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 Farewell Opening Gala GYFF 2019
13 September, 2019 8.30 p.m. 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 […]
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Friday, September 6, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Pity Party Film Club CCA
Muriel’s Wedding | Suitable Women: Films of Female Friendship Vol. 2 Sat 7 September 2019 6pm, £5 + 98p booking fee / Cinema 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events Pity Party Film Club Times Square | Suitable Women: Films of Female Friendship Vol. 2 Sat 7 September 2019 Pity Party Film Club Fort […]
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Margaret Atwood – Live in Cinemas
10 September, 2019 GFT On Tuesday, September 10th, the wait is over…. The Testaments, Margaret Atwood’s highly anticipated sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, is revealed. The momentous literary event will be celebrated with an exclusive live cinema broadcast, as Fane Productions present an evening with the Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic and inventor. The publication of Atwood’s The […]
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Access Film Club: Blinded by the Light at Glasgow Film Theatre
Tuesday 10 September , 2019 at 8.00 p.m. From Gurinder Chadha, the director of Bend it Like Beckham, Blinded by the Light is a joyous coming-of-age story. Set in 1987, during the restrained days of Thatcher’s Britain, the film follows a teenager who learns to live life, understand his family and find his own voice through the […]
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Bait, GFT
30 August – 5 September, 2019 Modern-day Cornish fisherman Martin (Edward Rowe) is struggling to buy a boat while coping with family rivalry and the influx of London money, Airbnb and stag parties to his harbour village. The summer season brings simmering tensions between the locals and newcomers to boiling point, with tragic consequences. Stunningly […]
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Saturday, August 31, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Memories: The Origins of Alien GFT
30 August – 1 September, 2019 A contemplation on the symbiotic collaborative process of moviemaking, the power of myth, and the collective unconscious: Memory unearths the untold origin story behind Ridley Scott’s Alien, rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythology, underground comics, the art of Francis Bacon, and the dark visions of Dan O’Bannon and H.R. Giger. GFT 12 […]
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Aniara, GFT
3 – 5 September, 2019 Fleeing an ecological disaster past the point of no return, what’s left of humanity must escape the hell on Earth they’ve created and fly to the stars. Giant interstellar cruise liners, outfitted with every luxury that money can buy, take the human race on a three-week journey to their new […]
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Friday, August 30, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
The Souvenir GFT
30 August – 5 September, 2019 Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne) is a young film student struggling to find a firm direction in life when she meets the seemingly unwavering and decisive Anthony (Tom Burke). The two immediately take to one another and an intense romance blossoms between them. However, as the relationship develops it becomes […]
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Wednesday, August 28, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
A Faithful Man, GFT
23 – 29 August, 2019 he second feature from actor/director Louis Garrel is an absolute delight. Told with the lightest of touches, A Faithful Man is a beguiling, deeply romantic confection imbued with flavours of Truffaut, Rohmer and Louis’ own father Philippe Garrel. Abel (Garrel) is devoted to Marianne (Laetitia Casta), until one day, out of the blue, she drops the bombshell […]
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Friday, August 23, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Chic-raq GFT
25 and 27 August, 2019 The bold, imaginative and urgently topical film from Spike Lee relocates the ancient Greek drama ‘Lysistrata’ to the gangland wars of modern day Chicago. After the accidental murder of a young girl in a drive-by shooting, Lysistrata (Teyonah Parris) persuades the women of two rival gangs, Spartan and Trojan, to swear […]
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Through Black Spruce, GFT
Sunday 25 August, 2019 at 7.15 p.m. Based on the Giller Award-winning novel, Through Black Spruce is the story of a young Cree woman whose disappearance triggers events in two worlds: in Moosonee, the remote Northern Ontario community she fled years ago, and Toronto, where she modelled before vanishing. Her twin sister, at home hunting moose in the […]
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Thursday, August 22, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
BlacKkKlansman, GFT
Screening Sun 1 & Tue 3 September, 2019 From visionary filmmaker Spike Lee comes the incredible true story of an American hero. It’s the early 1970s: Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) becomes the first African-American detective on the Colorado Springs Police Department and resolves to make a name for himself and a difference in his […]
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Matchbox Cineclub Weird Weekend at CCA Glasgow
Friday 30 August — Sun 1 September 2019 matchboxcineclub.com/weird-weekendThe producers of Cage-a-rama and KeanuCon host a weekend of strange and unseen cinema from around the world, showcasing orphans, outcasts and outliers, old and brand-new. Expect premieres, guests and plenty of bonus content at Glasgow’s cult film festival.Matchbox Cineclub have scoured the world to bring you some of the […]
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Wednesday, August 21, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Gaza GFT
29 August, 2019 at 4.20 p.m. It’s hard to imagine anybody living a normal life in the Gaza Strip. Frequently labelled as the world’s largest open-air prison, it makes an appearance on news reports every time a confrontation erupts between Israel and Hamas. From TV sets thousands of miles away, this tiny piece of land […]
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Preview: For Sama GFT plus Q & A
4 September, 2019 at 6.10 p.m. 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 […]
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Wednesday, August 14, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Canada Now, GFT
Canada Now 2019 is a touring showcase of New Canadian Cinema in the UK & Ireland, featuring a bold and diverse selection of the finest fiction and documentary features coming out of the Great White North. Featuring four titles through August at GFT, this year’s festival showcases more than ever the sheer depth and range […]
