Writer/director Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) returns with a fresh interpretation of Louisa May Alcott's beloved 1868 novel, the Civil War era story of the March sisters, four young women each determined to live life on their own terms - and the result is extraordinary.

Writer/director Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok, Hunt for the Wilderpeople) brings his signature irreverent comedy to this smart anti-hate World War II satire.

Award-winning director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Spectre) teams up with renowned cinematographer Roger Deakins (Blade Runner 2049, Sicario, Skyfall) for this elaboratively choreographed WWI drama.

Acclaimed filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie (Good Time) return with an electrifying crime thriller about a charismatic New York City jeweller and compulsive gambler Howard (Adam Sandler) who's on the lookout for the next big score.

Based on the true story of Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer who refused to join the army during World War II, Terrence Malick's latest is a spiritual epic on convictions in times of crisis.

Cracks begin to show in the perfect façade of a young athlete’s life in Trey Edward Shults’ (Krisha, It Comes at Night) palpable and unexpected drama about one family's dramatic unravelling and redemption. It's one of the year's most dazzling cinematic achievements.

An electrifying musical, with an astonishing score written by masterful composer Leonard Bernstein and legendary Stephen Sondheim, Westside Story sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet in 1950s New York City.

Slapstick is celebrating Cary Grant’s birthday with one of his earliest screwball comedies. Mae West stars alongside the Bristol-born star in the 1933 bawdy crime comedy She Done Him Wrong that's chock full of double-entendres, witty one-liners and bold carnality.

Join the brilliant Beth Calverley and Malaika Kegode for a not-to-be-missed musical inspired spoken word workshop for anyone aged 15 – 24.

Set in Baltimore in 1962, Adam Shankman’s glittering production of Hairspray - adapted from the 2002 stage production and John Waters’ gloriously kitsch 1988 film is a celebratory call for equality and acceptance.

Join us for an evening of spoken word with Milk Poetry featuring Caroline Teague, Beth Calverley and Asmaa Jama performing work inspired by some of the greatest musicals hosted by Malaika Kegode. Expect speed poems, politics and show tunes.

A unique and wonderfully upbeat musical comedy adapted for the screen in 1963, Cheryomushki is set in the suburbs of Soviet Moscow, where young couples find dream homes provided by the state.

Celebrate The Great Stone Face as you’ve never seen him before with these three pristine, newly-restored Buster Keaton classic silent comedy shorts.

The elaborately conceived and brilliant comedy Yoyo is the most beloved movie of Oscar® winner and recipient of the 2012 Aardman Slapstick Visual Comedy Award, Pierre Étaix.

From the early subtle humour of Georges Méliès, through Max Linder to discoveries across Europe’s film archives, film preservationist and founder of Lobster films Serge Bromberg presents this magical collection of rarely seen archive comedies.

Join award-winning journalist Samira Ahmed (Radio 4, Front Row) and stand-up comedian Lucy Porter for a fascinating glimpse at a series of early British silent comedies depicting attitudes towards the suffragette movement.

Join comedian and writer Shappi Khorsandi for an evening of rarely seen silent comedies in Bristol’s magnificent cathedral as we celebrate the outstanding leading women in some of the funniest on-screen examples from the golden age of silent comedy.

Rediscover Douglas Maclean- one of the biggest forgotten stars of light comedies in American silent film.

Join us for more discoveries by the indefatigable film collector and Slapstick stalwart Anthony Saffrey.

Master satirist (and avid Dickens fan) Armando Iannucci (The Thick of It, In The Loop, The Death of Stalin) brings David Copperfield fizzing to life with this gloriously frenetic, hilarious adaptation.

This clever American silent comedy from Germany’s master director Ernst Lubitsch stars Monte Blue and Patsy Ruth Miller.

Join Serge Bromberg and Lobster films as he weaves together tales of his finds and restorations of rare and lost solo Laurel & Hardy films.

Makoto Shinkai follows up his global sensation Your Name with another stunning anime with heart - this time about a girl who has the power to change the weather.

