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.A Fantastic Woman, GFT
10 April, 2018 Marina (Daniela Vega) is planning her future with lover Orlando (Francisco Reyes) when he tragically falls ill and dies. Her world shatters, but the fact that she is transgender adds terribly to her ordeal. Featuring a trans actress in a lead role, this film won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film […]
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Friday, April 6, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Rushmore, GFT
10 April, 2018 Wes Anderson’s breakthrough sophomore feature stars Jason Schwartzman as Max Fischer, an eccentric 15-year-old student at Rushmore Academy, who, despite seeing himself as the king of the campus by engaging in a plethora of extracurricular activity, is also one of the least scholarly students at the school. Max’s life changes when he […]
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The Magic Flute, GFT
8 April, 2018 A sublime rendering of one of Mozart’s best-loved works, The Magic Flute follows Tamino, a young man who sets out to rescue the Queen of the Night’s daughter from the clutches of parental evil, in a true quest for love. Showcasing wonderfully fluid camera work, Bergman provides a warm retelling of this Mozart classic that is considered by many as […]
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Singin’ in the Rain, GFT
Sunday, 8 April, 2018- 7.10 p.m. The classic romantic musical romp is back. Gene Kelly’s dashing matinee idol Don Lockwood finds true love with his lucky star Cathy, played by a sensational Debbie Reynolds. Co-star Donald O’Connor stops the show with his virtuoso comic display in ‘Make ‘Em Laugh’ and Kelly’s exuberant dance in the […]
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Wonderstruck, GFT
6 – 12 April, 2018 Todd Haynes brings all his imagination and craft to bear on this enthralling adaptation of the children’s novel by Brian Selznick. In 1977, lonely 12-year-old Ben (Oakes Fegley) leaves Minnesota for New York in search of the father he has never known. In 1927, 12-year-old Rose (Millicent Simmonds) a […]
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120 BPM at GFT
1 – 12 April, 2018 Revisiting elements of his own experience, Robin Campillo has created a bustling fresco of the personalities and politics of the ACT UP Paris LGBTQI community during the 1990s. The sense of urgency, authenticity and attention to detail is exemplary as individual stories come into sharper focus. We follow hot-headed Sean (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) […]
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Isle of Dogs, Glasgow Film Festival 2018 – review by Rachelle Atalla
Isle of Dogs – A review by Rachelle Atalla Anyone who has watched a Wes Anderson film will be aware that it’s best to leave scepticism at the door and embrace his bizarre and whimsical world. Isle of Dogs is no exception. I’ll admit that I wasn’t the greatest fan of Anderson’s first attempt at […]
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Scottish Writers’ Centre Short Films for Creatives, with Lesley Traynor, CCA
Tuesday 10 April 2018 7pm, £6 (£3) on the door, Clubroom 18+ 0141 352 4900 After the success of their first event last year, Lesley Traynor of Fierce Poetry in Motion will host an evening where making a short film of your creative work will be discussed, the production process explained and how it can […]
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Thursday, April 5, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Scottish Shorts 2018 – submissions
Scottish Shorts 2018 – OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS Closing date Monday 2 April 10.00 a.m. Scottish Shorts 2018 is a comprehensive short film development and production programme for NEW filmmaking talent. Scottish Shorts is targeting Scottish based writers, directors and producers with the imagination to create thrilling, engaging stories to share with international audiences. As a writer, director […]
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Saturday, March 31, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema
Indepen-dance Members’ Stories CCA
Fri 30 March 2018 6pm, £5 + £1 Booking fee, Theatre All ages, Book Online / 0141 352 4900 Indepen-dance, Scotland’s leading inclusive dance organisation shares a film telling the stories of some of our members and celebrates dance and disability heritage through a discussion and small publication. Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 […]
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Thursday, March 29, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, Dance, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Touch, GFT
1 April, 2018 Described by Bergman himself as his first love story, The Touch follows a seemingly happy Swedish housewife as she embarks on an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist. However the relationship is fraught with difficulty, as the pair must contend with the impact that their romance will have on their lives. A young Elliot Gould turns in an astute performance […]
Glasgow Horror Festival, Bite Size, Blackfriars
1st April, 2018 6 p.m. – 11 p.m. Glasgow Horror Festival is back for 2018! Expanding on a successful Halloween season horror festival, Popcorn Horror is proud to launch Glasgow Horror Festival: BITESIZE in Blackfriars this April. Horror is for life, not just for Halloween! Glasgow Horror Festival: BITESIZE is there to fill the long […]
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Psycho Vertical, GFT
30th and 31st March, 2018 Based on his best-selling autobiography of the same name, Psycho Vertical is a raw and emotional study of the complex life and motivations of British writer, funny-man and unlikely hero-mountaineer, Andy Kirkpatrick. The film focuses on his 18-day solo ascent of El Capitan, Yosemite. This unique, raw and intimate portrait of one of climbing’s most unpredictable and celebrated […]
Shiraz: a Romance of India GFT
4 – 5 April, 2018 Based on the romance between 17th-century Mughal ruler Shah Jahan and his queen, this epic silent film is the ravishing, romantic tale behind the creation of one of the world’s most iconic structures: the Taj Mahal. The film is the story of humble potter Shiraz, who follows his childhood sweetheart Selima when slave traders sell her to […]
Nae Pasaran review by Rachelle Atalla
