Edinburgh Film Guild

Edinburgh Film Guild The Edinburgh Film Guild is one of the oldest film societies in the world, based in Edinburgh, Scotland

For more than 80 years, our mission has been to programme a full variety of films past and present, films that are rarely shown on the big screen, and films that are just too good to be forgotten. To learn more about the films we are showing and how you can join, just visit our website.

Cinetopia in collaboration with the Edinburgh Film Guild present ‘Finis Terrae’, the 1929 French silent film written and...
10/03/2026

Cinetopia in collaboration with the Edinburgh Film Guild present ‘Finis Terrae’, the 1929 French silent film written and directed by Jean Epstein, plus a live performance of a newly composed original score by Edinburgh-based multi-instrumentalist Dan Abrahams and French drummer Phillipe Boudot.

On the treeless, windswept islet of Bannec off the Breton coast, four seaweed harvesters set up camp for the season, smoke billowing from their pyres of burning algae. Trouble arises when a fight between Ambroise and Jean-Marie over a broken wine bottle results in injury to the young Ambroise, leading to simmering tensions and distrust…

When Ambroise’s condition worsens, Jean-Marie discovers him, delirious and feverish, and decides to take him to nearby Ouessant island, across the fog-laden sea, to reach a doctor.

Shot in a documentary-style, using local non-actors, Jean Epstein’s camera reveals an unforgiving, isolated environment where men live a hard, rudimentary existence of toil against the sea and the elements. Through experimental techniques, Epstein frames the landscape, the sky, and the waters in a highly poetic visual style, rich in atmosphere, and a dual sense of menace and beauty.

Times for the event:

6pm – Apéro hour in the Salon
7pm – Brief introduction from Edinburgh Film Guild
7:05pm - Film screening with live accompaniment
8:15pm – Conversations continue back in the Salon until 10pm

Please note: drinks can be purchased at our pop-up bar (cash or card), but are not included in the ticket price and are only allowed in the Salon space before and after the film. Complementary nibbles available on a first-come basis from 6pm.

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