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Cinema Listings Glasgow

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.

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 […]

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Love Lies Bleeding, GFF24, review by Pat Byrne

Love Lies Bleeding

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

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

industry focus

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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I Dream In Photos GFF24

I dream in photos

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

Rosalie

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

Young film fans

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

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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| Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people

GFF24 Special Event: The Wizard of Oz

cottiers 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

The Home Game

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

In Flames

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

Late Bloomers

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

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

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

The 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

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

tummy monster

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

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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Bleeding Love – GFF24 review by Pat Byrne

Bleeding Love

Bleeding Love is a road trip movie starring Ewan McGregor and his daughter Clara. They play father and daughter taking a trip together from San Diego to New Mexico after the daughter has experienced a drug overdose. It’s a long drive to where they are going, apparently to see an artist friend, and the two […]

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Float – Series 2, GFF24

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4 March, 2024 Black Camel Pictures’ award-winning drama from writer Stef Smith returns for a second series. Jade and Collette reunite 18 months after the first series as the show moves beyond the world of the swimming pool. Black Camel Pictures’ queer short-form drama from writer Stef Smith, revolving around the intense relationship that develops […]

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Hounds GFF24 at Cineworld2

Hounds

4 and 5 March, 2024 Set over a single night, this tightly wound thriller charts a kidnapping gone awry at the hands of a financially struggling father and son who are on a job for the local mob. A father (Abdellatif Masstouri) and his son (Ayoub Elaïd) are trying to make ends meet. They find […]

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Only The River Flows

Only the river flows

4 and 5 March, 2024 (4th sold out) 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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Love Jones GFF24

Love Jones

4 March, 2024 – 5.45 p.m. From the golden age of 1990s African American cinema comes Love Jones, a classically cool Black love story that made room for more diverse depictions of Black love on screen. Boy (a poet) meets girl (a photographer) at an open mic night in a ‘90s Chicago bar. Sexy, smooth […]

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To See Ourselves CCA by Jane McAllister

To see ourselves

16 March, 2024 7 p.m. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD TO SEE OURSELVES is an unexpected, deeply personal account of the referendum as seen through the eyes of a pregnant filmmaker, as she follows her idealist father’s relentless activism and reveals the heart behind the politics during this historic crossroads for Scotland. Affectionate without […]

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Saturday, March 2, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema

The Burning Season GFF 2024

the burning season poster

3 and 4 March, 2024 The story of a long-running love affair linked to an incident from the past unspools backwards to reveal its secrets in a twisty tale of a bad romance. Married couple Alena (Sara Canning) and Tom (Joe Pingue) have been visiting the Luna Lake cabins every summer for years. This year […]

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The Teacher

the teacher

4 and 5 March, 2024 (4 th screening sold out) nspired by true events, this powerful West Bank-set drama centres on a grieving schoolteacher who is attempting to keep a student out of trouble whilst engaging in his own acts of political resistance. British-Palestinian Farah Nabulsi – who won a BAFTA for her short film […]

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Milk Teeth GFF24

Milk Teeth

4 and 5 March, 2024 An atmospheric survivalist drama with a fairy-tale edge sees trouble brewing for a young woman and her mother after they take in a foundling youngster against the wishes of their community. In a near-future isolated community where suspicion and superstition thrive, Skalde (Mathilde Bundschuh) has a difficult relationship with her […]

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Woken GFF24

Woken GFF

3 and 4 March, 2024 Set in the near-future, this psychological sci-fi thriller stars Erin Kellyman (Solo: A Star Wars Story) as Anna, a pregnant woman who wakes up on an island with no recollection of anyone she’s living with — including her husband. Alan Friel’s twisty debut follows Anna as she becomes increasingly suspicious […]

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