New
Stand by Me 15
SCREENING FROM FRI 1 MAY / Rob Reiner / USA 1986 / 1h 29m
Four 12-year-old boys have heard that there’s a real dead body somewhere down the railroad tracks from where they live. Setting out to find it, their journey will bind their friendship for life. The late Rob Reiner’s 1950s-set classic is a timeless childhood tale, still as moving, entertaining and funny as it ever was in this 4K restoration for its 40th anniversary.
Contains strong language, upsetting scenes Hokum 15
SCREENING FROM FRI 1 MAY / Damian McCarthy / United Arab Emirates, USA, Hong Kong, Ireland / 2025 / 1h 47m
When reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman (Adam Scott) retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, the staff’s tales of an ancient witch haunting the honeymoon suite take hold of his mind.
Contains suicide references, strong horror, violence, language
Scottish film director David Mackenzie –probably best known for the superior Jeff Bridges ‘contemporary western’ Hell or High Water – has, over the last 25 years, been quietly building an impressive, diverse body of work. These two most recent of his films have him returning to the thriller genre - PERFECT PAIRS discount available when booking both!
Fuze 15
SCREENING ON SAT 2 & SUN 3 MAY / David Mackenzie / UK / 2025 / 1h 36m
When a World War II bomb is discovered in central London a team of military experts led by Will (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), are sent in to investigate and defuse it.
Contains very strong language, strong violence, injury detail, threat
Relay 15
SCREENING ON SAT 2 & SUN 3 MAY / David Mackenzie / USA, UK / 2025 / 1h 52m
When "fixer" Ash receives a message from a potential client needing his protection just to stay alive, his rules of secrecy start to change.
Contains strong language
Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival May Weekender '26
THU 7, SAT 9 + SUN 10 MAY
This year the Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival (ESFF) will take part in the Festival of Europe Scotland (7–10 May), thanks to the support of the Spanish Consulate in Edinburgh. As part of their programme, and in celebration of Europe Day, ESFF will present three Spanish feature films made in coproduction with different European countries, foregrounding the cultural diversity of the region and highlighting the unique artistry of a united European cinema.
Our Land 12A
SCREENING FROM FRI 8 MAY / Orban Wallace UK / 2025 / 1h 31m
Our Land takes us to the heart of the ‘Right to Roam’ movement as it embarks on a provocative trail of mass trespass, campaigning and education, while also exploring landowners’ concerns around environmental protection and the danger such widespread access could pose to a landscape already under threat.
Contains infrequent strong language, discrimination
Kokuho 15
SCREENING FROM FRI 8 MAY / Sang-il Lee
Japan / 2025 / 2h 55m / Japanese with English subtitles
Crowned as the highest-grossing live-action film of all time in Japan, Kokuho is about ambition, loyalty, and the making of a Kabuki legend. Set in Nagasaki, 1964, the film follows Kikuo, who after the death of his yakuza gang leader father, becomes the protégé of a famous Kabuki actor.
Contains sexual threat, suicide references, violence, strong sex
Rebuilding PG
SCREENING FROM FRI 8 MAY / Max WalkerSilverman / UK, USA / 2025 / 1h 36m
After a wildfire destroys his home, divorced father and ranch owner Dusty (Josh O'Connor) must plant new roots. Now living in a closeknit trailer community, he quietly reassembles his life, reconnecting with his estranged young daughter and ex-wife (Meghann Fahy).
Contains mild bad language, upsetting scenes, drug references
Romería 15
SCREENING FROM FRI 8 MAY / Carla Simón Spain, Germany / 2025 / 1h 52m / French, Galician, Catalan and Spanish with English subtitles
Eighteen-year-old Marina, adopted at a very young age, travels to Vigo to meet her biological father’s family for the first time. Here, her arrival brings back a past that had long been buried.
Contains drug misuse, nudity
The screening on Thu 7 May at 8.15pm will have a recorded introduction from director Carla Simón as part of the ESFF May Weekender '26.
Akira 15
SCREENING SAT 9 TO MON 11 MAY / Katsuhiro Otomo / Japan / 1988 / 2h 5m / Japanese with English subtitles
Akira is the definitive anime masterpiece, returning to Filmhouse in a 4K restoration! Katsuhiro Otomo’s cyberpunk classic obliterated the boundaries of Japanese animation and forced the world to look into the future.
