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.Glasgow Short Film Festival 2023 announces award winners
45th Parallel by Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Clean by Miranda Stern take jury prizes. The 16th annual celebration of short film finished last night with the awards ceremony, following a packed five day programme of events across the city Glasgow Film Festival 2023 finished its 16th edition in style last night, as it announced the […]
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Monday, March 27, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
University of Glasgow: Overtourism in Majorca ‘Overbooking’ Documentary
Thursday 27 April, 2023, 7 p.m. CCA, Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3JD Overbooking (Álex Dioscórides, 2019) – Screening Plus Q & A Screening and Q&A session of the Majorcan documentary Overbooking (Álex Dioscórides, 2019, 1h 10min). Overbooking critically reflects about the history and effects of mass tourism on the Mediterranean island of Majorca […]
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Sunday, March 26, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Free Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Full Progamme Announced: Glasgow Short Film Festival 2023
The 16th annual festival will run from 22 – 26 March at venues across the city Highlights Highlights include a focus on contemporary Lebanese short films with a rare live performance from Beirut-based gender-defying queer dancer Khansa, a retrospective of award-winning artist duo Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca, wild world-building animations and cinematic existentialism […]
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2023
Take 2 ≠ Access: GSFF Family Shorts
Saturday 25 March, 2023 Standard screening: 11:30am Autism-friendly Access screening: 12pm Captions available at standard screening Opening with a magic door to a world of giant monsters and runaway trains, Glasgow Short Film Festival takes us on a trip into wind-blasted mountains, sea and even into space. This family-friendly programme of short animation includes the multi-award-winning […]
The Five Devils at Glasgow Film Theatre
Friday 24 – Thursday 30 March, 2023 Captions and Audio Description available Paris, 13th District screenwriter Léa Mysius returns as writer/director of this finely crafted supernatural thriller about a solitary girl (newcomer Sally Dramé) who uses smell to recreate memories of her mother (Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue is the Warmest Colour). Buy tickets Glasgow Film Theatre, […]
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Fashion Reimagined, Glasgow Film Theatre
Monday 27 – Thursday 30 March, 2023 Tickets and information Fashion Reimagined Captions and Audio Description available Fashion Reimagined follows fashion designer Amy Powney of cult label Mother of Pearl, who embarks on a three-year journey to create a sustainable clothing collection from field to finished garment. Raised off-the-grid in rural England by activist parents, Amy has always […]
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Tuesday, March 21, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Rye Lane, Glasgow Film Theatre
17 – 30 March, 2023 Rye Lane – Tickets and information A huge hit at its Scottish premiere at Glasgow Film Festival, Raine Allen Miller’s debut feature is a vibrant and playful rom-com, following two recently heartbroken 20-somethings connecting over an eventful day in South London. GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB
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BFFs The Radical Potential of Female Frienship, GFT
BFFs: The Radical Potential of Female Friendship 30 March, 2023 Daughters of the Dust + introduction (12A) 6 April, 2023 One Sings, the Other Doesn’t + Q&A (12A) This pair of screenings is inspired by film critic Anahit Behrooz’s new book BFFs, which explores female friendship as a site of radical intimacy via the cultural […]
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Meet Me In The Bathroom at Glasgow Film Theatre
Tuesday 21 – Monday 27 March, 2023 Meet Me in the Bathroom Based on the best-selling book by Lizzie Goodman, this hugely entertaining documentary tells the definitive story of the New York City music scene in the early 2000s, using archival footage and interviews with the likes of The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem and Yeah Yeah […]
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Miss Viborg review Pat Byrne
Miss Viborg – Glasgow Film Festival 4/5 March, 2023 Cineworld, Renfrew Street, Glasgow. Debut film by Marianne Bilcher, Danish filmmaker. Solvej (Ragnhild Kaasgaard) is a dour, lonely old woman living in social housing in Viborg, a small Danish town, where in her youth she was the beauty queen. She spends her days driving round her neighbourhood […]
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Tuesday, March 14, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2023, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Typist Artist Pirate King review by Pat Byrne
Carol Morley’s film Typist Artist Pirate King had its UK Premiere at Glasgow Film Festival 2023 Carol Morley wrote and directed the film Typist Artist Pirate King inspired by the artist Audrey Amiss. While undertaking a screenwriting fellowship at Wellcome Trust the filmmaker researched Amiss’s vast archive and became fascinated by the artist. In the […]
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Sunday, March 12, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2023
Something You Said Last Night review Pat Byrne
Something You Said Last Night – UK Premiere Glasgow Film Festival 2023 Luis De Filippis’ film, which won Toronto International Film Festival’ (TIFF) Next Wave’s Change Maker Award, in recognition of films that elevate voices and issues of social change, is a joyful and insightful movie where we join a Canadian/Italian family on a week’s […]
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Saturday, March 11, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2023, Pat's Home Page Blog
Something You Said Last Night
