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.Closed Curtain GFT Monday 21–Wednesday 23 September, 2015
Closed Curtain12A GFT Monday 21–Wednesday 23 September, 2015 Buy tickets online Throughout the past decade, internationally celebrated filmmaker Jafar Panahi has suffered from on-going oppression from the government of his home country, Iran. In 2011, whilst he was banned from making films, he made the documentary feature This Is Not a Film and several years […]
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Friday, September 18, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
Landfill Harmonic GFT Wednesday 23 September, 2015
Landfill HarmonicN/C 12+ GFT Wednesday 23 September, 2015 5.45 p.m. Buy tickets A testament to the transformative power of music and the resilience of the human spirit. The inspiring true story of The Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, a youth music group from the slums of Paraguay, whose choice of instrument – recycled garbage – blazes […]
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Horse Money Friday 18–Thursday 24 September, 2015 GFT
Horse Money12A Friday 18–Thursday 24 September, 2015 GFT Buy tickets Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa fuses history, imagination and arresting visuals in a film that continues in the dreamlike style he established in 2006’s Colossal Youth. That film’s lead character Ventura is now in hospital, and finds himself visited by the ghosts of his, and his […]
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Food Chains Saturday 19 September, 2015 GFT
Food ChainsN/C 15+ Saturday 19 September, 2015 GFT 3.15 p.m. Buy tickets In a story whose after-taste is global, producers Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and Eva Longoria chart the inspirational fight by migrant US farm workers to bring supermarket giants – who wield tremendous power over the agricultural system – to the table over […]
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Dunoon Film Festival, 18 – 20 September, 2015
18 – 20 September, 2015 Dunoon’s third film festival aims to have fun looking at relationships between generations, confounding expectations and living life to the full whatever your age. Screenings will take place at the Studio Cinema and look out for a variety of surprise cinema spaces around the town, whilst Dunoon Burgh Hall is […]
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Tangerines GFT Friday 18–Thursday 24 September, 2015
Tangerines15 GFT Friday 18–Thursday 24 September, 2015 Buy tickets Georgian director Zaza Urushadze’s Oscar-nominated feature is set in a small village in 1992 during the War in Abkhazia. Two men are harvesting the tangerine crop when a fight breaks out in front of their home. They give shelter to two injured survivors; a Chechen […]
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A Girl at My Door GFT Friday 18–Sunday 20 September, 2015
A Girl at My Door18 GFT Friday 18–Sunday 20 September, 2015 Buy Tickets →Buy tickets online No good deed goes unpunished in July Jung’s striking first feature. The charismatic Bae Doona (Cloud Atlas, The Host) stars as Young-nam, the new chief of police in a small seaside town. Battling the ghosts of her past, she […]
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Baltic Film Society: Lithuanian Cinematic Taster CCA Sun 20 September 2015
Baltic Film Society:Lithuanian Cinematic Taster CCA Sun 20 September 2015 4pm, £5 + 60p booking fee, CinemaAll agesBook online / 0141 352 4900 Come to our surprise screening, featuring an iconic coming-of-age film from Lithuania, followed by an interactive workshop – all inspired by the tastes and scents of a Baltic childhood… https://balticfilmsociety.wordpress.com/ Centre for […]
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Irrational Man Friday 11–Thursday 24 September, 2015 GFT
Irrational Man12A Friday 11–Thursday 24 September, 2015 GFT Murder, morality and a swinging jazz soundtrack; it must be Woody Allen. Allen’s 45th film as writer/director finds him teaming up with Joaquin Phoenix, arguably one of the finest and most unpredictable actors working today, and Emma Stone, recently Oscar-nominated for Birdman and similarly at the top […]
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Southside Film Festival – Winter 2015
Southside Film Festival bringing film back to the Southside Various venues in Glasgow’s South Side 8 – 11 October, 2015. Download the programme (PDF) Thursday 8th October Tickets for each film are available to book at: http://www.wegottickets.com/southsidefilmfestival Please note all FREE events are unticketed; entry will be first-come-first-served, and entry cannot be guaranteed. Opening Reception: […]
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Thursday, September 17, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema, Southside Film Festival
