rylance, and close with the UK premiere of the Camera D’or-winning Murina, a tense family drama directed by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic and executive-produced by Martin Scorsese.
Much-anticipated My Old School starring Alan Cumming will be among the premieres. The docudrama uncovers the real-life story of Bearsden Academy school pupil, 17-year-old Brandon Lee, who in 1995 was unmasked as 30-something former pupil, Brian MacKinnon, who returned to his old school under a new identity to retake his exams after failing medical school.
MacLeod, who went to school with MacKinnon in the 1990s, uses interviews and archive footage to retrace the steps of the boy he knew as Brandon.
Glasgow-born creative force Armando Iannucci, known for his work on Veep and The Death of Stalin, will be taking part in a special live ‘In Conversation’ event, looking back over his wide-ranging, multi-media career.
The festival will see the first-ever big-screen outing of Skint, a series of powerful monologues commissioned for the BBC and now showing as a feature-length compendium. Skint brings together a wealth of talent on both sides of the camera, with a creative team including Peter Mullan, Jenni Fagan, Cora Bissett and Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee, to tell vivid, heartrending personal stories of living with poverty, homelessness and how it is used to define who you are.
Other GFF World premieres include the documentary Wake Up Punk from Joe Corré - the son of Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood who in 2016 burnt millions of pounds worth of punk era memorabilia in protest – who questions whether the counterculture legacy has been commodified and distorted.
An International Women’s Day gala UK premiere of Happening will be taking place on March 8, with the film showing on big screens throughout the country, from Stornoway to Bristol via Edinburgh, Manchester, Dundee, Sheffield, and London
Tickets for the opening, closing, and International Women's Day Gala go on sale on January 31. All other screenings in the programme will go on sale on February 2 from GFT Box Office and online.
