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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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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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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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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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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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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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A struggling primary school teacher begins to make some questionable decisions after one of her students is injured.
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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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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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part of Lunchtime Talks
Fri 16 Oct 13:00
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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part of BFI LFF on Tour 2026
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 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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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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part of Wiseman of the Month
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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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part of Scares at the Shed
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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