Our Friday film for May is the delicious dreamy Glasgow-set musical God Help the Girl. It is an independent film starring Emily Browning (Pompeii), Hannah Murray (Skins) and Olly Alexander (lead singer of Years and Years) and was honored with a special jury award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014.

In God Help the Girl, writer/director Stuart Murdoch creates a poignant coming-of-age story that doubles as a sublime indie-pop musical from one of indie pop’s biggest songwriters. The project began as a suite of songs, written while Murdoch was between records and tours as lead singer of Belle & Sebastian. He nurtured it for nearly a decade into a fully formed film, set in the bohemian fantasia of Glasgow’s West End, which is populated by mods, rockers, and emo kids who have no qualms about breaking into song and dance. (c) Amplify

Friday 22nd May

• God Help the Girl CERT 15,  7.30pm to 9.05pm St Joseph’s Hall 

Balerno Village Screen is a community cinema free to attend and funded by donations. We ask that you reserve a free ticket in advance (via the button above) to help us manage numbers.  We also ask that if you can no longer attend to cancel your ticket to allow someone else to see the film.

Tickets are also available from the Mill Cafe or the Balerno Post Office. Please ask if any tickets are still available.