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Portrait of a Lady on Fire, 2019
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NEW RELEASES Preview + Satellite Event
Parasite (15)
(Gisaengchung) First Love (15) A Paris Education (CTBA) Little Joe (12A)
(Hatsukoi) (Mes provincials) From Fri 21 Feb
From Fri 7 Feb
Dir Bong Joon Ho/KR 2019/132 mins/Korean From Fri 14 Feb From Fri 14 Feb Dir Jessica Hausner/AT GB DE 2019/105 mins
and English with partial EngST Dir Takashi Miike/JP GB 2019/108 mins/Japanese Dir Jean-Paul Civeyrac/FR 2018/137 mins/French Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox
Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo wEngST wEngST Alice is a plant breeder at a corporation
Kim Ki-teak’s family are all Becky, Sakurako Konishi, Masataka Kubota Andranic Manet, Diane Rouxel, Jenna Thiam developing new species. Against
unemployed and living in a squalid Young boxer Leo has just learnt he has Etienne heads off to study film in Paris company policy, Alice takes a sample
basement. When his son gets a a brain tumour when he encounters and immerses himself in a bohemian plant home as a gift for her son. They
tutoring job at the lavish home of Monica, a call girl in deep with drugs and world of artists and intellectuals. christen it ‘Little Joe’ but as it grows, so
the Park family, the Kim family’s luck the Yakuza. With the criminal underworld Shooting in timeless black and white and too does Alice’s suspicion that her new
changes. One by one they gradually imploding due to ferocious in-fighting, interweaving references to philosophy, creations may not be harmless.
infiltrate the wealthy Parks’ home, these new lovers get caught in the music, and cinema, Civeyrac conjures a
attempting to take over their affluent crossfire. bittersweet ode to the heady days of We are also screening some of
lifestyle. student life. Jessica Hausner’s shorts and Lovely
Event/ On Mon 3 Feb, 18:00 there Rita as part of our Jessica Hausner
will be a special preview screening season – see p16 for details.
followed by a satellite Q&A with
director Bong Joon Ho, broadcast
from Curzon Mayfair.
Event
Talking About Trees (PG) Mr. Jones (15) Emma (CTBA) Greed (15) Midnight Family (15) End of the Century (CTBA)
From Fri 7 Feb From Fri 7 Feb From Fri 14 Feb From Fri 21 Feb From Fri 21 Feb (Fin de siglo)
Dir Suhaib Gasmelbari/FR SD TD DE 2019/93 mins/ Dir Agnieszka Holland/PL GB UK 2019/119 mins/ Dir Autumn de Wilde/GB 2020/TBC mins Dir Michael Winterbottom/GB 2019/105 mins Dir Luke Lorentzen/MX 2019/81 mins/Spanish From Fri 21 Feb
Arabic wEngST English, Ukranian, Russian and Welsh with partial Anya Taylor-Joy, Josh O’Connor, Johnny Flynn Steve Coogan, Isla Fisher, Asa Butterfield wEngST
Dir Lucio Castro/AR 2019/84 mins/Spanish wEngST
EngST
Ibrahim, Manar, Suleiman and Altayeb Jane Austen’s beloved comedy is Reuniting with Steve Coogan and In Mexico City, the government operates Juan Barberini, Ramon Pujol, Mía Maestro
James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard
are the members of the Sudanese Film reimagined in this delicious new film. co-writing with Sean Gray (Veep), fewer than 45 emergency ambulances An Argentinian man from New York and
Club founded in 1989. Unable to make In March 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth for a population of 9 million. This has
In this glittering satire of social class Winterbottom delivers a scathingly funny a Spanish man from Berlin hook up by
films for years, they have decided to Jones takes a train from Moscow to spawned an underground for-profit
and the pain of growing up, Emma must farce of a London-based high-street chance while in Barcelona. What seems
revive an old cinema. This beautifully Kharkov in the Ukraine and experiences ambulance industry, often with poorly
adventure through misguided matches billionaire Richard McCreadie in the like a one-night encounter between two
shot feature debut, winner of the at first hand the horrors of a famine. trained staff. An exception in this
and romantic missteps to find the love build-up to his lavish 60th birthday strangers becomes an epic, decades-
Berlinale Best Documentary Award, Soviet secret service henchmen are ethically fraught industry, the Ochoa
that has been there all along. celebrations on the Greek island of spanning relationship. Castro’s debut
couldn’t be timelier for Sudan. determined to prevent news about the family struggles to keep their financial
Mykonos. feature is inventive, enigmatic and
catastrophe from getting out to the needs from jeopardising the people in
global public. Event/ We will be joined by Steve consistently surprising.
their care.
Coogan for a Q&A following the
screening on Fri 20 Feb, 18:00.
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Preview
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (15)
(Portrait de la jeune fille en
feu)
From Fri 28 Feb
Dir Céline Sciamma/FR 2019/122 mins/French Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am Vitalina Varela (12A) Calm with Horses (15)
and Italian wEngST
Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami (12A) From Fri 6 Mar From Fri 13 March
Brittany, France 1770. Portrait From Fri 6 Mar Dir Pedro Costa/PT 2019/125 mins/Portuguese Dir Nick Rowland/GB 2019/101 mins
painter Marianne is commissioned wEngST Barry Keoghan, Ned Dennehy, Niamh Algar
Dir Timothy Greenfield-Sanders/US 2019/120 mins
Vitalina Varela, Ventura, Manuel Tavares Almeida
to paint the wedding portrait of An intimate meditation on the life and When a former boxer is offered a gig as
Héloïse, a reluctant bride-to-be who In Pedro Costa’s Horse Money, Vitalina an enforcer with the local drug mafia,
works of the legendary storyteller. Toni
has just left a convent. Intimacy Varela made a memorable appearance, life seems on the up – but the demands
Morrison leads an assembly of her peers,
and attraction grow between the effectively playing herself. In this follow- weigh heavily as he makes inroads with
critics and colleagues on an exploration
two women, but their freedom is up Varela steps into the foreground as his autistic young son, in Nick Rowland’s
of race, America, history and the human
short-lived. a woman who, after years waiting for brooding yet tender crime film.
condition as seen through the prism of
a plane ticket, arrives in Portugal three
Preview/ There will be a preview her own literature.
days after her husband’s funeral.
screening of Portrait of a Lady on Fire
on Fri 14 Feb, 20:20.
