Gestures of Memory: R21 AKA Restoring Solidarity
Friday, 8 March, 2024 – 8.30 p.m. CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Upon receiving a mystery package containing 16mm film, the filmmaker scanned it to reveal twenty lost films collected by the Japanese activists who were part of the country’s solidarity movement with Palestine. Excerpts of these archival films captured by filmmakers in various […]
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Wednesday, March 6, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2024
Late Bloomers GFF24
10 March, 2024, 1.30 p.m. Starring Scottish superstar and festival favourite Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy), Late Bloomers is a dark comedy that’s bursting with feeling and laugh out loud humour. When a struggling musician’s questionable life choices leave her in hospital with a broken hip and a broken heart, her unlikely bond with […]
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Blue Sunshine
Tuesday 5 and Thursday 7 March, 2024 Buy tickets > This finely tuned drama focuses on the inner strength of a transgender teacher as she makes her transition to her new life as Bhanu while working in a conservative small-town school. When she finds herself under pressure to marry, she decides to embrace her new […]
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Glasgow FrightFest 2024 All You Need Is Death
9 March, 2024 at 8.25 p.m. ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH (GLASGOW FRIGHTFEST) Blending Irish folklore and musical traditions with nerve-wracking horror, Paul Duane’s masterful debut feature All You Need is Death is one of the most unique and unsettling films of the year. A young couple on a journey for dark, forbidden knowledge travel […]
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The Philadelphia Story, GFF24 at CCA
8 March, 2024 CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and James Stewart star as a dynamic threesome in this comedic romp. On the day before her wedding, an ex-husband (Grant) and an undercover journalist (Stewart) turn up on the door of a wealthy socialite (Hepburn). The Philadelphia Story was Katharine Hepburn’s […]
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Anatomy of a Fall
11 – 14 March, 2024 Buy tickets In this Palme d’Or-winning psychological thriller, a celebrated writer is put on trial when her husband falls to his death from their secluded chalet. What starts as a murder investigation soon becomes a gripping journey into the depths of a destructive marriage. 🏆 Nominated for five Oscars and […]
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The Holdovers
11 – Thursday 14 March, 2024 From Alexander Payne (Sideways), The Holdoversfollows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the students with nowhere to go. He forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker […]
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Tummy Monster, GFF24
7 March, 2024, 12.50 p.m. GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Rising Scottish star Lorn Macdonald (Beats) stars as a self-centred tattoo artist whose fixation on getting a selfie with a famous client embroils him in a bizarre and dangerous game. Glasgow-based director Ciaran Lyons makes a virtue of his low budget in this blackly […]
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Tuesday, March 5, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2024
The Invisible Fight
6 and 7 March, 2024 Heavy metal and kung-fu comedy come together with anarchic absurdity in this tale of a soldier whose brush with death leads him to decide to become a martial arts monk. The colourful exuberance and dodgy fashions of the 1970s are perfectly captured in Rainer Sarnet’s anarchic kung-fu comedy. When Black […]
Bleeding Love – GFF24 review by Pat Byrne
Bleeding Love is a road trip movie starring Ewan McGregor and his daughter Clara. They play father and daughter taking a trip together from San Diego to New Mexico after the daughter has experienced a drug overdose. It’s a long drive to where they are going, apparently to see an artist friend, and the two […]
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Sunday, March 3, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Film reviews, Film Reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2024, Pat's Home Page Blog
Float – Series 2, GFF24
4 March, 2024 Black Camel Pictures’ award-winning drama from writer Stef Smith returns for a second series. Jade and Collette reunite 18 months after the first series as the show moves beyond the world of the swimming pool. Black Camel Pictures’ queer short-form drama from writer Stef Smith, revolving around the intense relationship that develops […]
