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.Down to Earth, GFT
10 October, 2018 Followed by a Q&A with editor Sahill Gill This unconventional documentary follows a London family of five breaking away from society to find a new perspective on life. During five years on six continents they seek out tribal sages never filmed or interviewed before. Down to Earth reveals the deep wisdom they found and […]
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Friday, October 5, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
The Go-Betweens: Right Here GFT
5 – 7 October, 2018 This is the feature length documentary about the people who created the seminal rock band the Go-Betweens. The Go-Betweens: Right Here is a heartfelt story of discovery, uncovering the intensely passionate, creative and fraught relationships that formed one of the most loved and influential bands in Australian rock history; and explores the […]
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Climax GFT
8 – 11 October, 2018 From provocative director Gaspar Noé comes a hallucinatory depiction of a party that descends into delirium over the course of one wintry night. In Climax, a troupe of young dancers gathers in a remote and empty school building to rehearse. Following an unforgettable opening performance, the dancers begin an all-night celebration […]
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Columbus GFT
5 – 11 October, 2018 Kogonada’s assured debut drama boasts style and substance as it meticulously charts rare connections and family responsibilities. When his father is taken ill, Jin (John Cho) heads to Columbus, Indiana, the modernist architecture capital of America. He meets Casey (Haley Lu Richardson) who is smart, funny and full of bright ideas but stifled […]
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Blindspotting, GFT
5 – 11 October, 2018 With just three days left on his probation, all Oakland resident Collin wants to do is keep his head down, do his job and look forward to getting on with his life. But then he witnesses a white cop shooting an unarmed black man late at night while stopped at […]
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Thursday, October 4, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
The Wife, GFT
28 September – 11 October, 2018 Joan (Glenn Close) has spent forty years sacrificing her own talent and ambitions to support her husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce), and his stellar literary career. On the eve of Joe’s Nobel Prize for Literature, Joan has reached a turning point, she will confront the biggest sacrifice of her life […]
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Black Skin, White Masks, Africa in Motion Screening and Discussion
28 October, 2018 – 5.30 p.m. Andrew Stewart Cinema, 9 University Avenue, Glasgow G12 Newly restored for the 20th anniversary of the film’s release, Black Skin, White Masks is a gem from black British filmmaker Isaac Julien and still feels as relevant and necessary today as it did twenty years ago. Based on Frantz Fanon’s […]
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UK Jewish Film Festival 2018
The UK Jewish Film Festival, now in its 22nd year, presents the latest in contemporary British and international films reflecting Jewish stories and culture. The Festival is delighted to bring to GFT audiences two highlights from its programme of 85 new films. Itzhak celebrates the life of one of the most renowned violinists of his generation, and The […]
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Wednesday, October 3, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Make Me Up at GFT
Followed by Q and A with Director, Rachel Maclean 14 October, 2018 In Make Me Up, multimedia artist Rachel Maclean has created a world that is both seductive and dangerous; a place where surveillance, violence and submission are a normalised part of daily life. She tackles these contradictions head-on and never balks at pushing boundaries. […]
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Womens Work 100, Fairfield Govan
Viewing of Three Films Fairfield Heritage, 1048 Govan Road, Glasgow G51 4AX 1 November, 2018 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. A viewing of three films in the fabulous Fairfield Boardroom. The films commemorate the contribution made by women in World War One and each one is a composition from Imperial War Museum archive material. 1. […]
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SQIFF 2018
5 – 9 December, 2018 SQIFF 2018 – FIRST EVENTS ANNOUNCED AND ON SALE! Opening Night Shorts– Wednesday 5 December – an exciting and boundary-pushing night of contemporary LGBTQ+ shorts from around the world, all seen in Scotland for the first time. Headlining is VISIBLE, created by SQIFF favourite Campbell X and Kayza Rose, who […]
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Friday, September 28, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, LGBT Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Scalamara Radical Home Secret Screening Glasgow
Saturday 29 September, 2018, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Special Secret Screening Meeting at Kelvinbridge Subway Station at 5.45pm to head to secret venue Radical Home Cinema is an experimental programming and exhibition event where film lovers invite you to watch films in their homes. This event aims to break down the boundaries between public and […]
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Thursday, September 27, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
CTL LUX Scotland presents 24 Lateral Views
30 September. 2018 This screening explores the relationship between the human body, motion and technological reproduction, and features Thom Andersen’s Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1975) and Maya Deren’s outtakes from A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945). Andersen’s biography of Muybridge is a re-animation of the latter’s sequential photographs and an examination of their philosophical implications. Deren’s outtakes, meanwhile, offer […]
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Wajib GFT
2 – 4 October, 2018 Abu Shadi is a divorced father and school teacher in his mid-60s living in Nazareth. His daughter’s wedding is a month away, after which point he will be living alone. Shadi, his architect son, arrives from Rome after years abroad to help his father to hand-deliver the wedding invitations to […]
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Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2018 – Audience Figures Doubled
Glasgow Youth Film Festival 10th Anniversary Edition Doubled Audience Figures from 2017. One of the most innovative youth film festivals in Europe, Glasgow Youth Film Festival (GYFF) took place 14 – 16 September 2018, celebrating both its 10th anniversary edition and Scotland’s Year of Young People. Programmed by GYFF Young Programmers aged 15 – 19, […]
