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.Govan Community Cinema – The Lego Movie
Wednesday 26 June, 2024 at 5 p.m. The Pearce Institute 840-860 Govan Road, G51 3UU Glasgow, United Kingdom The PI is delighted to announce Govan Community Cinema! This month’s kids’ film is The Lego Movie. Emmet (Chris Pratt), an ordinary LEGO figurine who always follows the rules, is mistakenly identified as the Special — an […]
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Thursday, June 13, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Community event, Kids and young people
CinemaARC at Glasgow Science Festival 2024
Friday 14 June 2024 Scientific Shorts with Glasgow Short Film Festival Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW ARC has partnered with Glasgow Short Film Festival to programme a whole host of exciting short films with a scientific twist. See Scientific Shorts Programme Events are free – Reserve a […]
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Wednesday, June 5, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Science Festival
Take 2: The Princess Diaries
Saturday 1 June, 2024 at 11.30 a.m. GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB A socially awkward but very bright 15-year-old girl discovers that she is the princess of a small European country. The recent death of her long-absent father who, unknown to her, was the crown prince of Genovia, puts Mia (Anne Hathaway) in the […]
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Thursday, May 30, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Take 2: Charlotte’s Web
Saturday 25 May, 2024 STANDARD SCREENING: SAT 25 MAY, 11.30AM AUTISM-FRIENDLY TAKE 2 ACCESS SCREENING: SAT 25 MAY, 12PM Take 2: Charlotte’s Web Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, […]
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Thursday, May 23, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people, Pat's Home Page Blog
Scorsese on Scorsese at GFT
Monday 27 May, 2024 at 6.15 p.m. Professor Ian Christie, editor of the seminal book Scorsese on Scorsese, has spent countless hours interviewing master director Martin Scorsese, joining him on film sets and delving into the inspiration and creative process behind his greatest works, from Mean Steets and Taxi Driver, through Raging Bull and The […]
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Red Herring at GFT
24 – 29 May, 2024 Faced with a terminal diagnosis, a filmmaker enlists his family on an intimate and darkly humorous journey to help them come to terms with his illness. On the south coast of England, his dad Lawrence throws himself into a series of obscure diversion tactics. From growing cannabis in his spare […]
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In Flames GFT
24 May – 30 May, 2024 A grieving student grappling with patriarchal oppression and debt in the wake of the death of her grandfather finds herself stalked by a sinister force in this powerful psychological horror. The misogyny faced by women in Pakistani society is brought sharply into focus in Zarrar Kahn’s supernaturally tinged psychological […]
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The Dead Don’t Hurt at GFT
7 – 20 June, 2024 Mortensen wrote, directed and stars in this original take on the classic Western, in a story centred on the adventurous life of fiercely independent Vivienne Le Coudy (Vicky Krieps). In a frontier town run by corrupt forces, fiercely independent Vivienne embarks on a relationship with the passionate, hard-working Holger Olsen […]
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The Beast at GFT
31 May – 13 June, 2024 French auteur Bertrand Bonello presents a bold, centuries-spanning tale of romance and obsession in the shadow of an impending catastrophe, freely adapted from Henry James’s The Beast in the Jungle. Léa Seydoux and George MacKay engage in a doomed romance across three different time periods. In the year 2044, […]
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A House in Jerusalem at GFT
31 May – 6 June, 2024 The screening on Saturday 1 June at 5.40pm will be followed by a Zoom Q&A with director Muayad Alayan. After her mother dies in an accident, grieving Rebecca (Miley Locke) and her father (Johnny Harris) move from England to Jerusalem in a bid to make a fresh start. Their […]
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The G at GFT
21 – 27 June, 2024 Dale Dickey (Winter’s Bone, A Love Song) stars in this pacy and complex revenge thriller that proves hell hath no fury like a grandmother scorned. She is menacingly magnetic as foul-mouthed, hard-drinking bad-ass gran Ann Hunter – aka The G – in Karl R Hearne’s gritty Canadian revenge thriller. After […]
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They Shall Not Grow Old – film screening at Kelvin Hall
22 June, 2024, Saturday 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Kelvin Hall, 1445 Argyle Street Glasgow G3 8AW By The Hunterian and University of Glasgow They Shall Not Grow Old is a 2018 documentary film directed and produced by Peter Jackson. The film was created using original footage of the First World War from the Imperial War Museum‘s archives, most previously unseen, all […]
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National Theatre Live: Nye
Thursday, 23 May, 2024 at 7 p.m. GFT, 12 Rose Str4eet, G3 6RB From campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create the NHS, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan is often referred to as the politician with greatest influence on our country without ever being Prime Minister. Confronted with death, Nye’s deepest memories lead him […]
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Thursday, May 16, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Drylongso
31 May – 5 June, 2024 A lost treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith’s Drylongso embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/ romance. Alarmed by the rate at which the young Black men around her are dying — indeed, ‘becoming extinct,’ as she sees it — brash […]
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In the Mood for Love
22 and 23 May, 2024 Wong Kar-Wai’s romantic, political and heartbreaking film In the Mood for Love will return for two 4K screenings as part of GFT’s Anniversary Programme, providing a prime example of the kind of world-class cinema that will always have a home – and a devoted audience – at GFT. Hong Kong, […]
