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 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.
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To commemorate the 40th anniversary of its release, the film has been remastered in 4K from the original 35mm film under the supervision of director Mamoru Oshii himself. In an underwater city, a young girl takes care of a large egg she holds carefully in her arms. A boy with a gun arrives in search of a bird he saw in his dream. At first, it seems as if feelings of sympathy are developing between...
One of the most eccentric comedies of the 1980s, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure is a pop-culture touchstone that helped make a manic oddball named Pee-wee Herman—the creation and alter ego of actor-comedian Paul Reubens—into an icon for outsiders of all ages. It also established the distinctive style of director Tim Burton, whose eye-popping visual sense is already on full display in this, his first fea...
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them, in the Coen Brothers ingenious comedic reimagining of Homer's The Odyssey . Led by a trio of tremendous performances by George Clooney, Tim Blake Nelson and John Turturro, this classic Coen Brothers yarn follows the prison break escapades of a trio of treasure-hunting pris...
Francis Ford Coppola’s hallucinatory vision of Hell on Earth lures us into its insanity through groundbreaking sound design and an audacious level of ambition. War has never been presented quite so grotesquely, or spectacularly, in cinema. Vietnam, 1970. Captain Willard takes a journey upriver to assassinate Colonel Kurtz, a once-promising officer who has gone completely mad. In the company of a ...
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We Are Many is a powerful, critically acclaimed documentary film directed by Iranian-born filmmaker Amir Amirani. The film chronicles the story of February 15, 2003, widely recognized by social researchers as the largest single day of protest in human history. On that day, up to 30 million people across 800 global cities simultaneously marched to oppose the imminent U.S. and UK invasion of Iraq. ...
Pitchblack Playback: Bob Dylan 'Blonde On Blonde' (60th Anniversary)
Wed 15 Jul
Immerse yourself in one of the greatest albums of all-time at Pitchblack Playback's listening session in the dark, celebrating its 60th anniversary. Hear the album played loud in uncompressed audio on Cultplex's powerful cinema sound system. No talking; no signing; no phones; no distractions; just you and the music. Ticket includes Pitchblack Playback eye mask for extra darkness. Duration: 73 mi...
Immerse yourself in one of the greatest albums of all-time at Pitchblack Playback's listening session in the dark, celebrating its 55th anniversary - and paired with her stunning 'Court & Spark' from a few years later. Hear these album played loud in uncompressed audio on Cultplex's powerful cinema sound system. No talking; no signing; no phones; no distractions; just you and the music. Ticket i...
This one is for those of you who like to celebrate early… Regular presenter Matt Rogerson (@bavalamp) returns to explore Summerween, the practice of celebrating all things spooky but under the blazing sun. There’ll be a look at the political disillusionment of 1970s USA, and how that led to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Jaws and The Hills have Eyes. Environmental horror and climate panic will be...
Manchester Indian Film Festival: New Brit Asian Shorts
Thu 16 Jul
The London Indian Film Festival is delighted to bring to audiences a selection of brilliant short films from exciting and emerging filmmakers from the UK. From award-winning dramas to insightful documentaries, we’re showcasing a rarely presented slice of life of Asian Britain today. Expect a dynamic discussion with these talented filmmakers on stage.
Asshole (Gandu) directed by cult Bengali filmmaker called ‘Q’ (Qaushiq Mukherjee) blazed a trail when it was first shown at festivals. Still too outrageous to be openly screened in India, the film, which includes nudity, bad language and sex, tells of a frustrated teenager named Gandu who is a penniless rapper who steals from his family to fuel his drug habit. On discovering he has won the Lottery...
A tribute screening and celebration of graphic novelist and director Marjane Satrapi. When Marjane Satrapi was nominated for Animated Feature Film, with co-director Vincent Paronnaud, she became the first woman in the history of the Oscars to have garnered such a nod. Winner of the Cannes Jury Prize, Persepolis is based on Satrapi’s biographical graphic novel of the same name, which follows a pr...
Manchester Indian Film Festival: All About Weddings (Biye Fiye Niye)
Sat 18 Jul
Singer-composer Neel Dutt’s directorial debut revisits the enduring wedding genre by following the Bengali nuptials of Sromona and Rohan, as they bring friends, relatives, and exes under one roof. This sharp ensemble drama peels back the spectacle of celebration to reveal a web of lies, fractures, and quiet disappointments. Witty and emotionally grounded, it offers a contemporary portrait of love,...
Join nasty boys Tom Lawrinson and Sam O’Leary for an exclusive screening of four brand new comedy shorts. Special guests, mad laughs, gorgeous singing voices. All of our screenings are 18+ unless otherwise stated, and the event start time is as advertised above. Content Warnings: Two very nasty boys
A straitlaced businessman meets a quirky, free-spirited woman at a downtown New York greasy spoon. Her offer of a ride back to his office results in a lunchtime motel rendezvou, just the beginning of a capricious interstate road trip that brings the two face-to-face with their hidden selves. Featuring a killer soundtrack and electric performances from Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, and Ray Liotta...
Interference strikes back once again with some mid-week monster mayhem - presenting a rare screening of the stone-cold cult classic PUMPKINHEAD!! Pumpkinhead marks the late Stan Winston's directorial debut, he was probably better known for his make-up and SFX work on legendary films such as Aliens, Terminator 2, Predator 1 &2 and Jurassic Park to name bit a few...this time however, he decided to ...
“ I imagined a summer peach with its perfect colors, and inside, there is a worm. ” - Agnès Varda Young carpenter François and his wife Thérèse lead an seemingly idyllic life with their two children in a small suburb outside of Paris. When François meets an attractive post office employee while working in the next town over, he casually begins an affair that he believes can only supplement his ex...
Urban Artistry Presents... Painting Dhaka + Short Film
Fri 24 Jul
UrbanArtistry Presents... Painting Dhaka A film by Lukas Zeilinger An art project in the slums of Bangladesh — and a question: How corrupted is our view of a corrupt country? What begins as a cinematic accompaniment to a children's graffiti workshop in the poorest quarters of Dhaka, unfolds over the course of the film, into a fully-fledged documentary thriller about the real swamp of the nation:...
