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Future Flares Festival 2026

Future Flares Festival returns in 2026 with more innovative and impactful performances, presentations, discussions and workshops. Bringing some of the most important new voices in contemporary European performance making together in Manchester, Future Flares encourages creative discourse about just how the art-form is responding to our changing world.

Future Flares Festival 2026

Future Flares Festival returns in 2026 with more innovative and impactful performances, presentations, discussions and workshops. Bringing some of the most important new voices in contemporary European performance making together in Manchester, Future Flares encourages creative discourse about just how the art-form is responding to our changing world.

Ties That Bind: Reflections on Community and Justice

Across 10 screenings between Wednesday 7th May and Friday 27th June 2025, the Manchester Crime and Justice Film Festival showed films which provoke discussions around 21st century crime, justice and punishment.

The Manchester International Crime and Justice Film Festival 2025

Welcome to the 2025 festival sponsored by the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University and curated by the university’s Policy Evaluation and Research Unit.
Since 2019 we’ve had a consistent mission – screening great films which provoke debate and provide an alternative take on crime, justice and punishment in the 21st century