Kristin Hersh proved herself a truly independent artist with her bands Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave, but her solo career allowed her to express that independence in ways that went beyond her other projects.
Jamie Sutherland (Broken Records) & Rick Redbeard (The Phantom Band) are delighted to announce a co-headline tour of some of their favourite venues around Scotland in support of their new albums Bruise & From Under Old Moons! Expect an intimate night with two both artists performing together onstage, trading songs and stories and delving into both of their extensive back catalogues.
Winner of the Camera d’Or at Cannes 2021, ‘sunshine noir’ Murina is the assured feature debut of acclaimed shorts writer-director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović (Into the Blue), executive produced by Martin Scorsese. On a bright, beautiful Croatian island, tensions rise between restless teenager Julija (Gracija Filipović) and her oppressive father Ante (Leon Lučev) when an old family friend
Winner of the Camera d’Or at Cannes 2021, ‘sunshine noir’ Murina is the assured feature debut of acclaimed shorts writer-director Antoneta Loved in life, a cursed spirit harms those near Yuta, draining his will to live. Now, a sorcerer from Gojo’s past wants that power, forcing the Jujutsu Sorcerers to take Yuta in. With them, he’ll soon
Winner of the Camera d’Or at Cannes 2021, ‘sunshine noir’ Murina is the assured feature debut of acclaimed shorts writer-director Antoneta Loved in life, a cursed spirit harms those near Yuta, draining his will to live. Now, a sorcerer from Gojo’s past wants that power, forcing the Jujutsu Sorcerers to take Yuta in. With them, he’ll soon
Winner of the Camera d’Or at Cannes 2021, ‘sunshine noir’ Murina is the assured feature debut of acclaimed shorts writer-director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović (Into the Blue), executive produced by Martin Scorsese. On a bright, beautiful Croatian island, tensions rise between restless teenager Julija (Gracija Filipović) and her oppressive father Ante (Leon Lučev) when an old family friend
Based on politician Yanis Varoufakis’ memoir, Adults in the Room takes the audience back to Greece in 2015, a country on the edge of collapse. Two up-and-coming politicians, Yanis and Alexis, rebel against the status quo and subsequently become an inspiration to many. But can their friendship survive in the brutal, unforgiving world of politics?
The legendary Catherine Frot stars in this engaging comedy as Eve Vernet, the greatest rose grower in France. A once booming business, Eve’s farm is now on the verge of bankruptcy and in danger of being bought by a powerful competitor. Her secretary Véra (Olivia Côte) believes she has found a solution and hires three
We know you've been longing for the Return of the Open Mic Night. We've missed that wholesome, electric je-ne-sais-quois in the air at open mics, and we're ready to bring them back to you, free and monthly. Be prepared to mask up, sign up, and come on up to the mic in the Gallery Bar at Summerhall. If you're not (yet) one to read your poems for any and all ears to hear, come out to listen to some of the best fresh poetry Edinburgh has to offer.
From renowned provocateur Paul Verhoeven (Elle, Basic Instinct), BENEDETTA is a subversive erotic drama based on the true story of a 17th-century nun entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair. “A funny, filthy, iconoclastic riot” ★★★★ Empire Magazine
From visionary director Robert Eggers comes The Northman, an action-filled epic that follows a young Viking prince on his quest to avenge his father’s murder. "Mesmerisingly outrageous ★★★★★" The Guardian.
From visionary director Robert Eggers comes The Northman, an action-filled epic that follows a young Viking prince on his quest to avenge his father’s murder. "Mesmerisingly outrageous ★★★★★" The Guardian.
From renowned provocateur Paul Verhoeven (Elle, Basic Instinct), BENEDETTA is a subversive erotic drama based on the true story of a 17th-century nun entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair. “A funny, filthy, iconoclastic riot” ★★★★ Empire Magazine
The impetus for the first Shiny Shrimps film about a rainbow water polo team was to raise the taboo of homosexuality in sport.
The impetus for the first Shiny Shrimps film about a rainbow water polo team was to raise the taboo of homosexuality in sport.
Few artists are storytellers as deft and disarmingly observational as Andy Shauf. The Toronto-based, Saskatchewan-raised musician’s songs unfold like short fiction: they’re densely layered with colorful characters and a rich emotional depth.
Sun Ra was one of the greatest and least known jazz artists of the last four decades, whose influence on diverse musicians is little known to the general public. A pianist and band leader, his style ranged from retro swing to avant free, and often in the same piece. His band could play a swinging Gershwin tune and almost imperceptibly soar into their free cosmic equational tones as if they possessed a single mind.
