Film events in Edinburgh
View all the upcoming Film events taking place throughout Edinburgh below or use the calendar to find events taking place on a specific month or date.
Events in Edinburgh
The Selfish Giant
The Selfish Giant explores an unusual friendship about how even the grumpiest giant's heart can melt when Spring finally comes!
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Animated Shorts 2
Eccentric, adventurous and full of creativity, Puppet Animation Scotland presents a FREE online programme of miniature tales, suitable for all children from age 7+ and their families.
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IberoDocs 8th Edition
IberoDocs brings a programme of over 20 documentaries, highlighting that both in our darkest as well as our brightest moments, art (in any of its forms) has become a necessary and faithful companion.
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Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival International Film Awards
Join SMHAF on 3rd May for a special online event to celebrate the very best submissions to their annual International Film Competition!
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BAFTA Scotland: Guru Live Online
BAFTA Scotland will host its flagship festival for aspiring creatives, Guru Live, online for 2021 between the 4th & 7th May!
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Normality I
These short films being screened as part of SMHAF 2021 explore how our daily lives and mental health are influenced by sexuality, neurodiversity, body image and long-term health conditions.
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Normality II
By turns experimental, surreal, and uncanny, these international short films, screened as part of SMHAF, how mental ill health and the factors that contribute to it can become normalised in society.
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I’ll Be Your Mirror
As part of SMHAF 2021, filmmaker and artist Johanna Faust goes on a journey to understand her identity as a mother and an artist against a family history of bipolar disorder.
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Safe To Be Me Festival
Scottish Ballet presents the Safe to Be Me Festival, a digital festival of dance for young people to explore their identities through creative, interactive experiences and digital dance workshops!
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Screen Test
Screen Test, part of SMHAF, is a workshop focusing on interactive exercises for curious creative practitioners, with a view to exploring the future of made-for-screen pieces.
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Judy Versus Capitalism
Don't miss the Scottish premier of Judy Versus Capitalism the lyrical documentary by Mike Hoolboom, recounting radical feminist Judy Rebick's experiences as an activist and living with a divided self.
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Lived Experience
Personal experiences with mental health problems inspired each of these shorts, ranging from animation and experimental film to documentary and drama, part of SMHAF 2021.
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Certified Mail
Certified Mail, the debut film by Egyptian director Hisham Saqr, is about finding inner strength while living with mental illness, catch the UK Premier as part of SMHAF 2021.
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The Parking Lot Social Spring Breakout Edinburgh
Get together with your nearest & dearest and wave goodbye to a winter spent indoors with an incredible variety of entertainment at The Parking Lot Social Spring Breakout Edinburgh!
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itison Drive-In Movies
itison, Scotland's pioneer of Drive In movie events, are transforming Hopetoun House outside Edinburgh for an epic May Bank Holiday weekend of Harry Potter and Batman Drive In movies!
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Downton Abbey at Lauriston Castle - CANCELLED
Come dressed for the era, upstairs or downstairs, at this film screening on Satuday 12th June at Lauriston Castle!
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Salad Fingers + Q&A With Creator David Firth
Head along to the Stand Edinburgh on July 28th for an evening of mind melting animation, featuring Salad Fingers creator David Firth!
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Banff Mountain Film Festival
Experience an extraordinary collection of short films when the Banff Mountain Film Festival returns to the Festival Theatre on 1st and 2nd September!
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Ocean Film Festival
The Ocean Film Festival returns to the Festival Theatre with a brand new selection of the most amazing ocean films.
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Joker In Concert - The Film with live orchestra
Don't miss Todd Phillips’ ground-breaking, award-winning film Joker, screened with the accompaniment of a live orchestra.
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Love Actually In Concert - Film With Live Orchestra
Following a sold out 2019 tour, Love Actually will once again be screened live across the UK with a full orchestra performing its enchanting score – just in time for Christmas!
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Adult Special Event - Film screening: Scrooge
Join us at Lauriston Castle as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the release of this all-singing, all-dancing adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic.
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Sing-a-Long-a Bohemian Rhapsody
Celebrate Queen, their music, and their extraordinary lead singer Freddie Mercury at the smash hit film as you have never experienced it before!
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Sing-a-Long-a The Greatest Showman
Singalonga Productions returns with the smash hit film musical that everyone can’t stop singing - The Greatest Showman!
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Events in East Renfrewshire
Exiles
Join author Victoria McNulty for an evocative live performance, intertwined with specially filmed segments, of her spoken word film Exiles!
Three Tenors - Voices For Eternity - POSTPONED
It's been 30 years since Luciano Pavarotti, José Carreras and Plácido Domingo made their historic debut, celebrate the emotional highlights of the first concert and the sequel in Los Angeles!
Screening: Michael Ball & Alfie Boe: Back Together - POSTPONED
The world's ultimate musical duo, Michael Ball and Alfie Boe are 'Back Together' and set to delight the cinema audience at Eastwood Park Theatre with the final show of their UK tour at the O2 Arena!
Events in Fife
Polar Bears Go Go Go! - POSTPONED
The Polar Bears are back with another adventure and this time they are off on their holidays. What could possible go wrong?
The Doris Day Story
With video projection, a swinging jazz band and impeccable vocals, the Doris Day Story is a compelling musical journey through her life, incorporating some of her greatest songs ever!
Events in Glasgow
Glasgow Coffee Festival
The annual Glasgow Coffee Festival returns to The Briggait to showcase Scotland's speciality coffee culture in a two day event on the 8th and 9th May!
