Make A Scene/ Showgirls Way Too Interactive Screening at Manchester235 Casino
Join Manchester’s big queer film club Make A Scene for a quote-a-long all-singing all-dancing, way-too-interactive screening of Showgirls in a casino.
From £10Written by Tom Grieve
Above The Line presents: Screening 08. Mother! & The Exorcist at YES
This Mother’s Day Above The Line are taking over the basement at YES for their eighth screening; an intimate presentation of Mother! and The Exorcist. Please be advised this screening will be smaller in capacity so arrive early to avoid disappointment.
Free entry
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MIF19: David Lynch at HOME
Manchester International Festival announce a host of musicians for this summer’s highly anticipated event at HOME. Brace yourself for dark mysteries and wilder dreams as Manchester International Festival invite cult artist and filmmaker David Lynch to take over for a season of cinema, art and music.
Free entry
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Manchester Film Festival at Odeon Great Northern
Manchester Film Festival have announced a line-up filled with international talent and independent cinema, with screenings at Odeon Great Northern, HOME and Aviva Studios.
From £8
Grimmfest’s Japanese Horror Double Bill at Stockport Plaza
Grimmfest presents a ‘Japanese Horror’ Double Bill, supported by Horror Channel.
From £10
Queer Cinema Collective presents: Paris Was a Woman & Born A Rebel at Partisan
An extra special evening for International Women’s Day: A 15 minute short followed by a feature documentary.
From £4
Girls on Film – Live Podcast Recording at HOME
The all-female film review podcast Girls On Film was initiated by film journalist Anna Smith in response to calls for more female voices in film criticism. Girls On Film is delighted to launch a series of live podcasts in partnership with HOME across 2019.
From £5
Bigger Than Life/ The Seventh Victim + Introduction at HOME
Film curators Bigger Than Life present a 35mm screening of The Seventh Victim with an introduction by Dr Chloé Germaine Buckley of Manchester Met and Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies.
From £5.50
The Final Girls/ We Are The Weirdos 2 at Stockport Plaza
Grimmfest welcome feminist horror film collective The Final Girls back to present a selection of short films from some of the most exciting new female voices in international genre cinema.
From £8
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If Beale Street Could Talk at HOME
An adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel about a woman fighting to free her falsely accused husband from prison before the birth of their child, director Barry Jenkins’ follow-up to Moonlight has been described as a plunge into the world of black love, with all the pain and the joy that can go along with it.
From £5.50
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Celebrating Women in Global Cinema at HOME
In 2019 HOME host a year-long programme of films and special events highlighting and celebrating women in film from across the world. From specially curated retrospectives, seasons and special events, to takeovers of annual favourites, this branded series of screenings and events will explore and challenge the place and space of female filmmakers from a variety of cultural, social and political perspectives.
From £5.50
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Out of Blue at HOME
A homicide detective’s (Clarkson) investigation into the shooting of a leading astrophysicist and black-hole expert destabilises her view of the universe and herself, in Carol Morley’s adaptation of Martin Amis’ Night Train.
From £5.50