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City of God
Sunday 19 May, 2024 One of the world’s 25 Best Films as rated on the IMDb Top 250, Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund’s Brazilian crime story City of God has recently been remastered for its 21st anniversary and will return to GFT for a special screening as part of their Anniversary Programme in May. In […]
Rear Window – 70th Anniversary
20 and 22 May, 2024 It will come as no surprise that Alfred Hitchcock will feature in GFT’s anniversary year celebrations, with two special screenings of Rear Window on 4K to mark the film’s own 70th anniversary. James Stewart stars as L.B. Jeffries, a photographer with a broken leg. Bored between visits from his girlfriend […]
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Hoard
17 – 23 May, 2024 A dark but lyrical study of trauma, loneliness and thwarted sexuality. A young girl’s life is charted from living with her troubled mother to later falling in love with one of her foster carer’s former charges. Debut director Luna Carmoon crafts a raw psychodrama and haunting study of trauma, loneliness […]
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Two Tickets To Greece
17 – 23 May, 2024 As teenagers, Blandine and Magalie were inseparable. Years passed and they lost sight of each other. As their paths cross again, they decide to take the trip together that they have always dreamed of. Direction Greece, its sun, its islands but also its galleys because the two former best friends […]
Rome, Open City
17 – 23 May, 2024 A landmark of Italian neorealism approaching its 80th anniversary, Roberto Rossellini’s portrait of life under Nazi occupation remains remarkable for its immediacy, tension and power. Made in extraordinarily straitened circumstances, immediately after the liberation of Rome, the film follows Manfredi (Marcello Pagliero), a partisan leader, as he attempts to evade […]
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Shallow Grave 30 Anniversary
17 – 23 May, 2024 The lives of a trio of flatmates spiral into violence after they keep a suitcase of cash they find after their new flatmate dies in Danny Boyle’s blackly comic debut. Director Danny Boyle, writer John Hodge and producer Andrew Macdonald would go on to create even bigger waves with Trainspotting […]
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Take 2: Migration
Saturday 18 May, 2024, 11.30 a.m. Illumination, creators of the blockbuster Minions, Despicable Me, Sing and The Secret Life of Pets comedies, invites you to take flight into the thrill of the unknown with a funny, feathered family holiday like no other in the action-packed new original comedy, Migration. The Mallard family is in a […]
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Wednesday, May 15, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
La Chimera GFT
11 – 23 May, 2024 The Crown’s Josh O’Connor stars as an adrift Englishman with an unusual talent in this playful drama centring on a gang of grave robbers on the hunt for ancient Etruscan relics. The Crown’s Josh O’Connor proves he’s just as good in Italian as he is in English in Alice Rohrwacher’s […]
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Saturday, May 11, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Aftersun at Glasgow Film Theatre
13 May, 2024, 8.10 p.m. At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum (Paul Mescal). As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood. Twenty years later, Sophie’s tender recollections of their last […]
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A Matter of Life and Death
Sunday 12 and Wednesday 15 May, 2024 To celebrate the release of the new documentary Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger, we’re delighted to bring this fine example of the duo’s creative genius in action back to GFT. In this audacious Technicolor fantasy, a Second World War airman finds himself summoned to […]
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Perfect Days at GFT
12 – 15 May, 2024 One of GFT audiences’ favourites of the year so far, Wim Wenders’ beautifully simple character drama returns for the bank holiday weekend, and May’s Glasgow Film Club. Nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 2024 Oscars, the highly anticipated return to fiction feature filmmaking from Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas, […]
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Love Lies Bleeding at GFT
11 – 16 May, 2024 Director Rose Glass’ second feature, Love Lies Bleeding, in which love and violence come together in an explosive cocktail in this thriller starring Kristen Stewart as a gym manager who falls for a bodybuilder, with dangerous implications for them both. When gym manager Lou (Kristen Stewart) meets bodybuilder Jackie (Katy […]
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Billy Connolly’s Big Banana Feet at GFT
GFT screenings: 11 – 27 May, 2024 Buy tickets GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Screening in selected cinemas in the UK and Ireland from 10 May 2024 BFI DVD/Blu-ray release and BFI Southbank Q&A screening on 20 May 2024 BIG BANANA FEET (1976) is a fascinating and hilarious record of irrepressible Scottish comedian Billy […]
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Friday, May 10, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Special Screenings to Mark Anniversary Year at Glasgow Film Theatre
May 2024 Scotland’s leading independent cinema will celebrate a bumper year of anniversaries with a programme of special screenings taking place throughout May. The programme will showcase films that have been hugely popular with audiences and have played a unique role in the history of Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) over the past five decades. Glasgow’s […]
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Bad Education at GFT
Sunday 26 May, 2024, 7 p.m. Queen Cinema Sundays Pedro Almodóvar uses his signature brushstrokes in this darkly thrilling story-within-a-story noir, which is our Queer Cinema Sundays screening for May. When an actor, Ignacio (Gael Garcia Bernal) visits a filmmaker, Enrique (Fele Martinez) claiming to be his first love now going by the name ‘Angel’, […]
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