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.Jane, GFT
4 – 7 June, 2017 Award-winning filmmaker Brett Morgen (Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck) uses a trove of 16mm footage unearthed from the National Geographic archives to tell the story of a young, untrained woman whose only dream was to live among animals and learn about them. Featuring an original score from legendary composer Philip […]
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Thursday, November 30, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Ballad of Shirley Collins, GFT
1 – 3 December, 2017 The Ballad of Shirley Collins is a meditative documentary chronicling one woman’s attempts to sing again after a 37-year battle with a debilitating voice disorder. Rob Curry and Tim Plester explore the story behind the icon, and chronicle Shirley’s battle, at the age of 80, to rediscover that voice she […]
Happy End, GFT
1 – 7 December, 2017 Returning to the director’s chair for the first time since 2012, Michael Haneke reunites Amour stars Isabelle Huppert and Jean-Louis Trintignant in this sharp drama. A well-off French family living in a bourgeois bubble in northern France are oblivious to the suffering surrounding them in the nearby port of Calais. […]
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Human Flow plus Satellite, GFT, 4 December,2017
Human Flow + Satellite Q&A Wednesday 4 December, 2017 (18.45) Ai Wei Wei artfully captures the massive and shocking breadth of the global migration crisis in this epic film. Today, over 65 million individuals – the highest number ever – have been forced out of their homes by war, famine and climate change on long, […]
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema
French Film Festival, GFT, Glasgow, November – December, 2017
GFT is proud to be one of the founding venue partners of the French Film Festival UK, which this year celebrates its 25th silver jubilee edition. The line-up features some of the most eagerly anticipated Francophone titles of the year, including: Cannes 2017 hit Redoubtable by Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist), Laurent Cantet’s critically acclaimed The Workshop, plus […]
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CinemaAttic Kimuak: Best of the Basques, CCA, Glasgow
Thu 7 December 2017 7.30pm (doors 7pm), £5 (£4) + £1 booking fee, Cinema 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 “For our last night of the year CinemaAttic focuses on shorts from Basque Country with the programme Kimuak: Best of the Basques.” “Every spring, Basque leader distribution platform KIMUAK selects the best from Basque short film scene […]
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Glasgow Film Festival 2018. The Big Lebowski – A Night of Bowling, 27 February, 2018
Glasgow Film Theatre celebrates the Coen Brothers and Glasgow Film Festival 2018 announces The Big Lebowski special event The CineMasters strand at Glasgow Film Festival is devoted to the work of some of the most accomplished, admired and influential filmmakers in the world. Glasgow Film Theatre recently introduced regular CineMasters seasons to the year-round programme […]
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Scrooged, The Glad Cafe
Tuesday, 5 December, 2017 – 8pm (doors 7.30pm), £8/£6 Scrooged (Cert 12, 1 hr 41mins, 1988) The Glad Cafe, 1006A Pollokshaws Rd, Glasgow G41 2HGIn this modern take on Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” Bill Murray stars as Frank Cross, a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love […]
UKJF: Menashe (special preview screening), CCA, Glasgow
Saturday 9 December 2017 7.30pm, £8 + £1 booking fee, Cinema All ages Book online / 0141 352 4900 A special preview screening of one of the most eagerly anticipated films of the year. The first Yiddish-language feature film in many years, Menashe is a rare and sensitive portrayal of the Orthodox community in Brooklyn. […]
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Friday, November 24, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Anarchy! McLaren Westwood Gang + Q&A and live music, CCA
Sat 25 November 2017 7pm, £7 (£4) + £1 booking fee, Theatre 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Anarchy! McLaren Westwood Gang is being released to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the birth of Punk – but is about so much more than the short lived punk phenomenon and explores the notion of Malcolm McLaren […]
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The Big Heat, GFT, 26 and 27 November, 2017
