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. For more dates, check out https://cinetopia.co.uk/finisterraetour

A screening of All Rivers Spill Their Stories To The Sea, followed by a Q&A with the director Jeanie Finlay

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. More dates at https://cinetopia.co.uk/finisterraetour

Post-festival, we're back exploring old horizons in audio-visual entertainment, Live! From VHS! Free! UNINVITED is a movie that makes several puzzling decisions, not least of which was being a killer cat movie which is also a monster movie, like a version of Alien in which Jonesy takes the John Hurt role. Also they set it on a fairly small yacht. You might think it would be easy to avoid a cat on a small yacht, but this film says you'd be wrong, and sets out to prove it via the medium of puppetry and fake blood. Those teenagers are going to regret (checks notes) hitching a ride to a tax haven with a shady financier! DOLLMAN is an Albert Pyun/ Charles Band direct-to-video action film in which hardass space cop Brick Bardo is transported to the South Bronx in the early 90s, but on earth he's, well, the size of a doll. The poster says 13 inches and given the extraordinary power of his gun, I won't argue with it. He lands in a rough neighbourhood just begging for a tough guy to sort it out, but his nemesis Sprug is also there, and will certainly cause trouble for Bardo. It's a movie that knows how ridiculous its premise is and doesn't let a little thing like "having no money" get in the way of its ambition. Plus, his gun makes people explode.

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

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. More dates at https://cinetopia.co.uk/finisterraetour

1943. Spanish dictator Francisco Franco has blocked the path of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi oppression over the Pyrenees mountains. At the border crossing in a small village, Manel Grau, a civil servant with a republican past, decides to go against the orders of his superiors and aid refugees across the border. He is helped by Juliana, a fellow inhabitant of the village, and Jerôme, a French smuggler. Between them, they will start a crusade to help as many Jews as they possibly can. In doing so, Manel finds himself caught up in a dangerous mission which will awaken old ghosts from the Spanish Civil War between him and his wife Mercè. This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Judith Colell. Screening in partnership with Sea Change Film Festival. 📅 Thursday 17 September 🕐 8pm 📍 Glasgow Film Theatre

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.

September is a strange kind of beginning. A time of returning, restarting and finding your place again. It is the season of new notebooks, old questions and the feeling that anything might still happen. September’s Back: Young Hearts, Strange Worlds brings together seven short films about young people standing at the edge of change, caught between the worlds they inherit and the ones they dream into existence. 📅 Saturday 19th September 🕐 8:30pm 📍 North & South Church, Leith