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WEDNESDAY 13 NOVEMBER
UK, Sweden 2019
88 mins
SCHEME BIRDS
Ellen Fiske, Ellinor Hallin
18:15 | GATE DOCUMENTARY
Gemma is a teenager living on a housing scheme in Motherwell, an area deprived since the demise of the local steel industry. Rattling around a concrete maze, Gemma and her friends can imagine escaping by getting ‘locked up or knocked up’. There is a pervasive air of desperation and violence, though she has some fun with her doting grandfather, who keeps pigeons and teaches boxing, and clearly loves her boyfriend Pat, though he is a jailbird who few approve of. Scheme Birds is a remarkable achievement: a compassionate, intimate portrait of survival that finds poetic beauty and some humour amidst a grim reality. MH
Winner, Best Documentary Feature, Tribeca Film Festival, 2019
SO LONG, MY SON
China 175 mins 2019 Subtitled Photo: © Li Tienan, Dongchun Films
Second Chance Thurs 14 Nov | 13:00 | Gate NARRATIVE
commentary, So Long, My Son is stunning in its sweep and ambition, presenting contrasts between urban and rural, rich and poor and between the earnest days following the Cultural Revolution and the creeping capitalism of today. MH Winner, Best Actor, Jingchun Wang, & Best Actress, Mei Yong, Berlin International Film Festival, 2019
(DI JIU TIAN CHANG)
Wang Xiaoshuai
20:00 | GATE
Wang Xiaoshuai’s family epic spans three decades of Chinese history, charting years of social and political change in the country through the experience of a couple who have to endure the pain of having witnessed their son die at a young age. It is a deeply moving and intense melodrama featuring an entertaining, recurring cast of characters passing through the times. As social
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