We've extended the deadline for our equipment residency opportunity! Based in Leeds or Bradford? Apply by 16th January and access free equipment for a year, a £300 bursary to support your work, and training sessions with the Cinema For All team. Find out more and apply 📽: bit.ly/49e489X

We might be approaching Christmas but the Festival of Community Cinema isn’t slowing down 🎞️ With screenings taking place until the end of December, visit your local community cinema and see great films for just £3! Find a screening near you: bit.ly/42Ue44q

Over the weekend, The Guardian published Carol Moore's moving obituary for Marjorie Ainsworth - Cinema For All’s Honorary Vice President, President of the Manchester and Salford Film Society, and the Queen of community cinema - who passed away earlier this year: bit.ly/4rjjOiO

Award-winning director Fiona Cunningham-Reid presents an intimate portrait of acclaimed artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey, who work at the intersection of art, activism, biology and ecology. ACKROYD & HARVEY: THE ART OF ACTIVISM is available for community cinemas to screen now: bit.ly/4pnB9VQ

Cinema For All members are invited to join us online on 16th December at our Annual General Meeting. This is a chance to share your thoughts and feedback on the future of the organisation during what is a landmark year for us and the sector as a whole. Sign up now: bit.ly/3X4x9h6

A light-hearted ensemble comedy, TWO TO ONE follows Maren (Sandra Hüller), Robert and Volker in the weeks before the reunification of Germany, when the trio stumble across a fortune in soon-to-be-worthless East German currency. Available for community cinemas to screen now: bit.ly/4oJIGhN

Is your community cinema based in Leeds or Bradford? Applications are now open for a new equipment residency opportunity! Receive a full set of new equipment for a year, bursary support, and sessions with the Cinema For All team. Apply now: bit.ly/49e489X

What a season coming up from #ScreenB14 and at prices that won't break the bank. Catch these cinematic classics on the big screen and check out our next live score event Meshes of the Afternoon with music by Piera Onacko followed by Sisters with Transistors doc! 🎟️ shorturl.at/l5b20

As your audiences brave the cold to join you at your screenings for mince pies and some festive cheer, here's what you need to know about our operations over the holiday period 🎄❄️

Featuring BAFTA-winner Mia McKenna-Bruce, Connor O'Hara's debut film KINDLING follows a group of young men who return to their home town in order to turn their friend's final days into a celebration of life and friendship. Available for community cinemas to screen now: bit.ly/4hFStCZ

Last week Haringey Community Cinema screened Night of the Kings as part of the Festival of Community Cinema in partnership with Haringey Migrant Support and Voices of Equality. Festival screenings are sparking conversation and reaching communities across the UK! Get involved: bit.ly/3I5ma2w

Thinking of applying for Glow? See what last year's participants had to say ✨ Access a £300 bursary and coaching with our team to help your community cinema grow: bit.ly/4aS4b8B

The Roebuck Cup - awarded annually for outstanding contribution to the film society movement - is full! With a new cup needed, we're excited to introduce The Ainsworth Cup - named after Marjorie and Tom Ainsworth, previous winners and community cinema legends. Find out more:

Yesterday ITV News visited Lucem House Community Cinema's Festival of Community Cinema screening of Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious to speak with their team about the amazing work they're doing, as well as with Cinema For All CEO Jaq Chell. Tune in tonight at 6:30pm to watch 📺

Wear your love of community cinema with our limited edition enamel pin badges! Get yours and see our full range of 100 Years merch 🍿: bit.ly/4mpRRmX

Applications for Glow are now open ✨📽 Build on your existing knowledge and experience and reach your community cinema's next goals with a £300 bursary and support from our team! Deadline 📆 : 1st December 2025 Apply now 🔗 : bit.ly/4aS4b8B

Our birth “…to cater for those who are dissatisfied with the average productions of the commercial cinema, with their shallowness and divorce from reality, and to offer in their stead films more closely in sympathy with the life and thought of this age.” mandsfilmsociety.org.uk/history/

