Films I might want to watch this week

Last updated: 30/08/2026 at 01:00

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026)

112 mins+ 3 more screenings

7.189

Drama, Horror, Romance

A director making a slasher sequel becomes obsessed with casting the original film's 'final girl,' leading both women into psychological and sexual chaos.

TUE 1 @ 18:15 MON 31 @ 20:15 THU 3 @ 17:00

The Odyssey (2026)

172 mins

8.588

Action, Adventure, Fantasy

After the Trojan War, Odysseus faces a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca, meeting creatures like the Cyclops Polyphemus, Sirens, and Calypso along the way.

TUE 1 @ 17:00 MON 31 @ 20:00 THU 3 @ 19:30

Lady (2026)

97 mins

7.270

Drama

A determined taxi driver in Lagos forms an unexpected bond with a group of free-spirited women, leading her into a world of friendship and self-discovery despite the risks along the way.

SUN 30 @ 20:40

I Want Your Sex (2026)

90 mins+ 3 more screenings

6.468

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Elliot lands a job for Erika Tracy as her sexual muse.

FRI 4 @ 18:15 TUE 8 @ 18:00 THU 10 @ 18:05

The Incomer (2026)

102 mins+ 5 more screenings

Comedy

On a remote Scottish isle, siblings Isla and Sandy hunt birds and talk to mythical beings while fighting off outsiders. Their lives change when Daniel, an awkward official, arrives to relocate them.

FRI 4 @ 18:10 TUE 8 @ 18:10 MON 7 @ 20:30

Bel (2026)

92 mins

Comedy

Tommaso raised four daughters on his own, transforming his life into a chaotic but solid family routine and becoming a full-time father and a man with no time for himself. When the girls decide it's time for their father to get ba...

WED 9 @ 18:05 MON 7 @ 20:20

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Late Fame (2025)

97 mins+ 5 more screenings

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Legendary New York poet Ed Saxberger's forgotten works captivate an eccentric group of young creatives, reigniting his artistic passion. Their intrigue intertwines with the bewitching presence of actress Gloria.

MON 7 @ 18:05 WED 9 @ 18:15 FRI 4 @ 20:35

Super Nature (2025)

82 mins

7.2

Documentary

A global community captures intimate moments of nature using shared cameras, weaving their personal observations into a stunning visual tapestry that celebrates Earth's raw beauty.

TUE 8 @ 17:45 THU 10 @ 20:15 SUN 6 @ 17:30

I Saw The TV Glow (2024)

100 mins

5.886

Drama, Horror, Mystery

A teenager just trying to make it through life in the suburbs is introduced by a classmate to a mysterious late-night TV show.

TUE 1 @ 20:45

Chicken Run (2000)

84 mins

7.188

Animation, Adventure, Comedy

When a cockerel apparently flies into a chicken farm, the chickens see him as an opportunity to escape their evil owners.

SUN 30 @ 11:00

Trainspotting (1996)

93 mins

8.183

Crime, Drama

Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out despite the allure of drugs and the influence of friends.

THU 3 @ 20:40 SUN 30 @ 18:25

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

137 mins+ 1 more screening

8.675

Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A cyborg from the future, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten-year-old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.

FRI 4 @ 20:20 TUE 8 @ 20:20 THU 10 @ 17:45

Sleepaway Camp (1983)

85 mins

6.258

Horror

Bunks and showers are a mad stabber's beat at a summer camp strictly for teens.

MON 31 @ 17:55

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1967)

179 mins

8.890

Adventure, Drama, Western

A bounty-hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.

SAT 5 @ 13:30 SUN 6 @ 16:45

The Searchers (1956)

119 mins

7.894

Adventure, Western

An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.

THU 10 @ 17:50

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

111 mins

8.494

Drama, Film-Noir

A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.

MON 31 @ 17:45 SUN 30 @ 14:00

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Bitter Christmas

111 mins+ 15 more screenings

Bitter Christmas tells two alternating stories, one starring Elsa, an advertising director, in 2004, during a long weekend in December. The second takes place in 2026 and stars Raúl, a screenwriter and director who is writing a script that we soon discover is the story of Elsa, her boyfriend Bonifacio, and her friends Patricia and Natalia. Mixed with fiction, Elsa is, in a way, Raúl's alter ego, who, like him, resorts to autofiction as a solution to a long period of creative drought. He looks inside himself, and he can't help but also look at the people who make up his most intimate universe: his partner and his assistant.

The film narrates the close relationship between reality and fiction, between inspiration and life, exploring the limits of autofiction and stories within stories. In this regard, lauded director Pedro Almodóvar notes Bitter Christmas as "the film where [he's] been cruelest with [him]self". Critics have been much kinder to him though - the film won the Cannes Soundtrack Award when it premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2026 edition of the festival.

