What’s On Week Ahead

A still of Robert Pattinson in Primetime.
Image from Primetime

Showing Sun 1 – Sat 7 Nov

Fatherland (Subtitled)

Until Thu 5 Nov

In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging and emotional road trip in a black Buick taking them across a Germany in ruins.

Sun 1 Nov

Mon 2 Nov

Tue 3 Nov

Wed 4 Nov

(ends 12:47) (ends 16:37)

Thu 5 Nov

The Wed 28 Oct 18:00 screening will be introduced by Tim Cole, Professor of Social History (University of Bristol). 

Wildwood

Until Wed 18 Nov

After her baby brother is abducted by a murder of crows, a headstrong teenager and her unlikely companion undertake a daring rescue mission inside an enchanted forest on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon.

Sun 1 Nov

Mon 2 Nov

Tue 3 Nov

Wed 4 Nov

Thu 5 Nov

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Tuesday screenings are part of our Cinébites meal deal - Club Shed members get 30% off main dishes from our menu with a valid ticket.

NAZA (Partially Subtitled)

Until Thu 5 Nov

From Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the 2024 Oscar® winning directors of No Other Land, comes NAZA, a film examining the systems behind Israel’s mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

Sun 1 Nov

Mon 2 Nov

Tue 3 Nov

Wed 4 Nov

Thu 5 Nov

About Time: Once Upon a Time

part of John Berger at 100

An older man in a plaid shirt sits at a table reading a document as a younger man stands beside him.

Filmed entirely in different spaces in and around John Berger’s house in the Haute Savoie in France, Once upon a Time is a moving and unusual meditation on our experience of time, as revealed through a careful selection of contrasting and thought-provoking time-centred ‘stories’, both old and new.

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Introductory Talk
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Q&A Session

This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Mike Dibb. 

Primetime

Until Thu 12 Nov

Primetime stars Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen, the host of Dateline NBC's To Catch a Predator, the mid-2000s sting show where adult decoys posing as teenagers lured men to a suburban house and Hansen strolled out to confront them on camera.

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Audio Description
Bite
Cinébites meal deal
Intro
Introductory Talk
QA
Q&A Session

Sun 1 Nov

(ends 16:25)AD (ends 18:55)AD

Mon 2 Nov

(ends 22:55)AD

Tue 3 Nov

Wed 4 Nov

Thu 5 Nov

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The Tue 3 Nov 17:40 screening will be followed by a ‘Thought in Action’ panel discussion with UWE lecturers Miguel Prado Casanova, Lina Malagon Diaz, Suwita Hani Randhawa and Francesco Tava, presented in partnership with the Philosophy and Politics & International Relations Departments at UWE.

Ken Russell's The Devils

part of Scares at the Shed

Until Wed 18 Nov

Censored for more than half a century, Ken Russell’s visionary masterpiece returns to the big screen fully restored in 4K and cut to Russell’s direction - the first publicly released version of the film as intended by the filmmaker.

Sun 1 Nov

Mon 2 Nov

Tue 3 Nov

Wed 4 Nov

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Thu 5 Nov

Fri 6 Nov

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The Fri 30 Oct 20:40 screening will include an introduction from Watershed’s Cressida Williams, plus ticket holders for this screening will receive a free special edition zine by Occulture celebrating Ken Russell’s The Devils.

I Love Boosters

Until Thu 5 Nov

The writer-director behind Sorry to Bother You, Boots Riley, is back with another idiosyncratic, anti-capitalist vision, featuring an all-star cast that includes Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, LaKeith Stanfield and Demi Moore.

Sun 1 Nov

Mon 2 Nov

Tue 3 Nov

Wed 4 Nov

Thu 5 Nov

We, The Hated

Two people in “JUST STOP OIL” shirts pose before a vandalized sunflower painting in a museum; one holds a can of soup.

An intimate portrait of Just Stop Oil protestors asks what it really costs to take a stand in a supposedly democratic society.

Intro
Introductory Talk
QA
Q&A Session

Mon 2 Nov

Followed by a Q&A with director Rich Felgate and Just Stop Oil activists Phoebe Plummer and Dr Patrick Hart, who both appear in the film.

Make Shift - Come Unstuck Sessions

part of Make Shift

A diverse group chats and laughs around a table covered with colorful sticky notes, creating a warm, collaborative workshop atmosphere.

Join us for a monthly meet up for 18-30(ish) creatives who are at the beginning of building their creative practice or at the start of their careers in creative industries. A space to connect, grow, and come unstuck.

Spike Island x Watershed: 2026 Film London Jarman Award

Four-panel collage: child playing piano before a mural, rocky cave openings, portrait of a bald person in red, and colourful abstract forest imagery.

Discover the incredible diversity of UK artists’ filmmaking. This presentation showcases the shortlist for this year’s Film London Jarman Award, which features a £10,000 prize.

Intro
Introductory Talk
QA
Q&A Session

The programme will feature a conversation between Sadia Pineda Hameed and curator of Spike Island, Clémentine Proby.

La Bola Negra (Subtitled)

Fri 6 - Thu 12 Nov

La Bola Negra tells the story of three men whose lives are intimately connected through desire, pain and inheritance, across three different eras – 1932, 1937 and 2017.

The Sat 7 Nov 14:20 screening is presented in partnership with Lorena Pino from Latinas in Bristol Film Club, who will introduce the film and host a Latinas in Bristol meet-up in the Café & Bar afterwards.

The Wed 11 Nov 17:00 screening will be followed by a ‘Thought in Action’ discussion, presented in partnership with the Philosophy and Politics & International Relations Departments at UWE.

Everyone welcome!

Wild Horse Nine

Fri 6 - Thu 12 Nov

On the cusp of dictator Augusto Pinochet taking power in Chile, a trio of CIA agents snipe and bicker as they await the ‘go’ date on their part in yet another military coup. However, against the stunning natural beauty and mysterious ancient artefacts of Easter Island, their plan starts to unravel.

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First Friday

A Black woman with a soft smile and french plaits smiles softly in a conversation with two white women with blonde hair who have their backs to the viewer.

First Friday is a monthly social event open to anyone taking place in the Pervasive Media Studio every First Friday of each month.

Fri 6 Nov

(ends 19:00)
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