Films & Events

The Birks Cinema offers a range of entertainment options - the latest films and special screenings, live events, stage-on-screen, and more.

  • Quiz Night at the Birks Cinema

    Join us for quiz night at the Birks Cinema. 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!...

  • Andrea Bocelli 30: The Celebration

    A breathtaking natural amphitheater in Tuscany, Italy, bursts to life with enchanting melodies as world-renowned Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli honors his 30th anniversary with a three-day concert event in his hometown. Journey to the Teatro del Silenzio (Theater of Silence), Lajatico, where once-in-a-lifetime performances showcase the Maestro’s extensive and beloved repertoire, alongside captivating duets with an unprecedented cast of global superstars, including Ed Sheeran, Shania Twain, Will Sm...

    PG | 2h 31m
  • Six Nations Rugby: Scotland v Wales

    Six nations rugby, live from Scottish Gas Murrayfield in Edinburgh. This is a free but ticketed event. Recommended donation of £5 when making your booking. Your support will help us to fund more events like this!...

  • Musical: The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall

    The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom Of The Opera is a worldwide entertainment phenomenon. It has been staged in 145 cities across 27 countries and its box office sales eclipse Avatar, Titanic and Star Wars. To celebrate its 25th Anniversary year, Cameron Mackintosh presented The Phantom Of The Opera in a fully-staged, lavish production set in the sumptuous Victorian splendour of the Royal Albert Hall. Phantom Of The Opera At The Albert Hall stars R...

    PG | 2h 57m
  • Down Home: Shetland to Texas

    Celebrating the work of Douglas Eadie and Mike Alexander, this special event will showcase Pelicula Films celebrated (and newly-digitized) DOWN HOME films, in which Aly Bain explores connections past and present between Scottish fiddling traditions across North America....

    PG | 0h 51m
  • The Metropolitan Opera: Fidelio

    Beethoven’s Fidelio 2024–25 The Met: Live in HD This performance will have 1 interval. Following a string of awe-inspiring Live in HD performances, Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Leonore, the faithful wife who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny in Beethoven’s Fidelio. Completing the distinguished cast is British tenor David Butt Philip as the political prisoner Florestan, Polish bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny as the villainous...

    tbc | 3h 45m
  • The Metropolitan Opera: Salome

    Strauss’s Salome (new production) 2024–25 The Met: Live in HD This performance has no interval. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium on May 17 to conduct Strauss’s one-act tragedy, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide. Leading the company’s first new production of the work in 20 years, Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting. South African...

    tbc | 2h 15m
  • WARREN MILLER’S SEVENTY FIVE

    This autumn will mark the 75th anniversary of the Warren Miller film legacy. When the first film from Warren Miller debuted in 1949, it ignited a new genre of filmmaking for the snowsports industry. Today, Warren Miller films have captured the stories of skiers and riders from every edge of the winter world and continue to gather audiences each year to celebrate the start of the winter season. The new film from Warren Miller Entertainment, simply entitled “75” will celebrate this historic anniv...

    tbc | 1h 50m
  • Six Nations Rugby: Scotland v Italy

    Six nations rugby, live from Scottish Gas Murrayfield. This is a free but ticketed event. Recommended donation of £5 when making your booking. Your support will help us to fund more events like this!...

  • Kneecap

    Part of the Heartland Film Society Monthly Series Of the 80,000 native Irish speakers, 6,000 live in the North of Ireland and three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This is the real-life story of how this anarchic Belfast trio became the unlikely figureheads of a civil rights movement to save and reinvigorate their mother tongue. Directed by Rich Peppiatt Starring Michael Fassbender, Fionnuala Flaherty, Naoise Ó Cairealláin, Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, JJ Ó Dochartaigh, Josie Walker, Jessic...

    18 | 1h 45m
  • The Polar Express

    Join us for a special screening...in your Christmas jim jams! Special hot chocolate and a special raffle giveaway on the night. Donate a tea pot to the Birks Cinema Cafe and enter to win a Polar Express mug. Late on Christmas Eve, a boy sits in bed doubting the existence of Santa Claus and waiting to hear the sound of sleigh bells. Instead, a magical steam engine roars outside his window and he begins an extraordinary journey towards the North Pole and beyond his imagination....

    U | 1h 40m
  • Six Nations Rugby: England v Scotland

    Six nations rugby, live from Twickenham in London This is a free but ticketed event. Recommended donation of £5 when making your booking. Your support will help us to fund more events like this!...