Contains sexual violence, strong language, bloody violence
Queer As Punk TBC
SCREENING FROM FRI 15 MAY / Yihwen Chen Malaysia, Indonesia / 2025 / 1h 28m / Malay and English with English subtitles
Faris is a transman and lead singer of ‘Shh.. Diam!’, an openly queer punk band in Malaysia. Together with his bandmates Yon and Yoyo, they use their music to fight for LGBTQI+ rights in a country where human rights and freedom of expression are severely curtailed by a conservative Muslim society.
Contains harassment and transphobic language
The screening on Wed 13 May at 8.30pm will have an introduction by SQIFF director Indigo Korres and be followed by a pre-recorded Q&A as part of Cinetopia:DOC.
Cronos 15
SCREENING FROM FRI 15 MAY / Guillermo del Toro / Mexico / 1992 / 1h 34m / Spanish and English with English subtitles
When antiques dealer Jesús Gris (Federico Luppi) discovers an ancient artefact in the form of a golden mechanical scarab, he is unaware of the power it holds.
Contains strong language, bloody images
Catch this 4K restoration of Cronos now in anticipation of more del Toro delights that we will be lining up for Halloween...
Wake in Fright 18
SCREENING FROM FRI 15 MAY / Ted Kotcheff Australia, UK, USA / 1971 / 1h 49m
This legendary Australian cult classic, considered a ‘lost’ film for almost 40 years and now in a new 4K restoration, tells the story of John Grant, who arrives in the mining town of Bundanyabba, planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But, as his one night stretches to five, he plunges headlong toward his own destruction.
Contains strong scenes of kangaroo hunting and slaughter
Orphan 15
SCREENING FROM FRI 15 MAY / László Nemes France, Germany, Hungary, UK, Cyprus / 2025 2h 13m / Hungarian with English subtitles
1957. In Budapest, after the uprising against the Communist regime, a young Jewish boy, Andor, raised by his mother with idealised tales of his deceased father, has his world turned upside down when a man appears, claiming to be his true father…
Contains domestic abuse, sexually abusive behaviour, strong language
The Last Spy 15
SCREENING MON 18 TO THU 21 MAY / Katharina Otto-Bernstein / Germany, USA / 2025 1h 46m / English and German with English subtitles
The Last Spy is a riveting portrait of 102-yearold CIA spymaster Peter Sichel, who passed away last year. Recounting his escape from Nazi Germany as a Jewish refugee to becoming the first CIA Station chief in post-war Berlin and a key player in Cold War espionage, he pulls back the curtain on a life packed with secrets, covert actions, moral dilemmas and geopolitical intrigue..
Contains Holocaust images, images of real dead bodies
Eagles of the Republic 15
SCREENING FROM FRI 22 MAY / Tarik Saleh Sweden, France, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Turkey / 2025 / 2h 8m / Arabic and French with English subtitles
Egypt’s most revered actor, George Fahmy, is forced into starring in a propaganda film about the country’s president. Once he reluctantly agrees to take the role, Fahmy becomes surrounded by the powers that be - the allure of the inner circle proves irresistible, and he embarks on an affair with the secretive wife of the general in charge of the project.
Contains strong violence, threat, language
Hen TBC
SCREENING FROM FRI 22 MAY / György Pálfi Germany, Hungary, Greece / 2025 / 1h 36m Greek with English subtitles
Told entirely from the perspective of its avian protagonist, Hen follows a chicken who escapes an industrial farm only to find herself navigating the pecking order of a crumbling seaside restaurant in Greece.
The Balloonists PG
SCREENING FROM FRI 22 MAY / John Dower UK, USA, Austria / 2025 / 1h 26m
In the winter of 1999, Swiss explorer Bertrand Piccard and British flight instructor Brian Jones embark on an attempt to complete the last great aviation challenge of the 20th century –to circumnavigate the globe, nonstop in a hot-air balloon.
