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.Darkest Hour, GFT
12 – 25 January, 2018 Within days of becoming Prime Minister, Winston Churchill (Gary Oldman) must face one of his most turbulent and defining trials: exploring a negotiated peace treaty with Nazi Germany, or standing firm to fight for the ideals, liberty and freedom of a nation. As the Nazi forces roll across Western Europe […]
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Thursday, January 18, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Occupation 101: ‘Voice of the Silenced Majority’ Screening
18 January, 2018 – 6.30 p.m. – 9 p.m. The Glasgow University Palestine Society presents a film screening of “Occupation 101: Voice of the Silenced Majority” – a 2006 documentary film on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict directed by Sufyan Omeish and Abdallah Omeish. The film focuses on the effects of the Israeli military occupation of the […]
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Wednesday, January 17, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Dolores, 12 – 14 January, 2018 GFT
Dolores Huerta is among the most important, yet least known, activists in American history. An equal partner in co-founding the first farm workers unions with Cesar Chavez, her enormous contributions have gone largely unrecognized. Dolores tirelessly led the fight for racial and labour justice alongside Chavez, becoming one of the most defiant feminists of the […]
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Friday, January 12, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Medieval Movie Club Presents: The Devils at CCA
Wednesday 17 January 2018 7pm (doors 6.30pm), £2 (suggested donation), Cinema 18+ 0141 352 4900 Join us for the first edition of ‘Medieval Movie Club’ and explore how contemporary depictions of the Middle Ages intersect with and shed light on 21st century anxieties and preoccupations. Our first medieval movie isn’t a medieval movie at all, but […]
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UKJF Love Is Thicker Than Water at CCA
Sun 14 January 2018 2.45pm, £8 + £1 booking fee, Cinema 15+ / F-Rated Book online / 0141 352 This charming and quirky film starring Juliet Stevenson and Henry Goodman tackles afresh the perennial question: can love truly and decisively conquer cultural and social differences? Vida is a Londoner from a well-to-do Jewish family. Working class Arthur […]
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Visible Cinema: RCS Curates: Departure Lounge and Deaf Funny(CTBC) at GFT
Monday, 15 January, 2018 Departure Lounge Two Deaf men meet in hospital. Can they help each other as their lives reach crisis point? Director Louis Neethling Cast Hal Draper, David Sands, Abigail Gorman, UK 2009, 27m, N/C 12+ Deaf Funny The first episode of the world’s first BSL TV comedy sketch show, based on Deaf […]
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Dance House Glasgow WinterFest
CCA Dance House Glasgow take up residence in the CCA from Sat 6th to Sat 13th January with a celebratory festival programme of participatory dance classes, dance-along screenings, artist labs and opportunities for professional dancers. From absolute beginners to experienced dancers, there is something for all abilities embracing world, contemporary and classical styles. Dance House […]
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Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
12 – 14 January, 2017 Eric Clapton has long been considered the ultimate guitar hero, but behind the scenes lay restlessness and tragedy. As he constantly quit bands, from the ground-breaking Yardbirds to super-group Cream, Clapton’s pursuit of perfection and fear of selling out has left fans surprised and disappointed. Stretching from his traumatic childhood […]
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Rey at GFT
15 – 18 January, 2018 A bold combination of film formats are brought together in this enjoyable avant-garde feature. In the nineteenth century, a French adventurer sets off to establish a kingdom in the inhospitable South of Chile, uniting the feared Mapuche under him. The response of the Chilean army is devastating. Rey is both […]
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Thursday, January 11, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Blueprint Independent Shorts, GFT
11 January, 2018 Celebrating the ingenuity and hard work of local indie filmmaking talent, Blueprint shines a bright light on the fringes of Scottish film culture. Blueprintreturns to GFT with a new programme of shorts – several of which appear for the first time on the big screen. Featuring films by three debut filmmakers, a new film by […]
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Tuesday, January 9, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
First Events or Glasgow Film Festival 2019 Announced
The return of the ever-popular special event screenings will celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Matrix and 40 years since Alien sprang onto the big screen GFF 19 will also toast the best and boldest in Belgian filmmaking Classic and rarely-seen US films from one seismic year to be screened in free retrospective 1969: End […]
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Sunday, January 7, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2019
Phoenix, GFT
10 January, 2017 Emerging from a concentration camp at the end of World War II, Nelly Lenz (Nina Hoss) undergoes significant reconstructive surgery to repair a serious facial injury. Presumed dead by her friends and relatives, fixated on the memories of her former life and unable to accept the reality before her, Nelly returns to […]
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Thursday, January 4, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
Matchbox Cineclub Valley Girl | CAGE-A-RAMA 2018 and related events, CCA
Sun 7 January 2018 2pm, £4 + £1 booking fee, Cinema 15+ / F-Rated Book online CAGE-A-RAMA 2018 day 2 opens with the root of all teen rom-coms and the birth of Nicolas Cage as we know and love him – Martha Coolidge’s totally tripendicular take on Romeo and Juliet, Valley Girl (1983)! This underseen and […]
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Molly’s Game, GFT
2 – 11 January, 2017 Oscar-winning writer Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men, The Social Network) steps into the director’s chair to tell the incredible true story of Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain), an Olympic-class skier whose title hopes were dashed in a freak accident. Down but not out, Bloom changed career and ended up running […]
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Matchbox Cineclub, CCA
