Until Thu 17 July
Based on Deborah Levy’s acclaimed novel and set on the sun-soaked Spanish coast, tensions simmer as a mother and daughter’s bond is tested by the arrival of a mysterious stranger.
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Fri 11 - Thu 17 July
After 15 years together, Ale and Alex have come up with the crazy idea of throwing a party to celebrate their break-up - like a wedding but the other way around.
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Until Sun 13 July
Step into FRAMERATE: Pulse of the Earth, a visually stunning installation that reveals the hidden rhythms of our changing world by pioneering award-winning artists ScanLAB Projects. Taking over the whole of the Undershed gallery, this artwork uses both groundbreaking visuals and beautifully designed sound.
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Fri 11 July 13:00
In this Lunchtime Talk, Amelia Winger-Bearskin will share her experience of working in immersive storytelling and ethical AI to address climate change, housing, and the design of Indigenous-led systems of care and kinship.
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Fri 11 - Sun 13 July
One of cinema’s best behind-the-scenes documentaries, Hearts of Darkness chronicles the notoriously plagued production of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 epic Apocalypse Now.
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Manok
part of Queer Vision 2025
Fri 11 July 17:30
Pride not prejudice: a lesbian bar owner takes a stand against the narrow-minded rural community she came from.
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Until Thu 17 July
Eccentric lottery winner Charles (Tim Key) dreams of getting his favourite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer (Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan), back together.
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Fri 11 - Thu 17 July
As Pavement reunite for their sold-out 2022 tour, a Hollywood biopic, stage musical, and museum exhibition emerge in tribute—blurring fact and fiction in a genre-bending chronicle of the band’s legacy directed by Alex Ross Perry.
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The Hidden Fortress
part of Several Samurai
Fri 11 - Thu 17 July
Akira Kurosawa’s thrilling mix of fairy story and samurai movie - a story of rival clans, hidden gold and a princess in distress - was famously a key inspiration for George Lucas’ Star Wars.
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Until Thu 17 July
Inspired by an incredible true story set against the backdrop of a country torn by conflict, From Hilde, With Love is a powerful tale of love and resistance.
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Sat 12 - Wed 16 July
Join Bristol Surf Cinema in celebrating story-first surf filmmaking with a screening of Point of Change, a powerful documentary by director Rebecca Coley, and a series of homegrown UK short surf films.
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Kagemusha
part of Several Samurai
Sat 12 - Wed 16 July
When a warlord dies, a peasant thief is called upon to impersonate him, only to find himself haunted by the warlord’s spirit and his own ambitions.
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Until Thu 17 July
Wes Anderson's latest film is the story of a family and a family business. Starring: Benicio del Toro as Zsa-zsa Korda, one of the richest men in Europe; Mia Threapleton as Liesl, his daughter/a nun; Michael Cera as Bjorn, their tutor.
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Sun 13 July 14:00
British filmmaker David Lean’s Academy Award®-winning The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) offers a nuanced character study of Colonel Saito, portrayed by Sessue Hayakawa in an Oscar®-nominated performance.
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Mon 14 July 19:35
Join us at the 18:00 Descriptive Subtitled screening of Hot Milk on Mon 14 July which will feature an introduction from a guest speaker, followed by a post-screening discussion in the Café & Bar. Featuring BSL interpretation.
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Fri 18 - Wed 23 July
Suburban dad Craig falls hard for his charismatic new neighbour, as Craig’s attempts to make an adult male friend threaten to ruin both of their lives.
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Fri 18 July 13:00
In this Lunchtime Talk, Rob Hopkins co-founder of Transition Network and musician Mr Kit present on Field Recordings From The Future, a sonic journey into a world of climate resilience.
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Fri 18 - Sun 20 July
Stanley Kubrick's breathtaking exploration of Wiliam Makepeace Thackeray's novel sees his 18th century Irish adventurer meet his share of women, take part in the Seven Years' War, get recruited as a spy and marry into the English aristocracy, inventing new stories about himself at every turn of the road.
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Fri 18 - Sun 20 July
A smart, attitude-packed coming-of-age story set in New York that holds an important place in film history.
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Fri 18 - Wed 23 July
Harvest is a spellbinding and thrillingly distinctive period piece like no other, telling a folk horror-inflected story about the trauma of modernity and the looming threat of the outsider.
