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In this hilarious British mockumentary, we follow Caroline, a competitive giant vegetable grower, as she readies herself for the big annual National Veg Championship. However, Caroline finds her life turned upside down when her prized marrow plants are stolen. The competitive giant vegetable growing world is rocked by scandal when up-and- coming prospect Caroline has her prized marrow plants stolen. Desperate for answers, she turns to two private detectives she knows who are then dramatically k...

• Monday, September 1st

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Ilan Pappé & Avi Shlaim: The Long and the Short of Israel and Palestine Wed 13 Aug 18:45 - 19:45 Live streaming from Edinburgh International Book Festival This event will be held in our new first floor creative learning space (upstairs). Ilan Pappé (A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, Lobbying for Zionism) and Avi Shlaim (Genocide in Gaza: Israel's Long War on Palestine) have decades of experience in analysing Israel and Palestine, and their impact on individuals, the region,...

• Wednesday, August 13th

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ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA CINEMA SEASON 2025/26 The Royal Ballet GISELLE LIVE: Tuesday 3rd March 2026, 19:15 GMT Running time: 210 minutes (To be confirmed) Cast: To be confirmed Creatives: Choreography MARIUS PETIPA after JEAN CORALLI and JULES PERROT Music ADOLPHE ADAM Edited by LARS PAYNE Conductor VELLO PAHN Scenario THÉOPHILE GAUTIER after HEINRICH HEINE Production and Additional Choreography PETER WRIGHT Designer JOHN MACFARLANE Original Lighting JENNIFER TIPTON Re-created by DAVID...

• Tuesday, March 3rd

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The Front List: Maggie O’Farrell Fri 15 Aug 13:30 - 14:30 Live streaming from Edinburgh International Book Festival This event will be held in our new first floor creative learning space (upstairs). Bursting onto the literary scene with her skilful debut, After You’d Gone, Maggie O’Farrell has remained an inimitable creative force ever since. Today’s event celebrates her 25th anniversary as a beloved writer of works encompassing her breathtaking memoir I Am, I Am, I Am; captivating The Marriage...

• Friday, August 15th

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The Front List: Ian McEwan Sun 24 Aug 13:30 - 14:30 Live streaming from Edinburgh International Book Festival This event will be held in our new first floor creative learning space (upstairs). The masterful Ian McEwan is one of our greatest living writers, creating modern classics including Atonement, Enduring Love, On Chesil Beach, Amsterdam, The Children Act, and Saturday. Ahead of the highly anticipated publication of his new novel, What We Can Know, McEwan reflects on a truly remarkable car...

• Sunday, August 24th

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ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA CINEMA SEASON 2025/26 The Royal Opera LA TRAVIATA LIVE: Wednesday 14th January 2026, 18:45 GMT Running time: 240 minutes (To be confirmed) Sung in Italian with subtitles Cast: Violetta Valéry ERMONELA JAHO Alfredo Germont GIOVANNI SALA Giorgio Germont ALEKSEI ISAEV Annina VEENA AKAMA-MAKIA Doctor Grenvil BARNABY REA Flora Bervoix ELLEN PEARSON Baron Douphol SAM HIRD Gastone de Letorières GIORGI GULIASHVILI Marquis d’Obigny OSSIAN HUSKINSON Creatives: Music GIUSE...

• Wednesday, January 14th

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Chloe Dalton: Raising Hare Sun 24 Aug 11:45 - 12:45 Live streaming from Edinburgh International Book Festival This event will be held in our new first floor creative learning space (upstairs). Suffering from burnout, political adviser Chloe Dalton retreated from the big city to the English countryside. There she found a seemingly abandoned leveret, or baby hare, and took it home. Longlisted for 2025’s Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, Raising Hare is the heartwarming story of how this tiny creatur...

• Sunday, August 24th

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Quo Vadis, Aida? In 1995, the single worst atrocity of the Bosnian War happened in Srebrenica. Over 8,000 Bosnian Muslin man and boys were slaughtered by Serb forces. And yet there remain people who deny that this atrocity took place in this community where neighbour turned against neighbour. 'Quo Vadis, Aida?' is a dramatisation of the events leading up to and after the genocide. This film is sponsored by a local supporter of Beyond Srebrenica, a Scottish Charity that promotes awareness of t...

