7th November 2022
Writer Eva articulates the importance of queer representation and communities in her review of Immigrant Stories. The Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF) celebrated the last event of its Mini-Series on Friday 21 October and I had the pleasure of attending the screening Immigrant Stories with LGBT Unity Glasgow. They are a community-led group which ...
16th October 2022
Short films are not often the focus of a cinematic experience. Longer format films are often seen as the ultimate storytelling medium and therefore populate most of our screens. This is a rather sad phenomenon as short films can offer another way of engaging with the visual medium – one which is more open to ...
29th May 2022
The Glasgow Guardian spoke to Erifili Missiou, founder and artistic director of Emerging Filmmakers Night (EFN). Erifili Missiou started this exciting festival to give a platform for new filmmakers with affordable entry and lots of workshops and exciting events to enjoy. It takes place in September this year at The Garden Cinema in London, and ...
13th March 2022
Patrick dives into the Irish-language cinema taking centre stage at GFF ‘22 with Colm Bairéad’s intimate coming of age drama. In a fascinating interview with the television station TG4, the seminal Irish writer Máirtín Ó Cadhain discussed what would happen if the tradition of Irish-language literature died out. He predicted the corrosive effect it would ...
16th November 2021
Megan implores us to check out the fantastic cross-culture line up that is the Havana Glasgow Film Festival, running until 21 November. The seventh edition of the Havana Glasgow Film Festival is due to commence on 16 November and will run until 21 November. Highlighting the cultural links between the worlds of Glasgow and its ...
10th December 2020
The opening and closing films have also been announced. Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) will host screenings in cinemas across the UK, it was announced today. The 22 independent cinemas partnered with the festival will show a selection of cinema-only screenings for the programme, as well as the festival’s opening and closing films. These films will ...
9th September 2020
13 films from the festival will be shown at GFT in October. As film festivals around the world adapt to coronavirus, BFI are bringing London Film Festival (LFF) to the whole of the UK. Films will be available online and at their partner venues across the UK, including our own Glasgow Film Theatre. LFF is ...
