Glasgow Film Theatre
@glasgowfilmtheatre
Glasgow's original independent cinema and home of @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social 🛠️ Built in 1939 📽️ Founded in 1974
A daring heist threatened one of Glasgow’s most precious reels. Our brave agents foiled the plot — and now you can experience The Odyssey in glorious 70mm at GFT. 🎞️ 🎟Book Now - Link in Bio
✨🍿 PREVIEW: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma + a Jane Schoenbrun double bill of We're All Going to the World's Fair and I Saw the TV Glow. Why not make it a triple bill? 💗 🗓️ Sunday 16 August 🎟️ Book now
A three-course comfort watch. Come on an empty stomach. 🍜 FOOD ON FILM is served all July. Just the thing for a warm summer evening. 🌆 🎟 Book now - Link in Bio
You've seen his photographs. Now meet the man behind the lens. 📷 Misan Harriman shot the images that defined Black Lives Matter. SHOOT THE PEOPLE follows him into the crowds. 🎤 Wed 16 Jul: screening + Q&A with director Andy Mundy-Castle 🎟️ Book now - bit.ly/4yhyWRi
What, like it's hard? 💅 We're serving three slices of Reese Witherspoon: the overachiever, the icon, the survivor. One unmissable season, on the big screen. 🎟 Book now bit.ly/4eQSKDp
You'll leave wanting to call your oldest friends for one last adventure before it's too late. THE LAST ONE FOR THE ROAD: a wry, wistful road trip through the Italian countryside, and another GFF26 favourite. 🎟️ Book now bit.ly/3SMAnqC
Turns out the monster under your bed had a budget and a puppeteer. 🎪 Our new season, NO STRINGS ON ME, celebrates the lost art of practical puppetry. Films with magical heartbeats you could reach out and touch. 🎟️ Book now — bit.ly/4goVKrI
MY FATHER’S ISLAND ❄️ Tom wanted a year in the wild to become the father he never was. On a remote Norwegian island, he and Roy find something darker waiting in the silence. A breathtaking father-son survival drama where stunning landscapes meet family, memory and survival. 🎟️ Book now-Link in Bio
Join the team! 🤝 🍿 GFT Cleaner (Closes this evening at 5pm) 🎬 Film Hub Scotland Marketing & Outreach Coordinator (Closes Monday 6 July, 10am) ✨ Glasgow Film Festival Programme Coordinator (Closes Monday 15 July, 10am) 👉 Apply now via our website!
500 miles. That's the distance from a falling-apart family in Sheffield to a grandfather waiting on the edge of Ireland. Finn and Charlie run all the way to the man they barely know, on Ireland's far west coast, to save their family. 🗓️ Screening until Thursday 🎟️ Book now, link in bio.
Celebrate one of Britain's most distinctive contemporary filmmakers with our latest CineMasters season dedicated to the work of Clio Barnard, whose latest film, I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning, was one of the big winners at Cannes earlier this year. 🏆 🗓️ From 5 July 🎟️ Book now
Well, well, well, if it isn't our July programme. 👀 🎞️ The Odyssey on 70mm 🎬 CineMasters: Clio Barnard 🍝 Yummy! A Food on Film season 🔁 Taxi Driver in 4K ✨ The best new releases and restorations 🍿 Q&As aplenty! All this and more—on sale now. 🎟️
🐾 Some particularly adorable BTS from The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford featuring Peter Mullan and Jessie the Irish Setter. You can catch it until Friday! 🎟️ Bow wow—sorry, book now!
