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Glasgow Film Festival, which runs from 24th February to 7th March 2021, has revealed the full programme for its 2021 festival, with screenings hosted on Glasgow Film’s new online viewing platform Glasgow Film At Home.
The programme contains 6 World premieres, 2 European premieres and 49 UK premieres.
Originally planned as a hybrid in-cinema and online festival, GFF21 will now take place online only, due to the lockdown restrictions affecting most of Scotland and the rest of the UK.
The festival will open on Wednesday 24 February with Lee Isaac Chung’s autobiographical drama following a Korean-American family ‘Minari’, starring ‘The Walking Dead’s Steven Yeun, and close on Sunday 7 March with Suzanne Lindon’s debut feature ‘Spring Blossom’, a coming-of-age tale set against a dreamy Parisian backdrop.
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(Clockwise from top left) ‘The Man Standing Next,’ ‘Deliver Us From Evil,’ ‘Peninsula,’ ‘Hitman: Agent Jun,’ ‘Ashfall’ and ‘#ALIVE’ (KOFIC, Redpeter, Lotte, Hive Media, Zip Cinema, Perspective Pictures, CJ)
2020 emerged as the worst year for the Korean cinema industry as it experienced the lowest total attendance in 17 years due to the effects of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
According to the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), total cinema attendance in 2020 reached 59.52 million, down by 73.7 percent compared to 226.67 million tickets sold in 2019, or a difference of 167.15 million tickets.
The 2020 total is the worst year since 2004 when the computerized cinema tracking started. In 2004, cinema attendance totaled 69.25 million.
There are growing tensions about the Golden Globes categorization of 'Minari,' one of the year's most acclaimed films and a top contender for best-of-the-year awards.