International Film Festival Glasgow
The International Film Festival Glasgow has announced details of its 12th edition which will run from 12th to 16th November at venues across Glasgow!
About International Film Festival Glasgow
| 12th Nov 2025 to 16th Nov 2025 | |
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| Various Locations Glasgow | |
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International Film Festival Glasgow is Scotland’s leading independent film event and its mission is to give a stage to local talent, while also providing a platform for underrepresented voices in independent cinema, through the Festival’s First Feature, Perspectives and Balkan Focus competitions.
Fresh from Berlin, IFFG will open with a Special Screening of Blue Moon by Richard Linklater (Boyhood) starring Ethan Hawke and Andrew Scott on 12 November and close on 16 November with Joachim Trier’s Cannes Grand Prix winner Sentimental Value starring Stellan Skarsgård, Elle Fanning and Renate Reinsve.
Opening Night Film | Blue Moon
From acclaimed filmmaker Richard Linklater comes Blue Moon a film which follows songwriter Lorenz Hart as he reflects on himself on the opening night of Oklahoma!, a new musical by his former colleague Richard Rodgers. It stars Ethan Hawke as Hart, alongside Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale and Andrew Scott as Rodgers.
Closing Night Film | Sentimental Value
Following the success of global phenomenon The Worst Person in the World, Academy Award®-nominee Joachim Trier reunites with BAFTA nominee Renate Reinsve for their universally acclaimed follow-up, Sentimental Value. Winner of the prestigious Cannes Grand Prix award and featuring career-best performances from Golden Globe winner Stellan Skarsgård and Elle Fanning. Anchored by astonishing performances across the board, Sentimental Value is a rewarding and profoundly moving experience that intimately explores sisterhood, father-daughter relationships and the evocative power of childhood memories.
The iconic but short-lived Scottish Punk band The Skids burned bright when they hit the scene in the 1970s. Forty years later, the group are back and the subjects of a special new documentary on the Glasgow Punk scene - The Skids ReVolution. The film will be followed by a live music performance at the Grosvenor bar.
In Stanislav Hristov’s thrilling The Therapy, an eccentric psychologist is forced to face her own fears while using unconventional methods to cure her patients.
Director Annapurna Srira’s surrealist dark comedy-drama F**KTOYS, a young woman seeks to break a curse by raising $1000 for psychics in a pre-millennium alternate universe. She navigates the seedy underbelly of Trashtown via scooter, encountering bizarre characters along the way.
After screening at this year’s Berlinale, Cannes Palm D’Or winning Vasilis Kekatos’s Our Wildest Days, sees 20 year old Chloe leaves her dysfunctional family to follow a group of romantic outsiders and help the forgotten of society. During her travel through a shattered Greece, she will dream, fly, fall in love but also realise that true rebels are always alone.
Reel Tasty: Food & Film Experience | La Cocina
Returning for a 4th season, this curated food and film event introduces the audiences to independent cinema while enjoying a tasting menu, designed to complement the on screen experience. It includes food service inside the cinema with 4 dishes designed to enhance the theme of the night. This year, the focus is on Mexico, with the Manu carefully curated by beloved Glasgow local “El Jefe’s”. The experience also includes a welcome drink from MOTH, or a beer / Michelada from NOAM & a night cap provided by GlenAllachie Distillery.
In Alonso Ruizpalacios’s La Cocina, in the sweltering back kitchen of a Times Square restaurant, undocumented cook Pedro is caught between mounting pressures at work and a complicated romance with waitress Julia. When money goes missing, suspicion spreads, igniting tensions that threaten to upend the fragile hopes of the staff.
In Harry Lighton’s Pillion, a directionless man finds himself swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive. Starring Emmy Award winning-actor Alexander Skarsgård, and Harry Melling (The Queens Gambit, Harry Potter).
The winner of this year’s IFFG Short Films Competition will be announced on Sunday 16th November and is judged by Greek Actress Tonia Sotiropoulou and Producer Marianna Palka and writer, producer and filmmaker Alice Shone.
IFFG Education Progamme
Since 2020, the Festival’s strong education programme for under 16s, connects young audiences with indie cinema and animation from around the world and provides workshops, supporting incorporation of cinema education into the curriculum. With a total of 15+ participating schools from all parts of Glasgow, IFFG is proud to provide free screen education for under 16s thanks to support from the Glasgow City Council, private donations, sponsors and international partners.
VFX / Special effects workshop with Calum MacDonald at Gibbet FX whose work includes The Rig for Amazon, feature film Zebra Girl and the acclaimed TV series Outlander.
Animation & Sound Design workshop with film education practitioner and animator Jonathan Charles
Screening of Vick Wang Shih-wei’s Taiwanese animation Luda. Laqi enters a forest to find her parents but encounters Luda, a demon spirit. Together, they journey through the forest, encountering monsters and overcoming dangers to become trusted friends.
Creative Writing workshop with London based Scottish poet, writer and filmmaker Leyla Josephine. Leyla received a BAFTA Scotland nomination for her first short Groom, and is currently developing several feature and short film projects with Screen Scotland and international partners.
Masterclass with Scottish football player Zander Murray. The Festival will screen his BBC backed doc which explores Zander’s life as a trailblazing LGBTQIA+ football player and follow with a Q&A and talk around his inspirational career.
Ahead of the Festival, from October, IFFG will also screen Sunday Matinees at the Grosvenor Picture Theatre of Pedro Almodóvar classics as part of the BFI FAN season ‘Too Much: Melodrama on Film’. Tickets are available on sliding scale and all screenings are captioned.
Supported by Film Hub Scotland, these films are Volver, All About My Mother, Women on the Verge of Nervous Breakdown and The Room Next Door.
These titles will also be screened for free to young audiences (under 16s) as part of IFFG’s education programme between October and mid-November.
International Film Festival Glasgow runs this year from 12 – 16 November 2025 at multiple venues including The Grosvenor Picture Theatre, The Glasgow Social Hub and The Alchemy Experiment.
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