Nae Pasaran: A review by Rachelle Atalla In 2010 I joined a walking tour in Santiago, Chile and was brought to the facade of La Moneda Palace. I’d read a little about the history of the 1973 military coup, of President Allende and his democratic leftist government being brutally overthrown. It was an atrocity before […]
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Have a Nice Day GFT
2 – 5 April, 2018 A hard rain is about to fall on a small town in Southern China. In a desperate attempt to find money to save his fiancée’s failed plastic surgery, Xiao Zhang, a mere driver, steals a bag containing 1 million from his boss. News of the robbery spreads fast within the town and, over the course of […]
Pillow Talk, GFT
Celebrate the 96th birthday of Doris Day at Glasgow Film Theatre – 3 April, 2018 To mark the occasion of Doris Day’s 96th birthday GFT screen one of the favourite films from her glittering career. This Oscar-winning comedy of crossed wires and exasperated misunderstandings is the first and best of the Day-Hudson romps. Self-reliant Jan […]
Remember Us + Ismail, CCA
30 March, 2018 – 6.30 p.m. Commemorate Land Day with two films from emerging female directors of the Palestinian diaspora. Remember Us is a genre bending documentary and Ismail is a period drama about family. This screening is a fundraising event for an independent Scottish documentary about sport in Palestine. Remember Us (2015) UK Premier […]
Persona, GFT
25 March, 2018 Often regarded as a watershed in Bergman’s career, Persona is considered to be his most important film. Young nurse, Alma, is assigned to care for Swedish actress, Elisabet Vogler, who has been rendered mute following a performance on stage. Whilst caring for her, Alma confides in Elisabet constantly. As the women spend more time alone, […]
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Thursday, March 22, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Aperture: Asia & Pacific Film Festival In Time to Come, CCA 25 – 29 March
Sunday 25 March 2018 Set in Singapore, In Time to Come follows the ritualistic exhuming of an old state time capsule, and the compilation of another. As enigmatic remnants of life from 25 years ago emerge – a bottle of water from the Singapore River, a copy of the Yellow Pages, a phone charger – […]
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Dark River, GFT
26 – 29 March, 2018 Following the death of her father, Alice (Ruth Wilson) returns home to Yorkshire for the first time in 15 years, to claim the tenancy of the family farm she believes is rightfully hers. Once there she encounters her older brother Joe (Mark Stanley), a man she barely recognizes, worn down by years of struggling to keep […]
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The Square, Glasgow Film Theatre
16 – 29 March, 2018 Director Ruben Östlund (Force Majeure) won Cannes Film Festival 2017’s Palme d’Or for this original and cutting art-world satire. In The Square, Christian (Claes Bang), the respected curator of a contemporary art museum, unveils an ambitious installation designed to remind the public of their role as responsible fellow human beings. But […]
Nae Pasaran, GFT, Q & A with Felipe Bustos Sierra
25 March, 2018 4 p.m. Director Felipe Bustos Sierra will take part in a Q&A after the screening. In 1974 a group of workers at the Rolls-Royce factory in East Kilbride showed their support for the people of Chile by refusing to carry out vital inspections of engines for Hawker Hunter planes – the fighter […]
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Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle, GFT
25 March, 2018 For some people, a housing crisis means not getting planning permission for a loft conversion. For others it means, quite simply, losing their home. In this new documentary, narrated by Maxine Peake, we see the catastrophic failures that have led to a chronic shortage of social housing in Britain. Focusing on the neglect, demolition and […]
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Cinemasters: Wes Anderson – Glasgow Film Theatre
Wes Anderson is a singular filmmaker; his precise vision, detached humour and particular style are unmistakable. One viewing arguably isn’t enough to take in everything contained across the many layers of his intricately-constructed stories, and their idiosyncratic characters. As his new film Isle of Dogs goes on general release, GFT is delighted to take the […]
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LUX Scotland presents Glare
25 March, 2018 This event explores self-organisation, DIY cultures and the ways in which people resist an ever-increasing demand to professionalise and legitimise their actions. With live musical performances from Alicia Matthews (LAPS and Sue Zuki) and Susannah Stark alongside a programme of moving image including Lucy Thane’s It Changed My Life: Bikini Kill In the […]
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Wednesday, March 21, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Tricky Hat presents The Flames, CCA, Glasgow
Sunday 25 March 2018 3pm + 7pm, £5 (£3.50) + £1 booking fee, Theatre 14+ accompanied by an adult Book Online / 0141 352
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Monday, March 19, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Morvern Callar GFT
19 March, 2018 Lynne Ramsay Introduction This screening will be proceeded by an exclusive new on-screen introduction from the film’s director Lynne Ramsay. Upon discovering that her boyfriend has committed suicide, unambitious Morvern Callar passes his unpublished novel off as her own work and with the money takes a Spanish vacation with best friend, Lanna. […]
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Saturday, March 17, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Brakes GFT
21 March, 2018 This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Mercedes Grower. Described as an anti rom-com, and brimming with an array of comedic talent including Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh), Brakes is a raw, dark and unconventional comedy that follows the tumultuous stories of nine couples. Plunging straight into the brutal and absurd endings […]
Short Matters 3 – European Film Academy’s short film tour at CCA
18 March,2018 CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD SHORT MATTERS! is the European Film Academy’s short film tour, bringing together fifteen award winners at top European festivals in 2017. The tour showcases work from Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey, including the Oscar nominated Timecode by Juanjo Giménez […]
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