HOME Reopening Programme May 2021

We’re excited to announce the first details of our reopening programme, including two new exhibitions and a programme of film releases including three Best Picture Oscar nominees and a new film season exploring filmmaking on film.

Dave Moutrey, HOME’s Director and CEO, said: “It is exciting to be able to announce details of our fantastic reopening programme of exhibitions and film screenings at HOME just a week after we told everyone about our plans for theatre at our temporary outdoor venue, Homeground. Between HOME and Homeground, we promise a Summer of brilliant film, art and theatre for the people of Manchester.”

Here are the onsale dates for our reopening films:

HOME Friends: Tue 11 May 12pm
HOME Members: Wed 12 May 12pm
General Sale: Thu 13 May 12pm

Browse the events below, and why not sign up to become a HOME Friend to ensure you can grab your tickets before anyone else.

In this season

The HOME Film Podcast: 2021 Festivals Special

In this episode, Jason Wood, Rachel Heyward and Andy Willis discuss the 2021 virtual film festival experience, from pausing the TV for cups of tea…

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HOME announce reopening on 17 May and first peek at exhibition and film programme

We're delighted to announce the first details of our reopening programme.

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Previously in this season

Peeping Tom

A frank exploration of voyeurism and violence, Michael Powell’s extraordinary film was reviled by critics upon its initial release for its deeply unsettling subject matter.…

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Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché

Documentary examining the life of Poly Styrene, the first woman of colour in the UK to front a successful rock band, narrated by Oscar-nominee Ruth…

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Day For Night

An irreverent paean to the prosaic craft of cinema as well as a delightful human comedy about the pitfalls of sex and romance.

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Dolemite is My Name Introduction

This screening of Dolemite is My Name will be introduced by Karen Gabay, radio presenter, TV & podcast producer. 

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Nomadland

Frances McDormand illuminates Chloé Zhao’s follow up to The Rider, a humane and lyrical film about people living on the road in the American West.

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Muscle

A timely and bruising portrait of amplified masculinity as it follows Simon who falls under the spell of a personal trainer who slowly instils himself…

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Frankie

A famous French actor who having learned that she only has a few months to live gathers her fractured network of friends and family together…

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Mank

1930s Hollywood re-evaluated through the eyes of scathing wit & alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish Citizen Kane. A fascinating insight…

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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypse

Coppola began to film Apocalypse Now in February 1976. Coppola’s wife Eleanor documented the entire production, objectively capturing things spiralling out of control in pursuit of a…

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State Funeral

Unique, unseen, and long-forgotten archival footage presents Comrade Stalin's nationwide valediction as the culmination of Soviet ritual and terror-induced delusion

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Apples

Christos Nikou’s wonderful feature debut, written and directed before the COVID-19 pandemic began is a soulful rumination on who we are and what defines us.…

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Spring Blossom

Suzanne is bored. She feels out of touch with her friends and classmates. Such ennui falls away when she encounters Raphaël, and their regular encounters…

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Ammonite

Francis Lee follows up God’s Own Country with a film that is every bit as immersive, tactile and emotionally powerful, aided by the devastatingly good…

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Beware of a Holy Whore + Intro

In an elegant Spanish hotel lobby, a film cast and crew outdo one another in displays of professional and sexual rivalry while waiting endlessly for…

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Soul Journey to Truth

Soul Journey to Truth is an exhibition that shines a light on the creative talent within prisons, secure settings, and people on probation in the North…

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Sarah-Joy Ford: Archives and Amazons

Sarah- Joy Ford presents a new body of work following several years of research in the Lesbian Archive Collection at Glasgow Women’s Library

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Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In + Recorded Q&A

A revealing and deeply personal documentary about the life of Sir Alex Ferguson, from his working-class roots in Glasgow to his career as one of…

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Staging Change presents

Spring

Coinciding with the re-opening of HOME, Spring is a small gesture of hope as our world comes back to life again. Come and collect a…

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Sound of Metal Recorded Q&A

The screening on Tue 18 May at 17:40 will be followed by a 20 minute pre-recorded zoom Q&A with director Darius Marder and actors Riz…

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Rare Beasts Introduction

The screening on Tue 25 May at 20:40 will be introduced by director and actor Billie Piper.