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Hounds GFF24 at Cineworld2
4 and 5 March, 2024 Set over a single night, this tightly wound thriller charts a kidnapping gone awry at the hands of a financially struggling father and son who are on a job for the local mob. A father (Abdellatif Masstouri) and his son (Ayoub Elaïd) are trying to make ends meet. They find […]
Only The River Flows
4 and 5 March, 2024 (4th sold out) This moody Asian-noir crime thriller, laced with dark humour, charts a detective’s attempts to identify a serial killer in a rural town as the secrets of the locals are gradually revealed. A quick arrest after a murder sits uneasily with chief of police Ma Zhe (Yilong Zhu), […]
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Love Jones GFF24
4 March, 2024 – 5.45 p.m. From the golden age of 1990s African American cinema comes Love Jones, a classically cool Black love story that made room for more diverse depictions of Black love on screen. Boy (a poet) meets girl (a photographer) at an open mic night in a ‘90s Chicago bar. Sexy, smooth […]
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To See Ourselves CCA by Jane McAllister
16 March, 2024 7 p.m. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD TO SEE OURSELVES is an unexpected, deeply personal account of the referendum as seen through the eyes of a pregnant filmmaker, as she follows her idealist father’s relentless activism and reveals the heart behind the politics during this historic crossroads for Scotland. Affectionate without […]
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Saturday, March 2, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
The Burning Season GFF 2024
3 and 4 March, 2024 The story of a long-running love affair linked to an incident from the past unspools backwards to reveal its secrets in a twisty tale of a bad romance. Married couple Alena (Sara Canning) and Tom (Joe Pingue) have been visiting the Luna Lake cabins every summer for years. This year […]
The Teacher
4 and 5 March, 2024 (4 th screening sold out) nspired by true events, this powerful West Bank-set drama centres on a grieving schoolteacher who is attempting to keep a student out of trouble whilst engaging in his own acts of political resistance. British-Palestinian Farah Nabulsi – who won a BAFTA for her short film […]
Milk Teeth GFF24
4 and 5 March, 2024 An atmospheric survivalist drama with a fairy-tale edge sees trouble brewing for a young woman and her mother after they take in a foundling youngster against the wishes of their community. In a near-future isolated community where suspicion and superstition thrive, Skalde (Mathilde Bundschuh) has a difficult relationship with her […]
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Woken GFF24
3 and 4 March, 2024 Set in the near-future, this psychological sci-fi thriller stars Erin Kellyman (Solo: A Star Wars Story) as Anna, a pregnant woman who wakes up on an island with no recollection of anyone she’s living with — including her husband. Alan Friel’s twisty debut follows Anna as she becomes increasingly suspicious […]
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Tickets on sale Glasgow Film Festival 2024
28 February – March, 2024 The wait is over! You’ve had a few days to soak up GFF24’s jam packed programme, and been on the edge of your seats and biting your nails waiting for your chance to snag those tickets. GFF is thrilled to announce that the full programme general sale is now live! […]
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The Dead Don’t Hurt at GFF
3 and 4 March, 2024 Viggo Mortensen writes, directs and stars in this original take on the classic Western, in a story that centres on the adventurous life of fiercely independent Vivienne Le Coudy, played by Vicky Krieps. Viggo Mortensen heads back to the 1860s for this moving romantic Western. Vicky Krieps stars as French-Canadian […]
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Filmmaking with Kevin Macdonald at Glasgow Film Festival 2024
Tuesday 5 March, 2024 at 4 p.m. GFF Industry Focus is excited to welcome Glasgow’s very own Kevin Macdonald, the renowned film director of The Last King of Scotland, State of Play and Touching the Void fame. This extra special panel dubbed Filmmaking with Kevin Macdonald, will host Kevin as he discusses his career in […]
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Brothers Glasgow Film Festival 2024
