The twentieth version of the Glasgow Movie Pageant has landed certainly one of Sundance’s most talked-about movies for its opening evening.

“Love Lies Bleeding,” Rose Glass‘ queer romantic noir starring Kristen Stewart that earned important acclaim in Park Metropolis, is ready to lift the curtain on the occasion with its U.Okay. premiere. The movie follows “reclusive fitness center supervisor Lou (Stewart) who falls laborious for Jackie (Katy O’Brian), an bold bodybuilder headed by means of city to Vegas in pursuit of her dream,” in line with its official description. “However their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the online of Lou’s legal household.”

Billing itself as “Scotland’s largest movie competition,” the Glasgow Movie Pageant runs Feb. 28-March 10 on the Glasgow Movie Theater, which itself is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this 12 months, plus venues throughout town.

Different world and worldwide premieres embrace “Tummy Monster,” a hallucinogenic darkish drama by Glasgow director Ciaran Lyons starring rising Scottish star Lorn Macdonald; the massive display adaptation of blackly comedian novel “Bucky F*cking Dent” written by, directed by and starring David Duchovny; and a brand new restoration of “Billy Connolly: Huge Banana Toes,” the not often seen documentary shot in the course of the comic’s 1975 tour of Eire.

U.Okay. premieres embrace real-life father-daughter duo Ewan and Clara McGregor taking a highway journey in “Bleeding Love,” Cynthia Erivo as a Liberian refugee who befriends Alia Shawkat’s American tour information in “Drift” and Viggo Mortensen directing and starring in Western epic “The Lifeless Don’t Damage.”

Different movies screening embrace Kevin Macdonald’s documentary “Excessive and Low: John Galliano,” the Lea Seydoux and George MacKay-starring “The Beast” and Luna Carmoon’s debut “Hoard.” In the meantime, the U.Okay. premiere of Alice Rohrwacher’s interval romance “La Chimera,” starring Josh O’Connor, will happen each on the Glasgow Movie Pageant and 9 companion cinemas throughout the U.Okay.