“We’re making a film about an artist who didn’t want to be remembered.” Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich's debut feature is a 'post-biopic' of the revolutionary Martiniquan anti-colonial writer, Suzanne Césaire. The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (2024) embraces the gaps of memory, opting instead to transmit the glorious messages that Suzanne left behind in her essays. The cast and crew recite fragments of Césaire's work, hynoptically pulling us into a film within a film. In other scenes, they reenact Aimé, her husband, and Suzanne's lives. Time collapses, nature endures. Aptly shot on the grounds of a palm tree archive, Hunt-Ehrlich restates Césaire's Afrosurrealist convictions in a paradise of Black feminist history.

Buffet Infinity is an ambitious first feature by Canadian director Simon Glassman - a film made up entirely of spoof local tv adverts and news stories that suggest that all is not well with the new buffet that's opened up at the Crossroads Shopping Complex, south of Highway 1... Come join the Kino for their first screening back at Leith Depot, screening weekly on Sundays till the end of November.

“‘Le Mohican’ carries on the themes of classic Westerns while showcasing a meaningful approach to freedom and community.” Irish Film Critic A Corsican shepherd refuses to sell his coastal land to criminals. After severely injuring a mobster’s son who tried to threaten him, he becomes the target of a ruthless manhunt.

James McAvoy directs the remarkable true story of how two Scottish lads tricked the world into believing they were rappers from California. Tickets £3/£5/£7 on a sliding scale, with free entry for Grassmarket Community Project Members, open door meal attendees, and anyone else in need of a free ticket. Please select the ticket price that feels right to you; all income from tickets will be directly used to support the continued running of our cinema screenings. Notes Duration: 1hr 47 minutes The film will be screened with English descriptive subtitles, transcribing both dialogue and key audio information from the film Certificate 15 - contains strong language and drug misuse The film will start promptly at 7pm without trailers The Grassmarket Community Project is a wheelchair accessible venue

Montrose LandxSea Film Festival returns to Montrose Playhouse from 11–13 September 2026 for a packed weekend of films, conversations and special events exploring our relationship with land, sea and the living world. Across three days, discover 22 new films — including premieres and award winners — alongside filmmaker Q&As, lively discussions, special guests and events for younger audiences. Together, the programme invites us to look more closely at our changing planet, share ideas and imagine new possibilities.

Experience a beautifully restored version of Jean Epstein’s 1929 silent classic Finis Terrae, with a newly composed original score performed live by Edinburgh-based multi-instrumentalist Dan Abrahams and French drummer Philippe Boudot. On the treeless, windswept islet of Bannec off the Breton coast, four seaweed harvesters set up camp for the season, smoke rising from their pyres of burning algae. Trouble begins when a quarrel between Ambroise and Jean-Marie over a broken wine bottle leaves the young Ambroise injured, and simmering tensions give way to fear and mistrust. Shot in a documentary style using local non-actors, Jean Epstein’s film reveals a harsh, isolated world where human lives are shaped by labour, weather and the sea. Through bold, poetic images of landscape, sky and water, Finis Terrae becomes both a drama of survival and a landmark of silent cinema: elemental, atmospheric and alive with menace and beauty. Performed live by Dan Abrahams and Philippe Boudot. Presented by Amanda Rogers of Cinetopia.

Not to be confused with Jean-Pierre Melville’s final film Un Flic (released in English speaking markets as Dirty Money), Quebec filmmaker Denys Arcand’s Dirty Money released in the same year announced a new auteur working across the pond. The first film of Arcand’s Crime Trilogy and the filmmaker’s debut narrative feature, Dirty Money is a tense thriller told through constantly shifting perspectives set across a grimy, early 70s Montreal. The film’s opening scenes introduce us to Roland and Berthe, a French Canadian couple struggling to make ends meet. After being offended by a visit by Roland’s affluent uncle Arthur who presents the couple with a gift of $500, the couple devises a plan to rob him of more money. With the help of a few threatening henchmen, the gang descends upon Arthur’s house at nightfall, only to learn there might be another party interested in the cash… A criminally underseen bit of neo-noir Canuxploitation that precedes the legendary crime thrillers of the Coen Brothers, Dirty Money is a bleak portrayal of greed, violence and revenge that you won’t want to miss! “A bracingly unsentimental chronicle of greed and betrayal that’s reminiscent of Jean-Pierre Melville in its minimalist approach to genre and impressive stylistic command, yet deeply rooted in the landscapes and temperament of provincial Quebec, DIRTY MONEY is an under-recognized neo-noir classic.” (Anthology Film Archives) Tickets cost £6 and we have allocated handful of free tickets for those not in a position to pay. Please support your local Leith Kino! Leith Kino Access Information - English subtitles will be onscreen for every screening, including descriptive captions where possible. - The screening room is on ground level and is wheelchair accessible from the Leith Depot bar with flexible seating to accomodate specific requirements. - There are accessible toilets in both the screening room and the bar. Leith Depot is well-served by public transport. It's a short walk from the Foot of the Walk tram stop and there is a bus stop outside the venue for services: 7, 14, 16, 25, and 49

Rising stars David Jonsson and Tom Blyth lead this high-octane prison drama. Tickets £3/£5/£7 on a sliding scale, with free entry for Grassmarket Community Project Members, open door meal attendees, and anyone else in need of a free ticket. Please select the ticket price that feels right to you; all income from tickets will be directly used to support the continued running of our cinema screenings. Notes Duration: 90 minutes The film will be screened with English descriptive subtitles, transcribing both dialogue and key audio information from the film Certificate 18 - very strong language, strong violence, drug misuse The film will start promptly at 7pm without trailers The Grassmarket Community Project is a wheelchair accessible venue

Giacomo Puccini offers us the heart‑breaking story of the poet, Rodolfo, and the fragile Mimi, and some of the most beautiful pages in the repertoire. The director, Claus Guth, sets their broken love affair in space, creating a universe in which the past resurges in the form of hallucinatory flashbacks. “This intergalactic Bohemia has the charm of a dream as powerful as it is exhilarating.” Les Inrockuptibles “A salutary vision” Libération “The sets and costumes are fascinating” Le Monde To broaden access to major operatic and choreographic works in keeping with its public-service mission, the Paris Opera promotes the free summer screening—outdoors or in a suitable heritage venue—of an opera or ballet filmed in its theatres, the Palais Garnier or the Opéra Bastille. This is the purpose of the “Opéra d’été” initiative, launched in 2013, to which the Paris Opera is particularly committed. This year, this programme is extended to all French Institutes and Alliances Françaises worldwide, helping to bring the initiative to an international audience.

Argonaut Books and Leith Kino are continuing their collaboration with Saturday screenings over September. Join us in the bookshop for a screening of Suzana Amaral's adaptation of The Hour of the Star, the final novel by Ukrainian-born Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, one of the most influential voices in twentieth-century Brazilian literature. Macabéa (Marcélia Cartaxo), a shy young typist who has migrated from Brazil's northeast to São Paulo, drifts through the bustling city, quietly searching for connection and purpose in a world that barely seems to notice her. Far removed from conventional screen heroines, Macabéa is timid, awkward and almost invisible, and yet she becomes one of the most unforgettable protagonists in Brazilian cinema. Rather than seeking a faithful page-to-screen translation, Amaral described her approach as a "transmutation" of Lispector's novel; a process of reimagining while still capturing the force of Lispector's singular prose. The result is a quietly radical portrait of a woman rarely granted space or attention, and a landmark of feminist Brazilian cinema.