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.Halloween at GFT 2019
This year for Halloween GFT is turning to some of the classic actors who have defined horror on the big screen – Christopher Lee, Vincent Price… and Nicolas Cage? Guaranteed chills and thrills in the cinema, and remember – it’s only a movie… Films in this Season 31 October The Wicker Man: The Final Cut […]
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Wednesday, October 30, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Hallowe'en in Glasgow
Document Human Rights Film Festival 2019
Thursday 24 October — Sunday 27 October 2019 documentfilmfestival.org Document is Scotland’s human rights film festival. Each year it foregrounds innovative documentary cinema as a way to explore and refresh our relationship to human rights and visual representation. This seventeenth edition, across a series of interconnected strands, the festival looks particularly at the growing movement for climate justice […]
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Wednesday, October 23, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Non-Fiction, GFT
18 – 31 October, 2019 Juliette Binoche shines as Selena, an actress at the centre of a complicated love triangle, in this irreverent and witty new film from French iconoclast Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper, Clouds of Sils Maria). When Selena’s publisher husband Alain refuses to publish her lover Léonard’s latest masterpiece, their personal and professional conflicts […]
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Monos at GFT
20 October, 2019 – Preview 25 – 31 October, 2019 High in the mountains of South America, a ragtag band of child soldiers brandishing guns stand guard over a ‘conscripted’ milk cow and a kidnapped American engineer. Awaiting instructions, the kids stave off boredom with feral teenage raves, until an attack forces them to abandon […]
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Cinemasters at GFT: Quentin Tarantino
8 – 30 October, 2019 Quentin Tarantino’s 9th film Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood is one of the biggest hits of 2019, so this month GFT is looking back at the movies that made Tarantino’s name. And since QT is such an outspoken advocate for physical film, they are delighted to have the opportunity to screen […]
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Connect, GFT
25 October – plus Q & A with writer/director/producer Marilyn Edmond 26 -27 October, 2019 Brian (a soulful Kevin Guthrie) has lost someone close to him. Outwardly, he keeps calm, goes to work and carries on, and nobody talks about the loss. He never feels that it’s possible to share his feelings, until care home owner […]
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The Last Black Man in San Francisco GFT
25 – 31 October, 2019 Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind. As he struggles to reconnect with his family […]
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Chained for Life, GFT
25 – 29 October, 2019 Director Aaron Schimberg’s second feature is a multi-layered, meta film within a film that challenges the portrayal and treatment of disabilities on screen and on set. When Mabel (Jess Weixler) takes the role of a blind woman in a hospital-based horror directed by an eccentric German auteur, she never would have imagined that […]
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DocKlub Glasgow, CCA
Collective Documentary Filmmakers Thursday, 31 October 2019 7.30pm – 10pm, Free (unticketed), Clubroom 12+ 0141 352 4900 DocKlub: Scotland’s Collective of Documentary Filmmakers. Come along and meet your doc peers, share works-in-progress, watch films & make docs together. Established in 2015, DocKlub meets every month in both Glasgow and Edinburgh. It has hosted dozens of filmmakers screening their […]
Last Night I Saw You Smiling, GFT
Document 2019 Saturday 26 October 2019 3.45pm, £0/2/4/6/8 + £1 booking fee, Cinema 14+ accompanied by an adult Book online / 0141 352 4900 The White Building in Phnom Penh, an iconic apartment block originally built in 1963, emptied by the Khmer Rouge, and subsequently the centre of a thriving artistic community, has been sold to Japanese […]
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Sofia, GFT
29 October, 2019, 6 p.m. Whilst at a family lunch, Sofia’s waters break. In denial about her pregnancy, her cousin takes her to hospital where she gives birth. Sofia is an unmarried teenager, and it is illegal in Morocco for her to be a single mum, so she must name the man responsible and marry […]
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The King, GFT
18 October – 24 October, 2019 Hal, wayward prince and heir to the English throne, is crowned King Henry V after his tyrannical father dies. Now the young king must navigate palace politics, the war his father left behind, and the emotional strings of his past life. Director David Michôd (Animal Kingdom) and his co-writer […]
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Thursday, October 17, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
SQIFF 2019 Black History Month: Calalai: In Betweenness + shorts
Tuesday 22 October 2019 5.30pm, Free but ticketed, Theatre 15+ / F-rated Book online / 0141 352 4900 Calalai: In Betweenness by filmmaker Kiki Febriyanti depicts women in South Sulawesi Bugis culture, which for centuries has accepted gender diversity as implicit, believing humans consist of 5 genders, one of them being calalai. The film takes a closer look […]
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Chinese Visual Festival CCA
Saturday 19 October — Sunday 20 October 2019 chinesevisualfestival.org Now in its ninth year of screening the best in Chinese-language cinema in the UK, Chinese Visual Festival is bringing three of its most popular films to Glasgow. From Mainland China and Hong Kong, these films are a mix of fiction and documentary, covering themes ranging from gender identity […]
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Mòd 2019 National Theatre of Scotland – Rocket Post screening + family drama workshop
Friday 18 October 2019 CCA 10am, Free but ticketed, Cinema All ages Book online / 0141 352 4900 July, 1934. The Western Isles. A small crowd stand on a beach and watch in amazement. Eccentric German scientist Gerhard Zucker tells them he wants to bring the world together. The future is about communication. The future is about […]
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Mòd 2019 Gaelic Film Screenings: A taste of BBC Alba – Na Millenni-Gaels CCA
