FEBRUARY
24 - 20:30
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Certificate: 15 N/C+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Giles Borg’s impressive debut feature casts a wry eye over thedramas and disappointments of anyone who has ever dreamed of forming their own band. Wannabe musician Stevie works in a call centre with his drummer pal Neil. Guitarist Billy and ...
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26 - 21:30
2001 Maniacs: Fields of Screams
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
“If they kill you, they will come”! Authorities have shut down the ‘detour’ ensnaring unsuspecting Northerners, so those Pleasant Valley cannibals are heading west in search of new blood. Unfortunately for two beautiful hei...
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20 - 18:00
21 - 11:30
A Congregation Of Ghosts
Certificate: N/C 10+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Edward Woodward’s film career included outstanding performances in The Wicker Man and Breaker Morant. Inspired by true events, plaintive British feature A Congregation Of Ghosts gave him a final great role as the Reverend Densham. In 1932, D...
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27 - 14:00
A Lizard In A Woman's Skin
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
Where do dark dreams end and repulsive reality begin? Find out in the re-mastered, restored and never-before-seen fully uncut version of Italian gore-meister Lucio Fulci’s hippy, trippy 1971 giallo classic. Did rich socialite Carol Hammond (...
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21 - 18:00
About Elly (Darbareye Elly)
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Cineworld 18
Winner of the Berlin Silver Bear and the Best Narrative Feature at Tribeca, About Elly is a compelling drama about the culture of deception that has come to define Persian life. Elly (Taraneh Alidoosti) is a nursery school teacher who is persuaded...
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22 - 16:00
Adrift (A Deriva)
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Cineworld 18
Apologies, but due to circumstances beyond our control, Adrift has been replaced by an additional screening of That Evening Sun. Apologies for any inconvenience this causes. The familiar territory of marital strife and adolescent conflict ise...
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22 - 20:30
23 - 13:30
Against The Current
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Cineworld 18
A quirky charmer confronting the lingering pain of grief, Against The Current offers a winning blend of deadpan comedy andheartfelt drama. Joseph (Flash Forward) Fiennes’ Paul has spent five years coming to terms with the death of his pregna...
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23 - 20:30
24 - 13:15
Ajami
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Cineworld 16
Scandar Copti is a Palestinian. Yaron Shani is an Israeli. Together they have collaborated on an extraordinary crime drama set on the mean streets of Ajami, one of the toughest neighbourhoods in Jaffa. Weaving together stories of violence and vend...
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19 - 22:45
Akira
Certificate: 15 /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
No Japanese retrospective would be complete without Otomo’s animated masterpiece Akira. Regarded by many as a landmark production for Japan, its critical acclaim and box office success paved the way for the growth of anime culture across the...
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20 - 18:15
23 - 15:30
All Around Us (Gururi No Koto)
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
Ryosuke Hashiguchi’s lyrical epic offers an intimate portrait of a marriage set within the bigger picture of sweeping social change in Japan. Kanao works in a shoe repair shop and has recently married his college sweetheart Shoko. The leisur...
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27 - 16:15
Amer (Bitter)
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
Gialli fans will not want to miss co-directors Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s immaculately executed and flawless valentine to the 70s thriller genre popularized by Dario Argento and Mario Bava. Recreating the motifs, clichés and vi...
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20 - 20:15
American: The Bill Hicks Story
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
The ferociously funny, eternally fearless Bill Hicks died in 1994 from pancreatic cancer. He was just 32 and one of the most revered stand-up comics of his time. This unconventional biography captures the full flavour of the man and his art by usi...
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28 - 13:00
An Affair To Remember
Certificate: U /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
The path to true love is strewn with impossible obstacles in this peerless romantic weepie. Suave playboy Cary Grant meets Deborah Kerr on a luxury ocean liner. They banter, flirt and fall deeply in love during an unforgettable voyage. The only tr...
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19 - 13:15
20 - 18:30
Applause (Applaus)
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Cineworld 16
Paprika Steen gives a fearless, award-winning performance in this acclaimed portrait of a woman coping with alcohol addiction, divorce, the loss of custody of her two sons and the unbearable burden of simply getting through another day clean and s...
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21 - 16:15
22 - 18:30
Around A Small Mountain (36 Vues Du Pic Saint Loup)
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Cineworld 18
The latest film from nouvelle vague veteran Jacques Rivette is a typically elegant tale of the eternal clash between life and art recounted with a witty lightness of touch. Jane Birkin stars as Kate, a woman returning to the circus she abandoned f...
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23 - 13:00
24 - 11:00
Arsenic & Old Lace
Certificate: PG /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
Riotously funny adaptation of the long-running Broadway farce with Cary Grant giving a masterclass in frantic comic exasperation. It should be the happiest day of Grant’s life as he enters into a state of holy matrimony with the lovely Prisc...
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28 - 14:00
Artist Talk/Book Launch*
Certificate: N/C 8+ /
Venue: Tramway
Duncan Campbell will be in conversation with screenwriter and director Eleanor Yule, at the launch of a new publication to coincide with the exhibition.Free tickets are available on the day from the Tramway box office. Please note: This film is n...
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21 - 14:30
Artists Film & Video Programme
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: CCA 5
Curated by local artist, filmmaker and curator Gregor Johnstone, this programme showcases wide-ranging approaches to the moving image, from filmed performance to experimental documentary and pop art. The democratization of the medium afforde...
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20 - 20:30
21 - 13:00
Autumn (Sonbahar)
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Cineworld 16
An auspicious debut from Turkish director Ozcan Alper, Autumn is set in the wild mountainous region in the north of the country and makes stunning use of the natural rugged landscapes. Political activist Yusuf is released from prison after ten yea...
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25 - 20:30
26 - 20:45
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
Banish any thoughts of Abel Ferrara and a naked Harvey Keitel as director Werner Herzog puts his own outlandish stamp on the tale of a cop in moral meltdown. Filmed amidst the broken heart of New Orleans, Herzog’s film features a demented to...
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23 - 18:15
24 - 15:30
Bare Essence of Life (Urutora Mirakuru Rabu Sut'R)
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Hailed as one of the emerging superstars of Japanese cinema, writer/director Satoko Yokohama’s second feature is an assured, heartfelt romantic drama. Kenichi Matsuyama stars as a mentally challenged young farmer who happily tends his grandm...
