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120 BPM (15) WONDERSTRUCK (PG) MY GOLDEN DAYS (15) WESTERN (CTBA) MARLINA THE MURDERER IN LET THE SUNSHINE IN (15) (120 BATTEMENTS PAR MINUTE) (TROIS SOUVENIRS DE MA FOUR ACTS (15) (UN BEAU SOLEIL INTÉRIEUR) From Fri 6 Apr JEUNESSE) From Fri 13 Apr From Fri 6 Apr Dir Todd Haynes/US 2017/116 mins Dir Valeska Grisebach/DE BG AT 2017/119 mins/ From Fri 13 Apr From Fri 20 Apr Dir Robin Campillo/FR 2017/143 mins/French wEng ST Oakes Fegley, Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, From Fri 6 Apr German, Bulgarian and English with partial EngST Dir Mouly Surya/ID FR MY TH 2017/93 mins/ Dir Claire Denis/FR BE 2017/95 mins/French wEng ST Millicent Simmonds Meinhard Neumann, Reinhardt Wetrek, Syuleyman Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel Dir Arnaud Desplechin/FR 2015/124 mins/French Indonesian wEng ST Juliette Binoche, Xavier Beauvois, Philippe Katerine Alilov Letifov In the early 90s, with AIDS having Based on Brian Selznick’s acclaimed wEng ST Egy Fedly, Dea Panendra, Yoga Pratama Adapted from Roland Barthes’ A Cultural difference, masculine already claimed countless lives for novel, Wonderstruck is the tale of two Quentin Dolmaire, Lou Roy-Lecollinet, Mathieu Powerful, provocative, and visually Lover’s Discourse, the latest film from Amalric bravado, and national pride lead to nearly a decade, activist group ACT UP children, Ben and Rose whose desire stunning, this is a luminous new entry Claire Denis is a characteristically My Golden Days follows Paul Dédalus high tensions in the latest work from takes their actions to another level in for better lives sets them on a journey in the feminist western subgenre. intelligent and sensuous affair. Juliette as he returns from a posting in Valeska Grisebach (Longing), about a order to fight general indifference. This of self-discovery. This latest film from Mouly Surya’s accomplished Binoche gives her best performance for Tajikistan and looks back over the group of German construction workers is a potent portrait of resistance fuelled Todd Haynes (Carol) is an intelligent, third feature is one of a kind: a some time, playing a divorced single years of his youth. A film of great wit labouring in the Bulgarian countryside. by powerful performances and an engrossing work with appeal to all contemporary reworking of the parent artist looking for true love in and insight that recalls the nouvelle incredible sense of time and place. ages. spaghetti western and smouldering contemporary Paris. vague’s exploration of young love. revenge movie deeply rooted in the Event/ The 17:40 screening on Tue 10 cultural and geopolitical landscapes of Apr will be introduced by Dr Monica Indonesia. Pearl, Lecturer in 20th Century American Literature at the University of Manchester.

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GHOST STORIES (15) From Fri 6 Apr Dirs Jeremy Dyson, Andy Nyman/GB 2017/98 mins Alex Lawther, Martin Freeman, Andy Nyman A classy and chilling horror ANTONIO LOPEZ 1970: SEX compendium from Nyman and The CUSTODY (15) FASHION & DISCO (CTBA) League of Gentleman’s Jeremy (JUSQU’À LA GARDE) Dyson, this is an incredibly cine- From Fri 6 Apr From Fri 20 Apr Dir James Crump/US 2017/90 mins literate work (think Dead of Night Dir Xavier Legrand/FR 2017/94 mins/French wEng ST An intimate portrait of Antonio Lopez, meets Tales of the Unexpected) that Léa Drucker, Denis Ménochet, Thomas Gioria manages to be chilling, atmospheric the most influential fashion illustrator FUNNY COW (15) French director Xavier Legrand’s debut of the 1970s. Featuring interviews with and hugely entertaining. feature is an explosive family drama Grace Coddington, Jessica Lange, Bill From Fri 20 Apr that is as gripping as it is authentic. Event/ We will be joined by co- Cunningham and many more, the film Dir Adrian Shergold/GB 2017/103 mins The story of a custody battle between director Jeremy Dyson for a Q&A Maxine Peake, Christine Bottomley, Stephen Graham follows Antonio’s rise to fame at a Miriam and Antoine, the film, driven following the screening on Mon 9 time when fashion designers and their Set against the backdrop of working by riveting performances, effectively Apr at 18:10. entourages became the rock stars. men’s clubs and the stand-up comedy conveys the horrors of the home and circuit in the North of England, Funny an unfolding domestic nightmare. Cow charts the rise to stardom of a stand-up comedienne in an all-male world during the 1970s and 1980s. Maxine Peake is incredible in the central role.