11th March 8.30 p.m. Sunday 12 March, 2023 – 3 p.m. Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow Film Theatre, 2 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB UK Premiere Soaked in a pastel shine of lakeside sun, Luis De Filippis’ Something You Said Last Night gives a funny and intimate perspective of twenty-something writer Renata on a week-long holiday with […]
International Women’s Day at Glasgow Film Festival al 2023
Today is International Women’s Day and GFF23 is celebrating with the UK Premiere of Carol Morley’s Typist Artist Pirate King, followed by a Q&A with stars Kelly Macdonald, Monica Dolan and director Carol Morley. Through the festival programme, GFF are championing female led productions, from Viva el cine español! with Ramona or The Water, to the horror film Our Father, The […]
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Wednesday, March 8, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, International Womens Day, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Typist Artist Pirate King at Glasgow Film Festival
UK Premiere on International Women’s Day. 8th March is sold out but also showing on 9 March. at 1 p.m. Buy tickets GFF favourite Carol Morley returns with a wonderfully imaginative insight into the life of Audrey Amiss, an artist only properly recognised after her death. Anchored by another terrific performance from the brilliant Monica Dolan, the film follows […]
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Tuesday, March 7, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, International Womens Day
The End of Sex review Pat Byrne
The End of Sex – Written by Jonas Chernick and directed by Sean Garrity, Emma (Emily Hampshire) and Josh’s (Jonas Chernick) are determined to seize the opportunity to have wild, doors wide open sex, while their two children spend a week at camp. Their first attempt results in faked orgasms by both. The couple have […]
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Friday, March 3, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Film reviews, Film Reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2023
National Theatre Live: Othello at GFT
Thursday 23 February, 2023 7pm Filmed live at the National Theatre, this extraordinary new production of Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedy stars Giles Terera (Hamilton) in the title role, and Rosy McEwan (Blue Jean) as Desdemona. Wed in secret, the pair crave a new life together, but as unseen forces conspire against them, they find their […]
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Wednesday, February 22, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Joyland at Glasgow Film Theatre
Friday 24 – Tuesday 28 February, 2023 Winner of the Jury Prize and Queer Palm at Cannes Film Festival, Pakistani filmmaker Saim Sadiq’s groundbreaking debut feature charts the relationship between a young married cis man and a strong-willed trans woman, whose romance reveals the desire for sexual rebellion within the man’s strict patriarchal family. Buy […]
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Broker at Glasgow Film Theatre
Friday 24 February – Wednesday 1 March, 2023 AND Monday 13 – Thursday 23 March (after Glasgow Film Festival) Captions available Heartwarming, funny and moving, Broker is the outstanding new film from Hirokazu Kore-eda, the acclaimed director of Shoplifters. An unconventional road movie, the film follows two unofficial baby brokers (including Parasite‘s Song Kang-ho) attempting to […]
Famous Faces Attending Glasgow Film Festival 2023
1 – 12 March, 2023 Highlights Highlights include Kelly Macdonald and Monica Dolan at a special International Women’s Day premiere of Typist Artist Pirate King, double Oscar nominee Emily Watson at the UK premiere of God’s Creatures, top impressionist Alistair McGowan at the UK premiere of My Name is Alfred Hitchcock, Game of Thrones star […]
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The Salt of the Earth – oscar nominated documentary
Saturday, 25 February, 2023 Arlington Baths Club, 61 Arlington Street, Glasgow G3 6DT For decades, the award-winning Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado has captured moving and illuminating images of humanity, from wars and famine to remote indigenous tribes and stunning landscapes. This Oscar-nominated documentary, created by his son Juliano Salgado and filmmaker Wim Wenders (Buena Vista […]
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Tuesday, February 21, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
LGBT + History Month at GFT
This year marks 20 years since Section 28, the law that banned “promotion of homosexuality” in the UK, was repealed. To mark that anniversary, Glasgow Film Theatre will promote some films that celebrate and explore LGBT+ stories! 3 -12 March, 2023 ay GFT Daniel, based on true events, this intense, emotional drama speaks of a […]
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Saturday, February 18, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2023, LGBT Glasgow, LGBT History Month, Pat's Home Page Blog
Preview: Subject plus Q & A
Sunday 19 February, 2023 at 16:15 GFT is thrilled to be welcoming Subject co-directors Camilla Hall and Jennifer Tiexiera, as well as Margie Ratliff (a participant/subject of The Staircase) this Sunday for a Q&A following a special preview of this powerful new documentary. By placing some of most successful documentaries of the past three decades — and the […]
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed at Glasgow Film Theatre
Friday 17 – Thursday 23 March, 2023 Due to popular demand see four more screenings of Laura Poitras’ Oscar nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. Deeply personal and urgently political, it follows the past and present lives of artist and activist Nan Goldin, from P.A.I.N.’s actions at renowned art institutions to her legendary […]
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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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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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