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24 - 18:30
26 - 15:30
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
Certificate: N/C 10+ /
Venue: CCA 4
It may sound like a cult B-movie from the glory days of Godzilla but Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo is actually a lyrical, spellbinding documentary on Japan’s fascination with insects. All children have a ghoulish attraction to creepy crawlies ...
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27 - 18:00
28 - 13:45
Bergfest
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Cineworld 17
Made for just €50,000 in ten days, Bergfest is an exemplary piece of low-budget, independent filmmaking from writer/director Florian Eichinger. The eerie silence and snow-covered vastness of the Bavarian Alps provides an atmospheric setting f...
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21 - 20:15
Beyond The Pole
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
As urgent as An Inconvenient Truth but with a few more belly laughs, Beyond The Pole is a comical mockumentary with an eco-agenda. Determined to make their contribution to the fight against global warming, amateur explorers Stephen Mangan and Rhys...
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19 - 19:00
20 - 14:15
21 - 20:45
Big Fan
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Cineworld 18
Robert D. Siegel wrote the tangy script for Mickey Rourke’s heartrending comeback in The Wrestler. He brings a similar sympathy for the lone, misfit outsider to his impressive directorial debut. Patton Oswald stars as Paul, a thirtysomething...
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19 - 18:00
Bluebeard (Barbe Bleue)
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Grosvenor
Catherine Breillat creates her own darkly distinctive version of the Charles Perrault fairytale in this compelling account ofsisterly love and a shocking serial killer. In 1950s France, a young girl torments her older sister by reading the story o...
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20 - 20:45
Bomber
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Paul Cotter’s wonderfully droll little gem of a road movie marks his first feature after a number of eye-catching shorts. It is notable for its polished visuals, dry wit and expert central performances. Alastair is in his eighties and has de...
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18 - 13:00
19 - 11:00
21 - 18:00
Bringing Up Baby
Certificate: U /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
Glorious, helter skelter romantic comedy reuniting Cary Grant with the incomparable Katharine Hepburn. The bespectacled Grant is a strait-laced paleontologist who likes a life of calm, conventional order. His plans include a simple wedding and the...
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21 - 20:30
Capitalism: A Love Story
Certificate: 12A: Contains Strong Language /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
Michael Moore is a fearless champion of informed debate. He has brought a disarming wit and a provocative fresh perspective to key issues like gun control and health care. His latest documentary questions America’s love affair with capitalis...
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21 - 17:00
Central Station Presents Art/Roc/Doc
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: CCA 5
Art, music, screenings, talks, conversation and a glass or two of wine. Join Central Station for the preview screening of Art / Roc / Doc, shot in London at Frieze 2009 and featuring Glasgow-based band Isosceles as they play their way round the co...
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22 - 17:45
Chopin: Desire For Love (Chopin. Pragnienie Milosci)
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
Widely recognised as one of the most historically accurate films on the life of Frederic Chopin, Chopin: Desire For Love offers a remarkable combination of gorgeous images and an impeccable soundtrack of great performances from the finest classica...
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24 - 18:00
25 - 13:00
City of Life and Death (Nanjing Nanjing)
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Cineworld 17
A majestic production filmed in stunning black and white, City Of Life And Death sheds a powerful light on the Rape Of Nanking, often described as the forgotten Holocaust of World War Two. Set during the Japanese invasion of China in 1937, it offe...
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20 - 12:00
21 - 12:00
Competition 1: Standstill
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: CCA 4
A collection of characters trapped by external forces, by their fear of the future or by lust and deception. Physical and mental constraints spark creativity, invention and drama in our first international competition selection. Additional s...
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20 - 14:00
Competition 2: Worlds Collide
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: CCA 4
The clash of cultures is the focus of our second international competition programme. Differences are challenged in both form and content, in a series of films that conflate the personal and the political. When Worlds ColludeUK PremiereFred ...
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20 - 16:45
Competition 3: No Yesterdays
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: CCA 4
Our third international programme explores the erasure of the past and the reinvented present. Characters seek to transform or escape from landscapes of their own making. Others attempt to recall long-forgotten histories.Dropping FurnitureHarald H...
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21 - 14:00
Competition 4: Learning To Breathe
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: CCA 4
Loss, rejection and trauma have brought the protagonists of our fourth international selection to the brink. Only rebirth and baby steps can bring them back to safety. By turns funny, melancholic and shocking, this is an emotional one....
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21 - 16:30
Competition 5: Leave A Trail
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: CCA 4
Travel broadens the mind they say. Well perhaps for some. Others just get lost, tricked or abandoned along the way. Take a walk into the unknown in our final international selection.LoopLoopScottish PremierePatrick Bergeron; Cana...
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25 - 20:00
Comrade Couture With SWG3 & NOIR
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: SWG3
Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, fashionable East Berliners created a fantasy world that was not available on state stocked wardrobes and clothing retailers. This fascinating documentary examines the perils of an industry taken for granted in t...
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20 - 15:30
Con Artist
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
“Modern art is a con,” Mark Kostabi once said, “and I am the world’s greatest con artist.” Michael Sladek’s documentary certainly provides the proof of the pudding as it offers a witty profile of the disgraced e...
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20 - 21:15
21 - 20:45
Crazy Heart
Certificate: 15 /
Venue: Cineworld 17
Jeff Bridges has been a star for almost forty years and is as constant as the setting sun. He never gives a bad performance but despite four previous nominations he has never won an Oscar. All that could change with his heartbreaking, beautifully ...
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19 - 23:00
Cuckoo
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Two sisters have lost their mother at an early age, and now one may be losing her mind in this tense, atmospheric thriller. Polly (played by Glasgow actress Laura Fraser) is facing the twin traumas of a cheating partner, and a supervisor taking mo...
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27 - 14:30
Directors Cut With Kevin McDonald
Certificate: N/A /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
In conversation with BBC Movie Café Presenter Janice Forsyth and presented in partnership with The University of Aberdeen’s Director’s Cut series. Kevin Macdonald is a Scottish two-time BAFTA winning director, most famous for hi...
