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On screen this week, we open the highly-anticipated Christopher Nolan epic Dunkirk; a portrait of German artist Joseph Beuys; French political thriller Scribe; and Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma The Colours of Life a finely crafted tribute to the filmmaker. One-offs include the first two films in our Road Movies season, Road Movie and The Last Detail and the conclusion of our Crossings: Stories of Migration season, Between Fences.

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Preview/ England is Mine (15)

Starts Thu 3 Aug 2017 at 20.30

England is Mine offers an amusing and evocative portrait of singer-songwriter Steven Patrick Morrissey.

Preview/ God’s Own Country (CTBA)

Starts Mon 21 Aug 2017 at 18.10

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

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Fri 21 Jul - Thu 27 Jul

Crossings: Stories of Migration

Mon 19 Jun 2017 – Mon 24 Jul 2017

Exploring stories of modern day migration and reflecting on cinema’s potential to question the ways in which migration...

Road Movies

Sat 22 Jul 2017 – Wed 23 Aug 2017

From the earliest days of American cinema, the road movie has been synonymous with American culture and the...

Dunkirk (12A)

Today 18.15, 20.40; Tomorrow 13.40, 16.00, 18.20, 20.40; Wed 13.40, 16.00, 18.20, 20.40 + more times

Featuring an all-star cast, the latest work from Christopher Nolan is about the evacuation of Dunkirk.

Kedi (U)

Today 18.00; Tomorrow 13.35, 15.45, 20.15; Wed 13.30, 16.10, 18.00 Thu 13.30, 18.00 + more times

Hundreds of thousands of cats roam the metropolis of Istanbul freely. For thousands of years they’ve wandered in...

The Beguiled (15)

Today 18.10, 20.20; Tomorrow 13.45, 15.55, 18.10, 20.20; Wed 13.35, 15.55, 18.10, 20.20 + more times

Sofia Coppola's female-centric take on the novel by Thomas Cullinan.

David Lynch: The Art Life (15)

Today 20.35; Tomorrow 13.50, 15.50, 18.15; Wed 15.50, 18.15, 20.35 Thu 13.50, 15.50, 20.35 + more times

An intimate portrait of the master director, screenwriter and producer, David Lynch.

Scribe (15)

Today 18.05; Tomorrow 15.40, 20.25; Wed 14.05, 20.25 Thu 14.05, 18.30

After a drink-fuelled breakdown, unemployed Duval receives an offer from a mysterious businessman.

Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma The Colours of Life (12A)

Today 20.15; Tomorrow 13.30, 18.00; Wed 15.45, 20.15 Thu 15.45, 20.15

A finely crafted tribute to renowned cinematographer Carlo Di Palma.

Between Fences (15)

Today 18.20

Avi Mograbi and Chen Alon meet African asylum seekers and question the status of refugees in Israel.

Beuys (15)

Today 20.30; Wed 18.05 Thu 16.10

An associative, porous portrait of Joseph Beuys which, like the artist himself, opens up spaces for ideas.

The Death of Louis XIV (12A)

Tomorrow 17.45

The great Jean-Pierre Léaud, synonymous with French cinema for over half a century, delivers a majestic, career-capping performance...

The Last Detail (18)

Tomorrow 20.30 Wed 13.00

Hal Ashby’s follow-up to 1971’s Harold and Maude is a similarly anti-authoritarian fable.

NT Live/ Angels in America Part 2: Perestroika (15)

Thu 18.45

America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers...

Victim (PG)

From Fri 28 Jul

Basil Dearden's ground-breaking 1961 thriller paved the way for the legalisation of homosexuality in Britain.

The Big Sick (15)

From Fri 28 Jul

A joyful, emotive and ruefully hilarious story, The Big Sick is eloquent on racial anxieties but also on...

Chubby Funny (15)

From Fri 28 Jul

Oscar thinks he’s special – he isn’t. Oscar thinks it’s everyone else’s fault – it’s not. Moving to...

City of Ghosts (18)

From Fri 28 Jul

A real-life international thriller, City of Ghosts exposes a new type of warfare.

Jazz on Film 2017

Sat 29 Jul 2017 – Sun 6 Aug 2017

Following last year's successful collaboration, we are pleased to once again partner with Manchester Jazz Festival on a...

The Wizard of Oz (U)

Sat 11.00 Sun 11.00

When Dorothy Gale gets caught in a tornado she ends up in the magical land of Oz.

Mind on the Run: The Basil Kirchin Story (12A)

Sat 18.30

An intriguing look into British music pioneer Basil Kirchin.

The Case of the Three-Sided Dream (18)

Sun 15.00

The story of blind multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk.

The HOME Film Podcast #25: July 2017

Jason and Andy return for another round of reviews. This month it's A Change in the Weather, David...

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Queerama (15)

Starts Mon 31 Jul 2017 at 18.20

Crafted from the treasures of the BFI National Archive, Queerama traverses a century of gay experiences, and encompasses...

Stranger in Paradise (CTBA)

Starts Tue 1 Aug 2017 at 18.30

In a classroom in Sicily, recently arrived refugees receive lessons from a teacher who has mixed reactions to...

The Virus of Fear (CTBA)

Starts Wed 2 Aug 2017 at 18.15

As a group of children start their swimming lessons, one of the pool supervisors is accused of kissing...

Preview/ England is Mine (15)

Starts Thu 3 Aug 2017 at 20.30

England is Mine offers an amusing and evocative portrait of singer-songwriter Steven Patrick Morrissey.

Candy Mountain (15)

Starts Sat 5 Aug 2017 at 18.00

A co-production that begins in New York before meandering cross country and concluding in Canada, Candy Mountain tracks...

The Motorcycle Diaries (15)

Starts Sun 6 Aug 2017 at 13.00

Based on the journals of both Alberto Granado and Ernesto Guevara (The Motorcycle Diaries), Brazilian director Walter Salles...

Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise (15)

Starts Sun 6 Aug 2017 at 18.20

Robert Mugge’s 1980 documentary on Sun Ra and his Arkestra.

RSC Live: Titus Andronicus (Live)

Starts Wed 9 Aug 2017 at 18.45

The decay of Rome reaches violent depths in Shakespeare’s most bloody play.

Alice in the Cities (U)

Starts Sun 13 Aug 2017 at 12.45

The first of the road films that would come to define the career of Wim Wenders, the magnificent Alice...

The Wrong Move (15)

Starts Sun 13 Aug 2017 at 15.20

With characteristic depth and style, Wim Wenders updates a late-eighteenth-century novel by Goethe, transposing it to 1970s West...

Kings of the Road (18)

Starts Sun 13 Aug 2017 at 17.20

A roving film projector repairman saves the life of a depressed psychologist who has driven his Volkswagen into...

Vanishing Point (18)

Starts Wed 16 Aug 2017 at 18.10

A vintage road movie that’s considered one of the masterpieces of the genre, Vanishing Point is a symbolically...

Landscape in the Mist (15)

Starts Sat 19 Aug 2017 at 17.40

The final film in Angelopoulos’ Trilogy of Silence, Landscape in the Mist continued the Greek director’s attempts to...

Preview/ God’s Own Country (CTBA)

Starts Mon 21 Aug 2017 at 18.10

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

Leningrad Cowboys Go America (15)

Starts Wed 23 Aug 2017 at 18.20

This hilarious road movie from Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki follows the misadventures of the worst rock and roll...

Pansy! (CTBA)

Starts Thu 24 Aug 2017 at 18.20

Artist Paul Harfleet’s family developed an artistic work, the Pansy Project, to challenge homophobia and promote respect and...

Chicken Run (U)

Starts Sun 27 Aug 2017 at 11.00

When a famous Flying Rooster crash lands into a chicken farm, the chickens see him as an opportunity...

NT Live: Yerma (15)

Starts Thu 31 Aug 2017 at 18.45

The incredible Billie Piper (Penny Dreadful, Great Britain) returns in her Evening Standard Best Actress award-winning role. A...

The Lunchbox (PG)

Starts Thu 14 Sep 2017 at 18.10

Already a classic of Indian cinema, director Ritesh Batra’s finely tuned love story was an unexpected international success....

One Hour Intro/ Hindies: New Indian Independent Cinema

Sat 16 Sep 16.45

The rise of the Hindie film (Indie + Hindi) has been an illustrious one, taking place in a...

Newton (12A)

Starts Sat 16 Sep 2017 at 18.15

Having already bagged a major prize at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, Newton stars Rajkumar Rao, one of...

Ankhon Dekhi (15)

Starts Wed 20 Sep 2017 at 18.10

Multi-talented actor, writer and director Rajat Kapoor’s idiosyncratic masterpiece is one of the key works of the new...

Hook (U)

Starts Sun 24 Sep 2017 at 11.00

Captain Hook kidnaps his children so an adult Peter Pan (Robin Williams) must return to Neverland and reclaim...

The Cinema Travellers (12A)

Starts Sun 24 Sep 2017 at 16.00

One of the most critically-acclaimed documentaries to have come out of India in years, Amit Madheshiya and Shirley...

Court (PG)

Starts Tue 26 Sep 2017 at 17.50

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

Kothanodi (18)

Starts Sat 30 Sep 2017 at 18.00

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

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...

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.

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...

Kubo and the Two Strings (PG)

Starts Sun 26 Nov 2017 at 11.00

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

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...

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...

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,...

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Fri 21 Jul - Thu 27 Jul

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Melville: Essays in Existentalism

Throughout August - September 2017

Taking in a career that encompassed wartime dramas - Melville fought in the French army and then in...

Playback

Tue 1 Aug 2017 – Fri 1 Sep 2017

This video exhibition showcases over 200 short films made by young artist filmmakers aged 16-24.

The Virus of Fear Q&A

Wed 2 Aug 2017

We will be joined by director Ventura Pons for a post-screening Q&A.

This is Human

Thu 3 - Thu 31 Aug

This distinctive and ambitious series of events will challenge your expectations of HOME through a programme of unique...

This is Human: The Film Season

Thu 3 Aug 2017 – Thu 24 Aug 2017

The This Is Human film season has been curated by Lucy Grayson who has selected every day stories...

England is Mine Q&A

Thu 3 Aug 2017

We will be joined by director Mark Gill for a Q&A following this preview screening.

The Ghoul (18)

From Fri 4 August

A haunting psychological mystery from first-time director Gareth Tunley that occupies the mind of a character introduced to...

Candy Mountain + Intro

Sat 5 Aug 18.00

This screening will be introduced by Jason Wood, Artistic Director: Film at HOME.

Triple Bill/ A Voyage with Wim

Sun 13 Aug 2017

Wim Wenders is synonymous with the road movie. One of the first of the New German cinema movement...

Landscape in the Mist Intro

Sat 19 Aug 17.40

This screening will be introduced by Ally Davies, Engagement Assistant at HOME.

God’s Own Country Q&A

Mon 21 Aug 2017

We will be joined by director Francis Lee for a Q&A following this preview screening.

Pansy! Q&A

Thu 24 Aug 2017

We will be joined by artist Paul Harfleet for a Q&A following this screening.

Not Just Bollywood

Thu 14 Sep 2017 – Sat 30 Sep 2017

Not Just Bollywood, a season of Indian films hits our screens this autumn. In 2014, The Lunchbox was...

Ankhon Dekhi Q&A

Wed 20 Sep 2017

We will be joined by actor, writer and director Rajat Kapoor for a post-screening Q&A.

Zoology (15)

From Fri 22 Sep

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

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.

Kothanodi Intro

Sat 30 Sep 2017

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

Journey’s Festival International

Mon 2 - Sun 15 October

Journeys Festival International is back celebrating the creative talent of exceptional refugee and asylum seeker artists, and sharing...

A Revolution Betrayed? Film Season

Thu 12 Oct 2017 – Sun 15 Oct 2017

As part of the A Revolution Betrayed? season, we present a weekend of films from the early days...

Creative Visions: Hong Kong Cinema 1997 – 2017

Tue 17 Oct - Thu 2 Nov

2017 marks twenty years since Hong Kong was handed back to China. Timed with this anniversary, we are...

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