Slapstick Festival 2025
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Silent Movie

Rated PG

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part of Slapstick 2025

Today at 09:30

Silent Movie

Silent Movie charts the attempts by Mel Brooks and the lost-too-young Marty Feldman to make a silent film.

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The Brutalist

Rated 18

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Until Thu 20 Feb

The Brutalist

Director Brady Corbet’s (Vox Lux, The Childhood of a Leader) monumental drama is an ambitious American epic starring Adrien Brody as a Jewish Hungarian architect who flees Europe at the end of World War II to rebuild his life in an unfamiliar land.

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Until Thu 20 Feb

A Complete Unknown

Timothée Chalamet stars and sings as Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown, the electric true story behind the rise of one of the most iconic singer-songwriters in history.

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Keaton: Saphead

Rated U

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part of Slapstick 2025

Today at 13:45

Keaton: Saphead

Keaton stars as a pampered son of a powerful Wall Street financier. Having known no other lifestyle but privilege, he wanders through a variety of misadventures.

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Bring Them Down

Rated 15

Until Thu 20 Feb

Bring Them Down

Bring Them Down is a tense and gripping thriller about two warring families set against the harsh landscape of rural west Ireland.

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The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Rated 15

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Until Thu 13 Feb

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

In Tehran, an exemplary family of an investigating judge is put to the test by the dramatic events following a young woman’s death in police custody.

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Vermiglio

Rated 15

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Until Wed 19 Feb

Vermiglio

1944, Vermiglio, a remote mountain village. The arrival of Pietro, a refugee soldier, into the family of the local teacher, and his love for the teacher's eldest daughter, will change the course of everyone's life.

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Hard Truths

Rated 12A

Until Wed 19 Feb

Hard Truths

Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us.

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The Girl With Hat Box

Rated 12A

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part of Slapstick 2025

Fri 14 Feb 09:30

The Girl With Hat Box

Anna Sten plays a hat maker caught in a love triangle and challenges involving a room rental scam and a winning lottery ticket.

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Fri 14 - Thu 20 Feb

Memoir of a Snail

Memoir of a Snail is the bittersweet remembrance of a lonely woman called Grace Pudel, who retells her life story to a humble garden snail named Sylvia.

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Fri 14 Feb 13:00

Deepwood - Wild Tree Listening

In this Lunchtime Talk, discover Deepwood—a live, audio-based deep-listening experience with a tree using real-time plant data. With Creative Director Tom Bailey and Plant Biosensor Designer Danilo Oliveira Vaz.

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The Opportunist

Rated 12A

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part of Slapstick 2025

Fri 14 Feb 13:30

The Opportunist

A small-time black-marketeer loathe to shed his capitalist ways tries to work the chaos of the Bolshevik takeover to his advantage.

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The House At Trubnaya Square

Rated 12A

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part of Slapstick 2025

Fri 14 Feb 15:30

The House At Trubnaya Square

Recognised widely as a masterpiece of Soviet silent cinema, The House at Trubnaya Square is a delightful comedy of manners satirising contemporary life in Moscow during a time of ever-shifting, often contradictory, policies.

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To A Land Unknown

Rated 15

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Fri 14 - Thu 20 Feb

To A Land Unknown

Mahdi Fleifel delivers a gritty, captivating drama about young Palestinians caught in an eternal state of exile.

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I was Born But

Rated U

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part of Slapstick 2025

Sat 15 Feb 09:30

I was Born But

I Was Born, But is director Yasujiro Ozu's film that looks at family life through the eyes of two young mischevious brothers, new to their Tokyo neighbourhood.

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Tootsie

Rated 15

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part of Slapstick 2025

Sat 15 Feb 12:00

Tootsie

Dustin Hoffman gives an Oscar®-nominated performance as an unsuccessful actor who poses as a woman to try for a part in a hit TV series.

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Perfect Days

Rated PG

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Until Sat 15 Feb

Perfect Days

Wim Wenders's beguiling drama is a poignant, warm-hearted portrait of a Tokyo toilet cleaner, played by Cannes Best Actor prize-winner Koji Yakusho.

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The Wild Robot

Rated U

Until Sun 23 Feb

The Wild Robot

From the co-director of How to Train Your Dragon comes an incredible journey of survival, love and selflessness, featuring gorgeous animation and stunning voice performances.

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Keaton: Go West

Rated U

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part of Slapstick 2025

Sun 16 Feb 09:30

Keaton: Go West

Buster Keaton is both touching and very, very funny in this spoof cowboy film as Friendless, a hapless soul who decides to try his hand at cattle ranching after failing to find a big city job.

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News From Home

Rated U

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part of Chantal Akerman

Sun 16 - Tue 18 Feb

News From Home

Chantal Akerman’s film, shot in the grime of 70s New York, bridges the distance from Brussels through dictated letters from her mother.

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Thu 20 Feb 11:30

Shonkbots - Family Creative Tech Workshop

This February half term we are inviting young people aged 8-14 and their guardians to join us for a workshop hosted by Dr. Libby Miller. A playful, interactive exploration of robotics made with everyday items, you'll get to explore creative tech, and build a Shonkbot.

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I am Martin Parr

Rated 12A

Thu 20 - Thu 27 Feb

I am Martin Parr

Discover the maverick behind some of the most iconic images of the past century on an intimate and exclusive road trip across England with the uncompromising Martin Parr, whose subjects, frames and colours have revolutionised contemporary photography.

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Fri 21 Feb 13:00

The Invisible Friend

In this Lunchtime Talk, we will hear from theatre-makers Russell Bender and Sarah Golding who will share their prototype of an interactive, immersive performance for young children.

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I'm Still Here

Rated 15

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Fri 21 - Thu 27 Feb

I'm Still Here

Walter Salles makes a triumphant return with an emotionally layered, visually rich account of family life under an oppressive regime in 1970s Brazil.

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September Says

Rated 18

Fri 21 - Thu 27 Feb

September Says

Sisters July and September are thick as thieves, though very different. Their dynamic is a concern to their single mum, Sheela, who is unsure what to do with them.

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The Record-Breaking Perfect Days

Rated PG

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Sun 23 Feb 10:50, 13:50, 17:00, 19:50

The Record-Breaking Perfect Days

Celebrate our longest-running film so far with an all-day screenathon of Wim Wender's Perfect Days - exactly a year to the date it was originally released.

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Les Rendez-vous d'Anna

Rated 15

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part of Chantal Akerman

Sun 23 - Tue 25 Feb

Les Rendez-vous d'Anna

A quasi self-portrait that was unfairly neglected on its release, this road movie is a profound musing on loneliness, displacement and the long shadow of the war.

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Mon 24 Feb 20:20

Deaf Conversations About Cinema: I'm Still Here

Join us at the 18:00 DS screening of I'm Still Here on Mon 24 Feb which will feature Descriptive Subtitles and an introduction from Dr Lucas de Abreu Maia, Lecturer in Politics with Quantitative Research Methods at the University of Bristol After the screening join us in the Café & Bar for Deaf Conversations about Cinema.

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Preview: The Summer with Carmen + Q&A

Rated 18

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Tue 25 Feb 18:00

Preview: The Summer with Carmen + Q&A

The Summer with Carmen is a sexy, sun-drenched romp with a hunky cast that celebrates the bonds of queer platonic friendship - and featuring a very cute dog!

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