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.Celluloid Underground at GFT
23 – 28 August, 2024 Celluloid Underground is an autobiographical feature-length documentary by Iranian filmmaker, writer and curator Ehsan Khoshbakht, about his experience of growing up in Iran after the 1979 revolution, when his love of cinema became the catalyst for his rebellion against the Islamic regime. It’s the story of his friendship with the […]
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Friday, August 23, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Queer Sundays at GFT: Go Fish
Sunday 25 August, 2024 – 7.40 p.m. GFT 12 Rose Street, Glasgoe G3 6RB The term ‘New Queer Cinema’ which defined a decade in film history, where a boom in DIY and independent filmmaking made fertile ground for filmmakers to tell stories that centred on queer themes. The July to September screenings of Queer Cinema […]
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Cuckoo at GFT
23 – 29 August, 2024 Seventeen-year-old Gretchen (Hunter Schafer) reluctantly leaves America to live with her father at a resort in the German Alps. Plagued by strange noises and bloody visions, she soon discovers a shocking secret that concerns her own family. GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Buy tickets
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Between the Temples
23 – 29 August, 2024 A cantor (Jason Schwartzman) in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher (Carol Kane) re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student. GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Buy tickets
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Take 2: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Saturday 24 August, 2024 – 11.30 a.m. While truant from school, young siblings Jeremy and Jemima meet the beautiful Truly Scrumptious (Sally Ann Howes), who falls for their widowed father, Caractacus Potts (Dick Van Dyke), and his various oddball inventions, including the family’s noisy rebuilt car, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. One day at the beach, […]
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Close to You at GFT
30 August – 5 September, 2024 Sam (Elliot Page) hasn’t been home since his transition. After four years in Toronto, he takes a long-dreaded trip back to his hometown for his father’s birthday, where he confronts unresolved wounds and reconnects with an old flame. Buy tickets GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB
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Thursday, August 22, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
The Lady from Shanghai at GFT
Saturday 17th August at 6 p.m. and Wednesday 21 at 2.20 p.m. Orson Welles plays a lonesome Irish sailor, Michael O’Hara, who gets hired to work on a yacht belonging to a well-known criminal lawyer, Arthur Bannister. However, what draws O’Hara to work on the boat is not the offer of employment but Bannister’s wife, […]
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Thursday, August 15, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
The Mountain Within Me at GFT
Wednesday 21 August, 2024 at 8.30 p.m. After suffering a catastrophic and almost fatal spinal cord injury, professional rugby player Ed Jackson’s world changed forever. The Mountain Within Me follows Ed’s journey on his recovery as he achieves the mental and physical heights of Snowdonia, the Alps and Himalayas to the life-altering challenges closer to home. From multi-award-winning director, Polly […]
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The Last Temptation of Christ plus introduction
Monday 19 August, 2024 7.15 p.m. August’s edition of Scorsese of the Month is selected and introduced by GFT Programme Manager Paul Gallagher. Never one to shy away from a challenge, Martin Scorsese dived headlong into controversy with his 1988 adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis’ novel, an exploration of Jesus’ humanity and divinity that imagined the possibility of […]
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The Turin House at GFT
Saturday 17 and Wednesday 21 August, 2024 Taking its cue from Nietsche’s famous encounter with a mistreated horse on Via Carlo Alberto, The Turin Horse depicts the aftermath of this seemingly innocuous but destructively profound confrontation. Following a man and his daughter in their daily routine, a bizarre series of disturbing events slowly begin to […]
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Only The River Flows at GFT
Friday 16 – Thursday 22 August, 2o24 Overview This moody Asian-noir crime thriller, laced with dark humour, charts a detective’s attempts to identify a serial killer in a rural town as the secrets of the locals are gradually revealed. A quick arrest after a murder sits uneasily with chief of police Ma Zhe (Yilong Zhu), […]
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Lone Star at GFT
Friday 16 – Thursday 22 August, 2024 All screenings of Lone Star will include a new recorded introduction from director John Sayles and producer Maggi Renzi. In the Texas border town of Frontera, Sheriff Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper) digs up the past when he finds an old skull in the desert. As he traces the murder of […]
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Dìdi (弟弟) at GFT
Friday 16 to Thursday 22 August, 2024 In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mum. English and Mandarin with English subtitles GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 […]
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Longlegs at GFT
Friday 16 – Thursday 22 August, 2024 FBI agent Lee Harker is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer. As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of connections to occult practices, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop […]
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Tale 2: A Greyhound of a Girl GFT
Saturday 17 August, 2024 – 11.30 a.m. English, Luxembourgish, Italian and German with English subtitles. 11-year-old Mary has an insatiable passion for cooking, and dreams of becoming a great chef. Her grandmother Emer, with whom she has a very special relationship, encourages her to make this dream come true. But every path has its obstacles […]
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Poor Things plus Introduction
