Full Progamme Announced: Glasgow Short Film Festival 2023
The 16th annual festival will run from 22 – 26 March at venues across the city Highlights Highlights include a focus on contemporary Lebanese short films with a rare live performance from Beirut-based gender-defying queer dancer Khansa, a retrospective of award-winning artist duo Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca, wild world-building animations and cinematic existentialism […]
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2023
Glasgow Film Festival 2023 celebrates bumper event
Over 12 days the festival welcomed hundreds of delegates from around the UK at venues across Glasgow. The city bounced back to pre-pandemic levels with the festival continuing to thrive as the major meeting point for the Scottish filmmaking sector There was a triumphant return of the much-loved Special Events Programme, including two sold out […]
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Thursday, March 16, 2023 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2023, Pat's Home Page Blog
Miss Viborg review Pat Byrne
Miss Viborg – Glasgow Film Festival 4/5 March, 2023 Cineworld, Renfrew Street, Glasgow. Debut film by Marianne Bilcher, Danish filmmaker. Solvej (Ragnhild Kaasgaard) is a dour, lonely old woman living in social housing in Viborg, a small Danish town, where in her youth she was the beauty queen. She spends her days driving round her neighbourhood […]
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Tuesday, March 14, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2023, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Typist Artist Pirate King review by Pat Byrne
Carol Morley’s film Typist Artist Pirate King had its UK Premiere at Glasgow Film Festival 2023 Carol Morley wrote and directed the film Typist Artist Pirate King inspired by the artist Audrey Amiss. While undertaking a screenwriting fellowship at Wellcome Trust the filmmaker researched Amiss’s vast archive and became fascinated by the artist. In the […]
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Sunday, March 12, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2023
Something You Said Last Night review Pat Byrne
Something You Said Last Night – UK Premiere Glasgow Film Festival 2023 Luis De Filippis’ film, which won Toronto International Film Festival’ (TIFF) Next Wave’s Change Maker Award, in recognition of films that elevate voices and issues of social change, is a joyful and insightful movie where we join a Canadian/Italian family on a week’s […]
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Saturday, March 11, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2023, Pat's Home Page Blog
Something You Said Last Night
11th March 8.30 p.m. Sunday 12 March, 2023 – 3 p.m. Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow Film Theatre, 2 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB UK Premiere Soaked in a pastel shine of lakeside sun, Luis De Filippis’ Something You Said Last Night gives a funny and intimate perspective of twenty-something writer Renata on a week-long holiday with […]
Week 2 Glasgow Film Festival 2023
Host of Guests Attending Festival The Festival Continues Until 12 March There will be a host of guests at the second week of Glasgow Film Festival 2023. From Claire Dix (director) and Barry Ward (lead actor) from Sunlight which is having its international premiere Tuesday 7 March. Stuart Cosgrove (writer) and Muta’Ali Muhammad (director) for […]
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Monday, March 6, 2023 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2023, Pat's Home Page Blog
The End of Sex review Pat Byrne
The End of Sex – Written by Jonas Chernick and directed by Sean Garrity, Emma (Emily Hampshire) and Josh’s (Jonas Chernick) are determined to seize the opportunity to have wild, doors wide open sex, while their two children spend a week at camp. Their first attempt results in faked orgasms by both. The couple have […]
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Friday, March 3, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Film reviews, Film Reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2023
Broker at Glasgow Film Theatre
Friday 24 February – Wednesday 1 March, 2023 AND Monday 13 – Thursday 23 March (after Glasgow Film Festival) Captions available Heartwarming, funny and moving, Broker is the outstanding new film from Hirokazu Kore-eda, the acclaimed director of Shoplifters. An unconventional road movie, the film follows two unofficial baby brokers (including Parasite‘s Song Kang-ho) attempting to […]
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Wednesday, February 22, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2023, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Famous Faces Attending Glasgow Film Festival 2023
1 – 12 March, 2023 Highlights Highlights include Kelly Macdonald and Monica Dolan at a special International Women’s Day premiere of Typist Artist Pirate King, double Oscar nominee Emily Watson at the UK premiere of God’s Creatures, top impressionist Alistair McGowan at the UK premiere of My Name is Alfred Hitchcock, Game of Thrones star […]
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LGBT + History Month at GFT
This year marks 20 years since Section 28, the law that banned “promotion of homosexuality” in the UK, was repealed. To mark that anniversary, Glasgow Film Theatre will promote some films that celebrate and explore LGBT+ stories! 3 -12 March, 2023 ay GFT Daniel, based on true events, this intense, emotional drama speaks of a […]
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Saturday, February 18, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2023, LGBT Glasgow, LGBT History Month, Pat's Home Page Blog
Retrospective Films at Glasgow Film Festival 2023
In The Driving Seat The ever-popular retrospective screenings return with an eye on showcasing iconic classics revolving around women taking charge and setting off to forge their own path. Remember these screenings are free. Bonnie and Clyde It Happened One Night Julia The Piano Pierrot Le Fou Roman Holiday The Sugarland Express Thelma & […]
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Friday, February 17, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2023, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Glasgow Film Festival 2023 Programme
It’s here, the Glasgow Film Festival 2023 programme! Glasgow Film Festival 1 – 12 March, 2023 One of the UK’s largest film festivals, GFF23 will host 70 UK premieres, 6 World premieres, 16 European/International premieres and 6 Scottish premieres at Glasgow Film Theatre and venues across the city. Festival Opening Gala and Closing Film The […]
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Glasgow Film Festival 2023 – FrightFest
Be prepared to devour a devilish feast of dread-filled delights as the UK’s favourite horror fantasy event returns to the renowned Glasgow Film Festival for an 18th year, from Thurs 9 March to Sat 11 March 2023. This year’s daring line-up, once again housed at the iconic Glasgow Film Theatre, embraces the latest genre discoveries […]
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The End of Sex, Glasgow Film Festival
The End of Sex receives its UK premiere at Glasgow Film Festival 2 and 3 March, 2023 Starring Emily Hampshire (Schitt’s Creek) and Jonas Chernick (Ashgrove), The End of Sex follows Emma and Josh, a couple whose kids are away at camp. With the house empty for a week, the couple embark on a series […]
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Glasgow Short Film Festival 2023 Progamme
First Look at 2023 Programme GSFF23 will open on 22 March with a homage to Scotland’s untold Black history – a screening of OMOS, with live performances from cabaret performer Rhys Hollis and opera singer Andrea Baker. The festival will also host the Scottish premiere of Australian duo Soda_Jerk’s hotly anticipated new mainstream cinema mash-up […]
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Thursday, February 9, 2023 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2023, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Adura Onashile’s ‘Girl’ to open Glasgow Film Festival 2023
Glasgow Film Festival 2023 will open with the UK premiere of Adura Onashile’s Glasgow-shot debut feature Girl on 1 March Also announced are first events for Glasgow Film Festival’s Industry Focus programme, running 6 – 9 March, 2023. Live pitching event featuring panel of commissioners and distributors, including Film4 development and production executive Alice Whittemore. […]
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Thursday, January 5, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2023
10th Anniversary Under the Skin at Glasgow Film Festival 2023
4 March 2023 Queen Margaret Union, University of Glasgow, 22 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QN Glasgow Film Festival 2023 will celebrate the 10th anniversary of Jonathan Glazer’s Glasgow-filmed sci-fi thriller Under the Skin with a special event on 4 March. Shrouded in mystery, Scarlett Johansson is a sleek alien temptress, haunting the streets of a raucous […]
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Thursday, December 15, 2022 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2023, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
