24 hours in the life of an immigrant cycle courier on a mission! Can he race against the algorithm? Can he stay on his bike? Can he memorise the story he has to repeat in his interview to get refugee status? Can he go through with it without losing his soul? The day leading up to the interview is a fraught, climactic emotional adventure.
Souleymane’s Story won the jury’s. Prize at Cannes the year it was released, and its unknown lead, Abou Sangare, won best actor.
It asks questions about immigration, bureaucracy, brutality and human hopes, while delivering adrenaline and suspense, until the final dramatic ending.
Counterfilms is dedicated to showing political films in Manchester and is supported by Counterfire, an organisation committed to transforming society from one based on profit to one built on the needs of working people.
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! ONE MAP. THREE VILLAINS. WINNER TAKES ALL. Genre maestro ...
Gather your friends, cats and kitties and celebrate this classic on its 25th anniversary. Adapted from Dan DeCarlo’s 1960s comic-strip creation, Josie and the Pussycats is a candy coloured satire disguised as a teen pop movie, gleefully taking aim at consumer culture and the music industry. Rachel Leigh Cook leads the trio with charm, while Parker Posey (THE Party Girl herself!) sinks her claws i...
Hinterland Festival Presents: Come See Me In The Good Light
Sat 7 Nov
Hinterland Festival is Manchester's newest philosophy, arts, and culture festival, curated by Hinterland CIC. Emerging from a passion for conscious third spaces, this city-wide festival creates spaces where communities can gather, stimulate their imagination, and explore wisdom. In a rapidly changing world, we engage with change through deep thought, conversation, arts, poetry, and open discussion...
Step into the Unknown. Join Wirt and Greg on a strange, beautiful journey through the mysterious woods in Over the Garden Wall, the beloved animated miniseries that’s perfect for settling in to the autumn season! Wirt and Greg are brothers, lost in a strange and endless wood called the Unknown. To find their way home, they must make it through this eerie place, where their only guides are a sard...
Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Guillermo del Toro's masterpiece the way it was meant to be seen: on the big screen in stunning, human-made 4K. Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real father,...
Voices of Resistance: Stories from Palestine With Comma Press
Sun 8 Nov
Voices of Resistance: Stories from Palestine With Comma Press Manchester-based publisher Comma Press invite you to an afternoon of Palestinian film and literature, raising funds for Sheffield PSC’s Khan Younis Emergency Relief Fund. Short films from award-winning directors Naji Salameh and Rakan Mayasi will be followed by a reading from Palestinian writer Sondos Sabra (co-author of Voices of Resi...
Here at CULTPLEX we've long regarded movie-going as a religious experience and the cinema as a sacred temple of worship. Week in, week out people don their best to celebrate the gods of cinema on the big screen as they intended us to. We could never quite put a name on this but recently one of our religion's patron saints Greta Gerwig talked of the Movie Church she assembled before her most recent...
About Sunday Cinema Club: Sunday Cinema Club if your new favourite film community! We're a weekly newsletter publishing reviews, interviews and other film-related goodness every Sunday on Substack and we 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 cinema....
How far will ordinary people go to stop oil drilling and how far will the authorities go to stop them? A filmmaker gets more than he bargained for when his girlfriend is part of starting one of the most polarising protest movements in recent memory: Just Stop Oil. ‘We, The Hated’ tells the inside story of how a group of every-day concerned citizens hatch a contentious plan of civil disobedience t...
Hosted at CULTPLEX, t his year’s edition of Face Film celebrates stories at the margins spotlighting a powerful selection of thought-provoking films from talented young filmmakers, locally and internationally. Filmmakers will participate in Q&As to share their perspectives on film making and the impact of independent cinema, including two new film commissions for the festival. Face Festival est. ...
You'll wish it were only a nightmare... When a summer camp at idyllic Crystal Lake reopens 25 years after the tragic drowning of a young boy named Jason, the woods fill with the happy squeals of young campers and the sight of the furtive couplings of libidinous counsellors. But when a violent rainstorm isolates the lake, one-by-one the counsellors are horribly murdered in this film that launched ...
A breathlessly inventive and spirited satire from writer-director-rapper Boots Riley, Sorry to Bother You premiered at the Sundance Film Festival where it generated a storm of acclaim and awards buzz. Starring Lakeith Stanfield (of Atlanta and Get Out fame), Tessa Thompson and Armie Hammer, this genre-blending hit addresses serious themes of everyday racism and workforce oppression with a fresh wi...
SNUFF BOX AT 20 - ANNIVERSARY SCREENING + LIVE Q&A WITH RICH FULCHER & MICHAEL CUMMING Come join Rich Fulcher (Mighty Boosh, Wonka, Talk Box ) and director Michael Cumming (Brass Eye, Toast Of London, King Rocker, Oxide Ghosts) as they celebrate the 20th birthday of cult comedy classic Snuff Box . We’ll be screening two classic episodes and afterwards Rich and Michael will be on hand to tell y...