Kendal Mountain Festival Tour - Glasgow
Join the Kendal Mountain Festival Tour in Glasgow for a one-of-a-kind evening, celebrating exploration of some of the wildest places on earth, as they screen some of the world's best adventure films!
Colonastics
Part of Take Me Somewhere 2021, Colonastics invites you to clear your surroundings for a sweaty workout that decolonises your body, mind and spirit.
Jump Cut - Episode #3
Multi media artist Austin Young brings together world-famous drag performance artists to form a triple deity!
MAMA
MAMA is a short film adaptation of Icône Pop, the celebrated work by Montreal based company MAYDAY, being screened as part of Take Me Somewhere 2021!
Take 2: Family-Friendly Films
Glasgow Film Theatre's weekly Take 2 Family-Friendly Film Screenings will keep even the littlest film fans entertained!
A Giant Dog Bed / Reclining Duet
Part of Take Me Somewhere, The Giant Dog Bed is an invitation into a practice that follows the greyhound’s ability to translate rest into power.
The Parking Lot Social Spring Breakout Glasgow
Get together with your nearest & dearest and wave goodbye to a winter spent indoors with an incredible variety of entertainment at The Parking Lot Social Spring Breakout Glasgow!
A Pair of Resting...
A sort of performance lecture, or maybe a loose, sticky web of 'Humanimal' experiences, observations and smells.
Bedroom Frequencies
Bedroom Frequencies, part of Take Me Somewhere, is a biographic virtual reality experience about a young girl growing up in a strict and violent household.
A Heifer Would Be Needed For The Sacrifice
Picatrix-AI recalls the veiled spectacle of xenotransplantation, as it ellipses the longstanding, racialising and imperialist histories of medical experimentation and enslaved gestational labour.
At The Flix Drive In
Join At The Flix for their Spring drive-in movie event with films shown on the world's largest outdoor LED screen at Prestwick Airport!
Somewhere In The Unachieved
Sarah Wendt and Pascal Dufaux present Somewhere In The Unachieved (Quelque part dans l’inachevé) as part of Take Me Somewhere 2021.
BUZZCUT
BUZZCUT, Scotland's hot-house for experimental performance, will present a Digi-Special-Performance-Spectacular for the final week of Take Me Somewhere this June!
The Macbeths
This thrilling version of the iconic Scottish play will be adapted for audiences to experience at home, courtesy of the Citizens Theatre!
Glasgow International
Scotland's biennial festival of contemporary visual art, Glasgow International, will return in 2021 between the 11th and 27th June!
Salad Fingers + Q&A With Creator David Firth
Head along to the Stand Glasgow on July 26th for an evening of mind melting animation, featuring Salad Fingers creator David Firth!
Blade Runner: the Film with Live Orchestra
Experience Ridley Scott's multi-Academy Award-nominated cult classic, Blade Runner on a vast HD screen accompanied by a live orchestra at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on September 4th 2021!
Joker Live in Concert - The Film with Live Orchestra
The ground-breaking, award-winning film Joker will be screened with the accompaniment of a live orchestra at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Thursday 14th October!
This Ain’t No Disco - Talking Heads Tribute
After two sell out shows in 2019, Talking Heads Tribute This Ain’t No Disco returns to Glasgow for a night at Platform on 22nd October!
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi with Live Orchestra
Watch Return of the Jedi, the thrilling conclusion to the original Star Wars trilogy, with an orchestral score performed by a live orchestra at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall!
The Muppet Christmas Carol Live In Concert
Disney's The Muppet Christmas Carol is live in concert across the UK this winter, featuring its musical score performed live to the film! Don't miss it at the SEC Armadillo on December 1st!
Love Actually with Live Orchestra
Following a sold out 2019 tour, Love Actually will once again be screened live across the UK with a full orchestra performing its enchanting score – just in time for Christmas!
Sing-a-Long-a The Greatest Showman
Singalonga Productions, producers of Singalonga Sound of Music and Singalonga Grease brings you their newest show, the smash hit film musical that everyone can’t stop singing - The Greatest Showman!
Ecto-Con
Ecto-Con, a one day fan event to celebrate EVERYTHING Ghostbusters, is coming to The Trades Hall, Glasgow on Saturday 7th May 2022!
Events in Lanarkshire
Bond In Concert
To commemorate the release of the 25th Bond film Entertainers proudly presents Bond In Concert at The Town House Hamilton on Saturday 23rd October 2021!
Events in Renfrewshire and Inverclyde
The Drive-In Cinema Spring Tour
The ultimate retro cinema experience, The Drive-In Cinema, is back for a Spring Tour on Sunday 2nd May when they'll be screening a mix of sing-a-long movies!
Events in Stirling and Falkirk
Ocean Film Festival World Tour
The Ocean Film Festival World Tour is back with a brand-new collection of the world’s most incredible ocean films! Dive into a night of mesmerising ocean adventure at Macrobert Arts Centre!
‘Watch Me’ Film Screening: Knife + Heart
It's the summer of 1979. Paris-based gay porn filmmaker Anne's life is turned upside-down when one of her actors is brutally murdered.
‘Watch Me’ Film Screening: Tetsuo the Iron Man and The Adventures of Denchu-Kozo
Enjoy a double film screening on 9th March with 'Tetsuo the Iron Man' & 'The Adventures of Denchu-Kozo, hosted by Creative Stirling in collaboration with the University of Stirling!
‘Watch Me’ Film Screening: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Creative Stirling in collaboration with the University of Stirling is screening 'Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives' a 2010 Thai art drama film.
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