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SATURDAY 9 NOVEMBER
Mexico, USA 2019
81 mins Subtitled
MIDNIGHT FAMILY
Luke Lorentzen
15:45 | TRISKEL DOCUMENTARY
In Mexico City, there are fewer than 45 public ambulances serving a population of nine million. The Ochoa family are not the only ones to sense this is an opportunity as they spend their nights operating a privately owned ambulance, listening for emergency calls and getting the injured to hospitals in hope of being paid for their efforts. As they race through neon-lit streets against competing emergency squads, or deal with corrupt cops, it is possible to mistake Midnight Family for an action thriller, yet Luke Lorentzen’s award-winning depiction of health care in extremis is powerfully focussed on urgent social issues that are very real. MH
Winner, US Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography, Sundance Film Festival, 2019
Winner, Grand Jury Award, Sheffield Doc/Fest, 2019
Second Chance Mon 11 Nov | 15:45 | Triskel
HALF-SISTER
(POLSESTRA)
Damjan Kozole
16:00 | GATE
NARRATIVE
Slovenia, North Macedonia, Serbia 2019
105 mins Subtitled
Half-Sister is a pitch-black comedy-drama in which estranged half siblings find themselves obliged to share an apartment. Unflinching in their mutual hatred, the only things Irena and Nêza have in common are their combative personalities, their acerbic wit and their father’s adultery. But as they struggle under the weight of unhealed wounds, their antipathy gives way to a growing rapport in this fresh analysis of dysfunctional families from the director of the critically acclaimed Spare Parts. RG
Official Selection, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 2019
LITIGANTE
Franco Lolli
16:15 | GATE NARRATIVE
Silvia (a superb Carolina Sanín) is a single mother devoted to her sweet, precocious five-year-old son Antonio (Antonio Martinez). Working as a deputy legal officer affords her financial independence, though she is caught up in a rumbling corruption charge against her firm that threatens to become a full-blown scandal. While she tries to convince her cantankerous mother to undergo cancer treatments, a love affair might be the last thing she needs, though it might also provide salvation from her despair. Franco Lolli’s heartfelt drama is a sincere, engrossing depiction of how real life gets in the way of big ambitions and best intentions. MH
Official Selection, Cannes Critics’ Week, 2019
Colombia, France 2019
95 mins Subtitled
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