AF FFF25 VALENTINE'S DAY FESTIVAL PREVIEW

Friday 14 February

6:15pm Drink on Arrival

6:30pm Feature Presentation

Ahead of our Festival, we are announcing a special, one-night-only preview screening of the French box office sensation Beating Hearts! Fresh from the Cannes Film Festival and starring the phenomenal Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue Is the Warmest Colour) and François Civil (The Three Musketeers), this kinetic, heart-pounding modern romantic opera is the perfect way to get your Cupid fix. 💞

Love makes one crazy. Just ask Clotaire (Civil) and Jackie (Exarchopoulos), who meet in their teens in a working-class neighbourhood in Northern France during the 1980s. Despite their differences – she’s a diligent student from the middle class, and he’s a charming troublemaker with a complex family life – an intense and unmistakable connection is sparked. But tragedy tears them apart.

Over a decade later, Clotaire tries desperately to win back his lost love. Has his chance passed?

A love letter to the epic independent films of the 1980s and early 90s, Gilles Lellouche’s Beating Hearts is an instant classic – a genre-bending cinematic journey that rewards all who strap in for the ride.