NARRATIVE FEATURES

Rodeo

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN

Thursday 16th March at 18:00

Lola Quivoron

France, 105 minutes, Subtitled

Starring: Julie Ledru, Yannis Lafki, Antonia Buresi

Julia, a young misfit who is passionate about riding, meets a crew of dirt riders who fly along at full speed and perform stunts. She sets about infiltrating their male-dominated world, but an accident jeopardizes her ability to fit in.

Snorkeling

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN

Friday 17th March at 18:00

Emil Nava

USA, 74 minutes

Starring: Kristine Froseth, Daniel Zolghadri, Tim Johnson

As, Michael and Jameson’s romance blossoms they try a new hallucinogenic street drug called Snorkeling. Through his trippy, colorful recreation of the euphoria and tragedy of drug dependency, director Emil Nava takes us on a unique journey of adolescent self-discovery.

Mascot

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN

Thursday 16th March at 20:30

Remy van Heugten

Netherlands, 100 minutes, Subtitled

Starring: Liam Jeans, Maartje Remmers, van Rampelberg Geert, Leopold Witte

Teenager Jerry grows up in a small seaside town with his loving mother and sister. When the weekend comes, he joins hooligans to take part in organised battles. The entire family’s stability ends up shaken, with each member finding their own way to react to Jerry’s drift towards extremism.

Buthcher’s Crossing

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN

Friday 17th March at 20:30

Gabe Polsky

USA, 105 minutes

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Rachel Keller, Xander Berkeley

In the 1870s, a young Harvard dropout seeks his destiny out West by tying his fate to a team of buffalo hunters led by a man named Miller. Together, they embark on a harrowing journey risking life and sanity.

Flowing

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN

Friday 17th March at 21:00

Paolo Strippoli

Italy, 96 minutes, Subtitled

Starring: Fabrizio Rongione, Cristiana Dell’Anna, Francesco Gheghi

In recent days, Rome has been the scene of an unusual event: when it rains, the manholes exhale a dense steam of unknown origin and composition. No one knows that those who breathe in the mysterious substance will have to deal with what they repress, their darkest instincts, their anger.

Anacoreta

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN

Saturday 18th March at 12:30

Jeremy Schuetze

Canada, 85 minutes

Starring: Antonia Thomas, Jeremy Schuetze, Matt Visser

An actress heads on a mountain trip with her boyfriend to meet his friends for the first time. As they head out it becomes clear that he is filming his latest project, and he has more planned than they realize.

There’s Always Hope

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN

Saturday 18th March at 15:00

Tim Lewiston

UK, 94 minutes

Starring: Colm Meaney, Kate Ashfield, Hannah Chinn, John Light

THERE’S ALWAYS HOPE is a comedy drama in which a woman travels to Portugal in an attempt to orchestrate a reconciliation between her parents.

Cerebrum

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN

Saturday 18th March at 15:30

Sebastien Blanc

UK, 96 minutes

Starring: Tobi King Bakare, Steve Oram, Ramona Von Pusch

After waking up from a year-long coma, William must fight his controlling father in order to discover what really happened to his seemingly absent mother, as the true consequences of his past actions unravel before him.

A Kind of Kidnapping

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN

Saturday 18th March at 17:30

D.G. Clark

UK, 82 minutes

Starring: Patrick Baladi, Kelly Wenham, Jack Parry-Jones

A young, broke couple kidnap a sleazy politician who decides he can spin the story to his own advantage.

Sick of Myself

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN

Saturday 18th March at 20:15

Kristoffer Borgli

Norway, 97 minutes, Subtitled

Starring: Kristine Kujath Thorp, Eirik Sæther, Anders Danielsen Lie

Signe and Thomas are in an unhealthy, competitive relationship that takes a vicious turn when Thomas suddenly breaks through as a contemporary artist. In response, Signe makes a desperate attempt to regain her status by creating a new persona hell-bent on attracting attention and sympathy.

