HOME Presents Event ¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American Festival 2018 Thu 12 Apr 2018 – Sat 5 May 2018 For its 24th edition, ¡Viva! returns with a venue-wide celebration of Spanish and Latin American culture. We’ll be...
HOME Presents Theatre HOME presents: The Tiger Lillies: Corrido de la Sangre Today 19.30; Tomorrow 19.30; Thu 19.30; Fri 19.30; Sat 19.30 + more times A Corrido singer and his band return from the realm of the dead to haunt their killer and...
Exhibition Mario Popham and Tom Baskeyfield: Of Flesh and Stone Fri 9 Mar 2018 – Sun 29 Apr 2018 Through a dialogue between drawing and photography, artists Tom Baskeyfield and Mario Popham continue their exploration into how...
HOME Presents Exhibition Louis Henderson: Overtures Sat 21 Apr 2018 – Sun 10 Jun 2018 Taking as a point of departure the play Monsieur Toussaint by Édouard Glissant, Overtures explores the complexities of...
Course Course: Embedding Safeguarding Practice Tue 24 Apr 2018 An Organisational Approach to Safe Practice with Children and Young People in Creative and Cultural sectors.
Film The Square (15) Today 13.00; Tomorrow 15.25; Thu 13.00 Ruben Östlund's Palme d’Or-winner is a brilliantly funny and bracingly surreal art-world satire that focuses on the respected...
Film Isle of Dogs (PG) Today 13.10, 15.35, 18.15, 20.35; Tomorrow 13.10, 15.20, 18.15, 20.35; Thu 13.10, 15.25, 18.15, 20.35 + more times Isle of Dogs tells the story of Atari Kobayashi, the 12-year-old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When, by...
Film Funny Cow (15) Today 13.15, 15.55, 18.00, 20.25; Tomorrow 13.15, 15.30, 18.05, 20.25; Thu 13.15, 15.55, 18.05, 20.25 + more times Set against the backdrop of working men’s clubs and the stand-up comedy circuit in the North of England,...
Film Let The Sunshine In (15) Today 13.20, 18.05; Tomorrow 13.25, 18.10; Thu 15.35, 20.20; Fri 15.40, 20.15; Sat 13.25, 20.15 + more times Adapted from Roland Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse, the latest film from Claire Denis (Beau Travail, 35 Shots of...
Film Custody (15) Today 13.25, 16.20, 18.30, 20.40; Tomorrow 13.00, 15.55, 18.30, 20.40; Thu 13.40, 16.10, 18.20, 20.30 + more times French director Xavier Legrand's debut feature is an explosive family drama that is as gripping as it is...
Film Western (12A) Today 15.30, 20.15; Tomorrow 15.35, 20.15; Thu 12.50, 17.45 Cultural difference, masculine bravado, and national pride lead to high tensions in the latest work from Valeska Grisebach...
Featured The HOME Film Podcast #33: April 2018 It's spring and Jason and Andy are back to discuss a selection of April film releases including 120...
Film Ghost Stories (15) Today 15.40; Tomorrow 13.40; Thu 15.50 Professor Phillip Goodman (Nyman), psychologist and arch-sceptic, has his rationality tested to the hilt when he stumbles across...
Film La Novia del desierto (PG) Today 18.10 After decades working as a live-in maid with a family in Buenos Aires, circumstances oblige 54-year-old Teresa to...
HOME Presents Theatre HOME presents: The Tiger Lillies: Corrido de la Sangre Today 19.30; Tomorrow 19.30; Thu 19.30; Fri 19.30; Sat 19.30 + more times A Corrido singer and his band return from the realm of the dead to haunt their killer and...
Talk Abracadabra Intro Today 20.30 The screening on Tue 24 Apr will be introduced by Dr Abigail Loxham, University of Liverpool.
Film Abracadabra (15) Today 20.30 Carmen, an ordinary housewife living on the outskirts of Madrid, blindly follows the old saying “better the devil...
Course Course: Evaluating Youth Arts Projects Wed 25 Apr 2018 You want a practical day and the chance to tailor your approach to creative evaluation. This course will...
Theatre Xavier Bobés presents: Things Easily Forgotten Wed 25 Apr 2018 – Sat 28 Apr 2018 Things Easily Forgotten is a photographic show that transforms memories and, like forgetfulness, invents other, new ones.
