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Birds of Passage, 2018 Women on Page 3: PIZZA + Angie Chen DRINK + homemcr.org/women-at-home Our Celebrating Women in Global Cinema programme continues in April and May. Keep an eye out for the logo above and throughout the guide for all our screenings and events championing the role of women in the cinema industry. As part of the programme, this May Angie Chen joins us for a Q&A screening of her latest documentary i’ve got the CINEMA blues. Ahead of this we caught up with Angie to find out more about her work and career. Read on below and flip to TICKET p16 for details on her new film and supporting selection of her work. Q: Which filmmakers or films have be different from my last film. The forward to seeing old friends and to most inspired your work? approach to shoot without a script is engage, interact and discuss with my = A: Jean-Luc Godard, the French New the same for all my documentaries. peers and audiences. I would also £16.50 Wave Filmmaker, and his films I usually look at what the footage love to experience the new HOME inspired me in his ground-breaking reveals to me and then explore the that evolved from Cornerhouse, approach to filmmaking. Fellini, themes. in films, music, visual arts and Rossellini and Bernardo Bertolucci Current themes I’m exploring touch literature. of the Italian masters. Stanley upon: Q: What advice would you offer other Kubrick, , Akira 1. How a person can persist in what filmmakers that you wish you had Kurosawa, for their they believe in without giving known when starting out? masterful storytelling. Tim Burton for up. The pathos in the sacrifice or Be brave, be persistent, be honest, his whim and wizardry. obstinacy. Is this victory or failure? be open, embrace life and the arts Films that inspired me: Breathless, 2. The dichotomy between filmmaker and work diligently. And of course, Citizen Kane, , 8½, and their subject during the filming, stay healthy. Psycho, , 2001: A Space and the definition of a documentary Odyssey, Three Colours: Red, I am film. Q: When you’re not at work, where Love, Seven Samurai, Tampopo. are you most likely to be found? Q: What are you most looking A: When I’m not at work, I love to Film/Pizza/Drink Q: What can you tell us about your forward to about visiting spend time in art museums, at latest project and the themes you Manchester/HOME? concerts, watch movies and travel to wanted to explore? £15 members / £16.50 full A: My first documentary was screened foreign places, spending time with A: Whenever I embark on a new project, in Manchester at Cornerhouse as nature, animals and humans. Every Monday and Tuesday evening, enjoy our my wish is for it to be different part of Visible Secrets ten years from what I have done before. With ago and my second film again at Reel Deal ticket offer for £16.50 including a i’ve got the blues, I wanted it to Cornerhouse in 2012. I’m looking cinema ticket for the film of your choice (special events excluded), any homemade stonebaked pizza and a drink (either a glass of house wine, This programme is co-curated by Rachel Hayward, HOME’s Head of Film, and Andy Willis, Senior Visiting the Curator: Film and Professor of Film Studies, School of Arts and Media at University of . This season is a pint of Dortmunder Vier, or a soft drink). The supported by the Economic and Trade Office, London. perfect way to kick start your week! Want to book? REEL Call our Box Office team on 0161 200 1500 (open daily 12:00 – 20:00) Online booking for The Reel Deal offer is not available. Limited availability, early booking recommended i’ve got the blues, 2018 My Name Ain’t Suzie, 1985 This Darling Life, 2008 DEAL 3 NEW RELEASES

Mid90s (CTBA) (15) Loro (18) From Fri 12 Apr (Se rokh) From Fri 19 Apr Dir Jonah Hill/US 2018/85 mins From Fri 12 Apr Dir /IT FR 2018/151 mins/Italian wEngST Sunny Suljic, Katherine Waterson, Lucas Hedges Dir Jafar Panahi/IR 2018/101 mins/ Happy as Lazzaro (12A) The Sisters Brothers (15) The Keeper (15) Jonah Hill makes his directorial debut Persian and Azerbaijani wEngST Toni Servillo, , Riccardo Scarmarcio with this coming-of-age story about , Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei Sergio is a guileful businessman who (Lazzaro felice) From Fri 5 Apr From Fri 5 Apr a teenager who finds his scene when Popular Iranian actor Behnaz Jafari is manages a group of young escorts From Fri 5 Apr Dir Jacques Audiard/FR ES RO BE US 2018/122 mins Dir Marcus H. Rosenmüller/DE GB 2018/119 mins/ whom he uses to bribe local politicians German and English with partial EngST he meets a group of skateboarders. left so distraught by a text sent by a Dir Alice Rohrwacher/IT CH FR DE John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal David Kross, Freya Mavor, John Henshaw Irreverent, intelligent and tender, the provincial village girl that she defects and authority figures. Sorrentino 2018/127 mins/Italian wEngST Audiard’s adaptation of Patrick () teams up once Nicoletta Braschi, Adriano Tardiolo, Sergi López When German soldier Bert Trautmann film is set to a soundtrack of ‘90s rock from the set of her latest production. deWitt’s award-winning novel set again with long-time collaborator is taken prisoner in England towards and rap and captures the hijinks of pre- Behnaz Jafari turns to filmmaker Jafar The latest from Alice Rohrwacher against the backdrop of the 1851 gold Toni Servillo to reveal the scandalous the end of WWII, he cannot foresee digital-age teen life. Panahi to help solve the mystery of the follows the adventures of a time- rush. The notorious Sisters brothers and, until now, unseen private life of that he is to become a British football young girl’s troubles. travelling man living on the fringes of are sent to kill a prospector accused Italy’s most infamous politician, Silvio legend. Rosenmüller’s biopic offers a society. A genre-bending rumination on of stealing from a tyrannical crime Berlusconi. the fate of innocence when faced with boss. Audiard delivers a brutal but very compelling portrait of a charismatic corruption and greed, the film echoes funny, eccentric and poetic western. figure who became a legendary figure Jarman and Pasolini but also has a for Manchester City. wonder and originality of its own.

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Benjamin (15) A Deal with the Universe Wild Rose (15) Red Joan (12A) Dragged Across Concrete (18) Steel Country (15) (15) From Fri 5 Apr From Fri 12 Apr From Fri 19 Apr From Fri 19 Apr From Fri 19 Apr Dir Simon Amstell/GB 2018/85 mins From Fri 12 Apr Dir Tom Harper/GB 2018/101 mins Dir Trevor Nunn/GB 2018/101 mins Dir S. Craig Zahler/CA 2018/159 mins Dir Simon Fellows/GB 2018/90 mins Colin Morgan, Anna Chancellor, Phénix Brossard Dir Jason Barker/GB 2018/92 mins Julie Walters, Jessie Buckley, Sophie Okonedo Judi Dench, Alfie Allen, Kim Allen Mel Gibson, Jennifer Carpenter, Liannet Borrego Andrew Scott, Denise Gough, Bronagh Waugh In Simon Amstell’s affecting, Jason Barker’s debut feature Jessie Buckley tears the house down Academy Award-winner Judi Dench Two detectives find themselves When a young boy turns up dead bittersweet comedy, a rising young documentary is a very personal in this tale of a troubled would-be takes on the complex persona of a suspended when a video of their in a sleepy Western Pennsylvania filmmaker is thrown into emotional chronicle of becoming a parent. country singer who dreams of leaving seemingly demure physicist who was strong-arm tactics is leaked to the town, Donald, a local truck driver turmoil by a burgeoning romance and Drawing on the filmed diaries made her dreary, workaday Glasgow life for also a long-serving British spy for the media. The embittered cops descend with Asperger’s Syndrome takes it the upcoming premiere of his second over the last ten years that document the bright lights of Nashville. A huge KGB. Loosely inspired by the biography into the criminal underworld and find upon himself to play detective and feature. Working in a low-key, intimate both Jason’s transgender journey as hit with audiences worldwide, it never of British KGB agent Melita Norwood more than they wanted waiting in the embarks on an obsessive investigation, style, Amstell offers an insightful look well as his parental journey. stints on authenticity but also offers this is a historical drama that reminds shadows. leading to unthinkable and harrowing at creativity, anxiety and finding love. redemption and hope. us that spies aren’t always shadowy, consequences. Event/ We will be joined by director nefarious figures. You might also be interested in our Jason Barker and producer Loran Dunn one-off screening of Puppet Master for a Q&A following the screening on Fri which was written by S. Craig Zahler. 12 Apr, 18:10. Fri 19 Apr, 20:40. See p11 for details.

