What’s On Week Ahead

Fri 27 Feb - Thu 5 March

Featuring a bold and bouncing soundtrack by Kangding Ray, Oliver Laxe's Oscar®-nominated for Best International Feature Sirât is a staggering cinematic experience set in the dusty mountains of southern Morocco.

Until Thu 5 Mar

Nominated at this year’s BAFTA Film Awards in the category of 'Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer', Akinola Davies Jr.'s bold and poetic film follows a father, estranged from his young sons, over the course of a day in Lagos.

Until Fri 20 Mar

With virtual reality, giant inflatables, feature films, projections, sketchbooks and more – this season explores family, the creative spirit, grief and togetherness. With a multimedia exhibition alongside a series of events and films in the cinema from the Kötting family.

In this Lunchtime Talk, we'll hear from Euella Jackson and Jess Bunyan Co-Directors of Rising Arts Agency about their leadership journey.

Until Thu 5 Mar

From award-winning writer-director Mona Fastvold (The Brutalist) comes the extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers.

Until Thu 5 Mar

A university professor travels from São Paulo to the seaside city of Recife during Carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son. He soon finds out he’s been tailed and spied on by neighbours in his new refuge, leaving him no possible escape from the tentacles of corruption.

Fri 27 Feb - Thu 5 March

With her life crashing down around her, Linda (Rose Byrne) attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist (Conan O'Brien) and her job.

Told through never-before-seen footage from Buckley’s archives and intimate accounts from those closest to the star, It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley illuminates one of modern music’s most influential and enigmatic figures.

Fri 27 Feb - Thu 5 March

Taylor gets by in prison, a world of parties, drugs, violence and gangs and so far, has kept out of trouble. However, with the arrival of new cellmate Dee, the chance to make early parole and get his life back are put in jeopardy.

Inside Screen is an all-day event for people aged 16-25 looking to build their networks and pick up insights to help navigate the screen industries, whether that’s TV, film or immersive works.

Until Sun 1 Mar

Park Chan-wook (Decision To Leave, Old Boy, The Handmaiden) returns with this satirical black comedy/thriller about a husband and father who takes violent action after being laid off.

Four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route.

Mon 2 & Tue 24 March

Following a spate of tragic knife crime deaths in Bristol, this documentary film looks at how young people in the city are responding.

In this illustrated discussion between Listening to Britain curator Mark Cosgrove and Mandy Rose, co-producer of Video Nation and Professor of Documentary & Digital Cultures at UWE, they will explore how documenting everyday life through first person diaries and recordings has brought distinct perspectives to the media landscape. 

The Sheds

Join us for a very special Make Shift Meet Up with Krust, pioneer of the Bristol sound exploring his creative practice and his experiments at The Sheds.

In 1977, former real estate developer Tony Kiritsis puts a dead man’s switch on himself and the mortgage banker who did him wrong, demanding $5 million and a personal apology.