Talk Los Nadie Intro Tomorrow 18.00 The screening on Wed 25 Apr will be introduced by Dr Rebecca Jarman, University of Leeds.
Film Los Nadie (15) Tomorrow 18.00 Love, hate, broken promises and five friends meet in the streets of Medellin, a city that simultaneously attracts...
Film UK Premiere/ El Ciudadano ilustre (12A) Tomorrow 20.20 Mr. Mantovani, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, accepts an invitation to visit his humble hometown in...
Film Migas de pan (18) Thu 17.50 When Liliana returns to Uruguay her conscience is painfully torn between the political and the personal. Will she...
Event Draw Club Thu 26 April 18:30 - 20:30 Following the success of our first Draw Club at HOME for PUSH Festival earlier this year, we’re doing...
Film El Bar (18) Thu 20.40 In a bar on an average morning in Madrid, regulars and strangers enjoy their coffee and pastries. Life...
Film Beast (CTBA) Fri 12.50, 15.10, 18.05, 20.25; Sat 12.50, 15.45, 18.05, 20.25; Sun 12.50, 15.30, 17.45, 20.25 + more times There is darkness inside all of us. How it emerges is the central theme explored in this riveting...
Film The Wound (15) Fri 13.15, 18.15; Sat 13.15, 18.15; Sun 16.00, 20.20; Mon 13.15, 18.10 + more times The Wound is an exploration of tradition and sexuality set amid South Africa’s Xhosa culture.
Film UK Premiere/ Casi leyendas (15) Fri 17.50; Sun 18.00 A feel-good buddy movie, about three men in mid-life crisis who rekindle their youthful rock-and-roll dreams in an...
Talk Casi leyendas Q&A Fri 17.50 We are pleased to welcome Gabriel Nesci for a Q&A following the screening on Fri 27 Apr.
Film The Old Dark House (PG) From Fri 27 Apr Frankenstein director Whale turned J.B. Priestley’s novel Benighted into a nerve-jangling tale that became the template for all...
Theatre HOME presents: The Love of the Fireflies Fri 18.30; Sat 18.30 This script-in-hand performance of Mexican writer Alejandro Ricaño’s new play will take you on a journey all the...
Film UK Premiere/ Mala junta (15) Fri 20.40 A reflection of the on-going Mapuche conflict portrayed through the friendship and solidarity of two misunderstood teens, railing...
Film Relaxed screening: Coco (PG) Sat 11.00 Coco follows the adventures of a 12-year-old boy named Miguel, who finds himself in the Land of the...
Film Preview/ Estiu 1993 (PG) Sat 15.30 Six-year-old Frida must move to the village where her uncle, aunt, and three-year-old cousin, Anna, live. Before the...
Film UK Premiere/ Tempo (U) Sat 18.00 340 million years ago, in the O Courel mountain range, two continental plates collided, and Galicia was born....
Talk Tempo Q&A Sat 28 Apr 2018 We are pleased to welcome Manuel Valcárcel for a Q&A following the screening on Sat 28 Apr.
Film Los Perros (12A) Sat 20.35 When Mariana grows closer to her enigmatic riding instructor, The Colonel, she's directly confronted with the outrages of...
Film Coco (PG) Sun 11.00 Coco follows the adventures of a 12-year-old boy named Miguel, who finds himself in the Land of the...
Event Workshop/ Afro-Ancestral Ritual Movement Sun 26 Apr 12:00 - 15:00 Inspired by Haitian folklore, ritual movement, rhythm and song, participants in this workshop will be led by artist...
Film Los Adioses (12A) Sun 13.30 Poet and author Rosario Castellanos (1925-1974), part of the Generation of 1950, is one of Mexico’s most important...
Discussion ¡Viva! 2018 Café Cervantes Sun 29 Apr 2018 An informal gathering of Spanish-speaking film lovers. Come and practise your language skills while sharing your opinions on...
Talk Beast Q&A Sun 20.25 We will be joined by director Michael Pearce for a Q&A following the screening on Sun 29 Apr...
Talk The Wound Q&A Mon 18.10 We will be joined by director John Trengove for a Q&A following the screening on Mon 30 Apr...
Workshop Young Identity at HOME Mon 23 Apr 2018 – Mon 28 May 2018 Calling all aspiring writers, poets and spoken word artists aged 15-25. Whether you’re already penning your own poetry...
