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.Uproar GYFF 2024
Saturday 14th September, 2024 8 p.m. Scottish Premiere In 1981 New Zealand, 17-year old Josh Waaka navigates rugby-centric St Gilbert’s College. Amidst the Springboks’ tour and national protests, he embraces acting and his Māori heritage. Josh faces a choice: conform or stand up for family, future and identity. Uproar is his heartwarming journey against the […]
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Friday, September 6, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2024
Clue – Glasgow Youth Film Festival
13 September, 2024, 8.30 p.m. Was it the Butler? Was it Miss Scarlet or Colonel Mustard? Were they in the library or the billiard room? And was it the candlestick or the pipe? Join us at our Cult Classic screening of Clue, where Tim Curry and a talented cast bring the board game Cluedo to life […]
Bookworm GYFF
Friday, September, 13, 2004 Opening Gala screening of charming comedy Bookworm. Thirteen year old Mildred’s life is turned upside down when her mother lands in hospital and her estranged, American magician father, Strawn Wise (Elijah Wood), comes to look after her. Hoping to entertain the bookish tween, Strawn takes Mildred camping in the notoriously rugged […]
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Omniplex Cinema Clydebank National Cinema Day
National Cinema Day Saturday 31 August 2024 See any movie you like including new films such as Deadpool & Wolverine, Alien: Romulus and Despicable Me 4, at any time of the day for a discounted price. Buy tickets Some classics as part of a ‘Bring It Back’ series will play including Star Wars: Episode IV […]
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Tuesday, August 27, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
3 Women at GFT
Monday 26 August, 2024 at 8.10 p.m. In a dusty, underpopulated California resort town, a naive southern waif, Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek), idolizes and befriends her fellow nurse, the would-be sophisticate and “thoroughly modern” Millie Lammoreaux (Shelley Duvall). When Millie takes Pinky in as her roommate, Pinky’s hero worship evolves into something far stranger and […]
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Friday, August 23, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
City of Hope at GFT
Sunday 25 and Wednesday 28 August, 2024 City of Hope is John Sayles’s elegy for the ruined dreams of one segment of urban American society, focusing on the network of greed and influence surrounding an urban development plan and its effects on the innocent and guilty alike. With more than 50 principal tangentially connected principal […]
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The Mountain Within Me at GFT
23 – 29 August, 2024 After suffering a catastrophic and almost fatal spinal cord injury, professional rugby player Ed Jackson’s world changed forever. The Mountain Within Me follows Ed’s journey on his recovery as he achieves the mental and physical heights of Snowdonia, the Alps and Himalayas to the life-altering challenges closer to home. From multi-award-winning director, Polly […]
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Celluloid Underground at GFT
23 – 28 August, 2024 Celluloid Underground is an autobiographical feature-length documentary by Iranian filmmaker, writer and curator Ehsan Khoshbakht, about his experience of growing up in Iran after the 1979 revolution, when his love of cinema became the catalyst for his rebellion against the Islamic regime. It’s the story of his friendship with the […]
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Queer Sundays at GFT: Go Fish
Sunday 25 August, 2024 – 7.40 p.m. GFT 12 Rose Street, Glasgoe G3 6RB 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 to tell stories that centred on queer themes. The July to September screenings of Queer Cinema […]
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Cuckoo at GFT
23 – 29 August, 2024 Seventeen-year-old Gretchen (Hunter Schafer) reluctantly leaves America to live with her father at a resort in the German Alps. Plagued by strange noises and bloody visions, she soon discovers a shocking secret that concerns her own family. GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Buy tickets
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Between the Temples
23 – 29 August, 2024 A cantor (Jason Schwartzman) in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher (Carol Kane) re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student. GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Buy tickets
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Take 2: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Saturday 24 August, 2024 – 11.30 a.m. While truant from school, young siblings Jeremy and Jemima meet the beautiful Truly Scrumptious (Sally Ann Howes), who falls for their widowed father, Caractacus Potts (Dick Van Dyke), and his various oddball inventions, including the family’s noisy rebuilt car, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. One day at the beach, […]
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Close to You at GFT
30 August – 5 September, 2024 Sam (Elliot Page) hasn’t been home since his transition. After four years in Toronto, he takes a long-dreaded trip back to his hometown for his father’s birthday, where he confronts unresolved wounds and reconnects with an old flame. Buy tickets GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB
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Thursday, August 22, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
The Lady from Shanghai at GFT
Saturday 17th August at 6 p.m. and Wednesday 21 at 2.20 p.m. Orson Welles plays a lonesome Irish sailor, Michael O’Hara, who gets hired to work on a yacht belonging to a well-known criminal lawyer, Arthur Bannister. However, what draws O’Hara to work on the boat is not the offer of employment but Bannister’s wife, […]
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Thursday, August 15, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
The Mountain Within Me at GFT
Wednesday 21 August, 2024 at 8.30 p.m. After suffering a catastrophic and almost fatal spinal cord injury, professional rugby player Ed Jackson’s world changed forever. The Mountain Within Me follows Ed’s journey on his recovery as he achieves the mental and physical heights of Snowdonia, the Alps and Himalayas to the life-altering challenges closer to home. From multi-award-winning director, Polly […]
