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Pain and Glory, 2019 1 Women on Page 3: Nuala O’Sullivan As our Celebrating Women in Global Cinema programme continues so do our interviews with inspiring women from the film industry. This month we caught up with Nuala O’Sullivan, Director of Over 50 Film Festival ahead of Best of the Fest screenings at HOME this August. Turn to p15 for more info and read on for more on WOFFF. Homemcr.org/women-at-home

Q: What inspired you start up the Women Over 50 Film Festival? Q: Who are your top 5 women over 50? A: As a woman in my 50s I wrote and produced short film 1. Actor and producer Frances McDormand. I could quote Microscope, in 2014. The film was about about a middle- Frances all day long on fighting sexism and ageism in the aged woman examining her life and marriage. With my film industry. Here’s one of my favorites: “The way people producer’s hat on I started going to short film festivals but I age and the signs that we show of aging is nature’s way of found I wasn’t seeing many older women on the screen and tattooing. It’s natural scarification, and the life you lead gives around socially after screenings. Not many people talked to you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map me. I felt lonely and isolated, which was the exact opposite you followed.” of how I expected to feel in a roomful of people who had the 2. Writer Ashton Applewhite. I’m reading her positive, practical same interest and passion in storytelling and film as me. book called This Chair Rocks – A Manifesto Against Ageism It got me thinking about questions like: Who’s not running just now. She says “Ageism is just prejudice against your film festivals? Who’s not on the screen? Who’s not behind future self”. When you look at it like that, it makes you see the camera? Who’s not in the room? Then, over a pint in just how damaging ageism is - to everyone. the Marlborough Pub in Brighton one night, I was talking to 3. Singer, songwriter, model, producer and actor Grace Jones. my pal, Maggi, about how I was feeling about my film and The 2017 film Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami blew me film festivals, and Maggi said, ‘Well, bugger that! Let’s start away. I love her energy, her ambition, her hats. our own film festival.” And that’s how Women Over 50 Film Festival began. 4. Writer, producer and director Jane Campion. From to Top of the Lake Jane’s voice is always original, always Q: How can people get involved in WOFFF? female-focused, always truthful. A: You can submit a film, volunteer for us or come to our 5. Can I say a gang of women who have recently turned 50 or festival. are in their early 50s as my 5th woman? Women like Julia Our next festival is Fri 20- Sun 22 Sep 2019 in Lewes, East Roberts, , , , Reese Sussex. It’s a weekend of short films, workshops, panel Witherspoon, Renée Zellweger, women who were initially events, filmmaker Q&As, lectures, networking events and famous in front of the camera but who are increasing taking loads more. Come and join us. lewesdepot.org/wofff charge behind the camera as producers, writer and directors. Submissions open in January for WOFFF20. Head to I can’t wait to see what they create next. filmfreeway.com/WomenOver50FilmFestival and show us Q: When you’re not at work, where are you most likely to be what you’ve got. found? If you’d like to volunteer, send us an email at A: In the kitchen or on my bike [email protected].

This programme is co-curated by Rachel Hayward, HOME’s Head of Film, and Andy Willis, Senior Visiting Curator: Film and Professor of Film Studies, School of Arts and Media at University of Salford.

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Opus Zero (15) Notorious (U) Once Upon a Time…in From Fri 9 Aug From Fri 9 Aug Hollywood (18) Dir Daniel Graham/DE MX 2017/84 mins/ Spanish Dir /US 1946/102 mins From Wed 14 Aug and English with partial EngST Cary Grant, , Claude Rains Dir Quentin Tarantino/US GB 2019/161 mins Willem Dafoe, Andrés Almeida, Aragón Hard Paint (CTBA) Animals (15) Photograph (15) Hitchcock’s acclaimed spy thriller Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie Paul travels to his recently deceased (Tinta Bruta) returns in a 4K restoration. Famed for Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time... in From Fri 2 Aug From Fri 2 Aug father’s house in rural Mexico. The the chemistry between Grant, Bergman Hollywood visits 1969 Los Angeles, From Fri 2 Aug Dir Sophie Hyde/GB AU IE 2019/109 mins Dir Ritesh Batra/DE IN US 2019/109 mins/Hindi and few details he knows about him Holliday Grainger, , English with partial EngST and Rains, it presents one of the most where everything is changing. The ninth Dirs Filipe Matzembacher, Marcio Reolon/BR lie scattered between the town’s Nawazuddin Siddiqui, , Sachin Khedekar anguished relationships in cinema. film from the writer-director features 2018/118 mins/Portuguese wEngST A snapshot of a modern woman with enigmatic air and the memory of a Shico Menegat, Bruno Fernandes, Guega Peixoto A struggling street photographer in a large ensemble cast and multiple competing desires, Animals also offers woman who vanished 30 years before. who is pressured to marry storylines in a tribute to the final In Hard Paint, recipient of the a celebration of female friendship. Meanwhile, a visiting documentary film by his grandmother convinces a shy moments of Hollywood’s Golden Age. prestigious Teddy Award at the Brilliantly performed by Grainger team witness a supernatural event that stranger to pose as his fiancée. Ritesh Berlin Film Festival, directors Filipe and Shawkat, the whip-smart script makes them question their purpose. Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon have is courtesy of author Emma Jane Batra’s follow-up to The Lunchbox is crafted a love letter to community, Unsworth. an original love story with political exploring the connections of young dimensions. queers in an environment that is at Event/ On Thu 1 Aug, 17:50 we will times hostile and isolating. have a special preview screening Event/ The 18:10 screening on Tue 6 followed by a Q&A with writer Emma Aug will be introduced by Omar Ahmed, Jane Unsworth and producer Sarah UK-based film scholar and co-curator of Brocklehurst. HOME’s Not Just Bollywood season.

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Holiday (CTBA) Balance, Not Symmetry (15) Blinded by the Light Transit (12A) Leto (15) Of Fish and Foe (12A) (12A) From Fri 2 Aug From Fri 2 Aug From Fri 16 Aug From Fri 16 Aug From Fri 16 Aug Dir Isabella Eklöf/DK NL SE 2018/93 Dir Jamie Adams/GB 2019/87 mins From Fri 9 Aug Dir Christian Petzold/DE FR 2018/102 mins/German Dir Kirill Serebrennikov/RU FR 2018/128 mins/ Dir Andy Heathcote/GB 2018/92 mins mins/Danish, English, Dutch, French with and French wEngST Russian and English with partial EngST Laura Harrier, Bria Vinaite, Kate Dickie Dir Gurinder Chadha/GB 2019/117 mins The Pullars are one of the last families partial EngST Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese Teo Yoo, Irina Starshenbaum, Roman Bilyk Balance, Not Symmetry is a cinematic Viveik Kalra, Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Ganatra using traditional methods to fish for Victoria Carmen Sonne, Lai Yde, Thijs Römer Leto delivers a snapshot of Leningrad tribute to art, music and Scotland. 1987. When music fanatic Javed When fleeing Paris after the German wild Atlantic salmon off the coast of The trophy girlfriend of a Danish over the summer of 1981, when the Harrier stars as a Scottish-American discovers Springsteen, his passion for invasion, Georg escapes to Marseille. Scotland. When these methods involve drug lord sets a dangerous game in underground rock scene started art student whose privileged existence music and writing is set alight by the With nowhere to turn, he is confined killing seals, the salmon’s natural motion when she seeks the attention blossoming, and charts the coming- is thrown into a spin when her father songs of the working-class poet. Based to the corridors of a small hotel, the predators, conflict erupts. Challenging of another man while away with her of-age and rise to fame of young rock dies. Torn between supporting her on the memoir of journalist Sarfraz consulates, cafés and bars that line preconceptions, this ambiguous doc boyfriend on the Turkish Riviera. A dark singers, including Viktor Tsoi, who mother and dealing with her own loss, Manzoor, this timely coming-of-age the harbour. Everything changes when puts modern environmentalism under and very subversive gangster tale with turned out to become a pioneer of she finds herself re-examining her life. story proves that the right song has Georg falls in love with the mysterious the microscope. a twist, Holiday is the debut feature Marie. Russian rock. film from Isabella Eklöf, co-writer of the capacity to transcend race, religion and place. Border. Event/ The 18:15 screening on Tue Plus/ From Fri 9 Aug, this film will be 20 Aug will be introduced by Maggie preceded by the short film The Record Hoffgen, Freelance Film Educator. Collector (Dir Tom Jennings/GB 2018/2 mins). 4 5 Event Event