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Glastonbury presents: Live at Worthy Farm

Having been forced to cancel for a second consecutive year, Glastonbury will host a special event Live at Worthy Farm on Saturday 22nd May.

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One Cut of the Dead

Beginning with an almost 40-minute single-take set piece that sets the tone for what’s to come, this cult sensation from Japan is a zippy, silly…

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Ararat + Recorded Intro

The Turkish massacre of the Armenians in 1915 is examined through the interwoven lives of a film-maker, a writer and an airport customs guard.

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Iorram

A haunting evocation of life among the fishing community of the Outer Hebrides, past and present. It’s a love song to its extraordinary seascapes and…

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Minari

Minari follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream showing the undeniable resilience of family…

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The State of Things + Introduction

Wim Wenders pivotal film surrounding the production crew of a doomed art movie shooting in Portugal.

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Granada Nights

A love letter to Granada that mixes documentary with fiction to create a real and authentic heartfelt examination of the process of self-discovery.

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Undergods

Chino Moya’s debut feature Undergods places viewers in a deserted, crumbling, foreign futuristic world, though sadly one that feels more familiar every day.

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Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry

This incisive documentary from R.J. Cutler takes a deeply personal look at the extraordinary teenager, Billie Eilish, as the writing and recording of her debut…

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The Reverse Gaze: Filmmaking on Screen

A look at the act of creating images and more generally the process of artistic endeavour, offering long the way an analysis of the film…

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First Cow

The latest feature from Kelly Reichardt – one of the best filmmakers at work anywhere in the world today – examines the roots of free…

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Sound of Metal

Sound means everything in drummer Ruben's (Riz Ahmed) life. When he suddenly goes deaf after a concert, it unbalances everything in his life. Who is…

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Rare Beasts Q&A

The screening on Tue 25 May at 18:00 will be followed by a Q&A with director and actor Billie Piper.

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Rare Beasts

Billie Piper's debut film as a writer-director. Scorched-earth exploration of self-worth in a time of reclaimed feminism and contentious politics, the results are both hilarious…

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Surge

A gripping, intense and exhilarating character study developed from Karia’s 2013 short, Surge offers a considered portrait of vulnerability.

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County Lines

A powerful drama about a mother and her fourteen-year-old son who is groomed, and subsequently trapped, into a lethal nationwide drug selling enterprise

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The Human Voice

Madness and melancholy intersect to thrilling effect as Almodóvar reimagines Jean Cocteau’s short play The Human Voice for an era in which isolation has become…

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Earwig and the Witch

Based on the novel by Diana Wynne Jones (Howl’s Moving Castle), the film tells the tale of a young orphan girl in 1990s England who…

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Judas and the Black Messiah

The story of Fred Hampton, the gifted civil rights leader who rose through the Black Panther party to became chairman of the Chicago chapter. A…

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Man with a Movie Camera

Man with a Movie Camera is one of the most ground-breakingly inventive and influential films ever made. A strikingly modern look at urban life in…

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Quo Vadis, Aida?

A powerful drama focused on one of the most shameful moments of recent European history: Srebrenica. Jasmila Žbanić's drama unfolds in 1995, just as the…

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Dolemite is My Name

The story of Rudy Ray Moore, a struggling singer & comedian working in a record store in early-1970s Hollywood. A celebration of black creativity, featuring…

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The Human Factor

With unprecedented access to the foremost American negotiators, The Human Factor is the behind-the scenes story of how the US came within reach of securing…

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Irma Vep

Olivier Assayas' adroit satyre of the filmmaking process.

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Demon Slayer: Mugen Train

One of the most commercially successful films of all time in Japan, this hugely anticipated manga finally arrives in the UK.

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