Are you ready for more great theatre, art and film? Brace yourselves for a fantastic new season of exciting commissions, productions, collaborations and site-specific work.
We have three major exhibitions that weave not just through the galleries but through our film programme too. We have artists and filmmakers who take the sci-fi genre and make it relevant to a sophisticated, science and technology-literate society. Our film seasons shine a light on the pioneers of British TV and film, and ask why we don’t see more Chinese-language films in the UK. Our theatre premieres bring some of the world’s best companies, directors, playwrights and producers to Manchester, in works that range from fresh re-imaginings of classic plays to unique performances in iconic spaces across the city. We provide families a taste of just how much there is to inspire and entertain children. And with our tickets priced from just £5, we also make sure local communities and young people can get stuck in too.
In this season
Our Sep – Mar Season Trailer
So far, we’ve welcomed over 350,000 of you through our doors. Now, brace yourselves for a fantastic new season of film, art, theatre and more.
Previously in this season
Theatre
HOME presentsThe Oresteia
Terrible secrets are handed down through the generations in a bloody chain of murder and revenge. The Oresteia, the first great work of theatre written…
Cinema
The Big Knights
From the award-winning animators behind Peppa Pig, The Big Knights revolves around the exploits of brothers Sir Boris (the finest swordsman in the world), Sir…
Cinema
Preview: Zarafa
An enchanting French story about the everlasting friendship between 10-year-old Maki, and Zarafa, an orphaned giraffe, who is being gifted to the King of France by…
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I Must First Apologise: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
To complement our new exhibition, I must first apologise…, artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige have worked with our programme team to curate a short season of films, including a selection from their…
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Safe: Alienation, Fear, Paranoia and Film Form
In terms of its exploration of alienation, fear, paranoia and the feeling of helplessness when confronted by a rapidly changing world, there are few films…
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¡Viva! Presents New Spanish Cinema
This November we bring you the final instalment of the 21st ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Film Festival: The Weekenders, with an excellent line-up of…
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Manchester Animation Festival
The inaugural Manchester Animation Festival arrives at HOME in November. The animated film competition screenings will be accompanied by industry screentalks, workshops, retrospectives, networking and…
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James Benning: People & Places
An American independent filmmaker and essayist with an incredibly unique voice, James Benning recently relinquished a dedication to 16mm and embraced digital technology. The economy…
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Jim Allen Retrospective: Still relevant after all these years
Jim Allen remains one of the most important British screenwriters. His work is driven by a clear commitment to socialist politics and is unafraid to…
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BSL Interpreted Gallery Tour: Safe
Imagine becoming allergic to everything you enjoy… Our major new group exhibition Safe takes Todd Haynes’ influential understated masterpiece of the same name as a starting point for…
Cinema
Nothing But a Man
A landmark of American cinema, this uniquely truthful depiction of black life in early 1960s Alabama rightly won great acclaim at the Venice, London and…
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Black History Month
To mark Black History Month UK, we present two exceptional and ground-breaking films from the archive, one of which, Nothing But A Man, was cited…
Cinema
Tots volem el millor per a ella + Somos amigos
One year after a terrible traffic accident, Geni is ready to resume her life... or at least that’s what her family wants to see. The…
Theatre
Streetwise Opera and The Sixteen co-production, in association with HOME presentsThe Passion
A landmark site-specific production for Easter 2016. In the historical surrounds of Campfield Market, an abridged version of Bach’s iconic oratorio St Matthew Passion is…
Cinema
Felices 140
On her 40th birthday, Elia gathers together a few select relatives and friends at a luxury country house to tell them some extraordinary news: she…
Cinema
The 2015 Jarman Award Touring Programme
Fall into genre-bending documentaries and lyrical time-travelling tapestries on the big screen, with the latest works from the six shortlisted artists for this year’s Jarman…
Theatre
Quarantine, in co-production with Contact and HOME, supported by SICK! Festival presentsSummer. Autumn. Winter. Spring.
An extraordinary quartet of work about our relationship with time, Quarantine’s hugely ambitious project is a piece of mass portraiture, spanning the human lifecycle and…
Theatre
barbarians: A Trilogy by Hofesh Shechter
Following his sell-out performances of tHE bAD in April 2015, the infinitely unpredictable Shechter returns with his completed trilogy, Barbarians.
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From Caligari to Hitler: Weimar Cinema
To coincide with 1927’s production of Golem, we present a series of films made during the Weimar Republic, the centrepiece of which is a preview…
Cinema
Lasa eta Zabala
In 1983 Basque refugees Joxean Lasa and Joxi Zabala went missing in Bayonne, followed by a wave of attacks perpetrated by the illegal Spanish death…
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BIG Family Day
Make a day of it this December, when we will be throwing open our doors to families. Expect great creative workshops, films and more, including…
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BSL Interpreted Gallery Tour: Incidents of Travel in the Multiverse
Join in-demand artists and filmmakers AL and AL, together with exhibition curators Sarah Perks and Bren O'Callaghan, to hear from the makers themselves about their…
Cinema
Requisitos para ser una persona normal
What does it mean to be normal? 30-year-old María thinks she has the answer, a checklist of fundamental requirements; the only problem is she cannot…
Exhibition
Elle Brotherhood: Manmade vs. Nature Made
Elle Brotherhood’s photography, shown in the Granada Foundation Gallery on floor 1, is shot on traditional 35mm film or with a digital camera. Imaginative and…
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DR.ME: Choice Cuts
On the Granada Foundation Gallery walls on floors 1 and 2, we present work by DR.ME (Ryan Doyle and Mark Edwards), taken from their recent…
Theatre
Kneehigh with Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse presentsDead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs)
The ever-inventive Kneehigh return with their blazing new show. Fasten your seat belts; it’s going to be one hell of a night!
