Sell out warning! Bolstering Bristol's contribution to the cultural intifida, this year's poetic pillar of the Bristol Palestine Film Fest is humming with radical potential. With voices from Gaza and beyond, we will come together to remember the martyrs and lay another brick in the road to freedom for Palestine and all oppressed peoples worldwide. Raise the Bar: Poems on Palestine at Arnolfini.

Sell out warning! Unparalleled Golden Age of Cinema with that fuzzy hometown feeling! The 11th Cary Come Home Festival screens twelves highlights from Mr Grant's vast filmography over three themed days, including the romantic nautical romp Operation Petticoat, and his graceful, comic swansong Walk Don't Run. Cary Comes Home 2026 Festival at Bristol Megascreen.

Sell out warning! The word for world is forest, and the forest is flailing. These three films explore the forest as it butts up against capitalist hegemony, colonial extractivism and tech-fuelled destruction. Delve deep into the undergrowth with indigenous scientists, shamans, lasers and the eternal spirit of resistance as these astonishing films negotiate the terrifying world we have created. Forest Ecologies, Colonial Legacies at The Cube.

Sell out warning! I heard they suck live! A final hurrah for pop-punk’s most magnificently dysfunctional lifers, 40 Years of Fuckin’ Up digs through decades of the friendships, feuds and frayed bonds between Fat Mike, Melvin, Smelly and El Hefe, with a treasure trove of archival footage documenting their reign as patron saints of lost causes and mall rats. NOFX: 40 YEARS OF FUCKIN’ UP BRISTOL SCREENING at Lost and grounded brewery.

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