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.CineRoma at Govanhill International Festival – EVENT POSTPONED
Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 August, 2019 Queens Park Arena, Glasgow G42 9QL Southside Film Festival and Romano Lav present CineRoma, the UK’s first ever Roma film festival, featuring award-winning films from around the world along with UK premieres. The festival, over the weekend of 3-4 August at Queens Park Arena, focuses on Roma people’s […]
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Thursday, August 1, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Oldboy GFT
2 and 4 August, 2019 Imprisoned in a cell for 15 years, Oh Dae-su has no knowledge of the identity of his captor or the motives behind his imprisonment. When he finds himself suddenly released from captivity, Oh sets off to find answers and ultimately seek retribution against those who robbed him of his freedom. […]
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Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese GFT
6 – 8 August, 2019 We are delighted to present a limited run of screenings of this unique film. It captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975, and the joyous music that Bob Dylan performed that autumn. Master filmmaker Martin Scorsese creates a one-of-a-kind movie experience: part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream. […]
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The Current War GFT
26 July – 3 August, 2019 Three brilliant visionaries set off in a charged battle for the future in The Current War, the epic story of the cutthroat competition that literally lit up the modern world. Benedict Cumberbatch is Thomas Edison, the celebrity inventor on the verge of bringing electricity to Manhattan with his radical new […]
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Holiday, GFT
2 – 5 August, 2019 Young and beautiful Sascha discovers her dream life of luxury, recklessness and fun comes at a price when she is welcomed into the “family” of her drug lord boyfriend at his holiday villa in the port city of Bodrum on the Turkish Riviera. Physical and psychological violence are a way […]
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Diego Maradona GFT
3 – 7 August, 2019 On 5th July 1984, Diego Maradona arrived in Naples for a world-record fee, and for seven years all hell broke loose. The world’s most celebrated football genius and the most dysfunctional city in Europe were a perfect match for each other. Maradona was blessed on the field, and the charismatic […]
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Princess Mononoke at Studio Ghibli Season GFT
6 and 7 August, 2019 One of Miyazaki’s finest works, Princess Mononoke is brimming with imagination, beauty and tragedy on an epic scale. Afflicted by a deadly curse, a young warrior named Ashitaka sets out for the forests of the west in search of the cure that will save his life. He becomes entangled in […]
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Indiana Jones Trilogy at GFT
5th August, 2019 Catch all three adventures in one incredible day at GFT! Raiders of the Lost Ark (PG) Monday 5 August, 2019 (13.00) Steven Spielberg created an icon with Raiders. Indiana Jones has delighted and enthralled audiences for decades and now you can see the original trilogy on the big screen once more. Jones […]
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Walkabout GFT
29 – 30 July, 2019 Two white children are stranded in the harsh environment of the Australian outback. Lost in the wilderness, their only chance of survival is with the help of a young Indigenous man that they meet, who is performing a ritual solo wandering to mark his entrance into manhood. The development of […]
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Monday, July 29, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Preview Balance not Symmetry Biffy Clyro GFT
1 August, 2019 at 8,30 p.m. Plus Biffy Clyro recorded acoustic set and Q & A After her father’s funeral, American student Caitlin (Laura Harrier) leaves her grieving mother (Kate Dickie) behind to return to her third-year studies at the Glasgow School of Art. There she juggles her grief and end-of-year presentation with meeting a […]
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Eatfilm at Sloans presents Black Panther
Tuesday, July 30, 2019 – 6:30 PM 10:00 PM Eatfilm presents Black Panther After the death of his father, T’Challa returns home to the African nation of Wakanda to take his rightful place as king. When a powerful enemy suddenly reappears, T’Challa’s mettle as king — and as Black Panther — gets tested when he’s drawn […]
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Sunday, July 28, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Of Fish And Foe review Pat Byrne
Andy Heathcote’s documentary follows the Pullar family, who have traditionally fished in Scottish waters for decades and are now threatened by environmentalists among others. The film follows John and Kevin Pullar and their crew as they lay their nets to catch salmon as the fish head to Scottish rivers. Their methods, including the killing of […]
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Saturday, July 27, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Film Reviews, Film reviews
Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love GFT
26 July – 1 August, 2019 The new documentary from Nick Broomfield (Whitney: Can I Be Me) profiles the beautiful yet tragic love story between Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen. Their love began on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra in 1960 as part of a bohemian community of foreign artists, writers […]
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Friday, July 26, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Grateful Dead Meet Up 2019 GFT
Thursday 1 August, 2019 at 8.15 p.m. Come one, come all! Join Dead Heads in your neighbourhood – and around the world – to celebrate the 9th Annual Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the movies. This can’t-miss event features the previously unreleased complete June 17, 1991 concert from Giants Stadium. Widely considered one of the greatest […]
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Thursday, July 25, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Glasgow Film celebrates record-breaking admissions in another successful year of dynamic growth
Glasgow Film comprises Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT), Glasgow Film Festival (GFF), Glasgow Short Film Festival (GSFF) and Glasgow Youth Film Festival (GYFF), as well as an extensive range of engagement, outreach and educational programmes that aim to reach people of all ages and backgrounds. In 2018/19, GFT achieved 193,218 admissions, the fourth busiest year on […]