• Tuesday, September 30th

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Once a year contenders from around the globe descend on a picturesque village in the Scottish Highlands to compete for the title of World Porridge Champion. Amid intense rivalries, steaming bowls of porridge, and the lives of charming locals we see a living legacy unfold. Dating back to neolithic times, few culinary traditions have survived as long as the hearty bowl of morning porridge. Despite its simple recipe of oats, salt and water, there is a lot that can vary. Each year the sleepy highla...

• Friday, August 29th

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Andrey Kurkov: Our Daily War Tue 19 Aug 17:00 - 18:00 Live streaming from Edinburgh International Book Festival This event will be held in our new first floor creative learning space (upstairs). One of Ukraine's most celebrated post-Soviet novelists, Andrey Kurkov is renowned for his surreal, satirical fiction, including Death and the Penguin and political thriller series, the Kyiv Mysteries (the first instalment of which is 2024 International Booker-longlisted, The Silver Bone). Former Preside...

• Tuesday, August 19th

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Celebrating the 250th anniversary of their births, this unmissable new documentary explores Turner and Constable’s intertwined lives and legacies alongside the groundbreaking Tate exhibition. Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable were also the greatest of rivals. Born within a year of each other, both used landscape painting to reflect the changing world around them. Tate Britain is bringing these two greats together for a groundbreaking exhibition, in London from...

• Sunday, March 15th

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A rare chance to see Emma Davie's presumed-lost documentary 'Flight', a road movie exploring Scottish folk traditions from Cape Breton to Nova Scotia. An important document of Scottish diaspora, 'Flight' explores how Scottish traditions continue to be expressed in Canada, long after families have left Scotland. And on Sunday 17 August Piping expert, Hamish Moore, will be joining us for a mini-concert and discussion. This event kindly brought to the Birks Cinema by Transgressive North, a Scotti...

• Friday, August 15th

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• Sunday, August 17th

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Can't get enough Arnold? Buy a ticket for 'Terminator 2' as well and get a £1 off both tickets! Discount will apply on the payment page. In 2029, the war between man and machine has desolated the Earth, leaving humanity all but wiped out. Pockets of survivors remain - either living as slaves serving their technological overlords, or as resistance fighters attempting to overthrow the sentient defence network that controls the machines. From this wasteland, two soldiers are sent back in time to...

• Saturday, September 6th

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ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA CINEMA SEASON 2025/26 The Metropolitan Opera LA SONNAMBULA [New Production] AS LIVE: Tuesday 21st October 2025, 18:45 BST Running time: 195 minutes, One Interval Sung in Italian with English subtitles. Cast: Amina NADINE SIERRA Lisa SYDNEY MANCASOLA Elvino XABIER ANDUAGA Rodolfo ALEXANDER VINOGRADOV Creatives: Music VINCENZO BELLINI Conductor RICCARDO FRIZZA Director ROLANDO VILLAZÓN Set Designer JOHANNES LEIACKER Costumer Designer BRIGITTE REIFFENSTUEL Lighti...

• Tuesday, October 21st

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ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA CINEMA SEASON 2025/26 The Royal Opera SIEGFRIED LIVE: Tuesday 31st March 2026, 17:15 BST Running time: 330 minutes (to be confirmed) Sung in German with subtitles Cast: Siegfried ANDREAS SCHAGER Mime PETER HOARE Der Wanderer CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN Brünnhilde ELISABET STRID Alberich CHRISTOPHER PURVES Fafner SOLOMAN HOWARD Erda WIEBKE LEHMKUHL Woodbird SARAH DUFRESNE Creatives: Music RICHARD WAGNER Conductor ANTONIO PAPPANO Director BARRIE KOSKY Set Designer RUFUS DI...

• Tuesday, March 31st

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Paula Hawkins: An Unexpected Visitor Wed 13 Aug 12:45 - 13:45 Live streaming from Edinburgh International Book Festival This event will be held in our new first floor creative learning space (upstairs). What do a swanky art gallery in London and a remote Scottish island - 12 hours from the mainland - have in common? A human bone as it turns out. Isolation, secrecy, adultery, fame, art, and a dead body - The Blue Hour is a rollercoaster ride of thrills. Author of the global phenomenon Girl on a...