Directed by Fritz Lang, The Big Heat stars Gloria Grahame as a gangster’s girl who puts herself at risk of falling foul of her old flame Vince Stone (Lee Marvin). Police Sergeant Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford) is investigating the apparent suicide of a corrupt cop, but is suddenly ordered to stop the investigation. Driven to […]
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Beach Rats GFT, 24 – 30 November, 2017
Frankie, an aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn, is having a miserable summer. He escapes the bleakness of his home life by causing trouble with his delinquent friends and flirting with older men online. When his chatting and web-camming intensify, he finally starts hooking up with guys at a nearby cruising beach while […]
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Félicité GFT
24 – 26 November, 2017 Winner of the Jury Grand Prix award at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival, the latest film from writer/director Alain Gomis (Aujourd’hui) is a complex and quietly resonant character study. Felicity (newcomer Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu), is a singer in the evenings in a bar in Kinshasa. Her life changes when […]
In A Lonely Place, GFT
23 – 25 November, 2017 Nicholas Ray and Humphrey Bogart defined the film noir with this turbulent and suspenseful adaptation of Dorothy B. Hughes’ novel. Bogart plays Dixon Steele, a washed-up screenwriter who becomes the prime suspect in a brutal Hollywood murder. His seductive neighbour Laurel (Gloria Grahame) offers an alibi for him, and the […]
Battle Of The Sexes, GFT
24 – 30 November, 2017 In the wake of the sexual revolution and the rise of the women’s movement, the 1973 tennis match between women’s world champion Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and ex-men’s-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) became one of the most watched televised sports events of all time. As the […]
78/52, GFT, 27 – 30 November, 2017
78/52 references the number of shots (78) and the number of cuts (52) in the shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic horror, Psycho. One entire week out of the four weeks scheduled to shoot Psycho was dedicated to the infamous scene. This fascinating documentary is an unprecedented look at the screen murder that profoundly changed the course of cinema, […]
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Thursday, November 23, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema
Scottish Youth Film Festival Awards Ceremony 2017 Kelvin Hall
Wednesday 22 November, 2017 6 pm – 7.30 pm See the cream of Scotland’s young film-making talent at the Scottish Youth Film Festival Awards ceremony, celebrating the best short films made in the last year. Register at Eventbrite Kelvin Hall Screening Room, National Library of Scotland at Kelvin Hall Kelvin Hall International Sports Arena 1445 […]
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Sunday, November 19, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Kids and young people, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Good Time, GFT
18 – 23 November, 2017 Josh and Benny Safdie (Heaven Knows What) return with a hypnotic crime thriller that explores the tragic sway of family and fate. After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Constantine “Connie” Nikas (Robert Pattinson) embarks on a twisted journey through the city’s underworld in an increasingly […]
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Friday, November 17, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema
Fargo, GFT
18 and 20 November, 2017 By the mid-nineties, the Coen brothers were well known on the indie cinema scene, but it was this dark thriller that made them household names. When car salesman Jerry Lundegaard gets himself into debt, he hires two thugs to kidnap his own wife, planning to collect the ransom from her wealthy father. The scheme collapses quickly when […]
Argentine Film Festival, Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, 30 October – 20 November, 2017
All screenings are free. 6 p.m. each evening at Screenings will take place in the Lecture Theatre Kelvin Hall, 1417 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G3 8AN Programme Monday 30th October: Kriptonita (Nicanor Loreti, 2015) – book via eventbrite Monday 6th November: Historias de cronopios y de famas (Julio Ludueña, 2013) – book via eventbrite Monday 13th November: Cassandra (Inés de Oliveira Cézar, 2012) […]
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End of the Game, Southside Film Club, The Glad Cafe, 22 November, 2017