The Shiny Shrimps (CTBA) (Les Crevettes Pailletées) From Fri 6 Sep Dirs Maxime Govare, Cédric Le Gallo/FR 2019/100 mins/French wEngST Pain and Glory (15) Hail Satan? (15) A Faithful Man (CTBA) Mrs Lowry & Son (CTBA) Nicolas Gob, Alban Lenoir, Michaël Abiteboul (L’homme fidèle) Matthias, an Olympic champion From Fri 23 Aug From Fri 23 Aug From Fri 30 Aug at the end of his career, makes Dir Pedro Almodóvar/ES 2019/113 mins/Spanish Dir Penny Lane/US 2019/95 mins From Fri 23 Aug Dir Adrian Noble/GB 2019/93 mins wEngST a homophobic statement on TV. When media-savvy members of Dir Louis Garrel/FR 2018/75 mins/French wEngST Timothy Spall, , Stephen Lord Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz, Leonardo Sbaraglia His punishment: coach the Shiny the Satanic Temple organise a series Louis Garrel, Laetitia Casta, Lily-Rose Depp This is the delicate, intimate and Shrimps, a flamboyant and amateur Almodóvar’s Felliniesque confessional is of public actions designed to challenge Louis Garrel directs and stars in amusing story of the brittle but vital gay water polo team who are hell his best work in years. Salvador, a film corrupt authority, they prove that this light-hearted drama about the relationship between Salford’s L. S. bent on qualifying for the Gay director in physical decline, experiences with little more than a clever idea, a unanticipated joys and heartbreaks Lowry, one of the greatest artists of Games in Coatia. a series of re-encounters: his childhood mischievous sense of humour, and a one man experiences. The the 20th century, and his bedridden, in the 60s when he re-located with his few rebellious , you can speak unhappy and controlling mother. contemporary Paris setting and its Event/ On Sat 7 Sep, 18:00 we will parents to a village in Valencia; first truth to power in some truly profound Vanessa Redgrave and Timothy Spall streets, cafés, and apartments appear be joined by co-director and Shiny desire; his first adult love and the pain ways. are spellbinding as a mother and son almost unchanged since the ‘60s. But it Shrimp Cédric Le Gallo for a Q&A of its demise. separated by art and ambition. is the director’s unique and quizzically following this screening. engaged touch that charms and Event/ The 18:00 screening on Sat 31 engages. Aug will be introduced by Dr Carmen Herrero, Metropolitan University.

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The Souvenir (15) Bait (15) Inna de Yard (12A) The Shock of the Future (CTBA) Aniara (18) Downton Abbey (CTBA) From Fri 30 Aug From Fri 30 Aug From Fri 30 Aug (Le choc du future) From Fri 13 Sep From Fri 13 Sep Dir Joanna Hogg/GB US 2019/120 mins Dir Mark Jenkin/GB 2019/89 mins Dir Peter Webber/FR 2019/99 mins From Fri 13 Sep Dirs Pella Kagerman, Hugo Lilja/SE DK 2018/106 Dir Michael Engler/GB 2019/TBC mins mins/Swedish wEngST Honor Swinton Byrne, , Morgan Val Baker, Georgia Ellery, Martin Ellis While Bob Marley may be most closely Dir Marc Collin/FR 2019/84 mins/French wEngST Tuppence Middleton, Michelle Dockery, Richard Ayoade Emelie Jonsson, Bianca Cruzeiro, Arvin Kananian Modern-day Cornish fisherman Martin associated with the heyday of reggae Alma Jodorowsky, Philippe Rebbot, Geoffrey Carey The multi-award-winning television Hogg’s fourth feature, a Sundance Based on a concept by Nobel is struggling to buy a boat while coping music, there are others who did not Paris 1978, in a predominantly male series Downton Abbey followed the Grand Jury winner, looks set to elevate prizewinner Harry Martinson, Aniara with family rivalry and the influx of achieve international stardom but music industry, Ana uses new electronic lives of the Crawley family and the her beyond the confines of her usual is the story of one of the many London money, Airbnb and stag parties remain popular in Jamaica and among machines to make herself heard, servants who worked for them at admirers. Set in the 1980s and based spaceships used for transporting to his harbour village. The summer reggae fans. Inna de Yard captures creating a new sound that will mark the turn of the 20th century in an on real-life experiences of film school Earth’s fleeing population to Mars. But season brings simmering tensions stories from musicians including Ken the decades to come: the music of the Edwardian English country house. and romance, The Souvenir elegantly just as the ship leaves the destroyed between the locals and newcomers to Boothe, Winston McAnuff, Kiddus I, and future. Marc Collin’s brilliant film about Writer and the elevates quotidian moments into a Earth, the passengers slowly realise boiling point, with tragic consequences. Cedric Myton. electronic music and cultural patriarchy returning cast continue the family story of love. that they’ll never be able to return. is a genuine must-see. exploits on the big screen. Event/ On Sat 24 Aug, 17:40 we will Event/ On Thu 29 Aug, 17:50 we will have a special preview screening have a special preview screening followed by a Q&A with director Mark followed by a Q&A with director Jenkin. Joanna Hogg.

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For Sama (CTBA) Stones Have Laws (12A) Honeyland (CTBA) The Kitchen (CTBA) Werewolf (CTBA) The Goldfinch (CTBA) (Dee Sitonu a Weti) (Wilkolak) From Fri 13 Sep From Fri 20 Sep From Fri 20 Sep From Fri 27 Sep Dirs Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts/GB 2019/95 mins From Fri 13 Sep Dirs Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov/MK Dir Andrea Berloff/US 2019/TBC mins From Fri 20 Sep Dir John Crowley/US 2019/TBC mins 2019/87 mins/Turkish wEngST is both an intimate and epic Dirs Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan and Elisabeth Moss, Tiffany Haddish, Domhnall Dir Adrian Panek/PL DE RU 2018/88 mins/ Polish, Nicole Kidman, , Ansel Elgort Gleeson journey into the female experience of Tolin Erwin Alexander/NL SR 2018/100 mins/ Bittersweet documentary Honeyland German and Russian wEngST Theodore was 13 when his mother was Saamaka, Okanisi and Dutch wEngST war. A love letter from a young mother tells the story of beekeeper Hatidze The Kitchen tells the tale of three Kamil Polnisiak, Nicolas Przygoda, Sonia Mietielica killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan to her daughter, the film tells the story Stones Have Laws is an immersive Muratova, fighting to maintain the 1978 Hell’s Kitchen housewives whose 1945. Children who have been liberated Museum of Art. The tragedy changes of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five initiation into the life of a Maroon traditional methods of bee farming mobster husbands are sent to prison from a Nazi concentration camp are the course of his life and through it all, years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria. community in the former Dutch colony by harnessing a deep connection with by the FBI. Left with little but a sharp left abandoned without food or water. he holds on to one tangible piece of of Suriname. Combining stories of nature. axe to grind, the women take the However, the true nightmare only starts hope... a painting of a tiny bird chained Event/ On Tue 3 Sep, 20:30 we will African ancestral traditions and slavery Irish mafia’s matters into their own when they are besieged by wild dogs to its perch. have a special preview screening with enacted contemporary rituals, the hands, proving unexpectedly adept at that were used to guard the camp. followed by a filmmaker Q&A. film explores how the community’s ties everything from running the rackets to to the land have become endangered. taking out the competition.