4 5 Eighth Grade (15) Pond Life (CBTA) (CTBA) Woman at War (CTBA) A Trip to the Moon (CTBA) High Life (18) (Jiang hu er nü) From Fri 26 Apr From Fri 26 Apr (Kona fer í stríð) From Fri 3 May From Fri 10 May Dir Bill Buckhurst/GB 2018/100 mins Dir /FR 2018/113 mins Dir Bo Burnham/US 2018/94 mins From Fri 26 Apr From Fri 3 May Dir Joaquín Cambre/AR MX 2017/87 mins/Spanish , Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson Tom Varey, Esme Creed-Miles, Angus Imrie wEngST Robert Pattinson, , André Dir /CN FR JP 2018/137 mins/Mandarin Dir Benedikt Erlingsson/IS FR UK 2018/101 mins/ Ángelo Mutti Spinetta, Ángela Torres, Leticia Bredice Benjamin Writer/director Bo Burnham, making It’s the summer of 1994. In a quiet wEngST Icelandic, Spanish, English and Ukranian wEngST his feature film debut, delivers a keenly mining village just outside Doncaster, Tao Zhao, Fan Liao, Yi’nan Diao Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Juan Unrequited love for his neighbour Claire Denis’ much-anticipated English- observed and achingly funny portrait a rumour stirs about the legend Set in ’s underworld, Jia Camillo Roman Estrada finally tips teenager Thomas over language debut and provocative sci-fi of the insecurities and absurdities of of a giant carp. The first feature Zhangke’s tale of love and betrayal Halla is a fifty-year-old independent the edge and he begins to plan a drama presents a group of criminals being 13 in a world where one’s private of acclaimed theatre director Bill follows a self-sacrificial gangster’s woman. But behind the scenes of trip to the moon. A deliriously stylish sent into deep space. Evocative of a experience is lived publicly online. Buckhurst, Pond Life sits in the great moll as she comes out of prison and a quiet routine, she leads a double journey through the mind of an outcast dub movie with its ghostly echoes of a British tradition of films about post- sets about tracking down her former life as an environmental activist. adolescent, this is the first feature from doomed humanity, this is an incredible industrial communities and moments lover. Featuring a brilliant central As she begins planning her biggest Argentinean director Joaquín Cambre and sensuous synthesis of sound and of harmony. performance from Jia Zhangke and boldest operation, she receives vision. regular Zhao Tao, the film offers an an unexpected letter that changes impassioned portrait of national everything…. You may also be interested in Claire malaise. Denis’ film screening on Thu 23 May, 20:40. See p11 for details.

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Donbass (15) Styx (CTBA) Vox Lux (15) Madeline’s Madeline (15) Irene’s Ghost (PG) Amazing Grace (CTBA) From Fri 26 Apr From Fri 26 Apr From Fri 3 May From Fri 10 May From Fri 10 May From Fri 10 May Dir Sergey Loznitsa/DE UK FR NL RO 2018/122 Dir Wolfgang Fischer/DE AT 2018/94 mins/English Dir Brady Corbet/US 2018/115 mins Dir Josephine Decker/US 2018/93 mins Dir Iain Cunningham/GB 2018/81 mins Dirs Alan Elliott, Sydney Pollack/US 2018/87 mins and German with partial EngST mins/Ukrainian, Russian and English with partial Natalie Portman, Willem Dafoe, Helena Howard, Miranda July, Molly Parker Iain Cunningham uncovers his own In January 1972, Aretha Franklin made EngST Susanne Wolff, Gedion Oduor Wekesa, Felicity Babao Natalie Portman gives a bravura Madeline’s Madeline is the feverish, mother’s story, who died before he her legendary album Amazing Grace. Valeriu Andriuta, Natalya Buzko, Evgeny Chistyakov performance as a hugely successful if explosively creative third feature from An unusual and provocative allegory of was old enough to form memories of Providing ample evidence of the Told through a series of impressively petulant music star who has refused to American filmmaker Josephine Decker. personal responsibility in the face of her. Bursts of animation illuminate charisma of the soul icon who died choreographed vignettes, Loznitsa’s let the early tragedy of her life define Exploring ideas of race and identity, the migrant crisis, the film concerns a memory and fantasy in this moving in August 2018, this accompanying scathing political commentary follows her. Spanning decades in the star’s cultural appropriation and exploitation doctor whose lone sailing trip takes a documentary portrait of mental illness, concert film also celebrates human the war that has been raging in life, the film looks at the perils of fame as well as the creative process, it’s a different direction when she encounters grief, and female friendship. dignity and a longing for freedom and Eastern Ukraine for years, wielding and also considers extremism and gun heady, fearless, incredibly invigorating a damaged boat overloaded with justice. both artillery and propaganda as culture. work. weapons. Made in partnership with desperate refugees. cinematographer Oleg Mutu, this is Event/ We will be joined by director Loznitsa’s most cutting, political work Josephine Decker for a Q&A following to date. the screening on Fri 10 May, 20:30.

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Arctic (12A) Beats (CTBA) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Diamantino (CTBA) Too Late to Die Young (15) The Third Wife (CTBA) From Fri 17 May From Fri 17 May Learned to Stop Worrying and From Fri 24 May (Tarde Para Morir Joven) From Fri 31 May Dir Joe Penna/IS 2018/94 mins Dir Brian Welsh/GB 2019/96 mins Love the Bomb (PG) + Short Dirs Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt/PT FR BR From Fri 24 May Dir Ash Mayfair/VN 2018/96 mins/ , Maria Thelma Smáradóttir Cristian Ortega, Lorn Macdonald, Laura Fraser 2018/96 mins/Portuguese wEngST Vietnamese wEngST From Fri 17 May Dir Dominga Sotomayor Castillo/CL Carloto Cotta, Cleo Tavares, Anabela Moreira BR AR NL QA 2018/110 mins/Spanish Long Le Vu, Mai Thu Huong Maya, Nguyen Phuong A man stranded in the Arctic after an Set in 1994 Scotland, Beats hinges Dir /US GB 1964/94 mins Tra My airplane crash must decide whether on the Tory government’s crackdown Unconventional storytelling, adorable wEngST Peter Sellers, George C Scott, Sterling Hayden Demian Hernández, Antar Machado, Magdalena A coming-of-age story, a tale of love to remain in the relative safety of his on rave culture. A universal story of pets and topical references swell this Kubrick’s BAFTA-winning Tótoro and self-discovery in a time when makeshift camp or to embark on a friendship, rebellion and the irresistible affectionate yarn from Portuguese co- about the nuclear apocalypse is Chile in the summer of 1990. As the women were rarely given a voice. deadly trek through the unknown in power of gathered youth set to an directors Abrantes and Schmidt about presented in a new 4k restoration and country comes to terms with the end Featuring an almost all female cast hopes of making it out alive. eclectic and electrifying 1990s rave a Cristiano Ronaldo-esque soccer star with an exclusive new short. Stanley of Pinochet’s dictatorship, a group of and enthralling period production soundtrack, Beats is a bittersweet being co-opted into an anti-EU plot. Kubrick Considers The Bomb takes us adolescents living on a rural commune design (the film is set in 19th century coming-of-age story. inside the mind of one of the greatest attempt to make sense of their own rural Vietnam), it’s an entrancing and film directors of all time to reveal how burgeoning desires and tangled evocative story of freedom. he responded to society’s widespread relationships. concern about nuclear war. Event/ We will be joined by director Dominga Sotomayor for a Q&A following the screening on Sat 25 May, 17:50.

