Glasgow Film Festival 2015 Begins Today!

Yes, the day has finally arrived as tonight sees the beginning of 2015 Glasgow Film Festival which includes a fair few exciting offerings for Asian Cinema fans! Making its UK premier in Glasgow is the latest film from Shin'ya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo the Iron Man, Bullet Ballet, Tokyo Fist) Nobi, plus the latest film from Daihachi Yoshida (The Kirishima Thing) Pale Moon, Ann Hui's The Golden Era and Zhang Yimou's Coming Home. The festival also features Japan's oscar submission The Light Shines Only There (also screened at Raindance and the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme), Black Coal, Thin Ice (previously screened at BFI London Film Festival) and the promising debut film from July Jung A Girl At My Door (which we reviewed as it screened at the BFI London and London Korean Film Festivals).

The full line-up of Asian films at the 2015 Glasgow Film Festival includes:

• Pale Moon (Japan, Daihachi Yoshida)
• Black Coal, Thin Ice (China, Diao Yi'nan)
• Uzumasa Limelight (Japan, Ken Ochiai)
• The Light Shines only There (Japan, Mipo O)
• Exit (Taiwan, Hsiang Chienn)
• Fires on the Plain (Japan, Shin'ya Tsukamoto)
• Dearest (China/HK, Peter Ho-Sun Chan)
• Still the Water (Japan, Naomi Kawase)
• The Golden Era (China/HK, Ann Hui)
• Coming Home (China, Zhang Yimou)
• Red Amnesia (China, Wang Xiaoshuai)
• A Girl at My Door (Korea, July Jung)

The festival runs from 18th February to 1st March 2015 and tickets are currently on sale through the festival's official website. 

You can also check out our reviews for Pale Moon, Uzumasa Limelight, and A Girl at My Door and look out for our upcoming reviews of Exit and Coming Home!