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The Last Tree (15) Parent & Baby Parents, grandparents and carers of babies aged up to 12 months can enjoy From Fri 20 Sep films in a relaxed environment with their babies. The volume will be lowered and Dir Shola Amoo/GB 2019/99 mins the lights will remain dimmed throughout the screening. Films will begin at the Nicholas Pinnock, Denise Black, Gbemisola advertised time without adverts or trailers. Ikumelo Femi, a British boy of Nigerian Ad Astra (CTBA) Normal (15) Baby changing facilities are readily available and our café bar team can provide heritage, enjoys a happy rural high chairs and hot water for bottles on request. From Fri 20 Sep From Fri 27 Sep childhood where he is raised by a Dir James Gray/BR US 2019/TBC mins Dir Adele Tulli/IT 2019/70 mins/Italian wEngST Unfortunately we are unable to admit children older than 12 months of age. doting foster mother until his real Brad Pitt, , Who decides what is normal? And homemcr.org/parent-and-baby mother reclaims him and whisks Twenty years after his father left on a perhaps more importantly: how does him back to inner-city London. With Blinded by the Light, 2019 Downton Abbey, 2019 one-way mission to Neptune in order normality seep into our lives? Through little emotional bond with her and to find signs of alien intelligence, Army a series of wry and acerbic vignettes, no remembrance of their cultural Corps engineer Roy McBride travels Italian filmmaker Adele Tulli’s Normal heritage, Femi struggles to adapt. through the solar system to find him playfully exposes the spectacle of and understand why his mission failed. Event/ On Thu 5 Sep, 18:00 we will gender in contemporary society. have a special preview screening followed by a Q&A with director Shola Amoo.

Blinded by the Light (12A) Downton Abbey (CTBA) Thu 22 Aug, 11:00 Thu 19 Sep, 11:00 Dir Gurinder Chadha/GB 2019/117 mins Dir Michael Engler/GB 2019/TBC mins Viveik Kalra, Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Ganatra Tuppence Middleton, Michelle Dockery, Maggie Smith See p4 for film details. See p7 for film details. 8 9 Photograph, 2019 Cinema Rediscovered/ Une National Lottery Cinema Day femme douce (CTBA) Sun 25 Aug one-off Thu 15 Aug, 17:40 Every time you play the National Lottery Dir Robert Bresson/FR 1969/88 mins you’re supporting British film production, , Guy Frangin exhibition and innovation, as well as screenings Bresson’s ninth feature film and his first Transit, 2018 community projects across the UK. To made in colour, adapted from Fyodor Transit (12A) + Introduction say THANK YOU the National Lottery Photograph (15) + Introduction Dostoevsky’s short story, A Gentle are inviting you to see a FREE film on Creature (Krotkaya, 1876) but transposed Thu 20 Aug, 18:15 Sun 25 Aug with your ticket from Sat 24 & events Tue 6 Aug, 18:10 to Paris, Une femme douce has, Dir Christian Petzold/DE FR 2018/102 mins/German Aug Lotto Double Prize Event draw. and French wEngST Animals, 2019 Dance with a Stranger, 1985 Dir Ritesh Batra/DE IN US 2019/109 mins/Hindi and since its original release, disappeared You can check out the day’s listings and English with partial EngST from UK screens and become a forgotten Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sanya Malhotra, Sachin Khedekar reserve your free adult cinema ticket classic of French cinema. A meditation on See p5 for details. See p4 for details. from Wed 21 August at cinemaday.co.uk shared loneliness, Une femme douce is a Event/ This screening will be First come, first served. Terms and Event/ This screening will be cinematic tragedy of great proportions. introduced by Maggie Hoffgen, conditions apply. See cinemaday.co.uk introduced by Omar Ahmed, UK-based Presented as part of Cinema Rediscovered Freelance Film Educator. for full details film scholar and co-curator of HOME’s on Tour, a Watershed project with support Preview/ Animals (15) + Q&A Not Just Bollywood season. from BFI, awarding funds from The The Souvenir, 2019 National Lottery Thu 1 Aug, 17:50 Dir Sophie Hyde/GB AU IE 2019/109 mins Holliday Grainger, Alia Shawkat, Fra Fee See p4 for details Reclaim the Frame presents/ Event/ We will be joined by writer Dance with a Stranger (15) + Q&A Emma Jane Unsworth and producer Peterloo, 2018 Sarah Brocklehurst for a Q&A following Mon 5 Aug, 18:00 Preview/ The Souvenir (15) Pay What You Can/ Peterloo The Aesthetica Award-Winning Film Tour this special preview screening. Dir /GB 1985/102 mins (12A) + Q&A + Q&A , Rupert Everett The Aesthetica Award-Winning A classic British noir based on the Sun 18 Aug, 16:00 Thu 29 Aug, 17:50 Film Tour (15) Dir Joanna Hogg/GB US 2019/120 mins true story of Ruth Ellis, the last Dir /GB 2018/154 mins Honor Swinton Byrne, Tilda Swinton, Richard Ayoade woman to be hanged in Britain following Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Neil Bell Wed 21 Aug, 18:20 her conviction for the murder of her lover, Mike Leigh’s depiction of the infamous Dir Various/GB DE US IE 2016-19/100 mins See p6 for details , 1979 David Blakeley. Dance With A Stranger 1819 massacre at a peaceful pro- The BAFTA-Qualifying Aesthetica Short Event/ We will be joined by director explores what it means to commit a ‘crime Apocalypse Now: The Final democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Film Festival has partnered with BFI Joanna Hogg for a Q&A following this of passion’ and how class and gender can Cut (15) + Dutch Angle: Chas Manchester has incredible relevance Film Audience Network to present the special preview screening. inform the criminal justice system. Gerretsen & Apocalypse Now and significance in our turbulent times. Aesthetica Award-Winning Film Tour; an A film that eloquently encapsulates initiative aimed at bringing cinema to Event/ Join Birds’ Eye View for a Q&A Tue 13 Aug, 18:30 the injustices suffered by the working the community and encouraging positive hosted by Mia Bays (Director-At-Large Dir /US 1979/183 mins classes, Peterloo features tremendous engagement with independent film. of Birds’ Eye View and an Oscar-winning Martin Sheen, , Robert Duvall performances from Rory Kinnear The Cure: Anniversary producer) with Dance with a Stranger These powerful films explore Francis Ford Coppola’s stunning vision and Maxine Peake, and the sublime 1978-2018 Live in Hyde director Mike Newell (Four Weddings contemporary social issues, inspiring life Park, 2018 of the heart of darkness in all of us cinematography of Dick Pope. Essential and a Funeral, Donnie Brasco and stories and beautifully heart-warming remains a classic and compelling viewing. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) narratives across animation, drama, The Cure: Anniversary 1978- epic. Forty years after along with ’s daughter, Tickets will be available from Mon 29 Jul documentary and dance. The selection 2018 Live in Hyde Park (12A) the original version and eighteen years the writer Charlotte Delaney and and advance booking is recommended. features Oscar-nominated an BAFTA- Force of Nature Natalia, 2019 after Apocalypse Now Redux, Coppola Fri 2 Aug, 20:10 Criminologist Melindy Brown. Tickets are only available from the Box nominated works. presents the film in a 4K Final Cut. Force of Nature Natalia (12A) Dir Tim Pope/GB 2018/137 mins After the panel, Charlotte Delaney will Office and audiences are invited to pay Preview/ Bait (15) + Q&A what they can into a collection box at Mon 2 Sep, 18:20 The Cure, acknowledged as one of be leading a creative writing workshop Event/ This screening will be preceded the Box Office counter when collecting Sat 24 Aug, 17:40 Dir Gerald Fox/GB 2019/82 mins the world’s greatest live bands, take where audience members can explore by Dutch Angle: Chas Gerretsen & their ticket. No refunds can be given for Dir Mark Jenkin/GB 2019/89 mins This intimate and revealing film follows the stage on a perfect July evening in their own objects of obsession through Apocalypse Now (Dir Baris Azman/NL this screening. Ed Rowe, Mary Woodvine, Giles Smith a season in the life of our generation’s London’s Hyde Park 2018 to deliver a words and . 