Presented by Benedict Cumberbatch, How to Live on Earth is a visionary feature documentary that explores our vital connection to nature and its role in our future.
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Mad Villain
part of Lunchtime Talks
Fri 3 July 13:00
In this Lunchtime Talk, Nikesh Shukla and Camille Aubry will talk about how they're bringing their new comic book series Mad Villan to life in a political landscape where reality is meeting fiction.
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Joe and Angela’s marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbours for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it all down?
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Based on Gary Owen’s much lauded and widely performed one-woman play, Iphigenia in Splott, Effi o Blaenau is director Marc Evans’ cinematic interpretation set against the wide open landscapes of North Wales.
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When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.
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First Friday is a monthly social and showcasing event open to anyone.
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Jodie Foster’s impeccable French and comedic skills are on full display in this mystery thriller, which sees her character journey down a rabbit hole to investigate a suspicious death.
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A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom in this adaptation of the global phenomenon from Kane Parsons.
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Bound
part of Queer Vision 2026
Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.
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In the late 1990s, a family of six settles into their new home on Vancouver Island, as internal dynamics are slowly revealed through the experiences of the youngest child, Sasha. Their fresh start is interrupted by the increasingly dangerous behavior of Jeremy, the family’s oldest child.
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At Berkeley
part of Wiseman of the Month
Frederick Wiseman’s At Berkeley is a documentary film about the University of California at Berkeley, the oldest and most prestigious member of a ten campus public education system and one of the finest research and teaching facilities in the world.
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The Birdcage
part of Queer Vision 2026
Queer Vision Film Festival is delighted to present this groundbreaking and uproariously funny comedy gem from director Mike Nichols for its 30th anniversary screening on the incredible Megascreen (former IMAX).
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Following its super-buzzy reviews from America, we are proud to bring you one of the best Hong Kong action films in years.
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South West Shorts
part of Queer Vision 2026
Showcasing the best new short films made by South West LGBTQ+ filmmakers.
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From award-winning writer-director Mona Fastvold (The Brutalist) comes the extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers.
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Lai Yuqing’s (Two Suns) feature debut Whisperings of the Moon is a thoughtful and mature meditation on love and the heavy weight of familial expectation. Paired with a screening of the short film Love is a Book.
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BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville joins Aidan Turner in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel.
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Maspalomas
part of Queer Vision 2026
A gripping and frank examination of elder queer desire.
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Join us for this very friendly, informal meet up to connect with other Make Shifters, the Watershed team and Studio Residents.
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Washed Up
part of Queer Vision 2026
Drawing inspiration from both classic rom-coms and traditional English folklore, director Isobel Moncloa Daly examines the complexity in letting go.
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Surviving bar-to-bar on anecdotes and the ‘good old days’, two blustery 50-somethings hatch a plan to change their luck by digging up the cash their old pal buried before he left for Argentina.
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Fri 10 July 13:00
In this Lunchtime Talk, theatre artists Naomi Smyth and China Fish will share their ambitions to combine audience participation, improvised performance and responsive technologies.
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A London-based Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist and cameraman retrace their love story over thirteen years of war, revolutions and exile. Drawing on intimate personal archive, Birds of War asks what it means to build a life together in a world shaped by conflict.
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Underneath the Catalonian sun, a rich white American family lives in hedonistic isolation, seeking love and validation through one another, their designer wardrobes and pop music. But when an outsider infiltrates the family, buried tensions surface and blood ties are severed...
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Gladiator
part of Cinematic Odysseys on 35mm
When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.
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Join us at the 17:50 screening of The Last One for the Road on Mon 13 July, which will feature Descriptive Subtitles and an introduction from Mark Cosgrove, Cinema Curator at Watershed. After the screening join us in the Café & Bar for Deaf Conversations about Cinema with BSL interpretation.
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A group of international doctors breach the blockade of Gaza. What they find is the calculated dismantling of life itself...
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Bitter Christmas opens August 2026.