What’s On Week Ahead

A witty and stylish comedy, Olive Thomas plays a small-town schoolgirl who ventures to an elite finishing school and discovers the excitement and complications of independence, flirtation and fun.

Artists and Studio Residents, Action Hero are constructing 2000 paper buildings in our Café & Bar, and they need your help!

Until Thu 19 Feb

With virtual reality, giant inflatables, feature films, projections, sketchbooks and more – this season explores family, the creative spirit, grief and togetherness. With a multimedia exhibition alongside a series of events and films in the cinema from the Kötting family.

Fri 6 - Thu 12 Feb

Nominated at this year’s BAFTA Film Awards in the category of 'Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer', Akinola Davies Jr.'s bold and poetic film follows a father, estranged from his young sons, over the course of a day in Lagos.

In this screening and discussion, film historian Pam Hutchinson and comedian, actor Lucy Porter celebrate some of these overlooked acts inspired by Laurel & Hardy.

In this talk, artist and researcher Lara Luna-Bartley and sociologist and performer Rhiannon Craft will discuss Laundry Justice, a co-produced trans-disciplinary research project exploring off-grid laundry practices and knowledge with Vehicle Dwellers in Bristol.

Our Hospitality brings action movie thrills to a high-stakes comedy of manners, with extravagant period costumes, dramatic landscapes, and some classic Keaton railroad stunts leading to a truly breathtaking climax.

Fri 6 - Thu 12 Feb

In the Occupied West Bank of the 1980s, a Palestinian teenager is swept into a protest that changes the course of his family’s life. Reeling from its aftermath, his mother, Hanan, shares the story that led them to that fateful moment and the effects felt by her family across seven decades.

Until Thu 12 Feb

Claire Foy stars alongside Brendan Gleeson in Philippa Lowthorpe’s beautifully realised and emotionally charged adaptation of Helen MacDonald’s award-winning memoir.

Join us for a joyful celebration of one of Britain’s most beloved and influential sitcoms The Likely Lads.

First Friday is a monthly social and showcasing event open to anyone.

Until Thu 12 Feb

Oscar®-winning director Chloé Zhao's (Nomadland) adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's bestselling novel reimagines a pivotal moment in the lives of William Shakespeare's family.

Until Mon 9 Feb

Jean-Luc Godard’s extraordinary debut feature was this iconoclastic crime film, which almost singlehandedly changed the face of French cinema and went on to inspire countless New Waves around the world.

Fri 6 - Thu 12 Feb

The Chronology of Water is the directorial feature debut from Oscar®-nominated actor Kristen Stewart, starring Imogen Poots in a fearless, raw and unforgettable performance.

Until Thu 12 Feb

Park Chan-wook (Decision To Leave, Old Boy, The Handmaiden) returns with this satirical black comedy/thriller about a husband and father who takes violent action after being laid off.

Until Thu 12 Feb

A playful, poignant love letter to cinema, Richard Linklater reimagines the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless in an exuberant exploration of the youthful rebellion and creative chaos that shaped the French New Wave.

A rare opportunity to experience one of Yasujirō Ozu’s most captivating early silent comedies on the big screen.

Natasha Lyonne plays Megan, a wholesome all-American girl whose picture-perfect life implodes when her parents suspect she’s gay and ship her off to “True Directions,” a pastel-coloured conversion camp run by the hilariously zealous Cathy Moriarty, with RuPaul as the reformed ex-gay counsellor in high heels.

In postwar Kyoto, troubled monk Goichi’s reverence for the sacred Shukaku Temple curdles into obsession for its beauty as he witnesses corruption and hypocrisy within its walls. Tormented, he resolves to commit a shocking act of purity from which there is no return.

Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.

Join us for a special screening of Atoll K (Utopia), presented in a brand-new BFI restoration that returns Laurel & Hardy’s final feature to its original clarity and charm.

In a city of humanoid animals, a hustling theatre impresario's attempt to save his theatre with a singing competition becomes grander than he anticipates even as its finalists find that their lives will never be the same.

Guillermo Del Toro’s elegant and chilling ghost story is set in 1939, during the Spanish Civil War, with a defused bomb from Franco’s troops looming over the courtyard of a boys’ orphanage run by Republican loyalists.

Slapstick 2026 concludes with a big-screen return for one of the sharpest and most prescient political comedies ever made.

Please join us at the 18:00 DS screening of Nouvelle Vague on Mon 9 Feb which will feature an introduction from a special guest, followed by a post-screening discussion in the Café & Bar. Featuring BSL interpretation.

A devoted teacher faces shocking abuse allegations from his pupil’s mother. As media frenzy and a massive lawsuit spiral out of control, his world and his core self collapse around him in this fast-paced drama based on a real incident.

Make Shift Fundamentals are masterclasses for early career creatives (18-30s -ish) to come together in the Pervasive Media Studio and get their creative ideas moving. This session will be hosted by Bella Whatley, Head of Development.