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Out of Blue, 2018 Women on Page 3: ¡VIVA! FESTIVAL 2019 Carol Morley SERIOUS FUN homemcr.org/women-at-home Our Celebrating Women in Global authentic renderings of girlhood, and universe are the main themes in a FRI 22 MAR – SAT 13 APR Cinema programme continues in desire and female subjectivity. Errol story of detection and self-detection. ¡VIVA! February and March. Keep an eye Morris’s documentary The Thin Blue What are you most looking forward out for the logo above throughout Line was a revelation, in terms of how ¡Viva! Festival is 25! to about visiting Manchester/ the guide, for a whole host of he uses testimony and reconstruction HOME? To celebrate the 25th birthday of the festival, ¡Viva! 2019 is infused screenings and events championing to interrogate truth. David Lynch’s Well Manchester is my home town! with some Serious Fun, following the Spanish and Latin American the role of women in the cinema Erasehead showed just how So HOME is a home from home. It’s cultural tradition of esperpento, which uses satire, the grotesque and industry. imaginative feature films could be, a fantastic venue, one that I could dark humour to skewer the foibles of contemporary society. 25 As part of the programme, this March and Nicolas Roeg, to whom my latest have only dreamed of when I was a We’re celebrating 25 years of cross-border creativity, collaborations and Carol Morley joins us for a Q&A film Out of Blue is dedicated, gave me great insights into how film is the teenager in Manchester. Every time I’ve partnerships, which have brought the best film, art and theatre from YEARS screening of her new film Out of Blue. visited, I’ve had the best time. Spain and beyond to audiences from Manchester and the wider UK. Ahead of this, we caught up with perfect medium for thinking about and Here’s to the next 25 years! Carol to find out more about her work playing with notions of time. What advice would you offer other filmmakers that you wish you had Save the date and career. Read on below and flip to What can you tell us about your p16 for details on her new release and latest project and the themes you known when starting out? Don’t miss the ¡Viva! Birthday Party (Fri 22 Mar, free), for music and dancing a supporting mini-season of her work. wanted to explore? Rejections are most definitely not late into the night, plus the UK premiere of a Seriously Fun film, Tiempo indications that you should give in. Which filmmakers or films have most Out of Blue was inspired by my love después (Some Time After) (p16). Rejections hurt but they are inevitable inspired your work? of Noir films such as Kiss Me Deadly, For a sneak preview of some of the films on offer this year see pages 16-17. and are just signs that you’re at work I admire so many filmmakers, so Chinatown and The Last Seduction. The full ¡Viva! film and events programme goes on sale on Fri 25 Feb. and at large. it’s always hard to pick, but here It is set in New Orleans and centres Set your alarms now! goes! The experimental films of around seasoned detective Mike When you’re not at work, where are Hoolihan (played by the amazing you most likely to be found? Cinema Tiempo después Maya Deren from 1940’s America As well as some cinema classics from masters of esperpento Luis for the way that they combined Patricia Clarkson) looking to solve the Walking – everywhere and nowhere. I García Berlanga and Álex de la Iglesia, we also celebrate the aspects of the personal, the poetic murder of a leading astrophysicist love walking around, looking at people late great Bigas Luna. Kicking off with his 1992 outrageous and and the investigative. Douglas and black hole expert, but ultimately and places and listening to the sounds unrepentantly fun comedy Jamón, jamón on Fri 29 Mar, starring a Sirk’s melodramas, because of their ending up also trying to solve herself. around me. Sometimes, especially young Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz. heightened emotions and the hidden On the way she meets an array of when I’m writing, shooting, or editing, complex characters trying to hide it feels strange that I can’t control and Theatre meanings behind their popular, glossy surfaces. Alfred Hitchcock‘s films are a one thing or another, played by an direct my surroundings in any way. But The festival fun continues in Theatre 1, where Señor Serrano fascinating study of human psychology incredible cast, including Toby Jones, dispensing with a map, getting lost are back with Kingdom from Tue 9 April. This production is an and mystery which I think about all Jackie Weaver and James Caan. and having no direction is very freeing. irreverent cocktail of bananas, consumerism, punk rock, King Kong, the time! In researching, writing and making confusion, expansion, coups d’état and very macho men in an the film, I was fascinated by how endless party. Jamón, jamón Jane Campion’s short films and her mysterious both the universe and the first theatrical film Sweetie for its Talks and workshops mind are, so the twin puzzles of mind Last but not least, don’t miss our range This programme is co-curated by Rachel Hayward, HOME’s Head of Film, and Andy Willis, Senior Visiting of talks and workshops, including the Curator: Film and Professor of Film Studies, School of Arts and Media at University of Salford. return of the Café Cervantes and the Language Lab, the One Hour Intros to Serious Fun and Contemporary Argentine Cinema, and a discussion about the environment and mass corporate agriculture. ¡Disfrutad el festival!

Kingdom Out of Blue, 2018 The Alcohol Years, 2000 The Falling, 2014 2 3 NEW RELEASES

Green Book (12A) Burning (15) Can You Ever Forgive Jellyfish (15) Capernaum (CTBA) On The Basis of Sex From Fri 1 Feb (Beoning) Me? (15) From Fri 15 Feb (Capharnaüm) (12A) Dir Peter Farrelly/US 2018/130 mins From Fri 1 Feb From Fri 1 Feb Dir James Gardner/GB 2018/101 mins From Fri 22 Feb From Fri 22 Feb Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini Dir Lee Chang-dong/KR 2018/148 mins/Korean wEngST Dir Marielle Heller/US 2018/106 mins Liv Hill, Sinead Matthews, Cyril Nri Dir Nadine Labaki/LB US 2018/121 mins/ Dir Mimi Leder/US 2018/118 mins Green Book is an engrossing story Yoo Ah-in, Steven Yeun, Jeon Jong-seo Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells Between being bullied at school and Arabic and Amharic wEngST Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux of a working class, Italian-American looking after her younger brother, Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Murakami is notoriously difficult to A jaded, out-of-work biographer Treasure Bankole Inspired by a true story, Mimi Leder’s bouncer who takes a job chauffeuring adapt and South Korean director Lee resorts to selling forged historical sister and manic-depressive mother, On The Basis of Sex follows young Winner of the Jury Award at Cannes, an African American classical Chang Dong (Poetry) wisely takes letters on the black market and life isn’t easy for Sarah Taylor. However, lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg as she writer-director Nadine Labaki pianist across the American South just the bare bones of the writer’s grapples with the ethical complications when her drama teacher channels teams up with her husband Marty to (Caramel) returns with a stunningly in the 1960s. Based on a true story short story Barn Burning to deliver that arise in Heller’s charming, true-life Sarah’s energies into a stand-up bring a groundbreaking case before realised drama that charts the journey and destined for awards glory, this a brilliantly executed, abstract but biopic about bestselling writer Lee comedy routine, Sarah discovers that the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn of children on the edges of society who moving and sensitive tale is directed, intellectually stimulating portrait Israel. she may have a hidden talent. a century of gender discrimination. find hope in spite of the challenges of somewhat surprisingly, by Peter of working class frustrations and their everyday lives. Farrelly. contemporary alienation.

Poetry screens as a Classic this month. See p18 for details.

