After 5pm, Film

The boy who inspired an iconic masterpiece returns to Venice as a grown man to unravel the mystery behind that chance encounter. A homage to Thomas Mann and Luchino Visconti. Suitable for ages 16+.

Avant-garde spoken word, film and music fusion night describing itself as 'playing host to the sinister and the sanguine'.

• Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
• Cast: Adrian Lester, Rory Kinnear

Shakespeare's story of jealousy, murder and the danger of ear-whisperers gets modernised and beamed live from the stage.

Verdi's opera live from the Taormina Arts festival.

A live screening of Shostakovich's classic opera.

In honour of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Edvard Munch, expert Tim Marlow hosts a behind-the-scenes look at putting on this exhibition.

A live screening of the Puccini opera.

A live screening of a mixed programme of five ballets from the choreographer.

Everyone is welcome at these open sessions for screenwriters, from the novice to the professional. Meetings start with an industry talk followed by a Q&A and a workshopping session on scripts brought along by participants. Ages 16+.

Robert Powell and Liza Goddard explore the first hundred years of cinema, starting with the Lumiere Brothers, making their way through Mickey Mouse, Clark Gable and Groucho Marx, and ending with Bond 22. Clive Conway and Christine Croshaw provide musical accompaniment.

Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz present their droll, trans-temporal films which carefully re-present the 'other' and the socially outcast.

Beckett on Film: Waiting for Godot: Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and starring Stephen Brennan, Barry McGovern, Johnny Murphy, Alan Stanford and Sam McGovern as the boy.

Beckett on Film: What Where: Directed by Damien O’Donnell and starring Sean McGinley and Gary.Lewis. Footfalls: Directed by Walter Asmus and starring Susan FitzGerald and Joan O’Hara. Come and Go: Directed by John Crowley and starring Paola Dionisotti, Anna Massey and Siân Phillips.

Glad Cafe's quarterly get together where script writers can get a scene from a work-in-progress read before a live audience of peers. Submit scenes to the listed email. Ages 18+.

• 2009
• Spain
• 103 min

• Directed by: Álvaro Pastor, Antonio Naharro
• Cast: Lola Dueñas, Pablo Pineda, Antonio Naharro

A charmingly offbeat, gentle comedy. Daniel – a recent university graduate with Down's Syndrome – falls in love on his first day at work in the Department of Social Services. Nuria is an outsider who spends her nights in the city's crowded clubs and singles' bars, escaping her problems in the arms of total strangers.

Pupils from Dunoon Grammar School present a double bill of films of their choosing. Follow on Twitter for more details.