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.Black Abolitionists in Scotland, Black History Month 2019
Talk & Film Screening Thursday 10 October 2019 5.30pm, Free/£2/£4/£6 + £1 booking fee, Cinema All ages / F-rated Book online / 0141 3524900 Professor Bernier, from the University of Edinburgh, will discuss the African American “struggle for liberty” in Scotland by tracing the transatlantic tours of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Josiah Henson, Sarah Parker Remond and […]
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Monday, October 7, 2019 | Filed under: Black History Month Glasgow, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema
Roger Waters Us + Them GFT
2 – 6 October, 2019 Roger Waters, co-founder, creative force and songwriter behind Pink Floyd, presents his highly anticipated film, Us + Them, featuring state-of-the-art visual production and breath-taking sound in this unmissable cinema event. Filmed in Amsterdam on the European leg of his 2017–2018 Us + Them tour which saw Waters perform to over two […]
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Friday, October 4, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Werewolf, GFT
4 – 10 October, 2019 In the final days of the Second World War, eight children who have escaped from the Gross-Rosen concentration camp find refuge in an abandoned palace. Hanka, also a former inmate, becomes their guardian. After the atrocities of the camp, the children slowly begin to regain what is left of their […]
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Scottish Queer International Film Festival 2019 Announces Full Programme
Wednesday 2 until Sunday 6 October, 2019 SQIFF celebrates its fifth birthday in style with a big screen showing of Janelle Monae’s Dirty Computer, a toast to Latinx Legends, a SQIFF X Vogue Scotland WERX extravaganza of ballroom culture, a night of queer porn made by and about Deaf and Disabled people and a look […]
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The Goldfinch GFT
27 September – 10 October, 2019 Theodore Decker was 13-years-old when his mother was tragically killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention, redemption, and love. Through it all, he holds on […]
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The Last Tree, GFT
27 September – 10 October, 2019 Femi, a British boy of Nigerian heritage moves to inner London to live with his mum, after a happy childhood in rural Lincolnshire. Struggling with the unfamiliar culture and values of his new environment, teenage Femi has to figure out which path to adulthood he wants to take, and […]
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Lemebel SQIFF at GFT
6 October, 2019 Pedro Lemebel’s sharp, poetic texts and provocative performances make him one of South America’s most significant artists. Under Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile, Lemebel expressed things most wouldn’t dare. For the country’s left-wing opposition, his queerness made him an awkward figure as he exposed their machismo and homophobia. Lemebel embodied an uncomfortable gay […]
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A Dog Barking At The Moon SQIFF GFT
5 October, 2019 GFT 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Director Zi Xiang’s exceptional feature debut – a Teddy Jury award-winner at the Berlin Film Festival – decades of open secrets and resentment create chaos within a Chinese family. When she brings her white western boyfriend for a visit to China, pregnant Huang Xiaoyu gets […]
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Suzi Q plus Q & A at GFT
8 October, 2-19 at 8.20 p.m. Trailblazer. Inspirator, Survivor. Suzi Q is the definitive, unexpurgated story of the girl from Detroit City who redefined the role and image of women in rock ‘n’ roll when she broke out around the world in 1973. The trailblazer and inspiration for a generation of female rock musicians who […]
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Thursday, October 3, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
LUX Scotland presents: where did we land Fi Dem 1 and 11
2 October, 2019 – 3.30 p.m. CCA London-based curator and artist Rabz Lansiquot screens their new moving image essay where did we land, an ongoing experiment interrogating the effect of images of anti-black violence produced and reproduced in film and media, and parts 1 and 2 of artist Zinzi Minott’s Fi Dem Series, a continued […]
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Saturday, September 28, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema, LGBT Glasgow
Take 2: Charming
Saturday 28 September, 2019 – 11.30 a.m. Family Friendly Prince Charming suffers from a curse that makes women fall instantly in love with him. He himself sees it as a blessing, until he ends up engaged to three different princesses and which angers his future kingdom. Now he must complete three dangerous trials to discover […]
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Friday, September 27, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people
Sorry We Missed You + Q & A Paul Lavery
28 September, 2019 Three years after I, Daniel Blake (TOAFF16), Ken Loach and his long-term collaborators (screenwriter Paul Laverty and producer Rebecca O’Brien) return with another devastatingly powerful portrait of contemporary Britain. The 2008 financial crash cost Ricky, a father of two, both his work in construction and his mortgage – but a better future may be […]
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Crossing the Line: Under Mud GFT
29 September, 2019 ‘Under Mud’ refers to the uses of mud in post-soviet spa resorts – sanatoriums – as a material for healing and to promote well-being. For this screening Ukrainian Curator, Alexandra Tryanova and Glasgow based artist, Susannah Stark, have selected work by women filmmakers and artists from Ukraine. Here, mud is a metaphor […]
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Take One Action Film Festival 2019 CCA
Thursday 19 September — Saturday 28 September 2019 takeoneaction.org.ukTake One Action, Scotland’s global change film festival, returns to Glasgow this September to bring audiences, filmmakers, artists and campaigners together, and premiere the most acclaimed international documentaries focusing on social and environmental justice. With a range of screenings, workshops and events on offer, join us to celebrate the […]
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Mean Girls plus Intro at GFT
3 October, 2019 “On October 3rd, he asked me what day it was.” This Mean Girls Day, join us for the iconic film on the big screen – wearing pink is encouraged, but not essential, it is a Thursday after all. Lindsay Lohan stars as Cady Heron, a new arrival at North Shore High School. […]
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Wednesday, September 25, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Opening GYFF Gala: The Farewell (PG)