• Wednesday, August 13th

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Join us at the Birks Cinema on Friday 26 September at 7:30pm for 'Living Stone', a Fringe First-winning show by Mairi Campbell, created with director Kath Burlinson and co-composer Dave Gray. The journey begins with the discovery of an ancient millstone on Mairi’s great-grandmother’s croft on the Isle of Lismore, leading her to uncover the stone’s secrets and the captivating images and stories it holds.Blending live music, song and Mairi’s beautiful viola playing with striking visual a...

• Friday, September 26th

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National Theatre Live: Inter Alia a new play by Suzie Miller Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Saltburn) is Jessica in the much-anticipated next play from the team behind Prima Facie. Jessica Parks is a smart Crown Court Judge at the top of her career. Behind the robe, she is a karaoke fiend, a loving wife and a supportive parent. When an event threatens to throw her life completely off balance, can she hold her family upright? Writer Suzie Miller and director Justin Martin reunite fol...

• Thursday, September 25th

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A playful new documentary from Scottish filmmaker and writer Gerda Stevenson, Paper Portraits celebrates the history and working people of Penicuik’s paper mills. Featuring a bustling cast of local community members, and filmed with a keen sense of cinematic poetry, Paper Portrait is a powerful celebration of community, past and present. There will be a Q&A with Director, Gerda Stevenson, after the screening....

• Sunday, August 10th

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Part of the monthly Heartland Film Society series. Hilmar Oddsson’s delightful 1980-set darkly comedic road movie is an oddball odyssey of self-discovery and acceptance across the beautifully photographed landscapes of Iceland. Middle-aged and disappointed, Jón (Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson) spends his days knitting and listening to the radio with his domineering elderly mother (Kristbjörg Kjeld) on their rural Icelandic farmstead. With his life overtaken with looking after his home and his mother’...

• Sunday, September 21st

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Naga Munchetty: It’s (Not) All In Your Head Sat 23 Aug 17:00 - 16:00 Live streaming from Edinburgh International Book Festival This event will be held in our new first floor creative learning space (upstairs). Women’s healthcare is in need of a revolution, and BBC broadcaster Naga Munchetty is ready to fight. In It’s Probably Nothing, she explores the difficulties women still face in getting diagnosed and treated, and provides actionable lessons to help women advocate for themselves in medical...

• Saturday, August 23rd

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Highland Perthshire Plus presents a special relaxed screening of 'The Fantastic Four: First Steps' on Saturday 16 August at 11am. Tickets £6. In a relaxed screening, there is no pre-show. So the film will start at the scheduled start time. The lights are left on low throughout and the sound is set to a lower volume. You are free and very welcome to speak, sing, clap and laugh throughout the screening. All welcome. On a 1960s-inspired retro-futuristic parallel Earth, the Fantastic Four must prot...

• Saturday, August 16th

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Robert Macfarlane: Is A River Alive? Sat 9 Aug 15:15 - 16:15 Live streaming from Edinburgh International Book Festival This event will be held in our new first floor creative learning space (upstairs). Robert Macfarlane's radiant writing on nature, people, and place is in a class unto itself, and the Guardian has slated Is a River Alive? as the biggest publishing event of 2025. This passionate, perspective-shifting treatise revives the idea that rivers are living beings and should be treated as...

• Saturday, August 9th

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Anne Sebba: The Woman’s Orchestra of Auschwitz Sat 16 Aug 11:45 - 12:45 Live streaming from Edinburgh International Book Festival This event will be held in our new first floor creative learning space (upstairs). In 1943, 50 women and girls were drafted into an orchestra within the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp by the same Nazi officers who were killing their families and friends. Though the musicians’ participation may have aided their survival, in The Woman’s Orchestra of Auschwitz historian...

• Saturday, August 16th

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The Front List: Nicola Sturgeon Thurs 14 Aug 13:30 - 14:30 Live streaming from Edinburgh International Book Festival This event will be held in our new first floor creative learning space (upstairs). Nicola Sturgeon’s time as Scotland’s first female – and longest serving – First Minister, saw her tackle some of the most challenging events in modern history. From the Scottish Independence Referendum, Brexit, Covid, and much more, there have been moments of unfathomable pressure – and sometimes,...