Sat 6 January — Sun 7 January 2018 Films: £4/Day Passes: £9/Weekend Pass: £18 (all +£1 booking fee) 12noon each day, Cinema, 18+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Matchbox Cineclub Cage-A-Rama Join us for Glasgow’s first CAGE-A-RAMA, celebrating the birthday of international treasure and batshit crazyman Nicolas Cage. Over two days, we’ll be exploring two facets of […]
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Blueprint – Scottish Independent Cinema Presents Con Men, CCA
Fri 5 January 2018 7.30pm, £5 + £1 booking fee 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Blueprint – the only organisation regularly bringing independent Scottish feature length film to a cinema – is delighted to present this “slick whip smart affair and worthy addition to the genre. Con Men is a gritty noir thriller revealing […]
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Jupiter’s Moon, GFT
5 – 11 January, 2018 Critically acclaimed White God director Kornél Mundruczó returns with this Palme d’Or nominated supernatural thriller, following a young refugee called Aryan. When Aryan is shot while illegally trying to escape his war-torn home, a doctor at a refugee camp discovers that Aryan has gained an extraordinary talent – he can levitate at […]
Boogie Nights 35 mm at GFT
7 – 9 January, 2017 Set during disco’s 1970s heyday, PT Anderson’s breakthrough sophomore feature follows Eddie Adams, a 17-year old busboy who is spotted by veteran porn director Jack Horner. Horner rechristens Eddie ‘Dirk Diggler’ and makes him a star of adult cinema. Enjoying his new-found fame and a hedonistic lifestyle to match, Eddie […]
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Wednesday, January 3, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Boogie Nights, GFT
7 – 9 January, 2018 Set during disco’s 1970s heyday, PT Anderson’s breakthrough sophomore feature follows Eddie Adams, a 17-year old busboy who is spotted by veteran porn director Jack Horner. Horner rechristens Eddie ‘Dirk Diggler’ and makes him a star of adult cinema. Enjoying his new-found fame and a hedonistic lifestyle to match, Eddie […]
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Hostiles, GFT
5 – 11 January, 2018 In 1892, legendary Army captain Joseph J. Blocker (Christian Bale) reluctantly agrees to escort a dying Cheyenne war chief (Wes Studi) and his family back to tribal lands. The harrowing and perilous journey from Fort Berringer, an isolated Army outpost in New Mexico, to the grasslands of Montana, is further […]
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GFT Cinemasters: Margarethe Von Trotta
The first female director to win the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival, Margarethe von Trotta has made some of the most trailblazing films of the past five decades. One of the most gifted – but often overlooked – directors to come from the New German Cinema movement alongside Fassbinder and Herzog, von Trotta has never shied away from topics that resonate with […]
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Tuesday, January 2, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema
No Stone Unturned, GFT
2 – 4 January, 2017 On 18 June 1994 in the village of Loughinisland, County Down, three gunmen burst into a pub, killing six civilians and wounding five. No one has ever spent a day in prison for this. From the producers of Bobby Sands: 66 Days and award-winning director Alex Gibney (Going Clear: Scientology […]
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Saturday, December 30, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema
Marjorie Prime, GFT
2 – 4 January, 2017I n the near future, a time of artificial intelligence, 86-year-old Marjorie’s mind is a jumble of disparate, fading memories. But she has a handsome new companion who looks like her deceased husband, and is programmed to feed the story of her life back to her. What would we remember, and […]
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Friday, December 29, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema
Menache, GFT
27 – 30 December, 2017 Documentary filmmaker Joshua Z Weinstein makes the transition to narrative features with this remarkable, delicate and critically acclaimed account of a widower trying to maintain custody of his son. Shot covertly in Brooklyn’s Hasidic Jewish community with winning, unself-conscious performances by a largely non-professional cast, this charming film is the […]
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Thursday, December 28, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema
Boy, GFT
2 – 4 January, 2018 1984, New Zealand: 11-year-old Boy’s hero, his father Alamein, is the subject of Boy’s daydreams. He imagines him as a deep-sea diver, war hero and a close relation of Michael Jackson (he can even dance like him), while in reality he’s in prison. When Alamein returns home, Boy has to […]
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Signs of Life GFT
3 January, 2017 Werner Herzog’s rarely-seen debut feature, made when he was just 26, follows Stroszek, a wounded German paratrooper in WWII who is sent to recuperate on the quiet island of Kos with his wife Nora and two other soldiers. Billeted in a decaying fortress, there’s little to do, and slowly, in the heat […]
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A Matter of Life and Death, GFT
2,3 and 4 January, 2017 Fantastical and romantic, A Matter of Life and Death stars David Niven as an RAF pilot who must appeal to a celestial court after accidentally being allowed to evade death. Celebrated filmmaking duo Powell and Pressburger cross boundaries of narrative, metaphysics and technology in pursuit of one of their finest tales; an experimental […]
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The Bishop’s Wife, GFT
22 – 24 December, 2017 Raising funds for a new cathedral, Bishop Henry Brougham has his prayers for divine guidance answered in the form of a guardian angel named Dudley. When Dudley assumes the identity of a guest in their home over Christmas, Brougham’s life is turned upside down, as he believes the charming angel […]
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Friday, December 22, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema
The Muppet Christmas Carol Screening and Toy Collection for Shelter Scotland, OranMor
23 December, 2017 at 1 p.m. OranMor, Top of Byres Road, G12 8QX The Muppet Christmas Carol (Family Screening) The Muppet characters tell their version of Dickens’ classic tale of an old and bitter miser’s redemption on Christmas Eve, with Kermit the Frog playing Bob Cratchit, the put-upon clerk of stingy Ebenezer Scrooge (Michael Caine). […]
The Prince of Nothingwood, GFT
16 – 24 December, 2017 Sonia Kronlund’s touching and funny documentary, that screened to acclaim at Cannes 2017, follows Salim Shaheen, the Ed Wood of Afghanistan. A force of nature, Shaheen has managed to make and self-distribute no fewer than 110 films despite the country’s on-going war and conflicts. Keenly aware of the power of […]
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