Lacking that fix of cinema? Here’s a cohesive list of the most exciting things going on in Manchester and across the film world for the next month

Ella Robinson reviews the ‘Women in Film’ collection shown as part of Kinofilm festival at Chapeltown picture house

Lauryn Berry reviews The Great Circus documentary, which follows a circus company in its preparations for a new show

Manchester International Film Festival comes back in 2021 with a new selection of world and UK premieres.

Loop is an unoriginal take on time travel films and is better suited to the teenage audience of streaming services than film festivals, writes Michal Wasilewski

Manchester Film Festival 2020’s Narrative Shorts 2 were political, satirical and, at times, heartwarming, writes Harley Weng U Pun

Although Charlie Buhler’s pandemic-based Before the Fire may seem perfectly timed, it fails to recreate even a bad apocalypse film, writes Michal Wasilewski.

Jack Greeney reviews eight of MANIFF 2019’s finest short films

A sluggish and derivative possession-horror that’s only amusing so as to think of better films it steals from which you could be watching instead.

The Runaways tells the story of three siblings from Whitby, on the run with two donkeys.

Top picks from this years Manchester International Film Festival