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.Sauvage, GFT
22 – 24 March, 2019 Leo is a 22-year-old sex worker who yearns for affection. In poor health and with no fixed address, he finds fleeting solace in the arms of the men he meets through his work. The crushing solitude of Leo’s life is tempered when he falls for fellow hustler Ahd. But when […]
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Friday, March 22, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Minding the Gap, GFT
22 – 28 March, 2019 First-time filmmaker Bing Liu’s documentary Minding the Gap is set in his Rust Belt hometown, hit hard by decades of recession. In his quest to understand why he and his friends all ran away from home when they were younger, Bing follows 23-year-old Zack as he becomes a father and 17-year-old Keire […]
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Tartan Features Beyond Zero, CCA
Tartan Features Beyond Year Zero – Darkness Comes with Q+A Sun 24 March 2019 4:30-7:30pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema 18+ Book Online via Eventbrite / 0141 352 4900 What was your first time like? For Eddie (Owen Whitelaw) it’s going to be the most memorable night of his life. Waking up to find himself tied to the […]
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The Great Escape with Dan Snow GFT
Gala Screening of the 75th Anniversary 24 March, 2019 5.45 p.m. On the 75th anniversary of the real events on which the film is based, Dan Snow hosts a commemorative evening featuring The D-Day Darlings and special guests, culminating with a gala screening of the remastered 1963 blockbuster film, starring Steve McQueen. The live show from […]
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Femspectives Film Festival Glasgow
22-24 March 2019 Kinning Park Complex, Kinning Park Complex, 43 Cornwall St, Glasgow G41 1BA Femspectives is a film series and festival in Glasgow. It provides a platform for films by womxn and safe spaces for conversations about feminisms, social issues, and politics. To find out more, check out Mission Statement, also Equalities & Diversity Policy and Safe Space Policy. Download […]
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The White Crow GFT
22 – 28 March, 2019 The extraordinary early life and mercurial brilliance of Rudolf Nureyev are the inspiration for a richly atmospheric true-life biography from actor/director Ralph Fiennes. Ukrainian dancer Oleg Ivenko makes an astonishing debut as the young Nureyev. Arriving in Paris in the early 1960s with the Kirov Ballet, Nureyev devours the cultural life of the city and the chance […]
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Girl GFT
15 – 21 March, 2019 Victor Polster makes an unforgettable screen debut as a teenager determined to make their dreams a reality. 15-year-old Lara (Polster) was born a boy and now longs for the day when she can have gender reassignment surgery. Her ambition is to become a ballet dancer. The daunting physical demands of the […]
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Friday, March 15, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Astro Black GSFF at CCA
14 – 17 March, 2019 CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Titled in tribute to cosmic jazz artist Sun Ra’s 1972 album, Astro Black is an ongoing multi-channel video cycle with the musician as its central figure. Comprised entirely of samples from film and music sources, Soda_Jerk’s work takes us on an alternate history tour of political resistance […]
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Glasgow Short Film Festival 2019
Thu 14 March — Sun 17 March 2019 Open 11am – 7pm, Free (unticketed), Intermedia All ages 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events GSFF19 | Scottish Competition 1: Continuous Thunder Thu 14 March 2019 Glasgow Short Film Festival 2019 Thu 14 March — Sun 17 March 2019 GSFF19 | The EthnoFictions of Laura Huertas Millán Thu 14 March 2019 […]
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First Reels 2: Scottish Women Filmmakers of the 1990s CCA
16 March, 2019 First Reels (1991–1999) was the first of the short film production schemes introduced by the Scottish Film Council (later Scottish Screen), in partnership with Scottish Television. It was launched with the aim of giving aspiring filmmakers the means to embark on – or complete – their first project. Whilst giving talents such as […]
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Wuthering Heights, Glasgow Film Theatre
18 – 20 March, 2019 You wouldn’t expect Andrea Arnold to take a conventional approach to period drama, but her earthy style feels particularly apt in this bold and sensual adaptation of the windblown romance. Arnold said she was keen to honour the spirit of Bronte’s ‘strange, dark’ book, and she does so with a […]
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GSFF19 | Blueprint: Scottish Independent Shorts
CCA 14 – 17 March, 2019 Celebrating the ingenuity and hard work of local indie filmmaking talent, Blueprint shines a bright light on the fringes of Scottish film culture. Blueprint returns to GSFF with a special focus on emerging cinematographer Alan McLaughlin, the first Scottish filmmaker nominated for the prestigious Debut Cinematographer Award at Camerimage, the International […]
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Accents, Glasgow Short Film Festival 2019
16 March, 2019 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3NY A new work of film/music by Glasgow’s UNESCO City of Music artist-in-residence Richy Carey. A live performance event at the Glasgow Royal Concert Halls, Accents brings together communities to sing a live soundtrack to a film exploring the sounds of identity and place. Using the […]
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Under the Silver Lake GFT
15 – 21 March, 2019 Steeped in the worlds of Hitchcock, David Lynch and Raymond Chandler, David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake is a quirky trip through the city of dreams. Andrew Garfield’s Sam is a horny, 30-something LA slacker distracted by his beautiful neighbour Sarah (Riley Keough). Just when they are getting to know each other, she disappears. Trying […]
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Everybody Knows GFT
Until 21 March, 2019 Director Asghar Farhadi heads to the dusty backroads north of Madrid for a drama steeped in secrets and lies. Her sister’s wedding brings Laura (Penélope Cruz) back to the small town where she was born. She is accompanied by her teenage daughter and son, but not by her husband who has remained in […]
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GSFF: Opening Screening Terror Nullius
