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New releases this week include Borg Vs McEnroe, the story of one of the world’s greatest sports rivalries; Tramontane, a poignant exploration of war and life after conflict through the eyes of a young blind man; On Body and Soul a strangely beautiful love story set in a slaughterhouse in Budapest; and In Between, the story of three Palestinian women sharing an apartment in the vibrant heart of Tel Aviv.

Our Not Just Bollywood season continues with The Cinema Travellers and Court, showcasing the best in independent Indian cinema. Our Sally Potter season also continues with, Orlando, The Last Tango and The Man Who Cried. Other one-offs include the 1982 Palme d’Or award winning film Missing; The Night is Short, Walk on Girl, an animated tale of young love; Black Sabbath The End of the End, chronicling the final tour of the famous metal band; and Steve Spielberg’s family favourite Hook is this months family screening.

Wind River, God’s Own Country, Mother! and Victoria and Abdul all continue.

Next 7 Days: Cinema

God’s Own Country (15)

Today 12.50, 20.35; Tomorrow 13.15, 17.45, 20.40; Wed 13.40, 18.00, 20.35 Thu 13.05, 18.00 + more times

Johnny, a young sheep farmer from Yorkshire, has sacrificed his own life choices to run the family farm....

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Fri 22 Sep - Thu 28 Sep

Victoria and Abdul (PG)

Today 13.10, 18.00; Wed 17.55 Thu 13.10, 15.30

The extraordinary true story of an unexpected friendship between Queen Victoria and Abdul Karim, a young Indian clerk.

In Between (15)

From Fri 22 Sep

In director Maysaloun Hamoud’s remarkable feature debut, three Palestinian women sharing an apartment in the vibrant heart of...

Mother! (18)

Today 13.35, 15.10, 17.45, 20.20; Tomorrow 12.45, 15.20, 17.55, 20.20; Wed 12.55, 15.25, 18.05, 20.20 + more times

A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence. From filmmaker...

Borg Vs McEnroe (15)

Today 13.40, 16.00, 18.20, 20.40; Tomorrow 13.30, 15.30, 18.10, 20.35; Wed 13.00, 15.55, 18.15, 20.25 + more times

The story of one of the world’s greatest icons Björn Borg and his biggest rival, the young and...

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Tramontane (15)

Today 15.35; Tomorrow 20.25; Wed 13.05 Thu 17.55

A blind young Lebanese man finds his life unravelling when he applies for a passport to go on...

On Body and Soul (18)

Today 15.40, 20.25; Tomorrow 13.10, 18.00; Wed 15.20, 20.30 Thu 13.00, 18.10

A slaughterhouse in Budapest is the setting of a strangely beautiful love story. No sooner does Mária start...

Step (PG)

Today 16.10

Three tenacious young women from a leadership school in Baltimore navigate a nerve-wracking college application process while striving...

The Lost Weekend (PG)

Today 18.10

A struggling writer descends into a black hole of alcoholism that even the efforts of his girlfriend and...

Wind River (15)

Today 20.30; Tomorrow 15.50; Wed 15.50 Thu 15.45, 20.40

Screened to acclaim in Cannes where director Taylor Sheridan deservedly won the Best Director in the Un Certain...

Court (PG)

Tomorrow 17.50

An astonishing directorial debut, this skilfully scripted documentary-style melodrama from Chaityane Tamhane won a major prize at the...

Panel Discussion: India’s Independent Cinema – Past, Present and Future

Tue 26 Sep 2017

This screening will be followed by an informal panel discussion exploring Indian independent cinema. We will be joined...

Into Film Teacher Session: Learning Through Film

Tue 26 Sep 2017

CPD opportunity for teachers wanting to get the most out of film for their students. This includes film...

Missing (15)

Wed 15.30

A gripping story based on real events that took place in Chile following the overthrow of President Allende, Missing won...

The Man Who Cried (12A)

Wed 20.40

A young Jewish girl escapes the pogroms of 20’s Russia for the security of England where she is...

Filmed Up Programme Team 2017/ Information Meeting

Thu 28 Sep 2017

Find out what being part of the Filmed Up Programming Team entails before you apply.

Black Sabbath The End of the End (15)

Thu 20.20

The End of The End chronicles the final tour from the band who forged the sound of metal...

The Road to Mandalay (15)

From Fri 29 Sep

A powerful presentation of the trials and tribulations of those seeking to escape conflict and poverty in Burma,...

In The Last Days of the City (CTBA)

From Fri 29 Sep

In The Last Days of the City is the debut feature of Egyptian director Tamer El Said and...

Tawai: A Voice from the Forest (U)

From Fri 29 Sep

Tawai is the word the nomadic hunter-gatherers of borneo use to describe their inner feeling of connection to...