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If Beale Street Could Talk (15) Boy Erased (15) All is True (12A) A Private War (15) Foxtrot (15) Sauvage (CTBA) From Fri 8 Feb From Fri 8 Feb From Fri 8 Feb From Fri 22 Feb From Fri 1 Mar From Fri 1 Mar Dir Barry Jenkins/US 2018/119 mins Dir Joel Edgerton/US 2018/115 mins Dir Kenneth Branagh/GB 2018/101 mins Dir Matthew Heineman/US 2018/110 mins Dir Samuel Moaz/IL DE FR CH 2017/113 mins/ Dir Camille Vidal-Naquet/FR 2018/99 mins/French KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen Rosamund Pike, Jamie Dornan, Tom Hebrew wEngST wEngST Barry Jenkins’ follow-up to Moonlight In actor-director Joel Edgerton’s potent William Shakespeare is acknowledged Hollander, Stanley Tucci Lior Ashkenazi, Sarah Adler, Yonathon Shiray Félix Maritaud, Eric Bernard, Nicolas Dibla examines the African-American drama the teenaged son of a Baptist as the greatest writer of the age. But Rosamund Pike stars as war The award-winning new film from Twenty-two-year-old Leo lives on the experience through its setting in 1970s pastor is forced into a gay-conversion when his renowned Globe Theatre correspondent Marie Colvin in director Samuel Maoz charts the story of a streets. He wanders around aimlessly New York, this is a gorgeous, jazz- programme by his parents. Based on burns to the ground he returns to Matthew Heineman’s fact-based film troubled family who are forced to and sells his body for sex, but still inspired tone poem on the subjects of Garrard Conley’s eponymous memoir, Stratford where he must face a that follows Colvin and photojournalist confront difficult truths when they believing in the possibility of love. With love, suffering and racial injustice. the film intelligently considers what troubled past and a neglected family. Paul Conroy to the front lines of receive shocking news from their the help of its raw and natural-looking it means to reconcile one’s upbringing conflicts around the globe, culminating son’s desolate military post. This form, first-time director Camille Vidal- with one’s own self-respect and moral Event/ On Wed 6 Feb, 18:00 we will in a fateful trip to the besieged Syrian is a piercing and penetrating look Naquet creates a romantic and moving truths. have a special preview screening city of Homs in 2012. at trauma and grief, which tackles ode to freedom and love. followed by a satellite Q&A with brutality head-on. Plus/ From Fri 8 – Thu 14 Feb this film director/actor Kenneth Branagh and Event/ We will be joined by director will be preceded by the short film Venus writer Ben Elton. Camille Vidal-Naquet for a Q&A (Dir Faye Carr Wilson/GB 2018/6 mins). following the screening on Sat 2 Mar at 18:00.

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Old Boys (12A) Ray & Liz (15) The Kindergarten Girl (15) Hannah (CTBA) Minding the Gap (CTBA) Teacher (CTBA) From Fri 1 Mar From Fri 8 Mar From Fri 15 Mar From Fri 15 Mar From Fri 22 Mar Dir Toby MacDonald/GB SE 2018/95 mins Dir Richard Billingham/GB 2018/108 mins From Fri 8 Mar Dir Lukas Dhont/BE 2018/106 mins/English, Flemish, Dir Andrea Pallaoro/IT FR BE 2017/95 mins/French Dir Bing Lui/US 2018/98 mins French with partial EngST Alex Lawther, Jonah Hauer-King, Pauline Etienne Richard Ashton, Michelle Bonnard, James Eeles Dir Sara Colangelo/US 2018/97 mins and English with partial EngST Bing Liu’s documentary is a coming- Victor Polster, Arieh Worthalter, Oliver Bodart In the school-set re-working of the Renowned photographer and artist Maggie Gyllenhaal, Parker Sevak, Gael García Bernal Charlotte Rampling, André Wilms, Stéphanie Van Vyve of-age saga of three skateboarding Lukas Dhont’s expressive first feature classic Cyrano de Bergerac story, an Richard Billingham makes his feature- Lisa plods through her days teaching Left alone grappling with the friends in their Rust Belt hometown follows a young girl, assigned male at awkward but imaginative pupil helps film debut with this family portrait, kindergarten with growing numbness. consequences of her husband’s hit hard by decades of recession. Bing birth, as she struggles to realise her the handsome but spectacularly dim inspired in part by his own memories But things change when she discovers imprisonment, Hannah begins to explores the gap between fathers and dreams of becoming a ballerina, all the school hero pursue the fiery daughter and shot on stunning 16mm. Defying a five-year-old who may be the poet unravel. Through the exploration of her sons, between discipline and domestic while desperate for her body to reflect of a visiting French teacher. chronology, the film is something of a she can only dream of. This second fractured sense of identity and loss abuse, and ultimately that precarious her true identity. memory-induced tone poem that feels feature from writer/director Sara of self-control, the film investigates chasm between childhood and Event/ On Thu 21 Feb, 20:30 we will a million miles from the kitchen sink Colangelo probes issues of boredom, modern day alienation and the struggle becoming an adult. have a special preview screening drama. thwarted ambition and transgression. to connect in society. followed by a Q&A with director Toby MacDonald, and actors Alex Lawther, Event/ On Mon 4 Feb, 18:00 we will have Event/ For International Women’s Day, Jonah Hauer-King and Pauline Etienne. a special preview screening followed by Dr Kirsty Fairclough, Associate Dean, a Q&A with director Richard Billingham. School of Arts and Media, University of Salford joins us to introduce the early evening screening on Fri 8 Mar.

Maiden (CTBA) Everybody Knows (CTBA) Border (15) Us (CTBA) The White Crow (CTBA) Sorry Angel (CTBA) From Fri 8 Mar (Todos lo saben) (Gräns) From Fri 22 Mar From Fri 22 Mar (Plaire, aimer et courir vite) Dir Alex Holmes/GB 2018/93 mins From Fri 8 Mar From Fri 15 Mar Dir Jordan Peele/US 2019/TBC mins Dir Ralph Fiennes/GB FR 2018/122 mins/Russian, From Fri 22 Mar English, and French with partial EngST Maiden is the inspirational story of Dir Asghar Farhadi/ES 2018/132 mins/Spanish wEngST Dir Ali Abbasi/SE DK 2018/110 mins/Swedish wEngST Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Dir Christophe Honoré/FR 2018/132 mins/French Heidecker Oleg Ivanko, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Chulpan Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Ricardo Darín Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jörgen Thorsson wEngST how Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old Khamatova cook on charter boats, became the Set on the Iberian Peninsula, Farhardi’s A customs official with a super- Described as a ‘new nightmare’, this Vincent Lacoste, Pierre Deladonchamps, Denis Dance perfection meets political Podalydès skipper of the first ever all-female crew Spanish-language drama charts the sensitive sense of smell is drawn into sophomore effort from Jordan Peele defection in director Ralph Fiennes’ Jacques is a writer living in Paris. to enter the Whitbread Round the story of Laura, who lives with her a conspiracy that turns out to have a (Get Out) carried a huge weight of intoxicating account of the young Arthur is a student living in Brittany World Race in 1989. Tracy’s dream was husband and children in Buenos Aires. bizarre folkloric twist. The film grows expectation. Intended by the director life of Rudolf Nureyev. Featuring an who refuses to think that everything opposed on all sides but Tracy refused When they return together to her stranger and more unsettling with each as the next in a planned series of incredible performance from Ukrainian in life might not be possible. Honoré’s to give up. Released to celebrate native village in Spain for a family twist, and it comes loaded with ideas social-political thrillers, the film dancer Oleg Ivenko and an intelligent bittersweet marvel is a radiant and International Women’s Day. celebration, an unexpected event and unforgettable imagery that would features Elizabeth Moss (The Square) script from David Hare, the film is a emotionally honest portrait of two gay changes the course of their lives. be unique in any genre. and Lupita Nyong’o (Black Panther). brilliant portrait of an inscrutable man. men wrestling with incompatible ideas You may be interested in Jamón, of love. jamón also staring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem screening as part of our ¡Viva! festival on Fri 29 Mar.

