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.Plan 75 at GFT
19 – 25 May, 2023 Set in a near dystopian future, Japan’s government launches ‘Plan 75’, a programme encouraging the elderly to terminate their own lives, to rejuvenate the country’s rapidly-ageing population. Chie Hayakawa‘s remarkable debut intertwines the lives of three ordinary citizens as they face this new reality. An elderly woman, a young Plan […]
Read the full article: Plan 75 at GFT
Thursday, May 18, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Preview: The Old Man Movie – Lactopalypse + Q & A
Thursday 25 May, 2023 8:20pm Based on a popular Estonian web series, The Old Man Movie is an outrageous, crowd-pleasing, stop-motion comedy. In a remote village, three children from the city are forced to spend the summer on their grandfather’s farm. When they accidentally lose his prized cow, they have 24 hours to find the rogue bovine before the ‘Lactopalypse’. Followed by […]
Read the full article: Preview: The Old Man Movie – Lactopalypse + Q & A
| Filed under: Cinema
Bottle Rocket at GFT
Sunday 21 & Wednesday 24 May, 2023 As part of our CineMasters: Wes Anderson season, we’re screening his 1996 feature debut Bottle Rocket. Expanded from his short film of the same name, this charming – and hilarious – portrait of three dreamers was the first of several collaborations with his longtime friends Luke and Owen Wilson. Buy Tickets […]
Read the full article: Bottle Rocket at GFT
| Filed under: Cinema
Beau is Afraid at GFT
19 – 25 May, 2023 Ari Aster’s (Hereditary, Midsommar) latest film stars Joaquin Phoenix as the titular Beau, an immensely paranoid man, riddled with fear, who embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother. In the process, Beau comes face to face with everything he is afraid of during a colossal, surreal adventure. Why […]
Read the full article: Beau is Afraid at GFT
| Filed under: Cinema
Scottish – Egyptian Audio Visual Collaboration – I was in the tide, the tide was in me
6 – 21 May, 2023 UK Premiere of I was in the tide, the tide was in me at The Pipe Factory , 42 Bain St, Glasgow G40 2LA The new AV collaboration by Egyptian artist Ghada Eissa and British vocalist Nik Rawlings uses film and music to explore experiences of bipolar disorder, memory and […]
SCCAN: The Oil Machine – can we be break the addiction
Monday, 22 May, 2023 – 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Online Oil has been an invisible machine at the core of our economy and society. It now faces an uncertain future as activists and investors demand change. Is this the end of oil? THE OIL MACHINE explores the complexities of transitioning away from oil and […]
Read the full article: SCCAN: The Oil Machine – can we be break the addiction
Glasgow Film Festival 23 – Revisited
It’s impossible to see everything that GFF has to offer, but now here’s your chance! This May, the GFT are welcoming back four festival favourites, so now’s your opportunity to catch some titles you might have missed. The Eight Mountains 12 – 25 May Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, The Eight Mountains is […]
Read the full article: Glasgow Film Festival 23 – Revisited
Wednesday, May 17, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog
Berg at GFT
Friday 12 – Thursday 18 May, 2023 Berg follows the stories of the stones, rocks and peaks of a vast mountain landscape. Just as all sense of scale is lost amidst this raw and primal trip across the panorama of the mountains, three small human figures remain – hikers tackling the peak. Following their journey throughout […]
Read the full article: Berg at GFT
Wednesday, May 10, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Take 2: Raining Cats and Frogs
Saturday 13 May, 2023 at 11.30 a.m. The Bauer family live on a farm on a hill and own a zoo. The frogs who live on this farm predict that the Earth will be flooded for 40 days and 40 nights. The flood comes quickly after the prediction and all the zoo animals escape to […]
Good NTLive at Glasgow Film Theatre
Thursday 11 May, 2023, 7.40 p.m. David Tennant stars in a blistering reimagining of one of Britain’s most powerful, political plays. As the world faces its Second World War, John Halder, a good, intelligent German professor, finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences. Olivier Award-winner Dominic Cooke (Follies) directs C.P. Taylor’s timely tale, with a cast […]
Read the full article: Good NTLive at Glasgow Film Theatre
| Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan at GFT
5 – 11 May, 2023 Vincent Cassel and Eva Green star in this lavish and entertaining new adaptation of Alexander Dumas’s epic novel. D’Artagnan (François Civil), a spirited young man, is left for dead after trying to save a young woman from being kidnapped. When he arrives in Paris, he tries by all means to find his attackers. […]