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FEBRUARY
21 - 15:15
Do It Again
Certificate: N/C 12+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Geoff Edgers is a newspaper reporter fearing the onset of his 40th birthday when he decides to find the surviving members of the Kinks – and convince them to reunite. The words ‘Tall’ and ‘Order’ come to mind, but als...
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26 - 22:45
Dogtooth (Kynodontas)
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes, Dogtooth offers a merciless, deadpan satire of middle-class respectability. Kept under the thumb of ruthlessly controlling parents, three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate lest the...
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FEBRUARY
28 - 16:00
Dope + The Delian Mode Monorail Film Club
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Shot in a lilting, evocative style by filmmakers Sheldon and Diane Rochlin (now Flame Schon), Dope was praised as a film “ahead of its time” by Ricky Leacock. It works as a magnifying glass into the swinging London drug scene of the &l...
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25 - 18:15
26 - 20:30
Double Take
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: CCA 4
In life Alfred Hitchcock couldn’t resist sly cameo appearances in his best thrillers. In death he moves centre stage in this wildly inventive, blurring of fact and fiction from Belgian filmmaker and media artist Johan Grimonprez. Inspired by...
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25 - 18:00
Down Terrace
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Imagine if Mike Leigh had made The Sopranos and shot it in eight days at his parents house with a cast that mixed cutting-edge comedy stars with members of his own family and you begin to have the measure of Down Terrace. Ben Wheatley’s awar...
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19 - 19:15
20 - 16:45
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19 - 20:15
Everybody's Fine
Certificate: 12A: Contains One Use of Strong Language /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
Robert De Niro gives his best performance in years in this warmhearted Kirk (Waking Ned, Nanny McPhee) Jones remake of Giuseppe Tornatore’s Stanno Tutti Bene. Following in the footstseps of Marcello Mastroianni, De Niro plays a retired widow...
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28 - 21:00
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Certificate: 15 /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Fresh from its screenings at Sundance and Berlin, Exit Through The Gift Shop arrives in Glasgow trailing clouds of glory. The elusive street artist Banksy has created a wonderfully playful, inventive documentary that purports to be all about him b...
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23 - 20:30
Expansive Grounds
Certificate: N/C 12+ /
Venue: CCA 4
This documentary takes an appropriately sombre look from a German filmmaker’s perspective on the collective guilt at the horror of the holocaust. Berlin’s memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe has seen thousands of visitors since its...
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25 - 20:30
26 - 15:30
Eyes Wide Open (Einaym Pkuhot)
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: CCA 4
Haim Tabakman’s intense, mature first feature explores the notion that religion can never quite legislate for the workings of the human heart. Aaron is a respectable kosher butcher in an ultraorthodox area of Jerusalem. He is married with fo...
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22 - 13:00
21 - 15:30
Face (Visage)
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Cineworld 18
Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang makes art films that people either adore or despise. The lyrical, grandiose Face is no exception as he creates a work of stunning visual inventiveness that might feel more at home in a gallery than a cinema. It a...
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20 - 13:00
Film Rocks @ The Shed*
Certificate: 18+ /
Venue: The Shed
The Shed Live, in association with iMan 4D, are presenting a Festival of Film Rock to be held at The Shed. The event will comprise an all-day multimedia programme showcasing musicians inspired by cinema performing to a backdrop of film and live vi...
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27 - 15:00
FilmG
Certificate: N/C 8+ /
Venue: CCA 4
An excellent opportunity to see the best of the winning films from the first two years of FilmG, a Gaelic short film competition that attracted 54 entries in 2009. Run by MG Alba, a range of genres from not only Scotland, but also North America an...
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25 - 14:15
26 - 18:15
Friends (With Benefits)
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Let’s talk about sex, maybe? A group of six close buddies (three men and three women) live by some simple rules including the belief that friends do not sleep together. Chloe and Owen have known each other since childhood and want to move th...
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23 - 20:30
From Time To Time
Certificate: N/C 8+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
Oscar-winning renaissance man Julian Fellowes has written and directed a charming film for all the family in From Time To Time. Based on the beloved Green Knowe novels by Lucy M Boston, it begins in 1944 when Manchester teenager Tolly is sent to l...
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26 - 19:00
Frozen
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
We’ve UK-launched Hatchet, Spiral and Grace for our good friend director/producer Adam Green. He’s returned the favour with those wonderful ‘Road to FrightFest’ shorts we highlight every August. Last year he filmed an intro...
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20 - 16:00
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Certificate: U /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell make wonderful sparring partners in this glorious Technicolor adaptation of the Anita Loos Broadway musical that has been lovingly restored to the big screen by Glasgow distributor Park Circus. Monroe is adorable go...
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22 - 21:00
23 - 13:30
Giulia Doesn't Date At Night (Giulia Non Esce La Sera)
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Cineworld 17
An award-winning Valeria Golino gives one of the best performances of her career in this soulful romance from writer/director Giuseppe Piccioni. Beautifully observed and impeccably played, the film draws you into the bond that grows between two pe...
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24 - 16:15
Glasgow On Screen (It Could Be You!)
Certificate: U /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Over the years, Glasgow has hosted numerous productions from award-winning British films like Andrea Arnold’s critically acclaimed Red Road, large scale international productions such as Neil Marshall’s Doomsday and the yet to be relea...
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25 - 14:00
GSA Mutual*
Certificate: 15+ /
Venue: CCA 5
GSA Mutual is a Fine Art Collective of recent Glasgow School of Art graduates. Its four founding members produce thematically curated exhibitions and art events in Glasgow. Seeking to uphold egalitarian approach The Mutual practitioners are self e...
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27 - 20:15
Handsome Harry
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Cult director Bette (Variety) Gordon returns to filmmaking with this powerful journey into the dark heart of male friendship. Jamey Sheridan brings a compelling intensity to his role as Harry, a former Navy man called to the bedside of a dying fri...
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27 - 23:30
Harpoon: Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
You don’t have to go to Texas for a brutal massacre. Try cold Icelandic waters instead. That’s where a group of tourists embark on a sightseeing trip aboard a whaling vessel with none other than Captain Gunnar (Leatherface) Hansen hims...
