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The Day Shall Come (15) Farming (18) The King (CTBA) From Fri 11 Oct From Fri 11 Oct From Fri 11 Oct Dir Chris Morris/GB US 2019/88 mins Dir Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje/GB 2019/102 mins Dir David Michôd/GB HU AU 2019/133 mins Marchánt Davis, Anna Kendrick, Danielle Brooks, Damson Idris, Kate Beckinsale, Adewale Akinnuoye- Robert Pattinson, Timothée Chalamet, Tara Judy (12A) Joker (CTBA) Tehran: City of Love (12A) Denis O’Hare Agbaje Fitzgerald Based on 100 true stories, the Farming follows a young Nigerian boy Hal (Timothée Chalamet), wayward From Wed 2 Oct From Fri 4 Oct From Fri 4 Oct explosive new film from Chris Morris as he is drawn into the warped world prince and reluctant heir to the English Dir Rupert Goold/GB 2019/118 mins Dir Todd Phillips/US CA 2019/122 mins Dir Ali Jaberansari/IR GB NL 2018/103 mins/Persian is an emotionally gripping, laugh-out- of a racist skinhead gang in 1980s throne, has turned his back on royal Renée Zellweger, Jessie Buckley, Rufus Sewell Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz wEngST Forough Ghajabagli, Amir Hessam Bakhtiari, Amir loud thriller that exposes the dark England. Driven by themes of identity, life and is living among the people. But Winter 1968 and showbiz legend Todd Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Reza Alizadeh, Mehdi Saki farce at the heart of the homeland power, love and betrayal, the brilliantly when his tyrannical father dies, Hal is Judy Garland arrives in London to Fleck, a failed comic and a man This is the bittersweet tale of three security project: It is harder to catch a cast Farming is also a film about crowned King Henry V and is forced perform a five-week sold-out run. As disregarded by society, is not only middle-aged disenchanted characters real terrorist than it is to manufacture redemption. to embrace the life he had previously she prepares for the show, battles a gritty character study, but also a – an ex bodybuilding champion, an your own. tried to escape. with management, charms musicians broader cautionary fable. Described in overweight beauty clinic secretary and reminisces with friends and studio parlance as an “origins” tale, it’s and a dispirited religious singer – each adoring fans, her wit and warmth shine a film of intellect and impact. It’s also yearning for love and connection in a through. about Batman’s nemesis. city that does not embrace them.

Good Posture (15) Phoenix (15) Werewolf (15) What You Gonna Do When the Non-Fiction (15) Mystify: Michael Hutchence From Fri 4 Oct (Føniks) (Wilkolak) World’s on Fire? (CTBA) (Doubles vies) (15) Dir Dolly Wells/US 2019/92 mins From Fri 4 Oct From Fri 4 Oct From Fri 18 Oct From Fri 18 Oct From Fri 18 Oct Emily Mortimer, Grace Van Patten, Ebon Dir Camilla Strøm Henriksen/NO 2018/86 mins/ Dir Adrian Panek/PL DE RU 2018/88 mins/Polish, Dir Roberto Minervini/IT FR US 2018/123 mins Dir /FR 2019/107 mins/French wEngST Dir Richard Lowenstein/AU 2019/102 mins Moss-Bachrach Norwegian wEngST German and Russian wEngST A blistering meditation on the state Guillaume Canet, , Vincent Macaigne A journey into the heart and soul of Newly single Lillian has been placed Ylva Bjørkaas Thedin, Maria Bonnevie, Sverrir Kamil Polnisiak, Nicolas Przygoda, Sonia Mietielica of race in America, the film chronicles Parisian publisher Alain refuses to into the care of family friend and Gudnason Michael Hutchence, internationally 1945. Children who have been liberated the lives of black communities in the publish his friend Léonard’s novel, famed reclusive author, Julia Price. Caring for both her mentally unstable renowned lead-singer of INXS, a from a Nazi concentration camp are Southern states, where the tragic fearing his company is outdated. To impress her ex-boyfriend, and the mother Astrid and brother complex and shy man who spent much left abandoned without food or water. aftermath of Hurricane Katrina remains He hires Laure to take it into the other cynics around her, Lilian suddenly Bo, teenager Jill has grown up quickly. of his life in the public eye, rarely However, the nightmare continues acutely felt as police brutality claims digital age, only to find himself in a decides to make a documentary on Just as it seems like things could be revealing his true self to anyone except when they are besieged by wild dogs lives with intolerable regularity. relationship with her. How this might Julia - albeit an unauthorised one - looking up, Jill’s estranged father his very close friends. that were used to guard the camp. go down with Alain’s actress wife, with surprisingly amusing results. calls to say he’ll visit them on her 14th Under the cover of a genre film, a Selena, who’s been having an affair birthday, just two days away. deeper psychological story unfolds. with Léonard for years…

2 3 Chained for Life (15) By the Grace of God (15) The Last Black Man in San Sorry We Missed You (15) Making Waves: The Art of After the Wedding (12A) (Grâce à Dieu) Francisco (CTBA) Cinematic Sound (CTBA) From Fri 25 Oct From Fri 1 Nov From Fri 1 Nov Dir Aaron Schimberg/US 2018/92 mins Dir Ken Loach/GB FR BE 2019/101 mins From Fri 1 Nov Dir Bart Freundlich/US 2019/112 mins From Fri 25 Oct From Fri 25 Oct Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Jess Weixler, Adam Pearson, Stephen Plunkett Dir François Ozon/FR BE 2019/138 mins/French wEngST Dir Joe Talbot/US 2019/121 mins Dir Midge Costin/US 2019/94 mins Michelle Williams, , Billy Crudup, Stone, Katie Proctor Will Chase Aaron Schimberg’s impressive second Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, Danny Glover A look at how sound is used in the Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet, Swann Arlaud Loach’s latest film focuses on a feature is his response, as a filmmaker filmmaking process, Making Waves After the Wedding focuses on Isabel, The latest from François Ozon (Eight Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the working-class family in Newcastle who with facial deformity, to cinematic features notable film personnel who travels to New York to meet Women) is an engrossing and topical Victorian home his grandfather built are struggling to make ends meet and portrayals of disfigured people. His including sound designers Walter with Theresa, a wealthy benefactor, examination of the Catholic Church in the heart of San Francisco. Joined imploding as a unit under a regime multi-layered meta-narrative sees Jess Murch (Apocalypse Now) and Gary to seek funding for her orphanage in abuse scandal, telling the story of on his quest by his best friend Mont, ruled by zero hours contracts. A film of Weixler as Mabel, a well-intentioned Rydstrom (Saving Private Ryan, Toy India. When Theresa and her husband three men who pursue justice for the Jimmie searches for belonging in a fierce passion, it features a cavalcade Hollywood star who takes the role of a Story) and directors David Lynch, Sofia Oscar invite Isabel to their daughter’s abuse they suffered as children. rapidly changing city. A potent story of tremendously naturalistic performers blind woman in a hospital-based horror Coppola, Christopher Nolan and Ryan wedding, their seemingly unconnected of hometowns and how they’re made and is leavened by moments of sparky movie about abnormalities. Coogler. worlds collide. – and kept alive – by the people who humour. love them.

