Fri 21 - Thu 27 Nov
Benedict Cumberbatch gives a magnificent performance in the highly anticipated screen adaptation of Max Porter’s award-winning Grief Is the Thing with Feathers.
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Fri 21 - Thu 27 Nov
Benedict Cumberbatch gives a magnificent performance in the highly anticipated screen adaptation of Max Porter’s award-winning Grief Is the Thing with Feathers.
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Today at 13:00
In this Lunchtime Talk, we'll be joined by our Co-Directors of Regenerative Futures, Akshara Pulpa and Rachael Burton, as they share the journey they have been on in their first 6 months in post.
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Until Mon 24 Nov
When a single mother and her two daughters relocate to Taipei to open a night market stall, they encounter new challenges and generations of secrets that threaten to upend their family unity.
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Until Thu 27 Nov
From renowned filmmaker Lynne Ramsay this is a visceral and uncompromising portrait of a woman engulfed by love and postpartum psychosis. Anchored by a ferocious, tour de force performance from Jennifer Lawrence, and co-starring Robert Pattinson.
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Fri 21 - Thu 27 Nov
Predators is a chilling, thought-provoking exploration of the scintillating rise and staggering fall of the MTV show To Catch a Predator, and the underground world it helped spawn.
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Fri 21 - Thu 27 Nov
A 15-year-old orphan witnesses the shoot for a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen, and becomes fascinated by its star, Cristina (Marion Cotillard).
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Today at 18:30
Dhaqan Collective and Watershed invite you to a free, new community-powered screening sharing powerful stories at the intersection of climate and migration.
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Fri 21 - Sun 23 Nov
Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Michael Mann classic which sees a high-stakes game of cat and mouse between a criminal mastermind and the hard-boiled detective obsessed with catching him.
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Until Thu 27 Nov
Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
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Until Mon 24 Nov
Based on the beloved novella by Denis Johnson, Train Dreams is the moving portrait of Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), whose life unfolds during an era of unprecedented change in early 20th-century America.
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Until Mon 24 Nov
A joyful, poignant and unexpectedly funny love story which follows acclaimed poet Andrea Gibson and their partner Megan Falley as they navigate life, love and mortality in the face of Andrea’s terminal cancer diagnosis.
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Sun 23 - Tue 25 Nov
A troubled fashion designer strikes up a romance with a much younger woman.
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Mon 24 Nov 20:15
Join us at the 18:10 Descriptive Subtitled screening of Die My Love on Mon 24 Nov which will feature an introduction from Nathan Hardie, fellow audience member and Bristolian film critic, with BSL interpretation. This will be followed at 20:15 by a post-screening discussion in the Café & Bar with a guest speaker and audience members.
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Tue 25 Nov 18:00
Is Jazz is a monthly meet-up for 18-30(ish) year old creatives to explore collaborative creative process in a low-stakes, supportive, and informal way.
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Wed 26 Nov 10:00
A one day event for the culture sector on speaking up in troubled times.
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Until Wed 26 Nov
Palestine 36 (Palestine’s Official Submission for the Academy Awards®) follows Yusuf as he drifts between his rural home and the restless energy of Jerusalem, longing for a future beyond the growing unrest of 1936 Mandate Palestine.
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Wed 26 Nov - Thu 4 Dec
Contemporary cinema’s favourite detective Benoit Blanc returns in Rian Johnson’s sharply penned and devilishly fun reinvention of the classic whodunit.
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part of National Theatre Live
Thu 27 Nov - Sat 6 Dec
Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland.
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Fri 28 Nov - Thu 4 Dec
On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical Oklahoma!.
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Fri 28 Nov 13:00
In this Lunchtime Talk creative technologists and self proclaimed synth nerds Ant Nasce and Pete Nancollis explore how we play and how the virtual world lets us build the impossible
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Fri 28 Nov - Thu 4 Dec
A shy young man finds his place in the world as the submissive to a handsome biker, in Harry Lighton’s charming, sexy and tender debut.
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part of BPFF 2025
Fri 28 Nov 18:00
The Voice of Hind Rajab uses an innovative hybrid of drama and documentary, to tell the heart-shattering story of Hind Rajab, a six-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed by the Israeli army in Gaza in January 2024.
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part of BPFF 2025
Sat 29 Nov 17:30
After Noor, a Palestinian teenager, confronts Israeli soldiers at a West Bank protest, his mother recounts the history that brought Noor - and Palestine - to this moment.
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part of BPFF 2025
Sun 30 Nov 12:30
A British-Palestinian surgeon’s 43 day journey working day and night under bombardment in Gaza’s Al Shifa and Al Ahli hospitals.
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Sun 30 Nov - Wed 3 Dec
A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.
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part of BPFF 2025
Sun 30 Nov 19:30
This collection of short documentary films explores three different perspectives on life in the Gaza Strip before and after October 7th, 2023.
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Tue 2 Dec 18:00
Join us for our December Make Shift Meet Up with where we will be joined by Creative Technologist, Ant Nascè. Make Shift Meet-ups are a space for early career creatives(18-30s -ish) to come together in the Pervasive Media Studio on the first Tuesday evening of each month
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Tue 2 Dec 18:00
This is our special annual event where we say thank you to our incredible supporters, partners and friends who make Watershed’s work possible, and this year's celebration promises to be extra special.
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Wed 3 - Thu 11 Dec
In a UK immigration removal centre, Nigerian migrant Isio finds hope in an unexpected love that gives her the strength to fight a broken system.
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Thu 4 Dec 18:00
Acclaimed photographer Misan Harriman documents protest movements across the globe. But in a world more divided than ever, he is forced to question whether activism can actually deliver social change and if his own work can really make a difference.
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