Bristol Radical Film Festival 2026
6 to 8 November 2026 
Full festival programme 

We are back with a full weekend of socially engaged and innovative films.
We start on Friday with the story of the People's Republic of Stoke Crofts in The Republic. 

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See the full schedule below. For details of each film click here and see our full programme.

On Saturday, we present two films around the topic of precarity: Homebound is a film that explores the social and economic pressures that poorer people experience and that force them to make hard decisions. A story that combines friendship with an exploration of caste, religion and social pressures in India. Later in the day, we present the much celebrated Two Days, One Night. A film that explores how precarity forces working class people to fight among themselves to survive.
Saturday will start with The Day Innocence Died, a film about the Bloody Sunday events in Northern Ireland in 1972 and the fight for justice that continues to this day.
Also on Saturday, Planet Israel explores the moral numbness in Israel on the face of the current conflict.

Sunday starts with the inspiring story of what happened in Kenmure Street, Glasgow in 2021 when an spontaneous protest stopped two men from being deported. Beyond the actual events, the film, Everybody to Kenmure Street is a highly imaginative documentary that also links this event to the history of protest and rebellion in Glasgow.
The festival ends with The Infiltrators, a film that combines fiction and documentary to reveal what happens inside a detention centre for migrants in the USA.
And of course, on Sunday, in its usual slot, our "International Short Film Showcase" will bring to you short films from all over the world.