Glasgow Film Festival 2018.

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Glasgow Film Festival 2018 will run from Wednesday, 21 February until Sunday, 4 March.

One of the leading UK film festivals. Glasgow Film Festival places the audience at the center of their programming and ethos, enabling them to experience the best of international cinema plus new local films. The varied programme contains premiers, mainstream crowd-pleasers, ground breaking art-house films, classics, cult gems, special strands including Sound and Vision and Special Events.   All GFF2018 Screenings.

You can also enjoy filmmaker guest appearances, interactive workshops and discussion panels.

Film Listings at GFT, March 2018

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Glasgow Film Theatre – Films for March, 2018 GFT in March: Lady Bird, The Square, A Fantastic Woman, You Were Never Really Here, CineMasters: Lynne Ramsay, CineMasters: Ingmar Bergman and Glasgow Short Film Festival 2018. The GFT March brochure is available to view GFT bring another packed programme to audiences this March, highlights of which […]

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More Special Guests attend Glasgow Film Festival 2018

Glasgow Film Festival has the red carpet out to welcome special guests Tue 27 Feb 17.50 – Paddy Considine will attend Journeyman 18.15 – Director David Freyne and actor Sam Keeley will attend The Cured 20.40 – Director Xavier Legrand and actor Denis Ménochet will attend Custody Wed 28 Feb 18.10 – Director Dónal Ó […]

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Fright Fest at Glasgow Film Festival 2018

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FrightFest 1 – 3 March, 2018 Thursday 1 March Ghost Stories Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson join us for a special screening of the film adaptation of their smash hit stage show. The Lodgers Brian O’Malley’s supernatural romance receives its Scottish premiere. Friday 2 March The Wanderers: Quest of the Demon Hunter An inspired modern twist on Transylvanian […]

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Another News Story, GFT

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25 and 26 February, 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 […]

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Glasgow Film Festival 2018 – Closing Gala: Felipe Bustos Sierra’s Nae Pasaran

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Closing Gala Announced for Glasgow Film Festival 2018 Festival will close with World Premiere of the true story of the Scots who defied Pinochet Felipe Bustos Sierra’s Nae Pasaran will have its gala screening Sunday 4 March, 2018 at Glasgow Film Theatre Glasgow Film Festival 2018 will close in resounding fashion on 4 March with […]

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Sound and Vision Strand, Glasgow Film Festival 2018

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From stunning live sonic cinema events to captivating true stories and unique narratives, Glasgow Film Festival 2018 Sound & Vision strand features the best from the world of music and film. Divas, Despots and Dancing: Assunta Spina with Live Score (N/C 12+) Rare screening of silent Italian drama with new live score Image for Mm […]

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The Valley of Shadows, GFT

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Until 23 – 28 February, 2018 A community is rocked by a spate of sheep slaughters during a full moon. While farmers suspect a wolf, the village’s children are convinced something else is going on. Six year-old Aslak (Adam Ekeli) knows better than to venture into the woods alone, especially after the loss of his older […]

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Glasgow Film Festival 2018 – Catch Some Amazing Guests

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Some stellar guests will attend events at the festival for Q&A sessions. You’ll be able to find out ore about their inspiration, process and future projects. Highlights Include Imogen Poots and Callum Turner, who will attend Mobile Homes; Belgian comedian Nawell Madani, at the hilarious Stand Up, Girl; rising Irish director Rebecca Daly, who will answer questions after the screening of the […]

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GFF 2018 Kinning Park Carnival: Bride and Prejudice, Kinning Park Complex

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Saturday 3 March, 2018, 7 p.m. ‘Watch yourself, Darcy, he’s about to transform into the Indian MC Hammer!’ Join us for an evening of Indian festivities at Kinning Park Complex as we celebrate the vibrant world of Gurinder Chadha’s romantic comedy Bride & Prejudice. Watch as Lalita (Aishwarya Rai Bachan) enchants the brooding and arrogant […]

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Good Favour, GFT

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Saturday 24 February, 2018 What could be a more Christian act than showing kindness to strangers? When injured, anxious teenager Tom (Vincent Romeo) stumbles from the woods into a secluded Christian village he is welcomed with open arms. The villagers are full of concern and compassion, but what impact will his presence have? The local […]