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19 - 20:30
Heartless
Certificate: 18 /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Writer/director Philip Ridley makes a long overdue return to filmmaking with this gloriously ambitious mixture of psychological thriller, modern morality tale and graphic urban chiller. Jim Sturgess stars as a young amateur photographer whose life...
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19 - 16:00
20 - 21:00
Hidden Diary (Meres et Filles)
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Cineworld 18
There is an echo of Julie & Julia is this subtle, assured French drama where events from the past help to unlock the bitter emotions and resentments of the present. A pregnant Audrey returns home to France and a less than warm welcome from her...
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23 - 18:00
24 - 13:00
Hilde
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Cineworld 17
Hildegard Knef (1925–2002) was many things – Broadway star, songstress, screen diva, international icon and bestselling author. In this compelling biography Heike Makatsch gives a knockout performance as Knef, who walked out of the rub...
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26 - 17:30
27 - 13:15
Hipsters (Stilyagi)
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Cineworld 16
‘Stilyagi’ was a term conceived by Soviet citizens to negatively label their ‘comrades’ who had an interest and passion in western culture immediately following the end of WWII. The war opened up the previously isolated cou...
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19 - 13:30
21 - 18:15
His & Hers
Certificate: N/C 9+ /
Venue: Cineworld 17
Fresh from its international premiere at Sundance, the awardwinning His & Hers is a film that you will clutch to your heart like a long lost relative. Ken Wardrop’s documentary takes a simple notion and transforms it into an acutely obse...
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21 - 13:30
22 - 11:00
His Girl Friday
Certificate: U /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
Breathless, helter skelter adaptation of the Broadway classic The Front Page that may be the fastest comedy ever made. Rosalind Russell gives the performance of her career as a star reporter with news print in her veins. She is about to bid her co...
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19 - 13:30
20 - 11:00
Holiday
Certificate: U /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
One of the great underrated gems from Cary Grant’s early career, Holiday is a magical adaptation of the Philip Barry play with Grant delivering one of his most witty, thoughtful and charming performances. Grant falls in love with New York he...
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20 - 12:30
20 - 16:30
21 - 12:30
21 - 16:30
How's The Ghost? Presents: The Movie Trailer*
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Mobile Picture Salon, Garnethill Park, Rose Street
A special exhibition of shorts, fragments and filmic artifacts, The Movie Trailer takes 100-year old movies, the fair and all its dark arts as inspiration. Mitch Miller - a showman - and Chris Dooks - a frequent punter of the fairground - will be ...
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24 - 20:15
25 - 18:00
I Am Love (IO SONO L'AMORE)
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
Chosen by many critics as one of the best films of the year, I Am Love is a film of breathtaking beauty and formal elegance that invites comparisons with the great masters of world cinema from Visconti and Douglas Sirk to Hitchcock and Antonioni. ...
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24 - 20:30
I Killed My Mother (J'ai Tue Ma Mere)
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: CCA 4
The turbulent relationship between a mother and a son unfolds with a compelling combination of savage fury and melting affection in I Killed My Mother. This stunning, semiautobiographical tour de force from writer/director/producer and lead actor ...
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25 - 13:15
26 - 11:30
I Was A War Male Bride
Certificate: PG /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
Sparkling comedy of errors with Cary Grant as you have never seen him before. Grant is a French army officer whose frosty relationship with American WAC Ann Sheridan soon melts into true love and a marriage that takes place on the very day she is ...
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21 - 16:15
23 - 18:00
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21 - 15:30
In Conversation With James Earl Jones
Certificate: N/A /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
James Earl Jones is one of the legendary names from the American arts with a career in film, theatre and television that spans more than four decades. He is currently playing Big Daddy in the acclaimed London production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof bu...
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20 - 13:45
Introducing The Red
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: CCA 5
The RED ONE Digital Cinema camera is taking the industry by storm. Steven Soderbergh is a fan of RED and used it for his acclaimed Che. Other directors to have enthusiastically embraced this cutting edge camera include Peter Jackson and Lars...
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28 - 18:45
Island of Dreams (Yume No Shima)
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Tsuta Tetsuichiro was just 23 when he made this eyecatching debut feature, a loving throwback to the Nikkatsu film noir action movies of the early 1960s. Shot in black and white cinemascope, it focuses on Alan, a young man of Indian descent who wo...
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26 - 11:00
Ivul*
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
Ivul is the third fiction feature film by Andrew Kötting. In this intimate and eccentric family story a brother and sister are caught playing taboo games by their father. In his fury, the father tells his son, Ivul, never to set foot on his l...
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24 - 18:15
25 - 20:30
Kakera
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Cineworld 16
Director Momoko Ando has been earning comparisons with Sofia Coppola for her haunting debut feature. Loosely based on the manga title Love Vibes, Kakera follows dreamy college student Haru. Coasting along in a dull relationship with her loutish bo...
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27 - 18:15
Kandahar Break
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Filmed at considerable personal risk to the cast and crew, Kandahar Break is a nail-biting drama set in the Afghanistan of the late 1990s. Richard is a British engineer under contract to clear the landmines that pepper the country. His task is to ...
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22 - 13:45
Kicking It
Certificate: N/C 12+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
A chronicle of the experience of seven homeless football players representing their country at the Cape Town 2006 Homeless World Cup. Najib from war torn Afghanistan; Alex from the slums of Kenya; Damien and Simon from the drug rehab clinics of Du...
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20 - 15:30
Knickerbocker Glory
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: CCA 5
New Media Scotland presents a programme of animated shorts with a CGI focus. Each film reveals the effects of life’s little tremors through a variety of trails and transformations, both physical and emotional. Imagine a world made of logos o...
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24 - 20:45
25 - 18:15
L'Affaire Farewell
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Cineworld 18
Joyeux Noel director Christian Carion makes a confident move into the world of John Le Carre with this atmospheric Cold War thriller. Set in the Moscow of 1981 it deftly captures the human toll on those at the front line of the spying game. Guilla...
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24 - 13:15
25 - 11:15
La Danse - The Paris Opera Ballet
Certificate: N/C 9+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Frederick Wiseman has long been considered one of the world’s master documentary filmmakers. Now he has turned his searching eye on the Paris Opera Ballet offering the viewer an amazing access-all-areas pass to one of the most celebrated dan...
