This year’s diverse programme includes some of the best new films made by women and featuring female central characters. As part of the 8th March International Women’s Day celebrations, the GFF will be hosting multiple World and UK premieres alongside filmmaking and acting talent from across the Globe.

Here are just some of the events and films featured at this years’s festival with a strong female presence.
PROXIMA (OPENING GALA)

The festival opens with the Gala premiere of Alice Wintour’s Proxima. In it, Eva Green stars as a woman torn between professional ambition and the demands of motherhood. Astronaut Sarah Loreau (Green) is undertaking the gruelling mental and physical training required for a one-year mission aboard the International Space Station.

HOW TO BUILD A GIRL (CLOSING GALA)
Coky Giedroyc’s adaptation of Caitlin Moran’s semi-autobiographical bestseller is a hilarious   coming-of-age comedy and has to be one of the most eagerly awaited films of the year. Booksmart’s Beanie Feldstein stars as Joanna, a 16 years extrovert from the outskirts of Wolverhampton, who becomes a popular, but conflicted music journalist when she moves to London.
The COUNTY
From Icelandic director Grímur Hákonarson. The film tells the story of a widowed farmer (Arndís Hrönn Egilsdóttir) who begins a new life on her own terms as she fights against corruption and injustice in her community.
SUSAN WOOD – A LIFE IN PICTURES
An event at which notorious photographer of the stars discusses and shows her life’s work (28 February, DoubleTree)
THE PERFECT CANDIDATE,
Saudi Arabia’s breakout female director Haifaa Al-Mansour (Wadjda) continues to make a stand for women’s rights GLOBALLY (7 & 8 March, Glasgow Film Theatre)

 

The festival will also be hosting Sarah Gavron & Bukky Bakray for their brilliant film ROCKS, while Imogen Poots will also attend for the weird and wonderful Vivarium in which she stars alongside Jesse Eisenberg.

Elsewhere, director Claire Oakley will be there to support her debut feature MAKE UP, while Iranian director Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis) will be at the festival to talk about her new film Radioactive in which Rosamund Pike stars as the legendary Marie Curie.

The Glasgow Film Festival runs from the 26th of February till the 8th of March. 

You can buy tickets for all films here: https://glasgowfilm.org/glasgow-film-festival