Glasgow loves cinema and offers a wide selection of entertainment to film goers and movie buffs alike. You can see all the latest big releases or catch an art house movie, participate in film quiz nights and enjoy special screenings.Glasgow Film Theatre announces programme for June 2025
June Screenings at Glasgow Film Theatre Glasgow’s original independent cinema, Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT), announces a fantastic early summer programme. There are many highlights including: Seasons celebrating the renowned filmmakers Michael Haneke and Michael Mann; programmes from UK Green Film Festival, Refugee Festival Scotland and SAFAR Film Festival. Additionally there will be a special preview […]
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Wednesday, May 21, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Extraordinary Miss Flower at GFT
16 – 22 May, 2025 A treasure trove of love letters provides the jumping off point for this vibrant and experimental exploration of a life, featuring music by Icelandic singer-songwriter Emilíana Torrini. A treasure trove of secret love letters provides the inspiration for this stylish and experimental celebration of a life. Geraldine Flower’s correspondence was […]
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Friday, May 16, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
A New Kind of Wilderness at GFT
16 – 22 May, 2025 On a small farm in a Norwegian forest, the Paynes live a purposefully isolated life, aiming to be wild and free. Maria and Nik, along with their four children Ulv, Falk, Freja, and Ronja are self-sufficient. They practice home-schooling and strive for a closely-knit family dynamic in harmony with nature. […]
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Good One at GFT
16 – 29 March, 2025 In India Donaldson’s insightful, piercing debut, 17-year-old Sam (Lily Collias) embarks on a three-day backpacking trip in the Catskills with her dad, Chris (James Le Gros) and his oldest friend, Matt (Danny McCarthy). As the two men quickly settle into a gently quarrelsome brotherly dynamic, airing long-held grievances, Sam, wise […]
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Make it to Munich at GFT
16 – 29 May, 2025 Glasgow Film Club Screening Wednesday 21 May Hot from closing Glasgow Film Festival 2025 and shot in the run-up to Euro 2024, Make It To Munich follows Ethan Walker, a promising teenage footballer from Aberdeenshire who, just months into a football scholarship at a USA University, suffers life-threatening injuries (including multiple […]
CinemARC – Song of the Sea
Friday, June 13, 2025 · 4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW Part of Glasgow Science Festival Marking Glasgow’s 850th birthday, the ARC is taking inspiration from the fish on the city’s crest to present Song of the Sea for a family-friendly screening. This enchanting animation […]
The Hangar Edition 1 – ‘Duglas Takes Over’
Friday 23 May, 2025, 7 p.m. Paisley Arts Centre, 15 New St, Paisley PA1 1EZ Duglas T Stewart and Sushil Dade For the first in this series of events celebrating music and film curated by Sushil K Dade and Radhika their guest artist and co-curator is Duglas T Stewart of BMX Bandits. The evening will feature a […]
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Sunday, May 11, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Gig Guide plus Club Events
Blue Velvet at GFT
Thursday 8 May, 8 15 p.m. & Saturday 10 May, 8.10 p.m. There’s something going on behind the white picket fences of Lumberton, North Carolina. And after stumbling upon a severed human ear in a field, mystery-loving college student Jeffrey Beaumont is determined to find out what. Teaming up with the daughter of a local […]
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Thursday, May 8, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog
Access Film Club – Pee Wee’s Big Adventure at GFT
Monday 12 May, 2025 at 6 p.m. Access Film Club is Glasgow Film Theatre’s monthly autism-friendly film event, offering relaxed screenings in a welcoming environment, in partnership with the National Autistic Society Scotland. GFT celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Tim Burton’s first feature film starring Paul Reuben’s as quirky character Pee-wee Herman. It is a […]
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Take 2: Kubo and the Two Strings at GFT
Saturday 17 May, 2025 Kubo mesmerizes the people in his village with his magical gift for spinning wild tales with origami. When he accidentally summons an evil spirit seeking vengeance, Kubo is forced to go on a quest to solve the mystery of his fallen samurai father and his mystical weaponry, as well as Kubo […]
