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 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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Thursday, August 15, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
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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My Neighbour Tortoro at GFT
Friday 2 – Wednesday 214 August, 2024 Following the success of Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning The Boy and the Heron, we’re delighted to bring one of Miyazaki’s finest and best loved creations back to GFT. Satsuki and Mei’s mother has taken ill. In order to be closer to her while she recovers in a rural convalescent […]
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Kensuke’s Kingdom at GFT
Friday 2 till Thursday 8 August, 2024 All screenings include a short recorded intro by Michael Morpurgo, author of the book Kensuke’s Kingdom. A young boy, shipwrecked on a remote island, discovers he’s not alone when he encounters an old Japanese soldier who retreated there after the Second World War. As dangerous invaders appear on […]
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Take 2: The Inventor at GFT
Saturday 3 August 2024 11.30 a.m. Discover a playful toy-like world of invention featuring flying machines, kings, queens and sneaky spies, where nothing seems to go right for the world’s greatest inventor, and he is always running out of time. At the centre of it all is the audacious and ever questioning Princess Marguerite (Daisy […]
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Thursday, August 1, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people
God Help The Girl at GFT plus Stuart Murdoch Q & A
Sunday 4 August, 2024 at 4 p.m. GFT Tickets Followed by a Q&A with director Stuart Murdoch. Set in Glasgow, God Help the Girl is about a girl called Eve who is in the hospital dealing with emotional problems and starts writing songs as a way of getting better. Songwriting becomes her way forward, leading […]
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Monday, July 29, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
CineRoma – Carmen: No Fear Of Freedom
8th August, 2024, 7 p.m. – Launch of CineRoma CineRoma aims to present diverse films by and with Roma people, exploring self-perception, identity, history and systems of power. The festival programme has been co-curated in collaboration with a cohort of Roma Young People from Govanhill. It runs from 8 – 10 August, 2024. See CineRoma […]
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Friday, July 26, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Govanhill: A Community Film Portrait + (Q&A)
Saturday, August 10, 2024 Part of the Govanhill International Festival & Carnival 2024 collection Tramway, 25 Albert Drive Glasgow G41 2PE An intimate portrait of Govanhill through BAFTA-winning Felipe Bustos Sierra’s short film, followed by a Q&A and the “Hope & Ponies”. Experience an intimate portrait of Govanhill through short films by BAFTA-winning filmmaker Felipe Bustos Sierra, […]
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Take 2: Scooby Doo
Saturday 27 July, 2024 11.30AM – Standard Screening Saturday 27 July, 2024 12PM – Take 2 Autism Friendly Screening When the Mystery Inc. gang is invited to Spooky Island, a popular amusement park, they soon discover that the attractions aren’t the only things that are spooky. Strange things are happening, and it’s up to Scooby, […]
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Thursday, July 25, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Laurel and Hardy Film Night, The Sons of the Desert
Wednesday 7 August, 2024 – 7 p.m. The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall 113 – 117 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HD Tickets The Sons of the Desert presents another hilarious collection of Laurel and Hardy Classics at the very venue where Stan made his debut open to the public. Screening: Live Ghost, Putting Pants on Phillip and […]
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Sunday, July 14, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Sleep at GFT
Friday 12 till Thursday 18 July, 2024 A couple find their marriage deteriorating after a disturbing episode when the husband declares in his sleep, ‘Someone’s inside’. This marks the start of a descent into nerve-jangling horror, described by Parasite director Bong Joon-ho as ‘the most unique horror film and the smartest debut film I’ve seen […]
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Wednesday, July 10, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
I Used To Be Funny at GFT
Friday 12th – Thursday 18 July, 2024 I Used To Be Funny is a dark dramedy that follows Sam Cowell (Rachel Sennott), an aspiring stand-up comedian and au pair struggling with PTSD, as she decides whether or not to join the search for Brooke (Olga Petsa), a missing teenage girl she used to nanny. The […]
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Younger at GFT
Friday 12 to Thursday 18 July, 2024 Exercise is not a luxury. It is the key to healthy ageing.’ – Olga Kotelko (1919-2014), World record holder – Masters’ athletics In a quiet corner, far removed from big money, celebrity status and drug scandals lies the true value of sport. This is a film about friendship […]
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La Dolce Vita at GFT
Sunday 14 July, 2024 at 3.30 p.m. The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, La Dolce Vita rocketed Federico Fellini to international mainstream success — ironically, by offering a damning critique of the culture of stardom. A look at the darkness beneath the seductive lifestyles of Rome’s rich and glamorous, […]
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – 20 Anniversary
Wednesday 17 July, 2024 – 8.30 p.m. One of the greatest love stories of our time, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind returns to the big screen this Summer to mark its 20th Anniversary. After a painful breakup, Clementine (Kate Winslet) undergoes a procedure to erase memories of her former boyfriend Joel (Jim Carrey) from […]
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Bringing Up Baby at GFT
Saturday 13 till Tuesday 16 July, 2024 Howard Hawks’ screwball comedy has to be one of the most seductively funny films ever made. Harried palaeontologist David Huxley (Cary Grant) is under pressure to make a good impression on society matron Mrs Random (May Robson), who is considering donating one million dollars to his museum. Huxley […]
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It’s Such A Beautiful Day plus ME
Friday 19 and Saturday 20 July, 2024 Returning to theaters for the first time since 2012, It’s Such a Beautiful Day has been hailed by critics and audiences alike as one of the best animated films of all time. A story in three chapters, It’s Such a Beautiful Day follows Bill, whose mysterious illness means […]
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National Theatre Live: Present Laughter
Thursday 18 July, 2024 at 7 p.m. The multi award-winning production of Noël Coward’s provocative comedy featuring Andrew Scott (Vanya, Fleabag) returns to the big screen. As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry Essendine’s colourful life is in danger of spiralling out of control. Engulfed by an escalating identity crisis […]
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