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The Small Cinema, Glasgow (2026)

10/11/2025

🎬 Next Screening: Crossing
🗓 Friday 14th November 2025 |
📍 The Deep End, 21 Nithsdale Street
🎟 £5 | Doors 6.30PM | Film starts 7.00PM

Our next screening is Crossing, a quiet and resilient story about two Georgian strangers setting out on an adventure crossing the Black Sea to reconnect with an estranged family member.

The film follows Lia, a retired teacher from Georgia, who learns from her young neighbour, Achi, that her long-lost transgender niece, Tekla, has crossed the border into Turkey. In search of Tekla, Lia travels to Istanbul with the unpredictable Achi. Exploring the hidden depths of the city, they cross paths with a transgender lawyer called Evrim, who helps them in their search.

Crossing is the fourth feature from Levan Akin, who had his breakthrough with the critically acclaimed And Then We Danced. Once again exploring q***r narratives of injustice in his home country Georgia.

🎫 Tickets are £5, get yours here - https://thesmallcinema.org/event/crossing/

01/11/2025

🎬 Next Screening: How I Ended This Summer
🗓 Thursday 6th November 2025 |
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🎫 £5 | Doors 7.45 PM | Film starts 8.00PM

Our next screening, How I Ended This Summer (2010), is the perfect example of the director Alexei Popogrebsky's signature style: unhurried pacing, long takes, and a focus on minimalist narratives that explore human relationships against vast, changing landscapes.

The film is set at a weather station in the remote Russian Arctic, where a secret threatens to destroy a fragile trust between two men working together over the summer. How I Ended This Summer is a tense, beautifully shot drama about isolation, fear, and what happens when a small lie grows out of control.

🎫 Tickets are £5, get yours through the link in our bio.

16/10/2025

🎬 Next Screening: Calm With Horses
🗓 Friday 24th October 2025 | 📍
🎟 £5 | Doors 7.45 PM | Film starts 8.00PM

Coming up in October is Calm With Horses (2019). Nick Rowland’s feature debut is a brutal yet tender crime drama set in rural Ireland, where loyalty, rage, and fatherhood collide.

The film follows Arm, a former boxer now working as an enforcer for the Devers crime family, who’s desperately trying to be a good father to his autistic son, and reconcile with his ex, Ursula. As the demands of the criminal underworld tighten around him, Arm’s inner conflict between duty, violence, and wanting something more comes to the surface.

🎫 Tickets are £5, get yours through the link in our bio.

07/10/2025

🎬 Next Screening: Kamikaze Girls
🗓 Thursday 16 October 2025 | 📍
🎟 £5 | Doors 7.45 PM | Film starts 8.00PM

Starting this October with Kamikaze Girls (2004), Tetsuya Nakashima’s wildly colourful and playful coming-of-age comedy. The film follows Momoko, a Rococo fashion devotee, and Ichigo, a leather-clad biker girl, as their worlds collide in the Japanese countryside. It’s a story about friendship, difference, and finding your own place in the world, with loads of humour and style along the way.

🎫 Tickets are £5, get yours here - https://thesmallcinema.org/event/kamikaze-girls/

30/08/2025

🎬 Next Screening: The Great Silence
🗓 Friday 12 September 2025 | 📍 Hampden Bowling Club, 10 Kingsley Ave G42 8BU
🎟 £5 | Doors 7.45 PM | Film starts 8.00PM

We’re kicking things off this September with The Great Silence (1968), Sergio Corbucci’s bleak, brilliant reimagination of the Spaghetti Western genre. Set in snowbound Utah during the brutal winter of 1898, it trades the usual dusty deserts for frozen landscapes and swaps classic cowboy heroics for a story of greed, corruption and survival.

This will also be our first screening in a new venue - Hampden Bowling Club. More info on this coming soon!

