Promotion
MANCHESTER Film Festival may only be in its second year but it is already an important part of the city’s cultural calendar. The festival will be held at venues across the city between Thursday 3 March and Sunday 6 March.
What will your film of the festival be?
The 2015 event created a real buzz – a fresh and exciting schedule of UK and international premières meant that there were plenty of little-known gems to discover and 2016 promises to capture the same energy. What will your film of the festival be?
The scope of Manchester Film Festival is huge with screenings of everything from documentaries to shorts to narrative features across a diverse range of genres. If you love film, at Manchester Film Festival you’ll always find something to inspire you, to make you think or just to take you away from the world outside.
Q & A sessions with directors, actors and producers, live music, workshops and guest speakers mean you will not only find films to love, but really get inside them and understand what makes them special.
The festival opens with an opening night gala at the AMC Great Northern and a screening of Dennis Viollet – A United Man, directed by the daughter of the Busby babe, Rachel Viollet. It’s just one of a number of films at this year’s festival which explore sporting themes. Others include: Broke, about an ex-rugby league star and gambling addict, Dennis Rodman’s Big Bang In Pyongyang, a documentary about one of the most controversial basketball games ever and Rumble, a short about a deaf boxer who faces some tough decisions about his future.
Saturday night is music night at Manchester Film Festival. The Odeon Printworks will have a prohibition vibe with Manchester’s Mart Rodgers Jazz Band and live music throughout the day. It all leads up to the screening of two world premières – Lunar Orbit, which looks at the work of The Orb and explores the magic of making music and Vince Giordano – There’s A Future In The Past, about the life of the eccentric New York jazz musician.
Manchester Film Festival 2016 recognises the importance of inspiring women in film and there are a number of excellent films by female directors this year. On Sunday 6 March, the Odeon Printworks will present a line-up of films which feature strong female leads or are directed by women. The exciting schedule includes: West Of Redemption, a gripping film directed by Cornelia Moore, There Should Be Rules, a Swedish coming of age film about three friends directed by Linda-Maria Birbeck and Right Footed, a documentary about Jessica Cox who was born without arms but still learnt to type, drive a car and pilot a plane with her feet.
Whatever your interests, there’s a film out there for you. Let Manchester Film Festival help you find it and show how much fun independent film can be.
To see a schedule of the films at this year’s festival, click here.
To buy tickets for any of the screenings, click here.
