Grimmfest will return in 2019 and the Manchester based independent genre festival will again be hosting an awards scheme featuring prizes worth more than £120,000 across 13 special awards. The hugely successful Manchester film festival has revealed details of the awards jury for 2019, chaired by actress, producer, horror movie icon and 2018 Lifetime Achievement…
Home Manchester will launch it’s year long programme to celebrate women in film across the world with events co-curated by Home’s Head of Film Rachel Hayward and Andy Willis, Senior Visiting Curator: Film and Professor of Film Studies at the University of Salford. Home’s series of events includes live recordings of podcasts, retrospectives, special screenings…
Home Manchester will host an International Women’s Weekender to mark International Women’s Day 2019 in March. The event forms part of the venue’s year-long Celebrating Women in Global Cinema programme running through 2019. Home’s International Women’s Weekender takes place from 8-10 March and features a series of special events for all ages. What’s on at…
Manchester based screening collective Bigger Than Life are bringing a retrospective of the work of acclaimed US indie filmmaker Stephen Cone to MMU’s NO 70 Oxford Road venue. This series of four films, running across February will be the first UK retrospective of his work. The series also includes the UK premiere of his film…
A pop-up cinema is coming to Mayfield Depot, near Manchester Piccadilly, bringing a series of festive (and non-festive) favourites to the big screen. Cinema goers will enter a magical kingdom through a secret wardrobe, finding themselves in an enchanted forest full of festive surprises. Running over four long weekends from November 23 to December 16,…
Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall will host a screening of the blockbuster film Back To The Future accompanied by a live performance of the score by Czech National Symphony Orchestra. Get the flux capacitor ready because you can see the move classic as never before. Back to the Future is the 1.21-gigawatt blockbuster that topped the 1985…
Manchester’s entertainment complex The Printworks is offering the city’s very first Hangover Haven for students. Freshers are invited to Vue Cinema on 24 September (11am – 6pm) for a day of feel-good films for FREE, with Mean Girls, The Hangover and The Greatest Showman – which were all hand-picked by students on social media. It’s…
Home Manchester is running a series of film and screen events until the end of November featuring hit movies, festivals and films from across the globe. So what’s on? Sun 23 September, 13:10 – Billy Liar Few films tell a heart-breaking story as hilariously as Billy Liar, the tale of a young clerk whose daydreams…
Home Manchester and Film4 have announced the programme for the third annual FilmFear season. Six days of horror, extreme cinema, cult favourites and special guests will take hold at Home Manchester, culminating in a Halloween screening of The Evil Dead. The event will open on Friday 26 October with acclaimed Scandi fantasy Border, co-written by…
Home Manchester hosts a season of independent Indian cinema, Not Just Bollywood until the end of September. The season will have a special focus on the portrayal of caste in film, putting the topic at the forefront with films including Jai Bhim Comrade and the UK premiere of Kadvi Hawa, with other films including the controversial Tikli and…
