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FRIDAY 8 NOVEMBER
Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile, France 2019
82 mins Subtitled
LAND OF ASHES
(CENIZA NEGRA)
Sofía Quirós Úbeda
18:15 | GATE NARRATIVE
Selva (Smachleen Gutiérrez) is a 13-year-old girl growing up under the devoted guardianship of her elderly grandfather (Humberto Samuels) on the Caribbean shore of Costa Rica. She has a lively curiosity about the world and the environment she lives in, though her desire for maternal love leads her to summon a presence that is not of that world: a spirit she can confide in. Sofía Quirós Úbeda’s first feature is a remarkable dream of a film addressing mourning and magic. Amidst the lush vegetation and numerous slithering snakes, Gutiérrez is the heart of the film, delivering a luminous performance of intensity and conviction. MH
Official Selection, Cannes Critics’ Week, 2019
DOLCE FINE GIORNATA
Jacek Borcuch
18:30 | GATE
NARRATIVE
Poland 2019
97 mins Subtitled
Dolce Fine Giornata is a contemporary drama of multifarious intent, starring Polish cinema veteran Krystyna Janda as a celebrated ex-pat poet Maria, living an idyllic life on in the Tuscan foothills. When in
the wake of a suicide bombing in Rome, Maria makes a speech that appears to sympathise with the terrorists, the veneer of normalcy in her life begins to unravel. This narrative provides an unlikely conduit for a deeply complex analysis on immigration, populism and nationalism, whilst also presenting a remarkably layered (and rare) portrait of a woman in later life. RG
Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival, 2019
COLD CASE HAMMARSKJÖLD
Mads Brügger
19:00 | TRISKEL
DOCUMENTARY
Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Belgium
2019
Photo: Tore Vollan
22
119 mins + Q&A Subtitled
Danish director Mads Brügger and Swedish private investigator Göran Björkdahl set out to solve the mysterious death of United Nations Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjöld, in a plane crash in Zambia in 1961. As their investigation tacks back and forth from the intense to the ridiculous to the ridiculously intense, what seems at first like an offbeat and fascinating journalistic inquiry becomes — through a series of evasive interviews, conspiracy theories and dead ends — a route to discovery of a far worse crime. Brügger casts himself at the centre of this storytelling performance, which appears at times almost absurd but is always compelling, creating a thrilling dynamic that forces our examination of the very nature of truth itself. FC Simultaneous screening across Europe, followed by on-screen Q&A with the director (35 mins); Winner, Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary, Sundance Film Festival; Free screening: 2019 LUX Film Prize Official Selection (see p. 99)
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