The Hollywood actor Richard Gere is to walk the red carpet at Glasgow's film festival next month as his new movie receives a UK premiere at the event.
The festival (GFF), has unveiled its 12th programme which features 60 UK premieres, 40 Scottish premieres, as well as more than 20 free events.
In Time Out of Mind, Gere, perhaps still best known for his roles in films such as Pretty Woman and An Officer and a Gentleman, portrays a homeless man suffering from mental health issues in New York.
The movie has received generally positive reviews and Gere's performance has received good notices in the US press, with Rollinb Stone describing his performance as "intuitive and indelible" and National Public Radio saying his work was "extraordinary."
Gere will be in Glasgow for the premiere on February 28.
Also attending the festival, which runs from February 17-28, will be Natalie Dormer, best known for her work in Game of Thrones and The Hunger Games, who will be in Glasgow for the premiere of The Forest.
The director Ben Wheatley will also be in attendance for the Scottish premiere of High-Rise, an adaptation of JG Ballard’s dystopian novel starring Tom Hiddleston and Sienna Miller.
The lauded arthouse director Peter Greenaway and stuntman Vic Armstrong will also be taking part in In Person events discussing their careers during the festival.
The events will open with the UK premiere of Hail, Caesar! by Ethan & Joel Coen, starring George Clooney, and close with Charlie Kaufman’s Oscar-nominated Anomalisa, an animated film.
Overall the festival has 308 separate events and screenings and 174 films, one of the largest programmes the festival has published.
Other UK premieres include Demolition, the new film from Jean-Marc Vallée, who made Dallas Buyers Club and Wild, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts, Louder Than Bombs, the Cannes Palme d’Or nominee directed by Joachim Trier and starring Gabriel Byrne and Jesse Eisenberg, and Sing Street, the new Dublin-set musical by Once writer/director John Carney as well as the new Disney animation Zootropolis.
The winner of the Cannes film festival's Palme d'Or prize, Dheepan will also be shown as well as the world premiere of Hamish, a documentary about Scottish poet, songwriter and intellectual Hamish Henderson.
Raiders of the Lost Ark and Silence of the Lambs will be shown at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
Tickets for the main festival programme are on sale from 10am on 25 January.
The festival programme had been finalised before the death of David Bowie but D A Pennebaker’s concert film of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, considered one of the best live music films, is to be screened on 20 February, preceded by the documentary short Let’s Dance: Bowie Down Under.
GFF will also be using the Glasgow Planetarium for the first time, for a fortieth anniversary screening of The Man Who Fell To Earth, starring Bowie as an alien.
Allan Hunter, the Glasgow Film Festival Co-Director, said: "The 2016 Glasgow Film Festival programme is bursting with must-see movies and events.
"I’m excited to introduce audiences to real gems like Pablo Trapero’s gripping crime drama The Clan in our Argentine focus, Zhang Yang’s breathtaking Tibetan film Paths Of The Soul, and a cracking line-up of Audience Award contenders including the unforgettable, Oscar-nominated Mustang."
The festival's family strand includes a celebration of Roald Dahl’s centenary, with screenings of Fantastic Mr Fox and Matilda at the Kinning Park Complex as well as a celebration of the 25th anniversary of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, screened in the Trades Hall, and free screenings of Lady & The Tramp and German film Fiddlesticks.
The twelfth annual Glasgow Film Festival runs from 17-28 February 2016.
Allison Gardner, co-director, said: "We’ve got some exceptional premieres in our Gala strand, a great and thoroughly original line up of documentaries in Stranger Than Fiction, and a really charming, child-friendly Modern Families programme headlined by the UK premiere of Disney’s Zootropolis.
"The festival keeps moving forward, with new developments like our Industry Focus conference, whilst also maintaining our roots as an audience-focused festival where everyone can come together to share a love of cinema."
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