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the UK's first community cinema, earlier we travelled to community cinemas across the country to make a brand new film capturing the story of this incredible movement – as it was 100 years ago and also as it is today. Find out more: bit.ly/4hroXke

Want to screen films but don't have the kit? Our accessible equipment hire is there to help get you started, from projectors to PAs. Find out how you can bring the big screen to your community 📽: buff.ly/3ZL7j2l

Visit your local community cinema during the Festival of Community Cinema and see Oscar winning favourites, modern cult classics and more - all for just £3! Find your local screenings using the festival calendar on My Community Cinema : bit.ly/42Ue44q

In today's Newsreel we have the latest on brand new Booking Scheme titles, offers from MPLC, bursary opportunities from the Festival of Community Cinema and more! Don't miss out on the latest news and offers from the world of community cinema straight to your inbox 📨: buff.ly/3BgtDsz

As part of our celebrations of 100 years of community cinema, we're spotlighting the amazing work being done by groups across the UK! We recently spoke to the team from Cinema Social Club in Liverpool about their work and the difference volunteer-led cinema can make in communities: bit.ly/3L3ZWiR

A great piece in The Guardian about the magic of community cinema and our centenary celebrations, with words from Harrogate Film Society, King’s Lynn Community Cinema Club, Queer Boots Film Club, Cromarty and Resolis Film Society, and Cinema For All CEO Jaq Chell:

A mysterious new arrival disturbs the delicate balance of a remote monastery run by a renegade nun (Cate Blanchett), in a captivating story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival. THE NEW BOY is available for community cinemas to screen now: bit.ly/3JmsdRl

Cinema For All is in the running for a £5000 donation and your vote could make the difference! This funding would help us continue our work supporting communities across the UK. 🗳️ Voting closes Sunday 📌 Be sure to use our trading name: British Federation of Film Societies 🔗 Vote now: bit.ly/46UiElI

Pour yourself a coffee and cut yourself a slice of pie because Cinema For All members can now screen Twin Peaks and Twin Peaks the return through our friends at MPLC ☕ Screen this and other exciting titles as part of our new member benefit:

Couldn’t make it to Sheffield for the 100 Years of Community Cinema exhibition I curated with the wonderful @cinemaforall.bsky.social a few weeks ago? Well today is your lucky day - a special guided tour just for you! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyPj...

"Cinema takes you by the hand for your whole life..." Rhianna Dhillon’s conversation with filmmaker and community cinema champion Mark Cousins, recorded at the 100 Years Gala, is now available to watch in full on our YouTube channel. Watch and subscribe: bit.ly/4omxh7h

Yvonne Nguyen's dreams of musical theatre stardom clash with her mum's traditional expectations. When she moves back home, they bond in their Vietnamese restaurant over steaming bowls and simmering tensions. IN THE NGUYEN KITCHEN is available for community cinemas to screen now: bit.ly/4q6cGp9

Voted the greatest film of the last century by UK community cinemas and film societies, Giuseppe Tornatore's love letter to moviegoing, Cinema Paradiso, is available to screen now with bursary support as part of the Festival of Community Cinema. Find out how you can take part: bit.ly/3I5ma2w

🎬 Work in the screen sector? Our next BFI Sustainable Screen peer-learning session is fast approaching. This month we focus on environmentally sustainable indoor events with National Saturday Club & @cinemaforall.bsky.social. 📅 Tue 21 Oct, 2–3pm Register your free place tinyurl.com/mr24kj6m

We're celebrating a century of community cinema by giving away a bundle of 100 years goodies. Win a Girls on Tops x Cinema For All collab, 100 Years t-shirt, enamel badges + tote bag. To enter, make sure your following us and reshare this post telling us your favourite film of the last century 🎞

Earlier this year, as part of our 100 Years of Community Cinema celebrations, we invited UK community cinemas and film societies to vote in a poll of the 100 greatest films of the last hundred years. A huge number of groups voted and we’re excited to share this once in a century list: bit.ly/3IIn4Tu

