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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Thursday, March 21, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people
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
Dance Girl, Dance
12 – 30 March, 2024 The screening on Thurs 14 March (20.40) will have an extended introduction to the Dorothy Arzner CineMasters season, by Lauren Clarke of Invisible Women. ‘What’s it for? So you can go home when the show’s over, strut before your wives and sweethearts and play at being the stronger sex for […]
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Friday, March 15, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Drive-Away Dolls
15 – 28 March, 2024 Ethan Coen’s solo directorial debut co-written by long-time Coen Brothers collaborator Tricia Cooke, this comedy caper follows Jamie, an uninhibited free spirit bemoaning yet another breakup with a girlfriend, and her demure friend Marian who desperately needs to loosen up. In search of a fresh start, the two embark on […]
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Banel and Adama
16 – 21 March, 2024 A young couple living in remote Senegal, whose star-crossed love is in conflict with family tradition, face a new challenge as drought hits their village. Banel and Adama are fiercely in love. The young couple live in a remote village in northern Senegal and for them, nothing else in the […]
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Showing Up
17 – 24 March, 2024 The latest film from Kelly Reichardt (First Cow, Meek’s Cutoff) first screened at Cannes Film Festival in 2022, and is now finally available for UK cinemas to show — so we are taking the opportunity! Reuniting Reichardt with her regular collaborator Michelle Williams, Showing Up is an understated, character-centred drama […]
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One From the Heart: Reprise
17 and 18 March, 2024 Francis Ford Coppola’s vibrant love story set amidst the neon glitter of Las Vegas returns in mesmerising 4K. Hank and Frannie don’t seem to be able to live together anymore. After a five-year relationship, lustful and dreamy Frannie leaves down-to-earth Hank on the anniversary of their relationship. Each one of […]
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Janey: On Screen & On Stage
Presented by Cosmic Cat and Hopscotch Films Janey will be out in cinemas across the country from 15 March, 2024 “A great comedian and an extraordinary life” Billy Connolly Janey Godley to tour Scotland with special screenings of the new feature documentary about her life accompanied by an exclusive live stand-up set based around outtakes […]
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Thursday, March 14, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Mom – review by Danielle O’Neill
Mom Glasgow FrightFest – part of Glasgow Film Festival, 2024 Mom dares to use the taboo subject of post partum depression combined with what may or may not be supernatural external forces. This is an unsettling, dark film which sees Meredith, a new mother with a seemingly doting husband and a beautiful lavish home, slowly […]
Love Lies Bleeding, GFF24, review by Pat Byrne
Love Lies Bleeding GFF24 Opening Gala Fasten your seatbelts, folks as sex, drugs, violence and bitterness explode onto the screen in Rose Glass’ movie ‘Love Lies Bleeding’. Rose Glass’s second film, following her debut, the critically acclaimed Saint Maud, was the choice for the Opening Gala at GFF24. It premiered at Sundance and the Berlin […]
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Audience Award Glasgow Film Festival 2024
The Home Game Icelandic football film The Home Game scoops prestigious Audience Award on closing night of Glasgow Film Festival Smari Gunn and Logi Sigursveinsson’s documentary about plucky underdogs Reynir FC’s bid for Cup glory scored the highest audience score in the Award’s 10-year history Other films shortlisted for the Award, sponsored by MUBI, included […]
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Monday, March 11, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2024, Pat's Home Page Blog
Glasgow Film Festival Industry Programme – 10 Year Vision
Glasgow Film Festival Industry Focus 2024 has unveiled its 10-Year Vision for Glasgow Film Festival’s Industry programme, with ambitious plans to become the UK’s main destination for independent filmmakers Scottish writer-Director Selina Wagner has been awarded £5000 in development funding for animation project Tirrick following success at inaugural Animatic Live Pitches Over 5 days, delegates […]
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Friday, March 8, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2024, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
I Dream In Photos GFF24
7 and 8 March, 2024 Scottish Premiere Festival alumni Gary Lennon and Ollie Aslin (Casto Spies) explore the life and work of photographer Cathal McNaughton on a hiatus from photography, as he reflects on his impressive and emotionally taxing career. Northern Irish photographer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 Cathal McNaughton contemplates the […]
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Wednesday, March 6, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2024
Rosalie GFF24
9 and 10 March, 2024 A period drama about a woman who suffers from hirsutism – making her what is considered a ‘bearded lady’. She keeps it a secret until a man marries her for her dowry. In 1870s France, a young woman is keeping a closely guarded secret. Rosalie (Nadia Tereskiewicz) was born with […]
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Young Film Fans – GFT Course for 11-14 year olds
