February 2026 at GFT
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February 2026 at GFT
Believe it or not, January is almost behind us and things are heating up at GFT. Highlights in our February programme include:
• The continuation of our CineMasters: Jean-Luc Godard season
• The 10th edition of the Fokus: Films from Germany festival
• A chance to see many of the year’s top awards contenders on the big screen, ahead of the BAFTA and Academy Awards
Seasons and Festivals
Our CineMasters: Jean-Luc Godard season continues into February with special screenings of the French New Wave master’s works, including more chances to enjoy his masterpiece, Breathless (À Bout de Souffle), on the big screen in crisp 4K. The season coincides with the release of Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater’s new dramatisation of the making of Breathless, on 30 January.
Fokus: Films from Germany festival celebrates its 10th Anniversary in February, with four special screenings curated by Rastko Novaković taking place at GFT. This year’s programme, ‘Women: Words and Worlds’, delves into the Goethe-Institut’s catalogue, covering a century of German cinema, revisiting different moments in German history, and women’s changing roles and experiences.
Our popular, long-running Coen Brothers of the Month season will continue on Monday 16 February with a screening of Barton Fink, introduced by film critic and writer, Hannah McGill.
The February screening in our Queer Cinema Sundays programme will be Tzeli Hadzidimitriou's Lesvia, a documentary that chronicles 40+ years of lesbian identity and conflict between the locals of a small village on the Greek island of Lesvos, and lesbians who arrived searching for love, freedom and community.
Special Screenings
We will mark LGBT History Month in February with a special screening of Stephen Winter’s frenetic debut, Chocolate Babies. A hidden gem of New Queer Cinema, the film follows an underground band of radical queer HIV+ activists, addicts, and drag queens as they take to the streets of New York City to combat conservative politicians and government apathy towards the AIDS crisis.
For Valentine’s Day, our romantic offering pairs two stories of unexpected connections. Harold and Maude sees a morbid teenager drawn to a lively woman 60 years his senior, who encourages him to live life to the full. The Way We Were stars Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford as a diametrically opposed couple whose love story unfolds against the political backdrops of the Second World War and McCarthyism.
Our regular Sound and Vision programme, showcasing epic musical talent on the big screen, continues in February with a special screening from Silents Synced – an initiative that pairs classic silent movies with epic rock music to bring audiences a unique big screen experience. Buster Keaton’s 1924 comedy classic Sherlock Jr has been reimagined with R.E.M.'s alt-rock masterpieces Monster (1994) and New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996), and will play on Thursday 5 February.
New releases and re-releases
Several Oscar- and BAFTA-tipped new releases will arrive on our big screens during the next month, including Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague; Best International Film potentials The Secret Agent and Sirât; stunning animation Little Amélie; and Rose Byrne’s powerhouse performance in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You; as well as extra chances to see Marty Supreme and Hamnet. Also on the BAFTA shortlist, Claire Foy stars in an adaptation of Helen Macdonald’s bestselling nature memoir H is for Hawk; and British-Nigerian filmmaker Akinola Davies Jr delivers a strong directorial debut with My Father’s Shadow.
Other new releases arriving in February include Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut The Chronology of Water, Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of "Wuthering Heights", Bradley Cooper’s Is This Thing On?, and dark comedy Twinless. World cinema fans should look out for Iraqi drama The President’s Cake, and All That’s Left of You – which tells the story of a Palestinian family across seven decades.
Accessible Screenings
In addition to our extensive programme of captioned and audio described screenings, we have announced the February 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 February event, we have programmed John Hughes’s hit 1980s love story, Pretty in Pink. Tickets are priced at £6.90.
Visible Cinema, our monthly Deaf-friendly film event, returns in February with a special screening of Kristen Stewart’s The Chronology of Water, starring Imogen Poots. 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 priced at £6.90.
Movie Memories, our dementia-friendly film event, will celebrate Valentine’s Day with a special screening of Sydney Pollack’s 1973 romantic drama The Way We Were. 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 February programme are on sale now from glasgowfilm.org and our Box Office.
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