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"Bonjour? I'd like to book a ticket to Cinetopia Salon, s'il vout plait!"You loved our first Salon, here's a first tease...
13/11/2025

"Bonjour? I'd like to book a ticket to Cinetopia Salon, s'il vout plait!"

You loved our first Salon, here's a first tease of our next one! René Clair's 1924 silent sci-fi, Paris Qui Dort with musical accompaniment from Aurora Engine...

6th December, 6-10pm, details and tickets in the comments... ⬇️

Cinetopia Salon is a new cultural evening where French-style apéro, arts, cinema, and conversation come together, in the elegant surrounds of the French Institute 🍸

Filmmaker Areeb Zuaiter will share her story of making YALLA PARKOUR at our next Cinetopia DOC screening on 19 November ...
11/11/2025

Filmmaker Areeb Zuaiter will share her story of making YALLA PARKOUR at our next Cinetopia DOC screening on 19 November (via pre-recorded Q&A).

YALLA PARKOUR documents Areeb's friendship with a young Gazan parkour athlete. Initially driven by nostalgia for the Gaza of her childhood visits and memories of her Palestinian mother, as Areeb rediscovers Gaza through Ahmed's eyes and their relationship deepens, a growing internal conflict and emotional struggle surfaces.

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A multinational filmmaker based in Washington, D.C, Areeb's work focuses on art, identity, and social issues. She holds an MA in Film and Video from American University and her work has won multiple international awards.

Her debut short, Stained, won the Jury Award at Beirutʼs European International Film Festival. Her documentary, Colors of Resistance, was nominated for Sonyʼs Outstanding Thesis Award and won multiple awards at the Colorado Activism Film Festival and the Spotlight Documentary Film Awards.

Zuaiter has previously worked at the Associated Press, and served a Goldman Sachs Film and Video Fellow at the Smithsonianʼs National Museum of American History. She has lead the Regional Training
Department at the Royal Film Commission - Jordan, and taught at several universities in Washington, DC. In addition to working on her films, Zuaiter heads the programming department at the Amman International Film Festival (AIFF).

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Book tickets for YALLA PARKOUR + recorded Q&A with Areeb via our bio link 🔗

➡️ 19 November, 5.50pm

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Cinetopia: DOC is supported by part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network, and funded by Screen Scotland and National Lottery funding from the BFI, and the , and produced by Cinetopia, a hub of activity around filmgoing and filmmaking based in Edinburgh.

Your weekly movie date planner is here! Our recommended 🔥 film events in Edinburgh & Glasgow to check out this week 💯✨️ ...
10/11/2025

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

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Cinetopia:DOC November edition! 🎥Join us for Palestinian director Areeb Zuiater's award-winning YALLA PARKOUR, followed ...
06/11/2025

Cinetopia:DOC November edition! 🎥
Join us for Palestinian director Areeb Zuiater's award-winning YALLA PARKOUR, followed by a recorded Q&A with Areeb herself.

YALLA PARKOUR follows Areeb as she revisits her memories of Gaza, as she tried to recapture a sense of belonging.

After discovering videos from a group of parkour athletes in Gaza, Areeb strikes up what becomes a years-long friendship with Ahmed, and through his eyes uncovers the struggle of acountry under fire, and the new realities of a land she remembers so fondly.

📅19th November, 5.50pm at Filmhouse Edinburgh

🎟 Tickets are on sale now!
https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/movie/yalla-parkour-pre-recorded-qa/

Wonderful to see Cinetopia and our co-founder Amanda Rogers featured in November’s The List in their feature article on ...
03/11/2025

Wonderful to see Cinetopia and our co-founder Amanda Rogers featured in November’s The List in their feature article on community cinema! 🎉🍿

Community cinema is so much more than a screen and a film. It is a space for people to come together, to discover new ideas, make friends and find social interaction, to discuss and learn and enjoy art together, communally.

In an increasingly isolating world, we are heartened to see a boom in community cinema activity, across Scotland and the wider UK. New and creative ways of connecting people with film and each other.

We're so proud to play a part in this wider movement, through our Cinetopia Salon, DOC programme, networking and more... and to be featured alongside other brilliant local Scottish organisations bringing their energy and fresh ideas, like Leith Kino and Hurdy Gurdy Film Club!

