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.Trainspotting at GFT
24 May – 6 June, 2024 Doesn’t it make you proud to be Scottish? Choose a classic and satisfy your lust for life as Renton, Spud, Sick Boy, and Begbie return to the big screen. Among the most popular, ground-breaking, and influential films of the 1990s, Trainspotting is back on the big screen in brand […]
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Thursday, May 23, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
The Dead Don’t Hurt at GFT
7 – 20 June, 2024 Mortensen wrote, directed and stars in this original take on the classic Western, in a story centred on the adventurous life of fiercely independent Vivienne Le Coudy (Vicky Krieps). In a frontier town run by corrupt forces, fiercely independent Vivienne embarks on a relationship with the passionate, hard-working Holger Olsen […]
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The Beast at GFT
31 May – 13 June, 2024 French auteur Bertrand Bonello presents a bold, centuries-spanning tale of romance and obsession in the shadow of an impending catastrophe, freely adapted from Henry James’s The Beast in the Jungle. Léa Seydoux and George MacKay engage in a doomed romance across three different time periods. In the year 2044, […]
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A House in Jerusalem at GFT
31 May – 6 June, 2024 The screening on Saturday 1 June at 5.40pm will be followed by a Zoom Q&A with director Muayad Alayan. After her mother dies in an accident, grieving Rebecca (Miley Locke) and her father (Johnny Harris) move from England to Jerusalem in a bid to make a fresh start. Their […]
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The G at GFT
21 – 27 June, 2024 Dale Dickey (Winter’s Bone, A Love Song) stars in this pacy and complex revenge thriller that proves hell hath no fury like a grandmother scorned. She is menacingly magnetic as foul-mouthed, hard-drinking bad-ass gran Ann Hunter – aka The G – in Karl R Hearne’s gritty Canadian revenge thriller. After […]
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They Shall Not Grow Old – film screening at Kelvin Hall
22 June, 2024, Saturday 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Kelvin Hall, 1445 Argyle Street Glasgow G3 8AW By The Hunterian and University of Glasgow They Shall Not Grow Old is a 2018 documentary film directed and produced by Peter Jackson. The film was created using original footage of the First World War from the Imperial War Museum‘s archives, most previously unseen, all […]
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National Theatre Live: Nye
Thursday, 23 May, 2024 at 7 p.m. GFT, 12 Rose Str4eet, G3 6RB From campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create the NHS, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan is often referred to as the politician with greatest influence on our country without ever being Prime Minister. Confronted with death, Nye’s deepest memories lead him […]
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Thursday, May 16, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Drylongso
31 May – 5 June, 2024 A lost treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith’s Drylongso embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/ romance. Alarmed by the rate at which the young Black men around her are dying — indeed, ‘becoming extinct,’ as she sees it — brash […]
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In the Mood for Love
22 and 23 May, 2024 Wong Kar-Wai’s romantic, political and heartbreaking film In the Mood for Love will return for two 4K screenings as part of GFT’s Anniversary Programme, providing a prime example of the kind of world-class cinema that will always have a home – and a devoted audience – at GFT. Hong Kong, […]
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City of God
Sunday 19 May, 2024 One of the world’s 25 Best Films as rated on the IMDb Top 250, Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund’s Brazilian crime story City of God has recently been remastered for its 21st anniversary and will return to GFT for a special screening as part of their Anniversary Programme in May. In […]
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Rear Window – 70th Anniversary
20 and 22 May, 2024 It will come as no surprise that Alfred Hitchcock will feature in GFT’s anniversary year celebrations, with two special screenings of Rear Window on 4K to mark the film’s own 70th anniversary. James Stewart stars as L.B. Jeffries, a photographer with a broken leg. Bored between visits from his girlfriend […]
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Hoard
17 – 23 May, 2024 A dark but lyrical study of trauma, loneliness and thwarted sexuality. A young girl’s life is charted from living with her troubled mother to later falling in love with one of her foster carer’s former charges. Debut director Luna Carmoon crafts a raw psychodrama and haunting study of trauma, loneliness […]
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Two Tickets To Greece
17 – 23 May, 2024 As teenagers, Blandine and Magalie were inseparable. Years passed and they lost sight of each other. As their paths cross again, they decide to take the trip together that they have always dreamed of. Direction Greece, its sun, its islands but also its galleys because the two former best friends […]
Rome, Open City
17 – 23 May, 2024 A landmark of Italian neorealism approaching its 80th anniversary, Roberto Rossellini’s portrait of life under Nazi occupation remains remarkable for its immediacy, tension and power. Made in extraordinarily straitened circumstances, immediately after the liberation of Rome, the film follows Manfredi (Marcello Pagliero), a partisan leader, as he attempts to evade […]
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Shallow Grave 30 Anniversary
17 – 23 May, 2024 The lives of a trio of flatmates spiral into violence after they keep a suitcase of cash they find after their new flatmate dies in Danny Boyle’s blackly comic debut. Director Danny Boyle, writer John Hodge and producer Andrew Macdonald would go on to create even bigger waves with Trainspotting […]
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Take 2: Migration
