Glasgow Film Festival: 5 Films On Our Radar

More than 120 films will be screened at 2025’s Glasgow Film Festival, which kicked off on Wednesday 26 February and will run until 9 March, including 13 world and European premieres, 66 UK premieres and 12 Scottish premieres, all representing 38 countries. Here are just five we think we’ll be hearing a lot more about.

Movies To Know At Glasgow Film Festival 2025

Tornado

Opening the festival was the world premiere of Tornado, Scottish filmmaker John Maclean’s survival thriller starring Tim Roth, Jack Lowden, Takehiro Hira and Kōki. It’s set in the atmospheric wilds of 1790s Britain, and showcases the fallout when a travelling Samurai show crosses paths with a gang of cutthroat criminals.

Release Date: 23 May 2025

Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Jessica Lange bagged a Tony for her performance as Mary on Broadway – and she reprises the role in this film adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s beloved classic. Lange is joined by Ed Harris to tell the story of the Tyrone family who are locked in a cycle of conflict and resentment thanks to addiction and illness.

Release Date: TBC

Went Up The Hill

Starring Stranger Things‘ Dacre Montgomery, we’re excited to see this Aussie thriller, which is described as a poetic ghost story. We centre on Jack (Montgomery), a man returning to New Zealand to attend the funeral of his estranged birth mother, where he meets her grieving widow.

Release Date: TBC

On Falling

On Falling makes its Scottish debut at Glasgow Film Festival – in the city it is set in. We centre on Portuguese immigrant Aurora (Joana Santos), a warehouse worker trapped in a life governed by wage slavery and social isolation. Watch the trailer here.

Release Date: 7 March 2025

Andrea Gets A Divorce

The Austrian film scene is exploding, and Andrea Gets A Divorce is just one of a selection of films hailing from the landlocked central European country at 2025’s Glasgow Film Festival, all part of the ‘From the Heart of Europe: Austria on Screen’ scheme. This flick follows rural policewoman Andrea (Birgit Minichmayr) who wants a divorce so she can fight crime in the city – but her plans are thrown off course when she accidentally hits her drunken husband (Josef Hader) with her car.

Release Date: TBC

Find out more about Glasgow Film Festival at glasgowfilm.org