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.CinemARC: Winter Lights
Thursday 7 December, 2023 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Advanced Research Centre(ARC), University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW ARC’s big screen for the final CinemARC of 2023 – Winter Lights. This special selection of short films will explore the scientific and cultural significance of light at this time of year, helping you […]
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Thursday, November 30, 2023 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Elf at IMAX Glasgow and Glasgow Science Centre Galleries
From 2nd December, 2023 and various dates throughout December include 24th Science Centre, 50 Pacific Quay, Glasgow G51 1EA Book Tickets Raised as an oversized elf, Buddy travels from the North Pole to New York City to meet his biological father, Walter Hobbs, who doesn’t know he exists and is in desperate need of some […]
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Tuesday, November 28, 2023 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Cinema, Kids and young people, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Film Night: Smoke, Sauna, Sisterhood
Saturday, January 27, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. Arlington Baths Club, 61 Arlington Street Glasgow G3 6DT Buy tickets No story too shameful, no burden too heavy to carry when you share it with your sisterhood… Conic is thrilled to announce the release of filmmaker Anna Hints’ Sundance Award-winning feature documentary SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD in UK […]
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Saturday, November 25, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Take 2: Chicken Run at GFT
Saturday 25 November, 2023 11.30am Having been hopelessly repressed and facing eventual certain death at the British chicken farm where they are held, Ginger the chicken enlists the help of Rocky the American rooster to lead their fellow chickens in a great escape from the murderous farmers Mr and Mrs Tweedy and their farm of […]
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Thursday, November 23, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people
Preview: Priscilla 35mm at GFT
Wednesday 27 – Saturday 30 December, 2023 Buy tickets GFT is the only cinema in Scotland showing Sofia Coppola’s Priscillabefore its release date and in all its 35mm glory. Coppola tells the story of Priscilla Beaulieu, who met Elvis Presley when she was just a teenager and became the superstar’s wife. ‘A transportive, heartbreaking journey […]
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Focus Hong Kong
Saturday 2 – Monday 4 December, 2023 Buy tickets Focus Hong Kong is a UK film festival dedicated to celebrating the amazing cinema and filmmakers of Hong Kong, from early works to the glory days of its reign as the Hollywood of Asia, through to new and exciting films. A chance to catch three films […]
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Savage Waters at GFT
Monday 27 – Thursday 30 November, 2023 A family of modern-day adventurers go on a journey to find and surf a spectacular wave in some of the most remote and dangerous waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Narrated by Charles Dance, this exhilarating documentary is an intimate and epic portrayal of extraordinary individuals who push the […]
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The Eternal Daughter at GFT
Friday 24 – Thursday 30 November, 2023 Captions and Audio Description available Tilda Swinton delivers a towering dual performance as both an artist and her elderly mother in Joanna Hogg’s chilling new film, executive produced by Martin Scorsese. The two women are confronted with long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now […]
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Is There Anybody Out There? plus Q & A
Thursday 23 November, 2023 8.30pm Captioned screening, Audio Description available ‘My body is extremely unusual, and I’ve never seen another like my own.’ Groundbreaking documentary, Is There Anybody Out There? follows filmmaker Ella Glendining’s global search for someone with a body that looks like hers, and explores what it takes to love yourself fiercely as […]
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Black Narcissus at GFT
Sunday 26 November, 2023, 2pm and 5pm Experience Powell and Pressburger’s Technicolor classic on a whole new level at our special Atmosphere screenings from New Media Scotland and Storyhouse, supported by the BFI. A darkly grand film that won Oscars for Alfred Junge’s art direction and Jack Cardiff’s cinematography, Black Narcissus is one of the […]
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Cinemasters: Powell and Pressburger GFT
