What’s On Week Ahead

Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat
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Showing Sun 24 – Sat 30 Nov

Perfect Days  (Subtitled)

Until Wed 27 Nov

Wim Wenders's beguiling drama is a poignant, warm-hearted portrait of a Tokyo toilet cleaner, played by Cannes Best Actor prize-winner Koji Yakusho.

Sing The Body Electric​ Collection 1 

part of Sing The Body Electric

Sing The Body Electric​ Collection 1

With four artworks that explore tactile contact and gesture, this unique collection explores how our bodies engage with the people and environments that surround us.

Small Things Like These 

Until Thu 28 Nov

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.

Sun 24 Nov

Mon 25 Nov

This is a Relaxed Visit.

Our Relaxed 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 in a more relaxed, spacious environment. Everyone is welcome.


Book tickets

Close notice

Book ticket for Small Things Like These at 20:40, Mon 25 Nov (ends 22:31) (Audio Described screening.)

Tue 26 Nov

Wed 27 Nov

Thu 28 Nov

You can buy the original book that inspired the film by Claire Keegan from our friends at Bookhaus.

The Heroic Trio  (Subtitled)

part of Hong Kong Action Sundays

The Heroic Trio

With this outrageously entertaining cult favourite, director Johnnie To and his lineup of legendary stars gave Hong Kong cinema something new: its own homegrown superhero cinematic universe.

Anora  (Partially Subtitled)

Until Thu 28 Nov

Sean Baker won the Palme d’Or at Cannes with this enthralling drama, featuring a star-making performance from Mikey Madison.

The feature presentation contains sequences of flashing lights that may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy or other photo-sensitivities.

No Other Land  (Subtitled)

Until Thu 28 Nov

Movingly captured by a Palestinian-Israeli collective, this award-winning film spotlights the gradual erasure of Palestinian activist Basel Adra’s community, as he forms an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist in an effort to document the ongoing occupation.

The Wed 20 Nov 18:00 screening will be introduced by Bristol Doc Club who'll be holding a discussion group in the Café & Bar following the film.

Is Jazz x Make Shift Meet Up

Is Jazz x Make Shift Meet Up

Until Tue 28 Jan

Is Jazz is a space for 18-30(ish)-year-olds to share your own creative practice and explore other peoples' in a low-stakes, supportive, informal way.

Tue 26 Nov

Book ticket for Is Jazz x Make Shift Meet Up at 18:00, Tue 26 Nov (ends 20:00)
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Tuesday screenings are part of our Cinébites meal deal - get 30% off main dishes from our menu.

Supporters Evening 2024

Supporters Evening 2024

Join us for a special evening for Watershed’s supporters, sponsored by TLT LLP. The event will showcase the impact of your support and introduce you to some of our new and exciting work.

Box Office Poison: Land of the Pharaohs 

To mark the publication of critic Tim Robey's new book Box Office Poison, we’re screening an infamous flop selected by Tim – Howard Hawks’ historical epic, Land of the Pharaohs.

Tim Robey will be in conversation before the screening, with copies of the book available to purchase at a signing afterwards.Hosted by Andrew Kelly from Bristol Ideas.

Polite Society 

A merry mash up of sisterly affection, parental disappointment and bold action in writer-director Nida Manzoor's feature debut.

The Thu 28 Nov 18:00 screening is followed by a Q&A with director Nida Manzoor, hosted by Hannah Marie Williams and Lowri Roberts from Frank Film Club.

A Night of Knowing Nothing  (Partially Subtitled)

This bold and distinctive feature debut from director Payal Kapadia explores the political climate of contemporary India.

Join us before the screening from 19:00 for an open discussion in the Café & Bar led by Desis Organise about the political context of Kapadia's debut film.

The Taste of Mango 

Sat 30 Nov - Thu 5 Dec

In her debut feature documentary - a cinematic love letter spanning time and generations - Chloe Abrahams probes at raw questions her mother and grandmother have long brushed aside, untangling painful knots in her family’s unspoken past.

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