Adorkable and studious Luthando is on track for a normal academic year at the prestigious boarding school she attends. The arrival of a new girl in her class ignites Luthando’s suppressed desires that threaten her relationships and everything she thought she knew about herself.
This screening is part of SCENE's The Pink Screening Room at CULTPLEX and will be introduced by a members of the SCENE Programming Team
About The Pink Screening Room:
The Pink Screening Room is SCENE's home of new independant queer filmmaking voices. Showcasing underground cinema, first time filmmakers and the best in Northern short films, expect dazzling debuts and daring detours into the weird and wonderful.
All of our screenings are 18+ unless otherwise stated, and the film start time is as advertised above.
Content Warnings: strong language, mild nudity, and some scenes of bullying or homophobia
Adorkable and studious Luthando is on track for a normal academic year at the prestigious boarding school she attends. The arrival of a new girl in her class ignites Luthando’s suppressed desires that threaten her relationships and everything she thought she knew about herself. This screening is part of SCENE's The Pink Screening Room at CULTPLEX and will be introduced by a members of the SCENE P...
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Adorkable and studious Luthando is on track for a normal academic year at the prestigious boarding school she attends. The arrival of a new girl in her class ignites Luthando’s suppressed desires that threaten her relationships and everything she thought she knew about herself. This screening is part of SCENE's The Pink Screening Room at CULTPLEX and will be introduced by a members of the SCENE P...
Discover the best emerging LGBTQ+ filmmaking from across the North of England in SCENE's Northern Queer Shorts Showcase. With the line-up to be announced, this showcase celebrates the bold new voices shaping the future of Northern queer cinema. Vote for your favourite film after the screening, with the winner taking home the SCENE Northern Queer Short Film Audience Award 2026. This screening i...
What if She's the Man had been made by and for a new generation of queer and trans audiences? She's the He, the whip-smart debut from writer-director Siobhan McCarthy, lovingly riffs on the gender-swapping teen comedies that defined the 2000s, taking their familiar setup and turning it into something fresh, funny and joyfully trans. When best friends Alex and Ethan pretend to come out as trans to ...
SCENE Festival: St Trinian's Party Screening with Banksie
Thu 27 Aug
School's out, losers! This is St Trinian's so expect absolute chaos. Join us for a gloriously unruly screening of the cult 2007 comedy, hosted by RuPaul's Drag Race UK star Banksie, as CULTPLEX give the UK's riotous schoolgirl classic the party screening with a night of camp and mischief. Come dressed in school uniform (untucked shirt of course!) and live your ultimate St Trinian's fantasy with ...
Celebrate this beloved coming-of-age story from the legendary Studio Ghibli, creators of Spirited Away, and Academy Award®-winning director Hayao Miyazaki, about a resourceful young witch who uses her broom to create a delivery service, only to lose her gift of flight in a moment of self-doubt. It is a tradition for all young witches to leave their families on the night of a full moon and fly off...
Yorgos Lanthimos's bawdy, acerbic tale of royal intrigue, passion, envy and betrayal in the court of Queen Anne in early 18th century England. A frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) occupies the throne and her close friend Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) governs the country in her stead while tending to Anne’s ill health and mercurial temper. When new servant Abigail (Emma Stone) arrives, her charm endears...
The smash culture-clash comedy tells the incredible true story of the creation of campaign group Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, and their encounters with the inhabitants of a Welsh mining village as they join forces during the miners’ strike of 1984. The achievement of Matthew Warchus’ joyous film is to marry a warm and engaging story with a significant and highly relevant slice of social ...
Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind modern horror masterpiece The Witch, brings us this hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. Once seen, never forgotten, this hypnotic fusion of beauty and brutality is truly the stuff of nightmares, boasting extraordinary performances from Dafoe and Pattinson as the feuding ...