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THE WOUND (15) (INXEBA) From Fri 27 Apr Dir John Trengove/ZA DE NL FR 2017/88 mins/ Xhosa, Afrikaans and English with partial EngST BEAST (CTBA) Nakhane Touré, Bongile Mantsai, Niza Jay THE YOUNG KARL MARX (CTBA) LEAN ON PETE (15) MARY AND THE WITCH’S FLOWER The Wound is an exploration of (LE JEUNE KARL MARX) (CTBA) From Fri 27 Apr tradition and sexuality set amid From Fri 4 May (MEARI TO MAJO NO HANA) Dir Michael Pearce/GB 2017/107 mins Dir Andrew Haigh/GB 2017/122 mins South Africa’s Xhosa culture. From Fri 4 May Johnny Flynn, Jessie Buckley, Geraldine James Dir Raoul Peck/FR BE DE 2017/118 mins/German, Travis Fimmel, Steve Buscemi, Chloë Sevigny Every year the tribe’s young men From Fri 4 May Anchored by a fierce performance French and English with partial EngST Andrew Haigh directs a modern-day Dir Hiromasa Yonebayashi/JP 2017/102 mins participate in an ancient coming- by Jessie Buckley as the troubled August Diehl, Stefan Konarske, Vicky Krieps western about a 15-year-old lost of-age ritual, which also becomes Hiromasa Yonebayashi – whose Moll, this is a brooding thriller that Fresh from the success of his James soul who hooks up with a pair of an opportunity for exploration of work for Studio Ghibli included the asks what it means to love someone Baldwin documentary, I Am Not Your itinerant horse trainers and develops a queer identity within this masculine beloved Arriety – continues his fine not in spite of, but because of, their Negro, Haitian-born director Raoul Peck powerful bond with an ailing racehorse. environment. form with the recently formed Studio imperfections. Pearce is most certainly tackles the early days of the friendship Evocative of Kelly Reichardt’s Wendy Ponoc. Based on the novel The Little a talent to watch. between Karl Marx and Friedrich and Lucy, it features a fine, naturalistic Broomstick by British author Mary Event/ We will be joined by director Engels as they struggle to establish John Trengove for a Q&A following performance from Charlie Plummer. Stewart, this is a sublime animated Event/ We will be joined by director the Communist Party and complete the the screening on Mon 30 Apr at 18:10. adventure that is full of charm and Michael Pearce for a Q&A following the Communist Manifesto. Plus/ We will be screening the BAFTA innovation. screening on Sun 29 Apr, 20:25. winning short film Cowboy Dave with this film. This film will have a mix of Dubbed and Subtitled screenings, please see website for information.

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THE OLD DARK HOUSE (PG) From Fri 27 Apr Dir James Whale/US 1932/70 mins Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton Frankenstein director Whale turned J.B. Priestley’s novel Benighted into MANSFIELD 66/67 (CTBA) REDOUBTABLE (CTBA) THAT GOOD NIGHT (12A) a nerve-jangling tale that became From Fri 11 May From Fri 11 May From Fri 11 May the template for all spooky-house Dirs P. David Ebersole, Todd Hughes/US GB 2017/84 mins Dir Michel Hazanavicius/IT FR 2017/107 mins/ Dir Eric Styles/GB 2017/92 mins chillers to come. Stranded travellers Ann Magnuson, Richmond Arquette French, English and Italian with partial Eng ST John Hurt, Charles Dance, Sofia Helin stumble upon a strange old house 2017 marked the 50th anniversary Louis Garrel, Stacy Martin, Bérénice Bejo This enthralling film is a wonderful and find themselves at the mercy of of the death of Jayne Mansfield in Paris 1967. Jean-Luc Godard, the tribute to the late John Hurt, who a highly eccentric and potentially a bizarre car accident. The makers leading filmmaker of his generation, is gives a characteristically riveting dangerous family. deliberately choose to put forward shooting La Chinoise with the woman performance in one of his final roles. many different, conflicting visions of he loves, Anne Wiazemsky, 20 years He plays Ralph, a once-famous writer Event/ The 18:15 screening on Tue 1 the ‘blonde bombshell’. Was Mansfield his junior. They are happy, attractive, who is terminally ill and wants to be May will be introduced by Dr Xavier a living cartoon, a camp character – or in love. They marry. But the film’s reconciled with his long-abandoned son Aldana Reyes, author of Horror was she very gifted actor? reception unleashes a profound self- Michael. Film and Affect (2016) and the examination in Jean-Luc. The events of forthcoming Gothic Cinema (2019). May ’68 will amplify this process, and the crisis that shakes the filmmaker.

4 5 Event THE BREADWINNER (12A) From Fri 25 May Dir Nora Twomey/IE 2017/93 mins Saara Chaudry, Soma Chhaya, Noorin Gulamgaus Equal parts thrilling and enchanting, The Breadwinner tells the story of ON CHESIL BEACH (CTBA) JEUNE FEMME (15) REVENGE (18) Parvana, an 11-year-old girl growing From Fri 18 May From Fri 18 May From Fri 18 May up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in Dir Dominic Cooke/GB 2017/110 mins Dir Léonor Serraille/FR 2017/98 mins/French wEng ST Dir Coralie Fargeat/FR 2017/108 mins/French and 2001. When her father is wrongfully Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle, Anne-Marie Duff Laetitia Dosch, Souleymane Seye Ndiaye, Grégoire English with partial EngST arrested, Parvana disguises herself as a Monsaingeon Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Vincent boy in order to support her family. England, 1962: two young newlyweds Colombe from very different backgrounds begin Broke, with nothing but her cat to Jen arrives at a remote desert villa their honeymoon on the Dorset coast. her name, Paula is back in Paris after a long absence. Serraille’s engaging with her millionaire boy toy for a A beautifully precise and searching film drama is evocative of Daphne in its weekend of romantic frivolity. Things fascinated by the repressive effects of depiction of a woman trying to make go south quickly when her lover’s ‘propriety’ – a notion still hard at work her way in the world. Laetitia Dosch is unseemly hunting pals show up and in English society in the early ‘60s. superb in the central role. make inappropriate advances that escalate into an outright assault.

