Guest Screenings

  • Cartoon d'Or Finalists

     Wednesday 18 November 14.00 Watershed Cinema 1
    Free

    The Cartoon d’Or is the only European prize specific to the animation film industry. Watch this year’s nominated films and come to the awards ceremony to find out who will receive the British nomination for the prestigious Cartoon d’Or.

  • Andrei Khrzanovsky: A Retrospective

     Wednesday 18 November 18:00 Watershed Cinema 1
    £8/£6.50 conc.

    In honour of Russian animator Andrei Khrhanovsky contribution to the art of animation, Bristol’s Encounters presents a unique retrospective of Khrzhanovsky’s early animated films from the Soviet period.

  • Greek Shorts

     Wednesday 18 November 18:30 Watershed Cinema 3
    £6.50/£5 conc.

    Established in 2006, Thess Short Film Festival presents a unique programme of Greek filmmaking talent.

  • 4Docs

     Thursday 19 November 15:30 Watershed Cinema 2
    £3.50/£2.50 Delegate only

    4docs is the one stop online resource for everything Short British and Documentary, powered by the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation is back: with a wiki, competition section, screening area and blog.

  • Dazzle 'Monsters, Rabbits & Knickermen

     Thursday 19 November 17:00 Watershed Cinema 2
    £6.50/£5

    Top Brit talent from top short film label DAZZLE.

  • BBC Drama Shorts

     Thursday 19 November 18.30 Watershed Cinema 3
    1 hr 30 mins
    £6.50/£5 conc.

  • Mexican Shorts

     Thursday 19 November 20:30 Watershed Cinema 3
    £6.50/£5 conc.

    Expresion en Corto, Mexico`s largest competitive film festival and the most prestigious of its kind in Latin America, is proud to deliver an inspiring selection of the best Mexican cinematographic talent straight from the marvelous cities of San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato to the English Southwest. Mas cine, por favor!

  • Romanian Shorts

     Friday 20 November 18:00 Watershed Cinema 1
    £6.50/£5 conc.

    Romanian cinema is at a crossway with a generation of new filmmaking talent emerging over the last decade. Through the present selection you can discover some of the most successful of these shorts.

  • Aurora Programme

     Friday 20 November 21.00 Arnolfini Cinema
    £6.50/£5 conc.

    A selection of the best new artists' work in the moving image from across the world, this programme of ten short films represents a wide cross-section of current artistic practice from rigorous formal experiments to lyrical, poetic work, hand-processed, textural 16mm films alongside maverick digital adventures.