Monos (15) The Peanut Butter Falcon Doctor Sleep (CTBA) Brittany Runs a Marathon (15) Meeting Gorbachov (CTBA) The Dead Center (18) From Fri 25 Oct (CTBA) From Thu 31 Oct From Fri 1 Nov From Fri 8 Nov From Fri 8 Nov Dir Alejandro Landes/CO AR NL DE SE UY 2019/102 From Fri 25 Oct Dir Mike Flanagan/US 2019 Dir Paul Downs Colaizzo/US 2019/104 mins Dirs Werner Herzog, André Singer/GB DE US Dir Billy Senese/US 2018/93 mins mins/English and Spanish with partial EngST Rebecca Ferguson, Ewan McGregor, Jacob Tremblay 2018/90 mins Shane Carruth, Poorna Jagannathan, Jeremy Childs Dirs Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz/US 2019/97 mins Jillian Bell, Jennifer Dundas, Patch Darragh, Alice Julianne Nicholson, Moises Arias, Sofia Lee Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, Zack Gottsagen Doctor Sleep continues the story Werner Herzog interviewed former A creepy mystery with the pace and Buenaventura, Sneider Castro Award-winning playwright Paul Downs The Peanut Butter Falcon is an of Danny Torrance, 40 years after head of state Mikhail Gorbachev over a propulsion of a low-budget action- Landes presents a disquieting take Colaizzo makes his directorial debut adventure story set in the world of his terrifying stay at the Overlook six-month period and these interviews thriller. The corpse of a suicide victim on the war film and survival thriller with this bright, brisk comedy. Brittany a modern Mark Twain that begins Hotel in The Shining. Based on the form the backdrop of this film co- walks out of a morgue and into a in Monos. Eight stray teenagers, Forgler is a likeable, 27-year-old mess when Zak, a young man with Down acclaimed novel by Stephen King, the directed with André Singer. Gorbachev psychiatric hospital, with things each bearing a code name, form a of a New Yorker who is profoundly syndrome runs away from his nursing film certainly has a lot to live up to emerges as an incredibly humanist getting really scary when he reveals paramilitary squad on a remote hilltop. affected by unexpected medical home to chase his dream of becoming but manages to continue the Torrance politician with a commitment to peace. the nature of the power that brought They are instinctively drawn towards diagnoses and sets her life off on a a professional wrestler. Through story with integrity and aplomb. him back. hedonism, but their carefree time new course. swiftly comes to a brutal end. circumstances beyond their control, Tyler, a small-time outlaw on the run Check out HOME’s annual horror Check out HOME’s annual horror becomes Zak’s unlikely coach and ally. film season FilmFear on pages film season FilmFear on pages 14-15. 14-15.

4 5 Luce (CTBA) A Dog Called Money (15) The Report (15) Permission (CTBA) Here for Life (15) Eyes Wide Shut (18) + short film From Fri 8 Nov From Fri 8 Nov From Fri 15 Nov From Fri 22 Nov From Fri 22 Nov Dir Julius Onah/US 2019/109 mins Dir Seamus Murphy/IE GB 2019/94 mins Dir Scott Z. Burns/US 2019/120 mins Dir Soheil Beiraghi/IR 2018/85 mins/Persian wEngST Dirs Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Adrian Jackson/US From Fri 29 Nov Kelvin Harrison Jr., Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, 2019/87 mins Photographer Seamus Murphy Adam Driver, Annette Bening, Jon Hamm, Corey Stoll Baran Kosari, Amir Jadidi, Leili Rashidi Dir Stanley Kubrick/GB US 1999/156 mins Tim Roth transposes P.J. Harvey’s search for In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, Afrooz is the captain of the Iranian Here for Life marks the culmination Tom Cruise, , Sydney Pollack, Marie The story of a white couple who adopt inspirational material and her intimate CIA agents begin using extreme women’s futsal team. After eleven of a long collaboration between Richardson a young child from war-torn Eritrea, creative process into an impressively interrogation tactics on those they years of hard work, her dream is finally filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Restored for its 20th anniversary and Luce is a complex and revealing film poetic montage. A film about the think were behind it. The Report about to become a reality as she will theatre-maker Adrian Jackson. The film presented with a new short, Stanley about trust, privilege, and the human creative process, global politics and follows one man’s pursuit of justice and be leading her team in the Women’s follows ten Londoners who all have Kubrick’s final film remains a flawed, need to categorise the world as we the state of the world, it offers hope adherence to oversight accountability. Asia Cup Final. However, at Tehran lives shaped by loss and love, struggle divisive but nonetheless fascinating see it. The performances from Spencer, and despair in equal measure. airport she finds that her husband has and resistance as they grapple with a enigma. Inspired by the novel by Arthur Watts, Roth and Harrison Jr. are banned her from exiting the country. system that is stacked against them. Schnitzler, it’s a frequently compelling terrific. psychosexual journey.

Plus/ The short film Never Just A Dream: Stanley Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut (Dir Matt Wells/GB 2019/8 mins) will screen with this film.

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Shooting the Mafia (CTBA) From Fri 29 Nov Dir Kim Longinotto/IE 2019/94 mins Pink Wall (CTBA) Judy and Punch (15) Heimat is a Space in Time Sicilian Letizia Battaglia began a The Amazing Johnathan lifelong battle with the Mafia when (CTBA) Documentary (CTBA) From Fri 22 Nov From Fri 22 Nov she first pointed her camera at a Dir Tom Cullen/GB 2019/85 mins Dir Mirrah Foulkes/AU 2019/105 mins (Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit) brutally slain victim. Documenting From Fri 29 Nov Tatiana Maslany, Jay Duplass, Sarah Ovens Mia Wasikowska, Damon Herriman, the Cosa Nostra’s barbaric rule, she Dir Benjamin Berman/US 2019/91 mins Benedict Hardie, Don Bridges From Fri 22 Nov A modern-day romance following the Dir Thomas Heise/DE AT 2019/218 mins/German bore unflinching witness to their This begins as a documentary about In a visceral and dynamic live-action six-year relationship of Jenna and wEngST crimes. Her photographs, art, and “The Amazing Johnathan” a uniquely reinterpretation of the famous 16th Leon. Intimately told through defining Using documents from his personal bravery helped to bring an end to a eccentric magician who built a century puppet show, writer-director moments along their journey together, archive, Thomas Heise traces out shocking reign of slaughter... career out of shock and deception in Mirrah Foulkes turns the traditional the film explores how both friendship the story of four generations of his the 1980s – but becomes a bizarre story of Punch and Judy on its head and resentments grow as the pressures family in Vienna, Dresden and (East) Event/ The screening on Thu 5 Dec, story about the unravelling of his and brings to life a fierce, darkly comic of adult life confront them. Berlin. From this repository of personal 18:00 will be introduced by Kirsty documentarian. and epic female-driven revenge story. experience, Heise tells nothing less Fairclough, Associate Dean at the than the story of Germany in the 20th University of Salford. century.