Wednesday, July 24, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Africa in Motion Film Festival Foreign Body CCA
Saturday 27 July 2019 7pm, £6 (£3) + £1 booking fee, Cinema / 12+ F-rated Book online / 0141 352 4900 After three highly-acclaimed feature films (Red Satin, Buried Secrets and Tunisian Spring), Foreign Body is Raja Amari’s fourth film. Seeking refuge from her radical Islamist brother, Samia arrives in France illegally. She discovers another world […]
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Africa in Motion Africa 3.0: Vanity CCA
Saturday 27 July — Sunday 28 July 2019 On loop in CCA foyer / Free (unticketed) Africa in Motion Film Festival | Africa 3.0: Vanity These films are part of Africa 3.0 a touring package of films that shows obsession as represented in cinema from across the African continent and the diaspora, focused on joy, vanity and infatuation. Vanity: In the age […]
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Saturday, July 20, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
My Friend the Polish Girl at GFT plus Q & A
26 July, 2019 at 6.15 p.m. This unique fiction film takes the form of a first-time filmmaker’s documentary told through the eyes (and lens) of amateur filmmaker Katie: an American rich kid following Alicja, an erratic unemployed Polish actress. The film is intentionally provocative, challenging the audience to consider if they are comfortable with what […]
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Obsession: Double Bill Safe/To Die For GFT
Sunday 28 July, 2019 at 1.45 p.m. This double bill brings together two mid-90s arthouse classics that each centre on very different kinds of obsession, and connect with each other in fascinating ways. In Todd Haynes’ Safe, the main character Carol becomes obsessed with possible (and actual) infection from her surroundings, neighbours and family. Meanwhile in To […]
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Africa in Motion Film Festival Foreign Body CCA
Saturday, 27 July 2019 7pm, £6(£3) + £1 booking fee, Theatre / 12+ F-rated Book online / 0141 352 4900 In the fourth feature from acclaimed Tunisian director Raja Amari (Satin Rouge), a young illegal immigrant creates a new life for herself in France while becoming the centre of tangled romantic relationships. Seeking refuge from her radical Islamist […]
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind plus Quiz GFT
28 July, 2-19 6.30 p.m. In the midst of a series of unexplained events, electrical lineman Roy Neary encounters a UFO on a deserted road whilst investigating a large-scale power outage. Roy becomes increasingly obsessed with UFOs and subliminal messaging following his experience, distancing himself from his wife and children but drawing him closer towards […]
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Only You GFT
19 – 25 July, 2019 Spending Hogmanay in Glasgow is the beginning of a beautiful romance for office worker Elena (Laia Costa) and PhD student Jake (Josh O’Connor). A chance encounter and an instant attraction soon starts to feel like something more meaningful. Is this the real deal? A relationship develops in which the modest age gap […]
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Friday, July 19, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Tell It To The Bees GFT
19 – 25 July, 2019 The Scotland of 1952 is no place for the faint-hearted. When mill worker Lydia (Holliday Grainger) is abandoned by her philandering husband, she struggles to pay the rent and feed herself and son Charlie (Gregor Selkirk). Local doctor Jean (Anna Paquin) is one of the few to help and a friendship develops […]
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Our Time, GFT
19 – 21 July, 2019 Carlos Reygadas’ Our Time charts the relationship of Juan and Esther, who live on a ranch in the rugged territory of Eastern-central Mexico. Esther runs the ranch with power and grace, while Juan, a world-renowned writer, gives himself to the task of raising the beasts. Reygadas’ most accessible work to date; Our Time is […]
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Varda by Agnes GFT
19- 21 July, 2019 Whether in front of the camera or behind it, Agnès Varda was a visual storyteller who eschewed convention and prescribed approaches to drama. In Varda by Agnès — Varda’s final film — she offers a personal insight into her oeuvre, using excerpts from her work to illustrate her unique artistic visions and ideas. Why We Love […]
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Back to the future: 1979-1989 Film Screenings at Kelvin Hall
Yoof TV – Archive film screening – a 1980s BBC ‘playlist’ you won’t want to miss! Saturday, 20 July, 2019 (1.45pm) 1.30pm: Doors open 1.45pm: Showreel of 80s footage from the Moving Image Archive 2pm: Yoof TV Kids from Greenock and Aberdeen tell it like it is about their lives in the 1980s in this […]
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African Film Touring Programme Summer 2019
Africa 3.0 shows obsession as represented in African cinema. The season will screen in cities across the UK this Summer and forms part of the Film Feels: Obsession season, supported by the National Lottery and BFI Film Audience Network. Films in the programme adhere to three relatives of obsession – 1.0 Vanity, 2.0 Joy and […]
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Dance with a Stranger, GFT
24 July, 2019 – 5.55 p.m. Plus Discussion Champions of women in cinema, Reclaim The Frame present this classic British noir starring Miranda Richardson and written by Shelagh Delaney (A Taste of Honey). It tells the true story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain following her conviction for the murder […]
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Gwen, GFT
22 – 24 July, 2019 William McGregor’s atmospheric gothic period drama features a breakout performance from newcomer Eleanor Worthington-Cox alongside BAFTA-nominated Maxine Peake. In the stark beauty of 19th Century Snowdonia a young girl, Gwen, tries desperately to hold her home together. Struggling with her mother’s mysterious illness, her father’s absence and a ruthless mining company encroaching […]
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Matchbox Cineclub + Sad Girl Cinema Der Fan
CCA Sunday 21 July 2019 7pm, £0/2/4/6/8 via Matchbox Cineclub, Theatre 18+ Book Online / 0141 352 4900 A rare screening of the cult ‘80s German horror exploring the extremes of pop obsession. Der Fan, released in 1982, is an adaptation of the director Eckhart Schmidt’s own novel of the same title. Schmidt’s film became a […]
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