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.The Clash, GFT, 21 – 27 April, 2017
21 – 27 April, 2017 Set in Egypt in 2013, this tense, harrowing, state-of-the-nation drama pitches the audience into the turmoil of the mass protests that toppled the ruling Muslim Brotherhood. In the crushing heat of an already fraught day, rival demonstrators, innocent bystanders, allies and bitter foes are bundled into a police van. It is […]
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Friday, April 21, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Scottish Writers’ Centre Poetry in Motion: Sharing & Discussing Poetry Films, CCA, Tuesday 25 April, 2017
Tue 25 April 2017 7pm, Free (unticketed), Clubroom 18+ 0141 352 4900 Hosted by Lesley Traynor and Janet Crawford, Poetry In Motion offers up an evening of six short (approx. 4mins long) Poetry Films from Poets and Writers. Each film will be put into context and its production discussed. Discussion points will include: • What […]
Wild at Heart, GFT, 23 and 25 April, 2017
David Lynch provides his very own unique take on The Wizard of Oz, following the passionate relationship of Lula (Laura Dern) and Sailor (Nicolas Cage); a dream team on the run from the mob. One of the most romantic – and violent – films in Lynch’s oeuvre, the film won the Palme d’Or at the […]
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CTL: Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival + Q&A (N/C 12+), GFT, 23 April, 2017
Director Fabrizio Terranova will be there for a Q&A following the screening. Donna Haraway’s work is marked by a deep commitment to feminism and environmentalism. Her approach to science, gender and trans-species relationships proposes new ways of understanding our world beyond normative structures. Over several weeks Fabrizio Terranova lived in Haraway’s Californian home, filming her and […]
Thursday, April 20, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Sense of an Ending, GFT, 20 – 27 April, 2017
Divorced and retired, Tony Webster (Jim Broadbent) leads a relatively quiet life, until one day a long-forgotten letter resurfaces, and begins to reframe his past in ways that he never could have anticipated. Based on the award-winning bestseller from Julian Barnes, Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox) artfully melds twin timelines as Tony pieces together his first […]
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The Finest, GFT, 21 – 27 April, 2017
23rd screening cancelled. GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Lone Scherfig’s (An Education) bittersweet adaptation of Lissa Evans’ novel follows the making of morale-boosting propaganda films during the Second World War. Gemma Arterton shines as Catrin, the Welsh wordsmith hired to add a female perspective to the films. Despite her talent she soon finds herself […]
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki , GFT, 21 – 27 April, 2017
Preceded by a recorded introduction from director Juho Kuosmanen and DepicT! Award-winning film Living (UK 2016, 1m44s) by director Ben Mankin. Juho Kousmanen’s feel-good, award-winning debut feature is a charming tribute to modest, unassuming boxer Olli Mäki (Jarkko Lahti). In 1962, Mäki carried the hopes of the nation as he trained for a Helsinki showdown […]
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The Sense of an Ending, GFT, 14 – 27 April, 2017
The Sense of an Ending 14 – 27 April, 2017 GFT Divorced and retired, Tony Webster (Jim Broadbent) leads a relatively quiet life, until one day a long-forgotten letter resurfaces, and begins to reframe his past in ways that he never could have anticipated. Based on the award-winning bestseller from Julian Barnes, Ritesh Batra (The […]
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Glasgow Film Theatre introduce popular GFF strand CineMasters to year-round programme
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, and Glasgow Film Theatre has now introduced regular CineMasters seasons to the year-round programme. Glasgow Film Festival 2017 CineMasters strand included titles from Francois Ozon, Paul Verhoeven, Werner Herzog, […]
Wednesday, April 19, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Bolshoi Ballet: A Hero of Our Time. GFT 9 April, 2017
Bolshoi Ballet – A Hero Of Our Time 9 April, 2017 GFT Pechorin, a young officer, embarks on a journey across the majestic mountains of the Caucasus, on a path set by his passions. Disillusioned and careless, he inflicts pain upon himself and the women around him… “Give me everything, it is still not enough.” […]
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Friday, April 7, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Eagle Huntress, GFT 11 April, 2017
The Eagle Huntress 11 April, 2017 GFT Using breathtaking aerial cinematography and intimate verité footage, this spellbinding documentary follows the 13-year old Aisholpan, a Mongolian nomad who is fighting to become the first female eagle hunter in twelve generations of her Kazakh family. Not only an exploration of the young girl’s astonishing pursuit of her […]
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Free Fire, 31 March – 13 April, 2017 GFT
Free Fire 31 March – 13 April, 2017 GFT Ben Wheatley returns with all guns blazing in a blackly comic shoot-em-up that would make John Carpenter proud. The setting is Boston in 1978 and a deserted warehouse where Provisional IRA members Frank (Michael Smiley) and Chris (Cillian Murphy) arrive to buy enough assault rifles and […]
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Neruda, GFT, 7 – 13 April, 2017.
