Scottish-based composer Drexler (Adrian Leung) brings his new album Olympia-5 to Fringe by the Sea in a powerful live audio-visual performance. Written during his father’s battle with lymphoma, the album blends intimate piano recordings with ambient textures, earning support from BBC Radio, NTS, KEXP, The Skinny and The List. Collaborating with filmmakers including Mark Cousins, Hannah Papacek Harper, Vito Milazzo, Ciara Flint, Carlos Hernan and Kiran Acharya, Drexler combines live performance with immersive film to explore themes of care, distance and the search for calm. Expect a deeply moving, cinematic experience from one of Scotland’s most distinctive contemporary composers. All ages are welcome. Under 16s must be accompanied by an over 18. This is a seated event (unreserved). The Dome venue is wheelchair accessible.

As part of Edinburgh Deaf Festival, BSL Film Club will be screening Ted Evans' Deaf-led thriller, Retreat! In search of belonging and connection, a young woman arrives at a remote wellness retreat for Deaf people, but nothing is what it seems. A gripping debut thriller from filmmaker Ted Evans that will unsettle audiences and leave them guessing until the final frame. Billed as the world’s first Deaf thriller and made in British Sign Language with an all-Deaf principal cast and a Deaf director, Retreat stars Anne Zander, Sophie Stone, and James Boyle, This event welcomes hearing and deaf audiences who are interested in British Sign Language (BSL). There will be a Q&A afterwards with guests to be confirmed. There will be live captioning and BSL/English interpretation for the introduction and Q&A. The film will be shown with on-screen descriptive subtitles. The venue is wheelchair accessible.

Grassmarket Community Picturehouse Collaborates with the Edinburgh Film Guild for a series of four masterpieces of Italian cinema. In La Chimera, Alice Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro) directs Josh O'Connor as Arthur, a fresh-out-of-prison archaeologist who joins up with his old gang of tombaroli, grave robbers who survive by looting Etruscan tombs and fencing the ancient treasures they dig up, all while haunted by the ghosts of lost love. This screening is presented in part of a series of 4 masterpieces of Italian cinema, in collaboration with the Edinburgh Film Guild.

GCP Collaborates with the Edinburgh Film Guild for a series of four masterpieces of Italian cinema. In The Four Times (Le quattro volte) An old goat shepherd lives in a quiet village in the hills of Calabria that most villagers have left long ago. He is sick, and believes to find his cure in the dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water every day. But soon, his soul will move on through four successive lives. This screening is presented in part of a series of 4 masterpieces of Italian cinema, in collaboration with the Edinburgh Film Guild.

GCP Collaborates with the Edinburgh Film Guild for a series of four masterpieces of Italian cinema. Master Italian auteur Federico Fellini directs Amarcord, the story of Titto, a young boy growing up in Borgo San Giuliano in 1930s fascist Italy, and the interesting cast of characters he meets along the way. This screening is presented in part of a series of 4 masterpieces of Italian cinema, in collaboration with the Edinburgh Film Guild.

GCP Collaborates with the Edinburgh Film Guild for a series of four masterpieces of Italian cinema. A mute gunslinger fights in the defense of a group of outlaws and a vengeful young widow, against a group of ruthless bounty hunters in this classic spaghetti western. This screening is presented in part of a series of 4 masterpieces of Italian cinema, in collaboration with the Edinburgh Film Guild.

“‘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.

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.

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.