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Cinema Listings Glasgow

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.

Scotland Loves Anime 2024

Scotland Loves Anime

1 – 3 November, 2024 The ever-popular Scotland Loves Anime weekend event returns to Glasgow Film Theatre November 1-3! 9, 2024, fantastic anime films round out the programme, with individual titles on sale now, including UK premieres, European premieres, and even a late-night performance. Totto-chan (2023, Shinnosuke Yakuwa) – November 1 The Birth of Kitaro: The […]

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It’s A Wonderful Life

It's a wonderful life

13 – 24 December, 2024 Beset with personal and professional problems, George Bailey (James Stewart) finds his previously happy life falling apart around him on Christmas Eve. Seeing no way out, George considers suicide from the edge of a bridge – but Clarence, his guardian angel, intervenes and shows George what his beloved hometown of […]

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Friday, October 11, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema

Harder Than The Rock

harder than the rock

Saturday 12 October, 2024.  5.45 p.m. Plus recorded Q & A director Mark Warmington in discussion with filmmaker, DJ and musician Don Letts, recorded at the film’s World Premiere during Sheffield Doc Fest. Harder Than The Rock is the fascinating story of Cimarons, the first UK band to embrace the thrilling new sound coming out of […]

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Take 2: Inside Out 2

take 2 inside out

Saturday, 12 October, 2024 11.30 a.m. Every child attending a Take 2 screening receives a free ticket for themselves and one free ticket for their accompanying adult. Free tickets are only issued on the day of the screening. Children under the age of 8 must be accompanied by an adult. Additional tickets and/or tickets purchased […]

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Monday, October 7, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people

Black History Month: Snapshot Shorts GFT

snaphot shorts

Sunday 5 October, 2024, 2.15 p.m. Buy tickets Snapshot Shorts, presented by TAPE, is a series of short coming-of-age films that take us on a rollercoaster of teenage angst, mother & daughter relationships and the sweet liberation of finding your tribe. This screening will be followed by the ‘Snapshots and Snippets Collage Workshop’ with artist […]

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Take 2: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 20th Anniversary

Harry Potter the prisoner of azkaban

Saturday 5 October, 2024, 11.30 a.m. Buy tickets Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban… and he’s coming for Harry Potter! Harry, Ron and Hermione return as teenagers for a third term at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. But Harry’s fate, and that of the entire community of wizards, looks bleak when the infamous Sirius […]

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Take 2: My Neighbour Totoro at GFT

my neighbour totoro

Saturday 28 September, 2024 11.30 .a.m. Dubbed Screening 12.p.m. Autism Friendly Satsuki and Mei’s mother has taken ill. In order to be closer to her while she recovers in a rural convalescent hospital, their father moves the two sisters from their home in a city to the countryside. The house they move into is a […]

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Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people

My Own Private Idaho at GFT

my own private idaho

Sunday 29 October, 2024 – 7 p.m. Queer Sundays at GFT Buy tickets Introduced by music, film and arts writer Claire Biddles. In 1992, film critic B Ruby Rich coined 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 […]

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If Beale Sreet Could Talk at GFT

if beale street coul talk

Thursday, 26 September, 2024 at 8 p.m. Buy tickets Based on the 1974 novel by James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talkis the story of Tish, a newly engaged young woman in Harlem, and her artist fiancé Alonzo ‘Fonny’ Hunt. When Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit, Tish races against the […]

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Megapolis at GFT

megapolis

27 September – 10 October, 2024 Buy tickets Francis Ford Coppola returns with a Roman epic fable set in an imagined Modern America. The City of New Rome must change, causing conflict between Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver), a genius artist who seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero […]

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The Outrun at GFT

the outrun

27 September – 7 October, 2024 The Outrun is a searingly honest drama about addiction, survival and the power of nature to restore life and renew hope, adapted from the bestselling book by Amy Liptrot. After a decade away in London, 29-year-old Rona (Saoirse Ronan) returns home to the Orkney Islands. Sober but lonely, she […]

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Conversations with Baldwin: James Baldwin on Film, GFT

conversations with baldwin

Thursday 26 – Saturday 28 September, 2024 Buy tickets Conversations with Baldwin: James Baldwin on Film celebrates the centenary of the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin (1924 – 1987) with a season of films that present an intimate portrait of this 20th century icon in Europe and an award-winning adaptation of his exquisite […]

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Friday, September 20, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema

The Substance at GFT

the substance

Friday 20 September – Thursday 3 October, 2024 GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Buy tickets Demi Moore gives a career-best performance as Elisabeth Sparkle, a former A-lister past her prime and suddenly fired from her fitness TV show by repellent studio head Harvey (Dennis Quaid). She is then drawn to the opportunity presented by […]

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The Three Daughters at GFT

his three daughters

Friday 20 – Thursday 26 September, 2024 From Azazel Jacobs (French Exit, The Lovers) comes this bittersweet and funny story of an elderly patriarch and the three grown daughters — played by Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen and Natasha Lyonne — who come to be with him in his final days. Continuing his astute exploration of […]

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Kill at GFT

Friday 20 – Thursday 26 September, 2024 Buy tickets Stalking for deer in the remote Scottish wilderness, three brothers plot to put an end to their violent and abusive father, the man responsible for the recent death of their mother. They bury him in a shallow grave, but what should be a new beginning could […]

