Films & Events
The Birks Cinema offers a range of entertainment options - the latest films and special screenings, live events, stage-on-screen, and more.
The Roses
Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch): successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing - as Theo’s career nosedives while Ivy’s own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites. THE ROSES is a reimagining of the 1989 classic film The War of the Roses, based on the novel by Warren Adler....
15 TBC | 1h 45mFriday, August 29th
Sunday, August 31st
Monday, September 1st
Wednesday, September 3rd
Saturday, September 6th
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
On a 1960s-inspired retro-futuristic parallel Earth, the Fantastic Four must protect their world from the planet-devouring cosmic being Galactus and his herald, the Silver Surfer. Set against the vibrant backdrop of a 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, Marvel Studios’ THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS introduces Marvel’s First Family—Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic (Pedro Pascal), Sue Storm/Invisible Woman (Vanessa Kirby), Johnny Storm/Human Torch (Joseph Quinn) and Ben Grimm/The Thing (Ebon...
12A | 1h 56mFriday, August 8th
Saturday, August 9th
Sunday, August 10th
Monday, August 11th
Tuesday, August 12th
Edin Intl Book Fest: Maggie O’Farrell
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
The Terminator
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...
15 | 1h 47mSaturday, September 6th
The Royal Ballet: Giselle
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...
tbc | 3h 30mTuesday, March 3rd
Quiz Night at the Birks Cinema
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, September 5th
Edin Intl Book Fest: Andy Wightman
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
National Theatre Live: Mrs. Warren’s Profession
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...
tbc | 2h 0mThursday, October 23rd
Edin Intl Book Fest: Alistair Moffat
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
Edin Intl Book Fest: Naga Munchetty
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
The Royal Opera: Tosca
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...
tbc | 3h 30mWednesday, October 1st
Edin Intl Book Fest: Will Hutton
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
Edin Intl Book Fest: Andrey Kurkov
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
Cheesy Night at The Birks Cinema
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
The Metropolitan Opera: Eugene Onegin
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...
tbc | 4h 5mTuesday, May 5th
The Bad Guys 2
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...
PG | 1h 40mFriday, August 8th
Saturday, August 9th
Sunday, August 10th
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Tuesday, August 12th
Edin Intl Book Fest: Robert Macfarlane
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
Edin Intl Book Fest: Ian McEwan
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
The Golden Spurtle
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...
U - tbc | 1h 15mFriday, August 29th
Edin Intl Book Fest: Ilan & Avi
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
Driving Mum
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’...
12 | 1h 53mSunday, September 21st
Bloody Scotland: Mick Herron
Join us for some live streamed taster sessions of Bloody Scotland at the Birks. If you enjoy them, there are plenty of other sessions over the weekend which you can either pop along to Stirling to see or watch online. www.bloodyscotland.com/whats-on/ Saturday 13 September 11:30am, Mick Herron in conversation with Nick Harkaway We welcome back spymaster Mick Herron in a special event to mark the release of Clown Town, the ninth book in his phenomenal series featuring the slow horses of Slough H...
Saturday, September 13th
National Theatre Live: The Fifth Step
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...
tbc | 1h 40mThursday, November 27th
The Life of Chuck
A life-affirming, genre-bending story based on Stephen King's novella about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz. Directed and Written By MIKE FLANAGAN (The Fall of the House of Usher, The Haunting of Hill House) Based on the Novella by STEPHEN KING (The Shining, Stand By Me, Carrie, Shawshank Redemption & The Green Mile) Starring TOM HIDDLESTON (Marvel’s Loki, The Night Manager, Early Man), CHIWETEL EJIOFOR (Doctor Strange, Twelve Years A Slave), KAREN GILLAN...
15 | 1h 50mWednesday, August 20th
Thursday, August 21st
Friday, August 22nd
Saturday, August 23rd
Sunday, August 24th
The Royal Ballet: Woolf Works
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...
tbc | 3h 30mMonday, February 9th
The Room Next Door
Part of the monthly Heartland Film Society series. Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation...
12 | 1h 46mSunday, January 18th
Swede Caroline
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...
15 | 1h 37mMonday, September 1st
Edin Intl Book Fest: Alexander McCall Smith
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
Edin Intl Book Fest: Nicola Sturgeon
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
Exhibition on Screen: Frida Kahlo
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...
tbc | 1h 30mTuesday, May 19th
Exhibition on Screen: Caravaggio
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...
tbc | 1h 30mSunday, November 16th
The Royal Opera: Siegfried
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...
tbc | 5h 30mTuesday, March 31st
Edin Intl Book Fest: Chloe Dalton
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
The Royal Ballet: La Fille mal gardée
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...
tbc | 3h 30mWednesday, November 5th
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
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...