2019/40 mins/English and Dutch with set celebrating four decades of music See p6 for details most exciting prima ballerina, Natalia partial EngST) and will be followed Event/ We will be joined by director This screening is part of Film Feels: Osipova, the superstar leading making. The ensuing film Anniversary by a 30-minute recorded interview Mike Leigh for a Q&A following this Event/ We will be joined by director Obsession, a UK-wide cinema season, ballerina of The Royal Ballet and solo 1978-2018, directed by long-time between Francis Ford Coppola and screening which marks the 200-year Mark Jenkin for a Q&A following this supported by the National Lottery and star at Sadler’s Wells, the Bolshoi and collaborator Tim Pope, captures them Steven Soderberg from Tribeca. anniversary of the Peterloo massacre. screening. in glorious 4K. BFI Film Audience Network. dance theatres around the world. 10 11 Girls on Film: Live Fest, 2018 podcast recording Tue 3 Sep, 19:00 Host Anna Smith will be joined by BBC Asian Network’s Ashanti Sweetie, 1989 Omkar and pop culture expert Dr Kirsty Sweetie (15) + Introduction Talking Headz Fairclough of the University of Salford, with Goldie plus a very special guest to review Mon 16 Sep, 18:20 and Dave current releases and discuss classic Dir Jane Campion/AU 1989/99 mins Haslam, 2019 films from a female perspective. Geneviève Lemon, Karen Colston, Tom Lycos Marcus Intalex Music Foundation Campion’s stunning debut feature presents/ Talking Headz with focuses on the hazardous relationship between the buttoned-down, Goldie and Dave Haslam superstitious Kay and her rampaging, Fri 27 Sep, 20:20 devil-may-care sister, Sweetie. A Ticket Prices: £10 full/£8 concs feast of colorful photography and A special evening in conversation captivating, idiosyncratic characters, with the legendary UK drum and bass The Last Tree, 2019 the tough and tender Sweetie heralded pioneer Goldie. Goldie is a multi- the emergence of this gifted director. Preview/ The Last Tree (15) + Q&A talented powerhouse, and one of the Event/ This screening will be introduced Berlin Symphony of a Great City, 1927 most celebrated and iconic artists of Thu 5 Sep, 18:00 by Professor Jackie Stacey, University of our generation. Manchester stalwart Dir Shola Amoo/GB 2019/99 mins HarmonieBand presents Berlin Dave Haslam gains an unabashed Nicholas Pinnock, Denise Black, Gbemisola Ikumelo Manchester. Clermont-Ferrand Short Symphony of a Great City (CTBA) Still Human, 2018 insight into the life and career of the See p8 for details. Film Festival/ Best of Lab + live musical accompaniment man and the personality. TrashFest 2019 (18) + Introduction Competition 2019 (CTBA) + Event/ We will be joined by director (Berlin: Die Sinfonie der This event forms part of Marcus Intalex Fri 20 Sep, 20:30 Introduction Shola Amoo for a Q&A following this Grosstadt) Music Foundation’s programme celebrating Andrew Leavold, director of the cult special preview screening. Thu 26 Sep, 18:15 the 25th anniversary of Goldie’s influential documentary The Search For Weng Sun 22 Sep, 13:30 Metalheadz record label. Weng, digs deep into the Trash Video Dir Walther Ruttmann/DE 1927/65 mins Tickets: £6 full/£5 concs (plus The Shiny Shrimps (CTBA) + Q&A member concessions) (Les Crevettes Pailletées) vaults to create the ultimate two hour Influenced by Eisenstein and Vertov’s Course/ Women in Film Comedy mash-up including Bollywood and montage technique, Ruttmann’s Berlin The Clermont-Ferrand Lab competition Sat 7 Sep, 18:00 Nollywood clips, Turksploitation, the is a love letter to the German capital Chinese Film Forum UK is the place where people rush in to 8 weeks, from Tue 8 Oct Dirs Maxime Govare, Cédric Le Gallo/FR 2019/100 North Korean Godzilla, Indonesian as a ‘day in the life’ from dawn until presents/ Still Human (CTBA) + experience jarring films, electrifying 18:30 – 20:30 mins/French wEngST combinations, arresting viewpoints and flying-heads-with-guts-attached, midnight. Captured at a time when Introduction Tickets: £80 full / £60 concs Nicolas Gob, Alban Lenoir, Michaël Abiteboul wrestling Mexican Mummies – a the nation was still reeling from the accomplished risk-taking. Come and This course will concentrate on the See p7 for details. glorious Trash-fried enchilada with effects of WW1, Berlin is an important Thu 24 Sep, 18:00 get your fix, brought to you by artists roles and representations of women heapings of extra cheese! silent era documentary that would go Dir Oliver Siu Kuen Chan/HK 2018/115 dangerously in love with images and Event/ We will be joined by co-director mins/Cantonese and English with partial in Anglo-American cinematic comedy: on to influence the British documentary sounds. and Shiny Shrimp Cédric Le Gallo for a Event/ This screening is introduced by EngST women as the butts, audiences and styles of the 1930s and 40s. Crisel Consunji, Sam Lee, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong Films screening in this selection are: Q&A following this screening. curator Andrew Leavold. tellers of jokes. Participants will Formed in 1985, Paul Robinson’s A wheelchair user since a workplace All Inclusive explore the range of roles that women HarmonieBand specialises in the accident, the gruff Cheong-wing (Dir Corina Schwingruber Ilic/CH 2018/10 mins) have occupied in screen comedy since This beginners’ level course is led by Day Course/ Introduction to composed soundtrack for silent films. (Anthony Wong) needs assistance to the 1930s, as lovers, friends, mothers Manchester Metropolitan University Last Year When the Train Passed by the Female Gothic They have toured widely in the UK and carry out daily tasks. An advert for a (Dir Pang-Chuan Huang/FR 2018/18 mins) and daughters, in the home and in the teaching staff and includes a including a collaboration with new assistant brings Evelyn, a young workplace. Considering the visuals Sat 14 Sep, 10:30 – 17:00 screening of ’s Fest the Hilliard Ensemble for a score for woman from the Philippines, into his and the dialogues that make comedy Tickets: £25 full / £20 concs Gaslight. (Dir Nikita Diakur/DE 2018/3 min) Joan of Arc premiered in the Wroclaw life. Justifiably described by Screen Swatted a beloved medium, the course will pay Members discount available Gaslight (PG) Opera House in 2007. Daily as ‘a real Hong Kong treat’, (Dir Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis/FR 2018/20 mins) attention to comedy’s female stars, This full-day session covers the Chan’s multi-award-winning debut writers and directors. Dir Thorold Dickinson/US 1940/84 mins MUSICIANS: The Flood Is Coming development of the Female Gothic proved a surprise hit at the Hong Kong , Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell Geeta Nazareth, Viola (Dir Gabriel Böhmer/GB CH 2018/9 mins) Beginners’ level, no prior knowledge on screen. Attendees will learn about box-office when it was released earlier Twenty years after the murder of Alice The Passage necessary. The course includes six the literary origins of the Female Dai Pritchard: Clarinet/Saxophone this year. Barlow, her house is finally occupied (Dir Kitao Sakurai/US 2018/22 mins) sessions with the course tutor and two Gothic and will be introduced to its Paul Robinson, Keyboards/Accordion/ again. However, the husband of the Event/ This screening will be introduced course screenings. main filmic strands, including old Dulcimer Event/ This screening will be introduced dark house mysteries, women films couple who have moved in has a by Fraser Elliott, Chinese Film Forum UK. by Tim Redford, International Led by Sarah Ilott, Senior Lecturer New Score by Paul Robinson by kind of the 1940s, modern slashers and secret which he will do anything to Coordinator of Clermont-Ferrand in English and Film at Manchester permission of the Ruttmann estate and Supported by the Confucius Institute witch films. keep hidden. International Short Film Festival. Metropolitan University. performed by HarmonieBand. at The University of Manchester. 