Ken Loach examines the ruinous cost of zero-hours contracts with gut-wrenching honesty and searing integrity in this incendiary story of one working class family’s struggle to achieve anything but basic survival in austerity Britain.

A total showstopper, Martin Scorsese’s ninth collaboration with Robert De Niro finds the master filmmaker returning to the gangster genre he helped define, with a mystery that has never been solved - Who killed Jimmy Hoffa?

A searing political thriller about the U.S Senate's real life investigation into the CIA's use of torture post 9/11.

Keira Knightley leads a star-studded cast in this true-story thriller about Katharine Gun, the British secret service whistleblower who tried to stop the Iraq War.

A 1958 Korean classic from director Shin Sang-ok, about two brothers who fall in love with the same sex worker.

Two journalists at the centre of one of the biggest freedom-of-speech scandals to hit the UK in recent years are bringing their award-winning film to Bristol in partnership with the National Union of Journalists.

From 18:45 join us for Deaf Conversations About Cinema, an informal discussion featuring simultaneous BSL (British Sign Language) interpretation about the themes of The Report in the Café/Bar.

What begins as a documentary following the final tour of a dying magician becomes a bizarre, hilarious and totally twisted tale of the attempts by one increasingly puzzled filmmaker to document his end-of-life story. Followed by a live satellite Q&A with director Ben Berman hosted by Louis Theroux.

For his 22nd feature, Korean master Hong Sangsoo delivers a cinematic riddle, about a writer in a back-alley cafe in Seoul, only he could concoct.

Studio Resident and Bristol+Bath Creative R&D Digital Placemaking New Talent Research Fellow Will Taylor joins us to discuss the challenges and opportunities around the theme of Digital Placemaking.

Mirrah Foulkes's astonishing debut feature reimagines the classic puppet show as a blackly comic, endlessly inventive feminist revenge tale.

Oscar®-nominated director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, frances Ha) returns with an incisive and compassionate portrait of a marriage breaking up and a family staying together, starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver).

Gender-bending Julia Andrews dons a tux and a male alter ego to take the Parisian nightlife by storm in Blake Edward’s 1982 farce.

Mirrah Foulkes's astonishing debut feature reimagines the classic puppet show as a blackly comic, endlessly inventive feminist revenge tale.

Oscar®-nominated director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, frances Ha) returns with an incisive and compassionate portrait of a marriage breaking up and a family staying together, starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver).

This Oscar®-nominated classic of British-Jewish cinema celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.

Bristol+Bath Creative R+D are delighted to welcome Leticia Lozano to Bristol to talk about placemaking in Mexico City.

A young woman in Norway flees the Nazi roundup and conceals her identity while working on an occupied farm.

In this event author Robin Robertson talks about and reads from his work The Long Take, and interweaves material from classic noir films.

Samuel Hunt joins us for this Friday's exciting Lunchtime Talk. Samuel will be introducing IGME, a music sequencer that supports the exploration of generative and algorithmic music techniques.

In one of the most delightful and inspiring documentaries you’ll see this year a Los Angeles couple and their beloved dog give up city life and follow their dreams to the countryside in order to build one of the most diverse and sustainable farms of its kind.

Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce tussle over the future of the Catholic Church in the latest from director Fernando Meirelles (The Constant Gardener, City of God).

A pioneering LGBTQ+ gem, this funny, smart and intensely lovable road-trip comedy follows a trans woman and two drag queens as they kick up the dust in Australia’s outback.

Jennifer Kent's follow-up to her smash hit The Babadook is an urgent period thriller, winner of the Special Jury Prize at Venice, about a vengeful Irish convict and an Aboriginal tracker who stalk a group of British soldiers through the Tasmanian wilderness.

An innovative and optimistic hybrid documentary set in the future, in which award-winning director Damon Gameau, for his young daughter’s benefit, enthusiastically imagines the year 2040 that could be if we embrace existing solutions to improve our planet and bring them into the mainstream.

In one of the most delightful and inspiring documentaries you’ll see this year a Los Angeles couple and their beloved dog give up city life and follow their dreams to the countryside in order to build one of the most diverse and sustainable farms of its kind.

Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce tussle over the future of the Catholic Church in the latest from director Fernando Meirelles (The Constant Gardener, City of God).

Jennifer Kent's follow-up to her smash hit The Babadook is an urgent period thriller, winner of the Special Jury Prize at Venice, about a vengeful Irish convict and an Aboriginal tracker who stalk a group of British soldiers through the Tasmanian wilderness.

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

The vulnerability of childhood is laid bare in Nora Fingscheidt’s award winning System Crasher, a wrenching tale of a foster child pushing Germany’s child and welfare system to its limits.

Focusing on one street and its inhabitants over a three-year period, The Street charts the collision of gentrification, austerity and the nation’s slide into Brexit.

Join us for a relaxed screening of The Two Popes. These screenings are designed to benefit our customers with additional needs (such as people living with dementia, autism, or other neuro-diverse people and their personal assistants, friends and family) or anyone who wants to enjoy a film in a more relaxed environment.

In 1982, the Palestine Film Unit archive was destroyed, and its contents stolen during the Israeli invasion of Beirut. Now newly restored and

An exploration of four films made over ten years by Danish-Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour and director Søren Lind - examining their evolving use of sci-fi to explore issues of history, place and identity, closing with the Bristol premiere screening of In Vitro.

Award winning writer-director Bassam Jarbawi’s ambitious feature debut, shot entirely in the West Bank, follows Ziad as he returns home after 15 years in an Israeli jail for a failed attack on a settler.

Full of mystery and unexpected twists, this fascinating documentary seeks to uncover the secrets behind a stunning archaeological discovery - a 2000 year old statue of Apollo discovered in Gaza.

This delightful film uses stop-frame and 2D animation to tell the story of Wardi, a young girl living in a Palestinian refugee camp.

Through a series of darkly comic vignettes shot in international locales, Palestinian director Elia Suleiman investigates the meanings of being in exile, and the absurdities of nationalism, normality, and identity.

A behind the scenes look at four exceptional women who mount campaigns against powerful incumbents during the 2018 midterm elections, tipping the balance of power and making history.

Family relations unravel to wonderfully excruciating comic and dramatic effect in this all-star ensemble piece from versatile French writer-director and here, co-star, Cédric Kahn.

Arnaud Desplechin's (Ismael's Ghosts) latest is a murder mystery based on a real-life crime in Roubaix, a city in Northern France where he was born.

This ambitious, provocative and politically charged thriller from first time director Ulaa Salim powerfully portrays the rise of a Danish anti-immigrant political party and an underground organisation dedicated to stopping it.

A treat to put the jingle bells on your Christmas: cult classic Elf, starring Will Ferrell as the man raised by Santa's elves returning to New York to find his biological father.

The Dardenne Brothers won this year's Best Director award at Cannes for this brave portrait of a radicalised Muslim teen.

Winner of Best Screenplay and the Queer Palm at Cannes (where it received rave reviews and was widely considered the best film of the festival), Céline Sciamma’s striking fourth feature is an exquisite tale of female desire, hidden love, art, and the gaze.