What’s On Week Ahead

Until Sun 28 Jun

Four artists from our incredible Pervasive Media Studio community share works in progress exploring the future of technologies in our lives. Make faces with emotion-sensing software, build new worlds, meet future folk heroes – imagine what digital futures could look like.

Until Thu 25 Jun

Pauline Loquès’s remarkable debut feature, which premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week, is a beautiful ode to the heyday of French New Wave filmmaking.

Until Thu 25 Jun

Familiar Touch is a coming-of-old-age film following an older woman's transition into assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship with herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.

Halfway between a sports documentary and an conceptual art installation, Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait consists in a full-length football game (Real Madrid vs. Villareal, April 23, 2005) entirely filmed from the perspective of soccer superstar Zinedine Zidane.

Until Thu 25 Jun

Based on Gary Owen’s much lauded and widely performed one-woman play, Iphigenia in Splott, Effi o Blaenau is director Marc Evans’ cinematic interpretation set against the wide open landscapes of North Wales.

Now recognised as a landmark work of animation, Mamoru Oshii’s cryptic and mesmerising experimental Angel’s Egg is perhaps his most personal work and a crucially important film in anime history.

Until Thu 25 Jun

When a shy hopeless romantic makes a wish that his long-time crush falls in love with him, a sinister enchantment ensues in writer/director Curry Barker's freaky and frightening feature debut.

Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as “Pinkie” – the film’s main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton.

Until Thu 25 Jun

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom in this adaptation of the global phenomenon from Kane Parsons.

Until Thu 25 Jun

In 1975 Cologne, an ambitious teenage concert promoter defies her conservative family and navigates impossible odds to book American jazz pianist Keith Jarrett for what becomes the legendary Köln Concert.

Until Wed 24 Jun

Facing the death of his country’s glaciers and the loss of his beloved grandparents, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason turns his archives into a time capsule to hold what is slipping away — family, memory, time and water.

Grim drama telling the story of a nuclear strike on Britain through the eyes of two families, tracing the events leading up to the war and the decade of devastation that follows.

Join us at the 18:10 screening of Familiar Touch on Mon 22 June which will feature Descriptive Subtitles and an introduction from Nathan Hardie. After the screening join us in the Café & Bar for Deaf Conversations about Cinema with BSL interpretation.

Neglected pensioner Elsie finds an unexpected ally in her younger neighbour, bringing brighter days for both of them. But Elsie’s son John resents the way that Colleen has selflessly fulfilled the responsibilities that he has shirked. And simmering tensions bring shocking consequences in a gripping human story straight from the heart of broken Britain.

Dive into two of Alan Clarke's final stark and political made-for-TV films from 1987.

A switchman at a seaside railway witnesses a murder but does not report it after he finds a suitcase full of money at the scene of the crime.

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

BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville joins Aidan Turner in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel.

Fri 26 June - Thu 2 July

Jodie Foster’s impeccable French and comedic skills are on full display in this mystery thriller, which sees her character journey down a rabbit hole to investigate a suspicious death.

In this Lunchtime Talk Creative Technologist Coral Manton will talk about this ever-evolving role of being a Creative Technologist.

Fri 26 June - Thu 2 July

In the late 1990s, a family of six settles into their new home on Vancouver Island, as internal dynamics are slowly revealed through the experiences of the youngest child, Sasha. Their fresh start is interrupted by the increasingly dangerous behavior of Jeremy, the family’s oldest child.

An introverted princess has her world turned upside down, when her bounty hunter girlfriend of two weeks breaks up with her and is subsequently kidnapped by the ‘Straight White Maliens’. Along the way she is joined by a former gay pop idol and drag queen, who help her conquer her self-doubt to save her ex.

Join us in Watershed's Cafe & Bar after the preview screening of Lesbian Space Princess as part of Queer Vision 2026. Ticket holders for the Fri 26 June 20:30 screening will get priority access to our afterparty from 22:00 - midnight in the Café & Bar.