12 13 Juice, 1992 Set It Off, 1996 Women Over Look out for specially selected WOFFF shorts The Past Is Another Country Fifty Film (Dir Magda Rakita/GB 2014/5 mins) seasons Festival and The Wake (Dir Oonagh Kearney/ IE 2015/ 20 mins) screening with new Sound and Absolute Beginners, 1986 . releases The Souvenir and Animals Juice (15) + Introduction this August. See website for details of Vision: Pop dates and screenings. Thu 8 Aug, 18:10 August Stars on Film Dir Ernest R. Dickerson/US 1992/91 mins Omar Epps, Tupac Shakur, Jermaine ‘Huggy’ Hopkins Women Over 50 Film Festival (WOFFF) celebrates and champions older women . Bishop, Q, Raheem and Steel are four on both sides of the camera, challenging the ageism and sexism many women Harlem friends who spend their days face in the film industry and in many other areas of life too. hanging out and looking for ways This August we’ll screen two of WOFFF’s Best of the Fest programmes, which Fri 19 Jul – to get the power and respect they Set It Off (18) + Introduction each showcase a dazzling display of the work of older women in front of and Absolute Beginners (15) call Juice. Q dreams of earning it by behind the camera with international, independent, documentary, animation, Wed 15 Aug becoming a DJ but Bishop wants to Tue 13 Aug, 20:30 drama and experimental short films. From the relatively early days of Sat 3 Aug, 18:00 take it through an armed robbery and Dir F. Gary Gray/US 1996/118 mins homemcr.org/WOFFF cinema, popular music figures have Dir Julien Temple/GB 1986/108 mins he wants his crew to be with him. Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett, Vivica A. Fox Patsy Kensit, Eddie O’Connell, David Bowie WOFFF Best of the Fest/ North made forays into acting. Sound and A gritty and influential crime thriller Tough, 2016 Vision: Pop Stars On Film offers Temple’s flawed but ambitious and Event/ This screening will be combining explosive action and social Star (15) + Panel discussion entertaining attempt to bring the novel introduced by Jason Wood Creative commentary in a story about four an overview of some of the most Mon 12 Aug, 18:10 by Colin MacInnes to the screen is ripe Director: Film and Culture at HOME. women bank robbers from a housing influential performances from a diverse Dir Various/GB DE IT 2016- for revisiting. A film that takes in issues project in L.A. Features Queen Latifah range of cultural icons. 18/62mins of race and class, it also features One Hour Intro/ Believe: in her breakthrough acting role. Co-curated by Dr. Kirsty Fairclough, more pop stars than you can shake a Rethinking as Film Star WOFFF Best of the Fest/ A programme of shorts focused on University of Salford and Jason Wood tambourine at. Event/ This screening will be Guiding Light (15) + northern women in front of and behind Creative Director: Film and Culture at Sun 11 Aug, 15:30 introduced by Karen Gabay, radio Introduction the camera from places including The HOME. Videodrome, 1983 Tickets: £4 full, £3 concs presenter and producer. Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, Scotland homemcr.org/Popstars Cher has not only had a five-decade Wed 7 Aug, 18:10 and Nottingham. In partnership with MUBI. long music career, but also an impressive Dir Various/GB US TW 2010-18/85mins Films in this screening will be subtitled film career. This talk led by Dr Kirsty A shining selection of WOFFF shorts and the event with be BSL interpreted. Fairclough, Associate Dean at the including The Farmer’s Wife with Geraldine Films screening in this programme: University of Salford will examine Cher’s James, an impressive early work from career in this context and will be followed Francis Lee (God’s Own Country). Swim Dir Maike Mahira Koller/DE 2018/3 mins by a screening of Come Back to the 5 Films screening in this programme: and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. Tough Domestic Policy Dir Jennifer Zheng/GB 2016/5 mins/Chinese and Dir Alicia MacDonald/GB 2016/7 mins English with partial EngST Good Girls Don’t Lady M Dir Ana de Lara/ US 2017/15 mins/Tagalog and Dir Tammy Riley Smith/GB 2018/14 mins Precious, 2009 English with partial EngST Ready to Go Dir Lynda Reiss/GB 2017/9 mins Precious (15) + Introduction Come Back I CHERISH WOMEN Videodrome (18) to the 5 and Dir Judith Lynn Stillman/US 2017/4 mins The Hide Thu 1 Aug, 20:30 Dime, Jimmy The Farmer’s Wife Dir Gaynor Macfarlane/GB 2017/8 mins Sun 4 Aug, 13:00 Dean, Jimmy Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, 1983 Dir Francis Lee/GB 2011/18 mins Dir Lee Daniels/US 2009/110 mins Dean, 1982 Oor Wally , Mo’Nique, Mariah Carey Tue 6 Aug, 20:40 + Introduction Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence Mushroom Thief Dir Martin Lennon/GB IE 2016/12 mins Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Dir Joan Ashworth/GB 2010/7 mins Set in 1980s Harlem, Precious is the Wed 7 Aug, 13:00 (15) Grandmother Dirs Heather Dirckze, Charanpreet Khaira, Melina story of sixteen-year-old Claireece Dir /US 1983/89 mins Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (18) What A Peaceful Day Dir Eden Chan/TW 2016/5 mins Campos/GB 2018/6 mins “Precious” Jones who suffers constant James Woods, , Sonja Smits Wed 14 Aug, 18:00 Sun 11 Aug, 17:10 Emotional Fit abuse at the hands of her mother. A Marshall McLuhan-inspired analysis Dir Nagisa Ôshima/GB NZ JP 1983/118 mins/English Hear Me Now Dir Robert Altman/US 1982/110 mins and Japanese with partial EngST Dir Maria Viola Craig/GB 2017/12 mins Dir Katherine Townsend/GB 2017/10 mins An uncompromising look at abuse, of screen violence and media Cher, , David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto The Matchmaker Event/ This screening will be perseverance and ultimately, survival domination, this sci-fi thriller features Cher, Sandy Dennis, and Karen Black Dir Leonora Pitts/ US 2017/11 mins Oshima’s World War II drama set in a accompanied by a panel discussion featuring Mariah Carey and Lenny the brilliant pairing of Debbie Harry sparkle in Robert Altman’s acclaimed Japanese POW camp features both Edek with Nuala O’Sullivan, WOFFF Festival Kravitz. and James Woods. film version of Ed Graczyk’s play. It’s Dir Malcolm Green/GB 2018/6 mins Bowie and Sakamoto as prisoner and Director; Katherine Townsend, director 1975 and the all-female members of Event/ This screening will be Event/ The screening on Tue 6 Aug will captor struggling to bridge barriers of Event/ This screening will be of Emotional Fit; Charanpreet Khaira, a James Dean fan club have reunited introduced by season co-curator Dr be introduced by Ellen Smith, HOME language and emotion. introduced by Nuala O’Sullivan, WOFFF director of Grandmother, and Rachel to mark the 20th anniversary of their Kirsty Fairclough, University of Salford. Young Programmer and Usher. Festival Director Hayward, HOME’s Head of Film. idol’s death. 14 15 It’s a Great Blue Velvet, 1986 (U) + ’s 8 1/2 (15) Pride Introduction Big Wonderful True Favourites Mon 23 Sep, 20:00 Fri 23 Aug, 18:00 The following screenings have been Dir /IT FR 1963/138 mins/Italian wEngST . Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee, Sandra Milo World: David Dir David Lynch/US GB FR 1999/107 mins chosen by Lynch including some cult , Jane Heitz, Richard Farnsworth films cited as an inspiration to him. Mastroianni excels as Guido Anselmi, Lynch Film Based on the true story of Alvin Straight’s a whose new project is Mon 26 – journey across and Wisconsin on collapsing around him, along with his life. Thu 29 Aug Season an old lawnmower The Straight Story is A truly epic and influential work, it has all Alongside the new releases Pain and frequently cited as the director’s most the qualities of a shimmering dream. Glory and The Shiny Shrimps, we will be . straightforward and atypical work. The Wizard of Oz, 1939 In Cold Blood (15) screening a specially curated selection Farnsworth is sensational in a rare of films to celebrate Pride and to mark leading role. The Wizard of Oz (U) + Wed 25 Sep, 20:10 Sat 6 Jul – Sun Dir Richard Brooks/US 1968/138 mins 50 years since the Stonewall riots. Blue Velvet (18) Screening from a 35mm print. Introduction 29 Sep Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe homemcr.org/pride19 Adapting Truman Capote’s true-crime This extensive season spans the many Sun 18 Aug, 13:00 + Post-screening Event/ This screening will be Fri 13 Sep, 20:40 Are You Proud? (15) + Recorded novel about the senseless murder of a high points of Lynch’s unique oeuvre, Discussion introduced by Jason Wood, Creative Dir Victor Fleming/ US 1939/103 mins Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley family in rural Kansas, In Cold Blood is a introduction from his earliest forays into short Tue 20 Aug, 20:15 Director: Film and Culture at HOME. grimly authentic American horror story. filmmaking to legendary cult director of Wed 21 Aug, 13:00 Fleming’s classic begins in the monochrome Mon 26 Aug, 18:20 world of Kansas but bursts into colour Dir Ashley Joiner/GB 2019/100 mins Blue Velvet. Dir David Lynch/US 1986/115 mins Stroszek (15) + Introduction Kyle MacLachlan, , when Dorothy’s house, uprooted in a Combining rare archive footage with homemcr.org/lynch-film-season Fri 27 Sep, 18:10 See p20 for film details. tornado, lands in the fairyland of Oz. interviews from leading campaigners, (15) Dir /DE 1977/103 mins/German wEngST Are You Proud? follows the LGBTQ+ Event/ There will be a post-screening Event/ This screening will be introduced by Bruno S., , Clemens Scheitz Dr Kirsty Fairclough, Associate Dean, School movement’s momentous journey, charting Fri 16 Aug, 20:40 discussion with filmmakers and Herzog’s first film in America portrays the joys and divisions toward equality. Dir David Lynch/ US 1977/85 mins Mulholland Drive (15) + of Arts and Media, University of Salford. visual artists AL and AL following the the territory with the same alien, barren Celebrating the community’s greatest Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph screening on Sun 18 Aug. Introduction inhabitability as his films in the Amazon achievements, the film calls attention to The tale of an eccentric loner in a Sunset Boulevard (PG) and Sahara. It’s a film about dreams Sat 24 Aug, 20:00 the fights both past and present while nightmare post-industrial landscape, Wild at Heart (18) + and dreaming and what happens when Dir David Lynch/US FR 2001/143 mins Sun 15 Sep, 13:00 + Post-screening asking tough questions about the future. it’s guaranteed to haunt your dreams. Introduction Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, Justin Theroux Discussion reality intercedes. Event/ This screening will have a recorded Watts gives a career-making Tue 17 Sep, 20:30 Mon 19 Aug, 20:15 Event/ This screening will be introduction from director Ashley Joiner. Dir David Lynch/US 1990/119 mins performance as aspiring actress who Wed 18 Sep, 13:00 introduced by Andy Willis, Senior Nicolas Cage, , Willem Dafoe after arriving in Hollywood, befriends an Dir /US 1950/106 mins Visiting Curator for Film. Before Stonewall (15) A road movie that fuses Bonnie and amnesiac woman and tries to help her , Gloria Swanson, Clyde with The Wizard of Oz, the hyper recover her memory. See p20 for film details. , 2002 Tue 27 Aug, 18:20 violent Wild at Heart won Lynch the Dirs Greta Schiller, Robert Rosenberg/US 1984/87 mins Event/ This screening will be Event/ The screening on Sun 15 Sep Palme d’Or. Revealing and often humorous, the award- introduced by Sarah Perks, curator will be followed by a post-screening winning Before Stonewall exposes the Event/ This screening will be David Lynch: My Head is Disconnected. discussion led by Dr Kirsty Fairclough, fascinating and unforgettable decade-by- introduced by Maggie Hoffgen, Associate Dean, School of Arts and decade history of homosexuality in America, Media, University of Salford. , 1984 freelance film educator. from 1920’s Harlem through to World War II The Man Without a Past (12) + and the witch hunt trials of the McCarthy era. Dune (12) + Introduction Lost Highway, 1997 A Place in the Sun (U) Introduction Sea Without Shore (PG) Sat 17 Aug, 17:30 Thu 19 Sep, 17:50 (Mies vailla menneisyyttä) Dirs David Lynch, Alan Smithee/ US MX 1984/153 mins Dir /US 1951/117 mins Wed 28 Aug, 20:40 Francesca Annis, Jose Ferrer, Sian Phillips Montgomery Clift, , Shelley Winters Sun 29 Sep, 16:00 Dirs André Semenza, Fernanda Lippi/GB 2015/91 mins/Swedish wEngST Lynch’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dir Aki Kaurismäki/ FI DE FR 2002/97 mins/Finnish wEngST Inland Empire (15) Stevens’ second major film after his return Livia Rangel, Fernanda Lippi, Anna Mesquita all time best-selling sci-fi novel. An , to Hollywood, A Place in the Sun is the Sea Without Shore is a rhythmically intergalactic feudal society with powerful M arrives in where he is attacked Lost Highway (18) Sun 25 Aug, 14:00 story of how a hostile environment can captivating exploration of love and loss at noble houses fights for control over Dir David Lynch/FR PL GB 2006/176 mins by thugs and pronounced dead by pervert an already warped character. the fin de siècle. An amorous relationship resources, armies, and planetary power. Laura Dern, , Justin Theroux medics. When he miraculously recovers, Thu 22 Aug, 17:45 Mon Oncle (U) between two women is abruptly cut short Dir David Lynch/US FR 1997/128 mins This sprawling Hollywood nightmare covered in bandages and with no Event/ This screening will be in this lyrical meditation on loss. Bill Pullman, , Balthazar Getty takes the perspective of an out-of-favour Fri 20 Sep, 20:20 recollection of his past, he sets out to introduced by Dr Amy C. Chambers, Lynch travels the weird back roads of actress (Dern) as a launching pad for Dir Jacques Tati/FR IT 1958/110 mins/French wEngST build himself a new life. Senior Lecturer in Film and Media America in a tense thriller involving a a surreal trip through the streets of Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie Event/ This screening will be Studies at Manchester School of Art, mythical L.A., a blonde and a brunette A supremely amusing slapstick satire Tinseltown, the Polish underworld, a introduced by Sarah Perks, curator Manchester Metropolitan University. (both played by the same actress) and of mechanised living and consumer rabbit sitcom and back again. Screening David Lynch: My Head is Disconnected. Background image: Eraserhead, 1977 strange musings on identity and dreams. from a 35mm print. society. 16 17 Not Just Aperture: Asia Bollywood & Pacific Film . Festival . The Gentle Indifference of the World, 2018 Wed 11 Sep – The Gentle Indifference of the Wed 2 Oct Wed 4 – World (CTBA) Namdev Bhau in Search of Silence, 2018 (Laskovoe bezrazlichie mira) A celebration of contemporary Indian Sat 14 Sep culture presented in partnership with Namdev Bhau in Search of Mon 9 Sep, 18:15 Aperture is a UK film festival dedicated Dir Adilkhan Yerzhanov/KZ 2018/100 mins/ Kazakh Dishoom. Silence (CTBA) and Russian wEngST to screening some of the boldest, The 2019 edition of Not Just Bollywood Dinara Baktybaeva, Kuandyk Dyussembaev Sun 29 Sep, 13:50 most daring, challenging and striking links with our year-long programme Following her father’s death, Saltanat is Dir Dar Gai/IN 2018/84 mins/Hindi wEngST films from the Asian and Pacific Celebrating Women in Global Cinema Arya Dave, Namdev Gurav, Zoya Hussain regions, focusing particularly on forced to swap her quiet rural life for the to spotlight some of the best examples This rich and darkly comical tale about underrepresented areas of cinema. city to find ways to pay off a debt he of Indian independent films directed left behind in order to save her mother a sixty-five-year-old chauffeur who goes homemcr.org/APFF by women. on a semi-existential journey to escape from prison. Her penniless friend and Curated by Omar Ahmed, UK-based the noise of the city is directed by the admirer, Kuandyk, joins her in an ensuing , 2016 film scholar and Rachel Hayward, talented and emerging Ukrainian born road trip, as they run into trouble and desperately seek a way out. HOME’s Head of Film. Lipstick Under My Burkha One Hour Intro/ The New filmmaker Dar Gai. With magnificent In partnership with Dishoom, the (CTBA) Woman and Contemporary cinematography and a wonderful Bombay café in Manchester. supporting cast, this is a brilliant study Sat 21 Sep, 18:00 Indian Cinema of the want to escape the dread of homemcr.org/not-just-bollywood Dir Alankrita Shrivastava/IN 2016/117 mins/Hindi urban life. The End of the Track, 1970 wEngST Sat 28 Sep, 15:30 The Elements Trilogy Aahana Kumra, Ratna Pathak Shah, Konkona Sen Tickets: £4 full, £3 concs The End of the Track (CTBA) Sharma Made over a period of ten years Deepa The emergence of the New Woman Released in 2017, this critically Wed 4 Sep, 18:15 Mehta’s controversial Elements trilogy points to a shifting