What's on at GFT in June 2024

From the sandy deserts of Arrakis to the grassy plains of The Shire, join us as we journey to other worlds this Summer at GFT. We're excited to announce our programme for June, which will include a season devoted to Dune director Denis Villeneuve, a special programme celebrating Pride Month and screenings of the Lord of the Rings trilogy in extended 4K editions.

Our ongoing CineMasters season celebrates directors and key figures from filmmaking history and makes a welcome return in June to showcase the work of Québécois director Denis Villeneuve. Responsible for some of contemporary cinema’s biggest blockbusters, Villeneuve was named ‘filmmaker of the decade’ by the Hollywood Critics Association in 2019. His cerebral films often tackle themes of trauma, identity and memory and simultaneously manage to please a crowd. In June, you'll have the chance to see six of Villeneuve’s intrepid and spectacular works back on the big screen, including Incendies, Sicario, Arrival, Blade Runner 2049 and an epic double-bill screening of Dune Parts One and Two, with Part Two screening on 70mm.

June also heralds the arrival of The Dead Don't Hurt — the brilliant second film directed by big screen superstar Viggo Mortensen, who recently visited GFT for its UK premiere during Glasgow Film Festival. To coincide with its release, we're revisiting the cinematic epic starring Mortensen in the role that he remains best-known and loved for: the Lord of the Rings trilogy. From Friday 7 – Sunday 9 June, extended editions of each of the three films in the trilogy will screen in crisp 4K, with tickets for each screening available for just £6.50.

We're also celebrating Pride Month in June with four iconic LGBTQ+ films. The Pride programme will begin with Stephan Elliot’s joyous queer classic The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, which is returning to cinemas to mark its 30th Anniversary. Film fans can also enjoy Céline Sciamma’s sumptuous period romance Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Bob Fosse's multi Oscar-winning musical Cabaret, and The Wachowski sisters' (The Matrix) unforgettable debut film — sexy neo-noir Bound. Our Queer Cinema Sundays programme will also return in June with a special screening of Donna Deitch’s luscious 1990s romantic drama Desert Hearts.

We recently announced a new long-running season with T A P E called SNAPSHOT, which will showcase films about Black girls coming of age on their own terms. With an eye that is at once nostalgic and critical, the programme will take a deep dive into films by Black female filmmakers across the decades, platforming cinema which allows its subjects to be powerful, complicated, vulnerable, and the main character in their own stories. The season will begin with Cauleen Smith’s Drylongso, a lost treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking which embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/ romance.

The June programme also include a special free screening of powerful documentary Five Broken Cameras, selected by GFT Front of House staff as an opportunity to raise awareness and funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians. Tickets can be booked for free, and there will be an opportunity for audience members to to donate to MAP during the screening.

We will have the pleasure of hosting several visiting festivals during the month of June. Refugee Festival Scotland will bring four screenings to GFT from 15 - 22 June, including a collection of short films celebrating resilience across the Arab region which will be followed by a Q&A with director Roxana Vilk and BAFTA winning Palestinian playwright Ghazi Hussein; Panah Panahi's award-winning debut Hit the Road; riveting drama Opponent; and Green Border – the poignant new drama from three-time Oscar Nominee Agnieszka Holland, with a special recorded introduction by Holland.

SAFAR Film Festival will screen an exclusive preview of Bye Bye Tiberias followed by a Q&A with director Lina Soualem; gripping drama Inshallah A Boy; the award-winning Goodbye Julia; and and a special screening of Soraida, a Woman of Palestine, followed by a panel discussion on Palestinian cinema.

UK Green Film Festival will also return to GFT with two exciting titles: Green City Life, which sees two young city dwellers travel to Mexico, Europe and the USA in search of solutions for how we build the cities of tomorrow; and Light Needs, an imaginative documentary delves into the lives of houseplants who cohabitate with people, and the surprisingly complex relationships that can develop between them. Tickets for both screenings are just £6.50.

Glasgow International, Scotland’s biennial festival of contemporary art, brings a unique filmmaking project to GFT for a one-off series of screenings. Based on 170 short films, Legacy Of An Invisible Bullet invites an audience into the collapsed time universe of a cancer-struck, conflicted filmmaker and video artist as he investigates his life and film archive, with the help of a female avatar acting as his subconscious voice. The films are divided into 16 chapters that will play across 5 screenings with Sliding Scale (pay what you can) tickets at GFT, culminating in a special screening of the Feature Cut of Legacy of an Invisible Bullet, followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker Doug Aubrey. Glasgow International will also screen Descants, a new moving image work by artists Anne-Marie Copestake, Emmie McLuskey and Duncan Marquiss. Commissioned by Glasgow International in 2020 and filmed during Covid lockdowns and restrictions, the work is an informal community portrait that maps conversations between artists who participated in the festival programme that eventually took place in June 2021.

We also have a packed programme of new releases and re-releases coming up in June, including A House in Jerusalem, The Beast, Slow, Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Leila and the Wolves, The Dead Don't Hurt, Riddle of Fire, Here, Sasquatch Sunset, Wilding, Ama Gloria, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Bikeriders, The G, Tiger Stripes and Sorcery.

Our Accessible Programme in June includes an autism-friendly Access Film Club screening of The Lego Movie, a deaf and hard of hearing friendly screening of short films curated by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s BA Performance in British Sign Language and English students; and a dementia-friendly screening of Viva Las Vegas.

Tickets for our June Programme are on sale now from glasgowfilm.org and the GFT Box Office.