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.Folk Film Gathering 2022
17 June – 1 July, 2022 The World’s first festival of folk cinema will run at Filmhouse Edinburgh, Scottish Storytelling Centre and online. Highlights include the Scottish premiere of Edinburgh artist and musician Hanna Tuulikki’s new film exploring Selkie legends Seals’kin, a celebration of one of Scotland’s most distinctive filmmakers Gerda Stevenson and classic films […]
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Thursday, June 23, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Glasgow Film Theatre: Manifesto and Q & A
Thursday 16 June, 2022 – 8.20 p.m. Manifesto is a feature-length documentary about Walton Constituency Labour Party (CLP), and their campaigning in Liverpool Walton, known as the safest Labour seat in Britain. Filmed over the course of three years by filmmakers from the town, Manifesto captures the peaks and troughs of former leader Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party from […]
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Sunday, June 12, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema
Dashcam at GFT
3 – 16 June, 2022 Rob Savage’s provocative new horror follows Annie Hardy on a crazy horror road trip. Viewed through her livestream, this abrasive musician’s night takes a dangerous turn after she agrees to help transport a frail elderly woman out of town. Please note: This film contains sequences with handheld cameras, vibrating images and rotating images which […]
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Men at Glasgow Film Theatre
Until 16 June, 2022 In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper (Jessie Buckley) retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to have found a place to heal. But someone or something from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her. What begins as simmering dread becomes a fully-formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest […]
The Camera is Ours: British Women Documentary Makers
14 and 15 June, 2022 at Glasgow Film Theatre ‘The trouble with you is that you look at things as though they were in a goldfish bowl. I’m going to break your goldfish bowl.’ – Ruby Grierson, to her brother John. John Grierson is sometimes referred to as the father of British documentary and credited with coining […]
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Late Night: Twin Peaks – Fire Walk With Me 4k GFT
Friday 3 June, 2022 (22.40) Late night screening of David Lynch’s thriller, 30 years after its release. Enjoy themed cocktails from the bar and some damn fine coffee – log-carrying is optional. In the pilot episode of the TV show Twin Peaks, the body of high-school student Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) is found washed up on […]
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Friday, June 3, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog
Bergman Island at GFT
3 – 9 June, 2022 Fact and fiction dance an elegant waltz in Mia Hansen-Løve’s bittersweet Ingmar Bergman-inspired relationships drama. Filmmakers Tony (Tim Roth) and Chris (Vicky Krieps) arrive on Fårö, the beautiful island where Bergman lived. It’s an idyllic place to work on their next projects. Bergman’s presence is felt everywhere and seems to seep into […]
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Thursday, June 2, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema
Particle Wave – Glasgow Science Festival 2022
Friday 10 June, 2022 at 7 pm Part of Glasgow Science Festival Glasgow Science Centre 50 Pacific Quay, Glasgow G51 1EA Buy Tickets Under the spectacular dome of the Planetarium at Glasgow Science Centre you can immerse yourself in Particle/Wave. Directed and produced by Alicia Sometimes, in collaboration with artists, poets, and scientists, and using […]
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What’s Up Doc at GFT
5 and 8 June, 2022 Screening as part of our Cinemasters: Polly Platt season, co-curated with Invisible Women. This delightful screwball comedy is a brilliant example of the vision and flair that Polly Platt brought to her collaborations with Peter Bogdanovich. Barbra Streisand sparkles as a ditzy but dazzling college dropout who upends the orderly life of Ryan O’Neal’s uptight musicologist across a […]
Sundance Film Festival London Tour 2022 at GFT
10 – 12 June, 2022 Glasgow Film Theatre will be amongst a group of cinemas across the UK hosting screenings as part of the Sundance Film Festival London Tour, giving Glasgow film fans the chance to be the first to see some of the highlights of the festival programme. Showing will be: UK premiere of […]
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Olga at GFT
3 – 9 June, 2022 Olga (Anastasia Budiashkina) is a talented 15-year-old gymnast with a bright future that might take her all the way to the Olympics. Given the chance to train in Switzerland, she leaves Kiev just as Ukraine experiences unprecedented political turmoil. Ruthlessly focused on her training, Olga is left a distant bystander […]
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Film + Q&A: Zev Robinson’s “Feeding the City”
Tuesday 31 May, 2022 at 8.30 p.m. At Locavore Locavore Govanhill, 349 Victoria Road, Glasgow G42 7SA Created in collaboration with the University of Glasgow Food Sovereignty Network, Feeding the City is Zev Robinson’s documentary about Glasgow’s food culture and its current dilemmas, looking at new initiatives by food businesses and producers, workers and activists […]
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Monday, May 30, 2022 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema, Community event, Pat's Home Page Blog
Wake Up Punk at Glasgow Film Theatre
Monday 9 – Thursday 12 May, 2022 Has the legacy of punk been distorted and commodified beyond all recognition? Joe Corre most definitely thinks so. In 2016 the son of Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood burnt millions of pounds worth of punk-era memorabilia in protest. Nigel Askew’s freewheeling documentary recalls the energy and anarchy of the punk era and […]
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Thursday, May 5, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema
Cabaret – 50th Anniversary at Glasgow Film Theatre
6 – 12 May, 2022 An iconic, incredibly stylish study of the hedonism and sexual ambiguity of pre-war Berlin, Cabaret was a huge, multi Oscar-winning hit for choreographer and director Bob Fosse in 1972, and made Liza Minnelli (who won Best Actress) a star. Often described as a musical for people who don’t like musicals, it sets its scene […]
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Wild Men at Glasgow Film Theatre
6 – 12 May, 2022 Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB If the Coen brothers made a film in Danish it might look a little like Wild Men. Thomas Daneskov’s immensely entertaining crime story/mid-life crisis caper is marbled with comic moments and set amidst some spectacular scenery. Martin (Rasmus Bjerg) has fled his family and the […]