Friday 20 October – Saturday 23 December, 2023 Celebrate one of the greatest and most enduring filmmaking partnerships: Michael Powell (1905-1990) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-1988). Bold, subversive and iconoclastic, their passionate collaborative artistic vision — spanning 24 films, including The Red Shoes (1948), A Matter of Life and Death (1946) and Black Narcissus (1947) — […]
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Monday, November 20, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Mami Wata plus Q and A
Friday 24 November, 2023 – 7.50pm Buy tickets Director C.J. ‘Fiery’ Obasi at Q&A following this screening. In the oceanside village of Iyi, the revered Mama Efe acts as an intermediary between the people and the all-powerful water deity Mami Wata. But when a young boy is lost to a virus, Efe’s devoted but rebellious […]
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French Film Festival 2023 at GFT
10 – 29 November, 2023 Vive le cinéma! GFT is delighted to be screening a selection of fantastic features from the 31st edition of French Film Festival. The Taste of Things – 13 November 7.55 p.m. The Nature of Love – 15 November 5.45 p.m. Two Tickets To Greece – 18 November 2.50 p.m. Driving […]
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Woodlands Community Anti-Racist Film Club: screening Taxi Tehran
Tuesday 28th November, 2023 5.30-9pm Flourish House, 23-25 Ashley Street, Glasgow G3 6DR November’s offering for the Woodlands Community Anti-Racist Film Club is a comedy drama about a director banned from making films who takes to driving a taxi fitted with a camera around Tehran, discussing social challenges in Iran with his passengers. Based on […]
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Saltburn at GFT
Friday 17 – Thursday 23 November, 2023 Buy tickets Captions and Audio Description available Struggling to fit in at Oxford University, Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family’s sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten. With a […]
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It’s a Wonderful Life GFT
15 – 24 December, 23023 With Halloween horror season at GFT now over, festive spirit is already tiptoeing in at GFT, with tickets for It’s A Wonderful Life screenings from 15 – 24 December on sale now. The beloved Christmas classic is GFT’s bestselling film of all time and has become a treasured festive tradition […]
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Sunday, November 19, 2023 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Take 2: Zarafa at GFT
Saturday 18 November, 2023 at 11.30 a.m. Inspired by the true story of the first giraffe to visit France, Zarafa is a sumptuously animated and stirring adventure, and a throwback to a bygone era of hand-drawn animation and epic storytelling set among sweeping CinemaScope vistas of parched desert, wind-swept mountains and open skies. Buy Tickets […]
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Friday, November 17, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Glasgow Film Festival – Year of Celebration
The 20th festival will launch a year of celebration for Glasgow Film Theatre Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) has announced plans to host a series of special events for the 20th edition of the much-loved festival, which returns from 28 February to 10 March 2024. GFF is one of the leading film festivals in the UK and […]
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The Mission at GFT
Friday 17 – Thursday 23 November, 2023 In 2018, US-based Christian missionary John Chau made an illegal and fatal voyage to an island in the Indian Ocean in order to convert one of the last remaining isolated communities on Earth – the Sentinelese. Making use of the diaries written by John and his father, The […]
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Thursday, November 16, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
May December at GFT
Friday 17 – Thursday 23 November, 2023 Captions and Audio Description available From the outside, Gracie (Julianne Moore) and Joe (Charles Melton) are the perfect suburban couple. That is, if you don’t take into account the fact that their relationship was a tabloid sensation 20 years ago. When Elizabeth (Natalie Portman), an actor, arrives at […]
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Nobody Has To Know
Bouli Lanners and Tim Mielants’ Outer Hebrides-shot romantic drama has UK cinema release from 3 November, 2023 At GFT Friday 10 – 16 November, 2023 Buy tickets Parkland Entertainment are thrilled to announce they will release NOBODY HAS TO KNOW across UK cinemas from 3 November. Shot entirely at locations across the Isle of Lewis, […]
CinemaARC – Journey to the Isles
Thursday 16 November, 2023 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. Advanced Research Centre(ARC), University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW Free but ticketed Join an enchanting Journey to the Isles with a screening of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser’s silent films of 1920s Hebridean life, with storytelling and musical accompaniment from acclaimed live performers Marion Kenny and […]
