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.Acclaimed Scottish Filmmaker Bill Douglas Celebrated With New Premieres at Glasgow Film Festival and Glasgow Short Film Festival 2024
Renowned Scottish filmmaker Bill Douglas to be celebrated with premieres at Glasgow Film Festival and Glasgow Short Film Festival GFF24 hosts UK premiere of Jack Archer’s new documentary Bill Douglas: My Best Friend, charting the filmmaker’s extraordinary lifelong friendship with Peter Jewell, on 8 March GSFF24 will open on 20 March with the first ever […]
Tuesday, January 16, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog
Step Brothers at GFT Access Film Club
Monday 12 February, 2024 – 5 p.m. Autism friendly. GFT, together with the National Autistic Society Scotland, is delighted to provide Access Film Club: a screening and post-film discussion in a friendly and welcoming environment. Join us at the next Access Film Club for riotous comedy Step Brothers. Brennen Huff (Will Farrell) and Dale Doback […]
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Friday, January 12, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
The Apartment – 4k at GFT
Sunday 14 and Wednesday 17 January, 2024 Billy Wilder’s peerless dark comedy is perfect new year viewing. Shake the January blues; ‘shut up and deal’. Bud ‘C.C.’ Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment […]
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Raging Grace
Saturday 13 – Wednesday 17 January, 2024 Captions and Audio Description available. Joy, an undocumented Filipina cleaner moving from house to house in London with her impetuous daughter Grace in tow, is saving up her meagre cash payments to get a visa and a more stable home for them both. A dreamy gig looking after […]
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Thursday, January 11, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Coming Out + Introduction
Thursday 18 January, 2024 5.35pm Hailed as the first and only feature about gay life ever produced by communist East Germany, Coming Out premiered on the night the Berlin Wall opened, 9 November 1989.As a boy, Philipp was strongly attracted to his best friend, but he put that behind him to live within the ‘norm’. […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, LGBT Glasgow
Take 2: Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Saturday 13 January, 2024 11.30am – Captioned Screening When the magic powers of The Tablet of Ahkmenrah begin to die out, Larry Daley spans the globe, uniting favourite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it is gone forever. Buy tickets GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB
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One Life at GFT
12 January – 18 January, 2024 One Life tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker, who rescued 669 predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis in the months leading up to the Second World War. 50 years later, it’s 1988 and Nicky (played by Anthony Hopkins) lives haunted by the […]
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Scala at GFT plus Q & A with Jane Giles
Wednesday 17 January, 2024 5.50pm Standard screenings: Friday 8 – Thursday 18 January – Captions and Audio Description available. Scala!!! is the incredibly strange story of the rise and fall of the world’s wildest cinema and how it influenced a mixed-up generation of weirdos and misfits. With interviews from nearly 50 contributors, previously unseen archive […]
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Wednesday, January 10, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
This Is Not A War Story at CCA
16 January, 2024, 7.15 pm Inclinations Film Club – This Is Not a War Story Directed by Talia Lugacy (2021, 112 min) At CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD THIS IS NOT A WAR STORY tracks a ragtag group of combat veterans in New York whose anti-war art, poetry and papermaking keep them […]
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The Boy and The Heron
Dubbed Screenings: Thursday 28 December – Thursday 18 January – Captions and Audio Description available. Subtitled Screenings: Wednesday 27 December – Wednesday 17 January New from Studio Ghibli comes this semi-autobiographical fantasy about life, death, and creation, in tribute to friendship, from the mind of Hayao Miyazaki. A young boy named Mahito yearning for his […]
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Tuesday, January 9, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Occupied City + Live Satellite Q&A
Sunday 11 February, 2024 – 2 p.m. Where do the memories of a city go? From Oscar- and BAFTA-winning filmmaker and Turner Prize-winning visual artist Steve McQueen comes this mesmerising and monumental excavation of how the past haunts our precarious present: mirroring it and warning us in plain sight. The screening will be followed by […]
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Sunday, January 7, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Take 2: Rally Road Racers
Saturday 6 January, 2024 11.30am Buy tickets Zhi, a rookie race car driver, gets the opportunity to compete against the reigning champion of the rally car circuit. With help from a former driver-turned-mechanic, Zhi must overcome treacherous terrain, rival racers, and unexpected obstacles to prove he has what it takes to be the next great […]
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Friday, January 5, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Ferrari at GFT
Friday 5 – Thursday 11 January, 2024 Captions and Audio Description available. An aptly named Adam Driver plays Formula 1 titan Enzo Ferrari in Michael Mann‘s ‘heady, intricately dark, raptly absorbing’ (Variety) sports biopic. Behind the spectacle of his sport, he is a man in crisis. Bankruptcy threatens the factory he and his wife, Laura […]
The Red Shoes + Q&A
Sunday 7 January, 2024 at 3.40 p.m. Buy tickets One of the most influential films ever made, don’t miss your last chance to catch Powell and Pressburger‘s The Red Shoes at GFT as our CineMasters season comes to a close. This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Pamela Hutchinson, who is back by […]
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Monica
Wednesday 27 – Saturday 30 December, 23023 Monica is an intimate portrait of a woman who returns home after a long absence to confront the wounds of her past, with a powerful lead performance from trans actress Trace Lysette. Reconnecting with her mother, who is now suffering with dementia, and the rest of her family […]