Thanks Kevin Fullerton for talking with Cinetopia!

You can find the full article in the latest October issue, pick up a copy in your local cultural, community space.

Linking to the digital issue in the comments...🔗

Cinetopia Recommends turns ONE! 🎂We’ve spent a whole year shouting about the best film events across Scotland — thanks f...
03/11/2025

Cinetopia Recommends turns ONE! 🎂
We’ve spent a whole year shouting about the best film events across Scotland — thanks for following, sharing and supporting! To celebrate, we’re running a giveaway inside the newsletter. Susbcribe to find out more! 🎬

This week’s highlights:

🎬 Taiwan Film Festival in Scotland - 18 contemporary Taiwanese films exploring identity, memory & transformation. Screenings at GFT & | until 19 Nov

🎬 DOCo #015: Inherited Silence – A special work-in-progress screening & feedback session where you can help shape a new doc. | The Outhouse, Edinburgh | 5 Nov, 7pm

🎬 Edinburgh Short Film Festival: Jan Harlan Masterclass – Stanley Kubrick’s longtime producer shares insights from decades in cinema. in Filmhouse Edinburgh | 8 Nov, 3pm

🎬 A Magnificent Life / Marcel et Monsieur Pagnol – The Triplets of Belleville director Sylvain Chomet turns his animation lens to French cinema’s great storyteller. | Cameo Cinema | 6 Nov, 6.30pm

🎬 Fantômas (1913) – A special French Film Festival event celebrating Gaumont’s 130th anniversary, with live musical accompaniment. | Institut français d'Ecosse | 9 Nov, 6pm

🎬 Bride of Frankenstein w/ Live Orchestra – The BBC SSO brings spine-tingling magic to this horror classic. | City Halls, Glasgow | 6 Nov, 7.30pm

📽 Screenings from Leith Kino, Cinemaattic and a programme of Q***r Hollywood Cinema at GFT ❤️

💼 PLUS: Loads of new jobs and opportunities for filmmakers, marketers and creatives across the UK — from the ICO and Sheffield Doc Fest to Reclaim the Frame and BECTU Vision. Don’t miss your chance to level up your film career!

📢 Want to be featured? Upload your event, screening or opportunity via Cinetopia Connect — it’s the only guaranteed way to be included in future editions.

🔗 Browse the full listings, news & opportunities in this week’s newsletter — link in comments!


After a whirlwind few weeks of UK festivals, our LFF special is here! 🎬Amanda, Emma, Rosie, and Robert catch up to unpa...
02/11/2025

After a whirlwind few weeks of UK festivals, our LFF special is here! 🎬

Amanda, Emma, Rosie, and Robert catch up to unpack the 2025 BFI London Film Festival — from gothic monsters to tender literary romances and offbeat art heists.

We dive into Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, Jafar Panahi’s I Was Just an Accident, Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love, Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet and Kelly Reichardt’s Mastermind, with plenty of festival chatter along the way.

Plus, Amanda chats with Tomiwa Folorunso and Carmen Thompson from Edinburgh’s about their debut festival weekender celebrating Black, African and diaspora cinema.

🎧 Listen now - https://open.spotify.com/episode/0cM7kAZJbxw3I0arCwJRYP?si=4WxFZBFWSw-lyF1CtI37xw

01/11/2025

"A thoughtful consideration of not just physical prowess but the emotional agility and resilience demonstrated by those growing up in Gaza." EYE FOR FILM

YALLA PARKOUR is our next Cinetopia: DOC screening at Filmhouse Edinburgh - followed by a recorded Q&A with director Areeb Zuiater.

Winner of the DOC NYC International Competition Grand Jury Prize in 2024 and the Berlinale Panorama Audience Award in 2025, we're proud to share this moving and bittersweet story exploring memory, identity, legacy, and homeland through the 10-year friendship between Areeb and young Gazan Parkour athlete, Ahmed.

➡️19 November, 5.50pm at Filmhouse Edinburgh
Tickets are now on sale:
https://cinetopia.co.uk/doc

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 🙏
Institut français d'Ecosse 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 Music
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: Q***r East Scottish Q***r 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!

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