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Preview: The Outrun

the outrun

Monday 23 September, 2024, 8.10 p.m. Buy tickets Presented by Reclaim the Frame and introduced by Sandra Kinahan from Reclaim the Frame, with a pre-recorded on-screen introduction by author / screenwriter Amy Liptrot and producer Sarah Brocklehurst. The Outrun is a searingly honest drama about addiction, survival and the power of nature. After a decade […]

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The Quiet American

the quiet american

Saturday 21 – Thursday 25 September, 2024 This adaptation of the seminal Graham Greene novel is set in 1950s Saigon, as it struggles to emerge from colonial rule. Cynical British journalist Fowler (Michael Caine) falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve US official also begins vying for her […]

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The Great Gatsby plus Q & A with Craig Armstrong

the great gatsby

Wednesday 25 September, 2024 – 7 p.m. Luhrmann’s star-studded adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Long Island-set novel won Oscars for its costumes and production design, and is an absolute feast for the senses. Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his mysterious neighbour, Jay Gatsby, and his world of parties and glamour. […]

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Sonica: The High Frontier

sonica the high frontier

Tuesday, 24 September, 2024 – 7 p.m. As Earth’s population grows and resources dwindle, the idea of relocating to Mars gathers momentum. John Butler’s four animated films explore the journey from a collapsing Earth to a technofeudalist Martian society, where a hyper-wealthy founding class may create an unjust new world. The films will be followed […]

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Kneecap at G.F.T.

Kneecap

22 – 25 September, 2024 Of the 80,000 native Irish speakers, 6,000 live in the North of Ireland and three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This is the real-life story of how this anarchic Belfast trio became the unlikely figureheads of a civil rights movement to save and reinvigorate their mother tongue. […]

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Take 2: The Lego Batman Movie

take 2 batman movie

Saturday 21 September, 2024, 11.30 a.m. Screening on Batman day, The Lego Batman Movie sees a cooler-than-ever Bruce Wayne deal with the usual suspects as they plan to rule Gotham City, while discovering that he has accidentally adopted a teenage orphan who wishes to become his sidekick. Every child attending a Take 2 screening receives a free […]

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BFI London Film Festival at GFT

BFI Film festival 2024

Wednesday  9 – Monday 21 October, 2024 The 68th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express is brimming with the world’s best new films, series and immersive storytelling – and everyone is invited. This is your chance to delight in the undiscovered, as all feature films are being shown in the UK for […]

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The Critic

the critic

13 – 26 September, 2024 The Critic is a deliciously dark and sharp-witted thriller set in 1930s London ‘theatreland’ featuring an all-star cast including Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton, Mark Strong, Ben Barnes, Alfred Enoch, Romola Garai and Lesley Manville. When the most feared and vicious theatre critic in town Jimmy Erskine (McKellen), finds himself suddenly […]

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Firebrand at The Grosvenor

Firebrand

Friday 21 – Thursday 26 October, 2024 The Grosvenor Cinema, 24 Ashton Ln, Hillhead, Glasgow G12 8SJ In blood-soaked Tudor England, Katherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of King Henry VIII, is named Regent while tyrant Henry is fighting overseas. Buy tickets  

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Sonica Festival 2024

sonic festival

Full programme announced for Sonica Festival 2024, which will run at venues across Glasgow Events from the IMAX big screen to Govanhill Baths, 19th – 29th September, 2024 Sonica Festival  The eighth edition of the biennial festival for curious minds and adventurous spirits will showcase contemporary artists and musicians from across Egypt as well as […]

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Thursday, September 19, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers

Scrapper – Film Night at the Arlington

Scrapper

Saturday 21 September, 2024, 7 p.m. Arlington Baths Club,  61 Arlington St, Glasgow G3 6DT A towering achievement for a first film, Scrapper refuses to be pigeonholed as another dreary story about working-class life. Grief has hope Kicking off the 2024-5 film season in the club is Scrapper. A 2023 comedy drama. This is Charlotte […]

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Cinema Arc – University of Glasgow

Free screenings Advanced Research Centre , University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 19 September, 6.00 – 8.30 p.m. – Cuban Bees – part of Glasgow Doors Open Days Book place   Childish – 23 October, 2024 Book tickets CinemARC: Borderzone Saturday, November 16, 6 p.m. Information and tickets Eventbrite

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Orphans at GFT

Orphans

Sunday 8 September, 2024, 4.30 p.m. A group of four siblings reunite in Glasgow on the eve of their mother’s funeral, and the children mourn their mother’s passing in a variety of ways—sometimes heartfelt, sometimes bizarre. As a potential thunderstorm threatens to damage the city, the situation compounds itself. Craig Armstrong’s score for the film […]

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Saturday, September 7, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema

Take 2: Alice in Wonderland at GFT

alice in wonderland

Saturday, 7 September, 2024. 11.30a.m. Take 2: Alice in Wonderland On a golden afternoon, young Alice follows a White Rabbit, who disappears down a nearby rabbit hole. Quickly following him, she tumbles into the burrow – and enters the merry, topsy-turvy world of Wonderland! Memorable songs and whimsical escapades highlight Alice’s journey, which culminates in […]

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Firebrand at GFT

Firebrand

6 – 12 September, 2024 In blood-soaked Tudor England, twice married, accomplished, and educated Katherine Parr (Alicia Vikander), reluctantly agrees to become the sixth wife of the tyrannical King Henry VIII (Jude Law). Her consent to marry him carries great personal risk, given that her predecessors are either vanquished, beheaded, or dead. When Henry appoints […]

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