Neruda 7 – 13 April, 2017 GFT Described by prolific director Pablo Larraín (The Club, Jackie) as “more of a ‘Nerudian’ film than it is a film about Neruda”; this latest provocative work weaves an exuberantly irreverent fantasy around events in the life of the poet and politician. In the early days of the Cold […]
CinemaAttic presents Novo Cinema Galego, CCA, 12 April, 2017
CCA Wed 12 April 2017 8pm (doors 7.30pm), £5 (£4) + £1 booking fee, Cinema 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 These short film fanatics are back with the finest contemporary films from Spain and Latin American countries. An exciting film movement has been born: Novo Cinema Galego. The talk of town since its […]
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Raw, GFT, 7 – 13 April, 2017.
Raw 7 – 13 April, 2017 GFT Preceded by DepicT! Award-winning film Impacts (1m44s) by director Petra Balekic. A Cannes Critics’ Week prizewinner, Julia Ducournau’s debut feature is a surreal and deliriously twisted coming-of-age story. Attending her first year at veterinarian college, shy vegetarian Justine is forced into eating raw liver as part of a […]
UK Jewish Film The Pickle Recipe, CCA, Wed 19 April 2017
Wed 19 April 2017 7.30pm, £8 + £1 booking fee, Cinema 12+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events UK Jewish Film Keep Quiet Sun 12 March 2017 Seeing his precious sound equipment trashed in a freak accident, Joey Miller, aka the king MC of Detroit’s (Jewish) party scene, is in dire need […]
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I Am Not Your Negro, GFT, 7 – 13 April, 2017
I Am Not Your Negro GFT 7 – 13 April, 2017 Fifty years after the Civil Rights movement, race remains a defining issue in America. James Baldwin’s final book ‘Remember This House’ was due to address the lives and assassinations of his friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. The unfinished manuscript […]
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Lipstick Under My Burkha wins Audience Award at Glasgow Film Festival 2017
27 Feb 2017 The winner of the third annual Audience Award at the Glasgow Film Festival has been announced as Alankrita Shrivastava’s Lipstick Under My Burkha. Shrivastava was presented with the award by Doctor Who and Broadchurch star David Tennant at the Glasgow Film Theatre before the festival’s Closing Gala, the World Premiere of Mad […]
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Nineteen Eighty-Four, GFT, 4 April, 2017
Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 April, 2017 GFT On 4 April 2017, cinemas across the USA will jointly screen this highly praised adaptation of George Orwell’s seminal novel – commemorating the great John Hurt and recognising the threat that US free speech faces as liberal voices are silenced. April 4th is the date that Winston […]
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Friday, March 31, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
GLITCH Film Festival El Canto del Colibrí , CCA, Sat 1 April 2017
CCA Sat 1 April 2017 12noon, Free (unticketed), Cinema 14+ accompanied by an adult 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events GLITCH Film Festival Fri 24 March — Sat 1 April 2017 Much like the seldom-heard song of the hummingbird, the voices of Latino fathers are rarely heard addressing LGBTQ issues. But in this film, these […]
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GLITCH Film Festival Mommy is Coming, CCA Fri 31 March 2017
Fri 31 March 2017 6pm, Free (unticketed), Theatre, 18+ F-Rated 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events GLITCH Film Festival Fri 24 March — Sat 1 April 2017 Another classic from groundbreaking director Cheryl Dunye – this time revelling in a camp B-Movie aesthetic reminiscent of Bruce la Bruce – touches on taboos and offers up […]
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The Handmaiden: Director’s Cut, GFT, 2 April, 2017
