August 2025 at GFT
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August 2025 at GFT
We're delighted to unveil our August 2025 programme, featuring a vibrant mix of classic seasons, cultural celebrations, new releases, and special events. Highlights include:
• A genre-spanning Rob Reiner retrospective as part of our CineMasters strand
• Two rich classics seasons from Cinema Rediscovered on Tour
• A trio of screenings for South Asian Heritage Month
• A youth-curated anime mini-season
• The return of audience favourite In the Mood for Love, with a rarely-seen companion short
Season Highlights
Our CineMasters strand returns with a tribute to multi-hyphenate filmmaker Rob Reiner, whose Hollywood hits helped define the 1980s and 1990s. This season showcases his remarkable range — from the timeless romcom When Harry Met Sally to the cult fantasy The Princess Bride and the psychological thriller Misery. The season concludes with two special screenings of his dazzling directorial debut This Is Spinal Tap, including an exclusive recorded introduction from Reiner himself.
Cinema Rediscovered on Tour
Presented by Watershed in partnership with Park Circus and StudioCanal, and supported by the BFI (awarding funds from the National Lottery), we'll be playing two standout programmes from Cinema Rediscovered on Tour throughout August:
- Against the Grain: 1980s British Cinema explores the bold, independent spirit of British filmmaking in the 1980s, with titles including My Beautiful Laundrette, Angel, Ping Pong, In Fading Light, and Defence of the Realm (screening from 35mm with a recorded intro by actor Gabriel Byrne).
- Restored and Rediscovered provides a rare opportunity to see recent restorations of essential classics on the big screen, including Killer of Sheep, Chameleon Street, Diva, and The Fall of Otrar, with a recorded introduction by Kazakh film critic Dr Gulnara Abikeyeva.
To mark South Asian Heritage Month, we will present a selection of films programmed by freelance programmer and artist Neha Apsara exploring the rich experiences of the South Asian diaspora. Titles include Dheepan (Palme d’Or winner), I for India (a powerful documentary on the immigrant experience in Britain), and Mahanagar (The Big City) by legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray.
Curated by our Youth Board, this mini-season dives into the past 30 years of groundbreaking anime. Screenings include The End of Evangelion (1997), Mind Game (2004), Your Name (2016), and Night is Short, Walk On Girl (2017) — highlighting the stylistic evolution made possible by digital animation and showcasing the genre’s emotional depth and visual brilliance.
The popular long-running season continues in August with a special screening of the iconic black comedy Fargo.
Special Screenings and Events
Fans of the band Pavement won’t want to miss our special screening of Pavements on Saturday 2 August — an irreverent, genre-bending portrait of the iconic 1990s indie rock band, followed by a recorded Q&A with acclaimed director Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell, Listen Up Philip).
On Monday 4 August, we will offer film fans the chance to enjoy The Oslo Stories Trilogy (Dreams, Love, Sex) in an epic triple-bill screening. Also screening separately throughout August, this ambitious set of films from novelist-turned-filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud explores themes of love, intimacy and desire in contemporary Norway.
On Wednesday 6 August, we will present the first in Glasgow Film Festival’s Animated Wednesdays series with a special screening of The Snowman director Jimmy Murakami’s lesser-known British classic When the Wind Blows, curated by Heather Bradshaw and featuring a recorded introduction by Ghibliotheque’s Michael Leader. Part of Glasgow Film Festival’s Animatic Talent Lab, the event will include a post-screening networking event at the Maldron Hotel.
Always an audience favourite, Wong Kar Wai’s romantic masterpiece In the Mood for Love will return to our screens from 8 - 14 August, with the feature followed by a special presentation of In the Mood for Love 2001, a previously-unseen short film by Wong Kar Wai. Originally screened only during Wong’s 2001 Cannes masterclass, In the Mood for Love 2001 demonstrates the director’s masterful ability to generate palpable atmosphere and striking characterisations on a miniature canvas — with In the Mood for Love stars Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Maggie Cheung Man Yuk once again providing the sizzling chemistry.
Looking further ahead, on Thursday 11 September, we will welcome director Doug Rao and Outlander actor Graham McTavish to the cinema for a Q&A, following a special screening of chilling psychological thriller Dirty Boy.
New Releases
Some of the year’s most anticipated new releases will screen in August, including Eddington — the new film from Midsommar director Ari Aster; The Materialists from Past Lives director Celine Song; Bring Her Back from Talk to Me directors Danny and Michael Philippou; and Michael Shanks’ Together, starring real-life couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie.
Other new releases arriving in August will include Sorry, Baby, The Kingdom, What Does That Nature Say to You?, 2000 Meters to Andriivka, Motherboard, Late Shift and Savages.
Film fans will also have another chance to discover or revisit a selection of classic masterpieces back on our screens, including La Haine, Barry Lyndon, Withnail & I, Sense and Sensibility, and 50th Anniversary screenings of Jaws.
Accessible Screenings
In addition to an extensive programme of captioned and audio described screenings, we're pleased to reveal the August editions of our long-running accessible film events.
Access Film Club, delivered in partnership with the National Autistic Society Scotland, includes a film screening and post-film chat in a friendly and welcoming environment. For the August event, we are screening the iconic 1990s comedy Clueless, with tickets available for just £6.90.
Visible Cinema, our monthly Deaf-friendly film event, returns in August with a screening of The Materialists, Celine Song's follow-up to her exceptional debut Past Lives. There will be full access for Deaf, deafened and hard of hearing cinema-goers at this screening. The film will have descriptive subtitles, and the introduction and discussion will have Live Captioning and BSL interpretation. Tickets are available for £6.90.
Movie Memories, our dementia-friendly film event, will screen the 1963 comedy-drama Lilies of the Field, starring Sidney Poitier. Designed to enable people living with dementia to socialise in a safe and welcoming environment, tickets for Movie Memories cost £3 and include free refreshments and live music.
Tickets for our August programme are on sale now from glasgowfilm.org and the GFT Box Office.
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