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• Friday, January 16th

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• Friday, February 6th

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The Women’s Adventure Film Tour® (WAFT) returns for its 9th year, celebrating extraordinary women and their thrilling adventures. Get ready for an adrenaline-fueled showcase of courage and triumph that will ignite your spirit. Don’t miss this unforgettable adventure! A Journey Through Bold New Voices and Groundbreaking Adventures The Women’s Adventure Film Tour will present a thrilling selection of films that span extreme sports, personal journeys, and boundary-pushing storytelling from across...

• Tuesday, January 27th

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Love classic film and working on a favourite craft project? Imagine a visit to The Birks Cinema for a special crafting screening of Mamma Mia, where you're free to practice your crafts and share the cinema experience with your fellow guests. Lights will be left on throughout the show so that you can craft in comfort. Just please don't bring crafts, such as paints, that may cause damage. Mamma Mia! Donna (Meryl Streep), an independent hotelier in the Greek islands, is preparing for her daughte...

• Saturday, January 31st

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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

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Join us for a conversation with Natalie Jayne Clark, author of The Malt Whisky Murders and enjoy a short, guided whisky tasting led by one of the expert hosts from Dewar’s Aberfeldy Distillery. Natalie Jayne Clark is a neurodivergent author, poet and producer based in Perth, Scotland. Her debut novel, a darkly funny sapphic crime tale called 'The Malt Whisky Murders' (Polygon, Birlinn, 2025) is shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize. About the book: Whisky is a bloody business . . ....

• Monday, January 19th

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The Audience by Peter Morgan directed by Stephen Daldry Returning to cinemas for the first time in over a decade, Helen Mirren plays Queen Elizabeth II in the Olivier and Tony Award® -winning hit production, directed by Stephen Daldry. For 60 years, Queen Elizabeth II met with each of her 12 prime ministers in a private weekly meeting. This meeting is known as The Audience. From Winston Churchill to Margaret Thatcher and David Cameron, the Queen advised her prime ministers on matters both...

• Thursday, February 26th

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Part of the montly Heartland Film Society series. When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her. Carla Nowak, a dedicated sports and math teacher, starts her first job at a high school. She stands out among the new staff because of her idealism. When a series of thefts occur at the school and one of her students is suspected, s...

• Sunday, May 17th

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Lost for Words is a poetic and visually stunning documentary inspired by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’ acclaimed book. It explores the vanishing language of nature and the urgent need to reconnect with the natural world. Set across the landscapes of the UK, the film weaves together voices of children, activists, and Alzheimer’s patients. Through their stories, it highlights the deep bond between words and the environment. This artistic, multi-voiced journey invites us to rethink our place...

• Monday, January 26th

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• Sunday, February 1st

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Set in modern-day Tokyo, RENTAL FAMILY follows an American actor (Brendan Fraser) who struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese "rental family" agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. As he immerses himself in his clients’ worlds, he begins to form genuine bonds that blur the lines between performance and reality. Confronting the moral complexities of his work, he rediscovers purpose, belonging, and the quiet beauty of human connection....

• Friday, January 30th

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Part of the monthly Heartland Film Society series. Prabha is a hardworking nurse whose husband moved abroad shortly after their arranged marriage. Anu, her younger roommate and colleague at the nearby hospital, has a secret relationship with a Muslim man. The widowed Parvati, to whom Prabha lends a sympathetic ear, is being pressured by property developers to leave her home. This trio's lives intertwine with soulful grace in Payal Kapadia's wondrous feature, one that portrays the unspoken laye...

• Sunday, March 15th

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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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Part of the Heartland Film Society Monthly Series. 'Superboys of Malegaon' is a film based on the life of Nasir Shaikh, an amateur filmmaker from the town of Malegaon. The residents of the town look to Bollywood cinema for a much-needed escape from daily drudgery. Nasir gets inspired to make a film for the people of Malegaon, by the people of Malegaon. He bands together his ragtag group of friends to bring his vision to life, thereby bringing a fresh lease of life into the town. The film is a p...

• Sunday, February 15th

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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!...

• Saturday, March 7th

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Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future This film explores solutions to the global crises we face today – solutions any one of us can be part of – through the inspiring stories of people pioneering change in their own lives and in their communities in order to live in a sustainable and regenerative way. This screening supported by Healthiest Town Aberfeldy. Synopsis Sometimes it can feel like the environmental, economic, and social issues the world is currently facing are...

