Glasgow Film Festival 2026 is gearing up as it announces it will open with Felipe Bustos Sierra’s powerful documentary, Everybody To Kenmure Street.
The subject of this documentary is on Glasgow’s Pollokshields area where in May 2021 residents took to the streets to stop the deportation of neighbours in a UK Home Office raid.
Protestors then joined those residents to soon become hundreds joining together in what became an eight-hour stand-off that made headlines across the world. Exec-Produced by two-time Oscar winner, Emma Thompson, it explores a memorable moment in Glasgow’s recent history with testimonies and crowd-sourced footage from the day.
This marks the return to GFF for Sierra, whose BAFTA-winning Nae Pasaran closed the festival in 2018.
Running from February 25th to March 9th the festival will close with James McAvoy’s eagerly anticipated directorial debut, California Schemin‘. The full festival programme is set to be announced on January 21st.
Tickets for both opening & closing films on sale on January 19th at 10.00am and are available here