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ZAMA (CTBA) From Fri 25 May Dir Lucrecia Martel/AR BR ES 2017/115 mins/Spanish Parent & Baby wEng ST Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele Screenings Tired of waiting for the King to transfer ALLURE (CTBA) EDIE (CTBA) Parents, grandparents and carers of ISLE OF DOGS (PG) him to a more liberating location, a babies aged up to 12 months can South American officer of the Spanish Dir Wes Anderson/US DE 2018/TBC mins From Fri 18 May From Fri 25 May enjoy films in a relaxed environment Scarlett Johansson, Greta Gerwig, Bryan Cranston Dirs Carlos Sanchez, Jason Sanchez/CA 2017/105 mins Crown embarks on a perilous journey Dir Simon Hunter/GB 2017/102 mins with their babies. The volume will be Thu 19 Apr, 11:00 Evan Rachel Wood, Julia Sarah Stone, Denis O’Hare towards freedom. A perfect coupling of Sheila Hancock, Kevin Guthrie, Paul Brannigan lowered and the lights will remain When all the canine pets of Megasaki Laura works as a house cleaner for literary source material and a unique Edith Moore is a gruff woman in her dimmed throughout the screening. City are exiled to a vast garbage- her father’s company but her personal cinematic sensibility, Zama weaves eighties. In the months following Films will begin at the advertised time dump called Trash Island, a young life is far from pristine. As she looks a magical spell that will leave you her husband’s death, her strained without adverts or trailers. for love in all the wrong places, her wanting more. relationship with her daughter boy sets off alone across the river in Baby changing facilities are readily heartbreaking behaviour points to Nancy begins to worsen. Desperate search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots. available and our café bar team can hardships in her past. This impressive to fulfil a commitment to undertake Wonderstruck, 2017 Look forward to more from Lucrecia provide high chairs and hot water for psychological thriller is a fascinating a climbing trip on the Scottish Martel in June when we will be bottles on request. tale of power dynamics. screening a series of her earlier Highlands, Edie sets out to make the work at HOME. Keep an eye on our trip alone. Unfortunately we are unable to admit website for more details. children older than 12 months of age. homemcr.org/parent-and-baby

WONDERSTRUCK (PG) Thu 24 May, 11:00 See p2 for film details.

6 7 70 YEARS OF NAKBA: A FILMS BEING SHOWN: COLLECTION OF PALESTINIAN House one-off screenings SHORTS (CTBA) + POST- Ahmed Saleh 2011 SCREENING DISCUSSION Alyasiini Sahera Dirbas Wed 2 May, 18:15 Your father was born 100 years ago Dir Various/77 mins & events and so was the Nakba Even When I Fall, 2017 This programme of nine shorts includes Razan Al Slaah 2017 the work of young and established Beast,2017 Oslo Syndrom Palestinian filmmakers. The first three Ayman Azraq House, 2011 BEAST (CTBA) films reflect directly on the events of Journey of a Sofa the Nakba (the 1948 Catastrophe) and Alaa Al Ali Sun 29 Apr, 20:25 Dir Michael Pearce/GB 2017/107 mins the dream of return through animation, Twenty Handshakes for Peace Mahdi Fleifel Johnny Flynn, Jessie Buckley, Geraldine James oral testimony and digital technology. See p4 for synopsis The remainder of the programme Message to Obama explores contemporary experiences, Muhannad Salahat Event/ We will be joined by director through traditional documentary, docu- Interference Oslo Syndrom Michael Pearce for a Q&A following the drama and the film essay. Anim Nayfeh 20:25 screening on Sun 29 Apr. Today they Took my Son Event/ The shorts programme will Farah Nabulsi

The Wound, 2017 be followed by a post-screening discussion. Organised in collaboration EVEN WHEN I FALL (12A) with Cinema Palestino Manchester and Tue 3 Apr, 18:15 Sheffield Hallam University (Creative Dirs Kate McLarnon, Sky Neal/GB 2017/93 mins/ Interruptions, AHRC) Nepali wEng ST Message to Obama The incredible story of Saraswoti and Sheetal, trafficking survivors who THE WOUND (15) + Q&A reclaim skills that once came at a (INXEBA) high cost: they were slaves in Indian Mon 30 Apr, 18:10 circuses - sold as children. Now freed, Dir John Trengove/ZA DE NL FR 2017/88 mins/ New East Cinema Xhosa, Afrikaans and English with partial EngST together they form Nepal’s first circus. New East Cinema is an on-going series of films and talks organised in collaboration with the Barbican and Calvert 22, Nakhane Touré, Bongile Mantsai, Niza Jay Ghost Stories, 2017 and which seeks to uncover the most thought-provoking, daring and vibrant cinema coming out of today’s ‘New East’, the See p4 for synopsis. expansive territory that stretches across Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Baltic, Russia and Central Asia. Event/ We will be joined by director John Trengove for a Q&A following the screening on Mon 30 Apr. THE FOOL (CTBA) Here to be Heard, 2017 (DURAK) HERE TO BE HEARD: THE STORY Tue 8 May, 18:00 OF THE SLITS (CTBA) + Q&A Dir Yury Bykov/RU 2014/116 mins/Russian wEng ST Artem Bystrov, Nataliya Surkova, Boris Nevzorov Sat 21 Apr, 20:35 A plumber’s assistant, idealistic Dir William E. Badgley/GB 2017/86 mins Dima spends his free time studying This story; a mix of archival to become an engineer. When footage, never before seen images, investigating a leak in a poor and interviews with the Slits The Old Dark House, 1932 neighbourhood, he realises that the along with Punk Rock royalty, THE OLD DARK HOUSE (PG) + INTRO 800 tenants need to be evacuated extraordinary producers, scholars