What's on this week

Thu 20 - Wed 26 June

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  • Before Midnight (15) S

    • Fri 21 June - Thu 4 July
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    The mature and witty third installment (following Before Sunrise and Before Sunset) of an ongoing character study between American Jesse (Hawke) and French Céline (Delpy). At the end of a long holiday in Greece, and with kids now involved, are the couple heading towards reconciliation or destruction?

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  • Thérèse Desqueyroux (12A) S

    • Fri 21 - Thu 27 June
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    This gloriously conceived costume melodrama in the vein of Madame Bovary or Anna Karenina stars Audrey Tautou as Thérèse, a frustrated young housewife in 1920s provincial southwest France who yearns to escape to a bohemian life in jazz-age Paris.

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  • Much Ado About Nothing (12A)

    • Fri 14 - Thu 27 June
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    Joss Whedon (TV series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Avengers Assemble) gives Shakespeare's classic comedy a contemporary spin in this dark, sexy and occasionally absurd view of the intricate game that is love.

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  • Behind The Candelabra (15)

    • Fri 7 - Thu 27 June
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    This wild drama is based on the life of Liberace (Michael Douglas), the virtuoso pianist, outrageous entertainer and flamboyant star of stage and screen who was a household name long before the likes of Elton John and Lady Gaga.

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  • DShed: Five Immigration Stories

    • Fri 14 - Fri 28 June
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    Refugee Week brings Iranian film I Am Nasrine (and its director Tina Gharavi) to Watershed on Tue 18 June. To celebrate, Bristol presents five films from Bristol Stories, a project that gave a voice to many immigrants living in our multicultural city.

  • Lunchtime Talk: 34 Bristols

    • Fri 28 June 13:00
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    There are 34 places in the world called Bristol. Catch Andy Field (co-director of Forest Fringe and associate producer for the Arnolfini) in the PM Studio as he talks about 34 Bristols, a project that brings together Bristol-based arts organisations to try and respond to each and every one of those other Bristols.

  • Stories We Tell (12A)

    • Fri 28 June - Thu 4 July
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    Sarah Polley's (Away From Her, Take This Waltz) latest is a memoir of her actor parents - but, trust us, this is no cringey family documentary. This unique portrait of truth and memory that interrogates the very nature of storytelling itself is a pleasure to watch.

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  • Renoir (12A) S

    • Fri 28 June - Thu 4 July
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    A look at the twilight days of great French Impressionist painter Pierre-August Renoir and his filmmaking son, Jean, who are both shaken when voluptuous, flame-haired Andrée enters their lives.

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  • Bard Brunches: Throne of Blood (12A) S

    • Sun 30 June 12:00
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    Akira Kurosawa's magnificent 1957 reimagining of Shakespeare's Macbeth is celebrated as one of the finest and most atmospheric adaptations of the Bard's bleak tragedy.

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  • Cinébabies

    • Mon 1 July
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    The weekly daytime screening of one of the current films in the programme for parents/carers with babies under 12 months.

  • Cinéphiles

    • Mon 1 July
    • Mon 5 Aug
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    Cinéphiles is a film discussion group that meets once a month to discuss films chosen from Watershed’'s programme. All are welcome.

  • Ping Pong: Never Too Old For Gold + Intro (PG)

    • Wed 3 July 13:30
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    This new documentary follows players from around the world in the 80+ age group of the World Table Tennis Championships and is introduced by a member of the Celebration of Age Festival.

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  • May Festival of Ideas: Viv Groskop - I Laughed, I Cried

    • Wed 3 July 18:15
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    Viv Groskop was fed-up, recession-scarred and pushing 40. She had always wanted to be a stand-up comedian. But surely that's not advisable if you have three children, a mortgage and a husband who hates stand-up comedy? Come and hear all about her life altering experience.

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  • May Festival of Ideas: Italo Calvino: A Life

    • Wed 3 July 19:45
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    Italo Calvino has been described as Italy's most important postwar novelist. Michael Wood and Martin McLaughlin, editors of a new collection of Calvino letters, talk about his work, his writings, culture and politics, as well as his life.

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