Horror in the Caves, Top Gun beneath Concorde & Titanic aboard the SS Great Britain

Billed as the UK’s largest immersive film festival, Bristol Film Festival has just announced its biggest and most diverse programme to date, with more than 40 films screened in a variety of imaginative locations around the city.

Highlights of the Autumn programme, which runs from October 18 to November 18, include a 21st anniversary screening of James Cameron’s romance’n’drowning epic Titanic aboard – ulp! – the SS Great Britain on Nov 18; Top Gun underneath Concorde at Aerospace Bristol on Oct 25; and the return of the ever-popular Horror in the Caves to Redcliffe Caves over the pre-Halloween weekend of Oct 26-28, with a fine programme of spookers, including Hellraiser, Tremors, The Witch and – inevitably – The Descent.

Elsewhere, Fowlers motorcycle showroom plays host to On Any Sunday (Oct 18), there’s an opportunity to be banged up with an Undercover Cop trilogy of crime flicks screened in the holding cell beneath the old Bridewell police station on Oct 21, Shaun of the Dead gets an ale-fuelled outing at The Station, WALL·E and Gravity touch down at the Planetarium (Oct 27), and the Festival returns to Averys’ historic wine cellar for two more of its boozy screenings: Don’t Look Now (Oct 26) and Interview with the Vampire (Oct 27).

Bristol Museum is the setting for a day of circus-themed screenings with live performances on November 2, tying in with Clowns: The Eggs-hibition. Disney classic Dumbo should delight the kids, musical hit The Greatest Showman gets the singalong treatment, and it’s strictly adults only for the hit 2017 version of Stephen King’s It.

Those who simply can’t wait to break out the decorations, Santa outfits, brussel sprouts, bitter family feuds, and so on, will be delighted to learn that the Bristol Film Festival has also put on sale tickets for its Christmas programme, which runs from December 14-30 at two locations. Firstly, the fest is back at its ‘Winter Wonkyland’ at the Passenger Shed for a series of festive screenings ranging from the sublime (The Muppet Christmas Carol, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Matilda) to, er, Love, Actually. There’s also a Christmas at the Museum mini-strand with after hours screenings of the first Paddington film and The Holiday.

We’ve listed all the screenings below. Follow the links for further information, screening times and tickets.