Beats + short + Q&A

<div style="font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Best mates Johnno and Spanner head out for one last night of raving together before Johnno’s family move away, in this bittersweet coming-of-age ode to 1990s subculture.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></div><div><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the summer of 1994, in a small town in central Scotland, best mates Johnno (<b>Cristian Ortega</b>) and Spanner (<b>Lorn Macdonald</b>) head out for one last night of raving together before Johnno’s family move away. Shot partly on gritty black and white, Beats effortlessly taps into a youthful nostalgia for an endless party, and the counterculture movement of the 90s.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>This screening will be followed by a short film called <i>Smoke </i>by Kieran Turley.&nbsp;</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><div style="font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This screening is part of the BFI&nbsp;<a href="https://www.glasgowfilm.org/rip-it-up">Rip It Up season</a>, a series of films highlighting the intersection of music, fashion and youth counterculture, curated by GFT’s Young Ambassadors. Rip It Up celebrates youth creativity and rebellion across the decades, from Mods and Rockers to the heady underground Scottish rave scene of the 1990s. Screenings will be accompanied by specially commissioned programme notes from our Young Ambassadors.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rip It Up is supported by the BFI Film Audience Network, awarding funds from the National Lottery.</div></div>DramaPT1H40M182026-10-28GBen
Lorn Macdonald
Laura Fraser
Brian Ferguson
Brian Welsh
Camilla Bray
Beats + short + Q&A"Beats + short + Q&A"

Showtimes

October 28, 8:00 pm

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