
Film / Documentary
Afrika Eye 2019: Buddha in Africa + discussion
Documentary about a Malawian teenager torn between his African roots and Chinese upbringing
Film
Afrika Eye 2019: Return To Gorée + food, live music & Q&A
An evening of Senegalese film, music and food on board the SS Great Britain
Film
National Theatre Encore: Present Laughter
Andrew Scott stars in Noël Coward’s 1943 comedy of fame, desire and loneliness
Film
A Grand Day Out 30th anniversary + Q&A
Charity screening of Nick Park's very first Wallace and Gromit film
Film
Bristol Bad Film Club: Empire of the Dark
Bounty hunter beefcake unleashes whupass on Satanists from another dimension
It’s a very busy month for film, with multiple festivals plus loads of event cinema and one-off screenings. We’ve categorised the best of these below. For multiplex listings, check out our weekly Bristol’s Week in Film updates. And go here for our comprehensive film listings.
Film / Documentary
Documentary about a Malawian teenager torn between his African roots and Chinese upbringing
Film / Art House
Restoration of Julie Dash's acclaimed feature debut
Film / Documentary
Hard-hitting documentary about the #FeesMustFall student movement in South Africa
Film / Festival Screening
Cables & Cameras present new wave short films from the African diaspora
Film / Documentary
Documentary following a Libyan women's football team over five tumultuous years
Film / Art House
Acclaimed French girl gang coming-of-age drama
Film / Documentary
A jaunt through the ghettos of Kinshasa to meet musicians who struggle to emerge from the chaos
Film / Documentary
An evening of Senegalese film, music and food on board the SS Great Britain
Film / Drama
Drama based on the extraordinary kidnapping of football star Eusébio
Film / Drama
A Kenyan village comes together to help realise a dying girl's dream of becoming a superhero
Film / Documentary
A quartet of Sudanese filmmakers set out to revive cinema in their now strictly Islamic country
Film / Documentary
Documentary about a Kenyan farmer who became a climate change activist
Film / Drama
Preview of Chiwetel Ejiofor's directorial debut - an official British Oscar submission
Film / Art House
A South African coming of age story with a sexual identity twist
Film / Documentary
Documentary about fearless South African anti-corruption activist Thuli Madonsela
Film / Event Cinema
Horror short and live performance from the thrash metal titans
Film / Documentary
Manic Street Preachers concert film shot during the 2014 Holy Bible 20 tour
Film / Documentary
Unconventional, impressionistic film about the creation of cult musician PJ Harvey's 2016 album
Film / Documentary
Comprehensive PBS documentary about the life and career of the jazz giant
Film / Event Cinema
Colombian popstrel performs the hits in big sheds and stadiums around the globe
Film / Event Cinema
Synthpoppers captured live in concert by regular collaborator Anton Corbijn
Film / Event Cinema
1991 Wembley Stadium concert restored to 4K
Film / Drama
Evocatively seedy jazz-age drama screened at Totterdown's Old Picture House
Film / Comedy
Python's brilliant satire on everything from organised religion to left-wing sects
Film / Drama
22nd anniversary screening of James Cameron's romance'n'drowning epic aboard the SS Great Britain
Film / Event Cinema
Silent vampire classic screened in the Cathedral with improvised organ accompaniment
Film / Festival Screening
Christopher Nolan's audience-dividing sci fi flick screened at the Planetarium
Film / Animation
Animated foody precipitation alert at the Planetarium
Film / Action
James Cameron directs a rare example of a sequel that's better than the original film
Film / Horror
Ridley Scott's original Alien returns
Film / Drama
Liza Minnelli hoofs it up in thirties Berlin
Film / Documentary
Documentary exploring the secret history of lesbian cinema, screened in the We Are Here season
Film / Documentary
A non-judgemental portrait of the gay porn icon, screened in the We Are Here Season
Film / Comedy
Enjoyably camp, Oscar-winning outback comedy
Film / Comedy
Julie Andrews pretends to be a bloke who pretends to be a woman in this 1982 musical comedy
Film / Drama
A Tory minister and his wife go to war in Simon Woods' searing new play
Film / Event Cinema
Andrew Scott stars in Noël Coward’s 1943 comedy of fame, desire and loneliness
Film / Ballet
Concerto, Enigma Variations and Raymonda Act III
Film / Event Cinema
The late Anthony Minghella's production of the evergreen Puccini opera
Film / Event Cinema
Phelim McDermott‘s Olivier Award-winning production of Philip Glass‘s Egyptian opera
Film / Event Cinema
Kathryn Hunter stars in a gender-swap production of the Bard's ever-timely satire on greed
Film / Ballet
Hugely acclaimed contemporary dance reworking places R&J in the sinister 'Verona Institute'
Film / Event Cinema
