Glasgow FilmTheatre

Glasgow Film Theatre operates from a Category B listed building on Rose Street, just off Sauchiehall Street, that opened in 1939 as the Cosmo, Scotland's first arts cinema and only the second purpose-built art-house cinema in Britain after London's Curzon Mayfair. The Scottish Film Council took over the building in 1973, reopening it the following year under its current name; it became an independent charity in 1986. The original single auditorium has since been divided into three screens, added in 1974, 1991 and 2013, showing more than 600 films a year, around 60 per cent of them in languages other than English. GFT has hosted the Glasgow Film Festival since 2005 and keeps some original features from its 1939 design, including the modernist Ayrshire-brick and black-granite facade and its Mr Cosmo mascot.