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March cinema weekend
We just have a couple of days to go before the start of the March cinema weekend and there are still a few tickets available for all of our screenings. So if you fancy coming along, please book a ticket via the links below or pop into the Balerno Post Office or the Mill Cafe to pick up a ticket.
Friday 14th March
- Searching for Sugar Man CERT 12 – screening at 7.30pm
Ogston Hall
Saturday 15th March
- The Sandlot CERT PG – screening at 2.30pm:
St Jo’s
- Rush CERT 15 – screening at 7.30pm:
St Jo’s
If you don’t get a ticket and still fancy coming along please just come down and we will try and find you a seat. The usual Balerno Village Screen hospitality will be available and we hope to have musical accompaniment on Saturday evening from Currie’s own The Links.
See you soon.
Films in March
The next Balerno Village Screen weekend takes places over the 14th and 15th of March. We will start on the Friday night in the Ogston Hall with Searching for Sugar Man – two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock ‘n’ roller, Rodriguez.
Following feedback we’ve decided to move our morning films to the afternoon and hopefully more people can attend. So on Saturday afternoon in St Jo’s we are screening The Sandlot CERT PG – screening at 2.30pm: A terrific family movie in the nostalgic style of Stand by Me. This is one of the best children’s films of the last twenty years.
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Our box office Saturday evening film is Rush which tells the story of the merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda. The screening will be a fundraiser for the the Chogoria Girls High School in Kenya and a local primary school nearby. A group of pupils and staff from Currie High School will be going to Kenya to help improve the facilities they have. Whilst there they will be undertaking a number of different projects, some practical and some curricular, a major focus of their work will be the refurbishment and decoration of classrooms in the local primary school. The Currie Pupils have already raised in excess of £5,000 to help with their practical based work and the money raised at the BVS screening will help ensure the trip is a great success.
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Please follow the links below to reserve your tickets.
Friday 14th March
- Searching for Sugar Man CERT 12 – screening at 7.30pm
Saturday 15th March
- The Sandlot CERT PG – screening at 2.30pm:
- Rush CERT 15 – screening at 7.30pm:
Alternatively you can collect tickets from the Mill Cafe or Balerno Post Office – these offline tickets will be available from Saturday 1st March.
WWF Earth Hour and WALL-E
And at the end of March we are also celebrating WWF Earth Hour so please come and support the activities. At 6.45pm we are screening environmentally themed, Disney Pixar movie WALL-E. This will be followed by Balerno’s first “Switching off the Lights” ceremony to mark the start of Earth Hour at 8.30pm.The event is a community-wide, family friendly-event and Balerno Village Screen are helping put on this event in conjunction with the BPC Green Team and The Girls’ Brigade.
Saturday 29th March
- WALL-E CERT U – screening at 6.45pm: This will be followed by Balerno’s first “Switching off the Lights” ceremony to mark the start of Earth Hour at 8.30pm.
For further information please contact Rob Cargill at robcargill@blueyonder.co.uk
We look forward to seeing you soon.
Sunshine on Leith new screening
Following a huge demand for Sunshine on Leith tickets and a considerable waiting list for tickets we’ve opted to put on an additional screening at 5pm on Saturday 15th February. Please use the button below to reserve your ticket.
- Sunshine on Leith CERT PG – screening at 5pm
(doors open 20 minutes in advance).
Sunshine on Leith is easily our most popular film so far. The first 220 tickets were fully subscribed within 24 hours of them being released and we have over 45 people of the waiting list. So we thought you might appreciate an extra screening on Saturday afternoon.
We also have tickets available for:
- When Harry Met Sally CERT 15 – screening Friday 14 February at 7.30pm finishes 9.10pm
(doors open 30 minutes in advance)
- The Croods CERT U screening Saturday 15th February at 10.30am finishes 12.10
(doors open 15 minutes in advance)
We look forward to seeing you again soon.
February tickets now available
The next Balerno Village Screen weekend takes places over the 14th and 15th of February. We will start on the Friday night with an 80s RomCom classic for Valentines Day: When Harry Met Sally – Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.
On Saturday morning we are screening The Croods – a prehistoric comedy adventure that follows the world’s first family as they embark on a journey of a lifetime when the cave that has always shielded them from danger is destroyed. Traveling across a spectacular landscape, the Croods discover an incredible new world filled with fantastic creatures — and their outlook is changed forever.
