The leading British actor Alan Rickman is to attend the Glasgow Film Festival this year.

 

He will attend the festival, which runs from February 18 to March 1, to support A Little Chaos, which he directed and stars in.

His second film as a director after 1997's The Winter Guest, A Little Chaos follows Sabine, played by Kate Winslet, a strong-willed landscape designer who "challenges sexual and class barriers" when she is chosen to build one of the main gardens at King Louis XIV's new palace at Versailles.

The French King is played by Rickman.

Rickman will attend the gala screening of the film - its Scottish Premiere - February 21 at the Glasgow Film Theatre.

A Little Chaos had its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival in 2014, and is set for general release in the April 17.