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SATURDAY 16 NOVEMBER
Bulgaria, Greece 2019
90 mins Subtitled
THE FATHER
Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov
18:30 | GATE NARRATIVE
Pavel (Ivan Barnev) is a professional photographer under pressure who uses the demands of his job as an excuse when he turns up late at
his mother’s funeral. His artist father Vasil (Ivan Savov) is unimpressed, though it is clear their relationship has long been strained and Pavel does not expect his father’s approval. Yet when Vasil is convinced his dead wife is trying to communicate with him through a neighbour’s mobile phone, Pavel is torn between humouring his mourning parent and becoming completely exasperated. A bittersweet portrait of familial frictions from the directors behind Glory (CFF 2017), The Father is a deadpan delight. MH
Winner, Grand Prix Crystal Globe, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 2019
DELPHINE AND CAROLE
(DELPHINE ET CAROLE, INSOUMUSES)
Callisto McNulty
19:00 | TRISKEL DOCUMENTARY
Whilst the acting career of Delphine Seyrig is celebrated worldwide, her activism is something of which many are not aware. Together with filmmaker Carole Roussopoulos, Seyrig became amongst the
first to use video to document the protests by the French women’s movement, and together they created video art using humour and subversion to highlight the sexism and dominant representation of women in film, television and elsewhere. Using interviews and archive footage, much of it shot by the subjects themselves, Callisto McNulty’s timely documentary places Seyrig and Roussopoulos, together with their important feminist actions, deservedly in the spotlight. SE Official Selection, Berlin International Film Festival, 2019
Chantal Ackerman’s Jeanne Dielman will be screened on Sun 16 November. See p. 84 for details.
GREENER GRASS
Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe
20:45 | GATE NARRATIVE
As she dutifully witnesses her child attempting to play football, Lisa Wetbottom (Dawn Luebbe) notes that her fellow soccer mom Jill Davies (Jocelyn DeBoer) has a new baby. ‘Do you want her? She’s great!’ Jill proffers, proceeding to hand over the child to her friend.
So begins this electrifying absurdist comedy, a weird and wonderful dayglo portrait of fear and self-loathing in American suburbia. Comedians DeBoer and Luebbe collaborate to deliver one of the most distinctive debut features of the year, a film that confidently displays a true gift for satirical insight and bizarre black comedy. MH
Official selection, Sundance Film Festival, 2019
France 2019
70 mins Subtitled
USA 2019
101 mins
Second Chance Sun 17 Nov | 15:00 | Gate 1
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