July 2025 at GFT

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July 2025 at GFT

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A month of cinematic classics, director showcases, Pride celebrations, and unmissable Q&As at Glasgow’s original independent cinema.

Summer is here — and so is a fantastic line-up of films, special events, and big-screen classics at Glasgow Film Theatre! You can enjoy a season dedicated to the ‘body horror’ master David Cronenberg, screenings to mark Glasgow’s Pride, a bumper crop of big-screen classics, and thought-provoking filmmaker Q&As.

Season Highlights

CineMasters: David Cronenberg

Our acclaimed CineMasters strand, celebrating the icons of cinema, returns with a season honouring Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg, master of the ‘body horror’ genre. Coinciding with the release of his latest film The Shrouds, film fans can experience some of Cronenberg’s most unforgettable and provocative works on the big screen, including Scanners, Videodrome (presented in 4K), The Fly, Dead Ringers, Crash, and Eastern Promises (screening from a 35mm print).

Glasgow’s Pride at GFT

GFT proudly joins Glasgow’s Pride celebrations with a series of special screenings and events. The programme includes Kenyan romantic drama Rafiki, which explores young love in the face of cultural opposition and has been selected by participants at LGBT Unity Glasgow and Africa Global Community Project LGBTQ. We will also host the launch event for Desi Queers, a landmark book on South Asian queer communities in Britain and how they have helped to shape LGBTQ+ movements since the 1970s, written by Churnjeet Mahn, Rohit K. Dasgupta and DJ Ritu. The event includes a special 40th Anniversary screening of the classic My Beautiful Laundrette (newly restored), followed by a panel discussion with Rahul Rao, Neha Apsara, and Desi Queers co-author Churnjeet Mahn.

Ongoing Season Highlights

The Coen Brothers of the Month selection for July is a special screening of Raising Arizona, and our Queer Cinema Sundays programme will continue with the underseen and newly restored 1996 erotic drama Female Perversions.

Summer Classics – Big Screen Icons Return

This July, GFT offers an exceptional Summer Classics line-up, bringing timeless favourites back to the big screen.

The programme includes 20th Anniversary screenings of Joe Wright’s Pride and Prejudice, marking 250 years since Jane Austen’s birth; two epic double-bills pairing High Fidelity with Almost Famous and Picnic at Hanging Rock with The Virgin Suicides; and a mini Barbara Stanwyck retrospective, with Ball of Fire and Stella Dallas screening digitally in cinemas for the very first time.

We will mark the anniversaries of many of cinema’s most adored masterworks in July, with 50th Anniversary screenings of Barry Lyndon; 40th Anniversary screenings of Ran and Desperately Seeking Susan; and 30th Anniversary screenings of To Die For. Film fans can also enjoy Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now – The Final Cut alongside the documentary about its production, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse in 4K.

Other classics playing at GFT in July include Spirited Away, Human Traffic, Amadeus and Local Hero.

A Special Farewell

Angela Freeman, one of our longest-serving staff members, retires in June after 34 years as Senior Front of House Manager. To celebrate her remarkable contribution, we will screen one of her personal favourites, cult classic Withnail and I, on Sunday 6 July.

Q&As and Special Screenings

We're excited to host a special screening of Love & Trouble, a moving documentary about one couple’s experiences of mental illness and healing, on Saturday 12 July, followed by a Q&A with director Amy Hardie and Talk Now company director, Patricia Mair.

Producer Alice Hughes will also visit the cinema on Monday 21 July, for a special Q&A screening of Holloway, the powerful documentary about former inmates of what was once Europe’s largest prison for women.

New Releases

New releases arriving in July include Hot Milk, The Road to Patagonia, The Shrouds, The Other Way Around, Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes, The Line We Crossed, Gazer and Dying.

Film fans will also have the chance to revisit some of the most popular new releases we've played in 2025 so far, with extra screenings of Vermiglio, Flow and The Brutalist on 70mm.

Accessible Screenings

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 July event, we will screen Sofia Coppola’s modern classic Lost in Translation, with tickets available for just £6.90.

Visible Cinema, our monthly Deaf-friendly film event, will celebrate Glasgow’s Pride with a special screening of Pride. 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 Oscar-winning musical On the Town, starring Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra. 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 GFT’s July programme are on sale now from glasgowfilm.org and the GFT Box Office.

Explore the Programme

Explore the Programme The Holdovers - It's A Wonderful Life - The Muppet Christmas Carol - Take 2: The Muppet Christmas Carol - Home Alone - Elf - Die Hard - The Bishop's Wife - Gremlins - Take 2: The Nightmare Before Christmas - White Christmas - Eyes Wide Shut - In Bruges - National Theatre Live: Hamlet - Access Film Club: Gremlins 2: The New Batch - Movie Memories: When Harry Met Sally - Sirat - The Great Arch - A Magnificent Life - Anna and the Apocalypse - Batman Returns - The Hudsucker Proxy - Sentimental Value - Marty Supreme - Youth Screening: The Double Life of Veronique - Visible Cinema: In Bruges - Eternity - L'Atalante - Folktales - Sunset Boulevard - 75th Anniversary - 4K Restoration - The Tale of Silyan - The Shining (45th Anniversary) - Eleanor the Great - Still Pushing Pineapples + Q&A - For Alice (給愛麗絲) - Shanghai Blues (上海之夜) - 4K Restoration - The Mighty Peking Man (猩猩王\) - The Cure: The Show of a Lost World - Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases - Take 2 Access: The Muppet Christmas Carol - Take 2: Arthur Christmas - Take 2: The Wizard of Oz - Cover-Up - I Only Rest in the Storm - Bulk + Q&A - National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses - National Theatre Live: The Playboy Of The Western World

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