New Ewan McGregor movies get top billing in Glasgow Film Festival's 20th line-up

The Star Wars and Trainspotting actor will star alongside his daughter Clara McGregor as a fictional father and daughter in the road movie Bleeding Love, one of the 90 premieres in the programme.

The line-up also features a dysfunctional family comedy based on Swedish novel Mother, Couch, which will see McGregor star alongside Rhys Ifans, as well as a retrospective screening of Danny Boyle's Edinburgh-set thriller Shallow Grave, which propelled the actor to fame 30 years ago.

Rising Scottish stars being championed include previous festival favourite Lorn Macdonald, who will star in Glasgow filmmaker Ciaran Lyons’ black comedy Tummy Monster, about a tattoo artist who becomes embroiled in psychological battle with an international pop star, while Honor Swinton Byrne stars in Drift, a drama focusing on a refugee who befriends an American tour guide after arriving on a Greek island.

The festival will feature director George Jaques’ debut feature Black Dog, which follows two teenage boys on a road trip from London to Scotland, romantic drama Falling Into Place, which is partly set in the Isle of Skye, and the premiere a new season of BBC Scotland’s swimming pool-set love story Float, which stars Hannah Jarett-Scott and Jessica Hardwick.

The Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald will return to his home city to launch his latest documentary, on the fashion designer John Galliano, while the festival will premiere a newly-restored documentary following Sir Billy Connolly on a tour of Ireland in 1975, the year he shot to film with his TV appearances.

Audiences will be able to revisit Ratcatcher, the acclaimed debut of Scottish director Lynne Ramsay, to coincide with the award-winning film’s 25th anniversary.