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.Glassland, GFT Wednesday 20–Thursday 21 May, 2015
Glassland15 GFT Wednesday 20–Thursday 21 May www.glasgowfilm.org/buy_tickets/7429_glassland An utterly captivating and emotionally wrenching portrait of addiction, and the impact it has on those closest to us. John (What Richard Did’s Jack Reynor) is a young overworked taxi driver trying to cope with life in an Irish slum and an alcoholic mother (a brazenly honest performance […]
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Thursday, May 14, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
Camcorder Guerillas & Document Worldscreen: Palestine Wed 20 May 2015
CCA 7pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema Ages 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 For Cultural Purposes Only In an age dominated by the moving image, what would it feel like to never see an image of the place that you came from? The Palestinian Film Archive, containing over 100 films showing the daily life […]
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Saint Etienne Live: How We Used to Live, Tuesday 19 May, 2015 GFT
Saint Etienne Live: How We Used to LiveN/C 12+ GFT Buy Tickets → In 2013 British director Paul Kelly teamed up with much-loved electro pop trio Saint Etienne to create this elegant and evocative film about the UK’s capital. Narrated by Ian McShane, the film uses coloured archive footage from the 1950s through to the […]
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Dark Horse Friday 15–Monday 18 May, 2015 GFT
Dark HorsePG Friday 15–Monday 18 May GFT www.glasgowfilm.org/buy_tickets/7422_dark_horse Winner of Sundance 2015’s Audience Award, this is a fascinating, emotional and inspirational documentary about a village banding together to pursue a collective dream. In a depressed Welsh pit village Jan has a dream: to breed a prize-winning racehorse. Teaming up with other like-minded locals, Jan and […]
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Clouds of Sils Maria, Friday 15–Thursday 28 May, 2015 GFT
Clouds of Sils Maria15 Friday 15–Thursday 28 May GFT Olivier Assayas returns with this ingenious, multi-layered drama, starring a luminous Juliette Binoche as a performer confronted by the inevitable passage of time. Twenty years after she made her name in an acclaimed stage play, world-renowned Maria (Binoche) is approached to play the older woman in […]
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Rosewater GFT Friday 8–Thursday 21 May, 2015
Rosewater GFT Friday 8–Thursday 21 May, 2015 Buy tickets online Jon Stewart makes an impressive directorial debut with a political drama inspired by events in which The Daily Show played a critical role. In June 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari (Gael Garcia Bernal) was covering Iran’s election. He was arrested by the Revolutinary Guard […]
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
Call for films for Southside Film Festival 2015
The 2015 Southside Film Festival will run from Thursday 8 October to Sunday 11 October, 2015. This year’s film festival focuses on cinema going heritage of the Southside and films made in the Southside. They want to see your films and hear your memories of going to the cinema in the Southside before the last cinema […]
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Pearls of Czech New Wave Cinema, GFT
Films of the Czech NEW Wave GFT Although not as well known as other cinematic New Waves, the films of the Czech New Wave feature some of the most wildly inventive and progressive experiments in film. Working under an op- pressive communist regime, these filmmakers painted expressionistic portraits of their lives, quietly subversive and satirical, […]
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
Girlhood Friday 8–Thursday 21 May GFT
Girlhood15 Friday 8–Thursday 21 May, 2015 GFT Buy onine Marieme is sixteen, black and lives in the high rise suburbs of Paris. She has reached an age when life should be full of possibilities, instead she finds herself boxed in by society’s expectations, peer pressure and limited opportunities. Excluded from school and wary of […]
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CinemaAttic West Coast: Spanish & Latin-American Short Film Night Thu 14 May 2015 CCA
Thu 14 May 2015 CCA 7.30pm, £5 (£4) + 60p booking fee, Cinema Ages 12+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 This image requires an alt attribute.CinemaAttic is the platform for Spanish, Iberian and Latin-American cinema in Scotland. Our main purpose is to raise the profile of Ibero-American cinema in Scotland and UK. By collaborating […]
