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. 

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.

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 29 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. 

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.

Until Thu 29 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.

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 Thu 29 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.

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

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.

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.

Fri 23 Oct - Wed 18 Nov

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 Oct - Wed 11 Nov

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.

A Parisian advertising executive strangles his lover in an S&M game gone wrong but finds it increasingly difficult to confess his crime.

Students! We’re partnering with MUBI to bring you a mystery screening this Halloween. You’re in for a treat with this Hollywood horror classic. Tickets include a free drink and popcorn.

Dao plunges headfirst into two separate yet intrinsically interconnected ceremonies — a memorial in Guinea-Bissau and a wedding in Paris. Both are attended by the taciturn yet soulful middle-aged Gloria (Katy Correa), whose father has recently died and whose daughter, Nour (D’Johé Kouadio), is about to be married.