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.Scottish Queer International Film Festival 2018
Wed 5 December — Sun 9 December 2018 SQIFF returns with another programme packed with all things LGBTQ+ and film. Across five days expect the very best in queer cinema from around the world, including a Queer Arab strand in partnership with dardishi; The Scottish premiere of Jason Barker’s trans parenthood doc A Deal with the Universe, with […]
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Friday, December 7, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, LGBT Glasgow
Fright Night and A Girl Walk Home Alone at Night, Burnt Church Film Club
Sunday 9th December 2018 w/ TRASH CINEMA FRIGHT NIGHT & A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT Details on Facebook Burnt Church Film Club 142 Renfield Street, Glasgow DECEMBER PROGRAMME 9 – Fright Night & A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night – w/ Trash Cinema – £5 entry 11 – Best F(r)iends Vol. 1 & 2 […]
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Die Hard GFT
7 and 9 December, 2018 One of the greatest action movies ever made opens with a festive setting as NYPD officer John McClane (Bruce Willis in his prime) takes on Alan Rickman’s archetypal European villain, Hans Gruber. When McClane goes to the Christmas party at his estranged wife’s office ‘by mistake’, he finds himself embroiled […]
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SQIFF18 A Girl at My Door CCA
Fri 7 December 2018 12:30pm, Free/£1/£3/£5/£7 + £1 booking fee, Theatre 18+ / F-rated Book Online / 0141 352 4900 Promising police cadet Young-nam is sent to work in a small seaside village after her lesbian relationship is outed to her bosses in Seoul. Here, she meets a bullied teenager, Sun Dohee, and quickly becomes her trusted […]
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SUSTAIN £200 bursary available for Community Cinema Projects
£200 BURSARY + THREE FREE COACHING SESSIONS FOR EXISTING COMMUNITY CINEMAS! Deadline for application 10 December 2018 Cinema For All is offering a limited number of places for existing community cinema groups on our BFI funded Sustain Fresh Start Programme. This opportunity is designed to help you identify and improve on areas of your operation and help […]
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Thursday, December 6, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
The Wild Pear Tree
6 – 9 December, 2018 Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s follow-up to Palme d’Or winner Winter Sleep follows aspiring writer Sinan, as he returns to his home village. He desperately attempts to scrape together the money he needs to be published, but history catches up with him and he is forced to face bittersweet truths. Buy tickets GFT 12 […]
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Wednesday, December 5, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Mug GFT
7 – 11 December, 2018 The film centres around Jacek who loves heavy metal, his girlfriend and his dog. His family, his small hometown, his fellow parishioners all see him as an amusing freak. Jacek works at the construction site for what is supposed to become the tallest statue of Jesus in the World. When […]
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The Old Man and The Gun GFT
7 – 13 December, 2018 Based on a true story, this funny drama from A Ghost Story director David Lowery, follows Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford) after his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70, and the unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are detective […]
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Critters, Burnt Church Film Club, Glasgow
Sunday 2 December, 2018 7 p.m. Burnt Church Film Club Presents: CRITTERS (1986) Facebook Page Burnt Church Film Club 142 Renfield Street, Glasgow £5 Tickets available 01/10 Buy tickets
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Saturday, December 1, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Three Identical Strangers GFT
30 November – 6 December, 2018 Three Identical Strangers tells the astonishing story of three men who make the chance discovery, at the age of 19, that they are identical triplets, separated at birth and adopted to different parents. The trio’s joyous reunion in 1980 catapults them to fame but it also sets in motion a […]
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GRAMNet/BEMIS Film Series Talented & Young: We Are Scotland
Wednesday 5 December 2018 CCA 6pm, Free (unticketed), Cinema All ages 0141 352 4900 Celebrating the Year of Young People (YOYP), this documentary offers a snapshot of the talents revealed by the diverse young citizens of Scotland: diverse talented youth celebrating their inclusive national identity, cultural heritage and Scotland as home through showcasing and sharing […]
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Friday, November 30, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people
The Penalty, GFT
2 December, 2018 With live score. The Penalty stars the great American actor Lon Chaney as ‘Blizzard’, a double-amputee crime lord intent on looting San Francisco for his evil ends. The film cemented Chaney’s reputation as master of the gruesome and grotesque ahead of his best-known performance in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Leading Scottish composer Graeme Stephen’s brand-new score for guitar and […]
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The Wild Pear Tree GFT
1 – 9 December, 2018 Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s follow-up to Palme d’Or winner Winter Sleep follows aspiring writer Sinan, as he returns to his home village. He desperately attempts to scrape together the money he needs to be published, but history catches up with him and he is forced to face bittersweet truths. Buy tickets GFT 12 […]
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Nae Pasaran The Grosvenor
Wednesday, 5 December, 2018 The Grosvenor Cinema, Ashton Lane, G12 8SJ BAFTA winning documentary Nae Pasaran screens at the Grosvenor Cinema on Wednesday 5th of December with an exclusive post-screening Q&A in association with the National Union of Journalists. Felipe Bustos Sierra’s feature charts the incredible true story of the Scots who managed to ground […]
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Thursday, November 29, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Document Film Festival Glasgow 2018
Friday 30 November to Sunday 2 December, 2018 Document Film Festival 2018 has relocated to the Scottish Youth Theatre, 105 Brunswick Street, Glasgow G1 1TF for its 16th edition. This year the festival brings discussions and workshops as well as forty feature length and short documentary films from around the globe. It will include eleven […]
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Tuesday, November 27, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
SQIFF 2018 Opening Night Shorts Glasgow Film Theatre
5 December, 2018 Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF) kicks off its 2018 edition with an exciting and boundary-pushing programme of contemporary LGBTQ+ shorts from around the world. Headlining is VISIBLE, created by Campbell X and Kayza Rose, who explore QTIPOC (queer trans intersex people of colour) histories, challenging mainstream perceptions and sanitisation of legacies, and […]
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Friday, November 23, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Wildlife GFT
23 – 29 November, 2018 Actor Paul Dano’s directorial debut is a sober, beautifully realised post-war American family drama, adapted from the novel by Richard Ford. 1960s Montana: 14-year-old Joe (Ed Oxenbould) is the only child of Jeanette (Carey Mulligan) and Jerry Brinston (Jake Gyllenhaal). When Jerry loses his job , he decides to go […]
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Thursday, November 22, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, GFT
25 November, 2018 Major feminist author Ursula K. Le Guin paved the way for women and other marginalised writers. Best known for the Earthsea chronicles, her pioneering books examine society through the lens of science fiction and fantasy, as she staked her claim in traditionally male-dominated literary genres. This National Endowment for the Arts and […]
Happy New Year Colin Burstead with Ben Wheatley Q & A
29 November, 2018, 8.15 p.m. Scottish Premiere Screening The latest feature from award-winning filmmaker Ben Wheatley (Free Fire, High-Rise, Kill List, Sightseers) is a tumultuous drama exploring shifting family dynamics. Colin Burstead (Neil Maskell) has hired a heritage mansion for a New Year’s Eve party for his extended family and various hangers-on. Unfortunately for Colin, […]
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Castlemilk Youth Complex Your Life matters CCA
Thursday 29 November 2018 7pm, Free (unticketed), Cinema All ages / F-rated 0141 352 4900 Your life matters is a short film written and created by young people in Castlemilk from Castlemilk Youth Complex. who identified mental health issues in their community, especially suicide. We hope to share helplines and support as too many young lives […]
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Wednesday, November 21, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, Kids and young people
Disobedience GFT
30 November – 6 December, 2018 Based on the novel of the same name by bestselling author Naomi Alderman, Disobedience from Sebastián Lelio (A Fantastic Woman) is a timely and emotionally powerful tale set at the crossroads of tradition and modernity, of personal desires and the demands of faith. When her estranged rabbi father suddenly passes away, […]
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Tuesday, November 20, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Alliance Française & Goethe Institut Glasgow The Trench, CCA
Monday 19 November 2018 6pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema 15+ Book Online / 0141 352 4900 The Trench / William Boyd /1999 From boredom to fear, from panic to restlessness. The Trench gives a deep and emotional insight into the soldier’s minds during the last 48 hours before the Battle of the Somme in 1916. They […]
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Wednesday, November 14, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
The Unsettled Dust Asian Short Film Festival CCA
Friday 16 November 2018 7pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema All ages Book online / 0141 3524900 The permutable phenomenon of the everyday life is usually inherited from the natives of the contemporary past as they attempted to change their “current” situation for a better future. While encompassing many contradictions and conflicts through its evolution, there is […]
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Outlaw King Glasgow Film Theatre
9 – 15 November, 2018 From the director of Hell or High Water comes untold, true story of Robert The Bruce who transformed from defeated nobleman, to reluctant King, to outlaw hero over the course of an extraordinary year. Forced into battle in order to save his family, his people and his country from the oppressive English occupation […]
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Evelyn plus Discussion, GFT
18 November, 2018 Evelyn is a deeply personal documentary from the Oscar winning team behind The White Helmets (2016) and Virunga (2014). The film follows the story of a family overcoming the unthinkable. On a walking odyssey across the United Kingdom, they confront a past they’ve been unable to talk about, whilst simultaneously repairing the fractures in their own relationships. Director Orlando von Einsiedel turns the cameras on […]
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The Workshop, Glasgow Film Theatre
16 – 22 November, 2018 From Laurent Cantet, writer-director of the Palme d’Or-winning The Class, and writer Robin Campillo (120 Beats Per Minute) comes The Workshop, a riveting contemporary drama that blends social commentary with a complex study of the modern world. Set in La Ciotat, France, the film centres around Antoine (Matthieu Lucci), a teenager who […]
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The Unsettled Dust Asian Short Film Festival CCA
Friday 16 November 2018 7pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema All ages Book online / 0141 352 4900 The permutable phenomenon of the everyday life is usually inherited from the natives of the contemporary past as they attempted to change their “current” situation for a better future. While encompassing many contradictions and conflicts through its evolution, there […]
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My Brilliant Friend, GFT
Saturday 17 November, 2018 Episode One and Sunday 18 November, 2018 Episode Two Set in a dangerous and fascinating Naples, this lushly produced miniseries follows the lives of two girls over six decades of their friendship. Based on Elena Ferrante’s bestselling book of the same name, directed by Saverio Costanzo. We are offering you the chance to […]
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Glasgow Feminist Arts Festival, CCA
Saturday, 17 November, 2018 1pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema 15+ / F-rated Book Online / 0141 3524900 Presented in partnership with Femspectives and sponsored by the University of Glasgow’s School of Culture and Creative Arts ‘Inclusive/Exclusive’series A powerful drama co-directed by eight Māori women directors – Briar Grace-Smith, Casey Kaa, Ainsley Gardiner, Katie Wolfe, Chelsea Cohen, Renae […]
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Suspira, Glasgow Film Theatre
16 – 22 November, 2018 From Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino, comes this hotly anticipated homage to Dario Argento’s classic horror Suspiria. Set in Berlin, in 1977 (the year the original was released), Guadagnino reunites A Bigger Splash stars Tilda Swinton and Dakota Johnson to head up this hypnotic and disorientating thriller, with a haunting soundtrack from […]
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