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Woman in America? Jane Stud Life, 2012 Fonda, Hollywood and 1970s Magic Medicine, 2018 Hero, 2018 A City Seen/ Stud Life (18) + Politics Hero (CTBA) + Q&A Magic Medicine (15) + Q&A post-screening discussion Sun 6 Oct, 16:00 Mon 7 Oct, 17:50 Wed 9 Oct, 18:10 Mon 14 Oct, 18:10 Dir Monty Wates/GB 2018/79 mins Tickets: £4 full / £3 concs Dir Frances-Anne Solomon/CA 2018/111 mins Dir Campbell X/GB 2012/87 mins All My Life’s Buried Here, 2019 When, at the age of 34, Jane Kofi Adjorlolo, Jimmy Akingbola, Giles Alderson Over 4 years, filmmaker Monty Wates T’Nia Miller, Kyle Treslove, Robyn Kerr All My Life’s Buried Here (CTBA) Fonda won a Oscar Hero is the story of Ulric Cross who left was given exclusive access to the first JJ, a Black Lesbian ‘Stud’, and her best Waiting, 2015 for the noir thriller Klute (1971), it Trinidad in 1941 and became the RAF’s ever medical trial to give psilocybin friend Seb, a white gay pretty boy Sat 19 Oct, 15:45 Not Just Bollywood/ Waiting appeared to be the culmination of an most decorated West Indian airman of (the psychoactive ingredient in magic are both looking for love but in all the Dir Stewart Hajdukiewicz/GB 2019/97 mins mushrooms) to a group of volunteers All My Life’s Buried Here tells the (15) + Introduction impressive Hollywood career, which WWII and later joined the Pan African wrong places. London-set Stud Life is had begun in 1960 and included a and independence movements sweeping suffering from clinical depression. a sexy, young and cool gay romance story of George Butterworth’s life and Wed 2 Oct, 18:10 wide range of memorable roles. But, music from his earliest childhood to his the world in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Event/ We will be joined by Magic taking a unique look at a slice of Dir Anu Menon/IN 2015/92 mins/Hindi amazingly, the best was yet to come. final hours in the trenches. We follow Presented in association with People’s Medicine contributor David Nutt, British urban life. and English with partial EngST With particular reference to several Butterworth on his forays collecting History Museum as part of Black History Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology Naseeruddin Shah, Kalki Koechlin, Jennifer of her best-known films, Andy Willis Event/ Following this screening, folk songs to discover what he found Antony Month. at Imperial College London, Chair will discuss Jane Fonda’s work in the Manchester-based artists and activists when he went out into rural England Shot in the picturesque coastal city of DrugScience and President of the 1970s with film historian Peter Krämer. Event/ We will be joined by writer, Rainbow Noir will discuss the themes and how this informed his own music. of Kochi, two strangers strike up an European Brain Council for a Q&A director and producer Frances-Anne of the visibility of black studs, unlikely friendship in a hospital waiting The China Syndrome, 1979 following this screening. Screening to coincide with Solomon, and lead actor Nickolai Salcedo masculinity in queer black women, and room that leads to an extended Manchester Folk Festival at HOME for a Q&A following this screening. queer women of colour. philosophical commentary on death, from Tue 15 – Sun 20 Oct. For more love and social media. The Awful Truth, 1937 information go to Homemcr.org/ MFF19 Event/ This screening will be introduced by Roy Stafford, freelance The China Syndrome (12A) + course film educator. Introduction Women in Film Comedy Sun 6 Oct, 17:15 Soviet Hippies, 2017 8 weeks, from Tue 8 Oct Dir James Bridges/US 1979/119 mins Soviet Hippies (CTBA) + Q&A 18:30 – 20:30 Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas (Nõukogude hipid) The China Syndrome is a tense Tickets: £80 full / £60 concs thriller with a decidedly feminist This course will concentrate on Thu 10 Oct, 18:20 slant, dealing as it does with a the roles and representations of Dir Terje Toomistu/EE DE FI 2017/75 mins/ Jarman Awards 2019 female TV reporter who wants to women in Anglo-American cinematic Estonian, Russian and English with partial EngST The Awful Truth (U) Jarman Awards 2019 (CTBA) + This wild flower power ride in the Adoption, 1975 break out of the human-interest comedy: women as the butts, Q&A ghetto into hard news. The film was audiences and tellers of jokes. footprints of the Soviet hippie Tue 15 Oct, 18:30 Cinema Rediscovered/ Dir Leo McCarey/US 1937/88 mins the product of the efforts of various Considering the visuals and the movement takes you into the Tue 22 Oct, 17:55 Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy Adoption (15) politically engaged filmmakers, dialogues that make comedy a psychedelic underground of 1970s. In Discover works that explore new digital This Academy Award-winning film (Örökbefogadás) most prominent among them Jane beloved medium, the course will pay search of freedom under the thumb practices, experimental animation stars Irene Dunne and Cary Grant Fonda, who starred in it and whose attention to comedy’s female stars, of political regimes a colorful crowd and fresh approaches to analogue Thu 3 Oct, 18:00 as a married couple whose mutual company IPC Films co-produced it. writers and directors. of artists, musicians and assorted filmmaking in this screening of cutting- Dir Márta Mészáros/HU 1975/87 mins/Hungarian long-haired dropouts created their own suspicions of infidelity lead them to wEngST edge artists’ films. Event/ The screening will be Beginners’ level, no prior knowledge Katalin Berek, Gyöngyvér Vigh, Péter Fried system in the Soviet Union. seek a hasty divorce. This classic introduced by film historian Peter necessary. The course includes six battle-of-the-sexes comedy provides Event/ We will be joined by artist Celebrated as the first Berlinale Supported by The Embassy of Estonia Krämer. sessions with the course tutor and an insight into shifting attitudes filmmaker Mikhail Karikis and Maggie Golden Bear awarded to a female in London and The Cultural Endowment two course screenings. towards marriage in the context of Ellis, Head of Artists’ Moving Image director, Márta Mészáros’ Adoption is of Estonia. See more from Jane Fonda in Led by Sarah Ilott, Senior Lecturer 1930s America. at FLAMIN (The Film London Artists’ a powerful meditation on agency and Coming Home screening as a in English and Film at Manchester Event/ This screening will be followed Moving Image Network) for a Q&A womanhood in a world that waits to Classic. See p20 for details. Metropolitan University. by a Q&A with director Terje Toomistu. following this screening. give permission. 8 9 Irish Film Morning/Aithri (15) The Day I Lost My Shadow, 2018 The Green Lie, 2018 Talk/ Midnight Cowboy: (Penance) Hollywood Renaissance and Sat 26 Oct, 10:30 – 13:15 US Underground Cinema Tickets: £6.50 full / £5 concs Wed 27 Nov, 19:30 Dir Tom Collins/IE 2018/84mins/Irish wEngST Tickets: £4 full / £3 concs Peter Coonan, Terry Byrne, Padhraig Parkinson Like other Hollywood Renaissance For our 2019 Irish language film films, Midnight Cowboy has been morning we screen Aithri, Tom Collins’ Celebrating Syria presents/ The UK Green Film Festival/ The discussed in detail in terms of its exploration of political violence which Day I Lost My Shadow (CTBA) Green Lie (CTBA) + post- Girls on Film live podcast links with the European art film of sees a young impressionable boy grow screening discussion recording + Q&A the 1960s. This talk will look at the up into an experienced gunman. (Yom Adaatou Zouli) (Die grüne Lüge) Wed 23 Oct, 19:00 film’s lesser known connections to the The screening will be followed by a US underground cinema of the 1960s Film critic and broadcaster Anna Tue 5 Nov, 18:10 Sat 9 Nov, 15:30 discussion in both Irish and English and Dir Werner Boote/AT 2018/97 mins/German, English and especially Andy Warhol. Smith is back for another live audience Dir Soudade Kaadan/SY LB FR 2018/94 mins/Arabic this event is open to all, whether or not wEngST and Portuguese with partial EngST recording of the female-led