6 7 Preview & Event Preview & Event Being Frank: The Chris Sievey one-off screenings Story (15) Ray & Liz, 2018 From Fri 29 Mar Dir Steve Sullivan/GB 2018/101 mins & events Frank Sidebottom, Johnny Vegas, Ross Noble Hannah: Buddhism’s Untold Out of Blue (CTBA) Manchester native Chris Sievey Journey (PG) dreamed of pop-music stardom From Fri 29 Mar Sat 2 Feb, 15:40 Dir Carol Morley/US GB 2018/110 mins but belated recognition only came Dirs Adam Penny, Marta György Kessler/GB ES IN Preview/ Ray & Liz (15) + Q&A Patricia Clarkson, James Caan, Aaron incognito, through his loveably anarchic DE 2014/90 mins Tviet, Toby Jones Mon 4 Feb, 18:00 creation. Working from Sievey’s own Hannah: Buddhism’s Untold Journey A homicide detective’s investigation Dir Richard Billingham/GB 2018/108 mins exhaustive self-documentation and tells the story of Hannah Nydahl into the shooting of a leading Richard Ashton, Michelle Bonnard, James Eeles deftly incorporating interviews with and her adventure bringing Tibetan astrophysicist and black hole Renowned photographer and artist loved ones and admirers, director Buddhism to the West. The film expert destabilises her view of the Richard Billingham makes his feature-film Steve Sullivan assembles a compelling explores how the Buddhist ideal universe and herself, in Carol Morley’s debut with this family portrait, inspired portrait of a mercurial, often tortured of freedom, in all its forms, is more fascinating adaptation of Martin Amis’ in part by his own memories and shot on artist with a chequered private life. relevant today than ever and why Night Train. stunning 16mm. Defying chronology, the not everything Tibetan should be Plus/ From Fri 29 Mar – Thu 4 Apr this film is something of a memory-induced considered holy. Hannah: Buddhism’s Untold Journey, 2014 Event/ On Thu 14 Mar, 18:00 we will film will be preceded by the short film tone poem that feels a million miles from have a special preview screening FreeStyle (Dir HOME BFI Film Academy/ Live musical accompaniment the kitchen sink drama. followed by a Q&A with director Carol GB 2018/7 mins) Ray & Liz will screen on release from Fri Morley. 8 Mar. Event/ On Fri 8 Mar, 18:00 we will have a Event/ We will be joined by director See p16 for our season of Carol special preview screening followed by a Richard Billingham for a Q&A following Morley films. Q&A with director Steve Sullivan. this special preview screening.

1985, 2018

Der Golem, 1920 1985 (15) + Introduction At Eternity’s Gate (CTBA) Eaten by Lions (CTBA) Lords of Chaos (18) HarmonieBand/ Der Golem (PG) + Live Musical Accompaniment Thu 7 Feb, 18:20 From Fri 29 Mar From Fri 29 Mar From Fri 29 Mar Sun 3 Feb, 13:30 Dir Yen Tan/US 2018/86 mins Cory Michael Smith, Virginia Madsen, Michael Dir Julian Schnabel/FR GB US 2018/110 mins/ Dir Jason Wingard/GB 2017/99 mins Dir Jonas Åkerlund/GB SE 2018/118 mins Dirs Carl Boese & Paul Wegener/DE 1920/91 min Chiklis, Jamie Chung English and French with partial EngST Antonio Aakeel, Jack Carroll, Asim Chaudhry, Johnny Rory Culkin, Jon Øigarden, Emory Cohen Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Ernst Deutsch Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Mads Mikkelsen, Vegas Texas, Christmas 1985 – Adrian For black-clad nihilist Øystein Aarseth, HarmonieBand are back for a special live accompaniment to Wegener’s 1920 Oscar Isaac is home for the first time in three A hilarious British comedy about two aka Euronymous, the founding member magnum opus Der Golem, with a new restored print from the Murnau Foundation, Schnabel takes a fresh look at the years. Between his mother’s fawning teenaged half-brothers who are each of pioneering Norwegian black metal and a new score by Paul Robinson. last days of Vincent van Gogh, and affections, his father’s begrudging, stilted in search of their different roots. While band Mayhem, making music simply in the process revivifies our sense of Based on the ancient Jewish myth of the Golem - a clay figure brought to life conversation and his younger brother’s one brother, Pete, gets accustomed to isn’t enough. He wants to make a the artist as a living, feeling human to protect the people from oppression, Wegener’s classic is a poignant piece of cold shoulder, Adrian is all too aware of his controlling English family, the other, difference by spreading his mantra of being. The film strips everything down filmmaking that emerged as one of the great masterpieces of silent cinema. the impact his absence has had on them. Omar, travels to Blackpool in search of chaos and suffering across Norway. A to essentials, fusing the sensual, the He is determined to make this visit count, his real Asian dad. bracingly unconventional biopic. HarmonieBand has made appearances at many UK film festivals and art centres. emotional, and the spiritual. The ensemble has also travelled widely in Europe and including visits to the only he knows that the life he built in Dresden Musikfestpiele and the Giornate Del Cinema Muto in Italy. New York City is crumbling apart. The performers for this special event will be: Screening as part of LGBT History Month. Geeta Nazareth: Viola Event/ The film will be introduced by Dai Pritchard: Clarinet/Saxophone Berwyn Rowlands from the Iris Prize Paul Robinson: Keyboards/Accordion/Dulcimer LGBT+ Film Festival. 8 9 Chinese Film Forum UK Presents Hitler vs. Picasso and the Others, 2017 Sauvage, 2018 Chinese New Year/ Men on the Barbra Dragon (CTBA) Streisand Wed 6 Feb, 20:40 Dir Sunny Chan/HK 2018/92 mins/Cantonese wEngST Talk/ ”I’m the Greatest Francis Ng, Chan-Leung Poon, Kenny Wong Star”: Barbra Streisand A heartfelt, feel-good Hong Kong and American Popular The Lady Eve, 1941 comedy about a group of middle- Culture in the 1960/70s aged men who join a dragon boat Valentine’s Day/ The Lady Eve (U) team to avoid layoffs and rediscover Sun 24 Feb, 14:00 their lust for life. Screenwriter Sunny Thu 14 Feb, 20:40 Jules et Jim, 1962 Tickets: £4 full / £3 concessions Sauvage (CTBA) + Q&A Dir Preston Sturges/US 1941/94 mins Chan’s directorial debut is a well- This talk will spotlight Barbra Streisand Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn One of Us/ Jules et Jim (PG) Sat 2 Mar, 18:00 observed comedy-drama with much as a major industry figure who was Con-artist Jean Harrington Dir Camille Vidal-Naquet/FR 2018/99 mins/French to say about men of a certain age undoubtedly one of the biggest cross- wEngST manipulates her way through life. On Wed 20 Feb, 18:10 facing all sorts of mid-life crises. Dir François Truffaut/FR 1962/106 mins/French media stars of the 1960s and 1970s. Félix Maritaud, Eric Bernard, Nicolas Dibla a cruise she meets Charles, a gullible Presented in partnership with wEngST See p6 for film details. millionaire and snake scientist, who Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre With particular reference to Streisand’s Chinese Visual Festival and first movie Funny Girl (1968), Andy falls for her in a heartbeat. But then Spanning several decades, Jules et Event/ We will be joined by director supported by