Contains mild threat, language
Bullet in the Head 18
SCREENING FRI 29 MAY TO MON 1 JUN / John Woo / Hong Kong / 1997 / 2h 11m / Cantonese, English, French and Vietnamese with English subtitles
Bullet in the Head follows Ben, Frank and Paul, childhood friends and gang members. After accidentally killing a rival gang leader, the trio flee the slums of Hong Kong. However, in their chosen place of refuge - war-torn Saigon, Vietnam - their troubles only pile up faster and faster in this new 4K restoration...
Book tickets for two or more of our John Woo films to receive a discount! Tickets can also be bought separately.
Portrait of a Lady On Fire 15
SCREENING FROM FRI 29 MAY / Céline Sciamma / France / 2019 / 2h 2m / French and Italian with English subtitles
Winner of a Queer Palm and Best Screenplay at Cannes Film Festival in 2019 and now reissued in 4K, Portrait of a Lady on Fire explores the achingly gradual romance between two women in Brittany in 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint Héloïse's wedding portrait, butwith Héloïse a reluctant bride - must do so without her knowledge. Masquerading as a walking companion, Marianne spends her days observing and long nights painting.
Contains undetailed references to and depictions of abortion and suicide, sexualised nudity
Power Ballad 15
SCREENING FROM FRI 29 MAY / John Carney Ireland, USA / 2026 / 1h 38m
Rick (Paul Rudd) is a past-his-prime wedding singer. Danny (Nick Jonas) is a has-been boyband star. When the pair meet during a wedding, they bond over their shared love of music in a small-hours jam session. However, when Danny transforms one of Rick’s songs into the smash hit that rejuvenates his career, Rick puts everything he cares about on the line to claw back the plaudits he believes he deserves.
Contains strong language
Tuner 15
SCREENING FROM FRI 29 MAY / Daniel Roher Canada, USA / 2025 / 1h 47m / English and Hebrew with English subtitles
In Tuner, Academy Award-winning director Daniel Roher's first narrative feature, Leo Woodall stars as a gifted young piano tuner whose heightened sense of hearing draws the attention of criminals, who see his talents as useful for opening safes as well as for tuning Steinways. With his once-promising musical career over, he works across New York with his mentor Harry Horowitz (Academy Award-winner Dustin Hoffman).
Contains strong language, drug misuse, violence, brief sexual images
SI-FAN Film Festival 2026
FRI 1 - SUN 3 MAY
SI-FAN (Scottish International Fantastic Arts Network) are delighted and honoured to bring their 2026 Festival to Filmhouse. SI-FAN carefully selects the most exciting features and short films within the fantastical genre sphere, offering the very best in escapist cinema and discovering the next wave of exciting, unique voices in film.
They are delighted to bring to Scottish audiences over 60 short films across horror, fantasy, Sci-Fi, action, thriller and surrealism, between live action and animation, as well as two Scottish premieres in A Useful Ghost and Dog of God
Alan J. Pakula - the unofficial Paranoia Trilogy
Alan J. Pakula’s trilogy stands as the definitive cinematic exploration of American anxiety - as a bonus, we bookend it with a couple of our favourites in the 1970s US paranoia sub-genre.
Written by Rod White, Programme Director
The Anderson Tapes Fri 1 + Wed 6 May
Klute Fri 1 + Mon 4 May
The Parallax View Sat 2, Thu 7 + Fri 8 May
All the President's Men Sat 2 + Thu 7 May
The Conversation Sun 3 + Wed 6 May
Book tickets for two or more of our Paranoia season films to receive a discount!
Special Events
Highlander + intro + discussion 15
SCREENING ON MON 4 MAY ONLY / Russell Mulcahy / UK / 1986 / 1h 56m
Highlander is a true cult favourite packed with quotable lines, stylish sword-fighting moments and memorable songs from Queen, celebrating its 40th anniversary with a majestic 4K restoration. Its interweaving storyline flits around from 1980s New York to World War II, but it has its dramatic origins in the 16th century Scottish Highlands where Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) first discovers he is not like other men... Befriended and trained by the charismatic Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez (Sean Connery), he finds out he is part of a group of immortals who must do battle until there is only one left alive..
