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TUESDAY 12 NOVEMBER
GOD EXISTS, HER NAME IS PETRUNYA
(GOSPOD POSTOI,
IMETO I’ E PETRUNIJA)
Teona Strugar Mitevska
18:15 | GATE
NARRATIVE
The Republic of North Macedonia, Belgium, Slovenia, Croatia, France
2019
100 mins Subtitled
Petrunya (a fine performance by Zorica Nusheva) is a woman in
her 30s, still living with her parents in a small Macedonian town, unemployed despite a first-class degree in history. Returning from another humiliating, unsuccessful job interview, she stumbles across a crowd of young men diving for the holy cross that the priest
has thrown into the icy river, a tradition to mark Epiphany. When Petrunya takes the plunge and retrieves the cross herself, she
sparks public outcry and a media frenzy. Seizing this one chance for self-determination, Peterunya must stay strong in the face of overt institutional misogyny and mob rule. A spirited, astute, and visually striking satire about religion and patriarchal society in Macedonia. FC Free but ticketed. LUX Film Prize Official Selection (see p. 99)
THE PAINTED BIRD
Václav Marhoul
20:15 | GATE
Eastern Europe is in the final throes of World War II. A boy is dispatched by his Jewish parents to an elderly relative in an effort to escape persecution. Following a tragedy, the boy is forced to wander through the desecrated countryside, encountering villagers and soldiers whose own lives have been brutally altered, intent on revisiting
Czechia, Ukraine, Slovakia 169 mins 2019 Subtitled
Second Chance Fri 15 Nov | 12:00 | Gate NARRATIVE
this brutality on the child. A cinematic masterpiece — shot in crisp black and white 35mm — Václav Marhoul’s The Painted Bird does far more than simply depict the horror of war. It is an unflinching examination of the very worst of humanity. SE
Official Selection, Venice International Film Festival, 2019
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