Preview
And Then We Danced (CTBA)
From Fri 13 Mar
Dir Levan Akin/SE GE FR 2019/113 mins/
Georgian wEngST
Levan Gelbakhiani, Bachi Valishvili, Ana
Dark Waters (12A) True History of the Kelly Gang Color Out of Space (15) Javakishvili
(18) Levan Akin’s award-winning Georgia-
From Fri 28 Feb From Fri 28 Feb set drama explores the possibilities
Dir Todd Haynes/US 2019/127 mins From Fri 28 Feb Dir Richard Stanley/PT US MA 2019/111 mins
of love, cultural identity, sexuality and
Anne Hathaway, William Jackson Harper, Mark Dir Justin Kurzel/AU 2019/125 mins Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur,
Ruffalo Q’orianka Kilcher self-expression within a repressively
George MacKay, Essie Davis, Nicholas Hoult
Inspired by a shocking true story, a The return of cult director Richard anti-LGBTQ+ society. A gripping
Outlaw Ned Kelly lived only 25 years, love story, And Then We Danced
tenacious attorney uncovers a dark Stanley, with an adaptation of H.P.
but it was enough to write his story into captures the beauty and stifling social
secret that connects a growing number Lovecraft’s classic horror short story. A
Australian legend. Adapting the Booker values of Tbilisi alongside energetic
of unexplained deaths due to one of meteor falls to Earth and lands on the
Prize–winning novel by Peter Carey, choreography and an extraordinarily
the world’s largest corporations. In the property of a New England family – its
Kurzel offers a gloriously fictionalised physical lead performance.
process, he risks everything to expose increasingly unhinged patriarch played
and very violent tale of a true-life
the truth. by the one-and-only Nicolas Cage – with Event/ On Tue 4 Feb, 18:00 we will
renegade.
insidious, delirious, and psychedelic have a special preview of this film as
results. One for fans of Mandy. part of Iris on the Move that will be
introduced by Berwyn Rowlands, Iris
Prize Festival Director.
4 5
System Crasher (CTBA)
(Systemsprenger)
From Fri 27 Mar
Dir Nora Fingscheidt/DE 2019/118 mins/German
wEngST
Helena Zengel, Albrecht Schuch, Gabriela Maria
Schmeide
Dogs Don’t Wear Pants (CTBA) Bacurau (18) The Truth (PG) Controversial from the moment
(Koirat eivät käytä housuja) From Fri 13 Mar (La vérité) it premiered at the 2019 Berlin
From Fri 13 Mar Dirs Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho/ From Fri 20 Mar Film Festival, documentarian Nora
Dir J.-P. Valkeapää/FI 2019/105 mins/Finnish
BR FR 2019/131 mins/Portuguese and English with
Dir Hirokazu Kore-eda/FR JP 2019/107 mins/French Fingscheidt’s fiction feature debut
partial EngST
wEngST and English with partial EngST portrays the life of a troubled young
Bárbara Colen, Thomas Aquino, Silvero Pereira
Pekka Strang, Krista Kosonen, Ilona Huhta Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke girl, and demonstrates a system that
Bacurau merges sci-fi, the western, is ill-equipped to deal with cases too
Heart surgeon Juha has lived life Kore-eda’s follow-up to his Palme
Brazilian bandit movies (cangaço) and far outside their tightly defined norms.
at an unengaged distance since his d’Or–winning Shoplifters transports the
horror for a highly original and ultra-
wife’s passing. And although it is often Japanese auteur’s ongoing engagement
violent look at a town under siege from a
debilitating, his grief also throws up with the machinations of family
mysterious threat. Loaded with political
some rather surprising sexual urges. A life to Paris, where a tempestuous
overtones, it’s a blast.
birthday trip with his daughter leads to mother–daughter reunion becomes an
an unexpected but thrilling encounter opportunity to explore questions of love,
with Mona, a dominatrix. art, and responsibility.
Event Event
The Perfect Candidate
(CTBA)
From Fri 27 Mar
Dir Haifaa Al-Mansour/SA DE 2019/101 mins/
Arabic wEngST
Nora Al Awadh, Dae Al Hilali, Mila Al Zahrani
Cunningham (CTBA) Fire Will Come (CTBA) The Australian Dream (CTBA) Frustrated with the limits placed upon The Painted Bird (18)
(O que arde) her because of her gender, a small-
From Fri 20 Mar From Fri 27 Mar town Saudi doctor takes matters From Fri 27 Mar
Dir Alla Kovgan/DE FR US 2019/93 mins From Fri 27 Mar Dir Daniel Gordon/AU 2019/109 mins into her own hands and runs for local Dir Václav Marhoul/CZ SK UK 2019/170 mins/Czech,
German and Russian wEngST
This poetic film traces choreographer Dir Oliver Laxe/ES FR LX 2019/90 mins/Galician Adam Goodes became an inspiring figure council in this touching family drama
wEngST Petr Kotlár, Stellan Skarsgård, Aleksey Kravchenko
Merce Cunningham’s artistic evolution in Australian Rules football. Drawing from Haifaa Al-Mansour, director of
over three decades of risk and Benedicta Sánchez, Amador Arias, Luis Manuel
upon Goodes’ personal story, Australia’s The tale of a young Jewish boy who
Guerrero Sánchez Wadjda and Mary Shelley.
discovery, from his early years as a dark colonial past and its treatment of encounters the worst of humanity as he
A deserving Cannes Un Certain Regard wanders Eastern Europe during World
struggling dancer in post-war New York the Aboriginal population, director Daniel
prize-winner, the third feature from Oliver War II, The Painted Bird is an unsparing
to his emergence as one of the most Gordon has crafted a powerful and
Laxe follows Amador (Amador Arias), who plunge into darkest corners of the human
visionary and influential choreographers timely examination of race, identity and
has been imprisoned for setting fires. When soul.
worldwide. belonging.
he is released from prison he moves back
to his Galician hometown to face gossip Event/ We will be joined by director Daniel
about his past. An immersive look at nature Gordon for a Q&A following the screening
(human and otherwise), this is a visceral on Tue 31 Mar, 17:50.
viewing experience full of savage poetry.
Event/ We will be joined by director Oliver
Laxe for a Q&A following the screening on
Fri 27 Mar, see website for details.
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one-off screenings Society, 1989
& events Mancunia, 2020
Black Sunday, 1960
Black Sunday (15)
(La maschera del demonio)
Tue 18 Feb, 18:30
Dir Mario Bava/IT 1960/87 mins/Italian wEngST
Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi
Cult Films 200 years after Princess Asa is burnt
Queen & Slim, 2019 Mancunia (CTBA) + Q&A at the stake for witchcraft, she is
Queen & Slim (15) + post- Welcome to HOME’s new cult strand. A accidentally awoken by the blood of a
Thu 6 Feb, 18:30
selection of films known and unknown, curious stranger. This sumptuous film is
screening discussion Dir Steve Hawley/GB 2020/32 mins
loved and unloved. All guaranteed to Mario Bava’s masterpiece and one of the
Mancunia is a haunting 30-minute take you on familiar and unfamiliar originators of the Italian Gothic craze.
