Sigur Rós: Heima | Film programme Slieker

After a world tour, Icelandic band Sigur Rós returns to their homeland for a series of intimate performances in unexpected places: from small village halls and sheds to abandoned factories. In Heima – which means 'home' – music, landscape and community merge in a visually poetic ode to connectedness. It is a film about returning, about the silence and beauty of the familiar, but also about the discomfort of confronting your roots. Like in many Frisian villages, something new emerges from what has existed for centuries. Heima shows how art, nature and community together create meaning.

Director: Dean DeBlois
Language: Icelandic spoken, English subtitles
Duration: 97 min
Target audience: adults

This film is part of a series of nine inspiring films, selected in collaboration with film house Slieker. All these films touch on the theme of Arcadia, Grûn. Grûn is where everything begins. It nourishes us, protects us and connects us. But how do we deal with this?

In a world that is constantly changing, the need for solid ground under our feet grows. Whether it is coming home, as in Sigur Ros: Heima, or starting over as in The Old Oak. When the solid ground under your feet disappears, as figuratively in En Fanfare and literally in No Other Land, uncertainty arises, while Wilde Mossels is about the courage to escape from your roots. Where documentary Onder het Maaiveld shows how essential the smallest life under our feet is, in the special sci-fi Vesper, Tim Burton's Big Fish and animated film Wolfwalkers you can escape from reality with fantastic stories about people and nature and the natural nature of man. Come and watch all the films in Bouwurk and be touched, surprised and perhaps even made to think!

This event takes place in the White Box in Bouwurk on the Oldehoofsterkerkhof in Leeuwarden, Friesland.