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.I Swear Screening at The Pyramid
Saturday January, 10, 2026 – 4pm to 6:30pm The Pyramid, 759 Argyle St, Glasgow G3 8DS Relaxed screening at affordable community cinema. 4:15pm (Doors 4:00pm) / £5 per ticket An account of the life of John Davidson, a Tourette syndrome campaigner who grew up with the condition in 1980s Scotland, at a time when it […]
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Thursday, January 8, 2026 | Filed under: Cinema, Community event, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Peter Hujar’s Day at GFT
2 – 12 January, 2026 (Captioned screenings 6th and 9th January) Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall star in the stunning new film from Ira Sachs, a richly cinematic rendering of the meeting of acclaimed photographer Peter Hujar and writer and artist Linda Rosenkrantz. In 1974, famed photographer Peter Hujar describes the routines and rituals that define an artist’s […]
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Tuesday, January 6, 2026 | Filed under: Cinema
California Schemin’ to close Glasgow Film Festival 2026
James McAvoy’s directorial debut California Schemin’ will have its UK premiere as the closing gala for Glasgow Film Festival 2026 (GFF26). Shot on location in Scotland, the film will close the 22nd annual Glasgow Film Festival on 8th March, 2026. Based on the improbably true story, California Schemin’ follows aspiring Scottish rap duo Silibil N’ […]
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Eleanor the Great at GFT
Friday 12 December, 2026 Eleanor the Great features a bravura performance from June Squibb in the title role of the spirited 94-year-old who tells a tale that takes on a dangerous life of its own. Eleanor Morgenstein has always stayed engaged and connected to the people around her. So, after a devastating loss, she relocates from […]
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Friday, January 2, 2026 | Filed under: Cinema
Take 2: Back to the Future
Saturday 3 January, 2026, 11.30 a.m. Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents’ first meeting and attracting his mother’s romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents’ romance and – with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown – […]
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The Apartment – 4k Restoration
2,3 and 6 January, 2026 GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB One of the all-time greats and a beloved film with GFT audiences, The Apartment continues to resonate as an acerbic takedown of corporate morality and a bittersweet love story. A sparkling script, career-best performances from Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine and stunning black and white widescreen […]
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Take 2: The Nightmare Before Christmas
Saturday 20 December, 2025, 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! Every child attending a […]
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Friday, December 19, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
It’s a Wonderful Life GFT
18 – 24 December, 2025 The beloved Christmas classic is GFT’s bestselling film of all time and has become a treasured festive tradition for so many of you, so make sure you don’t miss out on seats for this year’s screenings. Buy tickets Frank Capra’s 1946 Christmas classic follows the tribulations of smallltown everyman George […]
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Thursday, December 18, 2025 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Tale of Silyan at GFT
Tuesday, 23 December, 2025, 1 p.m. Wednesday, 24 December, 2025, 3.20 p.m. Following the critical acclaim of Honeyland, Oscar-nominated director Tamara Kotseva brings her unique, cinematic voice to this poetic story of solitude, belonging and renewal. Rooted in a 17th-century Macedonian folktale of a boy transformed into a stork, The Tale of Silyan follows Nikola, an aging farmer whose community […]
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Folktales at GFT
19 – 22 December, 2025 From the Academy Award-nominated filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (Jesus Camp), Folktales is a timely and moving portrait of teenagers who choose an extraordinary “gap year” in the Arctic wilderness — learning to dog sled, navigate the wilderness, and find meaning beyond the modern world. Dropped at the edge of the world, they must rely […]
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White Christmas at GFT
Monday 15th December, 2025 at 12.30 p.m. and Sunday 21 December, 2025 – wheelchair accessible Singers Bob Wallace (Bing Crosby) and Phil Davis (Danny Kaye) join sister act Betty (Rosemary Clooney) and Judy Haynes (Vera-Ellen) to perform a Christmas show in rural Vermont. While there, they run into General Waverly (Dean Jagger), the boys’ commander […]
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Hundreds of Beavers, Arlington Baths Club
Saturday 20 December, 2025 6.00 p.m. – 8.30 p.m. Arlington Baths Club 61 Arlington St, Glasgow G3 6DT Come along and enjoy this anarchic slapstick comedy! In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America’s greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers. […]
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Monday, December 15, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Batman Returns at GFT
Monday 15th December, 2025 at 5.40 p.m. And Thursday 18 December, 20s5 at 5.30 p.m. The monstrous Penguin, who dwells in the sewers beneath Gotham, joins up with corrupt mayoral candidate Max Shreck to topple the Batman once and for all. But when Shreck’s timid assistant Selina Kyle finds out, and Shreck tries to kill […]
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Sunday, December 14, 2025 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Kill Bill – The Whole Bloody Affair
Saturday 17 December, 2025 – 5.45 p.m. and Monday 19 December, 2025 – 5.45 p.m. Screening on 35mm, Quentin Tarantino’s revenge spectacular returns to the big screen as its auteur intended: with both chapters brought together as one film, alongside a never-before-seen animated sequence. An assassin code-named The Bride (Uma Thurman) wakes up from a coma, four […]
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Friday, December 12, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
It Was Just An Accident at GFT
14, 15 and 17 December, 2025 Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, It Was Just An Accident is a fearless tour-de-force from cinematic luminary Jafar Panahi. Both urgently political and deeply humane, this new moral classic confronts truth and uncertainty, revenge and mercy, head-on. When auto mechanic Vahid unexpectedly encounters the man who may have been his […]