Zoology (15)

From Fri 29 Sep

Middle-aged zoo worker Natasha still lives with her mother in a small coastal town. As she struggles for...

Daphne (CTBA)

From Fri 29 Sep

An authentic character study of a brittle 31-year-old Londoner who has ‘sort of given up on people’ and...

Daphne + Q&A

Fri 20.30

Event/ We will be joined by director Peter Mackie Burns for a Q&A following the 20:30 screening on...

Kothanodi (18)

Sat 18.00

Based on Indian folk tales, this debut feature is an impressive supernatural horror compendium. Focusing on the lives...

Kothanodi Intro

Sat 30 Sep 2017

This screening will be introduced by Alexandra Delaney, Birmingham City University.

Jarman Awards (CTBA)

Sun 15.30

Come and see a programme of deep, sharp and, at times, playful works taking on some of the...

Jarman Awards Q&A

Sun 1 Oct 2017

We will be joined by artist Marianna Simnett for a Q&A during this screening.

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Kevin Jerome Everson Screening (CTBA)

Starts Mon 2 Oct 2017 at 18.10

Directly after his weekend retrospective at Tate Modern, Kevin Jerome Everson is visiting HOME for an exclusive Q&A...

The HOME Film Podcast #27: September 2017

This month, Jason and Andy discuss off-beat indie Daphne, rural drama God's Own Country, Aronofsky's surprise horror Mother!...

In Another Life (CTBA)

Starts Tue 3 Oct 2017 at 18.10

This bold mix of documentary and fictional drama shot over a year in the Calais Jungle is the...

ROH Live: La bohème (Live)

Starts Tue 3 Oct 2017 at 19.00

When Rodolfo, a penniless poet, meets Mimì, a seamstress, they fall instantly in love. But their happiness is...

Pressure (15)

Starts Wed 4 Oct 2017 at 18.00

Hailed as Britain's first black feature, Pressure is a hard-hitting, honest document of the plight of disenchanted British-born...

NT Live: Hamlet... (12A)

Starts Thu 5 Oct 2017 at 18.45

Academy Award nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock, The Imitation Game) takes on the title role of Shakespeare’s great...

Manchester Irish Language Film Morning/ The Story of Irish (PG)

Sat 7 Oct 10.30

Our annual celebration of Irish language film returns with a special screening of The Story of Irish, a...

Metropolis (PG)

Starts Sun 8 Oct 2017 at 13.00

This visionary Fritz Lang classic from 1927 is celebrated for the first appearance of a robot in a...

Raving Iran (CTBA)

Starts Mon 9 Oct 2017 at 18.20

Anoosh and Arash are at the centre of Tehran’s underground techno scene. But dodging police, lying to government...

Handsworth Songs (15)

Starts Tue 10 Oct 2017 at 18.30

Screening with Reassemblage

Blade Runner: The Director’s Cut (15)

Starts Tue 10 Oct 2017 at 20.30

Set in 2019, Deckard (Harrison Ford) is assigned to ‘retire’ six rogue replicants who have returned to earth...

Now Showing/ Her... (15)

Starts Wed 11 Oct 2017 at 13.00

Set in the near future, Spike Jonze’s prescient film follows Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix), a man who develops a...

RSC Live: Coriolanus (Live)

Starts Wed 11 Oct 2017 at 18.45

A full-throttle war play that revels in the sweat of the battlefield, Coriolanus transports us back to the emergence of...

October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (PG)

Starts Thu 12 Oct 2017 at 18.00

One of the most famous productions by one of the Soviet Union’s most important filmmakers, October was commissioned...

Happiness (CTBA)

Starts Fri 13 Oct 2017 at 18.00

A peasant dreams of becoming Czar, eating his fill and spending his time doing nothing. With its bizarre...

Tsar to Lenin (15)

Starts Sat 14 Oct 2017 at 16.00

First released in 1937, Tsar to Lenin ranks among the twentieth century’s greatest film documentaries.

The Overcoat (CTBA)

Starts Sat 14 Oct 2017 at 18.00

Based on the work of Gogol and directed by Kozintsev and Trauberg, leading lights in FEKS (The Factory...

New Babylon (U)

Starts Sat 14 Oct 2017 at 20.30

New Babylon is a love story set amongst the events of the Paris Commune of 1871.

The End of St. Petersburg (PG)

Starts Sun 15 Oct 2017 at 13.30

The End of St. Petersburg offers a boots level narrative about a naïve youth who is forced to...

Chapayev (PG)

Starts Sun 15 Oct 2017 at 18.00

A cultural phenomenon, Chapayev is both an intense story of sacrifice and a clear example of Soviet propaganda.

