The complete programme for the 2017 Glasgow Film Festival, which kicks off on 15th February has been released. The festival, which runs through until February 26th, will feature over 310 separate events and screenings of films from 38 countries.
UK Premieres include Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro, Terrence Malick’s Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey, Cate Shortland’s Berlin Syndrome and Aki Kaurismäki s The Other Side of Hope.
Paul Verhoeven’s Golden Globe-winning Elle, Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire; Lone Scherfig’s Their Finest; Olivier Assayas’s Personal Shopper, and Hope Dickson Leach’s The Levelling will also play at the festival.
As we announced previously, John Butler’s Irish coming-of-age charmer Handsome Devil will open the festival on the evening of the 15th February, while Mad To Be Normal, starring David Tennant as infamous Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing, will close the festival on the 26th.
The festival will also showcase the World Premiere of Benny, the story of local hero Benny Lynch, widely considered the greatest boxer Scotland has ever produced. Fusing archive footage, animation and interviews with contemporary boxing stars, the film charts the rise and tragic fall of the Gorbals-born people’s champion.
More Glasgow sporting legends get the big screen treatment in the International Premiere of Celtic Soul, as Canadian actor-filmmaker Jay Baruchel (How To Train Your Dragon) embarks on an epic trip to Celtic F.C’s Parkhead to see his beloved Hoops in action.
Glasgow Film Festival audiences will also be the first to catch European premieres including: the charming road movie Folk Hero & Funny Guy starring US indie favourites David Cross and Alex Karpovsky and Steven Ellison’s (aka Flying Lotus) dark and twisted directorial debut Kuso, featuring exclusive new tracks from Aphex Twin and Thundercat.
Werner Herzog’s eco thriller Salt and Fire, starring Michael Shannon, will get its UK premiere, as will Tim Sutton’s uncompromising portrait of modern alienation inspired by the multiplex shootings in Aurora, Colorado Dark Night. Catfight, starring Sandra Oh and Anne Heche as two University rivals whose forty-something reunion ends in a bloody brawl will also receive its UK premiere at this year’s festival.
For more information, visit the Glasgow Film Festival official website.
