Connecting the film community — offline since 2018, online since 2025.
From outdoor screenings to festival coverage, from networking nights to doc clubs – we've been connecting Scotland's film community since 2018. Now we've also gone digital with an online platform designed by film people, for film people.
Cinetopia is a hub of activity around filmmaking and filmgoing based in Edinburgh. We create events and content for both the general public as well as film industry professionals, bringing the film community together.
What we do
FILM & INDUSTRY EVENTS
Monthly doc clubs and industry networking nights, eventised distribution & film tours, masterclasses, outdoor festivals, and pop-up screenings. We don't just show films – we create experiences that build community.
CINETOPIA CONNECT
Our online hub where the local film community can actually connect.
CINETOPIA RECOMMENDS
Our weekly Substack that delivers the best local film events, film opportunities, and industry news across Scotland and UK straight to your inbox.
CINETOPIA PRODUCTIONS
We make things too. Site-specific archive and multi-media installations, documentaries, and client work. If it involves moving images and good stories, we're interested.
CINETOPIA RADIO & PODCAST
Monthly on EHFM since 2018. Festival coverage from the ground up, filmmaker interviews that go deeper, and reviews that tell you what's actually worth your time.
CINETOPIA SHOP
Handmade merchandise inspired by our love of film, plus collaborations with local designers and artists. Film merch that doesn't look like corporate swag.
Upcoming Events
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Babylon (1980) + Live Interactive Musical Performance (co-presented by Be United)Item
13 OCTOBER, 7pm | VOODOO ROOMS
Join us for a screening of Franco Rossi’s cult classic Babylon (1980), followed by “We ‘Can’t Tek No More’ of That”: Sound as Resistance and Healing, a live interactive musical performance commissioned in collaboration with Be United. Bringing together film, archival imagery and contemporary music, the evening explores how sound has shaped Black British identity, challenged systemic injustice and created spaces for resistance, belonging and collective healing across generations.
Be United is a SCIO that advocates for, nurtures, and champions Black people working in the performing arts, screen, and cultural event sectors in Scotland. Be United believes our sectors are richer when all people are in the room. For more information, please visit their website https://be-united.org.uk/.
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AFTERSUN (2022) + DISCUSSION
22 October, 7PM
FRENCH INSTITUTE OF SCOTLAND
A special screening of Charlotte Wells’ AFTERSUN (2022), followed by a post-film discussion exploring memory, family, youth and the things we leave unsaid.
In Charlotte Wells’ debut feature, eleven-year-old Sophie travels with her young father, Calum, to a faded Turkish holiday resort in the summer of 1999. Filming the trip on a MiniDV camera, Sophie drifts between her father’s company and the teenagers she is curious to be like, while Calum, warm and playful on the surface, carries something heavier he can’t quite share.
The event is part of Transmission: Youth Across Generations, a multi-event programme exploring how youth culture has shaped identity, belonging and collective memory in Britain from the 1980s to the present.
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FILM NETWORKING NIGHT - OCTOBER 2026
15 October, 7-10pm
LITTLE PICARDY BAR
Join us for our June film networking night back at our favourite autumn locale, the Little Picardy Bar! 🙌
Meet and connect with fellow film industry folks over informal drinks and chats, whether you're a seasoned pro, or just starting out in the film industry and keen to learn more.
Coming on your own? Don't worry! One of our team will be here to welcome you and make sure you meet people. We promise a chill, friendly, fun atmosphere.
This event is free to attend, please RSVP - it helps us track numbers!
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Cinetopia Halloween Salon: Häxan (1922) + Live score
31 October, 6pm
FRENCH INSTITUTE OF SCOTLAND
This Halloween, experience one of early cinema’s most gloriously eerie and unsettling masterworks accompanied by an original live score from two exceptional Edinburgh-based musician/composers.
Danish filmmaker Benjamin Christensen’s Häxan (Witches, 1922) – also known as Witchcraft Through the Ages is unlike anything else in the silent film canon: part scholarly dissertation, part fever dream, part full-blooded horror spectacle.
Live score performed by acclaimed Edinburgh-based musicians Jane Gardner & Hazel Morrison.