Cinema Screenings

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

Please contact louise.donoghue@craigmillarnow.com for further information.

Past events

Finding Vivian Maier (12)
Monday 13th January, 2pm
1hr 23 minutes with English subtitles

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.

Free to EH16 community members but booking is essential. Book here

PRIDE (15)
Wednesday 5th February, 6pm
2hrs with English subtitles

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...

Free to EH16 community members but booking is essential.  Book here

Ratcatcher (15)
Thursday 24th April, 6pm
1hr 30mins with English subtitles
at The White House Kitchen (70 Niddrie Mains Rd, Edinburgh EH16 4BG)

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.

Free to EH16 community members but booking is essential.  Book here

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.

Please contact screening venues directly for more information and to reserve tickets for all other individual screenings.

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