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The Surfer at GFT
9 – 15 May, 2025 Nicolas Cage gets gnarly as a man pushed to the edge in Lorcan Finnegan’s trippy psychological thriller that tackles toxic masculinity. Cage’s unnamed divorced dad takes his son (Finn Little) on a trip to his favourite childhood surf spot, where he dreams of buying back his beach house. His perfect […]
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Björk: Cornucopia at GFT
7th and 11th May, 2025 Björk: Cornucopia, the highly anticipated concert film recorded live in Lisbon, captures the celebrated artist’s groundbreaking tour that mesmerised audiences worldwide for five years. This unique cinematic experience immerses viewers in Björk’s spectacular stage production, featuring a setlist spanning her iconic early works to the visionary Utopia (2017) and Fossora (2023). The production showcases […]
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Thursday, May 1, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
Mulholland Drive at GFT
4th and 9th May, 2025 David Lynch is one of GFT’s most beloved filmmakers — as many of our staff and regulars will never forget, we had the honour of welcoming him to the cinema back in 2007. To celebrate the legacy of the CineMaster of CineMasters, we’re screening four of his greatest films as […]
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Swimming Home at GFT
2 – 8 May, 2025 Josef and his war correspondent partner Isabel find a naked stranger floating in the pool of their holiday villa. When Isabel unexpectedly invites the stranger to stay, her presence takes root, the gaps between the family members grow, and Joe must confront the childhood memories he has locked away for […]
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Two to One at GFT
2 – 8 May, 2025 Anatomy of A Fall and Toni Erdmann star Sandra Hüller joins the ensemble cast of this heartfelt comedy. It’s 1990, and the reunification of East and West Germany is looming; the old East German currency is about to become worthless. When friends Maren (Hüller), Robert (Max Riemelt), and Volker (Ronald Zehrfeld) stumble upon […]
North by Northwest at GFT
2 – 8 May, 2025 The headline event of GFT’s Birthday Programme is this new 70mm print of North by Northwest, Alfred Hitchcock’s irresistibly fun and spectacularly cinematic espionage adventure. Cary Grant teamed up with Hitchcock for the fourth and final time in this superlative espionage caper. After Roger Thornhill (Grant), an innocent man, is mistaken for […]
Who is speaking? A Workshop with Peter Gizzi
Friday, May 16, 2025, 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. University of Glasgow, Room 308, 5 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ Workshop with T S Eliot Prize Winner 2024 Peter Gizzi co-hosted with Strathclyde University “We will question the relationship between world and word and ask who is speaking in a poem. Do we speak or […]
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The Ugly Stepsister at GFT
2 – 8 May, 2025 A sinister twist on the classic Cinderella story, The Ugly Stepsister follows Elvira as she prepares to earn the prince’s affection at any cost. In a kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira will compete with the beautiful and enchanting Agnes to become the belle of the ball. Buy tickets GFT, […]
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Take 2: Dog Man at GFT
Saturday, 3 May, 2025 at 11.30 a.m. Captioned Screening Part dog, part man, all hero. From DreamWorks Animation — creators of the beloved blockbuster franchises Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon and The Boss Baby —comes the canine-crime-fighting film adaptation of Dav Pilkey’s New York Times bestselling literary phenomenon: Dog Man. When a […]
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Caravaggio at GFT
Sunday 27 April, 2025 at 7.30 p.m. Coinciding with our Derek Jarman: Modern Nature on Film season, programmed in collaboration with The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, the April edition of Queer Cinema Sundays brings a rare chance to enjoy Jarman’s Caravaggio on the big screen, with an introduction by Ilia Ryzhenko, Film Hub Scotland Manager. Starring Tilda Swinton in […]
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Wednesday, April 23, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
No Home Movie at GFT
Saturday 26 April 5 p.m. and Wednesday 30 April, 8.20 p.m. Chantal Akerman’s poignant, yet deceptively radical, final film is a profoundly moving portrait of her mother Natalia, a Holocaust survivor, in the months leading up to her death. It comprises a series of vignettes that Akerman ‘composed’ by setting down a digital camera in […]