Fri 31 Jan, 17:40
film based around Michael Symmons journeys... A Dog and His Man, 2018
Dir Melina Matsoukas/US CA 2019/132 mins
Jodie Turner-Smith, Daniel Kaluuya, Bokeem Woodbine
Roberts’s acclaimed published poetry
Nights of Cabiria, 1957
cycle about the myths of Manchester, Society (18) Not Just Bollywood/ A Dog and
While on a forgettable first date in Ohio,
Day Course/ Federico Fellini with images by artist Steve Hawley, Fri 7 Feb, 20:40 His Man (CTBA) + recorded
a black man and a black woman, are
pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. Sat 1 Feb, 10:30 – 17:00
drawn from a century of film of Dir Brian Yuzna /US JP 1989/99 mins introduction
Manchester from the North West Film Billy Warlock, Concetta D’Agnese, Ben Slack
The situation escalates, with sudden and Tickets: £25 full / £20 concs Sun 29 Mar, 16:00
tragic results and the pair unwittingly
Archive. After producing Stuart Gordon’s hit Re- Filmed Up
Members discount available Dir Siddharth Tripathy/IN 2018/84 mins/Chhattisgarhi
become a symbol of trauma, terror, grief Event/ This screening will be followed by Animator, Brian Yuzna turned his hand wEngST
It is rare that a film director initiates a Wed 4 Mar, 18:15
and pain for people across the US. a Q&A chaired by Becky Swain, Director to directing with 1989’s Society, and Shoukie, the last resident of what used
new word; however, “Felliniesque” has gave birth to one of the ickiest, most £5.50 full/£4 concs
of the Manchester Poetry Library; with to be a village in Chhattisgarh in Central
Event/ This screening will be become a popular synonym associated original body horror shockers of all time. Discover short films of all genres
Michael Symmons Roberts, Steve Hawley India, has been served a final eviction
accompanied by a post-screening with the grotesque, the satirical, and the A biting horror satire, it culminates in produced in our region and meet the
and Marion Hewitt. notice. His dog is his only companion
discussion with Kemi Alemoru, gal-dem surreal in Federico Fellini’s films. In our one of the audacious “climaxes”’ in all of filmmakers at our regular North West
and Shoukie’s exhaustion takes his mind
and Roxy Legane, Kids of Colour HQ. Day Course, we will explore the elements Supported by The Granada Foundation horror history. short film night screening.
between the reality of his present and
which made Fellini’s films magical and and Manchester Metropolitan University. homemcr.org/filmedup the days when he could fish, see friends,
unique. This beginners’ level course
and argue with his family.
includes a full screening of Fellini’s Le Preview/ The Uncertain Kingdom
Notti di Cabiria. (CTBA) + Q&A Event/ This screening will be preceded
Led by Adalgisa Serio, Italian Language by a recorded introduction from director
Sat 28 Mar, 18:00 Siddharth Tripathy.
Tutor CDLCI and freelance Language Dir Various/GB 2020/100 mins
Consultant.
Films for uncertain times.
A City Seen/ Dangerous
Nights of Cabiria (CTBA) Climate change, migration, disability Associations (CTBA) + panel
(Le notti di Cabiria) and homelessness are just some of
Parasite, 2019 Weathering with You, 2019
the subjects explored in this ground-
discussion
Sat 1 Feb, 13:15 Weathering with You (12A)
Preview/ Parasite (15) + Satellite Dir Federico Fellini/IT FR 1957/117 mins/Italian wEngST
Portrait of a Lady on Fire, 2019 breaking anthology of twenty short Mon 30 Mar, 18:10
Q&A (Tenki no ko) films by twenty filmmakers. Made by a Working with MMU, Sites of Resistance
Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Franca Marzi Valentine’s Day Preview/ Portrait combination of established names and
(Gisaengchung) Co-written with Pier Paolo Pasolini, Thu 6 Feb, 20:30 and Manchester Youth Groups, this
of a Lady on Fire (15) new talent, The Uncertain Kingdom’s A City Seen will premiere a short film
Nights of Cabiria sees Fellini bring Dir Makoto Shinkai/JP 2019/112 mins/Japanese
Mon 3 Feb, 18:00
Giulietta Masina centre stage once more wEngST
(Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) collection of dramas, comedies and concerning the racialised use of joint
Dir Bong Joon Ho/KR 2019/132 mins/Korean and documentaries offers an alternative enterprise, a Victorian common law that
English with partial EngST for the story of an unfailingly optimistic Kotaro Daigo, Nana Mori, Kentaro Araki Fri 14 Feb, 20:20 snapshot of the UK today. has re-emerged in England and Wales
Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo prostitute and her misadventures in and Hodaka is a teenage runaway who ends Dir Céline Sciamma/FR 2019/122 mins/French and
around the Eternal City. up in Tokyo and finds work at an occult Italian wEngST Event/ This preview screening will enabling the conviction by association of
See p2 for film details.
magazine. While working there he meets Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami
feature the premieres of Pavement multiple individuals for one offence.
Event/ This special preview screening You may also be interested in the Hina, a kind-hearted girl who appears This year for Valentine’s day, we have (Dir Jason Wingard) and Left Coast Event/ This screening will be followed
will be followed by a satellite Q&A with Juliet of the Spirits (Dir Federico to be able to control the weather. The a special preview of Portrait of a Lady (Dir Carol Salter), followed by a post- by a panel discussion and there will be a
director Bong Joon Ho, broadcast from Fellini/IT FR 1965/137 mins) see p17 highly anticipated follow-up to Your on Fire. screening Q&A with both filmmaking post-event performance in the Café Bar.
Curzon Mayfair. for details. Name. See p4 for film details teams (work permitting).
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¡Viva!
Las Buenas intenciones, 2019
26th Spanish & Latin
American Festival
Araña, 2019
Araña (15)
(Spider)
Fri 6 – Thu 26 Mar Mon 9 Mar, 20:40
¡Viva! returns for our annual celebration of Spanish and Latin American culture Thu 19 Mar, 13:00
with a specially selected programme of the most exciting film from across the Dir Andrés Wood/CL AR BR 2019/105 mins/Spanish Esto no es Berlín, 2019
wEngST
Spanish-speaking world, plus all the usual top-notch Q&As, talks and workshops. Esto no es Berlín (18) Las Buenas intenciones (PG) Joel, 2018
María Valverde, Mercedes Morán, Marcelo Alonso, Pedro
A few of our favourite films and events… Fontaine (This Is Not Berlin) (The Good Intentions)
For the full festival lineup, see homemcr.org/viva2020 In 1970s Chile, a dangerous love
triangle entangles members of a far- Fri 13 Mar, 20:30 Sat 14 Mar, 16:10
Mientras dure la guerra, 2019
right group. Years later, Inés and Justo Mon 16 Mar, 20:30 Fri 20 Mar, 18:15
are pillars of society in a neoliberal Dir Hari Sama/MX 2019/110 mins/Spanish wEngST Dir Ana García Blaya/AR 2019/86 mins/Spanish wEngST
Xabiani Ponce de León, José Antonio Toledano, Mauro Javier Drolas, Jazmín Stuart, Amanda Minujín, Sebastian
democracy, but a blast from their Sanchez Navarro, Klaudia Garcia Arzeno
violent past threatens to disturb their
Mexico City, 1986. 17-year-old Carlos Set in early 90s Buenos Aires, this is
position of power and privilege.
