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Encounters Film Festival's 31st edition features 142 films in competition from 39 countries, alongside a rich programme of special screenings, discovering emerging talent and showcasing celebrated auteurs.

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In this Lunchtime Talk, Jonny Cotsen will share his artistic journey as a Deaf artist, performer and creative practitioner.

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Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom sees the residents of Mossy Bottom Farm looking forward to Halloween – until the clumsy Farmer trashes the Flock’s beloved pumpkin patch!

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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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Queen at Sea follows Amanda and her stepfather, Martin, at odds over a moral dilemma involving Amanda’s mother, Leslie.

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Luca lives in a big house with her loving parents, and she has millions of followers on social media. She has everything a teenage girl could wish for. Except Luca has never chosen that life...

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A charming, witty, and deeply relatable story of love and sisterhood, Sense and Sensibility is an irresistible new take on Jane Austen's classic novel, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles, Caitríona Balfe, George MacKay, and Fiona Shaw.

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A love story like no other, The Cycle of Love is an inspiring, heart-warming, epic true-life adventure about self-belief, destiny and the courage to risk everything for love, traversing continents in a journey spanning Delhi to Sweden.

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After 25 years, the legendary debut from Academy Award®-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman, The Revenant) returns to the big screen in a stunning restoration.

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Award-winning Director James Dawson’s new documentary is set in the rolling hills of Devon, telling the story of two neighbouring farmers who share the same name but take radically different approaches to land use. 

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Installed in Watershed throughout October, visitors are invited to peek through the walkway window into an intimate world of nostalgia – a front room full of real Caribbean keepsakes contributed by families who settled in Bristol. 

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The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s saviour from a disaster he's caused.

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First Friday is a monthly social event open to anyone taking place in the Pervasive Media Studio every First Friday of each month.

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When Samuel (Ethan Hawke) is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal prison, Warden Clancy (Russell Crowe) offers a high-stakes proposition: smuggle gold out of a remote mine with a dangerous crew of prisoners and he’ll win his freedom.

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Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside the Massachusetts Correctional Institution Bridgewater, for the so-called "Criminally Insane".

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A wealthy bourgeoise is plucked off the street by a Parisian pavement artist who whisks her away to off-season Saint-Tropez for a life of idle decadence in the company of her raffish friends.

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How Deep Is Your Love follows a group of marine biologists trying to understand life in this unknown world, while grappling with the question of whether their presence risks harming what they seek to protect. A visually hypnotic and deeply absorbing journey in which every discovery reshapes our understanding of the planet.

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Join us for a monthly meet up for 18-30(ish) creatives who are at the beginning of building their creative practice or at the start of their careers in creative industries. A space to connect, grow, and come unstuck.

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Andrew Scott is a towering presence in this singular account of Ian Charleson’s life, capturing the moment when he faced his own mortality as he prepared to play Hamlet at the Royal National Theatre.

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Eleanor Coppola’s documentary on the making of Marie Antoinette is a rousing love letter to filmic craft and the joys and complexities of leading an artistic life.

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