Blueprint: Scottish Independent ShortsN/C 15+ Thursday 17 September, 2015 GFT
Blueprint: Scottish Independent ShortsN/C 15+ Thursday 17 September, 2015 GFT 8 p.m. The first edition of a quarterly film night celebrating the Scottish talent that exists in the cracks of the film industry – where people make films simply because of their love of cinema. Blueprint 01 includes a comedy about the dangers of time […]
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Friday, September 11, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
Discover Indonesia GFT Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 September, 2015
Celebrating 70 years since the Proclamation of Indonesian Independence (Proklamasi), Discover Indonesia is the largest showcase of Indonesian performing arts within the UK. In Glasgow, Cryptic presents the best of Indonesian visual arts, music, theatre, traditional dance, film and cuisine. The Act of Killing15 Saturday 12 September 13:00 When the government of Indonesia was overthrown […]
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La famille Bélier Friday 11–Thursday 17 September, 2015 GFT
La famille Bélier12A Friday 11–Thursday 17 September, 2015 GFT A huge hit in its native France, this feelgood comedy-drama promises to warm the hardest heart with its story of budding singer Paula (Louane Emera), the teenage daughter of deaf parents. Paula acts as a vital communication link between her deaf family and the hearing world, […]
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Pasolini Friday 11–Thursday 17 September, 2015 GFT
Pasolini18 Friday 11–Thursday 17 September, 2015 GFT Enigmatic, controversial filmmaker Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant, King of New York, Welcome to New York) salutes one of his heroes, a kindred spirit whose taboo-busting films were hugely influential. Willem Dafoe plays the outspoken Marxist intellectual filmmaker and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini, re-enacting his final day as he […]
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Modern Edinburgh Film School: Mairi Lafferty CCA Thu 17 September 2015
Modern Edinburgh Film School: Mairi Lafferty CCA Thu 17 September 2015 5pm, Free but ticketed, Theatre All ages Book online / 0141 352 4900 Modern Edinburgh Film School presents a double-screen installation and discussion on the video, performance and drawing practice of Edinburgh-based artist Mairi Lafferty and will reflect on her recent residency to make […]
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Wednesday, September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
Discover Indonesia on Screen CCA Wed 9 September — Sun 13 September 2015
Discover Indonesia on Screen CCA Wed 9 September — Sun 13 September 2015 Wed-Fri & Sun: 12noon – 8pm, Sat: 12noon – 2.30pm, 6pm-8pm, Free and unticketed, Cinema, All ages A showcase celebrating the work of independent film-maker and sound explorer, Vincent Moon, who has been making extraordinary short films in Indonesia for the past […]
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Contemporary Cinema Course Monday 19 October, 2015 GFT
Contemporary Cinema Course Monday 19 October, 2015 GFT An ideal beginner’s course for those wishing to broaden their critical understanding of contemporary cinema. Current releases are complemented by engaging discussion around a range of topics. The course takes place over eight consecutive Monday evenings, and is comprised of four film screenings and four seminars. Films […]
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Strange Vice presents: Nightmares in a Damaged Brain Sun 6 September 2015 CCA
Strange Vice presents: Nightmares in a Damaged Brain Sun 6 September 2015 CCA 7.30pm, £5 + 60p booking fee, Cinema Ages 18+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 As their contribution to this year’s annual Scalarama festival, which celebrates the glory days of the infamous London flea-pit Scala Cinema, Strange Vice screen Romano Scavolini’s 1981 […]
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Thursday, September 3, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
How to Change the World GFT Wednesday 9 September, 2015
How to Change the World15 GFT Wednesday 9 September, 2015 19:45 Buy tickets online In 1971 a brave group of young activists set sail from Vancouver in an old fishing boat. Their mission: to stop Nixon’s atomic bomb tests in Amchitka, a tiny island off the west coast of Alaska. It was from these humble […]
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Miss Julie GFT Friday 4–Thursday 10 September, 2015
Miss Julie12A GFT Friday 4–Thursday 10 September, 2015 Buy tickets online Liv Ullmann’s adaptation of August Strindberg’s 1888 play stars Jessica Chastain as Miss Julie, the daughter of a wealthy baron. When she seduces John (Colin Farrell), her father’s valet, the liaison threatens to disrupt the social order. Relocating the action from late 19th-century Sweden […]
