Films Wed 28 Oct at 14.00 & 18.00 Sois belle et tais-toi "Delphine Seyrig’s prescient and passionate 1981 documentary both critiques the cinema and seeks to change it." The New-Yorker In 1975 Delphine Seyrig recorded interviews…
Films Music Sat 31 Oct at 18.00 Cinetopia Salon Halloween special: Häxan (1922) + Live Score Performed By Jane Gardner & Hazel Morrison Come early for our apéritif hour with a drinks bar and complementary nibbles before the film - a chance to mingle, chat and start the…
Films Tue 10 Nov at 18.00 That Summer in Paris / Le Rendez-vous de l’été As the title would suggest, That Summer in Paris is less a postcard from the Olympic Games than a snapshot of the City of Light…
Films Wed 11 Nov at 14.00 and 18.00 Bizarre, Bizarre / Drôle de drame The farcical plot, scripted by Jacques Prévert from a 1912 novel His First Offence by Orkney writer J Storer Clouston ranges from black humour to…
Films Thu 12 Nov at 18.00 Lucio’s Tour de France / Autour de Lucio + Q&A with filmmaker Étienne Barrier With the Tour de France due to start off from Edinburgh next year we’re proud to present a film that highlights the uplifting value of…
Films Fri 13 Nov at 18.00 The Ties That Bind Us / L’Attachement Exploring the challenges of modern family structures, the film follows a single father, a feminist bookshop owner, and a child seeking a place to belong…
Films Sat 14 Nov at 19.30 Jacquot de Nantes Agnès Varda’s tender evocation of the childhood of her husband, Jacques Demy is a wonder-filled portrait of the artist as a young man and an…
Films Sat 14 Nov at 17.00 The Waste Commons/ De l’ordure à l’or dur + Q&A with director Rosalind Fredericks As cities around the world modernise, enclosing open-air dumps and outlawing waste-picking have become key strategies of urban reform. The Waste Commons explores the dramatic…
Films Sat 14 Nov at 12.00 Marcel Santa Claus (and the Little Pizza Delivery Boy) / Marcel le père Noël et le petit livreur de pizzas "A quirky little Christmas gem that surpasses everything done so far in terms of originality within the genre". CinéAnimation On the evening of 24…
Films Mon 16 Nov at 18.00 Construction Site / Le Chantier A fascinating documentary about the renovation of a legendary cinema in Paris (Gaumont now Pathé Palace) led by architect Renzo Piano. Filmed over three years,…
Films Tue 17 Nov at 18.00 The Sentinels of Forgetting / Les Sentinelles de l’oubli Introduction by Sue Harris (Professor Emerita of Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London and an internationally renowned specialist in French cinema) & Dr…
Films Wed 18 Nov at 14.00 & 18.00 Guess Who’s Calling! / Le répondeur "A French cinematic gem acclaimed by the critics of Le Masque" Radio France "Guess Who Is Calling is a genuine feel-good movie with its share…
Films Tue 24 Nov at 18.00 Berlin Hero Micha Hartung, a struggling Berlin video-store owner is unexpectedly portrayed by a journalist as the mastermind behind a major escape from the GDR on the…
Films Wed 25 Nov at 14.00 & 18.00 Marmaille "Grégory Lucilly's Marmaille is the first film from Reunion to be released in mainland France." Sortiraparis.com "A poignant portrait of siblings fighting to rebuild themselves…
Films Fri 27 Nov at 18.00 Le Samouraï “In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. A razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American-style gangster cinema and 1960s French pop…
Films Wed 2 Dec at 14.00 & 18.00 Monsieur Aznavour "Heartfelt, sumptuously good-looking tribute to the legendary French-Armenian singer Charles Aznavour." France Today From his poor childhood to his rise to fame, from his…
Films Wed 16 Dec at 14.00 & 18.00 Le secret de Khéops An archaeologist and his family hunt for Khufu's treasure in Paris, following clues he believes prove Napoleon's forces brought it from Egypt. His search spans…
Films Thu 17 Dec at 18.00 Àma Gloria Six-year-old Cléo loves her nanny Gloria more than anything. When Gloria must return to Cape Verde to care for her own children, the two must…
Films Fri 22 Jan 2027 at 18.00 Delicatessen A post-apocalyptic black comedy, set in an alternate Paris with serious food shortage where a former clown moves into a community of cannibals. “Endlessly creative.…
Films Fri 19 Feb at 18.00 Casque d’Or In 1898 in the Parisian underworld, three gangsters and an ex-con carpenter all fall for the same beautiful golden-haired woman in Belle Époque France. “A…
Films Fri 19 March at 18.00 Lingui, The Sacred Bonds Amina lives with her daughter, 15-year-old Maria. When Amina learns Maria is pregnant and wants an abortion, they face an impossible situation in a country…
Films Music Networking Performances Cinetopia Salons Next event : Cinetopia Salon Halloween special: Häxan (1922) + Live Score Performed By Jane Gardner & Hazel Morrison Sat 31 Oct at 18:00
French Film Festival UK 2026 Next event : That Summer in Paris / Le Rendez-vous de l’été Tue 10 Nov at 18:00
