Glasgow, Scottish filmmaker, writer-director Lynne Ramsay, will be honored at the Glasgow Film Festival with the Cinema City Honorary Award at a special In Conversation event, From Page to Pulse.
The filmmaker, who grew up in Maryhill, made her feature film debut in 1999 with the Glasgow-shot Ratcatcher, which won the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut. Since then she has went on to direct other films, including We Need to Talk About Kevin, Die My Love, and You Were Never Really Here.
The event, part of the festival’s annual Industry Focus strand, will see the director take a deep dive into her unparalleled approach to adaptation, spanning writers from Alan Warner to Ariana Harwicz, and her unique methods of translating literary material into profoundly visual, emotionally charged cinema. The conversation will be hosted by BAFTA-nominated Glasgow filmmaker Adura Onashile (Girl).
Launched in 2024, GFF’s Cinema City Honorary Award recognises filmmakers who have made an outstanding contribution to cinema. In the 1930s, Glasgow was home to more cinemas per person than anywhere else in the UK and became affectionately known as the Cinema City. Glasgow’s passion for film has burned brightly ever since, with Glasgow Film Theatre at its heart.
Previous recipients of the award are three-time Oscar nominee Viggo Mortensen and homegrown Hollywood star James McAvoy. McAvoy will also appear at GFF26, treading the red carpet at the festival’s closing gala for the UK premiere of his directorial debut, California Schemin’.
Paul Gallagher, GFF Head of Programme, said, “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. Her films have changed our understanding of what cinema can do and be. We are delighted to recognise her genius by giving her Glasgow Film Festival’s highest honour with this year’s Cinema City Award.”
Samantha Bennett, Glasgow Film Festival Industry Manager, said, “It is a true honour to welcome a homegrown talent of Lynne’s calibre to the Industry Focus programme. We know her talk will be an inspiring moment for the Scottish industry as an opportunity to not only to hear her insights, but to celebrate her outstanding contribution to cinema.”
GFF’s Industry Focus will return for its 11th edition from March 2 to 6, 2026, and the 22nd edition of Glasgow Film Festival will take place between February 25 and March 8, 2026.
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