Glasgow Film Festival Announces 2021 Programme
COVID forces 2021 edition online but many digital goodies await
New Releases
No Data Plan
A simple train journey becomes a condensed experience of illegal immigration and border control
Strike or Die
An observational documentary which takes time in demonstrating how the present is a variation of the past
The Earth is Blue as an Orange
Powerful Ukrainian documentary intimately captures a unique family’s love of cinema during devastating times of war
Survivor Ballads: Three Films By Shohei Imamura
Trio of later films from the under-appreciated great of the Japanese New Wave
Come Away
Clever take on the spiritual prequels for Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland runs out of steam, bogged down with melodrama
The Silence After Life
With minimal dialogue, this experimental film presents meditation as a method to communicate grief
The Glass Man
Nearly a decade later The Glass Man’s story is more potent than ever, but it can’t disguise troubles of the past
DVDs
The Blackout: Invasion Earth
A shamelessly gung-ho alien invasion movie, with a distinctly Russian twist
Schoolgirls
A soulful and realistic, if broadly unsatisfying, portrayal of 1990s Spanish adolescence
