What’s On Week Ahead

Until Sun 13 Jul

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 10 Jul

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

Until Thu 10 Jul

The Salt Path is the profound true story of husband and wife, Raynor and Moth Winn’s 630-mile trek along the beautiful but rugged Cornish, Devon and Dorset coastline.

Until Thu 10 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.

Sat 5 - Wed 9 July

Kurosawa’s classic about a drifting samurai who plays two gangs off against each other, famously remade as A Fistful of Dollars.

Fri 4 - Thu 10 July

They are the young Sudanese yearning for freedom. Their revolution is poetic, driven by the power of words. As the film intertwines their stories, Sudan, Remember Us reassembles fragments of a revolution, a battle pitting the voices of youth against the military's might.

Bristol Megascreen (about 1 min walk from Watershed)

Part of Queer Vision 2025, The Wedding Banquet is a romantic comedy that has stood the test of time for its unique wit and charm, screening as part of an Ang Lee double bill at Bristol Megascreen.

Until Thu 10 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.

Fri 4 - Mon 14 July

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.

Bristol Megascreen (about 1 min walk from Watershed)

Part of Queer Vision 2025, celebrate the 20th anniversary of queer cowboy classic Brokeback Mountain, as part of this Ang Lee double bill at Bristol Megascreen.

Set in the aftermath of upheavals like the Vietnam War and Watergate, The Yakuza – which turns 50 in 2025 – reflects the sense of uncertainty that characterised 1970s America.

Showcasing the best new short films from South West LGBT+ filmmakers.

Fri 4 - Thu 10 July

Is this the greatest screen adaptation of Shakespeare? Kurosawa’s take on Macbeth is the thrilling work of a director at the height of his powers.

A short film programme curated in partnership with Sense & Accessibility exploring the intersectionality of queer crip identities in love, relationships and selfhood.

The House of Xtravaganza lives on as two families unite in a fight for justice.

This collection of audio works, curated by local sound maker and storyteller Christina Hardinge, explore time, landscape and the soil beneath our feet.

Two Brooklyn baristas indulge in a sensuous modern love affair.

Fri 11 - Thu 17 July

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.

In this Lunchtime Talk, Amelia Winger-Bearskin will share her experience of working in immersive storytelling and ethical AI to address climate change, housing, and the design of Indigenous-led systems of care and kinship.

Fri 11 - Sun 13 July

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.

Pride not prejudice: a lesbian bar owner takes a stand against the narrow-minded rural community she came from.

Fri 11 - Thu 17 July

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.

Fri 11 - Thu 17 July

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.