and immediately. But when he goes to see those influenced by The Slits, can be Tue 1 May, 18:15 GHOST STORIES (15) + Q&A the mayor, Dima must face deeply best described by a quote from Ari Up Dir James Whale/US 1932/70 mins engrained municipal corruption. Mon 9 Apr, 18:10 herself: “I’m not here to be loved, I’m Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton Dirs Jeremy Dyson, Andy Nyman/GB 2017/98 mins here to be heard”. See p4 for synopsis. Alex Lawther, Martin Freeman, Andy Nyman See p2 for synopsis. Event/ We will be joined by director Event/ The 18:15 screening on Tue 1 William Badgley, The Slits bassist May will be introduced by Dr Xavier Event/ We will be joined by Jeremy Tessa Pollitt and John Robb of The Aldana Reyes, author of Horror Film Dyson for a Q&A following the Membranes for a Q&A following this and Affect (2016) and the forthcoming screening on Mon 9 Apr. screening. Gothic Cinema (2019). The Fool, 2014

8 9 Unrest, 2017 Sexuality BRING THE FAMILY Our family programme is supported by Auto Trader. Summer homemcr.org/families

Whale Rider, School 2002 This event is part of the University of Manchester’s Sexuality Summer School, which brings postgraduate students, researchers, performers and filmmakers together to discuss queer and feminist debates about sexuality Revenge, 2017 in contemporary culture. UNREST (12A) + POST-SCREENING A Love That Never Dies, 2017 Moonlight, 2016 DISCUSSION A LOVE THAT NEVER DIES (12A) Tue 15 May, 18:00 Birds Eye + Q&A Dir Jennifer Brea/US GB 2017/98 mins Wed 30 May, 18:15 Coco, 2017 Jennifer Brea is working on her PhD View Dirs Jimmy Edmonds, Jane Harris /GB IN US 2017/75 mins and is months away from marrying Are you passionate about film as well COCO (PG) WHALE RIDER (PG) the love of her life when she gets a A Love That Never Dies is a personal as equality? Sun 29 Apr, 11:00 Sun 27 May, 11:00 mysterious fever that leaves her so ill journey by two bereaved parents Jane Join the first of a number of ongoing Dirs Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina/US 2017/105 mins Dir Niki Caro/NZ DE 2002/101 mins she becomes bedbound. Disbelieved Harris and Jimmy Edmonds. Their son Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky by doctors and determined to live, she events at HOME that form part of Birds died in a road accident in Vietnam five Bratt Haughton Eye View’s new Influencers initiative, turns her camera on herself and her MOONLIGHT (15) + SHORT FILM years ago and they now honour him Coco follows the adventures of a Pai, an 11-year-old girl believes she inspired by a mission to bring ever- community, a hidden world of millions DES!RE + PANEL DISCUSSION with their own road trip. On the way 12-year-old boy named Miguel, who is destined to be the new chief of greater audiences to films by women, confined to their homes and bedrooms they meet with other families who have finds himself in the Land of the Dead her tribe, but her grandfather Koro to build a more balanced film future. by Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. Mon 21 May, 17:50 also lost a child. while on a quest to prove his talent as is bound by tradition to pick a male Dir Barry Jenkins/US 2016/101 mins REVENGE (18) + POST-SCREENING a musician. leader. Pai loves Koro more than Event/ This screening will be followed Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Trevante Rhodes Event/ We will be joined by directors DISCUSSION anyone in the world, but she must by a post-screening discussion with Moonlight follows a young black male Jimmy Edmonds and Jane Harris for a fight him and a thousand years of Dr Charles Shepherd of the ME from childhood to adulthood as he Q&A following the screening. Sun 20 May, 18:00 tradition to fulfil her destiny. Association and Natalie Wright, ME Dir Coralie Fargeat/FR 2017/108 mins/French and navigates the dangers of drugs and Screening from a 35mm print. patient and activist. English with partial EngST violence in his depressed Florida Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe neighbourhood, in addition to his complex love for his male best friend. Jen arrives at a remote desert villa An impeccably crafted study of with her millionaire boy toy for a African-American masculinity. RELAXED SCREENINGS weekend of romantic frivolity. Things Designed for people with autism go south quickly when her lover’s DES!RE spectrum conditions and their unseemly hunting pals show up and Dir Cambell X/2017/10 mins families. We’ll keep the lights on low, make inappropriate advances that Jazz meditation exploring the desire turn the sound down a little, and escalate into an outright assault. for transmasculine, transmen, butch, provide a separate room to take a Event/ Join Birds Eye View’s Mia stud, masculine of centre (MOC) people break in. There will be no trailers or Almost Heaven, 2017 Bays, an Oscar-winning producer assigned female at birth. advertisements before the film starts (Six Shooter by Martin McDonagh, and you’ll be able to move around the ALMOST HEAVEN (12A) Event/ This screening will be followed BAFTA-nominated Scott Walker – 30 cinema if you want to. by a panel discussion, including Thu 17 May, 18:20 Century Man), programme curator speakers Campbell X and Andrew Moor, New to our Relaxed Screenings Dir Carol Salter/GB 2017/72 mins/Mandarin wEng ST Joanna Duncombe of BEV and Dr Kirsty Manchester Metropolitan University, programme, we are trialling screenings Ying Ling is an ambitious 17 year- Fairclough of the University of Salford discussing these films in relation to