13 March, 2019 8.30 p.m. At once satire, eco-horror and road movie, this political revenge fable offers an unwriting of Australian national mythologies. Soda_Jerk’s revisionist history opens a wilful narrative space where cinema fictions and historical facts permeate each other in new ways. The apocalyptic desert camps of Mad Max 2 become the site of refugee […]
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Wednesday, March 13, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Ray and Liz, GFT
9 – 14 March, 2019 Turner Prize-nominated artist Richard Billingham touches raw nerves with a feature debut that offers an unflinching evocation of his early family life. Incidents from the past provide a bracing immersion into the lives of Ray (Justin Salinger), the permanently angry Liz (Ella Smith) and their two sons. The vision of squalor and neglect feels […]
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Maiden GFT
9 – 14 March, 2019 Maiden is the inspirational story of how Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989. Tracy’s dream was opposed on all sides: her male competitors thought an all-women crew would never make […]
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Saturday, March 9, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
The Kindergarten Teacher, GFT
9 – l4 March, 2019 Based on the critically acclaimed 2014 film of the same name from Nadav Lapid, Maggie Gyllenhaal stars as Lisa Spinelli, a devoted kindergarten teacher fed up with her career, her oblivious husband and teenage kids who largely ignore her. When she discovers that five-year-old Jimmy (Parker Sevak) in her class […]
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The White Crow + Ralph Fiennes Satellite Q&A
12 March, 2019 Glasgow Film Theatre, 6.45 p.m. The extraordinary early life and mercurial brilliance of Rudolf Nureyev are the inspiration for a richly atmospheric biography from actor/ director Ralph Fiennes. Ukrainian dancer Oleg Ivenko makes an astonishing debut as the young Nureyev. Arriving in Paris in the early 1960s with the Kirov Ballet, Nureyev […]
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Happy as Lazzaro GFT
5 – 11 April, 2019 Alice Rohrwacher’s Cannes prize-winner is a lustrous, genre-bending gem set in a tiny village that seems cut off from the modern world. Gentle, meek and mild peasant Lazzaro (Adriano Tardiolo) is happy to do the bidding of anyone who asks. His friend Tancredi (Tommaso Ragno) makes him an accomplice in […]
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Tuesday, March 5, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
A Clockwork Orange, GFT
5 – 7 April, 2019 Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s decline-of-civilisation novel remains a chilling, thrilling and unsettling cinematic vision of nihilistic violence and social control. Set in a flamboyantly stylised near-future where gangs of disenfranchised teenagers indulge in narcotic cocktails and revel in acts of ‘ultraviolence’, the film centres on Alex (Malcolm McDowell) […]
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Access Film Club: Can You Ever Forgive Me at GFT
9 April, 2019 – 6 p.m. GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB GFT is a proud supporter of Autism Awareness Month, and, together with the National Autistic Society Scotland, provides Access Film Club: screenings and post-film discussions in a friendly and welcoming environment. FAQs: glasgowfilm.org/AFC Melissa McCarthy stars in the Oscar-nominated adaptation of the memoir Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the […]
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The Journey GFT
10 and 11 April, 2019 Baghdad, 2006. Sara enters the train station with sinister intentions for its reopening ceremony. As she braces to commit an unthinkable act, her plans are drastically altered by an unwanted and awkward encounter with Salam, a self-assured and flirtatious salesman. With Salam now hostage to Sara’s confused and deluded plan, he battles desperately to appeal to her humanity and […]
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Monday, March 4, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Glasgow School of Art MFA MFA WIP Screening 2, CCA
Tuesday 9 April 2019 6:30pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema All ages CCA Tue 9 April 2019 6:30pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema All ages Book Online / 0141 352 4900 The GSA Master of Fine Art final year students present a series of three film screenings at the CCACinema space for the run up to their degree show in May this […]
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The Science of Ghosts, Glasgow Film Festival 2019 review by Pat Byrne
The Science of Ghosts is a film directed by Niall McCann, who also directed Lost in France ( 2017). This new movie has links to Lost in France, which focused on the Glasgow based record label Chemikal Underground; The Science of Ghosts is about Adrian Crowley, the much lauded Dublin based singer / composer, the only […]
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Scotch: The Golden Dram
Thursday, 7th March, 2019 at 6.30pm Grosvenor Cinema Hillhead with Q&A with Andrew Peat, Director Andrew Peat’s handsomely crafted feature documentary tells the story of the Scotch whisky industry through its most ardent enthusiasts. Shot entirely on location in Scotland, Scotch: The Golden Dram tells the story of Uisge beatha, Gaelic for “water of life.” Scotch […]
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Saturday, March 2, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Metal Heart Glasgow Film Festival
Saturday 2 (12.30) & Sunday 3 March,2019 (14.40) Director Hugh O’Conor will attend the screening on Sat 2 Mar Actor turned director Hugh O’Conor has created the kind of cheering, warm-hearted teen comedy that would have made John Hughes proud. Emma (Jordanne Jones) and Chantal (Leah McNamara) are chalk-and-cheese sisters living in Dublin. Goth-loving Emma is the guiding spirit […]
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Friday, March 1, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2019
Beats Closing Gala Glasgow Film Festival 2019
3 March, 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 well and […]
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Thursday, February 28, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2019
Living the Light CCA
Friday 1 (20.45) & Saturday 2 March, 2019 (12.45) Director Claire Pijman will attend the screening on Fri 1 Mar. One of the most inventive and influential cinematographers to ever put his eye to a viewfinder, Robby Müller shot Paris, Texas, Down by Law, Breaking the Waves, and countless other classics. His use of natural light and colour earned him […]
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2019
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