Films for all in Highland Perthshire! We bring films to all in Highland Perthshire, on a big screen in an informal and friendly atmosphere.
Films are shown at the Birks Cinema in Aberfeldy. Each season we aim to create a programme that appeals to as wide an audience as possible. There are old films, new films, foreign films and always something a little thought provoking. Please check out our website for more information.
Thankyou to Rosie Harrison Flower and everyone who made Io Capitano such a success on Tuesday night. A powerful and fascinating event, and the bean-ometer scores agree - 44 gave it top marks of 4 beans, with 3 votes for 3 beans and 1 for 2 beans, no votes for 1 or 0...
TOMORROW NIGHT!
Food and Live Discussion followed by the beauty and danger of academy award nominated film Io Capitano at The Birks Cinema Aberfeldy
Get a real perspective of refugee life in Calais, from local Rosie Harrison Flower who will share her experience of work with Refugee Community Kitchen as well as typical food from the project, from 7pm.
We will have a raffle and donations are welcome so remember to bring cash!
Fantastic film night last night, thanks all for coming. A good few of you stayed on for chat afterwards, hopefully next time the cafe tech will be working for a beverage to accompany that! Our bean-ometer scores are in for All of us Strangers :
4 - 19
3 - 9
2 - 3
1 - 1
0 - 1
Calling all Heartland Film Soc Members - join us for a post-film discussion on Sunday after 'All of Us Strangers'. Just stay behind in the auditorium after the film and we'll grab a drink and a table in the cafe 😄🍷
7.00 pm Sunday, 16th June The Birks Cinema Aberfeldy - HFS presents All of Us Strangers
Widely acclaimed, All of Us Strangers won Best Film at the British Independent Film Awards and six BAFTA nominations.It stars Andrew Scott (Ripley, Fleabag) as Adam, a screenwriter struggling with a script based on his past, who begins a chance relationship with Harry, played by Paul Mescal (Normal People, Aftersun), and revisits his childhood home.There he meets his late parents who appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before. In a blend of love, ghost and time-slipped narratives, the film explores the need for human love and connection against a backdrop of 1980s music, memories and homophobia.
Critically acclaimed as "Wildly imaginative and exhilaratingly over the top, Poor Things is a bizarre, brilliant tour de force for director Yorgos Lanthimos and star Emma Stone", and HFS are bringing it to the Birks Cinema later today! Don't miss it....
Join us tomorrow for Poor Things with Oscar winning Emma Stone on the big screen!
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This weekend, starting Friday, is our Film Festival "Gallus Wimmin" featuring the work of female screenwriters and directors from Europe. There will be a raffle each night with contributions from local businesses: be sure to bring cash for your tickets! We look forward to seeing you there.
Heartland Film Society's monthly film on Sunday evening at 6.30pm is FLEE (2021). It won over 15 awards for score, documentary, editing, animation etc etc. It is a true story: the story of Amin Nawabi who grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself. Recounted mostly through animation to director Jonas Poher Rasmussen, he tells for the first time the story of his extraordinary journey as a child refugee from Afghanistan.
Don't forget, this Sunday is our monthly film, FLEE at 6.30pm at the Birks. It won over 15 awards for animation, score, editing, documentary... Be sure to catch it. It tells the story of Amin Nawabi as he grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband. Recounted mostly through animation to director Jonas Poher Rasmussen, he tells for the first time the story of his extraordinary journey as a child refugee from Afghanistan.
Here is our flyer for this year's weekend of films on the theme of GALLUS WIMMIN! It kicks off on Friday evening with drinks and eats before THE PARTY.
The Saturday afternoon film for the children is MATILDA THE MUSICAL (2022) with Emma Thompson as Miss Trunchbull and Stephen Graham as Mr Wormwood.
Further to the last post, Heartland Film Society turns into Heartland Film Festival for the weekend of Friday 24 - Sunday 26 November. The theme is GALLUS WIMMIN, celebrating fine female film directors. There will be a film a day, plus a children's film on Saturday afternoon. One of the films is 20,000 Species of Bees (2023). The Basque film director and screenwriter, Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren's film won many nominatons and awards; this is a warm, heartfelt film.
November is full of films! On Sunday 19 November at 6.30pm, our monthly film is FLEE (2021). It tells the true story of Amin Nawabi as he grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband. Recounted mostly through animation to director Jonas Poher Rasmussen, he tells for the first time the story of his extraordinary journey as a child refugee from Afghanistan.
Film this Sunday at 6.30pm is Godland, a Danish film made in 2022. At the end of the 19th century, a young Danish priest is sent to a remote part of Iceland. The deeper he travels into the unforgiving landscape, the more he loses touch with his own reality, his mission and his sense of duty. "Harshness is transformed into beauty and then terror by this extraordinary film from Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason" - Guardian.j
The Aberfeldy Film Festival weekend at the Birks is coming up fast: Friday 24 - Sun 26 November. The theme is GALLUS WIMMIN, a celebration of the work of female directors. We kick off with Sally Potter's black comedy "The Party" (2017), starring Kristin Scott Thomas... and there will be a party before the screening! Times to be confirmed.
This next film is the last of the 2022-23 season - Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020). The film gives an intimate portrayal of two teenage girls travelling from their home in rural Pennsylvania to New York in search of medical help after an unintended pregnancy. Mark Kermode: "profoundly moving fare from a filmmaker at the very top of her game". Screening at 1600.
