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.BFI London Film Festival at GFT
Wednesday 4 – Sunday 15 October, 2023 And it’s back with a bang! Sensational line-up of previews from the LFF programme begins with a sell-out screening of the opening film, Saltburn After incredible demand, GFT is thrilled to add a second screening of Andrew Haigh’s supernatural romance All of Us Strangers to the programme, starring […]
Read the full article: BFI London Film Festival at GFT
Thursday, October 5, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Take 2: Ernest and Celestine at GFT
Saturday 7 October, 2023 11.30am Celestine is a little mouse trying to avoid a dental career while Ernest is a big bear craving an artistic outlet. When Celestine meets Ernest, they overcome their natural enmity by forging a life of crime together. Buy tickets GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB
Read the full article: Take 2: Ernest and Celestine at GFT
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people
Mean Streets plus Introduction
Monday 16 October, 8.20pm Next up in our Scorsese of the Month programme is 50th Anniversary screening of Mean Streets, starring Robert DeNiro as Johnny Boy — a small-time gambler who must choose from love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob. Introduced by GFT Programme Manager Paul Gallagher. Buy Tickets GFT 12 […]
Read the full article: Mean Streets plus Introduction
| Filed under: Cinema
Blackberry at GFT
6 – 12 October, 2023 Hot from its sell-out UK premiere at Glasgow Film Festival earlier this year, this must-see tech satire charts the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world’s first smartphone. Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis (Jay Baruchel) and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsillie (Glenn Howerton) – join forces in […]
Read the full article: Blackberry at GFT
| Filed under: Cinema
Taking Root: Food Art Film Festival at CCA
Saturday, 7 October, 2023, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G3 2JD As society becomes increasingly fragmented, the gathering, preparing, and sharing of food has the power to root us deeply in relation with others both human and non-human. The 2023 edition of Food Art Film Festival takes up the themes […]
Read the full article: Taking Root: Food Art Film Festival at CCA
Flora and Son, GFT
Friday 29 September – Thursday 12 October, 2023 Eve Hewson (Bad Sisters) gives a star-cementing performance as single mother Flora, who is at a loss about what to do with her rebellious teenage son, Max. Her efforts to keep him out of trouble lead to a beat-up acoustic guitar, a washed-up LA musician (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), […]
Read the full article: Flora and Son, GFT
Tuesday, October 3, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Stop Making Sense at GFT
Friday 29 September – Thursday 5 October, 2023 Buy tickets Captions and audio description available GFT is thrilled to be screening the 4K re-release of Stop Making Sense. Considered one of the greatest concert films of all time, it captures Talking Heads in full groove — and big suits — at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre […]
Read the full article: Stop Making Sense at GFT
| Filed under: Cinema
The Old Oak at GFT
Friday 29 September – Thursday 12 October, 2023 Captions and audio description available After premiering to a sold-out audience earlier this month, GFT is delighted to be welcoming Ken Loach‘s powerful latest feature, The Old Oak, back to GFT. The Old Oak is a special place. Not only is it the last pub standing, but […]
Read the full article: The Old Oak at GFT
| Filed under: Cinema
Glasgow Film ‘Animatic’ – Animation Talent Development Project
‘Animatic’ will support Scotland-based creatives in film and TV Glasgow Film Festival Announces New Animation Talent Development Project and Industry Advisory Board An innovative talent development project between Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) and international industry leading animation executives has been announced today. Animatic is open to Scottish creatives seeking to develop their idea for an […]
Read the full article: Glasgow Film ‘Animatic’ – Animation Talent Development Project
| Filed under: Cinema
Take 2: Elemental at Glasgow Film Theatre
Saturday 14 October, 2023 at 11.30 p.m. GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Captioned screening Disney and Pixar’s Elemental is an all-new, original feature film set in Element City, where fire, water, land and air residents live together. The story introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, […]
Read the full article: Take 2: Elemental at Glasgow Film Theatre
Sunday, October 1, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Free Events, Kids and young people
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
Sundance Award-Winning Feature Documentary in UK and Ireland Cinemas from 13 October, 2023 No story too shameful, no burden too heavy to carry when you share it with your sisterhood… Conic is thrilled to announce the release of filmmaker Anna Hints’ Sundance Award-winning feature documentary SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD in UK and Ireland cinemas from 13 […]
