EVENTS

4 December, 7-10pm | Filmhouse Edinburgh

Join us for our last film networking night of 2025, festive edition, and let's celebrate together as a community!

Meet and connect with fellow film industry folks over informal drinks and chats, whether you're a seasoned pro, or just starting out 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.

We're in the cafe/bar at the Filmhouse where you can purchase food and drink.

This event is free to attend, please RSVP below - it helps us track numbers!

6 December, 6-10pm | The French Institute

Paris Qui Dort (1924) by Rene Claire + Live musical accompaniment by Aurora Engine (Deb Shaw)

Come early for our apéritif hour with a drinks bar and complementary nibbles before the film, a chance to mingle, relax and start the evening in true Salon style.

René Clair’s Paris Qui Dort (1924), also known as The Crazy Ray, is a mischievous early science-fiction gem that turns the City of Light into a playground for surreal misadventure. When a strange ray from the Eiffel Tower freezes the citizens of Paris mid-motion, a small band of unaffected oddballs: a night watchman, a scientist, and a few bemused tourists, roam the motionless metropolis like ghosts in a frozen dream.

The film screening is accompanied by live music from Edinburgh-based harpist / pianist composer, and sonic artist Aurora Engine (Deborah Shaw), and a short introduction from the Edinburgh Film Guild, one of the oldest continuously running film societies in the world.

For full details of the evening and to book click on the link below!

10 December, 6pm | FILMHOUSE - 50th Anniversary Special Screening

This screening will be followed by a hybrid panel discussion featuring members of the Berwick Street Collective. We will be joined in person by Humphrey Trevelyan, and via zoom: James Scott and artist Mary Kelly (who was also a member of the Cleaners Action Group).

2025 marks the 50th anniversary of Nightcleaners (Part 1) (1975) by the Berwick Street Collective, and we’re proud to host this special screening marking the start of a series of 50th anniversary activities being programmed by moving image arts organisation LUX.

Nightcleaners captures the struggles of women working as night cleaners in London’s office buildings during the early 1970s and their early attempts to unionise. The film documents their efforts and the broader campaign to improve their working conditions, invisible labour both low-paid and isolated.

Rather than follow a conventional narrative, the filmmakers employ a fragmented, experimental style that reflects the complexity and disorientation of political struggle. This approach challenges viewers to engage critically, not passively, with both the subject matter and the medium itself.