• Monday, March 23rd

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Join us at The Birks Cinema for a screening of 'Flight of the Swans' followed by a discussion with adventurer Sacha Dench. A female conservationist takes to the skies in a paramotor to follow Bewick’s Swans on their annual migration in a bid to understand their dramatic decline; 7,000 kilometres, 11 countries, from Russia to England across tundra, forests, and industrial landscapes, where she encounters people just as passionate about saving and protecting these birds and their wetland homes....

• Monday, February 23rd

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From Academy Award® winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, HAMNET tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet. 1580 England. Impoverished Latin tutor William Shakespeare meets free-spirited Agnes, and the pair, captivated by one another, strike up a torrid affair that leads to marriage and three children. Yet as Will pursues a budding theatre career in far-away London, Agnes anchors the domestic sphere alone. When tragedy strik...

• Friday, January 23rd

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In Food, Inc. 2, the sequel to the 2008 Oscar®-nominated and Emmy®-award winning documentary, Food, Inc., filmmakers Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo reunite with investigative authors Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser to take a fresh look at our efficient yet vulnerable food system. Generously sponsored by Healthiest Town Aberfeldy....

• Tuesday, March 10th

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A series of four informal slide-talks in connection with current and upcoming exhibitions in the UK, given by local artist and art historian Dr Andrew Paterson, who is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Wednesday evenings, fortnightly, 11th February to 25th March, 7.30 to 8.30pm. Wednesday 25 February, 7:30 PM Frida Kahlo: The Making of an Icon Exhibition at Tate Modern, London, June 2026 – January 2027 Frida Kahlo (1907-54) is today one of the most celebrated artists of the 2...

• Wednesday, February 25th

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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

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Shakespeare’s OTHELLO rages to life like never before in a ‘compelling’ (★★★★ Telegraph) new production starring David Harewood OBE (Homeland, Best of Enemies), Toby Jones OBE (Mr Bates vs the Post Office, Detectorists), Caitlin FitzGerald (Succession, Masters of Sex), Vinette Robinson (Boiling Point) and Luke Treadaway (A Street Cat Named Bob). Directed by Tony Award-winner Tom Morris OBE (War Horse, Dr Semmelweis, The Grinning Man) with music by PJ Harvey, this epic story of manipulation, jea...

• Wednesday, March 4th

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• Sunday, March 8th

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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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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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Join us at The Birks Cinema in our new First Floor Communtiy Space at 8pm on Friday 13 February for an Adults Only Silent Disco. Did someone say dance? (Looking at you, parents, of kids' Silent Disco.) We answered with a Silent Disco for grown-ups at The Birks Cinema! Choose from our carefully curated channels and dance like nobody’s watching. Bring your partner, your pals, and your best dance moves! Wireless headphones provided and good vibes guaranteed. Grab your ticket and dance into the nig...

• Friday, February 13th

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Part of the monthly Heartland Film Society series. The story of a family and a family business. Starring: Benicio del Toro as Zsa-zsa Korda, one of the richest men in Europe; Mia Threapleton as Liesl, his daughter/a nun; Michael Cera as Bjorn, their tutor. With: Riz Ahmed, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Mathieu Amalric, Richard Ayoade, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rupert Friend, Hope Davis....

• Sunday, April 19th

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Six Nations rugby, live from Stadio Olimpico, Rome. 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!...

• Saturday, February 7th

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A series of four informal slide-talks in connection with current and upcoming exhibitions in the UK, given by local artist and art historian Dr Andrew Paterson, who is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Wednesday evenings, fortnightly, 11th February to 25th March, 7.30 to 8.30pm. Wednesday 11 February, 7:30 PM Gwen John: Strange Beauties Exhibition at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, August 2026 – January 2027 Goldsworthy exhibition at the Royal Scottish Acad...

• Wednesday, February 11th

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Legendary filmmaker James Cameron transports audiences back to the breathtaking world of Pandora with AVATAR: FIRE & ASH, an immersive new adventure with Marine turned Na’vi leader Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and Na’vi warrior Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), who have established a close-knit family and built a life with the ocean-dwelling Metkayina. But, their peace is threatened when they find themselves on a collision course with a deadly new Na’vi clan: the Mangkwan, also known as the Ash People. As...

