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While We’re Young, Force Majeure to bookend Glasgow

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- Radiator, Life in a Fishbowl, The Wonders amongst European contenders for inaugural Audience Award

While We’re Young, Force Majeure to bookend Glasgow
Force Majeure by Ruben Östlund

Noah Baumbach’s While We’re Young (US) will open the 11th Glasgow Film Festival (GFF, February 18 – March 1), while Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Ruben Östlund
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]
(Sweden/France/Norway) will close. The festival has introduced an Audience Award and European contenders for these include Baldvin Zophoníasson’s Life in a Fishbowl [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
(Iceland), Tom Browne’s Radiator (UK), Jonas Alexander Arnby’s When Animals Dream [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Jonas Alexander Arnby
film profile
]
(Denmark) and Alice Rohrwacher’s The Wonders [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Alice Rohrwacher
interview: Tiziana Soudani
film profile
]
(Italy/Switzerland/Germany).

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Allan Hunter, GFF Co-Director, said, “It feels only appropriate that our Audience Award asks the best festival audience in the world to give their stamp of approval to a dazzling new talent. It is a festival filled with people and places close to home but also one that embraces a diverse, wonderful world of cinema, perfectly illustrated by our opening and closing galas.  It’s a huge honour for GFF to be chosen for the European Premiere of Noah Baumbach’s bittersweet delight While We're Young, and Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure is an utterly brilliant film. Home and away, this is a festival for everyone who loves the movies.”  

Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs, Fiona Hyslop said, “This year the festival feels both international and distinctly home-grown, showcasing dynamic Scottish film, music and visual art talent, and some of Glasgow’s most beautiful historic buildings, whilst also bringing some of the most exciting new films in the world to Scotland.”

Glasgow City Marketing Bureau, EventScotland, Creative Scotland and the British Film Institute support the festival.

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