Bolan’s Shoes

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN

Saturday 18th March at 20:00

Ian Puleston-Davies

UK, 95 minutes

Starring: Timothy Spall, Leanne Best, Mark Lewis Jones

A tumultuous journey from the height of T. Rex mania to the present-day poignancy of what would have been Marc Bolan’s 75th birthday. Capturing the heady exhilaration of glam rock mania through the experiences of over-excited kids from a children’s home before a devastating road accident changes their lives forever.

We Might As Well Be Dead

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN

Sunday 19th March at 13:00

Natalia Sinelnikova

Germany, 93 minutes, Subtitled

Starring: Ioana Iacob, Pola Geiger, Knut Berger

The high-rise building block near the forest is famous for its carefully curated community. As a dog disappears and her daughter refuses to leave the bathroom, security officer Anna faces an absurd battle against the fear, that slowly spreads among the residents and shakes the utopia with a view.

Jill - Life Will Find You

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN

Sunday 19th March at 12:40

Steven Michael Hayes

Switzerland, 101 minutes

Starring: Tom Perlphrey, Juliet Rylance, Zackary

Arthur, Dree Hemmingway, Garrett Wearing

A letter from her oldest brother reveals why Jill’s idealistic hippie childhood slowly drifted into an ideological nightmare. On a journey among lost images and long-forgotten voices, Jill approaches the secrets about who her father was, how he divided her family, and why her mother never could talk about what happened.

Lakelands

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN

Sunday 19th March at 15:20 obert Higgins and Patrick McGivney

France, 105 minutes, Subtitled

Starring: Éanna Hardwicke, Danielle Galligan, Lorcan Cranitch, Gary Lydon

Lakelands takes place in a small town in the midlands of Ireland, the sort of place where Gaelic football is a religion, where identity is defined by what one can do on the pitch. The film tells the story of Cian Reilly, a young Gaelic footballer who struggles to come to terms with a career-ending injury after a violent attack on a night out.

Everything I Ever Wanted To Tell My Daughter About Men

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN

Sunday 19th March at 15:30

Lorien Haynes, Barbara van Schaik, Maryam d’Abo, Susannah Harker, Jodhi May, Erin Richards, Katie Flynn, Laura Merians, Amy Gardner, Gia Carides, Kate Sumner, Tara Fitzgerald, Kate Danson, Sienna Guillory, Saffron Burrows, Lucy

Brown

UK, minutes

Lorien Haynes, Alan Cumming, Clara McGregor

A woman tells her daughter about every man she’s ever been with – in the hope her daughter won’t make the same mistakes.

Dreams Live in Trees

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN

Sunday 19th March at 17:45

Marco Della Fonte

UK, 112 minutes, Subtitles

Starring: Kiera Morgan, Pietro Ragusa, Evita Ciri, Rinat Khismautoline, Giusi Merli, Fausto Inspired by true events from 1978 when Italy became the first country in the world to abolish mental asylums. Upon a closure of an asylum Anja returns home into the care of her brother Ettore and his wife. With the help and a great sensitivity from her newly appointed psychiatrist Anja slowly starts to adapt to her new life beyond the asylum.

Hunting in Packs

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN

Sunday 12th March at 17:30

Chloe Sosa-Sims

Canada, 80 minutes

Featuring: Jess Phillips, Pramila Jayapal, Michelle Rempel Garner

Who runs the world? With the recent surge of women in politics, director Chloe SosaSims’s timely feature debut focuses on three political stars in three countries.

Sirens

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN

Monday 13th March at 17:45

Rita Baghdadi

Lebanon, 79 minutes, Subtitled Lilas and Shery, co-founders and guitarists of the Middle East’s first all-female metal band, wrestle with friendship, sexuality and destruction in their pursuit of becoming thrash metal rock stars.

A Life on the Farm

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN

Tuesday 14th March at 17:45

Oscar Harding

UK,75 minutes

Featuring: Karen Kilgariff, Derrick Beckles, Davy Rothbart

A strange story from Somerset, England about a filmmaking farmer and the inspiring legacy of his long-lost home movies.

