EFG related pages and posts
Our most recent French Cinema Season (September 2023 to March 2024), in partnership with Institut Français Ecosse, is now finished. Thank you to all our wonderful audience members and the brilliant staff at the Institut Français Ecosse for making it…
Articles that may be of interest to those who attended our screening of Jacques Becker & ‘Don’t Touch the Loot (Touchez Pas au Grisbi)’, 22 March 2024 at the Institut français d’Écosse. Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t seen the film,…
Articles that may be of interest to those who attended our screening of Jacques Tati’s ‘Jour de fête’ (26 January 2024) at the Institut français d’Écosse. Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t seen the film, please note that key plot elements…
Articles and interviews that may be of interest to those who attended our screening of Céline Sciamma’s ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ (15 December 2023) at the Institut français d’Écosse. Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t seen the film, please…
Articles that may be of interest to those who attended our screening of Georges Franju’s ‘Eyes Without A Face’ (24 November 2023) at the Institut français d’Écosse. Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t seen the film, please note that key plot…
Articles that may be of interest to those who attended our screening of Jean Renoir’s ‘Boudu Saved From Drowning’ (20 October 2023) at the Institut français d’Écosse. Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t seen the film, please note that key plot…
The Edinburgh Film Guild’s historical archive, a collection of materials stretching back to the late 1920s, has now been successfully transferred to the National Library of Scotland (NLS) and the University of Stirling. The abrupt closure of the Centre for…
The graphic image above was the cover illustration for the Edinburgh Film Guild’s 1946-47 Cinema Season programme. It shows, what was then, the Guild’s new premises at 6-8 Hill Street EH2 3JZ, which was known as ‘Film House’. The Guild…
We have now archived the information on our 2022/2023 season of films, held at the Institut français d’Écosse. In keeping with the Guild’s educational aims and for future reference, we are retaining descriptions of past programmes and our ‘follow-up’ posts…
Guild screenings at the Institut français d’Ecosse (French Institute of Scotland) began in 2020 with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and our decision to cancel our season of films in our small, poorly ventilated, Guild cinema. Our search for…
