{"id":679183,"date":"2026-01-07T04:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/679183\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T04:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:53:11","slug":"glasgow-film-festival-2026-sets-opener-exec-produced-by-emma-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/679183\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow Film Festival 2026 Sets Opener Exec Produced by Emma Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEverybody to Kenmure Street, the new documentary from Felipe Bustos Sierra that was executive produced by two-time Oscar winner Emma Thompson<\/a>, will open the 22nd edition of the Glasgow Film Festival<\/a> (GFF) on Feb. 25. It tells the story of \u201cone of Scotland\u2019s most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film will world premiere at Sundance before getting its U.K. premiere at Glasgow. \u201cIn May 2021, a U.K. Home Office dawn raid in the Glasgow district of Pollokshields, one of Scotland\u2019s most diverse neighborhoods, prompted local residents to rush to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbors,\u201d explains a synopsis. \u201cAs word spread in the early morning of what was Eid celebrations for many locals, a handful of protestors swelled to hundreds of people, flooding Kenmure Street and making it impassable to the immigration enforcement van. The eight-hour stand-off made international<\/a> headlines as the community organized itself in an extraordinary act of peaceful solidarity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film uses crowd-sourced footage from the day along with archive film and \u201cset-designed scenes captured by cinematographer Kirstin McMahon, featuring actors relaying verbatim the testimonies of contributors who wished to remain anonymous.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBustos Sierra\u2019s debut documentary Nae Pasaran, which told the story of how the boycott of East Kilbride Rolls Royce factory workers helped end General Augusto Pinochet\u2019s regime in 1970s Chile, had its world premiere as the closing gala of Glasgow 2018. It was honored as the best film at the BAFTA Scotland Awards.<\/p>\n

\n\tEverybody to Kenmure Street was produced by Ciara Barry of Glasgow-based production company barry crerar, in association with Bustos Sierra through Debasers Films. The film was supported by the National Lottery through Screen Scotland. Mark Thomas of Screen Scotland served as executive producer alongside Thompson. The film features an original score by Barry Burns of Mogwai.<\/p>\n

\n\tEverybody to Kenmure Street will hit U.K. and Irish cinemas on March 13, released by Conic.<\/p>\n

\n\tSaid Bustos Sierra: \u201cThis film is a snapshot of a day, of a neighborhood, and of gestures repeated through time, for the right to have a voice and to live in peace. Glasgow\u2019s long history of civil disobedience and meaningful change has been a barometer throughout the making of this film.\u201d
He concluded: \u201cI cannot wait to watch it at the GFT with its hometown audience, for whom we can only hope it\u2019ll be a joyful reminder of what a beacon they can be in uncertain times.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPaul Gallagher, head of program for the Glasgow Film Festival<\/a>, said: \u201cI\u2019m delighted that Felipe Bustos Sierra will be returning to GFF to open our festival with this hugely inspiring film. Everybody to Kenmure Street tells a story that is pertinent for the whole world right now, focusing on a very specific moment in Glasgow\u2019s recent past to offer a deeply moving vision of community action and resistance to injustice. With this film Felipe has captured an essential aspect of Glasgow\u2019s people-loving heart; I can\u2019t wait to share his vision with the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGFF will close with the U.K. premiere of James McAvoy\u2019s directorial debut California Schemin\u2019<\/a> on March 8, making it the second year in a row<\/a> that the Scotland festival has opened and closed with Scottish features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everybody to Kenmure Street, the new documentary from Felipe Bustos Sierra that was executive produced by two-time Oscar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,50245,918,193360,4884,522,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-679183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-emma-thompson","10":"tag-glasgow","11":"tag-glasgow-film-festival","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-international","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}