What's on 2018-2019: Season 20


​​In collaboration with the Birks Cinema, Heartland Film Society welcomes you
to a another season of outstanding films from world cinema. 

Films are generally shown on the second Sunday of each month and are scheduled to start early evening at the Birks Cinema in Aberfeldy. 
Please check the cinema website for exact screening times
or call the cinema on 01887 822845 Ext: 1

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We hope you'll want to join HFS but you don't need to be a member to come to any of our films or events. Everyone is welcome!


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Sunday 9 September 2018:  A Fantastic Woman

Marina, a transgender nightclub singer, comes under suspicion when her much older lover Orlando dies suddenly. Harassed and threatened by his vengeful relatives and the police, she must defend her rights both as Orlando's partner and as a human being. Moving, sensitive and thought-provoking.

2018 | Chile | 104 min | Cert 15
Dir: Sebastian Lelio | Multiple Awards 

​Bean number: 32
Bean score:    3.34 / 4.00   
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Sunday 14 October 2018:  After the Storm

Once a promising novelist, Shinoda is now divorced, a gambler and a private detective. A visit to his estranged family on a stormy night offers hope of reconciliation, in this keenly observed and gently humorous tale of bittersweet regrets and disappointments.

2017 | Japan | 118 min | Cert PG
Dir:  Hirokazu Koreeda

Bean number: 15
Bean score:    2.67 / 4.00   ​
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Sunday 11 November 2018:  Sweet Country

In 1920’s Australian Northern Territory, the land is worked by hard-bitten, hard-up farmers and indentured Aboriginals. When Sam shoots a man in self defence, he has no faith in white justice and flees to the outback with a posse in pursuit. Based on real events.

2017 | Australia | 113 min | Cert 15
Dir: Warwick Thornton | Multiple Awards 

​​Bean number: 42
Bean score:    ​3.26 / 4.00
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Friday 16 - Sunday 18 November 2018
Aberfeldy Film Festival 2018 
- a weekend of films and events focussing on animals large and small  
More information: Aberfeldy Film Festival (Animal Tales)
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Sunday 9 December 2018:  The Other Side of Hope

In a timely tragicomedy, a Syrian asylum seeker on the run is taken in by the new owner of a down-at-heel restaurant who’s just left his wife. As one tries to re-invent himself and his restaurant, the other struggles to adapt to a new life and to rescue his sister.

2017 | Finland Germany | 100 min | Cert 12A
Dir: Aki Kaurismaki | Festival Awards
 
Bean number: 29
Bean score:   ​ 2.67 / 4.00
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Sunday 13 January 2019:  The Florida Project

Six-year-old Mooney and her friends fill their summer with mischief and adventure, ignoring the harsh realities of their lives, lived in the shadows of Disney World.  Equally wild, her mother finds ingenious ways to support the two of them, in a warm, vivid and gloriously funny film.

2017 | USA | 111 min | Cert 15
Dir: Sean Baker | Multiple Awards
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​Bean number: 23
Bean score:   ​ 2.74 / 4.00
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Sunday 10 February 2019:  Tanna

Set on a remote Pacific island, covered in rain forest and dominated by an active volcano, this heartfelt story, enacted by the Yakel tribe, tells of a sister’s loyalty, a forbidden love affair and the conflict between the old ways and the new. Magnetic performances.
 
2015 | Australia | 104 min | Cert 12
Dir: Martin Butler, Bentley Dean | Multiple Awards

​Bean number: 27
Bean score:   ​ 3.81 / 4.00
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​Sunday 24 February 2019 (AGM):  On the Waterfront

Brando delivers an Oscar-winning, ground-breaking performance as Terry, an ex-prize-fighter turned docker. After unwittingly contributing to the death of a man who dared to speak out about union corruption, he agonises over becoming a whistleblower himself.
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1954 | USA | 108 min | Cert PG
Dir: Elia Kazan | Winner of eight Oscars

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Sunday 10 March 2019: Personal Shopper

In a gripping tale of the supernatural, Kirsten Stewart is outstanding as Maureen, a fashion shopper for a Paris model. She seems to be able to communicate with spirits, as did her deceased twin brother, and begins to receive strange texts from an unknown source.

2017 | France Germany Czech Republic Belgium | 105 min | Cert 15
Dir: Olivier Assayas | Multiple Awards
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Sunday 14 April 2019:  Just Before Losing Everything 
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In a tension-filled short, we follow a woman and her two children as they attempt to escape from their troubled home. Later, in Custody, husband Antoine uses a court ruling to force his way back into his wife’s life, with young Julien becoming a hostage in the escalating conflict.

2013 / 2018 | France | 30 min / 94 min | Cert 15
Dir: Xavier Legrand | Venice Festival Awards

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Sunday 12 May 2019:  I Am Not Your Negro

Through powerful archival footage and the words of African-American writer and intellectual James Baldwin, the film explores the lives and assassinations of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers and their impact on what it means to be black in America today.

2016 | USA | 93 min | Cert 12A
Dir: Raoul Peck | Narrated by Samuel L Jackson | Multiple Awards

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Sunday 9 June 2019:  Human Flow

Filming over the course of a year, artist and activist Ai Weiwei follows a chain of human stories across the globe, giving powerful visual expression to the current refugee crisis and bringing home its staggering scale and profound human impact.

2017 | International | 140 min | Cert PG-13
Dir: Ai Weiwei | Multiple Awards
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Sunday 14 July 2019:  Graduation

A Romanian doctor takes matters into his own hands - and compromises his principles - when an attack on his daughter endangers her scholarship to a UK university. A complex, fascinating study of a society and one man’s moral choices at a crucial juncture in his life.

2017 | Romania | 128 min | Cert 15
Dir: Cristian Mungiu | Best Director Cannes
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