European piece of film on convulsive movement in part of the heavens (8)
I believe the answer is:
ecliptic
'part of the heavens' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'european piece of film on convulsive movement' is the wordplay.
'european' becomes 'E' (abbreviation e.g. EU).
'piece of film' becomes 'clip' (I've seen this in another clue).
'on' says to put letters next to each other.
'convulsive movement' becomes 'tic' (a tic is a convulsive bodily movement).
'e'+'clip'+'tic'='ECLIPTIC'
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ecliptic that I've seen before include "Apparent heavenly path of the sun's annual motion" , "circle" .)