Friday 18 October 2019 A taste of BBC ALBA, screening Na Millenni-Gaels (Episode 1), alongside a chat and Q&A with guests from each featured programme. Blasad BBC ALBA le cabadaich agus Q&A le aoighean bho gach prògram. 3pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema All ages Book tickets / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events Mòd 2019 National Theatre of Scotland – Rocket Post screening + […]
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Lost Lives plus Q & A
23 October, 2019, 8.15 p.m. Based on the book Lost Lives, which records every single death since the beginning of the modern conflict known as the Troubles in Northern Ireland, this heartfelt documentary is a cinematic homage to the victims, from all sides. Powerfully narrated by famous Irish and Northern Irish actors, including Kenneth Branagh, Roma […]
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Malcolm X 35 mm GFT
20 October, 2019, 6.15 p.m. We are delighted to have the rare chance to screen Malcolm X on 35mm as part of Black History Month. This is going to be special. Civil-rights leader Malcolm X is strikingly immortalised in Spike Lee’s panoramic biopic, tracing his remarkable transformation from incarcerated juvenile felon to globally-renowned religious statesman. Denzel Washington […]
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Preview: Pink Wall with Q & A
Saturday 19 October, 2019 6 p.m. Pink Wall is a modern-day romance, following the six-year relationship of Jenna (Tatiana Maslany) and Leon (Jay Duplass). Intimately told through defining moments along their journey together, the film explores how both friendship and resentments grow as the pressures of adult life confront them. Followed by a Q&A with director Tom […]
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Hitsville The Making of Motown Black History Month Glasgow
21 October,2019 The first documentary about the iconic label to be made with the participation of the label’s visionary founder, Berry Gordy, Hitsville: The Making of Motown will be an unmissable cinematic event, released during the year Motown Records celebrates its 60th Anniversary. Directed by Gabe and Ben Turner (Class of 92, One Direction: This Is […]
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Scotland Loves Anime 10 Anniversary at GFT
11 – 13 October, 2019 This year marks a decade of Scotland Loves Anime, bringing one of its strongest line-ups to date as it continues to bring a varied look at the world of Japanese animation. In 2019 the special guest is Yuhei Sakuragi, who returns to deliver a Q&A session following the UK premiere […]
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Friday, October 11, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
American Woman GFT
11 – 17 February, 2019 In a blue-collar town in Pennsylvania, Debra Callahan (Sienna Miller) is a grandmother by the age of 32. When her teenage daughter goes missing, she is left to raise her infant grandson alone. American Woman charts one woman’s gruelling 11-year odyssey, from the day her daughter vanishes, through the trials and tribulations […]
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Judy GFT
4 – 17 October, 2019 30 years have passed since Judy Garland shot to global stardom in The Wizard of Oz. Now broke, jobless and struggling with addiction she is offered a five-week residency performing at the Talk of the Town in London in the winter of 1968. Judy is a compassionate and revealing dive in to the […]
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48 Hours Film Project Part 1 GFT
Tuesday 15 October, 2019 8.30 p.m. Scotland’s most popular filmmaking event is back! Come along on 11-13 October weekend to make a film in just 48 hours and get it screened at the GFT. You could win a free trip to Filmapalooza in the Netherlands! Sign up today at 48hourfilm.com Book both screenings for £15/£11. […]
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Her Century: Scottish Women on Film GFT
Tuesday 15 October, 2019 – 6.15 p.m. Scotland’s women lived through major social change in the twentieth century, challenging their roles in society and fighting for equality: at work and at home, from classroom to croft, and from girlhood to motherhood. Discover their stories and hear their voices in Her Century, a timely collection of […]
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The Relative Worlds GFT plus Q and A
Saturday 12 October, 2019 – 5.20 p.m. Part of Scotland Loves Anime Shin Hazama is a normal high school boy living an ordinary life in Tokyo… a life that is about to be turned upside-down when he encounters Jin, a boy who looks identical to him but claims to originate from another world entirely. Jin’s […]
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European Art House Cinema Day GFT
By The Grace of God Sunday, 13 October, 2019 – 4 p.m. François Ozon’s gripping true-life drama is an engrossing and topical examination of the Catholic Church abuse scandal, telling the story of three men who come together to dismantle the code of silence and pursue justice for the abuse they suffered as children. Based […]
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The Day Shall Come GFT
11 – 17 October, 2019 Unstable preacher Moses brings hope to the Miami projects by galvanising a small band of African-American locals. Offered cash to save his family from eviction, Moses has no idea his sponsor works for the FBI, who have hatched a plan to fuel his madcap revolutionary dreams. Based on 100 true […]
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Wednesday, October 9, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
The Joker, Cineworld Glasgow
Release date 4th October, 2019 Screenings: Cineworld, Renfrew Street, Glasgow Forever alone in a crowd, failed comedian Arthur Fleck seeks connection as he walks the streets of Gotham City. Arthur wears two masks — the one he paints for his day job as a clown, and the guise he projects in a futile attempt to […]
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CINE[STHESIA]: Filmichean Gàidhlig/ Gaelic Films Ghlaschu Mod 2019
Wednesday, 9 October 2019, 6.00 p.m. – 7.00 p.m. National Library of Scotland at Kelvin Hall To celebrate the return of the Royal National Mòd to Glasgow there will be a specially selected programme of films which highlight the Gaelic content in Moving Image Collections at NLS at Kelvin Hall. An evening of films which celebrate […]
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Monday, October 7, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog
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