If The Streets Were On Fire

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN

Wednesday 15th March at 17:45

Alice Russell

UK, 71 minutes

In a country where years of austerity have pushed people to their limits, violence incubates; where racism and prejudice are ingrained in the systems of authority, inequality persists. Through Bike Stormz, social activist Mac has created a movement for kids across London that creates a safe space to be free and express themselves beyond any threats.

The Road of Excess

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN

Friday 17th March at 18:30

Jamie Jones

UK, 96 minutes

Featuring: Mathew Pritchard

‘The Road of Excess’ is a film that talks about toxic masculinity, mental health, addiction, fame and what happens when it’s gone. The film explores these pitfalls of fame and celebrity culture through the eyes of exDirty Sanchez star Matt Pritchard.

Sam Now

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN

Saturday 18th March at 18:00

Reed Harkness

USA, 86 minutes

What do two film-obsessed brothers do to solve a family mystery? They make a movie as they travel thousands of miles looking for their missing mum. Stitching together 25 years of home videos and filling the gaps in the archive with play, SAM NOW is a mosaic of love, longing and loss, as well as an attempt to overcome intergenerational trauma.

Short Films

Short Session 1

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN | Saturday 11th March at 12:30

I am Here - Niklas Hugo Schwärzler / Austria / 12 Minutes

The Blue Drum - Angelita Mendoza / USA / 16 minutes

They Will Know - Alex Thomson / Australia / 10 minutes

Highs - Andree Ljutica / UK / 10 minutes

The Rev - Karel van Bellingen / UK / 15 minutes

The Cunning - Alexandra Maher/ UK / 13 minutes

Poles - Kieran Bourne/ UK / 7 minutes

My Father’s Son - Charles Whiteley / UK / 8 minutes

Short Session 2

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN | Saturday 11th March at 17:30

Daisy - Torbjörn Edwall / Sweden / 14 minutes

Blue - Sophie Rose Worger / UK / 10 minutes

I’ll Be Frank - Carleton Rodgers / UK / 16 minutes

Kiran - Bhulla Beghal / UK / 8 minutes

Crosshairs - Coral Amiga / UK / 9 minutes

Maggie - James Kennedy / UK / 16 minutes

Short Session 3

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN | Saturday 11th March at 20:00

Chine in a Box - Jane Gull / UK / 4 minutes

Hauskeeper - Matthias Freier / Germany / 17 minutes

That’s Our Time - Alex Backes / USA / 9 minutes

Invisible - Gilbert Kyem Jnr / UK / 9 minutes

The Track - Louisa Connolly-Burnham / UK / 13 minutes

Voices - Abbie Lucas / UK / 11 minutes

Misnomer - Aella Jordan-Edge / UK / 12 minutes

Short Session 4

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN | Sunday 12th March at 12:30

Terminus - Jamie Weston / UK / 7 minutes

Adjustments - Harry Mackrill / UK / 13 minutes

Can’t Let You Go - Walid Said / UK / 16 minutes

Something for Nothing - Chester Carr / UK / 10 minutes

Headspace - Aisling Byrne / Ireland / 16 minutes

The Inside Joke - Daniel Muller / UK / 14 minutes

Short Session 5 - Student Films

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN | Sunday 12th March at 15:00

Finsta - Lucia Debernardini / UK / 9 minutes

The Call - Shireen Ayache / UK / 12 minutes

Raja’s Had Enough - Ekaterina Saiapina / UK / 11 minutes

Sharing - Mykea Perry / UK / 10 minutes

Subs - Joe Warner / UK / 17 minutes

The Heiresses - Avril Lehmann / Switzerland / 15 minutes

Woods - Luther Ford / UK / 14 minutes

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Short Films

Short Session 6

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN | Sunday 12th March at 20:10

What’s Done is Done - Michael Parks Randa / USA / 4 minutes

Steeplechase - Andrey Kezzyn / Germany / 6 minutes

How to Make a Shepherd’s Pie - Christen R. Carter / USA / 15 minutes

Hackney Downs - Carl Earl-Ocran / UK / 13 minutes

Vigilant - Sarah Day / UK / 7 minutes

Reasons - Charlotte Peters / UK / 11 minutes

My Protector - Diana Mills Smith / South Africa / 17 minutes

Short Session 7

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN | Thursday 16th March at 17:45

