◆ Trending: Five must-see premieres at the Glasgow Film Festival including Janey
This year’s Glasgow Film Festival takes place in the city from February 28 – March 10, and includes 11 world and international premieres, 69 UK premieres and 15 Scottish premieres.
Here are five that caught our eye.
Janey: Scottish comedian Janey Godley is the subject of this documentary that will close the festival with a world premiere on Sunday, March 10. Interweaving stories from her life with footage from her “Not Dead Yet” tour, it will cover everything from cancel culture and her cancer diagnosis to her notorious protest against Donald Trump at Turnberry.
Tummy Monster: Glasgow director Ciaran Lyons’ low budget psychological thriller will have it’s world premiere at the festival on Saturday,
March 2. Starring Lorn Macdonald (whose film “Beats” closed the festival back in 2019), it tells the tale of what happens when an international pop star turns up on a talented tattoo artists’s doorstep in the middle of the night.
Bucky F*cking Dent: Audiences will be one of the first to see X-files star David Duchovny’s new black comedy on Wednesday,
March 6, at 8.30pm and Thursday, March 7, at 6pm. Adapted from his own novel, he also stars in the film about a baseball-mad dad whose terminal cancer diagnosis leads him to be reunited with his estranged son.
Bleeding Love: Scottish superstar Ewan Mcgregor plays a father and recovering alcoholic who goes on a road trip with his estranged daughter. His co-star is his real-life daughter Clara Mcgregor, who also co-wrote the script.
The Teacher’s Lounge: The festival programmers are screening two of the five films recently shortlisted for the Best International Feature Film Oscar - Italy’s Io Capitano and Germany’s The Teacher’s Lounge. The latter premieres on Friday, March 1, at 5.45pm.