The Festival of Community Cinema has officially begun 🥳 A showcase of the inspirational and innovative programming of volunteer-led exhibitors over the past 100 years is coming to a community cinema near you! With bursaries still available, it's not too late to take part: bit.ly/3ZYIMrL

Rebels with Projectors is now available to screen at your community cinema 🎞 Celebrate a century of volunteer-led film with our new short documentary exploring the past, present and future of this incredible movement. Book now: bit.ly/471XFNJ

Our once in a century poll of the 100 greatest films of all time, as voted for by the community cinema movement, is available now in @filmstories.bsky.social 🎞 Don't miss out on a copy: bit.ly/46G7BuW

Share your experiences of community cinema 🎞️✨ The Guardian would like to hear from people who are involved in a UK volunteer-run film society, whether it's about your most memorable screenings or how you got started: bit.ly/46CjwtW

We loved celebrating 100 years of community cinema at @cinemaforall.bsky.social’s gala! Huge congratulations to our award-winning members — Chorley Empire Community Cinema (Legacy Community Building) and Leigh Film Factory’s Elizabeth Costello (Outstanding Contribution by an Individual). 👏✨

We're still on cloud nine from Saturday! Thank you to everyone who joined us in Sheffield to celebrate a century of community cinema at the 100 Years Gala. What an inspiring night - honouring the incredible history of the movement and looking to what's next. Here's to a hundred more 🥂

Today’s the day- the headline event of our year long celebration of a century of community cinema 🥳 Beginning with an open day at our exhibition at Bloc Projects, followed by the 100 Years Gala this evening! We can’t wait to celebrate with everyone 🎞

The 100 Years of Community Cinema Exhibition is now open 🎉 Come down to Bloc Projects in Sheffield and take a journey through the last century of volunteer-led film!

From 16th – 20th September at Bloc Projects our 100 Years of Community Cinema Exhibition will feature a curated selection of archive materials and stories from the last century of volunteer-led film 🎞

A once in a century poll... But what film did the community cinema movement vote as the greatest of all time? Find out at the 100 Years Gala on 20th September and in @filmstories.bsky.social 🎞

Michael Powell’s groundbreaking Peeping Tom illustrates film societies’ ongoing relationship with censorship, which goes back to the first film society’s tussling with the BBFC. Available to screen as part of the Festival of Community Cinema. Learn more and access bursary support: bit.ly/3ZYIMrL

Book contract secured! If any of the phenomenally generous reviewers are on here, THANK YOU!!! ‘A Century of Community Cinema: The First 100 Years of Non-commercial Film Exhibition in Britain’ will be coming to your nearest library in a couple of years. Woohoo!

We're thrilled to announce that filmmaker Mark Cousins will be joining us in-conversation at the 100 Years Gala on 20th September! He is an artist whose career spans festivals, epic award-winning documentaries, and championing cinema of all shapes and sizes. See the full programme: bit.ly/46i52A8

Set over a tense 48 hours, SOULEYMANE'S STORY follows a Guinean asylum seeker who races through the streets of Paris delivering food as he awaits his asylum interview which will decide whether or not he will be granted residency. Available for community cinemas to screen from 1/2/26: bit.ly/4fVkHIV

We asked our team for their highlights from the Festival of Community Cinema 🎞️✨ Take a look at the full programme of titles: bit.ly/3ZYIMrL

A member of iconic bands Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and The Dirty Three, multi-instrumentalist and composer Warren Ellis has found a new passion project: a wildlife sanctuary in the forests of Sumatra. ELLIS PARK is available to screen from 1/12/25: bit.ly/4n0xVXa

We’ll be hosting the 100 Years of Community Cinema Exhibition at Bloc Projects in Sheffield from 16th–20th September with a special open day ahead of the 100 Years Gala on 20th! The exhibition will feature a curated selection of archive materials the last 100 years of volunteer-led film exhibition 🎞️