  • Phantom of The Quiz

    It's a pop up quiz at the Birks! Join us at 4pm on Friday 24 January. Special guest host, Ian Mitchell, will have plenty of trivia to test your skills. Gather your friends and family to win the top prize! Each team is allowed a maximum of 4 members, £10 per team. Tea, shortbread, and a table for 4, £25. Shortbread biscuits are being provided by local award winning Kenmore Bakery. Tunes, tea, and friends - a wonderful way to spend Friday afternoon and support your local cinema....

  • André Rieu’s 75th Birthday Celebration: The Dream Continues

    André Rieu celebrates his 75th Birthday! The King of the Waltz invites you to a boat party with him and his beloved Johann Strauss Orchestra as they sail through his hometown of Maastricht. This brand-new cinema special is a tribute to André's childhood dream of one day forming his own orchestra and travelling the world. The film features a selection of André's favourite and most spectacular global performances along with some of the finest moments the Maestro and his Johann Strauss Orchestra h...

    tbc | 3h 0m
  • Macbeth: David Tennant & Cush Jumbo

    David Tennant (Doctor Who, Broadchurch) and Cush Jumbo (The Good Wife, Criminal Record) lead a stellar cast in an ‘enthralling’ (★★★★★ Daily Telegraph) new production of Shakespeare’s MACBETH, filmed live at the Donmar Warehouse in London, especially for the big screen. Unsettling intimacy and brutal action combine at breakneck speed as Max Webster (Life of Pi, Henry V) directs this tragic tale of love, murder, and nature’s power of renewal. With staging ‘full of wolfish imagination and alarming...

    12A | 1h 55m
  • Six Nations Rugby: France v Scotland

    Six nations rugby, live from Stade de France in Paris. This match will be projected on a big screen in our cafe mezzanine area. Seats are limited, so please book ahead. This is a free but ticketed event. Recommended donation of £5 when making your booking. Your support will help us to fund more events like this!...

  • The Royal Opera: DIE WALKÜRE

    ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA CINEMA SEASON 2024/25 On a stormy night, fate brings two strangers together, unleashing a love with the power to end worlds. Meanwhile, in the realm of the gods, an epic battle ensues between their ruler Wotan and his rebellious daughter, Brünnhilde. Running time 365 minutes (TBC) Sung in German with subtitles...

    12A | 6h 5m
  • The Metropolitan Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro

    Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro (Revival) 2024–25 The Met: Live in HD This performance will have one interval. On April 26, Mozart’s timeless comedy returns to cinemas worldwide with a live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera. Conductor Joana Mallwitz, in her Met debut, takes the podium to conduct a stellar ensemble cast including American bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as the clever valet Figaro, Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska as the wily maid Susanna, Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins as the sk...

    tbc | 3h 55m
  • Maria

    Academy Award®-winner Angelina Jolie is Maria Callas, one of the most iconic performers of the 20th century in acclaimed director Pablo Larrain's operatic MARIA. The film follows the American-Greek soprano as she retreats to Paris after a glamorous and tumultuous life in the public eye. MARIA reimagines the legendary soprano in her final days as the diva reckons with her identity and life....

    tbc | 2h 5m
  • The Royal Ballet: ROMEO AND JULIET

    The Capulets and Montagues are sworn enemies. Yet it is love at first sight for Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet when they meet each other at the Capulet ball, into which Romeo has snuck. The two fall in love and they profess their devotion to each other at Juliet’s balcony. They secretly get married. The stakes are raised for the young couple when Romeo avenges the death of his friend Mercutio who has been killed by Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin. For this, Romeo is exiled from Verona. Meanwhile, Jul...

    12A | 3h 30m
  • Musical: Jesus Christ Superstar Live

    Jesus Christ Superstar Live Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock classic Jesus Christ Superstar returns to its roots with this sensational performance filmed in the UK during the Live Arena Tour. An incredible cast including Tim Minchin as Judas Iscariot, Melanie Chisholm as Mary Magdalene, Chris Moyles as King Herod and Ben Forster as Jesus Christ, perform hit songs including “I Don’t Know How to Love Him,” “Gethsemane,” “Heaven on Their Minds,” “Everything’s Alright,” “King Herod’s Song” an...

    12A | 1h 55m
  • It's A Wonderful Life

    Beset with personal and professional problems, George Bailey finds his previously happy life falling apart around him on Christmas Eve. Seeing no way out, George considers suicide from the edge of a bridge - but Clarence, his guardian angel, intervenes and shows George what his beloved hometown of Bedford Falls would be like without him. Shocked by what he sees and at the unforeseen circumstances of his absence, George reconsiders and begs Clarence to return him to the problems of the present an...

