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Fri 21 - Thu 27 Nov

The Thing With Feathers

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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Left-Handed Girl

Rated 15

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Until Mon 24 Nov

Left-Handed Girl

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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Die My Love

Rated 15

Until Thu 27 Nov

Die My Love

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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Predators

Rated 18

Fri 21 - Thu 27 Nov

Predators

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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The Ice Tower

Rated 15

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Fri 21 - Thu 27 Nov

The Ice Tower

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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Thank You For The Rain + Short

Rated 15

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Today at 18:30

Thank You For The Rain + Short

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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Heat

Rated 15

Fri 21 - Sun 23 Nov

Heat

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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Bugonia

Rated 15

Until Thu 27 Nov

Bugonia

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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Train Dreams

Rated 12A

Until Mon 24 Nov

Train Dreams

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

Come See Me in the Good Light

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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Mon 24 Nov 20:15

Deaf Conversations About Cinema: Die My Love

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 Meetup

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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Palestine 36

Rated 12A

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Until Wed 26 Nov

Palestine 36

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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Thu 27 Nov - Sat 6 Dec

The Fifth Step

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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Blue Moon

Rated 15

Fri 28 Nov - Thu 4 Dec

Blue Moon

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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Pillion

Rated 18

Fri 28 Nov - Thu 4 Dec

Pillion

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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The Voice of Hind Rajab

Rated 18 (CTBA)

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part of BPFF 2025

Fri 28 Nov 18:00

The Voice of Hind Rajab

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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All That's Left of You

Rated 18 (CTBA)

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part of BPFF 2025

Sat 29 Nov 17:30

All That's Left of You

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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A State of Passion

Rated 18 (CTBA)

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part of BPFF 2025

Sun 30 Nov 12:30

A State of Passion

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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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Rated 12A

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part of All That Melodrama Allows

Sun 30 Nov - Wed 3 Dec

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

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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Voices from Gaza

Rated 18 (CTBA)

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part of BPFF 2025

Sun 30 Nov 19:30

Voices from Gaza

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

Make Shift Meet up Synth Pies Special with Ant Nasce

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

Supporters Evening 2025

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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Dreamers

Rated 15

Wed 3 - Thu 11 Dec

Dreamers

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

Misan Harriman: Shoot the People + Q&A

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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