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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CARMEN (VELADA FLAMENCA) - Film & Flamenco
9 October, 6pm
FRENCH INSTITUTE OF SCOTLAND
Cinetopia Salon and Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival present an evening of cinema and Flamenco.
A celebratory evening of Spanish Flamenco culture in person and on screen - a collaboration between Cinetopia Salon and Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival.
Includes a Flamenco performance from TuFlamenco, wine & tapas reception, and a screening of Carlos Saura's renowned film CARMEN.
Timetable:
18:00: Drinks & Tapas Reception
19:00: Live music TuFlamenco
19:30: Film screening of Carmen introduced by Amaya Bañuelos MarcoAntonio, director of a flamenco dance company, is preparing a stage version of Carmen, inspired by Mérimée’s novella and Bizet’s opera. When he finds the ideal lead performer, a young dancer who is also named Carmen, he begins an obsessive relationship with her that gradually mirrors the tragic story of the work itself. Desire, jealousy, and theatrical performance become intertwined until they lead the characters toward destruction.
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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.
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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.