Manchester LGBTQ+ Film/TV Festival SCENE Confirms 2025 Line-Up

After a hugely successful first year. Ahead of Manchester Pride, SCENE Festival is ready to take over the city once more this August, with another iconic line-up highlighting the very best in queer cinema and TV.

Spread across seven days (Friday 15th to Thursday 21 August) with venues such as HOME, Aviva Studios and Cultplex getting in on the act. Providing an out of this world opener will be Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese’s animated comedy ‘Lesbian Space Princess’.

A firm favourite of ours from SXSW London earlier this Summer. Carmen Emmi’s superb feature-length directorial debut ‘Plainclothes‘ starring Russell Tovey and Tom Blyth will be bringing plenty of heat, whilst Alan Cumming looks to bail out his estranged gay brother in 1970’s Toronto in ‘Drive Back Home’.

A festival we are proud to be an official media partner for. Cardiff’s Iris Prize will be teaming up with SCENE, giving audiences a chance to sample the best of their 2024 selection alongside a wealth of ‘Night Life’ and ‘Comedy’ shorts. Alongside offerings in partnership with Sheffield Docfest which include Gianluca Matarrese’s ‘Gen_’, Grace Hughes-Hallett’s ‘The Secret In Me’, alongside GASP! Horror Film Festival’s queer all-dayer featuring the 45th anniversary of ‘Cruising‘ and Yann Gonzalez’s ‘Knife And Heart’.

They are not skimping on the gloriously camp classics either, with ‘The First Wives Club’, ‘To Wong Foo Thanks For Everything Julie Newmar’, ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ and the 30th anniversary of ‘Showgirls’ also gracing this year’s edition.

You can discover SCENE Festival’s full programme and book your tickets via www.scenefestival.com, with the festival’s ticketing partner Skiddle donating all booking fees to the Manchester Pride Charity.