the Confucius Willis will discuss her place in American he learns of her past…The perfect Jim is the transient and now iconic Camille Vidal-Naquet for a Q&A Institute at The University of popular culture of the 1960s and 1970s romantic comedy for a Valentine’s tale of a complex love triangle. following this screening. Manchester. with film historian Peter Krämer. Day screening. Truffaut invites the audience to UK Jewish Film/ Hitler vs. Picasso Dead Souls (CTBA) Funny Girl, 1968 Black 47, 2018 Sightseers, 2012 dissect and reassemble this puzzling and the Others (CTBA) + panel Sun 10 Feb, 13:00 classic of French cinema. discussion Dir Wang Bing/FR CH 2018/495 mins/Mandarin wEngST Love and Desire in Palestine Tue 26 Feb, 18:00 In Gansu Province lie the remains (CTBA) + Q&A Dir Claudio Poli/IT FR DE 2017/94 mins/Italian of victims of the Communist Party’s wEngST Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957. Mon 25 Feb, 18:10 Under the Nazi regime, hundreds of Dir Various/AP 2011-2017/93 mins Dead Souls is the third chapter of an thousands of condemned “degenerate” in-depth inquiry into how the Party Valentine’s Day/ Sightseers (15) To coincide with the month works of modern art were stolen dealt with ideological dissent by of Valentine’s, Cinema from their owners, mostly Jewish prolific Chinese artist and filmmaker Fri 15 Feb, 18:10 Palestino and Creative Interruptions Dir Ben Wheatley/GB 2012/88 mins art collectors, dealers and gallery Black 47 (15) + Introduction + Wang Bing. have curated a selection of three owners. Hitler vs. Picasso is a riveting Alice Lowe, Steve Oram short Palestinian films that explore Pop-up Gaeltacht This screening will include This pitch black comedy follows exploration of the Nazi obsession love and desire under conditions of Funny Girl (U) + Introduction Sun 3 Mar, 15:40 intermissions, see website for details. loved-up couple, Chris and Tina, as with, and fear of, the power of art and occupation and dispossession. The creativity to shape minds. Dir Lance Daly/IE LX 2018/100 mins/Irish and UK Premiere/ Havana Divas they set off on their first holiday programme explores experiences of Sun 24 Feb, 15:15 English with partial EngST (CTBA) + Introduction together. Tina is desperate to escape romantic love, love of family as well Dir William Wyler/US 1968/155 mins Event/ Girls on Film - live Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville, Stephen Rea Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford her sheltered life with her meddling as love for one’s homeland. podcast recording It’s 1847 and Ireland is in the grip of Tue 12 Feb, 18:20 mother, and Chris can’t wait to Barbra Streisand’s debut film won her the Great Famine. Feeney, a hardened Dir S. Louisa Wei/HK 2018/90 mins/ share the delights of a caravanning Event/ We will be joined by director the Academy Award for her performance Wed 27 Feb, 18:30 Cantonese, Spanish and English with Irish Ranger who has been fighting partial EngST holiday. Nahed Awad for a Q&A following this as singer-comedienne, Fanny Brice. Tickets: £6 full / £5 concessions for the British Army, abandons his screening. Nominated for seven other awards, this Caridad Amaran and Selected by the HOME Volunteers. The all-female film review podcast post to return home and is horrified classic musical film contrasts Fanny’s Georgina Wong learned the art of Girls On Film was initiated by film at the hopeless destruction that has onstage antics with her offstage Cantonese opera in Havana during journalist Anna Smith in response to brutalised his people. With little else Preview/ Old Boys (CTBA) + Q&A romance with dashing gambler, Nicky WWII and toured Cuba to perform. calls for more female voices in film to live for, he sets a destructive path to Arnstein. In the eighties, the two sisters are Thu 21 Feb, 20:30 criticism. Girls On Film is delighted avenge his family. trying to perform Cantonese opera Dir Toby MacDonald/GB SE 2018/96 mins to launch a series of live podcasts in Event/ This screening will be introduced Event/ This screening will be introduced in Hong Kong and Mainland China. Alex Lawther, Jonah Hauer-King, Pauline Etienne partnership with HOME across 2019. by film historian Peter Krämer. by Sorcha Ní Fhlainn, Senior Lecturer in Will they find a stage? See p6 for film details. Film journalist Anna Smith engages in Film Studies and American Studies at Old Boys is released on Fri 8 Mar. Peter Krämer is the author or editor of lively and intelligent debate with this Event/ This screening will be Manchester Metropolitan University. ten books, several of which deal with month’s guests, Miranda Sawyer and introduced by Felicia Chan, Senior Event/ We will be joined by director American cinema of the 1960s and 1970s. Francine Stock , and the audience. Lecturer in Screen Studies at the Toby MacDonald, and actors Alex The film will be followed by HOME’s His latest book, the edited collection Under discussion are films on general University of Manchester. Lawther, Jonah Hauer-King and Pauline first ever pop up Gaeltacht, a free The Hollywood Renaissance (Bloomsbury release, films in our Celebrating Etienne for a Q&A following this and informal event where you can Academic, 2018), includes a chapter on Women in Global Cinema season, and preview screening. experience more of the Irish language. Old Boys, 2018 Barbra Streisand and Funny Girl. industry news. 10 11 Song of Lahore, 2015 Barbarella (15) Ida Mon 11 Mar, 18:30 Dir Roger Vadim/FR IT 1968/98 mins Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg seasons Lupino In the far future, Barbarella is tasked Day Course/ Ida Lupino: Working with finding and stopping the evil Ngozi Onwurah Both Sides of the Camera (U) scientist Durand-Durand whose The Seventh Victim, 1943 Pakistani Film Circus/ Song of Positronic Ray threatens to bring evil . Sat 9 Mar, 10:30 – 17:00 Lahore (CTBA) + panel discussion back into the galaxy. Bigger Than Life/ The Seventh Tickets: £25 full / £20 concs. Filmed Up (CTBA) Victim (12A) + Introduction Members discount available Sun 10 Mar, 18:10 Mon 11 – Dirs Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Andy Tue 12 Mar, 18:30 Mon 4 Mar, 20:40 A full day session exploring the work Schocken/US 2015/82 mins/Urdu, Wed 13 Feb English and Punjabi with partial Eng ST From grassroots guerrilla filmmakers Dir Mark Robson/US 1943/71 mins of inspirational filmmaker Ida Lupino. Ngozi Onwurah is a pioneer of British Kim Hunter, Tom Conway, Jean Brooks Between 1931 and 1978 Ida Lupino was As part of a new touring to start-up production companies, the cinema and HOME acknowledges Bigger Than Life curate special credited on more than 130 films and TV package of Pakistani films London Indian film community is thriving in the North this with a retrospective of her screenings of under-shown and programmes, first as an actor and then Film Festival presents a special screening West. Join us to discover a selection ground-breaking work. Visually and overlooked cinema. mainly as producer, writer and director. of this documentary in association