Friday 1 and Saturday 2 March, 2024 Czechia’s entry for this year’s Best International Feature Oscar recounts the gripping true story of the Mašín brother’s anti-Communist resistance and their attempt to flee to the West in 1953. Official Entry: Czechia – Best International Feature – 96th Academy Awards® Seven decades after brothers Josef and Ctirad […]
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Friday, March 1, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2024, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Asog Glasgow Film Festival 2024
Friday 1 March, 2024 6 p.m. Directed by Filipino-Chinese-Irish Canadian comedian and filmmaker Seán Devlin Asog follows Jaya; a non-binary school teacher on a journey of self-discovery, starring survivors of the Yolanda typhoon in the Philippines. Seán Devlin’s trans road movie spans fact, fiction and magic realism as it sees victims of the Yolanda typhoon […]
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Love Lies Bleeding Opening Gala Glasgow Film Festival 2024
Opening Gala: Love Lies Bleeding – 28 February, 2024 Also Screening Thursday 29 March 1.05 p.m Tonight is the night of GFF24’s spectacular Opening Gala with the UK Premiere of Director Rose Glass’ second feature, Love Lies Bleeding, in which love and violence come together in an explosive cocktail in this thriller starring Kristen Stewart […]
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Wednesday, February 28, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2024, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
THE G at Glasgow Film Festival 2024
Thursday, 29 February 2024, 8.30 p.m. – Screening on 29th will be followed by a Q&A with Karl R. Hearne and Dale Dickey. Saturday 2 March, 2024 6.15 p.m. UK Premiere Dale Dickey (Winter’s Bone, A Love Song) stars in this pacy and complex revenge thriller that proves hell hath no fury like a grandmother […]
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Monday, February 26, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2024
The Burning Season (2023) review Pat Byrne
The Burning Season at GFF, 3 and 4 March, 2024 Sean Garrity’s The Burning Season is a story about two people Alena (Sara Canning) and JB (Jonas Chernick) and their dysfunctional affair. It involves them meeting each year at the lakeside resort JB runs with Poppy (Tanisha Thammavongsa). However, there is much more than lust […]
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Sunday, February 25, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2024, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Full Programme Announced for Glasgow Film Festival 2024
Glasgow Film Festival 2024 – 28 February – 10 March GFF24 celebrates its 20th Anniversary and Scotland’s largest film festival will screen films at Glasgow Film Theatre (celebrating its 50th anniversary) and across the city. in 12 packed days, the programme will show 11 world and international premieres, 69 UK premieres and 15 Scottish premieres, […]
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Friday, February 23, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2024, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Take 2: Turning Red
Saturday 24 February, 2024 STANDARD SCREENING: 11.30AM TAKE 2 ACCESS SCREENING: 12PM (AUTISM-FRIENDLY) Buy tickets Disney and Pixar’s Turning Red introduces Mei Lee, a confident, dorky 13-year-old torn between staying her mother’s dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. Her protective, if not slightly overbearing mother, Ming (voiced by Sandra Oh), is never far from […]
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The Settlers
Friday 23 – Wednesday 28 February, 2024 Felipe Gálvez asserts himself as a revelatory new cinematic voice with this searing take on the Western. Three horsemen embark on an expedition across the Tierra del Fuego archipelago tasked with securing the vast property of a wealthy landowner. Amidst rising tensions within the group, they come to […]
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- La Chimera GFT
- Aftersun at Glasgow Film Theatre
- A Matter of Life and Death
- Perfect Days at GFT
- Love Lies Bleeding at GFT
- Billy Connolly’s Big Banana Feet at GFT
- Special Screenings to Mark Anniversary Year at Glasgow Film Theatre
- Bad Education at GFT
- B Movie.Lust and Sound in West Berlin
- At the Volta with James Joyce, GFT
- Take 2: Wonderstruck
- That They May Face The Rising Sun
- Youth Screening: Grey Gardens at GFT
- If Only I Could Hibernate
- Fantastic Machine at GFT
- Bleeding Love at GFT
- Sometimes I Think About Dying at GFT
- The Lives of Others – 35mm, Special 50 Anniversary Screening GFT
- Cinema Paradiso – Special 50th Anniversary Screening GFT