The full programme for Slapstick Festival 2026 has arrived!
Running from Wed 4th to Sun 8th Feb 2026 at Bristol Beacon, Bristol Megascreen, St George's Bristol, and @wshed.bsky.social , this yearβs festival celebrates comedyβs power to challenge convention - link in below for the lineup.
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Black and white still from Come Back Africa of two people looking over a fence
Afrika Eye Film Festival celebrates their 20th anniversary this weekend (Fri 14th - Sun 16th November) across Bristol.
A fantastic selection of cinema from the African diaspora, we recommend Come Back Africa (1959), a powerful docufiction filmed covertly in South Africa.
ποΈ via Afrika Eye website.
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Undershed: One year in
Lead Curator Amy Rose shares reflections, highlights, and achievements after Undershed's first birthday.
Happy birthday Undershed! π
In this article, Lead Curator Amy Rose shares reflections, highlights, and achievements after Undershed's first birthday. www.watershed.co.uk/articles/und...
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Too much melodrama over the next few months @wshed.bsky.social ?
Never too muchβ¦
www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/seas...
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"To beauty, to truth which is anything but beautifulβ Kyle Hadley
Douglas Sirkβs Written on the Wind (1956) screens @wshed.bsky.social
from Sun 9 - Tue 11 Nov as part of All That Melodrama Allows π
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This title of Deaf conversations About Cineme, it shows the relationship between actor/ress in the patchy blue background
Andre Kelly, standing on the left holding the microphone, gave his brief introductory talk about the film. The next to him is an BSL interpreter
10 of us holding a tissue drying our tears, actually it was a bit joke due to the meldrama, we sit next to the 3 round tables . Our drinks sit in the three black tables. On the right, the window wall, further up are four arts framework mounting on the wall
Another good #DCAC @Wshed.bsky.social follows up the Hollywood melodrama film, All That Heaven Allows.
With insightful introductory facts by Andrew Kelly, gives us more deeper understanding of Douglas Sirk as a director, with shooting styles in invisible political themes!
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A weekend of danger, desire, and despair starts today in the shape of @filmnoiruk.bsky.socialβs 2nd #FilmNoirFest at the Plaza Cinema, Weston-super-Mare. Expect plenty of #FilmNoir and crime action.
Singular tickets (nearly all Β£5 each) are still available: wsm.merlincinemas.co.uk?forcechoice=...
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a man in a suit and tie is standing in a kitchen holding a laptop
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in a kitchen holding a laptop
If youβre a festival passholder for #FilmNoirFest you will be automatically entered into a special prize draw to win a special @indicator.bsky.social #FilmNoir Blu-ray bundle!
We have a handful of passes left; more info about this weekendβs festival here: www.southwestsilents.com/film-noir-fe...
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Two figures stand holding bags facing each other on a quiet street at dusk, with vibrant pink and orange hues in the sky and power lines overhead.
Two people ride a scooter with skyscrapers in the background, one pointing at something ahead.
Two young adults share a moment, one holding a drink with a straw while leaning closer to the other, set against a bright backdrop.
Black-and-white still of a topless person tilting their head back, drinking from a bottle
Queer East: On The Road returns to Bristol Sat 1st to Tue 4th November following a record-breaking sixth edition in London in May with a selection of festival highlights featuring new and rediscovered films that explore East and Southeast Asiaβs ever-evolving queer landscape.
Grab tickets below π
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Today 2pm @wshed.bsky.social , experience The Story of Lovers Rock (2011), the late Menelik Shabazzβs feature-length doc shining a light on a uniquely black British sound that developed in the late 70s and 80s against a backdrop of riots, racial tension and sound systems β€οΈ
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Get swept up in a wave of emotion this winter with All That Melodrama Allows: our season of romance, passion and heartbreak β€οΈβπ©Ή Find out more and book your tickets here: www.watershed.co.uk/.../all-that...
Artwork by: Beth Morris (Bam Create)
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Douglas Sirkβs beautiful film about class & conformity in 1950s small-town America All That Heaven Allows (1955) marking the pinnacle of Hollywood melodrama kicks off @wshed.bsky.social βs ALL THAT MELODRAMA ALLOWS exploring romance, passion & heartbreak.
Time to get swept up in a wave of emotionπ
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Presented by BFI FAN using funds from the National Lottery at cinemas and venues across the UK, make sure to grab your tissues and brace yourself for TOO MUCH: MELODRAMA ON FILM.
In cinemas UK wide and on BFI Player, October to December
www.bfi.org.uk/too-much
cc @therealbanksie.bsky.social
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A week today we'll be starting up the second edition of #FilmNoirFest!
Hope to see some of you #FilmNoir fans in Weston-super-Mare's Plaza Cinema for the start with a Stanley Kubrick Double Bill.
More info and details on passes, line-up, tickets below: www.southwestsilents.com/film-noir-fe...
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We are back in #Wareham this November for the #SilentFilm Weekender; tickets and passes on sale: www.therex.co.uk/news/18363
Our thanks to @filmhubsw.bsky.social.
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This gem of a book has just landed with us thanks to @HachetteUS! Review on the way very very soon! #PreCode #Hollywood
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π«§ TOMORROW NIGHT Mon 20 Oct 8pm at La Escalinata Universidad de #Guanajuato in #Mexico My Beautiful Laundrette (Dir Stephen Frears, UK 1985) as part of #CineRedis β Against The Grain strand at Cervantino Festival π²π½ π¬π§
π to British Council π
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Touring internationally for the first time at Cervantino Festival, Mexico, Against the Grain: 1980s British Cinema, is a season of influential, era-defining indie films fr/the 1980s, curated by & presented w/#CineRedis (produced by @wshed.bsky.social)
film.britishcouncil.org/blog/ukfilm-...
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Film Noir Fest 2025 | South West Silents
My October ends with Film Noir Fest in Weston-super-Mare, and @filmnoiruk.bsky.social's strand on 'Heist Noir', which includes a rare UK screening of Bruce Beresford's gritty heist thriller MONEY MOVERS on November 1st.
Details: www.southwestsilents.com/film-noir-fe...
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Hola Guanajuato! βοΈ
Itβs an absolute joy to be representing our Against The Grain strand at Cervantino Festival in collaboration with CineClubUG at Universidad de Guanajuato π to British Council π¬π§ π²π½
Explore the line-up: festivalcervantino.gob.mx/programacion...
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My BFI Classic on The Beatlesβ film A Hard Dayβs Night is available to preorder now. Hereβs the story behind it. I love the cover - inspired by the film poster and a key theme in the book: the power of television in transmitting the Beatles to the world. samiraahmed.blog/why-i-wrote-...
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Commissioned for C4, Menelik Shabazzβs Time & Judgement (1988)
uses theatre, verse & music to chronicle the struggles & triumphs of African diaspora communities globally feat. influential voices like Stokely Carmichael, Louis Farrakhan & Jesse Jackson.
See it @wshed.bsky.social Sun 12 Oct 14:00
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