Don’t Give Me Your Heart - S.E. King / USA / 4 minutes

Victim - Robin Rhys St George Summons / Australia / 14 minutes

Fat Girl - Makez Rikweda / UK / 15 minutes

Monico Perseus - Alfie Stewart / UK / 7 minutes

Sugar Babies - Harry Shaw / UK / 10 minutes

Requiem - Emma Gilbertson / UK / 25 minutes

Short Session 8

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN | Thursday 16th March at 19:50

Little Fantasies - Alissa Autschbach / UK / 23 minutes

Snake - Chedly Bouzouaia / Canada / 4 minutes

Rapture - Em Smith / UK / 11 minutes

Mothers and Daughters - Derkan Dogan / UK / 17 minutes

Headache - Johnny Russell / UK / 6 minutes

Dream Big - Pip Swallow / UK / 12 minutes

Short Session 9

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN | Friday 17th March at 17:45

Liam Fender “Love Will Conquer” - Sam Gannie / UK / 4 minutes

Tidal - Chloe Van Landschoot & Niamh Wilson / Canada / 10 minutes

Bando - Zahra Alipour & Mathias Gilay / UK / 26 minutes

Margin - Daniel Rands / UK / 12 minutes

Sin Eater - Oliver Gabe / UK / 6 minutes

Céline on a Cloudy Day - Can Köroğlu / UK / 19 minutes

Short Session 10

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN | Friday 17th March at 19:50

Bod - Isabel Garrett / UK / 6 minutes

Lamb - Sinéad O’Loughlin / Irelend / 15 minutes

Blood Rites - Helena Coan / UK / 19 minutes

Scrutiny - James Quinn / UK / 9 minutes

Weekend Dad - Dorothy Allen-Pickard / UK / 10 minutes

Fifty-Four Days - Cat White & Phoebe Torrance / UK / 17 minutes

The Red Suitcase - Cyrus Neshvad / Luxembourg / 17 minutes

Short Films

Short Session 11

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN | Saturday 18th March at 15:20

Elo Kay Kevin’s Gold - David Bramslev / Denmark / 4 minutes

Subhuman - Arjen Schotel / Netherlands / 23 minutes

Breathe - Harm van der Sanden / Netherlands / 5 minutes

Julia - Jack Donnelly / UK / 8 minutes

Pet Name - Dan Boaden / UK / 18 minutes

Motherhood - Maria Reventlow Gonzalez-Aguilar / Germany / 14 minutes

Dead Cat Film - Josie Charles & Nathan Miller / UK / 17 minutes

Short Session 12

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN | Saturday 18th March at 17:50

Tänk om - Anton Clements Stål, Nora Rios / Sweden / 8 minutes

The Chromakey Man - William Samaha / Belgium / 14 minutes

First Day - Haider Zafar / UK / 16 minutes

Firebird - Karen Anstee / UK / 9 minutes

Rhyme or Die - Max Lincoln / UK / 11 minutes

Waving - Rolfin Nyhus & Steven Brumwell / UK / 16 minutes

Short Session 13

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN | Saturday 18th March at 20:10

Circle - Phillip Kaminiak / USA / 6 minutes

Mercy - Andrew Fuchs / USA / 22 minutes

The Tears You Left With Me - Thibaut Buccellato / France / 12 minutes

BabyDolls - Calvin Demba / UK / 10 minutes

Being Black - Michael Junior Onafowkoan / UK / 12 minutes

Hello, Muscles - Marnie Baxter / UK / 14 minutes

Short Session 14

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN | Sunday 19th March at 15:10

The Internal Void of a Damaged Mind - Christian Søgaard / Norway / 9 minutes

Bitter Taste - Ethan Tomás Race / UK / 18 minutes

Burn it All - Jack Hickey / Ireland / 20 minutes

Stealing Kind - Moe Najati / UK / 16 minutes

Sliced Bread - Gulliver Moore / UK / 3 minutes

Hunger - Gillian Berrie / UK / 9 minutes

Animated Shorts

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN | Saturday 18th March at 12:50

