Cinema Screenings

Documentary Film Programme

 Friday 20th February at 6pm

Create Community Wealth

This documentary film tells the story of experiences of participants and staff in the cultural collective project in partnership with Whale Arts, North Edinburgh Arts, Passion4fusion and SCOREscotland. The project offered tailored support to create opportunities for people to develop their products and services in local communities.

Friday 6th March at 6pm

About Love On A Small Island

Elaheh Habibi (2018)

Join us for an Iranian film screening presented by photographer Laleh Sherkat.

Documentary film maker Habibi explores the meaning of love through the stories of the Sunni Muslim community living in an Iranian village on Qeshm Island.

Thursday 12th March at 6pm

Still Pushing Pineapples

Kim Hopkins (2025)

Dene Michael is a member of 1980s novelty pop group Black Lace, universally known for the beloved and hated hit Agadoo. He clings to the remnants of fame in Hopkins’ moving and funny documentary.

Past Events

Local Resistance Cinema Programme

Mondays in December 2025 at 2pm, Craigmillar Now

Joining community venues across Edinburgh to celebrate local stories of solidarity.

1st December, The Miners' Hymns, Bill Morrison (2010)

Music and archive footage are powerfully combined to celebrate the histories of the mining communities of the north east of England.

8th December, Short Film Programme- Women Community Activists

Join us for an inspiring collection of films of women fighting the injustices they face.

15th December, Craigmillar Down but Not Out, STV (1984) (with panel discussion)

Documentary representing local people, community activists and youth workers exploring social and economic barriers in the 1980s in Craigmillar.Accessibility

Finding Vivian Maier (2013) is a documentary on the late Vivian Maier, a nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 photographs earned her a posthumous reputation as one of the most accomplished street photographers.

PRIDE (2014) is inspired by an extraordinary true story. It's the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike, prompting a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists to raise money to support the strikers' families. Initially rebuffed by the Union, the group identifies a tiny mining village in Wales and sets off to make their donation in person. As the strike drags on, the two groups discover that standing together makes for the strongest union of all...

Ratcatcher (1999) Debut film by Scottish director and writer Lynne Ramsay. It's Glasgow in 1973 and young James' world is changing - he's growing up.

James Gillespie (William Eadie) is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn to the canal where he creates a world of his own. He finds an awkward tenderness with Margaret Anne (Leanne Mullen), a vulnerable 14 year old expressing a need for love in all the wrong ways, and befriends Kenny (John Miller), who possesses an unusual innocence in spite of the harsh surroundings.

The Local Cinema film programme has been funded by the City of Edinburgh Council via the Creative Community Hubs Network, which brings together eight building-based hubs who are engaging with their local communities in creative ways across Edinburgh. This is the first shared creative programme produced by the hubs network to date, in a pilot project entitled the Community Cinema Hubs Project that is hoped will be extended more widely across Edinburgh into the future.

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