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.Sunset GFT
31 May – 6 June, 2019 1913, Budapest, in the heart of Europe. Young Irisz Leiter arrives in the Hungarian capital with high hopes to work as a milliner at the legendary hat store that belonged to her late parents. But those hopes are quickly dashed when the new owner, Oszkár Brill, refuses to take […]
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Saturday, June 1, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Freedom Fields, GFT
3 – 6 June, 2019 Football isn’t a matter of life and death, it’s much more important than that in Freedom Fields. Filmed over five years, Naziha Arebi’s documentary follows three friends and their dream of being allowed to play football in Libya. When the promise of the Arab Spring starts to fade, the women face public […]
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Matchbox Cineclub + Backseat Bingo Under The Cherry Moon
CCA Friday 7 June 2019 7pm, Free/£2/£4/£6 and £8, Cinema 15+ Book Online / 0141 352 4900 Under The Cherry Moon (Prince, 1986) 100mins Once upon a time, in France, lived a bad boy called Christopher Tracy… Backseat Bingo & Matchbox Cineclub present a rare screening of Prince’s Under the Cherry Moon, on His Royal Badness’ birthday. Fashion […]
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Rory’s Way GFT
31st May, 2018 3.15 p.m. Followed by a Q&A with actor Brian Cox. Buy tickets Based on the bestselling novel by José Luis Sampedro, Rory’s Way, starring Brian Cox as Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman who reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island and travels to San Francisco to seek medical treatment. Moving in with his […]
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Thursday, May 30, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Library Music Film – DJ and Party
Friday 31 May, 2019 CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD The Library Music Film screenin in Glasgow! Before the screening join disc jockeys Dr Crawford (Cinema Recorded Music Library) and Mr Divine spinning a library music soundtrack in Saramago (from 5pm-7pm). After-party kicks off at 9pm with Divine and guests spinning all things retro […]
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Saving Private Ryan, GFT
6 June, 2019 A special screening marking 75 years to the day since World War Two’s D-Day Normandy landings, and 21 years since the film was released. Captain John Miller leads his soldiers behind enemy lines to find James Ryan. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their […]
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Masterclass with Peter Strickland and Andy Starke, GFT
Saturday, 1 June, 2019 11.15 a.m. Glasgow Film Festival’s Industry Team are pleased to introduce a Masterclass Session with In Fabric writer/director Peter Strickland and producer Andy Starke. During this session the duo will discuss their upcoming release In Fabric, their career successes to date, and look at the qualities that make for a successful working relationship between director […]
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Drive Me Home GFT
Sunday 2 June, 2019 – 5 p.m. Conceived during his time working in London and drawing on fellow Italian immigrants’ experiences of long-distance lorry travel, the feature debut from Turin-born Simone Catania tells of two childhood friends who are reunited after many years away from their Sicilian hometown. With echoes of the road movies of […]
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Maker And Producer (sustainable textiles)
Photography – Max Crawford // Hair – Ronnie Gildea //Make-up – Ania Cunningham Monday 3 June 2019 – 7 p.m. Costume and Film CCA Free (unticketed), Theatre All ages 0141 352 4900 Photography – Max Crawford // Hair – Ronnie Gildea //Make-up – Ania CunninghamAlex Begg draws on a century and a half of weaving […]
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Liam Gallagher: As It Was plus Exclusive Live Satellite Performance
6 June, 2019 7.15 p.m. Presenting an honest and unrivalled insight, Liam: As It Was is the story of how Liam Gallagher, one of the most electrifying rock ‘n’ roll frontmen, went from the dizzying heights of his champagne supernova years in Oasis, to living on the edge, ostracised and lost in booze, notoriety and bitter legal battles. […]
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Wednesday, May 29, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
The Vice of Hope, GFT
28 May, 2019 5.50 p.m. Edoardo De Angelis’ fourth feature unfolds in the infamous, eerily dilapidated coastal town of Castel Volturno (around 20 miles north of Naples) which has for several years been the site of violent clashes between Italian and migrant crime gangs. The story centres on Maria (Pina Turco), a young woman involved […]
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Friday, May 24, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Tolkein GFT
24 – 30 May, 2019 Tolkien explores the formative years of the renowned author’s life as he finds friendship, courage and inspiration among a fellow group of writers and artists at school. Their brotherhood strengthens as they grow up and weather love and loss together, including Tolkien’s tumultuous courtship of his beloved Edith Bratt, until the […]
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DOCMA DocKlub, CCA
Wednesday 29 May, 2019 CCA 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 Edinburgh in 2015, DocKlub has hosted dozens of filmmakers screening their works-in-progress. These have included directors from around Scotland, presenting in person, as well as Skype sessions with filmmakers […]
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Take 2: The Secret of Kells
Saturday, 25 May, 2019 . 11.30 a.m. Celebrate ten years of this beautiful animation about the origin of the famous Book of Kells. Filled with Celtic references, the film follows young Brendan trying to escape the boring life of the monastery by helping Brother Aiden finish the Book of Kells, a task that becomes harder […]
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Shoplifters GFT
28 May, 2019 8.20 p.m. After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the family is poor, barely making enough money […]
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Daughter of Mine, GFT
Thursday 30 May, 2019 8.20 p.m. Laura Bispuri’s transgender-themed 2015 feature Sworn Virgin was one of the most ground-breaking Italian debuts of the past decade, and the director makes an eagerly-awaited return with this Sardinian-set film. It follows a 10-year-old girl’s changing relationship with her biological and adoptive mothers as they become rivals for her affections. Bispuri […]
