Solidarity Cinema is a community film screening project for people across North East Fife.
Over Winter/Spring 2026-27, Forgan Arts Centre will curate a five month pilot programme of screenings, supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network, awarding funding on behalf of the BFI National Lottery.
Solidarity Cinema aims to open up a space for local people to participate in regular film events in their neighbourhood, while establishing our capacity for quality and accessible film presentation.
Co-curated with partner projects, community groups and film clubs, each screening event will be unique. However, you can always expect a warm welcome, a discussion or workshop activity and suggested actions to continue the conversation.
Upcoming Screenings
Keep an eye on this page as we add new screening events.
UNION
Co-curated with Buena Vista Film Club
Fri 20 October, 7-9:30pm
Book tickets
Nature Shorts for Wee Ones
Part of Discovery Film Festival programme
Sat 5 December, 3-5pm
Tickets available soon
How it started
Solidarity Cinema has been inspired by conversations with community members, artists and local groups, looking for opportunities to share films about issues that are important to them.
The project has also emerged from our experiences with film production and presentation over recent years:
- working with artist-filmmakers in residence Webb-Ellis in 2025-26 and their creation and public sharing of Let The River Run Both Ways, a short film essay about our relationship to the Tay (2026-27)
- a screening of Indexed Beings in partnership with St Andrews Botanic Garden
- hosting film events with Art Workers for Palestine Dundee and Falastin Film Festival (2025-26)
- film-making workshops with our Children’s Art Club and Alternative (Art) School
- moving image workshops hosted in collaboration with Lux Scotland (2026) and The Sustainable Darkroom (2026).
Aims of Solidarity Cinema
- To facilitate screenings and conversations relating to our programme themes of Talking Forests, Ecologies of Migration and Queering Nature, and our commitments to climate justice, local empowerment and anti-racism.
- To grow new audiences locally in rural North East Fife for independent, heritage and diverse cinema, while supporting community-led approaches to film curation.
- To strengthen our neighbourhood’s creativity, resilience and autonomy through provision of resource of a ready and equipped screening venue.
- To explore different approaches, including accessible, relaxed, captioned and other kinds of screening to engage folks otherwise excluded from mainstream cinema.
- To be a sibling project to Forgan Solidarity Library which is our free-to-access reference library of books and zines.