Preview + Q&A

Pick of the Litter (PG) Birds of Passage (15) John McEnroe: In The Realm of Support the Girls (15) Freedom Fields (CTBA) Thunder Road (15) From Fri 17 May (Pájaros de verano) Perfection (CTBA) From Fri 31 May From Fri 31 May From Fri 31 May Dirs Don Hardy, Dana Nachman/US 2018/81 mins From Fri 17 May (L’empire de la perfection) Dir Andrew Bujalski/US 2018/87 mins Dir Naziha Arebi/GB LY 2018/97 mins/ Dir Jim Cummings/US 2018/91 mins Regina Hall, Haley Lu Richardson, Dylan Gelula Arabic and English with partial EngST Jim Cummings, Kendal Farr, Nican Robinson Meet five spirited puppies who, from Dirs Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra/CO DE MX From Fri 24 May the moment they’re born, begin an 2018/126 mins/English, Spanish and Wayuu with Regina Hall stars as the hardworking Naziha Arebi offers an intimate look A police officer faces a personal partial EngST Dir Julien Faraut/FR 2018/95 mins/French and incredible journey to become guide English with partial EngST manager of Double Whammies, a at post-revolution Libya through meltdown following a divorce and the Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, Natalia Reyes, the eyes of an aspiring all-female dogs for the blind. This documentary Jhon Narváez A thoroughly and totally immersive film “sports bar with curves.” She runs death of his mother. Thunder Road is a the joint like a family, but over the football team, whose struggle to gain blackly comic exploration of grief and is a balm for the soul that reveals the From the producer and director of the essay on tennis legend John McEnroe course of one challenging day her mainstream acceptance mirrors the what happens when your life unravels best in humanity as well as the best Academy Award-nominated Embrace using footage shot during the 1984 incurable optimism is tested by sketchy broader challenges facing women in and takes a wrong turn. Impeccably in dogs. of the Serpent, Birds of Passage is a Roland-Garros French Open. This is employees, bad customers and an even contemporary Libyan society. performed, it’s a raw work, brimming story about indigenous traditions and an intellectual, entertaining and witty work about what it means to strive for worse boss. with emotion. the corrupting forces of wealth and Event/ On Wed 29 May we will have a and almost achieve total perfection. power, set against the backdrop of special preview screening followed by a the Colombian marijuana boom of the Q&A with director Naziha Arebi. 1970s.

8 9 Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, 2018 The Sexuality Summer School presents/ one-off screenings Dial(ogue) D for Dyke Disruption: A Queer Toolkit for Blowing Up the Film & events Puppet Master: The Littlest Canon? Spank the Banker, 2018 Reich (CTBA) No.1 Chung Ying Mon 20 May, 18:30 Street, 2018 Fri 19 Apr, 20:40 Tickets: £6 full / £5 concs Dirs Sonny Laguna, Tommy Wiklund/GB US 2018/90 mins Chinese Film Forum UK presents/ In this talk, writer and activist So Thomas Lennon, Jenny Pellicer, Nelson Franklin No.1 Chung Ying Street (12A) Mayer brings their feminist film toolkit A man sells a nefarious-looking puppet to the Sexuality Summer School and Thu 2 May, 17:50 at a small-town convention for some HOME. With talking points from queer Dir Derek Chiu/HK 2018/118 mins/ wEngST Have You Seen My Movie?, 2016 and feminist filmmakers and critics quick cash. Terror soon strikes when Fish Liew, Yau Hawk Sau, Lo Chun Yip Madeline’s Madeline, 2018 an ancient evil animates the other from around the globe, So will set out Have You Seen My Movie? (CTBA) An emotionally charged piece of work, puppets and sends them on a bloody why things need to change, and what Madeline’s Madeline (15) + Q&A No.1 Chung Ying Street takes place in Wed 10 Apr, 17:50 killing spree. Scripted by S. Craig we can learn and do to take down Spank the Banker (CTBA) + Q&A the border zone between Hong Kong Dir Paul Anton Smith/GB CA 2016/136 mins Fri 10 May, 20:30 Zahler, the film offers a knowing riff on mainstream cinema. and the People’s Republic of China and This debut feature is a sprawling Dir Josephine Decker/US 2018/93 mins Mon 15 Apr, 18:00 genre conventions. is split into two parts. The first takes Includes a post-talk discussion chaired collage of clips obtained from hundreds Helena Howard, Miranda July, Molly Parker Dir Samir Mehanovic/GB 2018/80 mins Don’t miss Dragged Across Concrete place in 1967 against the back-drop of by freelance curator Samar Ziadat of films which cumulatively explore the See p7 for film details A visually powerful documentary, also written by S. Craig Zahler, See p5 anti-British resistance, the second fifty This event is supported by the ritual of film-going. Smith, who worked Spank the Banker uses a mixture of Event/ We will be joined by director for details. years later as residents again attempt Sexuality Summer School, Screen, and with Christian Marclay on The Clock, compelling interviews with victims, key was determined to make ‘a montage Josephine Decker for a Q&A following to resist the growing influence of The University of Manchester. this screening. journalists and police investigators; outside forces. from existing footage that could feel plus dramatic, secretly-filmed episodes like something else, something mine.’ of bankers caught unawares revealing Supported by the Confucius Institute their activities, and of bank-hired at The University of Manchester. goons repossessing the homes of those defrauded. Event/ We will be joined by victims Noel Event/ Girls on Film podcast Edmonds and Neil Mitchell, director/ Rafiki, 2018 Wed 24 Apr, 19:00 A Deal with the Universe, 2018 producer Samir Mehanovic and writer/ Tickets: £6 full/£5 concs Rafiki (15) + Q&A co-producer, George Kerevan. A Deal with the Universe Calling for more female voices (15) + Q&A Sun 14 Apr, 18:00 + Q&A in film criticism is film critic and Thu 18 Apr, 18:20 broadcaster Anna Smith, back with her Fri 12 Apr, 18:10 second instalment of new female-led Dir Jason Barker/GB 2018/92 mins Sat 20 Apr, 15:40 Dir Wanuri Kahiu/KE ZA DE NL FR NO LB 2018/83 live podcast, Girls On Film. Featuring See p4 for film details. mins/Swahili and English with partial EngST industry guests, Bechdel tests and Samantha Mugatsia, Neville Misati, Githinji Event/ We will be joined by director lively debate. This month’s guests are The Fight, 2018 Jason Barker and producer Loran Dunn Directed by Wanuri Kahiu, part of H is for Harry, 2018 freelance film critic and radio presenter for a Q&A following the screening on Fri a strong cohort of Kenyan female H is for Harry (12A) Rhianna Dhillon and Editor-In-Chief of The Fight (12A) + Q&A 12 Apr, 18:10. filmmakers, Rafiki follows the Total Film magazine Jane Crowther. My Friend the Polish Girl, 2018 burgeoning love between two young + Introduction Fri 3 May, 18:10 Jon Savage Presents Joy Division: Dir Jessica Hynes/GB 2018/91 mins New East Cinema/ My Friend women. Set against the backdrop of Tigers (PG) Tue 16 Apr, 18:20 The Oral History + Live Film (CTBA) Jessica Hynes, Russell Brand, Anita Dobson, the Polish Girl (CTBA) the bustling streets of Nairobi, the Dirs Edward Owles, Jaime Taylor/GB 2018/86 mins Christopher Fairbank Sat 13 Apr, 18:20 two very different women must choose A coming-of-age story about Harry, Sat 27 Apr, 18:10 Tina, a busy mother of three, can Wed 22 May, 20:40 Dir Danis Tanovic/IN FR 2014/94 mins/ Hindi and English between love and safety surrounded a charismatic 11-year-old boy, who barely find any time for herself