The Night of Truth (18)

Starts Mon 16 Oct 2017 at 18.00

In her poetic and visually stunning feature debut, director Fanta Régina Nacro has no qualms about portraying extreme...

Course/ Beyond The Golden Age: Hong Kong Cinema 1997 – 2017

8 weeks, beginning Tue 17 Oct, 18:30 – 20:30

This course supplies an overview of the last 20 years of Hong Kong cinema, showing an industry persisting...

Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body (PG)

Starts Sat 21 Oct 2017 at 13.00

Popivoda's work at the intersection of performance and film often explores the structure of the cultural and political...

The Ballad of Shirley Collins (CTBA)

Starts Sat 21 Oct 2017 at 17.50

Rob Curry and Tim Plester's documentary sets out to explore the story behind English folk icon Shirley Collins.

The Inertia Variations (CTBA)

Starts Mon 23 Oct 2017 at 18.10

Matt Johnson of the English band The The, has remained silent as a singer/songwriter for years. Now he...

Grace Jones: Bloodlight & Bami – Live with Friends (15)

Starts Wed 25 Oct 2017 at 19.00

A thrilling and enlightening evening with inimitable icon Grace Jones, discussing her life and work with some of...

Dawson City: Frozen Time (CTBA)

Starts Fri 27 Oct 2017 at 17.45

This screening’s been a long time coming. Lost for half a century, 500 films were discovered buried under...

Halloween at HOME Hocus Pocus (PG)

Starts Sun 29 Oct 2017 at 11.00

After three centuries, three witches are resurrected on Halloween night, and it’s up to two teenagers, a young...

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (PG)

Starts Sun 5 Nov 2017 at 13.00

A series of unexplained events lead an electrical engineer into an encounter with an alien lifeform.

Short Films Panorama (12A)

Starts Tue 14 Nov 2017 at 10.40

This selection showcases the versatility and scope of contemporary animation.

Student Films Panorama (15)

Starts Wed 15 Nov 2017 at 11.50

This selection showcases the versatility and scope of contemporary student animation.

Skwigly Quiz

Wed 15 Nov 17.00

Join Steve Henderson and Ben Mitchell from Skwigly Online Animation Magazine and the Skwigly Animation Podcast as he...

Skwigly Screening (18)

Starts Thu 16 Nov 2017 at 16.10

Skwigly Online Animation Magazine is proud to present a selection of films from its animation community in association...

Queer Media Festival presents Hilda vs Deirdre: Queer Corrie Spectacular (CTBA)

Starts Sat 18 Nov 2017 at 18.30

An interactive experience to celebrate the camp heritage of Coronation Street through four archive episodes of the soap...

Queer Media Festival presents Queering Animation (CTBA)

Starts Sat 18 Nov 2017 at 20.30

Celebrating the medium of animation in telling queer narratives. Expect an amazing array of LGBTQ animated short films...

Kubo and the Two Strings (PG)

Starts Sat 25 Nov 2017 at 11.00

A young boy named Kubo embarks on a magical quest to locate a suit of armour worn by...

NT Live/ Follies (Encore) (Live)

Starts Thu 30 Nov 2017 at 18.45

Stephen Sondheim’s legendary musical is staged for the first time at the National Theatre and broadcast live to...

ROH Live: The Nutcracker (Live)

Starts Tue 5 Dec 2017 at 19.00

The young Clara creeps downstairs on Christmas Eve to play with her favourite present – a Nutcracker doll....

NT Live/ Young Marx (12A)

Starts Thu 7 Dec 2017 at 18.45

Rory Kinnear (The Threepenny Opera, Penny Dreadful, Othello) is Marx and Oliver Chris (Twelfth Night, Green Wing) is...

Edward Scissorhands (12A)

Starts Fri 8 Dec 2017 at 18.10

A reinterpretation on the Frankenstein story, Edward’s inventor unfortunately dies before he finishes his creation leaving him to...

The Nightmare Before Christmas (PG)

Starts Sat 9 Dec 2017 at 15.40

Based on a Tim Burton story and characters, Henry Selick’s brilliant animated film sees Jack Skellington, the king...

Meet Me in St. Louis (U)

Starts Mon 11 Dec 2017 at 20.30

A sparkling musical with stellar performances from Minnelli’s ensemble cast. In one of her finest displays, Set in...

The Muppet Christmas Carol (PG)

Starts Sun 17 Dec 2017 at 11.00

An all singing, all dancing take on the classic Christmas tale, starring Michael Caine in the role of...

Batman Returns (15)

Starts Mon 18 Dec 2017 at 20.10

When a corrupt businessman and the grotesque Penguin plot to take control of Gotham City, only Batman can...