A CELEBRATION OF YOUTH, FRIENDSHIP, AND THE EVERLASTING MAGIC OF THE MOVIES Giuseppe Tornatore's loving homage to the cinema tells the story of Salvatore, a successful film director, returning home for the funeral of Alfredo, his old friend who was the projectionist at the local cinema throughout his childhood. Soon memories of his first love affair with the beautiful Elena and all the highs and ...
Externally ticketed: Adult - https://buy.stripe.com/ 00waEWgRmgy3cJLb6Q4AV3G Child Student - https://buy.stripe.com/ 8x228q30w95BbFHdeY4AV3H This fall, drop in on Warren Miller’s 77th film, Days Off. Follow host Katie Burrell as the world’s best athletes show you what they do on their days off, no agenda, no competition, just pure, unscripted joy. Embark on a global journey from heli-drops in ...
Colectivo Film Hub presents: The Lost Pussy of the Incas
Wed 18 Nov
Colectivo Film Hub presents The Lost Pussy of the Incas Colectivo Film Hub presents its first film screening in Manchester The Lost Pussy of the Incas (2019), with introduction and post screening discussion. "Off the beaten path of the conventional documentary, this film essay by visual artist Huanchaco explores the territories of religion, art, psychoanalysis and history to question Peruvian so...
MMU Present: Burton Bash - The Nightmare Before Christmas
Thu 19 Nov
MMU Students present: Burton Bash 🎉 Join us at Cultplex and enjoy an evening inspired by The Nightmare Before Christmas ! A student takeover of an independent cinema that will spark the debate of Christmas vs Halloween 🌲🎃 You can expect: A screening of ' The Nightmare Before Christmas' 🎞️ A costume contest - Dress as your favourite Burton character - best dressed receive prizes! 👯♀️ Themed...
At times celebrated, at others reviled, the Nunsploitation exploitation genre is a contradiction. From the classic arthouse transgression of Ken Russell's The Devils, Paul Verhoeven's Benedetta or Pedro Almodovar's Dark Habits to the grubbily subversive fare of Joe D'Amato's Images in a Convent and Sergio Bergonzelli's Our Lady in Lust, Nunsploitation frequents each extreme of the cinematic spectr...
24 hours in the life of an immigrant cycle courier on a mission! Can he race against the algorithm? Can he stay on his bike? Can he memorise the story he has to repeat in his interview to get refugee status? Can he go through with it without losing his soul? The day leading up to the interview is a fraught, climactic emotional adventure. Souleymane’s Story won the jury’s. Prize at Cannes the yea...
HERE'S A LITTLE STORY THAT MUST BE TOLD... In early 1980s New York City, independent filmmaker Charlie Ahearn and downtown artist Fred Brathwaite ventured uptown with the aim of capturing an exciting new underground scene that was happening in the South Bronx, a scene that featured graffiti artists, breakdancing b-boys and two turntables and a microphone. The result was Wild Style, and to many vi...
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! ONE MAP. THREE VILLAINS. WINNER TAKES ALL. Genre maestro ...
Gather your friends, cats and kitties and celebrate this classic on its 25th anniversary. Adapted from Dan DeCarlo’s 1960s comic-strip creation, Josie and the Pussycats is a candy coloured satire disguised as a teen pop movie, gleefully taking aim at consumer culture and the music industry. Rachel Leigh Cook leads the trio with charm, while Parker Posey (THE Party Girl herself!) sinks her claws i...
Hinterland Festival Presents: Come See Me In The Good Light
Sat 7 Nov
Hinterland Festival is Manchester's newest philosophy, arts, and culture festival, curated by Hinterland CIC. Emerging from a passion for conscious third spaces, this city-wide festival creates spaces where communities can gather, stimulate their imagination, and explore wisdom. In a rapidly changing world, we engage with change through deep thought, conversation, arts, poetry, and open discussion...
Step into the Unknown. Join Wirt and Greg on a strange, beautiful journey through the mysterious woods in Over the Garden Wall, the beloved animated miniseries that’s perfect for settling in to the autumn season! Wirt and Greg are brothers, lost in a strange and endless wood called the Unknown. To find their way home, they must make it through this eerie place, where their only guides are a sard...
Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Guillermo del Toro's masterpiece the way it was meant to be seen: on the big screen in stunning, human-made 4K. Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real father,...
Voices of Resistance: Stories from Palestine With Comma Press
Sun 8 Nov
Voices of Resistance: Stories from Palestine With Comma Press Manchester-based publisher Comma Press invite you to an afternoon of Palestinian film and literature, raising funds for Sheffield PSC’s Khan Younis Emergency Relief Fund. Short films from award-winning directors Naji Salameh and Rakan Mayasi will be followed by a reading from Palestinian writer Sondos Sabra (co-author of Voices of Resi...
Here at CULTPLEX we've long regarded movie-going as a religious experience and the cinema as a sacred temple of worship. Week in, week out people don their best to celebrate the gods of cinema on the big screen as they intended us to. We could never quite put a name on this but recently one of our religion's patron saints Greta Gerwig talked of the Movie Church she assembled before her most recent...
