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.Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2025
Friday 26 until Sunday 28 September, 2025 This year’s Glasgow Youth Film Festival programme is bursting with special screenings and educational events. See full programmme GYFF 2025 Opening Film On Friday 26 September, GYFF25 opens with the Scottish Premiere of Plainclothes, the Sundance award-winning romantic thriller starring Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey. Closing Event […]
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Friday, September 26, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Kids and young people, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Take 2: Fantastic Mr Fox at GFT
Saturday 27 September, 2025 11.30 a.m. Fantastic Mr Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family. Part of Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2025. Every child attending a Take 2 screening receives […]
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Brides at GFT
26 September – 2 October, 2025 ‘A poignant and purposeful attempt to look behind the headlines’ – Deadline Teenage best friends Doe and Muna are setting off on what appears to be the adventure of a lifetime. Doe, quiet and observant, hasn’t travelled since arriving in the UK as a Somali refugee at the age of […]
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Reality Is Not Enough at GFT
At GFT until 2 October, 2025 One of the most controversial writers of our times, join Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh as he undergoes a remarkable trip to find new meaning in his work, life and legacy. Irvine Welsh is at a crossroads. After experiencing the huge success of several film adaptations and six million books […]
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There Will Be Blood at GFT
19 – 25 September, 2025 A sprawling epic about family, faith, power and oil, There Will Be Blood chronicles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon. He takes a chance when he hears of a […]
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Friday, September 19, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
Can I Get A Witnss at GFT
19 – 24 September, 2025 Can I Get a Witness, a film by Ann Marie Fleming starring Sandra Oh, is a radical eco thriller set in the not-too-distant future, which imagines a healing planet, but at what price for humanity? In the near-future, climate change is mitigated, global poverty is eradicated, and all species on the planet can […]
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Islands at GFT
19 – 25 September, 2025 ★★★★★ ‘A scorching, sun-frazzled Hitchcockian delight.’ The London Standard Between drinking sessions and one-night stands, washed-up tennis pro Tom (Sam Riley) clings to a job coaching holidaymakers at a hotel in Fuerteventura. When an English couple (Stacy Martin and Jack Farthing) arrive, their presence sets off a chain of events that […]
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Happyend at GFT
19 – 25 September, 2025 Set in a dystopian near-future Tokyo, Neo Sora’s striking debut feature explores a group of teenagers rebelling against societal expectations. The film offers a vivid coming-of-age portrait, following best friends Yuta and Kou as they confront a world where AI surveillance is tightening under the yoke of oppressive authoritarianism. Infused with raw […]
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Steve at GFT
19 – 25 September, 2025 Set in the mid-1990s, Steve is a reimagining of Max Porter’s Sunday Times bestseller Shy. Cillian Murphy stars alongside Emily Watson and Simbi Ajikawo (Little Simz) as a headteacher at a last-chance reform school amidst a world that has forsaken its students. As Steve fights to protect the school’s integrity and impending closure, we witness him grappling with his […]
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The Sound of Music – 60th Anniversary
20, 21 and 23 September, 2025 Experience the breathtaking theatrical presentation of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s iconic musical film The Sound of Music. Meticulously restored and remastered in 4K for its 60th anniversary, the beloved classic is more brilliant than ever with pristine picture and sound. In this true-life story, Julie Andrews lights up the screen as Maria, […]
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Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
The Golden Spurtle at GFT
12 – 25 September, 2025 ★★★★ “A palate-pleasing celebration of the noble oat” – The Guardian Dating back to neolithic times, few culinary traditions have survived as long as the hearty bowl of morning porridge. Despite its simple recipe of oats, salt and water, a lot can vary. Each year the sleepy highland village of Carrbridge […]
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Friday, September 12, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, Community event
From Ground Zero at GFT
12 – 17 September, 2025 Wistful, heartbreaking, hopeful and urgent. Palestine’s official entry to the 2025 Academy Awards, From Ground Zero, brings dozens of emerging Palestinian artists to the fore in an urgent cry for humanity from a people under siege. Each film, ranging in length from 3 to 6 minutes, presents a unique perspective on […]
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Take 2: The Smurfs at GFT
Saturday, 13 September, 2025 STANDARD SCREENING: 11:30AM AUTISM-FRIENDLY SCREEing 12PM When Papa Smurf is mysteriously taken by evil wizards, Razamel and Gargamel, Smurfette leads the Smurfs on a mission into the real world to save him. With the help of new friends, the Smurfs must discover what defines their destiny to save the universe. How […]
Highest 2 Lowest at GFT
6 – 11 September, 2025 When a titan music mogul (Denzel Washington), widely known as having the “best ears in the business”, is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma. Denzel Washington and Spike Lee reunite for the 5th in their long working relationship for a reinterpretation of the great […]
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Friday, September 5, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
Young Mothers at GFT
6 – 11 September, 2025 The Dardenne brothers once again bring audiences a moving portrayal of real lives with their latest social-realist drama Young Mothers, which took home the Best Screenplay prize at Cannes earlier this year. Following five adolescent mothers living together at a maternal support home in Belgium, the film is a true-to-life portrait of […]