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The Muppet Christmas Carol at GFT
STANDARD SCREENING (CAPTIONED): SAT 13 DEC, 11.30AM AUTISM FRIENDLY SCREENING: SAT 13 DEC, 12PM Audio Description available for both of these screenings ‘Tis the season for love, laughter, and one of the most cherished stories of all time! Join Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, and all the hilarious Muppets in this merry, magical version of […]
Eternity at GFT
12 – 18 December, 2025 In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan (Elizabeth Olson) is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with (Miles Teller), and her first love(Callum Turner), who died young and has waited decades for her to arrive. Buy […]
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The Shining 45th Anniversary at GFT
12th 14th and 17th 18th December, 2025 Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece of modern horror is widely considered to be one of the most terrifying movies of all time. Based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel, this tale of a family man and would-be writer going mad as winter caretaker of the cursed Overlook Hotel is a seminal work of the […]
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Wednesday, December 10, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
The Mighty Peking Man at GFT
Saturday 13 December, 2025, 3.20 p.m. A rare screening of the Shaw Brothers’ 1977 take on King Kong, one of the maddest monster movies ever made and a true cult classic. Best known for revolutionising the martial arts genre, the legendary Shaw Brothers studio in the late 1970s branched out into exploitation cinema, resulting in some truly […]
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P-Rock The Doc Screening Glasgow
Sunday 7 December, 2025, 6 – 9 p.m. Nice n Sleazy, 421 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3LG £5 Tickets at Eventbrite -P-Rock the Doc – Glasgow – Screening and Archive By Silver Knight Entertainment Come watch P-Rock the Doc, buy a DVD and watch the old archive of the channel! In the era of boybands and […]
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Saturday, December 6, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
Take 2: Arthur Christmas
Saturday 6 December, 2025, 11.30 a.m. For hundreds of years, the Claus family has delegated the title “Santa” to a chosen few of its members, which can be passed down upon retirement. Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in a one-night high-tech […]
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Friday, December 5, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Dreamers at GFT
6 – 11 December, 2025 In a UK immigration removal centre, Nigerian migrant Isio finds hope in an unexpected love that gives her the strength to fight a broken system. After fleeing persecution at home, Nigerian migrant Isio (Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́) is sent to Hatchworth Removal Centre, where she hopes her asylum plea will receive a […]
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Pillion at GFT
29 November – 11 December, 2025 ★★★★’Brilliant Bromley biker romance’ – The Guardian A shy young man (Harry Melling) finds his place in the world as the submissive to a handsome biker (Alexander Skarsgård), in Harry Lighton’s charming, sexy and tender debut. Colin (Melling) is a quiet, unassuming man with supportive parents whose world is rocked when he […]
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Prime Minister at GFT
6 – 11 December, 2025 Winner of the Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Prime Minister is an intimate portrait of political icon Jacinda Arden. In August 2017, in the lead-up to national elections, Jacinda Ardern unexpectedly became New Zealand’s opposition party leader. She had just turned 37. Two frenetic months later, she was Prime […]
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The Cure: The Show of a Lost World
Thursday 11 December, 2025, 7.30 p.m. On 1 November 2024, The Cure’s widely acclaimed Grammy-nominated album Songs of a Lost World was released. The night of the album’s unveiling, the band performed the record in full for the first and only time at London’s Troxy in front of 3,000 fans. THE CURE: THE SHOW OF A LOST WORLD is a recut, […]
Sunset Boulevard 75th Anniversary GFT
6 – 11 December, 2025 GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Sunset Boulevard 4K Restoration Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, an ageing silent film queen, and William Holden as the struggling writer who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen’s most memorable characters in Sunset Boulevard. Winner of three Academy Awards, director Billy Wilder’s orchestration of […]
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For Alice at GFT
Tuesday 9 December, 2025, 8.40p.m. A gripping noir crime thriller that honors Hong Kong’s classic genre cinema while giving it a fresh, modern twist. After 20 years in prison, Shuang (Tai Bo) tries to leave the criminal world behind — until he decides to help Alice (Kuku So), a teenage girl fleeing her mother’s abusive […]
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CinemaAttic ¡Qué Horror! Spooky Short Films from Mexico
Thursday 11 December, 2025 What better accompaniment to the cold and dark of the Scottish winter than to stay inside and watch some scary cinema? ¡Qué horror! presents new voices in the world of Mexican horror, following in the footsteps of the country’s long tradition with the genre. This programme presents everything from classic haunted […]
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Thursday, December 4, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
Glasgow Film Festival supports 50 next-generation filmmakers across three star-studded talent labs
Lab mentors and partners include Oscar-winning and nominated directors, leading animation studios, and executives from Netflix, BFI, Aardman, and Curzon Funny Features titles to include Notice Me, executive produced by Lena Dunham, and Gro(ceries), co-written by Sex Education star Chinenye Clarissa Ezeudu Highest ever cohort of filmmakers brings the total number of people supported by these initiatives to […]
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog
The Girls We Want at GFT
Saturday 29 November, 2025 – 5.45 p.m. UK Premiere During the summer holidays, Omar, 20, and his group of friends work as monitors in a children’s summer camp in inner-city Marseille. The young people are full of dreams, principles, and prejudices. When Carmen returns to the area after years away, the youthful dynamic is put […]
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Saturday, November 29, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema
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