Eagles Of The Republic

Source: Cannes International Film Festival

‘Eagles Of The Republic’

Glasgow Film Festival (GFF, February 25-March 8) is to spotlight films from Sweden as the country of focus for its 22nd edition, including the UK premiere of Tarik Saleh’s Eagles Of The Republic.

Eagles Of The Republic is the third and final film in Swedish-Egyptian filmmaker Saleh’s Cairo trilogy. The satire world premiered in Cannes competition. Fares Fares play Egypt’s most adored actor, who is pressured to star in a government propaganda film.

Also in the strand will be Mattias J. Skoglund’s horror The Home where strange events unfold after the protagonist takes his mother into a care facility for dementia; Pella Kagerman and Hugo Lilja’s sci-fi Egghead Republic, set in an alternative reality where the Cold War didn’t end; Fanny Ovesen’s drama Live A Little, which follows a young woman’s exploration of her boundaries on an interrailing trip after she wakes up in a man’s bed with no memory of the night before; and John Skoog’s Redoubt, about a farmhand who builds a fortress in his home during the Cold War.

It is the first edition under the leadership of Paul Gallagher, head of programme for Glasgow Film, and Seonaid Daly as chief executive of Glasgow Film after Allison Gardner stepped down in October.

This year’s free retrospective theme is ‘truth to power’ and includes Dr Strangelove, Selma, All The President’s Men, In The Name Of The Father, Erin Brockovich and The Battle Of Algiers.

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