From visionary director Robert Eggers comes The Northman, an action-filled epic that follows a young Viking prince on his quest to avenge his father’s murder. "Mesmerisingly outrageous ★★★★★" The Guardian.
From renowned provocateur Paul Verhoeven (Elle, Basic Instinct), BENEDETTA is a subversive erotic drama based on the true story of a 17th-century nun entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair. “A funny, filthy, iconoclastic riot” ★★★★ Empire Magazine
In pre-Revolutionary France, gastronomy is the domain of aristocrats and their prestige depends on the quality of their table. A wildly enjoyable tale of reignited passion, mentorship, revenge and gastronomy.
The impetus for the first Shiny Shrimps film about a rainbow water polo team was to raise the taboo of homosexuality in sport.
** Book a space for this workshop and receive a promo code for a reduced ticket to Company of Wolves' performances of Julius Caeser) ** This workshop uses simple mindful movement to recover our sense of play. Over ten years of research, performing and teaching, Company of Wolves have developed training methods to help rediscover a sense of vitality and reconnect us with others, so we can begin to unlock our full creative selves. Suitable for anyone interested in movement, creative recovery and connecting to others. No previous experience of working with movement is required.
The Skinny presents a retrospective of short films by the talented, self-taught Glasgow filmmaker James Price with a post show Q&A. With this 2 part event, get tickets for The Safdie Brothers' Good Time, and buy a ticket for both events at £12. Part of The CineSkinny Film Club at Summerhall.
Films don’t get much more frenetic than Benny and Josh Safdie’s Good Time, featuring a pulsating electronic score from Oneohtrix Point Never. With this 2 part event, get tickets for James Price Retrospective, and buy a ticket for both events at £12. Part of The CineSkinny Film Club at Summerhall.
Brutus and Cassius fear Caesar will crown himself king. But when they kill Caesar, they unleash forces that threaten to tear their world apart. Five actors immerse us in Shakespeare’s play, creating a world on the brink of crisis, teeming with crowds and politics: a wild ride from the streets of Rome to the steps of the Capitol, from whispers in the night to outright war.
Emergency is a comedy/thriller about three college friends of colour weighing the risks of calling the authorities: part hijinks-y romp and part social commentary. “A raucous one-last-epic-party romp a la Booksmart and socially aware thriller in the shadow of Get Out” The Guardian ★★★★
Brutus and Cassius fear Caesar will crown himself king. But when they kill Caesar, they unleash forces that threaten to tear their world apart. Five actors immerse us in Shakespeare’s play, creating a world on the brink of crisis, teeming with crowds and politics: a wild ride from the streets of Rome to the steps of the Capitol, from whispers in the night to outright war.
After an incredible debut in 2021, The Great Eastern returns on Saturday 21st May 2022! An all-day music festival taking place across multiple Edinburgh venues, The Great Eastern is brought to you by promoters 432 Presents, in association with Summerhall/Nothing Ever Happens Here and The Queen’s Hall.
Emergency is a comedy/thriller about three college friends of colour weighing the risks of calling the authorities: part hijinks-y romp and part social commentary. “A raucous one-last-epic-party romp a la Booksmart and socially aware thriller in the shadow of Get Out” The Guardian ★★★★
Z director Costa-Gavras reunites with star Yves Montand for another gripping thriller. Prague, 1951. The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Gérard (Montand) is suddenly arrested, tortured, and placed in solitary confinement.
Yorkston Thorne Khan are songwriter James Yorkston (guitar, nyckelharpa, voice), jazz musician Jon Thorne (double bass, voice) and 8th generation sarangi player and vocalist Suhail Yusuf Khan. Meeting by chance backstage in 2015 and playing together ever since, Yorkston Thorne Khan’s musical explorations are well-informed by their rich musical heritage but never reverential, preferring to run with an energy and fun that pushes them to new ground, Rolling Stone calling their Neuk Wight Delhi All-Stars album “a game changing masterpiece”.
Considered a tour-de-force of editing, featuring excerpts from over 700 films, Paris 1900 is a fascinating glimpse of a bygone era. Step back in time to the French capital at the beginning of the 20th century, and the final years of La Belle Époque.
Emergency is a comedy/thriller about three college friends of colour weighing the risks of calling the authorities: part hijinks-y romp and part social commentary. “A raucous one-last-epic-party romp a la Booksmart and socially aware thriller in the shadow of Get Out” The Guardian ★★★★
Emergency is a comedy/thriller about three college friends of colour weighing the risks of calling the authorities: part hijinks-y romp and part social commentary. “A raucous one-last-epic-party romp a la Booksmart and socially aware thriller in the shadow of Get Out” The Guardian ★★★★
Emergency is a comedy/thriller about three college friends of colour weighing the risks of calling the authorities: part hijinks-y romp and part social commentary. “A raucous one-last-epic-party romp a la Booksmart and socially aware thriller in the shadow of Get Out” The Guardian ★★★★
A victim of deprivation and social exclusion had joined a religious cult that gave him a sense of community, but has since liberated himself from its oppressions and criminal temptations. Screening part of CinemaAttic’s ADRIFT, a film season bringing essential world cinema to Scotland this spring.