with of short films that are being produced intellectually stimulating, Lupino tackled social themes at a HOME’s Not Just Bollywood programme. right here on your doorstep. The entire her films are often The Body Beautiful, 1991 Perhaps the finest of RKO’s time when these were rare onscreen, programme is selected by a panel of Song of Lahore examines the lives marked by her use of extraordinary early-1940s run of combining an eye for documentary audience members. and the cultural heritage of some of autobiographical elements B-horror movies produced under Val reality with an assured dramatic flair. Lewton. A debutant Kim Hunter travels Pakistan’s classical musicians. After an in her uncompromising to New York to search for her missing The event includes a full screening of innovative album leads to international exploration of the cultural sister, who may have become involved Ida Lupino’s 1949 feature Never Fear acclaim, we follow them as they travel politics of race and gender. with a cult of devil worshippers. AKA The Young Lovers. from their home in Pakistan to New York This is a rare chance to to perform at Lincoln Center. engage with the work of an important Screening from a 35mm print. Led by freelance film educators Rona Murray and Roy Stafford. filmmaker. Event/ This screening will be Event/ This screening will be accompanied by a panel discussion. homemcr.org/ngozi-onwurah introduced by Dr Chloé Germaine See website for details. Buckley from MMU and Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies. Supported by the BFI, using funds Evelyn, 2018 from the National Lottery and the Evelyn (CTBA) Association for Kashmiri Arts. Mon 18 Mar, 18:10 Rosie, 2018 Dir Orlando von Einsiedel/GB 2018/100 mins Director Orlando von Einsiedel turns his camera on his own family as they attempt to cope with the devastating loss of his brother. Over a decade later, the remaining family set out on a hiking Flight of the Swan, 1992 tour to reflect on his life and death. An Rosie (CTBA) + Q&A incredibly powerful and affecting work. Ngozi Onwurah Shorts (CTBA) Mon 11 Mar, 20:35 Wed 13 Feb, 18:20 Dir Paddy Breathnach/IE 2018/86 mins New East Cinema Presents/ Dir Ngozi Onwurah/GB 1988 – 2001/76 mins Sarah Greene, Moe Dunford, Ellie O’Halloran The Trouble with Angels, 1966 Ága (CTBA) Welcome II the Terrordome, 1995 This collection of shorter works Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story, 2018 Rosie is a mother to four kids and partner by Ngozi Onwurah showcases her The Trouble with Angels (U) to John Paul. They are a family without Wed 20 Mar, 20:40 Welcome II the Terrordome (18) cinematic explorations of race, gender Preview/ Being Frank: The Chris Dir Milko Lazarov/BG DE FR 2018/96 mins/Yakut wEngST a home. Set over 36 intense hours, Rosie and identity. Often drawing on Mikhail Aprosimov, Feodosia Ivanova, Sergei Egorov Mon 11 Feb, 18:30 Sievey Story (15) + Q&A Sun 17 Mar, 15:20 is the story of a woman trying to protect autobiographical elements, these works Dir Ida Lupino/US 1966/99 mins An Inuit couple try to hold on to their Dir Ngozi Onwurah/GB 1995/90 mins her loved ones and maintain their dignity consistently interrogate troubling Fri 8 Mar, 18:00 Rosalind Russell, Hayley Mills, Binne Barnes traditions in Siberia’s tundra as the Suzette Llewellyn, Saffron Burrows, Felix Joseph Dir Steve Sullivan/GB 2018/101 mins in a deepening crisis. ideas, assumptions and stereotypes, A winning comedy about the modern world and global warming bring This strikingly original, ground-breaking Frank Sidebottom, Johnny Vegas, Ross Noble and the ways in which they are adventures of two teenagers in an Presented in partnership with Irish Film challenges to their lifestyle in Bulgarian low budget British film presents See p8 for film details. perpetuated by dominant institutions all-girls Catholic school run by nuns. London. director Milko Lazarov’s stunning film. a dystopian future where black inhabitants have been forced to live in within society. Event/ We will be joined by director The film boasts a terrific performance We will be joined by director They also dream of reuniting with their Event/ the drug infested Terrordome, a ghetto Shorts screening are: Coffee Coloured Steve Sullivan for a Q&A following this by Rosalind Russell as the stern-but- Paddy Breathnach for a Q&A following daughter Ága, who left a long time ago, where they are continually subjected to Children, Hang Time, The Body preview screening. reasonable Mother Superior. this screening. and ill-health makes their reunion all the more urgent. the racist actions of the police. Beautiful and Flight of the Swan. 12 13 The Japan Good Stripes, 2015 Of Love & Law, 2017 Tremble All You Want, 2017 Rebecca The Wind that Shakes the Barley, 2006 © Hakawati © 2017 “TREMBLE ALL YOU WANT” Foundation Production Committee O’Brien Touring Film . Programme 2019/ People Tue 5 – Still Call It Thu 7 Mar Love: Passion, Japan Now Special Strand/ Best known for her politically The Wind that Shakes the Of Love & Law (15) + Q&A committed work, most often in Barley (15) + Introduction Affection and collaboration with director Ken Loach (Ai to hou) and screenwriter Paul Laverty, Rebecca Wed 6 Mar, 18:00 Destruction Fri 22 Feb, 18:00 O’Brien is one of Europe’s leading film Dir Ken Loach/GB IE 2006/127 mins Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham Good Stripes (12A) Dir Hikaru Toda/JP 2017/94 mins/Japanese wEngST producers. in Japanese This Rebecca O’Brien produced, Cannes (Guddo sutoraipusu) Fumi and Kazu are partners in love homemcr.org/rebecca-obrien Cinema and law. Establishing Japan’s first law Palme d’Or winning, film is a great Wed 20 Feb, 20:20 firm run by an openly gay couple, their example of her successful collaboration . Dir Yukiko Sode/JP 2015/118 mins/Japanese wEngST plight to challenge the status quo of with director Ken Loach and writer Ayumu Nakajima, Akiko Kikuchi a superficially homogenous society Tremble All You Want (12A) Paul Laverty. The film tells the story Midori and Masao consider breaking by taking on cases of civil rights (Katte ni furuetero) of two brothers who join the fight for Wed 20 – up as their relationship grows dull. Just misconduct is laid bare in Hikaru Toda’s Irish independence. Fuelled by political Sun 24 Feb, 13:00 then, Midori discovers she is pregnant revealing documentary. debate the film is a landmark in Wed 27 Feb and they feel obliged to stay together. Dir Akiko Ohku/JP 2017/117 mins/Japanese wEngST political cinema. Mayu Matsuoka, Takumi Kitamura, Daichi Watanabe Love, in all its semblances While preparing for their shotgun Event/ We will be joined by director Screening from a 35mm print. and dimensions, is a state wedding, vast differences in their Hikaru Toda for a Q&A following this This romantic comedy adaptation of so universally experienced upbringing arise. screening. Risa Wataya’s novel depicts a love Event/ This screening will be by humankind that it life in disarray. Will Yoshika, a junior introduced by Rebecca O’Brien. has provided a perpetual accountant