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Glasgow Film Theatre – Films Online

GFT is temporarily closed due to  Covid restrictions in Glasgow. However, the good news is that funding has been awarded by Screen Scotland Independent Cinema Resilience Fund via  Screen Scotland and the Scottish Government for this support.

GFT has put together Programme of Films Online

Curated Film Programme – from 6 November, 2020

Luxor
Available from Friday 6 November
Pre-orders open now

When British aid worker Hana (Andrea Riseborough) returns to the ancient city of Luxor, she comes across Sultan, a talented archaeologist and her former lover. As she wanders, haunted by the familiar place, she struggles to reconcile the choices of the past with the uncertainty of the present.

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Love Child

Available from Friday 6 November
Pre-orders open now

Leila and Sahand are in love and have a son together, but they’re both married to other people – a transgression that could see them sentenced to death in their home country of Iran. This intimate documentary follows the family’s protracted struggle to stay together, to escape from the ghosts of the past and to secure a stable future for their child.

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Beyond the Visible:
Hilma af Klint

Available now

‘One of the best films I’ve seen about fine art… staggering depth.’ – Rogerebert.com

Our screenings of this remarkable documentary completely sold out, so don’t miss the chance to catch it online. Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term even existed. For years she was an all-but-forgotten figure in art history, but her work inspired some of the most celebrated artists of our time. Only recently has this trailblazing figure begun to receive the recognition she deserves.

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Papicha

Available now

One of the standout films of Glasgow Film Festival 2020, our CEO Allison is a big fan of this indie gem:

‘I was lucky to see this film at Cannes 2019. Set in Algiers in 1997, the story follows four young women who rely on each other amid growing oppression. It’s a moving film that beautifully highlights and captures friendship amongst women as they form who they are in the face of external threats.’

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Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins

Available now

If you missed the chance to see this powerful documentary about force-of-nature political columnist Molly Ivins in the cinema, you can now enjoy it online. Molly Ivins railed against big business in government, believed the USA’s Bill of Rights was in peril and appears to have anticipated the current state of American politics, claiming: ‘Polarizing people is a good way to win an election and a good way to wreck a country.

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Alice

Available now

‘Alice is the kind of film that banishes initial reservations to blossom into a compelling white knuckle human drama. Alice’s picture perfect world collapses when her husband Francois walks out. Their joint account is empty, there is a foreclosure notice on their home and debts of close to 80,000€. The mystery of what has happened is quickly revealed. Alice’s desperate solution is to become an escort. What subsequently unfolds is a tense, knotty tale of moral dilemmas, double standards, hypocrisy and a husband who emerges as a sorry specimen of toxic masculinity.’ – Allan Hunter, Glasgow Film Festival Co-Director

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Recorder: The Marion Strokes Project

Available from Friday 6 November
Pre-orders open now

A fiercely intelligent, radical activist who became a fabulously wealthy recluse in her later years, Marion Stokes was dedicated to furthering and protecting the truth — so much so that she recorded American television 24 hours a day for over 30 years. Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project peels back the curtain on her life, through a mix of Stokes’ own archive of recordings and interviews with those who knew her best.

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Real

Available now

Sparks fly between well-dressed Kyle and the equally poised Jamie, yet despite their composed outward appearances, both are struggling to move on from hardships they’d rather keep hidden. As their feelings for one another blossom, these difficult pasts resurface, threatening their relationship before it has really even begun.

An authentic and touching love story from a place where second chances are hard to come by, this impressive debut feature marks actor turned writer-director Aki Omoshaybi as a talent to watch.

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