    U | 2h 10m
  • The Royal Opera: THE TALES OF HOFFMANN

    ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA CINEMA SEASON 2024/25 Through the haze of the years, a poet remembers the women he loved. But when it comes to matters of the heart, nothing is as it seems. Particularly when the devil himself is involved… Journeying back to his school days, Hoffmann relives his childhood romance with Olympia, a model student in every sense. Doomed love follows him into adulthood, where the dancer, Antonia, is taken from him too soon. Meanwhile, the sensual courtesan Giulietta has her o...

    12A | 4h 5m
  • Conclave

    CONCLAVE follows one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events – selecting the new Pope. Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with running this covert process after the unexpected death of the beloved Pope. Once the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders have gathered from around the world and are locked together in the Vatican halls, Lawrence uncovers a trail of deep secrets left in the dead Pope’s wake, secrets which could shake the foundations of the Church. Directed by Edward...

    12A | 2h 0m
  • Wicked

    Wicked, the untold story of the witches of Oz, stars Emmy, Grammy and Tony winning powerhouse Cynthia Erivo (Harriet, Broadway’s The Color Purple) as Elphaba, a young woman, misunderstood because of her unusual green skin, who has yet to discover her true power, and Grammy-winning, multi-platinum recording artist and global superstar Ariana Grande as Glinda, a popular young woman, gilded by privilege and ambition, who has yet to discover her true heart. The two meet as students at Shiz Universi...

    PG | 2h 40m
  • The Metropolitan Opera: Aida

    Verdi’s Aida—New Production 2024–25 The Met: Live in HD This performance will have one interval. American soprano Angel Blue headlines as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country in a new production of Verdi’s Aida by Michael Mayer that brings audiences inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with intricate projections and dazzling animations. Romanian-Hungarian mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi also stars as Aida’s rival, Amneris, alongside Polish tenor Piotr Beczał...

    tbc | 3h 40m
  • Paddington in Peru

    Follows Paddington and the Brown family as they visit Aunt Lucy in Peru, but a mystery sends them to the Amazon rainforest and up Peruvian mountains....

    PG | 1h 46m
  • The Royal Opera: TURANDOT

    ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA CINEMA SEASON 2024/25 The beautiful but icy Princess Turandot will only marry a man who can correctly answer three riddles. Those who fail are brutally beheaded. But when an unknown prince arrives, the balance of power in Turandot’s court is forever shaken, as the mysterious stranger does what no other has been able to. Running time: 205 minutes, Two intervals Sung in Italian with subtitles Cast: PRINCESS TURANDOT Sondra Radvanovsky CALAF SeokJong Baek LIÙ Anna Princeva...

    12A | 3h 25m
  • Musical: Les Misérables:The Staged Concert Live!

    Les Misérables:The Staged Concert Live! (40th Anniversary) Seen by over 120 million people worldwide, LES MISÉRABLES is undisputedly one of the world’s most popular musicals. In 2019, Cameron Mackintosh produced a spectacular sell-out staged concert version at the Gielgud Theatre featuring an all-star cast including Michael Ball, Alfie Boe, Carrie Hope Fletcher, Matt Lucas and John Owen Jones. Now cinema audiences can experience a unique encore of this incredible show to celebrate Les Misérables...

    12A | 3h 2m
  • Hogmanay Silent Disco at the Birks Cinema

    Join us at the Birks Cinema for a silent disco from 6:30pm to 8pm. Carefully curated playlist for everyone to listen to on the mezzanine level of the cafe. Fancy dress encouraged. Come show off your moves on the last day of the year! Ages 13 and under. Wireless headphones provided....

  • Exhibition on Screen: Michelangelo

    Michelangelo - Love & Death Directed by David Bickerstaff – Produced by Phil Grabsky The spectacular sculptures and paintings of Michelangelo seem so familiar to us, but what do we really know about this Renaissance giant? Michelangelo’s genius is evident in everything he touched. Beautiful and diverse works such as the towering statue of David, the moving Pietà in the Papal Basilica of St. Peter and his tour-de-force, the Sistine Chapel ceiling, still leave us breathless today. Spanning his...

    tbc | 1h 30m
  • The Metropolitan Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

    Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia 2024–25 The Met: Live in HD This performance has 1 interval. The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024–25 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of Rossini’s effervescent comedy on May 31. Russian mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside American tenor Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Moldovan baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky stars as Figaro, the ingenious ba...

    tbc | 3h 35m
  • Sonic the Hedgehog 3

    Sonic the Hedgehog returns to the big screen this holiday season in his most thrilling adventure yet. Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails reunite against a powerful new adversary, Shadow, a mysterious villain with powers unlike anything they have faced before. With their abilities outmatched in every way, Team Sonic must seek out an unlikely alliance in hopes of stopping Shadow and protecting the planet. Director Jeff Fowler returns along with our all-star cast including Jim Carrey, Ben Schwartz, James M...

