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Glasgow Film Festival selects nine projects for inaugural Funny Features comedy lab (exclusive) 5j4w2h

BFI-backed lab includes projects from Screen Stars of Tomorrow and Rising Stars Scotland.

Reason8 picks up buzzy dark comedy ‘Tummy Monster’ starring Lorn Macdonald (exclusive) 2x5t3y

The dark comedy stars ’Bridgerton’ actor Lorn Macdonald.

Glasgow Film Festival’s 20th edition enjoys rise in audience levels and industry engagement 675f1x

Cinema issions were up 4%, while industry attendance increased by 56%.

Icelandic football film ‘The Home Game’ scores audience award as Glasgow Film Festival wraps 5v2c50

Smari Gunn and Logi Sigursveinsson’s underdog documentary scored the highest audience score in the award’s 10-year history.

“A wave comes and it goes”: Rising UK filmmakers debate pros and cons of being labelled part of a movement 622f57

Charlotte Regan, Luna Carmoon, Adura Onashile and Lucy Cohen were speaking alongside Mia Bays and Eva Yates at the Glasgow Film Festival.

‘Edge Of Summer’ filmmakers on moving from docs to fiction, shooting in Cornwall and having babies while making a film 552c1c

The UK feature world premieres at Glasgow Film Festival.

Aylin Tezel’s ‘Falling Into Place’ secures key deals ahead of Glasgow premiere (exclusive) 4f2s6d

Tezel’s debut feature has its UK premiere on Saturday 2.

“We are a lean, mean, running machine”: How Glasgow Film Festival is packing a punch 13355r

As the festival marks its 20th edition, Allison Gardner and Chris Kumar discuss the fresh programming team and balancing budgets.

Alief acquires Lucy Cohen’s Glasgow premiere 'Edge Of Summer’ (exclusive) 2t6932

Cohen’s narrative feature debut is produced by Dorothy St Pictures, with backing from BBC Film and BFI.

Mia Bays, Eva Yates, Adura Onashile, Charlotte Regan Glasgow industry line-up 36522q

Highights include a celebration of the new wave of UK filmmaking; the inaugural Book to Screen live pitching event; and the launch of the industry advisory board’s 10-year vision for the festival’s industry programme.

‘Love Lies Bleeding’ to open Glasgow Film Festival; full programme revealed 506z6v

Full festival programme for the 20th edition is revealed.

Charlotte Wells, Ben Sharrock among talent mentors for Glasgow Film Festival 2024 6ei66

The inaugural animation scheme cohort has also been unveiled.

Glasgow Film Festival sets first 2024 titles, Czech country focus 473z6

2024 marks the 20th edition of the festival.

‘Janey’: Glasgow Review 6k4t4b

Glasgow’s closing film goes on the road with Scottish comedian Janey Godley

‘Edge Of Summer’: Glasgow Review 3e643z

A long, hot Cornish summer in 1991 is the setting for Lucy Cohen’s coming-of-age drama

‘The Home Game’: Glasgow Review z426u

A small Icelandic town prepares to host an FA Cup match in this feel-good documentary

‘Bucky F*cking Dent’: Glasgow Review 3p167

David Duchovny directs and stars in this period drama about fathers, sons and the healing power of baseball

‘Woken’: Dublin Review my54

A pregnant woman washes up on a mysterious, sinister island in Alan Friel’s genre debut