Watershed Recommends: Fri 8 - Thu 13 May

This Thursday, we'll be welcoming the dynamic indie writer, director and actor Jim Cumming for our #Shortitout Filmmaker Front Room Q&A!

In this spoken word poetry piece, Rife Magazine's Lucy explores her experience in lockdown.

Writer/director Céline Sciamma's (Girlhood, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Tom Boy) provocative and stylish debut is an impressive coming-of-age drama that captures the anxieties of the early teen years.

Get to know more about Celiné Sciamma’s award-winning screen writing skills by watching My Life as a Courgette, scripted by her and spend an hour in Sciamma's company courtesy of this post-screening Q&A from last years BFI London Film Festival.

A tender drama from Céline Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Girlhood) about a ten-year-old child exploring a new gender identity.

In this BSL (British Sign Language) video our friend and partner, artist and filmmaker David Ellington takes you through our current online recommendations of great cinema and creative content, all of which have either Descriptive Subtitles or Subtitles.

In May's cinema podcast Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, considers the existential crisis at the heart of cinema and film under the current situation. Delving into the past for insight, Mark wonders – what does cinema mean when there is no cinema?

Winner of Best Screenplay and the Queer Palm at Cannes (where it received rave reviews and was widely considered the best film of the festival), Céline Sciamma’s striking fourth feature is an exquisite tale of female desire, hidden love, art, and the gaze.

Céline Sciamma (Water Lilies, Tomboy, Portrait of a Lady on Fire) continues her exploration of female youth with her triumphant third film, Girlhood.