Read the full article: Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
| Filed under: Cinema
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari silent movie with live music
28 October, 2023, 7.30 p.m., Event by The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall Britannia Panopticon Music Hall, 117 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HD Tickets · £9.38-£10.46 at Eventbrite Gladstone’s Bag presents the German expressionist silent classic ‘The Cabinet of Dr Caligari ‘ featuring a live musical orchestra. At a carnival in Germany, Francis (Friedrich Feher) and his […]
Read the full article: The Cabinet of Dr Caligari silent movie with live music
Friday, September 29, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Hallowe'en in Glasgow
SQIFF 2023
Scottish Queer International Film Festival – 26 – 30 September SQIFF 2023 will open on 26th September with the ever-popular Scottish Shorts, celebrating local filmmakers’ home-grown film projects. This year’s festival will host a mixture of Queer classics and new releases, with a focus on new filmmaking talent. This year’s artwork is by Konstantinos korakonero, a Glasgow […]
Read the full article: SQIFF 2023
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog
Alan Sharp and From Greenock to Hollywood at the Glasgow Film Theatre
by Dave Manderson Recently I brought out a book about Alan Sharp, the first to trace his career and life from start to end. It came out in April this year. Shortly afterwards I asked the Glasgow Film Theatre if they’d put on a season of Alan’s films, and now I’m curating four of the […]
Read the full article: Alan Sharp and From Greenock to Hollywood at the Glasgow Film Theatre
The Early films of Hou Hsiao-hsien at GFT
Thursday 5 – Thursday 19 October, 2023 Director Hou established himself as a major figure in world cinema with a series of groundbreaking and award-winning films such as A City of Sadness (1989) and The Assassin (2015). With a growing interest in New Taiwan Cinema figures such as Hou and Edward Yang, this seems the […]
Read the full article: The Early films of Hou Hsiao-hsien at GFT
| Filed under: Cinema
To See Ourselves – film about the lead up to the Scottish Referendum in 2014
(To See Ourselves is screening at CCA, Glasgow 16 March, 2024) In the run up to the referendum in 2014, Jane McAllister, filmmaker, New Licht Film, spent many hours following her dad, Fraser, around Musselburgh as he threw himself wholeheartedly into the campaign for Scottish Independence. It was not Jane’s initial intention to make a […]
Read the full article: To See Ourselves – film about the lead up to the Scottish Referendum in 2014
Monday, September 25, 2023 | Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog
Lifeboat – film night at Arlington Baths Club
Saturday, 28 October, 2023 at 6 p.m. (doors open 5 p.m.) The Arlington Baths Clubm 61 Arlington Street Glasgow G3 6DT One of Alfred HItchcock’s lesser-known films, and based on an unpublished short novel by John Steinbeck, this is a story of a group of survivors from a torpedoed ship in the Atlantic during the […]
Read the full article: Lifeboat – film night at Arlington Baths Club
Young Soul Rebels 4k Restoration and Discussion
Monday 23 October, 2023 8 p.m. A landmark for Black – and Queer – British film, Isaac Julien’s iconic, beautifully crafted 1991 period piece has been newly remastered by the BFI. A convincing picture of late 70s London, youth culture meets identity politics in this part-thriller, part-queer love story set days before the Queen’s Silver […]
Read the full article: Young Soul Rebels 4k Restoration and Discussion
Friday, September 22, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, LGBT Glasgow
Killers of the Flower Moon at GFT
Friday 20 October – Thursday 2 November, 2023 Captions and audio description available After premiering to a 9-minute standing ovation at Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, Martin Scorsese‘s latest feature Killers of the Flower Moon will hit our big screens next month. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone, it depicts the serial […]
Read the full article: Killers of the Flower Moon at GFT
Thursday, September 21, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Take 2: Bugsy Malone at GFT
Saturday 23 September, 2023 11.30am Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2023’s Family Friendly Take 2 screening is the iconic musical Bugsy Malone. New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession of a new and deadly weapon, the dreaded “splurge gun”. As the custard pies fly, […]
Read the full article: Take 2: Bugsy Malone at GFT
| Filed under: Cinema
Strange Way Of Life + recorded Q&A at Glasgow Film Theatre
Monday 25 September, 2023 8.30pm Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke star in Pedro Almodovar’s highly anticipated new feature. After 25 years, Silva rides a horse across the desert to visit his friend Sheriff Jake. They celebrate the meeting, but the next morning Jake tells him the reason for his trip is not to go down the memory […]
