Films at Heart is a not-for-profit group run by volunteers. Members and non-members are equally welcome. We are part of Headingley Development Trust.
We screen contemporary independent films from around the world that you may have missed the first time round or that had only limited exposure.
Films at Heart screens on the second Tuesday of every month September to July. Check our programme on HEART’s ‘What’s On’ listing pages.
Films start at 8pm and tickets are available on the door from 7.30pm on screening nights and are priced as follows:
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Film Programme
April 10th
Loving
USA// 2017 // 123mins // Dir Jeff Nichols
Loving celebrates the real-life courage and commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving, who married and then spent the next nine years fighting for the right to live as a family in their hometown. Their civil rights case, Loving v. Virginia, went all the way to the Supreme Court, which in 1967 reaffirmed the very foundation of the right to marry.
May 8th
A Man Called Ove
Spain // 2016 // 100 mins // subtitled // Dir Icíar Bollaín
Ove, an ill-tempered, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing housing association rules with an iron fist and visiting his wife’s grave, has finally given up on life. However, when a new family move to the terraced house opposite and pregnant Parvaneh accidentally backs into Ove’s mailbox, an unexpected friendship develops.
June 12th
I Am Not Your Negro
United States / France / Belgium // 2016 // 95 mins // Dir Raoul Peck
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project; a personal account of the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of this manuscript. Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished.
July 10th
The Olive Tree
Spain // 2016 // 100 mins // subtitled // Dir Icíar Bollaín
Alma is a 20-year-old girl who adores her grandfather, an elderly man who has not spoken for years. When he also refuses to eat, Alma decides to recover the ancient olive tree that the family sold against his will. In order to succeed, she needs the help of her uncle, her friend Rafa and the whole town. The problem is finding where in Europe the tree is.