this for adults and older teens. old girl far from home, struggling to in conversation with each other and year’s Summer School theme: ‘Queer homemcr.org/relaxed Coco, 2017 Mary and the Witch’s Flower, 2017 overcome her sense of displacement the audience after the screening, to Longing’. and fears of death as she trains to frame the film and to offer a space for COCO (PG) MARY AND THE WITCH’S FLOWER become a funeral director in one of reflection and discussion. This event is supported by the (CTBA) China’s largest funeral homes. Almost Sexuality Summer School, Superbia, Sat 28 Apr, 11:00 (MEARI TO MAJO NO HANA) Heaven is an intimate and life-affirming Screen, and the University of See above for synopsis. portrait of a young woman on the cusp Manchester. Sat 26 May, 11:00 of adulthood. See p5 for synopsis 10 11 LOUIS CHUDE-SOKEI PLUS THE OTOLITH GROUP (15) + Q&A Sat 21 Apr, 13:10 seasons Join us for Louis Chude-Sokei’s presentation Blackness and Becoming: Anim18 Louis Edouard Glissant’s Retour followed by Henderson: a screening of The Third Part of the . Third Measure (Dir The Otolith Group/ Abracadabra, 2017 Echoes GB 2017/43 mins). ABRACADABRA (15) May– Nov 2018 . Event/ We will be joined by Anjalika Anim18 is a nationwide celebration Sagar and Kodwo Eshun of The Otolith Sat 21 Apr, 17:50 + Q&A of British Animation. Join us as we Group for a Q&A following the screening. Tue 24 Apr, 20:30 celebrate our love of animation with a Tue 17 Apr – Dir Pablo Berger/ES 2017/100 mins/Spanish monthly screening in association with with EngST Sun 3 Jun With support from the BFI, awarding funds from the National Lottery. Maribel Verdú, Antonio de la Torre, José Mota, Manchester Animation Festival. Echoes contemplates the invited Priscilla Delgado For information on the season at HOME people and films that have played Carmen is an ordinary housewife visit homemcr.org/anim18 or visit a considerable part in the sculpting living on the outskirts of Madrid www.anim18.co.uk for more on Anim18 of Henderson’s new commission and with her husband Carlos, but when Anim18 is led by Film Hub Wales, Chapter (Cardiff), exhibition Overtures. he’s possessed by the spirit of an BFI Film Audience Network and project partners Le Fort de Fous, 2017 across the UK, with the support of the BFI, awarding This year we screen 19 new films from Spain and Latin America, including nine apparently much nicer man, their lives Louis Henderson’s exhibition Overtures funds from The National Lottery. LE FORT DE FOUS (CBTA) UK cinema premieres and six director Q&As. are transformed dramatically. A riot of opens on Fri 20 Apr, see p19 for details. saturated colour, deliberate excess and We’re also celebrating the revolutionary spirit of Latin America with four classic Please see website for more details Tue 1 May, 20:00 infectious 80s music. films, in-depth talks and film introductions, plus an opening weekend dedicated homemcr.org/echoes Dir Narimane Mari/FR GR DE 2017/150 mins/French, Greek and Arabic wEng ST to Cuba. Join us as we explore the long history of movements and populist Event/ We will be joined by director The Sea is History 2013 TRIPLE BILL/ WUTHARR, demagogues who’ve inspired and challenged filmmakers. Pablo Berger for a Q&A following the SALTWATER DREAMS + NIGHT screening on Sat 21 Apr. Candelaria, 2017 TIME GO + MERMAIDS, MIRROR WORLDS (CTBA) Sat 12 May, 13:00 Dir The Karrabing Film Collective/AU 2016-18/90 mins The Karrabing Film Collective is a grassroots Indigenous based media group. Filmmaking provides a means of Casi leyendas, 2017 Ethel & Ernest, 2016 self-organization and social analysis for Rosa Chumbe, 2015 ETHEL & ERNEST (PG) the Karrabing and their films represent UK PREMIERE/ CASI LEYENDAS (15) Lettres du Voyant, 2016 their lives, create bonds with their UK PREMIERE/ CANDELARIA (12A) UK PREMIERE/ ROSA CHUMBE (12A) (LEGENDS) Sun 13 May, 15:30 land, and intervene in global images of Dir Roger Mainwood/GB 2016/94 mins THE SEA IS HISTORY AND Fri 27 Apr, 17:50 + Q&A Indigeneity. Thu 12 Apr, 19:15 Thu 19 Apr, 18:15 + Q&A Jim Broadbent/Brenda Blethyn, Roger Allam, Pam Ferris LETTRES DU VOYANT (15) + Q&A ZAMA (CTBA) ¡VIVA! OPENING NIGHT Dir Jonatan Relayze/PE 2015/75 mins/Spanish Sun 29 Apr, 18:00 Based on the award-winning book by with EngST Dir Gabriel Nesci/AR ES 2017/116 mins/Spanish Tue 17 Apr, 18:30 Sun 15 Apr, 17:50 + Q&A British author and illustrator Raymond From Fri 25 May Liliana Trujillo, Cindy Díaz, Franco Diaz, Alejandro with EngST Dir Louis Henderson/GB 2013 + 2016/68 mins Dir Jhonny Hendrix/CO DE NO AR CU 2017/85 Romero Caceres Diego Peretti, Santiago Segura, Diego Torres, Briggs, this hand-drawn feature film is See p6 for synopsis. mins/Spanish with EngST Starting with a poem by author Derek Eking out an existence in a chaotic and Florencia Bertotti an affectionate depiction of the life and Alden Knight, Verónica Lynn, Manuel Viveros Walcott, The Sea is History artfully DOUBLE BILL/ SPELL REEL + SOL apathetic city, Rosa’s only indulgences A feel-good buddy movie, by turns times of his parents. The film follows Havana, 1994, and Cuba is drowning breaks open various levels of the NEGRO (CTBA) are fruit machines and solitary drinking funny and moving, about three men Ethel and Ernest from their first meeting in hunger, cigars and rum. With the violent conquest of Haiti and the bouts. But when she’s forced to take in mid-life crisis who rekindle their in the 1920s, through the tumultuous Sun 3 Jun, 15:30 US-imposed embargo is at its peak, the Dominican Republic. on more responsibility for her baby youthful rock-and-roll dreams. 