Scene Festival 2025

- Various venues

Pictures taken on Canal Street to promote Year 2 of  SCENE: Manchester LGBQT+ Film & TV Festival with drag artists Anna Phylactic in Pink and Liquorice Black.
Photo by Fabio De Paola

Scene Festival 2025
Various venues
Fri 15th - Thu 21st Aug, 2025

SCENE, Manchester’s very own LGBTQ+ film and TV festival, returns to the city from Friday 15 to Thursday 21 August. The festival will welcome a bold and vibrant line-up of queer storytelling through film, television, music and live performances, as part of Manchester Pride 2025. The line-up also includes a heartfelt preview of Departures, the debut feature from Manchester-based filmmakers Neil Ely and Lloyd Eyre-Morgan, and a riotous celebration of comedy legend Victoria Wood in The Victoria Wood-A-Thon hosted by Make A Scene. Elsewhere, there’s 10 Years of Cucumber – In Conversation with Russell T Davies, Waterloo Road: Everyone Welcome, Showgirls 30th Anniversary Screening, Drag Takeover and loads more.

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