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.The Glasgow Diet – Documentary on History of Food fundraiser
A documentary on the history of food in Glasgow that reflects changes in the food systems in many cities internationally. Fundraising to help tackle Coronavirus £1.20 from each rental will go to Food for Good Glasgow, coordinated by the Glasgow Community Food Network, Slow Food Glasgow and other partners. See full details ‘As the scale […]
Read the full article: The Glasgow Diet – Documentary on History of Food fundraiser
Saturday, April 4, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Coronavirus, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Social Isolation Film Festival curated by GFT
Glasgow Film Theatre – Helping You Hunker Down There’s nothing quite like watching a film on the big screen. For now, due to coronavirus, we’re having to make do with the small screen and there has never been a better time to catch up with everything on your to-watch lists. To help you entertain yourselves […]
Read the full article: The Social Isolation Film Festival curated by GFT
Friday, March 27, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Coronavirus, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Glasgow Short Film Festival 2020: My First Film
Wednesday 18 March, 2020 at 8.30 p.m. The 13th edition of Glasgow Short Film Festival (one of US magazine Moviemaker’s 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World) opens with the Scottish premiere of a unique live expanded cinema performance. My First Film, devised and performed by US filmmaker Zia Anger, tells the story of her first, ‘abandoned’ […]
Read the full article: Glasgow Short Film Festival 2020: My First Film
Wednesday, March 11, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Glasgow Film Festival 2020, The August Virgin review Fionnuala Boyle
The August Virgin, or La Virgen de Agosto, is the latest film from Spanish director Jonás Trueba. The film follows 30-something Eva as she tries to find her way out of the fog which has descended on her life and her city amidst the searing heat of an airless Madrid August. We are introduced to […]
Read the full article: Glasgow Film Festival 2020, The August Virgin review Fionnuala Boyle
Monday, March 9, 2020 | Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, Cinema, Fionnuala Boyle, blogging about culture, arts and other stuff, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Glasgow Film Festival 2020 Celebrates Record Audience Figures
Glasgow Film Festival 2020 had over 43,000 admissions – the largest attendance ever as the festival closes on International Women’s Day with a celebration of female filmmaking talent. Irish Gaelic thriller Arracht announced as Audience Award Winner. Glasgow Film Festival will return 24 Feb – 7 March 2021 Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) has celebrated its highest […]
Read the full article: Glasgow Film Festival 2020 Celebrates Record Audience Figures
Sunday, March 8, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2020, Pat's Home Page Blog
Glasgow Film Festival 2020 Women Make Film
How many women film directors can you name? Agnes Varda? Jane Campion? Ida Lupino? Mira Nair? May Miles Thomas? The list is endless but how many of them have received the attention they truly deserve? Mark Cousins landmark 14 hour documentary ( screening in five programmes) is nothing less than a radical realignment of conventional […]
Read the full article: Glasgow Film Festival 2020 Women Make Film
Friday, March 6, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2020, International Womens Day, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
International Women’s Day Glasgow 2020 – Bike for Good
Friday 6 March, 2020 – 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. Bike for Good Glasgow South, 539 Victoria Road, Glasgow G42 8BH Join Bike for Good for a screening of a selection of short films about women on bikes to celebrate International Women’s Day! Free Event – Register About this Event Our screening will include: ‘Pedal […]
Read the full article: International Women’s Day Glasgow 2020 – Bike for Good
| Filed under: Cinema, International Womens Day, Sport, Walks, Cycling in Glasgow
Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Billie
7/8 March, 2020 Cineworld, Renfrew Street, G2 3AB ‘Lady Day’ was one of the greatest jazz vocalists the world ever heard. In 1971, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday. Before her mysterious death in 1978, Lipnack Kuehl had taped over 200 hours of interviews. The tapes have never […]
Read the full article: Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Billie
Thursday, March 5, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Anderson Falls
Saturday 7 March, 2020 The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Julien Seri. After his wife’s sudden suicide, Detective Jeff Anderson (Shawn Ashmore of the X-MEN franchise) becomes convinced that she has been murdered. Obsessed with his ongoing investigations, he finds out that she was indeed the victim of a heinous crime. And although no […]
Read the full article: Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Anderson Falls
| Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Glasgow Film Festival: A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio
7 March, 2020 More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark! As the host of a popular horror-themed radio show, disc jockey Rod Wilson shares tales of terror with his eager listeners. But tonight the announcer begins to receive strange calls from a child who desperately asks for help. At first he thinks it’s a bad joke […]
Read the full article: Glasgow Film Festival: A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio
| Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Glasgow Film Festival 2020 Our Ladies
8 March, 2020 GFT 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G12 0AP Lock up your loved ones. The girls of Our Lady Of Perpetual Succour are heading to the big city and nobody is safe. Michael Caton-Jones’ adaptation of Alan Warner’s novel The Sopranos does not disappoint. A school trip to an Edinburgh singing competition is just the ticket for a group […]
Read the full article: Glasgow Film Festival 2020 Our Ladies
| Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Glasgow Film Festival: Romantic Comedy + Live Score by Summer Camp
Saturday 7 March, 2020 7 p.m. OranMor, Top of Byres Road, G12 8QX Romantic comedies have shaped the hearts and minds of millions across the globe. Director Elizabeth Sankey’s holds a complicated relationship with the genre: she knows many set up an unreliable narrative to human behaviour, yet she just keeps coming back for more. Her warm […]
Read the full article: Glasgow Film Festival: Romantic Comedy + Live Score by Summer Camp
| Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Days of the Bagnold Summer Glasgow Film Festival
4 – 5 March, 2020 GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Simon Bird makes a hugely impressive directorial debut with an adaptation of the award-winning graphic novel set to a score by Belle and Sebastian. Fifteen year-old thrash metal fan Daniel (Earl Cave, son of Nick Cave) and his mother Sue (Monica Dolan) share the same […]
Read the full article: Days of the Bagnold Summer Glasgow Film Festival
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Bacurau, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
3 and 5 March, 2020 The screening on 3 March will be followed by a Q&A with co-directors Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles. A bracing mash-up of genres and political comment, Bacurau offers stinging insights into the state of modern Brazil and the legacy of colonialism. Set in the near future, it follows Teresa (Bárbara Colen) […]
Read the full article: Bacurau, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
| Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Parasite (black and white version announced)
Thursday 5th March, 2020 – 5.45 p.m. GFT, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6TB Glasgow Film Festival to host UK premiere of black and white version of multi-Oscar winner Parasite Bong Joon Ho’s Best Picture-winning social satire will be seen in a whole new light at Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) Tickets on sale 12pm Wednesday […]
Read the full article: Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Parasite (black and white version announced)
| Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Rocks
8 March, 2020 3.45 p.m. Rocks is Olushola Joy Omotoso (Bukky Bakray), a London teenager whose life is radically altered when she is left on her own with a little brother who needs her. Fearing they will be separated, she decides to step up to the situation. She tells no one and carries on with a little […]
Read the full article: Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Rocks
| Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Visible Cinema: Films Meditating on the D/deaf experience Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Visible Cinema: How to Deaf Tuesday 3 March, 2020 at 6 p.m. A Q&A will follow the screening with writer/director, Jed Shepherd and actors Lewis MacDougall & Emma Webb. GFF proud to partner with London Short Film Festival to showcase an exquisite collection of short films meditating on the D/deaf experience from an eclectic roster of both D/deaf and hearing […]
| Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Glasgow Film Festival 2020 – Jazz on a Summer’s Day review by Pat Byrne
On a dreich Glasgow day a perfect movie choice was Jazz On A Summer’s Day, showing at Glasgow Film Festival 2020. Fashion photographer Bert Stern’s film of the Newport Jazz Festival 1958 not only offered an amazing line up of some of the world’s most wonderful jazz musicians but also caught the fashion, atmosphere and […]
Read the full article: Glasgow Film Festival 2020 – Jazz on a Summer’s Day review by Pat Byrne
Sunday, March 1, 2020 | Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2020, Pat's Home Page Blog
Glasgow Film Festival 2020 Secret Location: Final Destination
5 March, 2020 A group of high school students cheat death, and now they can’t escape it! Alex (Devon Sawa) is the only one who can see the fate they have in store, but will he be able to work out death’s plan before it is too late? A staple of the GFF special events […]
Read the full article: Glasgow Film Festival 2020 Secret Location: Final Destination
| Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Country Strand at Glasgow Fllm Festival 2020 – Iceland Northern Shining Lights
Catch some amazing films from Iceland at GFF 2020 If you loved Woman At War, Rams, Of Men And Horses or Sparrows then you are already a fan of Icelandic cinema. The land of ‘fire and ice’ has an enviable reputation as a small country whose cinema has made a massive impact on the world stage. Dramatic landscapes forged […]
Saturday, February 29, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
The County, Glasgow Film Festival 2020 review by Pat Byrne
Part of Country Strand: Iceland Northern Shining Lights Grímur Hákonarson’s film is set in a rural community in Iceland. From the outset you gain a sense of the place with shots of a remote farmhouse and frost covered fields. The demanding nature of the farmers’ work is apparent; an early scene shows Inga (Arndís Hrönn […]
Read the full article: The County, Glasgow Film Festival 2020 review by Pat Byrne
| Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2020, Pat's Home Page Blog
Glasgow Film Festival 2020 at CCA
