Films at HEART FilmFeast: A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night

Tom Grieve, Cinema Editor

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Films at HEART FilmFeast: A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night

31 October 2025

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A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
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Spend Halloween in Bad City, Iran, with Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre’s spooky season, film and food screening of Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. Cast in moody black and white, with a too-cool-for-school soundtrack that ranges from Farsi synth-pop to Morricone-esque guitars, Amirpour’s stylish art-house blood-sucker stands out in a crowded field of stylish art-house blood-suckers.

Like Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark before it, the film cannily combines vampire and Western iconography, punctuating the knife-edge tension of deserted streets with moments of animal ferocity and eerie intimacy as a lonesome, chador-clad teenage vampire (Sheila Vand) stalks — and sometimes skates — the streets of the fictional Iranian ghost town.

Weaving through the sex workers, sleazy pimps and desperate drug addicts who populate the urban landscape, in search of her prey, the titular girl befriends a young man struggling to take care of his heroin-addicted father. Amirpour trades in timeless, universal themes of loneliness, desire and insatiable compulsion that have driven vampire movies for a century, but renewed, refreshed and relocated, with a pointed feminist point of view, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night has become an essential entry in the canon.

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Heart is an arts, community and enterprise centre run by the people of Headingley in Leeds, but serving a much wider community.

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Bowery

A welcoming space to create and be inspired, the Bowery provides a home for West Yorkshire’s artistic community.

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Headingley Lodge

Headingley Lodge is a neat, no-frills hotel in which every room boasts a view of Headingley cricket stadium.

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Greasy Pig

Greasy Pig is an upbeat, colourful café with a range of wild and wonderful menu offerings like cheese-topped savoury pancakes or tasty veggie feasts.

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Located in Headingley, Cottage Road Cinema is the oldest remaining cinema in continuous use in Leeds.

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Sebby’s Deli

Sebby’s Deli is a small friendly cafe set on Otley Road, Leeds, and specialising in homemade cakes and tailored sandwiches.

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Hyde Park Book Club has blossomed into a multi use music and arts venue that acts as a home from home for many of the area’s local creatives.

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Left Bank Leeds is an arts and events venue based in the breathtaking former St Margaret of Antioch Church on Cardigan Road, a popular spot to congregate for gigs, festivals, workshops.

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LS6 is an independent café with flamboyant decor and a long-list of celebrity patrons. LS6 boasts a reputation for being the best breakfast around the Leeds area.

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Threshold Leeds

Threshold is an artist-led project space for sculpture, located in the front garden of a traditional back-to-back house in Burley, Leeds.

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