About Sunday Cinema Club: Sunday Cinema Club if your new favourite film community! We're a weekly newsletter publishing reviews, interviews and other film-related goodness every Sunday on Substack and we 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 cinema....
How far will ordinary people go to stop oil drilling and how far will the authorities go to stop them? A filmmaker gets more than he bargained for when his girlfriend is part of starting one of the most polarising protest movements in recent memory: Just Stop Oil. ‘We, The Hated’ tells the inside story of how a group of every-day concerned citizens hatch a contentious plan of civil disobedience t...
Hosted at CULTPLEX, t his year’s edition of Face Film celebrates stories at the margins spotlighting a powerful selection of thought-provoking films from talented young filmmakers, locally and internationally. Filmmakers will participate in Q&As to share their perspectives on film making and the impact of independent cinema, including two new film commissions for the festival. Face Festival est. ...
You'll wish it were only a nightmare... When a summer camp at idyllic Crystal Lake reopens 25 years after the tragic drowning of a young boy named Jason, the woods fill with the happy squeals of young campers and the sight of the furtive couplings of libidinous counsellors. But when a violent rainstorm isolates the lake, one-by-one the counsellors are horribly murdered in this film that launched ...
A breathlessly inventive and spirited satire from writer-director-rapper Boots Riley, Sorry to Bother You premiered at the Sundance Film Festival where it generated a storm of acclaim and awards buzz. Starring Lakeith Stanfield (of Atlanta and Get Out fame), Tessa Thompson and Armie Hammer, this genre-blending hit addresses serious themes of everyday racism and workforce oppression with a fresh wi...
SNUFF BOX AT 20 - ANNIVERSARY SCREENING + LIVE Q&A WITH RICH FULCHER & MICHAEL CUMMING Come join Rich Fulcher (Mighty Boosh, Wonka, Talk Box ) and director Michael Cumming (Brass Eye, Toast Of London, King Rocker, Oxide Ghosts) as they celebrate the 20th birthday of cult comedy classic Snuff Box . We’ll be screening two classic episodes and afterwards Rich and Michael will be on hand to tell y...
A CELEBRATION OF YOUTH, FRIENDSHIP, AND THE EVERLASTING MAGIC OF THE MOVIES Giuseppe Tornatore's loving homage to the cinema tells the story of Salvatore, a successful film director, returning home for the funeral of Alfredo, his old friend who was the projectionist at the local cinema throughout his childhood. Soon memories of his first love affair with the beautiful Elena and all the highs and ...
Externally ticketed: Adult - https://buy.stripe.com/ 00waEWgRmgy3cJLb6Q4AV3G Child Student - https://buy.stripe.com/ 8x228q30w95BbFHdeY4AV3H This fall, drop in on Warren Miller’s 77th film, Days Off. Follow host Katie Burrell as the world’s best athletes show you what they do on their days off, no agenda, no competition, just pure, unscripted joy. Embark on a global journey from heli-drops in ...
Colectivo Film Hub presents: The Lost Pussy of the Incas
Wed 18 Nov
Colectivo Film Hub presents The Lost Pussy of the Incas Colectivo Film Hub presents its first film screening in Manchester The Lost Pussy of the Incas (2019), with introduction and post screening discussion. "Off the beaten path of the conventional documentary, this film essay by visual artist Huanchaco explores the territories of religion, art, psychoanalysis and history to question Peruvian so...
MMU Present: Burton Bash - The Nightmare Before Christmas
Thu 19 Nov
MMU Students present: Burton Bash 🎉 Join us at Cultplex and enjoy an evening inspired by The Nightmare Before Christmas ! A student takeover of an independent cinema that will spark the debate of Christmas vs Halloween 🌲🎃 You can expect: A screening of ' The Nightmare Before Christmas' 🎞️ A costume contest - Dress as your favourite Burton character - best dressed receive prizes! 👯♀️ Themed...
At times celebrated, at others reviled, the Nunsploitation exploitation genre is a contradiction. From the classic arthouse transgression of Ken Russell's The Devils, Paul Verhoeven's Benedetta or Pedro Almodovar's Dark Habits to the grubbily subversive fare of Joe D'Amato's Images in a Convent and Sergio Bergonzelli's Our Lady in Lust, Nunsploitation frequents each extreme of the cinematic spectr...
24 hours in the life of an immigrant cycle courier on a mission! Can he race against the algorithm? Can he stay on his bike? Can he memorise the story he has to repeat in his interview to get refugee status? Can he go through with it without losing his soul? The day leading up to the interview is a fraught, climactic emotional adventure. Souleymane’s Story won the jury’s. Prize at Cannes the yea...
HERE'S A LITTLE STORY THAT MUST BE TOLD... In early 1980s New York City, independent filmmaker Charlie Ahearn and downtown artist Fred Brathwaite ventured uptown with the aim of capturing an exciting new underground scene that was happening in the South Bronx, a scene that featured graffiti artists, breakdancing b-boys and two turntables and a microphone. The result was Wild Style, and to many vi...