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His Girl Friday at GFT
25 April – 1 May, 2025 Following its premiere at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, we’re delighted to screen the new 4K restoration of Howard Hawks’ dazzling screwball comedy for a week at GFT. Unprincipled editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant) convinces Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) — his ex-wife and star reporter — to take on […]
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Take 2: The Extra-Terrestrial
Saturday 19 April, 2025, 11.30 a.m. Screening as part of GFT Easter programme! Every child attending a Take 2 screening receives a free ticket for themselves and one free tickets for their accompanying adult. Free tickets are only issued on the day of the screening. Children under the age of 8 must be accompanied by […]
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Friday, April 18, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story
18 – 24 April, 2025 In 1960, a young Irish woman named Edna O’Brien wrote a sexually frank debut novel, The Country Girls. She became a literary sensation, writing for The New Yorker, delivering provocative interviews, and authoring screenplays. Her success enraged her writer husband and made her a pariah in her native Ireland, where her books […]
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The Return at GFT
Until 17 April, 2025 The English Patient stars Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche reunite in this adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey that sees Fiennes’ Odysseus return to a very different kingdom from the one he left. 20 years after he went to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus (Ralph Fiennes) washes back up on the shores of Ithaca. The decades have taken their […]
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Saturday, April 12, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Holy Cow at GFT
Until 17 April, 2025 Eighteen year-old Totone spends most of his time drinking beer and partying in the Jura region with his group of friends until reality catches up with him when he has to take care of his 7-year-old sister and find a way to make a living. He sets out to make the […]
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Record Store Day at GFT
Saturday 12 April, 2025 Celebrate Record Store Day on Saturday with three music-themed modern classics: a 30th anniversary screening of Empire Records on 35mm; a 25th anniversary screening of Almost Famous on 4K; and a free family screening of School of Rock. The brilliant Assai Records on GFT’s doorstep, at 233 Sauchiehall Street, so make sure you pay them a […]
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Friday, April 11, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Take 2 at GFT: School of Rock
Saturday 12 April, 2025 at 11.30 a.m. A special edition of GFT’s regular Take 2 programming to mark Record Store Day on Saturday 12 April! Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where […]
Four Mothers at GFT
4 – 17 April, 2025 Four Mothers James McArdle stars in this comedy charmer as a Young Adult novelist and carer who finds his hands full when three mates ditch their mums with him for the weekend. We’ll be welcoming James McArdle to GFT for a Q&A following the screening on Sunday 6 April at […]
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Friday, April 4, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
Sebastian at GFT
5 – 10 April, 2025 Sebastian Max is a 25-year-old freelance writer and aspiring novelist who seems well on his way to success in London’s cultural spheres. Yet by night, he finds a different kind of exhilaration as a sex worker with the pseudonym Sebastian. Max uses his experiences as Sebastian to fuel his stories […]
Related Pages
- Glasgow Film Theatre announces programme for June 2025
- The Extraordinary Miss Flower at GFT
- A New Kind of Wilderness at GFT
- Good One at GFT
- Make it to Munich at GFT
- CinemARC – Song of the Sea
- The Hangar Edition 1 – ‘Duglas Takes Over’
- Blue Velvet at GFT
- Access Film Club – Pee Wee’s Big Adventure at GFT
- Take 2: Kubo and the Two Strings at GFT
- The Surfer at GFT
- Björk: Cornucopia at GFT
- Mulholland Drive at GFT
- Swimming Home at GFT
- Two to One at GFT
- North by Northwest at GFT
- Who is speaking? A Workshop with Peter Gizzi
- The Ugly Stepsister at GFT
- Take 2: Dog Man at GFT
- Caravaggio at GFT