This Sunday afternoon at 4pm, in case you'd like a break from the sunshine, the wonderful QUEEN OF GLORY is showing. It's a comedy set in made in 2021. Nana Mensah wrote, directed and acts in the title role. A brilliant young woman is forced to review her life's choices after the death of her mother and subsequent inheritance of a bookstore in her old neighbourhood of the Bronx.
Another month, another film. This time from Spain on Sunday, 14 May at the new time of 4pm (due to staff shortage in the cinema). The film is ALCARRAS, a Spanish-Italian Catalan language film from director Carla Simon. It won the Golden Bear, the top award at the 2022 Berlin Film Festival. It was shot in the town of Alcarras, in west Catalonia with a cast of non professional actors. The drama concerns a rural community's struggle for survival, a subject inspired by the director's own childhood living amongst farming families. From the Guardian: "a deeply intelligent, humane drama". See you there.
Our next film of the Season is LAMB on Sunday 16 April at 6pm. Icelandic folk horror film from 2022, cert. 15. A childless couple find a strange, unnatural newborn in their sheep barn... They decide to raise her as their own - but sinister forces are at play.
This Sunday at 6pm, come and see a Coen Brothers' offering. It's INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS, a black and white from 2014 starring Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan and John Goodman. The story centres around a folk singer in 1960s New York as he struggles to get a break in a tough music world.
Another weekend, another film from HFS! The film's a cracker. "C'mon, c'mon" 2021 Cert 15, shot in black and white and starring Joaquin Phoenix. The film tells a delicate and deeply moving story about the connections between adults and children, the past and the future, by writer director Mike Mills. This Sunday, 19th February at 7pm.
For those who would like to or are curious, the HFS AGM is at 6pm before "Cmon Cmon", upstairs at the Birks Cinema. Free entertainment and alcohol. All are very welcome.
Two films this month. The first is this Sunday 12 February at 19.15, is HIT THE ROAD, an Iranian film from 2021. 5 stars from Mark Kermode... A middle-aged couple and their two sons embark on a road trip across the Iranian countryside. Over the course of their journey, they bond over memories of the past, grapple with fears of the unknown and fuss over their sick dog. The writer and director is Panah Panahi, whose famous film-maker father Jafar Panahi has only recently been released from Tehran jail post a charge of propaganda against the Iranian regime.
The Society's 6 month programme kicks off this Sunday 15 January with the award winning EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE, ALL AT ONCE at 7pm. Cert 15. Michelle Yeoh, who stars, has just won a Golden Globe for best actress for her role in this sci fi comedy. She plays a Chinese immigrant who owns a failing laundromat. She is plucked from her boring existence and swept into an insane adventure, exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led.
And now for something really different...
Next Sunday evening, 11 December, the Birks Cinema in partnership with us, will be screening a triple bill of short films from the Taiwan Film Festival. The films will be introduced in person by Festival Curator Kuan-ping Liu 劉官玶 . The first film is a comedy "A Cockerel's Tale", then a 9 minute drama "Invisible Children", and the last "Can You Hear Me?" an absurdist comedy. Total runtime 1 hour. Starts 7.30pm. See you there!
While we are waiting for the Birks Cinema to reopen and to screen the Heartland Films remaining from this season, we thought you might like to know that Curzon At Home are offering a selection of films that should have screened at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival, screening on pay per view from 24 June to 5 July. We're tipping the fabulous Maxine Peake in "F***y Lye Deliver'd", which will feature as a Curzon Living Room Q&A with director Thomas Clay and his cast at 8.30 pm on Monday 29 June. Films are priced at £9.99 and will be available for 2-12 days.
For more information follow these links:
https://www.curzonhomecinema.com/collections/edinburgh_international_film_festival
https://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/ed-film-fest-home
The Heartland film for Sunday 10 May is the Souvenir : A young, quietly ambitious film student (Honor Swinton Byrne) embarks on her first serious love affair with a charismatic and mysterious man (Tom Burke). She tries to disentangle fact from fiction as she surrenders to the relationship, which comes dangerously close to destroying her dreams. The film was chosen by The Guardian as one of the top 10 films of 2019.
Obviously with the Birks Cinema closed the film will not be screening on Sunday. However it is available on Curzon Home Cinema for a bargain £3.99. So why not watch it anyway on Sunday at 6pm. Here is the link....
https://www.curzonhomecinema.com/film/watch-the-souvenir-film-2019
The Guardian's Best Films of 2019 - no.5 'The Souvenir' is the compelling, semi-autobiographical drama by award-winning director-writer Joanna Hogg ('Unrelated', 'Archipelago', 'Exhibition'). A young, quietly ambitious film student (Honor Swinton Byrne) embarks on her first serious love affair with....
Happy Birthday to the Birks Cinema !
HFS love screening our films in Aberfeldy’s friendly cinema.
Message from Alan Cu***ng
We're sorry to say that the HFS film scheduled for Sunday - Roma - will not be screening as the cinema is still closed. It's still screening on Netflix though, so here is the link if you have Netflix or want to pay
https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80240715
Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón delivers a vivid, emotional portrait of a domestic worker's journey set against domestic and political turmoil in 1970s Mexico.
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