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Christy at GFT
6 – 18 September, 2025 17-year-old Christy is at a crossroads. Kicked out of his suburban foster home, he moves in with his estranged older brother Shane and his young family. As far as Shane is concerned this is a temporary arrangement, but Christy begins to feel at home on Cork’s working-class Northside. Shane wants […]
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Boogie Nights at GFT
6,7, 8 and 10 September, 2025 Paul Thomas Anderson’s Oscar-nominated masterpiece, Boogie Nights dives into the American sex film industry of the 1970s, propelled by elaborate visuals and a killer soundtrack. Idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in […]
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Take 2: Azur and Asmar: The Princes’ Quest at GFT
Saturday 6 February, 2025 at 11.30 a.m. Raised on tales of a Djinn fairy princess, Azur, a young Frenchman goes to North Africa in search of the sprite, only to discover that his close childhood friend, Asmar, an Arab youth whose mother raised both boys also seeks the genie. Tickets. Every child attending a Take […]
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Paul & Paulette Take A Bath
5 – 11 September, 2025 An unconventional romantic comedy about a young American photographer and a French woman with a taste for the macabre. The winner of Critic’s Week Audience Award at last year’s Venice Film Festival, Paul & Paulette Take A Bath follows the titular couple after a chance encounter on a Parisian boulevard sparks an […]
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Days of Being Wild at GFT
Saturday 6, September 2025 – 2.15 p.m. Tuesday 9, September 2025 – 8.40 p.m. Wong Kar Wai’s breakthrough sophomore feature represents the first full flowering of his swooning signature style. The first film in a loosely connected, ongoing cycle that includes In the Mood for Love and 2046, this ravishing existential reverie is a dreamlike drift through the Hong […]
Whiplash plus Allison Gardner at GFT
Sunday, September 14th September, 2026 – 1.45 p.m. GFT 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Mark a momentous occasion at GFT as the one and only Allison Gardner retires from her dual roles as CEO of Glasgow Film and Director of Glasgow Film Festival after more than 30 years with the organisation. Allison will take […]
Caught Stealing at GFT
12 – 18 September, 2025 Hank Thompson (Austin Butler) was a high-school baseball phenom who can’t play anymore, but everything else is going okay. He’s got a great girl (Zoë Kravitz), barkeeps at a New York dive, and his favourite team is making an underdog run at the pennant. When his punk-rock neighbour Russ (Matt […]
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Thursday, September 4, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk at GFT
30 August – 4 September, 2025 Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk offers an intimate, first-hand perspective of life in Gaza, told through a series of video calls between filmmaker Sepideh Farsi and young Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona. Their digital dialogue became a vital record, bearing witness to everyday life, loss, and acts of resistance amid escalating […]
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Friday, August 29, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog
Jaws 50 at GFT
Saturday 30 August – Thursday 4 September, 2025 You’re gonna need a bigger screen! Five decades since its original release, Jaws’ story of failed leadership in the face of a mounting deadly crisis is more relevant than ever. A local sheriff, a marine biologist and an old seafarer set out to capture a great white shark, and […]
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Take 2: Treasure Planet at GFT
Saturday 30 August, 2025 at 11.30 a.m. When space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)discovers a map to an intergalactic “loot of a thousand worlds,” a cyborg cook named John Silver teaches him to battle supernovas and space storms on their journey to find treasure. Tickets Every child attending a Take 2 screening receives […]
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The Toxic Avenger Uncut at GFT
Saturday August, 30, 2025, 6 p.m. Sunday, August 31, 2025, 7.10 p.m. September, 4 2025 8.15 p.m. When a downtrodden janitor, Winston Gooze (Peter Dinklage), is exposed to a catastrophic toxic accident, he’s transformed into a new kind of hero: The Toxic Avenger. Now, Toxie must rise from outcast to saviour, taking on ruthless corporate […]
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Cineworld Big Screen Weekend
Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 August, 2025 All tickets only £4 each. At all Cineworld Cinemas including Renfrew Street, Glasgow. Buy tickets Films Screening
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Tomboy at GFT
Sunday 31 August, 2025, 7.30 p.m. For the August Queer Cinema Sundays screening, GFT showing the second feature by director Celine Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Petite Maman) which offers a tender exploration of youth and gender identity. Upon arriving in a new neighbourhood on the outskirts of Paris one summer before school starts, […]
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As Tears Go By
Saturday 30 August, 2025 2.20 p.m. Tuesday 2 September, 2024 8.30 p.m. In the Mood for Love, director Wong Kar Wai’s scintillating debut feature is a kinetic, hyper-cool crime thriller graced with flashes of the impressionistic, daydream visual style for which he would become renowned. Set amidst Hong Kong’s ruthless, neon-lit gangland underworld, this operatic saga of […]
Sex (Oslo Stories Trilogy) at GFT
22 – 28 August, 2025 GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Part of Dag Johan Haugerud’s trilogy of stand-alone films ruminating on modern relationships, Sex follows two men, both in heterosexual marriages, who have an unexpected experience that challenges them to reconsider their understanding of sexuality, gender, and identity. One has a sexual encounter with another man, […]
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Friday, August 22, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
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