Floating Worlds: Erraid Sound, University of Glasgow ARC
15 – 16 November, 2023 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Advanced Researcch Centre (AEC), University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Ln, Glasgow G11 6EW Drop in to the ARC to experience ‘Floating Worlds: Erraid Sound’, a short film by the renowned Scottish theatre director Graham Eatough, and the Dutch visual artist Andre Dekker. In September 2020 […]
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Arthur’s Christmas Tale in aid of Shelter Scotland
Arthur’s Christmas Tale is a heart warming stop motion animation based on a poem by AH Proctor that was created to raise funds in aid of Shelter Scotland. The animation will be showing in the trailers of cinemas across Scotland throughout December 2023, to help rasie funds for the charity. Donate to Shelter Scotland Giving […]
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Inclination Film Club presents Seven Stories by James Kelman
Wednesday, 29 November, 2023 at 7.30 – 10.10 p.m. INCLINATIONS film club presents Seven Stories by James Kelman (1996, 70 mins) & Libera Me (1993, 80 mins) directed by Alain Cavalier CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD A voice in the dark and a film without voices. This double-bill brings together stories by James Kelman […]
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Wednesday, November 15, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
A History of Cuban Animation
Wednesday 15 November, 2023 at 7 p.m. Images top-bottom: Fly, Veinte Años A selection of animations made between 1962 – 2022 from ICAIC Animation Studios exploring themes including loneliness, heartbreak, immigration and race. Presented by Cuban animator Ivette Ávila Martín and screenwriter Hugo Rivalta. Featuring premieres and shorts from award-winning animators including Ernesto Piña and […]
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Tuesday, November 14, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Havana Glasgow Film Festival 2023
15-19 November, 2023 At GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB and CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Havana Glasgow Film Festival celebrates the twin cities of Glasgow and Havana through a programme of Cuban film screenings, discussions and joyful cultural events each November. The ninth Festival will explore real and imaginary worlds – expect […]
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Sea Donkey – Film Night at Arlington Baths Club
Saturday 25 November, 2023, 6 p.m. Arlington Baths Club, 61 Arlington Street, Glasgow G3 6DT The inspirational story of an ordinary man’s attempt to swim from Northern Ireland to Scotland – probably the most brutal open water swimming challenge in the world. Taking on sea temperatures at the limit of human endurance and braving the […]
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Monday, November 13, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
The Camp – The Redistribution of Memory
Exploring universal stories of displacement. The Redistribution of Memory – Cryptic Nights Thursday 9 November, 23023 at 7 p.m. CCA, 350 Saujchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD The Redistribution of Memory by Iranian artist Paria Goodzari is an interdisciplinary project that seamlessly combines durational performance, video, sound and installation. Five golden cages enveloped in intricate barbed […]
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Thursday, November 9, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Preview: The Eternal Daughter + Joanna Hogg Q & A
Preview: The Sunday 12 November, 2023 7pm Always a favourite at GFT, we can’t wait to welcome director Joanna Hogg (The Souvenir, Unrelated, Caprice) for a Q&A following our special preview screening of her latest film, The Eternal Daughter. Tilda Swinton delivers a towering double performance, playing both an artist and her elderly mother who […]
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Wednesday, November 8, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Related Pages
- CinemARC: Winter Lights
- Elf at IMAX Glasgow and Glasgow Science Centre Galleries
- Film Night: Smoke, Sauna, Sisterhood
- Take 2: Chicken Run at GFT
- Preview: Priscilla 35mm at GFT
- Focus Hong Kong
- Savage Waters at GFT
- The Eternal Daughter at GFT
- Is There Anybody Out There? plus Q & A
- Black Narcissus at GFT
- Cinemasters: Powell and Pressburger GFT
- Mami Wata plus Q and A
- French Film Festival 2023 at GFT
- Woodlands Community Anti-Racist Film Club: screening Taxi Tehran
- Saltburn at GFT
- It’s a Wonderful Life GFT
- Take 2: Zarafa at GFT
- Glasgow Film Festival – Year of Celebration
- The Mission at GFT
- May December at GFT