• Thursday, August 14th

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Alexander McCall Smith: Here’s the Scoop Fri 15 Aug 11:45 - 12:45 Live streaming from Edinburgh International Book Festival This event will be held in our new first floor creative learning space (upstairs). The mighty Alexander McCall Smith brings us all of his latest works including Bertie’s Theory of Ice Cream (the latest in his beloved 44 Scotland Street series) and In the Time of Five Pumpkins (in the perennially adored No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series). He is, quite simply, Scottish li...

• Friday, August 15th

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Mystery, intrigue, beauty, passion, murder – shine a new light on Caravaggio in this dramatic biography… Five years in production, this is the most extensive film ever made about one of the greatest artists of all time – Caravaggio. Featuring masterpiece after masterpiece and with first-hand testimony from the artist himself on the eve of his mysterious disappearance, this beautiful new film reveals Caravaggio as never before. Multi-award-winning filmmakers David Bickerstaff and Phil Grabsky d...

• Sunday, November 16th

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Join us for an evening All About Cheese at The Birks Cinema, supported by Healthiest Town Aberfeldy. You Feta Believe It - This evening is ripe with cheese knowledge, cheese demos, and cheesy conversation. The evening starts at 5:30pm with a cheesemaking demonstration in our new first floor Creative Learning Space. Artisan cheesemaker, Kristen Allan will demonstrate a simple cheese for you to make at home - learn how to make labne, including marinated labne balls in oil. Labne is a staple in M...

• Wednesday, September 3rd

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Highland Perthshire Plus presents a special relaxed screening of 'Elio' on Saturday 19 July at 11am. Tickets £6. In a relaxed screening, there is no pre-show. So the film will start at the scheduled start time. The lights are left on low throughout and the sound is set to a lower volume. You are free and very welcome to speak, sing, clap and laugh throughout the screening. All welcome. What if the thing you were searching for found you first? For centuries, people have called out to the univers...

• Saturday, July 26th

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ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA CINEMA SEASON 2025/26 The Royal Ballet LA FILLE MAL GARDÉE LIVE: Wednesday 5th November 2025, 19:15 GMT Running time: 210 minutes (To be confirmed) Cast: To be confirmed Creatives: Choreography FREDERICK ASHTON Music FERDINAND HÉROLD Conductor JONATHAN LO Arrangement and Orchestration JOHN LANCHBERY Scenario JEAN DAUBERVAL Designer OSBERT LANCASTER Lighting Designer JOHN B. READ Synopsis: Lise, the only daughter of Widow Simone, is in love with the young far...

• Wednesday, November 5th

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A new era is born. Next summer, three years after the Jurassic World trilogy concluded with each film surpassing $1 billion at the global box office, the enduring Jurassic series evolves in an ingenious new direction with Jurassic World Rebirth. Anchored by iconic action superstar Scarlett Johansson, breakthrough talent Jonathan Bailey and two-time Oscar® winner Mahershala Ali, this action-packed new chapter sees an intrepid team racing to secure DNA samples from the three most colossal creatu...

• Saturday, July 26th

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• Sunday, July 27th

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• Monday, July 28th

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• Tuesday, July 29th

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• Wednesday, July 30th

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Alistair Moffat: Scotland in a Lifetime Tue 19 Aug 12:45 - 13:45 Live streaming from Edinburgh International Book Festival This event will be held in our new first floor creative learning space (upstairs). Prolific social historian and Edinburgh favourite, Alistair Moffat returns to discuss To See Ourselves: A Personal History of Scotland Since 1950. Through this latest work, Moffat chronicles the radical changes seen in every aspect of Scottish life over the last 75 years: from politics and so...

• Tuesday, August 19th

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ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA CINEMA SEASON 2025/26 The Royal Opera TOSCA [New Production] AS LIVE: Wednesday 1st October 2025, 18:45 BST Running time: 210 minutes (To be confirmed) Sung in Italian with subtitles Cast: Floria Tosca ANNA NETREBKO Mario Cavaradossi FREDDIE DE TOMMASO Baron Scarpia GERALD FINLEY Spoletta CARLO BOSI Cesare Angelotti OSSIAN HUSKINSON Sacristan ALESSANDRO CORBELLI Sciarrone SIPHE KWANI Creatives: Music GIACOMO PUCCINI Conductor JAKUB HRŮŠA Director OLIVER MEARS...

