What’s On Week Ahead

Until Sun 28 Jun

Four artists from our incredible Pervasive Media Studio community share works in progress exploring the future of technologies in our lives. Make faces with emotion-sensing software, build new worlds, meet future folk heroes – imagine what digital futures could look like.

Prepare to be dazzled by Wong Kar Wai’s elegant and breathtaking masterpiece, a heartbreaking story of illicit love that pulses with the ache and agony of repressed desire.

Until Thu 18 Jun

In 1975 Cologne, an ambitious teenage concert promoter defies her conservative family and navigates impossible odds to book American jazz pianist Keith Jarrett for what becomes the legendary Köln Concert.

During the 2006 World Cup qualifying match between Iran and Bahrain, numerous young women are caught and rounded up for dressing as men so they could gain access to the game. Guarded by several soldiers in a holding pen, the women attempt to keep updated on the score.

While holidaying in Poland, a volcano erupts just before Rob (Will Madden) proposes to Bethany (Charli XCX), which she takes as a sign to leave her fiancé for a passionate reunion with her old friend Nel (Lena Góra).

Until Thu 18 Jun

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom in this adaptation of the global phenomenon from Kane Parsons.

Until Thu 18 Jun

Facing the death of his country’s glaciers and the loss of his beloved grandparents, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason turns his archives into a time capsule to hold what is slipping away — family, memory, time and water.

Until Thu 18 Jun

When a shy hopeless romantic makes a wish that his long-time crush falls in love with him, a sinister enchantment ensues in writer/director Curry Barker's freaky and frightening feature debut.

One of the most searing romances of the 1990s, Wong Kar Wai’s emotionally raw, lushly stylised portrait of a relationship in breakdown casts Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing as a couple traveling through Argentina falling in and out of love.

Swinging between hard-boiled noir and slapstick lunacy with giddy abandon, the film is both a dizzying, dazzling city symphony and a poignant meditation on love, loss, and longing in a metropolis that never sleeps.

Join MUTI live for a one day masterclass designed for producers and self-producing artists who are responsible for making immersive projects across VR, XR, interactive installations and more.

A fascinating portrait of those involved in maintaining Manhattan’s green space.

Stuart Nolan returns to Watershed, where he was Magician in Residence - with a new book drawn from 35 years as a professional mindreader.

Mon 15 - Thu 18 June

Paul Thomas Anderson's deliriously entertaining account of the mid-70s porn industry, with an unforgettable Mark Wahlberg as 'Dirk Diggler' and Burt Reynolds as his producer.

Until Thu 18 Jun

Romance and art entwine in this new 4K presentation of the first drama by Tomboy and Girlhood director Céline Sciamma.

Wed 17 - Thu 18 June

Now recognised as a landmark work of animation, Mamoru Oshii’s cryptic and mesmerising experimental Angel’s Egg is perhaps his most personal work and a crucially important film in anime history.

Fri 19 - Thu 25 June

Based on Gary Owen’s much lauded and widely performed one-woman play, Iphigenia in Splott, Effi o Blaenau is director Marc Evans’ cinematic interpretation set against the wide open landscapes of North Wales.

In this Lunchtime Talk, Kate Sim-Read will explore how data can be stored and distributed, even in places with no buildings or power, to distribute crucial information to people living in unstable situations.

Fri 19 - Thu 25 June

Familiar Touch is a coming-of-old-age film following an older woman's transition into assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship with herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.

Fri 19 - Thu 25 June

Pauline Loquès’s remarkable debut feature, which premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week, is a beautiful ode to the heyday of French New Wave filmmaking.

A soldier returns to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his disabled brother while he was away.