Join us for Manchester’s only cult film pub quiz! Every other month our own in-house quizmaster writes a completely original five round quiz and it takes place in Screen One – our 100-seater cinema! That’s right, a film quiz, in a cinema! Which means you can expect multimedia rounds showcasing a range of questions from the super nerdy to accessible trivia questions for all (please also anticipate...
About Sunday Cinema Club: Sunday Cinema Club if your new favourite film community! We're a weekly newsletter featuring reviews, interviews and other film-related goodness published every Sunday on Substack and regularly host in-person screenings of films you've always wanted to see on the big screen. Sunday Cinema Club has been created as a community project for film fans to share their love for c...
Brian De Palma's inspired rock 'n' roll fusion of Faust, The Phantom of the Opera and The Picture of Dorian Gray is a 70s oddity that skewered the music industry and the foibles of fame, perhaps before anyone was willing to listen. Thankfully, the film now has a dedicated cult following, with the flick finding a contemporary audience ready to embrace its decidedly kooky style, biting commentary an...
Do YOU have the stamina for a Crank 1 + 2 Double Feature ? Get a jolt of adrenaline with these back-to-back, wildly off-the-rails actioners! Filmed largely on rollerblades by co-directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, and starring Jason Statham in back-to-back career best performances as contract killer and bonafide "sh*t magnet", Chev Chelios, the CRANK duology asks the question "what if you...
MONSTER is a mesmerizing journey into the complexities of family through a multitude of different viewpoints. When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, single mother Saori knows that there is something wrong. Discovering that one of his teachers might be responsible, she storms into the school demanding answers. But as the story unfolds through the eyes of mother, teacher and child, sh...
Alright, alright, alright, it’s Dazed and Confused, Richard Linklater’s beloved coming-of-age comedy! Set in the 1970s, the film follows a group of Texas high school students on the last day of school in 1976. The story intertwines the experiences of different characters—ranging from incoming freshmen to soon-to-be graduates—who navigate the rites of passage, from hazing to partying, while contem...
Two of Hong Kong cinema’s most iconic leading men, Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau Tak-wah, face off in the breathtaking thriller that revitalized the city-state’s twenty-first-century film industry, launched a blockbuster franchise, and inspired Martin Scorsese’s THE DEPARTED. The setup is diabolical in its simplicity: two undercover moles—a police officer (Leung) assigned to infiltrate a ruthl...
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford—two screen legends whose off-screen rivalry was just as infamous as their on-screen performances —square off in this deliciously macabre tale of faded fame. Davis is unforgettable (and unhinged) as Baby Jane Hudson, a former child star rotting in her own delusions, while Crawford brings heart breaking restraint as Blanche, her wheelchair-bound sister, trapped with a ...
A suspenseful and gripping psychological thriller, Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin explores the fractious relationship between a mother and her son, raising the questions between nature and nuture. Tilda Swinton, in a bracing, tour-de-force performance, plays the mother, Eva, as she contends for 15 years with the increasing malevolence of her first-born child, Kevin (Ezra Miller). Base...
We are very proud to present ARROW VIDEO CLUB, a new collaboration with the almighty lords of physical media Arrow Video; where we will present some of the best titles from their back catalogue on our lovely big screen! Expect a variety of cult classics, deep cuts, Arrow Video trailers and a raffle for Arrow Video blu-rays at every event! Bruce Lee's second film for Golden Harvest, Fist of Fury, ...
BIGGER THAN LIFE PRESENTS: MIAMI VICE - 20 th Anniversary Screening Michael Mann’s masterpiece of early digital cinema returns to mark its 20th anniversary with mojitos on the bar and an introduction from Bigger Than Life programmers Tom Grieve and Jim Laycock. Originally released in 2006, Mann’s ( Heat ) update of his eighties television series Miami Vice stars Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx as...
Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one another eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances. A salaryman wins tickets to the latest stage sensation, the hypnosis show VIVA FRIENDS! In the middle of the act an assassin shows up and kills the hypnotist, leaving the salaryman stranded and convinced he is a bird! A gang of burglars roam the suburbs while simulta...
