The Glasgow Movie Competition‘s 2025 Viewers Award, sponsored by Mubi, went to Brian Durnin’s drama Spilt Milk, wrapping up a star-studded twenty first version that attracted the likes of James McAvoy, Toni Collette, Tim Roth, Jessica Lange and Ed Harris.
Amongst different huge names visiting Scotland had been Japanese musician and actress Koki and Shogun star Takehiro Hira, who got here to Glasgow for the world premiere of Scottish survival thriller Twister, whereas Components 1 world champion Damon Hill attended the world premiere of sporting documentary Hill. Collette was a shock particular visitor for a thirtieth anniversary exhibiting of her breakthrough movie Muriel’s Marriage ceremony.
Scotland’s largest annual celebration of cinema, which this 12 months additionally put a highlight on Austrian movies, from satirical appears at rent-a-friend companies and the ability of billionaires to an exploration of generational poverty and a local weather disaster mockumentary, wrapped with the world premiere of Scottish documentary-maker Martyn Robertson’s Make It to Munich, shot within the run-up to the Euro 2024 soccer event.
The film follows Ethan Walker, “a promising teenage footballer from Aberdeenshire who, simply months right into a (soccer) scholarship at a USA college, suffers life-threatening accidents (together with a number of fractures, two mind hemorrhages and the whole dislocation of his proper knee) in a highway site visitors accident,” based on a synopsis. “Aided in his restoration by pioneering Glasgow surgeon … Professor Gordon Mackay, Ethan decides to cycle from Hampden to Munich for Scotland’s opening match towards Germany in Euro 2024 – simply 9 months after his accident.”
Viewers Award winner Spilt Milk is ready in Nineteen Eighties Dublin the place 11-year-old Bobby (Cillian Sullivan) desires of being a detective, similar to his TV idol Kojak. “Providing to seek out misplaced objects on his housing property with the assistance of his pal Nell (Naoise Kelly), the pair start their greatest case after Bobby’s brother Oisin (Lewis Brophy) goes lacking,” notes a synopsis. “Their hunt takes them into the damaging underbelly of the housing property the place they dwell, as the tough realities of dependancy are offered by way of a toddler’s eyes.”
The runner-up was Natja Brunckhorst’s German comedy Two to One, starring Sandra Hüller.
The 2025 version of the Glasgow Movie Competition was the ultimate one for departing Glasgow Movie CEO and pageant director Allison Gardner. “Being a part of Glasgow Movie Competition has been essentially the most enjoyable, rewarding and good time over the past 21 years,” she mentioned. “From co-directing alongside the great Allan Hunter to going solo the final couple of years, I’ve had essentially the most fabulous help and friendship from the distinctive groups in our group. I’ve met some great filmmakers and company through the years and witnessed audiences fall in love with movies which have modified their lives for the higher.”