Stephanie Sy:
I love that. Your strength comes from your heart and your mind.
The sheer size of the waves was what intrigued the film s director, Finnish filmmaker Minna Dufton. And in the interest of research, she learned to surf, albeit on smaller waves.
A lot of the film is about big feelings and how to conquer them. Is that what you were going for with the title Big vs. Small ?
Minna Dufton:
Joana is tiny, and the wave is rather huge. And I have always been drawn to opposites. And I found it so interesting, how figure out, what is big and what is small in us humans?
Co-directors Allan Hunter and Allison Gardner each share their top five films from the festival streaming online from 24 Feb to 7 March
The Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) is heading online this year and is set to host screenings via new streaming platform Glasgow Film at Home. This year s impressive festival programme – available to stream online from Wed 24 Feb to Sun 7 Mar – boasts six world premieres, two European premieres and 49 UK premieres. With so many innovative and acclaimed films to choose from, it s difficult to know where to begin.
To help provide some GFF inspiration, festival co-directors Allan Hunter and Allison Gardner have each shared their top five films from this year s festival with
Credit: Glasgow Film Festival
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.