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Bridget Jones first blasted onto bookshelves in Helen Fielding’s literary phenomenon Bridget Jones’s Diary, which became a global bestseller and a blockbuster film. As a single career woman living in London, Bridget Jones not only introduced the world to her romantic adventures, but added “Singletons,” “Smug-Marrieds” and “f---wittage” into the global lexicon. Bridget’s ability to triumph despite adversity led her to finally marry top lawyer Mark Darcy and to become the mother of their baby boy....

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• Monday, March 31st

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• Thursday, April 3rd

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Kendal Mountain Tour 2025: A Night Of Adventure Films Prepare for an unforgettable night of adventure as the Kendal Mountain Tour 2025 comes to life! Join us on a cinematic journey through the world's most breathtaking landscapes with a selection of award winning films showcasing the year’s most daring feats of courage and tales of human resilience. Whether you're a seasoned explorer or simply someone who appreciates the majesty of nature, this tour promises to ignite your sense of adventure a...

• Friday, April 25th

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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...

• Sunday, April 20th

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Disney’s SNOW WHITE is a live-action reimagining of the classic 1937 film starring Rachel Zegler in the title role and Gal Gadot as her Stepmother, the Evil Queen. The magical adventure journeys back to the timeless story with beloved characters Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, and Sneezy. Directed by Marc Webb and produced by Marc Platt, with Callum McDougall serving as executive producer, Disney’s SNOW WHITE features all-new original songs from Benj Pasek and Justin Paul....

• Sunday, April 13th

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• Wednesday, April 16th

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Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences. The world seems to be coming to an end, teeming with the vestiges of a human presence. Cat is a solitary animal, but as his home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences. In the lonesome boat sailing...

• Friday, April 4th

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• Saturday, April 5th

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• Sunday, April 6th

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• Monday, April 7th

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• Wednesday, April 9th

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Join us for a screening of Balancing The Scales, a documentary that dives into the fascinating interactions between beavers and fish, at The Birks Cinema on Monday 28 April at 7:30pm. Stick around after the film for a Q&A with local ecologist and environmentalist, Duncan Pepper.Across Britain, salmon are slipping away, trout are struggling, and a third of our freshwater fish face extinction, threatening ecosystem health.Return of the engineerOnce hunted to extincti...

• Monday, April 28th

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A gripping spy drama from acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh and starring Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchet. Black Bag follows legendary intelligence agent George Woodhouse, a spy who can’t be lied to, who will relentlessly pursue his targets, and who is steadfast in his loyalty to his country. When a device that could result in hundreds of thousands of deaths goes missing, George has only seven days to find the traitor who stole it. When he discovers that his beloved wife and a fellow spy...

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• Saturday, March 29th

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• Sunday, March 30th

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• Monday, March 31st

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• Thursday, April 3rd

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Part of the monthly Heartland Film Society series Freedom to Run, a feature-length documentary by Glaswegian filmmakers Dr Cairsti Russell and Stephen Sheriff, follows the Palestinian running group Right to Movement (RTM) and a group from Glasgow as they train for and run both the Palestine and Edinburgh marathons. The two groups of runners support each other as they run both the Palestine and Edinburgh Marathons and on this journey, the runners discover they are not so different, but they live...

• Sunday, May 18th

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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...

• Saturday, May 31st

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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!...

• Friday, April 4th

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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...

• Saturday, May 17th

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An escapist and inventive cinemascope delight, Guys and Dolls glistens thanks to the charm of its ensemble, which includes Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra and Jean Simmons. Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that Sky cannot get virtuous Sarah Brown out on a date. Despite some resistance, Sky negotiates a date with her in exchange for bringing people into her mission. Meanwh...

• Wednesday, April 2nd

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At 7pm, on Saturday the 19th of April, the Birks Cinema is hosting the official premiere of Fleet?. This short film tells the story of a young group of friends growing up in the outdoors of Aberfeldy. It follows their journey through adolescence to the present day, tightly held together through their love for the outdoors, sport and creatively expressing themselves. In 2017, inspired by their favourite sports groups: SEND, Torryd and 50:01, they designed a logo for their group and named themsel...

• Saturday, April 19th

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In this adaptation of Jane Austen's beloved novel, Elizabeth Bennet (Keira Knightley) lives with her mother, father and sisters in the English countryside. As the eldest, she faces mounting pressure from her parents to marry. When the outspoken Elizabeth is introduced to the handsome and upper-class Mr. Darcy (Matthew MacFadyen), sparks fly. Although there is obvious chemistry between the two, Darcy's overly reserved nature threatens the fledgling relationship....

• Sunday, May 4th

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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...

• Wednesday, April 2nd

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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...

• Tuesday, April 1st

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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...

• Thursday, May 22nd

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Winner of over 35 awards, experience the best of British Musical HER-story in a live capture of the must-see musical sensation, SIX the Musical. The Original West End cast reunite at London’s Vaudeville Theatre in front of a sold-out audience to strut their stuff and re-write their Tudor traumas in an unmissable cinematic recording of the show packed full of style, sass, and sensational songs. Watched by audiences of over 3.5 million, SIX the Musical, has become a global theatre phenomenon sinc...

• Sunday, April 6th

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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...

• Wednesday, April 23rd

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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...

• Sunday, April 20th

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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...

• Saturday, April 26th

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Celebrate Mother's Day at the Birks Cinema! Join us for a special Afternoon Tea created by Charlotte Flower Chocolates on 30 March at 3:00 pm. Treat your Mum to an exquisite afternoon tea featuring delicious treats from local chocolatier Charlotte Flower, accompanied by mouthwatering sandwich, scones, and cakes expertly crafted by her and her talented team. It's a super special treat your Mum truly deserves. £22.50 per person The last day to book is the night before (29 March) Any food left...

• Sunday, March 30th

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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...

• Tuesday, May 20th

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• Sunday, May 25th

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Based on a remarkable true story, discover how the poor son of a miner became one of the greatest actors the world has ever known, with the help of an unlikely mentor. In the Welsh town of Port Talbot, 1942, Richard Jenkins (Harry Lawtey) lives as a wayward schoolboy, caught between the pressures of his struggling family, a devastating war, and his own ambitions. However, a new opportunity arises when Richard’s natural talent for drama catches the attention of his teacher, Philip Burton (BAFTA...

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• Thursday, April 10th

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When the glittering Las Vegas revue she has headlined for decades announces it will soon close, showgirl Shelly (Pamela Anderson) sets out to plan her next act. Reconciling the decisions she’s made and the life she's built, she decides to repair her complicated relationship with her daughter (Billie Lourd). With an outstanding ensemble cast that includes Jamie Lee Curtis, Dave Bautista, Brenda Song and Kiernan Shipka, The Last Showgirl is a joyous tribute to a long-gone Las Vegas – and all the w...

• Friday, March 28th

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• Thursday, April 3rd

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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...

• Sunday, April 13th

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An off-beat documentary about the inauguration of the first Clan Buchanan Chief in over 300 years. When it comes to holding the ceremony, historical records can’t be found, and most of it is being invented. Join us after the film for a special Q&A after the screening with Glasgow-based producer, Barbara Orton. A documentary about the inauguration of the first Clan Buchanan Chief in over 300 years. When it comes to holding the ceremony, historical records can’t be found, and most of it is bein...

• Thursday, May 1st

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