Contains strong violence and moderate sex
Jonathan Melville, author of A Kind of Magic: Making the Original Highlander and the upcoming The Art & Making of Highlander, will introduce the screening and join the director of SI-FAN, Chris Aitken, in conversation after the film.
Punku + Q&A N/C 18
SCREENING ON FRI 22 MAY ONLY / J.D. Fernández Molero / Peru, Spain / 2025 / 2h 12m / Spanish, Quechua, and Matsigenka with English subtitles
Deep in the Peruvian Amazon lowlands, Meshia, a Matsigenka Indigenous teenager, discovers Ivan, a young boy who vanished two years ago and was presumed dead. Determined to save him, she embarks on a journey upriver into the mountains, heading to the city of Quillabamba. Ivan urgently needs eye surgery to halt an infection threatening his sight.
Contains references to sexual assault, violence, misogyny
Followed by a Q&A with director J.D. Fernández Molero, in association with CinemaAttic.
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat +
intro + Q&A 12A
SCREENING ON TUE 26 MAY ONLY / Johan Grimonprez / Belgium, France, Netherlands 2024 / 2h 30m / French, Arabic, Dutch, English, Russian and Spanish with English subtitles
This real-life Cold War spy thriller and awardwinning documentary maps a musical collision between African decolonization, struggles for Black Civil Rights, threats of communism, rumours of coups and the power of cultural diplomacy.
Contains sexual violence references, violence, discrimination, strong language
Introduced and followed by a Q&A with historians of Cold War and cultural diplomacy, in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh School of History, Classics and Archaeology and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.
Waving Kites: Hong Kong
Diasporic Cinema UK Tour
Waving Kites explores Hongkonger diasporic experiences across diverse moments and places. Their programme traces a range of perspectives, and spans experiences from the 1980s to more recent waves of emigration.
Flowing Stories Fri 15 May
Reunification Fri 22 May
Mark Jenkin on 35mm
A rare chance to see ‘analog’ filmmaker Mark Jenkin’s ‘Cornish Trilogy’, completed with the release of time-loop folktale Rose of Nevada –all screening in an analog format!
Rose of Nevada Sat 9 May
Bait Sat 16 May
Enys Men Sun 17 May
National Theatre Live: The Playboy of the Western World
TBC
SCREENING ON THU 28 MAY ONLY / Caitríona McLaughlin / UK / 2026 / 2h 30m
Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (Saipan, The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge's riveting play of youth and self-discovery.
Some Like It Hot PG
SCREENING ON MON 1 JUN ONLY / Billy Wilder USA / 1959 / 2h 2m
Some Like it Hot follows the antics of two musicians (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) who, after witnessing the St Valentine's Day Massacre, escape from the mob by dressing up in drag and joining an all-girl band. Comic complications ensue when Tony Curtis – now a pouting girl – strives to express his affection for Marilyn Monroe, while Jack Lemmon – similarly attired – is being pursued by an amorous Joe E Brown, who has one of the most famous closing punchlines in film history. Join us for a wonderfully silly cinema classic to celebrate Marilyn Monroe's centenary - with more to come later in June!
Contains mild violence, threat, sex references
Lavender Lens
Lavender Lens is our queer film strand, created in collaboration with the Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive and Programmed with Pride. Every screening is introduced by a member of the Queer Community Programming Group - visit the Lavender Lens page on our website for information on how to join.
Funeral
Parade of Roses 15
SCREENING ON TUE 12 MAY ONLY / Toshio Matsumoto / Japan / 1969 / 1h 45m / Japanese with English subtitles
Selected to celebrate Trans+ History Week (4-10 May), Funeral Parade of Roses is a queer retelling of the Oedipus myth, centred around the adventures of a transgender bar hostess.
Contains strong injury detail, suicide, violence, sex references, drug misuse
Doc Screen
An initiative run by Scottish Documentary Institute (SDI) in partnership with Filmhouse, aiming to bring more independent documentaries into the cinema and to open up spaces for political and creative forms of expression, debate and solidarity.
