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Merci to everyone who came to our inaugural Cinetopia Salon at the French Institute! 👏We enjoyed a French-style apéro ho...
31/10/2025

Merci to everyone who came to our inaugural Cinetopia Salon at the French Institute! 👏

We enjoyed a French-style apéro hour with drinks and nibbles 🍷🧀
.. followed by a fantastic live, Miles Davis-inspired jazz set from the brilliant trumpetist Colin Steele and guitartist Dan Abrahams 🎺🎸
.. before John and Richard from the Edinburgh Film Guild helped set the scene with some cinema and music history
..for a screening of Louis Malle's Elevator to the Gallows (featuring Miles Davis' iconic score!) 📽
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Big shout outs to:

Film Hub Scotland for funding support 🙏
French Institute for being a wonderful host venue and partner, especially Fleur and Artur for their hard work!
John and Richard from Edinburgh Film Guild for their fascinating introductions
Colin Steele and Dan Abrahams
for a dreamy jazz set 🎵
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Our next Salon is 6th December - silent film Paris Qui Dort (1924) by Renée Clair with live accompaniment from composer, harpist and sonic artist Deb Shaw 🙏

Follow us for more details soon, or sign up to our news/Substack at our website ➡️ cinetopia.co.uk

🎃 Cinetopia Recommends is here with a special spooky HALLOWEEN edition as well as the usual goody bag of screenings, fes...
27/10/2025

🎃 Cinetopia Recommends is here with a special spooky HALLOWEEN edition as well as the usual goody bag of screenings, festivals & film events in Edinburgh, Glasgow and beyond!

This week's highlights:

🎬 Reclaim The Frame presents HEDDA + Q&A – Nia DaCosta's reimagining of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler starring Tessa Thompson. 1960s England has never looked so good - or felt so toxic. GFT| 28 October, 8.10pm

🎬 Film Weekender – A brand new festival celebrating Black, African and diaspora stories with the theme Dreams and Apparitions. Exploring grief, memory, imagination and new futures. Filmhouse Edinburgh| 30 October - 2 November

🎬 Doppelgängers³ – Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian summons three versions of herself in a chaotic odyssey through geopolitics, family trauma, and quantum physics. Includes post-screening writing exercise. Scottish Doc Instituteat Filmhouse | 29 October, 6pm

🎬 Invisible Women presents Stronger Than Love – Intoxicating Mexican melodrama starring Miroslava Stern, part of their ¡Too Much Mexican Melodrama! programme. at GFT | 28 October, 6pm

👻 Nosferatu (1922) w/ live score – Edinburgh trio S!nk return to score Murnau's 1922 vampire symphony of horror. Filmhouse | 31 October, 8.45pm

👻 Halloween 4K Restoration – John Carpenter's classic returns to the big screen. Cameo Cinema | 31 October, 9pm

👻 Leith Kino – Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Tim Burton's quirky genius before Beetlejuice. Leith depot | 2 November, 5.30pm

🎃 Plus: Queer East Scottish Queer International Film Festival, Scotland Loves Anime at GFT, and much more!

📢 Reminder: To get your screening, event or opportunity featured, head to Cinetopia Connect - create a free profile and upload your listings. It's the only guaranteed way to be included in future editions of Cinetopia Recommends!

🔗 Browse the full list in our newsletter, linked in the comments!

Your weekly cinephile hot dates planner is here! Our recommended 🔥 film events in Edinburgh & Glasgow to check out this ...
20/10/2025

Your weekly cinephile hot dates planner is here! Our recommended 🔥 film events in Edinburgh & Glasgow to check out this week 💯

✨️ For the full Cinetopia Recommends listings newsletter, don't forget to sign-up on Substack ➡️ you'll get a weekly digest packed with film screenings, events, jobs, opportunities, and news for both cities, every Sunday in your inbox!

✨️ To submit an event to be featured in the Substack, you can upload it for free to - all events and opportunities added there are automatically included in Cinetopia Recommends!

Links to Substack and Cinetopia Connect can be found in our bio! 🔗


Thanks everyone who came to our screening and Q&A of LIFE AFTER with filmmaker Reid Davenport🙏We're so grateful for your...
16/10/2025

Thanks everyone who came to our screening and Q&A of LIFE AFTER with filmmaker Reid Davenport🙏

We're so grateful for your great questions and for having Reid take the time to travel up after the film's UK premiere at British Film Institute just last week.

Please don't forget to complete our audience survey, you'll find the link in our bio! It takes just 4 minutes but your input is invaluable and helps us continue to bring you fantastic documentaries and secure further funding!

Look out for the announcement of our November Cinetopia DOC screening soon!