15 | 2h 17mSaturday, September 6th
The Fantastic Four: Relaxed Screening
Highland Perthshire Plus presents a special relaxed screening of 'The Fantastic Four: First Steps'. 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 protect their world from the plane...
12A | 1h 54mSaturday, August 16th
On Falling
Part of the monthly Heartland Film Society series. Set against a landscape dominated by an algorithm-driven gig economy, in a world designed to keep us apart, On Falling explores the silent, vital struggle to find meaning and connection. It tells the story of Aurora, a Portuguese migrant working as a warehouse picker in Edinburgh, Scotland. Trapped between the confines of a vast distribution centre and the solitude of her own bedroom, Aurora seeks out every opportunity to resist the alienation...
15 | 1h 41mSunday, June 21st
Paper Portraits
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. This film was commissioned and produced by The Penicuik Community Arts Association, n...
TBC | 0h 40mSunday, August 10th
The Naked Gun
Only one man has the particular set of skills...to lead Police Squad and save the world! Lt. Frank Drebin Jr. (Liam Neeson) follows in his father's footsteps in THE NAKED GUN, directed by Akiva Schaffer (Saturday Night Live, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping) and from producer Seth MacFarlane (Ted, Family Guy). Joining the case are cast Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, CCH Pounder, Kevin Durand, Cody Rhodes, Liza Koshy, Eddie Yu, with Danny Huston....
15 | 1h 25mFriday, August 22nd
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Friday, August 29th
Loving Alasdair Gray
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...
16+ | 1h 30mSunday, November 2nd
Fly Fishing Film Tour 2025
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...
PG | 2h 30mTuesday, November 11th
Edin Intl Book Fest: Gabriel Weston
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
The Royal Ballet: Cinderella 25/26
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...
tbc | 3h 15mTuesday, November 25th
Exhibition on Screen: Turner and Constable
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...
tbc | 1h 30mSunday, March 15th
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
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....
tbc | 3h 0mThursday, January 22nd
André Rieu’s: Waltz The Night Away!
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...
tbc | 2h 46mSunday, August 31st
The Bad Guys 2: Relaxed Screening
Highland Perthshire Plus presents a special relaxed screening of 'Bad Guys 2'. 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 action-comedy hit abou...
PG | 1h 40mSaturday, August 9th
National Theatre Live: Inter Alia
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 following their global phenomenon Prima Facie, with this searing...
15 | 1h 45mThursday, September 25th
Edin Intl Book Fest: Paula Hawkins
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
The Big Bike Film Night 2025
The Big Bike Film Night is on a mission - bringing the best short cycling films from around the world together for you. The Big Bike Film Night is back for 2025! Showcasing 2.5 hours of riveting bike films that have everything a cycle-centric audience could want – action, drama, humour, and plenty of inspiration. The evening is unashamedly and utterly, utterly, utterly designed and devised to delight the two-wheel devotee! The 2025 treasure chest of films includes an exhilarating film that red...
PG | 2h 30mThursday, October 9th
Edin Intl Book Fest: Devi Sridhar
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
Out Loud
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...
15 | 1h 28mTuesday, September 9th
Criminal Law Series: The Guilty Act
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
Edin Intl Book Fest: Anne Sebba
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
Hard Truths
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....
12 | 1h 37mSunday, November 16th
Mairi Campbell: Living Stone
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
Edin Intl Book Fest: Reverend Richard Coles
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
Shelf Life
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...
tbc | 1h 16mWednesday, September 3rd
The Royal Opera: The Magic Flute 25/26
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...
tbc | 3h 30mTuesday, April 21st
The Metropolitan Opera: La Sonnambula
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...
tbc | 3h 15mTuesday, October 21st
The Royal Opera: La Traviata 25/26
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...
tbc | 4h 0mWednesday, January 14th
Metagama: An Atlantic Odyssey
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...
tbc | 2h 30mTuesday, November 4th
Bloody Scotland: Scotland the Grave
Join us for some live streamed taster sessions of Bloody Scotland at the Birks. If you enjoy them, there are plenty of other sessions over the weekend which you can either pop along to Stirling to see or watch online. www.bloodyscotland.com/whats-on/ Sunday 14 September 1:30pm, Scotland the Grave: Marion Todd, Foday Mannah, Callum McSorley Scottish crime fiction is the broadest of churches, albeit often awfy sacrilegious. We round off the 2025 festival with three very different but excellent b...
Sunday, September 14th
Quo Vadis, Aida?
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...
15 | 1h 44mTuesday, September 30th
Suitcase Stories - The Seven Ravens
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 4pmPerformance 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
Holy Cow
Part of the monthly Heartland Film Society series. 18-year-old Totone spends most of his time drinking beer and partying in the Jura region with his group of friends until reality catches up with him when he has to take care of his 7-year-old sister and find a way to make a living. He sets out to make the best Comté cheese in the region in an attempt to win the gold medal at the agricultural competition and 30,000 euros. Dir: Louise Courvoisier Cast: Clément Faveau, Maïwene Barthelemy, Luna Ga...