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And on Saturday we have a bit of a treat for fans of the Proclaimers music: Sunshine on Leith – the film of the musical. This film is a jubilant, heartfelt musical about the power of home, the hearth, family and love. It is the tale of one tight-knit family, and the three couples bound to it, as they experience the joys and heartache that punctuate all relationships. And they do it all while singing to the euphoric music of The Proclaimers.
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Please follow the links below to reserve your tickets.
- When Harry Met Sally CERT 15 – screening Friday 14 February at 7.30pm finishes 9.10pm
- The Croods CERT U screening Saturday 15th February at 10.30am finishes 12.10
- Sunshine on Leith CERT PG – screening at 5pm finishes 6.40pm
- Sunshine on Leith CERT PG – screening Saturday 15 February at 7.30pm finishes 9.20pm
(doors open 30 minutes in advance)
Alternatively you can collect tickets from the Mill Cafe or Balerno Post Office – these offline tickets will be available on Monday 6th January.
We look forward to seeing you soon.
It’s a Wonderful Life
Described as the the holiday classic to define all holiday classics, It’s a Wonderful Life is one of a handful of films worth an annual viewing. We screened this film before Christmas last year to see if there was appetite for a community cinema in Balerno. So we are delighted to be giving the film its second outing and screening it all over again. Continue reading It’s a Wonderful Life
October: Mamma Mia
We are sure many of you will be aware that its the Balerno Music Festival in October. So we are joining in with the musical theme and screening Mamma Mia – The Movie with audience singalong!.
Set on a colorful Greek island, the plot serves as a background for a wealth of ABBA songs. A young woman about to be married discovers that any one of three men could be her father. She invites all three to the wedding without telling her mother, Donna, who was once the lead singer of Donna and the Dynamos. In the meantime, Donna has invited her backup singers, Rosie and Tanya.
Saturday/Sunday 5 & 6th October:
- Saturday: Sing-a-long-a Mamma Mia CERT PG – screening at 7.30pm finishes 9.30pm (booking instructions can be found on the Balerno Music Festival website – SOLD OUT.)
- Sunday: Sing-a-long-a Mamma Mia CERT PG – screening at 7.15pm finishes 9pm. Tickets can be collected from the Post Office, the Mill Cafe or reserved online:
Doors open 30 minutes in advance of the screening.
Wreck-it Ralf screening Saturday 7th September
On Saturday morning we have one for the family, Wreck -It Ralph, a hilarious, arcade-game-hopping adventure from Walt Disney Animation Studios.
For decades, Ralph has been overshadowed by Fix-It Felix, Jr., the good-guy star of their game who always gets to save the day. Tired of playing the role of a bad guy, Wreck-It Ralph takes matters into his own massive hands and sets off on a journey across the arcade through multiple generations of video games to prove he’s got what it takes to be a hero.
You can reserve your ticket below via the online booking system or tickets can be collected from the Mill Cafe or Balerno Post Office.
- Wreck-It Ralph Cert PG – screening at 10.30am finishes 12.20
(doors open 10am)
Tickets are free – we are funded by donations.
Les Misérables coming in September
Our next screening date is the weekend of Friday/Saturday 6th and 7th of September with two screenings of much loved musical Les Misérables. And we are encouraging our audience to revise the lyrics as the Friday night screening will be a singalong so come prepared
Set against the backdrop of 19th-century France, Les Misérables tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption—a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit.
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You can reserve your ticket below and we’ll also have some tickets available for Saturday at the Mill Cafe and Post Office soon. We will update this page when they are available. Online tickets can be reserved now via the buttons below.
- Friday screening 19:15 to 22:10 (with Singalong)
- Saturday screening 19:15 to 22:10
We are a community cinema – tickets are free and we are funded by donations.
The Friday screening is a singalong! And the funds raised will support a fellow Balerno villager Julia Sproul, in her efforts to raise funds for SANDS Lothians – a charity that supports parents who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth or death of a baby soon after birth. In addition to the screening, Julia is also climbing Kilimanjaro. You can find out more about Julia’s reason for the climb via this Evening News story ‘Kilimanjaro climb in memory of friend’s baby’.
Doors open 30 minutes in advance.
The Illusionist – review by Darran Murphy – screening Sat 15 June
The Illusionist (2010) is an animated film about a French illusionist named Tatischeff and a young girl named Alice from the remote Scottish island of Iona who seems to believe that Tatischeff has genuine magical powers. Believing resolutely in in his extraordinary powers Alice follows Tatischeff back to Edinburgh where they live together in a meager guest house. Continue reading The Illusionist – review by Darran Murphy – screening Sat 15 June