Theatre
Nanterre-Amandiers presentsLa Mélancolie Des Dragons
A breathtaking blend of theatre and visual art from our 2015 international guest artist, Philippe Quesne. La Mélancolie des Dragons is a unique masterpiece, combining…
Exhibition
AL and AL: Incidents of Travel in the Multiverse
We present the world premiere of The Demiurge; the concluding work in AL and AL’s epic sci-fi odyssey, which tells a radical new myth about…
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Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige: I must first apologise…
A major new exhibition from Beirut based artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, exploring the the history of online spam and scamming through film, sculpture,…
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Artist and Curator Tour: Incidents of Travel in the Multiverse
Join in-demand artists and filmmakers AL and AL, together with exhibition curators Sarah Perks and Bren O'Callaghan, to hear from the makers themselves about their…
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Preview: Incidents of Travel in the Multiverse
AL and AL are amongst the world’s greatest practitioners of sumptuously realised computer generated imagery (CGI), as well as accomplished artists, filmmakers and composers. Join…
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Gallery Tour: Safe
Curators Louise O'Hare, Sarah Perks and the exhibiting artists will help unpick the multiple approaches in the exhibition.
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Preview: Safe
Join us for the preview of Safe, one of a series of exhibitions that takes a classic or influential film as inspiration, in this case Director…
Cinema
Live: The Importance Of Being Earnest
Don’t miss Olivier Award winner and Poirot star David Suchet as the formidable Lady Bracknell in the LIVE cinema broadcast of Oscar Wilde’s much loved…
Exhibition
Brian Taylor: Movie Posters
Brian Taylor’s series of hyper-realistic and reimagined posters for classic action, horror and sci-fi movie titles are created through a painstaking process of gathering existing…
Cinema
RSC Live: Henry V
RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran continues his exploration of Shakespeare’s History Plays with Henry V performed in the 600th anniversary year of the Battle of…
Cinema
ROH Live: Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci
These two short Italian operas are each regarded as the composers’ masterpiece, and are brought together in a new staging by award-winning director Damiano Michieletto, who sets…
Cinema
NT Live: Jane Eyre
Almost 170 years on, Charlotte Brontë’s story of the trailblazing Jane is as inspiring as ever. This bold and dynamic production uncovers one woman’s fight…
Cinema
NT Live: Of Mice and Men
The hit Broadway production Of Mice and Men, filmed on stage in New York by National Theatre Live, comes to UK cinemas. This landmark revival of…
Cinema
Met Opera Live: Il Trovatore
Soprano Anna Netrebko’s dramatic and vocal skills are on full display in her next new role at the Met—Leonora, the Verdi heroine who sacrifices her…
Cinema
Met Opera Live: Otello
The Met season continues with Verdi’s masterful Otello, inspired by Shakespeare’s play and matching it in tragic intensity. Director Bartlett Sher probes the Moor’s dramatic…
Cinema
Met Opera Live: Tannhäuser
James Levine conducts Wagner’s early masterpiece in its first return to the Met stage in more than a decade. Today’s leading Wagnerian tenor, Johan Botha,…
Cinema
Met Opera Live: Lulu
Acclaimed artist and director William Kentridge (The Nose) applies his unique theatrical vision to Berg’s notorious femme fatale who shatters lives, including her own. Musically,…
Cinema
Met Opera Live : Les Pêcheurs de Perles
Bizet’s gorgeous opera of lust and longing set in the Far East returns to the Met stage for the first time in 100 years. Soprano…
Cinema
Met Opera Live: Turandot
Christine Goerke, Lise Lindstrom, and Nina Stemme, three of opera’s greatest dramatic sopranos, take turns in the title role of the proud princess of ancient…
Cinema
Met Opera Live: Manon Lescaut
The Met stage ignites when soprano Kristine Opolais and tenor Jonas Kaufmann join forces in Puccini’s obsessive love story. Opolais sings the title role of…
Cinema
Koyaanisqatsi
This special event features a screening of the stunning visual poem Koyaanisqatsi with a new and unique score from Manchester’s Mercury-nominated hard-hitting-jazz-meets-electronica three piece GoGo…
Cinema
Love on The Dole
A double treat for lovers of classic British film and local literature: a rare cinema screening of seminal British drama Love on the Dole, starring…
Cinema
ROH Live: Le nozze di Figaro
Often considered a perfect opera, Le nozze di Figaro represents Mozart’s genius at its most lively and delightful. Based on a play that was originally…
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One hour intro: Animation, not just for the hell of it!
Preluding the screening of Spanish stop motion comedy Pos eso (Possesed) we try and exorcise the demons that influenced the animated horror comedy and look behind…