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Sun 20 July 14:00
Produced at the height of Japan’s bubble economy, Ridley Scott’s Black Rain (1989) captures a sense of cultural anxiety.
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Wed 23 July 11:00
Join some of the most inspiring voices in film exhibition, restoration and distribution to reflect on and re-imagine how we present cinema of the past.
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Wed 23 July 19:00
BAFTA-winning and Oscar®-nominated producer Stephen Woolley (of The Scala Cinema and Palace Pictures fame) delivers our Opening Night Keynote, ushering in the festival’s main strand Against the Grain: 1980s British Cinema.
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Wed 23 July 20:30
Set against a backdrop of emerging teen culture and rising racial tension in late 50s London, Colin MacInnes' cult novel is brought to the screen in Julien Temple's exuberant musical adaptation with a who's who cast of music luminaries from Bowie and Ray Davies to Sade.
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Wed 23 July 22:30
The year is 1986… DJ Cheeba in the Café & Bar takes us back in time with a DJ/VJ set inspired by the riot of day-glo design and music that is Absolute Beginners.
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Thu 24 July 10:50
A young boy comes of age amid a challenging upbringing in this sensitive emblem of 1970s New German cinema.
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Colonial Reels: Histories and Afterlives of Colonial Film Collections Discussion
part of Reframing Film
Thu 24 July 11:00
Colonial Reels: Histories and Afterlives of Colonial Film Collections is a three-year research project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. This event, organised by the project lead, Jacqueline Maingard, Associate Professor in Film at the University of Bristol, and the project team, puts colonial film collections in conversation with the Pan African cinema archive.
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Thu 24 July 11:05
Set against a backdrop of emerging teen culture and rising racial tension in late 50s London, Colin MacInnes' cult novel is brought to the screen in Julien Temple's exuberant musical adaptation. This is a Relaxed Screening.
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Thu 24 July 11:20
Carlos Saura’s début feature film, presented here in a restored and uncensored version remains one of cinema's most distinctive portraits of those living on the margins in Madrid, shot entirely on location.
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Thu 24 July 13:00
Join Professor Ian Christie and film historian Sheldon Hall for a talk exploring the influence of Channel 4’s approach to film.
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Thu 24 July 14:00
A manifesto shot between 1972 and 1975, Sidney Sokhona's first film tells the story of the struggle of immigrant workers in France showing alongside Med Hondo’s debut.
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Thu 24 July 14:10
Winner of the Golden Bear at the 1981 Berlin Film Festival, Carlos Saura’s raw, startlingly naturalistic tale of love outside the law reflects the turmoil of a generation navigating the social upheavals of the post-Franco Spanish society.
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Thu 24 July 14:20
Join co-directors Matevž Jerman and Jurij Meden (Austrian Film Museum in Vienna) for a brief and imperfect history of artists' film in the Socialist Republic of Slovenia.
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Thu 24 July 16:20
One of the iconic films of Portuguese Cinema Novo, a vivid portrait of a former boxing star (and of 1960s Lisbon) with stunning cinematography by Augusto Cabrita and a jazz score by Manuel Jorge Veloso.
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Thu 24 July 16:30
1974 LA, and three self-determined young women look for their place in the world. Female friendship, work and utopian socialism braid the narrative beautifully together. Will the women do anything for money?
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Thu 24 July 16:40
Co-director of Alpe-Adria Underground! Matevž Jerman has selected some recently restored experimental/avant-garde shorts from the Socialist Republic of Slovenia (1945-1991).
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Thu 24 July 18:15
Secrets, lies, communism and loyalty all loom large in this criminally underseen British political thriller shot by a young Roger Deakins starring Gabriel Byrne in one of his early leading roles.
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Thu 24 - Fri 25 July
This daring and progressive account of a complex love triangle broke all manner of taboos to emerge as India’s first queer film and an icon of Parallel Cinema.
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Thu 24 July 20:30
Gloriously restored in 4K, Miloš Forman’s triumphant drama examines the rivalry between classical masters Salieri and Mozart through a uniquely inquisitive lens.
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Desert Hearts
part of Restored & Rediscovered
Thu 24 - Fri 25 July
Forty years after its release, Donna Dietch’s 1950s set romance remains one of the most influential and beautifully shot lesbian films of all time.
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Thu 24 July 20:50
Charles Burnett’s pioneering account of blue-collar existence paved the way for African American representation on the big screen.
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