🎫 Tickets are £5, get yours here - https://smallsouthsidecinema.org/event/the-great-silence/

28/08/2025

Just one more sleep until our next screening! Tomorrow we’re showing Son of The White Mare, a Hungarian animated film from 1981, but first, we’re excited to host The Bone Shack collective with their short "Date Fright".

Doors open: 6.30
Pre-Screening: 6.45
Main screening: 7.00

Let us know if you can’t make it, so we can pass your ticket on to someone else who missed out!

19/08/2025

We switched sides and enjoyed some nice cinema and industry talks at the .

We found some pretty cool new shorts, and once we had a little rest, we'll do a bit of programming to bring them onto our screen.

If you’ve seen us around, get in touch and spread the word!

06/08/2025

🎬 Next Screening: Son of the White Mare
🗓 Friday 29 August 2025 | 📍 The Deep End, 21 Nithsdale Street
🎟 £5 | Doors 6.30PM | Pre-Screening 6.45PM | Film starts 7.00PM

Our next screening is Son of the White Mare (1981), a Hungarian animated fantasy epic bursting with astonishing colours, shapeshifting worlds, and hypnotic 80s Eastern European animation.

The story follows Treeshaker, the superhuman son of a celestial white mare, as he ventures into the underworld to rescue three princesses from an evil dragon and restore balance to a world thrown into chaos.

Drawing on Hungarian mythology and folklore, the film unfolds like a surreal fairytale told through colourful light, full of impossible architecture, heroic trials, and otherworldly creatures. A must-see for fans of Fantastic Planet, Yellow Submarine, or Princess Mononoke.

Before the main feature, we’ll be showcasing “Date Fright”, a short animated film created by The Bone Shack, a collective of Scottish animators and artists making groovy and spooky short films.

🎟 Tickets are £5, get yours here -https://smallsouthsidecinema.org/event/son-of-the-white-mare/

30/07/2025

Thanks to everyone who joined us for Papusza. And especially to those who stayed till the very end. What a gorgeous, beautifully shot film. This was our 12th screening, and up until now, we’d somehow dodged any technical issues. So guess it was time for things to go a bit sideways.

We’re back in our beloved Mod Pod this Friday, along with our equally beloved sound system. See you then!

17/07/2025

🎬 Next Screening: El Bola
🗓 Friday 1 August 2025 | 📍modpod, 9 Rannoch Street
🎟 £5 | Doors 7.45PM | Film starts 8.00PM

Our next screening is a Spanish film El Bola (2000), a powerful coming-of-age drama exploring childhood, silence, and the quiet impact of domestic violence.

It follows Pablo, a 12-year-old boy nicknamed "El Bola," who hides the pain of his home life until a new friend at school introduces him to different kind of family.

Tough but never exploitative, El Bola handles difficult subject matter with subtlety and care. It won Spain’s Goya Award for Best Film, and sits comfortably alongside films like Sweet Sixteen, La Haine, and Girlhood in its influential depiction of youth on the margins.

🎟 Tickets are £5, get yours here - https://smallsouthsidecinema.org/event/el-bola/

15/07/2025

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07/07/2025

🎬 Next Screening: Papusza
🗓 Thursday 24 July 2025 | 📍, 83 Bowman Street G42 8LF
🎟 £5 | Doors 7.40M | Film starts 8.00PM

Our next film is Papusza (2013), a beautiful and inspiring biopic about Bronisława Wajs, the first Roma woman to write and publish her poetry.

Shot in black and white, the film follows her journey from a childhood in a traveling caravan to her exile from the Roma community after her work was published. It’s a story of creativity, identity, and the cost of breaking unwritten rules.

The film explores Roma culture in early 20th century Poland with rare sensitivity, avoiding clichés in favour of raw, quiet, and deeply humanistic narrative. Directed by Joanna Kos and Krzysztof Krauze, in Polish and Romani with English subtitles.

🎟 Tickets are £5 - Get yours now! https://smallsouthsidecinema.org/event/papusza/

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