Ahead of announcing its full 2025 line-up, International Film Festival Glasgow has today announced this year’s Education Programme.

International Film Festival Glasgow is Scotland’s leading independent film event, currently in its 12th edition, which will run this year from 12 to 16 November 2025.

The Festival’s mission is to give a stage to local talent, while also providing a platform for underrepresented voices in independent cinema, through the Festival’s First Feature, Perspectives and Balkan Focus competitions.

Since 2020, the Festival’s strong education programme for under 16s, connects young audiences with indie cinema and animation from around the world and provides workshops, supporting incorporation of cinema education into the curriculum.

This year the Festival’s Education programme will include events happening across Glasgow’s Grosvenor Picture Theatre and The Social Hub on weekdays of 12,13,14 November. With a total of 15+ participating schools from all parts of Glasgow, IFFG is proud to provide free screen education for under 16s thanks to support from the Glasgow City Council, private donations, sponsors and international partners.

These include:

VFX / Special effects workshop with Calum MacDonald at Gibbet FX whose work includes The Rig for Amazon, feature film Zebra Girl and the acclaimed TV series Outlander.

Animation & Sound Design workshop with film education practitioner and animator Jonathan Charles.

Screening of Vick Wang Shih-wei’s Taiwanese animation Luda. Laqi enters a forest to find her parents but encounters Luda, a demon spirit. Together, they journey through the forest, encountering monsters and overcoming dangers to become trusted friends.

Creative Writing workshop with London based Scottish poet, writer and filmmaker Leyla Josephine. Leyla received a BAFTA Scotland nomination for her first short Groom, and is currently developing several feature and short film projects with Screen Scotland and international partners.

Masterclass with Scottish football player Zander Murray. The Festival will screen his BBC backed doc which explores Zander’s life as a trailblazing LGBTQIA+ football player and follow with a Q&A and talk around his inspirational career.

Ahead of the Festival, from October, IFFG will also screen Sunday Matinees at the Grosvenor Picture Theatre of Pedro Almodóvar classics as part of the BFI FAN season ‘Too Much: Melodrama on Film’. Tickets are available on sliding scale and all screenings are captioned.

Supported by Film Hub Scotland, these films are:

14:30 | Sunday 5 October | WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
85 MINS with Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano
A television actress encounters a variety of eccentric characters after embarking on a journey to discover why her lover abruptly left her.
This screening will be enhanced with a discussion with Dr. Jacqueline Collins, Spanish & Latin American Studies Lecturer at Stirling University.

14:30 | Sunday 12 October | ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER
101 MINS with Penélope Cruz, Cecilia Roth
Young Esteban wants to become a writer and also to discover the identity of his father, carefully concealed by his mother Manuela.

14:30 | Sunday 19 October | VOLVER
116 MINS with Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura
After her death, a moth er returns to her hometown in order to fix the situations she couldn’t resolve during her life.

14:30 | Sunday 2 November | THE ROOM NEXT DOOR
110 MINS with Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore
Martha’s strained relationship with her mother fractures completely when a misunderstanding drives them apart. Their mutual friend Ingrid sees both sides of the rift.

These titles will also be screened for free to young audiences (under 16s) as part of IFFG’s education programme between October and mid-November.

International Film Festival Glasgow runs this year from 12 – 16 November 2025 at multiple venues including The Grosvenor Picture Theatre, The Glasgow Social Hub and The Alchemy Experiment.

The full line up for this year’s Festival will be announced very soon.