January 2025 at GFT

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As film awards season approaches, we're looking forward to a January packed with some of the biggest awards contenders and a season devoted to the legendary British director Mike Leigh.

Awards Contenders

Ones to watch ahead of the nomination announcements from the BAFTAs and the Academy Awards include the decades-spanning romance We Live In Time, starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh; and the gothic vampire tale Nosferatu from Robert Eggers (The VVitch, The Lighthouse), with select screenings on 35mm.

Many of the films nominated for Golden Globes in 2025 will play in January, including Best Motion Picture – Drama, Musical/Comedy and Animation nominees Nickel Boys, The Brutalist, A Real Pain and The Wild Robot. True to form as the place to watch the best of foreign filmmaking in Glasgow, we have plans to screen every film in the Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language category, with I’m Still Here, The Girl with the Needle and Vermiglio all playing in January. It's also the season of outstanding performances, with screenings of Maria, Babygirl and a February preview of The Last Showgirl, all of which have received Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture nominations for Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman and Pamela Anderson.

Seasons and Festivals

Our long-running CineMasters season, celebrating directors and key figures from filmmaking history, gives audiences the opportunity to watch their work on the big screen. It returns in January with a season devoted to Mike Leigh, perfectly timed to coincide with the release of his 15th film, Hard Truths. We will bring four of Leigh's greatest works – Life is Sweet, Secrets & Lies, Topsy-Turvy and Vera Drake – back to the big screen, with Topsy-Turvy screening from a 35mm print. The season will culminate with a preview screening of Hard Truths on Sunday 26 January.

GFT will play host to the Goethe-Institut Glasgow’s Scotland-wide Fokus: Films from Germany festival. This year’s edition, curated by Camilla Baier, invites film fans to explore the many facets of personal and collective identity in current German cinema. Screenings at GFT will include poignant coming-of-age drama Foreign Language (Langue Étrangère), vivid documentary Rebels (Rebellinnen – Fotografie. Underground. DDR.), spirited 1920 silent comedy Kohlhiesel’s Daughters (Kohlhiesels Töchter), and coming-of-age drama Elbow (Ellbogen).

We will also host a special screening of Kim Carnie: Out Loud in partnership with Celtic Connections — a documentary following Scottish singer and musician Kim Carnie as she meets members of the LGBTQ+ community from around the world, who hid their sexuality for a variety of reasons. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Kim Carnie.

GFT’s Queer Cinema Sundays programme, which provides a monthly opportunity to dive into the wonderful catalogue of LGBTQ+ cinema, will return in January with a screening of Xavier Dolan’s Matthias and Maxime. After the film, the team behind The Skinny's film podcast The CineSkinny – Anahit Behrooz, Ellie Robertson, Jamie Dunn and Peter Simpson – will join the Queer Cinema Sundays audience to take part in a discussion about the film, Dolan and some of the other notable new queer auteurs this century who explore desire, repression and queer lives in similarly raw, challenging and nuanced ways.

Special Screenings

Newly restored in 4K from the original negative film elements, the revisionist Hammer Horror and cult hit Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter, directed by legendary creator Brian Clemens (The Avengers, The Professionals), will come to GFT for a one-off screening on Wednesday 22 January.

Glasgow’s film fans will also have a chance to see Mrs Robinson, the new documentary about Ireland’s first female president, Mary Robinson, on Tuesday 28 January.

Tickets for GFT’s January programme are on sale now from glasgowfilm.org and the GFT Box Office.

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