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.IberoDocs, CCA, Glasgow
Fri 4 May — Sat 5 May 2018 The Ibero-American Documentary Film Festival comes to Glasgow, for its fifth edition, to explore different perspectives on the transition between childhood and adulthood from various corners ofIbero-America. Join us for two days of immersion into Ibero-American culture; its different languages, traditions and expressions as we journey from La Gomera […]
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Friday, May 4, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
The Greatest Showman, Glasgow Film Theatre
7 May, 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 […]
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World Disco Soup, CCA, Glasgow
Saturday 28 April, 2018 5:30pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema All ages / F-rated Book Online / 0141 352 4900 A new year has arrived and guess what? We’re back! The World Disco Soup is a gastronomic, musical and artistic experience which aims to unite people against food waste across the planet. Last year there were more than […]
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Friday, April 27, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, Eating and drinking Glasgow West End, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Bill Viola: The Road To St Paul’s, GFT
29 April, 2018 This film follows the husband and wife team of Bill Viola and Kira Perov on their twelve-year odyssey to create and install two permanent video installations, Mary and Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water) on either side of the High Altar in St Paul’s Cathedral. Made by the award-winning arts documentary director Gerald […]
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Ghost Stories, GFT
27 April – 3 May, 2018 Paying homage to such classic Amicus horror anthologies as From Beyond the Grave and Ealing’s Dead of Night, Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson’s smash hit stage show comes to the big screen to terrify in a whole new thrilling and chilling dimension. Professor Philip Goodman (Nyman) is a renowned sceptic of the supernatural and clairvoyant. When an […]
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Another News Story, GFT
2 and 3 May, 2018 Since 2015 the current refugee crisis has flooded every news and media outlet across the globe. Another News Story takes a unique approach to capturing this narrative. While still giving a groundfloor perspective of migrants fleeing Syria and Turkey and their struggle to find a country where they are welcome, director Orban Wallace simultaneously turns the […]
The Old Dark House, GFT
27 – 29 April, 2018 Frankenstein director James Whale directed this classic dark comedy horror film, an adaptation of J.B. Priestley’s novel and stage play, Benighted. Seeking shelter from a storm, five stranded travellers stumble upon a strange old house, and find themselves at the mercy of the highly eccentric, and potentially dangerous, Femm family. […]
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Beast, GFT
27 April – 3 May, 2018 Earning comparisons with Andrea Arnold and Jane Campion, director Michael Pearce emerges as a striking new voice in British cinema with this smouldering, sexy thriller set on Jersey. Moll (Jessie Buckley) has always been considered the black sheep of her family, but when she meets rugged, blue-eyed stranger Pascal (Johnny Flynn) it marks the […]
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Western, GFT
27 April – 3 May, 2018 Travel can broaden the mind but sometimes it just cements prejudices. In Western, a German construction team head to Bulgaria to install a waterpower facility. The boisterous incomers set up camp and raise the national flag but laconic loner Meinhard (Meinhard Neumann) is more curious about the local community. He […]
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Selected 8 New film & video from across the UK, CCA
The Blushing Valley, Gery Georgieva, 2018 Tuesday 1 May 2018 CCA 6:30pm, Free (unticketed), Cinema 18+ 0141 352 4900 Afro-Glitch, Kamile Ofoeme, 2017 Selected is a new collection of diverse artists’ film and video touring the UK in May-July 2018, taking place at some of the UK’s leading venues for showcasing artists’ film and video. Nominated by the artists shortlisted […]
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Thursday, April 26, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Love, Simon GFT
27 April – 3 May, 2018 Teenage years can be tricky enough without having a secret that you’re not sure whether to share. 17-year-old Simon (Nick Robinson) is gay but hasn’t told any of his friends or family. He is starting to fall in love with an equally closeted, anonymous classmate that he has met […]
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Radical Film Network 6818 Launch, Glasgow
May Day – Tuesday 1 May, 2018 at 7 p.m. citizenM, 60 Renfrew Street, Glasgow G2 3BW Radical Film Network Scotland commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of 1968, a tumultuous year in politics and cinema. Anti-Vietnam protests rocked the world and students rioted with workers in Paris, as tanks rolled into Prague to quell its spring. […]
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Memento, GFT
23 April, 2018 Due to a violent attack, Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) suffers from a rare disorder which means that he can no longer form new memories. Christopher Nolan’s neo-noir psychological thriller unfolds in reverse chronological order, following Leonard’s attempt to track down his attacker and his wife’s killer using photographs and a complex system […]
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Friday, April 20, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, GFT
24 April, 2018 Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou and his crew (Team Zissou) set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly non-existent Jaguar Shark that killed Zissou’s partner, Estaban, during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. They are joined on their voyage by a young airline co-pilot who may or […]
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Grease, GFT
19 – 22 April, 2018 Released in the US on 17 June 1978, Grease became the biggest American box office hit of that year. Danny and Sandy’s classic tale of Summer Lovin’ at Rydell High School quickly became a worldwide favourite, with audiences slayed at the sight of John Travolta’s pout and Olivia Newton-John’s leathers. […]
