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Seeing Daylight – a film portrait of Dorothy Bohm

Performance Space

Join us for a special preview screening of 'Seeing Daylight', a film portrait of Dorothy Bohm, one of Britain’s finest street photographers. With contributions from friends and family, and reflections from Dorothy […]

£3

Black Christmas

Performance Space

Join our friends Grimm up North, as they present the classic 1974 christmas slasher movie, Black Christmas! It's time for the Christmas break, and the sorority sisters make plans for the […]

£6

Generation Revolution

Performance Space

Join us for a screening of Generation Revolution, a feature-length documentary film that tells the powerful story of London’s new generation of black and brown activists who are set on […]

Krampus – Film Screening

Performance Space

Join Grimmfest for their annual Christmas horror movie gathering! When his dysfunctional family clashes over the holidays, young Max is disillusioned and turns his back on Christmas. Little does he know, this […]

£6

Family Christmas Film

Performance Space

Join us for the afternoon with a good old Christmas film and family crafts. Take some time to relax before the Christmas holiday. Suitable for all ages Free – please […]

Josie and the Pussycats – Film Screening

Performance Space

For the first RAD Screenings event of 2019 they'll be helping you get over the January blues by turning the volume up and bringing their fave cinematic, feline themed rock […]

£5.50

Manchester’s Tramways on Film

Performance Space

THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT Reflecting on the 70th anniversary of the closure of Manchester’s original tramway network in January 1949, the North West Film Archive opens up its collection […]

500 Days of Summer – 10th Anniversary Screening

Performance Space

Just after Valentines 2019, RAD invite you to Central Library for more of an anti-valentines film, a film that isn’t a love story, but a cult film about love and […]

£5

10 Things I Hate About You (20th Anniversary Screening)

Performance Space

RAD, Manchester's home of retro, awesome cult movies, are back with one final cult American comedy to cap their season of shorts at Central Library, celebrating the 20th anniversary of […]

£5.50

Peterloo Film Screening

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Join us for relaxed screenings of the Peterloo Film every month from June – August. The Peterloo Massacre was a defining moment in British democracy which also played a significant […]

£3 – £8

The First Across – Alcock and Brown Centenary

Seminar Suite, Floor Two

Celebrate the centenary of the first transatlantic flight with a special North West Film Archive screening of The First Across, a documentary produced in 1969 by the BBC which reconstructed the […]

Our Sam, The Middleton Man

Performance Space

Our Sam follows the story of a teenager, Samantha (a secret poet), who travels around her home Town of Middleton observing and writing of the exclusion and voicelessness of the […]