• Wednesday, October 1st

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Suitcase Stories: The Seven Ravens (ages 6+)Join us at The Birks Cinema for a special performance of Suitcase Stories - The Seven Ravens by Freda O'Byrne, presented by Tragic CarpetWednesday 27 August at 4pm​Performance is approximately 45minsFor 6+ and adults (also younger children in family groups)A Raven visits a young girl.Why are the birds gathering?And what is the secret that Ada learns about her past?Inspired by the Brothers Grimm fairy tale....

• Wednesday, August 27th

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ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA CINEMA SEASON 2025/26 The Royal Ballet THE NUTCRACKER LIVE: Wednesday 10th December 2025, 19:15 GMT Running time: 210 minutes, One Interval (To be confirmed) Cast: To be confirmed Creatives: Choreography PETER WRIGHT after LEV IVANOV Music PYOTR IL’YICH TCHAIKOVSKY Conductor KOEN KESSELS Original Scenario MARIUS PETIPA after E.T.A. HOFFMANN Production and Scenario PETER WRIGHT Designer JULIA TREVELYAN OMAN Lighting Designer MARK HENDERSON Production Consultant...

• Wednesday, December 10th

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Will Hutton: National Remedies Mon 18 Aug 20:30 - 21:30 Live streaming from Edinburgh International Book Festival This event will be held in our new first floor creative learning space (upstairs). How Britain has gone wrong is a frequent conversational gambit, but it's seldom followed up with concrete solutions. These are just what political economist and former Observer editor­-in-chief, Will Hutton, offers in This Time No Mistakes. Discussing with Yuan Yang the failures of both Left and Right...

• Monday, August 18th

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In 1960, a young Irish woman named Edna O’Brien wrote a sexually frank debut novel, The Country Girls. She became a literary sensation, writing for The New Yorker, delivering provocative interviews, and authoring screenplays. Her success enraged her writer husband and made her a pariah in her native Ireland, where her books were banned and burned. She would make her home in London, where she conducted numerous love affairs, hosted star-studded parties, and made and lost a fortune. In July 2024,...

• Sunday, August 3rd

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Hamlet by William Shakespeare directed by Robert Hastie Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy. Trapped between duty and doubt, surrounded by power and privilege, young Prince Hamlet dares to ask the ultimate question – you know the one. National Theatre Deputy Artistic Director, Robert Hastie (Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Operation Mincemeat) directs this sharp, stylish and darkly funny reimagining....

• Thursday, January 22nd

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Andy Wightman: Who Owns Scotland? Wed 20 Aug 15:00 - 16:00 Live streaming from Edinburgh International Book Festival This event will be held in our new first floor creative learning space (upstairs). Ten years ago Andy Wightman – a former Member of the Scottish Parliament with the Scottish Greens and a tireless campaigner over issues around land ownership and reform in Scotland – published The Poor Had No Lawyers, a definitive investigation into just who owns the country’s urban and rural land,...

• Wednesday, August 20th

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Suitcase Stories: The Little Toy (ages 3 to 5)Join us at The Birks Cinema for a special performance of Suitcase Stories - The Little Toy, by Freda O'Byrne, presented by Tragic CarpetWednesday 27 August at 11amApproximately 45minsFor age 3-5 and their adults.Two children play on a beach, and when their parents call them away suddenly, Little Toy is left behind. A passing butterfly helps him find his way to the children’s new home across the sea, but first there...

• Wednesday, August 27th

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Who’s badder than The Bad Guys? The Bad Girls. In the new chapter from DreamWorks Animation’s acclaimed 2022 action-comedy hit about a crackerjack criminal crew of animal outlaws, The Bad Guys are struggling to find trust and acceptance in their newly minted lives as Good Guys, when they are pulled out of retirement and forced to do “one last job” by an all-female squad of criminals. Based on the New York Times best-selling book series by Aaron Blabey, The Bad Guys 2 reunites the film’s all-st...