and Dirs Ewa Banaszkiewicz, Mateusz Dymek/ with partial EngST Tickets: £10 full / £8 concs GB 2018/87 mins by insular gossip and local politics. arrives at secondary school unable to Emraan Hashmi, Geetanjali, Danny Huston, Khalid Abdalla To celebrate the publication of Jon things are about to get even more Aneta Piotrowska, Emma Friedman-Cohen, Daniel Barry read or write. The film follows Harry complicated. Determined to regain Devastated when he discovers the Event/ We will be we will be joined Savage’s This Searing Light, The Sun An American documentarian sets out over two years as he fights not only control, Tina steps into the boxing ring effects of the infant formula he’s by director Wanuri Kahiu for a Q&A and Everything Else: Joy Division: The to make a film about immigrants in to improve academically but also to and discovers how to fight for herself. peddling, a young salesman challenges following the 18:00 screening on Sun Oral History we will be screening Joy post-Brexit-vote London, but ends up believe in a different future for himself. the system and the powers that be, 14 Apr. Division’s legendary 28th October Event/ We will be joined by director intruding on the life of a struggling in this based-on-fact drama from 1979 concert from Manchester Apollo Polish actor. A raw, sexual, and visually Supported by the BFI, using funds from Event/ This screening will be Jessica Hynes for a Q&A following this Academy Award-winning director Danis introduced by director Jaime Taylor. followed by Jon Savage in conversation screening. brash fiction documentary. Tanovic (No Man’s Land). the National Lottery with John Robb. 10 11 Memories of a Man in Pyjamas, 2018 ¡Viva! Spanish And Latin American Beau Travail, 1999 Bigger than Life presents/ Beau Travail (15) + Introduction Too Late to Die Young, 2018 Festival ¡Viva! presents/ Too Late to Die Thu 23 May, 20:40 UK Premiere/ Memories of a . Dir Claire Denis/FR 1999/92 mins/French, Young (15) + Q&A Italian and Russian wEngST (Tarde Para Morir Joven) Man in Pyjamas (12A) Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin (Memorias de un hombre en Fri 22 Mar – Sat 13 Apr El Silencio de otros, 2018 Bigger Than Life curate special 35mm Sat 25 May, 17:50 Dir Dominga Sotomayor Castillo/CL BR AR pijama) The 25th ¡Viva! Festival will blaze onto HOME’s screens and stages in 2019, with a screenings of under-shown and NL QA 2018/110 mins/Spanish wEngST programme infused with Serious Fun. As well as some esperpento-style satirical, The Silence of Others (12A) overlooked cinema. Tue 2 Apr, 18:25 Demian Hernández, Antar Machado, Magdalena Tótoro dark humour, we’ll also foreground female creative talents, and shine a light on (El Silencio de otros) Claire Denis’ most acclaimed film is Chile in the summer of 1990. As the Mon 8 Apr, 20:35 contemporary Argentina. Here are a just few film highlights… a sensuous reworking of Melville’s country comes to terms with the end Dir Fernández de Vigo/ES 2018/74 mins/ Sun 7 Apr, 18:00 + Post- Spanish wEngST homemcr.org/viva-2019 . Prioritising texture and of Pinochet’s dictatorship, a group of screening discussion Raúl Arévalo, María Castro, Manuel Manquiña, Santi movement, Beau Travail stars Denis adolescents living on a rural commune Balmes Dirs Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar/ ES US 2018/95 mins/Spanish wEngST Lavant as a sergeant-major in the attempt to make sense of their own After the phenomenal success of In April 2019 we commemorate 80 years French Foreign Legion who develops a burgeoning desires and tangled Arrugas (¡Viva! 2012), we’re thrilled to since the end of the Spanish Civil War, dangerous obsession with an enigmatic relationships. present a second film from comic strip but also the beginning of a 40-year new recruit. Too Late to Die Young will screen on artist Paco Roca. dictatorship; The Silence of Others See p7 for details of Claire Denis’ release from Fri 24 May. captures the first attempt to bring to much-anticipated English-language Plus/ This film will be preceded by the UK Event/ We will be joined by director justice those accused of political crimes debut High Life. premiere of El Jarrón (Dir Rubén Tejerina/ Dominga Sotomayor for a Q&A following ES 2018/12 min). committed in the name of General Event/ This screening will be introduced this screening. Franco’s government. by Bigger Than Life curators, Tom Grieve Event/ Join us for a post-screening and Jim Laycock. Freedom Fields, 2018 discussion led by Dr Shivani Pal, Salford Citizens Advice, and Prof Andy Willis, Teddy Pendergrass: If You Don’t Know Me, 2018 En las estrellas, 2018 University of Salford & HOME’s Visiting UK Premiere/ Up Curator: Film. Among the Stars (12A) Preview/ Rojo (15) (En las estrellas) Mon 8 Apr, 18:15 + Introduction Alanis, 2017 Sun 7 Apr, 14:05 Dir Benjamín Naishtat/AR FR DE NL BR 2018/109 mins/Spanish wEngST Dir Zoe Berriatúa/ES 2018/86 mins/Spanish wEngST UK Premiere/ Alanis (18) Darío Grandinetti, Andrea Frigerio, Alfredo Castro, Luis Callejo, Jorge Andreu, Macarena Gómez, Teddy Pendergrass: If You Don’t Diego Cremonesi Thu 4 Apr, 18:00 + Q&A Magüi Mira Know Me (CTBA) Ana de día, 2018 The well-deserving winner of Best Tue 9 Apr, 16:30 This whimsical drama about a grieving Víctor, and his wise nine- Director, Actor and Cinematography at Fri 24 May, 18:10 Dir Anahí Berneri/AR 2017/82 mins/Spanish Ana by Day (15) San Sebastian International Film Festival wEngST year-old son. Struggling to keep custody Dir Olivia Lichtenstein/GB 2018/106 mins (Ana de día) Sofía Gala, Dana Basso, Silvina Sabater, due to his alcoholism, Victor turns to his 2018, this hugely stylish and atmospheric Archive footage, interviews, Carlos Antonio Vuletich psychological thriller takes place in mid- Sat 6 Apr, 13:35 talent of storytelling to take him and his and reconstruction tell the story of seventies Argentina. The hypnotic drama Preview/ Freedom Fields Winner of Best Director and Best Actress Dir Andrea Jaurrieta/ES 2018/105 mins/Spanish son on an imaginary adventure to escape soul singer, Teddy Pendergrass, from follows Claudio, a successful lawyer in (CTBA) + Q&A at the San Sebastian International Film wEngST their misfortunate reality. his childhood to the height of his Festival, the film portrays a proud young Ingrid García Jonsson, Mona Martínez, María José a quiet provincial city, whose picture- fame. After a devastating car accident, Wed 29 May, 18:00 woman doing her best for her infant Alfonso, Álvaro Ogalla Plus/ This film will be preceded by La perfect life begins to unravel when a Pendergrass’s path dramatically shifted Dir Naziha Arebi/GB LY 2018/97 mins/ son, with the beautifully naturalistic This directorial debut feature from Noria (Dir Carlos Baena/ES 2018/12 disturbing encounter with a stranger and this is a fascinating film about a Arabic and English with partial EngST performance enhanced by the real-life Jaurrieta – teacher, scriptwriter, mins). turns violent. musician whose legacy is not as known See p9 for film details. mother-son relationship. producer, editor and actor – is a thrilling as it should be. journey into the personal liberation of a Event/ Introduced by Dr Carmen Event/ On Wed 29 May we will have a Event/ We are pleased to welcome Anahí woman unexpectedly expelled from her Herrero, Manchester Metropolitan You may also be interested in our special preview screening followed by a Berneri for a Q&A following the screening comfortable but unfulfilling life when a University. This talk will be BSL seasons Jazz on Film and Doc’n Roll. Q&A with director Naziha Arebi. on Thu 4 Apr. mysterious doppelgänger takes her place. interpreted. 12 13 seasons Noblemen, 2019