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An Unashamed Claim to Visibility: films about queerness + dis/ability, CCA
Thu 26 April 2018 7pm, Free/ £1/ £3/ £5/ £7 + £1 booking fee, Theatre 18+ / F-rated Book Online / 0141 352 4900 As queer communities strive to embrace intersectional politics, those with a disability or functional diversity are often left behind. Despite the higher prevalence of disability among LGBTQIA+ communities, disabled, D/deaf, visually impaired, learning disabled, […]
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Cool Hand Luke, GFT
22 April, 2018 An Oscar-nominated Paul Newman plays the ultimate rebel in this gritty, compelling prison drama. After a drunken spree, Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years on a brutal Florida chain gang. He refuses to accept the authority of his gaolers or the rigid pecking order among his fellow prisoners. Luke endures through physical hardship and […]
Custody, Winner of GFF18 Audience Award at GFT
13 – 26 April, 2018 Xavier Legrand won the Glasgow Film Festival Audience Award for this, his debut feature: a tense, gripping depiction of the fallout from a bitter custody battle. Miriam (Léa Drucker) has left her husband Antoine (Denis Ménochet) and is now seeking sole custody of their son Julien (Thomas Gioria). Both sides seem to be […]
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A Gentle Creature, GFT
20 – 26 April, 2018 Inspired by Dostoevsky’s short story, In the Fog director Sergei Loznitsa takes us into a lawless Russia where crime is often unpunished. A woman lives alone on the outskirts of a Russian village, when one day, she receives a parcel that she sent to her incarcerated husband marked ‘return to […]
Funny Cow at GFT
20 26 April, 2018 Charting the rise to stardom of a female comedian through the 1970s and 1980s, Funny Cow is set against the backdrop of working men’s clubs and the stand-up comedy circuit of the North of England. From her troubled childhood to her turbulent adult relationships, the ‘Funny Cow’ (Maxine Peake) uses the […]
Call for Young Programmers for 10th Anniversary of Glasgow Youth Film Festival
Applications are now open for young people aged 15-19 to become GYFF Young Programmers for Glasgow Youth Film Festival’s 10th Anniversary edition, which returns from 14 – 16 September 2018. Programmed by young people, Glasgow Youth Film Festival (GYFF) is one of the most innovative youth film festivals in Europe, annually presenting an outstanding range […]
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Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex, Fashion and Disco
13 – 15 April, 2018 An intimate portrait of Antonio Lopez, the most influential fashion illustrator of the 1970s. Featuring interviews from Grace Coddington, Jessica Lange, Bill Cunningham and many more, we follow Antonio’s rise to fame at a time when fashion designers and their entourages became rock stars. Antonio was known for discovering new […]
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Thursday, April 12, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Glasgow Zine Fest SQIFF Presents: Live in DIY Queer Filmmaking Conversation! CCA
Saturday 14 April 2018 SQIFFs Helen Wright presents a screening-performance looking at the work of DIY queer filmmakers Krissy Mahan and Nakshatra Bagwe whilst joined by the filmmakers via the interwebs for a live conversation. Krissy Mahan and her alter ego Faggotgirl – based in New York – have been making movies using humour as a feminist […]
Friday the 13th at GFT
Friday 13th April, 2018 When a group of summer camp counsellors head to Camp Crystal Lake to fix it up, they ignore the warnings of its dark past. Instead they indulge in sex, drugs and fun. What they don’t know is that there’s a killer on the loose. Can any of them survive? And who […]
Glasgow Zine Fest SQIFF Presents: By Hook or By Crook + Unhung Heroes
Sun 15 April 2018 CCA 7pm, Free/£1/£3/£5/£7 + £1 booking fee, Cinema 14+ accompanied by an adult Book Online / 0141 352 4900By Hook or By Crook (2001) chronicles 3 weeks in the life of a handsome, small-town trans man with a nagging messiah-complex. Shy heads to the big city to sink himself into a […]
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Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts, GFT
13 – 19 April, 2018 Welcome to the wild, wild east. Director Mouly Surya delivers a spaghetti western with a strong Indonesian flavour in this stunning revenge drama. Marlina (Marsha Timothy) is a young widow living alone in a remote farmhouse and when arrogant, marauding robbers arrive, they feel entitled to take whatever they please. […]
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Gook, GFT
16 – 19 April, 2018 Korean-American brothers Eli and Daniel own a struggling LA shoe store and have an unlikely friendship with Kamilla, a streetwise 11-year-old African American girl. Kamilla ditches school, Eli stresses about the store, and Daniel tries to have a good time. It’s just another typical day at the store until the […]
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Video Delight CCA
Tuesday 17 April 2018 CCA 7pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema 15+ / F-rated Book Online / 0141 352 4900 An informal screening of new short moving image from Nastia Nikolskaya, Christian Noelle Charles, Amy Ball, and Mathew Parkin. The works are linked by a question around the act of looking as both political and pleasurable, with a […]
Isle of Dogs, GFT
Until 19 April, 2018 Visionary director Wes Anderson returns with a beguiling, stunningly crafted stop-motion animated feature that is destined to win your heart. Taking a generous helping of inspiration from the great Akira Kurosawa, Anderson’s delight is set in a dystopian future Japan. An outbreak of “ canine flu” has led to all dogs being quarantined […]
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Wednesday, April 11, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Stories Of Our Lives, Africa in Motion, Film Screening, The Flying Duck, Glasgow
Thursday 19th April, 8pm. The Flying Duck, 142 Renfield Street, Glasgow G2 3AW “Stories of Our Lives is an intimate, masterly portrayal of Kenya’s LGBT community”- The Huffington Post Africa in Motion is delighted to be holding a screening of the critically acclaimed collection of short films Stories of Our Lives (2014) from Kenyan-native director […]
Monday, April 9, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, LGBT Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
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