Q&As
Delve deeper into the films we screen in our cinemas and event spaces with our Q&A screenings, which we're proud to host throughout the year.
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Upcoming Q&A events
Figuring it Out: Queer Crip Perspectives Onscreen
classified 18 (CTBA) Queer Vision 2025
A short film programme curated in partnership with Sense & Accessibility exploring the intersectionality of queer crip identities in love, relationships and selfhood.
Drip Like Coffee
classified 18 (CTBA) Queer Vision 2025
Two Brooklyn baristas indulge in a sensuous modern love affair.
Bristol Surf Cinema: Point of Change
classified 12A
Join Bristol Surf Cinema in celebrating story-first surf filmmaking with a screening of Point of Change, a powerful documentary by director Rebecca Coley, and a series of homegrown UK short surf films.
UK Premiere: The Working Girls
classified 15 Restored & Rediscovered
1974 LA, and three self-determined young women look for their place in the world. Female friendship, work and utopian socialism braid the narrative beautifully together. Will the women do anything for money?
Slovenian Double-bill: Short Film Programme
classified 18 (CTBA) S Reframing Film
Co-director of Alpe-Adria Underground! Matevž Jerman has selected some recently restored experimental/avant-garde shorts from the Socialist Republic of Slovenia (1945-1991).
UK Premiere: My Beautiful Laundrette
classified 15 Against the Grain: 1980s British Cinema
Join director Stephen Frears, writer Hanif Kureishi and actor Gordon Warnecke for this 40th anniversary showing of the delightfully transgressive My Beautiful Laundrette, the story of two lovers attempting to open a glamorous laundromat amid the turbulence of life in Thatcher’s Britain.
100 Years of the Film Society
classifiedSuitable for 12 years and over
This is part of a series of events which look at the UK-wide impact of London’s The Film Society in its centenary year. Co-curated by Bryony Dixon (BFI National Archive) and film historian Henry K. Miller.
Motherboard + Q&A
classified 15
BAFTA-winning shorts director Victoria Mapplebeck’s (Missed Call) extraordinary feature doc is a video diary filmed over 20 years that charts the experience of raising her son Jim alone.