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Tuesday, February 20, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2018

Soundtracking, Edith Bowman with Lynne Ramsay, GFT

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24 February, 2018 Started in 2016, Edith Bowman’s unique podcast features interviews with directors, actors, producers and composers, discussing the music that inspired them and how they use music in their films, from their current release to key moments in their career. For this special live Glasgow Film Festival episode, Bowman will be interviewing celebrated Glasgow-born director Lynne […]

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Friday, February 16, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2018

Sweet Country, Cineworld Glasgow

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26 and 27 February, 2018 Director Warwick Thornton attends the screening on Mon 26 Feb Warwick Thornton’s ravishing, agonising western is inspired by true events and set in Australia’s Northern Territory in 1929. Aboriginal stockman Sam (Hamilton Morris) works the land for kindly Christian preacher Fred Smith (Sam Neill). When vicious war veteran Harry Morris (Ewen Leslie) returns […]

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The Breadwinner, GFT

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23 and 24 February, 2018 Director Nora Twomey attends the screening on Fri 23 Feb Irish animator Nora Twomey (The Secret of Kells) makes her solo feature debut with this exquisite, heartrending adaptation of Deborah Ellis’s beloved novel. When the Taliban rulers of Kabul imprison a teacher, his 11-year-old daughter Parvana (Saara Chaudry) disguises herself as a […]

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Working Girl, GFF 2018

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23 February, 2018 ‘I have a head for business and a bod for sin.’ Melanie Griffith dons a sharp suit and climbs the corporate ladder in the cut-throat working world of Manhattan in Mike Nichols’ ‘80s classic. Put on your shoulder pads, backcomb your hair and join us in the Former College of Building and […]

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FrightFest, Glasgow Film Festival: challenge to aspiring Scottish filmmakers

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Submissions need to be in for 13 February,2018 FrightFest, in association with Glasgow Film Festival, are delighted to announce an exciting new initiative to discover the next wave of emerging Scottish talent. FrightFest has always championed new film-makers since its inception in 2000. Now, for the very first time they are encouraging talent to rise […]

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Thursday, February 15, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2018

The Ballad of Lefty Brown, GFT

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22 February, 2018 Actor Bill Pullman will be in attendance at this screening Bill Pullman heads a fantastic ensemble cast (including Peter Fonda, Kathy Baker, Jim Caviezel and Tommy Flanagan) in a flinty, beautifully composed western, filmed on stunning locations in Montana. Always the grizzled sidekick and never the hero, Lefty (Pullman) is considered an unreliable loser but […]

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Glasgow Film Festival 2018 at CCA

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Glasgow Film Festival Anti-Villains presented by Physical Impossibility Thu 22 February 2018 If you’re tired of Rebel Heroes, try an Anti-Villain! While GFF celebrates the former, Physical Impossibility considers the latter – the love-to-hate them, so-bad-they’re-good, well-meaning scum of the cinematic earth. They’re the charismatic antidote to the basic brave. They’re the pitiable something-to-proves versus […]

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Bill Pullman, 23 February Glasgow Film Festival 2018

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From loyal sidekicks to inspirational Presidents, romantic charmers to unnerving killers, Bill Pullman has proved to be one of the most versatile and unpredictable actors in modern American cinema. Over the past 30 years, he has worked with a stunning array of filmmakers from David Lynch and Mel Brooks to Nora Ephron and Wim Wenders. […]

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Glasgow Film Festival 2018 announces full programme

21 February – 4 March, 2018 Over 330 separate events and screenings will take place across the city in one of the UK’s biggest film festivals The 14th annual festival boast 13 World and European premieres, 77 UK premieres and 52 Scottish premieres Karen Gillan will hit the red carpet for World premiere of her directorial debut […]

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Special events and big musical guests announced for Glasgow Film Festival 2018

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Glasgow Film Festival 21 February – 4 March, 2018 Oscar-nominated composer Mica Levi comes to town with electronic pioneers Wrangler for a celebration of the greatest films never made in The Unfilmables 2017 Scottish Album of the Year Award winners Sacred Paws perform live soundtrack to Margaret Salmon’s explosive speedway documentary Mm Special Event Screenings at […]

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Glasgow Film Festival 2018. The Big Lebowski – A Night of Bowling, 27 February, 2018

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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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