MON 7 @ 18:00 WED 9 @ 18:10 MON 31 @ 17:30

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Cartographies of Memory + Q&A

60 mins

Screening as part of Falastin Film Festival 2026.

This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Memory Is a Stranger director Hajar Ibrahim, moderated by Crystal Bennes.

When return is interrupted, memory finds other routes. Bringing together three experimental films, this programme traces how voices, maps, and imagined conversations become ways of navigating inaccessible homelands, preserving collective memory, and sustaining relationships to places that can no longer be reached, but are never left behind

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untitled part 3b: beauty never ends..

A more ambient work of many things, including orchids blooming, and flowers growing, superimposed over raw footage from post massacre filmings of the 1982 slaughter at Sabra and Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon. Cloud footage, Hubble space imagery, the visible body crosscuts, and abstract shots of slow motion water, add to this reflection of the past, its present context and foreshadowing trajectory. With the voice over of Abdel Majid Fadl Ali Hassan recounting a story told by the rubble of his home in Palestine, and the collection of audio accompanying the clips, the tape permeates into an intense essay on dystopia in contemporary times. Working directly, viscerally, and metaphorically the videotape provides an elegiac response to the ongoing Palestinian dispossession & genocide.

Memory Is a Stranger

Memory is a Stranger is a short archival-experimental documentary assembled from family footage filmed by the filmmaker's late grandfather in Gaza's Nuseirat Refugee Camp, alongside an auditory landscape gathered over several years and made up entirely from her own recordings archiving the families oral testimonies and gatherings, protests, family folkloric songs, and field recordings. Unable to return herself, the filmmaker turns to Google Earth as part of an earlier Palestinian practice of digital return, echoing Darby’s 2006 “Nakba Layer,” which used satellite imagery to help refugees ‘visit’ destroyed and existing Palestinian villages. The film follows her two grandmothers oral testimonies of defiantly enacting a return home to Jerusalem and Gaza despite the occupation’s restrictions and siege. The film foregrounds less-recounted histories of return rather than displacement, tracing memory as a layered absence that is continually mediated generationally. Across three generations, return is enacted and remembered differently: by her grandmothers through physical acts of return, by her mother through lived memories of Gaza reawakened by family footage, and by the filmmaker through an inherited memory that becomes the film itself.

A Stone’s Throw

Amine, a Palestinian elder, is exiled twice, from land and labor, from Haifa to Beirut to a Gulf offshore oil platform. A Stone’s Throw trespasses borders to reveal an emotional and material proximity between the extraction of oil and labour in the region and the Zionist colonization of Palestine. The film rehearses a history of the Palestinian resistance when, in 1936, the oil labourers of Haifa blow up a BP pipeline.

SUN 30 @ 12:45

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Castration Movie Chapter iii.ii: Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage

127 mins

A young woman seeks out everything in her power to stop her partner from transitioning in this feature-length excerpt from Louise Weard’s Castration Movie, a labyrinthine post-modern epic about gender in several chapters, the first two anthologies of which screened at Filmhouse in December 2025 with a Q&A appearance from the director. Castration Movie Anthology III: Year of the Hyaena will premiere later in 2026.

Anthology I: The Fear of Having No One To Hold at the End of the World included Chapter i. Incel Superman, in which a production assistant sees his world spiral out of control as he uncompromisingly attempts to shape his life into the one he feels he deserves, and Chapter ii. Traps Swan Princess, in which a sex worker named Michaela “Traps” Sinclair finds her relationships strained when she decides to pursue motherhood. Anthology II: The Best of Both Worlds included one chapter, Polygon!!!! Heartmoder, in which Circle tries to leave a trans separatist cult in New York.

MON 31 @ 17:15 TUE 1 @ 17:50 SUN 30 @ 15:40

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De Gaulle: Résistance

160 mins+ 2 more screenings

PERFECT PAIRS: Book tickets for both De Gaulle: Résistance and De Gaulle: Liberté in the same transaction to receive a discount!

Following the capitulation of France in June, 1940, an armistice is signed with Nazi Germany. In the ensuing madness, one man does not give up the fight. This unknown general, alone and against the odds, makes his escape to London to hold on to and fight for the remnants of freedom in Europe.

De Gaulle: Résistance is the first half of the biggest French film project in 2026, based on Julian Jackson's book A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles De Gaulle and receiving its premiere out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival. The film stars Simon Abkarian as the titular general, following him as he becomes a leading figure in the French Resistance, alongside a star turn from Simon Russell Beale as Winston Churchill.

