Films At Heart

Friday 24th May – Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre

A movie poster for "Bride & Prejudice" featuring a couple standing back-to-back in the foreground, with a festive crowd and a cityscape in the background. — 1hr 51min//Certificate 12A/2004

The next film and food session at Heart is Bride and Prejudice directed by the award winning Gurinder Kaur Chadha.

An update of Jane Austen’s classic tale, in which Mrs. Bakshi is eager to find suitable husbands for her four unmarried daughters. When the rich single gentlemen Balraj and Darcy come to visit, the Bakshis have high hopes, though circumstance and boorish opinions threaten to get in the way of romance…

6.30pm: Food: delicious vegan Indian food from the HEART Assembly Bar and Kitchen
7.15pm: Introduction: Gurj Kang
7.30pm: Film: BRIDE and PREJUDICE

Tickets £12 available from HEART reception and online (includes food and film).

Whilst we eagerly await the reopening of the Picture House, we have arranged a joint presentation with Films at Heart of the Golden Bear nominated ‘Return to Dust‘ on Wednesday April 12th.

Films At Heart presents Return To Dust
Doors 7pm, film 7.30pm
HEART Centre, Bennett Road, LS6 3HN

2022’s Return to Dust is a Chinese drama in which Ma and Cao have been forced into an arranged marriage by their families. They do their best to build a home whilst facing many great challenges together. The unlikely couple form a bond to create an unexpected love story.

This screening forms part of the regular Films at Heart programme, all tickets are £6/£5 and available via the HEART reception and online. Of course very nice refreshments are available too. And we’ll be there for a friendly chat.

“Return to Dust is many things — a vivid portrait of China’s hardscrabble rural north- west, an unexpected victim of state censorship — but it is first and last a love story. ”
Danny Leigh- Financial Times

“It’s a gorgeous, quietly affecting film that finds an unassuming beauty in this simple life in rural China, but which doesn’t shy away from the extreme hardships faced by the very poorest.”
Wendy Ide – Observer

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