live Led by Yannis Tzioumakis, Reader of you are an Irish speaker. Sawsan Erchied, Samer Ismael, Reham Alkassar Environmentally friendly electric cars, podcast. Come along and join in the Film and Media Industries and Gary Father Eion O’Donnell is unambiguous Syria, 2012. During the coldest winter sustainably produced food products, conversation and with industry guests, Needham, Senior Lecturer in Film about the need to use violence to force the country has witnessed, all Sana fair production processes: Hurray! If Bechdel tests and lively debate. Studies, both at the University of Britain out of Ireland. He influences a dreams of is cooking gas to prepare everything the corporations tell us is Late Night, 2019 Liverpool. young impressionable boy, Antaine to fight true, we can save the world through a meal for her son. She takes a day Late Night (15) in the 1916 Rising. Fifty years later Antaine off from her job to search for a gas our purchasing decisions alone. Are Midnight Cowboy (18) the industry’s “green products” nothing arrives in Derry as an experienced gunman. cylinder and suddenly finds herself Tue 12 Nov, 18:30 Wed 27 Nov, 20:40 This appearance throws Eoin back to the stuck in the besieged area. It is then more than a sales strategy? Dir Nisha Ganatra/US 2019/100 mins Dir John Schlesinger/US 1969/114 mins cause of his breakdown in 1916. that she discovers that people lose Emma Thompson, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Brenda Vaccaro Event/ This screening will be John Lithgow Supported by the Government of Ireland. Programmed their shadows during the war. Winner of a slew of Academy Awards in partnership with Manchester’s Irish language group. accompanied by a post-screening Katherine Newbury is a pioneer and This screening is in collaboration with (including Best Picture and Best discussion led by Debbie Bell, legendary host on the late-night talk- Rethink, Rebuild Society and is part of Director), Midnight Cowboy is gritty HOME’s Building and Environmental show circuit. When she’s accused of La Flor, 2018 Celebrating Syria 2019: a festival of yet warm story of an affectionate Manager and Alison Criddle, HOME’s being a “woman who hates women,” arts and culture. friendship between two drifters) in a Sustainability and Projects Co-ordinator. she puts affirmative action on the to- decaying late-1960s New York. The do list, and – presto! – Molly is hired as Event/ We will be joined by director film’s 50th anniversary is celebrated Chinese Film Forum UK the one woman in Katherine’s all-male Soudade Kaadan for a Q&A following with this new 4K restoration. this screening. presents Plastic China (CTBA) writers’ room. + Q&A American Gigolo, 1980 Hedwig and the Angry Inch, 2001 La Flor (CTBA) (The Flower) Mon 11 Nov, 18:15 Bigger than Life/ American Interactive Screening/ Hedwig Dir Wang Jiuliang/CN 2016/82 mins/Mandarin wEng ST Gigolo (18) + Introduction and the Angry Inch (15) Sat 26 & Sun 27 Oct Dir Mariano Llinás/AR 2018/893 mins/Spanish, French, As the world’s biggest plastic waste Sat 16 Nov, 12:45 Fri 25 Oct, Doors: 20:15, Event: 20:30 English, Russian, German and Swedish with partial EngST importer, by 2016 China was receiving Dir Paul Schrader/US 1980/117 mins Dir /US 2001/92 mins Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa, Laura Paredes ten million tons per year from most of Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor, Michael Pitt Part 1 (Eps 1 & 2) Where Does a Body End?, 2019 the developed countries around the A male escort sees his seemingly See John Cameron Mitchell’s underground Sat 26 Oct, 13:00 - 16:40 (includes a 15 Where Does a Body End? world. Plastic China’s main character perfect, care-free lifestyle queer rock musical as you’ve never min intermission) (CTBA) + Q&A Yi-Jie is an unschooled 11-year-old thrown into turmoil when he experienced it before. Hosted by queer Part 2 (Ep 3) girl whose family works and lives in becomes embroiled in a murder trans icon Grace Oni Smith performing Sat 26 Oct, 17:15 - 22:55 (includes two Fri 8 Nov, 20:10 a typical plastic waste household- investigation. One of the most as the internationally ignored songstress 15 min intermissions) Dir Marco Porsia/CA 2019/121 mins recycling workshop. She’s a truly global stylish films of the 1980s, with a herself, Hedwig is given a full raucous, An intimate portrait of the band Part 3 (Eps 4, 5 & 6) child who learns about the outside star making turn that made an way-too-interactive treatment with Swans, from their roots as a brutal, Sun 27 Oct, 15:00 - 20:20 (includes two world from the waste workshop that international sex symbol out of an audience participation, singing along, confrontational post-punk band. The film 15 min intermissions) her family lives and works in. Armani-clad Richard Gere. dressing up and the chance to join La Flor is a captivating and witty covers their ill-fated bid at mainstream backing band The Angry Inch. success in the 90s, breakups and chaos Event/ We will be joined by director Screening from a 35mm print. narrative made up of six independent, Wang Jiuliang for a Q&A chaired by Presented in partnership with Live Cinema successive episodes. A long-nourished (on and offstage) to their odds-defying Event/ This screening will be revered current status. Alison Criddle, HOME’s Sustainability UK and Make A Scene. Screening as part project by Argentinian filmmaker and Projects Co-ordinator. introduced by film writer and critic of BFI Musicals! The Greatest Show on Mariano Llinás, produced over 10 years, Event/ We will be joined by director Christina Newland. Screen, a UK-wide film season supported it weaves a multiplicity of stories and Marco Porsia for a Q&A following this Plastic China screens in partnership by National Lottery, BFI Film Audience defies any strict convention regarding screening. with the Chinese Independent Film Network and ICO. bfimusicals.co.uk genre and style. Network UK and is supported by AHRC. 10 11 The Original Ass Kickers: Cinema’s Female Action seasons Heroes from Shaw Brothers Euzhan Palcy Sugar Cane Alley, 1983 and Beyond Retrospective . , 1993 . The Heroic Trio (18) + Introduction Sun 20 Oct – Mon 18 Nov (Dung fong sam hap) Sat 5 & A Dry White Season, 1989 As part of HOME’s 2019 celebration of women in global cinema we offer a selection Fri 15 Nov, 18:20 Tue 8 Oct A Dry White Season (15) of films that together are our salute to Hong Kong cinema’s female fighting stars, Dir /HK 1993/88 mins/ wEngST the original cinematic ass kickers. A vital part of the history of the Hong Kong film , , Maggie Born in Martinique, Euzhan Palcy has Tue 8 Oct, 18:10 industry, these stars worked within the system creating a series of characters that An evil mastermind is stealing children been widely acclaimed as one of the Sugar Cane Alley (PG) Dir Euzhan Palcy/US 1989/107 mins/English and with a view to developing a super-race Afrikaans with partial EngST simply refused to be side-lined and placed themselves in the heart of the action. most significant filmmakers of her who will become leaders of the world. (Rue cases nègres) Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman, Zakes Mokae This season is supported by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office London generation. She was the first black Initially on opposite sides, The heroic Set in apartheid era South Africa, A filmmaker to be awarded a César (French Sat 5 Oct, 18:10 homemcr.org/Ass-Kickers trio of Wonder Woman (not that one), Academy Award), for her first feature Dir Euzhan Palcy/FR MQ 1983/106 mins/French Dry White Season focuses on a white wEngST Golden Swallow (CTBA) Invisible Woman and Thief Catcher Sugar Cane Alley, and was the first school teacher (played by Donald Garry Cadenat, Darling Légitimus, Douta Seck must join forces to save the world. This black female director to make a feature Sutherland) whose realisation that (Jin yan zi) Set in Martinique under French colonial fantastical, comic book style film is a for a major Hollywood studio, A Dry the system that has helped him so rule