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19 - 18:15
Leaving (Partir)
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
Leaving tells one of the oldest stories in the world as a married woman leaves her husband for the arms of another man. The consequences of her infidelity are less conventional and more intriguing as the aggrieved husband retaliates with a concert...
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25 - 20:15
Lebanon (Levanone)
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Samuel Maoz’s extraordinary autobiographical debut feature Lebanon won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Maoz was a twenty-year-old novice soldier in the early days of the first Lebanon war in 1982. Traumatised by his experiences,...
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23 - 18:30
24 - 20:30
Life During Wartime
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: Cineworld 18
Todd Solondz makes a remarkable return to form with this unconventional sequel to his award winning Happiness. Solondz revisits the same characters a decade later with the added twist of a completely different all-star cast. Ciaran Hinds is a conv...
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24 - 18:30
25 - 15:30
Lourdes
Certificate: N/C 12+ /
Venue: Cineworld 18
Lourdes is a magnet for Christian pilgrims in search of a miracle. It has the second largest number of hotels in France after Paris. Jessica Hausner’s feature follows the longings and yearnings of one particular pilgrim. Christine is confine...
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21 - 18:30
22 - 13:45
Love & Rage (Vanvittig Forelsket)
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: Cineworld 17
Cyron Bjorn Melville’s intense, utterly believable central performance won him the Best Actor prize at Montreal and is the lynchpin of this tautly handled psychological thriller. Melville’s Daniel is a gifted, highly strung pianist in ...
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19 - 22:00
Luckyme Party (GSFF Opening Night Party)
Certificate: 18+ /
Venue: CCA Bar
LuckyMe is a genre blurring record label and artist collective based in Glasgow who throw and play parties and art-direct in fashion and music. They produce new electronic hip hop, pop, post-rock and underground dance music. Members include Hudson...
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21 - 17:00
Lux: Dispersion*
Certificate: N/A /
Venue: CCA Clubroom
Mike Sperlinger and Benjamin Cook from LUX will lead a small group in discussion about how questions of distribution affect artists working with film and video. The discussion will take as its starting point the artist Seth Price’s short ess...
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21 - 10:30
Lux: One-To-One*
Certificate: N/A /
Venue: CCA Clubroom
LUX is an international arts agency, based in London, for the support and promotion of artists’ moving image practice and the ideas that surround it. LUX exists to provide access to, and develop audiences for, artists’ moving image wor...
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26 - 16:00
Mark Millar
Certificate: N/A /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
Comic books have taken on a resurgence over the past few years, perhaps in no small part due to the talent of the Coatbridge born phenomenon, Mark Millar. The writer of the American industry’s biggest selling books in a decade, his career st...
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25 - 20:00
Mouth Room/After School Special*
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Tramway
London based artist James Richards has curated two programmes of film and video work for Tramway by artists including Duncan Campbell. Supported by Lux, London. Mouth Room (49mins) Duncan Campbell, Michael Curran, Kim Fielding, Stuart Marshall, An...
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25 - 18:15
26 - 20:15
New York, I Love You
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
*Additional screening announced. Friday 26 February (20.15), Cineworld 16 **We are delighted to announce that the print of New York I Love You is here! So both screening can go ahead as normal. After the enormous success of Paris je t’...
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22 - 13:00
23 - 17:45
24 - 15:45
North By Northwest
Certificate: PG /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
Additional screening added on Wednesday 24 February (15.45) at GFT The perfect Hitchcock thriller with Cary Grant at his debonair best as an innocent advertising executive mistakenly identified as a mythical figure fabricated by the C.I.A. Soon, h...
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24 - 13:00
25 - 11:00
Notorious
Certificate: U /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
Alfred Hitchcock offers one of his most polished romantic thrillers in which Cary Grant is partnered by one of his favourite co-stars, Ingrid Bergman. Grant is an American agent hot on the trail of a dastardly international conspiracy. Party girl ...
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26 - 13:45
Old Partner (Wonangsori)
Certificate: N/C 9+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Raymond Depardon’s Modern Life was one of the documentary highlights of the 2009 Glasgow Film Festival. Old Partner is a similarly lyrical, touching portrait of a disappearing way of rural life that has become the biggest independent box-off...
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20 - 13:30
21 - 11:00
Only Angels Have Wings
Certificate: PG /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
Terrific adventure yarn with Cary Grant as the hardbitten head of an air freight company dispatching pilots on treacherous missions through the Andes mountains. Jean Arthur is the sexy, smart-talking Brooklyn chorus girl intent on becoming one of ...
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21 - 23:00
Optimo (Espacio) GSFF Closing Party*
Certificate: Over 18's Only /
Venue: Sub Club
No strangers to the oeuvre of Cinema and its controversies, Optimo (Espacio) are thrilled to work in association with GSFF to host the closing event for the 2010 festival. Optimo will create musical entertainments and collaborate with ...
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19 - 15:30
22 - 11:30
Pachamama
Certificate: N/C 12+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Inhabiting the desolate, but eerily beautiful salt plains of Bolivia, this tells the story of a dying tradition through a father and son. Their respect for ‘Pachamama’ (translation – Mother Earth) is strong, but gradually western...
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25 - 15:30
Pandora & The Flying Dutchman
Certificate: PG /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
One of the most beautiful romantic tales in the history of cinema, Pandora And The Flying Dutchman is a haunting story of love, devotion and self-sacrifice. Played by a gorgeous Ava Gardner, Pandora Reynolds is the kind of woman who treats a strin...
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25 - 18:15
Passage
Certificate: /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
PASSAGE the first short film directed by Academy Award® nominee Shekhar Kapur (ELIZABETH), starring Julia Stiles (CRY OF THE OWL, THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM), Lily Cole (THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS, ST...
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27 - 20:00
Passing Places With Maireared Green*
Certificate: N/C 9+ /
Venue: CCA 4
Commissioned for New Voices at the Celtic Connections festival 2009, Mairearad Green’s creative musical is perfectly synched with images of Wester Ross. The talented accordion player’s home town of Achiltibuie features heavily, and her...