who is inexperienced in source of inspiration in love, choose bachelor number one – her Sweet Sixteen, 2002 the long history of global cinema. former high school crush, or bachelor The Japan Foundation Touring Film number two – an office colleague Programme 2019 features thoughtfully interested in dating her? selected works from Japan’s artistic Dear Etranger, 2017 Where Chimneys Are Seen, 1953 repertoire, all focusing on this theme. ©2016 “DEAR ETRANGER” Film Partners © KOKUSAI HOEI homemcr.org/japan-foundation Where Chimneys Are Seen (12A) The Japan Foundation Touring Film (Entotsu no mieru basho) Programme is organised by the Japan Sweet Sixteen (18) Foundation with major support from Thu 21 Feb, 18:10 Yurigokoro, 2017 Friendship’s Death, 1987 Thu 7 Mar, 18:10 Japan Airlines, Great Britain Sasakawa Dir Heinosuke Gosho/JP 1953/108 mins/Japanese © Mahokaru Numata Dir Ken Loach/GB 2002/106 mins Foundation and Yakult; and in Cultural wEngST / Futabasha © 2017 Friendship’s Death (15) + Q&A Kinuyo Tanaka, Ken Uehara, Hideko Takamine “Yurigokoro” Film Martin Compston, Michelle Coulter, Annmarie Fulton Partnership with Modern Culture. Tue 5 Mar, 18:20 Ryukichi lives in a cheap rental house Partners As he approaches his sixteenth Celebrating the Japan-UK Season of Dir Peter Wollen/GB 1987/75 mins birthday, Liam attempts to make Culture 2019-2020. together with his wife, Hiroko, who Yurigokoro (18) Dear Etranger (15) Tilda Swinton, Patrick Bauchau, Bill Paterson was traumatised in World War II. One his way in the harsh environment of (Osanago warera ni umare) Friendship is a robot who upon landing day, a baby is abandoned on their Sat 23 Feb, 17:40 Inverclyde. Another O’Brien, Loach and on earth embarks on a series of doorstep. Who is the mother? A drama Dir Naoto Kumazawa/JP 2017/128 mins/Japanese Wed 27 Feb, 20:20 Laverty collaboration, Sweet Sixteen wEngST conversations with journalist Sullivan representative of Gosho’s work, this is Dir Yukiko Mishima/JP 2017/127 mins/Japanese won the Best Screenplay Award at Ken’ichi Matsuyama, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Tôri Matsuzaka wEngST about the state of the world. Populated a rare find that focuses on family life in the 2002 Cannes film festival and “Without remorse, I take a life...” So Rena Tanaka, Tadanobu Asano, Miu Arai by some striking performances, this is a the downtown of post-war Tokyo once again reveals the trio’s ability to begins an incriminating diary entry What does it take to attain the ideal rare screening of this political piece of make engaging contemporary political Screening from a 35mm print. discovered by Ryosuke in the study of of a united family? In this poignant science fiction. cinema. drama, a 40-year-old man faces many Event/ This screening will be his dying father. But is it a confession trials in making his patchwork clan Event/ We will be joined by producer introduced by Jonathan Bunt, Senior or just fanciful storytelling by an old You may also be interested in our work: teenage angst of his new wife’s Rebecca O’Brien for a Q&A following Lecturer in Japanese Studies at man? Based on Mahokaru Numata’s Women in Science Fiction course daughter; a new child on the way; a this screening. University of Manchester mystery novel, Nan-Core, the film that begins on Mon 28 Jan. illustrates a devastating love story. career in decline… 14 15 Carol Out of Blue, 2018 ¡Viva! Spanish Ana by Day (15) + Q&A UK Premiere/ Memories of a Jean-François and the Meaning of Life, 2018 (Ana de día) Man in Pyjamas (12A) Morley And Latin Sun 24 Mar, 17:50 (Memorias de un hombre en . American Sat 6 Apr, 13:35 pijama) Dir Andrea Jaurrieta/ES 2018/105 mins/Spanish Tue 2 Apr, 18:25 Festival wEngST Ingrid García Jonsson, Mona Martínez, María José Mon 8 Apr, 20:35 Wed 13 – Out of Blue (CTBA) + Q&A . Alfonso, Álvaro Ogalla Dir Carlos Fernández de Vigo/ES 2018/74 mins/ A thrilling journey into the personal Spanish wEngST Jean-François and the Meaning Sat 16 Mar Thu 14 Mar, 18:00 Raúl Arévalo, María Castro, Manuel Manquiña, Santi of Life (12A) + Q&A liberation of a woman unexpectedly Balmes To coincide with the release of the Dir Carol Morley/US GB 2018/110 mins Fri 22 Mar – expelled from her comfortable but (Jean-François i el sentit de la masterful Out of Blue we host a Patricia Clarkson, James Caan, Aaron Tviet, Toby This classic 2D animation is an Jones unfulfilling life when a mysterious vida) celebration of the work of Carol Morley. Sat 13 Apr autobiographical story from renowned A homicide detective’s investigation doppelgänger takes her place. Uncanny comic strip artist Paco Roca. Paco, a homemcr.org/carol-morley The 25th ¡Viva! Festival will blaze onto Sat 6 Apr, 17:45 into the shooting of a leading scenes evoke Hitchcock and Lynch, and it 40-something bachelor from Barcelona, HOME’s screens and stages in 2019, Mon 8 Apr, 16:20 astrophysicist and black hole revels in a vibrant use of sound and colour. finally sees his childhood dream come with a programme infused with Serious Dir Sergi Portabella/ES FR 2018/90 mins/Catalan expert destabilises her view of the true: a job working from home in his Fun. As well as some esperpento- Event/ We will be joined by director wEngST universe and herself, in Carol Morley’s pyjamas. Until he falls in love… Max Megias, Claudia Vega, Pau Durà, Théo Cholbi style satirical, dark humour, we’ll also Andrea Jaurrieta for a Q&A following fascinating adaptation of Martin Amis’ foreground female creative talents, the screening on Sun 24 Mar. A witty and whimsical take on the Night Train. Alanis, 2017 and shine a light on contemporary growing pains of adolescence. Young Petra, 2018 teenager Francesc – a solitary boy with Event/ We will be joined by director Argentina. Here are a just few film Carol Morley for a Q&A following this highlights… an eye patch and a psychiatrist – is preview screening. natural prey for school bullies, until homemcr.org/event/viva-spanish- he finds a novel escape in the form of latin-american-festival-2019 The Falling, 2014 French existentialist philosophy. The Alcohol Years, 2000 Event/ We will be joined by director Carol Morley Short Films UK Premiere/ Alanis (18) + Q&A Sergi Portabella for a Q&A following (CTBA) the screening on Sat 6 Apr. Thu 4 Apr, 18:00 Wed 13 Mar, 18:20 Petra (15) Tue 9 Apr, 16:30 The Silence of Others, 2018 Dir Carol Morley/GB 2000-2006/82 mins Mon 25 Mar, 15:45 Dir Anahí Berneri/AR 2017/ 82 mins/Spanish wEngST We revisit a number of earlier works Sofía Gala, Dana Basso, Silvina Sabater, Carlos Thu 28 Mar, 20:20 Antonio Vuletich by Carol Morley that touch upon Dir Jaime Rosales/ES 2018/105 mins/Spanish & the director’s abiding themes. Films Catalan wEngST As a young mother and prostitute in screening in this selection are: Some Time After, 2018 Bárbara Lennie, Alex Brendemühl, Joan Botey, Buenos Aires, working conditions force Marisa Paredes Alanis into difficult and dangerous The Madness of Dance UK Premiere/ Some Time After This darkly witty melodrama brings scenarios. But she is cast neither as a A musical journey