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UK Premiere: My Brother's Wedding

Name: UK Premiere: My Brother's Wedding
Start: 2026-07-24T19:20
End: 2026-07-24T20:51
Location: Watershed

12A

part of Restored & Rediscovered

Film

Fri 24 July 19:20

Director: Charles Burnett
Cast: Everette Silas, Jessie Holmes, Ronald E. Bell
Details: 81 mins, 1983, USA, Germany
Primary language: English

Priority booking opens on Wed 27 May at 12:00 for Cinema Rediscovered passholders and Club Shed members.

General sale opens on Mon 1 June at 10:00.

Additional booking info below

“My Brother’s Wedding exhibits wisdom, poise, and poetry of Black life that feels almost like a dream. Burnett’s gift of craft displayed here became the beacon that awakened a new generation of Black filmgoers and filmmakers." - Black Film Archive founder and Milestones Film President Maya Cade

Charles Burnett’s second feature (the follow-up to Killer of Sheep) is a revelation - funny, heartbreaking, and now ripe for rediscovery in a brand-new restoration.

Set in 80’s LA, it centres on the young and proudly working-class Pierce Mundy (Everett Silas), who works his folks’ South Central dry cleaners, with limited future prospects. His best friend’s release from prison and his brother’s impending wedding to an upper-middle-class woman he despises bring things to a head.

This tale of a man caught between loyalties and the perils of upward mobility provides a compassionate, humanist counterpoint to the “hood” films that would follow.

The film was originally released in a rough-cut form in 1983, and notoriously difficult to find until its first restoration and re-edit by Burnett in 2007. This latest restoration continues the effort to honour Burnett's artistic vision.

A new 4K restoration by Prasab lab (Chennai) including frame-by-frame image repair, colour correction and digital mastering, in collaboration with Milestone Films, UCLA Film & Television Archive, and Kino Lorber.

With a pre-recorded introduction by director Charles Burnett and Maya Cade (Milestone Films President & Owner).

Special offers:
Booking for more than 10 events/screenings?
Buy a Cinema Rediscovered Festival Pass (£130 full / £100 concessions / £80 24 and under) and select your tickets for as many of the 60+ screenings and events during the festival as you want.
Booking for between 4 to 10 events/screenings?
Multi-Ticket Package Offer: get 15% off the regular ticket price when you book 4-10 Cinema Rediscovered screenings and/or events. The discount will automatically apply when you add the tickets to your basket.
Club Shed members get 15% off all individual Cinema Rediscovered tickets.

Priority booking opens on Wed 27 May at 12:00 for Cinema Rediscovered passholders and Club Shed members.

General sale opens on Mon 1 June at 10:00.

Event types:

Intro: Introductory Talk

Fri 24 July

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Pricing

Ticket price:

£12.00 full (plus 12% booking fee*)

£9.50 concessions / Refugees and Asylum Seekers (plus 12% booking fee*)

£6.50 24 or under (plus 12% booking fee*)

Concessions apply to Full Time Students, Job Seekers Allowance and Employment Support Allowance, 66+ who have retired, Equity and BECTU members and disabled people. Where applicable please produce proof of eligibility when collecting a ticket.

*Booking fee applies to online and phone booking only.

Complimentary tickets are available for Personal Assistants accompanying customers who are Deaf / Disabled and can be booked through the Box Office, or online after joining our Access Register.

Cinema Rediscovered Festival Pass

The Cinema Rediscovered Pass allows you to select from 60+ Cinema Rediscovered screenings and events between Wed 22 - Sun 26 July. Subject to availability, terms and conditions apply. Buy your Pass here. Pass holders get 25% off monthly or annual subscriptions to streaming platform Cinelogue.

Pass prices: £130 full / £100 concessions / £80 24 and under.

Multi-Ticket Package Offer

Get 15% off the regular ticket price when you book 4-10 Cinema Rediscovered screenings and/or events. The discount will automatically apply when you add the tickets to your basket.

Club Shed members get 15% off all individual Cinema Rediscovered tickets.

All Cinema Rediscovered Pass and ticket holders can get 20% off any 6 O'Clock Gin & Tonic (including Watershed’s very own) at the Café & Bar and Undershed Bar during the Festival. Pass and ticket holders can also enjoy 20% off Wiper and True draught products after 20:00 at the Café & Bar and Undershed Bar during the Festival.

Please note: the Cinema Walks, Projection Tours, Improv Workshops, Shadow Puppet Making Workshop and the Film Quiz are excluded from the Pass and Package.

Access

Cinema seat widths

Our cinema seats are 46cm wide, with wooden armrests on either side of each seat that can’t be moved.

We can provide seats without armrests or bean bags as alternatives at the front of the cinema if that is more comfortable for you. Please just call our Box Office on (0117) 927 5100 or book in-person to arrange.

Access Register

Join our Access Register to help us deliver the best possible experience for you. You can sign up to our Access Register online, or in person at Box Office or by calling (0117) 927 5100.

Further info

Our building is accessible, our staff are trained in basic BSL and Deaf awareness, we have toilets for everyone and we run an accessible programme of screenings, events and exhibitions. Find out more on our Access page.

Concessions

Concessions apply to Full Time Students, Job Seekers Allowance and Employment Support Allowance, 66+ who have retired, Equity and BECTU members and disabled people.

Where applicable please produce proof of eligibility when collecting a ticket or showing your ticket at the entrance to the cinema.