Read the full article: Strange Way Of Life + recorded Q&A at Glasgow Film Theatre
| Filed under: Cinema
R.M.N. at Glasgow Film Theatre
Friday 22 – Thursday 28 September, 2023 Cristian Mungiu‘s ‘excellently crafted’ (The Telegraph) latest follows Matthias, as he returns to his Transylvanian village after quitting his job in Germany. He wishes to involve himself more in the education of his son, Rudi, left for too long in the care of his mother, Ana, and to […]
Read the full article: R.M.N. at Glasgow Film Theatre
| Filed under: Cinema
Love Life 4k at Glasgow Film Theatre
Friday 22 – Thursday 28 September From the Cannes award-winning director of Harmoniumand Goodbye Summer, Kôji Fukada’s new family drama is inspired by Japanese singer and musician Akiko Yano‘s song ‘Love Life’. A beguiling, beautifully paced portrait of a family navigating the aftermath of a tragedy. Buy tickets GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB
Read the full article: Love Life 4k at Glasgow Film Theatre
| Filed under: Cinema
Warner Brothers 100th Anniversary at GFT
Friday 22 – Thursday 28 September, 2023 One of the most iconic Hollywood studios of all time, Warner Bros, celebrates its centenary this year. To celebrate, GFT has handpicked five films from Warner Bros’ amazing century of cinema to bring back to the big screen. Jezebel; Key Largo (35mm screenings available); The Searchers; Training Day […]
Read the full article: Warner Brothers 100th Anniversary at GFT
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2023
Friday 22 until Sunday 24 September, 2023 Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2023. boasts a varied programme of films, from exciting new releases to iconic classics and feature-length documentaries. All screenings and events take place at Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB The festival is co-programmed by Glasgow Film and a group of […]
A Little Life at GFT
Thursday 28 September, 2023 6.45pm James Norton (Happy Valley) stars in the ‘utterly compelling’ (★★★★★ Daily Express) theatrical event of 2023 as visionary director Ivo van Hove (A View from the Bridge) stages the English language production of A Little Life. Filmed live at the Savoy Theatre, London, during its West End run, this record-breaking and ‘beautifully acted’ (★★★★ […]
Read the full article: A Little Life at GFT
Wednesday, September 13, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Alan Sharp From Greenock to Hollywood at GFT
Thursday 7 – Thursday 28 September, 2023 Our Alan Sharp season kicks off this week with The Hired Hand, introduced by author of The Anti-hero’s Journey: The Work and Life of Alan Sharp and season curator, David Manderson. The Hired Hand is a ‘hippie Western’ directed by Peter Fonda and written by Alan Sharp. It catapulted Sharp […]
Read the full article: Alan Sharp From Greenock to Hollywood at GFT
| Filed under: Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog
To See Ourselves plus Q & A
Tuesday 19 September, 2023 at 7.10pm Filmed during the summer of 2014, Jane McAllister has collated first-hand footage of the build-up to the Scottish referendum and its aftermath, all while ‘on the hoof, heavily pregnant and with no budget.’ Following her father, a fervent Yes campaigner, McAllister captures the energy, the friction and the endless […]
Cassandro at GFT
Friday 15 – Thursday 21 September, 2023 Captions and audio description available Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso, rises to international stardom after he creates the character Cassandro, the ‘Liberace of Lucha Libre’. In the process, he upends not just the macho wrestling world but also his own life. Buy tickets GFT, […]
Read the full article: Cassandro at GFT
| Filed under: Cinema
Lan Yu at GFT
Friday 15 – Wednesday 20 September, 2023 Little White Lies recently described Lan Yu as ‘a milestone in Chinese queer cinema, [and] the pinnacle of Stanley Kwan’s aesthetic vision’. It follows the relationship between a wealthy older businessman and a young student as it goes further than either expected. Screening in 4K. Buy tickets GFT, […]
Read the full article: Lan Yu at GFT
| Filed under: Cinema
Related Pages
- Everbody to Kenmure Street at GFT
- Glasgow Film Festival Takeover Day 2026 review Pat Byrne
- Mermaids at GFT – Mother’s Day
- Couture Glasgow Film Festival 2026 review by Pat Byrne
- Effi O Blaenau review Pat Byrne – Glasgow Film Festival 2026
- Super Nature Glasgow Film Festival 2026
- Glasgow Film Theatre Announces Programme for March 2026
- Earth’s Greatest Enemy at GFT
- Jaripeo at Glasgow Film Festival 2026
- Sailm nan Daoine (Psalms of the People)- Glasgow Film Festival 2026
- It’s A Fine Thing To Sing – Songs and Singers of Inishowen Peninsula Documentary
- Midwinter Break – Glasgow Film Festival 2026 Review
- Everybody to Kenmure Street – GFF2026 Review
- Big vs Small, Film Night, Arlington Baths Club
- Free and Low-Cost Activities at Glasgow Film Festival 2026
- Broken English – Glasgow Film Festival 2026
- Lynne Ramsay to receive Cinema City Honorary Award at Glasgow Film Festival 2026
- Take 2: Pets on Trains at GFT
- Glasgow Film Festival 2026 – filmaking talent galore attending
- Lola – Screening Arlington Baths Club
