Christmas Crackers
Wed 17 - Wed 31 Dec
We’re closing out the year with a bang, with a whole feast of films for you to enjoy this festive season!
Alongside warm-hearted Christmas perennial It’s A Wonderful Life, we’ll be bringing back our recent seasonal staple The Holdovers – our favourite new Christmas classic-in-the-making.
If you're looking for something a little more off the beaten path, we have a one-off screening of Paris Pick-Up in collaboration with Film Noir UK, Stanley Kubrick's alt-Christmas classic Eyes Wide Shut, the deliciously dark comedy Female Trouble from John Waters, and a couple of 10th anniversary shows of cult American indie Christmas, Again.
For little ones, families and Moomin-fans alike, there’s Moomins and the Winter Wonderland – join us as we celebrate the 80th anniversary of Tove Jansson’s troll creations. Between Christmas and New Year we’ll also be bringing back a couple of restored Studio Ghibli classics that you might’ve missed, with Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away.
We’re also digging back into the archive with Silent Sherlock, to bring you three beautifully restored episodes featuring the famous detective, each complete with newly commissioned scores, courtesy of the BFI.
Our festive drinks menu is in full swing in the Café & Bar, so why not treat yourself to a festive cocktail, mulled drink or a warming hot chocolate while you’re here!
Upcoming screenings in this season
Paris Pick-Up
classified 12ASubtitled screening
Adapted from the novel by celebrated crime writer Frédéric Dard (Back to the Wall), this is a rare chance to see Paris Pick-up on the big screen.
Christmas, Again
classified PG Christmas Crackers
Christmas, Again is a charming, critically-acclaimed cult festive favourite from filmmaker Charles Poekel, painting a perfectly bittersweet picture of holiday season.
Female Trouble
classified 18 Christmas Crackers
Crime is beauty in the rabid whirlwind of John Waters’ Female Trouble – the naughty middle-child in his opus “Trash Trilogy”.
Moomins and the Winter Wonderland
classified U Christmas Crackers
Originating from the evergreen children's series, the beloved Moomins are back in a whimsical, heart-warming winter special.
It's A Wonderful Life
classified U Christmas Crackers
Frank Capra’s Dickensian classic is a timeless story of redemption and hope that is an absolute treasure.
The Holdovers
classified 15 Christmas Crackers
The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school who must remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go.
CatVideoFest 2025
classified U Christmas Crackers
Cat lovers rejoice - for the first time ever in Bristol, we present the purr-fectly brilliant CatVideoFest, 73 minutes of non-stop cat videos!
Eyes Wide Shut
classified 18 Christmas Crackers
Stanley Kubrick's last film was a career milestone for Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman - and is one of our alternative festive films.
Carol
classified 15 Christmas Crackers
An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.
Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases
classified PG Christmas Crackers
This programme features a selection of three newly restored episodes from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia, wherein Holmes falls for ‘the woman’; The Golden Pince-Nez, which features Holmes’ deductive powers at work, and The Final Problem, featuring the sinister Professor Moriarty.