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Allison Gardner, Glasgow Film CEO and festival director, to retire in 2025

Gardner will step down in October 2025 after more than 30 years with the organisation.

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

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)

The dark comedy stars ’Bridgerton’ actor Lorn Macdonald.

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

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

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

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

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

The UK feature world premieres at Glasgow Film Festival.

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

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

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)

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 join Glasgow industry line-up

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

Full festival programme for the 20th edition is revealed.

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

The inaugural animation scheme cohort has also been unveiled.

‘Janey’: Glasgow Review

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

‘Edge Of Summer’: Glasgow Review

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

‘The Home Game’: Glasgow Review

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

‘Bucky F*cking Dent’: Glasgow Review

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

‘Woken’: Dublin Review

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