    PG | 1h 50m
  • Widow Clicquot

    After her husband’s untimely death, Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot flouts convention by assuming the reins of the fledgling wine business they had nurtured together. Steering the company through dizzying political and financial reversals, she defies her critics and revolutionizes the champagne industry to become one of the world’s first great businesswomen....

    15 | 1h 30m
  • The Royal Ballet: THE NUTCRACKER

    Join Clara at a delightful Christmas Eve party that becomes a magical adventure once everyone else is tucked up in bed. Marvel at the brilliance of Tchaikovsky’s score, as Clara and her enchanted Nutcracker fight the Mouse King and visit the Sugar Plum Fairy in the glittering Kingdom of Sweets. Peter Wright’s much-loved production for The Royal Ballet, with gorgeous period designs by Julia Trevelyan Oman, keeps true to the spirit of this festive ballet classic, combining the thrill of the fairy...

    12A | 2h 7m
  • Exhibition on Screen: The Dawn of Impressionism

    The Dawn of Impressionism: Paris, 1874 Directed by Ali Ray – Produced by Phil Grabsky The Impressionists are the most popular group in art history - millions flock every year to marvel at their masterpieces. But, to begin with, they were scorned, penniless outsiders. 1874 was the year that changed everything; the first Impressionists, “hungry for independence”, broke the mould by holding their own exhibition outside official channels. Impressionism was born and the art world was changed forever...

    tbc | 1h 30m
  • SINCE YESTERDAY: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Girl Bands

    Part of the monthly Heartland Film Society series. The McKinleys, The Ettes, Strawberry Switchblade, Sophisticated Boom Boom, Twinsets, His Latest Flame, Sunset Gun, Lungleg, Pink Kross, Sally Skull, Hello Skinny and The Hedrons. Ignored by the industry and deprived of the global success afforded to the male-dominated bands of the day, Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Girl Bands is a celebration of the women and the music of yesteryear, and a rallying cry to the female talent o...

    15 | 1h 34m
  • Common Ground

    Big Picture Ranch and Area 23a present Common Ground - a hopeful and uplifting story of the pioneers of the “Regenerative Movement” who produce tremendous quantities of nutritionally dense food and are working to balance the climate – all while bringing our entire ecosystem back to life. The film explores how Americans from different walks of life, different political backgrounds, and different parts of the country share one thing in common –the very soil beneath their feet. The film investigat...

    12A | 1h 45m
  • National Theatre Live: Dr. Strangelove

    Dr. Strangelove co-adapted by Armando Iannucci co-adapted and directed by Sean Foley Seven-time BAFTA Award-winner Steve Coogan plays four roles in the world premiere stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove. This explosively funny satire, about a rogue U.S General who triggers a nuclear attack, is led by a world-renowned creative team including Emmy Award-winner Armando Iannucci and Olivier Award-winner Sean Foley....

    tbc | 3h 0m
  • Down Home: Cape Breton to Québec

    Celebrating the work of Douglas Eadie and Mike Alexander, this special event will showcase Pelicula Films celebrated (and newly-digitized) DOWN HOME films, in which Aly Bain explores connections past and present between Scottish fiddling traditions across North America....

    PG | 0h 51m
  • Orwell on Jura

    Join us at the Birks Cinema for a very special event on Sunday 26 January 2025 at 6:30pm. We will be screening Orwell on Jura (The Crystal Spirit) 1983, followed by a discussion with the film's producer Norman McCandlish. A Drama Documentary, shot on Jura, in Barnhill, the house where Orwell stayed. Starring Ronald Pickup as Orwell, Script by Alan Plater, It covers the last years of his life as he writes Nineteen Eighty Four. The Film was produced by local resident Norman McCandlish during his...

