Cinema City Treasure Hunt We’ve teamed up with Walking Heads to offer an exciting, interactive treasure hunt through Glasgow’s cinema history. Meet at GFT and embark on an hour-long audio tour incorporating old variety halls, bookstores and former theatres – who knows what you’ll learn along the way! Follow clues that lead you to each new venue and you may win some treasure. The hunt concludes at our Festival Club in CCA where prizes will be awarded. Take part alone or in a team of up to four. Participants must possess a smart phone to take part as responses will be sent via text, tweet or email. Full instructions will be given upon purchase of your ticket.
Great Scots Meet in GFT’s Balcony Bar Saturday 23 February (14.00) 2h30m Thanks to Walking Heads
Costs £5 per team
Cinema City Walking Tour Cinema historians Gordon Barr and Gary Painter of the website www.scottishcinemas.org.uk will take you on a two-hour guided walk past a selection some of Glasgow city centre’s cinema buildings. They will tell you the story of the full range of Glasgow’s unique and architecturally diverse cinemas: from converted warehouses to the earliest purpose-built halls, and from the peculiarly Scottish back-court theatres to the finest 1930s art deco super-cinemas. Highlighting, as they go, cinemas that were, cinemas that are, and cinemas that might have been.
Great Scots Sunday 17 February (14.00) Tuesday 19 February (18.30) 2h Thanks to Gordon Barr and Gary Painter
Tickets cost £5, payable on the day. Numbers are limited, to reserve a place please email walks@scottishcinemas.org. The starting point for the walk will be confirmed by email.
Citadel Winner of the Midnight Audience Award at SXSW, Citadel offers a fresh take on urban paranoia. The influence of Roman Polanski’s Repulsion hangs over the tale of Tommy (Aneurin Barnard), a young man traumatised by a vicious assault on his pregnant wife by the feral hoodies who inhabit an abandoned tower block. Crippled by agoraphobia, Tommy fears the creatures who roam the area and circle his home. Are they just deprived kids living on the streets or something much more terrifying? Filmed on wintry Glasgow locations, Citadel is a creepy, low-budget chiller featuring a barnstorming performance from James Cosmo as an unconventional priest.
Citizens: International Competition 3 A sense of community pervades our third international selection – communities under threat, in revolt or newly forming in unexpected places. The women of the Cuicuro tribe in Brazil take charge when their menfolk transform into Enraged Pigs, whilst a lonely lift operator glimpses signs of a revolution in The Lift. Elsewhere class contradictions are revealed by a death in police custody and a stolen dog, while Polaris offers a snapshot of the Filipino community fishing off Scotland’s North East coast. Full details of all the films are provided in the Glasgow Short Film Festival brochure.
Cloud Atlas One of the most eagerly anticipated films of the year, Cloud Atlas transforms David Mitchell’s landmark novel into a sweeping, kaleidoscopic epic on the way individual lives and actions can have profound consequences that echo through time. An all-star cast including Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent and Doona Bae are used in multiple roles, threaded through connected tales that move from the Pacific Islands in the 1840s to Scotland in the 1930s, San Francisco in the 1970s, a futuristic New Seoul and a post-apocalyptic Hawaii. Co-directors Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer have combined their unique talents to create a dazzling feat of cinematic storytelling that is just as captivating as the bestselling novel.
Colors Cores If Jim Jarmusch hailed from Brazil he might have made a film like Colors, a moody, laid-back, black-and-white debut from Francisco Garcia that marks him out as a talent to watch. Brazil may be enjoying an economic boom but nobody seems to have told the trio of Sao Paulo hipsters at the heart of this story. Luca is a tattoo artist sharing an apartment with his elderly grandmother and her equally ancient tortoise. Luiz is a drug dealer and Luara works in a tropical fish store, nurturing dreams of escape. Garcia finds deadpan comedy in their struggles on the margins in an endearing film that is backed by a feisty soundtrack from electronic composer Wilson Sukorski.
Great Scots GFT Saturday 16 February (21.15) Sunday 17 February (11.15) Director Ciaran Foy Cast Aneurin Barnard, James Cosmo, Wunmi Mosaku Ireland/Scotland 2012, 1h24m, N/C 15+ Thanks to Revolver Entertainment Glasgow Short Film Festival CCA Thursday 7 February (17.15) Sunday 10 February (16.00) 1h30m, N/C 15+
Gala GFT Sunday 17 February (19.15) Monday 18 February (13.15) Directors Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski Cast Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent USA/Germany/Hong Kong/ Singapore 2012, 2h52m, 15 Thanks to Warner Bros. Pictures Buena Onda: New Brazilian Cinema GFT Monday 18 February (18.30) Tuesday 19 February (10.45) Director Francisco Garcia Cast Maria Célia Camargo, Pedro di Pietro, Simone Iliesco Brazil 2012, 1h35m, Spanish with subtitles, N/C 15+ Thanks to Alpha Violet
In association with Boteco do Brasil and the Embassy of Brazil in London
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