in 1930, Sugar Cane Alley tells the Wed 23 Oct, 20:40 great showcase for three of Hong Kong White Season for MGM. We are pleased much brutalises others brings him into Dir Chang Cheh/HK 1968/89 mins/Mandarin wEngST story of José, who wins a scholarship, cinema’s action women, a trio of original to present this small retrospective as conflict with his family, friends and Cheng Pei-Pei, Jimmy Wang Yu, Lo Lieh and his grandmother’s battle to ensure ass-kickers if ever there was one. part of HOME’s on-going celebration of neighbours. Golden Swallow returns, this time My Young Auntie, 1981 he takes the chance of the education it Courtesy of Media Asia International Distribution women in global cinema and as part of directed by kung fu film maestro Chang My Young Auntie (CTBA) Limited. offers. More importantly for her, it also You may be interested in Hero + Black History Month. Cheh, in a story that sees her having to provides him with the opportunity to Q&A (p8) which also screens as (Zhang bei) Event/ This screening will be prove her innocence after being framed In partnership with the Barbican. escape their harsh and brutal life on part of Black History Month. introduced by Fraser Elliott, Chinese for a series of bloodthirsty killings. Mon 28 Oct, 18:00 homemcr.org/Euzhan-Palcy the plantation. Dir Lau Kar Leung/HK 1981/121 mins/Mandarin and Film Forum UK. Come Drink with Me, 1966 Cantonese wEngST This film season engages with women’s work, ideas and Lau Kar Leung, Kara Hui, Gordon Liu New Women’s Voices in artistic expressions in films from Lebanon. They address Produced by Mona Fong and directed Lebanese Cinema topics ranging from women’s roles and status in contemporary by the legendary Lau Kar-leung, this Lebanese society, class issues and the refugee crisis, to the comedic martial arts film set lead actor legacy of the civil war and its aftermath. Kara Hui on her road to Hong Kong film . stardom. Generously funded by the Research Development and Support Fund, SALC, University of Manchester and HOME. Executioners, 1993 Sat 12 – Sun 13 Oct Come Drink with Me (CTBA) + Executioners (18) Introduction (Yin doi hou hap zyun) Sleepless Nights (CTBA) + Lost Paradise (CTBA) + Q&A Counting Tiles (CTBA) + Post- (Da zui xia) Introduction (Al ferdaous al mafqoud) screening discussion Mon 18 Nov, 18:20 Sun 20 Oct, 18:00 (Layali bala noom) The 14 Amazons, 1972 Dir Johnnie To/HK 1993/91 mins/Cantonese wEngST Sat 12 Oct, 18:30 Sun 13 Oct, 15:40 Dir King Hu/HK 1966/91 mins/Mandarin wEngST Michelle Yeoh, Anita Mui, Sat 12 Oct, 15:40 Dir Reine Mitri/LB 2017/61 mins Dir Cynthia Choucair/LB 2018/85 mins/Arabic, Cheng Pei-Pei, Yueh Hua, Yang Chih-Ching The 14 Amazons (18) English and French with partial EngST Set some years after the first film, Dir Eliane Raheb/LB AP AE FR 2012/128 mins/Arabic, In an attempt to bring together losses A hit across the world and today seen as (Shi si nu ying hao) Executioners takes place after a nuclear English and French with partial EngST Recounting displacement becomes a suffered and endured throughout one of the best martial arts films of all attack has devastated the world. The Raheb touches upon one of the most sombre task in this film about filmmaker Thu 24 Oct, 18:00 Lebanon’s often destructive history, time, Come Drink with Me wonderfully heroic trio of Wonder Woman, Thief controversial aspects of the Lebanese Mitri explores the power that images Choucair whose initial ambition to Dir Cheng Kang/HK 1972/123 mins/Mandarin showcases the talents of the youthful wEngST Catcher and Invisible Woman must once civil war: the right wing militias whose participate in a project that brings of family, of places and of the Cheng Pei Pei. As Golden Swallow she , , Lily Ho, Yueh Hua again join forces to defeat an evil villain actions resulted in large numbers laughter and hope to refugees living on imagination have to both preserve and sets out to rescue her brother who Epic in scale, this Shaw Brothers sword- who wreaks havoc through his control of violent deaths and subsequent the Greek island of Lesbos falters. reignite harrowing past emotions and has been kidnapped by bandits in this fighting film showcases a number of the of the vital water supply. Once again, disappearances of fighters whose experiences. Event/ This screening will be followed landmark period drama. studio’s top female actors in leading Johnnie To shows himself to be a deft families continue to search for them. Event/ This screening will be followed by a post-screening discussion, led by Event/ This screening will be roles. After General Yang and many handler of the fantastical elements of Event/ This screening will be introduced by a Q&A with director Reine Mitri. Anastasia Valassopoulos, University of introduced by Andy Willis, Senior of his male followers are ambushed this ground-breaking film. by Dalia Mostafa, University of Manchester. Manchester. Visiting Curator, Film at HOME. and killed, his widow leads those left Courtesy of Media Asia International Distribution behind to seek revenge. Limited. 12 13 filmfear The Dead Center, 2018 The Tingler, 1959 Queer Media . Festival . The Wicker Man, 1973 Tue 29 Oct – The Tingler (15) The Wicker Man (15) Wed 6 Nov Thu 31 Oct, 18:00 Fri 1 – FilmFear returns for another Dir William Castle/US 1959/80 mins Sat 2 Nov, 18:40 Sat 2 Nov inescapable season of cult horror, Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn Dir Robin Hardy/GB 1973/95 mins Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland eerie thrillers, dark fantasy and A 60th anniversary screening of Evolving queer narratives, either extreme cinema created and curated in notorious B-movie auteur William When a young girl mysteriously through re-examining the past with A Change of Sex, 1979 partnership with FilmFour. The Dead Center (CTBA) Castle’s most famous film. We can’t disappears, Edward Woodward’s Police new perspectives or looking to the 40th Anniversary: A Change of promise the buzzers under seats that Sergeant travels to a remote Scottish future using new platforms to tell homemcr.org/filmfear Wed 30 Oct, 18:30 Sex (CTBA) + Introduction gave audiences a shock in the 1959, but island to investigate. But this pastoral queer stories, the Queer Media Festival The Lighthouse, 2019 Dir Billy Senese/US 2018/93 mins community, led by the strange Lord returns to Manchester for its sixth Shane Carruth, Poona Jagannathan, Jeremy Childs this fun cult film has aged well – and Sat 2 Nov, 12:45 Summerisle (Christopher Lee), is not what edition. Dir David Pearson/GB 1979/130 mins A creepy mystery with the pace and Vincent Price’s appeal never grows old. it seems as the conservative Sergeant This project is supported by a grant Change of Sex was a ground-breaking propulsion of a low-budget action- uncovers the locals’ strange pagan activity. from Superbia at Manchester Pride. documentary series that ran for thriller. The corpse of a suicide victim Superbia Grants provide financial twenty years and featured the first walks out of a morgue and into a Selected by HOME Young Programmers. support for LGBT events as part of transgender person to have their psychiatric hospital, with things getting Daniel Isn’t Real (CTBA) Manchester Pride’s commitment to the transition documented on a mainstream The Lighthouse (CTBA) really scary when he reveals the nature quality and diversity of cultural events UK television documentary. of the power that brought him back. Sat 2 Nov, 20:40 Tue 29 Oct, 18:00 Dir Adam Egypt Mortimer/US 2019/96 mins taking place throughout the year in Come to Daddy, 2019 Event/ Marking the 40th anniversary Sun 3 Nov, 20:30 Miles Robbins, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Mary Stuart Greater Manchester. Come to Daddy (CTBA) Masterson of the first episode and as a homage Dir Robert Eggers/US 2019/110 mins homemcr.org/Queer-Media19 Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe A stylish trip to the dark side from to Manchester icon and subject of the Fri 1 Nov, 18:40 series, Julia Grant, who passed away this Director Robert