Barry Jenkins follows up his Oscar®-winning Moonlight with this beautiful romance based on the James Baldwin novel of the same name.

Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land, City of Ghosts) makes his dramatic debut with this gritty and unflinching biopic of the late Sunday Times war correspondent Marie Colvin, starring Rosamund Pike.

Join Watershed Chef (and expert Sushi Chef) Shalom in this special hands-on workshop to celebrate the Japan Foundation’s Touring Programme where you can learn the preparation, rolling and presentation of delicious vegetarian sushi.

Join us this half term for a selection of award-winning animated shorts chosen by the British Animation Awards for children and their families. Programme 2 is aimed at 8-12 year olds.

The makers of the Syrian/UK co-production, Now Is The Time To Say Nothing, discuss their four year collaboration making an interactive video & sound installation exploring the role of screens in observing global conflict.

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes (and recently nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars®), this heartbreaking and defiant film tells the story of a poverty stricken Lebanese boy who sues his parents for the crime of giving him life.

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes (and recently nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars®), this heartbreaking and defiant film tells the story of a poverty stricken Lebanese boy who sues his parents for the crime of giving him life.

The timeless story of Cyrano de Bergerac gets a modern twist in this fresh and vibrant teen comedy starring Alex Lawther as an awkward but imaginative pupil helping a handsome but dim-witted classmate pursue the fiery daughter of a visiting French teacher.

The extraordinary untold story of Teddy Pendergrass, who was poised to be the greatest soul singer of all time, until an untimely accident changed his life forever.

An exquisite coming of age drama, Barry Jenkins' Oscar® winning masterpiece chronicles the life of a gay black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in Miami.

A young man discovers a serial killer’s journal after his fiancée goes missing in this brutal and captivating thriller.

An avid film fan develops an unusual relationship with a beautiful princess who steps out of her monochrome movie screen and into his multi-coloured world in this fantastical and charming love story.

The most personal project to date from Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity, Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambien), Roma follows Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City.

Join us for a special Showcase event to experience the new work developed by Pervasive Media Studio’s fantastic Winter Artists in Residence: Victoria Melody, Magz Hall and Javaad Alipoor.

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes (and recently nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars®), this heartbreaking and defiant film tells the story of a poverty stricken Lebanese boy who sues his parents for the crime of giving him life.

Director Samuel Maoz (Lebanon) inspects the bitter absurdities of war and the impact it has on people with this intelligent dark comedy about a troubled family who are forced to confront difficult truths when they receive shocking news from their son's military post.

Director Samuel Maoz (Lebanon) inspects the bitter absurdities of war and the impact it has on people with this intelligent dark comedy about a troubled family who are forced to confront difficult truths when they receive shocking news from their son's military post.

Things go bump in the night and then some in this clanking, crashing, screeching Irish horror about a woman whose son’s behaviour unnervingly alters after finding a sinkhole in the forest near their house.

Félix Maritaud stars as a 22-year-old gay sex worker longing for a deeper connection in Camille Vidal-Naquet’s passionate and tender feature debut.

Jonny Greenwood mixed blues and pop numbers with his muted score for Lynne Ramsay’s exquisite adaptation of Lionel Shriver's bestselling novel about a mother left shattered in the wake of her teenage son’s tragic act of rebellion.

In her debut feature documentary, Hikaru Toda shines a spotlight on the hidden side of Japanese society, highlighting the diverse human-rights work done by the country's first LGBT law firm.

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

Inspired by Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke’s celebrated excursion into the field of film scoring, join us in Watershed’s Café & Bar for a free, one-time only, show by one of Bristol’s pioneering AV performers DJ Cheeba, as he digs through Radiohead’s extended musical back catalogue accompanied by breathtaking synchronised visuals.

This rousing, feminist adventure documentary chronicles the epic journey of Tracy Edwards – a woman who dared to make waves and became the skipper of the first all-female sailing crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race.

For this special talk we are joined by Submerge Festival Performer and Artist, Graham Dunning. Dunning will present & demo his latest work, 'Mechanical Techno', with an opportunity to interact with the demo afterwards.

Oscar®-winning director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Salesman) returns with his starriest cast yet (including Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, and Ricardo Darín) in this engrossing Spanish-set mystery thriller.

Maggie Gyllenhaal gives the performance of her career as Lisa, a bored kindergarten teacher who becomes fascinated by a five-year-old's budding poetic genius, but her determination to nurture it sets her on a dangerous - and desperate - path.

Maggie Gyllenhaal gives the performance of her career as Lisa, a bored kindergarten teacher who becomes fascinated by a five-year-old's budding poetic genius, but her determination to nurture it sets her on a dangerous - and desperate - path.

Based on a novel by Let The Right One In author John Ajvide Lindqvist, this genre-defying, Cannes award-winning Scandinavian fantasy takes a curious look at the boundaries of human/inhuman, right/wrong, duty/desire and male/female.

Celebrated British photographer Richard Billingham’s BAFTA kitchen sink drama is an intricate family portrait inspired in part by his own memories and his successful series of candid photographs depicting his family in their council flat outside Birmingham during the Thatcher era.

Following their collaborations on There Will Be Blood and The Master, Jonny Greenwood penned a lighter-hearted, more free-wheeling soundtrack for Paul Thomas Anderson’s wild adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s cult novel - a groovy, funny mystery set in 1970 drug-fuelled Los Angeles, during the dying days of free love.

Following an early evening DS screening of Everybody Knows please join us for Deaf Conversations About Cinema, an informal discussion about the themes of the film in the Café & Bar featuring simultaneous British Sign Language interpretation.

Comedian and writer Simon Amstell brings us his hilarious and heartfelt feature debut about a young filmmaker thrown into emotional turmoil by a flourishing romance and the premiere of his second feature film.

Dr John Troyer, the Director of the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath, joins us to discuss the future of human death and how it has become increasingly bound to digital technology and the internet.

This rousing, feminist adventure documentary chronicles the epic journey of Tracy Edwards – a woman who dared to make waves and become the skipper of the first all-female sailing crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race.

This rousing, feminist adventure documentary chronicles the epic journey of Tracy Edwards – a woman who dared to make waves and become the skipper of the first all-female sailing crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race.

Lukas Dhont's acclaimed debut won the best first feature award at Cannes for this intimate portrait about a teenage trans girl who aspires to become a ballerina.

Comedian and writer Simon Amstell brings us his hilarious and heartfelt feature debut about a young filmmaker thrown into emotional turmoil by a flourishing romance and the premiere of his second feature film.

Glenn Close gives a truly masterful performance as a woman who has spent forty years sacrificing her own talent, dreams and ambitions to support those of her husband - until long-kept secrets are threatened to be exposed...

Diverse and dissonant, Jonny Greenwood’s beat heavy score evokes an eerie, bruised mood in this brilliantly executed minimalist noir starring Joaquin Phoenix as a gun-for-hire who specialises in saving victims from child sex rings, from director Lynne Ramsay.

For this talk we are joined by Robin Howie the Creative Director of Fieldwork Facility, a design studio for uncharted territories. Robin will discuss the attitude and ideology it takes to run a studio like Fieldwork Facility.

Patricia Clarkson stars as a New Orleans detective trying to solve a murder mystery in director Carol Morley's unmissable adaptation of Martin Amis' novel Night Train.