doesn’t fit in: not with his family nor an intimate autobiographical portrait
El Cuento de las comadrejas, 2019 with his school friends. But everything of childish adults and mature children
changes when he discovers Azteca, muddling through an amicable post-
La Hija de un ladrón, 2019 the legendary nightclub with an divorce scenario. With an energetic UK Premiere/ Joel (12A)
underground scene of androgynous soundtrack and a genuine outburst
La Hija de un ladrón (12A) post-punk, sexual liberation and heavy of love, this is a heart-warming Wed 18 Mar, 20:40
(A Thief’s Daughter) drug use. celebration of family. Dir Carlos Sorín/AR 2018/100 mins/Spanish wEngST
Victoria Almeida, Diego Gentile, Joel Noguera, Ana Katz
Fri 6 Mar, 19:30 + introduction Mientras dure la guerra (PG) Unable to conceive children, a couple
Sat 7 Mar, 17:50 + Q&A (While at War) UK Premiere/ El Viaje have been on a lengthy adoption
Tue 24 Mar, 15:50 extraordinario de Celeste waiting list until the sudden arrival
Dir Belén Funes/ES 2019/102 mins/Spanish and Catalan Sat 7 Mar, 15:20 + introduction of 9-year-old Joel. The accelerated
wEngST Tue 17 Mar, 13:00 UK Premiere/ El Cuento de las García (12A)
parental learning process, and a
Greta Fernández, Eduard Fernández, Àlex Monner,
Wed 25 Mar, 20:30 comadrejas (12A) (The Extraordinary Journey conflict raised at the only local public
Tomás Martín
Dir Alejandro Amenábar/ES 2019/107 mins/Spanish (The Weasel’s Tale) of Celeste García) school, will force them to re-examine
In a working-class Barcelona wEngST
neighbourhood, 22-year-old Sara battles Fri 13 Mar, 18:15 their decisions and motivations.
Karra Elejalde, Eduard Fernández, Santi Prego, Wed 11 Mar, 20:20
to bring up her infant son and look Nathalie Poza
Sat 21 Mar, 20:20 Thu 19 Mar, 15:30 Event/ Café Cervantes
after her troubled little brother, with Salamanca, 1936. Celebrated writer Dir Arturo Infante/CU DE 2018/92 mins/Spanish
Dir Juan José Campanella/AR ES 2019/124 mins/ Sun 22 Mar, 14:00-15:30
a precarious home and job situation. Miguel de Unamuno initially supports Spanish wEngST
wEngST
Insecurity reigns for Sara, and the arrival the military rebellion hoping it will Graciela Borges, Oscar Martínez, Luis Brandoni, Marcos
María Isabel Díaz, Omar Franco, Néstor Jiménez, ¡Bienvenido, siéntate! Grab a drink
Yerlín Pérez
of her deeply unreliable father Manuel rescue Spain from the excesses of the Mundstock from the bar and join an informal
only further destabilises her world. Second Republic. Meanwhile, General In this wickedly fun comedy from Celeste, a 60-year-old guide at the gathering of Spanish-speaking film
Franco adds his troops to the uprising, Argentina an eccentric group of film Havana Planetarium, is looking for a lovers, with recommended intermediate
Event/ We are pleased to welcome industry professionals are growing life change. When a group of aliens level Spanish or above. Led by staff
secretly aspiring to take command of
director Belén Funes and producer old disgracefully in a secluded manor land in Cuba offering earthlings a from the Instituto Cervantes.
the war.
Marçal Cebrián to introduce the Opening house that radiates faded glory. Their chance to visit their planet, Celeste
Night screening on Fri 6 Mar and for a Event/ The screening on Sat 7 Mar will delicately balanced coexistence is signs up for the journey hoping for a See p18 for details of Ferdinand,
Q&A following the screening on Sat 7 be introduced by Dr Abigail Loxham, upset by the arrival of a young couple more fulfilling life. screening as part of Bring the
Mar. University of Liverpool. with an eye for property valuation. El Viaje extraordinario de Celeste García, 2018
Family.
10 11
seasons
Adaptation:
Impossible
Novels
.
Sun 2 –
SUN 23 Feb Where the Wild Things Are, 2009
Films, like novels are often admired Where the Wild Things Are (PG)
for their reach rather than their Sun 23 Feb, 11:00
grasp and many filmmakers either La Captive, 2000
Dir Spike Jonze/US 2009/101 mins
through ambition or through hubris La Captive (15) Naked Lunch, 1991 Max Records, Catherine Keener, Forest Whitaker, Mark
have struggled to bring to the screen Ruffalo
supposedly ‘unfilmable’ novels. The Mon 10 Feb, 18:00 Max’s imagination is free to roam as
effects can be uneven, flawed, equally Dir Chantal Akerman/FR BE 2000/118 mins/French he sets sail for the land of the Wild
wEngST
they can sometimes be admirable and Things, where mischief reigns and Max
Stanislas Merhar, Sylvie Testud, Olivia Bonamy
lead the essence of the novel into rules. Made up of only 10 sentences
Akerman’s hypnotic exploration of
unimagined dimensions… and illustrations, Maurice Sendak’s
erotic obsession is loosely inspired by
homemcr.org/Adaptation 1963 story was considered unfilmable.
the fifth volume of Proust’s In Search
After potential plans that ventured into
of Lost Time. Think Vertigo filtered
American Psycho, 2000 animation, Spike Jonze finally adapted
through feminist formalism
the book.
