Glasgow, Feb 25 (.) BAFTA-winning Glaswegian filmmaker Lynne Ramsay is set to receive the Cinema City Honorary Award at the 22nd edition of the Glasgow Film Festival (GFF). The accolade will be presented on March 6 during a special In Conversation event titled ‘From Page to Pulse’, hosted by Glasgow filmmaker Adura Onashile (Girl) as part of the festival’s Industry Focus strand.
The session will spotlight Ramsay’s “unparalleled approach to adaptation,” according to organizers, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
Ramsay made her feature debut with the 1999 Glasgow-shot Ratcatcher, which earned the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut. Over the past three decades, she has become renowned for her striking visual language and emotionally charged storytelling, directing acclaimed films such as ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’, ‘Die My Love’, and ‘You Were Never Really Here’, the festival noted.
Introduced in 2024, the Cinema City Honorary Award recognizes filmmakers who have made “an outstanding contribution to cinema.” The honor takes its name from Glasgow’s historic nickname, “Cinema City,” coined in the 1930s when the city boasted more cinemas per capita than anywhere else in the U.K. Previous recipients include Viggo Mortensen and fellow Glaswegian James McAvoy, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“Lynne Ramsay is one of a very small number of filmmakers who have the seemingly miraculous power of taking a unique vision in their minds and creating it onscreen exactly as they imagined,” said Paul Gallagher, GFF head of program. “Her films have changed our understanding of what cinema can do and be.”
“It is a true honor to welcome a homegrown talent of Lynne’s calibre to the Industry Focus program,” added Samantha Bennett, GFF industry manager, as quoted by The Hollywood Reporter.
The 2026 festival will also welcome a host of prominent filmmakers and actors. McAvoy is set to attend the closing gala for the U.K. premiere of his directorial debut, California Schemin’, alongside cast members Samuel Bottomley, Seamus McLean Ross, and Lucy Halliday.
Glasgow-based director Felipe Bustos Sierra (Nae Pasaran) will return to the festival for the opening gala of Everybody to Kenmure Street, following the film’s award win at Sundance, according to the outlet.
Other filmmakers attending this year’s event include Alice Winocour, Mark Jenkin, Polly Findlay, Marc Evans, Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard, and Edinburgh filmmaker Sean Dunn, who will present the U.K. premiere of his black comedy The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford. The 22nd Glasgow Film Festival will run from February 25 to March 8 this year.
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