through mass hysteria. (CTBA) + Q&A Greek tragedy to contemporary Spain in victim nor a weak woman, and there’s Inspired by real historical events, our (Tiempo después) this portrait of a broken family suffering a refreshing lack of judgement of the host is played by Maxine Peake. the consequences of secrets, lies and oldest profession. Fri 22 Mar, 20:30 Everyday Something violence. Petra embarks on a search Sat 23 Mar, 15:50 that leads her to Jaume, a famous artist Event/ We will be joined by director Based on the filmmaker’s collection of Fri 5 Apr, 20:30 and a powerful, ruthless man. Anahí Berneri for a Q&A following the The Silence of Others (12A) British newspaper cuttings, Everyday Dir José Luis Cuerda/ES PT 2018/99 mins/Spanish screening on Thu 4 Apr. (El Silencio de otros) wEngST Quién te cantará (12A) Something features interlocking private The Falling (15) moments that give glimpses into Blanca Suárez, Antonio de la Torre, Carlos Areces, Miriam Lies (12A) Sun 7 Apr, 18:00 Secun de la Rosa Sat 30 Mar, 20:00 Dirs Almudena Carracedo & Robert Bahar/ES US everyday life. Sat 16 Mar, 15:40 In the year 9177, give or take a Mon 1 Apr, 15:50 (Miriam miente) 2018/95 mins/Spanish wEngST Dir Carol Morley/GB 2014/102 mins The Alcohol Years thousand years, the whole world Dir Carlos Vermut/ES FR 2018/124 mins/Spanish This gripping documentary captures the Maxine Peake, Maisie Williams, Florence Pugh wEngST Thu 4 Apr, 20:30 has been reduced to just one Dirs Natalia Cabral & Oriol Estrada/DR ES 2018/80 first attempt to bring to justice those Carol Morley returns to Manchester, A mesmerising psychological drama Eva Llorach, Najwa Nimri, Carme Elias, Natalia de Representative Building and the grimy mins/Spanish wEngST accused of political crimes committed in where in the early 1980s, five years of from one of the most exciting talents Molina outskirts inhabited by the unemployed. Dulce Rodríguez, Carolina Rohana, Pachy Méndez, the name of General Franco’s government. her life were lost in an alcoholic blur. in contemporary British filmmaking, The Dive down the rabbit hole into a hall Frank Perozo A delicious slice of satire and Python- Filmed over six years, we follow survivors The Alcohol Years is a poetic retrieval Falling explores a mysterious fainting of mirrors featuring a beloved singer esque humour. A Caribbean coming-of-age story fighting the state-sanctioned amnesia of that time, and conflicting memories and twitching outbreak in 1969 at an and her talented fan; an amnesiac about race and class conflict in the known as the Pact of Forgetting. and viewpoints weave in and out, all-girls school. At the centre of the Event/ We will be joined by director superstar and her devoted assistant; Dominican Republic. As mixed race revealing a portrait of the city, its pop epidemic are the intense and clever José Luis Cuerda for a Q&A following a doting mother and her bullying Miriam prepares for her 15th birthday You may be interested in our family film culture, and the people who lived it. Lydia, and the admired but rebellious the screening on Fri 22 Mar. daughter. This hypnotic film disturbs party, panic sets in when she realises The Book of Life. See p19 for details Abbie. and delights as the plot unfurls. her online date is in fact black. 16 17 classics Parent & Our popular programme brings cinema classics to the big screen every month so you never need to miss those must-sees! Sunday screenings are usually Baby accompanied by a free, informal post-screening discussion. Parents, grandparents and carers of Visit homemcr.org/classics for details. babies aged up to 12 months can Poetry, 2010 Alien, 1979 enjoy films in a relaxed environment with their babies. The volume will be lowered and the lights will remain dimmed throughout the screening. Films will begin at the advertised time without adverts or trailers. Baby changing facilities are readily available and our café bar team can provide high chairs and hot water for bottles on request. Alien (15) The Book of Life, 2014 Poetry (12A) Unfortunately we are unable to admit Sun 10 Mar, 13:00 children older than 12 months of age. Kiki’s Delivery Service, 1989 The Book of Life (U) (Shi) Tue 12 Mar, 20:30 homemcr.org/parent-and-baby Wed 13 Mar, 13:00 BRING THE Sun 31 Mar, 11:00 Tue 5 Feb, 20:10 Dir Jorge R. Gutiérrez/US 2014/95 mins Dir Ridley Scott/GB US 1979/116 mins Green Book, 2018 Wed 6 Feb, 13:00 Diego Luna, Zoe Saldana, Channing Tatum Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt Dir Lee Chang-dong/KR 2010/139 mins/Korean wEngST FAMILY Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic celebrates This vibrant fantasy-adventure, tells Yun Jeong-hie, Lee Da-wit, Kim Hee-ra the legend of Manolo, a conflicted hero its 40th anniversary. The story of Designed for the whole family (including Mija lives in a small city by the Han and dreamer who sets off on an epic the Nostromo crew’s dispatch to a babies), these screenings will have River with her teenage grandson. When quest through magical, mythical and distant and deserted planet, the film the volume lowered and the lights she discovers her grandson’s part in the wondrous worlds in order to rescue his is remarkable for a number of reasons, will remain dimmed throughout the Kiki’s Delivery Service (U) gang-rape and suicide of a Catholic one true love and defend his village. school girl, Mija takes up poetry classes not least the central character of screening. Films will begin at the (Majo no takkyûbin) to explore her inner world while her Ripley. advertised time without adverts or Sun 24 Feb, 11:00 trailers. outer world is collapsing on her. Ring, 1998 Green Book (12A) Dir Hayao Miyazaki/JP 1989/103 mins/English Dubbed Our family programme is supported by Lee Chang Dong’s new film Thu 21 Feb, 11:00 Debbie Reynolds, Kirsten Dunst, Minami Takayama Auto Trader. Burning screens from Fri 1 Feb see Dir Peter Farrelly/US 2018/130 mins 13-year-old Kiki must spend a year p4 for details. Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini homemcr.org/families away from home in order to become a Green Book is an engrossing story of a fully-fledged witch. She sets off on her The Red Shoes, 1948 working class, Italian-American bouncer broom to the seaside town where she who takes a job chauffeuring an African decides to put her talents to use and American classical pianist across the starts a broom-borne delivery service. American South in the 1960s. Based on Ring (15) a true story and destined for awards (Ringu) glory, this moving and sensitive tale is directed, somewhat surprisingly, by RELAXED events Sun 17 Mar, 13:00 Peter Farrelly. Designed for people with autism spectrum conditions and their families. We’ll keep the lights on low, turn the sound down a little, and provide a separate room to take a break in. For the film screenings there will be no trailers or advertisements Tue 19 Mar, 20:40 The Red Shoes (U) before the film starts and you’ll be able to move around the cinema if you want to. Wed 20 Mar, 13:00 Film to be confirmed New to our Relaxed Screenings programme, we