Glasgow Film Festival

Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game, turns director with this twisty Coen Brothers-style yarn. Leonard (Mark Rylance) is a master tailor who left England to run an unassuming little shop in the windy city of Chicago. He now makes beautiful, hand-crafted garments for people who want the best and are willing to pay for it. His most loyal customers are a clan of vicious gangsters. They do say clothes maketh the man. Then one night there is a knock on the door. A favour is requested. A line is crossed. And all hell breaks loose. We are thrilled to open the Festival with the UK premiere of this gripping tale of deception, double-dealing, murder and some very fine threads.

Audrey Diwan's outstanding Venice Golden Lion winner could not be more timely or urgent. Based on Anne Ernaux's memoir, it stars Anamaria Vartolomei as Anne, a French literature student at Angouleme University in the early 1960s. When Anne falls pregnant, her plans and hopes for the future are thrown into disarray. Abortion is illegal in France, and Anne considers pregnancy “that illness that turns French women into housewives”. Family and close friends are of little help and as the weeks pass Anne is faced with the awful prospect of having to take drastic action of her own.

Murina appears to lead a fairytale life on a gorgeous Croatian island. She swims, dives and wants for nothing but her father Ante ( a repellent Leon Lucey) is a controlling bully of a man who seeks to keep her like a caged bird. A visit from Ante's millionaire friend Javier (Cliff Curtis) is the key to a lucrative development deal. There is history between Javier and Murina's mother Nela (Danica Curcic). Simmering tensions slowly come to the boil as Murina's defiance and growing allure put her on a collision course with a father desperate to maintain the status quo and secure his deal.