Film Events in Edinburgh in May 2025
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Events in Edinburgh
SI-FAN Film Festival: Edinburgh
SI-FAN Film Festival returns to Edinburgh from 28th April to 4th May bringing the most exciting genre feature and short films on the film festival circuit to Scottish audiences.
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India Song + Q&A
Delphine Seyrig plays the bored and promiscuous wife of a French diplomat in Marguerite Duras’s Calcutta based drama, now fully restored to its original glory.
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Mamma Mia Sing-along
Get ready to dance and sing along this May Bank Holiday weekend at Brewhemia’s Mamma Mia Sing-A-Long!
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Edinburgh Tradfest: The Legend of the Anonymous Poet (Or a 20th Century Barbarian Account)
This special live performance from filmmaker/storytellers Nadir Bouhmouch and Soumeya Ait Ahmed combines film, lecture and storytelling!
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Ali Plumb’s Untitled Film Quiz Project
Ali Plumb's Untitled Film Quiz Project is just what you need in your life: an evening of Big Screen, in-a-cinema film trivia fun, hosted by that geeky guy off Radio 1, Ali Plumb!
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Edinburgh Tradfest: Remembering Douglas
Join us at the Scottish Storytelling Centre for a celebration of independent film in Scotland through the lens of celebrated filmmaker Douglas Eadie!
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Tummy Monster
Tummy Monster, a surreal, darkly comic psychological thriller, is on a UK tour and is screening at Cameo Picturehouse on 13th May, followed by a Q&A.
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Falastin Film Festival: Bye Bye Tiberias
Hiam Abbass returns home with her filmmaker daughter, in this intimate documentary about four generations of women and their shared legacy of separation.
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Falastin Film Festival: Ghost Hunting
Former inmates of the Moskobiya interrogation centre in Jerusalem, a group of Palestinian men address trauma by re-enacting their stories of capture and torture.
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Falastin Film Festival: Inside the TV Box, I Found the True Story of the People of Palestine
Born in exile, Ahmed Saleh knew Palestine only through a TV screen, then he crossed the threshold; moving to Palestine for university, he arrived just as the second intifada erupted.
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Falastin Film Festival: Jenin, Jenin
Jenin Jenin shows the extent to which the prolonged oppression and terror has affected the state of mind of the Palestinian inhabitants of Jenin.
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Falastin Film Festival: Longing for Palestine
A cinematic exploration on borders, the physical, emotional, material & immaterial; those that dictate movement and return, or lack thereof, for Palestinians universally.
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Falastin Film Festival: On Sound
An aesthetic and provocative screening of four experimental shorts uncovering the occupation’s haunting manipulation of sound as a form of torture, the politics of sound and sonic self-determination
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Falastin Film Festival: Performing Archaeology
Performing Archaeology is a screening of four short films that delve into the manipulation of archaeological heritage and erasure of folkloric traditions by the occupying zionist entity.
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Falastin Film Festival: Three Promises
Three Promises is a heart-breaking film that conveys the anguish of children and their parents who are forced to choose between safety and emotional upheaval.
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Falastin Film Festival: From Ground Zero
From Ground Zero is a collection of 22 short films made in Gaza during the ongoing genocide and showing as part of the Falastin Film Festival at the Scottish Storytelling Centre.
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Falastin Film Festival: Reclaiming Rhythms
Two beautiful and powerful medium-length films on the coloniality of archives, reclamation of Palestinian music and dance, and the ethnographic underpinnings of colonization.
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Falastin Film Festival: Talaeen a Junuub / Up to the South
An oblique, albeit powerful experimental documentary which examines the politics and economics of South Lebanon against the backdrop of the Israeli occupation.
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Gretna 110 Exhibition
Curated by the Royal Scots Regimental Museum, the exhibition is designed to raise awareness of the 110th anniversary of the Quintinshill Rail Disaster where 216 members of the 7th Battalion died.
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Film Events in East Renfrewshire
Here's a selection of Film Events you can find over on our sister site, What's On East Renfrewshire:
Cinema Screening: Royal Ballet and Opera - Ballet to Broadway: Wheeldon Works
Sensuous contemporary ballet meets the energy of musical theatre in four distinctive short works being screened at Eastwood Park Theatre!
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Cinema Screening: The Royal Opera: Wagner’s Die Walkure
Gods and mortals battle in the second chapter of Wagner's Ring cycle when Eastwood Park Theatre screens The Royal Opera's production of Die Walkure!
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Here's a selection of Film Events you can find over on our sister site, What's On Fife:
Anster Cinema: Venus Peter
Don't miss this very special screening of Venus Peter, a beautiful film about a young boy growing up in a fishing village in the 1940s, at Dreel Halls on Sunday 4th May!
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Here's a selection of Film Events you can find over on our sister site, What's On Glasgow:
DIG 2025: Elyla Artists’ Film Programme (Nicaragua)
As part of Tramway's Dance International Glasgow festival their gallery programme presents an exhibition of three performance films by multi-disciplinary artist and activist Elyla.
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Glasgow 850
2025 will be a big year for Glasgow as we celebrate the city's 850th birthday. It's a milestone and everyone who has or does call Glasgow home is invited to the party!
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50 years since Scottish Daily News: where next for co-operative journalism?
Come along and learn about co-operative journalism past, present and future, as part of the Glasgow Trades Council May Day 2025 programme.
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Here's a selection of Film Events you can find over on our sister site, What's On Lanarkshire:
Cinema: Ballet to Broadway: Wheeldon Works
Sensuous contemporary ballet meets the energy of musical theatre in four distinctive short works being screened at Airdrie Town Hall!
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Screening: Bonnie & Clyde The Musical
Recorded live at London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane, discover the electrifying story of love, adventure and crime that captured the attention of an entire nation!
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West Side Story Sing-A-Long
Join Cumbernauld Theatre for their Sing-a-Long Season film screenings featuring a showing of West Side Story on Sunday 4th May!
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Here's a selection of Film Events you can find over on our sister site, What's On Renfrewshire:
Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote
Cult hit event Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote returns to Beacon Arts Centre, with an interactive screening of the classic Murder, She Wrote episode 'Paint Me a Murder'!
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Erskine Arts Cinema Screenings
Erskine Arts are bringing affordable cinema to Renfrewshire! With a genre spanning line up of films from family sing-alongs to cult classics, there's something for everyone.
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Here's a selection of Film Events you can find over on our sister site, What's On Stirling:
Dahomey Film Screening
Join Creative Stirling on Saturday, 10th May for a screening of Mati Diop's award-winning film Dahomey!
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Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story Screening & Roundtable
Join Creative Stirling on 8th May for a screening of Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, followed by a discussion on feminist media with film and media experts.
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All of Us Strangers: Screening and Discussion
Come along to Creative Stirling on Thursday 22nd May for a free screening of Andrew Haigh's film All of Us Strangers (2024), followed by a post-screening discussion!
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