Eggers’ follows up the SpectreVision production outfit Dir Ant Timpson/US 2019/93 mins year, we remember the importance of this The Witch with another eerie period Elijah Wood, Stephen McHattie, Michael Smiley that brought us last year’s Mandy. being on television with an introduction tale. Set in the 1890s, the film stars A troubled youngster finds himself A riot of smart and nasty dialogue and by Christine Burns, author and editor of Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson struggling to control his imaginary gory violence, this black comedy stars three volumes about trans history. as lighthouse keepers battling the Elijah Wood as a young man seeking friend from childhood, who’s returned elements, isolation, inner demons a reunion with his father. Ant Timpson, determined to raise Hell. and possibly some form of mythical producer of ABCs of Death and The TransGeek (CTBA) Queering Animation supernatural force. Greasy Strangler, brings the twisted spirit Sat 2 Nov, 15:30 Dirs Kevin McCarthy, Sayer Johnson/US 2018/82 mins Luz, 2018 of those films to his directorial debut. Queering Animation (CTBA) Ghost Town Anthology, 2019 Transgeek brings in a wonderful All the Gods in the Sky, 2018 Fri 1 Nov, 18:00 diversity of Trans voices and their Ghost Town Anthology (CTBA) Dir Various/CA US CL BR HU SE 2018-19/101 mins/ experiences across tech culture, (Répertoire des villes English, Portuguese and Swedish with partial EngST gaming, fantasy and sci-fi. An disparues) Working in a variety of styles, colours, illuminating, enriching watch about the and emotional frequencies, animators Luz (CTBA) + short film Wed 30 Oct, 20:40 intersection between gender identity from across the globe use their palettes Dir Denis Côté/CA 2019/96 mins/French wEngST and geek culture whether you’re a DnD Tower. A Bright Day, 2018 to create visually daring, wonderfully Tue 29 Oct, 20:40 Robert Naylor, Josee Deschenes aficionado or a complete muggle. Dir Tilman Singer/DE 2018/70 mins/German and weird, and refreshingly frank stories A young man’s suicide leads those All the Gods in the Sky (CTBA) Tower. A Bright Day (CTBA) Spanish with partial EngST (Tous les dieux du ciel) that lovingly embrace all that is queer. Gimme, Gimme, Queer! Hazel Luana Velis, Jan Bluthardt left behind in a sparsely populated (Wieza. Jasny dzien) vs Linda (CTBA) Quebecois village to experience A tale of demonic possession morphs Fri 1 Nov, 20:40 Sun 3 Nov, 15:30 unnerving visitations that accentuate Sat 02 Nov, 17:50 into a brilliant, bewildering puzzle Dir Quarxx/FR 2018/98 mins/French wEngST Dir Jagoda Szelc/PL 2018/106 mins/Polish wEngST their sense of isolation. Director Côté’s Dir Various/GB 1999/140 mins when a dazed young woman wanders Jean-Luc Couchard, Melanie Gaydos Anna Krotoska, Malgorzata Szczerbowska study of a barely-surviving community into a police station, setting in motion A harrowing story, some remarkable An intense family drama from Poland 20th Anniversary of Gimme, Gimme, becomes even more fascinating a chain of events where stories, lives images with surreal flourishes and that blurs the boundary between Gimme and Queer as Folk and affecting thanks to the subtle and even souls become entangled in a an unsettling combination of dread horror and high-art: Two sisters are A drag hosted screening featuring supernatural shading. diabolical temporal fugue. and tenderness makes this debut film reunited after six years, although the two vintage episodes from each iconic from French director Quarxx (adapted promised summer idyll is darkened by series celebrating the legendary female Plus/ This screening will be preceded by Like this? Check out our classic from his acclaimed short film A paranoia and hallucinations. Debut characters of the hit TV shows: Hazel the short film Be Still My Beating Heart screening of Nosferatu the Nearly Perfect Blue Sky) a heady and director Szelc’s symbolic approach Tyler and Linda La Hughes. (Dir Ruth Paxton/GB 2019/25 mins). Vampyre from Sun 3 Nov on p20. unforgettable experience. enriches the mystery. 14 15 Mukhsin, 2006 UK Jewish Film Festival . Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles, 2019 Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles Sat 9 – (CTBA) + short film Thu 21 Nov Sun 17 Nov, 15:40 The 23rd UK Jewish Film Festival Dir Max Lewkowicz/US 2019/96 mins returns to HOME with a range Join Joel Grey, Lin-Manuel Miranda, of outstanding features and Topol, Stephen Sondheim, Harvey documentaries from around the world Fierstein, Itzhak Perlman and Fran as well as special guests for Q&As. Lebowitz, to name just a few, as they homemcr.org/UKJFF19 tell the fascinating story of Fiddler on the Roof and explain the reasons for the Gently Challenging: the ongoing success of the show and film. Plus/ The short film Home (Dir Angelina Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, 2018 films of Yasmin Ahmad Karpovich/ GB 2019/5 mins) will screen . with this film. Manchester Swallows of Kabul, 2019 God of the Piano, 2018 From Slavery to Freedom Animation Mon 4 – God of the Piano (CTBA) + Q&A (CTBA) + Q&A Festival Sun 10 Nov Sat 9 Nov, 20:40 Tue 19 Nov, 18:10 Dir Itay Tal/IL 2018/79 mins/Hebrew wEngST Dir Arkady Kogan/IL 2019/84 mins/Russian with . When Yasmin Ahmad died in 2009 aged 51, she left a rich legacy in the form a Naama Preis, Andy Levy, Ze’ev Shimshoni, Ron English subtitles series of feature films that explored life in a multi-ethnic Malaysia. As part of Bitterman While millions of Jews found refuge in HOME’s year-long celebration of women in global cinema we present a small When Anat, the scion of a the new Jewish state, over a million Sun 10 – Swallows of Kabul (CTBA) selection of her work. distinguished musical family, learns Soviet Jews, were stopped by the that her newborn baby may become (Les hirondelles de Kaboul) homemcr.org/Yasmin-Ahmad authorities from leaving the USSR. This Thu 14 Nov deaf, she decides in a moment of is the remarkable story of the Refusenik Manchester Animation Festival returns Wed 13 Nov, 18:45 madness – or extreme clarity – to do Dirs Zabou Breitman, Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec/FR LX Mukhsin (12A) + Introduction Talentime (PG) movement and the person who has for its fifth edition with UK previews something unthinkable, hoping that it become its symbol, Natan Sheransky. and premieres of animated films CH 2019/81 mins/French wEngST Mon 4 Nov, 18:20 Wed 6 Nov, 18:00 would allow her to keep the family’s from across the globe along with Summer 1998 - Kabul under Taliban Sun 10 Nov, 15:40 Dir Yasmin Ahmad/MY 2009/120 mins/Malay, Tamil, dream intact. Event/ We will be joined by director masterclasses, talks, workshops and an rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young Dir Yasmin Ahmad/MY 2006/95 mins/Malay, English English and Cantonese with partial EngST Arkady Kogan for a Q&A following this international competition of short films. and in love. Despite the daily violence Event/ We will be joined by director and Mandarin with partial EngST Mahesh Jug al Kishor, Pamela Chong, Amelia screening. Some films screening at the festival and misery, they hope for a better Mohd Syafie Naswip, Sharifah Aryana, Salehuddin Henderson Itay Tal for a Q&A following this are listed below, please see website future. One day, a foolish gesture Abu Bakar Talentime, Yasmin Ahmad’s final screening. for times. Why not join us to see causes life to take an irrevocable turn. Orked, an adventurous, self-confident feature, returns once again to the world something different? 