Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival at GFT
6 – 11 October, 2026
GFT, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB
Samisdat Scotland’s festival of cinema from Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus is back at GFT .
Named after the practice of clandestine dissemination of censored and forbidden texts in communist states, returns for its 5th edition, bringing an ever-eclectic mix of some of the most exciting, powerful, thoughtful, weird and wonderful filmmaking to audiences in Glasgow.
Programme at GFT

Politics of the Imagination Animations of the Eastern Bloc 1958 – 1992 – 6 October

Love Is Not An Orange – in conversation with Otilia Barbara, Director – 9 October

Werckmeister Harmonies 35mm plus introduction – 10 October

An The We Danced plus Introuction – Sunday 11 October
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