Film within 5 miles of Edinburgh

45 events within 5 miles

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The Green Table/Portrait of Mary Wigman

Choreographed in 1932, The Green Table is known as Kurt Jooss’s masterpiece. In this film of a performance in the 1960s by Folkwang Ballet, the dancers include a young Pina Bausch. Portrait of Mary Wigman: at the end of the roaring twenties Mary Wigman provoked a real revolution in the world of dance.

Edinburgh Festival Theatre (0.9 miles)

Sat 17 Aug

£4 / 0131 473 2000

Part of Dance Odysseys.

Sun 18 Aug

£4 / 0131 473 2000

Part of Dance Odysseys.

Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival

An essential fixture for everyone in the television industry wanting inspiration, networking, learning and fun. Run by and for the television industry, it is attended by over 2000 delegates and has featured hundreds of globally renowned top TV executives as speakers, including Ricky Gervais, Professor Brian Cox, Elisabeth…

EICC, Edinburgh (1.8 miles)

Thu 22 Aug

Times & prices vary / 02078 43 0146

Fri 23 Aug

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Sat 24 Aug

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Happy Days

Beckett on Film: Happy Days: Directed by Patricia Rozema and starring Rosaleen Linehan and Richard Johnson.

The Hub, Edinburgh (1.3 miles)

Sat 31 Aug

£4 / 0131 473 2000

Part of Beckett on Film.

Histoire d'amour

European Premiere: An English teacher sees a woman on the underground and decides she will become his wife and the mother of his children. He takes over her life and when she tries to escape, all doors close before her. Once re-captured he abuses her again, over and over. Histoire d’amour explores a world where guilt and…

King's Theatre, Edinburgh (1.6 miles)

Thu 15 Aug

£12–£30 / 0131 473 2000

Fri 16 Aug

£12–£30 / 0131 473 2000

Sat 17 Aug

£12–£30 / 0131 473 2000

House/Lights

A video of a complete performance of the 1999 OBIE-winning collision of Gertrude Stein’s Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights with Joseph Mawra’s B-movie classic, Olga’s House of Shame. ‘Bedazzling … there’s nothing else like it around; it turns disorientation into a primary sensual pleasure, even as it raises terrifying…

Inspace, Edinburgh (1.0 miles)

Sun 11 Aug

£4 / 0131 473 2000

Part of Selections from the Wooster Group Archive.

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Making it Home

A collection of four short films made by refugee and asylum seekers.

Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh (0.9 miles)

Fri 21 Jun

Over-12s only

£6 (£4) / 0131 556 9579

  • 19:00

Filmhouse, Edinburgh (1.7 miles)

Sun 16 Jun

0131 228 2688

Featuring an introduction and followed by a discussion.

  • 16:00

Interfaces: How Art Intersects with Technology in Cinema

Moshe Kam of Drexel University, Philadelphia, discusses the neverending cycle of advancements in cinema, that provide for expanded artistic freedom and in turn lead to new technological opportunities. Chaired by Sir John Arbuthnott, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

The Hub, Edinburgh (1.3 miles)

Tue 13 Aug

£6 / 0131 473 2000

Part of Interfaces.

John Smith: Early Shorts

Rhubaba Gallery presents a selection of earlier short films from the brilliant John Smith: Associations, The Girl Chewing Gum and The Black Tower.

Filmhouse, Edinburgh (1.7 miles)

Mon 27 May

£5 / 0131 228 2688

  • 18:30

Julie Brook in Conversation

The landscape artist, who works in a multitude of media, sits down to discuss her practice and solo exhibition made, unmade with a number of different cultural workers, from administrators to a filmmaker to a choreographer to a poet.

Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh (0.9 miles)

Thu 30 May

Free / 0131 550 3660

Tonight's discussion with Scottish poet, writer and musician Don Paterson centres on language, poetry and artistic practice.

  • 18:00 – 19:30

Krapp’s Last Tape

Beckett on Film: Krapp’s Last Tape: Directed by Atom Egoyan and starring John Hurt.

The Hub, Edinburgh (1.3 miles)

Sat 31 Aug

£4 / 0131 473 2000

Part of Beckett on Film.

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Madame Freedom

European Premiere: A two-dimensional, cinematic black-and-white woman of yesteryear struggles to break free of the social, economic and political straitjacket of the time, while a three-dimensional woman of here and now struggles to what … ? Break free … ? Of what … ? When the unfulfilled soul of a fictional woman surges…

King's Theatre, Edinburgh (1.6 miles)

Tue 20 Aug

£12–£30 / 0131 473 2000

Wed 21 Aug

£12–£30 / 0131 473 2000

Modern Edinburgh Film School

Modern Edinburgh Film School is a temporary, participatory film school curated by visual artist Alex Hetherington in association with Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, giving an ongoing series of talks, lectures and screenings in various venues across Edinburgh.

Inspace, Edinburgh (1.0 miles)

Sat 25 May

Free / 0131 650 2750

Featuring screenings of Beau Travail and short film ISLAND, and an essay by Hannah McGill read live by artist Catherine Street.

  • 20:00

Munch 150

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.

Cameo, Edinburgh (1.7 miles)

Thu 27 Jun

0871 902 5723

Rigoletto: Live from Taormina's Ancient Greek Theatre

Verdi's opera live from the Taormina Arts festival.

Edinburgh Festival Theatre (0.9 miles)

Tue 9 Jul

£25 / 0131 529 6000

Rockaby/Act Without Words I/That Time

Beckett on Film: Rockaby: Directed by Richard Eyre and starring Penelope Wilton. Act Without Words I: Directed by Karel Reisz and starring Sean Foley with music by Michael Nyman. That Time: Directed by Charles Garrad and starring Niall Buggy.

The Hub, Edinburgh (1.3 miles)

Sat 31 Aug

£4 / 0131 473 2000

Part of Beckett on Film.

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Rumstick Road

A video reconstruction of the landmark 1977 production Rumstick Road which combined audio taped conversations, family letters, dance, 35mm slides and the writing of Mary Baker Eddy to construct a response to the suicide of Spalding Gray’s mother. 'A brilliant and engrossing work; one whose abstraction and complexity…

Inspace, Edinburgh (1.0 miles)

Sat 10 Aug

£4 / 0131 473 2000

Part of Selections from the Wooster Group Archive.

Simon Munnery: Fylm

A film/theatre mash-up from the imaginative comedian.

The Stand, Edinburgh (1.2 miles)

Thu 1 Aug

Over-14s only

£10 (£9) / 0131 558 7272

Fri 2 Aug

Over-14s only

£10 (£9) / 0131 558 7272

Sat 3 Aug

Over-14s only

£10 (£9) / 0131 558 7272

…and 22 more dates until 26 Aug

The Slow-Wave

A project on the practice of Edinburgh artist Lyndsay Mann, featuring you are what you think about most of the time by Chris Dyson & Katherine MacBride; TRANS by Mark Chapman; and 60 seconds the release by Lyndsay Mann.

Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (1.0 miles)

Fri 24 May

Free / 0131 650 2210

  • 13:00 – 14:00

Waiting for Godot

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.

The Hub, Edinburgh (1.3 miles)

Sat 31 Aug

£4 / 0131 473 2000

Part of Beckett on Film.

What Where/Footfalls/Come and Go

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.

The Hub, Edinburgh (1.3 miles)

Sat 31 Aug

£4 / 0131 473 2000

Part of Beckett on Film.

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