What’s On Week Ahead

Until Thu 7 May

Rose of Nevada is Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin’s hotly anticipated and critically acclaimed follow-up to his BAFTA-award-winning first feature Bait and Enys Men.

In May 2021, a UK Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Pollokshields, Scotland’s most diverse neighbourhood, hundreds of residents rush to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbours.

Until Thu 7 May

A happily engaged couple is put to the test when a shocking revelation sends their wedding week off the rails.

Until Wed 6 May

Francois Ozon has adapted a monumental work of literature – The Stranger (also known as The Outsider) by Albert Camus.

We're celebrating the start of the sunny season with Undershed Bar opening, where you'll be able to drink and eat al fresco all Summer!

Until Thu 7 May

Based on a true story, Surviving Earth follows Vlad, a talented harmonica player and refugee who arrived in the UK in the 1990s after fleeing the conflict in Yugoslavia.

Winner of the Golden Lion Best Film prize at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, Father Mother Sister Brother is the eagerly-awaited new film from Jim Jarmusch.

Long-buried wounds rise to the surface when iconic pop star Mother Mary (Anne Hathaway) reunites with her estranged best friend and former costume designer Sam Anselm (Michaela Coel) on the eve of her comeback performance.

Fri 1 - Thu 7 May

After a car crash kills her boyfriend, piano student Laura is taken in by Betty, who witnessed the accident. Living with Betty's family brings comfort, but Laura starts questioning their intentions as time passes.

In this Lunchtime Talk Alex Yagilowich will share how her experience of ADHD has shaped a practice focused on playful learning, representation, and creating a space for the exploration of self.

Fri 1 - Thu 7 May

World-renowned opera director Damiano Michieletto gives a fictionalised account of Antonio Vivaldi's time as resident composer and violin teacher at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice.

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

To celebrate the 31st anniversary of its release in the UK, we're bringing Wong Kar-Wai's masterpiece back to the big screen - appropriately on the 1st May.

Fri 1 - Thu 7 May

When a reclusive novelist retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, the staff’s tales of an ancient witch haunting the honeymoon suite take hold of his mind.

Until Thu 7 May

Based on Robert Macfarlane's bestseller, Underland is a cinematic voyage beneath the surface of the earth.

Until Thu 21 May

Katsuhiro Otomo's landmark cyberpunk classic obliterated the boundaries of Japanese animation and forced the world to look into the future. Akira's arrival shattered traditional thinking, creating space for future generations of ground-breaking movies.

In the last days of the Second World War, Maciek, a Polish resistance fighter, is tasked with the assassination of a Communist official.

Despite directing hundreds of silent films that captivated audiences from Naples to New York, Elvira Notari was relegated to the margins of film history for half a century. A pioneer of Neapolitan cinema, she created over sixty features blending popular culture and unvarnished realism. Silenced by Fascist censorship and the advent of sound, her work slipped into obscurity. Elvira Notari: Beyond Silence traces her legacy and the artists now bringing her vision back to life.

In this session we will be joined by several members of the Watershed team to hear your thoughts, ideas, passions and plans, offer feedback and guidance, and plug you into our wider Pervasive Media Studio community.