What’s On

To tie in with the release of Resurrection (playing at Watershed from Fri 20 March), we're screening Bi Gan's earlier film, Long Day's Journey Into Night.

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Hlynur Pálmason's surrealist Icelandic dramedy captures a year in the life of a family, as a separating couple navigate their changing relationship while co-parenting their three children (played by the director's own children).

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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.

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A remote German farm harbours generations of secrets. Four women, separated by decades but united by trauma, uncover the truth behind its weathered walls.

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The Shepherd and the Bear is a modern folktale about tradition, community and humanity’s relationship with a vanishing natural world.

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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.

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Four inner-city women, determined to end their constant struggle, decide to live by one rule — get what you want or die trying. So the four women take back their lives and take out some banks in the process.

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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.

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From the mind of Charli XCX comes this mockumentary about a rising pop star navigating the complexities of fame and industry pressure, while preparing for her arena tour debut.

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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.

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We all have that one YouTube video we’re obsessed with. Or that one vine that we think about more than most movies. Chronically Online: A Personal History of the UK Internet is the Creative Nonfiction Film Weekend's one-night-only programme of digital delights on the big screen, showcasing the stories Britain tells about itself through the internet.

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Italy’s outgoing president, Mariano De Santis (Toni Servillo), navigates moral and personal crossroads with the help of his confidante and daughter, Dorotea (Anna Ferzetti). With Sorrentino’s signature poetic vision and an evocative soundtrack, this heartfelt masterwork is an intimate meditation on fatherhood, conscience, and the enduring question: who owns our days?

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Sentimental Value is an intimate and moving exploration of family, memories, and the reconciliatory power of art.

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In this Lunchtime Talk, sound editor and designer Jonny Crew and programmer and educator Kyle Ramsey will share techniques used in sound design for their animated documentaries.

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When their evil enemy resurfaces after 16 years, a group of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue one of their own's daughter.

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Broken English is a bold documentary portrait of the inimitable singer, songwriter and icon: Marianne Faithfull.

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From visionary director Bi Gan (Long Day's Journey Into Night) comes this epic sci-fi drama, an ambitious ode to the beauty and power of cinema.

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Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

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An absorbing study of daily life in one of Chicago’s poorest housing projects.

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As they navigate the complexities of teenage life and social activism, three young women embark on a journey of discovery, following in the footsteps of over 30,000 women who forty years earlier united in peaceful, liberating protest, the remarkable Greenham Common Women's Peace Movement.

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Three years after his girlfriend disappears, a young man continues his obsessive search for her whereabouts.

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Join us at the 17:40 screening of the 2026 Best Picture Oscar® winner, One Battle After Another, on Mon 23 March which will feature Descriptive Subtitles and an introduction from Nathan Hardie, fellow audience member and Bristolian film critic.

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

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A young Black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s Black actress who played ‘mammy’ archetypes.

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