Films Wed 15 Jan at 2pm and 6pm Abel Gance et son Napoléon With the help of rare and previously unpublished documents, Nelly Kaplan, who was Abel Gance's young assistant, revisits the filmmaker's career in the 1920s. The…
Films Wed 22 Jan at 2pm and 6pm Homecoming / Le retour Khédidja works for a wealthy Parisian family who offered her to mind their children for a summer in Corsica. Bringing along her own two teenage…
Films Fri 24 Jan at 6pm Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot Monsieur Hulot takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapstick is a series…
Films Wed 29 Jan at 2pm and 6pm The Rapture / Le Ravissement Lydia, a dedicated midwife, is in the middle of a breakup. At the time, her best friend Salomé tells her she is pregnant and asks…
Films Wed 5 Feb at 2pm and 6pm My American Uncle / Mon oncle d’Amérique Three destinies, those of a journalist, news director on a radio station, a farmer's son recycled in a textile industry itself in mutation, and that…
Films Fri 7 Feb at 6pm Dahomey November 2021. 26 royal treasures of the Kingdom of Dahomey are about to leave Paris to return to their country of origin, the present-day Republic…
Films Wed 12 Feb at 2pm and 6pm No Love Lost / La Fille de son père Étienne is barely twenty when he falls in love with Valérie. They are hardly any more when their daughter Rosa is born. And then, one…
Films Wed 19 Feb at 2pm and 6pm The Black Tulip / La Tulipe noire French Revolution-era count leads double life as bandit "Black Tulip," robbing village. Injured, he has brother impersonate him. Brother discovers count's selfish motives, sparking conflict…
Films Fri 21 Feb at 6pm Purple Noon / Plein soleil A psychological thriller set amidst the alluring landscape of the Italian coast. A dark tale of betrayed friendships and stolen identities. Starring Alain Delon as…
Films Wed 26 Feb at 2pm and 6pm Toni / Toni en famille Antonia, known as Toni, raises her five children alone. A full-time job. She also sings in bars in the evenings, to keep her family fed.…
Films Wed 5 Mar at 2pm and 6pm Take Care France / À nous deux France! Evoking mixed marriages and their difficulties, the author depicts the wanderings of a young black husband, an elegant dandy, who comes to Paris to find…
Films Wed 12 Mar at 2pm and 6pm A Real Job / Un métier sérieux Benjamin is a PhD student without scholarship support. Under the pressure of his parents, and in need of money, he becomes a substitute teacher in…
Films Wed 19 Mar at 2pm A Radiant Girl / Une jeune fille qui va bien Paris, summer 1942. Irene is a young, bubbly, 19-year-old Jewish girl. Her family watches her discover the world, friends, new love and a passion for…
Films Fri 21 Mar at 6pm The Truth / La vérité Beautiful, troubled Dominique Marceau (Brigitte Bardot) comes to bohemian Paris to escape the suffocation of provincial life, only to wind up in a courtroom, accused…
Films Wed 26 Mar at 2pm and 6pm Papicha Algeria, 1990s. Nedjma, an 18 year-old student passionate about fashion design refuses to let the tragic events of the Algerian Civil War to keep her…
Films Fri 11 April at 6pm Édouard et Caroline Pianist Edward and his wife Caroline are expected at a party at the house of her affluent uncle. Edward plans to use the opportunity to…
Films Fri 9 May at 6pm One Fine Morning / Un beau matin In Paris, a young, widowed mother juggles her job as a translator with caring both for her young daughter and her elderly father, who suffers…
Films 2024-2025 Edinburgh Film Guild Season Next event : Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot Fri 24 Jan at 18:00
Books & Ideas Talks 3 to 8 Feb Languages Week Scotland 2025 Next event : Language Trends Scotland - Launch event Mon 03 Feb at 12:00
