30 July, 7-10pm THE BLACKBIRD BAR Join us for our June film networking night back at our favourite summer locale, the Blackbird Bar beer garden! 🙌 Meet and connect with fellow film industry folks over informal drinks and chats, whether you're a seasoned pro, or just starting out in the film industry and keen to learn more. Coming on your own? Don't worry! One of our team will be here to welcome you and make sure you meet people. We promise a chill, friendly, fun atmosphere. This event is free to attend, please RSVP - it helps us track numbers!

A Green Screen event marking the official release of independent Scottish farming documentary, A Dairy Story. Should a newborn dairy calf be separated from its mother? It’s the most divisive question in dairy farming. At Rainton Farm in south-west Scotland, one couple decided to do things differently, abandoning conventional methods to become the first farm in Europe to make a cow-with-calf dairy system commercially viable. What begins as a question of animal welfare opens into climate, environment, and ultimately something far more personal: a story about change, about trusting nature, and about the time we have together. Post-screening Q&A is hosted by Peter Stevenson, Chief Policy Advisor at Compassion in World Farming, in discussion with the film subjects, David Finlay and Charles Ellett. They'll also be joined by Fred Berkmiller, chef patron of Edinburgh's l'escargot bleu, and by Charlie Buchanan-Smith of The Free Company, the Michelin Green Star regenerative farm and restaurant at the foot of the Pentlands.

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.

Experience Jean Epstein’s 1929 silent drama in dazzling restored 4K, accompanied by a live performance of a bold new, original score, by Edinburgh-based musician/composer Dan Abrahams and French drummer Philippe Boudot. Screening as part of LandxSea Film Festival in Montrose, Scotland's Environmental Film Festival.

“‘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.

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.

Reinsve plays Nora, a successful stage actress who, along with her sister Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas), reunites with their estranged father Gustav Borg (a mesmerising Stellan Skarsgård) – a once-renowned film director planning a major comeback with a script based on his family. When Gustav offers Nora the lead role, which she promptly declines, he turns his attention to Rachel Kemp (Elle Fanning), an eager young Hollywood starlet primed for her big breakthrough. Following the success of The Worst Person in the World, Joachim Trier reunites with Renate Reinsve for this profoundly moving film – winner of the Grand Prix award at Cannes – that explores sisterhood, father-daughter relationships and the power of childhood memories.

“Claude Chabrol’s Le Beau Serge (1958) is widely recognized as the foundational film of the French New Wave” The Guardian Francois comes back to his home village in France after more than a decade. He notices that the village hasn’t changed much, but the people have, especially his old friend Serge who has become a drunkard. Francois now tries to find out what happened to him and tries to help him.

A graceful, penetrating study of a couple’s deteriorating marriage, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. La Pointe Courte is both a stylized depiction of the couple’s complicated relationship and a documentary-like look at the daily lives of the villagers. “A stunningly beautiful and accomplished first film,” which has also achieved a cult status as “the first film of the nouvelle vague.” (G. Vincendeau)