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The documentary “The Hermit of Treig” extends an invitation into a life deliberately unmoored from the societal current. We meet Ken Smith, a figure etched by time and landscape, who for forty years has resided in a self-hewn log cabin nestled by the remote Loch Treig in the Scottish Highlands.

Here, the cartography of common existence dissolves; no roads pave the way, no tendrils of the electrical grid or municipal water reach this solitary domain. The film, at its outset, appears as a quiet observation of this radical departure, a portrait of a man enmeshed with a wild, indifferent expanse, his existence a question whispered against the wind.

A Bastion Forged from Scars and Sapwood

Ken Smith emerges not merely as an eccentric, but as a man who has consciously authored his own terms for being. His bright, bird-like eyes survey a kingdom of his own making, his articulation a...

Glasgow Film Festival’s (Gff) Industry Focus (March 3-7) returns with a line-up that includes a celebration of the new wave of UK filmmaking and brings together filmmakers for an in conversation event with the BFI’s head of the Filmmaking Fund Mia Bays and BBC Film director Eva Yates.

NextGen will unite executives with Girl director Adura Onashile, Scrapper filmmaker Charlotte Regan and Lucy Cohen, whose feature Edge Of Summer will world premiere at this year’s Gff.

Further highlights include the Animatic Live Pitch - Gff’s new animation talent development scheme, which culminates in a live pitch...

The festival takes place from March 2-13.

The 18th edition of the UK’s Glasgow Film Festival (Gff) will open with the UK premiere of Graham Moore’s US title The Outfit, and close with the UK premiere of Croatian director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s Camera d’Or-winning Murina, when the festival runs as an in-person event from March 2-13.

The line-up includes 10 world premieres, four European premieres and 65 UK premieres.

Scroll down for the full list of world premieres

The Outfit will receive its world premiere as a gala screening in Berlin and is the directorial debut of The Imitation Game writer Graham Moore.

The festival takes place from March 2-13.

The 18th edition of the UK’s Glasgow Film Festival (Gff) will open with the UK premiere of Graham Moore’s US title The Outfit, and close with the UK premiere of Croatian director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s Camera d’Or-winning Murina, when the festival runs as an in-person event from March 2-13.

The line-up includes 10 world premieres, four European premieres and 65 UK premieres.

Scroll down for the full list of world premieres

The Outfit will receive its world premiere as a gala screening in Berlin and is the directorial debut of The Imitation Game writer Graham Moore.

World premieres include Julian Jarrold’s biopic ’Sulphur And White’ and Anthony Baxter’s documentary ‘Flint’.

The Glasgow Film Festival has revealed the full programme for its 16th edition, which will run from February 26 to March 8.

The line-up features nine world premieres throughout the programme, including Julian Jarrold’s biopic Sulphur And White, starring Mark Stanley as real-life mountaineer and charity campaigner David Tait who faced long-buried childhood trauma.

The festival will also debut documentaries Flint, from Scottish director Anthony Baxter (You’ve Been Trumped) about the Michigan city’s toxic water scandal; and Robbie Fraser’s Pictures From Afghanistan,...

This loving documentary charting the polymath mountaineer’s life, including a recent health crisis, offers few insights into wider issues

This documentary about Hamish MacInnes, one of Britain’s pre-eminent mountaineers and a polymath inventor, photographer and stuntman who literally wrote the book on mountain rescue, opens with some warm words from his friend Michael Palin. The actor-turned-traveller notes that, no matter how dangerous the situation, MacInnes has an aura that’s calming and a manner that promises: “It’s all going to be Ok.”

After spending almost 90 minutes listening to MacInnes’ soft Scots burr in this film, you can understand how that might be so. But as a cinematic character he’s a bit underwhelming, despite his manifold accomplishments, gear inventions, designs for rescue gurneys and mountaineering achievements. Modest and prone to understatement, MacInnes doesn’t give much away, even about the peculiar episode around which director Robbie Fraser...

The story of Scottish mountaineer, Hamish MacInnes, is one that goes beyond his accomplishments as a climber.

In his career he led the first British ascent of the Bonatti Pillar of the Dru in the French Alps as well as took part in four expeditions to Mount Everest amongst other unbelievable feats.

He is an author, photographer as well as an expeditionary filmmaker and an iconic figure responsible for some of the greatest ingenuity that’s impact on mountain climbing today cannot be overstated.

Beyond this, though, is the story of his personal struggles with mental health. Director, Robbie Fraser, documents this and more in Final Ascent which is showing at a sold out screening this year’s Glasgow Film Festival.

We got the chance to sit down with Robbie and delve into how he became involved in the project, the lasting impression Hamish has had on him, and much more.

New titles include ‘Connect’ starring Kevin Guthrie.

The Glasgow Film Festival has unveiled the full programme for its 15th edition which will run from February 20 until March 3.

The line-up features seven world premieres throughout the programme, including Scottish director Marilyn Edmonds’ debut feature Connect, which stars Kevin Guthrie as a young man in a small town attempting to deal with depression, and Bafta-winning director Matt Pinder’s feature documentary Harry Birrell: Films Of Love And War, exploring the archive of Scottish amateur filmmaker Birrell.

Two horror titles, Automata from Lawrie Brewster and Here Comes Hell from Jack McHenry, will have...