Read the full article: The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan at GFT
| Filed under: Cinema
Pamfir at GFT
Friday 12 – Thursday 18 May, 2023 When reformed smuggler Pamfir returns home to his village on the Ukrainian border, he’s determined to set a good example for his teenage son. But in a town where corruption, crime and religion are inextricably linked, his plan is quickly thwarted. Part drama, part thriller, part noir-inflected fairytale, Pamfir is a propulsive, […]
Read the full article: Pamfir at GFT
| Filed under: Cinema
Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final screening at GFT
Saturday 13 May, 2023, 7.30 p.m. For the first time EVER, the Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final show will be broadcast live on the big screen! Come together and be united by music, sharing the incredible experience of celebrating the biggest, brightest, boldest music party of the year. Hosted this year in Liverpool by the BBC […]
Read the full article: Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final screening at GFT
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power at GFT
Friday 12 – Thursday 18 May, 2023 A mesmerising visual journey through cinema’s sexist bloodstream, Brainwashed uses more than 175 film clips from canonical Hollywood favourites and cult classics, as well as interviews with filmmakers and scholars, to reveal a sinister framework of misogyny and paternalism that infiltrates cinema. Buy Tickets GFT, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB
Read the full article: Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power at GFT
| Filed under: Cinema
SQIFF: The Trans-Generational Tour at GFT
Friday 12 – Sunday 14 May, 2023 SQIFF (Scottish Queer International Film Festival) are bringing the Trans-Generational Tour to GFT with three screenings on inter-generational trans communities. A unique reflection on trans knowledge and how it is passed down through generations. Captions and BSL-English Interpreters available Buy tickets Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, G3 […]
Read the full article: SQIFF: The Trans-Generational Tour at GFT
| Filed under: Cinema
Leaving to Remain at GFT
Monday 15 – Thursday 18 May, 2023 With the UK’s hardening immigration policy in the background, director Mira Erdevički follows the lives of three Roma. Settled in the UK over 20 years ago, the trio still feel attached to their native Slovakia and the Czech Republic. As the UK goes into lockdown, they film their lives throughout […]
Read the full article: Leaving to Remain at GFT
| Filed under: Cinema
NT Live: Best of Enemies at GFT
Thursday 18 May, 2023 7pm David Harewood and Zachary Quinto play feuding political rivals in this multiple award-winning and critically acclaimed drama. 1968 – a year of protest that divided America, and the cunningly conservative William F. Buckley Jr. and the iconoclastic liberal Gore Vidal fight to become the next President in a new television format. Little do they know they’re about to […]
Read the full article: NT Live: Best of Enemies at GFT
| Filed under: Cinema
The Color of Money plus Introduction
Monday 15 May, 20238:10pm Scorsese of the Month season continues with The Color of Money. The sequel to the 1961 Oscar-winning film The Hustler – which also screens on Monday – The Color of Money picks up with “Fast Eddie” Felson (Paul Newman, in the role that finally earned him the Academy Award). This screening was selected by, and will be […]
Read the full article: The Color of Money plus Introduction
| Filed under: Cinema
The Royal Tenenbaums 35 mm – GFT
14 and 17 May, 2023 Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children – Chas, Richie and Margot – and then they separated. Chas started buying real estate in his early teens and had an almost preternatural understanding of international finance. Margot was a playwright and received a grant of fifty thousand dollars in […]
Read the full article: The Royal Tenenbaums 35 mm – GFT
| Filed under: Cinema
Return to Seoul at GFT
Friday 5 – Thursday 11 May , 2023 Captions and audio description available Davy Chou’s Return to Seoul, which premiered in Cannes 2022’s Un Certain Regard, is an unpredictable and refreshingly authentic story of a young woman’s search for identity. Park Ji-Min delivers a revelatory performance as Freddie, an adoptee who, at age 25, attempts to reconnect with her […]
Read the full article: Return to Seoul at GFT
| Filed under: Cinema
The Blue Caftan at GFT
5 – 11 May, 2023 Set in the Moroccan town of Salé, The Blue Caftan follows Mina and her husband Halim, who run a small shop selling traditional caftans in one of the country’s oldest medinas. In order to keep up with demand, they hire a talented young man as an apprentice. Slowly Mina realises how much […]