• Thursday, January 15th

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• Friday, January 16th

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• Saturday, January 17th

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• Monday, January 19th

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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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Getting to the top of Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa, is a challenge for anyone – and even more so if you have a disability. But with a good dose of determination and a lot of effort, it is possible. Come and join us for two heart-warming, awe-inspiring and visually stunning films that show how it can be done. The evening will be raising money for Just Wheels, a charity that supports people with disabilities in Tanzania. We will have a special guest, Paralympic gold medallist Karen...

• Thursday, January 29th

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Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Christopher Hampton based on the novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos directed by Marianne Elliott BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep can mean ruin. Marquise de Merteuil is a master in the art of survival. Alongside the magnetic Vicomte de Valmont, they turn se...

• Thursday, June 25th

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This concert has been postponed to Tues 17 March 2026, 7:30pm. If you purchased tickets, someone from the cinema will be reaching out to you soon. Call the cinema if you have any questions. 01887 822845 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 Int...

• Tuesday, March 17th

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Join us on Monday 2 February at 7pm for a screening and ​discussion of Hamish Henderson: An Artist's Inspiration.How iconic folklorist and poet, Hamish Henderson, inspired artist Charles Nasmyth.In this new film, Nasmyth looks at the man behind the legend and asks who he really was? Why was he inspired by Hamish's personality, to paint his portrait?Presented by Charles Nasmyth.Watch the film tra...

• Monday, February 2nd

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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 series of four informal slide-talks in connection with current and upcoming exhibitions in the UK, given by local artist and art historian Dr Andrew Paterson, who is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Wednesday evenings, fortnightly, 11th February to 25th March, 7.30 to 8.30pm. Wednesday 25 March, 7:30 PM Louise Bourgeois (Artist Rooms series) Ongoing exhibition at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, till end of May 2026 Louise Bourgeois (1912-2010) is best k...

• Wednesday, March 25th

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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...

• Sunday, June 21st

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Six nations rugby, live from Aviva Stadium. 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!...

• Saturday, March 14th

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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....

• Sunday, January 18th

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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!...

• Saturday, February 14th

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The Highlanders, the Early Mountaineers, and Scotland's Highest Summits - The new documentary from filmmakers Kevin Woods (Winter 282, Pawel) and Lindsay Hill. 3,000 Feet is the untold story of Hugh Munro, the man whose name has become synonymous with Scotland's highest mountains. Scottish mountaineering originated in the sciences, academia and the arts. But these hill-going pioneers came across a society in the Highland glens that had only just undergone immense upheaval with far-reaching c...

• Thursday, February 5th

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A series of four informal slide-talks in connection with current and upcoming exhibitions in the UK, given by local artist and art historian Dr Andrew Paterson, who is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Wednesday evenings, fortnightly, 11th February to 25th March, 7.30 to 8.30pm. Wednesday 11 March, 7:30 PM Joan Eardley: The Nature of Painting Exhibition at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, April – June 2026 One of Scotland’s most popular artists, Joan Eardle...

• Wednesday, March 11th

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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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Six nations rugby, live from Principality Stadium 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!...

• Saturday, February 21st

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Set in the charged world of 1950s American ping-pong, Marty Supreme follows Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet), a charismatic, ruthless, and unconventional table-tennis prodigy determined to turn an unlikely talent into greatness. Rising from the gritty streets of New York, Marty gambles everything on a dream no one around him respects. Along his climb, he becomes entangled with a glamorous older film star who challenges his guarded nature (Gwyneth Paltrow) and crosses paths with a host of eccent...

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• Saturday, January 17th

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• Sunday, January 18th

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• Monday, January 19th

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• Thursday, January 22nd

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In Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Zootropolis 2,” detectives Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin) and Nick Wilde (voiced by Jason Bateman) find themselves on the twisting trail of a mysterious reptile who arrives in Zootropolis and turns the mammal metropolis upside down. To crack the case, Judy and Nick must go undercover to unexpected new parts of town, where their growing partnership is tested like never before. Oscar® winner Jared Bush (co-director/co-writer “Zootropolis,” director/co-wr...

• Thursday, January 15th

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• Saturday, January 17th

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• Sunday, January 18th

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Join us for the Kendal Mountain Cinematic Tour 2026! This exclusive film-only event brings you a handpicked selection of Kendal Mountain Festival’s award-winning adventure films, showcasing daring feats, breathtaking locations, and powerful stories of human resilience. Experience the thrill and excitement from the comfort of your seat; whether you're a seasoned adventurer, or simply someone who loves a great story, this is your chance to escape into the world’s most stunning landscapes and be in...

• Thursday, May 7th

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• Friday, May 8th

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