Friday, May 8, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
Logan’s Run GFT Sunday 10 May, 2015
Logan’s RunPG GFT Sunday 10 May Buy online The year is 2274 and life appears to have been perfected. Living inside an enclosed dome with little or no work to do, you are free to pursue all of life’s pleasures. However, there is one catch, once you reach the age of 30, you must undergo […]
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Southside Film Festival: Bring your Own archive & free screening of ‘Glasgow 1980’
The Glad Cafe, Glasgow Sunday 10 May, 2015 17:00 This year’s film festival focuses on cinema going heritage of the Southside and films made in the Southside and who want to see your films and hear your memories of going to the cinema in the Southside before the last cinema closed in 2001. Rummage in […]
Thursday, May 7, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
Love Music Hate Racism The Clash: Westway to the World CCA Sun 10 May
Love Music Hate Racism The Clash: Westway to the World Screening & Discussion CCA Sun 10 May 2015 6.15pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema Ages 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 The Clash: Westway to the World is a documentary, directed by The Clash’s long-term collaborator and friend Don Letts, in which the […]
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Love Music Hate Racism The Clash: Westway to the World Screening & Discussion
Sun 10 May 2015 CCA 6.15pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema Ages 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 The Clash: Westway to the World is a documentary, directed by The Clash’s long-term collaborator and friend Don Letts, in which the band tell their side of the story. It includes archive footage of the band at […]
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Live at Glasgow – Heaven Adores You, Sat 9th and Sun 10th May, 2015 GFT
Live at Glasgow – Heaven Adores You12A Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 May GFT Singer/songwriter Elliott Smith rose to mainstream prominence in 1998, with his classic soundtrack to the film Good Will Hunting, for which his song ‘Miss Misery’ was Oscar nominated. Smith tragically took his own life in 2003, and in this all-new documentary […]
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Far from the Madding Crowd, GFT 1 – 14 May, 2015
Far from the Madding CrowdU GFT 1 – 14 May 2015 Buy tickets online John Schlesinger’s original 1967 adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s tale of passion and tragedy in 19th century rural England is as gripping and striking now as it was on first release. Julie Christie stars as Bathsheba Everdene, a proud beauty who inherits […]
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Glasgore 6 May, 2015
Glasgore! Horror/Cult Cinema Discussion Group Wednesday 6 May 6.30 p.m. GFT This group meets on the first Wednesday of each month in GFT’s Learning Room to discuss horror and cult cinema. Meet other genre fans in a friendly atmosphere to exchange thoughts and opinions about your favourite schlocky flicks. Discuss anything from Italian Giallo to […]
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
Cryptic Nights Numbercult Articulations: An Evening of Visual Music CCA Thu 7 May 2015
Cryptic Nights Numbercult Articulations: An Evening of Visual Music CCA Thu 7 May 2015 8pm, £7.40 (£4.40) + 60p booking fee, Cinema Ages 14+ when accompanied by an adult Book online / 0141 352 4900 Artist and musician Craig Ritchie Allan (Numbercult) orchestrates a synchronized ballet of geometry and sound. Inspired by the work of […]
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Red Skirts on Clydeside GFT Saturday 2 May, 2015
Red Skirts on ClydesideN/C 12+ GFT Saturday 2 May, 2015 3 p.m. Buy online In 1915, a year into WWI, landlords in Glasgow put up tenement rents. Women in Govan responded with a rent strike. In Red Skirts on Clydeside, directors Jenny Woodley and Christine Bellamy chart the careers of Jean Ferguson, Mary Barbour and […]
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Crossing the Line: White Shadow Sunday 3 May, 2015 GFT
Crossing the Line: White Shadow15 Sunday 3 May, 2015 GFT Buy tickets The feature debut of artist-turned filmmaker Noaz Deshe is a stunning portrait of a young albino on the run from witchdoctors who want to harvest his body parts. Based on true accounts, the underground trade of albino body parts exists today and the […]