Inspired by Sarah Waters’ best-selling novel ‘Fingersmith’, the latest film from visionary director Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Thirst, Stoker) is a ravishing, epic and sensual rollercoaster ride. 1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation: a new girl, Sookee is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko who lives a secluded life on a […]
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Who’s Gonna Love Me Now? GFT, 2 April, 2017
Who’s Gonna Love Me Now? 2 April, 2017 GFT Followed by a satellite Q&A with the film’s directors hosted by Julian Clary, plus a performance by the London Gay Men’s Chorus, live from The Barbican. At the age of 21, Saar Maoz arrived in London after being kicked out of his kibbutz for […]
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Thursday, March 30, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Lost City of Z 31 March – 6 April, 2017 GFT
The Lost City of Z 31 March – 6 April, 2017 GFT Based on the true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quixotic quest into uncharted realms of the South American jungle, searching for a presumed ancient civilization. Refreshingly classical in its approach, director James Gray refrains from adding superfluous escapades and instead […]
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The Age of Shadows, GFT, 31 March – 6 April, 2017
Kim Jee-woon’s nail biting, cloak and dagger thriller is set at the close of the 1920s, during the Japanese occupation of Korea. Police captain Lee Jung-chool (Song Kang-ho) is under pressure to expose members of the Korean resistance. He concentrates on Kim Woo-jin (Gong Yoo) who is secretly plotting to smuggle explosives from Shanghai into […]
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Glitch Film Festival, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, 24 March – 1 April, 2017
Glitch is the first LGBT+ people of colour led and focused film festival in all of Europe. The organises believe the festival to be of both cultural and political significance in combating racism, homophobia and sexism. Their approach is to create an international platform for high quality art created by LGBT+ people of colour which […]
I Am Not Your Negro, GFT, 7 – 13 April, 2017
Fifty years after the Civil Rights movement, race remains a defining issue in America. James Baldwin’s final book ‘Remember This House’ was due to address the lives and assassinations of his friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. The unfinished manuscript has been entrusted to director Raoul Peck who uses Baldwin’s powerful […]
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It’s Only The End Of The World 1 and 2 April, 2017 GFT
It’s Only The End Of The World 1 and 2 April, 2017 GFT Assured young auteur Xavier Dolan returns with his sixth feature, an adaptation of Jean-Luc Lagarce’s play: a claustrophobic family drama about an award-winning dramatist who returns to his hometown after more than a decade away. Revealing to his family that he is […]
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Jerwood/FVU Awards 2017 Patrick Hough and Lawrence Lek, CCA Mon 27 March 2017
Mon 27 March 2017 6.30pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema All ages Artificial intelligence and Hollywood props take centre stage in these newly commissioned films by Jerwood/FVU Awards winners Patrick Hough and Lawrence Lek. Examining 2017’s curatorial theme Neither One Thing or Another, the films reveal a steadily blurring line between the real and the artificial, […]
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Thursday, March 23, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
GLITCH Film Festival Check It, CCA, Sun 26 March 2017
Sun 26 March 2017 5.45pm, Free (unticketed), Theatre, 15+ F-Rated 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events GLITCH Film Festival Fri 24 March — Sat 1 April 2017 “In my life, to be a gay person waking up everyday, it’s a survival thing.” Check It captures the panache and peril of life in a gay gang. […]
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