are trialling screenings for adults and older teens. Sun 17 Feb, 13:00 Dir Hideo Nakata/JP 1998/96 mins/Japanese wEngST Thu 21 Mar, 11:00 Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, Miki Nakatani Tue 19 Feb, 20:10 homemcr.org/relaxed Hideo Nakata’s hugely influential J-Horror, Wed 20 Feb, 13:00 Box of Tricks presents/ in which a reporter learns of a story Kiki’s Delivery Service (U) The Book of Life (U) Box of Tricks presents/ Dirs Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger/GB SparkPlug (Majo no takkyûbin) 1948/135 mins about a supernaturally cursed video-tape Sat 30 Mar, 11:00 SparkPlug Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer circulating among school kids, is presented Tue 19 Feb, 11:00 Sat 23 Feb, 11:00 Dir Jorge R. Gutiérrez/US 2014/95 mins Fri 22 Feb, 11:00 in a new 4K restoration. Overseen Diego Luna, Zoe Saldana, Channing Tatum In Michael Powell and Emeric A new play by David Judge. See p21 Dir Hayao Miyazaki/JP 1989/103 mins/English A new play by David Judge. See p21 by director of photography Jun’ichirô Dubbed See Bring The Family above for film Pressburger’s visually ravishing for info. for info. Technicolor masterpiece, a young Hayashi, the film retains an incredible Debbie Reynolds, Kirsten Dunst, Minami Takayama details. ballerina is torn between the demands potency, and in many ways anticipates the See Bring The Family above for film of love and art. digital dawn of social media. details. 18 19 live broadcasts THEATRE SparkPlug, 2019 Catch the best theatre and opera broadcast live in our cinemas from the world’s most prestigious companies. Box of Tricks presents: SparkPlug homemcr.org/live-broadcasts Wed 13 Feb – Sat 23 Feb A new play by David Judge ROH Live/ Don Quixote (12A as Live) You may also be interested in the screening of Yuli, which tells the rags-to-riches story of Cuban ballet A lyrical and energetic monologue that examines what Tue 19 Feb, Doors - 19:00, Performance – 19:15 superstar Carlos Acosta. Yuli screens on Tue 26 Mar family means in today’s society. SparkPlug is the story of a Ballet in a Prologue and three acts/165 minutes (including as part of our ¡Viva! festival. white man who becomes the adoptive father, mother and 1 interval) best friend of a mixed-race child, David. Love and friendship triumph in Carlos Acosta’s vibrant Inspired by autobiographical events and exploring the production of this dazzling ballet. The story follows Don playwright’s background as an actor and spoken word Quixote’s picaresque journey to do deeds in honour of his artist, SparkPlug is a lyrical and energetic monologue that imaginary noble lady, Dulcinea. Sunny, charming, funny examines what family means in today’s society. and touching – Don Quixote is a ballet as full of uplifting Accessible performances emotion as it is of astonishing ballet technique. RELAXED Relaxed performance Fri 22 Feb, 11:00

Wise Children present: Wise Children Tue 26 Feb – Sat 2 Mar A big, bawdy tangle of theatrical joy and heartbreak, Wise Children is a celebration of show business, family, forgiveness and hope. Expect show girls and Shakespeare, sex and scandal, music, mischief and mistaken identity – and butterflies by the thousand. Emma Rice (Romantics Anonymous; Tristan & Yseult) brings her unique, exuberantly impish vision to Angela Carter’s great last novel, Wise Children, launching her new theatre company of the same name.

Don Quixote, 2019 Accessible performances Caption Subtitled performance Thu 28 Feb, 19:30

TOUCH Audio Described Touch Tour TOUR Fri 1 Mar, 18:30 Audio Described performance ART Fri 1 Mar, 19:30 David Blethell: Fleeting Flights BSL Interpreted performance Sat 2 Mar, 14:00 Sat 26 Jan – Sun 17 Mar Preview: Fri 25 Jan, 18:00 Curated by Mark Devereux Projects and Bren O’Callaghan. Fleeting Flights is a new solo exhibition by British artist David Bethell. Taking place in an isolated woodland, the short film follows one man’s futile attempts to escape his ramshackle shack via a wooden balloon. As part of this solo gallery presentation, Fleeting Flights includes the many elaborate wooden contraptions designed and built by the artist.

Fleeting Flights, 2018 Wise Children, 2019 20 21 get involved Wise Children/ We are dedicated to making HOME a place for all, where people of all ages and backgrounds can take part, get closer Acro Dance to the programme and develop new skills and knowledge along the way. Workshop Throughout the year there are series of on-going programmes, events, workshops, courses and artist opportunities to try out Fri 1 Mar, 14:00 – 16:00 so why not take a look at some of these events listed below? £7/6 Join us for an Acro Dance workshop with Mirabelle Gremaud. This two hour workshop is a mix of physical endurance, coordination and floorwork taking elements from dance, circus and physical theatre. The workshop starts with an intensive warm up, then moves to continuous movement Playreading patterns using strength, explosivity, flow and flexibility. Fri 1 Feb, 11:00 – 13:00 Fri 1 Mar 11:00 – 13:00 homemcr.org/event/wise-children- acro-dance-workshop/ Tickets £5 (scripts and refreshments included) Course/ Mothers Who Wise Children, 2019 Our popular Playreading group meets on the first Friday of most months at Supporting Make HOME. The sessions, which are open Wellbeing of Mon 18 Feb, 10:30 – 12:30 to all, offer an opportunity to read Mon 18 Mar, 10:30 – 12:30 and discuss plays that are linked to Young People in Free, no booking required our theatre productions. The sessions Peer support and creative exchange are fun, friendly and informal and new the Workplace session for mothers who are members are always welcome. Thu 12 Feb, 10:00 – 16:15 professional and/or passionate artists, House Party homemcr.org/playreading £150 writers, painters, actors, dancers, Filmed Up Fri 15 Mar, 19:00 For those working with young people. filmmakers, photographers…come as Equip yourself with the tools and you are, kids welcome too! 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Productions Creative Jules et Jim, 1962 marketeer for an organisation, this Filmed Up Submission Deadline (AMP) Careers One of Us session will introduce you to the Send in your film by 18 April to be structure and objectives of an SEO considered for the June screening. Young Half term week of 18 Feb Jules et Jim (PG) strategy. You’ll discover practical Workshops No submission fee. Free, booking required Wed 20 Feb, 18:10 techniques, basic tools, and everyday Identity Tue 5 Feb, 18:00 – 20:00 Creative Careers workshops are homemcr.org/filmedup A quarterly film night brought to you tweaks that you can use to make Every Monday from 19:00 Tue 5 Mar, 18:00 – 20:00 designed to give 15-18 year olds search work for you. by HOME’s Young Film Programmers. A Free, no booking required Free, booking required practical work experience in the safe space to experience cinema and homemcr.org/event/workshop- Young Identity at HOME meets every Working in partnership with Venture creative industries. 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