Norma Rae, 1979 North Country, 2005 Women, North Country (15) + Introduction Organise! Bread and Roses, 2000 Mon 6 May, 17:50 Dir Niki Caro/US 2005/126 mins . Charlize Theron, Jeremy Renner, Frances McDormand UK Asian Film Noblemen (CTBA) Given recent events in Hollywood it Wed 1 May, 18:00 Sat 4 – is timely to revisit North Country, a Festival Dir Vandana Kataria/IN 2019/109 mins film about women’s struggles to fight Kunal Kapoor, Ali Haji, Mohammad Ali Mir Fri 10 May sexual harassment in the workplace. Directed by Niki Caro this is another . It is winter in a prestigious all boys Women, Organise! focuses on a rare example of Hollywood taking boarding school, where children variety of representations of women’s women’s activism seriously. Tue 30 Apr – continue to practice age-old rituals activism and involvement in trade and codes bound by years of hierarchy. unionism. The season seeks to raise The Pajama Game, 1957 Screening from a 35mm print. Events take a sinister turn when young Sat 4 May questions about women’s roles in the The Pajama Game (U) Event/ This screening will be UK Asian Film Festival, the world’s Shay walks in on bullies Arjun, Baadal, workplace, how they have struggled Sun 5 May, 13:00 + post-screening introduced by Sarah Woolley, longest running South Asian film and their cronies on a debauched night. to organise themselves and the ways discussion Organising Regional Secretary for the festival outside of India celebrates its Pinky Memsaab, 2018 in which their experiences have been Bakers and Allied Food Workers Union Tue 7 May, 20:40 21 years of showcasing cutting-edge shown on screen. (BFAWU). independent films with this year’s theme Curated by Andy Willis, Senior Visiting Wed 8 May, 13:00 focusing on the theme of Revolution. Curator: Film at HOME and Professor Dirs George Abbott, Stanley Donen/US 1957/101 mins Doris Day, John Raitt, Carol Haney A Feeling Greater than Love Screenings in this season will have of Film Studies, School of Arts and (CTBA) + Introduction Media at University of Salford. This Doris Day vehicle is a big budget events, see the website for details. adaptation of a runaway Broadway (Shu’our akbar min el hob) Supported by the BFI, using funds This season is supported by the success and a rare example of a Tue 7 May, 18:10 from the National Lottery. Presented General Federation of Trade Unions The Nightcleaners, 1975 1950s Hollywood film that offers some Dir Mary Jirmanus Saba/LB 2017/99 mins/Arabic wEngST in association with HOME’s Not Just (GFTU) Education Trust, to celebrate sympathy to the plight of women The Nightcleaners (CTBA) A powerful meditation on revolution Bollywood programme. the 120th anniversary of the GFTU. workers who are striving for better pay. and cinema, this 2017 documentary homemcr.org/women-organise + Q&A homemcr.org/UKAFF /Leeds – United! takes the death of a young woman Hamid (12A) Bread and Roses (15) (CTBA) + Introduction Mon 6 May, 15:40 killed during a Lebanese factory strike Dir Berwick Street Film Collective/GB 1975/90 mins in the 1970s as its starting point to ask Sat 4 May, 18:00 Tue 30 Apr, 18:00 Pinky Memsaab (CTBA) Sun 5 May, 15:30 Increasingly seen as a key work of questions of the activists of the time, Dir /GB US 2000/110 mins Dir Aijaz Khan/IN 2018/108 mins/Urdu and Hindi wEngST Dir Roy Battersby/GB 1974/116 mins British political cinema, this feature- and to explore the possibilities for Sat 4 May, 15:10 Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Elpidia Carrillo Talha Arshad Reshi, Vikas Kumar, Rasika Dugal Lynne Perrie, Elizabeth Spriggs, Lori Wells length, self-reflexive documentary from militant action in film and society. Eight-year-old Hamid learns that 786 is Dir Shazia Ali Kahn/AE PK 2018/120 mins/Urdu, Ken Loach ventures to the US to Based on real events that took place in Hindi and English with partial EngST the Berwick Street Collective explores make a film inspired by the ‘justice Event/ This screening will be God’s phone number and decides to call Rik Aby, Khalid Ahmed, Shamim Hilaly 1970 and originally broadcast in 1974, the struggle to unionise the women the number to talk to his father, whom for janitors’ campaign. The film this BBC television drama focuses on introduced by Dr Molly Geidel, Lecturer The lives of a gullible maid, a beautiful workers who clean office blocks at his mother tells him has gone to Allah. centres on the experiences of Maya, the collective action of female workers in 20th Century US Cultural History at socialite, an ambitious investment night and who, as well as being unpaid, One day the phone call is answered by a Mexican migrant worker whose in the textile trade in as they the University of Manchester banker and a happy-go-lucky chauffeur are often victimised. a soldier who humours Hamid. work experiences lead her to become campaigned for equal pay. are entwined together in Dubai, in this involved in the struggle to unionise the Event/ This screening will be followed Can two lives shattered in the strife of bitter-sweet tale of self-discovery. workforce. Event/ This screening will be introduced by a Q&A with the filmmaker Humphry Continued Kashmir change each other’s world for by season curator Andy Willis. Trevelyan. the better? Screening from a 35mm print. over... 14 15 Norma Rae, 1979 Angie Chen: My Name Ain’t Suzie, 1985 Pilot Light 10 years of RuPaul’s Drag Race, 2019 Hong Kong TV Festival Film Pioneer Season 4 . . Sun 12 – Thu 16 – Sun 19 Event/ 10 years of RuPaul’s Drag Tue 14 May My Name Ain’t Suzie (CTBA) May Race (15) As part of our Celebration + Q&A Pilot Light TV Festival is Manchester’s of Women in Global Cinema home of celebrating the small screen. Fri 17 May, 19:30 we are pleased to present Mon 13 May, 18:00 This May the festival will return with Tickets: £10/£8 Norma Rae (PG) + Introduction a retrospective of the work of Hong Dir Angie Chen/HK 1985/96 mins/Cantonese and exclusive screenings of series old and Since premiering in 2009, RuPaul’s Drag and post-screening discussion Kong pioneer Angie Chen, a filmmaker Mandarin wEngST new from around the world plus Q&As, Race has become an international who emerged at the height of Hong Pat Ha, , Angela Yu Chien panels and workshops with the people phenomenon and one of the most Thu 9 May, 18:10 Kong cinema’s ‘new wave’ of the 1980s. Now recognised as a major Hong behind the series we love so much. resonant pieces of queer pop culture in Dir Martin Ritt/US 1979/115 mins Kong film of the 1980s, in My Name Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman Offering examples of her fiction and Below is a sneak peek at this year’s modern history. Join Grace Barber- documentary work, this is a unique Ain’t Suzie Angie Chen challenges programme. Plentie and a special guest panel for By the time he came to direct Norma the stereotypes offered by films such chance to (re)discover the work of Full line up announced and tickets on a retrospective eleganza as they look Rae, Martin Ritt had established his as The World of Suzie Wong (1960). major filmmaker. sale Fri 5 Apr. back on the first 10 years of Drag Race. credentials as one of Hollywood’s most By presenting a series of engrossing I Am Somebody, 1970 high profile liberal directors. His Oscar- This season is supported by the Hong character studies the film offers a Head to pilotlightfestival.co.uk for Kong Economic and Trade Office, Double Bill/ I Am Somebody & nominated film follows Sally Field’s sympathetic portrait of those living more information. titular character as she attempts to London. Red Skirts on Clydeside (CTBA) and working in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai homemcr.org/pilot-light-19 bring the union to the factory where Homemcr.org/angie-chen red-light district. + Introduction she works. Event/ DCUK Writers Room i’ve got the blues, 2018 Event/ We will be joined by director Wed 8 May, 18:30 Workshop Event/ This screening will be Angie Chen for a post-screening Q&A. Dir Various/US GB 1970 & 1984/68 mins accompanied by an introduction and Fri 17 May, 10:30 – 12:30 These two documentaries represent post-screening discussion from season My Dinner with Alan: A Sopranos Session, 2019 Tickets: £7/£5 the vital role women have played in curator Andy Willis. UK Premiere/ My Dinner with working class struggle and resistance. Many series get made without advice that can turn a good script into a great Alan: A Sopranos Session (15) I Am Somebody script. This event provides examples + Q&A Dir Madeline Anderson/US 1970/28 mins and insight for how to improve your Stirring documentary about 1969 script before you enter production. Sun 19 May, 13:30 hospital workers strike in Charleston, In the Writers Room, actors perform Tickets: standard cinema prices South Carolina. Many of the workforce scripts by local creators in a table read Dir Kristian Farga/USA 2019/52 mins/English who sent on strike were black women i’ve got the blues (CTBA) + Q&A This Darling Life, 2008 for a panel of industry experts, who , Matt Zoller Seitz and the film captures their sacrifices, present feedback along with comments This film follows leading US TV critics Sun 12 May, 15:40 This Darling Life (CTBA) solidarity and determination not to be and questions from the audience. Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz Dir Angie Chen/HK 2018/90 mins/English and + short film cowed by the system. Cantonese with partial EngST in conversation at the location of Event/ Behind the Tunes: the controversial last scene of The Cart, 2014 Angie Chen’s latest, acclaimed Tue 14 May, 18:20 Red Skirts on Clydeside Sopranos. Their eclectic conversation Cart (CTBA) documentary i’ve got the blues focuses Dir Angie Chen/HK 2008/80 mins/Cantonese Curating the Sounds of TV Dirs Jenny Woodley, Christine Bellamy/GB 1984/40 mins wEngST covers television, psychiatry, on Hong Kong painter, art director, Driven by a desire to uncover often (Ka-teu) Angie Chen returned to feature film Fri 17 May, 13:00 – 14:15 gangsterism, their 20-year friendship, blues musician and activist Yank Wong forgotten or ignored women’s histories, making with the documentary This Tickets: £7/£5 and their experience covering the Fri 10 May, 18:10 Yan-kwai. Chen uses her, often elusive, this documentary from the Darling Life, which explores the Some of the greatest soundtracks in series for The Star-Ledger, the Dir Boo Ji-young/KR 2014/110 mins/Korean wEngST subject to capture the fleeting nature Film Cooperative follows the attempts Yum Jung-ah, Moon Jung-hee, Kim Yeong-ae relationship between dog owners recent history have appeared on the newspaper that Tony Soprano picked of creation – on both sides of the to discover the story of women’s and their beloved companions. The small screen. From Sharp Objects up at the end of his driveway. Sun-hee is a temporary worker and camera. activism during the Glasgow rent model employee at a supermarket. film marked Chen as an insightful to Broad City; all have boasted Event/ Pilot Light TV Festival are strikes of 1915. However, when she and other Event/ We will be joined by director documentarian not afraid to put herself substantial eclectic soundtracks. A pleased to welcome Matt Zoller non-contract workers are abruptly Angie Chen for a post-screening Q&A. in the frame. large part of assembling these large- Event/ This screening will be Seitz and director Kristian Farga for laid-off they begin a strike. As their scale mix tapes is an unsung hero in introduced by Selina Robertson and Plus/ This screening will be preceded a Q&A around the film and the 20th action progresses, the women realise TV: the Music Supervisor. Join our panel Sarah Wood from queer feminist by the short film The Visit (Dir Angie anniversary of following they have much more resilience and and Universal Music for a peek behind collective Club des Femmes Chen, HK DE, 1981) the screening. determination than they thought. the curtain of music curation for TV. 16 17 Jazz on Film DOC’N ROLL Stories from She Punks, 2018 Mantra: Sounds into Silence, 2017 classics . . Our popular programme brings cinema classics to the big screen every month so you never need to miss those must-sees! Sunday screenings are usually Sat 25 – Thu 30 May – accompanied by a free, informal post-screening discussion. Sun 2 Jun Visit homemcr.org/classics for details. Mon 27 The Watermelon Woman, 1996 Doc’n Roll, the UK’s music documentary May festival, returns to Manchester for a For our fourth collaboration second year presenting new films on Mantra: Sounds into Silence with the Manchester Jazz Festival we music subcultures including jazz, punk, present two documentary titles that metal, techno, ska and reggae, with (CTBA) + Q&A focus on legendary jazz icons: Ella Q&As and after-parties to expand the Sun 2 Jun, 13:00 Fitzgerald and Blue Note Records. experience. Dir Georgia Wyss/ES FR GD IN RU US GB 2017/85 mins We are pleased to again celebrate homemcr.org/doc-n-roll Stories from She Punks (CTBA) Harmony, healing and shared humanity: an event that puts Manchester at the + Q&A a moving portrait of the practice of The Pajama Game, 1957 heart of the European jazz community. Never Stop: A Music That Kirtan, and the people from all walks Sat 1 Jun, 18:00 The Watermelon Woman (15) The Pajama Game (U) homemcr.org/jazz-on-film Resists (CTBA) of life and cultural traditions who Dirs Gina Birch, Helen Reddington/GB Thu 30 May, 20:40 2018/45 mins seek inner peace by singing mantras Sun 14 Apr, 13:00 Sun 5 May, 13:00 Dir Jacqueline Caux/FR 2017/80 mins Loud, fearless and (un)typical girls: together. In a film about spirituality Tue 16 Apr, 20:40 Tue 7 May, 20:40 This striking and beautifully Gina Birch (The Raincoats) and Helen rather than religion, we meet a diverse Wed 17 Apr, 13:00 Wed 8 May, 13:00 filmed documentary tells the Reddington (The Chefs), musicians and group of participants ranging from Dir Cheryl Dunye/US 1996/85 mins Dirs George Abbott, Stanley Donen/US 1957/101 mins compelling and unexpected story of punk icons turned directors, serve up a Tibetan monks to hip-hop MCs and Cheryl Dunye, Valarie Walker, Guinevere Turner Doris Day, John Raitt, Carol Haney Detroit techno and fascinating documentary built on new prison inmates. A landmark of LGBTQ cinema as well This Doris Day vehicle is a big budget labels that enabled its stubbornly interviews with the women who played Event/ There will be a Q&A following as black filmmaking. Set in Philadelphia, adaptation of a runaway Broadway independent underground culture to instruments in punk bands in the 1970s. this screening, see the website for young black lesbian Cheryl works in a success and a rare example of a resonate worldwide. guest details. video store with her friend Tamara but 1950s Hollywood film that offers some Event/ We will be joined by directors is determined to make a documentary sympathy to the plight of women Gina