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Cleo from 5 – 7 GFT
25 May, 2019, 3.20 p.m. In celebration of Agnès Varda, pioneering feminist filmmaker of the French New Wave, join us for a screening of Cleo from 5 to 7. Varda skilfully captures Paris at the height of the 1960s in this intriguing tale, expertly presented in real time, about a singer whose life is in turmoil as she awaits […]
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Beats GFT
24 – 30 May, 2019 The much-anticipated screen version of Kieran Hurley’s award-winning play is a gallus, bittersweet coming-of-age rollercoaster: imagine Fellini’s I Vitelloni set to a throbbing techno beat. It is 1994 and new legislation effectively outlaws raves or “public gatherings around amplified music characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats”. The party is […]
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Ash Is Purest White GFT
27 – 30 May, 2019 In a bleak industrial city, young dancer Qiao (played by Zhangke’s long-time collaborator, Zhao Tao) falls in love with mobster Bin (Liao Fan). When Bin’s ballroom dancing-obsessed boss is killed, he takes on leadership of the ‘Jianghu’, a brotherhood of honourable criminals. But the old codes of honour are out […]
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Yikes Film Club presents Grand Budapest Hotel
Thursday, 23 May, 2019 The Flying Duck,142 Renfield Street Glasgow G2 3AU ‘Join YiKES! Film Club on the 23rd of May as we check in at The Grand Budapest Hotel (or The Flying Duck in this case) as we explore the mad world of Wes Anderson with a cast filled to brim with talent featuring […]
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Sunday, May 19, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
The Bolshoi Ballet: Carmen Suite / Petrushka Live
19 May, 2019 – 3.45 p.m. Carmen is as sultry as ever, as the passionate and free-spirited woman in this one act ballet. Presented alongside Petrushka, a new creation of the Bolshoi which encapsulate the soul of Russian Ballet. Choreographer / ComposerAlonso / Bizet, Shchedrin Choreographer / ComposerClug / Stravinsky GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Buy tickets
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Friday, May 17, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Arctic GFT
17 – 23 May, 2019 Stranded in a bleak, unforgiving frozen wilderness would you have what it takes to survive? Joe Penna’s intense, slow-burning adventure yarn tells of endurance against impossible odds and is all the more chilling for virtually dispensing with dialogue. Mads Mikkelsen plays Overgard, the sole survivor of a plane crash who has refused to surrender to despair. […]
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Birds of Passage
17 – 23 May, 2019 A gripping tale of narcos set among Colombia’s Wayúu people, Birds of Passage spans three decades of a family pushed to the brink by the drug trade. Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra follow up their Oscar-nominated Embrace of the Serpent with an unusually clear-eyed and empathetic depiction of indigenous peoples and the impact of outside […]
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Slow Food Glasgow Food, Class and Transformation in Glasgow
Wednesday 22 May 2019 – 7 p.m. Project Cafe After directing a dozen documentaries about food, agriculture and sustainability since 2008, focusing on Scotland over the last couple of years, Zev Robinson is now developing one looking at the transformation of the culture of food in Glasgow. He will film and interview restauranteurs, chefs who […]
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Thursday, May 16, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Havana Glasgow Film Festival Bailando Con Margot: An Encore Screening CCA
Friday 17 May 2019 7:30pm, Free/£1/£3/£5/£7 + £1 booking fee, Cinema All ages Book Online / 0141 352 4900 To mark the six-month countdown to HGFF19 we are hosting an encore screening of Arturo Santana’s 2015 film, Bailando Con Margot. It’s Havana late 50s, Revolution is brewing, Bailando Con Margot follows the story of wealthy widow and femme […]
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Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock n Roll GFT
22 May, 2019 – 8.05 p.m. Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock ‘n’ Roll tells the story of the long-troubled town of Asbury Park, and how the power of music can unite a divided community. A once storied seaside resort, Asbury Park erupted in flames during a summer of civil unrest, crippling the town for the next […]
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Donbass GFT
21 – 23 May, 2019 This satirical drama follows a series of events during the separatist conflict in the Donbass, a region of Eastern Ukraine, in 2014. In the Donbass, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by separatist gangs. War is called […]
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Submissions Glasgow Film Festival
Submissions for Glasgow Film Festival 2020 are now OPEN. Click the button to submit now! Accepting submissions exclusively through FilmFreeway ‘Thank you for considering Glasgow Film Festival. We are committed to supporting emerging talent and providing audiences with the opportunity to see the best of world cinema. We’re currently on the lookout for fiction, documentary, animation […]
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Wild Rose Review Pat Byrne
Wild Rose, directed by Tom Harper, screenplay by Glasgow born Nicole Taylor, was one of the films I’d marked out as a ‘must see’ at Glasgow Film Festival but it wasn’t to be. It’s back at Glasgow Film theatre and I was determined to catch it this time round. (The film runs until 25 April, 2019). […]
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80 Years of Cinema Glasgow Film Theatre
80 Years of Cinema celebrated at GFT Thursday 9 May – Sunday 12 May Glasgow Film Theatre will hold a weekend of special free screenings, open to all. Glasgow Film Theatre is celebrating 80 Years of Cinema on Rose Street with a selection of special screenings, free to audiences, to mark the anniversary of Scotland’s original […]
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Thursday, May 9, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
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