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Virtual
recitals and songwriting workshops
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"A wonderful
experience"
— ONe-to-ONe
audience member
Our
sell-out ONe-to-ONe
performances are back! Turn your home
into a concert chamber with a
one-of-a-kind, 10-minute recital
delivered to you, our audience of one.
Early booking is
recommended, and you'll find the best
availability in the weeks commencing 22 March
and 29 March.
Plus, due to popular demand, we've
added new dates for our free songwriting
workshops!
These six-week courses form part of our
community project to create an
innovative art installation in the
newly-refurbished Howard Opera
Centre, a place that
will be your home just as much as it
will be ours. Find out more below...
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Experience something
extraordinary
From
jolly folk songs to operatic arias,
we're bringing more live, one-to-one
performances from members of our
Orchestra and Chorus straight into your
home via Zoom. Performance slots are
available until Thursday 1 April and
are guaranteed to brighten your day.
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Create something special
Starting
on Monday 15 March, musician and
composer Sarah Freestone will be
running a six-week songwriting
workshop. You'll explore a wide range
of music before creating and recording
new songs on the theme of home. No
previous musical experience is
necessary, just the willingness to try
something new! With very limited spaces
available, book quickly to avoid
disappointment.
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Opera North Ltd.
46 New Briggate
Leeds
LS1 6NU
Box Office: 0113 223 3600
Registered Charity No.
511726
© Opera North 2021
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Remarkable
new documentary Assassins now streaming on Leeds Film Player
+ Francis Lee's Ammonite, Sundance hit Minari and more...
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Assassins: Remarkable
new documentary now
streaming on Leeds Film Player
Must-see documentary Assassins, presented in
partnership with Hyde Park Picture House, is now available
on Leeds Film Player. This mind-bending tale of political
intrigue and assassination in North Korea plays alongside other
great titles including the atmospheric sci-fi parable Last and First
Men, dark Icelandic thriller A White, White
Day and the touching language class documentary Atelier de conversation.
We also have a fascinating new
shorts programme 3.11 A Sense
of Home, an anthology of
films, each of exactly 3 minutes and 11 seconds, marking the
tenth anniversaries of the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami in
Japan. Curated by Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase, directors also
include Bong Joon Ho, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Jia Zhang-ke.
All features and shorts available on Leeds Film
Player until Wednesday 31
March
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Francis Lee’s critically acclaimed Ammonite
comes to streaming platforms
Ammonite,
Francis Lee’s highly anticipated follow up to God’s Own
Country, sadly won’t start its life in cinemas, but
will be arriving on streaming platforms this month. Kate
Winslet stars as the pioneering 19th-century
palaeontologist Mary Anning, who has been excluded from the
male scientific establishment. When Charlotte Murchison
(Saoirse Ronan) is entrusted to her care, the pair develop
an intense relationship, altering both of their lives
forever.
Ammonite streams on demand
from Friday 26 March
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Sami Blood: Available until 16 March
on Leeds Film Player
Amanda Kernell’s powerful coming-of-age debut Sami
Blood was an audience favourite at LIFF 2017 and also
won the European Parliament’s prestigious Lux Prize for
Best European Film. Elle, a teenage reindeer herder in
1930s Sweden faces a society rife with prejudice and
discrimination as she is forcibly removed from her family
and sent to a state boarding school. ‘A spellbinding
performance by young Lene Cecilia Sparrok.’ - Sheri
Linden, LA Times
Watch Sami Blood on Leeds Film Player
until midnight on Tuesday 16 March
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Minari: A Korean-American family let their
roots grow in Arkansas soil
Lee Isaac Chung’s Sundance winning
semi-autobiographical tale Minari follows a
Korean-American family that moves to an Arkansas farm in
the 1980s, in search of their own American Dream. As they
struggle with the reality of rural isolation in a
dilapidated trailer, everything changes with the arrival of
their mischievous grandmother. Minari is an
uplifting look at the resilience of family and what really
makes a home.
Streaming from Friday 19 March
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International Women's Day 2021:
Online film screenings, Q&As and more...
Every year, International Women's Day
celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political
achievements of women whilst also calling for equality -
where men and women are treated the same. Although the main
event takes place on 8 March, there are events to mark IWD
throughout the month, including the FLY! Festival of Black
Women's Film, a screening of Salt of The Sea with
Leeds Palestinian Film Festival and more.
