Based on Gary Owen’s much lauded and widely performed one-woman play, Iphigenia in Splott, Effi o Blaenau is director Marc Evans’ cinematic interpretation set against the wide open landscapes of North Wales.
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Jodie Foster’s impeccable French and comedic skills are on full display in this mystery thriller, which sees her character journey down a rabbit hole to investigate a suspicious death.
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Presented by Benedict Cumberbatch, How to Live on Earth is a visionary feature documentary that explores our vital connection to nature and its role in our future.
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Joe and Angela’s marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbours for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it all down?
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In the late 1990s, a family of six settles into their new home on Vancouver Island, as internal dynamics are slowly revealed through the experiences of the youngest child, Sasha. Their fresh start is interrupted by the increasingly dangerous behavior of Jeremy, the family’s oldest child.
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When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.
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A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom in this adaptation of the global phenomenon from Kane Parsons.
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Following its super-buzzy reviews from America, we are proud to bring you one of the best Hong Kong action films in years.
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Surviving bar-to-bar on anecdotes and the ‘good old days’, two blustery 50-somethings hatch a plan to change their luck by digging up the cash their old pal buried before he left for Argentina.
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Fri 10 July 13:00
In this Lunchtime Talk, theatre artists Naomi Smyth and China Fish will share their ambitions to combine audience participation, improvised performance and responsive technologies.
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A London-based Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist and cameraman retrace their love story over thirteen years of war, revolutions and exile. Drawing on intimate personal archive, Birds of War asks what it means to build a life together in a world shaped by conflict.
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BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville joins Aidan Turner in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel.
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Underneath the Catalonian sun, a rich white American family lives in hedonistic isolation, seeking love and validation through one another, their designer wardrobes and pop music. But when an outsider infiltrates the family, buried tensions surface and blood ties are severed...
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Gladiator
part of Cinematic Odysseys on 35mm
When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.
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At Berkeley
part of Wiseman of the Month
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Frederick Wiseman’s At Berkeley is a documentary film about the University of California at Berkeley, the oldest and most prestigious member of a ten campus public education system and one of the finest research and teaching facilities in the world.
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Join us at the 17:50 screening of The Last One for the Road on Mon 13 July, which will feature Descriptive Subtitles and an introduction from Mark Cosgrove, Cinema Curator at Watershed. After the screening join us in the Café & Bar for Deaf Conversations about Cinema with BSL interpretation.
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A group of international doctors breach the blockade of Gaza. What they find is the calculated dismantling of life itself...
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Eager to impress his activist crush, a wealthy New York teenager follows an online connection to Texas, where he’s convinced he can stop an act of extreme violence.
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With a star-studded cast including Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong'o, Zendaya and Charlize Theron, Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is the most anticipated film on Letterboxd for 2026.
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Fri 17 July 13:00
In this Lunchtime Talk, Undershed Curator Amy Rose will offer a sneak peek into the extraordinary video games and VR that make up our latest exhibition - SENTIENTS.
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Open your animal eyes. A collection of groundbreaking video games and virtual reality.
If you weren’t human - how would you see the world?
From raging wildfire to the vision of an owl, from a river to multiple galaxies, SENTIENTS is about being something else.
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Join us to celebrate the launch of SENTIENTS! Open your animal eyes. A collection of groundbreaking video games and virtual reality.
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Based on the series of books by Patrick O'Brian and directed by Peter Weir, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World follows the fate of the crew of the HMS Surprise - a British Naval ship on a frantic search for their adversary, the French Man-O-War Acheron, during the Napoleonic war.
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As a tribute to the late Marjane Satrapi, we're screening the film adaptation of her graphic novel that follows a young girl in Iran during the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
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Join some of the most inspiring voices in the worlds of exhibition, distribution and restoration to reflect on the rise of rep cinema over the past decade; and what that might mean for the future of cinema.