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20 - 19:00
Pere Ubu – Long Live Pere Ubu! The Spectacle*
Certificate: /
Venue: Classic Grand
After Pere Ubu’s Legendary Live Score to a 3D version of “They Came From Outer Space” at the Arches a few years back. We are very excited to welcome David Thomas and his band back to Glasgow. “Long Live Père Ubu!&rdq...
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27 - 17:00
Place Lumiere*
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Old Abbatoir (Opp. Bellgrove Station)
Dress code for this evening, featuring a variety of film footage screened at the atmospheric site of the city’s old abbatoir, is wellies, hats and gloves! The backdrop is courtesy of the city lights, as archive footage is interspersed with s...
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26 - 19:00
Punishment Park*
Certificate: 15 /
Venue: Tramway
Tying in with Duncan Campbell’s exploration of historical narrative, Punishment Park is typical of Peter Watkins’ radical approach to filmmaking, mixing improvisational, dramatic and documentary techniques to incredible and innovative ...
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27 - 17:45
28 - 16:00
Rabbit Without Ears 2 (Zweiohrkueken)
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Cineworld 18
Fizzy romantic comedy Rabbit Without Ears was one of the audience favourites of the 2009 Glasgow Film Festival. Since then, actor/director Til Schweiger has raised his international profile even further as one of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglouri...
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20 - 22:30
Radio Magnetic Party
Certificate: Over 18's Only /
Venue: CCA 4
The UK’s longest running internet radio station Radio Magnetic hosts, creates and produces a wide variety of on-demand specialist music shows, features and podcasts. RM celebrates the very best of Glasgow’s vibrant music scene, promoti...
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26 - 18:00
27 - 12:30
Ran
Certificate: 15 /
Venue: Cineworld 17
Legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa was born in March 1910. We celebrate the centenary of his birth with a screening of one of his most enduring achievements. The Oscar-winning Ran offers a majestic reinterpretation of King Lear as a warlor...
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19 - 21:00
20 - 14:00
Rookies (Sotsugyo)
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Cineworld 17
Forget Harry Potter, Star Trek or Avatar, the biggest film at the Japanese box-office over the past year has been the homegrown blockbuster Rookies. A real crowdpleaser, it follows Kawato Koichi (Ryuta Sato) as he starts a new job as literature te...
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21 - 20:15
22 - 13:30
Room And A Half
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Cineworld 16
A labour of love for director Andrey Khrzhanovsky, Room And A Half combines drama, documentary footage, archive material and animation to create a richly imaginative, semi-fictionalised biography of Nobel prize-winning Russian poet Josef Brodsky. ...
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20 - 13:15
Savage
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Drawing comparisons to Shane Meadows’ masterful Dead Man’s Shoes, this is a classic revenge thriller, set in Dublin. Healy plays photographer Paul Graynor, the victim of a horrific assault that he struggles to overcome, until choosing ...
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27 - 17:45
28 - 15:45
Scheherazade, Tell Me A Story (Ehky Ya Schahrazad)
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: Cineworld 16
Yousry Nasrallah has been called a master of compelling narratives infused with telling social critique. Scheherazade is his most polished and provocative work offering a view of Egypt rarely seen in the western media. Mona Zakki stars as an outsp...
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26 - 18:30
Scottish Production Archive: Peter Mullan
Certificate: N/A /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Scotland has produced outstanding directors, writers and actors in recent times but only one person has truly mastered all of these functions while maintaining an unparalleled and intense clarity of artistic vision. Peter Mullan’s performanc...
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19 - 20:45
20 - 16:15
She, A Chinese (Zhongguo Guniang)
Certificate: 18 /
Venue: Cineworld 16
The latest feature from director Xiaolu Guo (How Is Your Fish Today?), follows a sullen, stubborn Chinese girl on a journey from her small village to London. Li Mei endures a miserable life in rural China. The first stage on her journey is a bus t...
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28 - 18:30
SOLD OUT: Burning: Mogwai & Live DJ Set
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
Glasgow-based musicians Mogwai present a black and white concert film, capturing their unique layered rock sound. Burning is directed by two people responsible for some of the best music video in the industry. Shot over three nights in Brooklyn, t...
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28 - 20:30
SOLD OUT: Closing Gala: Legacy
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
Glasgow-based production company Black Camel Pictures has emerged as an ambitious new force in Scottish filmmaking. Their zesty chiller Outpost was the very definition of a guilty pleasure and a sequel is already on the way. Taut psychological thr...
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28 - 15:30
SOLD OUT: Gregory's Girl: 30th Anniversary School Reunion
Certificate: 12 /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
BAFTA-winning Gregory’s Girl is probably the most beloved Scottish film ever made. Writer-director Bill Forsyth beautifully portrays the awkwardness and cock-eyed optimism of adolescence in a film that captures school life like no other. Joh...
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18 - 20:15
SOLD OUT: Micmacs (MICMACS A TIRE-LARIGOT)
Certificate: 12: Contains moderate violence and sex and references to hard drugs /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Jean-Pierre Jeunet has been dazzling and delighting audiences for thirty years. Delicatessen, the beloved Amelie and A Very Long Engagement are all perfect examples of his ability to harness an amazing visual imagination to the most romantic, magi...
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18 - 19:30
SOLD OUT: Opening Gala: Micmacs (MICMACS A TIRE-LARIGOT)
Certificate: 12A: Contains moderate violence and sex and references to hard drugs /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
Jean-Pierre Jeunet has been dazzling and delighting audiences for thirty years. Delicatessen, the beloved Amelie and A Very Long Engagement are all perfect examples of his ability to harness an amazing visual imagination to the most romantic, magi...
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24 - 18:00
SOLD OUT: The First Movie
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Northern Irish cineaste Mark Cousins is a passionate advocate of the power of film to transform our understanding of the world. In The First Movie he visits a small village in the Kurdish North of Iraq armed with a projector, a selection of great ...
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21 - 17:30
22 - 16:00
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27 - 20:15
SOLD OUT: The List Surprise Film
Certificate: 18+ /
Venue: Cineworld 18
To paraphrase Forrest Gump, “The Surprise Film is like a box of chocolates-you never know what you’re gonna get.” Last year we even surprised ourselves by showing O’Horten which proved to be one of the year’s lovelies...
