Scottish Premiere: Plainclothes (N/C 15+)

Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2025 will open with the Scottish Premiere of Plainclothes, the Sundance award-winning romantic thriller starring Tom Blyth (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) and Russell Tovey (American Horror Story). Tickets just £6.40.

Andrew (Tovey) is illicitly cruising the bathrooms of a strip mall when he meets Lucas (Blyth), who is an undercover cop on an assignment to catch and arrest men just like him. But something happens when they meet, and an instant connection is formed between them, causing Lucas to abort his professional mission. The encounter throws Lucas off-kilter, and he’s forced to confront long-buried desires he’s tried so hard to suppress. In an attempt to reckon with them, what follows is a thrilling game of cat and mouse that threatens to upend both men’s lives for good.

Harnessing lo-fi VHS footage to play with voyeuristic, tense notions of surveillance, the film is a story of forbidden love that speaks to pertinent themes of state surveillance and societal intolerance.

This film contains a sequence of flashing lights which might affect customers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.

Content Guidance: Homophobic language and attitudes. Theme of sex throughout, discussions of sex and sexual scenes. Moderate violence. Themes of grief and mental distress. Loud static and flashing scenes.

Part of Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2025.

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