10-year-old girl living in a small village of young people and the ways in which It Must Schwing! The Blue Note Ruben Brandt, Collector (CTBA) in Malaysia. When 12-year-old Mukhsin they negotiate the possibilities of Story (CTBA) + Q&A manchesteranimationfestival.co.uk Tue 12 Nov, 17:30 comes to stay for the summer holidays the future, here through the emerging homemcr.org/MAF19 Wed 13 Nov, 14:10 they find themselves becoming close Sat 16 Nov, 20:15 Love in Suspenders, 2019 relationships that develop in the build- Dir Milorad Krstic/HU 2018/94 mins/English, friends. Yasmin Ahmed’s gentle feature Dir Eric Friedler/DE US 2018/113 mins/English and Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the up to a local talent show. As ever in German with partial EngST Love in Suspenders (CTBA) Hungarian and Italian with partial EngST manages to capture both the humour Turtles (CTBA) Ahmad’s work, these possibilities reflect The exceptional story of Jewish jazz This visually surreal film aimed at Buñuel en el laberinto de las) (סקיילשב הבהא) and emotions of her young characters the wider tensions and prejudices that buffs Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff adults and art lovers alike. We follow in a deft and un-patronising manner. permeate Malaysian society. who fled Germany in the 1930s and Thu 21 Nov, 20:40 tortugas) Mimi as she aims to steal 13 artworks Dir Yohanan (Jorge) Weller/IL 2019/97 mins/Hebrew for psychotherapist Ruben Brandt, Event/ This screening will be founded the infamous jazz label Blue wEngST Yehuda Barkan, Nitsa Shaul, Shlomo Bar- Wed 13 Nov, 20:40 introduced by Andy Willis, Senior Note in New York City, going on to Aba, Yiftah Klein who is tormented by nightmares of Thur 14 Nov, 18:00 attacks by characters from the famous Visiting Curator, Film at HOME. record Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis and When Tami, a beautiful and absent- Dir Salvador Simó/ES NL DE 2018/77 mins/Spanish paintings. Thelonious Monk. minded widow, accidentally hits 70-year- and French wEngST Event/ We will be joined by director old widower Beno with her car, the last Winner of the jury award for feature Eric Friedler for a Q&A following this thing she expects is to fall in love. A film in Annecy Animation Festival, the screening. thoroughly charming romantic comedy film is the true story of how Luis Buñuel for the young and young at heart. made his third movie Las Hurdes. 16 17 Korean Film Beyond the Berlin Wall HOME Artist Festival: A . Film Weekender Century of 2019 Korean Cinema Sun 24 & Tue 26 Nov . This November marks 30 years since the opening of the Berlin Wall, which saw . German unification and the subsequent creation of a new European and global The Carnival Films of Rhea Storr, various order. Focussing on life in the divided and re-unified city of Berlin, this specially thu 29 Nov – Northern Artist Focus: The Sat 23 – Sun 24 curated mini season celebrates the falling of the Wall through films made by Sun 1 Dec Carnival Films of Rhea Storr women directors in the immediate aftermath of the seismic events of 1989. (12A) + Q&A Nov Presented in association with the German Screen Studies Network; the University To celebrate the fifth anniversary of of Manchester, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures; and supported by the the HOME Artist Film Weekender Sat 30 Nov, 14:00 Freak Orlando, 1981 The London Korean Film Festival (LKFF) we will be bringing together an Dir Rhea Storr/GB 2017-2019/40 mins is the UK’s leading showcase of Korean Goethe-Institut. Freak Orlando (18) + Q&A all-female programme of screenings, Rhea Storr approaches carnival as a cinema. Now in its ground-breaking homemcr.org/Beyond-Berlin-Wall performances, poetry, talks and space of both celebration and protest. Sat 30 Nov, 20:00 14th edition, LKFF celebrates 100 years discussions that link with HOME’s Her work explores the social structures, Dir Ulrike Ottinger/West Germany 1981/126 mins/ of rich and vibrant national films in German wEngST year-long Women in Global Cinema costume and language of carnival, its special focus: A Century of Korean programme. the visibility of black bodies in rural A surreal masterpiece by transgressive Cinema. feminist filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger, Freak The opening night will feature both spaces and her identity as an artist of Orlando navigates the history of the homemcr.org/KFF19 local and international artists and be Bahamian and British heritage. world from its beginnings to our day, hosted at Paradise Works in Salford on Aimless Bullet (12A) Event/ This screening includes a post- including the errors, the incompetence, Thu 28 Nov at 18:00. (오발탄) screening Q&A with director Rhea Storr. the madness, the fear, the cruelty and visit homemcr.org/home-artist-film- the endless thirst for power. Sat 23 Nov, 13:15 weekender-2019 for more details. Tickets: £4.90 full/£3.50 concs Event/ This screening includes a homemcr.org/HAFW19 Dir Yu Hyun-mok/KR 1960/106 mins/Korean wEngST post-screening discussion with director Kim Jin-kyu, Choi Moo-ryong Ulrike Ottinger. Aimless Bullet is Yu Hyun-mok’s most exemplary work and a key work of Korean realist cinema. The film captures the collective anxiety of post-war Korea through clerk Cheol-ho and his family. El Laberinto, 2018 I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead, 2018 Laura Huertas Millán: Ethno- Specialised Technique, 2018 Never Sleep Again, 1992 Beatrice Gibson: I Hope I’m Fictions (15) + Q&A The Promise (15) Never Sleep Again (CTBA) + Loud When I’m Dead & Deux Sat 30 Nov Trinh T. Minh-ha & Onyeka (Das Versprechen) Q&A sœurs qui ne sont pas sœurs Dir Laura Huertas Millán/Various/71 mins/CO FR US Igwe: Speaking Nearby (15) + (12A) + Q&A 2016-2018/71 mins/Spanish wEngST post-screening discussion Sun 24 Nov, 18:10 (Nie wieder schlafen) From a Colombian drug lord building Dir Margarethe von Trotta/DE FR CH 1994/116 mins/ Tue 26 Nov, 18:10 Fri 29 Nov, 18.20 a replica of the mansion from ’80s Sun 1 Dec, 15:30 A Day Off, 1969 German wEngST Dir Trinh T. Minh-ha & Onyeka Igwe/VN 1982, GB Dir Pia Frankenberg/DE 1992/92 mins/German wEngST Dir Beatrice Gibson/GB 2018-2019/41 mins soap opera Dynasty in the Amazon Corinna Harfouch, Meret Becker, August Zirner 2017-18/59 mins A Day Off (12) Lisa Kreuzer, Gabi Herz, Christiane Carstens Nominated for this year’s Jarman rainforest, to the filmmaker’s own aunt Our screening of Margarethe von The films of Vietnamese filmmaker Pia Frankenberg’s Never Sleep Again Award Beatrice Gibson considers the going through rehab after a suicide (휴일) Trotta’s The Promise links with our Trinh T.Minh-ha and London-based follows three women friends on their state of a world in flux through the lens attempt, the work of Colombian recent Margarethe von Trotta season, Onyeka Igwe challenge conventions Sun 24 Nov, 15:30 magical odyssey through post- of motherhood and femininity. From a filmmaker Laura Huertas Millán which spotlighted Germany’s leading of anthropological filmmaking and Tickets: £6.30 full/£4.90 concs unification Berlin. The dilapidated sites cinematic love letter to her new-born fuses methods from documentary, feminist film director. The Promise revolt against colonialism. Onyeka’s Dir Lee Man-hee/KR 1969/73 mins/Korean wEngST of the former Cold War frontier city, daughter to an abstract crime thriller ethnography and fiction to create a chronicles the lives of five East Berlin work takes The Aba Women’s War of Shin Sung-il, Jeon Ji-yeon, Jo Hyang-min still scarred by World War II, become following the story of two sisters, a hybrid hypnotic cinema. youngsters from their escape to West 1929 against British rule in Nigeria as Seoul. Winter. Sunday. One fairly a place for sheer endless personal beauty queen and a missing poodle in Berlin to re-unification. Event/ This screening includes a post- a starting point, reclaiming the archive dodgy young man, one pregnant young experimentation. Paris. woman, and a pack of cigarettes. From Screening from a 35mm print. screening Q&A with director Laura through protest, dance, voice and text. this raw material Lee Man-hee, the Event/ We will be joined by director Pia Event/ This screening includes a post- Huertas Millán. Curated by Gill Park. most imaginative and visually inventive Frankenberg for a Q&A following this screening Q&A with director Beatrice director of Korea’s 1960s and 70s, made screening. Gibson Event/ This screening includes a a black-and-white masterpiece. post-screening discussion with director Onyeka Igwe and curator Gill Park.