15 | 1h 32mSunday, December 14th
Suitcase Stories - The Little Toy
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
The Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker 25/26
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...
tbc | 3h 30mWednesday, December 10th
Dean Friedman - In Concert
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
Flight
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...
tbc | 1h 0mFriday, August 15th
Sunday, August 17th
Jurassic World: Rebirth
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...
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Thursday, August 14th
John Cleese Packs It In
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...
tbc | 1h 30mWednesday, November 19th
Friday, August 8th
- 10:45The Bad Guys 2Book Tickets
- 13:30The Bad Guys 2Book Tickets
- 16:15Jurassic World: RebirthBook Tickets
- 19:30The Fantastic Four: First StepsBook Tickets
Saturday, August 9th
- 11:00The Bad Guys 2: Relaxed ScreeningBook TicketsRelaxed Screening
- 11:45Edin Intl Book Fest: Reverend Richard ColesBook Tickets
- 13:30The Bad Guys 2Book Tickets
- 15:15Edin Intl Book Fest: Robert MacfarlaneBook Tickets
- 16:15Jurassic World: RebirthBook Tickets
- 19:30The Fantastic Four: First StepsBook Tickets
Sunday, August 10th
- 10:45The Bad Guys 2Book Tickets
- 13:30The Bad Guys 2Book Tickets
- 16:30Paper PortraitsBook Tickets
- 19:00The Fantastic Four: First StepsBook Tickets
Monday, August 11th
- 11:00Edin Intl Book Fest: Devi SridharBook Tickets
- 13:30The Bad Guys 2Book Tickets
- 16:30The Bad Guys 2Book Tickets
- 19:30The Fantastic Four: First StepsBook Tickets
Tuesday, August 12th
- 11:00The Bad Guys 2Book Tickets
- 13:45The Bad Guys 2Book Tickets
- 16:30The Fantastic Four: First StepsBook TicketsSubtitles
- 19:30Jurassic World: RebirthBook Tickets
Wednesday, August 13th
- 11:00The Bad Guys 2Book Tickets
- 12:45Edin Intl Book Fest: Paula HawkinsBook Tickets
- 13:45The Bad Guys 2Book Tickets
- 16:30The Fantastic Four: First StepsBook Tickets
- 18:45Edin Intl Book Fest: Ilan & AviBook Tickets
Thursday, August 14th
- 11:00The Bad Guys 2Book Tickets
- 13:30Edin Intl Book Fest: Nicola SturgeonBook Tickets
- 13:45Jurassic World: RebirthBook TicketsSubtitles
- 17:00The Bad Guys 2Book Tickets
- 19:45The Fantastic Four: First StepsBook Tickets
More showings?
You may notice less showings after this date. We add more films weekly (every Tuesday night) so please check back after that time or keep scrolling to see what’s on sale.
Friday, August 15th
- 11:45Edin Intl Book Fest: Alexander McCall SmithBook Tickets
- 12:30The Fantastic Four: First StepsBook TicketsSubtitles
- 13:30Edin Intl Book Fest: Maggie O’FarrellBook Tickets
- 15:30FlightBook Tickets
- 20:00Dean Friedman - In ConcertBook Tickets
Saturday, August 16th
- 11:00The Fantastic Four: Relaxed ScreeningBook TicketsRelaxed Screening
- 11:45Edin Intl Book Fest: Anne SebbaBook Tickets
Sunday, August 17th
- 15:30FlightBook TicketsQ & A
Monday, August 18th
- 20:30Edin Intl Book Fest: Will HuttonBook Tickets
Tuesday, August 19th
- 12:45Edin Intl Book Fest: Alistair MoffatBook Tickets
- 17:00Edin Intl Book Fest: Andrey KurkovBook Tickets
Wednesday, August 20th
- 15:00Edin Intl Book Fest: Andy WightmanBook Tickets
- 19:30The Life of ChuckBook Tickets
Thursday, August 21st
- 19:45The Life of ChuckBook Tickets
Friday, August 22nd
- 11:45Edin Intl Book Fest: Gabriel WestonBook Tickets
- 14:15The Life of ChuckBook Tickets
- 17:10The Naked GunBook Tickets
- 19:30The Life of ChuckBook Tickets
Saturday, August 23rd
- 16:45The Life of ChuckBook Tickets
- 17:00Edin Intl Book Fest: Naga MunchettyBook Tickets
- 19:30The Naked GunBook Tickets
Sunday, August 24th
- 11:45Edin Intl Book Fest: Chloe DaltonBook Tickets
