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.Babylon at Glasgow Film Theatre
Friday 17 – Thursday 23 February, 2023 Captions and Audio Description available La La Land and Whiplash director Damien Chazelle returns with an outrageous ode to the Golden Age of Hollywood. Featuring a starry ensemble cast led by Margot Robbie, Babylon is a debaucherous comedy drama of epic proportions, bursting with unbridled ego and rivalling glorious decadence with depravity in […]
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Saturday, February 18, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Blue Jean at Glasgow Film Theatre
Friday 10 – Thursday 23 February Captions and Audio Description available Winner of the Audience Award at Venice Film Festival, Georgia Oakley’s outstanding character study follows Jean, a lesbian PE teacher in Newcastle, who is forced to live a double live under Section 28. Featuring stunning photography, pitch-perfect costuming and a standout central performance from Rosy […]
Women Talking at Glasgow Film Theatre
Friday 10 – Tuesday 28 February, 2023 Captions and Audio Description available Nominated for Best Picture at the 2023 Academy Awards, Sarah Polley’s riveting drama follows a group of Mennonite women reconciling an epidemic of abuse with their religious faith. Featuring an ensemble cast including Rooney Mara, Jessie Buckley, Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand, Women Talking […]
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The Whale at Glasgow Film Festival
Friday 3 – Thursday 23 February, 2023 Captions and Audio Description available Brendon Fraser is incredible – and freshly Oscar-nominated – in this adaptation of Samuel D Hunter’s acclaimed play, directed by Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream). Bolstered by exceptional supporting performances by Hong Chau (The Menu) and Sadie Sink (Stranger Things), Aronofsky’s intimate study […]
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Retrospective Films at Glasgow Film Festival 2023
In The Driving Seat The ever-popular retrospective screenings return with an eye on showcasing iconic classics revolving around women taking charge and setting off to forge their own path. Remember these screenings are free. Bonnie and Clyde It Happened One Night Julia The Piano Pierrot Le Fou Roman Holiday The Sugarland Express Thelma & […]
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Friday, February 17, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2023, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Glasgow Film Festival 2023 Programme
It’s here, the Glasgow Film Festival 2023 programme! Glasgow Film Festival 1 – 12 March, 2023 One of the UK’s largest film festivals, GFF23 will host 70 UK premieres, 6 World premieres, 16 European/International premieres and 6 Scottish premieres at Glasgow Film Theatre and venues across the city. Festival Opening Gala and Closing Film The […]
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Glasgow Film Festival 2023 – FrightFest
Be prepared to devour a devilish feast of dread-filled delights as the UK’s favourite horror fantasy event returns to the renowned Glasgow Film Festival for an 18th year, from Thurs 9 March to Sat 11 March 2023. This year’s daring line-up, once again housed at the iconic Glasgow Film Theatre, embraces the latest genre discoveries […]
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The End of Sex, Glasgow Film Festival
The End of Sex receives its UK premiere at Glasgow Film Festival 2 and 3 March, 2023 Starring Emily Hampshire (Schitt’s Creek) and Jonas Chernick (Ashgrove), The End of Sex follows Emma and Josh, a couple whose kids are away at camp. With the house empty for a week, the couple embark on a series […]
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Late Night: Dawn of the Dead (2004) at GFT
Friday 17 February, 2023 at 11pm Next up in the late night slot is this high octane zombie remake starring Sarah Polley, screening as part of Cinemasters season on the actor-turned-director. When her husband is attacked by an undead neighbour, Ana (Polley) manages to escape, only to realise her entire town has been infested with zombies. […]
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Valentine Day at Glasgow Film Theatre 2023
Tuesday 14 February, 2023 GFT, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Celebrate Valentine’s Day at Glasgow Film Theatre showcasing two of GFT’s all-time favourite love stories. Whether you’re a hopeless romantic or looking for an escape, they’ve got you covered with the heartbreakingly beautiful Portrait of a Lady on Fire which will be playing alongside Richard Linklater‘s […]
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Friday, February 10, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Valentines Day Glasgow
EO at Glasgow Film Theatre
Friday 10 – Thursday 16 February, 2023 Captions available Iconoclastic Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski brings us a tale of life, death and societal injustice via the journey of EO, a donkey who escapes from the circus on a trek across the countryside, meeting an eclectic cast of characters along the way. Winner of the Jury Prize at […]
One Year, One Night at GFT
Saturday 11 February, 2023, 3:45pm Screening as part of the Catalan Film Festival, this powerful drama stars Noémie Merlant (Tár) and Nahuel Pérez Biscayart (120 BPM) as a couple living in the aftermath of the 2015 terrorist attack on the Bataclan theatre in Paris, as they struggle to readjust to normality and move beyond their identity […]
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Access Film Club: Boy at GFT
Monday 13 February, 2023 at 6pm This month’s autism-friendly screening is a charming 1980s-set comedy-drama from What We Do in the Shadows director Taika Waititi. Living in New Zealand and obsessed with Michael Jackson, an 11-year-old child has the chance to meet his estranged ex-con father, but soon finds he is not the man he imagined him to be. […]
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Take 2: How To Train You Dragon 2 at GFT
Saturday 11 February, 2023 11:30am Autism Friendly Five years after the events of the first film, Hiccup and his dragon Toothless are living peacefully in the village of Berk with both dragons and Vikings. This is until they come across the evil Drago Bludvist, who plans to capture all dragons and make them follow his […]
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Pacifiction plus Introduction at Glasgow Film Theatre
Sunday 5 February, 3:45pm Screening as part of the Catalan Film Festival, the latest epic from director Albert Serra (The Death of Louis XIV) exposes the greed, hypocrisy and paranoia of colonial power, resulting in a visually stunning cinematic journey nominated for nine César Awards. Tickets and information GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB
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Wednesday, February 1, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Take 2: Strange World at Glasgow Film Theatre
Saturday 4 February, 11:30am Audio Description available Autism Friendly The Clade family are farmers of a fuel source known as Pando, in the land of Avalonia. Searcher Clade (Jake Gyllenhall) discovered this powerful plant when he was an adventurer with his father, Jaeger (Dennis Quaid). The adventuring life is long behind him until Callisto Mai […]
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Till at GFT
27 January – 2 February, 2023 Directed by Chinonye Chukwu (Clemency), Till tells the heartbreaking true story of the historic lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till (Jalyn Hall) — for whistling at a white woman in Money, Mississippi in 1955 — through the eyes of his mother Mamie Till-Mobley (Danielle Deadwyler). Following Emmet’s death, Mamie insisted the world witness the […]
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St Omer at Glasgow Film Theatre
3 – 9 February, 2023 Acclaimed French documentarian Alice Diop makes her narrative debut with this finely observed drama following Rama (Kajiye Kagame), a young novelist observing the trial of Laurence (Guslagie Malanda), a woman accused of infanticide. Rama intends to write a modern day retelling of the Greek Medea myth about the case, but her plans […]
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The Fablemans at GFT
27 January until 9 February, 2023 Dedicated to the memory of his parents, Steven Spielberg’s wistful coming-of-age drama sees Sammy Fabelman (Gabriel LaBelle) fall in love with the movies after his parents, talented pianist Mitzi (an Oscar-tipped Michelle Williams) and successful computer engineer Burt (Paul Dano) take him to see The Greatest Show on Earth. Armed with a […]
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Wednesday, January 25, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Take 2: Rio
Saturday 28 January, 2023 at 11.30 a.m. Blu (Jesse Eisenberg) is a macaw that was brought up as a domestic pet and his owner Linda (Leslie Man) receives an invite to Rio de Janeiro, due to Blu being the last male of his species. When arriving in Brazil, Blu meets the last female of their […]
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Piggy at GFT
27 January – 2 February, 2023 Carlota Pereda’s strikingly bold and ominous debut feature follows Sara (Laura Galán) as she navigates desire, belonging and the distinction between revenge and redemption. Set in the sweltering summertime of rural Spain, Sara carries an extra load of teenage agony due to perpetual bullying. She buries herself in her […]
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Dreaming Walls – inside the Chelsea hotel.
27 January – 2 February, 2023 The legendary Chelsea Hotel, an icon of 1960s counterculture and an artists’ refuge for over a century, has been under renovation for the past eight years and will soon reopen as a luxury hotel. Fifty-one people, now all in their later years, still live amidst the scaffolding. Caught between […]
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Heading West: a story about band called Shooglenifty
Monday 30 January, 2023 – 2.45 p.m. Screening to coincide with Celtic Connections When the frontman of a band dies, can the other members carry on without him? Together for more than quarter of a century and loved all over the world, Scottish band Shooglenifty are devastated when Angus, their fiddle-playing frontman, gets ill and dies just […]
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CINE(STHESIA) Angelou on Burns
26 January, 2023 at 6 p.m. National Library at Kelvin Hall, 1445 Argyle St, Glasgow G3 8AW National Library at Kelvin Hall is delighted to celebrate Burns Night with this special screening of Angelou on Burns, first released in 1996. Director Elly Taylor will be present to give an introduction to the documentary and take […]
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Saturday, January 21, 2023 | Filed under: Burns Events, Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog
2001: A Space Odyssey
Sunday, 22 January, 2023 – 3.20 p.m. Ranked at number six on Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time list, Stanley Kubrick’s sublime masterpiece is regularly cited as one of the finest pieces of science fiction ever made. Scripted by Kubrick and famed writer Arthur C Clarke, the film follows a representative of mankind sent into […]
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Friday, January 20, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Holy Spider at Glasgow Film Theatre
20 – 26 January, 2023 A journalist (Zar Amir-Ebrahimi) descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called ‘Spider Killer’, who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners. Telling a chilling story based on true events that took […]
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Preview: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed plus Q & A Laura Poitras
Wednesday 25 January, 2023 7.45 p.m. Special preview of All the Beauty and the Bloodshed: the extraordinary story of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin, told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography and rare footage of her fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the opioid crisis. Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour), the […]
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Rashōmon at Glasgow Film Theatre
6 – 12 January, 2023 GFT, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB The truth is in the eye of the beholder in Rashōmon, a landmark work from Akira Kurosawa. What really happened at the storm-tossed Rashômon Gate? We know that a man died and a woman was raped but where does the guilt lie and how can […]
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Wednesday, January 11, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Alcarràs at Glasgow Film Theatre
6 – 12 January, 2023 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB As far as they can remember, the Solé family have spent every summer picking the peaches from their orchard in Alcarràs, a small village in Spain. But this year’s crop could be their last, as they face eviction. The new plans […]
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Empire of Light at Glasgow Film Theatre
9 – 26 January, 2023 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB From Academy Award-winning director and writer Sam Mendes, Empire of Light is a moving drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times. Set in and around a faded old cinema in an English coastal town in the early 1980s, it follows Hilary […]
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