Thursday, December 21, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Saturday 23 December, 2023 11.30 a.m. Can Christmas be saved? Bored with the same old scare-and-scream routine, Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, longs to spread the joy of Christmas. But his merry mission puts Santa in jeopardy and creates a nightmare for good little boys and girls everywhere. Buy tickets GFT, 12 […]
Bluebeard’s Castle + The Sorcerer’s Apprentice + Recorded Introduction
Saturday 23 December, 2023 at 2.30 p.m. Described by Bertrand Tavernier as ‘the missing link that connects Tales of Hoffman and Peeping Tom’, Bluebeard’s Castle is one of Michael Powell’s lost masterpieces – a stunning adaptation of Béla Bartok’s expressionist opera. Starring Norman Foster as the murderous Bluebeard and Ana Raquel Satre as his doomed […]
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Take 2: The Nightmare Before Christmas
Saturday 23 December, 2023 11.30 a.m. Can Christmas be saved? Bored with the same old scare-and-scream routine, Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, longs to spread the joy of Christmas. But his merry mission puts Santa in jeopardy and creates a nightmare for good little boys and girls everywhere! Buy tickets GFT 12 […]
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Thursday, December 14, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Bringing Out The Dead plus Introduction
Monday 18 December, 2023, 7.50 p.m. GFT’s Scorsese of the Month season continues with Bringing Out the Dead, selected and introduced by Ryan Rutherford, GFT Design & Digital Marketing Co-ordinator. Buy tickets GFT, 12 Rose Street, Ge 6RB
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The Green Knight, GFT
23 and 24 December, 2023 Set around the Round Table on Christmas Day, this epic fantasy adventure based on the timeless Arthurian legend stars Dev Patel as Sir Gawain, King Arthur’s reckless and headstrong nephew, who embarks on a daring quest to confront the eponymous Green Knight, a gigantic emerald-skinned stranger and tester of men. […]
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Kiss Bang Bang at GFT
Saturday, 16 December, 2023, 8.35 p.m. Robert Downey Jr. stars as a petty thief posing as an actor who is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition. However, he soon finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who’s been training him for […]
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Meet Me In St Louis
Thursday 21 December, 2023 11.30am Crowd-pleasing classic musical makes a delightful late addition to the Christmas programme at GFT Buy tickets – £6.50 Tickets The Smith family leads a comfortable, happy existence in St. Louis, a city set to welcome the 1904 World’s Fair. Seventeen-year-old Esther Smith (Judy Garland) has fallen in love with the […]
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| Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Cinema
Glasgow Film Festival 2024 announces successful candidates for its inaugural Animatic scheme
Glasgow Film Festival 2024 announces successful candidates for its inaugural Animatic scheme, supporting Scottish-based animation talent New Talent Mentorship Scheme Mentors also announced These include BAFTA winning director of Aftersun Charlotte Wells and Bad Sisters writer Ailbhe Keogan Animatic is a major new industry initiative supporting Scotland-based creatives and studios in developing their animated feature […]
| Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2024
Elf at GFT Christmas 2023
15 – 24 December, 2023 GFT, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Will Ferrell stars as Buddy, a regular-sized man who was raised as an elf by Santa Claus (Edward Asner). When the news is finally broken to Buddy that he’s not a real elf, he decides to go to New York City, in search […]
Home Alone GFT
15 – 21 December, 2023 When eight-year-old Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) is accidentally left home alone by his family during the Christmas holidays, he has to use all his troublemaking skills to protect the family home from a pair of bungling burglars. Slapstick laughs and a heartwarming ending make this a perfect family film. GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Buy tickets
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The Bishop’s Wife, GFT
15 – 24 December, 2023 Raising funds for a new cathedral, Bishop Henry Brougham has his prayers for divine guidance answered in the form of a guardian angel named Dudley (Cary Grant). When Dudley assumes the identity of a guest in their home over Christmas, Brougham’s life is turned upside down, as he believes the […]
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| Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Cinema
Gremlins, GFT
16 amd 20 December, 2023 An antidote to the artificial sweetness of the traditional Christmas movie, Gremlins tells the story of an inventor who inadvertently causes chaos when he purchases a cute creature for his son. When three vital instructions are ignored, a pack of mischievous gremlins are released on the town, causing mayhem and destruction. GFT, […]
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Wednesday, December 13, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Cinemasters: Powell and Pressburger GFT
Friday 20 October – Saturday 23 December, 2023 Celebrate one of the greatest and most enduring filmmaking partnerships: Michael Powell (1905-1990) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-1988). Bold, subversive and iconoclastic, their passionate collaborative artistic vision — spanning 24 films, including The Red Shoes (1948), A Matter of Life and Death (1946) and Black Narcissus (1947) — […]
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Preview: Priscilla 35mm at GFT
Wednesday 27 – Saturday 30 December, 2023 Buy tickets GFT is the only cinema in Scotland showing Sofia Coppola’s Priscillabefore its release date and in all its 35mm glory. Coppola tells the story of Priscilla Beaulieu, who met Elvis Presley when she was just a teenager and became the superstar’s wife. ‘A transportive, heartbreaking journey […]
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Queendom at GFT
Friday 8 until Monday 11 December, 2023 Buy tickets Captions available Gena, a queer artist, protests the Russian government on the streets of Moscow. She stages radical performances in public that become a new form of art and activism, with the goal of changing people’s perception of beauty and queerness and bringing attention to the […]
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Monday, December 11, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
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