Q&A with director Wednesday 22nd November, 2017 The Glad Cafe, 1006A Pollokshaws Rd, Glasgow G41 2HG 8pm (Doors 7.30pm) Join us on a bizarre journey to Africa with a vegan filmmaker and a big game hunter! Committed vegan, David Graham Scott, follows old colonial relic Guy Wallace as he prepares to go on his last big […]
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The End of the Game, Southside Film Club, The Glad Cafe, 22 November 2017
The End of the Game (Cert 18, 70mins, 2017) with director Q&A The Glad Cafe, 8pm (doors 7.30pm), £8/£6 Buy tickets The End of the Game is a film about a bizarre journey to Africa with a vegan filmmaker and a big game hunter. Committed vegan, David Graham Scott, follows old colonial relic Guy […]
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CinemaAttic Focus on Cuba: Short Films from the EICTV Film School, CCA
Fri 17 November 2017 7.30pm (doors 7pm), £5 (£4) + £1 booking fee, Cinema 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Following the Havana Glasgow Film Festival, Cinemaattic take the opportunity to bring to Glasgow a focus on one of the most remarkable film school around the world: EICTV San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. Rarely before have the […]
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The Florida Project, GFT, 10 – 23 November, 2017
The Florida Project Friday 10 – Thursday 23 November, 201 From the acclaimed director of Tangerine, The Florida Project tells the story of precocious six-year-old Moonee (newcomer Brooklynn Prince). Living in pastel-coloured motel The Magic Castle, in Florida, Moonee and her friends’ summer break is filled with childhood wonder and a sense of adventure, while their parents and […]
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Edinburgh Film Festival 2018 – call for submissions
Edinburgh Film Festival 72nd edition takes place in Edinburgh from 20 June to 1 July 2018, You can be a part of it! Full details on submissions. In 2017, EIFF screened many exceptional films received through open submissions, including Edie, London Sympony,Romans, London Symphony, Story of A Girl, Access All Areas and The Marker, as well as Just Charlie (pictured), which went […]
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Wednesday, November 15, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema
Scannáin Inbhear Atlantic, CCA, Sat 11 November 2017
Sat 11 November 2017 7pm, £5 (£3) + £1 booking fee, Cinema All ages Book online / 0141 352 4900 Narrated by Emmy Award-winning actor Brendan Gleeson, Atlantic follows the fortunes of three small fishing communities – in Ireland, Norway and Newfoundland – as they struggle to maintain their way of life in the face of mounting […]
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Wednesday, November 8, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema
Before Summer Ends, GFT, 10 November, 2017
After five years in Paris, Arash has decided to return home to Iran, but his fellow Iranian natives convince him to take one last trip through the south of France. As the friends drive, drink lots of beer, and meet a pair of female French musicians, they enjoy a road trip permeated with a wistful longing for home. This artfully photographed documentary beautifully […]
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Havana Glasgow Film Festival From Ghost Town to Havana with Q&A, CCA, Fri 10 November 2017
Fri 10 November 2017 7.15pm, £6 (£5) + £1 booking fee, Cinema All ages Book online / 0141 352 4900 From Ghost Town to Havana is an inspirational documentary directed by U.S. Screenwriter and Oscar nominee Eugene Corr. A lively street level story of mentorship and ordinary, everyday heroism in tough circumstances. An inner city coach’s son, estranged in […]
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In The Cut, GFT, 12 November, 2017
Jane Campion honed her Top of the Lake thriller sensibility with the feminist murder mystery In The Cut. A tale of murder, misogyny and sexuality that was misunderstood on release and now ripe for rediscovery. At first disturbed and aroused when she voyeuristically watches an intimate couple in a club basement, writer and professor Frannie becomes entangled in homicide when the woman is found […]
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Predator, GFT, 9 November, 2017
Re-released to celebrate its 30th Anniversary, Predator is a genre-defining 80s classic. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Major Alan ‘Dutch’ Schaefer, the film follows a six-man team of elite soldiers who are tasked to rescue an official being held hostage by insurgents in the fictional country of Val Verde. However, the group soon become the target of a deadly extra-terrestrial […]
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