acknowledgement acclaimed portmanteau that Dir Mou Tun-fei/TW 1970/91 mins/Mandarin wEngST was a monumental undertaking exploring of the growing power of the female follows the lives of four women in Banned during the Kuomintang regime gender, sexuality, violence and religion audience at the Indian box office. This Eye on the Ball, 2019 contemporary is a damning for its homosexual undercurrents and through a largely feminist perspective. illustrated talk will spotlight some of critique of patriarchy, conservatism and likely for its political overtones, The End Eye on the Ball (CTBA) Beginning with Fire (1996) that examines the best examples of this new film gender discrimination. The film stars of the Track is a landmark in Taiwanese homosexuality in contemporary India, practice. Led by Dr Saba Hussain, Sat 14 Sep, 18:00 the award-winning actor and director cinema. Friends Tong and Yongsheng Mehta went on to confront the horrors of University of Warwick. Dir Yihwen Chen/MY 2019/79 mins/ Konkana Sen Sharma. are inseparable. When Yong-sheng dies Malay and English wEngST Partition in Earth (1998) and finished with in an accident, Tong’s life plunges into Water (2005) that critiqued religion. (CTBA) Losing their vision didn’t stop darkness. a group of blind boys’ aims Waiting, 2015 Fire (15) + Introduction Sun 22 Sep, 15:50 of becoming professional footballers. Wed 11 Sep, 18:05 Dir /IN 2016/110 mins/English, Waiting (CTBA) + Introduction Led by their impassioned coach, the Dir Deepa Mehta/CA IN 1996/108 mins/Hindi and Hindi and Bengali with partial EngST amateur team unexpectedly win the English with partial EngST , Vikrant Massey, Gulshan Devaiah Wed 2 Oct, 18:10 2015 ASEAN Para Games. However, Shabana Azmi, Nandita Das, Karishma Jhalani With homages to the cinema of Satyajit Dir Anu Menon/IN 2015/92 mins/Hindi and English with partial EngST they have their title to defend at Event/ This screening will be introduced Ray, actor turned director Konkana Sen , Kalki Koechlin, Jennifer Antony the 2017 ASEAN Para Games and Sir, 2018 by season curators Omar Ahmed and Sharma’s debut feature is an ensemble Shot in the picturesque coastal city of must improve their world rankings to Rachel Hayward. piece set in the late in which a Sir (CTBA) Kochi, two strangers strike up an unlikely Kabul, City in the Wind, 2018 qualify for the World Blind Football group of friends go on a rural retreat friendship in a hospital waiting room Championship. A moving portrait of Earth (15) Sat 28 Sep, 17:00 only to see tensions flare. that leads to an extended philosophical Kabul, City in the Wind (CTBA) overcoming obstacles and reaching for Sun 15 Sep, 15:45 Dir Rohena Gera/IN FR 2018/99 mins/ Hindi, English commentary on death, love and social one’s dreams. Dir Deepa Mehta/CA IN 1998/109 mins/Hindi and and Marathi with partial EngST Sun 8 Sep, 15:45 English with partial EngST From New Year 2020, look out Tillotama Shome, Vivek Gomber, Ahmareen Anjum media. Anu Menon’s Waiting is another Dir Aboozar Amini/AF 2018/88 mins/Persian wEngST Aperture launched in 2018 and was Aamir Khan, Nandita Das, Rahul Khanna for regular Not Just Bollywood Set in contemporary Mumbai Sir is a satisfying work from Drishyam Films that The everyday lives of 12-year-old Afshin founded by Sonali Joshi. The festival is Water (12A) programming in our cinemas. sharply crafted romantic melodrama, full re-teams stalwart Parallel Cinema actor and his younger brother Benjamin, presented in partnership with Centre Naseeruddin Shah with Kalki Koechlin, for Research and Education in Arts Wed 18 Sep, 18:00 See website for details. of warmth, about an architect, Ashwin and a bus driver in war-torn Kabul are Dir Deepa Mehta/CA IN 2005/117 mins/Hindi and and a migrant servant, Ratna. The script one of the best actors of her generation. presented in parallel. In this love letter and Media (CREAM), University of English with partial EngST Westminster, with CREAM Co-Director is sharply written and brings to life the Event/ This screening will be introduced to a city ravaged by war, Amini shows Sarala, Buddhi Wickrama, Iranganie Serasinghe May Adadol Ingawanij as Festival complexities of Ratna and Ashwin who by Roy Stafford, freelance film educator. its inhabitants striving for a better life are bound by class and caste. in the face of adversity. Consultant. 18 19 classics BRING THE FAMILY Relaxed Our popular programme brings cinema classics to the big screen every month so you never need to miss those must-sees! Designed for the whole family Sunday screenings are usually accompanied by a free, informal post-screening discussion. (including babies), these screenings Screenings Visit homemcr.org/classics for details. will have the volume lowered and the lights will remain dimmed throughout (Autism the screening. Films will begin at the Blue Velvet (18) advertised time without adverts or trailers. Friendly) Sun 18 Aug, 13:00 Ferdinand, 2017 Designed for people with autism homemcr.org/families Tue 20 Aug, 20:15 Ferdinand (U) spectrum conditions and their families. Wed 21 Aug, 13:00 We’ll keep the lights on low, turn the Dir David Lynch/US 1986/115 mins Sun 29 Sep, 11:00 sound down a little, and provide a Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper Dir Carlos Saldanha/US ES 2017/108 mins separate room to take a break in. For When a clean-cut young man discovers John Cena, Kate McKinnon, Bobby Cannavale the film screenings there will be no a severed human ear in the grass, his Ferdinand is a giant bull with a big heart. trailers or advertisements before the quest to solve the grisly mystery leads After being mistaken for a dangerous film starts and you’ll be able to move him into the terrifying underworld beast and torn from his home, he rallies around the cinema if you want to. of his own town. From its opening, Tortoise & the Hare, 2019 a misfit team of friends for the ultimate New to our Relaxed Screenings adventure to return to his family. colour-saturated shot to the last, Bite-Sized Ballets/ Tortoise & programme, we are trialling screenings Lynch exposes the dark underbelly of the Hare (U) Based on the classic children’s book, for adults and older teens. wholesome small town America in one Ferdinand proves you can’t judge a bull homemcr.org/relaxed of his quintessential works. Sun 25 Aug, 11:00 by its cover! Bite-Sized Ballets/ Tortoise & Running Time: Approx. 50 mins Storytelling & Craft Workshop Once upon a time there was a speedy The Hare (U) Sun 29 Sep, 12:45 hare who would never stop talking Sat 24 Aug, 11:00 Free, booking advised about how fast he could run. Sick of Running Time: Approx. 50 mins being teased for his slowness, Tortoise Following the film screening of Ferdinand, See Bring the Family for details challenged him to a race. No one thought young fans and parents are invited to a Blue Velvet, 1986 he could win, but life is full of surprises! lively storytelling and craft event from Ferdinand (U) Manchester Literature Festival. Sunset Boulevard, 1950 Northern Ballet’s Tortoise & the Hare Sat 28 Sep, 11:00 races on to the big screen as part of our Suitable for children aged 3+ Dir Carlos Saldanha/US ES 2017/108 mins fantastic season of interactive ballets for The workshop is free but booking is John Cena, Kate McKinnon, Bobby Cannavale children, narrated by Anita Rani. advised to avoid disappointment. See Bring the Family for details

