What’s On Week Ahead

Until Thu 10 Sep

To break his writer's block, a filmmaker draws desperate inspiration from his closest relationships in this rich Almodóvar melodrama.

Until Sun 13 Sep

Open your animal eyes. An immersive exhibition of groundbreaking video games & virtual reality. A must-do this summer in Bristol's Undershed Gallery.

Until Thu 10 Sep

Writer-director Louis Paxton's debut feature sees a nervy council official attempt to evict two siblings who have never had any human contact from their outside world.

Until Thu 10 Sep

Celebrate this beloved coming-of-age 1989 story from the legendary Studio Ghibli about a resourceful young witch who uses her broom to create a delivery service, only to lose her gift of flight in a moment of self-doubt.

National Cinema Weekend is the cinema event we've all been waiting for! On 5 and 6 Sept, all tickets at Watershed and other participating cinemas nationwide are £4 for the whole weekend. Simply find the film you want to see, and book your ticket as normal.

What's a good sleepover without a bit of a scare? And what's a good fright without a good laugh? Attack the Block brings British-humoured slapstick adventure to a South London housing block, where endlessly hostile encounters are never quite what they seem.

Until Thu 10 Sep

A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life.

A struggling primary school teacher begins to make some questionable decisions after one of her students is injured.

Until Thu 10 Sep

Move over Heartstopper... this haunting debut has some teeth to it! A chilling sensation in queer horror from director Adrian Chiarella, Leviticus follows two lovestruck teenage boys who face off against supernatural evil in the wake of harrowing 'deliverance healing'.

Until Thu 10 Sep

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a new kind of horror remake from one of the most exciting new voices in cinema, starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson.

Until Thu 10 Sep

A love letter to nature filmed exclusively on Super 8, Super Nature proposes a new way of seeing. A celebration of all we have and reflecting on all we have to lose, this global co-creation project journeys across 25 different countries, creating a visceral, poetic and personal meditation on the natural world.

Until Thu 10 Sep

Directed by Gregg Araki (whose 2007 comedy Smiley Face inspired the Brat album cover don't you know!) and written by Araki and Karley Sciortino (of Slutever fame), I Want Your Sex is a darkly funny erotic satire.

Join us for the launch of the vibrant debut novel by Timothy X Atack, award-winning playwright and composer, and Pervasive Media Studio resident.

Fri 11 - Thu 17 Sept

It's 1985. Vincent, almost 13, fumbles through life's big questions: identity, friendship, family, first crushes... and why adults don’t seem to have things figured out either.

In this talk, Matt Dowse and Mary Stevens from the Centre for Sociodigital Future (CenSoF) will present the ideas behind their upcoming project Just Enough AI: Developing Demonstrators For Responsible, Appropriate Scale A.I. Within Planetary Boundaries.

Fri 11 - Thu 17 Sept

The Republic documents the story of Stokes Croft since, portraying a diverse community that dares to defy the cold winds of corporate power and globalisation. But their greatest challenge looms as developers target this quarter and ready their wrecking balls.

Fri 11 - Sun 13 Sept

Chabrol’s ice cold tale of infidelity, passion and violence – an unmissable Hitchcockian thriller set against a backdrop of bourgeois respectability in late 1960’s Versailles which inspired Andrey Zvyagintsev's Cannes 2026 Grand Prix winner Minotaur.

Fri 11 - Thu 17 Sept

Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2026 Berlin Film Festival, Everybody Digs Bill Evans is a biographical drama film about the famous jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans.

In this new 4K restoration of one of Japan's most loved cult films Survive Style 5+, five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one another eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.