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Glasgow Film Festival Reveals New Look
First Announcements Ahead of the 22nd Edition
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We have announced the first films for the 2026 edition of the Glasgow Film Festival (GFF), taking place from 25 February to 8 March. As Scotland’s biggest film festival, we have confirmed our highly anticipated Retrospective Programme, which gives audiences the chance to catch classic films back on the big screen for free, as well as our Country Focus theme.
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'Truth to Power': Cinematic Statements With Our Retrospective
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Our retrospective theme is ‘Truth to Power’, featuring 10 classics from the 1960s to the present day that stand as cinematic statements of resistance, or feature characters that rise against the machines of power. Highlights from our programme include Kubrick-directed satire Dr Strangelove (1964), where military blunders push the world towards nuclear annihilation, featuring comic genius Peter Sellers; Oscar-nominated civil rights epic Selma (2014) from director Ava DuVernay, which chronicles Dr Martin Luther King Jr's 1965 marches to secure equal voting rights; and the 50th anniversary of major political thriller All the President’s Men (1976), following the journalists who famously broke the Watergate scandal, starring and produced by the late great Robert Redford.
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Head of ProgrammePaul Gallagher
“The idea for this year’s retrospective began as I reflected on the legacy and influence of the late Robert Redford. With his classic All the President’s Men serving as a starting point, ‘Truth to Power’ focuses on filmmakers who have taken on daunting targets – power, corruption and injustice – and created all-time classic films in the process; films that are not only hugely entertaining but retain sharp relevance to this day.”
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Our lineup will also include biographical drama In the Name of the Father (1993), starring Daniel Day-Lewis as an Irishman wrongfully convicted of terrorism who fights to clear his name and free his family; biographical drama Erin Brockovich (2000), which stars Julia Roberts in an Oscar-winning role as a law assistant fighting for justice for a small town devastated by industrial pollution; and Italian-Algerian war film The Battle of Algiers (1966), a recreation of Algeria's 1950s battle for independence from the French government.
Tickets for the free retrospective films are not available to book and can be collected from Glasgow Film Theatre’s Box Office on the morning of the screenings, which take place at 10.30am during the festival. Films shown within the Retrospective Programme may be subject to change.
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