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.The Super 8 Years plus recorded Q & A at GFT
Friday 23 – Monday 26 June, 2023 Nobel Laureate Annie Ernaux transforms her home movies into a fascinating exploration of self, family life and a marriage in decline. Ernaux, working with her son David, has drawn together footage that was mostly shot by her ex-husband (and David’s father) Philippe between 1972 and 1981. The screening will be followed by a recorded […]
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Friday, June 23, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Chevalier at GFT
Friday 23 – Thursday 29 June, 2023 Captions availableKelvin Harrison Jr (Waves, The Trial Of The Chicago 7, Elvis) dazzles once again in the incredible true story of violinist/composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. The illegitimate son of an African slave and a wealthy French plantation owner, he achieved rock star status in the years leading up […]
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Take 2: Isle of Dogs at GFT
Sunday 25 June, 2023 4:40pm Take 2: Saturday 24 June, 11:30am Take 2 Access: Saturday 24 June, 12pm GFT’s Wes Anderson season continues this weekend with the masterfully animated Isle of Dogs. Set in a dystopian Japan, an outbreak of ‘canine flu’ has led to all dogs being quarantined on Trash Island. 12-year-old Atari Kobayashi defies […]
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Reality at GFT
23 – 29 June, 2023 In this enlightening snapshot of recent American history, Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria, The White Lotus, The Handmaid’s Tale) stars in the incredible true story of a young woman who stirred up a media storm when she leaked a classified report to the press. With all dialogue taken directly from FBI transcripts — alternately nail-biting and […]
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Thursday, June 22, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Folk Horror Films at GFT
Until 29 June, 2023 Folk Horror Favourites Two handpicked GFT folk horror favourites that drew inspiration from it, creating a similar mood of creeping terror around mysterious pagan rituals: Midsommar 27 – 28 June and Kill List 26 – 29 June. One of the defining characteristics of Robin Hardy’s cult classic The Wicker Man is […]
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Wednesday, June 21, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Through Our Eyes Film Screening
Tuesday 20 June, 2023 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. REFUGEE WEEK: THROUGH OUR EYES Film Screening GRAMNet / BEMIS film screening for Refugee Week of Samir Mehanovic’s ‘THROUGH OUR EYES’ documentary (2018). Gilmorehill Centre, University of Glasgow, 9 University Avenue Andrew Stewart Cinema Glasgow G12 8QQ Filmed over three years, Samir Mehanovic’s emotive documentary gives […]
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Saturday, June 17, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Take 2: Minions at GFT
Saturday 17 June, 2023. 11:30am Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by supervillain Scarlet Overkill who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over the world. Animated family fun. Autism Friendly Buy tickets
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Thursday, June 15, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Monday 19 June, 2023 7:30pm Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Our Scorsese of the Month season continues with Rolling Thunder Revue. Selected and introduced by film critic Hannah McGill, the film captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975, and the joyous music that Bob Dylan performed that autumn. Master filmmaker Martin […]
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Refugee Festival Scotland: Limbo and introduction
Saturday 17 June, 2023 5:45pm Captioned screening. Audio description available Ben Sharrock’s critically adored Limbo is a wry, funny and poignant cross-cultural satire that shines a light on the hearts and lives of those at the centre of a crisis that is mostly only experienced through the headlines. This screening will be introduced by Sabir Zazai, CEO of […]
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Inland at GFT
16 – 22 June, 2023 In rural England, a modern folktale unravels. Following the mysterious disappearance of his mother, a young man (Rory Alexander) walks back into a world he once knew well. Guided by a father figure (Mark Rylance) and old friends who care deeply, his journey through the dreamlike spaces of local forests […]
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Wednesday, June 14, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Medusa Deluxe at GFT
Thursday, 22 June, 2023 Audaciously original, Medusa Deluxe is a bold, camp and unique take on a murder mystery. After a stylist is found dead at a hairdressing competition, rivalry and mistrust build as the remaining group of determined contestants suspect someone may be trying to rig the competition by gruesomely picking off its entrants. Buy […]
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Funeral Parade of Roses at GFT
Friday, 16 June, 2023 Presented by GFT and Bonjour Join GFT and Bonjour for a screening of Japanese experimental film Funeral Parade of Roses starring transgender actor Pîtâ followed by a 1960-inspired club night ‘Pansies’ at Bonjour with DJ sets from Claire Biddles and Jamie Crewe. Ticket holders to the screening get free entry – […]
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| Filed under: Cinema, Clubs, Gig Guide plus Club Events
Sunlight at GFT
Friday 16 – Monday 19 June, 2023 It was a hit when it premiered at Glasgow Film Festival earlier this year and now Sunlight is back at GFT. When former-addict Leon’s best friend and sponsor Iver gets a terminal diagnosis and decides to leave this earth early, Leon distracts him by forcing him to agree to one last day […]
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Pretty Red Dress at GFT
Friday 16 – Thursday 29 June, 2023 Buy tickets The debut feature from writer and director Dionne Edwards, Pretty Red Dress has breakthrough performances from Natey Jones, newcomer Temilola Olatunbosun, and the chart-topping singer and West End actor Alexandra Burke in her first film role. Travis has just been released from prison and it quickly becomes apparent that everything has changed while […]
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Folk Film Gathering 2023 announces full festival programme
The World’s first festival of folk cinema returns to Edinburgh from 12th – 29th June , 2023 with screenings at Cameo, Scottish Storytelling Centre and North Edinburgh Arts plus online This year’s festival hosts a rare screening of 1920s Ukrainian silent film Arsenal with a brand new live score by Scottish electronic duo Dalhous Other […]
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Take 2: Fantastic Mr Fox