American Psycho (18) + The Saragossa Manuscript, 1965
Introduction
Naked Lunch (18)
Sat 8 Feb, 18:10
Dir Mary Harron/US CA 2000/102 mins Sun 16 Feb, 13:00
Christian Bale, Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas Tue 18 Feb, 20:30 + Introduction
Hammett, 1982 Patrick Bateman, a wealthy investment Wed 19 Feb, 13:00
Hammett (12A) + Introduction banker, hides his psychopathic ego Dir David Cronenberg/US 1991/115 mins
from his friends. Later, his illogical Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm
Sun 2 Feb, 18:10 fantasies escalate, and he submits In this adaptation of William S. Norwegian Wood, 2010
Dir Wim Wenders/US 1982/97 mins to an uncontrollable bloodlust. Mary
Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner
The Saragossa Manuscript (15) Burroughs’ hallucinatory, once-thought- Norwegian Wood (15)
Harron’s adaptation of the novel by unfilmable novel, Cronenberg follows
Wenders’ first American movie is (Rekopis znaleziony w (Noruwei no mori)
Bret Easton Ellis becomes even more a part-time exterminator and full-time
no conventional biopic of Dashiel subversive with the passing of time. Saragossie) Ulysses, 1967 drug addict named Bill Lee as he Sun 23 Feb, 15:20
Hammett, but a stunningly achieved plunges into the nightmarish Interzone, Dir Tran Anh Hung/CN 2010/134 mins/Japanese
Event/ This screening will be introduced Sun 9 Feb, 17:00 Ulysses (15)
fiction about the art and mystique of Dir Wojciech J. Has/PL 1965/176 mins/Polish wEngST a netherworld of sinister cabals and
wEngST
creating fiction, partly based on the by Jason Wood, Creative Director: Film Ken’ichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi, Kiko Mizuhara
Zbigniew Cybulski, Iga Cembrzynska, Elzbieta Wed 12 Feb, 18:00 giant talking bugs.
novel by Joe Gorres. It is as much and Culture at HOME Czyzewska Dir Joseph Strick/GB US 1967/120 mins Based on Murakami’s 1987 best-selling
an homage to bygone Hollywood as Wojciech Has’ adaptation of Polish Milo O’Shea, Barbara Jefford, Maurice Roëves Event/ The screening on Tue 18 Feb, but complex novel about forbidden
to Hammett and the ‘roman noir’ he novelist Jan Potocki’s magnum opus Originally banned in Ireland – as if 20:30 will be introduced by Jason Wood, love, despair and vinyl records
pioneered. became a major countercultural in honour of James Joyce’s similarly Creative Director: Film and Culture at (amongst other things), Franco-
favourite during the 1960s. Despite its treated source novel – blacklisted HOME. Vietnamese filmmaker Tran Anh Hung
Event/ This screening will be introduced does wonders in capturing the essence
length and the slippery challenge of its director Joseph Strick’s 1967
by Andy Willis, Senior Visiting Curator: of the source material.
storytelling, The Saragossa Manuscript adaptation presents a pretty picture
Film at HOME.
is largely a light-hearted work, laden of garrulous and gabby 1960s Dublin.
with warm comedy, ribald drama, Nevertheless, there’s much to appeal in
Gothic atmospherics and unforgettable this miniature odyssey – a bold stab at
imagery filming the unfilmable.
12 13
Black Hat, 2019
The Japan
Foundation
Touring Film
Programme 2020
Happiness is A
State of Mind: Joy
and Despair in
Japanese Cinema
. Sea of Revival, 2019
Ride Your Wave, 2019
© Ride Your Wave Film Partners
Ride Your Wave (12A)
Sea of Revival (15)
Tue 11 – (Nagi machi)
(Kimi to, Nami ni Noretara)
Sat 29 Feb Wed 19 Feb, 20:30
Mon 24 Feb, 18:10
Dir Masaaki Yuasa/JP 2019/96 min/Japanese wEngST
Happiness is a staple theme in Japanese
Iris on the Move cinema and it is within its framework
Dir Kazuya Shiraishi/JP 2019/124 min/Japanese wEngST
Shingo Katori, Yuri Tsunematsu, Lily Franky
Ryota Katayose, Rina Kawaei, Kentaro Ito
that the Japan Foundation Touring Film After young firefighter Minato rescues
. Programme 2020 has been curated,
In a bid to rid himself of his crippling
gambling addiction, Ikuo moves to his
avid surfer Hinako, the two fall in love.
showcasing diverse cinematic voices But Minato’s life is cut short in an
partner’s coastal hometown in an area
Tue 4 – Wed 5 Feb which explore the highs and lows
experienced in pursuit of happiness.
recovering from the devastating 2011
accident at sea causing the distraught
Hinako to stay away from the ocean;
earthquake. Initially adapting to the new
until the day she hums their song and he
Iris on the Move is a travelling celebration of LGBT+ film, bringing the best of Organised by the Japan Foundation environment, his vice soon catches up to
appears in the water…
Cardiff’s Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival to the rest of the UK. with Major Support from Japan Airlines, him in a vicious cycle.
Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival in association with Peccadillo Pictures. Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, and
Yakult, with Sponsorship in Kind from
homemcr.org/IrisOnTheMove
SUQQU, and in Cultural Partnership with
And Then We Danced, 2019 Modern Culture.
Ten Dark Women, 2019
homemcr.org/JapanFoundationTouring © KADOKAWA CORPORATION 1961
Organ, 2019
Ten Dark Women (15)
(Kuroi juunin no onna)
Greta,2019 Wed 26 Feb, 18:10
Dir Kon Ichikawa/JP 1961/105 min/Japanese wEngST Our Meal for Tomorrow, 2017
Iris Preview/ And Then We Best of Iris 2019 (CTBA) + Q&A Fujiko Yamamoto, Eiji Funakoshi, Kyoko Kishida © 2017 “Our Meal for
Tomorrow” Film Partners
Danced (CTBA) + Introduction and performance I Go Gaga, My Dear, 2018
Progressive for the time of its production,
Japan Now Special Strand/ I Go this black comedy follows the undoing Our Meal for Tomorrow (12A)
Tue 4 Feb, 18:00 Wed 5 Feb, 18:20
Dirs Various/GB US 2019/62 mins Gaga, My Dear (PG) of a married TV producer and womaniser (Bokura no gohan wa ashita de
Dir Levan Akin/SE GE FR 2019/113 mins/Georgian
Organ (PG) (Bokemasukara, yoroshiku as the women in his life join forces in matteru)
wEngST Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival brings a conspiring to kill him. Starring many
Levan Gelbakhiani, Bachi Valishvili, Ana Javakishvili diverse programme of films to Cardiff (Ano Hi No Orugan) onegaishimasu.) representative figures of Japan’s silver Sat 29 Feb, 15:40
Merab has been training from a young every year, showcasing talent and stories Tue 11 Feb, 18:00 Dir Masahide Ichii/JP 2017/109 min/Japanese wEngST
Sat 22 Feb, 15:40 screen, this stylish work by the director
age at the National Georgian Ensemble from around the world. These award- Dir Emiko Hiramatsu/JP 2019/119 min/Japanese wEngST Yuto Nakajima, Yuko Araki, Karen Miyama
Dir Naoko Nobutomo/JP 2018/102 min/Japanese wEngST of Tokyo Olympiad is a rare treat praised
with his dance partner Mary. His world winning shorts from the 2019 festival Erika Toda, Sakurako Ohara, Yui Sakuma After participating in their school’s
Filmmaker Nobutomo begins to by his contemporaries.
turns upside down when the carefree feature the very best of modern LGBT+ As Tokyo burns in the wake of air strikes sack race, an unlikely romance begins
Irakli arrives and becomes both his filmmaking. notice gradual changes affecting her Screening from a 35mm print.
in the closing months of the Pacific War, between an introverted Hayama and
strongest rival and desire. nonagenarian mother. Turning the
Event/ This screening will be followed nursery teachers led by Kaede scramble outspoken Uemura. As their lives unfold
camera on her parents’ life, she presents
Event/ This screening will be introduced by a Q&A with director Alfi Dale and to evacuate the children under their over the next seven years, can they
an intimate portrait of the highs and
by Berwyn Rowlands, Iris Prize Festival star Cameron Maydale (My Brother is a care to an abandoned temple. A rare overcome obstacles and continue sharing
lows of a family living with Alzheimer’s
Director. Mermaid) and a short performance from film showing the little-known realities of meals in good times and bad?
and the reality of geriatric care in
Cameron. women on the home front who answered
Japan’s super aging society.
the call of duty in the face of adversity.
