The festival has attracted that likes of Yoko Ono, Janelle Monae and David Lynch, all of who dazzled the northern city over the course of the last week.

The Manchester International Festival returns this year and with it brings a whole host of artists, films and exhibitions.

The dust has settled on Manchester Film Festival, bigger than ever and showing no signs of slowing down as it concludes its fifth year. Here MM guide you through our favourites…

Manchester International Festival returns this July and will be bigger than ever: the 18-day festival welcoming projects from stars including Idris Elba, Skepta, David Lynch and Yoko Ono.

Manchester gets its fair share of rain yet once you’ve watched Alexandre O. Philippe’s brilliant Psycho tribute you might never see water the same way again.