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.The Mastermind at GFT
Tuesday 14 October 2025. 8.20 p.m. Josh O’Connor is superb as a rudderless everyman out of step with his immediate environs and the country at large, in Kelly Reichardt’s funny, shaggy heist film. 1970s America has witnessed a generational chasm and a society torn apart by Vietnam. But JB is oblivious to these cultural changes as he bumbles […]
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Monday, October 13, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Rental Family at GFT
Thursday 16 October, 2025, 8.20 p.m. After his Oscar success with The Whale, Brendan Fraser returns to LFF, starring in HIKARI’s rich and heartwarming tale of a struggling American actor searching for a connection in Tokyo. Phillip Vanderpleog (Fraser) lives in the Japanese capital. Looking for any work opportunities, he is employed by a ‘rental family’ company, which provides clients […]
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A House of Dynamite at GFT
3 – 16 October, 2025 When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond. ★★★★★ ‘Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear endgame thriller is a terrifying, white-knuckle comeback’ – The Guardian Buy tickets GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB
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Urchin at GFT
3 – 16 October, 2025 The stunning directorial debut from Harris Dickinson, powered by an outstanding, award-winning performance from Frank Dillane. Mike (Dillane), a rough sleeper on the streets of London, is trapped in a cycle of self-destruction as he attempts to turn his life around. Moving between short-term jobs and small-time hustles, he must balance the […]
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Take 2: Elio at GFT
Saturday, 11 October, 2025 11.30 a.m. Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic misadventure where he must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions and somehow discover who he is truly meant to be. GFT, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Buy tickets
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Wednesday, October 8, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people
Samizdat: Eastern European Film Festival
30 September – 3 October, 2025 Named after the practice of clandestine dissemination of censored and forbidden texts in communist states, Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival is returning for 2025 with an as-ever eclectic mix of some of the most exciting, powerful, thoughtful, weird and wonderful filmmaking from Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus. […]
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Friday, October 3, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog
Take 2: Natures Resources at GFT
Saturday 4 October, 2025 11.30 a.m. Fashion curator Isabella Coraça will guide children through this special programme of animations showcasing the harmonious collaboration between humans and non-human species. Across the history of cinema, children’s animated films have conveyed profound wisdom by exploring the cooperation of human and non-human species and contemplating the uncertain boundary where […]
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The Wiz plus introduction
Monday 6 October, 2025, 7.45 p.m. Legendary music producer Quincy Jones teamed up with Charlie Smalls to bring the 1974 Broadway musical The Wiz to the big screen, with the help of an all-star African American cast. Directed by Academy Award nominee Sidney Lumet, this lively retelling of The Wizard of Oz stars Diana Ross as Dorothy, while music […]
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| Filed under: Black History Month Glasgow, Cinema
Ocean with David Attenborough: Community Screening & Q&A at GFT
Monday, October 13, 2025 at 10am – 12pm Doors at 9:45 a.m. By Marine Conservation Society Afree screening of Ocean with David Attenborough, hosted by the Marine Conservation Society and followed by a Q &A. The Marine Conservation Society are hosting a free screening of Ocean with David Attenborough – a stunning documentary showing us […]
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It Was Just An Accident at GFT
Saturday 11 October, 2025 at 5.20 p.m. Jafar Panahi’s critically acclaimed and deserving Palme d’Or winner is a muscular thriller and an engaging morality tale for our times. A minor traffic accident reunites two men with a shared past. One is set on revenge, but then doubts set in. Panahi (Crimson Gold, 3 Faces, No Bears) […]
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Wednesday, October 1, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
Gentle, Angy Women at GFT
Wednesday 1 2.10 p.m. and Thursday 2 October 3.10 p.m., 2025 A new generation of young female activists awakens to a powerful, forgotten chapter of women’s history. As they navigate the complexities of teenage life and social activism, three young women – Poppy (16), Xanthe (17), and Evie (19) – discover the remarkable Greenham Common […]
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Saturday, September 27, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
The Lost Bus at GFT
26 September – 2 October, 2025 From director Paul Greengrass and inspired by real events, The Lost Bus is a white-knuckle ride through one of America’s deadliest wildfires as a wayward school bus driver (Matthew McConaughey) and a dedicated school teacher (America Ferrera) battle to save 22 children from the terrifying inferno. ‘White knuckle riveting’ — Roger Ebert Buy tickets GFT […]
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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 […]
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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- Woodlands Community – Anti Racist Film Club
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- Hotel Transylvania at GFT
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest – 50th Anniversary
- Hedda at GFT
- October 2025 Programme at GFT
- Shallow Grave, Galoshans Film Festival Greenock
- Kenny Dalglish at GFT
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- Chasing the Light – screening at CCA
- Princess Mononoke at GFT
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- Ballad of a Small Player at GFT