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Join director Reid Davenport tonight at Filmhouse Edinburgh 6pm for a screening + Q&A of his Sundance-winning film LIFE ...
15/10/2025

Join director Reid Davenport tonight at Filmhouse Edinburgh 6pm for a screening + Q&A of his Sundance-winning film LIFE AFTER, fresh from its UK premiere at London Film Festival!

"An empathetic and confrontational doc about disabled people’s right to be in control...a powerful first-person perspective with a journalistic investigation into disability justice." - VARIETY

15 October, 6pm at the Filmhouse

TICKETS: https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/movie/life-after/

Roll up, roll up! Cinetopia are in the Big Smoke for BFI this week, so please excuse our tardiness with our regular ne...
14/10/2025

Roll up, roll up! Cinetopia are in the Big Smoke for BFI this week, so please excuse our tardiness with our regular newsletter!

Another bumper edition for you and we'll be back to our regular times from next Sunday!

We have been watching some incredible movies and will be bringing you all the gossip when we return. Stay tuned for our London Film Fest radio show special on EHFM and Cinetopia podcast soon…

https://open.substack.com/pub/cinetopia/p/cinetopia-recommends-13-19-october

Reid Davenport, director of Sundance award-winning documentary LIFE AFTER joins us at Filmhouse Edinburgh on 15 October ...
09/10/2025

Reid Davenport, director of Sundance award-winning documentary LIFE AFTER joins us at Filmhouse Edinburgh on 15 October for an audience Q&A after our Cinetopia DOC screening of his film.

Reid is a disabled filmmaker who makes documentaries about disability from an overtly political perspective. LIFE AFTER follows on from the success of Reid's first feature, DIDN’T SEE YOU THERE, which won the Directing Award for U.S. Documentary at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.

LIFE AFTER is a powerful, provocative exploration of ableism through a focus on the right-to-die movement and the current expansion of MAID (Medical assistance in death) laws across North America, revealing shocking abuses of power and sharing stories of disabled people, their partners and families, and how the system has failed them.

Reid challenges the notion of assisted suicide as always being a "free choice" through personal stories of disabled people who often feel they are left no other option within the current medical support system and existing legal structures, and how society often reinforces and upholds the system - whether with good intentions or not.

Join us for this special screening and Q&A, and do stay on in the cafe/bar after for further conversation!

TICKETS: https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/movie/life-after/

07/10/2025

Cinetopia is heading to BFI London Film Festival tomorrow! 🍿

Here are our recommended picks of the film festival, just a fraction of the fantastic programme - obviously we want to see them all and more!

We're looking forward to:

HAMNET 🎭
FRANKENSTEIN 🏰reichardt THE MASTERMIND 🖼panahi IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT 🚗
JAY KELLY 👨
AFTER THE HUNT 🏫

We'll be reporting throughout the festival and then you can enjoy our radio show and podcast when we return!






07/10/2025

Whilst researching his film LIFE AFTER, director Reid Davenport discovered numerous stories of disabled people, their families, and partners, revealing the pressure from the medical system, and the overwhelming lack of support and access that is driving many to feel their only option is to end their life through MAID ('Medical Assistance in Dying' - North America).

As the laws around assisted suicide are being discussed, updated, or implemented in countries around the world, including the UK, this film is a timely examination of the wider issues of ableism within the medical system, especially around the access and choices available to the disabled community when it comes to medical support and living with dignity.

For anyone interested in learning more about the subject, hearing a different perspective, or having their perspective challenged we recommend coming along to our screening of LIFE AFTER, including a Q&A with Reid Davenport in person.

➡️ 15 October, 6pm at Filmhouse, Edinburgh.
Screened with descriptive subtitles.

Video from Reid Davenport.

🎬 Cinetopia Recommends is here with another packed week of film screenings, festivals & events in Edinburgh, Glasgow and...
06/10/2025

🎬 Cinetopia Recommends is here with another packed week of film screenings, festivals & events in Edinburgh, Glasgow and beyond!

This week’s highlights:

🎞️ London Film Festival on Tour – Catch festival favourites screening at , from 8–19 October, including Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, It Was Just An Accident, and Bugonia.

🌎 – The Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival continues with screenings across , Odeon Lothian Road and , featuring Hurry, Hurry!, Dressed in Blue, and My Name is Juani.

🎥 – Too Much: Melodrama on Film launches UK-wide, celebrating cinema’s biggest emotions and heightened dramatics from October to December.

🧛‍♂️ – summons The Brainiac (El Barón del Terror, 1962), one of the wildest cult horrors from Mexico’s golden age of genre cinema.

🎬 – BSL Film Club: Alien screens with descriptive subtitles and a post-film discussion celebrating Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi classic.

💡 Reminder: To get your screening, event or opportunity featured, head to — create a free profile and upload your listings. It’s the best way to be included in future editions of Cinetopia Recommends!

✨ Browse the full list in our newsletter — link in bio.

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