GFT is the place to be this Christmas as we serve up the best in seasonal cinema: warm the cockles of your heart with old classics It's a Wonderful Life and Meet Me in St Louis; come together for family favourites The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D, Elf and Home Alone; and make merry in true Glasgow style with Comfort and Joy and Scotland Celebrates Christmas. There's even a special screening of The Bolshoi Ballet: Nutcracker to help to make the season bright! Please see below for all screening details.

Timeless classic: It's a Wonderful Life

Friday 9 - Saturday 24 December

Capra's best-loved film is also, ironically, one of his darkest, an unusually tough look at life's compromises as experienced by James Stewart's smalltown everyman. As ideals, ambitions and dreams are slowly but surely dashed, pragmatism yields to regret and despair - until an angel named Clarence reveals what might have been... A classic, and deservedly so.

Charming amateur movies: Scotland Loves Christmas

Saturday 10 (15.00) & Tuesday 13 December (12.45)

This selection of charming amateur films made between the 1930s and 1960s are from the Scottish Screen Archive and feature a number of children who just can't wait for Christmas! As they knock down Christmas trees and unwrap their presents before Christmas day, it seems that these little tykes should really have been on Santa's 'naughty list'!

The screening on Saturday 10 December (15.00) will be introduced by Professor Karen Lury.

Late Night Classic: Home Alone

Friday 16 December (23.00)

Macaulay Culkin shot to fame as young Kevin who is mistakenly left behind by his family when they go abroad for Christmas. Kevin relishes the quality time to himself until two burglars try to break into his home and he is forced to fend them off. With script duties by The Breakfast Club director John Hughes, Home Alone features some wonderful turns by Catherine O'Hara as Kevin's stressed out mother and Goodfellas' Joe Pesci as the inept criminal outwitted by an eight-year-old.

Home Alone will also screen as a Take 2: free family film on Saturday 17 December (11.30).

Joyous musical: Meet Me in St Louis

Monday 19 - Wednesday 21 December

A family in St Louis at the turn of the 20th century have to decide whether or not to move to New York when Dad gets a promotion. This modest premise was developed by director Vincente Minnelli into one of the greatest musicals in Hollywood history, full of fantastic sets, fantastic costumes and fantastic tunes - who can forget Judy Garland swaying with a pack of colourful passengers as she belts out 'The Trolley Song' ('Zing zing zing went my heartstrings...')?

Cinema City screening: Comfort and Joy

Monday 19 December (18.45)

For our Cinema City Christmas special, we've plumped for Bill Forsyth's much-loved comedy - an urban fairytale with plenty of quirky surprises. The film chronicles the attempts of a radio DJ (Bill Paterson) to piece his life back together after his partner unexpectedly deserts him over Christmas. By a quirk of fate, he finds himself mediating in an ice-cream war between two branches of the local Mafia - the 'Scotia Nostra' - and unexpectedly reclaiming some self-esteem in the process.

Quirky animation: The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D

Sunday 11 (20.40) & Monday 12 December (18.30)

Based on a poem Tim Burton wrote in the 1980s, Disney studio executives feared that The Nightmare Before Christmas would be too dark for family audiences. They needn't have worried as the film went to become a box office and critical success, lauded for its visually gorgeous stop-animation and memorable score. When Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, stumbles across Christmas Town he decides to supplant Santa for the upcoming festivities.

3D - £1.50 on top of ticket prices

The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D

Will also screen as a Take 2: free family film on Saturday 10 December (11.30).

Festive favourite: The Bolshoi Ballet: The Nutcracker

Sunday 18 December (15.00), 2h4m

A perennial Christmas favourite with enchanting music by Tchaikovsky. On Christmas Eve, Marie's godfather offers her a nutcracker in the shape of a soldier. At midnight, after the celebrations are over, Marie watches a miracle: the Christmas tree begins to grow, the toys come to life and all the lead soldiers are under the Nutcracker's command. This is a pre-recorded screening.

Tickets: £15 / £10 to CineCard holders

Take 2: Free family film: Elf

Saturday 24 December (11.30)

Buddy the elf leaves Santa's Grotto and moves to New York!

Glasgow Young Scot and Kidz Card holders and an accompanying adult get in FREE to Take 2 screenings. Free tickets only available on the day from GFT Box Office. Other tickets cost £4 and are available to buy now online.

Full Christmas at GFT season details

Gift ideas

Glasgow Film fans can wake up to something extra special this Christmas morn with our gifts of all sizes.

The GFT CineCard For £30 our CineCard gives you a discount of £1 off every screening, as well as four free cinema tickets throughout the year. Ideal for the film fanatic in your life.

Gift vouchers The perfect stocking filler! These vouchers for cinema tickets come in denominations of £1 and £5 so you can buy any amount you like.

Stocking fillers: Mr Cosmo mugs

Mr Cosmo 'snow' mug - £6
Mr Cosmo 'welcome' mug - £6

We've got two fun Mr Cosmo designs on offer - the 'snow' mug and the 'welcome' mug - for just £6.00 each. An ideal stocking filler! Mr Cosmo is the GFT mascot, he's been at the heart of independent cinema in Glasgow since the Cosmo opened way back in 1939. A very distinguished fellow indeed.

All our merchandise is printed in the UK and is available to buy at GFT Box Office.

Please note: All profits from the sale of merchandise helps support our programmes, festival, events, courses and education screenings. We are a not-for-profit organisation, linking people with world ideas through the power of cinema, promoting the cultural value of moving image work and the social benefits of collective experience of the movies. Any profit we make as an organisation is reinvested towards these aims.

So come and join us this Christmas as we deck the halls, mull the wine, and jingle all the way at GFT.