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.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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Fantastic Machine at GFT
21 – 25 April, 2024 The camera is a fantastic machine. To explore, explain and expose how our unchecked obsession with image has grown, filmmakers Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck turn their cameras directly on society itself to take a look at how this obsession has begun to change our behaviour. From the Camera […]
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Bleeding Love at GFT
22 – 25 April, 2024 Ewan McGregor stars alongside his daughter Clara as a dad who goes on a poignant road trip with his estranged daughter after she almost loses her life to an overdose. In hopes of reconnecting with his estranged child, a father (Ewan McGregor) embarks on an impromptu road trip with his […]
Sometimes I Think About Dying at GFT
Screening Until Thursday 25 April, 2024 Daisy Ridley proves she can handle nuanced comedy drama as easily as a Star Wars leading role in this character study of an office worker whose life unexpectedly opens up. She plays Fran, who likes to think about dying. It brings sensation to her quiet life. When she makes […]
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The Lives of Others – 35mm, Special 50 Anniversary Screening GFT
Thursday 9 May, 2024 7 p.m. GFT is one of the few Scottish cinemas still equipped to project 35mm and 70mm film. As the perfect showcase for this expertise, audiences can enjoy Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Oscar-winning thriller The Lives of Others on 35mm to mark Europe Day on Thursday 9 May. In 1984, in […]
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Saturday, April 20, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Theatre Special 50 Anniversary Screenings May 2024
Cinema Paradiso – Special 50th Anniversary Screening GFT
Monday 6 May, 2024, 3.00 p.m. highlight of 20th Century European cinema, the Oscar and BAFTA award-winning Cinema Paradiso captures the spirit and communal power of film and has unsurprisingly been embraced by GFT audiences time and time again. It will make a welcome return for a special screening on the Monday 6 May Bank Holiday. Giuseppe […]
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Jean de Florette + Manon des Sources (Double-bill) – 50th Anniversary Screening GFT
Sunday 5 May, 2024 2.30 p.m. Since its inception, GFT has been the destination to watch foreign language films in Glasgow, and the anniversary programme will give audiences a chance to revisit some of our greatest international hits. Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources are two of the most popular French films of all time and […]
Late Night: Escape from New York
Special Screening 50th Anniversary GFT Friday, 3 May, 2024, 10.30 p.m. A key element of our programme since the cinema first opened in 1974, our Late Night screenings have recently relaunched as a regular monthly event. In recent years the programming for the Late Night slot has leaned into cult classics and we’re delighted to […]
Fellini’s Roma + Introduction
Thursday, 2 May, 2024 5.30 p.m. The anniversary programme will begin with Roma – Federico Fellini’s ode to the Italian capital – which was the first film to screen at GFT on the day we opened in 1974. Fellini’s monumental and outlandish tribute to his beloved Rome, The Eternal City, begins with Fellini as a youngster living […]
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Take 2: Kids Animations: Why’s the Sky Blue?
Saturday, April 20, 2024, 11.30 a.m. Screening as part of In Short, Europe: Best of the Best A playful selection of children’s animations exploring our relationship to the outside and everything it brings us: big gardens to run around in, animals to befriend, and the beautiful display of sound, colour, and texture. GFT, 12 Rose […]
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Friday, April 19, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
One Night In Millstreet
12 – 15 April, 2024 A prize fight between underdog Steve Collins and champion Chris Eubank grips and encapsulates an entire nation as it emerges from depression towards previously unimagined prosperity. From two time IFTA Best Sports Doc winners, One Night in Millstreet is the story of Ireland in 1995, a snapshot of a country […]
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Thursday, April 11, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
The Teacher’s Lounge
12 – 18 April, 2024 A teacher finds her good intentions leave her trapped in a moral maze after she tries to get to the bottom of school thefts in lker Çatak’s tense Oscar-nominated drama. Idealistic teacher Carla (Leonie Benesch), decides to take matters into her own hands after a spate of school thefts leaves […]
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Close Your Eyes
12 – 19 April, 2024 A famous Spanish actor, Julio Arenas, disappears while filming a movie. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he died in an accident at a cliff by the sea. Many years later, the mystery is brought to light once more by a TV programme which asks for […]
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Ratcatcher – 25th Anniversary
12 – 17 April, 2024 Set in Glasgow during the mid 1970s, Lynne Ramsay’s stunning debut Ratcatcher is seen through the eyes of 12-year-old James Gillespie, a young boy haunted by a secret. Feeling increasingly distant from his family, his only escape comes with the discovery of a new housing development on the outskirts of […]
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Silver Haze plus recorded Q & A
16 – 18 April, 2024 The screening on Wednesday 17 April at 6pm will be followed by a recorded Q&A with director Sacha Polak and lead actor Vicky Knight, and preceded by an introduction from Sandra Kinahan, Reclaim The Frame local impact producer. Sacha Polak’s captivating and intimately crafted drama, Silver Haze, delivers a powerful […]
