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Edinburgh Filmhouse to reopen with help of £1.5m UK Government funding

Source: PA Archive

The Edinburgh Filmhouse is to reopen two years after it closed with the help of £1.5 million funding from the UK Government.

The independent cinema opened in 1979 in a former Presbyterian Church with only one screen but became a cultural icon with a programme compared to the British Film Theatre in London.

It closed on October 6, 2022 following the

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