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The Silver Trumpet Live GFT Tuesday 8 September, 2015
The Silver Trumpet LiveN/C 12+ GFT Tuesday 8 September, 2015 20:15 Enrico Cocozza, once described as ‘Wishaw’s David Lynch’, studied with Jean Cocteau and King Vidor, and split his time between his homes in Wishaw Cross and Italy – producing and directing 63 documentary films and self-scripted surrealist works throughout his life. The soundtrack to […]
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The Second Mother GFT Friday 4–Thursday 10 September, 2015
The Second Mother15 GFT Friday 4–Thursday 10 September, 2015 Buy tickets Full of warmth and charm, this Brazilian family drama has a big heart and a keen social conscience. Val (Regina Casé) is the live-in housemaid of a middle class São Paulo family. When her estranged daughter Jessica (Camila Márdila) unexpectedly comes to visit, Val […]
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45 Years15 Friday 28 August – Thursday 10 September, 2015 GFT
45 Years15 Friday 28 August – Thursday 10 September, 2015 GFT Kate and Geoff Mercer (Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay) are all set to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary when they hear that Geoff’s first love has been discovered dead in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. The fallout from this news shakes the […]
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The Pyramid Texts Thursday 10 September, 2015 GFT
The Pyramid Texts 12A Thursday 10 September, 2015 8.15 p.m. GFT ‘Powerfully written, astoundingly well acted and rivetingly shot, The Pyramid Texts is a small masterpiece.’ Michael Palin James Cosmo delivers a tour-de-force performance as veteran fighter Ray, a lonely old man who has become estranged from his only son. Ray reflects on his loves, […]
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Wednesday, September 2, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
Escobar: Paradise Lost Mon 31 August – Thursday 3 Sept, 2015 GFT
Escobar: Paradise Lost15 Monday 31 August – Thursday 3 September, 2015 GFT Benicio Del Toro plays real-life notorious Columbian drug-lord Pablo Escobar in this tense melodrama from first time director Andrea Di Stefano. When naïve Canadian surfer Nick (Josh Hutcherson) meets the love of his life Maria (Claudia Traisac), he soon finds himself in over […]
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
Double Bill: Jean de florette & Manon des sources Sunday 30 August, 2015 GFT
Double Bill: Jean de florette & Manon des sourcesPG Sunday 30 August, 2015 – 2.30 p.m. GFT Shortly after WWI in the idyllic Provençal countryside, Ugolin and his uncle Cesar desire to gain access to a neighbouring spring in order to grow their flowers. However, the land is newly owned by Jean Cadoret, a hardworking […]
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The Dance of Reality GFT Frid 28 Aug – Thur 3 Sept, 2015
The Dance of Reality18 GFT Friday 28 August – Thursday 3 September, 2015 Alejandro Jodorowsky, the legendary director of El Topo and Santa sangre, returns with his first feature in almost a quarter of a century. With typical joyous idiosyncrasy, The Dance of Reality is an exercise in imagined autobiography, revisiting defining moments from the […]
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Drumchapel Life, Clementine Sandison & Kim Beveridge: The Making of Flat Pack Meals CCA Thu 3 September 2015
Drumchapel Life, Clementine Sandison & Kim Beveridge: The Making of Flat Pack Meals CCA Thu 3 September 2015 6pm, Free but ticketed All ages Book online / 0141 352 4900 Flat Pack Meals is a collaboration between Drumchapel L.I.F.E. and CCA. It began life as an artist-led project to create a women’s co-operative in Drumchapel […]
Wednesday, August 26, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
Gemma Bovery GFT Friday 28 August – Thursday 3 September, 2015
Gemma Bovery15 GFT Friday 28 August – Thursday 3 September, 2015 Relocating from the hustle and bustle of Paris to a small Norman village, former publisher Martin Joubert is trying to settle into his new life as a baker. However, when his new British neighbours Gemma and Charles Bovery (Gemma Arterton and Jason Flemyng) move […]
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Watch Bad Movies with Great Comedians Presents: Batman & Robin Mon 31 August 2015 CCA
Watch Bad Movies with Great Comedians Presents: Batman & Robin Mon 31 August 2015 CCA 7.30pm, £5 + £1 booking fee, Cinema Ages 18+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Holy Bad Movie! For their third show Billy Kirkwood and Joe Heenan have picked the film that not only almost killed off superhero movies forever, […]
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