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The Spirit of the Beehive
14 – 18 April, 2024 Víctor Erice’s long-awaited return to cinemas with Close Your Eyes also gives us the perfect opportunity to revisit his beloved 1973 masterpiece The Spirit of the Beehive. Erice’s remarkable first feature concerns a family living in a remote Castilian village shortly after the end of the Civil War, and centres […]
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The Irishman plus introduction
15 April, 2024, 6.30 p.m. Glasgow Film Theatre’s Scorsese of the Month screening for April, The Irishman is selected and introduced by comedian Chris Scott. With its cast of gangster movie juggernauts, Martin Scorsese’s epic saga of organised crime The Irishman was Robert De Niro’s ninth film with Scorsese and Al Pacino’s first, even drawing […]
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Take 2: The Secret Life of Pets at GFT
Saturday 13 April, 2024, 11.30 a.m. The Secret Life of Pets 2, the sequel to the 2016 comedic animated blockbuster, explores the emotional lives of our pets, the deep bond between them and the families that love them, and answers the question: what are your pets doing when you’re not home? Every child attending a […]
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Wednesday, April 10, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people
Glasgow Short Film Festival 2024 Announces Award Winners
Jury Prizes And How Miserable is the Home of Evil by Saleh Kashefi and Friends on the Outside by Annabel Moodie take jury prizes. The 17th annual celebration of short film finished with the awards ceremony, following a packed five day programme of events across the city Glasgow Film Festival 2024 announced the winners […]
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Monday, March 25, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
National Theatre Live: The Motive and The Cue
26th March, 2024 7 p.m. Sam Mendes (The Lehman Trilogy) directs Mark Gatiss as John Gielgud and Johnny Flynn as Richard Burton in this fierce and funny new play. 1964: Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new Broadway production of Hamlet under John Gielgud’s exacting […]
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Thursday, March 21, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World
25 – 28 March, 2024 Radu Jude’s latest satire takes us on an absurdist road trip through Romania past and present as a worn-out production assistant tries to make a workplace safety video come together. Radu Jude’s Locarno award-winning follow up to Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn takes us on an absurdist road trip […]
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The Bride Wore Red
25 and 27 March, 2024 ‘We breathe, we sleep and we get hungry too, very much like human beings.’ In this glamorous but sharp edged romantic comedy, Joan Crawford stars as Anni Pavlovitch, a singer at a downmarket cabaret who is hired by a wily Count to impersonate an aristocrat at a swish Alpine resort. […]
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After Hours at GFT
22 – 28 March, 2024 For the March edition of Scorsese of the Month, we’re delighted to bring you the new 4K restoration of this darkly comic tale. What if that date you thought would never end didn’t? When an uptown New Yorker innocently meets a downtown girl, he’s uncontrollably drawn into a vortex of […]
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The Delinquents
22 – 28 March, 2024 Beguiling and unpredictable, Cannes Un Certain Regard breakout The Delinquents reinvents the heist film as a free-flowing adventure like no other. Buenos Aires bank employee Morán (Daniel Eliás) dreams up a scheme to liberate himself from corporate monotony: he’ll steal enough money to support a modest retirement, then confess and […]
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Copa 71
23 – 28 March, 2024 Told by the pioneering women who participated in it and built from archive unseen for 50 years, this is the extraordinary story of the 1971 Women’s Football World Cup. This was a tournament unlike anything that’s happened before, and it’s likely you’ve never even heard of it. Dismissed by both […]
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Take 2: Glasgow Short Film Festival Family Shorts
Saturday 23 March, 2024 11.30 a.m. Journey through time and space in Glasgow Short Film Festival’s Family Shorts programme: visiting giant chickens, sneezing crocodiles, and floating houses. Travel to the past to build a house with cavemen or resist the sheep king’s reign of terror. Or, to a distant future to work alongside robot bees […]
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Vanya
24 March, 2024, 6.40 p.m. National Theatre Live Andrew Scott (Fleabag) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) radical new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. Hopes, dreams, and regrets are thrust into sharp focus in this one-man adaptation which explores the complexities of human emotions. […]
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That They May Face The Rising Sun
In Cinemas Throughout Scotland from 26 April, 2024 Irish auteur Pat Collins’ third narrative feature is in cinemas from 26 April That They May Face The Rising Sun is set in rural 1980s Ireland and is an adaptation of the final novel from Booker-nominated Irish writer John McGahern NOMINATED for 11 Irish Film and Television […]
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Perfect Days
22 – 28 March, 2024 Nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 2024 Oscars, the highly anticipated return to fiction feature filmmaking from Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas, Wings of Desire ) takes the seasoned writer-director to Tokyo to tell a story celebrating the hidden joys and minutiae of Japanese culture. In a deeply moving […]
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Wednesday, March 20, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
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