    PG | 1h 30m
  • The Royal Ballet: BALLET TO BROADWAY

    ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA CINEMA SEASON 2024/25 Sensuous contemporary ballet meets the energy of musical theatre in four distinctive short works. Fool’s Paradise, The Two of Us, Us, An American in Paris: four works showing the remarkable choreographic range of The Royal Ballet's Artistic Associate, Christopher Wheeldon. Running time 180 minutes FOOL’S PARADISE Luminescent and shimmering, Fool’s Paradise marked the first of Wheeldon’s many collaborations with composer Joby Talbot. It was created...

    12A | 3h 0m
  • Wicked - Subtitled

    Channel your inner Cynthia and Ariana as we invite you to enrol in Shiz University for a special captioned (subtitled) screening of the musical event of the year. This one's going to be popular - it's going to be pop-u-lar... At these screenings, the film will have subtitles throughout. Wicked, the untold story of the witches of Oz, stars Emmy, Grammy and Tony winning powerhouse Cynthia Erivo (Harriet, Broadway’s The Color Purple) as Elphaba, a young woman, misunderstood because of her unusual...

    PG | 2h 40m
  • Samsara

    Part of the monthly Heartland Film Society series. SAMSARA is a story split in two: two continents, two communities, two belief systems, two sets of experiences and inner lives. Between them lies a sensory pathway, all light and sound. The viewer is only asked to close their eyes and travel with it. In Laos, a young man named Amid is tending to a dying woman. He takes his boat out on the Mekong River. One day he meets a novice monk, Bee An, who asks about the book he carries. Amid explains that...

    U | 1h 54m
  • Elf

    When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can't shake the nagging feeling that he doesn't belong. Buddy vows to visit Manhattan and find his real dad, a workaholic publisher....

    PG | 1h 37m
  • Musical: Billy Elliot The Musical Live

    Billy Elliot The Musical Live (20th Anniversary celebration) Based on the Academy Award® nominated film, Billy Elliot the Musical has won the hearts of millions since it opened in London’s West End in 2005. Set in a northern mining town, against the background of the 1984/85 miners’ strike, Billy’s journey takes him out of the boxing ring and into a ballet class where he discovers a passion for dance that inspires his family and whole community and changes his life forever. The original creative...

    15 | 2h 43m
  • National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest

    National Theatre Live 2025 The Importance of being Earnest by Oscar Wilde directed by Max Webster Three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) in this joyful reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy. While assuming the role of a dutiful guardian in the country, Jack lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, his friend Algy adopts a similar facade. Hoping to impress two eligible ladies, the gentlemen find themselves c...

    tbc | 2h 6m
  • Moana 2

    Walt Disney Animation Studios’ epic animated musical MOANA 2 takes audiences on an expansive new voyage with Moana, Maui and a brand-new crew of unlikely seafarers. After receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana must journey to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she’s ever faced. Directed by Dave Derrick Jr. with music by Grammy® winners Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, Grammy nominee Opetaia Foa’i, and three-time...

    PG | 1h 40m
  • Fly Fishing Film Tour 2024

    F3T Fly Fishing Film Tour 2024/25 The annual F3T Fly Fishing Film Tour is back in the UK and will be on the road from November with a top notch selection of short films that are sure to get you fired up for the season ahead! This year there will be films that take you into the science of the Costa Marlin Project, to the deep depths of the jungle for massive Peacock Bass and will have a Steelhead story with characters as rare as the fish itself, plus much more. F3T is the original and largest...

    tbc | 1h 45m
  • Gladiator II

    From legendary director Ridley Scott, Gladiator II continues the epic saga of power, intrigue, and vengeance set in Ancient Rome. Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius (Paul Mescal) is forced to enter the Colosseum after his home is conquered by the tyrannical Emperors who now lead Rome with an iron fist. With rage in his heart and the future of the Empire at stake, Lucius must look to his past to find strength and honor to return the...

    15 | 2h 28m
  • The Royal Ballet: SWAN LAKE

    ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA CINEMA SEASON 2024/25 Prince Siegfried chances upon a flock of swans while out hunting. When one of the swans turns into a beautiful woman, Odette, he is enraptured. But she is under a spell that holds her captive, allowing her to regain her human form only at night. Von Rothbart, arbiter of Odette's curse, tricks the Prince into declaring his love for the identical Odile and thus breaking his vow to Odette. Doomed to remain a swan forever, Odette has but one way to break...

    12A | 3h 30m
  • Six Nations Rugby: Scotland v Ireland

    Six nations rugby, live from Scottish Gas Murrayfield in Edinburgh. This is a free but ticketed event. Recommended donation of £5 when making your booking. Your support will help us to fund more events like this!...

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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.

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