03 Jul 2025
Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) — the city's home of film for over 85 years — has revealed its packed July programme. This summer, film lovers 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
GFT’s 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. GFT 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
GFT’s Coen Brothers of the Month selection for July is a special screening of Raising Arizona, and the cinema’s 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.
GFT 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 GFT’s longest-serving staff members, retires in June after 34 years as Senior Front of House Manager. To celebrate her remarkable contribution, GFT will screen one of her personal favourites, cult classic Withnail and I, on Sunday 6 July.
Q&As and Special Screenings
GFT will 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.
On Saturday 19 July, director Liz Smith will participate in a Q&A after a special screening of her climate activism documentary The Line We Crossed.
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 at GFT in July will 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 GFT has played in 2025 so far, with extra screenings of Vermiglio, Flow and The Brutalist on 70mm.
Accessible Screenings
In addition to an extensive programme of captioned and audio described screenings, GFT has announced the July editions of its 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 July event, GFT will screen Sofia Coppola’s modern classic Lost in Translation, with tickets available for just £6.90.
Visible Cinema, GFT’s 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, GFT’s 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.
GFT is operated by Glasgow Film, an educational charity which also runs the award-winning Glasgow Film Festival and Glasgow Youth Film Festival, and is the lead organisation for Film Hub Scotland. GFT is the city’s original independent arthouse cinema and the home of film in Glasgow. Glasgow Film is funded by Creative Scotland, Screen Scotland and Glasgow City Council.
