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.Fremont at GFT
Friday 15 – Thursday 21 September, 2023 Captions available Anaita Wali Zada gives a sensitive performance as Donya, a former translator for the United States military in Afghanistan, who is struggling to rebuild her life in San Francisco while working for a Chinese fortune cookie factory. In a moment of sudden revelation, she decides to […]
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Wednesday, September 13, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Dazed and Confused 30th Anniversary at GFT
Friday 15 – Wednesday 20 September, 2023 Richard Linklater‘s iconic coming-of-age classic returns to the big screen from Friday to mark its 30th Anniversary. Matthew McConaughey stars in his breakout role as part of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976. Randall Floyd moves easily among stoners, jocks and […]
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BFI London Film Festival 2023 at GFT
Wednesday 4 – Sunday 15 October, 2023 GFT is a Venue Partner for this year’s BFI London Film Festival, giving audiences the first chance to see a selection of exciting new titles from LFF on the big screen, at the home of film in Glasgow! From Wednesday 4 – Sunday 15 October GFT is delighted […]
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Take 2: Kung Fu Panda at GFT
Saturday 30 September, 2023, 11.30am Buy tickets Take 2 Access: Saturday 30 September, 12pm When the Valley of Peace is threatened, lazy Po the panda discovers his destiny as the “chosen one” and trains to become a kung fu hero, but transforming the unsleek slacker into a brave warrior won’t be easy. It’s up to […]
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Tuesday, September 12, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Past Lives at GFT
7 – 21 September, 2023 Captions and audio description available Greta Lee and Teo Yoo star as Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends who are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of […]
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Sunday, September 10, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
School of Rock 20th Anniversary at GFT
Until 12 September, 2023 Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his students the finer points of rock ‘n’ roll. The school’s hard-nosed principal is rightly suspicious of […]
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Friday, September 1, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Look Who’s Back and Hollywood the Black List at GFT
Saturday 2 – Wednesday 27 September, 2023 Tickets and full details The 1960s saw the return to the mainstream of a number of film professionals who had been blacklisted in the anti-communist drive within the Hollywood film industry in the late 1940s and 1950s. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, when America was experiencing social […]
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September 2023 – Screenings at Glasgow Film Theatre
GFT’s September programme is now on sale! GFT’s September programme. Brimming with the most anticipated new releases, unmissable re-releases and some very special guest screenings. Highlights include Ira Sach‘s seductive drama Passages; one of the most highly anticipated films of 2023, Celine Song‘s Past Lives; screenings to mark School of Rock‘s 20th Anniversary; and a […]
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House on the Volcano
Samizdat East European Film Festival CCA 13 September, 2023 at 7 p.m. House on the Volcano (Hamo Beknazarian, Soviet Armenia, 1928) + Live score mix A new restoration of a neglected silent classic by Hamo Beknazarian, the founding father of Armenian cinema. This historical melodrama recounts the brutal suppression of an oil workers’ strike in […]
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Saturday, August 26, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Safe Place – CCA
Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival Festival Tuesday 12 September, 2023, 6.15 p.m. Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Opening: Scottish Premiere; Winner of ‘Best Emerging Director’, ‘Best Actor’, ‘Swatch Feature Award’ at Locarno Film Festival 2022; Best Film at Sarajevo Film Festival 2022 Told over a 24-hour period, this deeply personal […]
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Comfort and Joy ar GFT
Friday 25 & Sunday 27 August, 2023 CineMasters: Bill Forsyth season continues at GFT with his charming and quirky urban fairy tale, Comfort And Joy. The follow-up to his hit film Gregory’s Girl — which is screening until Thursday 31 August — is a comedy gem about ice cream van wars in Glasgow. Featuring the […]
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Down & Dirty: American D.I.Y. Restored
Monday 21 – Wednesday 30 August, 2023 The punk and ‘no wave’ movements of the late 1970s cut a noisy if brief swathe through the pretensions of the increasingly corporatised contemporary music scene. Emerging from the physical and cultural decay of downtown NYC, the punk scene combined an aggressive rejection of canonical and popular taste […]
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Afire at GFT
Friday 25 – Thursday 31 August, 2023 A small holiday house by the Baltic sea. The days are hot and it hasn’t rained in weeks. Four young people come together, friends old and new. A seaside vacation takes an unexpected turn with the appearance of a mysterious woman. As an ever-encroaching forest fire threatens their […]
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The Innocent at GFT
Friday 25 – Thursday 31 August, 2023 Buy tickets Part crime thriller, part family farce, The Innocent shows with panache and pathos the dangerous lengths two men go to, and the outlandish lies they tell, for the women they love. The story centres on Sylvie, a nearly 60 year old woman who has fallen in […]
Cinemasters Lars Von Trier at GFT
