EFG related pages and posts
French Cinema Season. Our upcoming screening at the Institut français d’Écosse is ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire‘. Friday, 15 December 2023 at 6pm‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu)Céline Sciamma | France |…
Links to 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…
French Film Season. Links to 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,…
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 used as 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’.…
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…
Sadly, the Filmhouse went into administration in October 2022 with the loss of jobs of many of our colleagues & friends. While the Guild is an entirely separate and solvent entity from Filmhouse we shared the same building, which forced…