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The Last Temptation of Christ plus introduction
Monday 19 August, 2024 7.15 p.m. August’s edition of Scorsese of the Month is selected and introduced by GFT Programme Manager Paul Gallagher. Never one to shy away from a challenge, Martin Scorsese dived headlong into controversy with his 1988 adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis’ novel, an exploration of Jesus’ humanity and divinity that imagined the possibility of […]
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The Turin House at GFT
Saturday 17 and Wednesday 21 August, 2024 Taking its cue from Nietsche’s famous encounter with a mistreated horse on Via Carlo Alberto, The Turin Horse depicts the aftermath of this seemingly innocuous but destructively profound confrontation. Following a man and his daughter in their daily routine, a bizarre series of disturbing events slowly begin to […]
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Only The River Flows at GFT
Friday 16 – Thursday 22 August, 2o24 Overview This moody Asian-noir crime thriller, laced with dark humour, charts a detective’s attempts to identify a serial killer in a rural town as the secrets of the locals are gradually revealed. A quick arrest after a murder sits uneasily with chief of police Ma Zhe (Yilong Zhu), […]
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Lone Star at GFT
Friday 16 – Thursday 22 August, 2024 All screenings of Lone Star will include a new recorded introduction from director John Sayles and producer Maggi Renzi. In the Texas border town of Frontera, Sheriff Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper) digs up the past when he finds an old skull in the desert. As he traces the murder of […]
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Dìdi (弟弟) at GFT
Friday 16 to Thursday 22 August, 2024 In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mum. English and Mandarin with English subtitles GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 […]
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Longlegs at GFT
Friday 16 – Thursday 22 August, 2024 FBI agent Lee Harker is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer. As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of connections to occult practices, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop […]
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Tale 2: A Greyhound of a Girl GFT
Saturday 17 August, 2024 – 11.30 a.m. English, Luxembourgish, Italian and German with English subtitles. 11-year-old Mary has an insatiable passion for cooking, and dreams of becoming a great chef. Her grandmother Emer, with whom she has a very special relationship, encourages her to make this dream come true. But every path has its obstacles […]
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Poor Things plus Introduction
Sunday 18 August, 2024, 6.50 p.m. Introduced by Rodge Glass, novelist and Alasdair Gray’s biographer. From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes an incredible adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s landmark novel. The story tells of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox […]
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Alasdair Gray: A Life in Progress at GFT
Sunday, 18 August, 2024, 3.45 p.m. Progressed with Original Scenes relating to Poor Things – Followed by a Q&A with director Kevin Cameron. Alasdair Gray was, at the point of his death in 2019, Scotland’s foremost writer and artist. He had written the leading novel of 20th Century Scottish literature in Lanark, and hand painted […]
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Take 2: Nanny McPhee at GFT
Saturday 10 August, 2024 – 11.30 a.m. Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the children’s great-aunt and benefactor, Lady Adelaide Stitch, threatens to separate the […]
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Friday, August 9, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
The Long Goodbye at GFT
Saturday 3 and Monday 5 August, 2024 In his books The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye, novelist Raymond Chandler’s depictions of the sunny mean streets of Los Angeles and his wise-cracking private eye Philip Marlowe became a classic template for Hollywood cinema of the 1940s. Robert Altman gives that format a distinctly 1970s LA […]
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Friday, August 2, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Alma’s Rainbow at GFT
Friday 2 – Thursday 8 August, 2024 A coming-of-age comedy-drama about three African American women living in Brooklyn, Alma’s Rainbow explores the life of teenager Rainbow Gold (Victoria Gabrielle Platt) as she enters womanhood and navigates standards of beauty, self-image, and the rights women have over their bodies. Rainbow attends a strict parochial school, studies […]
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Werckmeister Harmonies at GFT
Friday 2 till Thursday 8 August, 2024 An innocent young man witnesses violence break out after an isolated village is inflamed by the arrival of a circus and its peculiar attractions: a giant whale and a mysterious man named “The Prince”. Screening as part of Will Heaven Fall Upon Us? A Béla Tarr Retrospective. Hungarian […]
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The Echo at GFT
Friday 2 till Thursday 8 August, 2024 In the remote village of El Echo that exists outside of time, the children care for the sheep and their elders. While the frost and drought punish the land, they learn to understand death, illness and love with each act, word and silence of their parents. A story […]
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Shayda at GFT
Friday 2 – Thursday 8 August, 2024 Shayda, a brave Iranian mother, finds refuge in an Australian women’s shelter with her six-year-old daughter. Over Persian New Year, they take solace in Nowruz rituals and new beginnings, but when her estranged husband re-enters their lives, Shayda’s path to freedom is jeopardised. Drawn from personal experiences, Iranian-Australian […]
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