Women-directed offerings will bookend the 2020 Glasgow Film Festival. The 16th edition of the fest will kick off with the UK premiere of Alice Winocour’s latest, mother-daughter drama “Proxima,” and conclude with the UK premiere of Coky Giedroyc’s Beanie Feldstein-starrer “How to Build a Girl.”

“Proxima” is co-written by Winocour and tells the story of an astronaut torn between the demands of her job and the demands of motherhood. Sarah (Eva Green, “Penny Dreadful”) is prepping for a one-year mission aboard the International Space Station, and she’s the only mother who is a part of the large international crew.

“I am incredibly excited that ‘Proxima’ will have its UK premiere at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival. It is a privilege to be the opening film for the Festival especially as it will be the first time in the festival’s history that the opening and closing films are directed by women,” said Winocour, whose other features include “Disorder” and “Augustine.”

An adaption of Caitlin Moran’s semi-autobiographical novel of the same name, “How to Build a Girl” is a coming-of-age comedy about a 16-year-old girl (Feldstein) from the outskirts of Wolverhampton who creates an alter ego and lands a gig as a music journalist in London.

Giedroyc’s directing credits include episodes of “Harlots” and “The Killing,” and the 1999 feature “Women Talking Dirty.”

Moran co-penned the script for “How to Build a Girl.” “It is the greatest thrill of my life to finally unleash Beanie Feldstein as the noble, swashbuckling Sex Pirate Johanna Morrigan at the Glasgow Film Festival — and to have the honor of closing this joyous cinematic explosion means the whole audience can come straight to the nearest pub with me, and celebrate the hotness of Alfie Allen as John Kite. Unless Glasgow’s gone off that kind of thing since last time I was there. Which I doubt,” she joked.

Glasgow Film Festival will run from February 26 to March 8. The fest’s full program will be announced January 29.