North Berwick Movies is a voluntary organisation bringing the cinema back to our local community.

We plan to show a minimum of 4 films a year at local venues in the town. Films are open to all (subject to film classification restrictions), there is no membership fee and tickets will be available on the door. For some films we will also make tickets available in advance at specific outlets in the town.

If you’d like to get information about future film shows then please click on the link to subscribe to our mailing list.

North Berwick Movies is run by a small committee and we’d love to hear from anyone who wishes to get involved either with planning and organising the shows or behind the scenes on film night. It’s always entertaining and a great way of meeting new people too!

Our history

Founded in 2000 as North Berwick Cinema Club our aim was to bring the cinema back to North Berwick after the closure of the town’s last cinema, The Playhouse, in 1984. Since then we’ve shown over 200 films including main stream blockbusters, some of the classics, foreign language films, animations and local Scottish films.

We gained financial support from the National Lottery’s Awards for All which we used to buy our own digital projector, 12ft wide screen, DVD player and surround sound equipment. With this we can show films at a wide range of different venues in our local community supporting other local interest groups and helping out with charity fundraising for the RNLI, Music Therapy Group and the Youth Café to name just a few. Working with the Youth Café we also helped to get grants to refurbish one of our local venues – the Hope Rooms – which now has in built projection and sound equipment.

We’ve staged three major outdoor events each of which attracted audiences of over 1,000 people. Our Bollywood night, where we teamed up with the local Indian community who cooked us a fabulous supper, was another highlight. More recently we’ve worked with Transition North Berwick to promote environmental awareness with a short festival of beautiful and thought provoking films.