Birch and Helen Reddington for a Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes, 2018 Sepultura Endurance, 2017 about a forgotten uncredited black workers who are striving for better pay. Q&A following this screening. actor from the 1930s known only as ‘The Blue Note Records: Beyond the Watermelon Woman’. Notes (15) Sat 25 May, 15:30 Dir Sophie Huber/CH 2018/87 mins Through rare archival footage, current recording sessions and conversations with Blue Note artists and people Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records, 2018 closely affiliated with the label, the film Charlie Bubbles, 1968 provides an intimate look behind the Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan A Clockwork Orange, 1972 Sepultura Endurance (CTBA) scenes of the iconic jazz record label. Records (CTBA) + Q&A Chilly Gonzales: Shut Up and Play Charlie Bubbles (PG) the Piano, 2018 A Clockwork Orange (18) Sun 2 Jun, 15:30 Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Fri 31 May, 18:15 Sun 21 Apr, 13:00 Chilly Gonzales: Shut Up and Dir Otavio Juliano/BR 2017/100 mins/Portuguese Sun 19 May, 13:00 Dir Nicolas Jack Davies/GB 2018/85 mins Those Things (CTBA) and English with partial EngST Tue 23 Apr, 20:40 Tue 21 May, 20:10 A film about the love affair between Play the Piano (CTBA) Mon 27 May, 15:40 Part concert film, part testimonial Wed 24 Apr, 13:00 Wed 22 May, 13:00 Jamaican and British youth culture told Dir Leslie Woodhead/GB 2018/90 mins Sat 1 Jun, 20:40 to the power of music, part intimate Dir Albert Finney/GB 1968/89 mins Dir Stanley Kubrick/GB US 1972/136 mins through the prism of one of the most Dir Philipp Jedicke/DE 2018/82 mins Albert Finney, Colin Blakely, Billie Whitelaw From a 1934 talent contest at the insider view, Sepultura Endurance is Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates iconic labels in the history of black Apollo theatre in Harlem, the film Chilly Gonzales is a professional a close-focus portrait of Brazil’s rock After achieving international renown Kubrick’s adaptation of Anthony music, Trojan Records. Rudeboy places follows Ella Fitzgerald’s extraordinary paradox: a genre-juggling provocateur legends featuring previously unseen as one of the finest actors of his Burgess’s decline-of-civilisation the label at the heart of a cultural journey across five decades as she serving up rap and electro in archival footage from the band’s 30- generation, Albert Finney turned novel remains a chilling, thrilling and revolution that unfolded in the council reflects the passions and troubles of underground Berlin who became an year history. director for this comic twist on the unsettling cinematic vision of nihilistic estates and dancefloors of late 60s her times in her music and her life. unexpected infiltrator of the concert ‘kitchen sink’ dramas in which he’d violence and social control. Set in a and early 70s Britain. Moving beyond conventional biopic, the halls of classical music. This is a playful made his name. Based on a screenplay flamboyantly stylised near-future where documentary following the Grammy- by Shelagh Delaney, the script clearly film evokes the feel of those times so Event/ We will be joined by director gangs of disenfranchised teenagers as to bring to life the context of this Nicolas Jack Davies for a Q&A winning Gonzales from his native references both her and Finney’s indulge in narcotic cocktails and revel unique career. following this screening. to late 1990s Berlin, via experiences of their shared working in acts of ‘ultraviolence’. to the world’s great philharmonic halls. class origins. 18 19 BRING THE FAMILY Parent & live broadcasts Designed for the whole family (including babies), these screenings will have the Catch the best theatre and opera broadcast live in our cinemas from the world’s volume lowered and the lights will remain dimmed throughout the screening. Baby most prestigious companies. Films will begin at the advertised time without adverts or trailers. Parents, grandparents and carers of homemcr.org/live-broadcasts Our family programme is supported by Auto Trader. babies aged up to 12 months can NT Live/ All About Eve (12A as homemcr.org/families enjoy films in a relaxed environment with their babies. The volume will be live) Three Little Pigs, 2019 lowered and the lights will remain Thu 11 Apr, Doors - 18:45, dimmed throughout the screening. Performance – 19:00 Films will begin at the advertised time Faust, 2019 Running Time: Approx. 130 mins without adverts or trailers. All About Eve tells the story of Margo ROH Live/ Faust (12A as Live) Baby changing facilities are readily Channing. Legend. True star of the available and our café bar team can theatre. The spotlight is hers, always Tue 30 Apr, Doors - 18:30, provide high chairs and hot water for has been. But now there’s Eve. Her Performance – 18:45 bottles on request. Composer: Gounod /Opera in five acts/Sung in French biggest fan. Young, beautiful Eve. The wEngST/225 minutes (including 1 interval) golden girl, the girl next door. But you Unfortunately we are unable to admit Experience the decadence and know all about Eve…don’t you…? children older than 12 months of age. elegance of 1870s Paris in David homemcr.org/parent-and-baby Ivo van Hove directs this new stage McVicar’s spectacular production of version with set and lighting design Red Joan, 2018 Gounod’s best-loved opera. from Jan Versweyveld, costume design There are many versions of the story All About Eve, 2019 by An D’Huys and music from double Jour de fête (U) of Faust, who trades his soul with Bite-Sized Ballets/ Three Little Photographs: Gillian Anderson by Mercury Prize-winner PJ Harvey, the Devil for youth and power, but Pigs (U) Sun 26 May, 11:00 Pari Dukovic and Lily James by Perou. alongside Tom Gibbons’ sound design. Design: Bob King Creative. Gounod’s opera remains one of the Dir Jacques Tati/FR 1949/79 mins Casting is by Julia Horan CDG. Sun 28 Apr, 11:00 most constantly enthralling Jacques Tati, Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur Red Joan (12A) Running time: Approx. 43 mins Laughs are abundant in this tale of NT Live/ All My Sons (12A) Three little pigs set out into the world. a postman distracted from his work. Thu 25 Apr, 11:00 Thu 14 May, Doors - 18:45, One builds a house of straw. The Introduce the whole family to Jacques Dir Trevor Nunn/GB 2018/101 mins Performance – 19:00 second a house made of sticks. The Tati whose fun and fancy-free nature Judi Dench, Alfie Allen, Kim Allen Running Time: Approx. 