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.Look Back In Anger GFT
27 and 29 May, 2018 Richard Burton stars as Jimmy, a disaffected university graduate living in an industrial Midlands town, in Tony Richardson’s classic British social realist film. Jimmy kicks back at the establishment around him and the middle-class aspirations of his wife, Alison. Earning a scant living as a market trader, he grows increasingly […]
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Friday, May 25, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Fortunata, GFT
Monday, 28 May, 2018 Built around a powerhouse, multi-award-winning central performance by Jasmine Trinca (The Best of Youth), Fortunata is the latest collaboration between writer-director husband and wife team Margaret Mazzantini and Sergio Castellito. Trinca plays a straight-talking single mother who plans to open her own hair salon in Rome. Both Trinca and Castellito have spoken of Anna Magnani’s character in Pier Paolo […]
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Edie, GFT
25 – 31 May, 2018 British filmmaker Simon Hunter’s touching feature Edie revolves around a powerhouse central performance from Sheila Hancock as the titular character. At the age of 83, newly widowed Edie spontaneously decides to leave home and attempt a long-held ambition: to climb a Scottish mountain. Edie embarks on the adventure of a lifetime, accompanied by local camping shop owner Jonny […]
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Zama GFT
25 – 31 May, 2018 Lucrecia Martel’s first feature since 2008’s The Headless Woman is a sumptuous adaptation of Antonio Di Benedetto’s classic novel. In 18th century South America, Don Diego de Zama (Daniel Giménez Cacho) is a minor cog in the Spanish rule of what is now Paraguay. Far from home and separated from loved ones, he is shunned by […]
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Radical Film Network Transit Arts: How to Thrive CCA
Sun 27 May 2018 7pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema 18+ / F-rated Book Online / 0141 352 4900 ‘How to Thrive’ is a screening event built around three videos spanning forty years which document group formation on the margins. Communities living outside of the law and beyond social acceptance propose tactics for survival and subversion. Groups of […]
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Interview with Filmmaker Samir Mehanović – Calum Maclean
Interview with Filmmaker Samir Mehanović 8 September, 2016 BAFTA award winning filmmaker Samir Mehanović returns to his homeland in his powerful new documentary The Fog of Srebrenica. The film explores the human stories of one of the darkest chapters of recent European history, the genocide of 8000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys by the Serbian […]
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RFN Secret Cinema Sunday, CCA, Glasgow
20 May, 2018, 3.30 p.m. An afternoon of pop up secret, radical cinema. Two feature length programmes will be screened throughout the day – but you won’t know what they are until you show up. Programme 01: 15:30 – 17:00 Programme 02: 17:00 – 18:30 We hope to attract an inquisitive audience, excited by cinema […]
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Saturday, May 19, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
RFN68 Salute, CCA Glasgow
Saturday 19 May 2018 6:15pm, Free/£1/£3/£5/£7 + £1 booking fee, Cinema All ages Book Online / 0141 352 4900 The Black Power Salute at the 1968 Mexico Olympics was an iconic moment in the USA Civil Rights movement. This documentary feature provides insight into the incident when two Black American athletes protest racism, the war in Vietnam and […]
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Friday, May 18, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Radical Film Network Scotland RFN68, CCA
Fri 18 May — Sun 20 May 2018 rfnscotland.comRadical Film Network Scotland is a network involved in politically engaged and aesthetically innovative cinema. This May,RFN present a programme of films and discussions that explore and reflect on the film culture and legacy of 1968.That year was the tipping point for a series of political, social and countercultural […]
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Concrete Soldiers Scottish Premiere of Documentary, Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow
Don’t miss out on the Scottish premiere of the documentary ‘Concrete Soldiers’ with director Nikki Woolf and journalist Andy Worthington. A grassroots film about the fight against gentrification and council-estate demolition in London, Concrete Soldiers is also an inspiring call to action featuring the voices of residents who have refused the reality of social cleansing. The […]
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A Cambodian Spring, Glasgow Film Theatre
23 and 24 May, 2018 The screening on Thu 24 May (19.50) will be followed by a Q&A with director Chris Kelly and the Venerable Sovath. This intimate documentary focuses on three remarkable individuals to explore the chaotic, and often violent, developments shaping modern-day Cambodia. They are Buddhist monk and award-winning activist Venerable Loun Sovath, housing rights activist and mother Toul Srey Pov, […]
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NT Live: Macbeth,Glasgow Film Theatre
19 May, 2018 Shakespeare’s most intense and terrifying tragedy, directed by Rufus Norris (The Threepenny Opera, London Road), will see Rory Kinnear (Young Marx, Othello) and Anne-Marie Duff (Oil, Suffragette) return to the National Theatre to play Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. The ruined aftermath of a bloody civil war. Ruthlessly fighting to survive, the Macbeths […]
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A Quiet Place, Glasgow Film Theatre
19 – 22 May, 2018 Directed and co-written by actor John Krasinski, modern horror A Quiet Place has proved a hit with audiences and critics alike. In a postapocalyptic 2020, a family must navigate their lives in silence to avoid being killed by mysterious blind creatures that hunt by sound. The family communicate only in sign language but an impending change threatens […]
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Mansfield 66/67, Glasgow Film Theatre
21 – 22 May, 2018 Last year marked 50 years since blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield’s life was taken in a freak car accident. Based on rumours and hearsay, this new documentary explores her final two years, focusing on her alleged romantic relationship with Anton LaVey, head of the Church of Satan. Featuring interviews from an eclectic array of cultural luminaries (including John Waters […]
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The Wound, Glasgow Film Theatre
18 – 21 May, 2018 South Africa’s official entry to the 2018 Academy Awards for best foreign language film, The Wound is a provocative study of masculinity. Xolani, a lonely, closeted factory worker joins the men of his community in the mountains of the Eastern Cape to initiate a group of teenage boys into manhood. […]
