Join us for Nancy Savoca's Dogfight on toxic masculinity/fragility in the Vietnam war era, and what is also a very sweet Lili Taylor and River Phoenix US indie film. 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

Angry Annie tells the story of Annie (Laure Calamy), a working mother of two, who accidentally becomes pregnant in 1974 and joins the MLAC (Mouvement pour la liberté de l’avortement et de la contraception), an organisation created in 1973 in France and whose goal was to make contraception and abortion legal and safe.

Today in Canada, can a Francophone still call themselves “French Canadian”? Actor and host Pascal Justin Boyer, born in Quebec and raised in Ontario, sets out across the country to find an answer. Feeling caught between labels like Québécois, Franco-Ontarian, and French Canadian, he wonders whether this identity is fading or simply transforming. In The Last French Canadian, Boyer travels from the Yukon to the Prairies, Quebec, and Acadia, meeting Francophones with wildly different relationships to language and belonging. A York University professor tells him that the term “French Canadian” is outdated and tied to colonial history. Yet “Québécois” doesn’t fit Boyer either, since he has spent most of his life outside Quebec. Even “Franco-Ontarian,” his parents’ chosen identity, feels too narrow, leaving out the cultural ties he still feels to his home province. The documentary mirrors the quick tempo of Boyer’s mother tongue, mixing humour, archival footage, and candid conversations. The film ultimately explores whether preserving the idea of being “French Canadian” risks stripping the label of its “Canadian” part altogether, leaving Boyer to ask what exactly he hopes to defend. The film will be followed by a Q&A with director Pascal Justin Boyer and co-creator/producer Isabelle Corriveau.

Spring is coming! On March 4th, we will be showing a spine-tingling lineup of five award-winning short documentary films, all made by Scottish-based filmmakers. Each filmmaker will introduce their film on the night, followed by a short group Q&A at the end. Come and travel through time and space to Grangemouth Oil Refinery, the small 'burgh' of Langholm, Spain, Bangladesh, and the personal memories of the filmmakers. This is a rare chance to see these short gems together. Join us to celebrate the end of winter with a drink and a smile. The Line Up: The Shutdown (2009) directed by Adam Stafford A Bus Ride (2014) directed by Riad Arfin To Be a Torero (2018) directed by Inma de Reyes The Land Where Ghosts Could Speak (2024) directed by TianHui Wu Neil Armstrong & The Langholmites (2025) directed by Duncan Cowles We will begin the night with the screening of latest DOCMA film #110: SEEDS followed by the draw for DOCMA#111 All film synopsis and filmmaker bio will be published soon, so watch this space and feel free to spread the word and invite friends! SCHEDULE: 6:45pm Doors Open 7:15pm Intro 7:20pm Screening of DOCMA#110: SEEDS 7:25pm DOCMA Draw 7:40pm Screening of Short Films 9:00pm Filmmaker Q&A 9:30pm Mingle & Drink This schedule is intended to give a rough indication of timings. Real timings may vary! People of all backgrounds and interests are welcome. Tickets are free. DOCMA - THE DOCUMENTARY GAME As part of our event we regularly play a monthly game of DOCMA. DOCMA is a documentary game designed to involve anyone who wants to try to make a documentary, originally started by DocKlub inspired by the Dogme 95 manifesto. The basic principle is: 5 filmmakers make 5 films (each 1 minute long) on one common theme. Each filmmaker is allocated a documentary style in which to make their 1 minute film, and the filmmakers are not allowed to confer. At the given deadline the 5 films are collated and laid back-to-back on a timeline to create one five-minute film on the chosen theme. Credits are added and the ‘DOCMA film’ is then premiered to the filmmakers and a public audience at the same time. This month we will be drawing the names of participating filmmakers for next month’s event, so come and put your name in the hat. SUBMIT A FILM! We are still looking for work in progress documentaries to be screened for future events. If you have one and would like to screen it at DOCo please let us know. Any questions please get in touch with us on Facebook, Instagram and Email (thedocodocs@gmail.com). Please visit our socials for more details: INSTA + Facebook DOCo: The Documentary Community MEET // SHARE // MAKE @thedocodocs *Apologies but our current venue has stairs and is not accessible for wheelchair users. Due to venue’s licence, attendees must be 18 or over.