Join film historian and impresario Serge Bromberg as he presents discoveries that he and other devoted film enthusiasts have recently made, including a special Laurel & Hardy surprise!

Join us for a mesmerising gala evening of live music to film showcasing your all-time favourite comedy stars.

Directed by the great epic silent film director James Cruze, On to Reno is a divorce rom-com, starring Marie Prevost and Cullen Landis.

Two exceptional examples from Chaplin’s First National period that are not to be missed! Introduced by Chaplin’s biographer David Robinson.

The often surreal sketches of the 'At Last the 1948 Show' triggered a revolution destined to change the face of TV comedy forever. Join series star and Slapstick patron Tim Brooke-Taylor for long overdue re-evaluation.

Join writer and comedian Robin Ince, senior Lecturer in Art & Visual Culture at Bristol University Dr Shelley Hales, and Britain's foremost comedy historian Robert Ross in an archive-plundering discussion on this fascinating thread of humour.

In conversation with Robin Ince, Bill Oddie shares his passion for visual comedy and reflects on his favourite moments and shorts from classic animations and his beloved cartoons.

We’re delighted to have teamed up with Bristol-based independent arts organisation Let’s Make Art and OKIDO Magazine for a series of fun family workshops. The next one is all about Coding…

This unforgettable comedy musical follows the story of the young musician Konstantin and his burning ambition to bring jazz to the Soviet Union in the 1920s.

This hotly anticipated, stylish love story is the feature film directorial debut from Melina Matsoukas (Insecure, Beyoncé's Formation) as well as the feature screenwriting debut of Lena Waithe (Master of None, The Chi).

Our main Café & Bar will be closed from 17:00 on Thu 30 Jan.

This psychological thriller from Robert Eggers (The Witch) follows the slow descent into madness of two lighthouse keepers (Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson) on a remote New England island at the turn of the 19th century.

We are partnering with Digital Cities Bristol for this lunchtime talk where BBC R&D will present their tools for interactive and responsive media experience and how you can get free access to them.

We've teamed up with We Are Parable for a unique screening of Process, the visual album from award-winning UK artist Sampha, directed by video artist Kahlil Joseph (Beyonce: Lemonade, Kendrick Lamar: good Kid, m.A.A.d city).

This hotly anticipated, stylish love story is the feature film directorial debut from Melina Matsoukas (Insecure, Beyoncé's Formation) as well as the feature screenwriting debut of Lena Waithe (Master of None, The Chi).

Director Clive Smith’s revealing documentary offers personal accounts of Afrikan Caribbean people living in Bristol who have experienced the many sides of the mental health system and its traumatic impacts.

Jordan Peele’s shocking comic-horror makes hay with the scenario of our other half rising, its use of shadow versions of ourselves serving as canny metaphors to explore our hidden desires and darker impulses.

Director Emiko Hiramatsu tells the heart-warming untold true story of a group of teachers who evacuated their infant students from a burning Tokyo at the end of WWII.

From the imagination of Bong Joon-Ho (Okja, Snowpiercer, The Host), this must-see blackly comic thriller (already the most successful Palme d'Or winner ever) finds a family of grifters worming their way into an upper-class family’s perfect world.

Cinéphiles is a film discussion group that meets once a month to discuss films chosen from Watershed's programme. All are welcome.

From the imagination of Bong Joon-Ho (Okja, Snowpiercer, The Host), this must-see blackly comic thriller finds a family of grifters worming their way into an upper-class family’s perfect world.

A stomach-churningly real home-invasion thriller, Michael Haneke’s most notorious provocation spares no detail in its depiction of the agony suffered by a bourgeois family at the hands of two strangers.

Visionary filmmaker Jean Epstein’s 1929 silent French drama blends documentary authenticity with rich cinematic invention to create a subtle homoerotic tale, the echoes of which can be heard in Mark Jenkin’s Bait and Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse.

Winner of the New Directors competition at San Sebastian, Hiroshi Okuyama's strikingly original and playful debut follows a young Yura who makes friends with an imaginary Jesus.