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SUNDAY 10 NOVEMBER
Canada 154 mins 2018 Subtitled
Julien Elie’s harrowing, honourable and timely documentary strives
to give voice to the victims of Mexico’s drug cartels. Presented in austere monochrome, Dark Suns paints a picture of a lawless state where the murders of women, journalists and students are excused
or unpunished. Suggesting cross-border collusion with the USA in a number of cases, Elie draws on testimony from investigators, families of the dead, priests, lawyers and activists who are bravely pursuing truth and justice despite putting their own lives at risk. Impressive in its depth and diligence, Dark Suns is a too-rare example of investigative documentary filmmaking of the highest order. MH
INTERNATIONAL SHORTS 3 – FRUSTRATED DESIRES
11:15 | GATE
My Generation Ludovic Houplain I AM TX Ryan Darbonne
A Nice Place to Stop Hiball
A Moray WAM Bleakley
Things That Happen in the Bathroom Edward Hancox Stalker Christopher Andrews
Ashmina Dekel Berenson
For full details, see p. 94
DARK SUNS
(SOLEILS NOIRS)
Julien Elie
11:30 | GATE
SHORTS
Various 90 mins 2019
DOCUMENTARY
Winner, F:ACT Award, CPH:DOX, 2019
LET THERE BE LIGHT
Marko Škop
13:00 | TRISKEL
NARRATIVE
Slovakia 93 mins 2019 Subtitled
Returning to rural Slovakia for Christmas from his construction
job in Germany, Milan is immediately confronted with the familial consequences of his absence. His wife is unravelling, his children wayward, and his elder son’s secrecy soon leads Milan to discover that he has been indoctrinated into a radical paramilitary youth group. Exploring the rise of far-right extremism and ideology in Eastern Europe, Let There Be Light is a sincere and veracious sophomore feature from director Marko Škop, which dissects the reverberations of neglected fatherhood and the complicated reality of life for returning migrant workers. RG
Special Mention, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 2019
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