Film Screening - Glasgow - Imago dir. Olga Chajdas The Pyramid at Anderston, Glasgow, G3 8DS Sat 7th March 2026 6:30PM IMAGO — Glasgow screening plus live online Q&A with director Olga Chajdas 7 March, 18:30 Pyramid at Anderston, 759 Argyle St, Glasgow G3 8DS Polish with English subtitles | 18+ | PWYC Tickets: Film Screening - Glasgow - Imago dir. Olga Chajdas at The Pyramid at Anderston event tickets from TicketSource Borscht Film Club is opening March with a film that pulses with raw energy, tenderness, and rebellion — IMAGO, the acclaimed feature by Olga Chajdas. Following its world premiere in the PROXIMA competition at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where it received an enthusiastic response from audiences and critics alike, the film went on to screen in the main competition at the mBank New Horizons Festival, dedicated to bold, boundary‑pushing cinema. IMAGO also received recognition at the Gdynia Polish Film Festival, where it was praised for its artistic courage, emotional depth, and powerful performances — continuing the strong festival legacy of Chajdas’ debut Nina, which won multiple awards in Gdynia. Set on the Polish coast in the late 1980s — in the very place where the Solidarity movement was born — IMAGO dives into the post‑punk counterculture of the Tricity: a world of artistic ferment, underground music, and a generation searching for freedom as the old system collapses. At its centre is Ela — magnetic, unpredictable, painfully human. A young woman who refuses to fit into any mould, drifting between art, desire, chaos, and the expectations imposed on her. Lena Góra — who also co‑wrote the script — delivers a remarkable performance inspired by the life of her own mother, a singer of the legendary Tricity alternative scene. Critics praised the film’s emotional intensity, its “grainy intimacy”, and its hypnotic soundtrack by Andrzej Smolik, one of Poland’s most influential composers and multi‑instrumentalists, known for his work with Hey, Myslovitz, Maria Peszek and many more. IMAGO is a story about otherness, motherhood, rebellion, and the complicated love between a mother and a daughter. It’s also a portrait of a moment in history when everything was breaking apart — and something new was beginning. This screening is part of the Polish Adventurers Club in Glasgow, which invites you to its fourth edition — this time celebrating International Women’s Day. 18:30 — IMAGO screening + live online Q&A with director Olga Chajdas Pyramid at Anderston 7 March, 18:30 PWYC (Pay What You Can) Film 18+

This International Women’s Day, we’re heading to Sonnethal, where socialism meets the offside rule in Nicht schummeln, Liebling (No Cheating, Darling, 1973). When the town’s mayor funnels precious funds into the men’s football team in a bid for regional glory (and personal prestige), new vocational school director Barbara Schwalbe decides to fight patriarchy the GDR way: by founding a girls’ team that plays better, wins harder and drives a very hard bargain for equal space, funding and respect. Starring East German pop royalty Chris Doerk and Frank Schöbel, this candy-coloured DEFA musical turns state-sanctioned gender roles into a toe-tapping showdown with sly lyrics, miniskirts, umbrella choreography tipping its hat to Singin' in the Rain, and a gloriously oily garage sequence that feels like a socialist precursor to Grease. A battle of the sexes played out on the pitch, in song and - ultimately - on the girls’ terms. With an introduction by Camilla Baier. - German with English subtitles. - The screening room is on ground level and is wheelchair accessible from the Leith Depot bar with flexible seating to accommodate specific requirements. - There are accessible toilets in both the screening room and the bar.

La Vie est belle is a 1987 musical comedy directed by Mwezé Ngangura and Benoît Lamy. The film revolves around the vibrant music scene of Kinshasa and tells the rags-to-riches story of a poor rural musician played by legendary Congolese musician, Papa Wemba, the “King of Rumba Rock”, who seeks fame in the big city. The film was considered a major turning point in film production in the DRC with its more artistic approach. Unlike many African films of the time that concerned themselves with the effects of colonialism, La vie est belle celebrates Congolese culture, music and the lives of Kinshasans. The film score features Congolese music from artists Tshala Muana, Klody, and Zaiko Langa Langa, a Congolese soukous band co-founded by Papa Wemba.

This screening will be followed by a 15-minute pre-recorded Q&A. A street in downtown Warsaw is the focus of this witty and personal portrait of Poland. Arjun Talwar immigrated here a decade ago, but still has trouble fitting in. “Wolf Street” – or “Ulica Wilcza” – hasn’t made it easy for him. In an attempt to accelerate his integration, the director begins filming his neighbours, testing his relationships with them, while seeking ways to overcome his own alienation. With the help of his friend Mo, another immigrant-turned-filmmaker, Arjun uncovers the hidden mysteries of the street, revealing a web of charming characters. He finds others like himself, people who live between past and present, between an imagined homeland and a real one. The street, like an invisible thread, connects them all, offering its solace against the melancholy of everyday life. From within its kilometre-long confines, an image of modern Europe forms, exposing a kaleidoscope of contradictions and anxieties. The film throws stereotypes to the wind, as it tries to navigate the fictitious boundaries between neighbours. Poland, known for being homogenous, and unwelcoming, is faced with a mirror, held up by a foreigner-filmmaker.

Leith Kino is delighted to present Felipe Bustos Sierra's Everybody to Kenmure Street, in a subtitled screening which we are presenting with Anti Raids Edinburgh. On 13th May 2021, the Home Office staged a dawn raid on Kenmure Street in Pollokshields - an area renowned for its diversity - on Eid al-Fitr. Thanks to the quick wittedness of a passer by, the immigration van was delayed, allowing time for hundreds of people to gather to protest the deportation of their neighbours. Pieced together from numerous video footage from the day and eye-witness accounts, this astonishing documentary is a love letter to the power of peaceful protest and community solidarity. 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

HippFest is Scotland’s first and only festival of silent film with live music, centred in and inspired by Scotland’s first and oldest cinema. Featuring exceptional screenings, commissions, workshops, community events and touring. Renowned for its warm welcome and inclusive atmosphere, HippFest attracts a broad audience of cinema-goers, music lovers, and industry professionals, cultivating an international community with an adventurous appetite for extraordinary cinema.