Radiograph of a Family +
Between Us + intro N/C 18
SCREENING ON WED 27 MAY ONLY / Firouzeh Khosrovani, Maryam Haddadi / Iran, Norway, Switzerland, UK / 2020, 2025 / 1h 22m, 15m Persian (Farsi), French and English with English subtitles
This month's screening of Radiography of a Family alongside the short Between Us explores the experience of being Iranian, something that resists distance, difference, and even division. A kind of invisible thread that continues to bind people to Iran, no matter where they are or how far they have moved away from it.
This screening is curated by Edinburghbased Iranian filmmaker Maryam Haddadi who will also introduce the films.
We've Got A Cinema And We're Not Afraid To Use It
(aka WGACAWNATUI), a new regular series of screenings whose only context is that the film is great, it’s available to play and we’ve an available cinema to play it in!
Sid and Nancy 18
SCREENING ON FRI 8 MAY ONLY / Alex Cox / UK 1986 / 1h 54m
Portraying the relationship between Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen as they battled alcoholism and drug abuse, and beautifully shot by Roger Deakins with shadows and grime taking up the frame in this 4K restoration, Sid and Nancy is one of my personal favourite films from my favourite filmmaker.
Selected and written by Stewart McConnell, Cinema Assistant
Contains very strong language, strong violence and hard drug use
Sansho The Bailiff PG
SCREENING ON SAT 16 & SUN 17 MAY / Kenji Mizoguchi / Japan / 1954 / 2h 4m / Japanese with English subtitles
Released in 1954, Sansho the Bailiff shared the prestigious Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival with three other films – On the Waterfront, Seven Samurai and La Strada – a list on which Sansho is, most assuredly, not out of place.
Selected and written by Rod White, Programme Director
Contains moderate violence and sex references
Vagabond
15
SCREENING ON SAT 23 & SUN 24 MAY / Agnès Varda / France / 1985 / 1h 46m / French and Arabic with English subtitles
Deservedly one of Varda’s best known films, Vagabond is among the most powerful portraits of a woman in modern cinema.
Selected by Jessie Moroney, Programme Officer
Contains sexual threat and violence, strong language, drug misuse
Wee Filmhouse
Our weekly films for a younger audience. These screenings are aimed at children and their families, but everyone is welcome!
The Iron Giant PG
SCREENING ON SUN 3 MAY ONLY / Brad Bird USA / 1999 / 1h 30m
In a small town in Maine in 1957, young adventurer Hogarth is obsessed with things extra-terrestrial. He’s the only one to take seriously a fisherman’s frantic reports of the landing of a metal giant, and his search is rewarded by the sighting of a metal-crunching, electricity-immune 50-foot iron giant in the forest.
Contains mild fantasy action violence, infrequent mild bad language
Alice in Wonderland U
SCREENING ON SUN 10 MAY ONLY / Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson / USA / 1951 / 1h 15m
Exploring on a sunny afternoon, a very curious young girl named Alice falls down the rabbit hole and discovers a joyous world full of adventureWonderland.
The
Magic Faraway Tree U
SCREENING ON SUN 17 MAY ONLY / Ben Gregor UK, USA / 2025 / 1h 50m
The Magic Faraway Tree follows Polly, Tim and their three children - a modern family forced to relocate to the remote English countryside. As they adapt to their new lives, the children discover a magical tree and its extraordinary and eccentric residents including treasured characters Moonface, Silky, Dame Washalot and Saucepan Man.
Contains very mild threat, rude humour, slapstick, language
Rango PG
SCREENING ON SUN 24 MAY ONLY / Gore Verbinski / USA / 2011 / 1h 47m
Rango is a pet and wannabe actor who is marooned in a desert and stumbles across a frontier town running low on water. Reinventing himself as a hero who killed seven outlaws with a single bullet, Rango becomes sheriff and starts to tackle the drought problem.
Contains mild threat and scary scenes
Atlantis: The Lost Empire U
SCREENING ON SUN 31 MAY ONLY / Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise / USA / 2001 / 1h 36m English, French and Spanish with English subtitles
Milo Thatch, a young linguist, sets off on a quest with a brave group of explorers to find a mythical lost continent - Atlantis.
Every Monday we add extra screenings of in-demand films, which may include films from the previous month, and from time to time we may introduce titles that may not feature in this brochure.
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Baby and Carer Screenings
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