BBC News By Pauline McLean image captionSteven Yeun stars in Lee Isaac Chung's Minari, which opens the festival The Glasgow Film Festival has announced a new hybrid model that could point the way to the future for struggling cinemas. Running an independent cinema in Scotland is a complicated business at the best of times but it is especially so during the Covid pandemic. All cinemas in level three areas are still closed and that includes Glasgow Film Theatre and Edinburgh Filmhouse, which both operate outside the big multiplex chains. In level two, cinemas can open, but social distancing means that the audience is vastly reduced and spaced around the auditorium.