Scott Pilgrim vs The World at GFT
Late Night Film – Friday 5 May, 2023 11 p.m. Edgar Wright‘s feverish, genre-bending adventure follows garage-rock bass guitarist and unlikely hero, Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera). When he falls for the dreamy Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), he finds he must battle an onslaught of Evil Exes who will stop at nothing to eliminate him from […]
Read the full article: Scott Pilgrim vs The World at GFT
Thursday, May 4, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Rushmore plus Introduction
Sunday 7 May, 2023 5pm Captioned screening Our Wes Anderson season launches this weekend with his breakthrough sophomore feature Rushmore. Starring Jason Schwartzman as Max Fischer, an eccentric 15-year-old student at Rushmore Academy whose life changes when he finds himself on academic probation, in love with elementary teacher Miss Cross and at odds with wealthy industrialist Herman Blume. On its release […]
Take 2. Finding Nemo at GFT
Saturday 6 May, 2023 at 11.30 a.m. Captioned screening – Autism Friendly Arguably one of Disney Pixar’s most loved features, Finding Nemo follows father and son clownfish duo, Marlin and Nemo, who live together in the Great Barrier Reef. When Nemo is lost, taken by a diver on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, Marlin — with the […]
Read the full article: Take 2. Finding Nemo at GFT
| Filed under: Cinema
Dream Fest – relaunch of the Dream Machine
Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th May, 2023 The Dream Machine 257 London Road Glasgow G40 1PE The Dream Machine relaunches this May, relighting the community campfire in the East End of Glasgow. The first of many new events showcasing our incredible sensory Dream Room kickstarting with a Saturday evening of live music with a super exciting […]
Read the full article: Dream Fest – relaunch of the Dream Machine
Little Richard: I Am Everything at GFT
Until 4 May, 2023 Like a quasar burning past the gaslight, director Lisa Cortés’ eye-opening documentary explodes the whitewashed canon of American pop music. Little Richard: I Am Everything shines a clarifying light on the Black, queer origins of rock’n’roll, and establishes the genre’s big bang: Richard Wayne Penniman. Testimonials from legendary musicians and cultural figures, Black and […]
Read the full article: Little Richard: I Am Everything at GFT
Saturday, April 29, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Mank at GFT
30 April and 3 May, 2023 1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane. Based on an original screenplay by his late father Jack, Mank is David Fincher’s unique take on Hollywood legend. The film was nominated […]
Read the full article: Mank at GFT
| Filed under: Cinema
Love According To Dalva at GFT
Until 4 May, 2023 Featuring an extraordinary performance from Zelda Samson as Dalva, a 12-year-old girl who is home-schooled and hidden from society by her father. When one evening the police forcibly take her into foster care, Dalva must learn to understand that her father’s abuse is not what real love is. With the help of her […]
Read the full article: Love According To Dalva at GFT
| Filed under: Cinema
Rodeo at GFT
Until 4 May, 2023 A young tearaway with a passion for motorbikes, Julia (Julie Ledru) lives on a social housing estate with her mother and brother. Her only escape from a fraught homelife is urban dirt-biking but, as she can’t afford her own bike, she steals them – and she’s pretty good at it. This […]
Read the full article: Rodeo at GFT
| Filed under: Cinema
How To Blow Up A Pipeline at Glasgow Film Theatre
How to Blow Up a Pipeline + Earth Day introduction Saturday 22 April, 2:45pm Standard screenings: Friday 21 April – Thursday 4 May After going down a storm when it screened at Glasgow Film Festival in March, GFT is thrilled to have the opportunity to screen a special preview of How to Blow Up a […]
Read the full article: How To Blow Up A Pipeline at Glasgow Film Theatre
| Filed under: Cinema
Related Pages
- Maryhill Burgh Halls Sunday 17 May 2026
- Legally Blonde 25th Anniversary at GFT
- The Wizard of the Kremlin at GFT
- Everbody to Kenmure Street at GFT
- National Theatre Live: All My Sons
- California Schemin at GFT
- Take 2: Where The Wild Things Are, GFT
- The Room plus Greg Sestero Q and A
- It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley at GFT
- The Good Boy at GFT
- Everybody to Kenmure Street, Community Film Screening
- Splitsville at GFT
- The Drama – GFT
- Scotland and Los Angeles Showcase GFT
- Rose of Nevada GFT
- Rushmore – Access Film Club GFT
- Broken English – GFT
- Take 2: The Day The Earth Blew Up – Looney Tunes
- Glasgow Film Theatre Programme for April 2026
- Showcase Screening, GMAC Partnership, University of Glasgow
