Cinema Rediscovered 2025
Wed 23 - Sun 27 July
Cinema Rediscovered returns to venues in and around Bristol UNESCO City of Film from Wed 23 - Sun 27 July 2025 with 80+ screenings and events combining screenings of newly restored films, rediscoveries and film-on-film rarities, cinema walks, a quiz and a multitude of starting points for lively conversation.
You can expect a friendly space for all to share passions and enthusiasms for film. Screenings take place at cinemas including Watershed, 20th Century Flicks, Clevedon’s Curzon Cinema & Arts, The Cube Microplex and Bristol Megascreen. The festival will launch a UK wide tour of highlights (Aug – Dec 2025).
We recommend you book early to avoid disappointment. If you have booked a Cinema Rediscovered Pass you can now login to your account (via the menu in the top left) to select and book tickets for the Festival.
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Against the Grain: 1980s British Cinema
Presenting some of the most ambitious, and now, influential films and filmmakers who redefined British independent cinema who went against the grain of the 1980s.
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Masumura x Wakao
Restored to mark his centenary last year, the films of Yasuzô Masumura (1924 - 86) are one of the most exciting rediscoveries of world cinema. We present some of his films featuring Ayako Wakao, one of the great Japanese actresses with whom he made twenty films.
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Reframing Film
Reframing Film invites you to delve deeper into the programme, experience film on film and join in conversations with creatives involved in film programming, projecting, archiving and more.
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Restored & Rediscovered
Experience some of the latest new restorations and rediscoveries on the big screen, many UK premieres, from Miloš Forman’s multi Oscar®-widden Amadeus (1984) to Charles Burnett’s directorial debut Killer of Sheep (1977).
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