Join local enthusiast and historian Mark Fuller and historian and academic Dr Peter Walsh for one of two gentle walks which will take you from the 1880s to the present day to find the landmarks and personalities of cinema in central Bristol.

Book tickets for Cinema Walk 1

Join BFI National Archive Curator Rosie Taylor on a tour of Watershed’s projection booth and discover how the films screening at the festival make it to the screen during a festival like Cinema Rediscovered.

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Join us somewhere over the rainbow and follow Dorothy and her little dog Toto as they are whisked away from their home in Kansas, set on a magical journey down the yellow brick road.

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An irreverent sweep through some of the well-known, and not-so-well-known events and people that shaped Bristol.

Book tickets for Footage Rediscovered - Bristol Archives & the home movie movement

A rare opportunity to see Jeff Barnaby’s iconic short films on the big screen, followed by a discussion on his life, work and legacy.

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A crime comedy from Taiwanese master Edward Yang that doubles as another of his many love letters to Taipei.

Book tickets for UK Premiere: Mahjong

A delightful, musical, magical realist fable through the heartlands of India that will have you dancing out of the cinema.

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Experience Wim Wenders’s unconventional American road movie, one of the most iconic films of the 1980s, newly restored on Bristol’s biggest screen.

Book tickets for UK Premiere: Paris, Texas

A timeless tale of an artist both blessed and cursed by genius, featuring an almost entirely Asian cast including film star and producer Sessue Hayakawa.

Book tickets for UK Premiere: The Dragon Painter

The debut feature from Mi’gmaq filmmaker Jeff Barnaby, this is a dystopian tale of revenge in mid-1970s Québec.

Book tickets for Rhymes for Young Ghouls

Join us after the UK Premiere: Mahjong for a pop-up Mahjong Game Session in Waterside 1, hosted by Monica Wat, Hong Kong-born artist and founder of East & South East Asian creative collective Made on the Moon and its annual event MOON FEST.

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A moving documentary about the story of the extraordinary friendship between Scottish filmmaker Bill Douglas and his lifelong friend and collaborator Peter Jewell.

Book tickets for Bill Douglas - My Best Friend

In pursuit of a serial killer, an FBI agent uncovers a series of occult clues that she must solve to end his terrifying killing spree.

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Charles Burnett’s heart-warming romantic comedy sees two great actors pair off against each other with hilarious results.

Book tickets for UK Premiere: The Annihilation of Fish

Fifty years after its release, Francis Ford Coppola’s thriller now feels prophetic in its portrait of surveillance culture.

Book tickets for The Conversation

Mutated piranhas terrorise a summer resort in this classic B movie from legendary producer Roger Corman.

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This 1989 Sundance winner is a bittersweet comedy about getting cold feet at the altar.

Book tickets for UK Premiere: True Love

Oscar® nominee June Squibb plays her first lead at 94, in a tender and well-observed story of a grandmother refusing to accept the limitations of age.

Book tickets for Thelma

The search for a missing teenage girl leads to a devastating emotional reckoning in this 1970s film noir starring Gene Hackman.

Book tickets for Night Moves (35mm)

The first film from the former Yugoslavia to openly depict LGBTQ+ characters Marble Ass remains one of Želimir Žilnik’s most enduring works, even more brilliant for its open acts of love and positivity at a time of such misery.

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Once seen, never forgotten! Zé do Caixão (Coffin Joe) makes his screen debut in José Mojica Marins’ At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul, the first Brazilian-produced horror film.

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Join local enthusiast and historian Mark Fuller and historian and academic Dr Peter Walsh for one of two gentle walks which will take you from the 1880s to the present day to find the landmarks and personalities of cinema in central Bristol.

Read more - Cinema Walk 2

Original and powerful in his artistic vision, Bill Douglas’s three short films My Childhood (1972), My Ain Folk (1973) and My Way Home (1978) are weaved together through the journey of Jamie.

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A C.I.A operative cannot trust anyone when their world is turn upside down in Sydney Pollacks tense political thriller.

Book tickets for Three Days of the Condor

A sobering and empathetic exploration of life in a women’s prison, made at a time when notions of rehabilitation were still uncommon.

Book tickets for UK Premiere: The Weak and the Wicked

The tender adventure of a very unconventional family who bring cinema magic to the people of Venezuela.

Book tickets for UK Premiere: El Cine Soy Yo

Crime is beauty in the rabid whirlwind of John Waters’ Female Trouble – the naughty middle-child in his opus “Trash Trilogy”, which celebrates its 50th birthday.

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The film that Martin Scorsese compared to ‘opening a door and walking into another dimension, where time has stopped and beauty has been unleashed’.

Read more - The Colour of Pomegranates

Filmed in off-season Capri, this little-known debut by Italian director Giuseppe Patroni Griffi inspired Bill Douglas.

Book tickets for Il Mare (35mm)

Sylvia Syms stars in this underseen thriller, laced with hard-bitten kitchen sink realism.

Book tickets for UK Premiere: No Trees in The Street

From acclaimed director Levan Akin (And Then We Danced), Crossing is a tender tale of identity, acceptance and unlikely connection that transcends borders and generations.

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Sergei Parajanov’s masterpiece of Ukrainian Poetic Cinema unleashes the full breadth of his remarkable visual imagination via a simple Romeo and Juliet story.

Book tickets for UK Premiere: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

Alain Delon is the peak of cinematic cool in Jean-Pierre Melville’s icy hitman thriller presented here in a brand new 4K restoration.

Book tickets for UK Premiere: Le Samouraï

Drawing on movie trivia from every decade of film history and executed with a dash of joy and wit, the Cinema Rediscovered Film Quiz is designed to reward film knowledge while encouraging good times.

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Director David Allen tells the story of a young couple that bets on nature for the future of their failing, four-hundred-year-old estate.

Book tickets for Wilding

The Echo is a tender film which observes how the younger people's lives echo those of their parents, repeating for generations until someone breaks the pattern.

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With breathtaking cinematography and outstanding performances, About Dry Grasses is an engrossing new piece of cinema from award-winning director Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

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Kinds of Kindness is a triptych fable from director Yorgos Lanthimos with an all-star cast including Cannes Best Actor winner Jesse Plemons and Oscar® winner Emma Stone.

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Wim Wenders's beguiling drama is a poignant, warm-hearted portrait of a Tokyo toilet cleaner, played by Cannes Best Actor prize-winner Koji Yakusho.

Book tickets for Perfect Days

When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby.

Book tickets for My Neighbour Totoro

Today we're kicking off our August of Summer Fun starting with 'Aperol Time' from 17:00, followed by live music and dancing courtesy of DJ Jimmy the Twin.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker captures a child's experience of time passing, and the intense emotions of a daughter falling out of love with her mother.

Book tickets for Janet Planet

How do you follow up a film as monumentally haunting as Sátántangó (1994)? For Béla Tarr, the only option was to continue down the same dark path.

Book tickets for Werckmeister Harmonies

When two kids find and play a magical board game, they release a man trapped in it for decades - and a host of dangers that can only be stopped by finishing the game.

Book tickets for Jumanji

This Summer, keep the small ones entertained in our free dedicated Watershed Minis space (Aged 0 - 8), with with dimmed lighting, beanbags and CBeebies favourites every weekday from 12:00 - 16:00.

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A Story of Bones tells the story of Annina van Neel as she works to reclaim the neglected history of St. Helena after the remains of thousands of formerly enslaved Africans are uncovered on the remote island.

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