How the heck did we land in 2025?

I’m pretty sure I’m still processing 2020, never mind the last five years around the sun. Still, with a new year comes a new visit to the Glasgow Film Festival and 2025 promises to outdo the previous years.

GFF25 kicks off with quite the bang. Tornado, the hotly anticipated sophomore feature from Scottish director John Maclean (Slow West), will be having World Premier on Wednesday the 26th of February at the GFF.

With a fantastic cast and an amazing director, this will be hard to top. Though I’m pretty sure the GFF will make it happen.

A good place to start would be seeing, Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ben Foster and Colin Morgan lead a star-studded adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Also you have the likes of The Return, which sees The English Patient stars Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche reunite in a new version of Homer’s Odyssey; Luckiest Man In America, an engrossing game-show thriller based on the true story of an ice-cream truck driver (Paul Walter Hauser) whose winning streak on ‘Press Your Luck’ threatens to bankrupt the production company, featuring terrific performances from Walter Goggins, David Strathairn and Shamier Anderson.

And it wouldn’t be the GFF without some fascinating pieces of world cinema. And though I’m excited by prospects of seeing films from Argentina and Nigeria, it’s Japans Baby Assassin’s 3 that I am pumped for.

Ontop of all this variety of exclusives, there is also a plethora of special events, including an appearance by James McAvoy. As well as special screenings of some of cinemas best movies.

The festival will be running from the 26th of February till the 9th of March and is definitely worth checking out.