Birthday- Will Akbar / UK / 4 minutes

Blue - Robert Petrie / USA / 7 minutes

Existence - Wenjia Shou / China / 5 minutes

Miss Rabbit - Yen-Wei Lu / Taiwan / 21 minutes

Only A Child - Simone Giampaolo / Switzerland / 7 minutes

Tehura - Wei Li / Canada / 12 minutes

The Last Cloudweaver - Anna-Ester Volozh / UK / 4 minutes

Curiosa - Tessa Moult-Milewska / UK / 10 minutes

Laika & Nemo - Jan Gadermann / Germnay / 15 minutes

Suburb - Miles Jezuita / UK / 4 minutes

Short Films

Short Session 15

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN | Sunday 19th March at 17:20

Kickstart my Heart - Kelsey Bollig / USA / 14 minutes

Bibimbap for One - Ella Greenwood / UK / 16 minutes

Puck - Rebecca Ozer / UK / 11 minutes

A Moral Man - Paul and Simon Wade / UK / 19minutes

Sticks of Fury - Yuan Hu / UK / 7 minutes

Awkward Intimacy - Emma Jude Harris and Emily Steck / UK / 8 minutes

North West Shorts 1

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN | Saturday 11th March at 15:15

M Huncho - Doomsday - KC Locke / UK / 4 minutes

Cath - Caroline Smith / UK / 10 minutes

File Not Found - Lindsay Bennett-Thompson / UK / 17 minutes

For Heidi - Lucy Campbell / UK / 10 minutes

Refuge - Jack Hartley / UK / 12 minutes

Short Stay, Long Stay - Danny Carter / UK / 20 minutes

I Fall - Dan Thorburn / UK / 11 minutes

North West Shorts 2

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN | Wednesday 15th March at 20:15

A Day In The Life - James Oates / UK / 15 minutes

A Killer Outside - Joe Zalias / UK / 8 minutes

Circuit - Keith Farrell / UK / 10 minutes

Double Yellows - Joe Macaulay / UK / 13 minutes

Glass Houses - Lewis Fernandez / UK / 13 minutes

Mug - Jo Lane / UK / 11 minutes

Squeak - Kenneth James / UK / 6 minutes

North West Shorts 3

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN | Sunday 19th March at 12:50

Home Safe - Aymeric Nicolet & Ellie Hodgetts / UK / 7 minutes

It Got Me In November - Sophie Broadgate / UK / 13 minutes

A Safe Place/The Walk Home - Riley Bramley-Dymond / UK / 6 minutes

Smoking Dolphins - Sean Lyons / UK / 7 minutes

Tow Truck - Kieran Stringfellow / UK / 14 minutes

While Time is Away - Anthony Hett / UK / 13 minutes

The Bulls - James Cawood / UK / 26 minutes

Documentary Shorts

ODEON GREAT NORTHERN | Saturday 18th March at 13:00

A Perfect Balance of Absolute Chaos - Carl Woods / UK / 10 minutes

Brotherness - David Power / Romania / 8 minutes

Diomysus - Emily Elizabeth Morus-Jones / UK / 5 minutes

Hope You Fail - Alison Grasso / UK / 20 minutes

Pampas - Jessica Bishopp / UK / 5 minutes

Speedboat - Tobias James / UK / 4 minutes

The Boxing Bishop - Kateryna Pavlyuk / UK / 25 minutes

The Ghost Rainforest - John Davies / UK / 10 minutes

The Sea and Me- Atop - Dominic Joyce / UK / 5 minutes

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Throughout 2023 Film Hub North will be hosting regular meet ups across the region for writers, directors, producers and crew to come together and forge filmmaking collaborations. We’re very excited that our first stop in Manchester is in partnership with MANIFF so come along after the Northern Shorts screening to meet some of the filmmakers and chat to the Film Hub North team.