• Friday, August 1st

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• Saturday, August 2nd

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• Sunday, August 3rd

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• Sunday, August 10th

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• Monday, August 11th

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Join us for an exciting evening where we deliver our Criminal Law Series: The Guilty Act event!Taking place on Friday 12th September 2025 at 19:00 GMT, this in-person event is a must-attend for anyone interested or curious in understanding criminal law in Scotland.In this talk, we promise Real Cases, Real Crimes, Real Scotland. But what is a guilty act? What h...

• Friday, September 12th

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The August quiz will be held in the Birks Cinema Cafe! While the first floor is going through a few more upgrades, we will be in the freshly painted ground floor with Quizmaster Charlie. Gather your friends and family to win the top prize. Each team is allowed a maximum of 4 members, £10 per team. Add a bowl of nachos to share for an additional £5!...

• Friday, August 1st

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• Friday, September 5th

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Highland Perthshire Plus presents a special relaxed screening of 'Elio' on Saturday 19 July at 11am. Tickets £6. In a relaxed screening, there is no pre-show. So the film will start at the scheduled start time. The lights are left on low throughout and the sound is set to a lower volume. You are free and very welcome to speak, sing, clap and laugh throughout the screening. All welcome. Who’s badder than The Bad Guys? The Bad Girls. In the new chapter from DreamWorks Animation’s acclaimed 2022...

• Saturday, August 2nd

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• Saturday, August 9th

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Prepare to embark on a captivating culinary and philosophical journey in Shelf Life, the latest documentary from Tribeca alum Ian Cheney (The Search for General Tso). This quirky and contemplative film takes us on a global odyssey into the world of cheese, drawing unexpected parallels between the aging process of this beloved food and the human experience of growing old. From the passionate cheesemakers in Japan to the knowledgeable mongers in Tbilisi, Cheney introduces us to a colorful cast of...

• Wednesday, September 3rd

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National Theatre Live: Mrs. Warren’s Profession by Bernard Shaw directed by Dominic Cooke Five-time Olivier Award winner Imelda Staunton (The Crown) joins forces with her real-life daughter Bessie Carter (Bridgerton) for the very first time, playing mother and daughter in Bernard Shaw’s incendiary moral classic. Vivie Warren is a woman ahead of her time. Her mother, however, is a product of that old patriarchal order. Exploiting it has earned Mrs. Warren a fortune – but at what cost? Filmed...

• Thursday, October 23rd

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ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA CINEMA SEASON 2025/26 The Royal Ballet CINDERELLA AS LIVE: Tuesday 25th November 2025, 19:15 GMT Running time: 195 minutes (To be confirmed) Filmed live at the Royal Opera House, London, in December 2024 Cast: Cinderella FUMI KANEKO The Prince WILLIAM BRACEWELL Cinderella’s Step-Sisters BENNET GARTSIDE, JAMES HAY Cinderella’s Father THOMAS WHITEHEAD The Fairy Godmother MAYARA MAGRI The Fairy Spring ISABELLA GASPARINI The Fairy Summer MARIKO SASAKI The Fairy Autumn M...

• Tuesday, November 25th

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The show Metagama: An Atlantic Odyssey tells this story in music, song, words and pictures of the islanders' emigration, its effect on the islands and how some of those who emigrated thrived but others sometimes did not thrive while trying to farm on poor soil! Doors 7pm Show Starts 7:30pm Interval 8:30pm (approx) Show over by 10pm Metagama merchandise will be available for purchase. In April 1923 the SS Metagama left Stornoway with over 300 young islanders onboard, bound for Canada. Within a...

• Tuesday, November 4th

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Devi Sridhar: Health For All Mon 11 Aug 11:00 - 12:00 Live streaming from Edinburgh International Book Festival This event will be held in our new first floor creative learning space (upstairs). What's the key to a longer, healthier life? Is the answer in self-help books and disciplined individual optimisation, or should we be holding governments to account for their policies on everything from pandemic preparedness to water treatment? Edinburgh University's Personal Chair of Global Health Devi...

