Tim Roth, Ed Harris & Jessica Lange Set For Glasgow Film Festival

Tim Roth, Ed Harris, and Jessica Lange are among the high-profile names that have been confirmed as guests at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival. 

The Scottish festival announced its full 2025 guest list this afternoon. 

Roth will attend the festival alongside  Japanese model, musician, and actor Kōki, Shogun actor Takehiro Hira, and filmmaker John Maclean for the world premiere of their survival thriller Tornado, which will open the festival on February 26.

Harris and Lange will attend for the UK premiere of Long Day’s Journey into Night, the new big-screen adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s seminal play, on 28 February. Lange will also appear in an In Conversation event on March 1.

Elsewhere, James McAvoy will introduce a screening of his breakthrough role in Kevin McDonald’s fiction debut The Last King of Scotland (2006). He will also take part in a In Conversation event on March 2. Athina Rachel Tsangari will also visit to screen her Scottish folk horror Harvest, Edinburgh-based filmmaker Laura Carreira will introduce the Scottish premiere of her Edinburgh and Glasgow-shot drama On Falling, and filmmakers Daniel Hoesl and Julia Niemann will attend the UK premiere of their latest social satire Veni Vedi Vici. 

The Glasgow Film Festival will run at the Glasgow Film Theatre and venues across the city from 26 February to 9 March, with a programme boasting 13 World and European premieres, 66 UK premieres, and 12 Scottish premieres from 38 countries.