EXCLUSIVE: This yr’s Manchester Movie Competition is ready to run from March 14 – 23 and can open with a screening of The Penguin Classes, directed by British filmmaker Peter Cattaneo and starring Steve Coogan.
Based mostly on the best-selling memoir, the movie tells the story of an Englishman’s private and political awakening throughout a cataclysmic interval in Argentine historical past, led to by his unlikely adoption of a penguin.
Manchester will display 37 options, together with 15 UK premieres and 4 world premieres. All movies can be screening in Manchester for the primary time. This contains the Manchester premiere of the UK’s Oscar choice Santosh from Sandhya Suri, Sundance, and Cannes hit Good One directed by India Donaldson, and South by Southwest Viewers Award Winner My Useless Buddy Zoe from Kyle Hausmann-Stokes.
Different highlights embrace the UK premieres of Y2K, A24’s newest horror comedy starring Fred Durst and directed by Kyle Mooney, the newest movie from Mom Schmuckers administrators Harpo and Lenny Guit and Cazzie Davids’s directorial debut I Love You Endlessly.
“We’re wanting ahead to introducing an exquisite choice of movies to audiences on the eleventh version of the Manchester Movie Competition,” Neil Jeram-Croft, Manchester competition director stated. “We’re so excited to be based mostly at two new venues within the metropolis centre in 2025 – HOME and AVIVA Studios – each of which really feel like an ideal match for our competition, our viewers, and the Manchester movie group. We sit up for celebrating in March for an thrilling 10 days crammed with thrilling premieres on the massive display and provoking Q&As with filmmakers.”
Take a look at the complete line-up under:
World Premieres
Section – Jessica Vogt/UK
Two Massive Toes – Noah Stratton-Twine/UK
Departures – Lloyd Eyre-Morgan/UK
Child – Ryan J. Smith/UK
UK Premieres
Aontas – Damian McCann/Eire
Bang Bang – Vincent Grashaw/United States
Foul Evil Deeds – Richard Hunter/UK
Heads or Fails – Leny and Harpo Guit/Belgium
Hostages – Jim Owen/UK
I Love You Endlessly – Cazzie David/United States
McVeigh – Mike Ott/United States
Meta: The Dazzling Lady – Prasanth Mambully/India
Night time Name – Michiel Blanchart/Belgium
Close to Miss – Jamie Rafn/UK
Pet Store Days – Olmo Schnabel/United States/United Kingdom
Quiet Life – Alexandros Avranas/France/Estonia/Sweden/Greece/Germany
Silent Notes – Toni Comas/United States
Transamazonia – Pia Marais/France/Germany/Switzerland/Taiwan/Brazil
Transplant – Jason Park/United States
The Unintended Getaway Driver – Sing J. Lee/United States
The Line – Ethan Berger/United States
The Penguin Classes – Peter Cattaneo/UK
Y2K – Kyle Mooney/United States
Manchester Premiere
Aïcha – Mehdi M. Barsaoui/France/Tunisia/Italy
Good One – India Donaldson/United States
In Our Blood – Pedro Kos/United States
Final Swim – Sasha Nathwani/United Kingdom
Motel Destino – Karim Aïnouz/Brazil/France/Germany
My Useless Buddy Zoe – Kyle Hausmann-Stokes/United States
Purple Path – Lotfi Achour/Tunisia/France
Santosh – Sandhya Suri/India/United Kingdom
Sebastien – Mikko Mäkelä/United Kingdom
Solo – Sophie Dupuis/Canada
The Draw – Tom Ruddock/United Kingdom
The Severed Solar – Dean Puckett/United Kingdom
Treading Water – Gino Evans/United Kingdom
Common Language – Matthew Rankin/Canada