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19 - 18:45
Songs For An Airless Room (2009-1010)
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Experience a live music event conceived by Martin Parker especially for cinema performances. Surround sound, live visuals – along with the vocals of Phil Minton and percussion of Joby Burgess – immerse the audience in Martin’s ta...
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25 - 20:45
26 - 14:00
Soundless Wind Chime
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Cineworld 17
As dreamy and seductive as a Wong Kar-Wai romance, Soundless Wind Chime offers a lyrical autobiographical tale of love, loss and bittersweet memories from writer/ director Kit Hung. Ricky has just arrived in Hong Kong from Beijing when he meets an...
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21 - 19:30
Space & Light Revisited*
Certificate: N/C 9+ /
Venue: CCA 5
St Peter’s Seminary at Cardross is Scotland’s neglected modernist masterpiece, a triumphant creation of ‘sacred space’. Designed by two graduates of Glasgow School of Art, Isi Metzstein and Andy MacMillan, following t...
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27 - 21:00
Splice
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
From Vincenzo Natali, director of Cube and Cypher, and visionary producer Guillermo del Toro, comes a new kind of monster movie. Rebellious scientists Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous...
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26 - 23:40
Stag Night
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
Mind the doors! Three New Yorkers out on a stag night hit on two hotties on the subway. Getting peppersprayed for their actions, in the ensuing confusion, they all accidentally get off at the wrong station – an abandoned stop that’s be...
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27 - 16:15
Stolen
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Filmmakers Ayala and Fallshaw go to refugee camps in the Algerian desert to make a film about a family reunion. Everything changes when the Saharawis start to talk about a different subject... their freedom. The film then becomes more of a politic...
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23 - 20:45
Storm (STURM)
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
The director of supernatural chiller Requiem, Hans-Christian Schmid turns his attention to the war crimes committed in Bosnia for this absorbing courtroom drama. Kerry Fox plays a prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribune in the Hague. Her ...
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22 - 20:15
23 - 13:30
Strigoi
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: Cineworld 16
There is no more fashionable genre than the Vampire film but Faye Jackson’s beautiful, blackly humorous debut feature Strigoi brings something fresh to the table. Steeped in the folklore traditions of Romania, it follows prodigal son Vlad as...
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27 - 11:30
27 - 11:30
Take 2: Surprise Movie
Certificate: 8+ (TBC) /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
A surprise treat for all the family! Will it be an action adventure, romantic reel (yuck!), spook show or an all-singing, all-dancing animated feast? Take a chance on us!The Take 2 surprise movie replaces the previously advertised screening of The...
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26 - 21:00
27 - 15:45
Terribly Happy
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Cineworld 17
Filled with clever twists and caustic humour, Terribly Happy is a cracking thriller that has been earning comparisons with the best of the Coen brothers. Cop Jakob Cedergren is emerging from the other side of a mental breakdown when he is posted t...
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22 - 18:15
23 - 21:00
That Evening Sun
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Cineworld 18
Hal Holbrook’s Oscar-nominated performance was one of the highlights of Into The Wild. The veteran actor gives another glorious careercapping performance here as Abner, an irascible Tennessee farmer determined to spend his final days on the ...
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19 - 15:45
20 - 18:00
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers Story
Certificate: N/C 8+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers’ Story is an intimate journey through the lives of Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman, the astoundingly prolific, Academy Award®-winning songwriting team that defined family musical entertainment for ...
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19 - 21:15
20 - 16:30
The Crazies
Certificate: 15 /
Venue: Cineworld 18
Imagine living in a small, sleepy Iowa town where everything is safe and happy…until suddenly it isn’t! Imagine your family, friends and neighbours going quickly and horrifically insane. The reason? A mysterious toxin has contaminated...
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20 - 19:00
21 - 14:15
The French Kissers (Les Beaux Gosses)
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Cineworld 18
Imagine American Pie but told with wit, charm and real insight into adolescent behaviour and you have the measure of French Kissers, a striking debut from comic book writer Riad Sattouf. Herve is a spotty, geeky teenager living in provincial Britt...
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27 - 20:30
28 - 13:30
The Girl On The Train
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Cineworld 16
The latest film from Andre Techine creates a sophisticated, thought-provoking drama from a true incident in which a young woman fabricated an account of being the subject of a racist attack on a train. The story grabbed the front pages in France a...
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22 - 19:00
The Good Son
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard are a duo of acclaimed British artists who will be appearing in person to discuss the premier of their work, The Good Son. The film is a collection of observations on the music of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, named af...
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25 - 21:00
26 - 13:30
The Greatest
Certificate: N/C 12+ /
Venue: Cineworld 18
Filled with echoes of Nanni Moretti’s The Son’s Room, The Greatest is a beguiling tale of a family’s all-consuming grief handled with restraint and maturity by writer/director Shana Feste. Carey Mulligan’s Rose has barely h...
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19 - 19:30
The Invisible Frame + Cycling The Frame
Certificate: N/C 9+ /
Venue: CCA 5
In 1988 director Cynthia Beatt invited Tilda Swinton and sound artist Simon Fisher Turner to join her on a filmic adventure, cycling along the Berlin Wall. They wanted to document the places the Wall had cut through, but also tried to capture West...
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25 - 16:15
The Journey*
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
A powerfully stylised account of one girl’s freedom from slavery, writer/director Richard Jobson’s short film The Journey is designed to stimulate debate and discussion about the serious issues involved with human trafficking. Executiv...
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24 - 20:45
25 - 16:00
The Little One (La Pivellina)
Certificate: N/C 12+ /
Venue: Cineworld 16
Documentary duo Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel make an auspicious move into narrative filmmaking with this low-budget charmer set among an extended family of Rome-based circus folk. Patti is wandering the streets of suburban Rome in search of her r...
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28 - 13:15
The Silent Army
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
An unsentimental drama on the plight of African child soldiers, The Silent Army combines the gritty authenticity of a documentary with the pace and adrenaline rush of a thriller. Eduard owns a restaurant in an unnamed African city. When his wife i...
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20 - 10:00
The Story Room*
Certificate: N/A /
Venue: Novotel, Pitt Street
Led by screenwriter, producer and commissioner Paul Welsh, The Story Room is a process-based workshop for story and script development in film. The Story Room has now worked with over 200 filmmakers with support from partners including EM Media, F...