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Take One Action, GFT
September, 2019 The UK’s leading global change film festival returns for its 12th edition, with a diverse line-up celebrating our common humanity and our power – individual and collective – to bring about a kinder, fairer, more sustainable world. This year’s programme is brimming with stories of solidarity, perseverance and defiance. Take a seat. Take […]
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Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf at GFT
9 – 11 August, 2019 Journey through the seasons in stunning gardens around the world with this immersive documentary, exploring the fascinating work of revolutionary landscape designer Piet Oudolf. Filmmaker Thomas Piper takes us inside the creative process, from Oudolf’s abstract sketches, to his theories on beauty, to the ecological implications of his ideas. Intimate […]
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Friday, August 9, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Africa in Motion Film Club: Kuxa Kanema CCA
Monday 12 August 2019 7pm – 8:45pm, Free (unticketed), Cinema Screening and Discussion 12+ Book tickets / 0141 352 4900 Kuxa Kanema: The Birth of Cinema (2003) is a documentary by Margarida Cardoso, which explores the power of moving image in 1970s Socialist movements in Mozambique. The screening will be followed by an informal discussion, with additional […]
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Apocalypse Now: Final Cut plus recorded Q and A GFT
13 August, 2019 6.45 p.m. Forty years after its original release, audiences will get the chance to experience Apocalypse Now: Final Cut, a never-before-seen and newly restored cut of Coppola’s spectacular cinematic masterpiece in a way which the director believes “looks better than it has ever looked and sounds better than it has ever sounded”. In Joseph Conrad’s […]
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Thursday, August 8, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Adoption GFT
11 August, 2019 7.50 p.m. Celebrated as the first Berlinale Golden Bear awarded to a female director, Márta Mészáros’ Adoption is a powerful meditation on agency and womanhood in a world that waits to give permission. Kata, a 43-year-old factory worker, longs to have a child of her own, despite the negative reaction of her married lover. […]
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Edge of the Knife GFT
Monday 12 August, 2019 6.10 p.m. A significant landmark in the short history of Canadian Indigenous film, First Nations filmmakers Gwaai Edenshaw and Helen Haig-Brown’s film is set during the 19th century and performed entirely in the endangered Haida language. Inspired by the Gaagiixiid/Gaagiid wildman of Haida mythology, Edge of the Knife follows nobleman Adiits’ii as he […]
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Leto GFT
16 – 22 August, 2019 Rock’n’roll has always been an act of rebellion but never more so than in the Russia of the 1980s. Kirill Serebennikov’s vivid, playful evocation of the period revolves around the musical rivalry between Leningrad rocker Mike (Roma Zver) and newcomer Viktor (Teo Yoo), who clash over politics, influences and the love of Mike’s wife […]
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Tuesday, August 6, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Movie Memories: Jaws GFT
Thursday 15 August, 2019 11 a.m. Autism / Dementia Friendly Movie Memories is GFT’s dementia friendly film programme. Designed to enable people affected by dementia to socialise in a safe and social environment. Everyone is welcome. When peaceful Amity Island is terrorised by a great white shark, a brave team led by police chief Brody […]
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Monday, August 5, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Boogie at the Botanics, Open Air Cinema
15 – 18 August, 2019 Dirty Dancing, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Saturday Night Fever & Singin’ in the Rain Open air cinema screenings return to the Botanic Gardens. Dirty Dancing (1987) Thursday 15 August, 2019 The Rocky Horror Picture Show Friday 16 August, 2019 Saturday Night Fever Saturday 17 August, 2019 Singin’ in the […]
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Inside Man GFT
18 – 20 August, 2019 Lee’s fourth and most recent collaboration with Denzel Washington also remains his biggest box office hit to date. Lee’s energetic directing style works perfectly for this story of a Manhattan bank heist where nothing is what it seems. Underneath the slick and entertaining surface this is a story of corrupted […]
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Transit GFT
16 – 22 August, 2019 Christian Petzold’s adaptation of the Anna Seghers novel is both historical and strikingly contemporary. The setting may be the Marseilles of the Vichy era but by eschewing period detail Petzold underlines the timeless nature of a story about the plight of refugees. Georg (Franz Rogowski) has fled Paris for Marseilles, […]
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Sunday, August 4, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Preview: Hoop Dreams, GFT
Sunday 18 August, 2019 1.15 p.m. Steve James’ landmark documentary Hoop Dreams, now restored, tells the story of two African-American dreamers determined to one day play professional basketball. Originally intended as a short film and seven-and-a-half years in the making, this intimate reflection of contemporary American inner-city culture follows William Gates and Arthur Agee on […]
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Animals, GFT
2 – 15 August, 2019 Laura (Holliday Grainger) and Tyler (Alia Shawkat) are soulmates: 30-something best friends and revellers residing in Dublin, they are ingrained in the fabric of each other’s lives; dating, partying, drinking and living their life without limitations. When Laura meets Jim, a tee-total classical pianist, the girls’ hedonistic lifestyle finds itself […]
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Saturday, August 3, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Do The Right Thing CineMasters Spike Lee at GFT
Do the Right Thing (15) 2-4 August One of Spike Lee’s greatest works On the hottest day of the summer in the Bedford-Stuyvesant district of Brooklyn, Italian-American Sal Fragione opens his pizza parlour in the same way he has for the past 25 years. But on this day, the simmering racial tensions between Sal’s Italianate […]
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Thursday, August 1, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
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