25 events of the 20th Century to post-war Soviet Union disintegrates. But the life SOL NEGRO grandson, her life takes a dramatic years after they mysteriously missed prosperity and the swinging 60s. In Lettres du Voyant, set in Ghana, a Dir Laura Huertas Millán/FR CO 2016/43 mins/Spanish of an elderly couple continues. A funny turn. A quietly devastating and their big break, this second chance at ‘seer’ describes his vision of reversed wEng ST and tender portrayal of love in a time Event/ We will be joined by Dr Steve exquisitely shot debut. success might just be their salvation. colonial history in lyric form. Henderson, Senior Lecturer in Animation SPELL REEL of hardship. Dir Filipa César/DE PT FR 2017/96 mins/Portuguese, Event/ We will be joined by director Event/ We will be joined by director at Manchester Metropolitan University Event/ We will be joined by director Louis Fula, Guinea-Bissau Creole, French and English with Event/ We will be joined by director Jonatan Relayze for a Q&A following Gabriel Nesci for a Q&A following the and Director of Manchester Animation Henderson and James Moss, Gallery partial EngST Jhonny Hendrix for a Q&A following the screening on Thu 19 Apr. screening on Fri 27 Apr. Festival for a 20 minute talk on the British and Exhibitions Organiser of The Portico Please see website for more details the screening on Sun 15 Apr. animated feature before this screening. Library, for a Q&A following this screening. homemcr.org/echoes

12 13 Pilot Light Uprising: Spirit British Sounds, 1970 TV Festival of ’68 Season 3 . . Fri 18 – Thu 3 – Tue 22 May VENT D’EST + BRITISH SOUNDS (15) Sun 6 May In Paris in May 1968, confrontations between police and students brought The Cremator, 1969 Sun 20 May, 15:20 Pilot Light TV Festival is Manchester’s workers out on a general strike and left home of celebrating the small screen. THE CREMATOR (15) Two of Godard and Gorin’s most the French government on the brink of expressly political works. The festival returns with even more collapse. To mark the anniversary of (SPALOVAC MRTVOL) exclusive screenings of series old and this radical period and the shockwaves Sat 19 May, 13:00 VENT D’EST new from around the world plus Q&As, Dir Jean Luc-Godard/FR 1970/93 mins that were sent across the rest of Europe Dir Juraj Herz/CZ 1969/100 mins/Czech wEng ST panels and workshops with the people Gian Maria Volontè, Anne Wiazemsky, Cristiana (and beyond), we celebrate the art and Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlasta Chramostová, Jana Tullio-Altan behind the series we love so much. Stehnová notion of social, cultural and political Described by Godard as ‘an For full details on all the events The Cremator has been described in resistance and revolution. organisation of shots’, this western in this year’s festival head to Sex and The City, 1998 many ways - as surrealist-inspired homemcr.org/may-68 of sorts is a disruptive work featuring pilotlightfestival.co.uk horror, as expressionist fantasy, as a fragmented sound and image. Not for Utopia, 2013 Tout va Bien, 1972 dark and disturbing tale of terror. A mix the faint hearted. SEX AND THE CITY: THE of Dr Strangelove and Repulsion, it’s set WORLD ACCORDING TO WOKE in Prague during the Nazi occupation BRITISH SOUNDS CHARLOTTE (CTBA) Dirs Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Henri Roger/GB and tells the tale of a professional 1970/52 mins cremator, for whom the political climate Fri 4 May, 20:20 Also known as See You at Mao, British allows free rein to his increasingly 90 mins Sounds offers an examination of the deranged impulses. 2018 marks the 20th anniversary of daily routine at a British automotive the iconic HBO show. Despite being factory assembly line. groundbreaking for its depictions Redoubtable, 2017 A FILM LIKE ANY OTHER (CTBA) and discussions of straight female (UN FILM COMME LES AUTRES) sexuality and life, the show garnered a Tabula Rasa, 2018 reputation for being quite problematic Mon 21 May, 20:40 when it comes to issues of gender, WALTER PRESENTS: TABULA TOUT VA BIEN (15) Dir Jean-Luc Godard/FR 1968/107 mins/French race and queer sexuality. This recently RASA (CTBA) (EVERYTHING IS ALRIGHT) wEng ST TV IN MEMORIAM: UTOPIA (CTBA) An analysis of the social upheaval brought about the viral meme of Sat 5 May, 16:00 Fri 18 May, 18:20 of May 1968 made in the immediate #WokeCharlotte, where fans used Dir Kaat Beels, Jonas Govaerts/NL 2018/60 mins/ Sun 6 May, 16:00 Dirs Jean Luc-Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin/FR screencaps of the character to show Dutch with EngST Dir Mark Munden/GB 2013/60 mins 1972/95 mins aftermath of the workers’ and students’ the errors of the show when discussing Veerle Beatens, Stijn Van Opstal, Jeroen Perceval Neil Maskell, Adeel Ahktar, Alexandra Roach Yves Montand, Jane Fonda, Vittorio Caprioli REDOUBTABLE (CTBA) protests. The film consists of two parts, these important issues. Walter Iuzzolino returns to Pilot Light TV in Memoriam is a new feature of Pilot Featuring a newly radicalised Jane each with identical image tracks and Sat 19 May, 18:10 differing narration. Early booking heavily To celebrate the show’s anniversary and to showcase Walter Presents’ next big Light TV Festival dedicated to screening, Fonda, Godard’s assault on consumer Dir Michel Hazanavicius/IT FR 2017/107 mins/ advised!!! to dig deeper into the Woke Charlotte hit. Tabula Rasa follows a young woman celebrating and mourning TV shows capitalism and the establishment Left