Striking miners, indigenous communities left off the hook, market stalls… Filming the invisibles, Kiro Russo’s second feature is a singular city symphony that lays bare the plight of the working classes. A milestone of representation of indigenous communities in cinema, the film was awarded the Grand Jury Prize in the last Biennale - Venice Film Festival. Screening part of CinemaAttic’s ADRIFT, a film season bringing essential world cinema to Scotland this spring.
An alternative anti-imperialist take on the discovery of America, shot in 16mm with images of painstaking beauty. Drawing an arc between 1492 and our present, between the genocide of the Conquista, the slave trade and the witch hunts, the building of a Spanish empire abroad, and the ghost of the civil war. Screening part of CinemaAttic’s ADRIFT, a film season bringing essential world cinema to Scotland this spring.
Nuria and Fabio arrive with their mother Amparo on an unknown island on the border between Brazil, Colombia and Peru. They are fleeing armed conflicts in Colombia. Fearful of betraying family secrets, Nuria goes silent. In the midst of this, the family tries to receive compensation for the father's death and to obtain a visa to emigrate to Brazil. By covering this story, they uncover others about the family's past. Screening part of CinemaAttic’s ADRIFT, a film season bringing essential world cinema to Scotland this spring.
L, a university student in India, writes letters to her estranged lover, while he is away. Through these letters, we get a glimpse into the drastic changes taking place around her in contemporary India. Merging reality with fiction, dreams, memories, fantasies and anxieties, an amorphous narrative unfolds. A film that is a love letter, a poem to cinema, and a reminder of the need for collective action in our societies. Screening part of CinemaAttic’s ADRIFT, a film season bringing essential world cinema to Scotland this spring.
A VHS journey to the heart of one of the most shameful episodes of modern Argentina. Made almost entirely out of archive material, SPLINTERS (Esquirlas) is a firsthand reflection on family, pain and the passage of time, a further example that the personal is always political. A powerful debut feature by Natalia Garayalde winner
Mickaël (Vincent Macaigne) is a night doctor who visits troubled neighbours and cares for those whom no one else seems to – the drug addicts, the homeless, the destitute. His personal life is also falling apart. Torn between his wife and mistress, he is pressurised by his pharmacist cousin to write false drug prescriptions. But
Thirty dancers from hip-hop, break, vogue, and other non-traditional genres descend on Paris's legendary Opéra Bastille to reinvent Jean-Philippe Rameau’s baroque masterpiece Les Indes galantes. Intense, mesmerising, energetic and a powerful ode to life and art – this is an inspiring documentary, unmissable.
Jack Lukeman is an Irish singer-songwriter, performer, raconteur and a whole lot more besides. A platinum-selling, critically acclaimed artist in his homeland, in recent years Lukeman has devoted more of his time to winning a growing fanbase in the UK and abroad.
Winner at the Venice film festival, Audrey Diwan’s film captures the panic of an unwanted pregnancy before the legalisation of abortion in provincial France. ★★★★ The Guardian
Winner at the Venice film festival, Audrey Diwan’s film captures the panic of an unwanted pregnancy before the legalisation of abortion in provincial France. ★★★★ The Guardian
Is Gregor Samsa a bug wishing he was a man or a man wishing he was a bug?
Combining physical/visual theatre and high-octane spoken word, AFTER METAMORPHOSIS reworks Kafka's classic tale to peer through insect eyes to both lampoon and celebrate humanity.
Thirty dancers from hip-hop, break, vogue, and other non-traditional genres descend on Paris's legendary Opéra Bastille to reinvent Jean-Philippe Rameau’s baroque masterpiece Les Indes galantes. Intense, mesmerising, energetic and a powerful ode to life and art – this is an inspiring documentary, unmissable.
Mickaël (Vincent Macaigne) is a night doctor who visits troubled neighbours and cares for those whom no one else seems to – the drug addicts, the homeless, the destitute. His personal life is also falling apart. Torn between his wife and mistress, he is pressurised by his pharmacist cousin to write false drug prescriptions. But
Is Gregor Samsa a bug wishing he was a man or a man wishing he was a bug?
Combining physical/visual theatre and high-octane spoken word, AFTER METAMORPHOSIS reworks Kafka's classic tale to peer through insect eyes to both lampoon and celebrate humanity.