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Fruit of Paradise Tuesday 5 May, 2015 GFT
Fruit of Paradise12 Tuesday 5 May, 2015 GFT Buy online Often regarded as a long-lost masterpiece, this 1970 film from Vera Chytilová was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year. One of the most experimental films of the Czech New Wave, it starts as a baroque and daring modern retelling […]
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Argerich Friday 1–Thursday 7 May, 2015 GFT
ArgerichPG Friday 1–Thursday 7 May, 2015 GFT Buy tickets Martha Argerich is considered by many to be one of the greatest pianists of the second half of the 20th century, with numerous awards and international acclaim. This film, by her daughter Stéphanie Argerich, is an intimate portrait filmed over two decades that reveals the everyday […]
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A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence GFT Thursday 7 May, 2015
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence12A GFT Friday 24 April – Thursday 7 May, 2015 Buy tickets Winner of the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival, Roy Andersson’s masterful reflection on the human condition unfolds in thirty nine meticulously composed tableaux vivants. One constant through this magical mystery tour of suffering, indulgence […]
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Samba GFT Friday 1–Thursday 7 May, 2015
Samba15 GFT Friday 1–Thursday 7 May Buy tickets online Samba (Omar Sy) migrated from Senegal to France 10 years ago, and has since been trying to make a life for himself. Alice (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is a timid and burned out chief executive who helps immigrants find work. They each find a kindred spirit in one […]
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The Falling, GFT Friday 24 April – Thursday 7 May, 2015
The Falling15 GFT Friday 24 April – Thursday 7 May, 2015 Buy online Carol Morley’s follow up to Dreams of a Life is a feverish exploration of raging hormones and teenage angst set in a girls school in 1969. Generally ignored by her agoraphobic mother, Lydia (Maisie Williams from Game of Thrones) becomes infatuated with […]
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
Southside Film Festival’s Fundraising Film Quiz! Tuesday, May 5, 2015 The Glad Cafe
Southside Film Festival’s Fundraising Film Quiz! Tuesday, May 5, 2015 The Glad Cafe at 8:00pm £3 per person to enter-all proceeds go directly to support Southside Film Do you know your Big Lebowski from your Big Sleep? Your Hunger Games from your La Règle du jeu? Join your hosts Ruth Marsh and […]
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Glasgow Film Theatre Launches Deaf and Hard of Hearing Film Club
Visible Cinema at GFT Glasgow Film Theatre has announced the launch of Visible Cinema, a monthly Film Club for deaf and hard of hearing audiences. The first initiative of its kind in Scotland, Visible Cinema will launch on Tuesday 24 March (18.00) with a captioned screening of Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum […]
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog
The Navigators Screening & Discussion Thursday 30 April 2015 CCA
GMB Glasgow General APEX BranchThe NavigatorsScreening & Discussion Thursday 30 April 2015 CCA 7.15pm, £5 (£4 concessions) + 60p booking fee, CinemaAges 15+Book online / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events GFT Ken Loach’s The Navigators is the powerful story of a group of railway track workers at the time of the privatisation of […]
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Friday, April 24, 2015 | Filed under: Cinema
WORKING ILLEGALLY – Glasgow Launch Event CCA Wed 29 April 2015
Standoff FilmsWORKING ILLEGALLY – Glasgow Launch Event CCA Wed 29 April 2015 7pm, Free, CinemaAll ages Last year the UK Home Office detained approximately 30,000 people across a network of 13 detention centres. People are incarcerated in these centres for immigration reasons without trial or charge. Many are asylum seekers and other migrants who have […]
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The Man from Laramie, GFT Sunday 26 April, 2015
The Man from LaramieU GFT Sunday 26 April, 2015 3 p.m. Buy tickets online During the 1950s, James Stewart and director Anthony Mann collaborated on a series of lean, flinty westerns that helped redefine the genre and pave the way for the spaghetti westerns of the 1960s. The partnership reached a creative peak with The […]
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