What’s On Week Ahead

Until Fri 30 Oct

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. 

Until Thu 22 Oct

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.

Until Thu 22 Oct

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.

Until Thu 22 Oct

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. 

Until Mon 26 Oct

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.

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.

Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside the Massachusetts Correctional Institution Bridgewater, for the so-called "Criminally Insane".

Until Thu 22 Oct

A 4K restoration of Danny Boyle's audaciously innovative and darkly comic classic on addiction, scams and survival.

Mon 19 - Thu 22 Oct

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.

Until Wed 21 Oct

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.

Until Thu 22 Oct

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.

Until Thu 22 Oct

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.

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.

Until Thu 22 Oct

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.

Until Thu 22 Oct

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.

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.

Fri 23 - Thu 29 Oct

After her baby brother is abducted by a murder of crows, a headstrong teenager and her unlikely companion undertake a daring rescue mission inside an enchanted forest on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon.

Fri 23 Oct - Wed 4 Nov

In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging and emotional road trip in a black Buick taking them across a Germany in ruins.

In this Lunchtime Talk, interactive documentary specialist Judith Aston will present her ongoing collaborative work in Avonmouth.

Fri 23 - Thu 29 Oct

A story of two married couples — a laid-off worker and his spouse and a documentary filmmaker and her spouse — crossing paths to film a documentary and facing their different lives and hidden desires.

Fri 23 - Thu 29 Oct

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.