165 mins third pig builds his house with bricks. will appeal to all ages. Perhaps less See p5 for details. Then along comes a very hungry wolf... Broadcast live from in well-known than Chaplin or Keaton, Pick of the Litter (PG) With playful characters and Tati is just as hilariously inventive as London, Academy Award-winner Sally La forza del destino, 2019 Field (Steel Magnolias, Brothers & spellbinding music, this adorable ballet both. Thu 23 May, 11:00 RSC Live/ is sure to have your little ones dancing Dirs Don Hardy, Dana Nachman/US 2018/81 mins ROH Live/ La forza del destino Sisters) and Bill Pullman (The Sinner, Independence Day) star in Arthur all the way home with excitement! See p8 for details. (12A as Live) Wed 17 April, Doors - 18:45, Performance – 19:00 Miller’s blistering drama All My Sons. Tue 2 Apr, Doors - 18:00, Come into the forest; dare to change America, 1947. Despite hard choices Performance – 18:15 your state of mind. and even harder knocks, Joe and Kate RELAXED events Jour de fête, 1949 Composer: Verdi/Opera in four acts/Sung in Italian Rosalind is banished, wrestling with Keller are a success story. They have Designed for people with autism spectrum conditions and their families. We’ll wEngST/255 minutes (including 2 intervals) her heart and her head. With her built a home, raised two sons and keep the lights on low, turn the sound down a little, and provide a separate Leonora falls in love with Don Alvaro, cousin by her side, she journeys to established a thriving business. room to take a break in. For the film screenings there will be no trailers or but when her father forbids their a world of exile where barriers are But nothing lasts forever and their advertisements before the film starts and you’ll be able to move around the marriage, a fatal accident triggers a broken down and all can discover contented lives, already shadowed by cinema if you want to. drama of obsession, vengeance and their deeper selves. Director Kimberley the loss of their eldest boy to war, are New to our Relaxed Screenings programme, we are trialling screenings for adults tragedy. Jonas Kaufmann and Anna Sykes (Dido, Queen of Carthage) about to shatter. With the return of a and older teens. Netrebko star in Verdi’s epic La forza directs a riotous, exhilarating version figure from the past, long buried truths del destino (The Force of Destiny) an homemcr.org/relaxed of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy. are forced to the surface and the price opera which demands the very best of their American dream is laid bare. Bite-Sized Ballets/ Three Little Jour de fête (U) of singers for its powerful music and the fullest theatrical treatment for its You may be interested in Northern Jeremy Herrin (NT Live: This House, Pigs (U) Sat 25 May, 11:00 story of bitter revenge pursued across Ballet’s Bite-Sized Ballet of Three People, Places & Things) directs a cast Sat 27 Apr, 11:00 Dir Jacques Tati/FR 1949/79 mins including Jenna Coleman (Victoria), Jacques Tati, Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur miles and years. The production comes Little Pigs as part of our Bring the See Bring The Family above for details. to The Royal Opera in a sensational and Colin Morgan (Merlin). See Bring The Family above for film Family screenings, see opposite for staging from Amsterdam packed with All My Sons is an Old Vic co-production details. details. colour and action. with Headlong. 20 21 THEATRE A Headlong, Alexandra Palace and Access performances Bristol Old Vic co-production with Royal & Derngate, Northampton BSL Interpreted performance Thu 2 May, 19:30 getWe are dedicated to making HOME a involved and Oxford Playhouse presents/ EVENTS YOUNG PEOPLE Audio Described Touch Tour place for all, where people of all ages Richard III + Post-show Q&A TOUCH TOUR Fri 3 May, 18:30 and backgrounds can take part, get A City Seen (CTBA) Young Programmers By closer to the programme and develop Audio Described performance Mon 29 Apr, 18:30 One of Us Film Selection Directed by John Haidar Fri 3 May, 19:30 new skills and knowledge along the way. £1 Jour de fête (U) Tue 30 Apr 2019 – Sat 4 May 2019 Caption Subtitled performance A quarterly film night exploring the Sat 25 May, 11:00 “What do I fear? Myself?” Sat 4 May, 14:00 Throughout the year there are on- going programmes, events, workshops, creativity of our city’s most essential Bring the Family After decades of civil war, the nation courses and artist opportunities to try groups. See website for full details. HOME’s Young Film Programmers get an hangs in the balance. Enter Richard, Duke out, so why not take a look at some of homemcr.org/a-city-seen opportunity to programme screenings of Gloucester, to change the course of these events listed here? at HOME. This May they have selected history. Playreading the Jacques Tati classic Jour de fête Richard was not born to be a king, OPPORTUNITIES for our Bring the Family slot. See p20 An opportunity to read and discuss but he’s set his sights on . for details. contemporary and classic plays, usually So begins his campaign of deceit, Call for Applications/The linked to our theatre productions. manipulation and violence – and he’s Doc Surgery killing it. Fri 5 Apr, 11:00 – 13:00 Deadline: Wed 10 Apr Fri 3 May 11:00 – 13:00 Yet, behind his ambition lies a murderous A two-day workshop hosted by Tickets £5 (scripts and refreshments Digital Workshop/ desire to be loved. Northern Docs looking at some of the included) Tom Mothersdale (The Glass Menagerie; key areas documentary producers need Instagram Cleansed; John) returns to Headlong to contend with including pitching, homemcr.org/playreading Wed 1 May, 18:30 to play Shakespeare’s iconic funding and distribution. The workshop £7/£6 Slate Social villain, in a revelatory new will take place 1 & 2 Jun. Find out how to build and maximise production directed by homemcr.org/docsurgery An informal meet up for artists of your Instagram account whether Young Identity Headlong Associate colour of all artistic fields. for business or pleasure with Katya Every Monday from 19:00 Artist John Haidar. Willems. Mon 15 Apr, 17:00 – 20:00 Free, no booking required Mon 13 May, 17:00 – 20:00 homemcr.org/digital-skills A weekly poetry workshop for 15- homemcr.org/slate 25 year olds lead by Manchester’s ART premiere youth spoken word project. Emma Smith: 5Hz & Euphonia homemcr.org/young-identity

Sat 6 Apr 2019 – Sun 19 May 2019 Want your short film ACCESS The sounds we make to connect to one another is the focus of a new exhibition by artist Emma Smith, bringing together two works – 5Hz and Euphonia. screened at HOME? Accessible Music Our gallery is transformed by a series of sound installations, with 5Hz centred Deadline: Wed 17 Apr Productions (AMP) around the invention of a new singing language that transcends language Send in your film for consideration Hofesh Shechter Company Workshops barriers; and Euphonia offering an interactive sound work that attunes itself to for our regular short film night before Dance workshop Tue 2 Apr, 18:00 – 20:30 the voices of visitors. Wed 17 Apr. The selected films will be Mothers Who Make screened on Fri 7 June. Fri 24 May, 11:00-13:00 Tue 7 May, 18:00 – 20:30 No submission fee, we accept films of A peer support group and creative £7/£6 Free, booking required exchange session for mothers who any genre (under 20 mins duration) by Led by two current performers from Monthly music workshops supporting are artists – professional and/or filmmakers currently living in the North the company this workshop opens with young people with different abilities passionate. Every kind of maker and West. a class in the style of the company and additional needs to write, play mother welcome, accompanied by their to enable a full understanding of and create music lead by professional homemcr.org/filmedup children or not. the movement principles of Hofesh’s musicians and artists. Mon 15 Apr, 10:30 – 12:30 work, and explore his key use of homemcr.org/amp Mon 20 May, 10:30 – 12:30 improvisation in his choreography. Free, no booking required homemcr.org/hofesh-dance- homemcr.org/mothers-who-make workshop 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] KEEP IN TOUCH available (limited capacity). ACCESSIBILITY Concessions and discounts e-news homemcr.org/sign-up are available, please see homemcr.org/accessibility website for further details. HOMEmcr @HOMEmcr Audioboom HOMEmcr YouTube HOMEmcrorg Flickr HOMEmcr

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