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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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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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part of Unfinished at Undershed
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Four artists from our incredible Pervasive Media Studio community share works in progress exploring the future of technologies in our lives. Make faces with emotion-sensing software, build new worlds, meet future folk heroes – imagine what digital futures could look like.
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In 1975 Cologne, an ambitious teenage concert promoter defies her conservative family and navigates impossible odds to book American jazz pianist Keith Jarrett for what becomes the legendary Köln Concert.
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Pauline Loquès’s remarkable debut feature, which premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week, is a beautiful ode to the heyday of French New Wave filmmaking.
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Familiar Touch is a coming-of-old-age film following an older woman's transition into assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship with herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.
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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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part of Bleak Week
A switchman at a seaside railway witnesses a murder but does not report it after he finds a suitcase full of money at the scene of the crime.
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Join us for the launch of the vibrant debut novel by Timothy X Atack, award-winning playwright and composer, and Pervasive Media Studio resident.
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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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When a shy hopeless romantic makes a wish that his long-time crush falls in love with him, a sinister enchantment ensues in writer/director Curry Barker's freaky and frightening feature debut.
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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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Fri 26 June 13:00
In this Lunchtime Talk Creative Technologist Coral Manton will talk about this ever-evolving role of being a Creative Technologist.
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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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An introverted princess has her world turned upside down, when her bounty hunter girlfriend of two weeks breaks up with her and is subsequently kidnapped by the ‘Straight White Maliens’. Along the way she is joined by a former gay pop idol and drag queen, who help her conquer her self-doubt to save her ex.
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Join us in Watershed's Cafe & Bar after the preview screening of Lesbian Space Princess as part of Queer Vision 2026. Ticket holders for the Fri 26 June 20:30 screening will get priority access to our afterparty from 22:00 - midnight in the Café & Bar.
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An introverted space princess is forced to leave her home planet on an inter-gay-lactic mission to save her bounty hunter ex-girlfriend from the Straight White Maliens.
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part of Queer Vision 2026
Queer as Punk follows Malaysian LGBTQ+ punk band Shh…Diam! (Malay for “Shut up!”), fronted by trans man Faris and his two bandmates Yon and Yoyo. The trio’s dynamic refusal of silence is part of a bold fight for LGBTQ+ rights in a country where personal freedoms are intensely restricted.
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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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Rose of Nevada is Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin’s hotly anticipated and critically acclaimed follow-up to his BAFTA-award-winning first feature Bait and Enys Men.
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part of The Beautiful Game
Erased from the sporting history books, Copa 71 is the incredible story of the 1971 Women’s World Cup.
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part of Queer Vision 2026
Highlighted as an LGBTQ+ “must see” for the 2026 festival season, Brydie O’Connor’s archive-driven documentary focuses on experimental and pioneering lesbian filmmaker, Barbara Hammer.
After the screening there will be a Bristol Butch Bar gathering in the bar - join for the chance to discuss the screening, have a drink, or just socialise!
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part of Queer Vision 2026
After the passing of his father, Anand leaves his bustling life in Mumbai behind, returning to his ancestral village for the traditional mourning period. Though his parents have accepted his sexuality, Anand’s extended family are unaware. Before long, the mounting expectations of marriage resurface for Anand, and his only reprieve lies in reconnecting with his childhood friend, Balya.
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Is Jazz is a monthly meet-up for 18-30 (ish) year old creatives to explore collaborative creative process in a low-stakes, supportive, and informal way.
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The acerbic new chapter of Louise Weard’s visionary, post-modern trans epic, here we follow Izzy who is desperately clawing for any source of (mis)information to sabotage her partner’s transition.
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part of Lunchtime Talks
Fri 3 July 13:00
In this Lunchtime Talk, Nikesh Shukla and Camille Aubry will talk about how they're bringing their new comic book series Mad Villan to life in a political landscape where reality is meeting fiction.
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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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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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First Friday is a monthly social and showcasing event open to anyone
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part of Queer Vision 2026
Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.
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part of Wiseman of the Month
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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part of Queer Vision 2026
Queer Vision Film Festival is delighted to present this groundbreaking and uproariously funny comedy gem from director Mike Nichols for its 30th anniversary screening on the incredible Megascreen (former IMAX).
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part of Queer Vision 2026
Showcasing the best new short films made by South West LGBTQ+ filmmakers.
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From award-winning writer-director Mona Fastvold (The Brutalist) comes the extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers.
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Lai Yuqing’s (Two Suns) feature debut Whisperings of the Moon is a thoughtful and mature meditation on love and the heavy weight of familial expectation. Paired with a screening of the short film Love is a Book.
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part of Queer Vision 2026
A gripping and frank examination of elder queer desire.
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Join us for this very friendly, informal meet up to connect with other Make Shifters, the Watershed team and Studio Residents.
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part of Queer Vision 2026
Drawing inspiration from both classic rom-coms and traditional English folklore, director Isobel Moncloa Daly examines the complexity in letting go.
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Bitter Christmas opens August 2026.