This month's edition of Queer Cinema Sunday's is going to be fun. 🍿 This weekend, we're welcoming the CineSkinny podcast team for a live-recorded panel discussion following a screening of Gregg Araki's hedonistic cult classic NOWHERE. 🗓️ Sunday, 7.20pm 🎟️ Book now
“Jodie Foster is flawless” (The Daily Beast) in A PRIVATE LIFE. 💫 We're delighted to be welcoming director Rebecca Zlotowski to GFT for a special Q&A following a preview of this darkly comedic Hitchcockian thriller. 🗓️ Thursday 25 June, 8pm 🎟️ Book now
While the Scottish summer is Scottish summerin', we have some fantastic new releases to cosy up with in GFT. ☔️ ✨ A gem from GFF26, Effi o Blaenau 🚀 Delightful animated queer comedy, Lesbian Space Princess 🕊️ And heartfelt French drama, Nino 🎟️ Book now
“Striking... contemporary cinematic works like this are only made possible when the stars align” – Little White Lies We're thrilled to be welcoming director Sophy Romvari and actor Adam Tompa for an in-person Q&A following a screening of BLUE HERON. 🪶 📅 Tuesday 30 June, 17:30
A BBC journalist and a frontline cameraman fall in love through texts and voice notes, long before they ever meet. 🕊️ Birds of War — a love story across 13 years of war and exile, built from their own archive. Screening + Q&A with the filmmakers. 🗓️ Mon 6 Jul, 8pm 🎟️ Book now — link in bio
Regarded as one of the most accomplished true-crime films ever made, 10 Rillington Place centres around serial killer John Christie and Timothy Evans, whose wrongful conviction led to the abolition of the death penalty for murder in the UK. Screening on Monday as part of GFT's Bleak Week. 🎟️
Formidable. Impressive. A force of nature. All of the above have been used to describe Leisa Gwenllian, and our audience wholeheartedly agreed at the sold-out premiere of Effi o Blaenau at Glasgow Film Festival. 💫 If you missed it, don't worry—Effi o Blaenau is back from Friday. 🎟️ Book now
Some snaps from the seventies. Known as one of the most renowned Northern Soul clubs in the UK, Wigan Casino is the focus of Northern Soul: Still Burning—"a passionate portrait of a unique cultural moment and its obsessive high-kicking fans." - The Guardian ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🎟️ Catch it until Friday
Rarely screened, but once witnessed, never forgotten. This Friday, Bleak Week launches at GFT with the harrowing nuclear docu-drama Threads. Don't miss the chance to experience this apocalyptic fable on the big screen. 🎟️👉 https://www.glasgowfilm.org/bleak-week
🚨 THE ODYSSEY is now on sale! Just one more month until Christopher Nolan's latest star-studded spectacle hits our big screens. Experience it on 70mm at GFT (select screenings). 🎞️🍿 🗓️ Screening from Friday 17 July 🎟️ Book now
What happens when an FBI agent and a terrorist swap faces? The most gloriously chaotic movie of the 90s. Face/Off is next up in our CineMasters: John Woo season. 📆 Sat 13 + Wed 17 June 🎟️ bit.ly/4xqvfZ0
PETER MULLAN IS BACK. 🎭 The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford, a runaway favourite at GFF26 returns to the big screen. A lovely, off-kilter little film about grief, memory, and holding on to something everyone else has forgotten. 🎬 Wed 17 June, followed by Glasgow Film Club. 🎟 Book Now bit.ly/448LOep
Visible Cinema returns this June with a special RCS Curates edition: four short films chosen by students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's bilingual acting programme. 🗓 Tue 16 June 🎟 £7.40 www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/rcs-cu...
BOOGIE NIGHTS captures the glitter and the comedown of late 1970s LA like nothing else. 🪩 Experience Paul Thomas Anderson's glimmering masterpiece—back on the big screen in glorious 4K. 📅 From Friday 12 June 🎟️ Book now
Kids to the cinema for FREE! 🍿💸 Saturday morning Take 2 screenings: children 14 and under get a free ticket, + one for an accompanying adult. Take 2 Access on the second Saturday each month offers a relaxed environment for neurodivergent children and families. 🎟️ Find out more on our website
Unimaginable tragedies, existential fear, nihilism, shocking acts of brutality... sound good? 💔 This month we're taking part in Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair. From Friday 19 June to Thursday 25 June, escape the sunshine and venture with us into the darkness... Book now 🎟️
If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to seven billion people. This Wednesday, Steven Spielberg's latest sci-fi epic DISCLOSURE DAY lands at GFT. 🛸 🎟️ Book now