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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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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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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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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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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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In this Lunchtime Talk, Teresa Dillon and Felipe Schmidt Fonseca of the artist-led research programme Repair Acts discuss the group's methodologies, focusing on the co-creation of local Repair Declarations with citizen bodies.

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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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In rural Ireland, amateur historian Catherine Corless begins researching a former institution for unmarried mothers and their children, uncovering a shocking hidden history of loss. Based on a true story, The Lost Children of Tuam is a deeply moving portrait of one woman’s fight for justice.

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In an English girls boarding school, two teenage best friends grapple with the challenges of girlhood — friendship, boys, studies, and growing up — and embark on their school project, falling in love.

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FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecktor, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecktor to capture a new killer.

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Director Martin McDonagh continues to mine the absurdities and complexities of male relationships in a film that brims with energy and is sure to delight.

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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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The writer-director behind Sorry to Bother You is back with another idiosyncratic, anti-capitalist vision, featuring an all-star cast that includes Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, LaKeith Stanfield and Demi Moore.

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Brad Bird’s smart animated caper, set in a futuristic world where humans and aliens co-exist, sees a private eye drawn into a murder investigation.

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Claude Chabrol’s masterful thriller hinges on the unlikely bond between a schoolmistress and a butcher and the unsettling possibility that all might not be what it seems as a wave of murders grip their small idyllic French village.

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Lee Chang-dong’s masterfully directed follow-up to Burning finds four strangers’ lives entwined by hidden desires and repressed emotions.

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A genre-defying queer epic, rooted in the legacy of beloved writer Federico García Lorca, this is majestic and original filmmaking.

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Please join us at the 17:40 Descriptive Subtitled screening of Digger on Mon 12 Oct which will feature an introduction from Nathan Hardie, followed by a post-screening discussion in the Café & Bar. Featuring BSL interpretation.

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Join us for this one-off screening of acclaimed British coming-of-age drama Ish – specifically for (post-16) students and young people (16-25) plus teaching/youth staff. This special screening will be followed by a Masterclass and Q&A with the film's Producer Dhiraj Mahey and Director Imran Peretta, covering the making of the film, and how to collaborate with other creatives to realise your ideas. Tickets for this special screening are just £3.00 for teachers and students.

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Danny Boyle brings a seismic moment in Rupert Murdoch’s Fleet Street career blazingly to life, employing the breathtaking style of a story torn from the headlines.

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Winner of the Grand Jury Dramatic Prize at Sundance, this suspenseful and devastating film follows a child trying to navigate life after witnessing a sexual assault.

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In a masterclass of control and precision, Paweł Pawlikowski explores the fragmented soul of postwar Germany through a father-daughter road trip dominated by personal ghosts.

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From Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the 2024 Oscar® winning directors of No Other Land, comes NAZA, a film examining the systems behind Israel’s mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

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Based on true events, Tenzing spotlights the little-known story of a gifted Himalayan climber who, alongside a New Zealand mountaineer, became the first to summit Mount Everest.

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In this Lunchtime Talk, British Somali artist and researcher Fozia Ismail will discuss her work on the multi-sensory installation A Song for the Xeedho - The Knot Makers.

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From the creators of Spirited Away and Ponyo, and Academy Award®-nominated director Hiromasa Yonebayashi, comes a gorgeous and adventure-filled adaptation of The Borrowers, one of the most beloved children’s books of all time.

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Set against the backdrop of mass protests in Paris, Case 137 follows a meticulous internal affairs investigator working on the case of a teenager severely wounded by police fire.

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A 4K restoration of Danny Boyle's audaciously innovative and darkly comic classic on addiction, scams and survival.

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Andrey Zvyagintsev transposes Claude Chabrol’s La Femme infidèle to contemporary Russia, delivering a magnificent political allegory that dissects the mechanics of ego, violence and corruption.

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This searching, Palme d’Or-winning moral dilemma pits preaching conservative Christian parents against a holier-than-thou liberal system.

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Maybe marrying into wealth and position was a bad life move for Hélène. After her acidhead husband freaks out, sending their son to the hospital, father-in-law Ludovic hires erstwhile romantic charmer Paul to blackmail her.

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A jaded New York club promoter finds his messy lifestyle upended by the discovery that he has a son, in Jordan Firstman’s hilarious feature directorial debut.

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For LFF 2026’s curtain call, writer-director Jesse Eisenberg delivers a rapturous and raucously funny love letter to community theatre, featuring a luminous lead performance by Julianne Moore.

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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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Academy Award® winner Nicole Kidman delivers an unforgettable performance in this gothic supernatural thriller that has been restored in 4K to celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.

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Poet, educator, activist and entrepreneur Lawrence Hoo showed his first film in Watershed in October 2006 – 20 years ago this month.  This evening celebrates the enormous contribution that Lawrence has made to art, equality and talent development in Bristol and beyond.

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When a mystery tide of poisoned sealife washes ashore on England’s North East coast, grief gives way to a turbulent quest for answers, led by the unlikeliest of rebels.

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