ROH Live: Rigoletto (Live)

Starts Tue 16 Jan 2018 at 19.00

The corruption of innocence is at the heart of Verdi’s potent tragedy in David McVicar’s production for The...

ROH Live: Tosca (Live)

Starts Wed 7 Feb 2018 at 19.00

Tosca is one of the great evenings of opera, and from its strident opening chords conjures up a...

RSC Live: Twelfth Night (Live)

Starts Wed 14 Feb 2018 at 18.45

Twelfth Night is a tale of unrequited love – hilarious and heartbreaking. Two twins are separated in a shipwreck,...

ROH Live: Carmen (Live)

Starts Tue 6 Mar 2018 at 18.30

Carmen is the best-known work by French composer Georges Bizet, and one of the most famous operas in...

NT Live/ Julius Caesar (12A)

Starts Thu 22 Mar 2018 at 18.45

Nicholas Hytner’s production will thrust the audience into the street party that greets Caesar’s return, the congress that...

ROH Live: Macbeth (Live)

Starts Wed 4 Apr 2018 at 19.00

Verdi’s life-long love affair with Shakespeare’s works began with Macbeth, a play he considered to be ‘one of...

ROH Live: Swan Lake (Live)

Starts Tue 12 Jun 2018 at 19.00

Swan Lake has had a special role in the repertory of The Royal Ballet since 1934.

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Kevin Jerome Everson Screening Q&A

Mon 2 Oct 18.10

We will be joined by artist Kevin Jerome Everson for a Q&A following this screening.

In Another Life Q&A

Tue 3 Oct 2017

This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Jason Wingard.

Blade Runner 2049 (CTBA)

From Fri 6 Oct

Thirty years after the events in Ridley Scott’s seminal sci-fi, a new Blade Runner, LAPD Officer K (Gosling),...

Pecking Order (PG)

From Fri 6 Oct

Join members of the 148-year-old Christchurch Poultry, Bantam and Pigeon Club in the lead up to the New...

Blood Simple: Director’s Cut (15)

From Fri 6 Oct

Joel and Ethan Coen’s thrilling debut feature, a stylish, imaginative and hard-boiled neo noir, marked their arrival as...

The Reagan Show (CTBA)

From Fri 6 Oct

The Reagan Show is an all-archival documentary about the original performer/president’s role of a lifetime. Teasing apart the...

Blade Runner: The Director’s Cut Introduction

Tue 10 Oct 20.30

This screening will be introduced by writer and presenter Gia Milinonvich to talk about the underlying theme of...

The Party (CTBA)

From Fri 13 Oct

Sally Potter’s (Orlando) latest feature is a comedy wrapped around a tragedy which unfolds in real time in...

Loving Vincent (CTBA)

From Fri 13 Oct

Co-directors Kobiela and Welchman explore Vincent van Gogh’s most inspirational paintings to tell the story of his remarkable...

The Snowman (CTBA)

From Fri 13 Oct

When an elite crime squad’s lead detective (Fassbender) investigates the disappearance of a victim on the first snow...

The End of St. Petersburg Live Accompaniment

Sun 15 Oct 2017

HarmonieBand have an international reputation for presenting specially composed scores for silent films. Paul Robinson’s score for this...

The Death of Stalin (15)

From Fri 20 Oct

Based on graphic novel The Death Of Stalin by Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin, writer and director Armando...

I Am Not A Witch (CTBA)

From Fri 20 Oct

After a minor incident in her village, nine-year-old Shula is exiled to a travelling witch camp where she...

Dina (15)

From Fri 20 Oct

Dina, an outspoken and eccentric 49-year-old in suburban Philadelphia, invites her fiancé Scott, a Walmart door greeter, to...

Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body + introductory talk and Q&A

Sat 21 Oct 2017

This screening will be accompanied by an intro and post-screening Q&A.

The Ballad of Shirley Collins Q&A

Sat 21 Oct 2017

We will be joined by producer Paul Williams and directors Rob Curry and Tim Plester for a Q&A...

The Inertia Variations Q&A

Mon 23 Oct 18.10

We will be joined by Matt Johnson and Johanna St Michaels for a Q&A following the screening on...

Call Me By Your Name (CTBA)

From Fri 27 Oct

It’s the summer of 1983 in northern Italy, and Elio Perlman (Chalamet), a 17-year-old American-Italian, spends his days...

Dawson City: Frozen Time Q&A

Fri 27 Oct 17.45

We will be joined by filmmaker Bill Morrison, archivists, conservation specialists and our Artistic Director of Visual Arts,...

Beach Rats (CTBA)

From Fri 3 Nov

Frankie, an aimless Brooklyn teenager is having a miserable summer. With his father dying and his mother wanting...

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