Home is set to host a special screening of The Pearl Button, the new film by acclaimed Chilean documentary filmmaker Patricio Guzman, on 18 March at 8.30pm. The Pearl Button sees the director take the audience on a journey into the water and ocean of Southern Chile. The sea holds all the voices of the…
Gossip Girl actor Penn Badgley (Margin Call, Easy A, Greetings from Tim Buckley) is set to take a break from his European tour with his band MOTHXR and attend Manchester Film Festival 2016. Along with Director, Nicholas Gray and writer Katharine Gray Clark, the US actor and musician will be taking part in a free…
Writer director Shamim Sarif will be attending the UK premiere of Despite the Falling Snow at the Manchester Film Festival on Friday 4 March. The screening of the film, which is the first time the new cut of the film will be seen, is at 7:30pm at the Odeon Printworks. Shamim will also be taking part…
With Manchester International Film Festival just around the corner, we take a look at some of the films which will be shown at venues across the city including Home, AMC and the Odeon. Full Feature Film line-Up A Beautiful Now – International Premiere (United States) Directed by Daniela Amavia Starring- Abigail Spencer (Mad Men, Suits,…
Manchester Film Festival is set to host the UK premiere of Australian animation sensation Blinky Bill. Blinky Bill, which is set for its UK release in the summer stars the world’s favourite Koala on a mission to find his father in the heart of the Australian Outback. An all-star Australian cast of Ryan Kwanten, Toni…
Team behind Grimmfest and Rad Screenings announce brand new film festival Grimm Up North, the team behind the excellent cult and horror film festival Grimmfest, have announced a bran new festival to take place in May. The Supernova International Film Festival will be an international celebration of science fiction cinema – past, present and future. The event…
Venue moved to AMC due to phenomenal demand The Manchester Film Festival 2016’s opening night Red Carpet gala on Thursday 3 March has had to move venues from HOME to the AMC due to pre-sale ticket demand. Programming director Al Bailey said “The response to pre ticket sales for Dennis Viollet- A United Man and also…
The Manchester International Film Festival, which launched in 2015, is set to take place from 3 to 6 March 2016 across the city, including venues at HOME, AMC and the Odeon Printworks as Manchester’s first city wide international film festival once again welcomes filmmakers and films from across the world to premiere their work before…
Explosive new season of crime films from Hong Kong to take over Home Home is set to feature 20 different Hong Kong crime films over three months as the UK’s biggest and boldest celebration of Hong Kong Cinema to take stops at Manchester’s cinema and theatre complex as a part of a UK tour taking…
Classic documentary-cum-horror to be accompanied by new and unique score by Josephine Oniyama and musicians from the University of Salford. HOME, Manchester’s centre for contemporary visual art, theatre and film, is set to present the third instalment of Music & Film, featuring a new and unique score of documentary-cum-horror film Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages,…
