The 4 Animated Features Screening at Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) 2026
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4 Animated Features Screening at Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) 2026
Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) has announced the full programme for its 22nd edition, with GFF26 running from 25 February until 8 March.
GFF26 will include four animated features, including Allah is Not Obliged, which follows the turbulent life of a 10-year-old orphan coerced into becoming a child soldier. Death Does Not Exist features Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s distinctive dreamlike hand-drawn animation, depicting a young activist grappling with guilt in the tragic wake of a failed armed attack.
A full list of the features, with their date and times, can be found below:
BOUCHRA
Dir. Orian Barki, Meriem Bennani
Cert: 15 / 1hr23m / Language: Arabic, French, English
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL SCREENINGS:
26 FEBRUARY, 7.20PM @ GLASGOW FILM THEATRE
27 FEBRUARY, 4.40PM GLASGOW FILM THEATRE
DETAILS: glasgowfilm.org/movie/bouchra
Bouchra © 2 Lizards Production
Bouchra (35), a Moroccan filmmaker in New York, is paralysed by the fear of the blank page. A phone call with her mother in Casablanca will have memories resurfacing. Their tender yet complex exchange sparks a creative breakthrough, opening a journey through family bonds, daughterhood, and the thrill of love.
DECORADO
Dir. Alberto Vázquez
Cert: 15 / 1hr35m
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL SCREENINGS:
1 MARCH, 8.45PM @ GLASGOW FILM THEATRE
3 MARCH, 1PM @ GLASGOW FILM THEATRE
DETAILS: glasgowfilm.org/movie/decorado
Death Does Not Exist © Helene Coyote BFF
Alberto Vázquez transforms his short of the same name into a darkly comic dystopian delight after the success of the psychedelic Unicorn Wars. The action centres on the town of Anywhere, where the life of middle-aged mouse Arnold is falling apart. With his marriage disintegrating, paranoia leads him to suspect his whole life is a Truman Show-style scripted performance. Soon he has rebellion on his mind but can he ever find freedom? Vázquez’s animation might look cute to begin with but is infused with Buñuel-style surrealism and tackles a range of modern maladies, including job insecurity, rampant capitalism and alienation.
ALLAH IS NOT OBLIGED
Dir. Zaven Najjar
Cert: 15 / 1hr21m / French Language, English Subtitles
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL SCREENINGS:
4 MARCH, 6.30PM @ ODEON, Glasgow Quay
5 MARCH 2PM @ GLASGOW FILM THEATRE
DETAILS: glasgowfilm.org/movie/allah-is-not-obliged
Allah is Not Obliged © Creative Touch Studios
It’s 1993 and when 10-year-old Birahima is orphaned, he begins the arduous journey from Guinea to look for his aunt in Liberia, helped only by slippery local fixer and self-proclaimed marabout, Yacouba. Soon the pair are swept up in civil war, with Birahima’s backpack switched out for a gun as he becomes one of the estimated 50,000 children coerced into becoming child soldiers. Zaven Najjar’s vibrant animated coming-of-age story – based on the award-winning novel by Ahmadou Kourouma – is a powerful mix of dark humour and heartbreak that paints a picture of the brutal reality faced by children in conflict.
DEATH DOES NOT EXIST
Dir. Félix Dufour-Laperrière
Cert: 15 / 1hr12m / French Language, English Subtitles
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL SCREENINGS:
6 MARCH, 9.15PM @ GLASGOW FILM THEATRE
7 MARCH, 2.40PM @ GLASGOW FILM THEATRE
DETAILS: glasgowfilm.org/movie/death-does-not-exist
Death Does Not Exist © Helene Coyote BFF
Young activist Hélène (voiced by Zeneb Blanchet) confronts her choices and feelings of guilt in the tragic wake of a failed armed attack that left her comrades dead. As she flees into a nearby forest, she has a haunting re-encounter with one of her former comrades, Manon (voiced by Karelle Tremblay), who holds out the possibility of redemption. Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s distinctive hand-drawn animation immerses us in Hélène’s world and takes us on a dreamlike, surreal, and often disturbing odyssey into her psyche, as he explores existential and paradoxical ideas and tensions around fear and friendship, and conviction and compromise.
GFF is Scotland’s flagship film festival and is run by Glasgow Film, a charity which also runs Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT). The festival is made possible by support from Screen Scotland and the BFI Audience Projects Fund, both awarding National Lottery funding, and Glasgow Life, the charity which delivers culture, events and active living in Glasgow.