Initially planned as a hybrid event taking place both in cinemas and online, the 2021 edition of the Glasgow Film Festival will now unfold entirely online, via Glasgow Film’s new viewing platform Glasgow Film At Home. The movies will be accessible to everyone in the UK (not just in Scotland) for the price of £9.99 per film and with special, themed bundles.

Opening on 24 February with Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari, the festival will close on 7 March with Suzanne Lindon’s Spring Blossom [+lire aussi :
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fiche film]. Standing out among the festival’s eight world premieres is Nick Moran’s Creation Stories [+lire aussi :
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Among the UK premieres are Kevin Macdonald’s The Mauritanian [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], starring Ben Whishaw. As part of a new collaboration with the Shanghai Film Festival, the Scottish gathering will also feature in its programme Back to the Wharf by director Xiaofeng Li and Yang Lina’s Spring Tide.

The programme is rounded off by films that have already proven successful on the festival circuit, such as Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh’s Cannes label recipient Gagarin [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], Mohammad Rasoulof’s Golden Bear winner There Is No Evil [+lire aussi :
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interview : Jeanette Nordahl
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interview : Christos Nikou
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The candidates for the Audience Award – the only prize given out at the festival, and the winner of which will be revealed online on 7 March – are Zoé Wittock’s Jumbo [+lire aussi :
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interview : Lili Horvat
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fiche film] by Anders Ølholm and Frederik Louis Hviid, Philip Doherty’s Galway Film Fleadh winner Redemption of a Rogue [+lire aussi :
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The festival will also feature a focus on South Korea, and will once again deliver the scares in partnership with FrightFest, with six titles on the menu, including Out of This World [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by French director Marc Fouchard.

This year’s Industry programme will run online between Monday 1 and Saturday 6 March, with young filmmakers aged under 30 from around the UK able to access the full Industry programme for £10, thanks to a sponsorship deal with MUBI.