Tickets via GFF / 0141 332 6535 Full Programme of Glasgow Film Festival Screenings Glasgow Film Festival You Will Die at 20 Sat 29 February 2020 Glasgow Film Festival Simple Women Sat 29 February 2020 Glasgow Film Festival Gutterbee Sat 29 February 2020 Glasgow Film Festival Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago Sat 29 February 2020 Glasgow Film Festival […]
Read the full article: Glasgow Film Festival 2020 at CCA
Friday, February 28, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Heroic Losers
29 February and 2 March, 2020 Ricardo Darín is reunited with The Secret In Their Eyes author Eduardo Sacheri and his Chinese Take-Out director Sebastián Borensztein for an irresistible, Robin Hood-style heist caper set in 2001. Darín plays retired footballer Fermin, who is determined to revitalise a sleepy region outside of Buenos Aires, so he persuades his friends and […]
Read the full article: Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Heroic Losers
Glasgow Film Festival: Luz the Flower of Evil
1 and 2 March, 2020 CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD The screening on 2 March will be followed by a Q&A with the director Juan Diego Escobar Alzate. Widowed preacher and leader of a small mountain community, El Señor has preached to his followers that a new messiah will appear and shepherd them […]
Read the full article: Glasgow Film Festival: Luz the Flower of Evil
| Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Glasgow Film Festival: Run
Monday 2 March, 2020 3.30 p.m. Inspired by Bruce Springsteen, writer/director Scott Graham (Shell, Iona) has crafted a howl of anguish for all the broken dreams we abandon along life’s highway. Finnie (Game Of Thrones’ Mark Stanley) never imagined he’d wind up in a dead end job in a Fraserburgh fish factory. His teenage son Kid (Anders […]
Read the full article: Glasgow Film Festival: Run
| Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Glasgow Film Festival 2020, Disco
3 and 4 March, 2020 Faith requires absolute devotion in Disco, a tough, disturbing drama on the all-consuming demands of Christian cults. Mirjam (Josefine Frida Pettersen) is the teenage stepdaughter of a pastor in an evangelical movement. She is also a world champion disco freestyle dancer who is the pride of her church. When she […]
Read the full article: Glasgow Film Festival 2020, Disco
| Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Glasgow Film Festival: Master Cheng
1 and 2 March, 2020 The screening on 1 March will be followed by a Q&A with director Mika Kaurismäki. Director Mika Kaurismäki has made one of the most charming, delightful features of his long career. There are echoes of Local Hero in Master Cheng as a widowed chef and his son arrive in a remote Finnish village. Far from his home […]
Read the full article: Glasgow Film Festival: Master Cheng
| Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Glasgow Film Festival 2020 – Industry Focus
2 March until 7 March, 2020 GFF20: Industry Focus Double Tree by Hilton Glasgow Central, 36 Cambridge St, G2 3HN Full Industry Programme Some of the areas of focus in 2020 are sustainability in production, working practice and mental health, positive actions being taken with accessibility, distribution, and music in film and television, with increased […]
Read the full article: Glasgow Film Festival 2020 – Industry Focus
| Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Simple Women presented by Femspectives
29 February, 2020 Ambitious yet graceless film director Federica (Jasmine Trinca) has only ever had one obsession: cinema. One film in particular has always proved a particular inspiration: Hal Hartley’s Simple Men, where her obsession with Romanian actor Elina Löwensohn began. So when the opportunity to make a film about Elina, with Elina in the title […]
Read the full article: Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Simple Women presented by Femspectives
Friday, February 21, 2020 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Glasgow Film Festival: Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago, CCA
29 February, 2020 CCA, 350 Sauhiehall Street, G2 3JD Both screenings will be followed by a Q&A with director Rob Christopher and producer Michael Glover Smith. Hailed as ‘William Faulkner by way of B-movie film noir, porn paperbacks, and Sun Records rockabilly’ poet, author and screenwriter Barry Gifford has given the world more than forty works […]
Read the full article: Glasgow Film Festival: Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago, CCA
Related Pages
- The Glasgow Diet – Documentary on History of Food fundraiser
- The Social Isolation Film Festival curated by GFT
- Glasgow Short Film Festival 2020: My First Film
- Glasgow Film Festival 2020, The August Virgin review Fionnuala Boyle
- Glasgow Film Festival 2020 Celebrates Record Audience Figures
- Glasgow Film Festival 2020 Women Make Film
- International Women’s Day Glasgow 2020 – Bike for Good
- Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Billie
- Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Anderson Falls
- Glasgow Film Festival: A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio
- Glasgow Film Festival 2020 Our Ladies
- Glasgow Film Festival: Romantic Comedy + Live Score by Summer Camp
- Days of the Bagnold Summer Glasgow Film Festival
- Bacurau, Glasgow Film Festival 2020
- Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Parasite (black and white version announced)
- Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Rocks
- Visible Cinema: Films Meditating on the D/deaf experience Glasgow Film Festival 2020
- Glasgow Film Festival 2020 – Jazz on a Summer’s Day review by Pat Byrne
- Glasgow Film Festival 2020 Secret Location: Final Destination
- Country Strand at Glasgow Fllm Festival 2020 – Iceland Northern Shining Lights
