The Cube

The Cube

Independent cinema which also hosts regular gigs and music.


The Cube is a real asset to Bristol, an independent cinema run by volunteers with original programming. In addition to films and live music the 105 seat cinema is also used for workshops and discussions.

In essence The Cube shows the films you actually want to see, avoiding pure 'arthouse' programming. Expect to find Hollywood's (occasional) decent offerings listed alongside quality foreign and independent films as well as a few cult classics. Wednesday mornings (11am) is BabyCinema where babies are welcome while Wednesday evenings is BlueScreen - a sort of open mic night but for short films.

While often folk or indie based, gig listings for The Cube can really vary. The level of crowd interaction at the Cube can make it a great venue to catch one off shows from electronica producers to experimental artists.

For film times check www.cubecinema.com

What's On At The Cube

The Children of Mike at The Cube
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theatre
The Children of Mike at The Cube
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Neil Luck & Monika Czyżyk + Rojin Sharafi at The Cube
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experimental electronic film
Sound of Falling  7pm at The Cube
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film
Holy Motors  8pm at The Cube
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film
Resurrection  7pm at The Cube
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film
Polly Barton: What Am I, A Deer? at The Cube
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workshops & classes talks poetry spoken word
The Absurdist A/V JUMBLE SAIL with mr_hopkinson Paul Hanson + more at The Cube
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experimental ambient drone turntablism film
Bill Orcutt at The Cube
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jazz blues noise experimental rock
LET SPIN at The Cube
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experimental post-punk contemporary jazz post rock
Pictureframes  + Louis O'Hara + Edward Penfold at The Cube
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singer-songwriter indie pop indie folk folk rock folk-pop
Gafael Tir: A History of Land Rights and Protest in Wales at The Cube
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folk singer-songwriter talks spoken word protests & marches
Earth Ball, Commuted, Sullow, Rhizocorp + more at The Cube
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experimental psych noise experimental rock freak folk
Bhajan Bhoy/ Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani/ Double Pelican at The Cube
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experimental indie rock drone turbo folk
Tongue Depressor; Marija Kovačević; Zero Gravity Tea Ceremony at The Cube
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experimental noise contemporary classical drone
Erwan Keravec + @xcrswx at The Cube
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experimental contemporary jazz noise contemporary classical drone
BNM26: Xterea at The Cube
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experimental drum and bass industrial techno hardcore techno
Ireland: The Silent Voices at The Cube
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talks film
COMMOTION  recording at The Cube
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experimental jazz contemporary jazz swing big band
BOOK OF CHURCHES at The Cube
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folk singer-songwriter
Toni Erdmann  7pm at The Cube
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film
DRAG FAMILY VALUES: Party Girl Productions x FemTop < 3 at The Cube
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drag theatre cabaret lgbtq+ film
Hyunhye Seo + Matthew Grigg & Saltings + Prior at The Cube
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experimental noise industrial neoclassical
Bristol Society of Magic - 2026 Stage Magic Championship at The Cube
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comedy theatre family spoken word cabaret
A Way to Die: The Short Films of Coil at The Cube
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experimental lgbtq+ industrial film
RAVE CULTURE: A NEW ERA - Film at The Cube
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electronic film
DOWNRIGHT RUDE at The Cube
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theatre spoken word
WORKSHOP The Peoples Puppet Opera at The Cube
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experimental open mic theatre festival cabaret
The People's Puppet Opera at The Cube
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experimental open mic theatre festival cabaret
THE SHAHNAMEH at The Cube
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world theatre spoken word
Robin & Bina Williamson + Rosie Brownhill + Fohn at The Cube
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folk experimental psych traditional folk
THE KNIGHTS OF MAGIC at The Cube
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comedy theatre family spoken word cabaret

Get a feel for The Cube

Our recent recommendations for The Cube

Sell out warning! Seek out the dark forces of Party Girl x Fem Top … and join their hellish crusade! An iconic link-up here, showcasing the talents of Bristol’s thriving drag scene alongside a hecklings-encouraged screening of 90s high-camp masterpiece Addams Family Values. Come for the cabaret, stay to collectively lose it every time Joan Cusack’s c*nty lil bob enters the frame! DRAG FAMILY VALUES: Party Girl Productions x FemTop < 3 at The Cube.

Sell out warning! Part of Bristol Radical History Festival, The Cube screens the seldom-seen 1983 anti-propaganda doc Ireland: The Silent Voices, followed by a dialogue with director Professor Rod Stoneman. The film traces the Northern Ireland conflict while interrogating the frameworks of narrative – revealing how media shapes perception, and scripts our understanding of politics and lived experience. Ireland: The Silent Voices at The Cube.

Sell out warning! The final battle of Fionn MacCumhaill refuses to stay buried as Bodies on the Beach returns to Bristol following December’s sold-out show. Storytellers Ben Haggarty and Steph Brittain sift through medieval fragments, song and myth to rebuild a lost Celtic epic. Kinda like The Iliad but Irish (and with a suspiciously magical pig). BODIES ON THE BEACH - THE LAST BATTLES OF FIONN MacCUMHAILL at The Cube.

If you know, you know. Your favourite band’s favourite sound engineer, the prolific and ubiquitous Ajay Saggar, brings the guitar wash and kosmische wormholes of his Bhajan Boy project to The Cube, joined by Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani’s ethereal poetry and Double Pelicans’s mind-melters. Phantasmagoric sprawl FFO: Durutti Column, Spacemen 3, Tangerine Dream, Panda Bear, My Bloody Valentine. Bhajan Bhoy/ Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani/ Double Pelican at The Cube.

Sell out warning! Gather round the Cube’s proverbial fire for a rousing journey through Welsh history with musicians-cum-historians Owen Shiers and Gwilym Morus-Baird. Ballads, poetry and storytelling bring to life centuries of land rights and radical struggles in the Land of Song. Cymru am Byth! Gafael Tir: A History of Land Rights and Protest in Wales at The Cube.