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To celebrate Il Cinema Ritrovato turning forty and Cinema Rediscovered turning ten, we are delighted to welcome Il Cinema Ritrovato’s Co-director Ehsan Khoshbakht, for a conversation with our founder Mark Cosgrove hosted by film critic, historian and long-standing collaborator Pamela Hutchinson.
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Relationship trouble? Choosing dinner? Look out for our Danger: Diabolik Hotline. Dial for Diabolik: the suave super-villain from the Giussani sisters’ camp 1960’s comic. To join in, find the phone booth in Watershed’s Café & Bar and ask for counsel from our very own agony-aunt. Warning - follow his advice at your own risk!
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Based on an iconic Italian comic, Mario Bava’s stylish cult classic has been an inspiration to many from the Beastie Boys to acclaimed British filmmaker Edgar Wright, who will present a pre-recorded introduction to the film.
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Cinema Walk 1
part of Reframing Film
Bristol has been an UNESCO City of Film since 2017, but Bristol and cinema have been entwined since – some would say before – the beginning of moving pictures. Join local enthusiast and historian Mark Fuller for the first of three gentle walks.
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Deeply personal, beautifully realised, and symbolically obscure, Andrei Tarkovsky’s first film directed outside of his home country stands as a testament to his own conflicting thoughts regarding Russia as he considered a self-proclaimed exile.
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Chabrol’s ice cold tale of infidelity, passion and violence – an unmissable Hitchcockian thriller set against a backdrop of bourgeois respectability in late 1960’s Versailles which inspired Andrey Zvyagintsev's Cannes 2026 Grand Prix winner Minotaur.
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Charles Burnett’s deeply humanist follow-up to Killer of Sheep centres on Pierce Mundy caught between family expectations and loyalty to a friend, providing an intimate window into early ’80s South Central LA.
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Join Jake Garriock (Curzon Head of Distribution strategy and group publicity), Mark Cosgrove (Cinema Rediscovered Founder) and guests for a look at the influential UK distributor of indie foreign language and arthouse films, past present and future...
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An important milestone of Black South African cinematic history that lives on in cultural memory, African Jim introduced the singular jazz singer and activist Dolly Rathebe to the big screen.
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Inside the Archive
part of Reframing Film
Come and find out how a film archive works in this new exhibition on display in W1 throughout the festival. All welcome including younger guests in this free drop-in space hosted by the BFI National Archive team.
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Get insights into the creation of the Peter Gabriel’s award-winning Sledgehammer music video featuring innovative stop-motion animation by Aardman and the Brothers Quay.
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Set in the final hours before a nuclear war threatens to wipe out humanity, Andrei Tarkovsky’s visionary final film is a visually breathtaking meditation on existential terror and a melancholic swan song from one of cinema’s true auteurs.
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Sweet Disaster
part of 50 Years of Aardman
Join Aardman’s co-founders David Sproxton and Peter Lord for a rare 40th anniversary screening of Channel 4’s 1986 cult animated shorts programme Sweet Disaster which includes their rarely screened Babylon, amongst other bold experimental work from Aardman alumni and beyond.
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Berlin-based director Cynthia Beatt’s first feature shot shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall centres on Queenie (a spellbinding performance by a young Tilda Swinton), a woman navigating a personal crisis.
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Goodbye, Dragon Inn
part of Vive Le Cinema!
Tsai Ming-Liang's poignant love letter to cinema is an exquisite, wryly funny and tender tribute to the experience of cinemagoing, to cinemas as spaces, and to the people in the audience and behind the scenes.
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An anonymous tip starts a traditional whodunnit which quickly segues into a surrealistic farce and moves from film noir to science fiction in the mysterious and enigmatic Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel.
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Mike Figgis’ beautifully lurid descent into Las Vegas oblivion is anchored by two career defining - and award winning - performances from Nicolas Cage and Elizabeth Shue.
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Arundhati Roy’s debut screenplay captures 1970s student rebellion in New Delhi, set against a vibrant backdrop of Marxism, parties and Beatles songs.
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Bitter Christmas opens August 2026.