MON 31 @ 20:00 TUE 1 @ 20:00 THU 3 @ 17:15

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Falastin Futures

136 mins

Screening as part of Falastin Film Festival 2026.

This screening will have a ten-minute intermission.

Together, these four films imagine Palestine otherwise—through science fiction, speculative storytelling, and acts of intimate imagination—to ask what becomes possible when liberation is first rehearsed in the mind. Across visions of return, inherited memory, and futures both distant and immediate, the programme proposes imagination not as an escape from political reality, but as a necessary practice for creating it.

FILMS FEATURED:

In Vitro

In Vitro is a 2-channel Arabic-language sci-fi short filmed in black and white. It is set in the aftermath of an eco-disaster. An abandoned nuclear reactor under the biblical town of Bethlehem has been converted into an enormous orchard. Using heirloom seeds collected in the final days before the apocalypse, a group of scientists are preparing to replant the soil above.

In the hospital wing of the underground compound, the orchard’s ailing founder, 70-year-old Alia, played by Hiam Abbass, is lying in her deathbed, as 30-year-old Alia, played by Maisa Abd Elhadi, comes to visit her. Alia is born underground as part of a comprehensive cloning program and has never seen the town she’s destined to rebuild.

The talk between the two scientists soon evolves into an intimate dialogue about memory, exile and nostalgia. Central to their discussion is the intricate relationship between past, present and future, with the Bethlehem setting providing a narratively, politically and symbolically charged backdrop.

Upshot

After suffering unimaginable loss, Suleiman and Lubna retreat to an isolated farm, where they tend to their crops and engage in impassioned debates about their five children's choices - until one day a stranger arrives to reveal a harrowing truth.

Palestine Islands

Twelve-year-old Maha is one of the last generation of Palestinian refugees from the Balata camp. Following the illness of her blind grandfather, she imagines a crazy project: to make him believe that the separation wall has fallen and that a return to his native land is possible. In the company of other friends from the camp, the young girl prepares a strange journey for him...

Ours Is A Country Of Words

In the Shatila refugee camp, established in Lebanon after the forced displacement of thousands of Palestinians during the Nakba in 1948, families in an imagined future prepare for their long awaited return to Palestine. What begins as a hopeful preparation gradually becomes a poignant reflection on the gap between their cherished dream and the harsh realities of daily life. This hybrid documentary intertwines dreams and memories with the everyday, exploring the meaning of exile and the power of imagination to sustain hope.

SUN 30 @ 20:15

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Bel + Q&A

92 mins

This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Louise Lockwood, producer Sarah Howitt and Bel's sister Leah McAleer, hosted by Arusa Qureshi.

In the summer of 2021, Kenyan-Scottish singer and songwriter Beldina Odenyo is on the cusp of stardom. Hailed as a fierce, uncompromising artist with a voice that can silence a room, she is working on her eagerly awaited debut album. In October, she headlines at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall. Barefoot and cloaked in black, Bel delivers a performance that leaves the audience spellbound. Promoters and musicians are convinced this will launch her career. “It was a big deal” shares Kathryn Joseph - “This is it, everyone is seeing the truth of her, I can't wait for the rest of it”.

Two weeks later, Bel takes her own life. She is 31.

Bel tells the story of the artist behind that voice — and the sister determined to ensure Bel’s music will continue to live on after her death.

FRI 4 @ 18:00

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Pride + banner making drop-in workshop

120 mins

Stay with us after the screening to make protest banners in response to the film. The workshops are drop-in, free to attend, and aimed at young people but everyone is welcome to attend.

Book tickets for two or more of our Rip It Up: Find Your Own Way films in the same transaction to receive a discount!

A warm, witty, joyous drama inspired by an extraordinary true story of two worlds banding together for a common cause. It’s the summer of 1984 - Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike. At the Gay Pride March in London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decide to raise money to support the families of the miners. But there's a problem – the Union seems embarrassed to receive their support. Undeterred, the plucky activists set off for a mining village in rural Wales to make a donation in person...

Showing as part of our Rip It Up: Find Your Own Way season of films celebrating youth culture and coming of age in the UK, programmed by young people across Edinburgh. Supported by funding from the BFI delivered through Film Hub Scotland.

MON 7 @ 18:10

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Tony McKibbin, Centre for Open Learning discussion: The Searchers

105 mins

Book yourself a free ticket for this discussion to accompany the screening of The Searchers at Filmhouse, Thursday 10th September. After the film we will move to Room 3.5 for a discussion on John Ford’s western and see why it has proved so significant to film thinkers , filmmakers , and even artists . The conversation will be led by Tony McKibbin, who teaches in the Centre for Open Learning at the University of Edinburgh. Early booking advised as numbers are limited.

THU 10 @ 20:15