French, English and Italian with partial Eng ST phenomenon, Pilot Light are teaming with amnesia locked up in a secure that left us too early. The first show to offers a critique of society, marriage, Louis Garrel, Stacy Martin, Bérénice Bejo IF (15) up with London’s Reel Good Film Club psychiatric hospital. She was the last be featured is Dennis Kelly’s Utopia. and revolution in post-1968 France. Paris 1967. Jean-Luc Godard, the to examine the impact the show had person to be seen with a man who has This beautiful, brutal and captivating Radical, yet also very entertaining. leading filmmaker of his generation, is Tue 22 May, 18:10 Dir Lindsay Anderson/GB 1968/111 mins on women of colour in the years since since disappeared. As both a witness British drama followed a diverse group shooting La Chinoise with the woman and prime suspect, she holds the key to Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard its initial airing, through a live script of people after they discover a graphic he loves, Anne Wiazemsky, 20 years Warwick solving this mysterious case. novel tied to a vast conspiracy and his junior. They are happy, attractive, reading of the pilot, recast entirely Lindsay Anderson’s daringly anarchic find themselves being tracked down in love. They marry. But the film’s with people of colour, followed by a Event/ Walter Iuzzolino, CEO of vision of British society set in an English by a merciless organisation called ‘The reception unleashes a profound self- discussion panel on Sex & The City and Walter Presents, will be in attendance boarding school in the late 1960s Network’. examination in Jean-Luc. The events of its relationship with race. to give a special introduction to this audaciously mixes fantasy and reality. May ’68 will amplify this process, and screening. Creator Dennis Kelly, Producer Malcolm McDowell is incredible as a Event/ the crisis that shakes the filmmaker. Rebekah Wray Rogers and other key rebellious pupil determined to trump talent from the show will take part in a authority at every turn. Q&A following a screening of the first episode of Utopia.

14 15 The Girl Can’t Doc’n Roll Help It, 1956 Film Fest . classics Our popular programme brings cinema classics to the big screen every month so you never need to miss those must-sees! Sunday screenings are usually accompanied by Thu 24 – a free, informal post-screening discussion. Visit homemcr.org/classics for details. Mon 28 May Play Your Gender, 2016 The UK’s music documentary festival Bottle Rocket, 1996 arrives to Manchester presenting new PLAY YOUR GENDER (CTBA) + THE GIRL CAN’T HELP IT (U) films on music subcultures including PANEL DISCUSSION Manchester Keeps on Dancing, 2017 indie, jazz, rock, grunge and electronic, Sun 6 May, 13:00 with Q&As and after-parties to expand Fri 25 May, 18:15 Tue 8 May, 20:30 the experience. Dir Stephanie Clattenburg/CA 2016/80 mins Wed 9 May, 13:00 In the entire history of the Grammys, Dir Frank Tashlin/US 1956/93 mins homemcr.org/doc-n-roll no woman has ever won the prestigious Tom Ewell, Jayne Mansfield, Edmond O’Brien Producer of the Year award. In Play Your BOTTLE ROCKET (15) Often called the best rock ’n’ roll film Gender, Juno Award-winning producer Sun 1 Apr, 13:00 ever made, this high-powered, high- Kinnie Starr is on a quest to find out voltage comedy features music by Fats MANCHESTER KEEPS ON Tue 3 Apr, 20:40 why this disparity exists by speaking to Domino, Little Richard and the Platters DANCING (CTBA) + Q&A music industry stars and veterans about Wed 4 Apr, 13:00 and introduced the world to Jayne Dir Wes Anderson/US 1996/91 mins the realities of being a woman in the Mansfield, who is sensational as moll Sat 26 May, 18:00 Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Ned Dowd recording studio. Dir Javi Senz/GB 2017/105 mins Jerri Jordan to Edmond O’Brien’s Marty Wes Anderson’s first feature Murdock, the mobster determined to Event/ This screening will be followed A new feature film that documents – in (co-written with Owen Wilson) make her a singing star. by a panel discussion. exceptional detail – the arrival of House established his surreal and distinctive music in Manchester from Chicago in cinematic vision. The tale of three A Fistful of Dollars, 1967 the 1980s, through to the Acid House young misfits who stage a bizarre explosion of 1988 and a further 30 years robbery, the film offers an affectionate of its phenomenal impact. look at the folly of dreamers. James L7: Pretend We’re Dead, 2016 Event/ We will be joined by director Caan excels as a veteran thief. WORLD PREMIERE/ ABOUT Javi Senz, DJ Krysko and Dave A BADLY DRAWN BOY: THE Haslam for a Q&A following the STORY OF THE HOUR OF screening. BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (U) BEWILDERBEAST (CTBA) + Q&A Sun 15 Apr, 13:00 Sat 26 May, 15:30 Pure Love: Dir Craig McNeil/GB 2018/70 mins The Voice Wed 18 Apr, 13:00 Of Ella Dir Wim Wenders/DE US 1999/105 mins/ An in-depth feature film all about the Fitzgerald, Spanish wEng ST 2017 boy himself, Damon Gough, and the Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén legacy of his Mercury Prize-winning González A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (15) album eighteen years after its original Marking 20 years since the (PER UN PUGNO DI DOLLARI) release in 2000. We hear of the legendary concerts in Amsterdam influences Damon brought to the and New York, Wim Wenders’ Sun 20 May, 13:00 recording; the songwriting process and multi-award-winning documentary Tue 22 May, 20:40 PURE LOVE: THE VOICE OF ELLA