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On screen this week we open Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, Stanley Tucci’s return to the director’s chair in Final Portrait, Cousteau family drama The Odyssey, documentary feature Quest and chilling sci-fi The Untamed.

One-offs this week include Screen Anime’s Napping Princess, the story of a young woman and her strange dreams that seem all too real; and the Maxine Peake-narrated Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle.

Landscape in the Mist and Leningrad Cowboys Go America bring our Road Movies film season to a close this week, while it’s also your last chance to see the brilliant selection of films in both our At Last I am Free? and This is Human seasons, finishing with Little Miss Sunshine, God’s Own Country, Blue is the Warmest Colourand Pansy!.

Highlights: Cinema

Season

At Last I Am Free?

Mon 31 Jul 2017 – Thu 24 Aug 2017

This short season of films new, old and rediscovered is an attempt to look at depictions of LGBT...

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Exhibition

Playback

Closed today; runs until Fri 1 Sep 2017

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

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Weekly Calendar

Fri 25 Aug - Thu 31 Aug

Fri 18 Aug - Thu 24 Aug

Film

Blue is the Warmest Colour (18)

Today 13.00, 19.30

This Palme d’Or-winning love story from Franco-Tunisian filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche is an enchanting film focusing on the life...

Film

The Odyssey (PG)

Today 13.05, 17.50

Summer, 1946. The Cousteau family - Jacques, his wife Simone and their two children Philippe and Jean-Michel -...

Film

The Untamed (18)

Today 13.15; Tomorrow 18.05; Sat 13.30 Wed 18.05 + more times

Mexican filmmaker Amat Escalante follows up Heli and Los Bastardos with the ferociously intelligent and brilliantly unsettling The...

Film

A Ghost Story (12A)

Today 13.20, 18.00; Tomorrow 13.45, 20.30; Sat 16.10; Sun 18.25; Mon 13.45, 15.50; Tue 18.25, 20.30 + more times

Returning to his suburban home as a white-sheeted ghost to console his bereft wife (Mara), the recently deceased...

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England is Mine (15)

Today 13.40, 18.15, 20.35; Tomorrow 13.20, 20.40; Sat 13.20, 20.40; Sun 13.35, 20.40 + more times

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

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Tom of Finland (18)

Today 15.30, 20.20; Tomorrow 15.35, 20.20; Sat 15.45, 20.20; Sun 15.45, 20.20; Mon 13.10, 17.50 + more times

Touko Laaksonen, a decorated World War II officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his...

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Final Portrait (15)

Today 15.40, 20.25; Tomorrow 13.30; Sat 18.15; Sun 18.15; Mon 20.20; Tue 16.05 Wed 13.30 + more times

Paris, 1964. Alberto Giacometti (Rush) is living a rather dissolute existence defined by bouts of drinking, womanising, and...

Film

Quest (12A)

Today 15.50

This intimate chronicle of an African-American family in Philadelphia spans eight years, beginning at the dawn of the...

Film

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (PG)

Today 16.00, 20.40; Tomorrow 15.30; Sat 20.35; Sun 13.05; Mon 18.25; Tue 13.05 Wed 15.30 + more times

A decade after An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change into the heart of popular culture comes the riveting...

Film

The Big Sick (15)

Today 17.00; Tomorrow 13.10, 18.00; Sat 15.25, 20.15; Sun 15.25, 20.15; Mon 12.45, 17.55 + more times

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

Event

Pansy! Q&A

Thu 24 Aug 2017

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

Film

Pansy! + Q&A... (15)

Today 18.20

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

Film

Detroit (15)

Tomorrow 13.00, 16.00, 17.45, 20.00; Sat 13.00, 14.30, 17.00, 20.00; Sun 12.45, 15.40, 18.40, 20.00 + more times

From Kathryn Bigelow, the Academy Award-winning director of The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, comes the incredibly...

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Hotel Salvation (PG)

Tomorrow 15.45, 20.35; Sat 13.10, 18.00; Sun 13.10, 18.00; Mon 15.20, 20.35; Tue 13.10, 18.00 + more times

In this gentle charmer, a 77-year-old father decides to end his days in the holy city of Varanasi...

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Mimosas (15)

Tomorrow 16.10; Sat 18.25; Sun 16.10; Mon 20.30; Tue 13.45 Wed 20.30 + more times

Divided into a prologue and three chapters, Mimosas is a mysterious film moving between two different worlds, a...

Film

Koneline: Our Land Beautiful (CTBA)

Tomorrow 18.20

This is a visually–hypnotic, politically–restless portrait of the stunning landscapes of the Tahltan territory in northern British Columbia.

Film

Kedi (U)

Sat 11.00

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

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Le Deuxieme Souffle (15)

Sat 17.30

With his customary restraint and ruthless attention to detail, Melville follows the parallel tracks of French underworld criminal...

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Chicken Run (U)

Sun 11.00

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

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Cinema Rediscovered/ Dekalog 1-5 (15)

Sun 13.15

We team up with Watershed’s Cinema Rediscovered to present Dekalog in its entirety over the August Bank Holiday....

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Cinema Rediscovered/ Dekalog 6-10 (15)

Mon 13.15

We team up with Watershed’s Cinema Rediscovered to present Dekalog in its entirety over the August Bank Holiday....

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Le Samouraï (PG)

Tue 18.20

In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. A razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s...

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Window Horses (CTBA)

Wed 18.20

The latest award-winning feature–length animation from prolific independent filmmaker, writer and visual artist Ann Marie Fleming tells the...

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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...

Featured

The HOME Film Podcast #26: August 2017

Jason and Andy are back with another film podcast. This month they review The Ghoul, Tom of Finland,...

Film

I Called Him Morgan (15)

Starts Fri 1 Sep 2017 at 18.20

Part true-crime tale, part love story, and an all-out musical treat, I Called Him Morgan is a stirring...

Film

A Life in Waves (12A)

Starts Sat 2 Sep 2017 at 18.30

A Life in Waves explores the life and innovations of composer and electronic music pioneer, Suzanne Ciani.

Event

One Hour Intro: Melville

Mon 4 Sep 18.30

This introduction will provide an overview of Melville’s career, his links with the French New Wave and his...

Film

The Army of Shadows (12A)

Starts Mon 4 Sep 2017 at 19.50

Jean-Pierre Melville's classic, doom-laden WWII Resistance drama.

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The Lure (12A)

Starts Wed 6 Sep 2017 at 18.30

A few years ago, Forrest Fenn took a large treasure chest filled with gold and jewels and hid...

Film

Hello Destroyer (CTBA)

Starts Thu 7 Sep 2017 at 18.10

In this daring, muscular debut by writer/director Kevan Funk, a young junior hockey player's life is shattered by...

Film

Scalarama/ Eraserhead (15)

Starts Fri 8 Sep 2017 at 20.40

Part of the Scalarama 2017 celebrations, we screen David Lynch’s astonishing feature debut, Eraserhead. A cult item that...

Film

Le Cercle Rouge (PG)

Starts Sat 9 Sep 2017 at 15.30

Jean-Pierre Melville's noir classic re released in a restored version.

Film

Pilot Light TV Festival Presents/ Skins 10th Anniversary (CTBA)

Starts Sun 10 Sep 2017 at 20.20

Pilot Light TV Festival bring this young adult drama to the big screen in celebration of its 10th...

Film

Un Flic (12A)

Starts Mon 11 Sep 2017 at 18.20

Melville’s final film stars Alain Delon as a police commissioner playing a game of cat and mouse with...

Film

Weirdos (CTBA)

Starts Tue 12 Sep 2017 at 18.20

During the American Bicentennial weekend, a 15-year-old Nova Scotia boy runs away with his girlfriend to make a...

Film

Oscar Composers: What Else Did They Write?/ Ratcatcher (15)

Starts Wed 13 Sep 2017 at 18.10

Ratcatcher is a compelling coming of age drama with the exceptional ability to find beauty in the mundane.

Film

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....

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Dennis Skinner: Nature of the Beast (15)

Starts Fri 15 Sep 2017 at 18.10

A feature-length documentary about socialist, trade unionist and Labour politician Dennis Skinner.

Event

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...

Film

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...

Film

Belle de Jour (18)

Starts Sun 17 Sep 2017 at 13.00

Deneuve stars as the beautiful, bourgeois and bored doctor’s wife who decides to spice up her afternoons by...

Film

Jungle Fever (18)

Starts Sun 17 Sep 2017 at 13.10

Widely regarded as Spike Lee’s best work, Jungle Fever tells the story of Flipper Purify, a successful architect...

Film

The Gold Diggers (U)

Starts Mon 18 Sep 2017 at 18.30

This ground-breaking first feature from director Sally Potter is a key film of early Eighties feminist cinema, following...

Film

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...

Film

ROH Live: The Magic Flute (Live)

Starts Wed 20 Sep 2017 at 19.00

Mozart’s glorious opera The Magic Flute is brought enchantingly to life in David McVicar’s production with beautiful sets...

Film

Parent and Baby: An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (PG)

Starts Thu 21 Sep 2017 at 11.00

Vice-President Al Gore continues his tireless fight traveling around the world training an army of climate champions and...

Event

Filmed Up Sep 2017 (CTBA)

Fri 22 Sep 18.20

Discover a selection of short films produced in the North West at HOME's regular short film night.

Film

Orlando (15)

Starts Fri 22 Sep 2017 at 20.40

Part of the Tilda Swinton Season

Event

BFI NETWORK x BAFTA Crew Masterclass: Cinematography

Sat 23 Sep 14.00

A cinematographer will offer invaluable insight into their craft and career, including plenty of practical tips

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The Night is Short, Walk on Girl (CTBA)

Starts Sat 23 Sep 2017 at 20.40

Masaaki Yuasa’s animated tale of young love is based on Tomihiko Morimi’s novel of the name.

Film

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...

Film

The Tango Lesson (PG)

Starts Sun 24 Sep 2017 at 13.20

In between bouts of writing a screenplay, filmmaker Sally takes up tango classes. As the lessons proceed, she...

Film

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...

Film

The Lost Weekend (PG)

Starts Mon 25 Sep 2017 at 18.10

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

Film

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...

Film

The Man Who Cried (12A)

Starts Wed 27 Sep 2017 at 20.40

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

Film

Black Sabbath The End of the End (CTBA)

Starts Thu 28 Sep 2017 at 20.20

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

Film

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...

Film

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...

Film

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...

Film

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...

Film

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...

Course

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...

Film

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...

Film

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.

Film

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...

Film

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...

Film

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...

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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...

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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...

Film

NT Live/ Follies (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...

Film

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....

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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...

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The Limehouse Golem (15)

From Fri 1 Sep

In Victorian-era London, an intrepid police inspector (Nighy) investigates a series of brutal killings that seem to be...

Film

Patti Cake$ (15)

From Fri 1 Sep

Patricia 'Killa P' Dombrowski drafts rhymes behind the bar at a dingy dive, trying both to pay off...

Film

Una (15)

From Fri 1 Sep

A superior psychological thriller, Una dives headlong into the murky moral waters of lust, abuse, and guilt.

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The Work (15)

From Fri 8 Sep

Set inside a single room in Folsom Prison, The Work follows three men from outside as they participate...

Film

Wind River (15)

From Fri 8 Sep

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

Film

Insyriated (15)

From Fri 8 Sep

This gripping Syrian war drama, which won the Panorama Audience Award in Berlin, revolves around a mother of...

Film

Centre of My World (15)

Fri 8 Sep 2017

Based on the bestselling young adults' novel The Centre of the World by Andreas Steinhöfel, director Jakob M....

Event

Pilot Light TV Festival Presents/ Skins 10th Anniversary Panel Discussion

Sun 10 Sep 2017

This event will be followed by a panel discussion exploring the impact of Skins on the TV landscape.

Event

Oscar Composers: What Else Did They Write?/ Ratcatcher Discussion

Wed 13 Sep 2017

Following this screening we will be joined by three-time Oscar nominee Rachel Portman, one of the UK’s most...

Film

Victoria and Abdul (CTBA)

From Fri 15 Sep

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

Film

Kills on Wheels (CTBA)

From Fri 15 Sep

A highly original comedy about two wheelchair users who decide to offer their services to the mafia as...

Talk

Jungle Fever Post-screening Discussion

Sun 17 Sep 13.10

This screening includes a post-screening discussion chaired by Akua Gyamfi of The British Blacklist.

Event

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.

Film

Borg Vs McEnroe (CTBA)

From Fri 22 Sep

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

Film

Tramontane (CTBA)

From Fri 22 Sep

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

Film

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...

Event

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.

Event

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.

Film

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...

Film

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,...

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The HOME Film Podcast #26: August 2017

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