Film Le Fort de Fous (CTBA) Starts Tue 1 May 2018 at 20.00 A community of young nomads and wanderers form an imagined utopian society in response to imperialist rule.
Film 70 Years of Nakba: A Collection of Palestinian Shorts (CTBA) Starts Wed 2 May 2018 at 18.15 This programme of nine shorts includes the work of young and established Palestinian filmmakers, exploring themes of history,...
Theatre Sh!t Theatre with Show & Tell presents: DollyWould Thu 3 May 2018 – Sat 5 May 2018 Sh!t Theatre return with their bold new show about Dolly Parton, cloning, branding, immortality and death.
Film PLTVS3 Opening Night: Westworld Season 2 (18) Starts Thu 3 May 2018 at 20.00 For this year’s Opening Night, Pilot Light TV Fest have teamed up with Sky Atlantic to present the...
Workshop Workshop: Digital Creators UK Writers Room Fri 4 May 10.30 This event is designed to improve your web series script before you enter production. Actors will be reading...
Discussion Playreading: Friday 4 May Fri 4 May 11.00 Our popular Playreading group meets on the first Friday of most months at HOME.
Talk Class in Diversity in British Television Fri 4 May 13.00 Class in Diversity asks whether TV executives and commissioners are failing to acknowledge the impact of class representation...
Talk Sarah and Duck: Behind the Scenes Fri 4 May 14.00 This BAFTA-winning CBeebies hit show follows Sarah, a young British girl and her best friend, a mallard named...
Talk Pitching Digital Series: Beyond a YouTube Existence Fri 4 May 15.00 Join us as we examine the development, distribution and commissioning options available for Web Series and short form...
What's On HOME Presents We work with international and UK artists to produce extraordinary experiences, creating an exciting mix of thought-provoking drama,...
Talk New Voices in TV and Film: Distinct Voices, Diverse Stories Fri 4 May 16.00 This discussion looks at the steps being taken to improve on screen representation, in particular shortFLIX, a short...
Film Arrow TV Presents: Gomorrah (18) Starts Fri 4 May 2018 at 18.00 A new exciting partnership with Arrow TV allows Pilot Light to present the first two episodes of Gomorrah,...
Theatre A Generation Rising Fri 4 May 2018 – Sat 5 May 2018 It’s 2018, and we live in a rapidly changing world. We are the Generation Rising, the future leaders....
Discussion Sex and the City: The World According to Woke Charlotte Fri 4 May 20.20 Pilot Light are teaming up with London’s Reel Good Film Club to examine the impact the show had...
Film Web Series Block 1 (12A) Starts Sat 5 May 2018 at 10.00 Pilot Light TV Festival champion the discovery of the next generation of talent in episodic storytelling. They aim...
Film Web Series Block 2 (15) Starts Sat 5 May 2018 at 11.00 Pilot Light TV Festival champion the discovery of the next generation of talent in episodic storytelling. They aim...
Talk Costume Design and Fashion on TV: Behind the Seams Sat 5 May 12.00 TV Critic and Entertainment Reporter Emma Bullimore (TV Times, BBC 5Live) guides us through a discussion on Costume...
Talk Panel/ Women in SVoD: Equity on Demand Sat 5 May 13.00 Over the past decade, women accounted for fewer than 30% of fictional series television writers in the US...
Film I Told my Mum I Was Going on an R.E. Trip (12A) Starts Sat 5 May 2018 at 13.30 This warm and honest drama explores young women’s experiences of abortion. Told through the voices of four actors,...
Film TV Pilot Block 1 (18) Starts Sat 5 May 2018 at 14.00 Pilot Light TV Festival champion the discovery of the next generation of talent in episodic storytelling. They aim...
Talk The Royle Family at 20 Sat 5 May 14.00 To commemorate its 20th anniversary we are delighted to be joined by Sue Johnston (Barbara Royle), Peter Martin...
Film #Reality2.0 (12A) Starts Sat 5 May 2018 at 15.30 Join us for a screening of all eight parts of this award-winning social commentary anthology web-series about being...
Film Walter Presents: Tabula Rasa (15) Starts Sat 5 May 2018 at 16.00 An intense thriller that follows a young woman with amnesia locked up in a secure psychiatric hospital. She...
Event The Excellence in Television Award: Julie Hesmondhalgh Sat 5 May 20.00 We are honoured to present the inaugural Excellence in Television Award at Pilot Light TV Festival to a...
