Until Wed 3 Dec
Benedict Cumberbatch gives a magnificent performance in the highly anticipated screen adaptation of Max Porter’s award-winning Grief Is the Thing with Feathers.
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Until Wed 3 Dec
Benedict Cumberbatch gives a magnificent performance in the highly anticipated screen adaptation of Max Porter’s award-winning Grief Is the Thing with Feathers.
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Until Wed 3 Dec
A 15-year-old orphan witnesses the shoot for a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen, and becomes fascinated by its star, Cristina (Marion Cotillard).
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Until Thu 4 Dec
Contemporary cinema’s favourite detective Benoit Blanc returns in Rian Johnson’s sharply penned and devilishly fun reinvention of the classic whodunit.
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Until Thu 4 Dec
From renowned filmmaker Lynne Ramsay this is a visceral and uncompromising portrait of a woman engulfed by love and postpartum psychosis. Anchored by a ferocious, tour de force performance from Jennifer Lawrence, and co-starring Robert Pattinson.
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Until Thu 27 Nov
Predators is a chilling, thought-provoking exploration of the scintillating rise and staggering fall of the MTV show To Catch a Predator, and the underground world it helped spawn.
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part of National Theatre Live
Thu 27 Nov - Sat 6 Dec
Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland.
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Until Thu 4 Dec
Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
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Fri 28 Nov - Thu 4 Dec
On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical Oklahoma!.
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Fri 28 Nov 13:00
In this Lunchtime Talk creative technologists and self proclaimed synth nerds Ant Nasce and Pete Nancollis explore how we play and how the virtual world lets us build the impossible.
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Fri 28 Nov - Thu 4 Dec
A shy young man finds his place in the world as the submissive to a handsome biker, in Harry Lighton’s charming, sexy and tender debut.
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part of BPFF 2025
Fri 28 Nov 18:00
The Voice of Hind Rajab uses an innovative hybrid of drama and documentary, to tell the heart-shattering story of Hind Rajab, a six-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed by the Israeli army in Gaza in January 2024.
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part of BPFF 2025
Sat 29 Nov 17:30
After Noor, a Palestinian teenager, confronts Israeli soldiers at a West Bank protest, his mother recounts the history that brought Noor - and Palestine - to this moment.
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part of BPFF 2025
Sun 30 Nov 12:30
A British-Palestinian surgeon’s 43 day journey working day and night under bombardment in Gaza’s Al Shifa and Al Ahli hospitals.
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Sun 30 Nov - Wed 3 Dec
A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.
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part of BPFF 2025
Sun 30 Nov 19:30
This collection of short documentary films explores three different perspectives on life in the Gaza Strip before and after October 7th, 2023.
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Tue 2 Dec 18:00
Join us for our December Make Shift Meet Up with where we will be joined by Creative Technologist, Ant Nascè.
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Tue 2 Dec 18:00
This is our special annual event where we say thank you to our incredible supporters, partners and friends who make Watershed’s work possible, and this year's celebration promises to be extra special.
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Wed 3 - Thu 11 Dec
In a UK immigration removal centre, Nigerian migrant Isio finds hope in an unexpected love that gives her the strength to fight a broken system.
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Thu 4 Dec 18:00
Acclaimed photographer Misan Harriman documents protest movements across the globe. But in a world more divided than ever, he is forced to question whether activism can actually deliver social change and if his own work can really make a difference.
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Fri 5 Dec 13:00
In this Lunchtime Talk, Julia Scott-Stevenson will share research and creative practice findings from her research project on how might collectively engaging with immersive artworks inform our perception of climate crisis and our feelings of agency?
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Fri 5 Dec 17:00
First Friday is a monthly social and showcasing event open to anyone. This month has been co-produced with the Pervasive Media Studio and Muti Live, exploring the theme of Light in the Darkness.
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Fri 5 Dec 18:10
When her mother goes missing somewhere in Ireland, artist Myrid Carten returns from London to find her. Her search takes her into a feuding family, a contested house; and a history that threatens to take everyone down, including herself.
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Sat 6 - Sun 7 Dec
Knowle West Media Centre invites you to an immersive sound installation of voices and perspectives co-curated and produced with sound artist Nik Rawlings in Bristol's first Civic Observatory—a space in which people can come together and learn about AI.
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Sat 6 Dec 14:00
Art for the Struggle, Struggle for the Art is a collection of five short films from the revolutionary period of Palestinian cinema – from 1968 to 1974 – exploring the importance of archive film in social and cultural documentation.
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part of BPFF 2025
Sat 6 Dec 17:30
In this powerful drama, a Palestinian and Israeli fear raising a child in a mixed Arab-Jewish community in Haifa, where they can’t even be seen together in public.
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part of All That Melodrama Allows
Sun 7 Dec 14:00
Written and directed by Pedro Almódovar, High Heels is a murder mystery focussing on the relationship between flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo and her daughter Rebecca, a television anchorwoman.
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Tue 9 Dec 18:00
In 1999 Almodóvar had both critics and audiences swooning as he weaved together this magnificent tapestry of femininity to deliver a high-camp operetta and poignant story of love, loss and compassion.
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part of French Film Festival
Tue 9 Dec 20:30
A playful, poignant love letter to cinema, Nouvelle Vague reimagines the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless in an exuberant exploration of the youthful rebellion and creative chaos that shaped the French New Wave.
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Wed 10 Dec 18:00
Hafsia Herzi’s sensitive and affecting coming-of-age drama The Little Sister tells the story of Fatima, a devout young Muslim woman, as she struggles to balance the dictates of her religion with her sexuality.
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part of French Film Festival
Thu 11 Dec 20:30
Oliver Laxe’s Cannes Jury Prize winner Sirât tells the story of Luis (Sergi López), a committed father who embarks on a journey with his son to search for his eldest daughter, Marina, after she disappears at a rave deep in the mountains of Morocco.
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