stories behind the songs, musicians, celebrates aging Cuban musicians Wed 23 May, 13:00 L7: Pretend We’re Dead, 2016 FITZGERALD (CTBA) producers and album artwork. brought out of retirement by Dir Sergio Leone/IT ES 1967/95 mins Ry Cooder, the blues-flavoured Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch L7: PRETEND WE’RE DEAD (CTBA) Event/ We will be joined by director Mon 28 May, 16:00 Dir Katja Duregger/DE 2017/52 mins musician and critically acclaimed Craig McNeil for a Q&A following the The first of Sergio Leone’s landmark Thu 24 May, 18:30 composer of numerous film scores. screening. Focusing on the phenomenon of her westerns rejuvenated the ailing Dir Sarah Price/US 2016/87 mins extraordinary voice, this film pays genre and catapulted Eastwood to Chronicling the early days of the band’s tribute to The First Lady of Song – Ella stardom. Propelled by Ennio Morricone’s formation in 1985 to their height as the Fitzgerald. Duregger unravels the secret See p12 for more films incredible score, the tale of an ‘queens of grunge,’ the film is a roller of Fitzgerald’s voice via insights from screening as part of our ¡Viva! unnamed stranger who sets two gangs coaster ride through L7’s triumphs and singers and jazz musicians who each Festival. For full details visit of killers against each other has its failures - a classic tale of rags to riches describe the impact her voice had and homemcr.org/viva-2018 origins in Yojimbo. The film’s nihilism is Buena Vista Social Club, 1999 to rags. continues to have on their lives. all its very own. 16 17 live broadcasts An American in Paris – The Musical, 2018 THEATRE Catch the best theatre and opera broadcast live in our cinemas from the world’s most prestigious companies. homemcr.org/live-broadcasts

ROH Live/ Macbeth, 2018 ROH LIVE/ MACBETH Wed 4 Apr, Doors - 19:00 Performance – 19:15 THE TIGER LILLIES: CORRIDO DE Composer: Verdi/Opera in four acts/Sung in Italian wEng ST/200 minutes (including 1 LA SANGRE interval) Fri 20 Apr 2018 – Sat 5 May Verdi’s life-long love affair with Shakespeare’s works began with Caption Subtitled performance, Macbeth, a play he considered to Thu 3 May, 19:30 be ‘one of the greatest creations of Audio Described performance, man’. With his librettist, Francesco AN AMERICAN IN PARIS Fri 4 May, 19:30 Maria Piave, Verdi set out to create – THE MUSICAL (CBTA) A Corrido singer and his band return ‘something out of the ordinary’. Their Wed 16 May, 19:50 from the realm of the dead to haunt success is borne out in every bar of their killer and tell us their dark story Running Time: Approx. 160 mins a score that sees Verdi at his most of intrigue, vengeance, murder and the theatrical: it bristles with demonic This breathtakingly beautiful Tony® mayhem of a romance gone bad. This energy. Award-winning Broadway musical, new, full-length show blends stunning inspired by the Oscar winning MGM visuals with original music from the film, tells the impassioned story of Grammy-nominated godfathers of discovering love in the ‘City of Light’. alternative cabaret, The Tiger Lillies. Featuring the gorgeous music and Greater Manchester Arts Centre (HOME) is supported by PRS Foundation’s The Open Fund lyrics of George and Ira Gershwin (including the classic hits ‘S Wonderful and I Got Rhythm), stunning designs, and show-stopping choreography. With a record-setting 28 five-star reviews exhibition from critics, An American in Paris is coming from London’s West End to a LOUIS HENDERSON: OVERTURES cinema near you. Jerry Mulligan is an American GI Sat 21 Apr 2018 – Sun 10 Jun striving to make it as a painter in BSL Led Gallery Tour, Sat 2 a city suddenly bursting with hope Jun, 15:00 – 16:00* RSC Live/ Macbeth, 2018 NT Live/ Macbeth, 2018 and possibility. Following a chance HOME presents a major new co- encounter with a beautiful young commission and solo exhibition from RSC LIVE/ MACBETH (12A AS LIVE) NT LIVE/ MACBETH (12A AS LIVE) dancer named Lise, the streets of Paris award-winning artist Louis Henderson, Wed 11 Apr, Doors - 18:45 Thu 10 May, Doors - 18:45, become the backdrop to a sensuous, who has produced a film based around Performance – 19:00 Performance – 19:00 modern romance of art, friendship and a collaboration in the Haitian city ‘Something wicked this way comes’ Running Time: Approx. 210 mins love in the aftermath of war... of Port-au-Prince. A new HOME co- Returning home from battle, the The ruined aftermath of a bloody civil commission in partnership with Spectre victorious Macbeth meets three war. Ruthlessly fighting to survive, the Productions, Centre national des arts witches on the heath. Driven by their Macbeths are propelled towards the plastiques and Ghetto Biennial 2017. disturbing prophecies, he sets out on crown by forces of elemental darkness. *Art & Design Historian, Jennifer Little the path to murder. Shakespeare’s most intense and will lead a BSL tour of this exhibition Our contemporary production of terrifying tragedy, directed by Rufus (there will be no spoken English). Shakespeare’s darkest psychological Norris (The Threepenny Opera, London thriller marks both Christopher Road), will see Rory Kinnear (Young See p13 for Echoes, our season Eccleston’s RSC debut and the return Marx, Othello) and Anne-Marie Duff of Louis Henderson films. of Niamh Cusack to the Company. (Oil, Suffragette) return to the National Theatre to play Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. 18 19 VISIT HOME 2 Tony Wilson Place Manchester DON’T MISS... 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