Film Web Series Block 3 (15) Starts Sun 6 May 2018 at 11.00 Pilot Light TV Festival champion the discovery of the next generation of talent in episodic storytelling. They aim...
Film TV Pilot Block 2 (15) Starts Sun 6 May 2018 at 12.00 Pilot Light TV Festival champion the discovery of the next generation of talent in episodic storytelling. They aim...
Film The Girl Can’t Help It (U) Starts Sun 6 May 2018 at 13.00 Often called the best rock ’n’ roll film ever made, this high-powered, high-voltage comedy features music by Fats Domino, Little...
Film Big Train on a Big Screen: 20th Anniversary Screening (15) Starts Sun 6 May 2018 at 13.00 What would Pilot Light TV Festival be without a big screen marathon of a beloved British TV comedy?...
Event Blue Peter’s The History of Everything Sun 6 May 13.30 The Blue Peter team has searched across their archives and handpicked a selection of the most charming and...
Film Web Series Block 4 (15) Starts Sun 6 May 2018 at 13.30 Pilot Light TV Festival champion the discovery of the next generation of talent in episodic storytelling. They aim...
Event Reel Good Film Club Present: Cakes & Candles + Zine Workshop Sun 6 May 15.00 Following a screening of the first 11-minute episode of Cake & Candles, RGFC lead a discussion about the...
Film TV in Memoriam: Utopia (18) Starts Sun 6 May 2018 at 16.00 TV in Memoriam is a new feature of Pilot Light TV Festival dedicated to screening, celebrating and mourning...
Event In Conversation: Christopher Eccleston Sun 6 May 16.30 We are delighted to welcome actor Christopher Eccleston to Pilot Light TV Festival for this exclusive in-person event,...
Event Pilot Light TV Festival Awards 2018 Sun 6 May 17.30 Join Pilot Light TV Festival for an informal session of networking, meeting future collaborators, TV chat and finding...
Event Michael Cumming: Director’s Commentary Sun 6 May 18.30 In a professional career spanning 30 years, Michael Cumming has directed some of the most original, groundbreaking and...
Film The Fool (CTBA) Starts Tue 8 May 2018 at 18.00 A plumber's assistant with bigger dreams finds himself at the center of municipal corruption when he realises 800...
Film NT Live/ Macbeth (12A) Starts Thu 10 May 2018 at 18.45 The ruined aftermath of a bloody civil war. Ruthlessly fighting to survive, the Macbeths are propelled towards the...
HOME Presents Theatre HOME and Citizens Theatre presents: Long Day’s Journey Into Night Thu 10 May 2018 – Sat 26 May 2018 Eugene O’Neill’s moving and insightful Pulitzer Prize-winning play delves into the private lives and failings of the conflicted...
Theatre The Break of Day Thu 10 May 2018 – Sat 12 May 2018 In The Break of Day, Timberlake Wertenbaker turns a sharp and beady eye on three women and their...
Film Triple Bill/ Wutharr, Saltwater Dreams + Night Time Go + Mermaids, Mirror Worlds (CTBA) Starts Sat 12 May 2018 at 13.00 The Karrabing Film Collective is a grassroots Indigenous based media group. Filmmaking provides a means of self-organization and...
Film Ethel & Ernest (PG) Starts Sun 13 May 2018 at 15.30 Based on the award-winning book by acclaimed British author and illustrator Raymond Briggs, this hand-drawn animated feature film...
Film Unrest (12A) Starts Tue 15 May 2018 at 18.00 Jennifer Brea is working on her PhD and months away from marrying the love of her life when...
Workshop Workshop: Facebook Advertising for Beginners Wed 16 May 18:30 - 20:30 Want to try advertising on Facebook but don’t know where to start? In this session, Katie Moffat, Head...
Theatre Elysium Theatre Company presents: Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train Wed 16 May 2018 – Sat 19 May 2018 Jesus Hopped The ‘A’ Train is a funny, powerful, adrenaline-fuelled drama of good and evil, penalty and redemption,...
Film Live (recorded) Broadcast: An American in Paris – The Musical (Captured Live) Starts Wed 16 May 2018 at 19.50 This breathtakingly beautiful Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, inspired by the Oscar winning MGM film, tells the impassioned story of discovering love...
Film Almost Heaven (12A) Starts Thu 17 May 2018 at 18.20 Almost Heaven tells the story of Ying Ling, an ambitious 17 year-old girl far from home, struggling to...