- 13:30Edin Intl Book Fest: Ian McEwanBook Tickets
- 13:30The Life of ChuckBook Tickets
- 16:30The Naked GunBook Tickets
- 19:00The Life of ChuckBook Tickets
Wednesday, August 27th
- 11:00Suitcase Stories - The Little ToyBook Tickets
- 16:00Suitcase Stories - The Seven RavensBook Tickets
Thursday, August 28th
- 17:20The Naked GunBook Tickets
- 19:45The Life of ChuckBook Tickets
Friday, August 29th
- 11:00The RosesBook Tickets
- 14:00The Naked GunBook Tickets
- 16:30The RosesBook Tickets
- 19:30The Golden SpurtleBook Tickets
Sunday, August 31st
- 11:30The RosesBook Tickets
- 14:30André Rieu’s: Waltz The Night Away!Book Tickets
- 18:30The RosesBook Tickets
Monday, September 1st
- 11:00The Naked GunBook TicketsSubtitles
- 13:45The RosesBook Tickets
- 16:30The RosesBook Tickets
- 19:30Swede CarolineBook Tickets
Wednesday, September 3rd
- 11:00The RosesBook Tickets
- 13:45The Naked GunBook Tickets
- 16:15The RosesBook Tickets
- 17:30Cheesy Night at The Birks CinemaBook Tickets
- 20:00Shelf LifeBook Tickets
Friday, September 5th
- 19:30Quiz Night at the Birks CinemaBook Tickets
Saturday, September 6th
- 13:15The RosesBook Tickets
- 16:00The TerminatorBook Tickets
- 19:30Terminator 2: Judgment DayBook Tickets
Sunday, September 7th
- 15:45The RosesBook TicketsBook & Film Blether
Tuesday, September 9th
- 16:15The RosesBook TicketsSubtitles
- 19:00Out LoudBook TicketsQ & A
Friday, September 12th
- 19:00Criminal Law Series: The Guilty ActBook Tickets
Saturday, September 13th
- 11:30Bloody Scotland: Mick HerronBook Tickets
Sunday, September 14th
- 13:30Bloody Scotland: Scotland the GraveBook Tickets
Sunday, September 21st
- 18:30Driving MumBook TicketsHeartland Film Society
Thursday, September 25th
- 19:30National Theatre Live: Inter AliaBook Tickets
Friday, September 26th
- 19:30Mairi Campbell: Living StoneBook Tickets
Tuesday, September 30th
- 19:30Quo Vadis, Aida?Book TicketsQ & A
Wednesday, October 1st
- 18:45The Royal Opera: ToscaBook Tickets
Thursday, October 9th
- 19:00The Big Bike Film Night 2025Book Tickets
Tuesday, October 21st
- 18:45The Metropolitan Opera: La SonnambulaBook Tickets
Thursday, October 23rd
Sunday, November 2nd
- 18:30Loving Alasdair GrayBook Tickets
Tuesday, November 4th
- 19:30Metagama: An Atlantic OdysseyBook Tickets
Wednesday, November 5th
- 19:15The Royal Ballet: La Fille mal gardéeBook Tickets
Tuesday, November 11th
- 19:30Fly Fishing Film Tour 2025Book Tickets
Sunday, November 16th
- 16:00Exhibition on Screen: CaravaggioBook Tickets
- 18:30Hard TruthsBook TicketsHeartland Film Society
Wednesday, November 19th
- 19:00John Cleese Packs It InBook Tickets
Tuesday, November 25th
- 19:15The Royal Ballet: Cinderella 25/26Book Tickets
Thursday, November 27th
- 19:00National Theatre Live: The Fifth StepBook Tickets
Wednesday, December 10th
- 19:15The Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker 25/26Book Tickets
Sunday, December 14th
- 18:30Holy CowBook TicketsHeartland Film Society
Wednesday, January 14th
- 18:45The Royal Opera: La Traviata 25/26Book Tickets
Sunday, January 18th
- 18:30The Room Next DoorBook TicketsHeartland Film Society
Thursday, January 22nd
- 19:00National Theatre Live: HamletBook Tickets
Monday, February 9th
- 19:15The Royal Ballet: Woolf WorksBook Tickets
Tuesday, March 3rd
- 19:15The Royal Ballet: GiselleBook Tickets
Sunday, March 15th
- 16:00Exhibition on Screen: Turner and ConstableBook Tickets
Tuesday, March 31st
- 17:15The Royal Opera: SiegfriedBook Tickets
Tuesday, April 21st
- 18:45The Royal Opera: The Magic Flute 25/26Book Tickets
Tuesday, May 5th
- 18:00The Metropolitan Opera: Eugene OneginBook Tickets
Tuesday, May 19th
- 19:30Exhibition on Screen: Frida KahloBook Tickets
Sunday, June 21st
- 18:30On FallingBook TicketsHeartland Film Society