• Monday, August 11th

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1 85-year-old Man, 2 Original Body Parts, 5 Countries, 16 Cities, 23 shows, 6 weeks. Will he make it home ... or is this the end of the road? One of the most recognisable figures in British comedy, John Cleese’s career spans six decades - from his early days with the Cambridge Footlights to co-founding Monty Python, co-creating Fawlty Towers, and writing and starring in the Oscar-nominated “A Fish Called Wanda”. His unique brand of black humour has made him a global icon and intergalactic treas...

• Wednesday, November 19th

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Housewife Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is not happy. She is agoraphobic, a hypochondriac and paranoid about animals, birds, insects, plants, and flowers. She is confrontational with everyone, especially her plumber husband Curtley and her unemployed son Moses, whom she thinks is wasting his life. Her sister Chantelle (Michele Austin) runs a thriving hair salon. A single mum, she enjoys life, and lives harmoniously with her daughters Kayla, who works in cosmetics, and Aleisha, a trainee lawyer....

• Sunday, November 16th

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André Rieu’s 2025 Maastricht Concert: Waltz The Night Away! Step into a night of music, romance, and celebration with André Rieu’s Waltz the Night Away! An all-new summer concert captured live from the stunning Vrijthof Square in his beloved hometown of Maastricht is coming to cinemas! Each night, the Vrijthof transforms into a grand ballroom as André and his Johann Strauss Orchestra invite audiences of all ages to waltz under the stars. With timeless melodies and beautiful waltzes, this conce...

• Sunday, August 31st

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The Fifth Step by David Ireland directed by Finn den Hertog Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland. After years in the 12-step programme of Alcoholics Anonymous, James becomes a sponsor to newcomer Luka. The pair bond over black coffee, trade stories and build a fragile friendship out of their shared experiences. But as Luk...

• Thursday, November 27th

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Performing in the auditorium at the Birks Cinema, Friday 15 August at 8pm. Doors at 7:30pm. Don't miss this rare performance by this legendary singer-songwriter. Hear hits like Ariel, Lucky Stars, Lydia and McDonald's Girl... live! Hailed by critics and fans alike as a one of the finest songwriters of his generation, Dean Friedman has achieved legendary, pop-icon status for chart-topping hits, Ariel, Lucky Stars, Lydia, McDonald’s Girl and more. Friedman returns to the stage armed with a stun...

• Friday, August 15th

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ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA CINEMA SEASON 2025/26 The Royal Opera THE MAGIC FLUTE AS LIVE: Tuesday 21st April 2026, 18:45 BST Running time: 210 minutes (To be confirmed) Sung in German with subtitles. Cast: Pamina JULIA BULLOCK Tamino AMITAI PATI Papageno HUW MONTAGUE RENDALL Queen of the Night KATHRYN LEWEK Sarastro SOLOMAN HOWARD Monostatos GERHARD SIEGEL Creatives: Music WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Conductor MARIE JACQUOT Director DAVID MCVICAR Designer JOHN MACFARLANE Lighting Designer PAU...

• Tuesday, April 21st

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A special event around the memoir 'Loving Alasdair' and short film, 'Unlikely Murals, Mostly'. Author May Hooper will be joining us at The Birks Cinema on Sunday, 2 November at 6:30pm. Come and meet May. Hear her talk about Alasdair and all the fun and heartache which she had with him and his family. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. May Hooper is a woman who knew Alasdair Gray quite profoundly. He was physically attracted to her. She was wildly fond of him. He remains a major...

• Sunday, November 2nd

  • 18:30
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Join us for a special screening of 'Out Loud'. Followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker Maureen Macleod. From the age of 16, singer Kim Carnie spent six years in a secret same-sex relationship. In the multi award-winning film, Kim Carnie Out Loud, Kim meets other members of the LGBTQ+ community from around the world, who also hid their sexuality for a variety of reasons, from being born in a country where being gay is illegal to feeling pressure from their family or community. She also meets LGBTQ...

