Reframing Film
Cinema Rediscovered 2025
Wed 23 - Sun 27 July
Reframing Film invites you to delve deeper into the programme, experience film on film and join in conversations with creatives involved in film programming, projecting, archiving and more.
Join in our lunchtime talks, projection tours, and cinema walks, there are plenty of ways for you to get involved; whether you want to get insights into Channel 4’s role as a broadcaster in the eighties or love film trailers. For those of you that are hoping to get into film curation (and who knows perhaps pitch an idea for next year’s festival), join in the Other Ways of Seeing Lunchtime Talk.
The festival will also mark the centenary of London’s The Film Society and its UK-wide impacts on film culture via events co-curated by Bryony Dixon (BFI National Archive) and film historian Henry K. Miller. If you want to get hands-on, you can join in our 16mm workshops for a rare chance to learn to project film just like many smaller film societies would have done in the past.
For kids and their families, there is an animated offering all screened from 16mm prints from the BFI National Archive curated by the Film on Film team.
For those of you working in film exhibition, distribution and archives, look out for our Reframing Film Sessions on Wed 23 July.
And, of course, there’s our famous closing night Film Quiz co-hosted this year by Watershed's Gavin Sunderland and Tom Besley.
Upcoming screenings & events in this season
Reframing Film Sessions
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Join some of the most inspiring voices in film exhibition, restoration and distribution to reflect on and re-imagine how we present cinema of the past.
Colonial Reels: Histories and Afterlives of Colonial Film Collections is a three-year research project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. This event, organised by the project lead, Jacqueline Maingard, Associate Professor in Film at the University of Bristol, and the project team, puts colonial film collections in conversation with the Pan African cinema archive.
Lunchtime Talk: A Brief History of Film on Channel 4
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Join Professor Ian Christie and film historian Sheldon Hall for a talk exploring the influence of Channel 4’s approach to film.
Slovenian Double-bill: Alpe-Adria Underground!
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Join co-directors Matevž Jerman and Jurij Meden (Austrian Film Museum in Vienna) for a brief and imperfect history of artists' film in the Socialist Republic of Slovenia.
Slovenian Double-bill: Short Film Programme
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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).
Lunchtime Talk: Other Ways of Seeing
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Find out how a festival like Cinema Rediscovered is programmed by joining a discussion with some of the festival curators who will share their insight, thinking and journey and discuss how to get involved.
Cinema Walking Tour 1
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Bristol has been an UNESCO City Of Film since 2017, but Bristol and cinema have been entwined since – some would say before – the beginning of moving pictures. Join local enthusiast and historian Mark Fuller for one of two gentle walks.
Projection Tour
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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.
Henry Fonda For President
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Fact and fiction are intertwined to dazzling effect as the legacy of screen actor Henry Fonda becomes a metaphor for America’s ever-changing landscape.
Film on Film Presents: Children's Classics on 16mm
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With a colourful medley of cartoons, an orphaned squirrel, and mind-blowing science on display there is something for everyone in this family screening presented on 16mm.
100 Years of the Film Society
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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.
16mm Projection Taster Session
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Ever wondered how to project 16mm film? As part of the celebrations of the centenary of the creation of the first film society this is an opportunity to get hands-on with 16mm film.
Cinema Walking Tour 2
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Bristol has been an UNESCO City Of Film since 2017, but Bristol and cinema have been entwined since – some would say before – the beginning of moving pictures. Join local enthusiast and historian Mark Fuller for the second of two gentle walks.
Lunchtime Talk: The Art of the Trailer
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Join John Piedot from Silk Factory, one of the world’s leading Creative Agencies, for a plotted history of the cinema trailer.
Code Unknown
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Austrian auteur Michael Haneke places social tensions and cultural neuroses under the microscope with characteristic precision.
Cinema Rediscovered Film Quiz
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It’s time to prove your film knowledge at this year's Cinema Rediscovered Film Quiz — a night where deep-cut movie knowledge meets friendly competition.
Individual events and screenings unless otherwise specified:
£11.50 full (plus 12% booking fee*)
£9.00 concessions / Refugees and Asylum Seekers (plus 12% booking fee*)
£6.00 24 or under (plus 12% booking fee*)
Concessions apply to Full Time Students, Job Seekers Allowance and Employment Support Allowance, 66+ who have retired, Equity and BECTU members and disabled people. Where applicable please produce proof of eligibility when collecting a ticket.
*Booking fee applies to online and phone booking only.
Complimentary tickets are available for Personal Assistants accompanying customers who are Deaf / Disabled and can be booked through the Box Office, or online after joining our Access Register.
Cinema Rediscovered Festival Pass
The Cinema Rediscovered Pass allows you to select from 80+ Cinema Rediscovered screenings and events between Wed 23 - Sun 27 July. Subject to availability, terms and conditions apply. Buy your Pass here. Pass holders get a free three-month trial from curated online film streaming platform MUBI.
Pass prices: £120 full / £100 concessions / £80 24 and under.
Multi-Ticket Package Offer
Get 20% off the regular ticket price when you book 4-10 Cinema Rediscovered screenings and/or events. The discount will automatically apply when you add the tickets to your basket.
Club Shed members get 20% off all individual Cinema Rediscovered tickets.
All Cinema Rediscovered Pass and ticket holders can get 20% off any 6 O'Clock Gin & Tonic (including Watershed’s very own) at the Café & Bar and Undershed Bar during the Festival. Pass and ticket holders can also enjoy Spritz time - get any drink from our Spritz menu for the reduced price of £8 between 17:00 - 20:00 at the Café & Bar and Undershed Bar during the Festival.
Please note: the Cinema Walks, Projection Tours, 16mm Projection Taster Sessions and the Film Quiz are excluded from the Pass and Package.