FILMS about skateboarders in Los Angeles and rave culture in the 1990s will open and close this year’s Glasgow Film Festival.
The festival will open on Wednesday, February 20, with the UK premiere of the directorial debut of Jonah Hill (pictured), the coming-of-age comedy-drama Mid90s.
The film, which stars Sunny Suljic, Lucas Hedges and Katherine Waterston, follows a 13-year-old boy who begins to hang around with an older group of skateboarders while living in Los Angeles in the 1990s.
The festival will close on Sunday, March 3, with another film set in the 1990s, the UK premiere of the big-screen adaptation of Scottish playwright Kieran Hurley’s stage show Beats. Directed by Brian Welsh (Black Mirror) and executive produced by Steven Soderbergh, the film was mostly shot in Glasgow and tells the story of rave culture in 1990s Scotland.
Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) co-director Allison Gardner: “We are honoured and delighted to be opening our 15th edition with Jonah Hill’s thrilling and moving directorial debut.”
Mid90s will be released in the UK on April 12 and Beats in May.
Gardner’s fellow co-director Allan Hunter said: “We are thrilled to close the festival with the UK premiere of the hotly anticipated screen version of Kieran Hurley’s Beats.”
Tickets for the opening and closing galas go on sale at 10am tomorrow at glasgowfilm.org/festival.
The full programme for the festival will be announced on January 23.
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