What’s On Week Ahead

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.

Until Thu 17 Jul

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.

Until Thu 17 Jul

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.

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.

Until Thu 17 Jul

Eccentric lottery winner Charles (Tim Key) dreams of getting his favourite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer (Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan), back together.

Until Thu 17 Jul

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.

Until Thu 17 Jul

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.

Until Thu 17 Jul

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.

Until Thu 17 Jul

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.