Sunset Boulevard (PG) live broadcasts Catch the best theatre and opera broadcast live in our cinemas from the world’s most prestigious companies. Videodrome, 1983 Blue Black Permanent, 1992 Sun 15 Sep, 13:00 homemcr.org/live-broadcasts Videodrome (18) Blue Black Permanent (PG) Tue 17 Sep, 20:30 Wed 18 Sep, 13:00 NT Live/ One Man, Two Guvnors NT Live/ Fleabag (15) Sun 4 Aug, 13:00 Sun 1 Sep, 13:00 Dir Billy Wilder/US 1950/106 mins (12A) Tue 6 Aug, 20:40 + Introduction Tue 3 Sep, 20:40 William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim Thu 12 Sep, Doors 19:15, Performance Thu 26 Sep, Doors - 18:45, Wed 7 Aug, 13:00 Wed 4 Sep, 13:00 This acid-etched portrait of Tinseltown 19:30 Performance – 19:00 Dir David Cronenberg/US 1983/89 mins Dir Margaret Tait/GB 1992/86 mins remains one of the darkest movies on Running time: 100 mins James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits , , Gerda Stevenson moviemaking. Broke screenwriter Joe Running Time: 210 mins See the hilarious, award-winning, one- A Marshall McLuhan-inspired analysis This haunting work moves between Gillis (Holden) hides out in a seemingly Based on The Servant of Two Masters woman show that inspired the BBC’s of screen violence and media Edinburgh and Orkney as it tells of a deserted mansion. There he meets by Carlo Goldoni, with songs by Grant hit TV series Fleabag, broadcast live to domination, this sci-fi thriller features woman’s attempts to come to terms with the property’s owner, faded screen Olding cinemas from London’s West End. the brilliant pairing of Debbie Harry her mother’s death through her childhood star Norma Desmond (Swanson). She’s Featuring a Tony Award-winning Written and performed by Phoebe and James Woods. memories. A film about islanders’ planning her comeback in a self-penned performance from host of the The Late Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Killing Eve) and relationship with the ever-present sea, screenplay and wants Joe to help her Late Show, James Corden, the hilarious Event/ The screening on Tue 6 Aug will directed by Vicky Jones, Fleabag is a Tait’s only feature-length film, from her with her script. Joe moves in, becoming West End and Broadway hit One Man, be introduced by Ellen Smith, HOME rip-roaring look at some sort of woman own screenplay, is the first Scottish a kept man and the object of Norma’s Two Guvnors returns to cinemas to mark Young Programmer and Usher. living her sort of life. feature film directed by a woman. obsessive affection. One Man, Two Guvnors, 2019 National Theatre Live’s 10th birthday. 20 21 ACCESS THEATRE Accessible Music Productions (AMP) get Workshops Throughout the year there are on-going programmes, Tue 6 Aug, 18:00 – 20:00 events, workshops, courses and artist opportunities to Tue 3 Sep, 18:00 – 20:00 try out, so why not take a look at some of these events Free, booking required listed here? Monthly music workshop supporting HOME and The National Theatre involved young people aged 18-25 with different of Scotland presents/ Red Dust OPPORTUNITIES EVENTS abilities and additional needs to Road Workshop/ ThePappyShow write, play and create music lead by professional musicians and artists. Wed 11 Sep – Sat 21 Sep Sat 21 Sep 10:00 – 13:00 homemcr.org/amp Written by Jackie Kay £7/6 Growing up in 1970s Scotland as To coincide with Care at Orbit Festival the adopted mixed raced child of 2019, this workshop will give you a a Communist couple, young Jackie taster to ThePappyShow’s playful blossomed into an outspoken, talented approach to theatre. These workshops poet. Then she decided to find her birth are for actors, dancers, movers and parents… shakers – with as much or as little From Nairn to Lagos, Red Dust Road takes Filmed Up: Call for Slate Social Mothers Who Make experience necessary. you on a journey full of heart, humour submissions/ Short Mon 12 Aug, 17:00 – 20:00 Mon 16 Sep, 10:30 – 12:30 Course: Creative House Party and deep emotions. Discover how we Films by NorthWest are shaped by the folk songs we hear as Mon 2 Sep, 17:00 – 20:00 Free, no booking required Facilitation with Young Fri 27 Sep, 19:00 much as by the cells in our bodies. female filmmakers Free, no booking required Mothers who Make is a growing people £5 (essential companions, free), Deadline: Wed 7 Aug Slate supports thousands of black national network aimed at supporting Wed 25 Sep, 10:00 – 16:15 booking required Accessible performances independent artists by increasing mothers who are artists, working in Send in your film for consideration for £150 House Party is our quarterly inclusive See p23 for accessible performances access to local, national and any discipline and at any stage of their club night aimed at music lovers, Filmed Up, our regular regional short This one-day course will provide an international networks. Slate Social is careers. makers, movers and shakers aged film night. No submission fee, we introduction to a creative approach to a place to meet other artists of colour 18-25 with different abilities and accept films of any genres (under 20 homemcr.org/mothers-who-make group facilitation. It aims to encourage, in an informal setting. Whatever art additional needs brought to you by mins duration) by female filmmakers develop and inspire those with ART form you’re working in, whether you’re the team behind Accessible Music currently living in the North West. responsibility to lead others through a David Lynch: My Head is starting out or an old hand, this space Productions (AMP). homemcr.org/filmedup facilitative process. Disconnected is for you! homemcr.org/amp homemcr.org/facilitation Part of: David Lynch at HOME homemcr.org/slate Workshop/ How to have Hive City Legacy Sat 6 Jul – Sun 29 Sep a Queer Career with Rikki Caption Subtitled performance Take a trip into the mind of one of Fri 6 Sep, 19:45 Beadle-Blair MBE contemporary culture’s most radical TOUCH Audio Described Touch Tour Mara, 2018, TOUR and visionary figures, as we host the Sat 28 Sep, 14:00 – 17:00 Sat 7 Sep, 13:15 first major UK exhibition of work by Filmed Up/ Women in £6/7 Audio Described performance pioneering film director and artist Join us for a fun, dynamic workshop Sat 7 Sep, 14:15 David Lynch, featuring over 60 weird Local Cinema Special encouraging and empowering LGBTQ+ and wonderful works dating from the Playreading Wed 25 Sep, 18:20 creatives to harness their authentic Red Dust Road late 1960s to the present day. £5/£4.50 selves in order to make the most of BSL Interpreted performance Fri 6 Sep, 11:00 – 13:00 Alongside My Head is Disconnected, YOUNG PEOPLE Discover short films of all genre who they are and all they have to offer. Sat 14 Sep, 14:00 Tickets £5 (scripts and refreshments David Lynch at HOME will also feature produced in our region and meet Caption Subtitled performance Young Identity included) Show & Tell specially curated music events and a the filmmakers at our regular North Wed 18 Sep, 19:30 retrospective of films. Every Monday from 19:00 Our popular Playreading group offers West short film night screening. Sat 28 Sep TOUCH Audio Described Touch Tour an opportunity to read and discuss To accompany HOME’s year-long Free, booking required TOUR Visit homemcr.org/david-lynch for Free, no booking required Thu 19 Sep, 13:00 plays. The sessions are fun, friendly celebration of women in global cinema, more details. A weekly poetry workshop for 15- Get a taste of what’s happening in the and informal and new members are our September screening will celebrate Audio Described performance Commissioned and produced by HOME 25 year olds lead by Manchester’s minds of the city’s creatives, as we always welcome. the great female filmmaking talent in Thu 19 Sep, 14:00 and Manchester International Festival in premiere youth spoken word project. bring artists, designers, makers and the region. association with the David Lynch Foundation homemcr.org/playreading creatives of all fields to talk about their RELAXED Relaxed performance homemcr.org/young-identity UK and Kayne Griffin Corcoran. homemcr.org/filmedup practice, in five minutes flat. Sat 21 Sep, 14:00 22 23 OPENING TIMES Box Office Mon – Sun: 12:00 – 20:00 Main Gallery Mon: Closed* Tue – Sat: 12:00 – 20:00 Sun: 12:00 – 18:00 Granada Foundation Galleries Mon – Thu: 11:00 – 23:00 Fri – Sat: 11:00 – 00:00 Sun: 11:00 – 22:30 Bookshop Mon – Sun: 12:00 – 20:00 VISIT FILM PRICES Ground Floor Bar HOME Off Peak (before 17:00 Mon Mon – Thu: 10:00 – 23:00 2 Tony Wilson Place – Fri before 15:00 Sat & Sun) Fri – Sat: 10:00 – 00:00 Manchester Full £7:50 / Member Full £6 Sun: 11:00 – 22:30 M15 4FN Peak (from 17:00 Mon – Fri, Café after 15:00 Sat & Sun) Mon – Thu: 11:00 – 23:00 INFORMATION & Fri – Sat: 11:00 – 00:00 BOOKING Full £9.50 / Member Full Sun: 11:00 – 22:30 homemcr.org £7.50 *Except Bank Holiday Mondays 0161 200 1500 £5 student advance tickets [email protected] available (limited capacity). KEEP IN TOUCH ACCESSIBILITY Concessions and discounts are available, please see e-news homemcr.org/sign-up homemcr.org/accessibility website for further details. 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