Our Young Film Fans course helps you understand films better and start to develop your own ideas. The next course starts in April 2024 and applications are now open – just fill in and return the application form by 5pm on Wednesday 12 March. Glasgow Film Education What is it? Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) is running a specialised […]
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Take 2: The Little Princess
Saturday 9 March, 2024 11.30 a.m. A heart-warming family tale of hope in the face of adversity, starring the iconic Shirley Temple as a little girl who refuses to believe her father is dead. One of Hollywood’s most iconic child stars, Shirley Temple had already notched up a special juvenile Academy Award four years before […]
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GFF24 Special Event: The Wizard of Oz
Thursday 7 March, 2024 8pm Cottiers, 91 – 93 Hyndland Street, G11 5PU Join GFF at Cottiers for a very special screening as they celebrate the year 1939, which not only marks the film’s release but also the year that the Cosmo Cinema (now GFT) was founded. After a tornado sweeps though their home, Dorothy […]
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The Home Game GFF24
6 and 7 March, 2024 The real story of how a plucky village football team became determined to play a home game in Iceland’s FA Cup is a celebration of team spirit for underdogs everywhere. In 1994 one man in the Icelandic village of Hellissandur (population: 369) had a dream to build a football pitch […]
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Glasgow FrightFest – In Flames – UK Premiere
7 March, 2024 – UK Premiere also showing 8 March, 2024. – Buy tickets In Flames is an incendiary horror-thriller that illuminates the psychological impact of gendered oppression and the horror of being young and in love in a fiercely patriarchal society. After the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter’s precarious existence […]
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Gestures of Memory: R21 AKA Restoring Solidarity
Friday, 8 March, 2024 – 8.30 p.m. CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Upon receiving a mystery package containing 16mm film, the filmmaker scanned it to reveal twenty lost films collected by the Japanese activists who were part of the country’s solidarity movement with Palestine. Excerpts of these archival films captured by filmmakers in various […]
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Late Bloomers GFF24
10 March, 2024, 1.30 p.m. Starring Scottish superstar and festival favourite Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy), Late Bloomers is a dark comedy that’s bursting with feeling and laugh out loud humour. When a struggling musician’s questionable life choices leave her in hospital with a broken hip and a broken heart, her unlikely bond with […]
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Blue Sunshine
Tuesday 5 and Thursday 7 March, 2024 Buy tickets > This finely tuned drama focuses on the inner strength of a transgender teacher as she makes her transition to her new life as Bhanu while working in a conservative small-town school. When she finds herself under pressure to marry, she decides to embrace her new […]
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Glasgow FrightFest 2024 All You Need Is Death
9 March, 2024 at 8.25 p.m. ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH (GLASGOW FRIGHTFEST) Blending Irish folklore and musical traditions with nerve-wracking horror, Paul Duane’s masterful debut feature All You Need is Death is one of the most unique and unsettling films of the year. A young couple on a journey for dark, forbidden knowledge travel […]
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The Philadelphia Story, GFF24 at CCA
8 March, 2024 CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and James Stewart star as a dynamic threesome in this comedic romp. On the day before her wedding, an ex-husband (Grant) and an undercover journalist (Stewart) turn up on the door of a wealthy socialite (Hepburn). The Philadelphia Story was Katharine Hepburn’s […]
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Anatomy of a Fall
11 – 14 March, 2024 Buy tickets In this Palme d’Or-winning psychological thriller, a celebrated writer is put on trial when her husband falls to his death from their secluded chalet. What starts as a murder investigation soon becomes a gripping journey into the depths of a destructive marriage. 🏆 Nominated for five Oscars and […]
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The Holdovers
11 – Thursday 14 March, 2024 From Alexander Payne (Sideways), The Holdoversfollows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the students with nowhere to go. He forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker […]
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Tummy Monster, GFF24
7 March, 2024, 12.50 p.m. GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Rising Scottish star Lorn Macdonald (Beats) stars as a self-centred tattoo artist whose fixation on getting a selfie with a famous client embroils him in a bizarre and dangerous game. Glasgow-based director Ciaran Lyons makes a virtue of his low budget in this blackly […]
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Tuesday, March 5, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2024
The Invisible Fight
6 and 7 March, 2024 Heavy metal and kung-fu comedy come together with anarchic absurdity in this tale of a soldier whose brush with death leads him to decide to become a martial arts monk. The colourful exuberance and dodgy fashions of the 1970s are perfectly captured in Rainer Sarnet’s anarchic kung-fu comedy. When Black […]
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