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.Take 2: Zarafa at GFT
Saturday 18 November, 2023 at 11.30 a.m. Inspired by the true story of the first giraffe to visit France, Zarafa is a sumptuously animated and stirring adventure, and a throwback to a bygone era of hand-drawn animation and epic storytelling set among sweeping CinemaScope vistas of parched desert, wind-swept mountains and open skies. Buy Tickets […]
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Friday, November 17, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
The Mission at GFT
Friday 17 – Thursday 23 November, 2023 In 2018, US-based Christian missionary John Chau made an illegal and fatal voyage to an island in the Indian Ocean in order to convert one of the last remaining isolated communities on Earth – the Sentinelese. Making use of the diaries written by John and his father, The […]
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Thursday, November 16, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
May December at GFT
Friday 17 – Thursday 23 November, 2023 Captions and Audio Description available From the outside, Gracie (Julianne Moore) and Joe (Charles Melton) are the perfect suburban couple. That is, if you don’t take into account the fact that their relationship was a tabloid sensation 20 years ago. When Elizabeth (Natalie Portman), an actor, arrives at […]
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Nobody Has To Know
Bouli Lanners and Tim Mielants’ Outer Hebrides-shot romantic drama has UK cinema release from 3 November, 2023 At GFT Friday 10 – 16 November, 2023 Buy tickets Parkland Entertainment are thrilled to announce they will release NOBODY HAS TO KNOW across UK cinemas from 3 November. Shot entirely at locations across the Isle of Lewis, […]
CinemaARC – Journey to the Isles
Thursday 16 November, 2023 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. Advanced Research Centre(ARC), University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW Free but ticketed Join an enchanting Journey to the Isles with a screening of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser’s silent films of 1920s Hebridean life, with storytelling and musical accompaniment from acclaimed live performers Marion Kenny and […]
Floating Worlds: Erraid Sound, University of Glasgow ARC
15 – 16 November, 2023 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Advanced Researcch Centre (AEC), University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Ln, Glasgow G11 6EW Drop in to the ARC to experience ‘Floating Worlds: Erraid Sound’, a short film by the renowned Scottish theatre director Graham Eatough, and the Dutch visual artist Andre Dekker. In September 2020 […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events
Inclination Film Club presents Seven Stories by James Kelman
Wednesday, 29 November, 2023 at 7.30 – 10.10 p.m. INCLINATIONS film club presents Seven Stories by James Kelman (1996, 70 mins) & Libera Me (1993, 80 mins) directed by Alain Cavalier CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD A voice in the dark and a film without voices. This double-bill brings together stories by James Kelman […]
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Wednesday, November 15, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
A History of Cuban Animation
Wednesday 15 November, 2023 at 7 p.m. Images top-bottom: Fly, Veinte Años A selection of animations made between 1962 – 2022 from ICAIC Animation Studios exploring themes including loneliness, heartbreak, immigration and race. Presented by Cuban animator Ivette Ávila Martín and screenwriter Hugo Rivalta. Featuring premieres and shorts from award-winning animators including Ernesto Piña and […]
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Tuesday, November 14, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Havana Glasgow Film Festival 2023
15-19 November, 2023 At GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB and CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Havana Glasgow Film Festival celebrates the twin cities of Glasgow and Havana through a programme of Cuban film screenings, discussions and joyful cultural events each November. The ninth Festival will explore real and imaginary worlds – expect […]
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Sea Donkey – Film Night at Arlington Baths Club
Saturday 25 November, 2023, 6 p.m. Arlington Baths Club, 61 Arlington Street, Glasgow G3 6DT The inspirational story of an ordinary man’s attempt to swim from Northern Ireland to Scotland – probably the most brutal open water swimming challenge in the world. Taking on sea temperatures at the limit of human endurance and braving the […]
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Monday, November 13, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
The Camp – The Redistribution of Memory
Exploring universal stories of displacement. The Redistribution of Memory – Cryptic Nights Thursday 9 November, 23023 at 7 p.m. CCA, 350 Saujchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD The Redistribution of Memory by Iranian artist Paria Goodzari is an interdisciplinary project that seamlessly combines durational performance, video, sound and installation. Five golden cages enveloped in intricate barbed […]
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Thursday, November 9, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Preview: The Eternal Daughter + Joanna Hogg Q & A
Preview: The Sunday 12 November, 2023 7pm Always a favourite at GFT, we can’t wait to welcome director Joanna Hogg (The Souvenir, Unrelated, Caprice) for a Q&A following our special preview screening of her latest film, The Eternal Daughter. Tilda Swinton delivers a towering double performance, playing both an artist and her elderly mother who […]
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Wednesday, November 8, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Free Party: A Folk History
Saturday 11 November, 2023 6pm Buy tickets All they wanted was the freedom to party. The State saw them as the enemy within. This DIY indie film follows the birth of the UK’s free party movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a meeting between urban ravers and the new age travellers during Thatcher’s […]
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Unite Hospitality: Activism: Past and Future
Tuesday 14 November, 2023, 5.45pm GFT is teaming up with Unite Hospitality to bring you two short films celebrating the immense contribution women have made to radical social change in Glasgow and Havana.The screening will be followed by a panel discussion titled Transforming Hospitality and Tourism: From Havana to Glasgow.Screening as part of Havana Glasgow […]
