Relaxed Screenings and Visits
Our relaxed screenings and visits are designed to benefit our customers with additional needs (such as people living with dementia, autism, or other neurodivergent people and their personal assistants, friends and family) or anyone who wants to enjoy a film or a visit at Undershed in a more relaxed, spacious environment. Everyone is welcome.
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Here's what you can expect at a Relaxed Screening:
- Reduced Capacity - The capacity for the cinema will be set at 60% of our usual capacity to ensure there's enough room between audience members
- The cinema doors will open 20 minutes before the screening start time
- We won't show any trailers or adverts and the film will start promptly at its advertised start time
- The lights will be up a little
- The sound will be down a little
- You are welcome to move around the cinema, to talk and make noise, and to exit and enter the cinema as you please
- There will be lots of space in the cinema so you can spread out or lie down if you choose.
- It is very informal and yoga mats and beanbags will be available
- We will screen films with Descriptive Subtitles whenever they are available
- We will provide a separate quiet space where you can chill out if you need to
- Our staff will be around to help with whatever you need.
Here's what you can expect at a Relaxed Visit at Undershed:
- Maximum of 6 people in the space so you can spend longer with each of the artworks
- Gallery Assistants will have more time to spend with you if you need them and explain what to expect so you can choose which if the artworks you are comfortable to try.
- More seating options for you to rest and relax.
- The welcome space is a quiet space where you can chill out if you need it.
Upcoming Relaxed Screenings
Small Things Like These
classified 12A
Oscar® Winner Cillian Murphy delivers a stunning performance as devoted father Bill Furlong in this film based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Claire Keegan.
Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci revel in the ritual and intrigue surrounding the process of choosing a new pontiff, in this tantalisingly tense Vatican-set drama.
Sing The Body Electric Collection 2
classifiedSuitable for 12 years and over
No one younger than 12 may be permitted to enter.
The second collection in Undershed explores what lies just beyond the edge of our perception and is revealed through unusual ways of encountering a story.
Nightbitch
classified 15
Marielle Heller once again proves to be one of cinema’s most exciting filmmakers, with this fabulous genre-bending exploration of motherhood.
1950. Daniel Craig stars as William Lee, an outcast American expat who becomes infatuated with an elusive younger man (played by Drew Starkey) while revelling in the city’s nightlife and colourful cast of characters.
Silent Movie
classified PG S Slapstick 2025
Silent Movie charts the attempts by Mel Brooks and the lost-too-young Marty Feldman to make a silent film.
Slapstick Kids: The Haunted Mansion
classified PG Slapstick 2025
Eddie Murphy plays the lead in this comedy send-up of every horror film ever.
Tickets
£8.50 full / £5.00 concessions and under 24s, and personal assistants go free.
Access
Our building is fully accessible – visit our Access Page for all the details. We also have a Visual Story you can view to help you to become familiar with the new surroundings.
Sign up to our Accessible Mailing list for regular updates about forthcoming accessible screenings and events.
We really want to hear your feedback on relaxed screenings
Email us at access@watershed.co.uk, call 0117 927 5100 or speak to us in person to let us know what you think and if there's anything we can improve.