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A Northern Soul, GFT
2 October, 2018 – 6.15 p.m. Following 2015’s award-winning A Syrian Love Story, director Sean McAllister returned to his hometown, Hull, as creative director of the opening of Hull UK City of Culture 2017. Reflecting on changes to a city hit by cuts in public spending and divided by Brexit, Sean was drawn to the fringes […]
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Soft Cell One Final Time, Live from London, GFT
Sunday 30 September, 2018 The final and sold-out concert from synth-pop pioneers Soft Cell will be broadcast live from London to cinemas across Europe on Sunday 30 September. This landmark event celebrates the band’s 40th anniversary and will be their last ever show. One of the most influential groups to emerge from the UK electronic […]
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Wednesday, September 26, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
The Little Stranger, GFT
21 September – 4 October, 2018 Director Lenny Abrahamson returns after his Oscar-winning Room, with this tense supernatural mystery, adapted from Sarah Waters’ novel. When Dr Faraday (Domhnall Gleeson) visits a crumbling estate from his childhood, Hundreds Hall, the Ayres family steps once more into his life. Hundreds Hall holds childhood memories for Faraday, where his mother worked as a maid, […]
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Saturday, September 22, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
The Greatest Showman Sing-a-long, Glasgow Film Theatre
24 September, 2018 Ladies and gents, this is the moment you’ve all been waiting for… Inspired by the true story of P.T. Barnum’s ‘Greatest Show on Earth’, the Barnum & Bailey Circus, Michael Gracey’s directorial debut is a spectacular blend of song and dance from the lyricists behind La La Land. Starring Hugh Jackman as Barnum, […]
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‘Young Solitude’ Review by Lola Rose
‘Young Solitude’ ‘Young Solitude’ (‘Premieres Solitudes’) devised by the French filmmaker Claire Simon and a group of young film students is a stylised, passionate, fly-on-the-wall documentary. In other words it’s very much a French picture – introspective, beguiling, truthful and emotional all in one. The film is centred upon troubled adolescents trying to cope with […]
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Blueprint Independent Shorts GFT
27 September, 2018 Blueprint is Glasgow Short Film Festival’s quarterly programme celebrating the DIY heroes of Scottish filmmaking who let nothing stand in their way. Highlights include a bloody serious comedy and a kinetic, kaleidoscopic drama that deconstructs the most basic of human actions, the slap. This edition also features the Glasgow results of the UK-wide […]
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Taggart Pilot Screening, The Seamore Neighbourhood Cinema
Wed 26 September, 2018 Taggart ’83 Celebrate 35 years of Glasgow’s toughest ‘tec with a screening of Taggart’s pilot episode, Killer, starring Mark McManus. Followed by a cast and crew Q&A, including creator Glenn Chandler and producer, Robert Love. The Seamore Neighbourhood Cinema, 304 Maryhill Rd, Glasgow G20 7YE, UK Information and tickets
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The Greatest Showman Eat/Film at Sloans
Thursday, 27 September, 2018 6.30 p.m. Sloans Restaurant, 108 Argyle Street, Glasgow G2 8BG P. T. Barnum and his troupe perform a show at the circus (“The Greatest Show”). In a flashback to Barnum’s childhood where he and his father Philo, a tailor, work for the Hallett family, he becomes infatuated with their daughter, Charity. […]
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Singin’ in the Rain, The Seamore
Saturday 29 September, 2018, 1 p.m. The Seamore Neighbourhood Cinema SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN: Silver Screenings The Seamore is delighted to present Fred Astaire’s masterpiece, Singin’ in the Rain. With soup and a sandwich included in the price, what better way to spend the afternoon! Tickets The Seamore Neighbourhood Cinema, 304 Maryhill Rd, Glasgow G20 […]
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Friday, September 21, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
The Eyes of Orson Welles, The Seamore Neighbourhood Cinema
Pizza and Picture Night 28 September, 2018 7 p.m. Alongside the screening of Mark Cousins’ documentary The Eyes of Orson Welles, The Seamore will show rare footage of Welles’ unfinished 1942 Latin American film ‘It’s All True’. A real treat for the cinephile. The Seamore Neighbourhood Cinema, 304 Maryhill Rd, Glasgow G20 7YE, UK BYOB […]
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Black 47 GFT
28 September – 4 October, 2018 The Irish potato famine provides an atmospheric backdrop to this driving revenge thriller. In 1847 Ireland’s population has been decimated by the combined impact of the famine and the brutal English occupation. Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, abandons his post to […]
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Anchor and Hope, GFT
28 September – 1 October, 2018 Eva and Kat’s carefree lifestyle is turned upside down when Eva presents Kat with an ultimatum: she wants a child. Kat resists, but when her best friend, Roger, drops in from Barcelona to party, the three of them toy with the idea of creating a baby together. The film […]
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Sympathy for Mr Vengeance GFT
3 and 4 October, 2018 When deaf-mute factory worker Ryu loses his job, he has to find a way to raise the funds he needs to pay for his fatally ill sister’s kidney transplant. Along with his girlfriend, they hatch a plan to kidnap Ryu’s former boss’ daughter and hold her for enough ransom to […]
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Lucky, GFT
14 – 20 September, 2018 The late, great Harry Dean Stanton could not have asked for a greater swan song than Lucky. Actor John Carroll Lynch’s beguiling, award-winning directorial debut offers him a tailor-made last hurrah as a 90-year-old atheist seeking the meaning of his life as he reaches the shadows of death. Lucky is a wartime veteran living […]
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Thursday, September 20, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
American Animals, GFT
7 – 20 September, 2018 After enrolling at Transylvania University, Spencer (Barry Keoghan) and Warren (Evan Peters) begin to dream of remarkable lives beyond their middle-class suburban existence. Suddenly, it hits them – they have all the ingredients to pull off one of the most audacious art thefts in recent history. Convinced they can get away with it, they recruit two other friends […]
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