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Take 2: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Saturday 11 November, 2023, 11.30am After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O’Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their […]
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How To Have Sex at GFT
Friday 3 November – Thursday 16 November, 2023 Captions and audio description available Molly Manning Walker’s highly kinetic and slyly subversive film focuses on Tara (a superb McKenna-Bruce), a teenager on holiday with friends in pursuit of drinks, sun and sex at a Cretan resort. But when a night of hedonism turns sour, Mia starts […]
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp + introduction
Sunday 12 November, 2023 3 p.m. GFT is delighted to be welcoming filmmaker Kevin Macdonald and producer Andrew Macdonald — grandchildren of Emeric Pressburger — to introduce a screening of the film that Winston Churchill famously tried to ban: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. Released in 1943, it’s now acknowledged as one of […]
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On The Adamant at GFT
Friday 3 – Saturday 11 November, 2023 Winner of the top prize at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, On The Adamant is a documentary centred around a floating barge that doubles as a unique day-care centre. Located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering the […]
Loch Ness: They Created A Monster at GFT
Saturday 11 November, 2023, 3.20 p.m. Followed by a Q&A with director John Maclaverty. The darkly comic story of the Nessie hunters who camped out on the shores of Loch Ness throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Featuring an international cast of dedicated scientists and extraordinary eccentrics who chased, but never found, the dinosaur-like creature who […]
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N.T. Live Skylight
Thursday, 16 November, 2023 7 p.m. Returning to the big screen after nearly ten years, Bill Nighy (Living) and Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman) feature in the critically acclaimed revival of David Hare’s play. >On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra receives an unexpected visit from her former lover. As the evening progresses, the […]
Take 2: Babe: Pig in the City
Saturday 4 November, 2023 11.30am Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett’s farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm. Buy tickets GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB
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Thursday, November 2, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Blues Run the Game: The Strange Tale of Jackson C. Frank
Tuesday 7 November, 2023 8.45pm This documentary follows Jackson C. Frank’s footsteps to unknot the threads of his life. In the mid-60s, he released a masterpiece of folk music, produced by Paul Simon, however after its release he disappeared without a trace. Doc’n’Roll Festival 2023 programme. Buy tickets GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB
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Dance First at GFT
Friday 3 – Thursday 9 November, 2023 Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse, Samuel Beckett lived a life of many parts. Titled after Beckett’s famous ethos ‘Dance first, think later’, the film is a sweeping account of the life of this 20th-century icon. Buy tickets GFT, […]
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The Skids Resolution Revolution + Q & A
Thursday 9 November, 2023 8.20pm GFT, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Delighted to be welcoming director and cinematographer Colin Graham and executive producer Selina Graham for a Q&A following this screening hosted by writer and broadcaster Nicola Meighan. In 1977, The Skids hit the scene. Lionised by a Radio 1 DJ, their music influenced […]
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The Royal Hotel at GFT
Friday 3 – Thursday 9 November, 2023 Captions available When Liv and Hanna run out of money whilst travelling through Australia, they take the only gig they can find: a live-in bar job in a remote mining town. They quickly pique the interest of the rowdy locals and while Liv looks to fully embrace her […]
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The Killer at GFT
Until Thursday 9 November, 2023 Captions available David Fincher‘s highly anticipated ‘riveting revenge riot’ (Empire) stars Michael Fassbender as a solitary, cold and methodical killer. Unencumbered by scruples or regrets, he waits in the shadows, watching for his next target. Yet, the longer he waits, the more he thinks he’s losing his mind, if not his cool. […]
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Scotland Loves Anime
Thursday 2 – Sunday 5 November, 2023 Scotland Loves Anime returns to GFT this November. A limited number of weekend passes are on sale now, so make sure you don’t miss a second of this fantastic programme of films. The pass is your ticket to eight films and costs: £72 full price / £56 concession […]
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Friday, October 27, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Typist Artist Pirate King + Carol Morley Q & A
Thursday 2 November, 2023 8.10pm Buy tickets Thursday 2 November, 8.10pm (Audio description available) Standard screenings: Friday 27 October – Wednesday 1 November Captions and audio description available Acclaimed British filmmaker Carol Morley‘s latest feature, Typist Artist Pirate King, was a sellout hit at Glasgow Film Festival in March. From 27 October, we’ll be welcoming […]
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Wednesday, October 25, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
The Pigeon Tunnel at Glasgow Film Theatre
20 – 26 October, 2023 Academy Award-winning documentarian Errol Morris pulls back the curtain on the storied life and career of former British spy David Cornwell — better known as John le Carré, author of such classic espionage novels as The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Constant […]
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Hallowe’en at GFT
Friday 13 – Tuesday 31 October, 2023 GFT celebrates all things spooky this October with a season packed with some creepy classics. From the 50th Anniversary Director’s Cut of William Friedkin‘s landmark horror The Exorcist and gruesome 1980s summer camp slasher Friday the 13th; to the hilarious havoc of Hocus Pocus — There is something for even the […]
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