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SCCAN Communicating Climate Change: Working with Arts & Culture 3-5.30pm 12th May
12 May, 2022 Online at 3 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. This session is run by Creative Carbon Scotland, a charity working on the roles of arts and culture in addressing climate change since 2011. It will provide a comprehensive introduction to this area followed by workshop time to help you develop your own ideas. The […]
Javed Iqbal + Q and A at GFT
Wednesday 11 May, 2011 at 8 p.m. A harrowing tale of one of Lahore’s most notorious serial killers is brought to life in this UK Asian Film Festival premiere. Javed Iqbal recounts the true story of a criminal who abducted and murdered more than 100 young boys between 1998 and 1999. Author Abu Aleeha adapts […]
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Friday, April 29, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema
Encounters Presents: Ukrainian Shorts
Saturday 30 April, 2022 at 6.20 p.m. In light of the horrific attacks perpetrated against Ukraine, Encounters have curated a programme of short films to highlight, celebrate and support Ukrainian filmmakers and artists. From a stylised sport drama, to a funky animated short about the body expectations that mostly befall cisgender women, this programme welcomes […]
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Wednesday, April 27, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Sound of Metal at GFT
3 – 7 May, 2022 Riz Ahmed is superb in Sound of Metal, the remarkably assured feature debut from Darius Marder about a heavy metal drummer who is forced to re-evaluate his place in the world after losing his hearing. Ex-addict Ruben (Riz Ahmed) is on tour with his girlfriend and band-mate Lou (Olivia Cooke), hammering out ferocious sets […]
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The Velvet Queen at GFT
29 April – 5 May, 2022 High up on the Tibetan plateau amongst unexplored and inaccessible valleys lies one of the last sanctuaries of the wild world, where rare and undiscovered fauna lives. Vincent Munier, one of the world’s most renowned wildlife photographers, takes the adventurer and novelist Sylvain Tesson (In the Forest of Siberia) with […]
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent at GFT
29 April – 6 May, 2022 Nicolas Cage stars as… Nick Cage in the action-comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, the fictionalised version of Cage must accept a $1million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan (Pedro Pascal). Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by […]
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Chopper – 20 Anniversary at GFT
1 – 4 May, 2022 The no holds barred story of the notorious Aussie criminal Mark ‘Chopper’ Read. Told in flashback as Read (Eric Bana) serves one of his many prison sentences, this extreme biography charts the brutal carnage and wicked sense of humour of a man who allegedly committed 19 vicious murders and got […]
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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly at GFT
30 April and 2 May, 2022 The Man With No Name (Clint Eastwood) and Tuco (Eli Wallach) are gunmen who admire each other professionally, but dislike each other personally. Encountering a group of dying soldiers, Tuco learns the location of the graveyard where Confederate treasure is buried, while the Man With No Name learns the […]
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Your Mum and Dad at GFT
Friday 29 and Saturday 30 April, 2022 Inspired by Philip Larkin’s poem ‘This be the Verse’, Your Mum and Dad is an exploration of the powerful dynamics of family relationships and the way they shape our lives. After 17 years documenting one man’s struggle to heal from a generational wound, Klaartje Quirijns turns the camera on herself to […]
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Community Consultation: My Historic Neighbourhood – the Barras
Saturday 30 April, 2022 at 12 Noon The Pipe Factory, 42 Bain Street, Glasgow G40 2LA Barras 100th Anniversary Commemoration – Community Consultation Event Film Launch at the Event My Historic Neighbourhood Barras Market are commemorating and recording for future generations phrases that depict the Barras with carvings in the pavement. The project began in […]
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Sunday, April 24, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, Community event, Free Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Murina at GFT
11 – 14 April, 2022 Tensions rise between restless teenager Julija and her oppressive father Ante when an old family friend arrives at their Croatian island home. As Ante attempts to broker a life-changing deal, their tranquil yet isolated existence leaves Julija wanting more from this influential visitor, who provides a taste of liberation over […]
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Monday, April 11, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema
Small Body at GFT
11 – 14 April, 2022 A young woman embarks on a mythic odyssey to save her daughter’s soul in writer-director Laura Samani’s captivating feature debut. Northeastern Italy, 1900: Agata (Celeste Cescutti) gives birth, but the baby is stillborn. The priest of her seaside village – in which Catholicism, mysticism and superstition form a heady local brew – […]
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NT Live: Henry V at GFT
21 April, 2022 at 7 p..m. Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) plays the title role in Shakespeare’s thrilling study of nationalism, war and the psychology of power. Fresh to the throne, King Henry V launches England into a bloody war with France. When his campaign encounters resistance, this inexperienced new ruler must prove he is fit […]
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CODA at Glasgow Film Theatre
15 – 21 April, 2022 Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screen Play and Best Supporting actor for Troy Kotsur, CODA returns to GFT. Seventeen-year-old Ruby Rossi (Emilia Jones) is the only hearing member of a deaf family – a CODA, Child of Deaf Adults. Her life revolves around acting as interpreter […]
The Outfit, GFT
8 – 14 April, 2022 Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game, turns director with this twisty Coen Brothers-style yarn – a gripping tale of deception, double-dealing, murder and some very fine threads. Leonard (Mark Rylance) is a master tailor who left England to run an unassuming little shop in the windy city of […]
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Wednesday, April 6, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
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