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Jeune Femme, Glasgow Film Theatre
18 –24 May, 2018 Broke, with nothing but a cat to her name and doors closing in her face, 31-year-old Paula (a delightful performance from Laetitia Dosch) is back in Paris after a break-up. Determined to make a new start with style and panache, Paula throws herself towards anything that could represent a future: new people, new jobs, […]
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Filmworker, Glasgow Film Worker
18 – 24 May, 2018 After his acclaimed performance as Lord Bullingdon in Barry Lyndon (1975), actor Leon Vitali virtually disappeared from cinema screens. Filmworker reveals the extraordinary story of what happened as he sacrificed a thriving acting career to become Stanley Kubrick’s right hand man for more than two decades. Previously unseen footage, memos and photos accompany […]
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Grave of the Fireflies, Glasgow Film Theatre
19 and 23 May, 2018 We commemorate the life and work of director Isao Takahata, the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, who died on 5 April this year, with this 30th anniversary screening of his most famous work. Set in Japan at the tail end of the Second World War, the film follows teenager Seita and […]
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Redoubtable, GFT
11 – 17 May, 2018 Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) explores the brief relationship between Jean-Luc Godard and his La Chinoise star Anne Wiazemsky with irony, humour and affection. As Godard becomes increasingly interested in politics he alienates his wife and his friends, not to mention the public who preferred his zestful early films such as Breathless. Hazanavicius has created a playful and irreverent […]
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Thursday, May 10, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
SMHAF International Shorts, CCA, 11– 13 May, 2018
5pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema All ages / F-rated Book Online SMHAF UK Shorts Fri 11 May 2018 SMHAF Crazy Fri 11 May 2018 SMHAF The Silent Glow: Recovering the Present Fri 11 May 2018 SMHAF Youth Perspective Fri 11 May 2018 SMHAF Horizon Sat 12 May 2018 SMHAF Second Spring Sat 12 May 2018 […]
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That Good Night, GFT
11 – 17 May, 2018 In his final lead performance, the late Sir John Hurt plays Ralph, a terminally ill film director whose fortune has faded. Ralph has two objectives as he reaches the final stages of his life: to reconcile with his estranged son and to ensure that he is not a burden to […]
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The Cured, GFT
11 – 17 May, 2018 A brilliant low-budget zombie film with a difference, The Cured is a powerful, thought provoking tale set in a Dublin that has survived a zombie plague. What were once flesh-eating, bloodthirsty monsters have now been treated with an antidote but can society ever forgive them for what they did? Senan (Sam Keeley) cannot forget the horrible acts […]
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Wednesday, May 9, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Vacancy: Development Manager, GFT
Development Manager Maternity Cover Minimum of 8 months contract – start May 2018 £26,148 (pro-rata) GFT is hiring a Development Manager for a temporary maternity cover position. Looking for an experienced fundraiser to work with Senior Development Manager across all Glasgow Film teams. You will have previous experience of fundraising in a “not for profit sector” […]
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Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, CCA
Thursday 10 May — Sunday 13 May 2018 The Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, led by the Mental Health Foundation, is one of Scotland’s most diverse cultural events, covering everything from music, film and visual art to theatre, dance, and literature. The festival takes place across Scotland, aiming to support the arts and challenge preconceived ideas about […]
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Goodbye First Love, Glasgow Film Theatre
15 May, 2018 Mia Hansen-Løve examines the reverberating effect that young love has on our lives with a delicate and tender story about fifteen-year-old Camille and her infatuation with Sullivan, an older college student. Sullivan has made no secret of his plans to travel, leaving Camille to find her own path and heal her heartbreak. As she grows […]
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Tully, GFT
4– 17May, 2018 Charlize Theron plays Marlo, a suburban mother of two who is struggling to cope with the weight of her responsibilities. Upon the birth of her third child, she is gifted a night nanny by her wealthy brother. Resistant at first, Marlo eventually yields and upon arrival, free spirited Tully (Mackenzie Davis) instantly relieves the pressure […]
Best Before Bed – Wilde (1997), citizenM, Glasgow
12 May, 2018 This National Limerick Day, we invite you to enjoy the wit, charm, humour and drama of Oscar Wilde, in everyone’s favourite screening room at citizenM Glasgow. Join us from 7.00 PM onwards to view the film Wilde, starring Stephen Fry, Jude Law and Vanessa Redgrave. what: best before bed film night film: […]
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Revolt She Said: The Girls plus Discussion GFT
6 May, 2018 Exploring the feminist revolution 50 years after the protests of May ’68 triggered revolution, ICO and Club de Femmes have curated a season focusing on women filmmakers post ’68. In The Girls, three female friends (played by Ingmar Bergman regulars) tour a production of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata as the spirit of ’68 sweeps Sweden. […]
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Sunday, May 6, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
For A Few Dollars More, Glasgow Film Theatre
6 and 8 May, 2018 Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood and composer Ennio Morricone reteamed soon after the release of the original A Fistful of Dollars with this loose sequel. Eastwood’s Man with No Name teams up with the equally lethal Colonel Douglas Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef) in order to take down – and receive the bounty for […]
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Friday, May 4, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Lean on Pete, Glasgow Film Theatre
4 – 10 May, 2018 Andrew Haigh (45 Years, Weekend) transforms Willy Vlautin’s acclaimed 2010 novel into a heartfelt coming of age drama. Teenager Charley (Charlie Plummer) escapes a hard knock life with his deadbeat father, finding work and a newfound sense of family with grizzled horse trainer Del (Steve Buscemi) and weary jockey Bonnie (Chloë Sevigny). When […]
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