Lynne Ramsay is set to receive the Cinema City Honorary Award at the Glasgow Film Festival, which kicks off this week.
The renowned Glaswegian writer-director, whose Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson starrer Die My Love premiered in Cannes last year, will be awarded on March 6 at the festival and will also lead a special In Conversation event dubbed ‘From Page to Pulse.’
Ramsay made her feature film debut in 1999 with the Glasgow-shot Ratcatcher, which won the BAFTA Outstanding Debut award. Throughout her career, she’s become known for her distinctive visual style with credits including We Need To Talk About Kevin and You Were Never Really Here.
The event in Glasgow, which will be part of the festival’s annual Industry Focus strand, will see Ramsay take a deep dive into her approach to adaptation and her methods of translating literary material into for the big screen. The conversation will be hosted by BAFTA-nominated Glasgow filmmaker Adura Onashile (Girl).
“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. We are delighted to recognize her genius by giving her Glasgow Film Festival’s highest honor with this y ear’s Cinema City Award.”
GFF Industry Manager Samantha Bennett said: “It’s a true honor to welcome a homegrown talent of Lynne’s calibre to the Industry Focus program. We know her talk will be an inspiring moment for the Scottish industry as an opportunity to not only hear her insights, but to celebrate her outstanding contribution to cinema.”
Launched in 2024, GFF’s Cinema City Honorary Award recognizes filmmakers who have made an outstanding contribution to cinema. Previous recipients include Oscar-nominee Viggo Mortensen and Glasgow native James McAvoy.
McAvoy will also be in attendance at this year’s festival, where the UK premiere of his directorial debut California Schemin’ will close the event. He’ll be joined by the film’s cast Samuel Bottomley, Séamus McLean Ross and Lucy Halliday.
Other filmmaking talent attending GFF this year include: Glasgow-based director Felipe Bustos Sierra, whose Sundance award-winning doc Everybody to Kenmure Street will open the festival; Alice Winocour, who will be in town for the UK premiere of Couture; Mark Jenkin with the Scottish premiere of Rose of Nevada; Polly Findlay with the UK premiere of Glasgow-set Midwinter Break; Marc Evans with the world premiere of Welsh drama Effi O Blaenau; and Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard with the Scottish premiere of Broken English.
GFF’s Industry Focus will return for its 11th edition from March 2-6, expanding five days across two venues. The 22nd edition of Glasgow Film Festival will take place February 25-March 8, 2026.
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