London Film Festival 2026 in Scotland: Here's how you can see premieres of some of the year's biggest films in Glasgow and Edinburgh
Scottish film fans are in for a real treat this October.
First held in 1957, the London Film Festival (LFF) is one of the world's most prestigious events of its kind - screening a host of premieres each year with stars walking the red carpet in front of crowds of cinema fans.
Since 2018 LFF chiefs have expanded the event to include simultaneous screenings of films in cinemas across the country, the first being Peter Jackson's They Shall Not Grow Old.
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The last few years have seen a string of films included in the scheme, last year alone inviting audiences to sneal previews of future hits such as Saltburn, All Of Us Strangers and The Holdovers.
Originally only Glasgow’s GFT was involved, but now Edinburgh cinefiles can also get in on the action, with screenings at the Edinburgh Filmhouse.
Here are all the films you can see, and when you can see them, this year.
Wednesday, October 7, at 8.30pm: Elsinore
Andrew Scott is a towering presence in this singular account of Ian Charleson’s life, capturing the moment when he faced his own mortality as he prepared to play Hamlet at the Royal National Theatre.
Friday, October 9, at 8.20pm: Wild Horse Nine
Martin McDonagh continues to mine the absurdities and complexities of male relationships in a film that brims with energy and is sure to delight.
Saturday, October 10, at 5.20pm: I Love Boosters
The writer-director behind Sorry to Bother You (LFF 2018) is back with another idiosyncratic, anti-capitalist vision, featuring an all-star cast that includes Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, LaKeith Stanfield and Demi Moore.
Sunday, October 11, at 3.20pm: Ray Gunn
Brad Bird’s smart animated caper, set in in a futuristic world where humans and aliens co-exist, sees a private eye drawn into a murder investigation.
Sunday, October 11, at 6.15pm: Possible Love
Lee Chang-dong’s masterfully directed follow-up to Burning (LFF 2018) finds four strangers’ lives entwined by hidden desires and repressed emotions.
Monday, October 12, at 7.40pm: La Bola Negra
A genre-defying queer epic, rooted in the legacy of beloved writer Federico García Lorca, this is majestic and original filmmaking.
Wednesday, October 14, at 8.20pm: Josephine
Winner of the Grand Jury Dramatic Prize at Sundance, this suspenseful and devastating film follows a child trying to navigate life after witnessing a sexual assault.
Thursday, October 15, at 6pm: Fatherland
In a masterclass of control and precision, Paweł Pawlikowski explores the fragmented soul of postwar Germany through a father-daughter road trip dominated by personal ghosts.
Friday, October 16, at 8pm: Ink
Danny Boyle brings a seismic moment in Rupert Murdoch’s Fleet Street career blazingly to life, employing the breathtaking style of a story torn from the headlines.
Saturday, October 17, at 4.15pm: Minotaur
Andrey Zvyagintsev transposes Claude Chabrol’s La Femme infidèle to contemporary Russia, delivering a magnificent political allegory that dissects the mechanics of ego, violence and corruption.
Saturday, October 17, at 7.30pm: Fjord
This searching, Palme d’Or-winning moral dilemma pits preaching conservative Christian parents against a holier-than-thou liberal system.
Sunday, October 18, at 2.30pm: Making Marie Antoinette
Eleanor Coppola’s documentary on the making of Marie Antoinette is a rousing love letter to filmic craft and the joys and complexities of leading an artistic life.
Sunday, October 18, at 7pm: Club Kid
A jaded New York club promoter finds his messy lifestyle upended by the discovery that he has a son, in Jordan Firstman’s hilarious feature directorial debut.
Monday, October 19, at 6pm: The Debut
For LFF 2026’s curtain call, writer-director Jesse Eisenberg delivers a rapturous and raucously funny love letter to community theatre, featuring a luminous lead performance by Julianne Moore.
Tickets will be available for CineCard members at the GFT from Wednesday, September 16, from 2.30pm and then on general sale from 1.15pm on Thursday, September 17, here. The Filmhouse have yet to release ticketing details, but they will be available here. You can sign up to their newsletter for the latest details
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