18 19 ROH Live/ Don Giovanni (12A classics as Live) live broadcasts ART Our popular programme brings cinema classics to the big screen every month Wed 16 Oct, Doors - 19:00, Catch the best theatre and opera broadcast live in our cinemas from the Alternate Realities Tour 2019 so you never need to miss those must-sees! Sunday screenings are usually Performance – 19:15 world’s most prestigious companies. Composer: Mozart/Opera/Sung in Italian wEng Sat 9 – Sun 17 Nov accompanied by a free, informal post-screening discussion. homemcr.org/live-broadcasts ST/210 minutes Main Gallery Visit homemcr.org/classics for details. Sexual intrigue, jealousy, wit, Curated highlights of Sheffield Doc/ anger… and retribution! The new Fest’s Alternate Realities exhibition Royal Opera Season begins with exploring the changing forms of Mozart’s engaging masterpiece, non fiction storytelling through which follows Don Giovanni, the experimenting with narrative and women he serially seduces, and the technology. vengeance that finally catches up Nosferatu the Vampyre, 1979 In partnership with Sheffield Doc/Fest. Coming Home, 1978 with him. See homemcr.org/alternative- Nosferatu the Vampyre (12A) Director Kasper Holten Coming Home (18) (Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht) realities for supporting workshops and Conductor Hartmut Haenchen events. Sun 6 Oct, 13:00 Sun 3 Nov, 13:00 Tue 8 Oct, 20:20 Tue 5 Nov, 20:30 Reasons To Stay Alive Wed 9 Oct, 13:00 Wed 6 Nov, 13:00 Dir Hal Ashby/US 1978/127 mins Dir Werner Herzog/DE FR 1979/107 mins/English, Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern Romany and German with partial EngST Coming Home is one of the most Klaus Kinski, , Bruno Ganz acclaimed movies of the 1970s, and an While echoing both Stoker’s Dracula immensely moving portrait of American and Murnau’s Nosferatu, Herzog’s Don Giovanni, 2019 life during one of the country’s most account of the Harkers’ fateful turbulent eras. Both Fonda and Voight encounter with the Transylvanian won Academy Awards. count is considerably more than just another horror movie, in part thanks to THEATRE Screening from a 35mm print. the melancholy of Kinski’s remarkable English Touring Theatre & performance. See more from Jane Fonda in The Sheffield Theatres presents China Syndrome screening on Sun Check out HOME’s annual horror Reasons To Stay Alive 6 Oct on p8. film season FilmFear on pages Tue 29 Oct 2019 – Sat 2 Nov 2019 14-15. By Matt Haig NT Live/ A Midsummer Night’s NT Live/ Present Laughter (12A Dream (12A as live) NT Live/ Hansard (12A as live) Imagined for the stage by Jonathan as live) Watkins Thu 7 Nov, Doors - 18:45, Thu 17 Oct, Doors - 18:45, Thu 28 Nov, Doors - 18:45, Text written by April de Angelis Performance – 19:00 Performance – 19:00 Performance – 19:00 At 24 Matt’s world collapsed under Running Time: 180 mins Running Time: Approx. 180 mins Running Time: 180 mins the weight of depression. This is the ‘The course of true love never did run It’s a summer’s morning in 1988 and Matthew Warchus directs Andrew true story of his journey out of crisis; smooth.’ Tory politician Robin Hesketh has Saboteur, 1942 Scott (BBC’s Sherlock, Fleabag) in Noël a profoundly uplifting exploration returned home to the idyllic Cotswold A feuding fairy King and Queen of the Coward’s provocative comedy Present of living and loving better. The first Kind Hearts and Coronets, 1949 Saboteur (PG) house he shares with his wife of 30 forest cross paths with four runaway Laughter - A giddy and surprisingly theatrical adaptation of Matt Haig’s years, Diana. But all is not as blissful Sun 17 Nov, 13:00 lovers and a troupe of actors trying to modern reflection on fame, desire and frank and funny bestseller. This play Kind Hearts and Coronets (PG) as it seems. As the day draws on, rehearse a play. loneliness. with music and movement, imagined Tue 19 Nov, 20:35 what starts as gentle ribbing and the Sun 20 Oct, 13:00 for the stage by Jonathan Watkins, Wed 20 Nov, 13:00 Shakespeare’s most famous romantic familiar rhythms of marital scrapping As he prepares to embark on an Tue 22 Oct, 20:35 celebrates what it means to be alive. Dir Alfred Hitchcock/US 1942/108 mins comedy will be captured live from the quickly turns to blood-sport. overseas tour, star actor Garry Wed 23 Oct, 13:00 Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane, Otto Kruger Bridge Theatre in London. Gwendoline Essendine’s colourful life is in danger of ACCESS Don’t miss this witty and devastating Dir Robert Hamer/GB 1949/106 mins A Hitchcock classic, written by Joan Christie (Game of Thrones), Oliver spiralling out of control. Engulfed by an portrait of the governing class, Caption subtitled performance, Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson Harrison. Robert Cummings, a Los Chris (Green Wing, NT Live: Young escalating identity crisis as his many directed by Simon Godwin (NT Live: Fri 1 Nov, 19:30 Bent on attaining the dukedom denied Angeles aircraft factory-worker, Marx), David Moorst (NT Live: and various relationships compete for Antony & Cleopatra, Twelfth Night) him by his ignoble birth, a draper’s witnesses his plant’s firebombing by a Allelujah!) and Hammed Animashaun his attention, Garry’s few remaining TOUCH Audio Described Touch Tour, Sat and part of National Theatre Live’s TOUR assistant devotes himself to eliminating Nazi agent. During the explosion, his (The Barber Shop Chronicles) lead days at home are a chaotic whirlwind 2 Nov, 13:00 10th birthday season. the estranged relatives standing in his best friend is killed and Cummings is the cast as Titania, Oberon, Puck and of love, sex, panic and soul-searching. Audio Described performance, way. Ealing’s blackest comedy. wrongly accused of sabotage. Bottom. Sat 2 Nov, 14:00 20 21 BRING THE FAMILY Relaxed Designed for the whole family (including babies), these screenings will have the volume lowered and the lights will remain dimmed throughout the screening. Screenings getThroughout the year there areinvolved on-going programmes, events, workshops, courses and artist Films will begin at the advertised time without adverts or trailers. opportunities to try out, so why not take a look at some of these events listed here? homemcr.org/families (Autism Friendly) OPPORTUNITIES EVENTS Designed for people with autism Playreading spectrum conditions and their families. We’ll keep the lights on low, turn the Fri 4 Oct, 11:00 – 13:00 sound down a little, and provide a Fri 1 Nov, 11:00 – 13:00 separate room to take a break in. For Tickets £5 (scripts and refreshments the film screenings there will be no included) trailers or advertisements before the Our popular Playreading group offers film starts and you’ll be able to move an opportunity to read and discuss around the cinema if you want to. plays. The sessions are fun, friendly New to our Relaxed Screenings Filmed Up: Call for and informal and new members are programme, we are trialling screenings submissions always welcome. Mothers Who Make for adults and older teens. Deadline: Wed 16 Oct homemcr.org/playreading Mon 21 Oct, 10:30 – 12:40 homemcr.org/relaxed Send in your film for consideration for Mon 18 Nov, 10:30 – 12:40 The Witches, 1990 Slate Social The Witches (PG) Filmed Up, our regular regional short Free, no booking required Mon 7 Oct, 17:00 – 20:00 The Witches (PG) FILM TBC film night. No submission fee, we Mothers who Make is a growing Sat 26 Oct, 11:00 accept films of any genre (under 20 Mon 4 Nov, 17:00 – 20:00 Sun 27 Oct, 11:00 Dir Nicolas Roeg/GB 1990/88 mins national network aimed at supporting Sun 24 Nov, 11:00 mins duration) by filmmakers currently Dir Nicolas Roeg/GB 1990/88 mins Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jason Fisher Slate Social is a place to meet other mothers who are artists, working in living in the North West. The screening artists of colour in an informal setting. Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jason Fisher See Bring The Family for film details any discipline and at any stage of their You may also be interested in the will take place on Mon 2 Dec Whilst holidaying in England with his Whatever art form you’re working in, careers. Manchester Animation Festival FILM TBC whether you’re starting out or an old grandmother, a young boy stumbles homemcr.org/filmedup homemcr.org/mothers-who-make Family Day on Sun 10 Nov! hand, this space is for you! across a convention for witches where Sun 24 Nov, 11:00 Talent Development See website for details. they reveal plans to turn children into Surgeries homemcr.org/slate ACCESS mice! When Luke is caught and turned into a mouse, it’s up to him and his Ongoing Accessible Music friends to defeat the witches and their Do you want to discuss a project Productions (AMP) evil plot! idea, need a bit of career advice or Workshops Selected by HOME Young Programmers. would like to find out more about the Talent Development opportunities here Tue 1 Oct, 18:00 – 20:00 at HOME? Book in 30 minute chats Tue 5 Nov, 18:00 – 20:00 Parent & Baby with one of our Talent Development Free, booking required producers. 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