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TUESDAY 12 NOVEMBER
Morocco, France, Belgium 2019
98 mins Subtitled
ADAM
Maryam Touzani
17:45 | GATE NARRATIVE
Samia (Nisrin Erradi) is young, pregnant and has nowhere to sleep. She wanders the streets of Casablanca, knocking on doors in search of work, though she finds even courtesy and kindness are scarce. She meets Abla (Lubna Azabal), a reticent woman running a humble bakery. Encouraged by her luminous eight-year-old daughter Warda (Douae Belkhaouda) and pricked by conscience, Abla offers Samia temporary refuge. As the two women gradually learn more about each other, guarded suspicion gives way to respect. Propelled by outstanding performances from its two leads, Maryam Touzani’s impeccably made debut feature is a charming, compassionate character-driven delight. MH
Winner, Best Actress, Nisrin Erradi, Durban International Film Festival, 2019
WHAT TIME IS DEATH?
Paul Duane
18:00 | TRISKEL DOCUMENTARY
After retiring from the music business, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, formerly The KLF, entered the art world as the K Foundation. Following their biggest artistic statement to date (filming the burning of a million pounds) they signed a contract on the bonnet of a Nissan vowing not to mention the burning for 23 years, then promptly disappeared. Sure enough, 23 years later, in 2017, the K Foundation resurfaced with plans to build a ‘People’s Pyramid’ in Liverpool filled with human ashes. Thanks to Irish documentarian Paul Duane, we may all witness the birth of the ‘Toxteth Day of the Dead’. SE
Ireland 2019
84 mins
There will be a post-screening Q&A with the director
KRABI, 2562
Ben Rivers,
Anocha Suwichakornpong
18:00 | GATE
ARTIST FILM
UK, Thailand 2019
94 mins Subtitled
After the weirdness of The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (2015), Krabi, 2562 sees a lightness and playfulness wedded to Ben Rivers’ usual attributes. Thai director Anocha Suwichakornpong’s striking debut Mundane History (2009) moved easily from the domestic to the cosmic and here, among multiple narratives, the film glides through earnest tourists, mythology, prehistoric presences and vanishing location scouts from commercial shoots. As tantalisingly elusive as the film remains it feels so much like a love letter to a place that exists simultaneously on several planes. DOM
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