14 15
Honour Wave, 2019
Jessica
Hausner classics
Our popular programme brings cinema classics to the big screen every month so you
. never need to miss those must-sees! Sunday screenings are usually accompanied by
a free, informal post-screening discussion.
Thu 27 Feb & Visit homemcr.org/classics for details.
Juliet of the Spirits (15)
Mon 2 Mar (Giulietta degli spiriti)
After emerging with her 2001 Sun 2 Feb, 13:00 Girlhood, 2014
feature debut, Lovely Rita, Austrian Tue 4 Feb, 20:00
filmmaker Jessica Hausner has rapidly
Girlhood (15)
Wed 5 Feb, 13:00 (Bande de filles)
established herself as a tirelessly Dir Federico Fellini/IT FR 1965/137 mins/Italian wEngST
inventive director who reconfigures Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo, Mario Pisu Sun 1 Mar, 13:00
genre codes in clever and provocative Cinematographer Gianni di Venanzo’s Tue 3 Mar, 20:30
ways. masterful use of Technicolor transforms Wed 4 Mar, 13:00
homemcr.org/JessicaHausner Juliet of the Spirits, Fellini’s first colour Dir Céline Sciamma/FR 2014/114 mins
feature, into a kaleidoscope of dreams, Karidja Touré, Lindsay Karamoh, Assa Sylla
Programme 2 (12A)
British spirits, and memories. Giulietta Masina The third feature from Céline Sciamma
Animation Sun 16 Feb, 18:20
Dir Various/GB 2018-19/90 mins
plays a betrayed wife whose inability
to come to terms with reality leads her
is a superlative coming-of-age drama
that provides an insightful look into
Awards Screening in this programme are:
Getting Started, What’s Next, The
along a hallucinatory journey of self-
discovery.
adolescence and gang culture. Fed up
with her abusive family situation, lack
. Things I Left Behind, A Whale’s Tale, Flora, 1995 of school prospects and the “boys’ law”
The Peacock in the Room, Fox Fires, You may also be interested in the in the neighbourhood, Marieme starts a
//_sleeper, The Beatles - Glass
Jessica Hausner Shorts (CTBA)
Thu 13 – Onion, Chin Up, Speed, Desire Line, Thu 27 Feb, 18:15
Fellini Day Course see p8 for details. new life after meeting a group of three
free-spirited girls.
Mon 17 Feb Coldplay – Daddy, Nod. Wink. Horse.,
Post Mortem, Love is Love, Turning,
Coinciding with Little Joe, HOME
Juliet of the Spirits, 1965 Céline Sciamma’s new film Portrait
presents two rarely screened titles:
The three British Animation Awards Chemicals - Parker Bossley, You Died, Hausner’s Locarno Festival–winning of a Lady on Fire screens from Fri 28
Public Choice programmes consist of a British Bombs, The Wind in the Willows short Flora and the mid-length Inter- Naked Lunch (18) Feb see p3 for details.
selection of outstanding short films and - The Wildlife Trust and The Flounder. View, Hausner’s graduation film at the
music videos from the entries to the Programme 3 (12A) Filmacademy Vienna. Both screen from Sun 16 Feb, 13:00
British Animation Awards 2020. Don’t 35mm. Tue 18 Feb, 20:30 + Introduction
miss your chance to watch and vote on Mon 17 Feb, 18:20 Wed 19 Feb, 13:00
Dir Various/GB 2018-19/90 mins
your favourite short film and music video. Dir David Cronenberg/US 1991/115 mins
Winners will be announced at the BAA Screening in this programme are: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm
ceremony on Thu 12 Mar at the BFI South Scouting for Girls - Let’s Not Go Away, In this adaptation of William
Bank, London. I’m OK, Stitch, You Foe, The Mushroom S. Burroughs’ hallucinatory,
Hunters, Mankind, Handmade, Black once-thought-unfilmable novel,
homemcr.org/BAA Lovely Rita, 2001 8 Women, 2002
Earth Rising, Sad Heart, Archie, Cronenberg follows a part-time
Programme 1 (15) Brexicuted, Group Work Works, Hide Lovely Rita (15) exterminator and full-time drug 8 Women (15)
and Seek, Wood Child and Hidden addict named Bill Lee as he plunges (8 femmes)
Thu 13 Feb, 18:20 Mon 2 Mar, 18:15
Dir Various/GB 2018-19/90 mins
Forest Mother, Crow, Davina and into the nightmarish Interzone, a
the Vagabonds - Devil Horns and Dir Jessica Hausner/AT DE 2001/79 mins/German
netherworld of sinister cabals and Sun 22 Mar, 13:00
Screening in this programme are: Hello wEngST
Tue 24 Mar, 20:30
Roughhouse. giant talking bugs.
Jemima, Ada, Tummy, The Fabric of You, Barbara Osika, Christoph Bauer, Peter Fiala
Wed 25 Mar, 13:00
What It Feels Like, Honour Wave, Billie, Hausner probes the uncanny banality Event/ The screening on Tue 18 Feb, Dir François Ozon/FR 2002/111 mins/French wEngST
Anatomy of a Stabbing, The Mystical of suburban malaise through the 20:30 will be introduced by Jason Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Béart, Danielle Darrieux
Journey of Jimmy Page’s ‘59 Telecaster, eyes of Rita, a teen girl riding sinister Wood, Creative Director: Film and Isolated in a snow-bound house where
Bloomers, Bishop Briggs – Baby, The currents of adolescent anger and Culture at HOME. a man has been murdered, all are
Spaghetti Police, 4:3, Morph – Fireworks, disillusionment. Eliciting performances
suspects… and all of them have a
Waders’ Lullaby, Synchronicity, Sigrid: of casually deadpan menace from
Screening as part of Adaptation: chance to sing! A deliciously camp
Focus, Playgrounds, Grandad was a a cast of nonprofessional actors,
Impossible Novels see p10 for game of Cluedo featuring a full star
Romantic and Aderyn. Hausner stages an indelible parable of
details. line up of France’s leading ladies in diva
Contains flashing imagery. unflinching existential horror. Naked Lunch, 1991 mode.
