The ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Festival is set to return to Manchester’s Home for 18 days of films and events in April. The line-up for the 22nd cross-artform festival includes newly commissioned theatre productions, a showcase of work by Cuba’s most prominent playwright, 20 films from ten countries, including four UK premieres and sneak peeks…
As the opening of Manchester’s Home (formed by the merger of the Library Theatre Company and Cornerhouse) creeps ever closer, the final event in the series leading up to the launch of the new theatre and cinema complex has been announced – the Re:play Festival 2015, which will take place in a pop-up theatre at…
Spring 2015 will see the Cornerhouse and Manchester’s Library Theatre Company merge to form HOME – a new purpose-built centre at No.1 First Street, for international contemporary art, theatre, film and books. In the run up to the opening of the new £25m development, HOME have already run one critically acclaimed, site-specific production of Angel…
NEW AUGUST FILM LISTINGS AT THE CORNERHOUSE THIS AUGUST: Mood Indigo (L’écume des jours) (from Fri 1 Aug) Dir Michel Gondry/FR BE 2013/94 mins/ English and French with partial EngST/Cert 12A Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Gad Elmaleh Mood Indigo is the surreal and poetic tale of Colin, an idealistic and inventive young man, and Chloe,…
As the British Film Institute (BFI) recently announced a three month long celebration of the Sci-Fi genre in film and television, Film Hub North West Central has announced that it will receive a £51,100 grant from the BFI Programming Development Fund to take part in the BFI Sci-Fi ‘Days of Fear and Wonder’ season which…