Friday 13 September, 2019 Preview Screening – Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2019 Opening Gala Chinese-born Billi (a heart-felt performance from Awkwafina, Crazy Rich Asians) lives in New York City with her parents. When her beloved grandmother, matriarch Nai Nai, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, the family decide not to tell her. To spend time with Nai […]
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Sunday, September 15, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2019
13 – 15 September 2019 Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2019 Full Programme Announced: preview screening of The Farewell, late night Heathers, immersive pop-up screening of Scott Pilgrim vs The World and more One of the most innovative youth film festivals in Europe, Glasgow Youth Film Festival (GYFF) returns from 13 – 15 September 2019, plus […]
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Friday, September 13, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Kids and young people, Pat's Home Page Blog
For Sama GFT
13 – 19 September, 2019 For Sama is an intimate, urgent documentary about the female experience of war. A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth […]
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Drag Kids, GFT Glasgow Youth Film Festival
14 September, 2019 8.30 p.m. UK Premiere Screening part of Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2019 Four young drag queens, Queen Lactatia, Laddy GaGa, Suzan Bee Anthony and Bracken Hanke, meet and perform together for the first time in Montreal. This uplifting documentary looks at the world of pre-teen drag and highlights how important this meet-up […]
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Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;Surrection GFT
14 September, 2019 Brought to you in partnership with Scotland Loves Anime! The sequel to the original series, brand new anime Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;Surrection sees the return of fan favourite Lelouch. After losing Lelouch to bring about peace, his friends face a new struggle that threatens his legacy. The lost hero must return in […]
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Cleek the movie – Tannahill Arts Festival
Sunday 22nd, September, 2019 – 7.30pm Stow Brae Kirk, 82 Causeyside St, Paisley PA1 1YP A chance to see a film on the big screen shot in and around Paisley. An exciting thriller from local screen-writer Christina Littleson and director Gary J. Hewitt. Jacob Cleek is a quiet, well presented artist, who keeps himself to himself, […]
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Thursday, September 12, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Diet Soda Cineclub + Matchbox Cineclub Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy CCA
Thursday 26 September 2019 6pm – 10pm, £0/£2/£4/£6/£8 (£12 trilogy ticket) via Matchbox Cineclub, Theatre 18+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 A rare opportunity to see Gregg Araki’s queer cinema trilogy of Totally Fucked Up (1993), The Doom Generation (1995) and Nowhere (1997). A kaleidoscope of pop culture, nihilism, disenfranchised youth and… reptilianaliens. Totally Fucked Up […]
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Women’s Support Project – Abused: The Untold Story, GFT
18 September, 2019 5.50 p.m. This powerful documentary was produced in the wake of recent celebrity child abuse scandals. The film brings together survivors, alongside journalists, police officers and charity workers. It explores the devastating long-term effects of abuse, mistakes that were made in dealing with these cases and what has been done to reform some […]
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Wednesday, September 11, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Kaleidoscope Realms, Matchbox Cine Club
14 September, 2019 7 – 8.30 p.m. CCA Kaleidoscopic Realms: Japanese experimental shorts of the ’70s & ’80s A programme of short films by directors Naoto Yamakawa, Nobuhiro Aihara and Toshio Matsumoto. The films, spanning from 1975 up until the mid ‘80s, range from abstract experimentalism to more recognisable narrative structures, but all distort and […]
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USA 1982 Koyannisqatsi – with live score HGY
16 September, 2019, 6.30p.m. Neoclassical post-rockers We Stood Like Kings bring a new soundtrack to Godfrey Reggio’s cult movie Koyaanisqatsi. Reggio’s debut as a film director and producer, Koyaanisqatsi is the first film of the Qatsi trilogy, essays of visual images and sound which chronicle the destructive impact of the modern world on the environment. The title is […]
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Ad Astra GFT
18 – 26 September, 2019 Astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his missing father and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of Earth. His journey will uncover secrets that challenge the nature of human existence and our place in the cosmos. Buy tickets GFT […]
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Die Tomorrow, GFT
16 – 19 September, 2019 The latest film from Thai auteur and social media sensation, Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, Die Tomorrow is a poetic and profoundly moving meditation on the brevity of life. Lyrical vignettes from the penultimate days of individuals, unaware they are soon to die, are interspersed with documentary footage of subjects young and old ruminating […]
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Mrs Lowry and Son, GFT
13 – 19 September, 2019 Beloved British artist LS Lowry (Timothy Spall) lived all his life with his overbearing mother Elizabeth (Vanessa Redgrave). Bedridden and bitter, Elizabeth actively tried to dissuade her bachelor son from pursuing his artistic ambitions, whilst never failing to voice her opinion at what a disappointment he was to her. Buy […]
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Preview: The Day Shall Come + Q & A Chris Morris
Tuesday, 17 September, 2019 Master satirist Chris Morris makes a welcome return to the cinema with The Day Shall Come, his first feature since Four Lions. In Miami, where poverty and wealth sit uneasily together, unstable preacher Moses (Marchánt Davis) leads a small band of African-American locals who are angered by racial injustice and preparing for a […]
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Preview: The Last Tree GFT
19 September, 2019 Femi, a British boy of Nigerian heritage, moves to inner London to live with his mum after a happy childhood in rural Lincolnshire. Struggling with the unfamiliar culture and values of his new environment, teenage Femi has to figure out which path to adulthood he wants to take, and what it means […]
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