Sunday 18 August, 2024, 6.50 p.m. Introduced by Rodge Glass, novelist and Alasdair Gray’s biographer. From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes an incredible adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s landmark novel. The story tells of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox […]
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Alasdair Gray: A Life in Progress at GFT
Sunday, 18 August, 2024, 3.45 p.m. Progressed with Original Scenes relating to Poor Things – Followed by a Q&A with director Kevin Cameron. Alasdair Gray was, at the point of his death in 2019, Scotland’s foremost writer and artist. He had written the leading novel of 20th Century Scottish literature in Lanark, and hand painted […]
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Take 2: Nanny McPhee at GFT
Saturday 10 August, 2024 – 11.30 a.m. Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the children’s great-aunt and benefactor, Lady Adelaide Stitch, threatens to separate the […]
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Friday, August 9, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
The Long Goodbye at GFT
Saturday 3 and Monday 5 August, 2024 In his books The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye, novelist Raymond Chandler’s depictions of the sunny mean streets of Los Angeles and his wise-cracking private eye Philip Marlowe became a classic template for Hollywood cinema of the 1940s. Robert Altman gives that format a distinctly 1970s LA […]
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Friday, August 2, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Alma’s Rainbow at GFT
Friday 2 – Thursday 8 August, 2024 A coming-of-age comedy-drama about three African American women living in Brooklyn, Alma’s Rainbow explores the life of teenager Rainbow Gold (Victoria Gabrielle Platt) as she enters womanhood and navigates standards of beauty, self-image, and the rights women have over their bodies. Rainbow attends a strict parochial school, studies […]
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Werckmeister Harmonies at GFT
Friday 2 till Thursday 8 August, 2024 An innocent young man witnesses violence break out after an isolated village is inflamed by the arrival of a circus and its peculiar attractions: a giant whale and a mysterious man named “The Prince”. Screening as part of Will Heaven Fall Upon Us? A Béla Tarr Retrospective. Hungarian […]
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The Echo at GFT
Friday 2 till Thursday 8 August, 2024 In the remote village of El Echo that exists outside of time, the children care for the sheep and their elders. While the frost and drought punish the land, they learn to understand death, illness and love with each act, word and silence of their parents. A story […]
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Shayda at GFT
Friday 2 – Thursday 8 August, 2024 Shayda, a brave Iranian mother, finds refuge in an Australian women’s shelter with her six-year-old daughter. Over Persian New Year, they take solace in Nowruz rituals and new beginnings, but when her estranged husband re-enters their lives, Shayda’s path to freedom is jeopardised. Drawn from personal experiences, Iranian-Australian […]
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My Neighbour Tortoro at GFT
Friday 2 – Wednesday 214 August, 2024 Following the success of Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning The Boy and the Heron, we’re delighted to bring one of Miyazaki’s finest and best loved creations back to GFT. Satsuki and Mei’s mother has taken ill. In order to be closer to her while she recovers in a rural convalescent […]
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Kensuke’s Kingdom at GFT
Friday 2 till Thursday 8 August, 2024 All screenings include a short recorded intro by Michael Morpurgo, author of the book Kensuke’s Kingdom. A young boy, shipwrecked on a remote island, discovers he’s not alone when he encounters an old Japanese soldier who retreated there after the Second World War. As dangerous invaders appear on […]
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Take 2: The Inventor at GFT
Saturday 3 August 2024 11.30 a.m. Discover a playful toy-like world of invention featuring flying machines, kings, queens and sneaky spies, where nothing seems to go right for the world’s greatest inventor, and he is always running out of time. At the centre of it all is the audacious and ever questioning Princess Marguerite (Daisy […]
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Thursday, August 1, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people
God Help The Girl at GFT plus Stuart Murdoch Q & A
Sunday 4 August, 2024 at 4 p.m. GFT Tickets Followed by a Q&A with director Stuart Murdoch. Set in Glasgow, God Help the Girl is about a girl called Eve who is in the hospital dealing with emotional problems and starts writing songs as a way of getting better. Songwriting becomes her way forward, leading […]
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Monday, July 29, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
CineRoma – Carmen: No Fear Of Freedom
8th August, 2024, 7 p.m. – Launch of CineRoma CineRoma aims to present diverse films by and with Roma people, exploring self-perception, identity, history and systems of power. The festival programme has been co-curated in collaboration with a cohort of Roma Young People from Govanhill. It runs from 8 – 10 August, 2024. See CineRoma […]
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Friday, July 26, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Govanhill: A Community Film Portrait + (Q&A)
Saturday, August 10, 2024 Part of the Govanhill International Festival & Carnival 2024 collection Tramway, 25 Albert Drive Glasgow G41 2PE An intimate portrait of Govanhill through BAFTA-winning Felipe Bustos Sierra’s short film, followed by a Q&A and the “Hope & Ponies”. Experience an intimate portrait of Govanhill through short films by BAFTA-winning filmmaker Felipe Bustos Sierra, […]
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Take 2: Scooby Doo
Saturday 27 July, 2024 11.30AM – Standard Screening Saturday 27 July, 2024 12PM – Take 2 Autism Friendly Screening When the Mystery Inc. gang is invited to Spooky Island, a popular amusement park, they soon discover that the attractions aren’t the only things that are spooky. Strange things are happening, and it’s up to Scooby, […]
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Thursday, July 25, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
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