Friday 4 August – Tuesday 5 September , 2023 Experience the genius and chaos of one of world cinema’s greatest provocateurs, Lars Von Trier, again on the big screen at GFT. From Breaking the Waves, newly restored in 4K, to essential classics Dancer in the Dark and Melancholia (both screening on 35mm), alongside the fascinating […]
Look Who’s Back: Hollywood and the Black List
Saturday 2 – Wednesday 27 September, 2023 The 1960s saw the return to the mainstream of a number of film professionals who had been blacklisted in the anti-communist drive within the Hollywood film industry in the late 1940s and 1950s. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, when America was experiencing social and political upheaval, filmmakers […]
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Abba the Movie – fan event at GFT
Sunday 17 September, 2023 4.20pm Captured by director Lasse Hallström during their mega-successful tour of Australia, the newly remastered film will take you on a flashback journey to the 1970s when disco reigned supreme and ABBA were royalty. Including backstage footage as well as full-length performances of some of ABBA’s greatest hits including “Dancing Queen”, “SOS”, “Name […]
Strange Way Of Life + Pedro Almodóvar recorded Q&A
Monday 25 September, 2024 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 lane […]
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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’ (★★★★ […]
The Old Oak plus Ken Loach Q & A
Wednesday 20 September, 2024 6.50pm TJ Ballantyne, the landlord of The Old Oak, is hanging on to the pub by his fingertips. His predicament is endangered even more when it becomes contested territory after the arrival of Syrian refugees who are placed in his once-thriving mining village without any notice. In an unlikely friendship, he […]
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Big Screen Epics at GFT
Wednesday 2 – Monday 28 August, 2023 From the brutal entertainment of Rome’s gladiatorial Colosseum to the floating bamboo trees of Qing dynasty China; an ear-pounding waterfall in 18th Century America to the wind-blasted deck of the HMS Surprise, we’re bringing some of the most memorable moments of classic action cinema back to the big […]
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The Wolf Suit + Q&A
Thursday 31 August, 2023 8.15pm How much can you trust your childhood memories? Director Sam Firthinvestigates, employing a wide range of narrative and exploratory devices – from video journal entries and interviews with her parents, to dramatic reconstructions using actors and her parents as co-directors. Crafted with great sensitivity and flair, The Wolf Suit is […]
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The Golden Voyage of Sinbad 50th Anniversary + Q & A with Caroline Munro
Saturday 19 August, 2023 at 2.30 p.m. Join The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation for a 50th anniversary celebration of The Golden Voyage of Sinbad at GFT, with an introduction from iconic actress Caroline Munro, the ‘First Lady of Fantasy’. Joined by Ray Harryhausen’s daughter Vanessa, Caroline will share memories of her time working on […]
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Wednesday, August 16, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Take 2: Mavka at GFT
Saturday 19 August, 2023 11.30am Mavka — a Soul of the Forest and its Warden — faces an impossible choice between love and her duty as guardian to the Heart of the Forest, when she falls in love with a human — the talented young musician Lukas. Language: This film’s dialogue is in Ukrainian with […]
Variety plus Better Gordon Q & A
Thursday 24 August, 2023 – 8.10 pm Buy tickets Standard screenings: Monday 21 – Wednesday 23 August Director Bette Gordon will be joining GFT for a remote Q&A following a screening of her 1983 cult favourite Variety. Based on a Brechtian script by Kathy Acker and starring New York underground legends like Nan Goldin and […]
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Scorsese of the Month: Cape Fear at GFT
Monday 21 August, 2023 7.45pm GFT’s Scorsese of the Month screenings continue in August with Cape Fear, selected and introduced by programmer Charlotte Ashcroft. Robert De Niro stars in one of his most menacing roles as Max Cady — a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. Nick Noltestars as Sam Bowden, a small-town corporate attorney. What […]
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Meet Me in the Bathroom at GFT
Friday 18 – Thursday 24 August, 2023 Set against the backdrop of 9/11, this documentary tells the story of how a new generation kickstarted a musical rebirth for New York City that reverberated around the world. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Strokes, Interpol and LCD Soundsystem all feature in Meet Me in the Bathroom, based […]
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Asteroid City at GFT
Friday 18 – Thursday 24 August, 2023 Captions available Don’t worry if you missed it earlier this year, one of GFT audience’s favourite releases of 2023, Asteroid City, is returning to the big screens. The itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events in Wes Anderson‘s latest star-studded feature. Buy […]
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Beato at GFT
Friday 18 – Tuesday 22 August, 2023 Every winter Mikma and her family travel by foot from their village deep in the Himalaya of Nepal to sell local medicinal plants in urban markets. This year, construction of a new highway to China has begun in their roadless valley, and things are never going to be […]
Lie With Me
Friday 18 – Thursday 24 August, 2023 A successful novelist Stéphane (Guillaume de Tonquédec) returns to his hometown for the first time in decades. Once there, he is stunned to meet Lucas — the son of his first love, Thomas. This triggers vivid memories of a passionate but secret adolescent affair, at a time when […]
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