Saturday 18 May, 2024, 11.30 a.m. Illumination, creators of the blockbuster Minions, Despicable Me, Sing and The Secret Life of Pets comedies, invites you to take flight into the thrill of the unknown with a funny, feathered family holiday like no other in the action-packed new original comedy, Migration. The Mallard family is in a […]
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Wednesday, May 15, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
La Chimera GFT
11 – 23 May, 2024 The Crown’s Josh O’Connor stars as an adrift Englishman with an unusual talent in this playful drama centring on a gang of grave robbers on the hunt for ancient Etruscan relics. The Crown’s Josh O’Connor proves he’s just as good in Italian as he is in English in Alice Rohrwacher’s […]
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Saturday, May 11, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Aftersun at Glasgow Film Theatre
13 May, 2024, 8.10 p.m. At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum (Paul Mescal). As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood. Twenty years later, Sophie’s tender recollections of their last […]
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A Matter of Life and Death
Sunday 12 and Wednesday 15 May, 2024 To celebrate the release of the new documentary Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger, we’re delighted to bring this fine example of the duo’s creative genius in action back to GFT. In this audacious Technicolor fantasy, a Second World War airman finds himself summoned to […]
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Perfect Days at GFT
12 – 15 May, 2024 One of GFT audiences’ favourites of the year so far, Wim Wenders’ beautifully simple character drama returns for the bank holiday weekend, and May’s Glasgow Film Club. Nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 2024 Oscars, the highly anticipated return to fiction feature filmmaking from Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas, […]
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Love Lies Bleeding at GFT
11 – 16 May, 2024 Director Rose Glass’ second feature, Love Lies Bleeding, in which love and violence come together in an explosive cocktail in this thriller starring Kristen Stewart as a gym manager who falls for a bodybuilder, with dangerous implications for them both. When gym manager Lou (Kristen Stewart) meets bodybuilder Jackie (Katy […]
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Billy Connolly’s Big Banana Feet at GFT
GFT screenings: 11 – 27 May, 2024 Buy tickets GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Screening in selected cinemas in the UK and Ireland from 10 May 2024 BFI DVD/Blu-ray release and BFI Southbank Q&A screening on 20 May 2024 BIG BANANA FEET (1976) is a fascinating and hilarious record of irrepressible Scottish comedian Billy […]
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Friday, May 10, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Special Screenings to Mark Anniversary Year at Glasgow Film Theatre
May 2024 Scotland’s leading independent cinema will celebrate a bumper year of anniversaries with a programme of special screenings taking place throughout May. The programme will showcase films that have been hugely popular with audiences and have played a unique role in the history of Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) over the past five decades. Glasgow’s […]
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Bad Education at GFT
Sunday 26 May, 2024, 7 p.m. Queen Cinema Sundays Pedro Almodóvar uses his signature brushstrokes in this darkly thrilling story-within-a-story noir, which is our Queer Cinema Sundays screening for May. When an actor, Ignacio (Gael Garcia Bernal) visits a filmmaker, Enrique (Fele Martinez) claiming to be his first love now going by the name ‘Angel’, […]
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B Movie.Lust and Sound in West Berlin
Tuesday 21 May, 2024, 7 p.m. Exclusive Film Screening and Q n A with Mark Reeder Grosvenor Picture Theatre, Ashton Lane, Glasgow G12 8SJ Class & Culture Films present this exclusive screening of ‘B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin, 1979 – 1989,’ followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker, Mark Reeder! The final years of […]
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At the Volta with James Joyce, GFT
Saturday 15th June, 2024 6.30 p.m. As part of 19th International James Joyce Symposium, the University of Glasgow, Glasgow Film Theatre and the Irish Consulate are organising At the Volta with James Joyce: a showing of early films with musical accompaniment, inspired by the involvement of Irish author James Joyce with Dublin’s cinema Volta – […]
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Thursday, May 9, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Take 2: Wonderstruck
Saturday 4 May, 2024 – 11.30 a.m. Ben and Rose are children from two different eras who secretly wish that their lives were different. Ben longs for the father he’s never known, while Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue and Rose reads […]
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Thursday, May 2, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
That They May Face The Rising Sun
3 – 9 May, 2024 Capturing a year in the life of a rural, lakeside community in late 1970s Ireland, That They May Face The Rising Sun is a sensitive and beautifully realised adaptation of the last novel by John McGahern. Joe (Barry Ward) and Kate (Anna Bederke) have returned from London to live and […]
Youth Screening: Grey Gardens at GFT
Tuesday 23 April, 2024, 6.20 p.m. Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centred on their pasts, as mother and daughter now […]
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Sunday, April 21, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
If Only I Could Hibernate
Until Thursday 25 April, 2024 Ulzii, a teenager from a poor neighbourhood in Ulaanbaatar, is determined to win a physics competition to get a scholarship. But when his illiterate mother finds a job in the countryside, she leaves him alone to care for his siblings in the middle of winter. Ulzii wanders around at night […]
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