Saturday 10 June, 2023 11:30am Based on the Roald Dahl book, Wes Anderson’s film is full of deadpan banter and clever silliness. After 12 years of bucolic bliss, urbane Mr Fox breaks a promise to his wife and returns to his farm raiding ways. Giving in to his animal instincts endangers not only his marriage but also the […]
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Thursday, June 8, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people
Love Without Walls plus Q & A
Thursday 15 June, 2023 – 8pm When Sophie and aspiring musician Paul can’t pay their London rent, they turn to family and friends for support. Over the course of a summer, the couple lose everything and find themselves lost in the underbelly of the London and Essex streets. A story of love, hope and survival […]
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Hairspray: 35 Anniversary
Monday 12 & Tuesday 13 June, 2023 It’s Baltimore, 1962, and a rebellious teenager with the biggest bouffant on the block attempts to win the coveted ‘Miss Auto Show’ crown as she fights against racial discrimination. John Waters’ much-loved hit Hairspray featuring a wildly entertaining line up of Ricky Lake, Jerry Stiller, Debbie Harry and Water‘s long-time muse, Divine, is screening at GFT to […]
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My Imaginary Country at GFT
Friday 9 – Thursday 15 June , 2023 Chile – October 2019: an unexpected revolution, a social explosion. One and a half million people demonstrated in the streets of Santiago for more democracy, a more dignified life, a better education, a better health system and a new Constitution. Director Patricio Guzman‘s documentary follows the men […]
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Le Mépris – 4K at GFT
Friday 9 – Thursday 15 June, 2023 This 4K restoration of Jean-Luc Godard’s (Breathless, Pierrot Le Fou) new-wave masterpiece, Le Mépris, has been released to celebrate the film’s 60th anniversary. A landmark in world cinema, and set around the extraordinary Villa Malaparte on Capri, Le Mépris tells the story of the tragic romance between Paul (Michel Piccoli) and his wife, Camille […]
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War Pony at GFT
Friday 9 – Thursday 15 June, 2023 Captions available After going down a storm as Glasgow Film Festival’s Surprise Film in March, this tender and utterly compelling film returns to GFT. It tells the interlocking stories of two Oglala Lakota men coming of age on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Featuring spellbinding performances from first-time actors Jojo […]
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Bruce Lee at Golden Harvest – 4K restorations
Saturday 3 – Tuesday 13 June, 2023 When former child actor Bruce Lee returned to his native Hong Kong in 1971 to star in two films for fledgling company Golden Harvest, movie history was made thanks to one of the most iconic partnerships between star and studio that cinema has ever seen. In only a handful […]
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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Friday 2 – Thursday 15 June, 2023 Based on Judy Blume’s best-seller, this heart-warming coming-of-age drama follows 11-year-old Margaret as she experiences all the messy and tumultuous throes of puberty with new friends in a new school, alongside myriad family dramas. Buy tickets Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB
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A Punto de Despegar at CCA
Tuesday 6 June, 2023 Doors 7.30 p.m. – film starts 8.00 p.m. Buy tickets ABOUT TO TAKE OFF / A PUNTO DE DESPEGAR Dir. Lorena Best and Robinson Díaz / Perú / 2015 / 85’ CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow The documentary aligns with others that share similar concerns about how modernisation destroys places and […]
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Monday, June 5, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Take 2: The Super Mario Bros Movie
Saturday 3 June, 2023 at 11:30am Captions and audio description available Two plumbing brothers, Mario and Luigi, are separated in the Mushroom Kingdom. They become aware of the threat of the evil Bowser who wants to marry Princess Peach or destroy their whole world. Mario and Luigi team up with popular video game characters to […]
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Thursday, June 1, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people
The Darjeeling Limited plus Hotel Chevalier – 35mm
Sunday 4 & Wednesday 7 June, 2023 CineMasters: Wes Anderson Seasoncontinues with The Darjeeling Limited, starring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman as estranged brothers who reunite for a train trip across India. The short film Hotel Chevalier, starring Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman as former lovers who reunite in a Paris hotel room, acts as the prologue to The Darjeeling Limited. […]
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Amanda at GFT
Friday 2 – Thursday 8 June, 2023 Carolina Cavalli’s darkly comic feature debut follows Amanda, who has returned home to Italy and her family after studying in Paris. She decides to seek out an old friend whose agoraphobia has kept her mostly inside since they were last in contact. The combination of both women’s neuroses only […]
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Mad About The Boy: The Noel Coward Story at GFT
2 – 8 June, 2023 The story of Noël Coward, one of the most successful multi-talented artist of the 20th century, told in his own words, music and unique home movies. Directed by Academy Award and BAFTA nominee Barnaby Thompson, the film features Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Frank Sinatra and more, with Rupert Everett as the voice of Noël Coward, and Alan Cumming […]
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Thelma and Louise – 4K
Friday 2 – Thursday 8 June, 2023 Two best friends (Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon) decide to escape the tedium of their everyday lives, but things don’t go to plan and their quiet getaway turns into a cross country escape. Thelma & Louise’s themes of friendship, empowerment and women struggling to survive in a man’s world, have lost none of […]
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Queer Reflections on Horror: Jennifer’s Body
Saturday 3 June, 2023 7:15pm Presented in association with GFT Youth Board at GFT to celebrate all things queer and all things horror as they launch new essay anthology It Came From the Closet: Queer reflections on Horror. The event will feature a screening of Jennifer’s Body followed by a Q&A and book signing with Glasgow author […]
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Wednesday, May 31, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema
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