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25 - 18:00
26 - 15:30
27 - 20:45
The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls
Certificate: N/C 12+ /
Venue: Grosvenor
Where have these girls been all our lives? The Topp Twins is a joyous crowdpleaser celebrating the life and times of Kiwi icons Lynda and Jools Topp. The lesbian twin sisters have become national treasures with an infectious act of yodelling, coun...
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23 - 20:00
Thomas Truax: Songs from the films of David Lynch*
Certificate: /
Venue: Mono
"Thomas Truax has recorded a covers album made up of songs featured in David Lynch's films and, somewhat paradoxically, made them somehow more Lynchian. Beyond merely being a stylistic exercise, it's a celebration and renewal of some ...
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26 - 13:30
27 - 11:00
To Catch A Thief
Certificate: PG /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
Persuaded back to the screen after his premature retirement in 1953, Cary Grant displays all his old magic in this stylish Hitchcock cocktail of mystery and romance. Oscar-winning cinematography from Robert Burks makes the Cote d’Azur sparkl...
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27 - 17:00
Tormod: An Audience With Robbie Fraser
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: CCA 4
Robbie Fraser is one of Gaelic’s most prolific and innovative young directors with his most recent works premiering on BBC Alba to critical acclaim. Robbie spent much of the last nine months living and breathing Norman MacLean to produce thi...
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22 - 15:30
23 - 11:00
Trucker
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
Michelle Monaghan gives the performance of her career in this enormously likable melodrama. Monaghan’s Diane is a harddrinking, independent truck driver who lives life according to her own set of rules. When her ex-husband reveals that he is...
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26 - 20:30
Until The Light Takes Us
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
This is a biopic of black metal music from Norway, directed by two Americans who were outsiders to the scene before becoming involved in arson, suicide and murder. We did say it was black. As the genre begins to garner more attention from other mu...
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22 - 20:45
23 - 18:15
24 - 18:00
Vacation (Kyuka)
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Capital punishment remains a highly contentious issue in Japanese society. Without recourse to tear-jerking melodrama, Hajime Kadoi creates a compassionate, moving drama around the issues of law and order. Hirai is a middle-aged prison guard worn ...
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19 - 13:00
20 - 18:45
Vincere
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
The official version of Benito Mussolini’s early life overlooks the fact that he had a wife and a son. Veteran director Marco Bellocchio drags that hidden relationship into the spotlight for a bravura film with startling insights into the tr...
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23 - 20:45
24 - 16:00
Wake In Fright
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: Cineworld 18
First shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 1971, Wake In Fright has been described by Nick Cave as “the best and most terrifying film about Australia in existence”. Long considered a lost masterpiece, it has now been rediscovered and b...
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24 - 18:15
When You're Strange: A Film About The Doors
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
Whilst the term ‘iconic’ is overused, few would argue that it can appropriately attached to the 1960s rock group The Doors. The Oliver Stone biopic delivered a generation of new fans to theband, and this documentary will provide factua...
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26 - 18:30
27 - 15:30
Whip It
Certificate: N/C 12+ /
Venue: Cineworld 18
Drew Barrymore makes a confident move into the director’s chair with this rollicking sports comedy set in the bruising world of competitive roller-skating. Ellen (Juno) Page is the tough Texas tomboy encouraged to enter beauty pageants by he...
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19 - 18:30
20 - 13:45
Whisky and Vodka (Whisky Mit Vodka)
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Cineworld 16
Renowned actor Otto has two loves - drinking and film. Fitting for the title, there are elements of fun and melancholy in this comedy drama. Even when blind drunk he still has more vision in filmmaking than the amateur directing his latest movie. ...
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22 - 21:00
23 - 15:30
White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights
Certificate: N/C 12+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
A ‘brother and sister’s’ journey across the great white north, as we are invited to join the White Stripes on their 2007 Canadian tour. The tour, like this portrayal, is epic, featuring a stop in everyprovince and territory and a...
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23 - 18:30
25 - 15:30
William McLaren An Artist Out Of Time
Certificate: N/C 12+ /
Venue: CCA 4
William McLaren was a prolific Scottish painter, illustrator and decorative artist who died in 1987 and has never received the recognition he deserves. This fascinating pioneering documentary has traced hundreds of his works and gathered the testi...
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21 - 13:15
23 - 11:30
With One Voice (D'Une Seule Voix)
Certificate: N/C 10+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Israelis and Palestinians, Jews, Christians and Muslims: they are first and foremost musicians. Knowing that it was impossible for them to meet in Israel or in the Palestinian territory, the long-time music vagabond Jean-Yves Labat de Rossi visite...
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23 - 13:15
24 - 11:15
Women Without Men (Zanan-E Bedun-E Maradan)
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Internationally renowned for her photography and video installations, Shirin Neshat’s feature debut won the Silver Lion at Venice and is a powerful adaptation of the controversial Shahrnush Parsipur novella set in Tehran on the eve of the CI...
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21 - 17:45
22 - 18:00
Yatterman (Yattaman)
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 2
Director Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi The Killer) underscores his cult reputation with this frantic big screen adaptation of the hit 1970s television anime. Marbled with explosive action sequences, raunchy innuendo and goofy humour, the film is a...
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25 - 18:00
Zero Focus (Zero No Sh'Ten)
Certificate: N/C 15+ /
Venue: Cineworld 16
Seicho Matsumoto is renowned as one of the finest post-War Japanese thriller writers. Zero Focus was originally published in serial form in the late 1950s and became one of his most popular titles. Previously filmed in 1961, it has now been brough...
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18 - 20:00
Zombie Zombie*
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Venue: Mono
Zombie Zombie perform the music of John Carpenter Glasgow Music and Film Festival have specially commissioned Zombie Zombie (Paris) to perform a tribute to the music of John Carpenter alongside some of their own compositions. Carpenter and Zombie ...
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27 - 19:00
[REC] 2
Certificate: N/C 18+ /
Venue: Glasgow Film Theatre 1
FrightFest welcomed co-directors Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza to Glasgow for the UK premiere of their smash hit [REC]. So it’s only fitting we premiere [REC] 2, their real-time sequel taking off the moment its predecessor ends. With TV pre...
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