16 17
BRING THE FAMILY
Designed for the whole family (including babies), these screenings will have the volume lowered and the lights will remain dimmed
live broadcasts
Catch the best theatre and opera broadcast live in our cinemas from the world’s
throughout the screening. Films will begin at the advertised time without adverts or trailers.
most prestigious companies.
homemcr.org/families
homemcr.org/live-broadcasts
Ferdinand, 2017
Cyrano de Bergerac, 2020
Where the Wild Things Are, 2009
Storytelling & Craft Workshop
Where the Wild Things Are (PG) Ferdinand (U) Sun 22 Mar, 12:45
Free, booking advised
Sun 23 Feb, 11:00 Sun 22 Mar, 11:00 Following the film screening of
Dir Spike Jonze/US 2009/101 mins Dir Carlos Saldanha/US ES 2017/108 mins
Ferdinand, young fans and parents Fidelio, 2020
Max Records, Catherine Keener, Forest Whitaker, Mark Ruffalo John Cena, Kate McKinnon, Bobby Cannavale
are invited to a lively storytelling and
Max’s imagination is free to roam as Ferdinand is a giant bull with a big craft event from Manchester Literature ROH Live/ Fidelio (12A as Live)
he sets sail for the land of the Wild heart. After being mistaken for a Festival.
Things, where mischief reigns and Max dangerous beast and torn from his Tue 17 Mar, Doors – 19:00, Performance
rules. Made up of only 10 sentences and home, he rallies a misfit team of friends Suitable for children aged 3+ – 19:15
Composer: Beethoven/Opera /Sung in German wEng
illustrations, Maurice Sendak’s 1963 story for the ultimate adventure to return All children must be accompanied by ST/150 minutes
was considered unfilmable. After potential to his family. Based on the classic an adult.
Beethoven’s only opera is a
plans that ventured into animation, Spike children’s book, Ferdinand proves you The workshop is free but booking is masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk
Jonze finally adapted the book. can’t judge a bull by its cover! advised to avoid disappointment. and triumph. In this new production,
conducted by Antonio Pappano, Jonas
Relaxed Screenings Where the Wild Things Are (PG)
Sat 22 Feb, 11:00
Kaufmann plays the political prisoner
Florestan, and Lise Davidsen his wife
(Autism Friendly) Dir Spike Jonze/US 2009/101 mins
Max Records, Catherine Keener, Forest Whitaker, Mark
Ruffalo
NT Live/ Cyrano de Bergerac
(15)
true love Roxane. There’s just one big
problem: he has a nose as huge as
his heart. Will a society engulfed by
Leonore (disguised as ‘Fidelio’) who
daringly sets out to rescue him. Set in
strong counterpoint are the ingredients
Designed for people with autism spectrum conditions and their families. We’ll See Bring the Family for details. Thu 20 Feb, Doors – 18:45, narcissism get the better of Cyrano of domestic intrigue, determined
keep the lights on low, turn the sound down a little, and provide a separate Performance – 19:00 – or can his mastery of language set love and the cruelty of an oppressive
room to take a break in. For the film screenings there will be no trailers or Weathering with You (12A) Running Time: 180 mins Roxane’s world alight? regime. The music is transcendent
advertisements before the film starts and you’ll be able to move around the (Tenki no ko) James McAvoy (X-Men, Atonement) throughout and includes the famous
Edmond Rostand’s masterwork is
cinema if you want to. returns to the stage in an inventive Act I Quartet, the Prisoners’ Chorus
adapted by Martin Crimp, with
New to our Relaxed Screenings programme, we are trialling screenings for adults Sat 28 Mar, 11:00 new adaptation of Cyrano de and Florestan’s impassioned Act II cry
Dir Makoto Shinkai/JP 2019/112 mins/Japanese wEngST
direction by Jamie Lloyd (Betrayal).
and older teens. Bergerac, broadcast live to cinemas This classic play will be brought in the darkness and vision of hope.
Kotaro Daigo, Nana Mori, Kentaro Araki
from the West End in London. to life with linguistic ingenuity Tobias Kratzer’s new staging brings
homemcr.org/relaxed See p8 for details.
Fierce with a pen and notorious in to celebrate Cyrano’s powerful together the dark reality of the French
Revolutionary ‘Terror’ and our own
Parent & Baby
combat, Cyrano almost has it all - if and resonant resistance against
Emma (CTBA) time to illuminate Fidelio’s inspiring
only he could win the heart of his overwhelming odds.
Thu 20 Feb, 11:00 message of shared humanity.
Parents, grandparents and carers of babies aged up to 12 months can enjoy Dir Autumn de Wilde/GB 2020/TBC mins
home film podcast
films in a relaxed environment with their babies. The volume will be lowered and Anya Taylor-Joy, Josh O’Connor, Johnny Flynn
the lights will remain dimmed throughout the screening. Films will begin at the See p2 for details.
advertised time without adverts or trailers.
Baby changing facilities are readily available and our café bar team can provide The Truth (PG) To listen to the HOME Film Podcast on Spotify, open the search option in the Spotify app and use the camera to scan this code.
high chairs and hot water for bottles on request. (La vérité)
Unfortunately we are unable to admit children older than 12 months of age. Thu 26 Mar, 11:00
homemcr.org/parent-and-baby Dir Hirokazu Kore-eda/FR JP 2019/107 mins/French and
English with partial EngST
Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke
See p5 for details.
18 19THEATRE
Insane Animals
Fri Sat 28 – Sat 14 Mar
Making its world premiere at HOME,
Insane Animals is an epic joyride from
the dawn of civilisation to the sequinned
near future. With the planet in chaos and
humanity hurtling towards extinction, two
hyper-glam aliens arrive on earth with a
simple mission: to help the human species
survive. But first they just have to figure
out what makes humans human… how
hard can it be?
homemcr.org/insane-animals
Access
Caption Subtitled performance,
Wed 11 Mar, 19:30
Audio Described Touch Tour,
Fri 13 Mar, 18:30
Audio Described performance,
Fri 13 Mar, 19:30
BSL Interpreted performance,
ART
Sat 14 Mar, 14:00
Manchester Open Exhibition 2020 Tours
Open Door Saturday Tours
Ground Floor Gallery and Granada Foundation Galleries
1&2 Every Sat from 18 Jan – 28 Mar, 13:00
Sat 18 Jan – Sun 29 March, FREE Free
Join us for the first Manchester Open Exhibition at Join us every Saturday for a special gallery tour of the
HOME, featuring over 500 works submitted by artists Manchester Open Exhibition led by a diverse range of artists,
from across Greater Manchester. Including paintings, experts, community representatives and cultural leaders from
prints, photography, sculpture, mixed media, video and Greater Manchester. Each week our tour guides will take you
literature
performance, the Manchester Open is a real snapshot of on bespoke tours that will focus on their favourite artworks
what Greater Manchester is creating right now. and their interpretation of the themes and stories presented in
the exhibition.
homemcr.org/manchesteropen
homemcr.org/opendoortours The Complete Works
Events British Sign Language Tour
Open House Thursdays Editor, critic and broadcaster Ellah Wakatama Allfrey OBE will be joined in
Sat 8 Feb, 15:00 – 16:00 conversation by some of our most exciting contemporary writers in this series of in-
Every Thu from 23 Jan – 26 Mar, 18:00 Free, booking advised depth interviews at HOME, in partnership with the University of Manchester.
