A constant fixture in critics' polls, Yasujiro Ozu's most enduring masterpiece is a beautifully nuanced exploration of filial duty, expectation and regret.

Shinya Tsukamoto's wild cyberpunk tale of a businessman's agonising transformation into a walking scrap heap is a jaggedly dehumanised vision of the future.

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.

Farmers hire a band of samurai to defend them against marauding bandits in Kurosawa’s influential epic, a touchstone for action movies ever since.

Earlier in the year we partnered with the Kino Klassika Foundation to bring you a season of Russian musicals. We're thrilled to partner with them again to celebrate their season Red Front - 75 Years of Russian War Cinema.

Considered one of the best horror films of all times, a deeply disturbing tale of a deadly young woman who turns the tables on her middle-aged suitor

Rubika Shah’s vital prize-winning documentary, expanded from her 2017 short film of the same name, explores how 70s London protest movement Rock Against Racism (RAR) confronted British fascists head-on.

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

Passion. Belief. Betrayal. Hope. The turbulent story of the West's love-hate relationship with nuclear power over the past 70 years - by those who experienced it first hand.

Watershed is proud to be part of the Bristol Arts Channel, a programme of online arts experiences for audiences missing the buzz and community of Bristol's vibrant arts scene.

In June's Cinema Podcast Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, considers whether, when people talk of the acute challenges now facing the arts sector, whether film is included in that and ponders when does film become art?

Distributor Second Run have launched a new video on demand service, where each month they will present an evolving mix of world cinema, guided by their ethos of bringing important, challenging and entertaining classic and contemporary films to audiences.

Join us for our next Filmmaker Frontroom Q&A with director, illustrator and animator Åsa Lucander.

In this Lunchtime Talk we welcome members from Control Shift - an arts programme exploring how we might reconsider the way we connect with tech.