Premiere packed programme at GFF
Hamish Hutchinson • Published 19 Jan 2012 09:30
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THE Glasgow Film Festival will feature a record number of UK and European premieres in this year's programme.
GFF 2012, funded by Glasgow City Marketing Bureau, Creative Scotland and EventScotland, runs from 16-26 February in 16 venues across the city.
The festival will host 239 films and events, including the eagerly-awaited Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy, romantic comedy The Decoy Bride co-starring David Tennant and Kelly Macdonald, and sumptuous period drama Bel Ami starring Robert Pattinson.
The UK premiere of Your Sister's Sister, the latest feature from Humpday creator Lynn Shelton, will open the festival. Starring Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt and Mark Duplass in a painfully funny and utterly captivating tale of bad timing, broken hearts and the healing power of love.
The festival's closing gala on Sunday 26 February will be Le Havre from Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki which won the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc in France and a host of international awards.
Scottish work within the programme includes the world premiere of documentary No One But Me on legendary jazz singer Annie Ross and inventive low-budget features Electric Man and Night is Day.
GFF will also screen Alexander Mackendrick's The Maggie in the unique surroundings of The Tall Ship on the River Clyde.
Glasgow Film Festival co-director Allan Hunter said, "This year's programme is a rich and diverse selection of prize-winners and premieres from around the globe and around the corner. We bring the best films we can to Glasgow and provide a platform for the finest Scottish films to engage the world."
For tickets and information go to www.glasgowfilm.org/festival
This article appeared in Alloa & Hillfoots Advertiser 19 Jan 12
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