Free, Drop In Join Art and Design Historian, Jennifer Little for a tour of this Tickets £15/£12 concessions
As part of the Manchester Open Exhibition 2020 we will be exhibition. This tour will be led solely in British Sign Language homemcr.org/complete-works
hosting a curated programme of live performance selected with no spoken English. Attendees are welcome to join Jennifer
from the open call, as well as takeovers by a variety of after the tour for an informal BSL discussion in the cafe-bar. Lindsey Hilsum Lindsey Hilsum
interventions by artists, groups and performers. The exhibition Wed 19 Feb, 18:45
will be open until 21.00 on Thursday evenings so you can stick A trusted and familiar face as Channel 4 News International Editor, Lindsey Hilsum
around and enjoy the exhibition outside of standard gallery has reported on conflicts from around the world through her career. The author of
opening times. two works of non-fiction, one on Libya and one the biography of fellow correspondent
homemcr.org/openhousethursdays Marie Colvin, her work is carried out in times of crisis when the human condition is
most laid bare.
20 21get involved
ACCESSIBLE PERFORMANCES AND SCREENINGS
Here at HOME, we offer a
range of access services
to open up our programme
Throughout the year there are on-going programmes, events, workshops, courses and artist to everyone. Head to our
opportunities to try out, so why not take a look at some of these events listed here? website to find out more at
homemcr.org/access
FILM EVENTS THEATRE
Filmed Up / Mar 2020 WORKSHOP
Wed 4 Mar, 18:15 Introduction to Working The Strange Tale of
£5.50 full/£4 concs Internationally Charlie Chaplin and Stan
Discover a variety of short films from Laurel
Tue 11 Feb, 13:00 – 15:00
North West filmmakers at our regular Creative Captions every
Playreading Free
short film night and get to know the performance
filmmakers afterwards. Led by Farnham Maltings’ International
Fri 7 Feb, 11:00 – 13:00 RELAXED Relaxed performance, Thu 6 Feb,
Producer, this 2-hour workshop takes a
Fri 6 Mar, 11:00 – 13:00 Accessible Music
ART £5 (scripts and refreshments included)
look at the whole journey, from defining
Productions (AMP)
14:00
Insane Animals
your international ambitions, to finding
Inspire Gallery: Our popular Playreading group offers partners, to the practicalities of working Workshops Caption Subtitled performance,
an opportunity to read and discuss Wed 11 Mar, 19:30
Manchester Deaf Centre & abroad. Participants will have the chance Tue 4 Feb, 18:00 – 20:00
plays. The sessions are fun, friendly and to ask questions, share experiences and TOUCH
Audio Described Touch Tour,
Salford Makers informal and new members are always
Tue 3 Mar, 18:00 – 20:00 TOUR
gain some practical tips. Fri 13 Mar, 18:30
Jan – Mar 2020 welcome. Free, booking required
Audio Described performance,
Inspire Gallery Monthly music workshops supporting
homemcr.org/playreading Fri 13 Mar, 19:30
Building on this unique collaboration 18-25 year olds with different abilities
and funded by Young Manchester, Filmmaker meet up and additional needs to write, play BSL Interpreted performance,
this exhibition brings together screen Thu 13 Feb, 18:30 and create music lead by professional Sat 14 Mar, 14:00
musicians and artists.
A Little Space
printing, pattern, mark-making and Deadline for expression of interest:
design created by young people from Caption subtitled performance,
Mon 27 Jan homemcr.org/amp
Manchester Deaf Centre and designed Fri 14 Feb at 19:30
A meet up aimed at emerging film
by Salford Makers. writers, directors and producers, TOUCH Audio Described Touch Tour, Sat
TOUR
organised in conjunction with BFI 15 Feb, 13:00
OPPORTUNITIES NETWORK/Film Hub North. We will kick Audio Described performance,
Talent Development off the evening with a 30-minute panel Sat 15 Feb, 14:00
Surgeries
discussion with industry guests, followed YOUNG PEOPLE Image © Alex Brenner
by informal networking with a drink.
Ongoing homemcr.org/FMUFeb20
Young Identity
Do you want to discuss a project idea, Every Monday from 19:00 House Party
need a bit of career advice or would Free, no booking required
like to find out more about the Talent Fri 6 Mar, 19:00
Development opportunities here at A weekly poetry workshop for 15-25 year £5 (essential companions, free),
HOME? Why not book in a 30 minute olds led by Manchester’s premiere youth booking required Poet in Da Corner
conversation with one of our Talent spoken word project. House Party is our quarterly inclusive Caption Subtitled performance,
Development producers. homemcr.org/young-identity club night aimed at music lovers, makers, Sat 28 Mar, 14:00
movers and shakers aged 18-25 with
homemcr.org/talent-development- Creative Careers Extraordinary Wall of
surgeries/ different abilities and additional needs
Workshops brought to you by the team behind Silence
Mothers Who Make
Filmed Up Submission Half term week of 17 Feb Accessible Music Productions (AMP).
Mon 9 Mar, 10:30 – 12:30 Caption subtitled performance,
Deadline Free, booking required homemcr.org/amp Thu 20 Feb at 19:45
Free, no booking required
Send in your film by 30 April to be Info available from mid Jan
Mothers who Make is a growing national BSL integrated into every
considered for the June screening. homemcr.org/creative-careers performance
network aimed at supporting mothers
No submission fee. who are artists, working in any discipline
homemcr.org/filmedup and at any stage of their careers.
homemcr.org/mothers-who-make
22 23OPENING TIMES VISIT FILM PRICES
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Manchester
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Mon – Sat: 12:00 – 20:00
Peak (from 17:00 Mon – Fri,
Sun: 12:00 – 18:00
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Granada Foundation Galleries BOOKING
Full £9.50 / Member Full £7.50
Mon – Thu: 11:00 – 23:00
Fri – Sat: 11:00 – 00:00 homemcr.org £5 student advance tickets
Sun: 11:00 – 22:30 0161 200 1500 available (limited capacity).
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Bookshop Concessions and discounts are
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Fri – Sat: 10:00 – 00:00
Sun: 11:00 – 22:30
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