27 Nov 2025
Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) – the city’s home of cinema for over 85 years – has revealed its programme for December 2025. In addition to the cinema’s much-loved festive programme, screening from 12 to 24 December, highlights include:
Special Screenings
Glasgow Film Festival’s (GFF) Animated Wednesdays series will return to GFT on Wednesday 3 December, showcasing the first episode of Marvel Animation’s Eyes of Wakanda series, which was produced in collaboration with exciting talent in Scotland. The free screening will include a Q&A with Executive Producer Andrew Pearce, Environment Supervisor Stevie Gill, Animation Producer Alexandra Cameron, and CG-Supervisor Georg-Sebastian Dressler, and will be followed by a drinks reception at Maldron Glasgow. Part of GFF’s Animatic Talent Lab, Animated Wednesdays celebrates the growth of Scotland’s animation sector, and is made possible with funding from the Scottish Government Festivals EXPO Fund through Creative Scotland.
Director Charlie Shackleton will visit GFT on Thursday 4 December for a Q&A hosted by filmmaker Daniel Cockburn, following a special screening of Shackleton’s new documentary Zodiac Killer Project. Winner of the Next Innovator Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival, the film tells the story of Shackleton’s failed attempt to make a true crime documentary.
GFT will also host a special screening of the hilarious British road movie Still Pushing Pineapples, followed by a Q&A with director Kim Hopkins (A Bunch of Amateurs) and producer Margaréta Szabó on Thursday 18 December. The film follows an ageing pop star, his spirited 89-year-old mother, and his feisty girlfriend as they navigate love, family duty, and the relentless pursuit of one last chart success.
Music fans will have the opportunity to witness the musical talents of The Cure on the big screen at GFT’s special screening of The Cure: The Show of a Lost World on Thursday 11 December. The film is a recut, remixed and 4K remastered documentation of the band’s first and only live performance of their Grammy-nominated album ‘Songs of a Lost World’, released in 2024.
Festival Highlights
Focus Hong Kong
GFT will host three special screenings as part of Focus Hong Kong from 9 to 13 December. Dedicated to celebrating the amazing cinema and filmmakers of Hong Kong – widely referred to as the Hollywood of Asia – Focus Hong Kong screens a wide range of new releases and classics. GFT will present screenings of noir crime thriller For Alice (給愛麗絲); Shanghai Blues ( 上海之夜) – a stunning 4K restoration of one of the most beloved classics of 1980s Hong Kong cinema; and The Mighty Peking Man (猩猩王), a rare screening of the Shaw Brothers’ 1977 take on King Kong.
French Film Festival
An annual highlight in the GFT calendar, French Film Festival continues at GFT until 7 December, offering audiences the chance to experience the latest and greatest cinema from across the Channel. December’s programme will include UK premieres of Wild Foxes, The Great Arch, Little Sister, A Magnificent Life, and The Shepherd and the Bear, as well as screenings of François Ozon’s adaptation of Albert Camus’ The Stranger; and the Cannes sensation Sirât.
Films for the Post-Christmas Period
GFT is open right up until Christmas Eve, and re-opens on Saturday 27 December with some of the best new releases of 2025, including Joachim Trier’s hotly anticipated family drama Sentimental Value, starring Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård and Elle Fanning; and Josh Safdie’s sports drama Marty Supreme, starring Timothée Chalamet.
GFT’s post-Christmas programme will also include more chances to see Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, as well as Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut Eleanor the Great, the epic drama I Only Rest in the Storm, and a special screening of three newly restored episodes of the classic The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series. Starring Eille Norwood as the great detective, the episodes ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’, ‘The Golden Pince-Nez’ and ‘The Final Problem’ are accompanied by newly commissioned scores by Joanna MacGregor, Neil Brand and Joseph Havlat, recorded live at the Alexandra Palace Theatre.
For families, GFT’s Take 2 screening on Saturday 27 December will be the classic Technicolor musical The Wizard of Oz. Every child attending a Take 2 screening at GFT will receive a free ticket, plus one free ticket for their accompanying adult. Free tickets are only available on the day of the screening from GFT’s Box Office, and additional tickets cost £6.40.
The cinema will close for New Year on 31 December and 1 January, and will re-open on 2 January.
New releases and re-releases
New releases arriving at GFT in December include this year’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner It Was Just an Accident; Cover-Up – the new documentary from Oscar-winner Laura Poitra (All the Beauty and the Bloodshed), which continues her interest in profiling figures who work to expose injustice, corruption and abuses of power; and the distinctive documentary Fiume o Morte!, which returns to GFT following a sell-out Q&A screening with its director, Igor Bezinović.
Other new releases arriving at GFT in December include Dreamers, The Tale of Silyan, Folktales, and Eternity. Classics The Shining, Sunset Boulevard and L’Atalante will both return to the cinema’s screens in crisp 4K restorations.
Accessible Screenings
In addition to an extensive programme of captioned and audio described screenings, GFT has announced the December 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 December event, GFT has programmed Joe Dante’s follow up to Gremlins – Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Tickets are priced £6.90.
Visible Cinema, GFT’s monthly Deaf-friendly film event, returns in December with a special screening of Martin McDonagh’s darkly festive In Bruges. 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 £6.90.
Movie Memories, GFT’s dementia-friendly film event, will screen the iconic 1980s romcom When Harry Met Sally. 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 December 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.
