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SUNDAY 10 NOVEMBER
SWEETNESS IN THE BELLY
Zeresenay Berhane Mehari
17:45 | GATE
Having grown up under the guardianship of a celebrated Sufi master after being abandoned by her wayward hippie parents, Lilly (Dakota Fanning) finds herself in Ethiopia and in love during the final years of Haile Selassie’s reign. As revolutionary fervour erupts in violence, she ships
to England, where her status as a white woman sees her favoured before black refugees, though her devout
Ireland, Canada 110 mins 2019 Subtitled
Second Chance Mon 11 Nov | 15:45 | Gate NARRATIVE
Muslim faith means she is still regarded an outsider. She contributes to building a growing community of migrants while searching for her lost love. A powerful adaptation
of Camilla Gibb’s bestseller, Sweetness in the Belly is a sincere, brilliantly constructed period drama with emotional depth. MH
Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival, 2019
Japan, Germany 2019
89 mins Subtitled
FAMILY ROMANCE, LLC
Werner Herzog
18:15 | GATE NARRATIVE
Inspired by an article in The New Yorker about a rent-a-relative business in Japan and featuring characteristic curiosity about the eccentricities of human behaviour, Werner Herzog’s disarmingly uplifting film blends his considerable ingenuity as both a narrative
and documentary filmmaker to brood on loneliness, loss, fantasy and morality. It stars Yuichi Ishii, a real-life operative for Family Romance, who is employed to present himself to 12-year-old Mahiro Tanimoto as her father, a man she has never met. Herzog depicts their developing relationship without judgement and, just as the film blurs lines between fiction and reality, notions of convention, honesty and virtue become fuzzy. MH
Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival, 2019
Second Chance Tue 12 Nov | 13:30 | Triskel
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