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Glasgow Film Festival

7 - 28 Feb 2010 (annual)

Cost: Five films £25; 10 films £45; 20 films £80

The Glasgow Film Festival returns for a programme bursting with premiers, special screenings, guest speakers and workshops. Incorporating three mini-festivals, and with over 11 "strands" focusing on different genres, the Glasgow Film Festival is a major cinematic event.

Hosted at a range of venues across the city, including the Art Deco halls of the Glasgow Film Theatre, the festival focuses on 11 different "strands" of cinema. The Best of British and Great Scots highlight contemporary film making in the UK, while Out of the Past and Cary Grant look back at the classics of yesteryear. All the while cinema from Japan, to Europe, and beyond is celebrated through a number of different global cinema series.

There is dedicated horror programme, Frightfest, and a documentary series, Stranger Than Fiction, not to mention the blockbuster screenings as part of Galas schedule. A programme of short films runs alongside the feature screenings and guest speakers hold court in the lobbies and theatres. Furthermore, the first week is entirely dedicated to the Glasgow Youth Film Festival project, which features movies created by, starring and made for young people.

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