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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.

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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.

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

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In this Lunchtime Talk, Writer, Director and Access Consultant Jane Gauntlett discusses her most recent work, Legacy, and her experience dealing with burn-out and discrimination - and how her journey’s led her to build her new company, Tech, Paper, Scissors.

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

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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.

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First Friday is a monthly social and showcasing event open to anyone. It takes place in the Pervasive Media Studio every First Friday throughout the year except for August and January.

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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.

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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.

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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'.

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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.

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Ali Plumb – that movie bloke off the internet with the interviews and the specs and the beard – is taking his delightfully nerdy film quiz on the road again… and you should definitely come.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Welfare shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare.

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Gurinder Chadha’s beloved Bend It Like Beckham returns, starring Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley.

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The Road to Patagonia follows ecologist Matty Hannon on an incredible solo adventure surfing his way along the west coast of the Americas. Shot over 16 years, the result is a beautiful documentation of the untouched natural world that few get to experience, offering a thrilling new perspective on our place within it.

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Step into the burgeoning British youth culture of the 1950s and 60s with this selection of excerpts from the BFI National Archive’s Associated-Rediffusion collection.

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