This month Films at Heart’s regular monthly screening is being held at the Hyde Park Picture House (Screen One) and in collaboration with Irish History Month.

After premiering at the Director's Fortnight at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, Sister Midnight is a festival favourite which begins with a newly arranged marriage. A pairing of an oddball couple shoved together in a small Mumbai shack with paper-thin walls.

They are awkward and alone-together. Unpredictable Uma does her best to cope with the heat, her total lack of domestic skills, nosy neighbours and her bumbling spouse until the nocturnal world of Mumbai and its inhabitants lead her to face her own strange behaviours.

In celebration of Irish History Month and in association with Irish Arts Foundation featuring a documentary about Irish immigrant labourers in the United States. 

"Men at Lunch" is a 2012 Irish English/Irish language documentary on the history behind the 1932 Lunch atop a Skyscraper photograph, its Irish connections, and the story of immigration in New York at the turn of the century. Directed by Seán Ó Cualáin.

Guinness and other drinks will be served. 

Akerman’s landmark second feature follows the meticulous daily routine of its titular lead.

Jeanne Dielman is revolutionary in its bold experimental approach to narrative subject and structure. Charting the breakdown of its protagonist, a bourgeois Belgian housewife, mother and part-time sex worker over the course of three days, the film rigorously records her everyday life in extended time and hypnotic detail.

Driven by a commitment to document the impact of deindustrialisation on working class communities in Northeast England in the 1970s and 1980s, Tish Murtha used her camera to expose societal inequality. She felt she had an obligation to the people and problems within her local environment, and that documentary photography could highlight and challenge the social disadvantages that she herself had suffered.

However, despite early acclaim for her work, she was unable to make a living from photography and died in poverty.

When an apocalyptic vision pushes a group of rabbits to abandon their warren, Hazel, Fiver and Bigwig must tackle the brutal realities of the rural world - and mankind’s devastating impact on it - as they lead their colony to the utopian Watership Down.

Set shortly after the Great Famine in a small village in Ireland, eleven-year old Anna O’Donnell, a young girl, played by Kila Lord Cassidy, who stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well. Is the village harbouring a saint ‘surviving on manna from heaven’ or is something else going on? Florence Pugh plays the English nurse Lib Wright who is brought to a tiny village to observe the situation. William Byrne, played by Tom Burke is a journalist who grew up locally and is back to cover the story for the Daily Telegraph.

In Lionheart (2018), Adaeze, a determined and stylish young woman, is thrust into the spotlight when her father’s transport business faces a crisis. With the support of her strong, close-knit family, and despite sexist challenges, she battles against tough odds to save the company.

A strange serial murder case unfolds in Sendai, nine years after the city was ravaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami: two social workers are found starved to death after being tied up and abandoned. Both were involved in the processing of welfare benefit claims after the disaster.