What’s On Week Ahead

Fri 11 - Thu 17 Sept

It's 1985. Vincent, almost 13, fumbles through life's big questions: identity, friendship, family, first crushes... and why adults don’t seem to have things figured out either.

Until Thu 17 Sep

To break his writer's block, a filmmaker draws desperate inspiration from his closest relationships in this rich Almodóvar melodrama.

Until Sun 13 Sep

Open your animal eyes. An immersive exhibition of groundbreaking video games & virtual reality. A must-do this summer in Bristol's Undershed Gallery.

In this talk, Matt Dowse and Mary Stevens from the Centre for Sociodigital Future (CenSoF) will present the ideas behind their upcoming project Just Enough AI: Developing Demonstrators For Responsible, Appropriate Scale A.I. Within Planetary Boundaries.

Until Thu 17 Sep

A love letter to nature filmed exclusively on Super 8, Super Nature proposes a new way of seeing. A celebration of all we have and reflecting on all we have to lose, this global co-creation project journeys across 25 different countries, creating a visceral, poetic and personal meditation on the natural world.

Until Thu 17 Sep

Writer-director Louis Paxton's debut feature sees a nervy council official attempt to evict two siblings who have never had any human contact from their outside world.

Fri 11 - Thu 17 Sept

The Republic documents the story of Stokes Croft, portraying a diverse community that dares to defy the cold winds of corporate power and globalisation. But their greatest challenge looms as developers target this quarter and ready their wrecking balls.

Fri 11 - Sun 13 Sept

Chabrol’s ice cold tale of infidelity, passion and violence – an unmissable Hitchcockian thriller set against a backdrop of bourgeois respectability in late 1960’s Versailles which inspired Andrey Zvyagintsev's Cannes 2026 Grand Prix winner Minotaur.

Fri 11 - Thu 17 Sept

Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2026 Berlin Film Festival, Everybody Digs Bill Evans is a biographical drama film about the famous jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans.

In this new 4K restoration of one of Japan's most loved cult films Survive Style 5+, five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one another eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.

Until Wed 16 Sep

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a new kind of horror remake from one of the most exciting new voices in cinema, starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson.

Sat 12 & Mon 21 Sept

Welfare shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare.

Until Thu 17 Sep

A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life.

Until Thu 17 Sep

Move over Heartstopper... this haunting debut has some teeth to it! A chilling sensation in queer horror from director Adrian Chiarella, Leviticus follows two lovestruck teenage boys who face off against supernatural evil in the wake of harrowing 'deliverance healing'.

Gurinder Chadha’s beloved Bend It Like Beckham returns, starring Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley.

The Road to Patagonia follows ecologist Matty Hannon on an incredible solo adventure surfing his way along the west coast of the Americas. Shot over 16 years, the result is a beautiful documentation of the untouched natural world that few get to experience, offering a thrilling new perspective on our place within it.

Step into the burgeoning British youth culture of the 1950s and 60s with this selection of excerpts from the BFI National Archive’s Associated-Rediffusion collection.