• Tuesday, September 9th

  • 19:00
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ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA CINEMA SEASON 2025/26 The Metropolitan Opera EUGENE ONEGIN AS LIVE: Tuesday 5th May 2026, 18:00 BST Running time: 245 minutes, Two Intervals Sung in Russian with English subtitles Cast: Tatiana ASMIK GRIGORIAN Olga MARIA BARAKOVA Filippyevna STEPHANIE BLYTHE Lenski STANISLAS DE BARBEYRAC Eugene Onegin IGOR GOLOVATENKO Prince Gremin ALEXANDER TSYMBALYUK Creatives: Music PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Conductor TIMUR ZANGIEV Director DEBORAH WARNER Set Designer TOM PYE...

• Tuesday, May 5th

  • 18:00
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What if the thing you were searching for found you first? For centuries, people have called out to the universe looking for answers, and in Disney and Pixar’s all-new feature ELIO, the universe calls back! This cosmic misadventure introduces Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination and a huge alien obsession. When he’s beamed up to the Communiverse, an interplanetary organisation with representatives from galaxies far and wide, Elio’s all in for the epic undertaking. Mistakenly identifi...

• Saturday, July 26th

  • 13:45
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• Sunday, July 27th

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• Monday, July 28th

  • 13:30
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• Tuesday, July 29th

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• Wednesday, July 30th

  • 13:45
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Frida Kahlo is a phenomenon. She is arguably the world’s favourite female artist – beloved by young and old. Exhibition on Screen’s award-winning film – first released during covid to a restricted audience - is back by popular demand with an exciting new addition from the blockbuster transatlantic exhibition from Tate Britain and MFA Houston 'Frida Kahlo: the Making of an Icon'. Back in the cinemas in May 2026, one month before the Tate exhibition opens, allowing audiences to watch both the film...

• Tuesday, May 19th

  • 19:30
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ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA CINEMA SEASON 2025/26 The Royal Ballet WOOLF WORKS LIVE: Monday 9th February 2026, 19:15 GMT Running time: 210 minutes (To be confirmed) Cast: To be confirmed Creatives: Direction and Choreography WAYNE MCGREGOR Music MAX RICHTER Conductor KOEN KESSELS Designer CIGUË, WE NOT I, WAYNE MCGREGOR Costume Designer MORITZ JUNGE Lighting Designer LUCY CARTER Film Designer RAVI DEEPRES Sound System Designer CHRIS EKERS Make-up Designer KABUKI Dramaturgy UZMA HAMEED Syn...

• Monday, February 9th

  • 19:15
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The highly anticipated 19th Annual Fly Fishing Film Tour (F3T) is back and ready with a curated selection of the best fly fishing films from around the world. Anglers, outdoor enthusiasts, and adventure seekers are invited to join the tour as it visits cities nationwide, showcasing stunning cinematography, unforgettable stories, and the heart-pounding excitement of fly fishing. This year’s event promises to be the biggest yet, with a diverse lineup of films that highlight remote locations, uniqu...

• Tuesday, November 11th

  • 19:30
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Reverend Richard Coles Murder in the Parish Sat 9 Aug 11:45 - 12:45 Live streaming from Edinburgh International Book Festival This event will be held in our new first floor creative learning space (upstairs). Reverend Richard Coles has lived many lives: pop star, priest, public figure, and now bestselling author of the Canon Clement Mysteries. In A Death on Location, the arrival of a glamorous movie set causes a stir around town, not least when a murder takes place during filming. Join Coles to...

• Saturday, August 9th

  • 11:45
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Can't get enough Arnold? Buy a ticket for 'The Terminator' as well and get a £1 off both tickets! Discount will apply on the payment page. In this sequel set eleven years after "The Terminator," young John Connor (Edward Furlong), the key to civilization's victory over a future robot uprising, is the target of the shape-shifting T-1000 (Robert Patrick), a Terminator sent from the future to kill him. Another Terminator, the revamped T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger), has been sent back to protect t...

• Saturday, September 6th

  • 19:30
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Gabriel Weston: An Alternative Anatomy Fri 22 Aug 11:45 - 12:45 Live streaming from Edinburgh International Book Festival This event will be held in our new first floor creative learning space (upstairs). Aged 20, surgeon Gabriel Weston enrolled in a pioneering degree programme encouraging arts students to become doctors. She quickly realised that by presenting organs in isolation, separate from the bodies they exist in, anatomical textbooks were missing a holistic view of illness. In her insig...

• Friday, August 22nd

  • 11:45
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