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Rafiki

“ Rafiki: a politically charged love story ”

Posted on Thu 18 April 2019 by Julia Ray

Following international outcry, surrounding its ban by the Kenya Film Classification Board for violating anti-LGBT+ laws, Rafiki is fast becoming one of the most talked about LGBT+ films of the last five years. Following the journey of tom-boyish Kena and the vibrant and impulsive Ziki, young love and friendship bloom in a politically charged neighbourhood of Nairobi. 

BSL Guide: Power Cut

  BSL Guide: Power Cut

Posted on Wed 10 April 2019

We are experiencing power cuts, we will get the screening started again as soon as possible

BSL Guide: Screening Cancelled

  BSL Guide: Screening Cancelled

Posted on Wed 10 April 2019

We are very sorry but this screening has been cancelled, we will give you a refund at Box Office

BSL Guide: Technical Difficulties

  BSL Guide: Technical Difficulties

Posted on Wed 10 April 2019

We are having technical difficulties that we’re trying to resolve as quickly as possible

Our Little Sister

“ Letter to Koreeda ”

Posted on Wed 10 April 2019 by Tara Judah

Hirokazu Koreeda's films have taken up so much real estate in my heart that I wondered what I might say if I wrote a letter to the great filmmaker.

BSL Guide: First Aid Emergency

  BSL Guide: First Aid Emergency

Posted on Wed 10 April 2019

There is a first aid emergency, we will start the screening again as soon as possible.

BSL Guide: Fire Alarm

  BSL Guide: Fire Alarm

Posted on Wed 10 April 2019

The fire alarm has been activated, please evacuate the building.

Big Talk

“ Projections: an invitation to abandon expectations and explore new worlds ”

Posted on Fri 5 April 2019 by Tara Judah

'Projections' is a collection of stunning short artists' moving image film commissions touring UK cinemas this Spring, and Watershed are thrilled to be showing all four. Each one has been matched to a feature film in our programme and will whisk you away to unusual and otherworldly places, offering visual and aural interventions of a super sensory kind..

John Williams

“ Beyond the Blockbuster: John Williams' Film Scores ”

Posted on Thu 4 April 2019 by Sean Wilson

John Williams is well known for his signature Hollywood scores of Hollywood blockbusters, but there's so much more to his musical career in film. An epic talent across many genres, Williams' lesser known body of work is well worth discovery, writes film critic Sean Wilson

Out of Blue

“ Looking back at Carol Morley's Out of Blue ”

Posted on Wed 3 April 2019 by Tara Judah

Carol Morley is a singular British talent whose latest feature film, Out of Blue, reveals a mystery so compelling it spans her entire career. Morley, who is a Cinema Detective of sorts, searches for a new way of looking that might just change the way we understand our own gaze.

April 2019 Cinema Podcast

  April 2019 Cinema Podcast

Posted on Mon 1 April 2019

A selection of highlights from April brings purely enjoyable new films, a beguiling Italian fairy tale and retrospective of Japanese master filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda.