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We have three films opening Fri 17 Jan: Bombshell, the dramatisation of what happened at Fox News when the company’s CEO, Roger Ailes, was sued for sexual harassment; Waves, a family drama about love and loss from 31-year-old filmmaker Trey Edward Shults; and A Hidden Life, Terence Malick’s drama about an Austrian who was a conscientious objector in the Second World War.

Films continuing: Comic satire Jojo Rabbit; Greta Gerwig’s Little Women; Sam Mendes’ double-Golden Globe wining First World War drama 1917; and the explosive ★★★★★-rated thriller Uncut Gems from brothers Benny and Josh Safdie.

In addition, In Her View, our season of films exploring women documentary filmmakers, continues until Thu 30 Jan.

Highlights: Cinema

In Her View: Women Documentary Filmmakers

Wed 15 Jan 2020 – Thu 30 Jan 2020

A season showcasing women documentary filmmakers, as part of our ongoing programme Celebrating Women in Global Cinema.

Bombshell (15)

Tomorrow 12.50, 15.45, 17.40, 20.40; Fri 15.20, 20.35; Sat 13.00, 18.15; Sun 13.00, 18.15 + more times

Based on the real scandal, Bombshell is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire...

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French A Level Study Day (year 12): Une Saison en France

Wed 22 Jan 2020

This A Level French Study Day links to the exam syllabus and will look at how film can...

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Weekly Calendar

Fri 24 Jan - Thu 30 Jan

Fri 17 Jan - Thu 23 Jan

The Mission (PG)

Last session: today at 13.00

winner of both a Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival and a Golden Globe for Best Screenplay,...

1917 (15)

Tomorrow 12.45, 15.20, 17.55, 20.30; Fri 12.50, 15.05, 17.35, 20.30; Sat 15.40, 17.45, 20.30 + more times

At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake, are given a...

A Hidden Life (12A)

Tomorrow 16.00, 19.30; Sun 14.05

The conscience of a pious Austrian farmer (Diehl) is severely tested as war blankets Europe and Nazi ideology...

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Waves (15)

Tomorrow 13.10, 20.05

Cracks begin to show in the perfect façade of a young athlete’s life (Harrison Jr.), in this palpable...

Bombshell (15)

Tomorrow 12.50, 15.45, 17.40, 20.40; Fri 15.20, 20.35; Sat 13.00, 18.15; Sun 13.00, 18.15 + more times

Based on the real scandal, Bombshell is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire...

From the Sea to the Land Beyond (U)

Last session: today at 18.20

Penny Woolcock’s poetic meditation on Britain's unique coastline and the role it plays in our lives was made...

Uncut Gems (15)

Tomorrow 14.30, 17.20, 20.10; Fri 14.45, 17.40, 20.10; Sat 12.55, 17.40, 20.15 + more times

From Josh and Benny Safdie (Good Time) comes an electrifying crime thriller about Howard Ratner (Sandler), a charismatic...

Little Women (U)

Tomorrow 12.55; Fri 17.45; Sat 12.30; Mon 12.40; Tue 20.15 + more times

Writer-director Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) has crafted a Little Women that draws on both the classic novel and...

Parent and Baby / Little Women (U)

Tomorrow 11.00

Writer-director Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) has crafted a Little Women that draws on both the classic novel and the writings...

Jojo Rabbit (12A)

Tomorrow 15.15; Fri 12.40; Sat 15.20, 20.40; Sun 12.40, 20.40; Tue 15.50 + more times

Taika Waititi channels Mel Brooks in this dazzling takedown of fascist thinking.

Edge of the Knife (15)

Tomorrow 18.10

A daring, ground-breaking film made entirely in two dialects of a nearly extinct Haida language.

The Personal History of David Copperfield (PG)

Fri 12.45, 15.15, 17.50, 20.25; Sat 15.15, 17.50, 20.25; Sun 12.45, 15.25, 17.55, 20.30 + more times

Director Armando Iannucci brings his sardonic wit to Charles Dickens' classic autobiographical novel, transposing the source material into...

The Holy Mountain (18)

Fri 13.25; Sat 20.35; Sun 13.15; Mon 20.20; Tue 17.45 + more times

An alchemical work that weaves a psychedelic spell, The Holy Mountain was based on the spiritual teachings of...

Jason’s Jan 2020 Film Highlights

HOME Creative Director of Film & Culture Jason Wood takes us through his film highlights of Jan 2020.

Midnight Traveller (15)

Fri 15.55, 20.40; Sat 13.45, 18.30; Sun 15.45, 20.35; Mon 13.30, 18.15; Tue 15.35, 20.40 + more times

After receiving a Taliban death sentence, Afghan filmmaker Hassan Fazili decides to get his family to safety in...

Present. Perfect. (15)

Fri 18.00; Sat 15.50; Sun 17.50; Mon 15.35; Tue 12.55 + more times

From more than 800 hours of footage, director Zhu Shengze has distilled a collective portrait of a generation...

Relaxed Screening (Autism Friendly)/ Rio 2 (U)

Sat 11.00

A relaxed screening of Rio 2, designed for people with autism spectrum conditions and their families.

A Suitable Girl (U)

Sat 13.30

Khurana and Mundhra’s film follows three young women over four years in India struggling to maintain their identities...

Film Hub North Polaris Award Showcase (15)

Sat 15.45

Join us for a programme of films shortlisted for the Film Hub North Polaris Award at Aesthetica Film...

Bring the Family/ Rio 2 (U)

Sun 11.00

It's a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids after they're hurtled from Rio de...

Not Just Bollywood presents/ Pakeezah (PG)

Sun 15.20

One of the most extraordinary musical melodramas ever made, Pakeezah is much beloved by audiences for Meena Kumari’s breathtakingly tragic...

Not Just Bollywood presents Pakeezah + Introduction

Sun 26 Jan 2020

Omar Ahmed, co-curator of Not Just Bollywood, introduces Pakeezah

Chinese Film Forum UK presents/ Girls Always Happy (PG)

Mon 18.00

Girls Always Happy deftly portrays the complexities of family relationships as they move between the extremes of animosity and affection.

Son of Frankenstein (PG)

Tue 18.30

This classic starring legends Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Basil Rathbone was a huge success that helped reinvigorate...

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ROH Live/ La Bohème (12A)

Starts Wed 29 Jan 2020 at 19.30

Puccini’s opera of young love in 19th-century Paris is packed with beautiful music, lyrical arias and a poignant...

The Swirl (12A)

Starts Thu 30 Jan 2020 at 18.10

Issues of feminine identity and power, memory, and the influence of family poignantly converge in director Laura Herrero...

Queen & Slim (15)

From Fri 31 Jan

While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man & black woman are pulled over...

Day Course/ Federico Fellini

Sat 1 Feb 10.30

In this Day Course, we are going to explore the elements which made Federico Fellini’s films magical &...

Spit That Out 2019: North West Artist Film Programme (12A)

Starts Sat 1 Feb 2020 at 18.20

Discover a selection of recent work from artists who are living in, working in, hailing from or have...

Celebrating Women in Global Cinema

A year-long celebration of women in global cinema.

Spit That Out 2020: North West Artist Film Programme (CTBA)

Starts Sat 1 Feb 2020 at 18.20

Discover a selection of recent work from artists who are living in, working in, hailing from or have...

Iris Preview/ And Then We Danced + Intro (CTBA)

Starts Tue 4 Feb 2020 at 18.00

Merab has been training from a young age at the National Georgian Ensemble with his dance partner Mary....

Best of Iris 2019 + Q&A & Performance (CTBA)

Starts Wed 5 Feb 2020 at 18.20

Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival brings a diverse programme of films to Cardiff every year, showcasing talent and...

Mancunia (CTBA)

Starts Thu 6 Feb 2020 at 18.30

Mancunia is a haunting 30-minute film based around Michael Symmons Roberts’s acclaimed published poetry cycle about the myths...

Weathering with You (12A)

Starts Thu 6 Feb 2020 at 20.30

The highly anticipated follow-up to Your Name. Weathering with You follows Hodaka, a teenage runaway in Tokyo who...

Society (18)

Starts Fri 7 Feb 2020 at 20.40

One of the ickiest, most original body horror shockers of all time. A biting horror satire, it culminates...

Organ (PG)

Starts Tue 11 Feb 2020 at 18.00

A rare film showing the little-known realities of women on the home front who answered the call of...

Black Sunday (CTBA)

Tickets on sale soon

Shot in sumptuous black and white, La maschera del demonio is Mario Bava’s masterpiece and one of the...

Sea of Revival (15)

Starts Wed 19 Feb 2020 at 20.30

In a bid to rid himself of a crippling gambling addiction, Ikuo moves to his partner’s coastal hometown...

NT Live/ Cyrano de Bergerac (15)

Starts Thu 20 Feb 2020 at 18.45

James McAvoy (X-Men, Atonement) returns to the stage in an inventive new adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, broadcast live...

Japan Now Special Strand/ I Go Gaga, My Dear (PG)

Starts Sat 22 Feb 2020 at 15.40

Documenting her parent's life, director Nobutomo presents an intimate portrait of the highs and lows of a family...

Ride Your Wave (12A)

Starts Mon 24 Feb 2020 at 18.10

Two young lovers, Minato & Hinako are torn apart when Minato's life is cut short in an accident...

Ten Dark Women (15)

Starts Wed 26 Feb 2020 at 18.10

Progressive for the time of its production, this black comedy follows the undoing of a married TV producer...

Our Meal for Tomorrow (12A)

Starts Sat 29 Feb 2020 at 15.40

After participating in their school’s sack race, an unlikely romance begins between an introverted Hayama & outspoken Uemura....

ROH Live/ Fidelio (12A)

Starts Tue 17 Mar 2020 at 19.00

Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph.

ROH Live/ Swan Lake (12A)

Starts Wed 1 Apr 2020 at 19.00

Liam Scarlett's glorious production of Swan Lake, new in 2018, returns for its first revival.

David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (CTBA)

Starts Thu 16 Apr 2020 at 19.10

One man has seen more of the natural world than any other. This unique feature documentary is his...

ROH Live/ Cavalleria Rusticana + Pagliacci (12A)

Starts Tue 21 Apr 2020 at 18.45

Two opera classics are drawn together in this wonderfully observed re-creation of life in a south Italian village...

NT Live/ The Welkin (15)

Starts Thu 21 May 2020 at 18.45

James Macdonald directs Maxine Peake and Ria Zmitrowicz in this bold and gripping thriller from Tony Award-nominated writer...

ROH Live/ The Dante Project (12A)

Starts Thu 28 May 2020 at 19.00

Wayne McGregor collaborates with an award-winning team to bring Dante's epic Divine Comedy to life on stage.

RSC Live/ The Winter’s Tale (Live)

Starts Wed 10 Jun 2020 at 18.45

A moving new production directed by Deputy Artistic Director Erica Whyman.

ROH Live/ Elektra (12A)

Starts Thu 18 Jun 2020 at 19.30

Strauss' thrilling and audacious adaptation of Greek tragedy receives a new staging by the award-winning director Christof Loy.

RSC Live/ The Comedy of Errors (CTBA)

Starts Wed 15 Jul 2020 at 18.45

Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, a fairytale farce of everyday miracles, mistaken identity and double vision, is directed...

RSC Live/ Pericles (CTBA)

Starts Wed 23 Sep 2020 at 18.45

Located in a familiar world of precarious journeys and treacherous alliances, this is Shakespeare’s touching and hopeful tale...

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Media A Level Study Day: Music Video

Thu 30 Jan 2020

This study day aims to explore the enduring format of the music video within the context of both...

Mrs. Rellik (12A)

A short film by HOME's BFI Film Academy 8 that follows a naive detective as he investigates a series of disappearances...

Show Me the Picture: The Story of Jim Marshall (CTBA)

From Fri 31 Jan

Legendary US photographer Jim Marshall's diary of a life in music captures both the volatile man behind the...

A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood (PG)

From Fri 31 Jan

A jaded journalist reluctantly accepts an Esquire assignment to profile the children’s television host Fred Rogers, and encounters...

The Lighthouse (15)

From Fri 31 Jan

Director Robert Eggers’ follows up his 2015 folk-horror debut The Witch with another eerie period tale.

Queen & Slim + post-screening discussion

Fri 31 Jan 2020

This screening will be accompanied by a post-screening discussion with Kemi Alemoru, Gal Dem and Roxy Legane, Kids...

Hammett (12A)

On sale soon

Wim Wenders pays homage to Film Noir. Sam Hammett ends up involved in an elaborate extortion plot by...

Preview/ Parasite (15)

Mon 3 Feb 2020

Winner of the Palme d’Or, as well as top Golden Globe nominations including best director, foreign-language film and...

Preview/ Parasite + Satellite Q&A

Mon 3 Feb 2020

This special preview screening will be followed by a satellite Q&A with director Bong Joon Ho, broadcast from...

German GCSE Study Morning: Ballon

Thu 6 Feb 2020

Recommended for GCSE and equivalent level German This event is now fully booked. To join the waiting list...

Mancunia + Q&A

Thu 6 Feb 18.30

This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Michael Symmons Roberts, Steve Hawley and Marion Hewitt; chaired...

Talking About Trees (CTBA)

From Fri 7 Feb

This beautifully shot feature debut, winner of the Berlinale Best Documentary Award, couldn’t be timelier for Sudan.

Mr Jones (15)

From Fri 7 Feb

In March 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones takes a train from Moscow to Kharkov in Ukraine & experiences...

Filmmakers Meet Up / Feb 2020

Expression of interest deadline: 27 Jan

Join our Filmmakers Meet Up aimed at emerging film writers, directors and producers

Emma (CTBA)

From Fri 14 Feb

Jane Austen’s beloved comedy about finding your equal and earning your happy ending, is re-imagined in this delicious...

First Love (CTBA)

From Fri 14 Feb

Those familiar with the wild genre masterclasses of Audition and Ichi the Killer will feel right at home...

A Paris Education (CTBA)

From Fri 14 Feb

Shooting in timeless black and white and interweaving references to philosophy, music, and cinema, Paul Civeyrac conjures a...

Valentine’s Day Preview/ Portrait of a Lady on Fire (15)

From Fri 28 Feb

Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a reluctant bride to be who's just left...

End of Century (CTBA)

From Fri 21 Feb

Castro’s inventive and enigmatic debut feature is consistently surprising, turning a love story into a cosmic voyage with...

Greed (15)

From Fri 21 Feb

In this sharp satire, a thinly veiled portrait of Philip Green, Winterbottom looks at the model of exploitation...

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