Film Tout Va Bien (15) Starts Fri 18 May 2018 at 18.20 Featuring a newly radicalised Jane Fonda, Godard’s assault on consumer capitalism and the establishment Left offers a critique...
Film The Cremator (15) Starts Sat 19 May 2018 at 13.00 The Cremator has been described in many ways - as surrealist-inspired horror, as expressionist fantasy, as a dark...
Film Redoubtable (CTBA) From Fri 11 May Paris 1967. Jean-Luc Godard, the leading filmmaker of his generation, is shooting La Chinoise with the woman he...
Film Vent D’est & British Sounds Double Bill (15) Starts Sun 20 May 2018 at 15.20 Two of Godard and Gorin’s most expressly political works.
Talk The Old Dark House Intro Tue 1 May 18.15 The 18:15 screening on Tue 1 May will be introduced by Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes, author of Horror...
Talk 70 Years of Nakba Post-screening discussion Wed 2 May 18.15 The shorts programme will be followed by a post-screening discussion. Organised in collaboration with Cinema Palestino Manchester and...
Exhibition Susan Gunn: Ground Evolution Fri 4 May 2018 – Sun 1 Jul 2018 Susan Gunn is an artist interested in the history, origins and anthropology of colour and naturally occurring materials.
Film Mary and the Witch’s Flower (CTBA) From Fri 4 May Award-winning director Hiromasa Yonebayashi - whose work for Studio Ghibli included the beloved Arriety and When Marnie Was...
Film Lean on Pete (15) From Fri 4 May Andrew Haigh directs a modern-day western about a 15-year-old lost soul who hooks up with a pair of...
Film Tully (15) From Fri 4 May A funny, moving, and insightful look at motherhood that features captivating performances by its two female leads.
Film The Young Karl Marx (CTBA) From Fri 4 May Fresh from the success of his James Baldwin documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, Haitian-born director Raoul Peck...
Discussion Playreading: Fri 6 April Fri 4 May 11.00 Our popular Playreading group meets on the first Friday of most months at HOME. The sessions, which are...
Event Preview/ Susan Gunn: Ground Evolution 18:00 - 20:00, Fri 4 May Join us for the opening of our new HOME Projects exhibition Ground Evolution from artist Susan Gunn.
Talk I Told my Mum I Was Going on an R.E. Trip Q&A Sat 5 May 13.30 We are pleased to welcome Julia Samuels (Writer/Producer), Roxanne Moores (Producer) and Lindy Heymann (Director) for a Q&A...
Talk #Reality2.0 Q&A Sat 5 May 15.30 Following the screening actor/creator Nathan Bryon (Benidorm, Some Girls) and director Theresa Varga will be in attendance for...
Talk Walter Presents: Tabula Rasa Intro Sat 5 May 16.00 Before this screening Walter Iuzzolino will chair a Q&A with lead actress/co-writer Veerle Baetens (The Broken Circle Breakdown)...
Event The Girl Can’t Help It Post-screening Discussion Sun 6 May 13.00 The screening on Sun 06 May will be accompanied by a free, informal post-screening discussion led by Kirsty...
Talk TV in Memoriam: Utopia Q&A Sun 6 May 16.00 Creator Dennis Kelly (Pulling), Producer Rebekah Wray Rogers (This is England ‘86) and Actor Oliver Woollford (Ghost Stories)...
Film Mansfield 66/67 (CTBA) From Fri 11 May 2017 marked the 50th anniversary of the death of Jayne Mansfield in a bizarre car accident. If Mansfield...
Film That Good Night (12A) From Fri 11 May This enthralling film is a wonderful tribute to the late John Hurt, who gives a characteristically riveting performance...
Talk Ethel & Ernest Extended Introduction Sun 13 May 15.30 We will be joined by Dr Steve Henderson, Senior Lecturer in Animation at Manchester Metropolitan University and Director...
Talk Unrest Post-screening discussion Tue 15 May 18.00 This screening will be followed by a post-screening discussion with Dr Charles Shepherd of the ME Association and...
Film Jeune Femme (15) From Fri 18 May Broke, with nothing but her cat to her name and doors closing in her face, Paula is back...
Film On Chesil Beach (CTBA) From Fri 18 May England, 1962: two young newlyweds from very different backgrounds begin their honeymoon on the Dorset coast. A beautifully...