Gwendoline Christie stars in Nicholas Hytner's immersive staging of the Bard's romcom
Film / Ballet
Pirate shenanigans ahoy in one of the Bolshoi's most lavish productions
Film / Event Cinema
Phoebe Waller-Bridge's one-woman play that inspired the hit TV series returns to the stage
Film / Event Cinema
Bonnie Langford stars in the glitzy musical, recorded live at the Theatre Royal
Film / Event Cinema
The Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical
Film / Drama
Your chance to bellow along with the hit musical phenomenon outdoors on the Downs
Film / Comedy
The annual dose of CBeebies family fun, this year featuring Waffle the Wonder Dog
Film / Animation
All four Wallace and Gromit shorts screened in aid of the Curzon's roof appeal
Film / Animation
Double-bill of animations adapted from Julia Donaldson's popular children's picture books
Film / Animation
Charity screening of Nick Park's very first Wallace and Gromit film
Film / Animation
Disney's searing indictment of class prejudice (with saucy songs)
Film / Animation
Disney's original 1961 animated dog pile-up romp with scary villainess Cruella DeVille
Film / Animation
Disney's animated Peter Pan, with that great tick-tocking crocodile
Film / Documentary
The NUJ presents the Bristol premiere of this documentary about a freedom of speech scandal
Film / Documentary
The twisty-turny story of a dying US illusionist and the filmmaker making a documentary about him
Film / Documentary
Premiere of this Bristol-made documentary about the UK grassroots cycling scene
Film / Documentary
A provocative meditation on the state of race relations in the USA
Film / Documentary
Holocaust documentary in which a group of Jewish bikers re-trace their forebears' footsteps
Film / Documentary
A documentary about the relationship between art and madness
Film / Drama
A brief opportunity to see Scorsese's Netflix gangster epic on the big screen
Film / Documentary
When Werner met Gorby
Film / Drama
Quirky, darkly comic feminist reworking of domestic violence-themed seaside entertainment
Film / Drama
Dramatisation of the extraordinary true story of the probe into the CIA's use of torture after 9/11
Film / Comedy
Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver star in Noah Baumbach's divorce drama
Film / Comedy
Odd-couple Popey comedy-drama with Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce
Film / Drama
Epic period vengeance thriller from the director of The Babadook
Film / Documentary
'Can you really save the planet by buying more shit?' asks this must-see documentary
Film / Documentary
Meditative documentary exploring how industry has wreaked enormous change on the landscape
Film / Action
Bounty hunter beefcake unleashes whupass on Satanists from another dimension
Film / Event Cinema
An "interactive in-cinema gaming event" with a YouTube star
Film / Documentary
Bumper annual crop of foolhardy al fresco adventuring
Film / Event Cinema
Watch other people playing computer games for hours and hours and hours
Film / Art House
A bizarre, folklore-inspired Estonian fairytale
Film / Comedy
Cheese-tastic '80s horror flick screened in late night cult classic season
Film / Drama
Robert Aldrich's noir classic, which was referenced so reverently in Pulp Fiction
Film / Drama
Merchant-Ivory's greatest triumph, much of which was shot round these parts
Film / Drama
Oscar winning 1970 biopic of the bellicose US general
Film / Drama
Ang Lee's spiritual shipwreck drama with extraordinary CGI effects
Film / Action
Ang Lee's stunning, graceful Oscar winner, which reinvented the martial arts movie
Film / Animation
Marjane Satrapi's brilliant, autobiographical coming-of-age in Iran animation
Film / Drama
Cracking 1959 heist flick with a nasty underbelly of racism
Film / Drama
Splendid if overlooked Hitchcockian gothic mystery from 1945
Film / Art House
Almodovar's campy, moving tale of female solidarity on screen at Arnos Vale Cemetery
Film / Comedy
The original 1927 silent film that inspired the musical, with live musical accompaniment
Film / Science Fiction
Classic Trek flick from 1982 returns in Flashback season
Film / Drama
E.A. Dupont's lavish 1928 silent drama set in and around the dancehalls of Paris
Film / Animation
Anime feature boasting giant robots and OTT firefights
Film / Science Fiction
Ridley Scott's definitive version of his classic sci fi returns to the big screen
Film / Comedy
4K restoration of Billy Wilder's comedy classic
Film / Fantasy
The late David Bowie in his silliest film performance, screened in Redcliffe Caves
Film / Drama
20th anniversary screening of the Oscar nominated Welsh/Yiddish romantic drama
Film / Drama
A Jewish-Norwegian teen disguises herself as a boy to evade the Nazis
Film / Art House
Bold 1958 classic launches short season from the London Korean Film Festival
Film / Art House
Ambiguous, narratively inventive drama from Korean master Sang-soo Hong