Glasgow greats and forgotten gems are to be screened in Glasgow as part of the fifth Southside Film Festival, which will run at various venues across the Southside from October 8-11. The festival, which has run since 2011, turns Southside spaces into pop-up cinemas in response to a lack of picturehouses in the local area.
This year’s festival reflects on the theme of cinema heritage and film archive with screenings, exhibitions and talks. It also features showings as part of the BFI's Britain on Film Project. One programme highlight is ‘The Gorbals Story’ (pictured above), a 1950 film adaptation of Robert McLeish’s play which is to be screened in the Gorbals for the first time, in the A-listed St Frances Community Centre. There'll also be a screening of 1950s film ‘Madeleine’ with a three-course French meal at Pollok House; free event Scotland on Screen, which looks at how the country is portrayed on film and the effects this has; and a free screening of Laurel and Hardy’s ‘Putting Pants on Philip’ at Pollokshaws Burgh Hall, which is as highbrow as it sounds.
Alongside the screenings, the absence of a cinema in the Southside is highlighted in free exhibition ‘Lost Cinemas of Glasgow: Architecture and Society’ at The Glad Café from September 29-October 26, which showcases the fates of Glasgow’s 160 former cinema buildings. There'll also be an afternoon focused on craft called ‘Making in the Movies’ at Govanhill Baths.
The full programme is out now.
Southside Film Festival, October 8-11, various venues. Some events free/unticketed, tickets for the others available in advance.
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