View our full round-up of International
Women's Day 2021 events
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Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown
Period of Time
Curzon Home Cinema are releasing Preparations
to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time this
month, an evocative and unnerving psychological drama by
Hungarian director Lili Horvát with beautiful
cinematography. Márta, a forty-year-old neurosurgeon, falls
in love. She leaves her shining American career behind and
returns to Budapest to start a new life with them. But the
love of her life claims they have never met before.
From Friday 19 March on
Curzon Home Cinema
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Essential new music documentary
Poly Styrene: I am a Cliché
The essential new documentary I am a Cliché
profiles Poly Styrene, the enigmatic
Anglo-Somali frontwoman of seminal punk band X-Ray Spex.
Poly was the first woman of colour in the UK to front a
successful rock band, using her unconventional voice to
sing about identity, consumerism and postmodernism in late
70s Britain. Poly’s daughter Celeste examines her mother’s
legacy both as an icon and a mother.
Now streaming on Modern
Films
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MUBI: Notturo, Fire Will Come
and Catch Me Daddy
Notturno is a breathtaking, polyphonic look at the
wounds and scars of Middle Eastern conflict, and Italy's
entry to the 2021 Academy Awards, by director Gianfranco
Rosi. Other features available on MUBI during March include
previous LIFF selections Fire
Will Come, Oliver Laxe's
striking and serene drama about a man imprisoned for arson
returning to his rural Spanish hometown and Catch Me
Daddy, an unbelievably tense and beautifully
filmed chase film shot on the Yorkshire moors.
Now showing on MUBI
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Justine: Love and addiction in Brighton-based
queer romance
Justine is a queer
love story set against the backdrop of wintry
Brighton. Justine (Tallulah Haddon) is disillusioned with
life, drinking heavily and slowly self-destructing. One
day, on a shoplifting spree, she meets Rachel (Sophie Reid)
and the possibility of happiness, love and a future starts
to emerge. But her pain goes deep and as the demons within
her begin to surface, she wonders if she can allow herself
to hope.
Now streaming on Curzon
Home Cinema
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Creative Networks: In conversation with
Russell T Davies (It's a Sin)
Leeds Art University has welcomed an
impressive series of guests for its Creative
Networks series of conversations with creative talent. For
its next instalment, taking place online, award-winning
writer, creator and producer Russell T Davies talks about
his life in the screen industry. Known for his work on Queer
as Folk and Doctor Who, his most recent series It's
a Sin, about the AIDS crisis in Britain is currently on
All 4.
Thursday 18 March, 6pm
Booking is essential
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The Criterion Collection Competition: Win
March's releases on Blu-ray
Our exclusive monthly competition gives you
the chance to win one of two bundles of the latest Blu-rays
from The Criterion Collection.
March's releases include Lost in America,
Defending Your Life and Kagemusha. For a
chance to win, answer the following question: In which
2011 film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn did Lost in
America's director Albert Brooks star? Email answers to leeds.film@leeds.gov.uk by midnight on Wednesday 31 March 2021.
Competition is open to UK residents only
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Film industry news,
events and opportunities...
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Filmbank Media: Virtual Screening Room service
for online community cinema
The new Filmbankmedia Virtual Screening Room
service supports online screenings which keep the social
aspect of community-led cinema. Film societies, community
cinemas and other venues can choose from a special
selection of independent titles, now including Monsoon and
Miss Juneteenth, and replicate the experience of
scheduled film screenings. Attendees are able to use a chat
functionality to discuss films, just like if everyone was
in the same room together.
Find out more
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Cinema For All: Community Cinema
Mini Conference 2021
Join Cinema For All online for a day of
panels, talks, masterclasses and networking for
volunteer-led cinema organisers. They'll be looking at the
key issues surrounding reopening community cinemas and film
societies, how to make an attractive series of online film
screenings, maintaining a community throughout lockdown and
more. Tickets are priced on a sliding scale, with a limited
number of free places available.
Find out more
Saturday 27 March 2021, 10am-6pm
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Covid-19 Update
Leeds Film is part of the Leeds Arts, Events &
Venues Team, which programmes events at Leeds Town Hall,
Millennium Square and Carriageworks Theatre including Leeds
International Film Festival, Leeds International Beer Festival
and Leeds International Concert Season. Please visit the Leeds Town Hall website for the
latest news and updates about future activities, as they continue
to follow the latest government guidance about live events.
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Leeds Film is supported by the
British Film Institute
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