
BFI London Film Festival on Tour 2025
Wed 8 - Sun 19 Oct
Discover the world’s best new films at the 69th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express. As a venue partner, Watershed is delighted to be presenting 12 premieres from the Festival line-up.
We're bringing Bristol a thrilling line-up of BFI London Film Festival films – including new films from Yorgos Lanthimos, Chloé Zhao, Guillermo del Toro, Kelly Reichardt, Rian Johnson and more.
Priority booking for the 69th BFI London Film Festival premieres at Watershed is now open for Club Shed members until 09:59 on Tue 16 Sept (Club Shed members also get 15% off all tickets).
General booking will open at 10:00 on Tue 16 Sept.
So once the booking opens make sure you get your tickets fast!
Upcoming screenings in this season
Preview: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
classified 15 LFF 2025
Contemporary cinema’s favourite detective Benoit Blanc returns in Rian Johnson’s sharply penned and devilishly fun reinvention of the classic whodunit.
Preview: It Was Just an Accident
classified 18 (CTBA) S LFF 2025
Jafar Panahi’s critically acclaimed and deserving Palme d’Or winner is a muscular thriller and an engaging morality tale for our times.
Preview: Bugonia
classified 18 LFF 2025
Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone are reunited for a fourth time in this gripping, darkly funny and satirical environmental comedy-thriller.
Preview: The Choral
classified 18 (CTBA) LFF 2025
Ralph Fiennes leads an excellent ensemble of new and established talent in this funny and moving First World War drama by beloved writer Alan Bennett.
Preview: Frankenstein
classified 18 (CTBA) LFF 2025
Jacob Elordi, Oscar Isaac, Mia Goth and Christoph Waltz shine in Guillermo del Toro’s imaginative and elemental retelling of Mary Shelley’s groundbreaking novel.
Preview: The Mastermind
classified 12A LFF 2025
Josh O’Connor is superb as a rudderless everyman out of step with his immediate environs and the country at large, in Kelly Reichardt’s funny, shaggy heist film.
Preview: Love+War
classified 18 PS LFF 2025
From the directors of Free Solo comes this blistering profile of Pulitzer Prize-winning conflict photographer Lynsey Addario, a woman balancing two callings: career and motherhood.
Preview: Rental Family
classified 15 PS LFF 2025
After his Oscar® success with The Whale, Brendan Fraser returns to LFF, starring in HIKARI's rich and heartwarming tale of a struggling American actor searching for a connection in Tokyo.
Preview: Hamnet
classified 15 LFF 2025
Zhao (Nomadland, The Rider) brings a rawness and honesty to this profound portrait of love, grief and the power of storytelling.
Preview: My Father's Shadow
classified 15 S LFF 2025
Akinola Davies Jr’s intimate and resplendent film chronicles two brothers spending a rare day with their father in Lagos.
Preview: Giant
classified 18 (CTBA) LFF 2025
Amir El-Masry and Pierce Brosnan star in the thrilling real-life story of world champion boxer Prince Naseem ‘Naz’ Hamed and his trainer Brendan Ingle.
Preview: Pillion
classified 18 (CTBA) LFF 2025
A shy young man finds his place in the world as the submissive to a handsome biker, in Harry Lighton’s charming, sexy and tender debut.